Chapter 469 Home
Chapter 469 Going Home
In the end, Xu Mingyuan brought Xiao Yangzhi back to Nanxi.
The house was too quiet, and old father Xu Jun still wanted to make it more lively.
dong dong dong.
There was a knock on the door.
"Auntie Zhou, what's the matter?"
Xu Mingyuan opened the door and looked at Zhou Ping outside with a frown.
"It's okay, it's time for dinner, I'm calling you guys to eat."
"Isn't my dad not at home? Just ask Aunt Liang to bring it up."
Xu Mingyuan had no sense of good or evil towards Zhou Ping, but Xiao Yangzhi didn't like her very much. She felt that some of this woman's behaviors were a bit like her mother.
I don't understand what Xu Jun's aesthetic taste is. He has to look for smart women. How can he live a comfortable life like this?
Xu Mingyuan couldn't understand, so he just followed his old father.
It was almost noon. He was just surfing the Internet, and Xiao Yangzhi was just standing there in a daze. The two of them didn't do anything. They both got up a long time ago.
But, a little girl follows her brother around all day long, and she is the daughter abandoned by her ex-boyfriend. This brother is not his biological brother, and the sister is not his biological sister either. It is inevitable to cause speculation, not to mention that she is an outsider woman. This kind of woman has the strongest insight.
Xu Mingyuan was not afraid that Zhou Ping would find out, because smart women would never gossip, but that might not be the case if he was kicked out of the Xu family.
"Brother, what is she doing here?" Yang Zhi asked.
"You asked us to have dinner. You heard it. You're asking me even though you already know the answer, right?" Xu Mingyuan said with a smile.
"I'm not hungry. Two meals will be enough."
"Just eat something, or I can take you out to eat?" Xu Mingyuan said.
"Well... let's eat at home." Yang Zhi said after hesitating for a moment.
"Can't stay at home anymore?"
Seeing that Xiao Yangzhi was a little interested, Xu Mingyuan asked with a little surprise.
"I want to stay at home in Jiangcheng."
Yang Zhi looked around. Nanxi's house was too big. The area of one bedroom was larger than the living room of Jiangcheng's house. It felt like there were drafts everywhere, and with so many guests coming and going, there was no sense of security at all.
"My dad said that home is too lonely. Isn't anywhere home? I'll just stay here."
Originally, Xu Mingyuan planned to follow his old father to Jiangcheng today, but Xiao Yangzhi used various tricks to make him stay.
Xiao Yangzhi didn't want to stay at home alone, and Zhou Ping always tried to talk to her and get close to her, but she was not a talkative girl, which made her feel upset.
"It's inconvenient..." Yang Zhi said dejectedly.
Not only is it inconvenient in Nanxi, Tao Shuxin is also here. If I ask Xu Mingyuan to go out, I have to follow him, which is so boring.
When the two walked out of the room, the person who brought the food upstairs was not the nanny, but Zhou Ping.
"Yangzhi likes to eat noodles, so I specially made rice noodles. When I went to college, there was a delicious rice noodle shop at the school gate. I often went there during college. When I was about to graduate, the proprietress told me the recipe. I have been making it myself for more than ten years. How do you think it tastes?" Zhou Ping said with a smile.
"Oh, Aunt Zhou can do this too?" Xu Mingyuan said.
"A woman must be able to cook first. I heard from Sister Liang that Yang Zhi loves to cook and must be quite good at it. Can I have a chance to taste what you cook?"
"..."
Yang Zhi didn't say anything. Her cooking skills were average, comparable to Xu Mingyuan's, or even slightly worse.
She just likes cooking, but that doesn't mean she can cook.
What’s more, Zhou Ping’s cooking tasted pretty good, which made Yang Zhi even more upset.
"Auntie Zhou, aren't you going to work today?"
Seeing that she was flattering the wrong person, Xu Mingyuan asked with amusement.
"It's Saturday."
"Oh, it's not easy for Aunt Zhou to take a day off. Take a rest for a while. You don't have to take care of us. Thank you."
Xu Mingyuan smiled and nodded. Seeing that Xiao Yangzhi was unwilling to pay attention to him, he found an excuse to speak.
"Okay, you guys eat first. Here are chili oil and sesame oil. They both have strong flavors. Try adding a little. There's noodles downstairs. If you're not satisfied, add more."
As if she had expected to be kicked out, Zhou Ping did not bring up her own bowl of soup. She just said a few words and went downstairs.
Seeing Xiao Yangzhi's reluctance, Xu Mingyuan smiled and said, "Isn't she very nice? She even made rice noodles for you. Why are you ignoring her?"
"I don't like people approaching me with a purpose..." Yang Zhi said in a low voice.
"Isn't that what all adults do?"
"No, Dad isn't like that..." Yang Zhi explained.
"My dad is an alternative." Xu Mingyuan said with a smile.
"Then you are also an outlier." Yang Zhi said.
"is it?"
Xu Mingyuan was quite surprised. He didn't expect that he had such a great and positive image in Xiao Yangzhi's heart. "Yeah."
Yang Zhi nodded vigorously.
"You love me so much that I love my dog too much. I'm not as good as you think."
"No, I can see that."
Yang Zhi was very sure that no matter how Xu Mingyuan refuted, she was unwilling to believe it.
When I first lived in the plastic-steel housing estate, I tried my best, but Xu Mingyuan remained indifferent.
If there was any purpose for Xu Mingyuan, it was that he liked me because I was pretty. Although I was still young at that time, he was not that old either.
Anyway, Yang Zhi couldn't figure out what Xu Mingyuan liked about her. She remembered that in the past, he used to dislike her because of her timid look.
If it weren't for my unremitting efforts, I might have been kicked aside long ago...
The casserole rice noodles were very hot, with white steam rising from them.
Seeing that Xu Mingyuan didn't mind and started eating, Yang Zhi stopped being pretentious. She poured half a bottle of aged vinegar, stirred it evenly, and blew on it with small sips of cool air.
It is very pleasing to the eye to see Xiao Yangzhi eating, with her beautiful legs together and her slender feet tightly pressed together, looking like a real lady.
Even when eating noodles, he would not make any 'slurping' sound. Instead, he would bite them off in small bites, close his mouth and chew them slowly before swallowing them into his stomach.
In the past, Xu Mingyuan also thought that Xiao Yangzhi's performance was too deliberate, but after years of training, she has become more and more natural, and there is no trace of affectation in her performance anymore.
It's because Yang Hongyu didn't teach her well. She had a lot of old-fashioned rules and forced little Yangzhi to do things rigidly, and she turned her into a puppet.
"Brother, you eat."
Yang Zhi took the quail eggs out of the bowl and put them into Xu Mingyuan's bowl.
"Do you eat beef?"
Xu Mingyuan did not refuse, but asked instead.
"Hmm...eat."
Yang Zhi hesitated for a moment, thinking that he wanted to gain more weight, so she nodded and said.
"You should say you don't want to eat it, so I can take the meat from your bowl."
Xu Mingyuan sighed helplessly and picked out some meat from his bowl and gave it to her.
Little Taotao is very protective of his food, and little Yangzhi is so well-behaved that it's impossible to tease him.
"Brother, then I won't eat." Yang Zhi said with his eyes raised.
"You have to eat so that you can grow more meat." Xu Mingyuan said.
"I guessed it..."
Yang Zhi pretended to sigh helplessly, took off her slippers, kicked gently under the table, and seemed to rub, touching his trouser legs.
Normally, I would sit together to eat with Xu Mingyuan, but Zhou Ping placed the food face to face with each other, so we couldn't eat next to each other, so I had to do some tricks under the table.
Xiao Yangzhi was already very pretty, and with the addition of some side dishes, Xu Mingyuan held her calves under the table and they teased and played with each other.
The rice noodles made at home are better than those sold outside, mainly because the side dishes are generous and the soup base is made from bones, which is full of flavor.
Yang Zhi couldn't finish the meal, so she only ate until she was 80% full.
Xu Mingyuan didn't mind eating aged vinegar, so he added some to his bowl. Yang Zhi then picked out the meat from her bowl and gave it to him.
"Aunt Taotao's family is going to slaughter the New Year pig in a couple of days and asks you to go and have a look around." Xu Mingyuan said.
"I do not want to go……"
"When you're just strolling, what wouldn't you want to go?"
"I want to be with my brother."
"I'm going on a business trip and it will take four or five days. Can you stay at home by yourself?" Xu Mingyuan said.
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The terminal R&D department needs to recruit more people and require more funds.
The most headache-inducing issue when running a business is always the funding issue. Fortunately, Star Technology’s cash flow is very good, and it can continue to seek additional loans from banks. However, after the accelerated expansion this year, it is not known whether the bank’s loans can keep up.
It is best to hold out until the launch of smartphones next year, so that you can then ask for a price when state-owned capital enters the market.
"I can stay in Jiangcheng." Yang Zhi said.
"Don't scare me. You can stay in Nanxi and you can't be alone in Jiangcheng."
Xu Mingyuan knew that she didn't like being with Zhou Ping and would rather be alone.
But she is the only little girl in Jiangcheng. What if she encounters bad people when she goes out to buy groceries?
Although the probability of this happening is very low, Xiao Yangzhi does not have much ability to survive in society and does not have the skills of Tao Tao at all, so there is no way to make Xu Mingyuan completely relieved.
"Oh……"
Yang Zhi was a little discouraged, but she didn't want to go out with Tao Shuxin. She just wanted to close the door and be alone in a daze.
(End of this chapter)