"Come here!" Fu Zihao patted his thigh and motioned Kang Shaoxi to sit on it.
Although she was unwilling, Kang Shaoxi had no choice but to sit on it obediently because he had the upper hand over her. Fu Zihao's big hand reached into her shirt, took a puff of cigarette, and smiled as he blew it on her face.
"Honey, did you miss me?" Fu Zihao put out his cigarette, put it in the ashtray, and started to touch Kang Shaoxi.
"... I thought about it..." Kang Shaoxi answered insincerely, with a far-fetched look on her face. Looking at the cigarette Fu Zihao pressed in the ashtray, she swallowed her saliva: "Are there any more cigarettes?"
"Do you want to suck?" Fu Zihao asked her with a smile.
"Yeah." Kang Shaoxi pursed her lips and nodded.
Fu Zihao smiled, stretched out his hand to open his drawer, took out a box of exquisite ladies' cigarettes, took out a cigarette, lit it, and handed it to her very attentively. Kang Shaoxi raised her hand to hold the cigarette, couldn't wait to take a puff, and immediately felt refreshed.
"Do you have something to talk to me about?" Fu Zihao was quite well behaved this time, and just touched her body with his big hands.
"My eldest brother said he would go home tonight and ask you to have dinner with him! He wouldn't agree if the four of us went out to eat alone!" Kang Shaoxi answered without confidence.
"Okay! Let's go home!"
"Are you not angry?" Kang Shaoxi looked at him nervously. She never expected that he would let her go so easily.
"Don't be angry! We are husband and wife, aren't we?" Fu Zihao replied with a smile, a cunning light flashing in his eyes.
Kang Shaonan drove directly to his own company to find his younger brother Kang Shaobei. Five million was not a small sum of money, and he was a soldier and usually never interfered in the company's affairs. Even if he really had shares in the company, five million was not as simple as taking it away.
When Kang Shaonan entered the office, Kang Shaobei had nothing to do. Seeing his elder brother coming to the company, Kang Shaobei was somewhat surprised and excited.
"Brother, you're back? How's your injury?"
"It's okay! How's the company lately?" The two brothers talked as they sat down on the sofa.
"Everything is normal! Brother, are you here to inspect on behalf of our emperor?"
Kang Shaonan smiled, then his face turned serious: "What? No?"
"Haha! All right! That's great! Where's sister-in-law? Didn't you go traveling together?"
"Rest at home! We'll be back at the villa tonight! How's Aiqi? Are you feeling like a father now?"
"That's right! Big brother, I think life is really amazing! When I touched Aiqi's belly these two days, I could feel it moving inside. Alas, now I feel more and more that I owe Aiqi. You said she married me without holding a wedding ceremony, and she is pregnant with two children. Look, she has trouble sleeping now." Talking about his wife, Kang Shaobei's face was full of happiness, and his face unconsciously overflowed with the joy of becoming a father. But the most, he felt guilty towards Aiqi.
"It's not too late to regret now. Ai Qi is a good person! When the baby is born next year, I will definitely give her a good wedding!" Kang Shaonan had a good impression of his sister-in-law, and he had also heard some things about her from Yu Xiao.
"Well, big brother, don't worry! I will definitely not be careless this time!" Kang Shaobei nodded vigorously as if he had figured it out.
"Shaobei, I'm here to ask you a favor!"
"Look at what you said. What's your relationship with me? You even need to use the word 'beg'. Really! Tell me, what's the matter, big brother?"
"Your sister-in-law's company is in trouble again. This time the hole is a bit big, five million!" Kang Shaonan's face sank.
"Five million?" Kang Shaobei frowned, obviously not expecting such a large number. He was silent for a while, and looked at his eldest brother for a long time: "Brother, I actually knew that my eldest sister-in-law's company would have trouble sooner or later... I didn't expect it to come so soon this time..."
"How do you know?" Kang Shaonan was a little surprised.
"When I borrowed the two million from the Yu family last time, I asked my men to check it out. The Yu family's company is not big, but they have seven or eight branches under their name, such as knitting, timber, labor export, etc. In fact, to put it bluntly, they are all shell companies with just a name, but what they really do is, to put it nicely, mortgage small loans, and to put it bluntly, illegal financing and usury. Although the two million was given to him last time, it doesn't seem to be a good thing now, because I have been keeping an eye on them. After giving the two million to my sister-in-law's family last time, Uncle Yu did something a little too big. Maybe he was a little too eager for success! Unexpectedly, it hurt him instead." The reason why Kang Shaobei has run his company so well is that being careful and thorough is one of his strengths.
"What should we do now? We can't just watch the company go bankrupt like this, right?" Kang Shaonan listened to his brother's words and roughly understood what he meant.
Kang Shaobei thought for a moment and said, "Well, brother, I have to find out what's going on first! After all, five million is not a small amount."
"Okay! You can do whatever you want! If there's anything you need me to do, just tell me."
"You're still so polite to me!" Kang Shaobei smiled and shook his head.
"Then you go ahead and do your work. I'll go back first!"
"Okay! I'll take you there!"
After Kang Shaonan left, Yu Xiao read the exam books for a while and felt a little bored, so she called her good friend An An and asked her to have lunch with Xiao Tong. An An was very happy to hear that she was back and agreed without saying a word. Because it was still early before noon, Yu Xiao ran to the living room to chat with her mother and talked about Uncle Ming asking her to open a teahouse.
"Mom, Uncle Ming said he would provide me with everything, what do you think?" Yu Xiao was really serious about this matter. Just imagine opening a store of his own, it would feel pretty good.
"You just graduated this year, and you haven't experienced the intrigues and deceptions in society. Do you think you can open a store by yourself? If you really want to, you'd better wait a few years!" Ren Zhiping was a little absent-minded today, and sounded a little weak when answering her daughter's question.
"Mom, I'm just opening a tea shop. Why do I need to engage in intrigue? Besides, Uncle Ming said he would provide me with all the help." Yu Xiao pouted and defended herself.
"Mom doesn't object to you opening a tea shop, but you just graduated from college, so you should hone your skills for a few years first! Also, if you do it yourself, it will be very tiring. What about you and Shaonan's child? Don't want him?"
Yu Xiao's eyelids drooped. Her mother's words hit the mark, but she had never really thought about it.
Seeing her daughter silent, Ren Zhiping knew that her words had played a certain role, and continued, "Let's put aside the other things for now, and just talk about your life alone! Shaonan still has to worry about you in the army. Let's not talk about the distant things, just talk about the new house you bought when you first got married. You should still remember it, right?"
"Well, the burnt one?" Yu Xiao looked at his mother and nodded.
"Yes! It's that house. You only know that the house burned down, but you don't know that something else happened inside. Shaonan didn't let anyone tell you, okay?" Ren Zhiping felt that the incident had happened more than two months ago, so her daughter should be fine even if she told her daughter about it.
"Is there anything else?" After hearing what his mother said, Yu Xiao immediately opened his eyes wide and looked at his mother curiously and asked.
"The night you left, a thief broke into your house. He wanted to steal something, but when he saw no one was home, he ate, drank, and even slept there. As a result, his cigarette accidentally fell onto flammable materials, which eventually caused the fire. The thief was burned to death in there."
"Ah? Mom, you, you, you didn't lie to me? You...are you saying that someone was burned to death in there?" Yu Xiao was so scared that he broke out in a cold sweat.
"Yes! Before you came back from the army, Shaonan called us and told us not to tell anyone. He even told everyone in the Kang family. Look at your expression now. Do you think you can open a store?"
"How, how could this be?" Hearing his mother's words, a charred black corpse flashed before Yu Xiao's eyes, and he couldn't help but shiver all over.
"So, you'd better put the matter of opening a tea shop aside for now. Wait until you have kids and have more life experience. Then as long as you want to be open-minded, mom will support you. Well, let's talk about this later. Mom has something to do today and has to go out for a while. She won't be back at noon." Ren Zhiping stood up from the sofa and went back to her bedroom. After a while, she came out dressed up and left with her bag.
Yu Xiao had been thinking about the new house until she heard a bang in the living room. She quickly came to her senses, looked at the empty house, and thought about what her mother had just said. She felt her scalp tingling. She ran into her bedroom to pack up and ran out of the house. After walking out of the gate of the community, she stood on the sidewalk and prepared to hail a taxi to go to Shen Group. She hadn't been to the company for a long time, and she suddenly missed it.
After waiting for about ten minutes, the taxi didn't come, but the person I didn't want to see came... Kang Shaoxi.
The red sports car slowly stopped beside her. Kang Shaoxi stepped down from the passenger seat with a fake smile on his face: "Hey, sister-in-law, I found you!"
"What do you want from me?" Yu Xiao looked at her coldly. Thinking of her own child, she couldn't help feeling a chill towards this young lady.
"I'd like to invite you for a cup of coffee! Let's go!" Although she didn't like her sister-in-law, she had to get along well with her now.
"Sorry, I'm in a hurry and don't have time!" Yu Xiao waved at a taxi coming from the distance, and when he wanted to leave, Kang Shaoxi stopped him.
"Sister-in-law, I just want to apologize to you. I know I did something wrong and hurt you and my brother's feelings. For my brother's sake, please give me a chance!" Seeing Yu Xiao's expression, Kang Shaoxi softened his expression.
"I accept your apology, but forget about the coffee!" The taxi didn't stop, so Yu Xiao had to answer impatiently. If I drink coffee with her, she'll spit it out!
"Okay! Since my sister-in-law has accepted my apology, could you please say a few good words for me in front of my brother?" Kang Shaoxi said shamelessly. (To be continued)