Wow! My wife is beautiful and obedient, everyone envies her!

Noah raised an eyebrow and glanced at Xiu, a hint of disdain in his eyes.

"You wish! You want me to find you a wife, and then you want me to support her? No, I mean, I'll have to support you too!"

Xiu's little scheme was quite obvious; Noah couldn't possibly have missed it.

Xiu didn't care that he had been exposed and still had a smile on his face.

“Master, my wife and I risked our lives to cover for your wife; you’ve come out ahead. Look how many people are watching us. If you had just smiled at me, what rumors do you think would have spread?”

Upon hearing this, Noah turned around and glanced around.

Those eating and those queuing for meat all had their eyes on them. When Noah's gaze swept over them, they immediately looked away and pretended to be busy with their own things.

However, there are also those who are bold.

Noah noticed that several people were staring at him from the meat tasting booth outside the door. Among them was a pair of coral-colored eyes that stared at them for a while. When they noticed that Noah was looking directly at them, they looked away and lowered their heads.

Noah turned to look at Xiu, who continued to smile, "Isn't that right? Patriarch, you are the sun of Juecheng, attracting attention wherever you go."

“People dare not look directly at the sun,” Noah retorted.

Xiu laughed and said, "This is just a metaphor. It's a metaphor that you, Patriarch, are like the sun, attracting attention wherever you go."

Noah's lips curled up slightly in a smile.

Although his smile was perfunctory, Xiu could tell that Noah agreed with him, and said, "Patriarch, help me find Xiaobai? He's still in the Northern Continent. With your abilities, you'll find him quickly. If you can find him, the Robinson family will work for you from now on!"

"Even if the Robinson family were to risk their lives for me, how much could they possibly do? But finding someone isn't difficult for me."

Xiu's eyes lit up, and he smiled even more happily, "Thank you, Patriarch!"

"Take good care of A-Yuan at the restaurant and help him earn more money. I'm leaving now."

"Yes, Master, please take care!"

Xiu couldn't hide his joy; he'd be seeing his wife soon!

Davis's home, study.

Qi Yuan sat at his desk, thinking about other dishes that would be easy to make and would suit the tastes of the people of Beizhou.

Xiu's words last night reminded him.

People's tastes can easily become tiresome.

Eating the same food repeatedly will eventually make you tired of it.

There will be fewer customers coming to our door then.

Furthermore, hot pot takes a long time to eat, and the average office worker only has two hours of rest time at noon, which is not enough time to spend eating hot pot.

There are only a lot of customers at night, but the restaurant is only so big and can only accommodate so many customers at a time. It's hard to make money if we don't increase the table turnover rate.

To make money, you need to keep your lunch customers coming back.

For lunch, fast food or something similar would be suitable.

For example, stir-fried green peppers with shredded pork and stewed beef with potatoes are dishes that are quick to prepare and won't take up too much of the guests' lunch break.

However, cooking stir-fries requires a chef. With the restaurant reopening, the staff are busy from morning till night and don't have time to learn stir-frying from Qi Yuan. This means he needs to find time to train a chef specializing in Dongzhou cuisine.

Finding a chef was a bit difficult for Qi Yuan. What if he found an ungrateful wretch who learned from him and then went off to open his own restaurant and steal his business?

Qi Yuan pondered.

Although he didn't have a particular interest in money, he still owed Noah more than 300,000 yuan, which he definitely had to pay back. In addition, he also had to pay back the money for the restaurant.

We can't take Noah's things for granted or use them without feeling too comfortable.

While he was thinking, Qi Yuan looked up and was startled by a small head peeking in through the door.

Patty was outside the door, looking at him with a resentful expression and her little mouth pouting in anger.

Seeing that Qi Yuan had finally noticed her, she snorted and hid her little head.

Why does this child seem angry?

Qi Yuan looked up at the clock on the wall in confusion. It was ten o'clock in the morning, which was the time when the children were in class.

He looked towards the door again, and the little girl peeked out to look at Qi Yuan, but when she saw Qi Yuan looking over, she immediately hid.

Qi Yuan was now 100% certain that the child was indeed being difficult.

“Patty?” he called out.

The little guy outside the door didn't peek in again.

"Petty," Qi Yuan called again.

There was finally a sound outside the door. "Patty isn't here!"

I heard your voice.

"That's not Patty's voice, that's Catherine's!"

Qi Yuan thought about it for a while, but he couldn't figure out why the child was being difficult with him so early in the morning. What was wrong with the child?

Qi Yuan wasn't good at coaxing children either. When he couldn't figure out why the child was angry, he could only ask, "Would you like some lemon tea?"

Petty immediately poked her head in from outside the door, looking at Qi Yuan with some excitement.

But the little guy was still very principled, saying, "It's not enough to just give Patty lemon tea as compensation. You have to play with Patty today!"

Qi Yuan: "?"

“Mr. Qi Yuan, Miss Petty is actually angry that you and the head of the family didn’t come back before she went to bed last night.” Seeing Qi Yuan’s puzzled expression, Catherine explained to him.

Patty immediately felt wronged, "Auntie, you promised to read to me, but you didn't keep your promise!"

Qi Yuan had no words to defend himself.

He did indeed promise to send the child to school.

"what do you want to play?"

"Building a snowman! I heard the servants say that their children start building snowmen after it snows, and the snowmen they build are big and beautiful!" Patty exclaimed excitedly.

As the youngest princess of the Davis family, Noah was worried that Patty might encounter danger outside, so the child could only stay at home.

She had no peers; all she had were respectful servants and bodyguards.

Therefore, Petty rarely has a chance to have fun.

Qi Yuan was one of the few people in the Davis family, besides Noah, who treated her like an ordinary child, without any flattery or reservations, and Petty especially loved coming to play with him now.

Qi Yuan turned his head to look out the window.

The weather is great today, the sun is shining brightly.

The sun in this season seems to be just a lamp, without warmth, existing simply to illuminate the world.

It snowed last night too.

The yard was covered in white, perfect weather for building a snowman.

Qi Yuan looked at the expectant little girl again and said, "Go put on some more clothes."

"Okay! Catherine, let's go back and change!"

Patty turned around, took Catherine's hand, and went back to her room to change.

Qi Yuan also went back and put on a thicker coat.

Stepping from the warm house into the freezing cold outside, Qi Yuan still hunched his shoulders as the wind blew.

"Auntie, let's build a snowman here."

Petty called out to Qi Yuan and they ran towards the main gate.

It takes nearly ten minutes to walk from the main house to the front gate.

There is a heavy, black iron gate at the main entrance, with lifelike patterns carved on it.

The door is at least three meters high, the same height as the wall protecting the house.

If it's not a matter of being able to come and go freely.

This door and the three-meter-high wall give Qi Yuan the illusion of returning to prison.