An Yan didn't understand what the manager meant, but said in surprise, "Didn't I come here to help pick the fruit?"
The manager was amused by An Yan's confused expression: "If you want to pick the fruit yourself, of course you can. I'll help you find a box."
"Then I will trouble you." An Yan thanked earnestly.
After a while, the steward came over with a small portable box. An Yan took the box and began to pick the fruits seriously.
As a hamster who has cultivated for thousands of years, he has eaten countless fruits, and he is naturally very good at picking fruits.
Kazuki's fruit fell here, and he could definitely find the sweetest one among them at a glance, so after a while, he picked a dozen red and big apples from the surrounding apple trees, and put them in the box. The bottom layer is full.
Speaking of this fruit box, it's quite fun.
It may be worried that the fruits will be damaged if they are squeezed together. In addition to being divided into four layers, each layer is also divided into small spaces. The spaces are also equipped with shockproof materials. No matter where the fruit inside is transported, the quality will not be affected by collisions on the road.
After filling the bottom layer, An Yan carried the box to the pear garden, and carefully filled the upper layer with pears that were extraordinarily moist at first glance.
Next came peaches, plums, grapes and other fruits. When An Yan came back after a round, the boxes he was carrying were already full.
During the process, An Yan couldn't help drooling a few more times, but he held back. After all, this is someone else's fruit, and he must not steal it.
If other people know An Yan's thoughts and actions, they will definitely laugh at him for not knowing how to seize opportunities, but for An Yan, this is a rule that must be followed.
Although An Yan had already picked a box full of fruits, the other workers hadn't finished picking the fruits, so An Yan had to wait.
Waiting and waiting, An Yan couldn't help but carried the box and walked under an apple tree, staring greedily at the red apples on the tree, looking at them, he couldn't hold back any of them, and picked another one. Big red apples.
An Yan: "..." Sorry, I really didn't want to take you off just now.
The box was already full, and An Yan could only hold it with his hands, and while resisting the temptation from Apple, he spurned his lack of firm consciousness.
Just as An Yan was staring at the apple in his hand in a daze, a cool voice suddenly came from behind: "What are you looking at?"
An Yan was startled by the sound, turned around quickly, and subconsciously hid the apple behind him.
Cheng Yi originally just wanted to take a walk and relax before the banquet started, but he didn't expect to see a young boy staring at an apple in a daze in his orchard.
The key point is that the young man obviously looked greedy, but he just refused to eat the apple in his hand. This made Cheng Yi feel a little funny, so he opened his mouth on purpose.
Then a more interesting scene happened, the little boy was startled by himself, and quickly hid the apple behind his back.
Why did you hide the apples when you obviously had no intention of stealing them? Isn't this little guy too intimidating
An Yan was indeed taken aback, and was a little nervous.
Although he checked Cheng Yi's information before, An Yan didn't look at his photos carefully. Seeing Cheng Yi wearing a luxurious black dress, he thought that Cheng Yi was a distinguished guest invited by Cheng's family.
Thinking of Guanshi Liu's previous explanation, An Yan quickly stood at attention, and said cautiously, "Hello, sir, I wasn't looking at anything just now."
As we got closer, Cheng Yi noticed that An Yan was wearing the uniform of the servants of the family. Just looking at his performance, he was definitely not a servant of the family, so this should be a temporary laborer hired to prepare for this banquet.
Cheng Yi quickly judged An Yan's identity, and looked behind him with a smile: "Then what are you holding in your hand?"
An Yan was a little embarrassed, but he didn't dare to keep hiding the apple, so he could only slowly take out the apple behind him: "I didn't steal the apple, I just took a look."
In the end, his voice became lower and lower. Even if he hadn't eaten, the way he had been staring at the apple just now was still embarrassing.
Cheng Yi had been standing not far away for quite a while, of course he knew that An Yan hadn't stolen the apple, but seeing the other party's embarrassed and apprehensive look, he suddenly wanted to tease him: "Then how do you prove that you didn't?" Steal?"
An Yan was dumbfounded immediately, this... How can I prove this
Seeing An Yan's perplexed expression, Cheng Yi, who was originally agitated because of the noisy guests, was inexplicably better. He couldn't help laughing: "I was joking with you."
An Yan breathed a sigh of relief, stretched out his hand and patted his chest: "That's good, otherwise I don't know how to prove it."
An Yan was wearing the uniform uniform of servants distributed by the Cheng family, shirt, trousers, and a slim waistcoat, which made his already thin figure even more slender.
And at this time, he showed a defenseless and innocent look, inexplicably adding a different flavor to this suit.
Cheng Yi looked him up and down, coughed lightly and said, "Are you a short-term worker hired by the family?"
"Well, the manager of the pharmacy store where I worked before introduced me to work here." An Yan replied honestly, still holding the apple in his hand, the bright red color came out through his fingers, contrasting well with An Yan Yan's fingers were thin and white.
Cheng Yi unconsciously set his gaze on the apple: "What's your name?"
"My name is An Yan." Sensing Cheng Yi's gaze, An Yan was also a little embarrassed, but the box was already full, so he could only hold the apple in his hand.
Cheng Yi asked again, "Are you an adult?"
An Yan replied very obediently: "I am eighteen years old, and I am already an adult."
However, Cheng Yi felt that this child was a little silly, he didn't even know his identity, so he answered his own question without hesitation, wasn't he a bit defensive
Although Cheng Yi is indeed very famous in Interstellar, not everyone knows him and has seen him. Just based on An Yan's reaction when he first saw him, Cheng Yi can conclude that this person probably doesn't know who he is at all.
Thinking of this, Cheng Yi casually asked, "Do you know who I am?"
An Yan froze for a moment, then subconsciously asked, "Aren't you a guest invited by the Cheng family?"
Cheng Yi laughed lowly because of this answer, and was about to tease this innocent little guy again, when he saw the orchard steward on the other side directing the orchard workers to carry boxes of fruits over.
Cheng Yi suddenly lost interest, left a sentence "I remember you", and left.
"Ah?" An Yan was left standing there alone in a daze, do I remember you? What does it mean? It's because I didn't do well enough just now. Is this person going to report himself to the steward
Before An Yan had time to worry, he was called over by the orchard steward, and began to check the list of fruits that had just been picked one by one.
Once he got busy, An Yan didn't have any extra thoughts to think about other things. After checking the information, he asked the workers to help move the fruits to the back kitchen, while he brought the fruits he had picked before. A small box of fruit.
The steward probably thought that he might just pick it for fun, so the box he gave him was much smaller than those used by these workers, but even though there was only a small box, it couldn't be wasted.
As soon as An Yan returned to the back kitchen, Guanshi Liu pointed to the small box in his hand and said, "You take this box of fruit and clean it separately, it's for your own food."
An Yan didn't think much about why Manager Liu would name his box of fruit and leave it to the Cheng family to eat. He just thought that the box he was carrying was too small and he didn't fit in well. He obediently carried the box to wash the fruit when he got the order. .
After carefully washing the fruit, An Yan put the washed fruit aside, and was about to go to help elsewhere, when Manager Liu came over and said, "Your name is An Yan, right?"
"It's me." An Yan had registered his personal information before, and he only thought that Manager Liu knew his name only after reading the information form.
Steward Liu took an extra look at An Yan, nodded and said, "You don't have to do anything else, just look at these fruits here."
"Ah?" An Yan was confused again, but Manager Liu actually asked him to look at the fruit
It's not that An Yan thinks he can't do this well, it's just that the people who were in charge of reading things before were all servants hired by the Cheng family for a long time.
After all, these short-term workers come from wherever they come from. Who knows if they will do something while looking at things
The food used by the Cheng family was of the highest quality, and this time it was a banquet specially held to celebrate the Second Young Master's coming-of-age ceremony. Naturally, the food used was even better, so it's normal to be cautious.
That's why An Yan was so surprised.
Guanshi Liu didn't intend to explain more, and after a few more words of advice, he went on to other things, so An Yan had no choice but to stay here obediently and watch things carefully.
While An Yan was working hard, many guests had already arrived in the Cheng family's banquet hall.
Among them were the father and daughter of the Zhao family who had just arrived at the banquet hall.
In order to make herself more dazzling, Zhao Xinxin specially asked a stylist to tailor a set of exquisite and noble dresses for herself, and even changed her hairstyle for it.
Sure enough, as soon as she entered the banquet hall, Zhao Xinxin attracted the attention of many people. While enjoying everyone's attention, she secretly searched for it, but finally found that Cheng Yi was not here at all.
For his younger brother's coming-of-age ceremony, he wasn't here to entertain guests!
Zhao Xinxin was unhappy in her heart, but she didn't dare to show it. She just followed behind her father and acted gentle and generous, and then at the right time, she gave out the gift in her hand: "Uncle Cheng, Aunt Lin, this is what I gave to Yang Yang. A gift, I hope Yang Yang will like it."