"Mom, what are you saying?" Xiao Yuan turned off the stove. Then he turned around and asked with a frown.
Looking at her son's expression, Xiao's mother asked in return:
"Didn't you barely sleep at all last night?"
“Yes! Zhizhi had a high fever. I fed her medicine and watched over her the whole time. I barely slept all night. What happened?” Xiao Yuan answered generously.
"You didn't sleep all night?" Xiao's mother asked in surprise, her voice rising slightly.
Xiao Yuan nodded firmly.
"You didn't..." Xiao's mother asked, extending two thumbs and bending them.
Xiao Yuan finally understood what his mother meant by those words, and felt a little embarrassed for a moment.
After feigning a few light coughs, Xiao Yuan turned around and served the dishes.
"No, it's better to wait until after marriage to do this." Xiao Yuan tried his best to make his voice sound normal.
Xiao's mother's excitement from the morning instantly plummeted. Forget about holding a grandson, she hadn't even seen a glimpse of one yet!
After spinning around in place, Xiao's mother reached out and pinched Xiao Yuan's back hard.
"You good-for-nothing!" he said, then turned and left decisively.
Watching Xiao's mother stride away, Bai's mother asked curiously:
"Won't you try your son's cooking?"
"I'm not in the mood anymore, I'm leaving." Xiao's mother was like a defeated rooster.
Soon, Xiao's mother disappeared from sight, and the Bai family driver took her back.
"What's wrong with her?" Bai's mother asked Bai's father curiously.
"Who knows, maybe it's menopause?" Mr. Bai replied without looking up from his newspaper.
Xiao's mother sighed again and again in the car, and even after entering the house, she was still thinking to herself that Xiao Yuan was a good-for-nothing.
"What's wrong? Who upset you?" Mr. Xiao was also at home. He asked when he saw his wife return with an unhappy expression.
“Look at the good son you raised! He’s nothing!” Xiao’s mother glared at Xiao’s father and replied irritably.
Mr. Xiao touched his nose after being scolded and didn't dare to say anything.
On the other side, Xiao Yuan and Bai Qingzhi were sitting in the kitchen eating. Bai Qingzhi had a great appetite today and ate quite a lot.
Just as the two were deeply in love, Xiao Yuan's phone rang at an inopportune moment.
"Is it about company matters? Go quickly," Bai Qingzhi urged sensibly.
"Okay, then you should rest well at home today. I'll come see you again tonight." Xiao Yuan leaned down and kissed Bai Qingzhi's forehead before going upstairs to change his clothes and heading to the company.
He didn't return until it was almost dark, and the Bai family no longer had any objections to him staying there.
"Aunt Jiang has already prepared the room; you can stay there tonight," Bai Qinghuai said earnestly.
Xiao Yuan rolled his eyes at him. Although his brother-in-law had accepted him, he still made things difficult for him from time to time.
However, since it wasn't really good to live together every day without being married, Xiao Yuan nodded in agreement.
Just as he was about to go to sleep, his phone suddenly rang. It was an unfamiliar number.
This is his private number, and not many people know it.
Xiao Yuan hung up decisively, but not long after, the number called again.
"Take the call, just in case something happens," Bai Qingzhi said.
Xiao Yuan answered the phone, and a female voice answered.
"Cousin, I feel so bad."
Bai Qingzhi was also eavesdropping, and when he heard the person on the other end call him "cousin," he knew who it was.
Xiao Yuan, however, had no idea who the other person was.
"Who is it?" Xiao Yuan's voice was cold as he quickly racked his brains to recall who his sisters were.
But after thinking it over and over, I really couldn't find it.
Zheng Xiaoxin, sitting opposite Xiao Yuan, felt her anger rising rapidly as she listened to his question, but she suppressed her anger as she remembered her mother's words.
"Cousin, it's me, Zheng Xiaoxin. I feel really unwell right now. Could you come over?" Zheng Xiaoxin's voice was weak.
"Go see a doctor if you're sick." Xiao Yuan said, making a move to hang up the phone.
"President Xiao!" Zheng Xiaoxin realized Xiao Yuan's intention and shouted loudly.
Xiao Yuan sneered and then spoke:
"Miss Zheng sounds very energetic; she doesn't seem sick at all."
Zheng Xiaoxin knew she couldn't fool him, so her voice returned to normal, and she began to speak in a serious tone:
"Mr. Xiao, I didn't want this to happen either, but there's nothing I can do. I'm calling you today because I have something to tell you."
"If you need anything, contact my assistant." Xiao Yuan remained unmoved.
Bai Qingzhi, listening from the side, was almost amused.
Zheng Xiaoxin was still talking, but Xiao Yuan didn't want to listen anymore. He decisively hung up the phone, moved closer to Bai Qingzhi, hugged her, and whispered something in her ear.
Zheng Xiaoxin, on the other end, was furious and pulled the blanket over her head.
A text message came in, and Zheng Xiaoxin glanced at it with annoyance.
Bai Qingzhi had just recovered from a cold and didn't feel like moving around, so she hadn't gone to the company with Xiao Yuan these past few days.
She received an email at home that day, in which someone wanted to order jewelry from her.
And the price is not low.
Bai Qingzhi's eyes lit up. Although the studio was now officially on track and Qiao Shanshan and her partner could handle the jewelry orders, who would complain about poor business?
After saying goodbye to my family, I went to the agreed location, a very large and upscale restaurant.
When Bai Qingzhi approached, she found that the other person was a very young woman, and she was dressed quite well.
"Hello, I'm Bai Qingzhi." She stepped forward and greeted him.
The woman looked up, and from the moment Bai Qingzhi met her eyes, she felt a sense of resistance.
She didn't like it, feeling that the other person's eyes were too calculating and shrewd.
"Hello, Miss Bai. I'm sorry to have asked you out. First, let me introduce myself. My name is Zheng Xiaoxin."
The person who arrived was Zheng Xiaoxin.
Bai Qingzhi raised an eyebrow. She did know who Zheng Xiaoxin was, but Bai Qingzhi was smart this time and didn't show it on her face.
"Zheng Xiaoxin? I don't seem to remember knowing you."
Zheng Xiaoxin's smile froze.
"Didn't your cousin tell you about me?"
"Who is your cousin?" Bai Qingzhi frowned in confusion.
He walked over and sat down opposite the woman, taking out the contract he had prepared beforehand.
Just kidding, even if the other party is there to provoke her, she still has to close this deal.
Zheng Xiaoxin was a little frustrated. After all that effort today, the other person didn't even know who he was!
He sat down dejectedly and listlessly introduced his relationship with Xiao Yuan, though he wasn't lying.
Bai Qingzhi suddenly felt that the other person was somewhat cute...
“Brother Yuan didn’t tell me, and neither did Auntie. If she had, I definitely would have treated you to a meal.” Bai Qingzhi smiled gently.
Looking at Bai Qingzhi's face, Zheng Xiaoxin found himself unable to utter any of the sharp words he had prepared before coming.
This face looks so cute, I really want to pinch it, what should I do?
"No way! I came here to provoke them!" Zheng Xiaoxin mentally gave himself some encouragement and gritted his teeth to strengthen his resolve.
Just as he was about to continue his plan, he heard Bai Qingzhi speak:
"Cousin, are you still ordering this jewelry?"
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