Lin Wan Bai was forced to hold the iPad, he could only bite his lips and say, "Let's remove the cilantro …"
Hearing this, Huo Chang Yuan raised his eyebrows without even noticing himself.
The waiter quickly brought up the bottom of the pot. It was not a traditional charcoal fire. On the table, there was a large earthenware pot with fragrant chicken soup inside. The green onion and ginger slices floated in the pot.
The fat cows and vegetables that had been sliced into pieces were now being rinsed into the casserole one after another.
Because the dining hall's designed seats were a single sofa, it was impossible to control how close one would be to the other. It felt like every time one raised a hand, one would be able to touch the other party.
Lin Wan Bai held onto his chopsticks, and couldn't help but look over, "Ye Xiu, let's change our seats?"
"Sure!" Ye Xiu readily agreed.
Huo Chang Yuan frowned, they were fast, and before he could stop them, they had already exchanged places.
Lin Wan Bai kept eating gloomily throughout, doing his best not to look at the poker face that had gone black.
When Ye Xiu was filling her cup with water, he asked while smiling, "Xiaobai, you said on the phone that there was a change when you returned to Canada. What is the change?"
"Huang Dong, whom I want to interview today, suddenly has an urgent matter to take care of in Australia. I wonder when he'll be back …"
"Then what should we do?" Ye Xiu also frowned.
Lin Wan Bai shook his head and said with a sigh, "I don't know either, so we should only be able to wait …"
"It doesn't matter, there will always be accidents in the world!" Ye Xiu smiled and comforted her, "Coincidentally, I'm not in a rush to go back either, so I can wait with you!"
Huo Chang Yuan, whose expression had always been gloomy, suddenly spoke out, "If he doesn't return soon, will Mr. Ye wait for him?"
"Mr. Howe must be joking, how can that be!" Ye Xiu pushed his glasses.
"Hur hur." Huo Chang Yuan gave an ambiguous laugh, his tone had a deeper meaning, "I just feel that, like you said, there will be accidents in the world."
Lin Wan Bai felt that the atmosphere was a little strange and interrupted, "Hurry up and eat it, the beef will be cooked a while later!"
After he finished the hotpot, without him realizing it, the lights outside had already lit up.
Huo Chang Yuan took out his car keys, but glanced at Lin Wan Bai, "I'll send you guys off."
"Thank you, but there's no need for that. I just called for a taxi on the internet. Now, it's getting more and more convenient!" Ye Xiu smiled and indicated with his phone, then pointed to a taxi that had stopped, "We seem to have arrived!"
Huo Chang Yuan did not say much, as though he was happy to see that happen.
He continued to pull his lips, "Lin Wan Bai, get in."
"Uh, there's no need …" Lin Wan Bai shook his head.
She was afraid that she would be pulled out and stuffed into the car by him, as if she was afraid that he would act the same way as before. She even took half a step back before running over, "Ye Xiu, I'll go with you!"
The taxi drove on in the neon light while the driver in front listened to the radio broadcast with great interest.
After getting down from the bridge, Ye Xiu who was sitting at the side suddenly spoke out, "If I recall correctly, Mr. Howe drove a white Land Rover, right?"
"Right …" Lin Wan Bai nodded, and asked puzzledly, "What's wrong?"
"I'm fine." Ye Xiu laughed as he shook his head.
He turned his head to look at the reverse mirror. The white Land Rover had been following him from a distance, and he had been paying attention to it for a long time.
Ye Xiu hesitated for a while, but decided to speak out in consideration, "Little White, you and Mr. Howe shouldn't be as simple as friends, right?"
Lin Wan Bai heard and pursed his lips.
In Canada, other than her daily contacts with her colleagues, she only had Ye Xiu, her best friend. She did not want to lie to him, but she did not want to mention what happened in the past again, so she only said, "It's not important, it's all in the past …"
Ye Xiu nodded, things that she did not want to talk about would not be difficult.
After muttering to himself for two seconds, he asked, "Mr. Howe's son is indeed very likeable, then what about the child's mother?"
"I'm not sure either." Lin Wan Bai shook his head, his tone also filled with bewilderment, "However, Dou Dou said that he doesn't have a mother himself, and I have a rough understanding of it, maybe it was Huo Chang Yuan who gave birth to another woman, a one-night stand or something like that …"
"So it's like that!" Ye Xiu nodded his head, then shook it and laughed, thinking that he thought too much of it just a second ago.
The taxi stopped at the entrance of the apartment building, Lin Wan Bai opened the door and got off, then smiled and waved to the people inside, "Ye Xiu, I will be going up first, you should go back to rest earlier too, see you later!"
"Alright!" Ye Xiu replied with a smile.
Not far away, the white Land Rover that was following them stopped under a street light.
The white Land Rover didn't leave until it was certain that the taxi had disappeared into the night and that her beautiful figure had appeared in one of the windows.
Evening, Hauptmann's.
Just finishing a meeting, Huo Chang Yuan pushed open the office's door and took off the suit jacket on his body, then took out the phone in his pocket. There was a call from the Huo Residence that was not picked up.
He walked up to the French window and started dialing through it with one hand in his pocket.
After the line was connected, it was quickly picked up, and Huo Zhen's deep voice sounded out, "You didn't call me, is this a meeting?"
"Yes, it just ended." Huo Chang Yuan bit his lips, the sun outside the window was setting and half the sky was dyed red, the rose-colored light shone into his eyes, "Dad, why are you calling me?"
"Come back for dinner tonight. It's fine by yourself, you don't need to bring Dou Dou along."
Huo Zhen still did not know about the matter of the little bun being hospitalized, so he said this.
Huo Chang Yuan squinted his eyes, "What, you don't miss your grandson?"
"Why don't you want to!" Huo Zhen immediately retorted and paused for a while, before opening his mouth again, "But it's not appropriate tonight, the main reason why I called you back was to discuss your marriage with Jing Xue the girl! No matter what kind of reason you find, the marriage between you and Jing Xue the little girl cannot be delayed anymore! "
Huo Chang Yuan gave an almost inaudible sneer.
"Chang Yuan, you aren't young anymore. Furthermore, Jing Xue has already been engaged to you for four years, so we should give her and the Lu family an explanation. Therefore, the marriage should be arranged as soon as possible!"
Huo Chang Yuan listened silently, and at the end, his lips moved, "I understand."
After hanging up, the setting sun shrouded his face, but there was no warmth at all.
Huo Chang Yuan took out a cigarette from his pocket. After igniting the lighter, the white smoke scattered in all directions. Huo Chang Yuan inhaled deeply as the nicotine extended from his mouth all the way to his stomach.
"Knock, knock, knock!"
Someone knocked on the door, and the office door was pushed open.
Jiang Fang who was dressed in a suit walked in and reported respectfully, "Miss Lu is here, he said that he wanted to meet you!"
Hearing that, Huo Chang Yuan turned his body, the smoke curling around him, causing his strong and angular features to be unable to see anything clearly.
Jiang Fang observed him and said, "Hutong, should I reject it like before, or …"
"Let her in." Huo Chang Yuan puffed out a cloud of smoke.
"Yes sir!" Jiang Fang immediately replied.