Zhang Yichen's car was parked outside. He was about to walk to his car.
Huo Jinyao's car happened to be heading out. He saw Zhang Yichen and greeted him.
"Uncle, it's not far. It's not far anyway. Let's take my car. I need to talk to you about something. "
Zhang Yichen stood there without moving. Zhang Xinghua and the others had already gotten into their respective cars. He paused for a second and finally got into Huo Jinyao's car.
Liu Tongjia had already gotten into Huo Mingguang's car and left. Behind them was Huo Yifan's car.
Sitting in Huo Yifan's car, Su Peizhen watched Zhang Yichen get into Huo Jinyao's car from afar. The smile on her face grew brighter.
Huo Jinyao, Huo Jinyao. You think you're smart and powerful, but you can't even tell that someone is coveting your wife?
You're such an idiot.
Forget it. I'll be nice and give you a reminder in case you continue being stupid.
Su Qingsang sat in the front seat. Zhang Yichen naturally got into the car from behind.
"How many days off do you have this time, Uncle?"
"Three days." His reply was concise and to the point, without a single extra word.
Su Qingsang glanced at the rearview mirror. Somehow, she felt that Zhang Yichen was in a bad mood.
She didn't want to explore Zhang Yichen's mind, so she turned around.
She saw a mobile stall selling roasted sweet potatoes. Her eyes lit up immediately.
But she quickly remembered that they were going to eat now. If she ate a roasted sweet potato, she wouldn't be able to eat later.
There was a traffic light in front of them. Huo Jinyao stopped the car and saw Su Qingsang looking at the sweet potato stall at the intersection.
"Don't tell me you want to eat sweet potatoes again."
"Can't I?" Su Qingsang glanced at him. "They're delicious."
"We'll have dinner soon. If you eat a sweet potato now, how are you going to eat later? "
"I know. I'm just looking."
He said he was just looking, but the look in her eyes didn't mean that at all. Huo Jinyao felt helpless. He stopped the car at the intersection in front of them when the traffic light turned green.
He got out of the car and quickly bought a sweet potato from the stall under Su Qingsang's smiling eyes. He got in the car and put it in Su Qingsang's hand.
"Here."
Su Qingsang took the roasted sweet potato and smiled like a contented kitten.
"Thank you."
"Don't thank me. If you don't eat later, I won't let you touch this thing again."
Huo Jinyao sounded like he was lecturing a child. Su Qingsang stuck her tongue out and made a face at Huo Jinyao.
"I'll eat half, and you can take care of the rest. Then I'll be able to eat. "
Huo Jinyao didn't want to talk to her anymore. He turned around and went to get the car.
"I can't? That would be such a waste. "
Huo Jinyao reached out his hand and rubbed Su Qingsang's cheek. "All right, hurry up and eat. Leave the rest to me, okay? "
"Jinyao, you're so nice." Su Qingsang leaned over and kissed him on the cheek.
After the kiss, she realized that Zhang Yichen was still sitting in the back of the car. She blushed. He hurriedly backed away, his face full of discomfort.
Huo Jinyao noticed it too, but he didn't take it to heart. To him, no matter how old Zhang Yichen was, he was still his elder.
Looking at Su Qingsang, he felt a little helpless. "You don't have to go that far, do you? You're so satisfied with a roasted sweet potato. "
Su Qingsang's reaction was to give him a look that said, "You don't understand." This kind of pure happiness was something he would never understand.
Out of politeness, Su Qingsang asked Zhang Yichen if he wanted some sweet potato.
Zhang Yichen looked at her and shook his head expressionlessly. Su Qingsang felt so stupid. Did she think everyone was like her? Satisfied with a sweet potato?
The sweet taste of the sweet potato made her forget her embarrassment. She only ate a small part of it, then stopped eating.
Before getting out of the car, she held up the remaining half of the sweet potato and looked at Huo Jinyao. "Jinyao."
Huo Jinyao looked at her. Without reaching out his hand, he finished the sweet potato in a few bites.
On the other side, Zhang Yichen got out of the car without saying anything to them.
The car door slammed loudly. Su Qingsang's hand, which was holding the sweet potato, trembled. Seeing that Huo Jinyao was heading to the hotel, she couldn't help but look at him.
"Is Uncle angry?"
"How can that be? Uncle doesn't get angry so easily. "
Huo Jinyao also saw Zhang Yichen's back. That strange feeling from before came again.
In fact, he asked Zhang Yichen to get in his car today to test him.
Zhang Yichen wasn't an emotional person, but thinking about it, it seemed that every time Su Qingsang was around, his emotions would be very abnormal.
Huo Jinyao was suspicious. His eyes fell on Su Qingsang's face.
She didn't seem to take Zhang Yichen's behavior to heart. He was more or less relieved.
However, he couldn't help but want to test Zhang Yichen.
There were a lot of people eating together. One table couldn't fit all of them. Two big tables were filled with people.
The elders sat at one table, and the rest of the younger generation sat at the other. For some reason, when Su Qingsang and Huo Jinyao sat together, Zhang Yichen sat next to Huo Jinyao.
Zhang Yichen and Huo Jinyao were good friends. When they sat together, no one would think too much.
Sitting next to Su Qingsang was Su Peizhen and Huo Yifan.
Su Peizhen had deliberately sat down a little later just to sit with Su Qingsang.
Huo Jinyao had to drive later, so he didn't drink. Su Qingsang didn't like drinking, so she politely declined.
However, Su Peizhen didn't want to let it go. She raised her glass and looked at Zhang Yichen.
"This is the first time I've met you, uncle. Let me propose a toast to you."
Su Peizhen raised her glass and proposed a toast to Zhang Yichen. In the past, Zhang Yichen wouldn't drink. But today, for some reason, he drank it.
Su Peizhen smiled. After drinking half of the wine in her glass, she glanced at Huo Yifan.
"Aren't you going to propose a toast to your uncle?"
Huo Yifan glanced at her. He didn't understand what she meant. Although Zhang Yichen wasn't as close to them as he was to Huo Jinyao, they had a good relationship.
"Uncle, let me propose a toast to you."
With these two people taking the lead, Huo Manzi, Huo Yiyang, Huo Qinghan, and Huo Qingwan all came to propose a toast to Zhang Yichen.
However, if Wei Sihai and Wei Simeng's cousins came to propose a toast to Zhang Yichen …
Seriously speaking, this generation of people had a lot of opportunities to meet each other. However, Zhang Yichen showed up the least often.
Every Chinese New Year, he was either on a mission or in the army. It was extremely rare for him to be able to attend a gathering with his entire family.
Zhang Yichen used to have a lot of self-control. Today, maybe it was because of the Chinese New Year, or because he hadn't gotten together with this group of people for a long time.
As soon as someone proposed a toast to him, he drank all the wine.
Su Qingsang and Huo Jinyao had been lovey-dovey. Now, seeing the scene in front of her, she began to feel that something was wrong.
She glanced at Huo Jinyao and signaled him to stop Zhang Yichen from drinking.
After all, this group of people was one generation younger than Zhang Yichen. If he didn't want to drink, he could totally refuse.
Huo Jinyao turned around and also noticed that something was wrong with Zhang Yichen.
However, he didn't stop Zhang Yichen from drinking as Su Qingsang expected. Instead, he glanced at Su Qingsang and signaled her to pick up the glass in front of her.
Neither he nor Su Qingsang had drunk any alcohol.
"Uncle, Qingsang and I will drink tea instead of wine. Let's toast to you."
Su Qingsang was stunned. She didn't understand why Huo Jinyao still wanted Zhang Yichen to drink. He had drunk quite a lot.
Zhang Yichen picked up the glass and looked at Huo Jinyao and Su Qingsang.
His eyes seemed to fall on Huo Jinyao, but the focus of his eyes was on Su Qingsang.
As Huo Jinyao raised the glass, he drank all the wine in it.
Su Qingsang gently pulled Huo Jinyao's sleeve, signaling him to stop toasting and the others to stop trying to persuade him.
Zhang Yichen quickly turned his eyes away and continued drinking.
Huo Jinyao didn't try to persuade him anymore. Just now, Zhang Yichen looked like he was drunk. Her eyes were also looking at him. For a moment, he felt that he was thinking too much.
Zhang Yichen's excessive drinking shocked the elders at the other table. Huo Yangxiu, Huo Yangyuan, and Old Master Huo told them to stop toasting.
The group of young people settled down. Even so, Zhang Yichen was still drunk.
Fortunately, he didn't drive here. Instead, he took Huo Jinyao's car.
Huo Jinyao and Zhang Liangze put Zhang Yichen in their car. Zhang Liangze drove here. He wanted Zhang Hanlei to take care of Zhang Yichen, but Huo Jinyao said that they would be arriving at the Huo Mansion soon, so Zhang Yichen could rest there.
Su Peizhen kept looking at Zhang Yichen with a smile on her face. That smile was so strange that Huo Yifan felt that something was wrong.
"My intuition tells me that you are trying to set someone up."
"Yes." Su Peizhen didn't hide it. "Why don't you guess who I want to set up?"
"Huo Jinyao? Or Su Qingsang? "
Su Peizhen shook her head with a smile and put her arms around Huo Yifan's neck.
"I really want something right now, but I don't know the person who sells it. But I believe you must have a way. "
"What is it?"
Su Peizhen moved closer to Huo Yifan, put her face close to his, and whispered three words in his ear.
Huo Yifan looked at her, not quite understanding what she meant.
"What do you want?"
"That's none of your business. If you can ask someone to bring it here when you get back to the Huo Mansion, you'll know what I want to do. "
Huo Yifan looked at her deeply, then made a phone call.
After hanging up, he looked at Su Peizhen and said, "Someone will bring the thing you want in fifteen minutes. But I want to know, what do you want to do?"
Su Peizhen didn't answer Huo Yifan's question immediately. She sat back in her seat and fastened her seat belt.
"By the way, I came to the Huo Mansion a few times and observed them. I found that it's not that your aunt doesn't like Su Qingsang, but she doesn't like Huo Jinyao. May I ask why? "
If Liu Tongjia didn't like Su Qingsang, she should have told Huo Jinyao about their relationship when she found out that Su Qingsang might be related to Zhang Yichen.
But he didn't do that. Instead, he kept the matter under wraps.
This meant that there were two possibilities. The first possibility was that Liu Tongjia loved her child and wanted to protect him. She didn't want him to see the cruel reality.
However, after observing Liu Tongjia's behavior, Su Peizhen deduced the second possibility.
Liu Tongjia didn't like Huo Jinyao at all. Therefore, she didn't care whether he was cheated on or not. Instead, she just wanted to watch a good show.
Moreover, she thought that Liu Tongjia wanted to take this opportunity to slap Huo Jinyao in the face.
She wanted him to know what would happen to him if he didn't listen to Liu Tongjia and marry the woman she wanted him to marry.
Huo Yifan glanced at her. He wasn't surprised by the inquisitive look in her eyes and the obvious desire to gossip.
However, he didn't want to answer Su Peizhen's question. "I don't know. I only know that Auntie has been like this since a long time ago. "
He knew that he used to have a big cousin. He was a very nice person.
He also knew that he used to have a little cousin. She was very cute.
However, after his grandmother passed away that year, the existence of these two people became taboo and couldn't be mentioned again.
It seemed that Huo Jinyao had been hated by Liu Tongjia since then.
They weren't involved in the specifics at the time, and Old Master Huo had ordered them to keep it a secret, so none of them dared to mention it, let alone figure it out.
Su Peizhen could tell from Huo Yifan's expression that he really didn't know.
She did not feel discouraged. Perhaps this was another point that she could start with.
There must be a special reason for a mother to hate her child so much.
Well, if she were to add to the fire on that ground. That would be really interesting.
… …
Huo Jinyao settled Zhang Yichen in the guest room. Liu Tongjia had made the necessary arrangements a long time ago when she found out that her relatives would be staying at the Huo Mansion.
Zhang Yichen's room was on the third floor. After all, he had always been on good terms with Old Master Huo. Old Master Huo's room was on the third floor.
However, Huo Jinyao didn't know about Liu Tongjia's arrangement. He wanted to go back to his room, so he directly sent Zhang Yichen to the guest room on the second floor next to his own.
Su Qingsang was going back to her room to rest, but for that reason, she followed Huo Jinyao.
She watched as Huo Jinyao walked Zhang Yichen back to his room and put him on the bed.
"He really seems to be very drunk. Should I ask someone to bring him a bowl of soup? "
Huo Jinyao didn't object. "I'll call inside and ask Xia to bring it up."
He turned to look at Su Qingsang. There was no worry or concern in her eyes.
She looked as if a relative had come to visit her. He felt like he should be the host.
"You must be tired. Go back to your room and rest. I'm here. "
Su Qingsang didn't object. She didn't want to stay here, especially when she thought of how awkward she had been when she met Zhang Yichen several times.
After she left, Huo Jinyao looked at Zhang Yichen's face, which was so red that it was almost purple.
Was the look he gave Su Qingsang on purpose or not?
After all, they had grown up together. Huo Jinyao didn't want to think too badly of Zhang Yichen.
He waited for a while, but Xia didn't bring up the soup. He walked out of the room to ask Xia what was going on.
There were many guests that day. Although Zhang Yichen was the one who drank the most, there were also people who drank a lot. The elders all drank a little.
At that moment, Liu Tongjia was ordering people to bring them the soup.
Huo Jinyao stood on the stairs and listened to Liu Tongjia's instructions. The soup would be delivered, so he didn't worry anymore.
He turned and went upstairs to Zhang Yichen's room to wait.
At that time, Su Peizhen was helping in the kitchen. She had been here several times. Now that she was in the kitchen, Uncle Cheng and Xia didn't dare to let Su Peizhen do anything.
"Don't be nervous. I'm not here to make trouble. I'm here to help. There are many guests outside. You want to send refreshments and drinks? Now you're even bringing soup. Auntie saw me just now, so I volunteered to help. "
Liu Tongjia thought that Su Peizhen wanted to show off, so she waved her hand and asked her to come to the kitchen.
Su Peizhen liked to show off, so she could do whatever she wanted. Did she really think that she could please Old Master Huo like that? How naive.
Xia and Jiang knew that Su Peizhen came here often, so they didn't think much of it.
Su Peizhen stepped forward and pointed at one of the trays.
"This is the soup you prepared for the guests, right? Let me carry it. "
Xiao Jiang and Xiao Xia couldn't argue with Su Peizhen, so they told her who the hangover soup was for. Xiao Jiang led Su Peizhen upstairs.
Su Peizhen was only here to help, but this was Jiang's job.
"Then, you lead the way. I'll carry it from behind."
Su Peizhen smiled warmly. Jiang let her guard down.
They worked as maids in the Huo family. Their salary was higher than outside, and the work wasn't too tiring. The master was quite polite to them.
However, there weren't many people who were as kind as Su Peizhen.
Jiang enjoyed it very much. She walked in front and quickened her pace.
Su Peizhen followed behind her and delivered the guests who had drunk a little too much and wanted to give them soup to sober them up.
Now, there was only one bowl left. Su Peizhen followed Jiang into the guest room that Liu Tongjia had arranged for Zhang Yichen, but she didn't find him.
Jiang thought for a moment. In the past, when Zhang Yichen came, he would stay next to Huo Jinyao. Could he be here this time?
"Maybe he's next to Young Master. There's only one bowl left. Miss Su, let me do it."
"Sure." Su Peizhen handed the tray to Jiang with a smile.
"Uncle's bowl is the only one left, right?"
"Yes, this is the only one left. Let me do it. Go and rest. Thank you for today. "
"You're welcome. It's nothing. The most important thing is to share Auntie's and Grandpa Huo's worries."
Jiang nodded. She understood Su Peizhen's choice. Although Su Qingsang was going to marry Huo Yifan, Liu Tongjia and Old Master Huo were the ones who had more authority in this family.
She carried the soup to Zhang Yichen's room next to Huo Jinyao's. Su Peizhen wasn't in a hurry to leave. She walked very slowly toward the stairs.
However, when she was halfway up the stairs, she turned around and walked toward Huo Jinyao's room.
When she arrived at Zhang Yichen's room, Jiang had already gone in.
She seemed to be able to see the sleeping figure on the bed. She knew that Zhang Yichen was dead drunk. The effect of the medicine wouldn't work immediately.
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