Chen Yun didn't know why she felt so upset. Tears just flowed down her cheeks. She bit her lip to hold back the tears, but they kept flowing. She rubbed her face against Liu Qiao's: "You're so annoying. You made me so moved."
Liu Qiao hugged her and pinched her cheeks: "Yun'er, from now on, you can let me do whatever you want me to do."
She burst into laughter and said, "You are talking nonsense. Last time I asked you to get up in the morning and make breakfast for me, you were lazier than me. You only knew how to flatter me."
The couple went to the kindergarten side by side. Liu Qiao went to register. Zi Rui first stayed in his mother's arms and refused to get down. The kindergarten teacher coaxed him for a long time before he was willing to get down from Chen Yun.
"Zirui, you go in first. After you go in, your parents will watch you outside. After school, your parents will pick you up, okay?" Chen Yun coaxed him.
Zi Rui didn't say anything. Liu Qiao squatted down and said to his son, "You told Dad that you wanted to be a soldier. There is no soldier who can't live without his parents. Besides, Dad is standing behind this wall, watching you all the time, so don't be afraid. I will send Mom to buy your favorite chicken drumstick from our Zi Rui, and then I will pick you up."
So the teacher pulled Zirui in, and when she turned the corner she heard her son's heart-wrenching cry. She felt a little overwhelmed and soft-hearted, but when she thought that her son would eventually have to go through this step, she decided to go out with her husband.
After they left the house, they did not go home, but planned to go to McDonald's to buy a portion of spicy chicken wings for their son. This kind of food may not be healthy, but it is a treasure to coax children. Chen Yun bought one, and bought a toy nearby, and then got on the bus with Liu Qiao.
Her business has been getting better and better in the past six months and has gradually become stable, so Chen Yun is often too busy to handle it alone. She also wants to find a student to help her run the store, and she told her husband about this idea.
"Honey, you said I should find someone to help me run the store, is that okay with you?"
Liu Qiao rejected it: "I don't think it's a good idea. If you are planning to open a bigger one, then it's fine. But if you are just planning to open a small one, you can just do some work yourself. If you hire someone, you will have to worry about whether she will steal money. It's very troublesome. It's better for me to send my son to school earlier every day, and you can open the store earlier in the morning and close it earlier in the afternoon. Just make enough money. I don't think you need to hire anyone."
In fact, what Liu Qiao said was true. Chen Yun agreed, and the couple waited until five o'clock in the afternoon to pick up their son. The little baby ran over as soon as he saw his parents.
Chen Yun held him in her arms and asked the teacher about her son's performance. The teacher smiled and said, "He will be fine after playing for a while. Sometimes he cries for his mom, but in the afternoon when we distribute cookies, he helps me distribute them to everyone. I have made him the class monitor. He is actually very well behaved."
"Right, son, you are great." Chen Yun first praised Zi Rui, and then said to the teacher: "I am really sorry to trouble you. I usually take care of him and make him a little bit spoiled. If he does something wrong, you should tell him."
The teacher knew that this was the son of the young vice-chairman, so how could they say whatever they wanted? Besides, Zi Rui was handsome, and good-looking people always have advantages. The teacher praised him a few more times, and Chen Yun and Liu Qiao took their son back.
Liu Qiao scratched his son's nose and said, "My dear, your mother and I went to McDonald's to buy some food. I'll heat it up for you when we get home!"
"Yes, Dad."
**
After her son Zirui successfully attended kindergarten, Chen Yun had more free time during the day. She used her free time to learn many needlework techniques.
Because the weather will be cooler after September, she plans to launch some new varieties of scarves and gloves, which she plans to make all by herself instead of purchasing them from other suppliers.
By the way, she asked Liu Qiao to move his sewing machine to the store, and also take on some mending work, of course the fee was not cheap. However, the products made were increasing, and other goods were getting less and less.
In the morning, she cooked three desserts. One was tea made with jelly and creamer. This kind of dessert sold very well and made a lot of money. Chen Yun sold it for RMB 3.50 a bowl. The cheaper green bean soup was still RMB 1 or 2. The chestnut chicken porridge was more expensive, at RMB 3 a bowl.
After boiling the water, she would sew clips on the side. This is very simple. She would buy a lot of very cheap black clips, put a decorative cloth on them, and then add some rhinestones, or sew some flowers on them herself, and they would become beautiful clips.
Qian Jinglin came in with a beautiful woman in his arms and naturally asked for a cup of jelly tea, which Chen Yun quickly brought over. He introduced her to Chen Yun, "Boss Chen, let me introduce you to this, this is my girlfriend, she is also a university teacher, she teaches at the Chinese Culture University."
Qian Jinglin didn't come last semester, so Chen Yun breathed a sigh of relief. Now that he came with his girlfriend, Chen Yun was finally relieved. She said, "You two are a perfect match."
Qian Jinglin held the woman's hand and whispered to her the whole time. He didn't really let it go as he seemed to do, but to some extent he also felt that reality was terrifying.
The person he liked was married and loyal to her husband, and even very cold to him. He was very like that, which would only cause inconvenience to others. Moreover, he felt that what he saw in Chen Yun was just some superficial things. At least when he talked about other literature and science with the girl sitting in front of him, she understood them.
Although Chen Yun is a very suitable candidate to be a wife, she has a low level of education and is not the kind of person who likes to study, so Qian Jinglin also tried to move on.
They finished their drinks quickly, and Chen Yun washed the quilts they had used up and placed them next to each other in the cabinet. Then she sat down to do her hair, but she didn't expect that as soon as she sat down, she would think of her husband and her getting along for the past few days.
She slowly opened up her heart and became more and more casual with her husband. When they were doing that yesterday, she asked for the first time that the woman should be on top of the man. This made both of them very happy. She thought her husband was really a very charming person. If this was the case, then she couldn't be as rigid as before today.
She took out a few notebooks from the bottom of her box. Some of them said to create some small surprises and romance. She thought about it and took a postcard from her own store to ask her husband to have a candlelight dinner with her.
When she came to her senses, it was already half past four. She quickly closed the door and went to pick up her son.
Baby Zirui was waiting for his mother at the classroom door. Chen Yun said to the teacher embarrassedly, "I'm sorry, I'm late today, teacher. This is the jelly tea I made myself, please try it."
The teacher declined several times, and Chen Yun smiled and said, "It's not a good thing, I just want you to taste it for me, please take it."
She listened to her son's childish talk and happily took him to the market to buy beef, because Liu Qiao loved beef the most.
When Liu Qiao came back, Chen Yun pulled him into the room and pouted and said to him, "Let's cook together today. Honey, help me."
"Okay..." Liu Qiao looked at her with a smile, his eyes full of meaning, and he winked at her after he finished speaking.
Chen Yun hit him and said, "Let's go."
The son was reading and watching TV in the living room, and the couple was cooking in the kitchen. Chen Yun saw that he was not chopping vegetables properly, and said in a coquettish voice: "You are so stupid, husband."
She suddenly felt that it was much more comfortable to speak like this, instead of praising Liu Qiao as she had done before in order not to hurt his reputation even though he had done something wrong.
Liu Qiao couldn't help but smile as he listened to her sweet complaints, not feeling the slightest bit troubled.
While she was tearing lettuce, she said to Liu Qiao, "Professor Qian brought his girlfriend to my shop for drinks today. I think he has let it go."
Liu Qiao bumped her with his butt: "Are you still feeling a little lost?"
"How could that be? Ever since you said he might be a perverted murderer, I've been having nightmares for a while. I wish he wouldn't look for me." Chen Yun pushed back with her butt.
Liu Qiao covered his mouth and laughed until tears came out: "Wife, you are so cute."
Chen Yun made a face at him: "Tsk, you're still blaming me, but you yourself have met your first love."
She deliberately looked at his expression calmly after she finished speaking, but who knew that Liu Qiao was so angry that he said, "Don't mention her. I feel sick. That woman is very frivolous. I think she has had enough of her good life. I think this woman is like this. We can't let her have an easy life."
Chen Yun hummed a few times, and Liu Qiao quickly said, "Of course, apart from our beautiful and lovely Yunyun."
It felt good to have everything explained to each other. Chen Yun stewed beef with tomatoes. She took the initiative to assign tasks to Liu Qiao: "Wash the cutting board and everything. I'll go and settle the bills."
"Yes, little housekeeper."
The happiest thing for Chen Yun every day is to take out the money she earns that day, calculate her turnover, show it to Liu Qiao, and then put it in her bag.
"Honey, look at the money I earned today. If you have time tomorrow, please help me deposit the money. I don't dare to go by myself." Chen Yun pouted cutely.
Liu Qiao asked, "Aren't you afraid that I will steal your money?"
"Don't be afraid. I'm not withholding it from you if you want to use it. Why do you have to steal this word? Really?" Chen Yun was dissatisfied.
She believed in Liu Qiao's character so much that Liu Qiao was very happy to hear it.
The two ignored the baby who was also eating at the table that night. They exchanged a lot of sweet words with each other. Chen Yun even told about the embarrassing incident when she went to the toilet at Liu Qiao's house.
"Really? I was so embarrassed that time. I used to be such a clean person in the eyes of others, but that time I thought I never wanted to see Brother Liu Qiao again in my life. It was so embarrassing."
Liu Qiao laughed and said, "I was thinking that Yunyun was pretty, but her poop was also so solid. After I rushed down, I was really worried that you would not come to our house in the future, so I struck while the iron was hot and went directly there in the afternoon. I wanted to go into your room to see you, but your parents were there, so I didn't dare to."
So that's how it is, Chen Yun wrinkled her nose, "You said that I read pornographic books at that time, it was really disgusting. You were in a premature relationship yourself, and you said that to me, I was not convinced at that time..."
Liu Qiao rubbed the back of his head and said, "Don't mention anything about early love or first love. I feel so uncomfortable. You are the only one I have now, so don't compare other women with me."
"That's a good realization." Chen Yun said with a grin.
**
October was a bright and cool autumn day. Liu Qiao's childhood friend Jiang Zhihui finally opened a new store, so he invited Liu Qiao and his wife to dinner. Chen Yun wore a black long-sleeved silk dress, a pair of silver earrings, and her hair was tied up, which made her neck look long.
"It's so beautiful. I don't want to see you go out." Liu Qiao praised.
Chen Yun said coquettishly: "You just know how to coax people."
The two went to a restaurant near Wangfujing. Jiang Zhihui didn't invite many people, just Chen Yun and her husband and a few others. But Chen Yun saw the person standing next to Jiang Zhihui first, and Liu Qiao whispered to Chen Yun: "Just pretend you don't know him."
Chen Yun nodded.
Zhu Xiaofang, who was standing next to Jiang Zhihui, saw that Liu Qiao and his wife's smile was a bit forced. She had thought that she had escaped from that circle. Little did she know that Jiang Zhihui's childhood friend was actually Liu Qiao.
Jiang Zhihui was of course unaware of these details and even introduced her to Liu Qiao: "This is my girlfriend, a student at Beijing University of Communication. My girlfriend helped me a lot in opening the store this time."
Liu Qiao also pretended not to know Zhu Xiaofang and greeted her. Zhu Xiaofang was relieved. Jiang Zhihui even introduced her: "This is my childhood friend in Jiangcheng. Now he is the deputy head of a group in Beijing."
The dishes today were all a bit spicy. Chen Yun saw the fried bananas with butter on the table and was about to pick up some non-spicy ones for the children, but unexpectedly Zhu Xiaofang picked them up for Chen Yun before her and smiled at her.
Chen Yun also thanked her and didn't say anything else.
Seeing this, Zhu Xiaofang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. She had finally found someone who shared the same feelings as her, and she didn't want any changes to happen.
Jiang Zhihui is a typical second-generation rich man who returned from overseas. He has an open mind and is definitely different from ordinary people. He is also generous. The most important thing is that his parents have also immigrated abroad, so there will be no conflicts between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in the future. How great is that.
She is definitely a person who puts love above all else, but she has been married once. She is flattered that an elite like Jiang Zhihui likes her and treats her so well without saying anything. The most important thing is that she and Jiang Zhihui started a company together, and she can combine her experience before time travel with him.
She has invested a lot of effort in this company, and with the nourishment of love, except for occasionally thinking about her son Mengxiang, she lives a happy life.
She never wanted to be the daughter-in-law of the Gao family in that village again, to work like a slave and live with such ignorant people. When she first traveled through time, she went there with the feeling that she could live there, but when she really came into contact with reality, she felt so out of tune with it. Sometimes she even couldn't stand Gao's mother spitting.
Now Jiang Zhihui is well-educated and well-mannered, and there is no problem in communicating with her. This is her soulmate.
She looked up at Chen Yun who was eating silently. Seeing that she didn't say anything, she couldn't help but regret rushing into the store and scolding Chen Yun. What should she do if Chen Yun held a grudge and couldn't help but expose her past?