I have few friends, but many childhood sweethearts.

Chapter 198. Zhang Yiyi's Biological Father

The two enjoyed their afternoon tea at the shop and then went to the market to buy groceries.

After personally preparing a sumptuous dinner for Xia Xiaoxiao, their New Year celebrations were considered over.

The two were in different situations, but neither of them needed to go back to their fathers' homes to pay New Year's visits. So, starting from the third day of the Lunar New Year, Xu Qingfan and Xia Xiaoxiao stayed at home playing video games.

After playing QQ Speed ​​for a long time, you'll eventually get tired of it. Xia Xiaoxiao no longer dreams of becoming a professional e-sports player. Unless Xu Qingfan plays team mode with her, she doesn't want to touch the game at all now.

On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Zhang Yiyi came to Lianhua Courtyard to visit them. On the sixth day, Lin Wanning returned to Licheng from his hometown. On the seventh day, Wu Lingyu made a special trip back from Gangcheng to wish them a Happy New Year. Except for Xiao Ruanwen, who was still in the military region and had not returned, their small group reunited.

Xu Qingfan acted as a tour guide, leading a group of people on a pleasant trip around the area for several days. Before they knew it, it was the Lantern Festival.

Zhang Chunxue had mentioned a long time ago that she would take him to a dinner party on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and even asked him on the phone if he had time.

Xu Qingfan naturally said yes, Auntie's food, even if you don't have time to eat!

On the fifteenth, after changing his clothes and shoes and telling Xia Xiaoxiao not to cook today, he soon waited for Zhang Chunxue's Maybach at the entrance of the Lotus Courtyard.

He was slightly taken aback when he opened the passenger door, because Zhang Yiyi was actually in the car.

Xu Qingfan originally thought that the dinner party Aunt Zhang mentioned was the kind of business dinner party he used to attend. After getting to know her better, he also became very good at handling things and was able to deal with them with ease.

However, Zhang Yiyi is usually not invited to such dinners, since not everyone is as precocious as Xu Qingfan.

"Auntie, where shall we go for a big meal?" He closed the passenger door and sat in the back seat to keep Zhang Yiyi company.

Good morning.

"Good morning, brother!" Zhang Yiyi squinted as Xu Qingfan patted her head.

Zhang Chunxue glanced at their little actions through the rearview mirror and said with a smile, "We're going to a private chef place, one I've never taken you to before."

"With whom?"

"It's Yi Yi's grandparents and uncle and aunt, you've met them all."

"oh oh!"

Why didn't you invite Wan Ning?
Despite his doubts, seeing that Zhang Chunxue didn't want to say more, he wisely refrained from asking further questions.

The car soon entered the highway, and he and Zhang Chunxue talked about 3G licenses in the car. Zhang Yiyi listened quietly while looking at his profile the whole time.

It has been almost two years since Apple "redefined the phone". In developed countries, 3G technology and touch screen phones have become almost universal. Although China is a little behind, it is ready to overtake China.

With only a few days left until the release of Meizu M8, the first domestically produced touchscreen smartphone, they must seize the opportunity in this rapidly evolving mobile era.

Their delicious takeout mobile app has already been developed, and they have signed an agreement with Meizu. As long as their software is pre-installed in the phone's factory settings, they will subsidize Meizu five yuan for every phone sold.

Actually, they would prefer to cooperate with Samsung rather than Meizu. After all, before the Note 7 explosion, Samsung and Apple dominated the domestic mobile phone market, with other mobile phone manufacturers taking the remaining scraps.

Unfortunately, Samsung's asking price was too high, and the cooperation ultimately fell through.

In addition, they did something else: they fully acquired a mobile app called Wandoujia, which served as another traffic entry point for Haowei Takeout.

As for mobile social networking, Xu Qingfan thought about it and gave up. He was destined to lose to Tencent just because of the QQ friend migration issue. Tencent would directly counter him, and the outcome would either be being acquired by Tencent or going bankrupt.

"Why does it feel like it's going to rain?" Xu Qingfan said, his mouth dry. He took a sip of water and looked out the window. The once clear sky had turned gray and hazy.

"There, the dividing line!" Zhang Yiyi turned around and pointed it out to him. The other side was still sunny.

"It's okay, we'll be there soon, we should make it in time," Zhang Chunxue said, glancing at the car's navigation system.

As soon as she finished speaking, a torrential downpour began, and a fierce wind raged outside the car. Zhang Chunxue turned on the interior lights, and the windshield wipers swung incessantly on the windshield.

“Terrible weather,” she muttered under her breath, but her words seemed to carry a deeper meaning.

Fortunately, today is a Monday, a workday, and the Spring Festival holiday has just ended, so there are almost no vehicles on the highway.

With visibility only about ten meters ahead, Zhang Chunxue turned on the car's hazard lights and then the high beams.

Heavy rain, an overpass, a Maybach—Xu Qingfan suddenly felt a sense of absurdity, like a novel coming to life. Luckily, their car was silver. Zhang Chunxue was intently observing the road conditions, and the car was unusually quiet for a moment.

After another ten minutes or so, they finally made it through the tollbooth without any major incident.

"Auntie's driving skills are really good. I wouldn't dare to drive like that!" Seeing Zhang Chunxue breathe a sigh of relief, Xu Qingfan smiled and flattered her.

"Xiao Fan, please don't. If the weather is still like this when we get back, we'll have to spend the night in the port city."

"Mom, you're the best!" Zhang Yiyi said, clapping her hands with pride.

"Hahaha"

The car soon drove into a private garden, and as soon as it stopped at the entrance, a waiter came forward to open the door and hold an umbrella for the car.

Xu Qingfan followed a young woman in a cheongsam through the mahogany gate. If he didn't know they were there to eat, he would never have guessed that this was a private kitchen.

"Yi-yi, come here to your uncle! You've grown so tall, sir!"

"I was thinking of calling you guys to pick you up. Speak of the devil and he shall appear."

"Don't stand outside on rainy days, come inside and talk."

As soon as they entered the pavilion, perhaps alerted by the staff, Zhang Chunxue's elder brother and sister-in-law were already waiting outside to greet them.

In addition, there was a middle-aged couple whom he had never met before.

"Long time no see." The man smiled gently, clearly an intellectual. He extended his hand to greet Zhang Chunxue.

“It has been quite a while.” Zhang Chunxue nodded, ignoring the hand the other person reached out to her, and led Xu Qingfan and Zhang Yiyi inside.

The man wasn't annoyed; he took his wife's hand and followed her inside.

"Brother Fan, Brother Fan, your song 'Caught Off Guard' is so good! When are you going to release new songs?"

"Brother Fan, you guys haven't released any comics in a long time. Are you not going to release any more in the future?"

"Brother Fan."

As soon as the three entered the house, a group of children surrounded him and Zhang Yiyi, bombarding them with questions.

As a kid king with his own online forum, Xu Qingfan clearly had a complete grasp on the group of third-generation kids in the room.

After dealing with the group of children, he and Zhang Yiyi went to greet the elders.

"Hello, Grandpa! Hello, Grandma!"

Besides Zhang Yiyi's grandparents, another elderly couple was sitting in the room. They mimicked the greeting and said, "May this grandpa and grandma also be healthy and live a long life."

"Thank you for your kind words, little friend." The old man laughed heartily, but when it came to Zhang Yi, he simply gave a soft "hmm".

There was still some time before the meal was over, during which many of Zhang Chunxue's cousins ​​and relatives came up to chat with her.

Now the whole family knows that her business is growing bigger and bigger, and they are becoming more and more polite to her. They no longer hear any lecturing words like "Women who don't get married will have a miserable old age".

Zhang Chunxue has now become the family's lucky charm, and everyone is counting on her to help them get rich!

“Cousin, if you have spare money, I still suggest you buy a shop directly. Right now, you can basically break even in six months if you franchise a Good Taste Milk Tea shop. If you are interested, I have many good locations under my control. You just need to hire someone to look after the shop, and I will have my staff take care of the decoration and everything else.”

That's not bad either.

[How could it not be good? It's practically feeding you money!] Xu Qingfan thought to himself.

He and Zhang Yiyi stayed by Zhang Chunxue's side the whole time, refilling her teacup whenever it was empty. Before long, he learned from their conversation the identities of the middle-aged man and the two elderly people who had just been at the door.

Zhang Yiyi's biological father and grandparents!

(End of this chapter)