After hanging up the phone, Cheng Ke was stunned for a long time, until Jiang Yuduo put a cup of iced milk tea on his face, and he recovered.
"The one in your store?" He took the milk tea and glanced.
"What do you think," Jiang Yuduo said, "there are only cement and tiles in my shop now."
"Did you buy it next door?" Cheng Ke smiled.
"It's from the next door," Jiang Yuduo said in a low voice, a shop opened by an eldest sister, "Chen Qing is already familiar with others."
"Chen Qing is fine," Cheng Ke glanced at the store next to him. Chen Qing was sitting in front of the bar and chatting with an elder sister, "I never found him so friendly before."
"Friendly ass, the eldest sister's daughter is a freshman this year, and now she is back from vacation. Sometimes she comes to help," Jiang Yuduo said, "If there is no such thing, see if he can say a word to the eldest sister."
"Then don't you have one in your store, little girl, don't you look good?" Cheng Ke asked.
"Very well..." Jiang Yuduo stopped halfway through, "Master, are you kidding me?"
"Am I so careful?" Cheng Ke said.
"I don't know. After I'm with you, this is the first time I have the opportunity to stay with the little girl," Jiang Yuduo said. "I don't know if you are serious about this kind of thing."
"It's quite big," Cheng Ke said. "After all, I'm almost forty years old."
"The little girl is very good-looking." Jiang Yuduo said.
"Oh," Cheng Ke nodded and took a sip of milk tea, "Then why doesn't Chen Qing go to the little girl in his shop? I see each other every day, and the time and place are right for people."
"I don't know." Jiang Yuduo looked at him.
"I tell you, I know." Cheng Ke said with a smile.
"I don't want to hear it." Jiang Yuduo narrowed his eyes, "I fucking know what you want to hold back."
Cheng Ke couldn't help laughing, and pointed at him: "Be civilized, Boss Jiang."
"I'll beat you up if you dare, and I won't report it to you." Jiang Yuduo said.
Cheng Ke smiled and sat down under the parasol, drinking milk tea slowly, and looking at the materials in the store.
"Who called you just now?" Jiang Yuduo came over and sat down next to him, "I stayed there for a long time, but you didn't hear me when I called you."
"Huihui called me," Cheng Ke frowned, "Just like Xu Ding took... my dad to the restaurant."
"Your father?" Jiang Yuduo was stunned, "Is Xu Ding familiar with your father?"
"I didn't know it before," Cheng Ke said, "but then I don't know if it's familiar or not."
"What is this for?" Jiang Yuduo asked, "Xu Ding betrayed?"
"Impossible, Xu Ding is not that kind of person," Cheng Ke lit a cigarette and held it in his mouth, "Didn't I say before that a gold master sent some high-end green plants to the restaurant, and Xu Ding didn't tell me who the gold master was? Who."
"That means your father is going to betray?" Jiang Yuduo turned his head, "Damn, then if he wants to do this, can Cheng Yi let you go! It's easy to stop."
"I don't know how my father dealt with the relationship later. I have never contacted my family again." Cheng Ke said.
"Did you let him listen to the recording?" Jiang Yuduo asked.
"No," Cheng Ke said, "it's not that he doesn't know. He can guess Cheng Yi's thoughts whether he listens or not. He just... probably wants this effect, competition."
"Ask Xu Ding," Jiang Yuduo sighed, "what exactly does your dad want to do? Seriously, if Cheng Yi wants to trouble you again, I will really knock him out."
"So arrogant, third brother." Cheng Ke smiled.
"Come on, after I know you, I can almost evaluate the outstanding residents of our community," Jiang Yuduo frowned, sipping his milk tea with his head down, "don't let me find a chance."
Cheng Ke smiled and rubbed his hair.
Xu Ding never mentioned the sponsor to Cheng Ke, nor did he ask Cheng Ke. Xu Ding would come over to listen to him at the regular meeting of the theme restaurant on the 1st of every month, and he could always see him.
Cheng Ke waited until No. 1, and after the meeting on the small terrace on the second floor everyone left, he and Xu Ding sat together and didn't move.
"So calm." Xu Ding took a sip of tea and said with a smile.
"I was thinking about what happened to my dad." Cheng Ke said.
"Before he looked for me," Xu Ding whispered, "I've been here a few times, but you haven't noticed."
"... When did he come?" Cheng Ke was stunned. He would come to the store almost every day, but he never found out that his father had come.
"I didn't know before. The last time was last month. Wasn't the business booming at that time," Xu Ding said. "He came to me again."
"Did you take the money?" Cheng Ke asked.
"Cai Fan," Xu Ding laughed, "he asked me what style this shop is in, and I said that Xiao Ke means not being polite, having quality but also down-to-earth."
"Well," Cheng Ke nodded, "that's what I mean, take it too seriously. Those who really understand don't like it, and those who pretend to understand don't dare to enter."
"Cheng always thinks this idea is right," Xu Ding said. "I said again that you want to expand recently, and find another suitable place to open one, and he will let you go here and have a look."
Xu Ding put a business card in front of him.
Cheng Ke glanced at it. He didn't know the name, but he knew the address on the business card. This was a new commercial plaza developed by my father last year.
"I can't pay the rent." Cheng Ke said.
Xu Ding smiled and said nothing.
"Is he trying to stimulate Cheng Yi or me?" Cheng Ke sighed.
"Not at all," Xu Ding said. "This location is the best in the city. I feel it is reconciliation. It's been so long since you've been out. It's probably because you have no intention of lowering your head."
"I have nothing to lower my head," Cheng Ke looked at Xu Ding, "did he say anything else to you?"
"What can he say to me, the attitude of a 100% investor," Xu Ding said, "no more than a word... Oh, there is, let me not tell you."
"Then shall I continue to act stupid? Act like I don't know." Cheng Ke said.
"Pretend." Xu Ding nodded.
Cheng Ke picked up the business card and shook it: "I've given it all to me, can I still hold it?"
Xu Ding stood up with a smile: "You can figure it out, I'll just make a request to make more money."
The decoration of Meow was very fast, probably because the total area was only a little bit, so it was finished in less than a month. When Cheng Ke passed by for the second time, even Miss Lucky Cat had already been put away, and there was still a lot in the corner. A cat climbing frame.
"Is this for Meow?" Cheng Ke asked, "When did you buy it? I don't know."
"This is..." Jiang Yuduo hesitated for a moment, then pointed to the little girl who was holding a parasol with Chen Qing at the door of the store, "That's it, she bought it."
"Yo." Cheng Ke glanced at the little girl.
He is indeed quite fair and delicate, and he looks more agile than Chen Qing at work.
"Isn't Chen Qing..." Cheng Ke stared at it for a while, feeling that Chen Qing's gaze was like a man's face, and he kept staring at it and never left.
"You see it?" Jiang Yuduo came over immediately, "He doesn't go to the eldest sister's shop to drink milk tea anymore."
Cheng Ke laughed: "Do you think there is a drama?"
"No drama." Jiang Yuduo shook his head without thinking.
"I think so too," Cheng Ke said. "After all, the girl is here for the boss."
Jiang Yuduo snorted and took a rag to wipe the table.
When the little girl came into the store, she saw Cheng Ke sitting in front of the bar stunned: "We haven't opened yet."
"Do you think he came to drink milk tea?" Jiang Yuduo said.
"Oh." The little girl smiled a little embarrassedly.
"This is Sun Qinqin," Jiang Yuduo introduced Cheng Ke, "the only technical support in our store."
"No, no." Sun Qinqin quickly waved his hand.
"This is me..." Jiang Yuduo pointed at Cheng Ke.
Cheng Ke saw his expression and already felt what he wanted to say.
But even if he was mentally prepared, when Jiang Yuduo said it, he was still a little dizzy, a little excited, a little satisfied, and a little... I can't tell... He was surprised to find that he would not be able to do this kind of thing. Excuse me.
"My boyfriend, Cheng Ke." Jiang Yuduo said.
"Oh," Sun Qinqin didn't seem to be particularly surprised, "Brother Ke, I always listen to Chen Qing talk about you."
"Well." Cheng Ke smiled.
Jiang Yuduo was also a little surprised by Sun Qinqin's calmness, and turned his head to look at her.
"The fried chicken shop where I used to work part-time," Sun Qinqin said with a smile when she went to the back of the bar to sort out the cups. "The boss is also a man. He has a boyfriend. We have been together for many years.
"Ah." Jiang Yuduo responded.
"There are no mugs in this box," Sun Qinqin said. "Let's make some stickers on them. It's such a waste if you don't need them. We're not going to make stickers anyway."
"Okay." Jiang Yuduo nodded.
After saying a few words to Sun Qinqin, Jiang Yuduo and Cheng Ke walked outside the store door. When Chen Qing saw them coming out, he immediately entered the store.
"There's nothing to do here in the afternoon," Jiang Yuduo said. "Let's go to the mall. I want to buy clothes."
"Didn't you buy clothes from the wholesale market?" Cheng Ke said.
"It's not our mall," Jiang Yuduo pointed to the other side of the road. "Go straight there. There is a wholesale clothing market. Chen Qing found it and said that things are as cheap as free gifts."
Cheng Ke sighed: "If you don't go, just buy it in the mall."
"Do you think I'll make money when I open a store?" Jiang Yuduo said, "Master, it hasn't opened yet. He's been counting money all the time, and he hasn't even come in yet."
Cheng Ke didn't speak. He took out his wallet and flipped through it for a long time. In the corner, he found a dime coin that had not been used for several months.
He took Jiang Yuduo's hand and put the coin in his palm: "One cent, come in."
"Fuck," Jiang Yuduo laughed for a long time, "Go, go, go, the mall, just this mall."
After walking around the mall for half an hour, Cheng Ke's cell phone rang as soon as he picked out two T-shirts for Jiang Yuduo.
He took it out and took a look: "Called from the restaurant, I don't know what happened."
"Brother Cheng," Huihui's voice came out as soon as she answered the phone, "Mr. Cheng came over two minutes ago."
"Which Mr. Cheng?" Cheng Ke didn't react immediately.
"Your father," Huihui said, paused and repeated, "your father."
"Oh, is he alone?" Cheng Ke wanted to laugh a little.
"On the second floor alone," Huihui said, "Sister Fang went up to order."
"Is there a performance on the second floor this afternoon?" Cheng Ke asked.
"Well, it's already performing," Huihui said. "Maybe I'm watching it right now."
"Okay, I know." Cheng Ke hung up the phone and glanced at Jiang Yuduo, "I have to go there, my dad is in the store."
"I'll go too." Jiang Yuduo said.
"Well." Cheng Ke nodded.
Dad went alone. I guess he wanted to find him, but he couldn't let go of the air and told him that he could only meet by chance. If he doesn't go now, Dad will probably leave. It's hard to say if there is another chance encounter. .
Because Dad must know that the people in the store will inform him if he doesn't want to go, it is estimated that Dad can take back the store that has already started to find someone to design in a rage.
"I'll be outside for a while, I won't go in," Jiang Yuduo drove Chen Qing's personal electric car and took Cheng Ke there, "I'm afraid your dad will be upset when he sees me."
"What's wrong." Cheng Ke said.
"I'm still taking medicine." Jiang Yuduo frowned.
"You didn't fear him without treatment before," Cheng Ke said. "Why are you still afraid now that you are being treated?"
"I don't want to affect his impression of you, it just turned a corner." Jiang Yuduo said.
"My dad and I," Cheng Ke squeezed his brows, "whether with or without you, with or without you, it's impossible to be as close as a normal father and son. We haven't been close for so many years. Yes, some things have been missed, and some things have happened, which cannot be made up."
"Yeah." Jiang Yuduo responded, not sure if he understood it or not.
"If you don't want to talk to him, just have a drink on the first floor." Cheng Ke said.
"Okay, then I'll be on the first floor." Jiang Yuduo said.
The car pulled up to the door of the restaurant and stopped in their own employee-only parking space.
Cheng Ke used this parking space for the first time. He didn't have a car, and no one in the store had a car. Xu Ding stopped when he came, and it was usually used by customers.
The two got out of the car, and Jiang Yuduo looked beside him: "How about we take a taxi, why do you want to drive Chen Qing's car?"
"...I don't know," Cheng Ke looked at Chen Qing's car, which was only half the size of the car next to him, "I..."
"Your dad is out." Jiang Yuduo suddenly lowered his voice and said quickly.
Cheng Ke was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at the store door.
Sure enough, I saw my father standing at the door, looking at them and the car with an inexplicable expression.
"Dad," Cheng Ke took two steps forward and said hello to his father, "Why are you here?"
"Knowingly asking." Dad came over and glanced at Jiang Yuduo with a frown.
"Good afternoon, uncle." Jiang Yuduo said.
This familiar greeting probably brought back my father's not-so-good memories, and Cheng Ke saw his brows tighten even more.
"I'll go first." Jiang Yuduo walked into the store quickly after he finished speaking.
"Let's talk a little." Dad kept staring at Jiang Yuduo's back until he entered the store, then turned to look at Cheng Ke and said a word.
"Well," Cheng Ke hesitated for a moment, then opened the car door, "let's talk in the car."
"In the car..." Dad was obviously a little shocked.
Cheng Ke didn't look at him and got into the car.
After a few seconds, Dad sat in as if determined, and the first sentence probably couldn't hold back: "Is this your car?"
"No," Cheng Ke lowered the car window and looked out the window, "Jiang Yu took his friend's car."
"That little skinny guy who took the lead to stop the car last time." Dad said.
"Well." Cheng Ke nodded, "This car is very good, new energy, and subsidies."
Dad looked at him for a long time before saying, "Are you mad at me?"
"No," Cheng Ke turned around, "I didn't plan to buy it."
Dad was silent for a while and cleared his throat: "The chain is still a branch over there. Have you started to do it?"
"In the design, there is a large space there, and some functional areas are still being discussed with the designer." Cheng Ke said.
"Well," Dad nodded, "you... don't think I have any conspiracy."
"I never felt that." Cheng Ke smiled.
"Don't think that Xu Ding has anything to hide from you. It's just two months. I didn't know him before, but I just knew that there was such a person," Dad said. "Cooperation still requires trust."
"I know." Cheng Ke looked at his father and said these words, which is very rare for his father. It was the first time he heard his father explain something to him when he grew up so big.
"That boyfriend of yours..." Dad looked over to the store door, then stunned, "Why did he run over again!"
"Huh?" Cheng Ke was also stunned, and quickly looked over there.
Jiang Yuduo came over with two large mugs, walked all the way to the car door, put the mugs on the roof, and opened the door on Dad's side.
"Drink?" Jiang Yuduo asked.
Dad stared at him and said nothing.
"Good afternoon, uncle." Jiang Yuduo said.
Cheng Ke felt that his father might be going crazy.
Jiang Yuduo and others are not like this. Only when facing his father, others may not know, but he can feel it. Jiang Yuduo is very nervous, and he can't even squeeze out a smile.
It looks very much like a black shop owner who will let you walk sideways out of the street if you don't buy it in a second.
"Drink, what do you get these two cups?" Cheng Ke hurriedly answered.
"Watermelon juice." Jiang Yuduo took the cup from the top of the car and handed it in.
Cheng Ke took both cups, and then handed one to Dad: "Dad, drink some watermelon juice."
"Well." Dad took the cup and lowered his head to take a sip.
Jiang Yuduo slammed the car door open and turned to leave.
Dad was so frightened by the loud noise that there was no shock absorption and silencer that he almost stood up and coughed for a long time.
"That, he..." Cheng Ke was also taken aback, took the cup from his father's hand, "a little nervous."
"I see," Dad frowned. "It's not a big deal."
Cheng Ke didn't speak.