Chapter 164: Chapter 161: Brother and I Are Almost Starving 3
Ye Xixi was born with the ability to automatically filter out chaos, automatically ignoring the large crowd of people in formal attire coming from the past, focusing intently on watching Ye Xiao tie his shoes.
Seeing her suddenly stop, he thought she had forgotten, sighed like a little adult, squatted down with his little hands on Little Fatty’s legs, looked at Ye Xiao, and said crisply, "Mommy, did you forget how to do it?"
The footsteps behind got closer and closer, and Ye Xiao suddenly pulled Ye Yihan over, hugging him with her back to the crowd of people.
Ye Xixi, not understanding, opened her eyes wide, her small eyes dazed and confused, looked at Ye Xiao, then at Ye Yihan, not knowing what had happened.
When the footsteps gradually went away, and the sound of a car engine starting reached her ears, Ye Xiao slowly let go of Ye Yihan, closed her eyes, and nonchalantly tied Ye Xixi’s shoes.
Ye Xixi bit her finger, her little face still bewildered.
Ye Yihan glanced in the direction of the departing car, his thin little lips pressed straight, turned to look at Ye Xiao, and his beautiful obsidian-like eyes narrowed slightly.
The black Cadillac drove on the icy streets of S City, its wheels making a sound like shattering glass as they rolled over the ground.
Inside the car, tranquil enough to hear a pin drop, Wan Liwei, the chairman of Wan Hui Group sitting in the passenger seat, reached to adjust the collar of his shirt; though the heater was sufficiently warm, after all, it was winter, and yet a thin layer of sweat formed on his forehead.
He carefully glanced at the man with a cold aura and indifferent expression sitting in the back seat through the rear-view mirror.
The man was dressed in a dark black mandarin collared overcoat, his features under the short, inky hair were sharp and profound, with thin blade-like lips pressed coldly like a bloodless sharp knife.
Even though those cold, dark black eyes were hidden beneath silver-rimmed glasses, the sharp frostiness bursting forth from within could not be concealed.
Wan Liwei swallowed, dared not look more, and retracted his gaze.
And just as he averted his eyes, the man in the back of the car slightly lifted his eyelids, saying coldly, "Does Director Wan have something to say?"
"..." Wan Liwei was shocked, hurriedly looked in the rear-view mirror, and when his eyes met that pair of sharp black eyes reflected in the mirror, he instinctively avoided them, "To welcome Mr. Rong, I have prepared a welcome banquet for you at the Wanhui Building, at which time all the senior executives of Wan Hui Group will be present, therefore, I sincerely hope Mr. Rong can honor us with your presence."
Rong Mochen’s face showed no expression, "Hmm."
Wan Liwei let out a sigh of relief, when he had initially planned this dinner party, he had been afraid he wouldn’t attend.
In recent years, news from Z City concerning this President of the Rong Family was either of ruthless means, or of a deep and inscrutable mind, hard to fathom.
Regarding his sudden visit to S City this time, he was indeed apprehensive.
The sound of a phone vibrating came, Wan Liwei looked back and saw his assistant handing the phone to him.
"Boss Rong, it’s Miss Gu," Gu Yan said.
Wan Liwei noticed that when Rong Mochen heard it was this Miss Gu calling, the hardness on his face seemed to lessen a bit.
Wan Liwei’s eyes quickly flickered, promptly took out his phone, and swiftly sent out a text message: Get rid of all those women for me.
It turned out, to please Rong Mochen, Wan Liwei had carefully chosen a group of beautiful women beforehand to present to Rong Mochen at the dinner party.
But now seeing Rong Mochen seems different towards that Miss Gu, giving him beauties might very well backfire.
Rong Mochen took the phone, didn’t seem to say anything, as if the other side was speaking the whole time, finally he gave a low "hmm," then tossed the phone back to Gu Yan.
Wan Liwei’s eyes gleamed with shrewdness, with a cheerful smile asked, "Mr. Rong, is it a girlfriend?"
Rong Mochen’s eyebrows slightly furrowed, his profound and cold eyes swept over Wan Liwei.
Wan Liwei’s heart trembled, hurriedly lowered his head, and dared not speak again.
Today, who knows what day it is, there were especially many people receiving someone at the airport, a densely packed mass blocked the arrival gate, Ye Xiao holding Ye Xixi and Ye Yihan one on each side, stood at the back of the crowd, basically no hope of squeezing in.
"Xiao Xiao, so many people," Ye Xixi blinked her shiny black eyes, her little eyebrows furrowed, looking up at Ye Xiao, "How do we get in?"
Ye Xiao pursed her lips, her eyes flickered when she saw some young girls holding signs, tightly clutching the little hands of the two kids said, "Xixi, Hanhan, we’ll wait outside for a bit, when Uncle Ying comes out and can’t see us, he’ll call us."
"But I want to wait here," Ye Xixi said softly.
Ye Xiao looked somewhat troubled, glanced at Ye Yihan.
Ye Yihan raised his eyebrows, let go of Ye Xiao’s hand, took Ye Xixi’s little hand with his chubby one, and said to his sister, "Xixi, there’s a bench over there, we can sit and wait for Uncle Ying, and also..."
Ye Yihan leaned close to Ye Xixi’s ear and whispered, but actually, Ye Xiao could hear it all, "When I just came in, I saw there selling ice cream over there."
"Ice cream?" Ye Xixi’s eyes widened in surprise and she covered her small mouth and lightly exclaimed, "Really?"
Ye Yihan nodded, "Really, I’m not lying to you."
Ye Xixi looked quickly at Ye Xiao, "Mommy, can we go to the place selling ice cream and wait?"
"..." Ye Xiao twitched the corners of her mouth, "Okay."
"Yay." Ye Xixi was so excited she almost jumped up.
Ye Xiao smiled helplessly, pinched her little nose, and led the two little ones to the airport’s hot beverage shop.
Just as Ye Xiao led Ye Xixi and Ye Yihan into the hot beverage shop, waves of excited, uncontrollable screams came from the arrival gate.
"Ah... Mr. Huo, Mr. Huo..."
"Huo Shaojun, Huo Shaojun, I love you, I love you..."
"Ah... ah..."
"..."
Ye Xixi was a little scared, her small shoulders trembling, and she looked up at Ye Xiao with fear.
Ye Xiao slightly frowned, gently touched her little face in comfort, "With mommy here, Xixi, don’t be afraid."
Ye Xixi breathed a sigh of relief, her small shoulders relaxed, leaning over the transparent glass counter to look at the beautiful cakes displayed inside.
Ye Xiao squinted, looking towards Huo Shaojun with a stern expression obscured by sunglasses as he walked out of the airport protected by bodyguards, lips tight.
"Xiao Xiao, I want to eat this." Xixi reached out her chubby finger, pointing at the strawberry cake inside the glass counter with a longing look.
Ye Xiao withdrew her gaze, glanced over, and while patting her daughter’s soft little head, said, "If you eat this, you can’t have ice cream, okay?"
"..." Ye Xixi pouted her lips, her big, dark eyes looked pleadingly at Ye Xiao, "But I want to eat both, what should I do?"
Ye Xiao shook her head, indicating she had no solution, as ice cream and cake could only be a choice between the two.
Ye Xixi pouted her small mouth in grievance, turned her head to look at her brother Ye Yihan, who was crossing his arms, turning his head to the side, pretending not to see.
Ye Xixi had no choice, she stretched out her chubby hand to grasp Ye Xiao’s clothes hem, softly said, "I’ll eat the cake, Brother will eat the ice cream, okay?"
"..." Ye Xiao was speechless, this clever little thing!
Ye Yihan also rolled his eyes, "Ye Xixi, I don’t eat..." sweets.
"Shh, shh... Brother..." Before Ye Yihan finished, Ye Xixi quickly hugged him, covering his mouth with her little hand.
"Pfft..." The shop’s service staff couldn’t hold back a laugh, leaned over from behind the counter to look at Ye Xixi, "Little one, why are you so cute?"
Ye Xixi’s little face turned rosy, her pink plump lips pouted adorably at her, softly saying, "You’re lying."
"..." The service staff froze, then chuckled, "I wasn’t lying, you’re really very cute."
"Since I’m so cute, why won’t my mommy buy me ice cream and strawberry cake?" Ye Xixi snorted.
"..." The service staff and Ye Xiao.
"Pfft, hahaha... so cute." The service staff’s maternal instincts instantly overflowed, directly took out that strawberry cake from the glass counter, "Little one, you’re so cute, even if your mommy won’t buy it for you, auntie will give it to you, okay?"
Ye Xixi’s eyes instantly lit up, "Really?"
"Of course, here you go." The service staff handed the cake to Ye Xixi.
Ye Xixi was overjoyed, carefully stretching out her two chubby hands to take it, sweetly looking at the service staff, "Thank you, big sister."
Big sister...
The service staff laughed again, enviously looking at Ye Xiao, "Your daughter is just too cute, you’re really lucky, oh, I also want such a cute daughter."
Ye Xiao was instead a bit embarrassed, affectionately glancing at Ye Xixi, "How is she cute? She’s clearly a little tricky one."
Ye Xixi smiled at her with crescent eyes.
Ye Xiao was completely at a loss, tapping her nose lightly, then ordered a hot ice cream, paying for both the cake and ice cream.
The family of three sat on the soft seats in the hot drink shop, Ye Xiao hadn’t said anything, but Ye Xixi proactively said, "Xiao Xiao, I didn’t ask her to, she gave it to me herself."
Ye Xiao was slightly stunned, looking at Ye Xixi’s fair little face, "Does Xixi know why mommy gave sister the money for the cake?"
Ye Xixi thought for a moment, then seriously nodded.
"Why?" Ye Xiao held her little hand.
"Sister gave me the cake because she likes me, so Xixi also needs to like sister, which means I can’t just take sister’s cake, sister needs to work. Xiao Xiao, I won’t do it again in the future." After Ye Xixi finished, she even nodded to herself.
"Mm, Xixi is really good." Ye Xiao lowered her head to kiss her daughter’s little face.
Ye Xixi raised her chin with a silly smile, but suddenly, the little girl exclaimed, with wide eyes, "Yah..."
Ye Xiao and Ye Yihan’s mouths twitched, just seeing the little girl’s round little body sliding off the sofa, spreading her chubby arms and racing to the door.
Ye Xiao was startled, got up to chase, but her hand was held by Ye Yihan’s small hand.
Ye Xiao’s eyes paused for a moment, then heard Ye Xixi’s joyful laughing voice coming from behind.
"Giggle, ah-woo, haha... Brother Ying, don’t throw, don’t throw, Xixi is scared, haha..." Although she said she was scared, her heart was really happy.
Ye Xiao relaxed, turned around to look.
Ying Jingyao, in a simple casual outfit, light gray turtleneck sweater, and camel-colored long coat, with an elegant aura and gentle demeanor, was coming over with one hand holding Ye Xixi, and the other pulling the suitcase.