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Chapter 286 The study is a restricted area; Hua Lan is not allowed to enter!

Hua Lan was overjoyed, and An Xiaoyue could feel her happiness even through the phone screen.

If she and Hualan are in the same department, they won't have to wait for each other during mealtimes.

"I'm so happy too! I'll bring you some pastries made by the chef at home tomorrow; they're especially delicious."

"Okay, okay..." Hua Lan readily agreed.

She had tried many of Xiaoyue's pastries, and they were indeed very delicious, sweet but not greasy, with a refreshing quality that she couldn't find in other pastry shops.

In her excitement, Hua Lan's phone shook slightly, and An Xiaoyue saw a tall, upright figure flash by.

"wait!"

An Xiaoyue only noticed the clue when she looked closely: when did the school dormitory get spotlights?

"Tell me honestly, where are you?"

An Xiaoyue seemed to have discovered some earth-shattering secret. She narrowed her eyes and stared at Hua Lan, making her feel uneasy.

"Um..." Hua Lan stammered, her eyes glancing at Chu Xiao, who was washing dishes in an apron by the sink. "Uh..."

She didn't know how to answer Xiaoyue's question for a moment, and in her haste, Hualan decided to end the video call.

She made up a lame excuse, "I suddenly have a stomachache and need to go to the toilet. Bye, Xiaoyue, see you tomorrow."

Before An Xiaoyue could speak, Hua Lan had already hung up the video call.

"Strange, why is she being so secretive? Could it be Brother Chu?"

Hua Lan put her phone on the coffee table, not daring to speak, and even more embarrassed to look at Chu Xiao.

Since returning to Beijing, Chu Xiao seems like a completely different person.

The way he looked at her was completely different from before.

His eyes seemed to be smiling, and the corners of his lips were upturned, but he didn't say a word.

She looked as if she were a commodity waiting to be sold.

Is this how businessmen look at people?

But Xiaoyue's husband is such a capable boss, yet he doesn't judge people like Chu Xiao does.

Hua Lan was left wondering.

"What? My house is ugly, and I'm embarrassed to tell your friends?" Chu Xiao placed a plate of washed blueberries in front of her.

"No," Hua Lan denied. "I just feel that our relationship hasn't reached the point where I can freeload at your house."

Chu Xiao picked up a blueberry and started eating it by himself. "You're not exactly freeloading, you cooked all the meals, didn't you?"

Hua Lan waved her hand, feeling embarrassed, and said, "I just had nothing to do. You're so busy every day, and you even picked me up from the airport. Cooking a little something is nothing."

"What did Grandma say when you went back to Cangshan?"

After a busy day, both hungry and tired, Chu Xiao finally had time to ask Hua Lan about her trip back to her hometown.

Chu Ci failed to divorce that Shen family brat, so her life in the Shen family won't be easy.

He couldn't guarantee that Chu Ci wouldn't go to Cangshan to gather information when he went mad.

His kindness to the Hua family was known to the troops and the villagers.

He feared that the cunning Chu Ci would not only fail to gain any advantage from him, but would also suffer mistreatment at her husband's family, and would eventually vent her anger on the Hua family.

He was worried about Grandma Hua being alone in Cangshan.

He was thinking of having Grandma Hua come to live in Beijing, and with Hua Lan there too, it would be easier to take care of her if she had any minor ailments.

So he asked Hua Lan to go back and bring Grandma Hua to Beijing.

“Grandma didn’t want to come. She said she couldn’t get used to the food in the city or the noise. She also said that living in the city was like being locked in a cage, with no freedom at all, so she didn’t want to come.”

Chu Xiaojian frowned slightly. Grandma Hua wasn't such an unreasonable person. "Didn't you tell Grandma there was danger?"

“I already told you,” Hua Lan said, stuffing two sweet blueberries into her mouth. “Grandma said that the family has two plaques for first-class merit awards. Anyone who dares to hurt her will be jailed for life.”

Chu Xiao sighed, thinking, "Grandma Hua is truly unyielding, her temper as hard as a rock."

What's the point of spending your life in jail? She's been hurt, and the physical pain is unbearable for someone her age, with her frail and hunched body.

“Don’t worry, I think Grandma is living a good life in the village. She has lived in Cangshan all her life. If anything happens, the neighbors will know. I have also installed a surveillance camera at home. If someone stands under the camera for more than 10 seconds, it will take a picture and record it.”

Hua Lan took out her phone and showed it to Chu Xiao.

Sure enough, the surveillance video showed Hua Lanlan walking briskly back, carrying a bright green vegetable.

Hua Lan laughed, "Grandma must have gone to pick some vegetables to make meatball soup."

Grandma lives alone, and she only has one dish per meal.

Before she left, she made meatballs for her grandmother, cooked them, and stored them in appropriate quantities.

Whenever Grandma wants to eat it, thawing just enough for one meal is enough.

Seeing that the old woman was in good health, Chu Xiao thought of how his grandmother had walked for more than half an hour to the army base just to bring them a basket of vegetables she had grown herself.

Grandma Hua couldn't bear to part with her vegetable garden, and what she said made sense.

"Alright, as long as Grandma is happy, you can go back and spend more time with her when you have time."

Hua Lan pouted, "Airplane tickets are very expensive."

Chu Xiao gently tapped her forehead. "I'm not short of money now."

"Yes, yes, you're Boss Chu, not Captain Chu anymore." When it came to his wealth, Hua Lan belatedly realized, "Last time you mentioned a mission, to be a rich young master and pick up naive little girls, that was all a lie, wasn't it?"

Chu Xiao raised an eyebrow, "Half true, half false."

Hua Lan guessed, "Is he really rich, but his intention to hook up with young girls is just a pretense?"

Chu Xiao's eyes flickered slightly, his meaning unclear. "What you said is all wrong."

It's a lie to say he's rich; he's never had much money. How much could the military possibly give him?

It's just that the money they received had nowhere to go, so it accumulated little by little.

"Huh? Then why did you go back to Beijing?"

"Because some idiot isn't coming home for the holidays, I'm worried," Chu Xiao said quietly, then got up and left.

"Oh? You also sponsored others..."

Chu Xiao kept walking forward, ignoring her.

"That's not right." Hua Lan belatedly realized that Chu Xiao was talking about her.

Does that mean Chu Xiao came to Beijing specifically to see her because she didn't go home for the holidays?

Oh, I'm so happy!

She chased after him to confirm, "Are you talking about a little sister? I'm not stupid!"

Chu Xiao used his body to block her from the door, tapping the A4 paper on the door with his long fingers to remind Hua Lan.

[This is a restricted area of ​​the study; orchids and other plants are not permitted!]

Hua Lan had no choice but to shut up and stand still.

"Go do your thing and be quiet. I'll take you back to school when I'm done."

"understood."

"If you don't have anything else to do with that lump of yarn, just make me a sofa cushion so you can eat potato chips on it and there will be crumbs everywhere."

"I cleaned it with a vacuum cleaner," Hua Lan emphasized, tilting her head back.

Chu Xiao: "It has a smell, I don't like it."

"Hmph!" Hua Lan stomped her foot and said angrily, "I'll buy a disinfectant bottle tomorrow and disinfect all the places I've been."

"I don't like the smell of disinfectant either, I just want a woolen mat."

Just as Hua Lan was about to retort, a brilliant idea struck her.

This was the first time in so many years that Chu Xiao had asked her for something.

It's just a sofa cushion, isn't it?

She did it.