Chapter 63: Meeting again when school reopens, Call me Yaoyao
(Part 1)
“Oh? Like this ah……” The corners of Lu Anran’s mouth lifted in a beautiful curve.
The dishes were served up consecutively by the waiter. At this time, Artha who went to clean up her skirt, has also changed into a newly bought dress and returned carrying a paper bag. She sat into her seat and smiled at the four extra people who suddenly appeared and used Mandarin to introduce herself briefly, silently guessing that these four people should be Lu Anran’s classmates as they were all about the same age.
Chu Yao and everyone else gazed at Artha, who looked more beautiful and delicate than a doll. With a face full of surprise, she awkwardly laughed and introduced herself. Another dish was served up and Lu Anran gestured for everybody to start eating.
During the meal, nobody said anything, the price of the dishes was not very high and was about $80 per head. For the general public, it was a place well suited for family dinners and small friends gathering. On the other hand, there were also restaurants targeted at rich people under the Lu Corporation banner where it was about $800 per head and was a very suitable environment for business negotiations.
Also, the taste of the Lu Family cuisines was very authentic and was deeply loved by the citizens of S City. The decorations of the restaurant was simple and unsophisticated, the attitude of the staff was also very polite and good. Everyone was very happy eating and dining at restaurants under Lu Corporation’s management.
After the meal, Lu Anran paid 720 Yuan for it and then first sent Artha back to Kai Long. Ling Yingying and the other three felt a little embarrassed about Lu Anran’s invitation to dinner. For Lu Anran whose family owns a large business, $700 probably does not mean much to her, but for Ling Yingying and the other three people, $700 was not a lot but it was also not a small amount. Earlier, Chu Yao invited them to eat and they were prepared to go to fast food restaurants such as McDonalds, where they could settle their dinner of four people with no less than 200 Yuan. All of them agreed to this plan, but $700…..was really a bit much ah…. Although Lu Anran treated the three of them, but they did enjoy themselves, right? At this moment, she was rather embarrassingly thanking Lu Anran repeatedly in her heart.
“Don’t worry about it! There is still another two days until school starts, everyone let’s meet again then!” Lu Anran said as she waved her hands.
“Bye Bye!” Ling Yingying and the other three people also said their goodbyes. But Chu Yao did not leave with Ling Yingying and the others, instead she proceeded to scrutinize Lu Anran with an unhappy facial expression. After not meeting for a while, it seemed like Lu Anran has become even prettier than before, really making her feel so infuriated.
“Chu Yao, where are you planning to go later ah?” Lu Anran felt super uncomfortable being stared at by Chu Yao, but still outwardly gave a calm face to her.
“Later?” Chu Yao retracted her gaze and replied. “I’m not going anywhere, Dad said that a guest is coming today, so I’m heading home directly later.” Recalling Chu Wanhai’s imposing appearance this morning, Chu Yao speculated in her heart that this person should be related to the mysterious person over in Kyoto, and most possibly connected to the scheme to kill Lu Anran. Thinking about this, Chu Yao felt very happy.
“A guest?” Lu Anran frown slightly and then gave her a faint smile, “then you should go back quickly! It’s also time for me to go home, Grandpa is very strict on my curfew time.”
“En! Bye Bye! Chu Yao waved and turned around to leave.
Gazing at Chu Yao retreating back, Lu Anran’s mood was not very good. Chu Wanhai’s guest was most likely related to the mysterious person, and it looked like they were about to take new action again….
Seeing Lu Anran’s worried face, Ji Ling and Lu Anhu could only apprehensively look at each other. “Anran, what’s wrong? What are you thinking of?” Ji Ling reached out and nudged Lu Anran’s arm.
“Nothing much.” Lu Anran smiled faintly and shook her head. “Ji Ling, do you still have anything you need to buy?”
Ji Ling thought for a moment, “nope, I have already bought everything I need.”
“I’ll let Uncle Zhang send you home.” Lu Anran replied. “There is still another place Anhu and I need to go.”
“Ok!” Ji Ling nodded her head, “I’ll go home now that both of you have somewhere else to go, also I’ll be fine without Uncle Zhang, I can just take the public transport home!”
“It’s alright, after all I don’t need the car right now. After Uncle Zhang sends you home, Uncle Zhang can come back to pick me up, I still need to go to a place near here.” Lu Anran smiled and stretched out her hand to ruffle Ji Ling’s hair.
“Don’t do that la! I won’t be able to grow taller if you do that!” Ji Ling waved her fist about in protest, her smiling baby face puffed up in anger and was unspeakably cute.
“I got it la!” Lu Anran also smiled. “Quickly go home!”
“En!” Ji Ling waved her hands, carried her backpack and skipped off. Lu Anran gazed at Ji Ling’s retreating figure, gave a phone call to Uncle Zhang to tell him about Ji Ling and then turned around to look towards Lu Anhu. The corners of her mouth were tilted up slightly.
Chapter 63: Meeting again when school reopens, Call me Yaoyao
(Part 2)
“Anran….Don’t look at me like that….You’re scaring me….” Lu Anhu felt a burst of guilt, as if a cunning hunter was staring at a silly rabbit that was trapped in a snare, and the unfortunate thing was that he was the silly rabbit.
“Are you full already from just now?” Lu Anran eyes crinkled cunningly as she looked at him.
“I’m…I’m ok ah!” He was not very hungry, only about 70-80% full.
“Hehehe…..” Lu Anran’s crafty smile was a mirror image of a little fox, as she reached out to heavily pat Lu Anhu’s shoulder, “the clarion call of the revolution has just sounded, the organization is in need of Comrade Lu Anhu’s active contribution ah!”
“What, what do you want to do ah…..” Lu Anhu could feel all the hairs on his arms stand up immediately, a gloomy feeling started spreading up from the bottom of his heart and a bad premonition appeared vividly in his heart. “Can…. Can I go now?”
“What do you think?” Lu Anran beamed, her face had an expression of her who would sink her teeth into Lu Anhu if he dared to run off and leave Lu Anran by herself.
Lu Anhu stared at Lu Anran’s facial expression and felt like weeping but had no tears. In the end, he could only absentmindedly heave a sigh and say, “alright…. What do you want me to do?”
“Nothing much!” Lu Anran took out a small cute notebook from her backpack and said as she flipped open the book, “I checked up the best restaurants in S City yesterday and decided to bring you to eat some delicious food!”
“Oh….” Lu Anhu relaxed, it is only eating food ah! That is still ok, but… According to his understanding of Lu Anran, the moment she smiled like a fox, it signified that this matter was definitely not what it seemed like on the surface. Lu Anhu swallowed nervously and asked, “how, how many restaurants?”
“Not many! You only need to try out 12 restaurants today!” Lu Anran smiled at him innocently.
Lu Anhu felt his right eyelid started jumping, when the left eye jumps, it signifies good fortune and when right eye jumps, it indicates bad fortune….Looks like he would meet a terrible misfortune today ah….
Lu Anran took out her phone, searched up what she had written in her notebook and said, “this shopping centre itself has 3 restaurants in it, let’s go to the first one first! At the first one, there are 7 dishes that you need to try!”
“…..” Lu Anhu clenched his fist, “Fine I’ll eat! Let’s see who’s scared of who!” It was only eating! Since it was only reviewing the dish, it will be enough if he eats two to three mouthfuls… As he held onto this kind of feelings, Lu Anhu started on his journey of the Purgatory-like ‘practice’ of Asura on this normal sunny afternoon.
On the other side, Chu Yao has just reached home by taxi, she used her keys to open the door and caught sight of a foreign pair of male shoes placed there, the shoe size looked to be size 40 which definitely does not belong to Chu Wanhai. It was a black, European gentleman style and the shoes were well-maintained, so with a single glance at the shoes, one could infer that this person must be a very elegant and cultured. The first impression Chu Yao had of this guest was not bad.
At the entrance area, Chu Yao heard the sound of Chu Wanhai’s conversation with his guest once more. The other party sounded quite young and his voice was a melodious baritone which was very nice to listen to. Chu Yao entered the living room and said, “Dad, I’m back.” Closely following that, she caught sight of a young man sitting on the sofa elegantly sipping his tea. He looked to be in his 20s, dressed formally and wore gold-rimmed glasses. A pair of eyes gazed at Chu Yao with a smile on his face, but his eyes were deep and profound like a bottomless abyss, effectively hiding his heart and thoughts from other people.
With one glance, Chu Yao knew that the both of them were from the same world, a burst of delight bubbled up in her heart at finding someone who was so similar to her, and for a while it actually left Chu Yao a little lost as to what she should do.
“Yao Yao! You’re back already ah! Quickly come and greet the guest!” Chu Wanhai turned his head and then introduced her to the man beside him. “This is my daughter, Chu Yao!”
“Hello Miss Chu Yao, nice to meet you.” The man smiled lightly and gave her a nod in greeting, he was very polite and well-mannered and did not led people to feel as if he was going through the motions or have the kind of flippant behaviour that young people usually have, and also did not let people feel very intimate with him. He only gave a simple and sincere greeting, “my name is Lin Haosheng.”
“He… hello.” Chu Yao calmed down very quickly and stretched out her slender white hands to tuck a loose strand of hair behind her ear, then revealed her signature warm and gentle smile, “nice to meet you, from now on, can I call you Brother Haosheng?”
“Of course.” Lin Haosheng nodded his head gentlemanly and perfectly concealed the flash of irritation which flickered in his heart.
“Haosheng is also one of the key figure in our mission, from this time onwards Haosheng is in charge of making all the decisions on how we should move forward, Yao Yao, you must also cooperate with Haosheng’s movements!” After saying this to his daughter, Chu Wanhai then said to Lin Haosheng, “Yao Yao is childhood friends with Lu Anran and understands Lu Anran very well, they are also classmates in school. Haosheng, don’t hesitate to ask, if you have any action plan that requires Yao Yao to cooperate with you! After all, everyone is on the same boat right! Hahaha!” Chu Wanhai reached out his hand to pat Lin Haosheng’s shoulder as he said this.
Suppressing the anger in his heart, Lin Haosheng smiled lightly and said, “naturally I will, thank you Uncle Chu and Miss Chu Yao!”
“Brother Haosheng! Don’t be so formal ah!” Chu Yao put down her backpack, walk towards him and sat down beside Lin Haosheng. “Since I call you Brother Haosheng, you can call me Yao Yao! My dad also calls me Yao Yao!”
“……..” Lin Haosheng imperceptibly frowned and then let out a gentlemanly and polite smile once more, “Yao Yao!”
Hearing Lin Haosheng call her Yao Yao, Chu Yao felt so happy that she wanted to yell out loud and announce her happiness to the whole world…. This feeling of happiness is so beautiful ah!