Chapter 118 New Year's Eve
"Then what do these families have to do with this?" Ye Jin didn't understand why they wanted to get involved.
"That's the benefit." Ye Xu said, "If the apocalypse really comes, we'll need to prepare a large amount of supplies in advance. The financial resources of the four major families are of paramount importance. Our Ye family didn't want to get involved, but over the years, our Ye family has been declining and has always been ranked at the bottom..."
At this point, Ye Jin probably understood. Over the years, the Ye family had lost its talents and its branches had become scattered. The eldest uncle was the only one supporting the Ye family business, and he no longer had the momentum he had before.
The end of the world may very well be a turning point in an era, and no one wants to fall behind in this new era.
But the benefits are not so easy to get. Now that the leadership at the top has collapsed, the other families are trying their best to squeeze to the top. The Yan family is the first to rebel, so of course they will get rid of as many strong enemies as possible.
Ye Jin asked: "Brother, what are your plans for the future?"
"Back to Kyoto." Ye Xu answered without hesitation: "Our Ye family's roots are there. The Yan family is so ambitious. I can't let my mother support it alone."
Ye Jin also agreed that how could the family business accumulated by the Ye family over the years be handed over to others like this? Although her aunt and uncle were married out of arrangement, they had a good relationship and she was a gentle and strong woman.
Now my aunt is a single woman supporting the Ye family in Kyoto, surrounded by wolves. It must be difficult, especially with the Yan family being a wealthy wolf.
This time she rescued Ye Xu, they will definitely find other ways to make things difficult for her.
Ye Jin told Ye Xu about Zhao Shilin again, but Ye Xu looked surprised. She thought there was something going on between him and Zhao Shilin.
Ye Xu was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and felt an indescribable feeling in his heart. Xiao Jin's tone seemed to indicate that Zhao Shilin liked him?
He had only met her a few times. He remembered that when he first met Zhao Shilin, she seemed to be a little girl from the countryside who was selected from a singing show because of her nice voice.
At that time, Zhao Shilin was forced to drink. People in the circle liked to use unspoken rules. She was a newcomer, without fame and no one to support her. A fat guy in the circle wanted to take advantage of her. Ye Xu happened to be there at the time and hated this kind of behavior the most.
He just helped her out and saved her, and signed someone by the way. Their Ye family has a lot of assets, and it doesn't matter to Ye Xu whether Zhao Shilin is popular or not. He just didn't expect that she was so competitive and became famous in the entertainment industry in just a few years.
Another time she remembered that their car broke down and they happened to meet on the road. She then drove him back to the old house to get some things. It was probably that time that made her remember the paintings in the study.
Ye Xu felt a tightness in his chest. In fact, if he thought about it carefully, he probably didn't even remember what Zhao Shilin looked like.
Ye Jin looked at him and knew that he was different from herself. Ye Xu had been strictly disciplined since childhood and had the temperament of an upright gentleman.
She advised: "Zhao Shilin had a smile on her face at the time. She must have been very happy to kill Liu Bao with her own hands."
Ye Xu said in a hoarse voice, "She's a good girl. I hope she won't be thrown into the cruel apocalypse in her next life. The flash lights on the stage are more suitable for her to shine brightly in the world."
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Ye Jin looked at the snow still falling outside the window and sighed. He had thought he could get back before the New Year, but it seemed that he couldn't. He had already wasted a lot of time at the West City base.
Zhang Yue's laughter and the fat man's naughty words could be heard from the living room downstairs.
"Oh my! Sister Xiaoting, you're such a grown-up, but you can't even make dumplings."
Listening to the fat man's teasing, Shen Yuting rolled her eyes at him: "You are so good, but the dumplings still broke!"
The fat man defended himself: "I just put too much stuffing!"
"Enough of that, keep arguing. Be careful, the boss will throw you all out to feed the zombies!" Zhang Zhang was chopping stuffing nearby, thinking, "I wonder if the boss eats leeks. I've never seen Aunt Chen cook with leeks before."
"Xiao Jin doesn't eat leeks."
Zhang Zhang and the others stopped what they were doing, watched Ye Xu coming over, then rolled up their sleeves, washed their hands, picked up a piece of rolled dumpling wrapper, and came over to help.
Ye Xu's complexion has improved a lot in the past few days. Just standing there he is an elegant sight, and even the way he makes dumplings looks particularly pleasing to the eye.
"Why are you all looking at me?" Ye Xu smiled at them without stopping what he was doing.
"Hey, let us do it." Zhang Zhang said embarrassedly, "You haven't recovered yet."
Ye Xu laughed out loud. He looked at Zhang Zhang and asked, "I'm not much older than you. Why are you speaking honorifics to me?"
Zhang Zhang began to feel awkward. Seeing him like this, the fat man said, "Stupid."
The fat man said to Ye Xu: "He respects the boss, so of course he respects the boss's brother as well."
Ye Xu curled his lips and said, "We are all family, there is no need to be so polite."
He glanced at the pork on Zhang Zhang's chopping board and said, "Chop it into some cabbage stuffing. Xiaojin likes it."
"Okay." Zhang Zhang, a rough man, felt that he was never so awkward when talking to Ye Jin. The main reason was that his eldest brother's style was usually too cold. Why did Brother Ye Jin have such a gentle and easy-going style?
What's the saying? Yes, a modest gentleman!
"Big brother." Zhang Yue stared at Ye Xu with big eyes.
Ye Xu asked, "What's wrong?"
"I think you and Brother Xiaochen look alike. Will Brother Xiaochen be as handsome as you when he grows up?"
Ye Xu chuckled softly, like a willow breeze blowing by, and his voice was clear and moving: "Of course, Xiaochen will be more handsome than me in the future."
Yu Zichen coughed lightly beside him and said, "Xiaoyue, have you learned how to make dumplings as I taught you just now?"
"Yes!" Zhang Yue nodded immediately and packed one.
The fat man looked at it and praised: "Not bad, you are much better than your brother, he can only chop stuffing."
Ye Xu watched them chatting, smiled and shook his head. He had always been worried that Xiao Jin's personality had become much colder than before. Now it seemed that her teammates would not let her be too lonely.
Ye Xu didn't stop moving his hands, and soon he had wrapped out more than a dozen beautiful dumpling shapes.
Zhang Yue looked at it in amazement and asked, "Why does this dumpling look like a goldfish? And this one looks like a five-pointed star?!"
Yu Zichen said, "My eldest brother used those to trick my sister. Later, when my sister grew up, my eldest brother used them to trick me again."
Ye Xu smiled and said, "Your age doesn't matter when you're old. When your sister was little, I used this to comfort her whenever she cried, and she was fine right away. As for you, Xiaochen, you've been sensible since you were little and have never cried."
"What?" The fat man said as if he had heard a shocking secret: "My aunt used to cry? I thought she would stand by and coldly say, 'Don't cry!'"
He even imitated Ye Jin's actions on the spot, making everyone else laugh.
Ye Jin was watching from above. If it wasn't New Year's Eve today, she would have kicked the fat man in the butt.
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