After delivering several hundred kilograms of braised food to the store, I was busy until noon.

Ye Lin and her two friends joined in packing orders. They would explain the change of staff to any classmates they met, and soon the news of the braised food shop's closure for rectification spread.

After closing the shop door and sitting down, Su Yan took out the five catties of braised food that she had specially reserved for the three of them and said, "Thank you. You can take this braised food home and eat it. I'll treat you to another meal after things have settled down."

Ye Lin waved her hand, "No need, no need, we weren't much of a help anyway."

“Aren’t we friends? There’s no need to be so polite between friends,” Su Yan said with a smile.

Upon hearing this, Jiang Zhoufeng immediately accepted and said happily, "You're right, then we won't be polite. Now we can finally eat to our hearts' content, waaaah!"

Ye Lin and Fan Siqiong: "..."

The two of them sighed and rubbed their foreheads in exasperation.

Li Juan didn't feel bad at all about sending out hundreds of kilograms of braised food today; instead, she was a little worried about Aunt Wu.

"Ah Yan, do you think Aunt Wu would do anything criminal?"

The look in Aunt Wu's eyes before she left, as if she wanted to devour her whole, made her more and more frightened the more she thought about it.

Su Yan thought for a moment and said, "It's not a crime, at most it's just competing with our store's business."

"What...what do you mean?" Li Juan asked, puzzled.

Guo Ziming said, "What Ayan means is that Aunt Wu is very likely to open a braised food shop around here to steal business, and set the price lower than Su's braised food, and in terms of taste... she has been doing this for so long, she should have mastered the way of making braised food."

Li Juan immediately stopped worrying and laughed, "She knows the basic operating procedures, but she can't possibly learn the essence of our Suzhou-style braised dishes. I prepared the braising sauce myself, and nobody knows that."

The most crucial step definitely can't be leaked casually.

Although Li Juan can be absent-minded at times, she would never forget something so important.

"Alright, I'll leave the reorganization to you, Mother. I don't want to manage your business," Su Yan said.

Li Juan said irritably, "Then what do you want to do?"

"I want to slack off. I'm going to sleep as much as I want during this time, and nobody can stop me."

"Su Yan, where do you live? We can come visit you this weekend," Jiang Zhoufeng asked expectantly.

It's clear she really wants to be friends with Su Yan.

Su Yan usually treats her sincere friends with the same sincerity.

She took a pen and paper and wrote down the address and phone number of the courtyard house, saying, "Remember to call me before you come looking for me, so you don't come looking for me when I'm not home."

The three of them fell silent upon seeing the address on the paper.

After a while, Jiang Zhoufeng said, "You live near the Forbidden City."

Su Yan nodded, "However, we are not from Beijing; we moved here from Lanzhou."

Ye Lin said, "Of the three of us, only I am a local. My family is from Shunyi District. Zhou Feng is from Heilongjiang Province, and Si Qiong is from Hainan Province."

"Okay, come visit me whenever you have time. I'll be staying home during winter break unless something unexpected happens."

The three responded in unison.

Fan Siqiong glanced at the time. "We need to go back and prepare for the afternoon's exam. We'll talk later."

"Okay, goodbye."

After they left, Su Yan explained the reorganization arrangements and post-opening discounts to Li Juan in detail, talking for a full hour.

Li Juan couldn't stay idle, so she told Su Yan to go back first, as she needed to clean up the shop.

Su Yan and Guo Ziming left first.

After getting into the car, Guo Ziming said, "Junior sister, do you have something to do later? If not, I'll take you to a restaurant; the food there is pretty good."

"Okay." Su Yan agreed without hesitation, then, remembering something, asked, "Senior brother, what happened to your face at the hospital last time? Who hit you?"

Guo Ziming froze for a moment, then said without changing his expression, "I accidentally fell down the stairs. Luckily, I didn't break any bones, I just bumped my face."

Su Yan's lips twitched, and she questioned, "You can fall down and end up with a panda face? Senior brother, do you think I'm easy to fool?"

A hint of guilt flashed across Guo Ziming's eyes. Before he could make excuses, she said, "If you don't want to talk about it, then forget it. Just be more careful in the future and try not to get into fights."

Upon hearing this, Guo Ziming relaxed his grip on the steering wheel slightly.

"good."

The two didn't speak again after that, mainly because Su Yan soon started to feel drowsy.

After driving for about half an hour, the car stopped at a restaurant located in the village.

Su Yan had already fallen asleep in the passenger seat and showed no signs of waking up even after the car stopped. Her head was resting against the window, and her long, loose hair covered half of her face. The car was warm, and her cheeks were rosy red, like apples.

Guo Ziming unbuckled his seatbelt, turned his head to look at her sleeping face, and suddenly gave up the idea of ​​waking her up.

He couldn't help but reach out and brush the strands of hair from her face, his eyes filled with tenderness and complex emotions.

"Do I have a chance?" he murmured.

As soon as his facial injuries healed, he came to find her.

He drove to the courtyard house today. Actually, he had been there for quite a while, but he was a little nervous about seeing her.

God knows how happy he was when he heard from his master that she and Jiang Jingxing had broken up.

Because he had a chance.

An opportunity to express my feelings to her.

But there's no rush. He can't scare her. Let's take it slow.

Just then, the noise from passersby outside made the sleeping girl furrow her brows slightly, and her eyelashes trembled slightly.

Guo Ziming immediately withdrew his hand, lowered his head nonchalantly, and repeated the unfastening of his seatbelt.

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