Engagement is not as stressful as marriage. In order to catch up with the two children before going back to school, the Huo family and the Shen family quickly set the time and place.
The elders arranged things well, and the only thing Huo Cheng and Shen Wanying had to do was to think about who they would invite.
"Your French classmate, Claude, remember to call him." Huo Cheng and Shen Wanying were sitting on the sofa in the living room, discussing the classmates to invite for the engagement banquet.
Shen Wanying had a computer on her lap and was sorting out the list. After hearing what Huo Cheng said, she raised her eyes and glanced at him: "Don't you like him?"
Huo Cheng nodded: "But for a happy event like engagement, I still have to invite him."
Shen Wanying laughed playfully and lost Claude's name.
After finishing the list, she received a call from her mother's assistant, saying that the dress she and Huo Cheng wore when they got engaged had been delivered. The dress was specially customized by Jiang Yu from a designer, so after the dress was made, she also contacted Jiang Yu directly.
Shen Wanying communicated well with Jiang Yu's assistant, hung up the phone and said to Huo Cheng who was beside her: "Our dresses have been delivered, and my mother told us to wait for her at the company, and she will go to the store with us to try it out later. ."
"Okay." Huo Cheng nodded and stood up from the sofa, "I'll drive over there."
The dresses were delivered to Xingguang Department Store for them. The Shen family's company was not far from Xingguang Department Store, and they were all in the same direction, so they wouldn't take a detour. After Huo Cheng and Shen Wanying arrived, Jiang Yu was still in a meeting. They waited in the office for a while, and soon they heard some quarrels coming from outside.
Shen Wanying looked at the door and asked subconsciously, "What happened?"
Huo Cheng didn't speak, but he seemed to hear Jiang Yu's voice faintly.
"My mother seems to be outside, I'll go out and see."
"I'll go with you." Huo Cheng stood up and followed Shen Wanying. After opening the door, the voices outside could be heard more clearly. Shen Wanying rarely came to the company, but this was a family business after all, so she could still hear the speaker's voice.
It's her uncle.
"That's why I said that women can't be in charge of the house. Usually, you can go shopping and buy clothes. In this business field, men still need to do it."
This is what Uncle Shen Wanying said to Jiang Yu. Jiang Yu's face changed as soon as he finished speaking. She has been in the company for so many years, and she has not listened to such words less often. There are many men who are not used to her in high positions.
There were many senior male executives around who were echoing the words of Uncle Shen Wanying, and Jiang Yu stood alone among them, looking weak and weak.
Huo Cheng looked at the people arguing in front of the corridor, his eyes were heavy. He had dealt with Uncle Shen Wanying in his previous life and knew who they were. This time, he has also heard a little about it. Jiang Yu's follow-up project made a little mistake, and it can be solved with a little treatment. Now this group of people is so unreasonable, not because of the seriousness of the matter, but It's just a play on the topic.
He is engaged to Shen Wanying, and the Huo family's intention to marry the Shen family can be said to be on the surface. They are afraid that Jiang Yu will use the power of the Huo Cheng family to have more influence in the company later, so they are in a hurry. Put a hat on her.
He just wanted to step forward to help Jiang Yu out of the siege, but he didn't expect Shen Wanying who was beside him to take a step ahead of him and walked up: "Uncle, it's too arbitrary for you to say that, my mother has been busy with the company's affairs these years. Afterwards, her dedication and ability are obvious to all. If my mother does something wrong, you can talk about the matter, there is no need to talk about gender. "
Uncle Shen didn't know when she came. He didn't see her just now. He took advantage of the situation to look behind her, and he saw the boy of the Huo family.
"Wanying, why are you here?" Uncle Shen Wanying smiled reluctantly at him, but still assumed the attitude of an elder and said, "You are still young, you don't understand the company's affairs."
Shen Wanying said: "I really don't know very much about the company, but I remember that a project you were in charge of the year before smashed into your hands. You came to our house in the middle of the night and asked my mother to take care of you. Why didn't you talk about women at that time? Can't you be at home?"
Uncle Shen Wanying's face suddenly became a little ugly, what Shen Wanying said was true, he wanted to refute and refuted. Jiang Yu glanced at Shen Wanying and said to her, "You and Huo Cheng go to my office first and wait for me, and I'll go to you after I've dealt with it here."
"Okay mom." Shen Wanying responded and walked back to the office with Huo Cheng.
After that, there was no more quarrel outside, and Shen Wanying thought that her mother must have solved the problem. After a while, Jiang Yu pushed open the door of the office and walked in.
Shen Wanying and Huo Cheng both stood up, Jiang Yu put down the computer in his hand, and waved to them: "Sit down."
She opened the water glass on the desk, took a sip, leaned on the office chair and looked at them: "Your dresses are ready, let's go and have a look later, and have dinner by the way."
Shen Qian has been on a business trip in the past two days, so he doesn't need to be called for dinner at night.
Shen Wanying nodded and asked her, "Is the company all busy?"
"Yeah." Jiang Yu replied, looked at her and said, "Wanying, your uncle is always your elder. It was a bit out of tune for you to talk to him just now."
"Um."
Shen Wanying didn't refute anything, Jiang Yu looked at her for a while, and then said, "But I'm quite surprised that you will come to speak for me."
Shen Wanying's hands were folded together and placed on her lap, Jiang Yu chuckled lightly, and said to her, "Actually, I always felt that you resented me in your heart."
Huo Cheng and Shen Wanying both raised their eyes to look at her, Jiang Yu took another sip of water, and continued, "I know it myself, I have always been strict with you since I was a child, so it's hard for you not to hold grudges against me, right? Your father has also been worried that you will have some kind of mental illness under my pressure. Do you remember? In high school, a classmate in your school committed suicide. At that time, the school recorded the video of the psychological lecture, and your father supervised me to watch it from the beginning. to the end."
Huo Cheng turned his head to look at Shen Wanying, with distress and worry in his eyes, Shen Wanying was silent for a while, and then said to her mother: "In high school, the pressure was a little bit bigger, but now it's much better. And I know, you There has also been a lot of pressure in the company.”
Just like the uncle took a group of people to find fault just now, this is definitely not the first time that this kind of thing has happened.
Jiang Yu stood up and picked up the bag on the chair: "Okay, let's stop talking about these things, let's see the dress first."
"it is good."
The engagement dress is not a wedding dress, but a custom-made skirt. It's not that complicated. After Shen Wanying tried it on, it fit perfectly, so she didn't ask to change it. Huo Cheng's dress matched hers and used many of the same elements. It was just an ordinary suit dress, but standing up with Shen Wanying, it could be seen that it was a couple's dress.
It can be said to be a showman.
Jiang Yu was very satisfied with these two sets of clothes, so she asked the clerk to help them put them in the box. The clerk delivered the dress directly to their car, while Jiang Yu led Shen Wanying and Huo Cheng to the western restaurant upstairs for dinner.
When she came to Starlight Department Store, Shen Wanying actually wanted to eat barbecue or hot pot more, but these were obviously not elegant in Jiang Yu's eyes, so she didn't mention them.
As if seeing what she was thinking, Huo Cheng quietly leaned into her ear and said to her, "Let's have barbecue tomorrow?"
Shen Wanying's eyes suddenly lit up, looking at Huo Cheng's eyes full of smiles.
After eating, Huo Cheng said that he would take Shen Wanying around the Starlight Department Store and take her home when the time was up. Jiang Yu didn't object, and went back in the driver's car first. After Jiang Yu left, Shen Wanying breathed a sigh of relief. She took Huo Cheng's arm and looked at him with a smile: "The dessert holy place downstairs should not be closed yet, let's go take a look."
"Well." Huo Cheng nodded, "but this point may not be much left."
"Then let's walk faster!" Shen Wanying pulled Huo Cheng and ran towards the elevator. Huo Cheng was dragged forward by her, but there was a slight smile on the corner of his mouth.
There are not many desserts left in the dessert holy land, but Shen Wanying was lucky enough to buy the last durian melaleuca. She and Huo Cheng were sitting at an empty table, cutting the cake on the plate and saying to Huo Cheng, "fruit like durian, in my mother's eyes, has its own original sin. If she knew that I was secretly eating durian, Must be pissed off."
Huo Chengdao: "Then remember to eat a piece of chewing gum later."
Shen Wanying winked at him: "Don't worry, I have experience. When I was studying, I secretly ate stinky tofu behind her back."
Huo Cheng laughed, took out a box of chewing gum from his bag, and handed it to her: "Do you think she really doesn't know anything about what you are hiding from your mother?"
Shen Wanying's hand holding the fork froze for a moment: "Don't scare me."
Huo Cheng patted her on the head lightly, and his movements were extremely indulgent: "It's okay, I'm just talking." But he always felt that Aunt Jiang should be more or less aware of it, after all, Jiang Jin was still helping Shen Wanying , played so many screens. Aunt Jiang seems to be very strict with her daughter, but at the same time she is very concerned about her affairs. She should not be unaware of these small actions.
When Shen Wanying said this, she felt that the durian layers in her mouth were no longer fragrant, Huo Cheng changed the topic to divert her attention when she saw her appearance: "Have you ever thought about talking to your mother? Let's chat? I think you guys had a good chat today. After the chat, do you feel that you are getting closer to each other?"
Shen Wanying gestured to him with her little finger: "It's a little bit." She was silent for a while before speaking to Huo Cheng: "Actually, I know that my mother loves me, but she is a little bit in the dark. The paranoia about things won't change. I think it's fine now, maybe ten years from now, I can have a candid chat with her."
Huo Cheng looked at her for a while, and said "um": "At least in front of me, you can relax completely."
"Then I can't just eat durian cake, I have to eat stinky tofu."
"… "
"Do you like stinky tofu?"
"I don't like it very much."
"Then you must have never eaten it before, and once you have eaten it, you will fall in love with the taste."
Huo Cheng was silent, but Shen Wanying became interested: "There are stinky tofu in the snack street. I'll buy one for you later, you can try it!"
"..." Huo Cheng said, "You rarely eat it once, so you should eat it."
"No, when we get married, I can do whatever I want!"
"..." Huo Cheng looked at her and suddenly laughed, "Oh, it turns out that you married me, just for this."
"... Not really." Shen Wanying unnaturally poked the layer cake on the plate, "I also want you to look less handsome."
Huo Cheng leaned slightly in her direction, and looked at her with a pair of eyes: "What else?"
"Also..." Shen Wanying leaned over and kissed his cheek with her lips still dipped in cream, "And I like you."