CEO is Picky but Handsome - Chapter 5

“Mr. Huo,” Ye Ling nods to him and introduces Ye Rui, “This is my son, Ye Rui. Rui Rui, call uncle.”
Ye Rui honestly bows, “Good day uncle.”
Huo Zhun’s face is full of elder smiles, and is directly hit by these two words.
Uncle …… Uncle ……
“Pfft.” Huo Xiaoming didn’t hold back and burst out laughing.
“No no no, I’m not older than you by a few years, just call me uncle, it shows youth.” Huo Zhun greets Huo Xiaoming, “Son, come here, this is your Uncle Ye.”
Huo Xiaoming’s child has a trait, he can put on a face. No matter how many little devils live inside, he’s always innocent and cute on the outside. Especially with a bun face that hasn’t yet lost its baby fat, he’s simply deceptive.
Only to see him bowing graciously, raising his head, the corners of his born upturned mouth picking up, revealing eight teeth, and sweetly shouting, “Uncle Ye is good.”
Ye Ling’s impression of him was instantly favorable.
“You are also good, little friend.” He bent down slightly and smiled back.
Little …… children?
Huo Ming’s inner imp flared up.
Who are you calling a little friend! Adults are great! I hate being called a little friend by others! Okay, I remember you, you are dead!
It took him almost half a minute to restrain his little demon from storming out, then he put his arm around Huo Zhun’s waist, appearing to be shy, but actually annoyed, “Hehehe” said, “Just call me Huo Xiao Ming.”
Ye Ling responded favorably and asked Huo Jun, “Does Mr. Huo have any arrangements next?”
“No. Why, do you have something?”
Ye Ling says, “It’s not easy to get the grades, I want to take the kids to eat something nice and hit the sack. If Mr. Huo is fine, together?”
As God’s witness, Ye Ling is simply being polite to Huo Jun. What kind of ungrateful employee would invite the Big BOSS to dinner on the first day of work? But who would have thought that Huo Ming, whose face was about to poke his dad in the stomach, would come energized and exclaim, “Yes!”
Huo Zhun reprimanded in a low voice, “What’s so good about it, do you know what Uncle Ye is going to eat, and you’re just following along to join in the fun? Go home, dad will give you noodles.”
“I don’t want to eat noodles, you only make noodles every time, I’m tired of eating them!” Huo Xiaoming’s tears are almost squeezed out, desperately shaking the little bit of fat on his cheeks, it looks like he’s screaming with heartache, “Uncle Ye, what are you going to eat?”
Ye Ling unconsciously softened his heart, “Steak. Rui Rui said she wants to eat steak, do you want to eat?”
“I want to.” As soon as the words fell, Huo Ming slightly lowered his head, as if he suddenly remembered something, and sadly said, “Alas, but forget it, my father won’t let me.”
After saying this, the two eyes glance left and right, pitiful.
Huo Zhun was sure he was fooling around, but when he did so, he softened his heart.
At this exact moment, Ye Rui, who had been hiding behind his father, came up and gently grabbed Huo Xiaoming’s hand. He and Huo Xiaoming were in the same class, and although they usually didn’t communicate much, they knew each other in the end. Although he was a year older than Huo Xiaoming, he was a bit shorter than him. Seeing him pulling Huo Xiaoming with one hand, he lifted one hand and carefully wiped the corner of Huo Xiaoming’s classmate’s eyes, softly saying, “Don’t cry, let’s be together.” Turning back to him, prayerfully, “Dad, okay?”
Ye Ling nods and looks to Huo Jun.
Huo Zhun finally surrenders, “Okay, okay, let’s go together.”
The capital city of Country N, Sechuan City, is a city that doesn’t have a long history, but is very beautiful. It is a perfect interpretation of the word “Hai Nai Chuan Bian Chuan”, especially in the catering industry, where all the world’s cuisines are brought together.
The steakhouse Huo chose is located in the east side of the city, in the Hibiscus district, a half-hour drive from the Phoenix Public School. The place was known for its exquisite fire and first-class taste, and since it didn’t accept reservations, there was always a long line in front of the door 24 hours a day.
But certain classes have this privilege; while everyone else has to wait in line, they can make one phone call and have a seat with the best view on the second-floor terrace.
Huo Xiaoming is a chatterbox, on the way here, he pulled Ye Rui to chat all the way, and when he arrived at the store, he even had to sit next to him, which made Huo Jun’s face hurt. Although he is a senior hooligan, and people play with heart eyes a top two, in front of his son has been to maintain the image of righteousness. Therefore, even if he was no longer happy with Ye Ling, in front of his son, he was willing to maintain superficial peace with this new assistant.
Coco Coco …… But who let you and his son brother and sister good ah!
Is the one who just got robbed of the first place and doesn t share the sky a ghost!
After everyone is seated, the waiter brings the menu. Huo Jun habitually wants to take it, but Huo Xiaoming is quick on his feet and gently pushes it, and the menu is sent to Ye Ling.
“Uncle Ye, my father and I are here to dine, so you order.” Huo Xiaoming smiled and sold out.
Ye Ling was indifferent to all of this, but the child gave the word, so he took it with a smile.
“What do you like to eat?” Ye Ling flipped through the menu and was slightly stunned after only scanning it.
“Whatever. Just …… the signature dishes.” Huo Xiaoming admires his expression and laughs.
I don’t know if it’s to pretend to be highbrow or to better fit the dish’s specialties, but the store’s menu is actually written in a watery H-writing. One must know that before the war, H-writing wasn’t even considered a common language around the world, not to mention that after the war, the boundaries between countries were becoming increasingly blurred, and there were even fewer people who knew H-writing.
Yet in just a moment, he read it line by line as if he could read it.
Just pretend, let’s see how long you can pretend.
Huo Xiaoming doesn’t believe he can read it at all, sneering twice in his heart as he turns to pinch the square scarf in front of him with the index finger and thumb of both hands.
“Rui Rui, did your father teach you the etiquette of Western food? Let me tell you, this etiquette is really especially complicated. For example, the square scarf should never be tucked into the neck, that’s the way the old man would use it. A real gentleman has to fold it like this …… ” He slowly and methodically shook off the square towel, folded it in half, folded it in a board shape, and laid it flat on his lap, “and then laid it flat on ……”
He turned his head, the second half of his sentence catching between his throats.
One step ahead of him, Ye Rui had already finished folding the square scarf and put it on his leg.
There was no need for him to teach at all.
Huo Ming’s hand just hangs in the air.
One second.
Two seconds.
Three seconds.
Huo Zhun couldn’t bear to look at it, and picked up the cup with no water and took a sip.
Ye Ling raised his head, “Huo Xiao Ming, we’re eating …… What’s wrong with you?”
“Nothing, practicing qigong.” Huo Zhun really can’t look at it anymore, flies an eye blade at Huo Ming and takes the menu, “What do you say to eat?”
Ye Ling self-hypnotizes that maybe rich people’s children all have some different fetishes, pointing at the menu, “This one is the signature, it’s easier for kids to eat and digest, it can be paired with a vegetable salad, so you don’t feel greasy. This one, it’s better for adults to eat, you can choose this as a side dish, and this one,” he slides his fingers, pointing at the H-texts on the menu that even Huo Jun can’t bite off a little bit, as if he’s counting, “Add a dessert, and it should be just about right. Huo Xiaoming, are you really okay?”
“He’s fine, went off the deep end.” Huo Jun calmly ignores his petrified son, surprised, “You know H-literature?”
To know, this kind of language that has been described as aloof, apart from certain highly educated elderly people, only those children from rich families learn to pretend to be 13 with. The high status of Huo Zhun, due to the origin of the bitter children, do not quite understand this, every time you come back to have to Huo Xiaoming order food, he only wait to eat the part. Other customers come, but also with the help of the waiter to understand the menu to the home. How, Ye Ling will be?
Yuk He University’s Literature Department also teaches H-literature by the way?
A complex emotion flashed in Ye Ling’s eyes, “Well, my mother was an H-literature teacher, and she taught me.”
Then it’s no wonder.
Huo Jun accepts this explanation and tells the waiter to place the order as Ye Ling said. At this point, after two consecutive abracadabra falls through, Huo Xiaoming’s classmate is overly struck and temporarily subsides. Ye Rui is a very introverted child, and when his little friends can’t care about him with their hearts in their mouths, he plays by himself by poking his finger at the golden edges of the white tablecloth. Ye Ling looked at him with a loving face, that look, as if this life is enough just to watch his son grow up silently.
The table became unusually quiet.
The terrace had other guests, and their table was in the corner, blocked by the planted tropical trees, so it seemed like the hustle and bustle was all other people’s, and only they were very dull.
Huo Jun took out his cell phone, unlocked the screen, and was just about to check his mail out of habit when a hand reached across the room. The fleshy fingertips, at a glance, belonged to Huo Xiaoming. Huo quasi head did not lift, wrist a move, his son took his cell phone, the next second, the top of the head rang Huo Xiaoming and do not know what moths brewing voice: “Ye Rui, usually you play games? My dad’s cell phone has a game especially fun.”
Ye Rui this child, always concentrate on learning a heart up, the game played some, but there is no chance of addiction. Huo Xiaoming points out the fancy games on his dad’s cell phone and shows them to him, and he looks at them with his eyes glazed over, feeling like he’s discovered a new continent. Later, when Huo Xiaoming hacked up three rounds of monsters in front of him, he finally got his hands itchy as well, taking over the phone from his little buddy and swiping it up in a decent manner.
“Your son didn’t play games before?” Huo Zhun surrounded the whole thing and found it funny, so he asked Ye Ling.
Ye Ling shakes her head, “Rarely.”
“Why? Not interested?” Huo Zhun asked.
“My phone is too old, I can only play small games, Rui Rui doesn’t like it much.” Ye Ling turns her head to lock eyes with Huo Zhun and smiles awkwardly, “Large games need to be recharged, the family doesn’t have this condition. And this kid is too introverted, isn’t playing games about forming a battle team to fight together, he’s not too good at this.”
Huo Zhun had seen it long ago.
Ye Ling doesn’t like to talk, and Ye Rui is worse than ever. From the meeting to now, this should be in the life of the most lively most love to move the most dishonest stage of the Ye children even rarely talk, in addition to the beginning of the initiative to Huo Xiaoming some, the next Huo Xiaoming how to nagging, he is up to nodding in response to the introverted almost autistic.
Huo准想，叶凌怎么带孩子的，怎么把好端端端一个孩子带成这样
See, the same single parent, he is much more reliable than him. Although Huo Xiaoming is occasionally naughty and mischievous – such as tonight – most of the time, he is very obedient and sweet.
He looks at Huo Xiaoming, and after half a minute of inwardly taking pride in his excellent education, he can’t help but soften his heart.
“It’s fine, just make more friends in the future and talk to people more often for fun.” Huo Jun says, “Although Huo Ming this child looks unreliable, playing is still quite a good little friend, in the future tell them to play together more, slowly Ye Rui will be fine.”
As soon as the words left his mouth, Huo Ming gave his dad a sharp look because of the word “unreliable”.
Ye Ling can’t help but eat and laugh out loud.
This is the first time he has laughed since he met Huo Jun. Huo Jun has long felt strange, Ye Ling can be loving to his own son, can be smiling to Huo Xiaoming, even to the assistant lady, he is also gentle and polite, but only to Huo Jun, he is always out of the corner of his eye, smile without a real smile, intentionally or unintentionally guarded.
It’s like Huo Jun is a socially destabilizing element that will jump up and bite someone if he doesn’t know what’s wrong.
Is it possible that he has offended him before? Otherwise, how come the first time we met, through the rain curtain are angry at himself.
But no, I really don’t have any impression of him at all.
Huo Jun can’t help but ask: “How did you think of bringing your son to N country? For education?”
After laughing, Ye Ling’s attitude is obviously much more relaxed. He takes a sip of water and says, “The system in Country F isn’t quite the same as here, and children are promoted to middle school at the age of 11. Last year, the teacher quietly enrolled Rui Rui in the Phoenix Public School, and I didn’t expect the results to come out, but Rui Rui got in, and the tuition was completely free. The teacher told me that the boy was incredibly gifted in math, and that only by going to the best school would he not be delaying his future. I had saved up some money at the time, just enough to cover the expenses of our father and son immigrants, so I was ruthless and brought him here.”
So it wasn’t a coincidence that Ye Rui got first place in the exam, but it was inevitable. A child who could take the exam from Country F, wasn’t much different if he wasn’t the best of the best.
“That’s really not easy.” Huo Jun raises an eyebrow, “It cost a lot, right?”
“Not bad, a middle class person’s income for a year I guess.” Poor Ye Ling spoke lightly, “In the past, I earned less and moved around a lot, so honestly, I didn’t have much savings. Luckily, I’ll be stabilized in the future, so I can save up a bit of money to give Rui Rui a better life.”
Huo Jun is puzzled, “Why keep moving? Renting an apartment? Landlords have a lot on their plate?”
Ye Ling was just about to answer when the waiter brought appetizers to the table. Ye Ling greets the two children and eats while answering, “No.”
“Then what is it?” Huo Jun jokes, “It can’t be hiding from enemies.”
Ye Ling is holding a cup in her hand and sniffs, her fingers shaking.
A few drops of ice water spilled from the cup, blotting the white tablecloth.
Ye Rui raised his head and looked at him in a daze.
The atmosphere instantly became condensed.