After contracting to have a child, the icy female CEO became addicted.

The area surrounding the High School Affiliated to Beijing.

Jiang Ran had just found a parking space and parked her car when she saw a message from Huang Xiao on her phone:

[Jiang Ran, are you home? When are you planning to go look at stall locations?]

This little girl is still thinking about this!

Jiang Ran thought for a moment and replied: [I'm already out. I'm at the food street near the affiliated high school. What, are you coming over?]

Huang Xiao: [Is it okay? (✧◡✧)]

Jiang Ran: [Have you finished weaving the basketball hoops?]

Huang Xiao: [My mom got a few friends to help with this, and I just had nothing to do...]

Huang Xiao: [Okay, I'll take a taxi there now! Jiang Ran, wait for me!]

Upon seeing Huang Xiao's message, Jiang Ran sighed and exited the chat.

While waiting for Huang Xiao in his car, he was bored and opened his WeChat Moments, only to see that it was a post with likes from several of his roommates.

AAA Building Materials Wholesale Angkor: [Wow, when did I get such a beautiful lady? Jiang Zi, that's not fair!]

AAA Fruit Wholesaler Lao Pan: [How did you win over your advisor? Need a tutorial.]

Jiang Ran was speechless after reading the two comments.

Yesterday was Christmas, and he posted the same Christmas outfits he and Wen Ling had taken together. Judging from the photos, Wen Ling is about the same age as him, but she looks more mature in terms of her eyes and demeanor.

It's not surprising that Pan Haisheng would reply to such a comment.

Jiang Ran replied with a smile: "[Go check out the matchmaking market, you might even run into one of our high school teachers.]"

Further down, Jiang Ran saw likes from her parents, and next to them was a familiar profile picture.

He frowned and subconsciously clicked on the person's profile page, which turned out to be Qin Yiyao, who had added him earlier.

He didn't see Qin Yiyao send him any more messages.

I guess after seeing this post on WeChat Moments, she finally gave up and decided not to bother me anymore.

Jiang Ran breathed a sigh of relief.

After waiting a while, he heard a knock on the car window. He glanced to the side and saw Huang Xiao, wrapped in a black cotton-padded coat, standing outside the driver's window and grinning at him.

Jiang Ran put away her phone, opened the car door, and got out.

Seeing Jiang Ran come down, Huang Xiao scratched his head, looked at the food street not far away, and tilted his head back: "Hey, Brother Jiang Ran, how about we have some braised pork knuckle?"

"..."

Jiang Ran glanced at her indifferently and walked ahead first.

It was just past noon, and the food street was quite deserted. The entire street was filled with various food stalls, all of which had been cleaned up. Only a few fried skewers, wontons, and noodles were open.

Just by looking at the stalls on the street, Jiang Ran could imagine how lively this place would be when night fell.

"There's a middle school nearby. How about we rent a shop and sell freshly squeezed juice?"

Suddenly, Huang Xiao blurted out a sentence.

Jiang Ran glanced at the loudspeaker next to her blaring "You love me, I love you," and her lips twitched. "Oh, so if I'm thirsty on the street, instead of buying Mixue, I'm going to buy a freshly squeezed juice to try?"

"Well......"

Huang Xiao scratched his head, looking embarrassed. "Then what should we sell?"

Jiang Ran looked up and saw an old man pushing a cart of roasted sweet potatoes into the distance.

Got it!

His sweet potato roasting plan is probably going to fall through now that the stall is already up for grabs!

Seeing that Jiang Ran didn't speak, Huang Xiao bit her lip and whispered, "Brother Jiang Ran, if we just want to keep things simple with our stall, how about we sell boxed lunches at construction sites? I remember there are a few construction sites around here..."

"Selling boxed lunches?!"

Jiang Ran stopped and turned to look at Huang Xiao.

Huang Xiao nodded and said, "That's right. My dad used to work on construction sites. Many people would prepare boxed lunches and sell them there. It was only busy in the morning, and there wasn't much to do in the afternoon. The cost wasn't high either..."

Speaking of this, Huang Xiao also had his own selfish motives.

The two videos Jiang Ran asked her to delete yesterday have already received over 50 likes. With such good traffic, she really couldn't bear to delete them; she just changed the captions a bit.

If we want to connect the storyline on that account, it has to be somewhat related, right?

She glanced at Jiang Ran nervously.

However, Jiang Ran thought the suggestion of selling boxed lunches was quite good. Firstly, the cost was low, and secondly, he would have plenty of time to go home and prepare meals for Wen Ling. At worst, he would just have to get up a little earlier...

"Okay, we'll do as you say, we'll sell boxed lunches!"

Jiang Ran nodded, then asked, "Then can you ask your dad for me what they ate most often on the construction site back then?"

"I want a lot of meat, everything else is fine," Huang Xiao replied, adding, "After all, we're all doing manual labor. My dad often says that those stall owners are stingy and don't give much meat..."

"Then let's sell braised pork rice, and you can help me out!"

Jiang Ran instantly became excited. "Let's go! Let's go to the market now and buy a few pots. We'll cook one tomorrow and see how it goes!"

After working for most of the day, I finally bought all the pots, pans, and utensils.

Huang Xiao went straight home, and the two agreed to chat on WeChat if they needed anything.

Dragging a large pile of pots and pans, Jiang Ran returned to the villa area.

As for the ingredients, Jiang Ran pondered for a moment and parked the car in front of the supermarket outside the villa area, then went to the supermarket alone to check the prices.

He strolled around and noticed that although the supermarket was located outside an upscale villa area, the meat inside was reasonably priced, and if he bought in bulk, the price could be negotiated to be even cheaper.

For convenience, Jiang Ran added the supermarket staff on WeChat, and they delivered the vegetables to her door.

After taking care of everything, Jiang Ran came out of the supermarket.

My phone vibrated while I was getting on the bus.

He quickly took out his phone and saw that it was a WeChat call from his cousin, Chen Jingyu.

Without thinking much, he simply answered the call.

The moment the call connected and Jiang Ran heard Chen Jingyu's calm voice on the other end, he instantly lost his composure!

"Bro, you're still filming C-side scenes online?"

"..."

"My mom saw it too."

"..."

"She asked me to ask you if that rich woman tricked you into going out and selling yourself."

"..."

As the fatal triple strike landed, hearing the last sentence, Wen Ling's image flashed into Jiang Ran's mind, and his lips twitched: "Wait, why would your mother think that?"

"The beauty salon she frequented went out of business and the owner ran away. My mom also saw the video of you in the C position online. She remembered the person she introduced to you and wondered if she had met a scammer."

On the other end of the phone, Chen Jingyu's tone was very calm, but Jiang Ran could hear the schadenfreude in her voice even through the phone.

Thinking back to the little girl who used to act cute and cuddly by my side, she's now in her adolescence and grown up!

She even dared to speak ill of her brother!

Jiang Ran raised an eyebrow and retorted, "What, you're actually happy if your brother got scammed?"

Chen Jingyu remained silent on the other end of the phone.

Jiang Ran snorted coldly, "I advise you to watch your tone, or I'll tell your mom about the succulent comics you hide under your bed!"