Chapter 9 Where are you from, kid?
Chu Yan said, "Aren't there artificial diamonds now? I heard that without professional instruments, it's impossible to tell whether the artificial diamonds are real or fake with the naked eye."

Chu Yan held Bo Fan's hand instead, turned around in front of him and said, "Bo Fan, does my dress look good? Can I wear this one when we toast at our wedding?"

Chu Yan looked at Yuan Xi again: "Sister, can you be my bridesmaid at our wedding?"

Yuan Xi refused: "I'm afraid not. I'm very busy with work."

Bo Fan was not kidding when he wanted to poach Yuan Xi. "Secretary Yuan, I heard from Han Chen that you are leaving. Have you found a new employer? Fanyan Entertainment is in need of a vice president."

Chu Yan looked at Yuan Xi nervously.

Yuan Xi said: "I haven't found a new employer yet, but I'm not considering Fanyan Entertainment. I want to find an easier job."

Bo Fan said: "That's a pity. I originally thought I could become a colleague with Secretary Yuan."

Chu Yan hugged Bo Fan's arm tightly and looked at Yuan Xi worriedly.

Yuan Xi pointed at the red dress on display and said to the clerk: "I want to try that red dress."

The clerk took down the red skirt and let Yuan Xi try it on.

Chu Yan pulled Bo Fan and wanted to leave. She didn't want Bo Fan to stay with Yuan Xi for long: "Bo Fan, let's go."

Bo Fan looked at Chu Yan and said, "Aren't you going to change out of your dress?"

"No need to change. I'll wear it today. I still have several haute couture pieces."

When Bo Fan and Chu Yan walked out of the store, Bo Fan saw a young man entering the store.

The young man was wearing casual clothes and pants that seemed to have no logos on them, and the watch on his wrist was just an ordinary Apple Watch, but he exuded an indescribable noble temperament.

Chu Yan took one look at the Apple Watch on the young man's wrist and sneered, "Anyone dares to come to the luxury mall these days, but 520 is coming soon, maybe he can save money and buy a luxury bag for his girlfriend as a 520 gift. Bo Fan, let's go."

When Huo Shiyan entered the store, he saw Yuan Xi coming out wearing a strapless silk red dress.

He had never seen Yuan Xi wearing a dress. In the past year, whenever he saw Yuan Xi, she was either wearing a shirt or a suit. Even in the hot summer, she was wearing a work skirt.

Huo Shiyan looked at Yuan Xi's fair shoulders and his breathing became heavier.

Yuan Xi looked at herself in the mirror, then looked at Huo Shiyan, "How is it?"

"It's beautiful."

Huo Shiyan took out his cell phone and took a photo of Yuan Xi.

Yuan Xi asked: "Why are you still taking pictures?"

Huo Shiyan smiled faintly: "Show my grandmother her granddaughter-in-law."

Yuan Xi raised her eyes and looked at Huo Shiyan, "Does your family know that we are married?"

Huo Shiyan nodded and said, "For something as big as getting married, of course I have to tell my family. My family wanted to come and see you, but they were all busy, and I was afraid of scaring you, so I stopped them."

Yuan Xi said: "How can I let the elders come to see me? I should be the one to visit the elders."

Huo Shiyan smiled faintly and said, "After you leave, I will take you to meet my family."

Yuan Xi nodded and said, "Okay."

When we returned to Ruo Hu Mansion, it was already dark.

Yuan Xi looked at the table full of dishes and looked at Huo Shiyan, "Who made this dish?"

Huo Shiyan: "The chef made it. They live in the small house in the back. They usually only come to the main courtyard when they are working. They didn't ask you what you like to eat, so they just made something casually."

Yuan Xi said: "There are so many dishes. It would be a waste if we can't finish them."

Huo Shiyan said: “Don’t do so much in the future, just waste it today.”

Yuan Xi was eating the meal. She didn’t know where Huo Shiyan hired the chef from, but the food was very suitable for her taste.

Yuan Xi: "It's delicious, especially the sweet and sour spareribs. There are very few authentic ways of cooking it out there now. Most people cook pre-made sweet and sour spareribs. This is the sweet and sour spareribs I loved to eat when I was a child."

Huo Shiyan said, "If you like it, eat more." Yuan Xi stroked her belly and said, "I've already eaten a lot. I'll put the rest in the refrigerator and take it to the company for lunch tomorrow. I've been eating at Michen Canteen for five years and I'm tired of it."

Huo Shiyan said, "You are pregnant now, so be careful about Listeria. It is better to eat less of what is in the refrigerator. I will deliver the meal to you tomorrow at noon after the chef has finished cooking."

Yuan Xilian said: "No, what if we meet Gu Hanchen?"

Huo Shiyan said: "You can come to the underground garage to get it, you won't meet him."

Yuan Xi looked at Huo Shiyan and said, "Boss Huo, it's fine if you pick me up and drop me off every day, but if you bring me food at noon, it's more than a hundred kilometers round trip. Wouldn't that affect your work?"

Huo Shiyan shook his head and said, "It's okay, it won't affect you. After all, the baby in your belly is important."

Yuan Xi looked at her belly. She was indeed blessed with two children.

After becoming pregnant, Yuan Xi became particularly sleepy. After taking a bath and handling some work in the study, Yuan Xi found that she was already drowsy at nine o'clock.

Huo Shiyan stood beside Yuan Xi, picked her up from her dozing position, and put her on the bed: "Go to sleep if you're sleepy."

Yuan Xi saw the noise, glanced at Huo Shiyan in front of him, and fell into a deep sleep.

Huo Shiyan covered Yuan Xi with a quilt and kissed her gently on the forehead, "Good night."

……

Mi Chen was just about to go public, and Yuan Xi was still very busy at work. She couldn't just quit without caring about Mi Chen's life or death.

Yuan Xi started working as soon as she arrived at the company in the morning and was busy until noon. If she hadn't received a call from Huo Shiyan, she wouldn't have known that it was almost twelve o'clock.

Yuan Xi got off the elevator and went to the garage, where she saw Huo Shiyan's Maybach. She walked to the back seat, where Huo Shiyan opened the small table and put the food on it.

Yuan Xi's appetite increased when he saw the steaming sweet and sour spare ribs.

Huo Shiyan peeled the shrimp for Yuan Xi, "This shrimp was caught from Ruo Lake this morning, you try it."

Yuan Xi took the shrimp meat that Huo Shiyan had peeled and said with a faint smile: "It's delicious. The shrimp and crabs in Ruohu are the most delicious."

Huo Shiyan said: "I also think that the shrimps and crabs from Ruohu are the most delicious. During the years I studied in the United States, I missed the shrimps and crabs from Ruohu very much."

Yuan Xi coughed and said, "What a coincidence. I have a friend who is also studying in the United States. When he first went to study in the United States, he called me every day and said that he wanted to eat Ruohu's shrimp and crabs."

Huo Shiyan looked at Yuan Xi and asked, "Your friend?"

Yuan Xi nodded: "We were childhood friends. We gradually lost contact after he went abroad to study in junior high school. I haven't heard from him for almost thirteen or fourteen years. I don't know how he is doing now."

Huo Shiyan looked at Yuan Xi, but she didn't recognize him?

"Boom boom boom!"

There was a knock on the Maybach's door. Huo Shiyan opened the window and saw Gu Hanchen outside the door.

Gu Hanchen was stunned when he saw Yuan Xi sitting in the back seat of the Maybach biting on some pork ribs. "Boss Huo, it's really you. I said the license plate looked like your car. Why is Yuan Xi eating... in your car?"

Huo Shiyan said: "Secretary Yuan is reporting to me the budget report for June and the data of the new game. In order to save some time, he is reporting while eating."

"Then there's no need to squeeze in the car to eat, right?" Gu Hanchen looked at Yuan Xi, "Why didn't you inform me when Mr. Huo came? And you asked Mr. Huo to accompany you to eat in the underground garage? How rude!"

Gu Hanchen looked at Huo Shiyan again and smiled: "Mr. Huo, please come to my office to talk."

Huo Shiyan looked at Yuan Xi and said, "Wait until Secretary Yuan finishes her meal. She is a pregnant woman and cannot be hungry, so she is eating while reporting in the underground garage."

Gu Hanchen looked at Yuan Xi and said, "You also know that Secretary Yuan is pregnant? Alas, Yuan Xi is now only concerned about her child with this strange man, and has abandoned me and her child."

"Cough cough cough."

Yuan Xi coughed up a mouthful of rice, which made the back seat full of it.

Huo Shiyan raised his eyebrows and looked at Gu Hanchen outside the car, "Where did your children come from?"

Yuan Xi coughed twice: "Gu Hanchen, where did our child come from?"

(End of this chapter)