Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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The next day was the weekend. Jiang Lan was just thinking about where to take his younger brothers to play when his fourth brother called.
The other party’s voice had an obvious smile: “Send me the location of your home.”
Huh?
Jiang Lan jumped up from the sofa: “Have you come to Jiangcheng?”
“I was on a business trip and just came to see you. I’ve already left the airport.”
Jiang Lan quickly sent his location to his WeChat account. He was probably too happy, so he started talking loudly. Bi An smiled and said, “We’ll talk about it when I get home. Xiao Ba is not allowed to hide.”
Suan Ni, who was squatting nearby and listening to the call, was furious. He meowed angrily, raised his paw and patted the phone, as if he could hit the nasty fourth brother in this way.
Jiang Lan rubbed him and said “goodbye” to Bi An before hanging up the phone.
It only took about an hour to take a taxi from the airport. Jiang Lan took the time to tidy up the house. He packed all the snacks, put all the toys back in their place, and mopped the floor. By the time he finished cleaning up in a hurry, an hour had passed, and the doorbell rang.
Jiang Lan went over to open the door, and his fourth brother Bi An was standing at the door dragging his suitcase. His skin was a little tanner than before, and his longer hair was combed back, revealing his slightly aggressive eyebrows.
“You seem a little taller, and your face is a little rounder.” Bi An reached out and rubbed the top of his head, but the corners of his mouth looked a little wilted.
Jiang Lan freed his head from his hand and welcomed him in: “Have you eaten yet? How many days will you stay in Jiangcheng this time?”
“I ate on the plane and will leave tomorrow night.”
Bi An placed the suitcase casually against the wall, and first took a look at the picture on the sofa. Jiao Tu leaned out of the shell to greet him, his eyes wide open filled with joy.
“Look how good Little Ninth is.” Bi An took out his wallet and took out a small plastic bag, which contained a coin-sized golden pearl and a nearly black gem. He smiled and poured the pearl and gem in the bag onto the sofa: “I saw these when I was on a business trip to Haicheng. I got it for you to play with.”
Jiao Tu let out a small cheer and said, “Thank you, Fourth Brother”. He couldn’t wait to roll up the pearls on the sofa.
Bi An tapped Jiao Tu’s head with his finger before standing up and pulling the suitcase over: “I brought you a lot of specialties on this trip back from Haicheng.”
He opened the box unhurriedly: “Brother also stuffed a lot of things, let me see what’s there…”
Taking out everything in the suitcase, Bi An said regretfully: “Oh, this is Xiao Ba’s favorite dried fish, right? It’s a pity that he is not here, so I can only eat it by myself.”
As he spoke, he pretended to sigh and tore open the packaging bag.
Suan Ni, who was hiding on the balcony, craned his neck to take a look. When he saw him picking up a small dried fish and putting it in his mouth, he finally couldn’t help it. He jumped down nimbly and pounced on Suan Ni like lightning.
Bi An caught him easily and made a fuss: “This is Xiao Ba? Why is he so fat? I almost didn’t recognize him.”
Suan Ni:……
Jiang Lan: “Pfft!”
Suan Ni was furious and twisted his body to point his butt at him. Bi An stuffed the whole bag of dried fish into his arms and laughed so hard: “Are you angry? Do you want to eat the dried fish?”
Suan Ni glared at him, angrily dragged the dried fish to the sofa, turned his back to him and tore up the packaging bag to show that he didn’t want to pay attention to him.
Bi An muttered: “The anger is still so strong.”
Jiang Lan couldn’t hold back his laughter anymore: “Don’t bully Xiao Ba all the time.”
Bi An lay down on the sofa and crossed his long legs casually: “Oh, is it not just that he’s cute.”
When Suan Ni heard this, he turned to look at him secretly.
Bi An: “Come and meow.”
Suan Ni: !!!
He turned around again and started eating the dried fish angrily.
Bi An was usually busy with work, so it was rare for the four brothers to get together. Jiang Lan didn’t want to go out at noon, so Jiang Lan ordered ingredients from takeaway, and Bi An personally cooked a sumptuous lunch for them.
The three brothers who just ordered takeout every day, couldn’t even lift their heads from eating at this time.
Bi An didn’t move his chopsticks very much, and just swayed his cup idly, as if the coke gave him the feel of red wine.
After dinner, they talked about their respective lives. Most of it was Bi An caring about Jiang Lan.
Jiang Lan hadn’t seen his fourth brother for a long time, so he told him all the recent events in detail. How his new colleagues and new leaders took good care of him. How Suan Ni and Jiao Tu still went to work together every day. And also about how he completed several missions and received a lot of bonuses… He kept talking.
Except for Ying Qiao’s matter.
Jiang Lan was embarrassed to tell his fourth brother about going on a blind date for a subsidy of 20,000 yuan. It sounded even weirder when he said that it involved concealing his identity, pretending to be a lion tribe member and making friends with a snake tribe member.
He didn’t know why he felt a little guilty.
Not sure if there was a connection between the brothers, Bi An suddenly asked: “Have you met anyone you like?”
A person he liked? Jiang Lan thought for a while, and Ying Qiao’s face appeared in his mind for no apparent reason.
He was so frightened that he shook his head quickly: “No.”
Bi An nodded, not sure whether he was satisfied or dissatisfied: “That’s right, you’re not in a hurry.”
Jiang Lan gossiped: “What about you, you haven’t caught up with sister-in-law yet?”
He remembered that the fourth brother had said a long time ago that there was someone he liked, but he refused to say who it was, and he had never seen him bring someone back to the Dragon Palace in all these years.
He didn’t know which sensitive nerve of Bi An was touched by these words. But he suddenly sneered, his expression became gloomy, and he tapped Jiang Lan’s forehead with his finger: “Children should not get involved in adults’ matters.”
Jiang Lan was not afraid of him at all and said with a smile: “Then you have to work hard.”
Bi An raised his chin arrogantly: “It’s not that I don’t work hard, it’s that your sister-in-law has poor vision.”
The corner of Jiang Lan’s mouth twitched, and it took him a while to stop laughing.
There was an extra person in the house, and it suddenly became livelier.
In the evening, the four brothers even made a video call with their eldest brother who was far away in Haicheng. As a result, in the middle of the video call, he teased Suan Ni again, which made Suan Ni angry. When he ran away angrily, he knocked over the tablet that was receiving the video call and it was doused in Coca-Cola and the scene was full of uproar.
As a result, the family fun was interrupted and the brothers had to clean up the battlefield.
They played till late at night and got up late the next day.
When Jiang Lan rubbed his eyes and got up, he saw his fourth brother in a suit and leather shoes, looking very handsome, as he checked himself out in the mirror. He also wore a diamond-encrusted watch on his wrist, making him look very coquettish.
“Are you going out?” Jiang Lan asked.
Bi An straightened his tie and hummed through his nose: “I’m going to help big brother discuss some cooperation by the way. I’ll be back around noon.”
Jiang Lan groaned and collapsed on the sofa again.
“Lunch is in the kitchen, remember to eat.”
Bi An ordered, picked up his computer bag and went out.
….
City center, Yu’an Building.
Ying Qiao sat in the conference room with a look of impatience on his face: “Isn’t he here yet?”
Chen Hua looked at the WeChat message: “He said there was a traffic jam.”
“Uh-huh.” Ying Qiao snorted, “I think he is late on purpose as he wanted to show off to us so he could raise the price.”
Yingqiao Company was mainly engaged in the research and development of cosmetics. The raw materials of high-end products were extracted from the bodies of various monsters. The main customer groups they faced were also the wealthy members of the monster clan. The new project they had been developing this year had an important ingredient extracted from a type of shellfish caught in the deep sea.
That’s why Chen Hua took up the Dragon Palace line and wanted to promote cooperation.
But he didn’t expect that the person who came to discuss the cooperation would be Bi An.
Bi An and Ying Qiao… were enemies who were extremely jealous of each other.
Chen Hua glanced at him warily and warned: “This cooperation is very important for the new project. You must hold back and not start a fight with Bi An on the spot.”
Ying Qiao’s face was filled with displeasure, and he chuckled: “If he doesn’t start it first, I won’t do it.”
Chen Hua pinched his eyebrows and felt his phone vibrate. He picked it up, took a look at it, and said, “He is here. I’ll go out to greet them.”
After finishing speaking, he got dressed and went downstairs to pick someone up.
Bi An looked at the magnificent Yu’an Building. This was his first time entering here. When he thought that this was the territory of that troublemaker, he felt uncomfortable all over.
When he saw Chen Hua, who was dressed as an elite and had a calm expression, the uncomfortable feeling became even more obvious.
He raised his chin and sneered as Chen Hua approached.
“Why did Assistant Chen bother to pick me up in person? You are the only assistant to Ying Long? You even have to do such a small thing?”
Chen Hua had long been accustomed to his speaking with a gun and a stick, so he said calmly: “Mr. Zhang is an honored guest.”
Zhang Lu was the pseudonym Bi An used when he walked around the world.
“Since I am an honored guest, why didn’t Ying Long come down to greet me in person?” Bi An continued to sneer.
Chen Hua smiled back: “The boss has been waiting for you in the conference room for twenty minutes.”
The implication was that if you are twenty minutes late, don’t push it.
It was probably because of his misunderstanding that this time Bi An just snorted angrily and said no more.
The two of them took the special elevator upstairs.
As the elevator slowly rose, Chen Hua felt the strong gaze on his side and finally couldn’t help turning his head: “?”
Say it if you have anything to say.
Bi An met his gaze and did not dodge. Instead, he asked an irrelevant question: “How many years have you been following Ying Long?”
Chen Hua didn’t know what kind of medicine this man was selling in his gourd, but the question was not a secret, so he casually said: “A thousand or two thousand years? It’s been so long that I can’t even remember it.”
“That’s really loyal.” Bi An slowly made a snort from his nose: “You can even bear Ying Long, this kind of thing.”
Was it not because the salary was high.
Although Chen Hua strongly agreed with the second half of his sentence, he still had to protect his boss’s face in front of outsiders: “Mr. Zhang may have some misunderstandings about the boss.”
“Misunderstanding?” Bi An chuckled: “Ying Long’s glorious deeds can be counted on both hands, and you think it’s a misunderstanding.”
Chen Hua looked at him innocently, thinking, do I think so?
He didn’t want to either, but he was just a paid social worker.
The two of them were silent all the way. Chen Hua led the person into the conference room, slowly opened the door, and secretly prayed that they would not start a fight as soon as they met.
Fortunately, the two of them only looked at each other for a moment, and Bi An reached out his hand first: “I haven’t seen you for a long time. Has Mr. Ying’s bald tail hair grown back? Do you need my help to recommend a hair growth cream?”
“The old injury has been healed a long time ago, don’t worry about it.” Ying Qiao didn’t even stretch out his hand but smiled softly: “I knew Mr. Zhang was coming, so I asked Chen Hua to buy lemons. How many will Mr. Zhang take?”
Chen Hua: ???
When did you ask me to buy lemons?
He stood quietly to the side, his eyebrows lowered, pretending that he was just a decoration.
The two of them went back and forth, but no one gained an advantage. In the end, Bi An sat down first, with a hint of gritted teeth in his laughter: “Let’s talk about business first.”
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