Huo Yu was a bit busy today, but he insisted on coming to pick up Xia Wan.
When I trotted all the way out of the school gate, the sky had already darkened, and the moon loomed in the dark blue sky like a round hook.
Before Xia Wan ran to the side of the car, Huo Yu bent down and got out of the car.
He's still wearing the same light gray shirt he wore in the morning's interview, with the tie ripped off for a more casual look.
The blue sky was reflected behind him, making his figure slender and tall, like a painting in the night, hazy and beautiful.
Xia Wan's heart was pounding and she quietly looked around.
Many students were still coming in and out, and some people quietly cast their gazes over. Xia Wan pursed her lips, forcibly retracted her arms that she wanted to open, and then jumped to the side of the car in two or three steps.
"Eldest young master." He bent his eyes and tilted his head, and called out unceremoniously.
"Little Mister." Huo Yu laughed heavily, raised his hand and stroked his hair, and opened the door for him.
"No idea," Xia Wan climbed into the car with her schoolbag on her back, "Can you learn from Aunt Qin?"
"What do you want me to be called?" Huo Yu snorted and slammed the car door for him.
When passing by the front of the car, he saw Xia Wan saying something with a smile.
"What did you just say?" Huo Yu got into the car and leaned towards Xia Wan, "Say it again."
"Just say good things once." Xia Wan bit her lip, swallowed the word "husband" forcefully, then took advantage of the situation to wrap her arms around Huo Yu's neck, and leaned over to kiss his lips.
"Aren't you afraid people will see you?" Huo Yu's voice rang in his ears.
"Don't fool me," Xia Wan said, "I know there is a privacy film."
"So unreserved?" Huo Yu smiled, "Tell me, what do you want to do with the privacy film on?"
Xia Wan pursed her lips, then stepped back, Huo Yu hooked her waist, and half pushed and half snuggled towards her.
"Master," Xia Wan said, "I saw your interview today."
"Are you satisfied?" Huo Yu raised his hand to scratch the tip of his nose, and kissed him again when he laughed.
The kiss was a little long and surprisingly gentle.
"Satisfied." After a while, Xia Wan bit her tingling lips lightly, then slowly bent her eyes, "Very satisfied."
Huo Yu lowered his eyes and smiled, leaned over to fasten his seat belt for him, and said, "Take you to eat delicious food."
"Didn't Aunt Qin come over today?" Xia Wan took out her phone from her backpack.
"Aunt Qin's child recently returned to China for business, so she was given two days off," Huo Yu said.
"Aunt Qin's child is abroad." Xia Wan said, "No wonder she seldom mentions it."
"His son is much older than us," Huo Yu said as he started the car. "My parents are of the same generation, but he is a few years younger than them. When he went abroad to study, my parents supported him."
"Father-in-law and mother-in-law are so kind." Xia Wan said.
When mentioning his parents this time, Huo Yu didn't feel as sad as before.
On the contrary, as soon as Xia Wan finished speaking, the corners of his mouth curled up unconsciously.
"What do you want to eat?" he asked.
"The weather is getting cold, let's eat hot pot." Xia Wan said.
"En." Huo Yu responded in a low voice.
Speaking of food, Xia Wan suddenly remembered something.
"By the way," he said, "next month, my father and I would like to treat Xue's family to a meal to express our gratitude to them for taking care of me all the time. Where do you think is more suitable?"
Huo Yu paused for a moment, then asked calmly, "Didn't we invite you last time?"
Xia Wan repeated what Wen Yunzhi said before.
"Auntie is very sincere and serious," Xia Wan said at the end, "My father also wanted to thank her personally after he found out."
He smiled and pursed his lips, his eyes were full of happiness: "You know how much my father loves me."
And a little worried: "I'm just afraid that he will feel sad when he sees others so successful in comparison."
Huo Yu was silent for a moment, knowing in his heart that the Xue family was about to take action.
When Xia Wan finally finished speaking, he said slowly: "Don't worry, I will handle everything."
"Master, you are so kind." When Huo Yu said this, Xia Wan's heart immediately settled down, and she couldn't help but praise him.
"Is that all right?" Huo Yu looked at him, "The request is so low?"
He also said: "Be careful that I will lower my demands on myself in the future."
"That won't work!" Xia Wan immediately protested upon hearing this.
Huo Yu pursed his lips and smiled lowly.
While talking and laughing, the phone rang on the console.
Huo Yu looked up and saw that it was Wei Qian's email, which should be the result of the investigation of Zhang Nan and Zhang Ruicheng.
"Is it business?" Xia Wan asked.
"Not entirely." Huo Yu thought for a while before saying, "I asked someone to check Zhang Nan's background."
"That Zhang Nan I know?" Xia Wan was a little surprised, "Is it because he owns Huo's shares?"
"Hmm." Huo Yu lightly tapped the steering wheel with his fingertips, "I plan to buy his shares."
"Do you need my help?" Xia Wan straightened her back immediately.
Huo Yu glanced sideways at him, and couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth.
Holding the steering wheel with one hand, he raised his hand to rub Xia Wan's hair, but accidentally touched his side cheek.
Xia Wan immediately shook his hand and put a sticker on her face.
His cheeks were soft and delicate, like spring water, flowing into Huo Yu's palm in an instant.
Huo Yu's hand holding the steering wheel tightened, and his lips were drawn into a straight line.
"You're interfering with the driver." He said in a slow voice that made Xia Wan's heart itch.
"It's obviously you who stretched out your hand." Xia Wan tilted her head, her eyes slightly bent, her lips quickly brushed against Huo Yu's palm, and then let go of his palm.
"Xia Wan." Huo Yu called out a little warning, but the corners of his mouth curled up uncontrollably.
Xia Wan looked at him sideways, and couldn't help laughing, her eight snow-white teeth were neatly exposed, and her face was full of sunshine.
Because the feeling of being in love is too good, Huo Yu has no choice.
It took him a while to spit out a few words with a smile: "Why are you so skinny?"
"You want to return the product?" Xia Wan moved closer to him, her breath caressing Huo Yu's ear.
Huo Yu gave him a half-smile and parked the car on the side of the road.
He didn't speak, just hugged Xia Wan into his arms, lowered his head and kissed his smiling eyes.
"No refund," he said, and then, "I should hire a driver."
Hearing this, Xia Wan couldn't help laughing out loud.
The car stopped on a path, the leaves of the tung tree had gradually turned yellow, and under the influence of the dim street lamps, they did not look sluggish, but instead dyed the entire path a warm golden color.
Looking out from the car, it is gentle and warm.
Huo Yu raised his hand to unfasten Xia Wan's seat belt, hugged him a little tighter, then lowered his head and gently touched his lips.
The kiss became deeper and deeper, like the projection of the two people's feelings in reality, from being cautious to trusting sincerity.
"Return the skin?" Huo Yu didn't let him go until Xia Wan couldn't breathe.
He raised his hand to touch his berry-like lips, and asked in a low voice.
"If you can get a kiss every time you get skinned," Xia Wan's eyelashes became wet from dyeing, "then I want skins."
Huo Yu was stunned for a moment, and a smile slowly appeared in his slightly intense eyes.
"En." He said after a while, his voice was very soft, as if he was promising something to Xia Wan, "Yes."
In Wei Qian's email, there are indeed investigation materials about Zhang Nan and Zhang Ruicheng.
In this document, apart from the above two people, there is also some information about Xia Chengzhang.
The content also surprised Huo Yu.
According to the information, Zhang Nan's shares come from his father Zhang Ruihe.
Zhang Ruihe was Huo Peifeng's first batch of employees when he founded Huo's, and he was also one of the earliest members of Huo's executive team.
After Huo Peifeng's accident, Huo Peixue took over the Huo Corporation, and some people who followed Huo Peifeng were also gradually cleared out of the management team.
Zhang Ruihe is one of them.
After leaving Huo's, Zhang Ruihe opened a coffee shop, which specializes in handmade coffee.
It is said that it was originally to pass the time, but I didn't expect the business to get better and better.
Until Zhang Ruihe passed away due to illness a few years ago, the coffee shop has developed several branches with good reputation.
Before that, Zhang Ruicheng had been helping Zhang Ruihe.
It wasn't until he got older in recent years and Zhang Nan found a more suitable helper that he slowly retreated.
Huo Yu looked down slowly and found that Zhang Ruicheng's resume was very intriguing.
Zhang Ruicheng and Xia Chengzhang are college classmates who practice architectural design.
It's just that after graduation, Zhang Ruicheng joined a real estate company, while Xia Chengzhang joined a design studio.
After accumulating some resources, Xia Chengzhang established his own architectural design studio.
At that time, it was the time when real estate was just emerging, and Xia Chengzhang was skilled in business, and he was able to bear hardships and stand hard work, so the business became better and better.
With the increase of business volume, he sent invitations to Zhang Ruicheng, his good friend in college, and Xia Chenglin, his distant cousin who studied marketing in his hometown.
In the beginning, the three worked together, and the studio was getting better and better.
This situation was maintained until Xia Chengzhang had an accident on the construction site.
This accident caused Xia Chengzhang to lose his money and the relationship that was about to become fruitful, and because he was getting depressed and unable to focus on his work, Xia Chenglin took his part of the company for himself, and then completely took him Kicked out of the company.
At that time, Zhang Ruicheng may have been unable to speak out for Xia Chengzhang because Xia Chenglin's family was dominant.
Later, Xia Chengzhang returned to his hometown in the south in embarrassment, and that time, he brought back a child, Xue Wenke, who was only two years old at the time.
In a few years, real estate entered its peak period, and Xia's studio became better and better. Xia Chenglin took the opportunity to kick Zhang Ruicheng out.
Since then, Zhang Ruicheng has been working in the coffee shop of his brother Zhang Ruihe.
The two brothers have a very good relationship, and Zhang Ruicheng has never married, and he treats Zhang Nan as his own.
So even today, Zhang Nan and Zhang Ruicheng still feel like father and son.
These years, Zhang Ruicheng never gave up on getting his things back from the Xia family.
And Zhang Nan has been operating secretly, but so far, he has not found a more suitable opportunity.
It is worth mentioning that when Zhang Ruicheng was just kicked out by Xia Chenglin, he went to the south to find Xia Chengzhang, and wanted to join hands with him to get the Xia family back, but Xia Chengzhang resolutely rejected his request.
And later, Xia Chengzhang brought Xia Wan back again, as if he didn't have this idea at all.
To him, it seemed that the past was the past.
Even though life was extremely hard, and even depending on Xia Chenglin's face, he never thought about taking back the studio that originally belonged to him.
Seeing this, Huo Yufu's fingers that were slowly sliding down on the mouse paused unconsciously.
Zhang Ruicheng didn't say anything yet, but he was somewhat familiar with Xia Chengzhang.
If he didn't read these materials, Huo Yu wouldn't even have imagined that Xia Chengzhang had ever studied in university and run a company.
Of course, if he didn't know the truth, he couldn't believe that he was the kind of person who could take other people's children away.
He gave everyone the impression that he was kind, simple, and loved children...
But looking at it now, he seemed determined to trample himself into hell.
It seems that he has never thought about the dream he once had and the bright road illuminated by the dream.
Huo Yu frowned and pondered for a moment, then pulled down the email again.
The text in the email has come to the end, Wei Qian wrote in it: "There are a few photos, I believe you must be very interested."
Huo Yu didn't pause, and following his movements, the two photos in the attachment appeared on the screen.
It was a summer evening when I was a child.
There are no photos of him when he was a child in Xia Wan's house, and these were obviously taken by others.
The first thing that catches the eye is a group photo of several children.
Those children each held a marshmallow, and some of their cheeks had the white silk of the marshmallow, and they were facing the camera with joy.
But there is no Xia Wan in it, because Xia Wan is in the far corner of the photo.
He wore old clothes, but they were very clean. He looked like he was four or five years old, with a thin chin, and a pair of big eyes fixed on the cotton candy in the hands of the group of children—eyes full of yearning and longing.
There is another one, which is of an eleven or twelve-year-old boy Xia Wan.
He was squatting in front of Xia Chengzhang's iron hut where he made shoes, beating something with a hammer.
Huo Yu looked at it for a moment, then slowly raised his hand, and gently stroked Xia Wan's small face on the screen, which was seven or eight points similar to the present one.
In an instant, a powerful and turbulent love poured into my heart.
Huo Yu suddenly realized that the boy he thought he would protect was far stronger than himself.
Because, he seems to be able to dissipate all the suffering he has experienced in the sunshine and bright smile, without leaving the slightest trace on himself.
The phone vibrated, Xia Wan raised her eyes from the report, and saw Huo Yu's message, only two words and a punctuation mark:
【Summer night! 】
Xia Wan was stunned for a moment, couldn't help but looked up at the ceiling, then smiled and said: [Did the young master miss me again? 】
Huo Yu's message came after a while: [Yes]
Immediately afterwards, another entry came in: [In the future, I will take you to eat many, many, many delicious foods. 】
The author has something to say:
finally finished
I went for a re-examination yesterday. I don't know if it's because of the end of the year. The critical illness medical insurance window was overcrowded. After seeing the outpatient clinic, I paid the fee until the afternoon. I didn't finish the examination. I went to the hospital for a long time today.
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