520 Picking up garbage and marrying into a wealthy family

Back in the car, Gu Lingyan had an indescribable joy on his face.

Xiang Huanian noticed that Gu Lingyan was in a good mood and glanced at him:

"Why is Mr. Gu here?"

It’s not that Xiang Huanian is snobbish, nor is it that Xiang Huanian is overly self-deprecating.

However, this place full of life doesn't seem like a place that Gu Lingyan, a domineering CEO who only goes between home and the company, would come to.

"...Come and get something."

Thinking that Lin Yunchu held the thank-you banquet without telling Xiang Huanian, Gu Lingyan would not take the initiative to ruin this surprise, so his words were a little vague.

"Oh……"

Xiang Huanian didn't mean to insist on the other party explaining everything in detail. Knowing that the other party was just stopping by to give her a ride, Xiang Huanian breathed a sigh of relief.

But deep down in my heart, there is a sense of loss that I am not even aware of.

"I just passed by here and found a primary school..."

Xiang Huanian sat down and fastened his seat belt, but found that Gu Lingyan had not started the engine yet. Just as he was feeling strange, Gu Lingyan started talking, as if he wanted to chat and pave the way for a conversation.

"Yes, that's right. When my mom bought her house, she was considering a school district. She said houses near schools maintain their value, but house prices have dropped so much in the past two years..."

Xiang Huanian was inexplicably nervous. He gripped the seat belt tightly around his chest, leaned close to the car door, and responded in a vague tone.

Gu Lingyan turned around.

Then, he took something from the back seat.

Just when Xiang Huanian was full of questions, a super large lollipop suddenly appeared in her sight, almost covering her entire face.

Xiang Huanian's brain was blank for a moment when it received the information in front of him.

Stunned, Gu Lingyan thought Xiang Huanian didn't like sweets:

"Don't you like sweet ones? How about this one?"

Then, Gu Lingyan took out a bunch of tightly wrapped skewers from the back seat and handed them to Xiang Huanian, asking her to choose:

"It's not time to get out of school yet, but the stalls nearby are all ready. I see they handle their food very cleanly and use good ingredients. There are a few parents waiting to pick up their children nearby who are also enjoying their meals, so I bought some..."

Xiang Huanian's first reaction was - no wonder she smelled the faint aroma of barbecued skewers when she got in the car. She thought she was hallucinating because she wanted to eat too much.

My second reaction was to wonder if I was hallucinating.

Otherwise, why would she see Gu Lingyan, who in her impression only ate healthy food, this mature adult man who didn't fit in at all at a roadside food stall, holding a huge, childlike lollipop in one hand and a large box of fried skewers for her to choose from?

What's going on? It feels like this enlightened parent is picking up their kids from school with snacks from a street stall.

Fried rice cakes brushed with sweet bean sauce and hot sauce, fried pork tenderloin, beef skewers, and lamb skewers sprinkled with five-spice cumin powder, shiny green cabbage and green peppers, and even bread slices coated with condensed milk and milk-flavored steamed buns.

Xiang Huanian felt that the world was becoming magical.

However, Xiang Huanian looked at Gu Lingyan, who was like this the parents she had imagined would pick her up from school. Suddenly, she couldn't control her tears, her tear glands burst, and big golden beans gushed out of her eye sockets.

Like a transparent silk thread, it was entangled and endless, falling on Xiang Huanian's cheek and also hitting Gu Lingyan's heart.

Gu Lingyan: “!!!”

Tears... can only become a sharp weapon... to conquer cities and plunder territories in the eyes of those who truly care about the one crying.

It makes people's brain go blank in an instant.

So, rare.

Gu Lingyan was at a loss and almost wiped Xiang Huanian's tears with his hands full of lollipops and fried skewers.

But he reacted in time, and regardless of the expensive private clothes on his body, he casually placed the fried skewers and lollipops wrapped in a simple paper box on his legs. Then, with his free hands, he quickly took out a few tissues and handed them to Xiang Huanian.

"Yes, did I buy something you hate?"

Gu Lingyan tried to find the "culprit" from the pile of fried skewers, but at this time, Xiang Huanian spoke:

"No, no, Mr. Gu, I'm just so touched. When I was little, I always imagined that my parents would be like you now, picking me up from school... so I'm a little touched. Sorry, I'll be right there..."

At that time, Xiang Huanian was so small and frail that his schoolbag could even cover his entire body. He was full of envy when he saw other children standing in front of a snack stand, pointing at the snacks there at will, and saying coquettishly to his parents who were holding his hands:

"Mom, Dad, I want to eat this, this, and that..."

The parent frowned immediately.

Xiang Huanian thought that the child would be scolded by his parents, but after the parent took a closer look at the clean and bright environment of the store, every ingredient covered with plastic wrap, and the ingredients used every time the store poured oil, he happily nodded and let the child order.

At that time, Xiang Huanian only felt that the happiness of others made her feel ashamed.

However, one day after she grew up, on an ordinary afternoon, after escaping from that dull and peaceful but infinitely depressing family, and perhaps not in a very pleasant mood, Xiang Huanian got from the hands of someone she could never have imagined that she had envied other people's children and her childhood regrets.

For a moment, Xiang Huanian couldn't stop crying.

"I'm sorry to have embarrassed you, Mr. Gu."

Xiang Huanian took the tissue from Gu Lingyan's hand, wiped her face carelessly, and turned sideways, not wanting Gu Lingyan to see her disheveled and vulnerable appearance. However, she forgot that the car window itself was also a mirror...

Gu Lingyan stared at Xiang Huanian's face reflected in the car window, his eyes moved slightly, and he pursed his lips, but he didn't say much. He just quietly handed the box of tissues and the trash can in the car to Xiang Huanian.

He was playing with the wrapper of the lollipop in his hand, not knowing what he was thinking.

When passing by these street stalls in the elementary school, Gu Lingyan didn’t actually think so much. He just thought that Xiang Huanian might like them.

Because he remembered that when he arranged for Secretary Zhou to send healthy hospital meals to Xiang Huanian, he accidentally saw a circle of friends posted by Xiang Huanian, which read "I miss the 'junk food' near the school so much!"

At that time, Gu Lingyan took a quick glance and wrote it down for some unknown purpose. Then, now, under the surprised gazes of others, he found a parking space, parked the car, and walked to the front of the boss, calmly placing his order and paying.