Chapter 36 She is my baby
The two got out of the car.
Huo Xingzhou said calmly: "You are tired today, go back and have a good sleep. Tomorrow is the Huo Group's groundbreaking ceremony, we have to attend."
He spoke indifferently, as if nothing had happened in the car.
Qiao Xi secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
He had warned her that as a widow she wouldn't even be able to eat.
He was just under the influence of drugs and had no feelings for her at all.
She felt a little relieved, but also unexpectedly a little disappointed.
Qiao Xi asked, "Are Grandma and Jiaojiao going?"
"They don't want to go, saying it's annoying." Huo Xingzhou also understood. But he couldn't explain it clearly. Tomorrow they were going to watch a good show, not to cause trouble.
"Okay then. Good night, Mr. Huo."
"Good night."
Qiao Xi said good night to him and returned to her room. She was very tired at first, but she felt extra refreshed after taking a shower. She lay on the bed and couldn't help looking through the photos in her mobile phone album.
The assistant photographer has sent her the original photo.
Her fingers paused, and she found the kissing photos. Qiao Xi recalled the deep kiss during the day, the shameless indulgence in the car, and curled up her toes in shame.
She patted her hot cheeks with her hands: "Qiao Xi, wake up. Mr. Huo just drank too much tonic recently. He didn't mean that at all."
She didn't know why the two of them hugged each other and kissed for so long.
She wanted to delete these intimate photos, but in the end she couldn't bear to do so and just put them in an encrypted album.
Finally, I picked out a photo of me in a dignified Chinese wedding dress with a bridal tiara and a red robe, and prepared to show it to my grandma so that she would feel at ease.
But the old lady has been wanting to go back to the countryside recently. The doctor said that her health can only be recuperated to this extent and she can be discharged from the hospital.
Qiao Xi frowned in distress and yawned, feeling sleepy.
I woke up at dawn.
Aunt Qian prepared a delicious breakfast.
"The other day, the young master said he wanted to eat the Zhouji steamed buns, and the young mistress was also thinking about the glutinous rice." Aunt Qian put the breakfast she bought on the plate.
"Thank you, Aunt Qian."
Qiao Xi said softly.
Huo Xingzhou, who was sitting on one side, looked up and saw that she was wearing light makeup today, which was different from before.
"You guys eat, I'll go to the kitchen to check on Master's medicine." Aunt Qian loved to run around.
Qiao Xi smiled and sat next to Huo Xingzhou, pouring him a glass of fresh milk: "Mr. Huo, calcium supplement."
"good."
He responded.
"Is there anything I can do for today's groundbreaking ceremony?" Qiao Xi turned around and asked him. Huo Xingzhou would not deliberately avoid her when talking to Zhou Yu.
She more or less guessed that Huo Xingzhou had a trump card.
"Just stay with me and be a vase." He ate his breakfast elegantly. "Don't be stubborn."
"I will obey you."
She won't be as impulsive as last time.
The two of them left home at nine in the morning.
The groundbreaking ceremony was held in the western suburbs, and the scene was grand. Two kilometers from the entrance, there were balloon salutes and huge banners.
A little closer, you can see rows of shovels and excavators wearing big red flowers, looking very majestic.
The car was parked in a nearby parking lot, and a lion dance troupe was invited to perform at the opening ceremony.
From a distance, I could see a group of well-dressed big bosses surrounding the Huo family and flattering them. All the well-known families in Haicheng sent people, including the Xu family, the Sun family, the Nan family, and so on.
Qiao Xi saw that Sun Shao was also there.
"The second branch of the Huo family has arrived."
"Are you asking for trouble? He was in charge of this project. He watched helplessly as his hard work was handed over to someone else. Tsk tsk."
Huo Beiting walked briskly, with the charming Su Weiwei beside him. He walked to Huo Xingzhou with a haughty look on his face: "I thought you were not coming."
"How could I be absent when my cousin is enjoying such a glorious time?"
Huo Xingzhou said calmly.
Huo Beiting said complacently: "I know you feel bad, but who made you feel so unwell? Why don't you stay in the hospital for a few more days?"
Zhuo Feng said that if this happened a few more times, Huo Xingzhou would be dead.
The look in Huo Beiting's eyes when he looked at him was full of false sympathy.
"Xingzhou, why didn't your parents come?" Wang Fengxian came over in a bright red cheongsam and said, "Even your grandfather is here. Do they have more face than your old man?"
She glanced at Qiao Xi again and said, "I'm not saying anything bad about you. You treat a country girl like a treasure and take her everywhere with you. You don't feel ashamed."
Huo Xingzhou looked calm, with a faint smile in his eyes: "Aunt, she is my baby."
"Second Young Master, I heard that Qiao Xi is doing an internship at the hospital. Even my own mother has to wait in line when she goes to see a doctor. It's unfortunate to have such a daughter. Do you treat her like a treasure?"
Su Weiwei sneered with an arrogant attitude.
"Do I treat you as my treasure?" Huo Xingzhou retorted with a scornful look, "You are so concerned about who I treat as my treasure, is it because you can't forget the old feelings?"
In the early years, Su Weiwei had a crush on Huo Xingzhou. Who wouldn't love Huo Xingzhou at that time?
“That’s enough!”
Huo Beiting's brow was full of anger, and as soon as the groundbreaking ceremony was over, he dumped Su Weiwei.
She is of no use to me anyway.
"Beiting, the groundbreaking ceremony is about to begin. Don't get involved with useless people and don't let your grandfather down." Huo Jianjun reminded lightly.
"Yes, father."
Huo Beiting glanced at Huo Xingzhou with contempt before leaving.
As soon as the eldest wife of the Huo family left, Huo Xingzhou said, "We are closer, so we can see clearly."
"good."
Qiao Xi pushed him inside.
There were circles of people gathered in front of the cornerstone. They stopped at the outermost circle, and next to them was the old man of the Huo family, who was wearing a Tang suit embroidered with pine patterns.
He was leaning on a cane, with a serious look on his face, and was protected by two bodyguards.
When he saw Huo Xingzhou, he asked indifferently, "Is your leg okay?"
"Thanks to you, it's OK."
"Humph, showing off."
Mr. Huo sneered coldly.
He had a cold recently, his back was hunched and he looked much older. His limbs and joints ached day and night, and he called Zhuo Feng for acupuncture, but it only treated the symptoms and not the root cause.
The old man was very smart and he immediately guessed that Zhuo Feng was not Cheng Han's apprentice.
But he didn't expose it.
Huo Xingzhou's legs were crippled and he was rumored to be infertile. Huo's family would have to be handed over to the first wife in the future, and Mr. Huo didn't want to cause any more trouble.
"If it can't be cured, then forget it. The Huo family will ensure that you will be rich for life. I won't take back the 5% of the shares. Just treat it as a dividend to your second branch."
He appears to be kind, but he is extremely partial.
The old man gave 20% of the shares to the first wife, and only 5% to the second wife, leaving him with 30%. The Huo family holds 55% of the shares in the Huo family, which is an absolute controlling stake, and the rest are small shareholders.
"Thank you for your charity, Grandpa."
Huo Xingzhou had long been accustomed to this kind of unfairness and still managed to maintain a faint smile on his face.
Mr. Huo glared at him and admonished him, "Don't be so gloomy and blame others."
Qiao Xi stood aside and watched, feeling sad and sorry for Huo Xingzhou.
"Grandpa, please pay more attention to my cousin." Huo Xingzhou said casually while sitting in a wheelchair, "I heard that he used 20% of the shares to sign a bet agreement for Future City with Tianyuan Group."
If they lose, the eldest branch of the family will not have any shares left, and even the Huo family will lose its absolute control over the Huo Corporation.
The old man was startled.
The old man's face was solemn and his breath revealed obvious anger.
"What a fool!"
The words fell.
The noisy crowd over there suddenly became noisy and screamed!