After the little girl had a hearty meal at the restaurant, she boarded the plane and, after playing for a short while, yawned and fell asleep on her father's lap.
Yan Shao never resisted his daughter's clinginess. Compared to many men who find children annoying, Yan Shao's attitude could truly be described as child-obsessed.
Zhu Qianying slept all day and wasn't sleepy at all, so she took out her laptop and started working on the sketches.
Yan Shao held Xiao Xiao and closed his eyes to rest, but his mind was on company matters.
His elder brother, Yan Ting, called him more than half a month ago, saying there was a project with low profit margins, and asked if Yan Huang wanted to bid on it.
The fact that my elder brother personally called means that the project is very important.
Yan Ting, who holds an important position, has always been honest and upright. When he approached Young Master Yan, it was not to offer him profits, but rather to genuinely entrust him with a heavy responsibility.
Yan Shao rarely took on such a thankless and demanding task, but since his elder brother had personally asked him to, he had no choice but to seriously consider it.
Actually, his hesitation wasn't about profits. After all, given the current assets of the Yanhuang Group, even if this project were operated like a charity, it wouldn't have any substantial impact on Yanhuang.
His hesitation stemmed from the fact that the project was being carried out in the capital, and was of utmost importance; the slightest mistake could bring him serious trouble.
If he agrees, he will definitely spend a significant portion of the construction period in the capital personally supervising and directing the work.
Five or six years ago, he would have agreed to this without hesitation, after all, it was his older brother.
But now, he can't rest easy with his family of one adult and two children.
It wasn't that he was afraid the two children wouldn't be able to take good care of themselves; rather, he couldn't bear to leave them behind.
I'm also afraid that if something were to happen, they would suffer along with me.
He looked down at the chubby little one nestled in his arms, then glanced at Zhu Qianying, who was working diligently.
Although Zhu Qianying is a very serious person at work, she would naturally notice being stared at with such intense gazes.
She looked up, glanced at the little one in his arms, met his calm eyes, winked at him, and smiled.
"Tired? Let me do it! You lie down for a while!"
After finishing speaking, Zhu Qianying quickly pressed the save button and closed the computer.
Yan Shao glanced down at his sleeping daughter in his arms and shook his head. "No need, you should rest."
Yan Shao would naturally discuss the project with Zhu Qianying, but not now.
Firstly, now is not a good time; secondly, he himself has not yet decided whether or not to accept the offer.
Zhu Qianying stared at him quietly for a while. "Is there something you're hiding from me?"
Although Yan Shao is a deep and reserved person, Zhu Qianying is not a slow-witted person. As his bedmate, she can still sense his unusual behavior to some extent.
However, her understanding of Dao Xing was clearly not as deep as Yan Shao's. It wasn't until just now that she realized he seemed to be hiding something.
Yan Shao paused for a moment, then shook his head again.
His pause further convinced Zhu Qianying of her own thoughts.
She crossed her arms and looked at him. "Tell me, what wrong thing have you done? For Xiaoxiao and Zizai's sake, I'll see if I can forgive you!"
Her utterly judgmental demeanor immediately made the depressed Young Master Yan laugh.
He looked at her with amusement, his eyebrows curving upwards. "You can really forgive me?"
Of course, he knew that Zhu Qianying was teasing him, so he teased her back.
"Tell me about it..." Zhu Qianying became even more certain that he was hiding something significant.
Yan Shao stopped smiling, looked her over carefully for a few moments, and finally stood up in the aisle, placing the little one in his arms into Zizai's arms.
"Give your little sister a hug, and Daddy and Mommy will chat for a while."
Zizai likes Xiaoxiao even more than Yan Shao, but he also understands that he is still a child himself and there are some things he cannot take care of his sister.
For example, he wouldn't dare play horsey with his younger sister, because he was afraid she would fall and hurt her.
Therefore, although he longs to be close to his sister 24 hours a day, he is not jealous of Yan Shao taking care of her.
"Okay, I'll carry you!"
Zizai happily took his sleeping sister, supporting her head with one hand and carefully making her more comfortable in his not-so-wide arms with the other.
Yan Bo, sitting next to him, glanced at his granddaughter sleeping soundly and felt a little itchy to hold her. "How about Grandpa holds her?"
Zizai had finally managed to get his little sister in his arms, so naturally he wasn't going to give her up. "No, I'll hold her!"
As she spoke, she lowered her head and rubbed her face against the small, warm face a few times.
Yanbo knew he couldn't win against Zizai, so he said, "Okay, if Zizai gets tired of being carried, then Grandpa can carry him."
Yan Shao, who had already sat back down, couldn't help but smile as he looked at his father's melancholy face.
Zhu Qianying wasn't in a hurry. She waited for him to slowly turn his head before asking, "Have you thought about how you're going to explain this?"
Yan Shao suppressed his smile; after all, that was a very serious matter.
If done well, Yanhuang will only have a name, with no real profit to be made. If done poorly, the impact on Yanhuang will likely be quite significant.
Therefore, if Yan Ting hadn't asked him to, Young Master Yan would never have taken on this task.
"My older brother told me something about two weeks ago, and I still haven't figured it out."
Zhu Qianying immediately looked at him warily, "Is it about Zizai again?"
Young Master Yan shook his head. "No, it's because the government has a very important project tender, and my brother hopes that Yanhuang will participate in it."
After he said that, Zhu Qianying vaguely understood.
"You don't want to touch it?"
"Hmm! But..." Young Master Yan hesitated, unable to finish his sentence.
Zhu Qianying didn't press him further, but simply waited quietly for him to continue.
Yan Shao thought for a moment before speaking.
"This job is actually a thankless task. If you do it well, there are no benefits, but if you do it poorly, you will be blamed for everything."
Zhu Qianying certainly wouldn't interpret his words literally. For this project to be so difficult for him, it must involve many aspects, or rather, many people.
"You think your older brother might need your help, which is why he's hesitating, right?"
Previously, Zhu Qianying didn't have much of an impression of her cousin Yan Ting, but after the incident with Zizai, she realized that although Yan Ting and Yan Shao were cousins, their relationship was no less than that of biological brothers.
With things so clear now, Young Master Yan no longer concealed anything and spoke frankly.
"Yes, my brother has been in office for over a year, and he does need to do something big to consolidate his achievements."
Zhu Qianying roughly understood what Yan Shao was choosing and what was troubling him.
"Then let's take it on. Big Brother must believe that Yanhuang has the strength to entrust such a heavy responsibility to us."
Zhu Qianying was a reasonable person; if she had even the slightest selfish thought, she would never have supported Young Master Yan in accepting the project.
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