Xu Yan didn't pay attention to Liu Zhan, just caring about herself being busy in the kitchen, leaving Liu Zhan with a back.

Liu Zhan returned to the dining room dejectedly and sat back at the table, looking at the plate of black things on the table in front of him, and sighed heavily.

"How on earth can this girl keep every time she cooks something so unpalatable?

Liu Zhan looked at the plate of yellow-brown things in front of Xu Yan in surprise, and didn't know how to speak for a long time, but finally Xu Yan broke the silence.

"Zhan, do you think the food I make is delicious?" Xu Yan didn't have any expression on her face, and looked directly at Liu Zhan in front of her and said.

"Why do you suddenly ask like this, of course the things you make are delicious!" Liu Zhan squeezed out a smile and said to Xu Yan.

Hearing this, Xu Yan didn't speak, but continued to look at Liu Zhan directly, as if she wanted to see Liu Zhan's heart.

"You lied to me. After a long time, Xu Yancai retracted her gaze and said lightly,

"I see you eating so happily every day, I can't help but taste it when I cook today, it's not as delicious as you say, and even a little unpalatable, but you lied to me, you always say it's delicious. ”

"If it's not delicious, just say it, and I'm not angry, why do you have to lie to me? Is it to maintain my self-esteem?"

Facing Xu Yan's faint tone, Liu Zhan suddenly didn't know how to answer, and the two fell silent.

"Yeon-yeon, we didn't mean to, it's just that you're so interested in the kitchen, we can't bear to let you down. Liu Zhan sighed, squatted in front of Xu Yan, and held her hand.

"But you guys will make me proud, now that I think about it, a few days ago, my eldest brother excused himself and said that he couldn't go home for entertainment, so I guess he didn't want to eat the snacks I made. There was a trace of sadness in Xu Yan's voice, which made Liu Zhan even more helpless.

"If it weren't for my curiosity and taste what I made, how long would you be hiding it from me?"

"Yeon-yeon, I'm ......"

"Seeing that my eldest brother's birthday is approaching, I originally planned to make him a birthday cake, but now it seems that it is unlikely. ”

"Are you saying Xu Hua's birthday is coming?" Liu Zhan secretly breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that Xu Yan was not angry.

"yes, I was going to make him a birthday cake myself, but my cooking skills are so bad that it's impossible to do it. As she spoke, Xu Yan sighed, looking a little disappointed.

"It's okay, Yanyan, how long is it until your eldest brother's birthday?" Liu Zhan patted Xu Yan on the shoulder, thinking of a way for Xu Yan.

"It's probably a little over a month, what's wrong?"

"Yanyan, don't you know that there are crash courses in pastries now?" Liu Zhan pinched Xu Yan's face, he felt that Yanyan was a little too innocent, and he didn't even know that there was a crash course in pastries.

"Are you really?" Xu Yan's eyes lit up and she raised her head to look at Liu Zhan, but then the light in her eyes dimmed again.

"It's too late to report now, isn't it? After all, it's only a little more than a month before my eldest brother's birthday, and I'm afraid ......."

"If you have time, you can do it if you want to. Liu Zhan interrupted Xu Yan's deflated words and encouraged her.

"Then let's go report now. With that, Xu Yan took off her apron, threw it on the chair casually, and pulled Liu Zhan to the door.

In the old house of the Li family

"Our company is in a slump right now, and if we want to survive, we have to get married. Li Zihan sat on the sofa and looked at Gu Meiyun who was thinking with her eyes closed.

"I don't want Li Nuan to get married, but now there are only two ways to go, one is to marry, and the other is to declare bankruptcy. ”

"But this company was created by my grandfather, and I can't bear to let it fall like this and declare bankruptcy, so the only way now is ......."

Hearing the bankruptcy, Gu Meiyun's eyes opened suddenly, and her cloudy eyes revealed a trace of helplessness and unwillingness.

"Let's get married. ”

After a long time, Gu Meiyun's eyes closed again, and she leaned back on the sofa as if she was very tired, and her back, which had been straight in the past, suddenly bent down today, and she seemed to be ten years old in an instant.

"Yes, I'll tell Nuan Nuan about this. ”

A sound of footsteps came from outside the door, and soon he came to the living room and sat down beside Gu Meiyun.

"Grandma, I'm back. Li Nuan looked at Gu Meiyun's closed eyes and whispered in her ear.

"Nuan Nuan, you come up with me, I have something to tell you. Li Zihan looked at Li Nuan who was lying in the old lady's ear, and left the living room with a frown.

In the study, Li Nuan's unbelievable voice came out, making Gu Meiyun downstairs clench the crutches in her hand in pain.

"What? You actually asked me to get married? Big brother, are you serious?"

Li Zihan looked at his sister in front of him, and he felt bad, so he could only pull her to the desk and sit down, and talk to her slowly.

"Because of the suppression of other companies, our company is very sluggish, and the only way to get married is to declare bankruptcy. ”

"The company is the only one left by my grandfather during his lifetime, and this is what my grandfather has struggled all his life to, so I don't need to say much about the meaning of the company to my grandmother, you should also understand, so the only way now is for you to get married. ”

Li Zihan looked at Li Nuan who was stunned in front of him guiltily, the hand hanging beside him was clenched into a fist, and the fingertips were already white.

Li Nuan's grandfather Li Yunhan worked hard to create the company after half a hundred years of age, and now it is bankrupt due to many reasons, not only Gu Meiyun can't accept it, but even Li Nuan can't accept it.

"Big brother. Li Nuan, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly called Li Zihan, which made Li Zihan's heart tremble slightly.

"Grandpa loved me the most when he was alive, and I can't let half of his life's hard work be gone. So, don't declare bankruptcy, I accept the marriage. ”

Li Zihan stared at the calm Li Nuan in front of him with wide eyes, and couldn't calm down for a long time.

"If it's okay, I'll go back to my room first. Seeing Li Zihan thinking about things distractedly, Li Nuan stood up and walked to the door of the study, left the study and returned to his room.

Throwing himself heavily into the big bed, Li Nuan was a little sad thinking about what Li Zihan had just said.

Thinking of this, Li Nuan suddenly laughed, and the laughter echoed in the room, but no one could hear the pain mixed with the laughter.

In the office of the president of Xu's Group, Li Zihan sat on the sofa and looked at the indifferent man at the desk.

"Why should I agree to a marriage?"

After a long time, Xu Hua spoke coldly, and as soon as these words came out, the temperature in the room immediately dropped a lot.

Li Zihan seemed to have been prepared for this sentence, took out a dark blue box from his pocket, and handed it to Xu Hua.

Xu Hua casually took the box and opened it, and when he saw the contents of the box, his pupils suddenly narrowed, his breathing became short, and his eyes looking at Li Zihan unconsciously brought a trace of urgency.

"Where did you get this?"

"My grandmother gave me this thing, saying that whether you agree to marry or not, let me return it to its original owner. ”

Li Zihan looked at Xu Hua suspiciously, he didn't expect Xu Hua to be so excited when he got the things in the box, this is what Gu Meiyun handed him when he went out, saying that he asked him to come to Xu Hua, and he would definitely agree to get married.

"I agreed to get married, you go back first, I will definitely go to the Li family to visit your grandmother in the future. Xu Hua restrained the emotions in his eyes, closed the box again, solemnly put it in the drawer, and said lightly to Li Zihan.

Li Zihan glanced at Xu Hua strangely, and then stared at the drawer where Xu Hua put his things for a while before getting up to say goodbye.

After Li Zihan left, Xu Hua was stunned for a while before he opened the drawer and took out the dark blue box he had just put in.

When the box was opened, a necklace appeared in front of Xu Hua, which made Xu Hua stretch his thoughts.

This necklace is a relic of his mother's death, and since Xu Hua's mother died, he has never left his side until he was taken to the orphanage by the director of the orphanage.

At that time, all the children in the orphanage bullied them, and although the director had the heart to help him, he had no choice but to be by their side all the time.

So when he and Xu Yan were bullied again, a woman appeared in front of him, and the woman helped him up from the ground, wiped the tears from his face, and drove the children away for him.

Xu Hua still remembers the smell on the handkerchief, which is a handkerchief with a faint smell of osmanthus, it seems that because its owner loves osmanthus very much, even the corner of the handkerchief is embroidered with osmanthus.

The woman liked to play with them very much, and when Xu Hua graduated from elementary school, he took off the necklace he was wearing and gave it to the woman, and the woman also gave him the handkerchief with a faint fragrance of osmanthus flowers.

Thinking of this, Xu Hua took out the key from his pocket, opened a drawer at the bottom, and took out a wooden box from it.

Xu Hua's hand holding the wooden box trembled slightly, and it took a long time to open the wooden box that had been sealed for a long time. In the wooden box is a handkerchief that has changed color slightly, and I can't smell anything anymore, but in one corner of the handkerchief, you can still see embroidered osmanthus.

Putting the handkerchief back in the box, Xu Hua put the necklace in the drawer where the handkerchief had just been locked, picked up the wooden box on the table and hurried out of the company gate.

"Feng, take me to the Li family's old house, hurry up!" Xu Hua's voice sounded a little anxious, as if there was something particularly important to solve immediately, Feng didn't dare to slack off, and drove the car fast.

Along the way, the wind saw in the rearview mirror that Xu Hua was holding his head with one hand and didn't know what he was thinking, but in the other hand he was holding a delicate wooden box tightly, not knowing what was inside.

Xu Hua's mind was a little confused, he anxiously wanted to know why the woman had disappeared after giving him the handkerchief, and had never been to the orphanage again, he wanted to know where the woman had gone back then, why she didn't say goodbye.