"Sir, please come in." The waiter at the door greeted the passing guests with a smile, busy like a top, and did not stop all morning. The business in the building was good, and even the smile on the face of the waiter was a little brighter.

The business in the building was good, and the manager also raised their wages.

A young man in a dark blue robe came out from outside, greeted the waiter at the door, and went inside.

Just then, a big master came out from inside, and the waiter turned around and hurriedly saw the old man off, bowing and saying, "Goodbye, old man, come again next time."

Although the old man who left did not even spare him a glance, the smile on the waiter's face did not change at all. The manager said that as long as they did a good job, they would receive a monthly bonus, which was quite a lot.

The place was packed at this time. Sun Ji walked in and asked the waiter, and then he found the person he was looking for. He walked straight towards the person

he was looking for. When Cao Xiangnan looked up, he saw the person Xu Bu was looking for. When their eyes met, Sun Ji also noticed him, smiled, and walked towards them. Following Cao Xiangnan's line of sight, the people present also noticed the person coming.

Sun Ji originally had a good-looking appearance, and now he seemed to have shaken off the dust on the surface, revealing his original brilliance. "I thought I would go to the store to find you after breakfast, but I didn't expect you to come." When the person walked up to him, Cao Xiangnan had already stood up from his chair, pulled out a chair beside him, and asked the person, "Have you had breakfast? Come, sit down and have a cup of tea."

"I came after I had breakfast. I knew you were coming, so I came to see you." Sun Ji nodded to Cao Xiangnan who pulled out the chair for him, and thanked him.

Looking at Qi Wanfeng on the side, the two greeted each other.

Qi Wanfeng hadn't seen Sun Ji for a long time. When he saw Sun Ji now, he almost couldn't recognize him. He felt that this was Sun Ji's original appearance.

Sun Ji's smiling eyes met Gan Weiqi who was looking at him. When their eyes met, he paused slightly, nodded to him, and then looked away. The curve of the corner of his mouth narrowed, and he reached out and touched the head of the boy next to him. His eyes were deep and unfathomable, as if they wanted to suck people in, and they were as silent as ever.

"Uncle." The voices came one after another, clear and crisp, and several children called people obediently.

"Sit down, don't stand." Cao Xiangnan said.

Sun Ji said "OK" and sat down in the empty seat beside Gan Weiqi. He asked Cao Xiangnan if his grandfather, grandmother and father were in good health. Hearing Cao Xiangnan say that they were all fine, he was relieved, "That's good."

He came to Nanyang after the spring. He was busy here and rarely went home. He missed his family after being away for so long. His family arranged

a marriage for him. At his age, those younger than him in the family had already given birth to several children. He didn't even get married yet, but his grandfather and grandmother were worried about him. So he nodded and settled the marriage and started a family. The house at home was being built, and he would find a good day to get married after the house was built, and also relieve the worries of the elders in the family.

He was a person who loved children, but now he couldn't even get married, let alone have children. He just didn't know what kind of man the brother he was going to marry would be, and whether their children would be as obedient as the children in Xiangnan's family. Thinking of this, the corners of his mouth that wanted to curl up really couldn't curl up. It seemed that he was not too looking forward to marrying a brother he had never met.

Putting away the thoughts in his heart, seeing the little treasure in Wanfeng's arms staring at him with a pair of beautiful eyes, Sun Ji stretched out his hand to tease it, but the child turned his face away and hid his face in Wanfeng's arms. No matter how people teased him, he refused to raise his face. He thought that this child was really good-looking.

Sun Ji knew that the child was not born to Xiangnan and Wanfeng. As for who the child belonged to, he had some guesses in his mind. Seeing that Xiangnan had no intention of talking to anyone about the origin of the child, he did not ask. Usually, the beautiful child was hidden in the house and was rarely taken out. He did not expect Xiangnan to bring Wanfeng and the children to Nanyang.

"Little Baoer, Little Baoer..."

Cao Xiangnan was very disappointed with Little Baoer. He was just a boy, but how come his temperament was more like a brother than a brother? "Aji, I think you can't hold Little Baoer. You should hold Lele."

As he said that, he stuffed his fat boy into Sun Ji's hands without considering his fat boy's feelings at all.

"..." Cao Ruile, who was passed on by his biological father.

Sun Ji took the child over and stared at the boy in his arms. Lele looked at him with a stiff face and didn't say anything, looking like a big boy, which made him laugh. "This child is really well-fed." He said.

"He sleeps when he's full and eats when he's full. He's just like a piglet." So how can he not be fat? Cao Xiangnan was very helpless about his lazy boy. This child loved to eat and sleep well, and he was a circle bigger than Xiao Baoer.

But children who eat and sleep well are still good to take care of. A comparison of the two children will tell.

After a while, Xiao Baoer, who was hiding in Qi Wanfeng's arms, stretched his head out and looked at Lele who was held by someone curiously. His two little hands tightly clung to Momo who was holding him, and he refused to let go, as if he was afraid that someone would take him away.

In a place where no one noticed, Cao Xiangnan's body blocked the view of outsiders. A white little fox squatted beside him, holding snacks in its two little paws and eating. Its cheeks were bulging from eating, and even its belly was round. The little fox had no intention of stopping.

In the end, Qi Wanfeng was afraid that the little thing would burst its stomach, so she asked her husband not to feed it any more.

But they didn't know that the smart and human-like little white fox ran to the corner of the kitchen to squat and eat. Its little paw secretly opened the steamer, and its paw shrank due to the heat, and then it jumped up to a high place with the food in its hands. The people below were busy and didn't notice such a small paw, so naturally they didn't find the missing food.

The greedy little white fox didn't stop eating until his belly was full and he lay on the beam unable to move.

The streets of Nanyang are crisscrossed and lined with shops and teahouses on both sides, with flags fluttering in the wind. There is an endless flow of pedestrians and cars on the streets. People stop in the teahouses and sit down to drink a sip of water and chat. Outside, the streets are lined with various stalls, with constant shouting. Pedestrians who see small things they like will stop for a while to choose a small thing and pay a few dollars.

By the time they had finished their morning tea, there was nothing to do in the building. Even if there was something to do, Manager Fang was there, so it was not necessary to ask him. Cao Xiangnan dropped what he was doing and took Wanfeng and the children out for a walk to see the prosperous Nanyang City. The group came out.

Manager Fang knew about it and tacitly allowed Cao Xiangnan to take his wife and children out to play, and even sent a carriage driver to follow behind.

The street juggling show was surrounded by three layers of people inside and outside. After finally squeezing in, a few children were staring intently. The shirtless man sprayed a tongue of fire ten feet long, just like he was really spraying fire. The children clapped their hands and cheered. "Good, good, good..."

"Wow...ah...so powerful..."

"Xiangzi, look, look...fire, fire, fire...spraying fire..."

Cao Xiangnan was not interested in these street juggling. These little tricks could fool children, but he had long passed the stage of being fooled. Seeing that the people around him were also watching intently, he leaned over and whispered in Wanfeng's ear.

After listening to her husband's words, Qi Wanfeng blinked twice and asked her husband with his eyes, "Are you telling the truth?" Cao Xiangnan also responded to his wife with his eyes. Of course it was true. The two of them were "exchanging glances" so blatantly in public, with a little Baoer in between. The little Baoer sandwiched in the middle was ignored.

Sun Ji held Lele in his arms. Lele, with half-closed eyes, was snoring in his arms. He lowered his head to look at the boy in his arms, and the corners of his mouth curled up. This child really can sleep anywhere.

He and Gan Weiqi stood together. There was no word between the two from beginning to end. A subtle atmosphere spread between them, and no one noticed the weirdness of the two. Gan Weiqi was a man of few words to begin with, so it didn't seem strange that he didn't speak.

The sleeping child's eyelids moved, his mouth moved, he turned over and went back to sleep.

There were many delicious things and fun things on the street, and children liked lively places the most, knowing that there would be delicious things and fun things when they went out. Before going out, Cao Xiangnan gave each child a few copper coins, enough for them to buy one or two small things, and buy whatever they wanted to eat. He didn't care about these things at all.

This place was different from a small place like Fenshui Town. There were many people here, and they followed the children closely, and they didn't dare to let the children run around, otherwise the children would be kidnapped and they would have nowhere to cry.

After walking around in the back, the children had played almost enough, and Xiaobao was sleepy and wanted to go back to sleep. They got on the carriage behind them, and the carriage slowly went back to Yipinzhai.

"Okay, husband, you go." Hearing husband say that he was going out, knowing that husband had been with him and the children for half a day and was going to go out to be busy, Qi Wanfeng also understood his husband and let him be busy and not worry about them. After

saying goodbye to Wanfeng, Liu Lan was here to help Wanfeng take care of the children, and Fang the shopkeeper was also there. Cao Xiangnan was not worried that Wanfeng and the children would have any problems in this building, so he went out with Sun Ji, followed by Wei Qi.

Their Cao Ji in Nanyang is also located at the wharf. There are many men working here, and there are also many vendors doing business. In addition, their food tastes good, so there are many customers who like to eat in the store.

They came here when the business started to get busy. Every day at noon, the store is so crowded that there is no room to sit. The store here is hard to find. They found such a place with the help of Fang Zhanggui, otherwise they would not have found such a place.

The store hired a few more employees to deliver takeout, and the boats parked at the wharf received a lot of orders every day. Seeing them do this, the nearby restaurants and small shops followed suit, but of course they couldn't compete with their business.

"Boss." A waiter who was passing by recognized him, paused, and called out.

Cao Xiangnan motioned for him to get busy, and saw the waiters in the store working in an orderly manner. He walked over with Sun Ji, and the two discussed opening another branch in Nanyang. Both of them had this idea.

The first store was opened, and now the business is good. This is a good signal, laying a good foundation for opening the second store.

"Okay, let's decide this first. Once the store over there is confirmed, we will open another one there." After listening to Sun Ji's words, Cao Xiangnan responded.

Sun Ji is naturally more familiar with the streets and alleys of Nanyang City, so if Sun Ji thinks it is okay, Cao Xiangnan knows that he is 100% sure about the pavement, otherwise he would not bring it up.

"Yes, if you are free now, go back home. You haven't been home for a long time. Your family's matter...your father is waiting for you to go back and make the decision." Cao Xiangnan was talking about Sun Ji's marriage. He knew that Sun Ji's family had told him about a marriage, and his father wanted him to go back and wait for him to make the decision.

"Well, I understand." Sun Ji nodded. In his heart, he was not very willing to face this matter, and even a little evasive. He had the idea of ​​staying in Nanyang and not going back.

Seeing Sun Ji's look, Cao Xiangnan seemed to be hesitant to speak, and finally said nothing. This was someone else's marriage, and he had no right to interfere. He reached out and patted Sun Ji on the shoulder, giving him silent encouragement.

In this era, people get married at the age of fifteen or sixteen, so Sun Ji's age is also the right age to get married. He knew that Sun Ji's family had been talking about his marriage, and the boy they were talking about was still his grandmother's family. In his heart, he did not agree with this kind of marriage arranged by parents and matchmakers. After all, marriage is still one's own business. From Sun Ji's expression, he was not very willing to this marriage.

"I know what to do." Sun Ji was smiling, but the smile did not reach his eyes, and there was an unspeakable bitterness.