Hua Kai and the others exchanged a few more words with Hua Zhongzhi, but that was about it. They had said enough, so they went home.
When they arrived at the door, Ye Yifan told Hua Qingyi and Hua Qingyang to go home first, saying that he and Hua Kai had some business to attend to and would be back soon.
Hua Kai, unaware of what was going on, got into the car with Ye Yifan and asked, "What's wrong? Why are you being so mysterious?"
As Ye Yifan drove, he said, "You'll find out soon enough." Before he finished speaking, they had left the village.
Ye Yifan parked the car at an open space at the foot of a mountain.
Hua Kai got out of the car and looked at the place with a puzzled expression, asking Ye Yifan, "What are we doing here?"
Ye Yifan led Hua Kai to the trunk, opened it, and found a heart shape made of neon lights, and a large bouquet of roses inside.
He looked at the blooming flowers and said, "Happy birthday, dear."
Hua Kai smiled and said, "That's a nice nickname."
Ye Yifan laughed: "I feel much more at ease now that my girlfriend is an adult. Before, I always felt like I was fooling a young girl."
"It's just to coax young girls into thinking you'll have to treat me well from now on, since I'm their first love."
"I was your first love too, okay? We're equals in this matter. But it's only right that I cherish you; there's no need to negotiate."
As he spoke, Ye Yifan took out a small gift box from among the roses and handed it to Huakai: "This is a watch that a friend brought back from abroad. I thought you could use it."
Hua Kai accepted the gift and opened it, and she really liked it: "I was thinking of buying a watch too, thank you Ye Yifan."
Ye Yifan looked at the blooming flowers and said, "Just thank you?"
Hua Kai tiptoed and kissed Ye Yifan on the cheek. Before she could return to her original position, Ye Yifan hugged her and lowered his head to kiss her lips, lingering there.
The kiss lasted a long time, until Hua Kai was a little out of breath, then Ye Yifan stopped and looked down at Hua Kai.
Hua Kai blushed deeply under Ye Yifan's gaze and immediately nestled her head in his arms.
Ye Yifan embraced Hua Kai in his arms: "I really want to marry you right now."
Hua Kai lightly pinched his waist: "Dream on, I'm not old enough to get married yet."
"So I have to hold back for another two years." Ye Yifan's voice was a little hoarse.
"Hold back?" Hua Kai didn't understand at first, but after repeating it to herself, she realized: "Ye Yifan, you're getting worse and worse."
Ye Yifan rested his chin on Hua Kai's head: "How am I bad?"
"You know it yourself."
"I don't know, tell me."
"I don't know either."
"Little pervert."
"No, you said it first."
...
After flirting and teasing each other for a while, it was getting late, and the two couldn't stay there any longer, so they packed up their things and went home.
When they got home, Hua Kai and Ye Yifan brought the roses inside, saying that there were cars selling them on the street, and they were very cheap, so they bought some.
As Gu Lanyan searched for a large jar to put the flowers in, she grumbled about how they were wasting money.
Hua Wanjiang looked at Hua with suspicion and said, "I don't know if this person has a brain. Selling flowers in the dead of winter, aren't they all frozen? What's the point of buying this? You might as well buy two pounds of meat."
Gu Lanyan found a jar and said, "I think these flowers are quite pretty and smell very nice, but these two kids bought too many. Ten or eight flowers would have been enough. I think there must be over a hundred of them."
Hua Kai helped Gu Lanyan put the flowers into a jar and said, "Mom, these rose petals smell very nice. When the flowers wither, we can dry the petals and make sachets to put in the wardrobe. Wouldn't it be great if our clothes smelled like roses?"
Gu Lanyan said, "How about I dry some locust flowers in the summer? It won't cost me anything. You guys are just too extravagant."
Listening to their parents' nagging, Hua Kai and Ye Yifan kept smiling. Such moments were always so ordinary yet beautiful.
The business will open on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, but Hua Kai and Ye Yifan returned to the city on the sixth day. This time, they took Li Jing with them. As for Hua Qingyi, it's fine if he goes back a few days later.
On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, Hua Kai and Ye Yifan finished arranging the business for the city's reopening after the New Year. In addition, Li Jing was also there. The two of them would go to the provincial capital in the afternoon, as Hua Kai wanted to go back to see Ye Jianxiao as soon as possible.
As darkness fell, the two arrived at Ye Jianxiao's house.
The old man happened to be at the door. It wasn't a coincidence; he figured Ye Yifan would be back soon, and Hua Kai should be able to come along too. So he had been watching from the fifth day of the lunar new year until the seventh, going out to check every now and then.
Hua Kai got out of the car and ran over to wish Ye Jianxiao a Happy New Year.
Ye Jianxiao took out a red envelope and gave it to Hua Kai.
Hua Kai thanked them with the large red envelope and they went inside together.
Back inside, Ye Jianxiao and Hua Kai had endless things to talk about. They talked about how Hua Kai's house would be finished in the summer, and they would definitely go and stay there for a couple of days.
Ye Yifan listened quietly as they talked so happily; she rarely saw her grandfather so joyful.
The store opened quickly on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, and business was booming that day. Before the New Year, some people didn't know about their sofas, but visiting relatives during the holiday was a form of indirect advertising, and many people bought them.
Things are on track here now. Goods are regularly shipped from the city. Although the shipping costs are a bit higher, the costs for factories and labor in the city are also lower, so it's not a loss.
The garment factory provided some spring clothing design sketches, allowing the master tailors to design patterns and other details based on their own designs, and then production could begin.
Once the samples were ready, Huakai wouldn't allow direct sales. Instead, they told us to find models, take photos, and then create a brochure with their logo to promote the product before selling it.
Ye Yifan had everyone do these things according to Hua Kai's wishes, and he had already started looking for people to design diaper-type products.
Ye Yifan didn't go back to work until after the Lantern Festival, while Huakai started school on the 17th. The two of them decided to stay here with their grandfather for the Lantern Festival before returning to the city.
The day before the Lantern Festival, the two had just returned from the clothing factory when Xiao He brought Chang Tingting over.
Hua Kai still politely wished Xiao He a Happy New Year, ignoring Chang Tingting.
Chang Tingting looked at Hua Kai with resentment, but in order to please Ye Jianxiao, she didn't dare to say anything unpleasant to Hua Kai. After all, she wasn't a regular customer; she had only come twice before with Xiao He. Xiao He had told Ye Jianxiao that she wanted to matchmake Ye Yifan and Chang Tingting, but Ye Jianxiao hadn't agreed. He only said that Ye Yifan's marriage was up to him, and he wouldn't interfere too much. However, Chang Tingting knew how important Ye Jianxiao was to Ye Yifan. If the old man spoke up, the matter would be almost certain to be settled. So every time she came, she pretended to be very sensible and obedient.
After exchanging a few words, Xiao He said to Ye Jianxiao, "Dad, I've booked a restaurant for dinner tonight. Our family will go out to eat. Tingjun will go straight there after get off work, and Xiaozhou went to his classmate's house and won't be coming over tonight."
Ye Jianxiao was quite satisfied with Xiao He recently, because Fang Lanlan had indeed returned to the Fang family, and Xiao He had been coming to see Ye Jianxiao often lately. So Ye Jianxiao agreed, "Okay, I'll change my clothes and go to the restaurant later."
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