Ch 19: Second Brother, Hello
Xia Chuwei, having already been recognized, naturally had no way to continue hiding.
She raised her head, feigning composure: “What a coincidence, you’re here to eat too?”
Jiang Zao raised an eyebrow: “Otherwise? Did we come to a restaurant to buy clothes?”
Xia Chuwei: “……”
Jiang Zao stopped looking at her and instead looked at the man across from her.
This was a man with a typically scummy face, exuding a carefree and lazy aura all over, the corners of his mouth always raised, seemingly very happy to appreciate the good show in front of him.
“Senior Brother Ke, do you mind sharing a table?” Jiang Zao asked with a smile.
Ke Xubai shrugged his shoulders, even proactively moving inward, “If Junior Sister is willing to grace me with her presence, I would be more than happy.”
Jiang Zao took Fu Yanci and sat down with Ke Xubai, while Xia Chuwei sat alone across from them.
At this moment, she looked at them in disbelief.
“You know each other?”
Jiang Zao felt that Xia Chuwei after her rebirth was a bit stupid: “Otherwise? How do you think I got the robot I gave to A-Ci?”
Xia Chuwei only realized this now.
That’s right.
The Smart Robot hasn’t officially been released yet.
But Jiang Zao had already obtained it and given it to that fool.
Unless she herself has a relationship with the people from the Mor Research Institute!
Xia Chuwei finally realized that she had been played.
She suddenly stood up: “Jiang Zao, you already knew people from the Mor Research Institute, why didn’t you say so sooner?”
Moreover, in her previous life, there was no indication that Jiang Zao had any connection with the people from the Mor Research Institute. Wasn’t this a project that Jiang Jin Feng pulled in? How could it be related to Jiang Zao?
Jiang Zao smiled: “You didn’t ask.”
Xia Chuwei stomped off in her high heels, even accidentally bumping into a waiter, spilling the food he was carrying, and then blaming him instead.
Fu Yanci looked back at her, shuddering: “Nephew’s wife is so scary, she’s going to eat Master’s monster.”
Jiang Zao decided to change his cartoon next time, otherwise his head would be full of masters and monsters all day long.
She took Fu Yanci and sat down across from Ke Xubai, and asked the waiter to clear away the tableware that Xia Chuwei had used, and reordered meals for herself and Fu Yanci.
“Senior Brother, let me introduce you, Fu Yanci.” Jiang Zao turned to look at Fu Yanci, her voice obviously much gentler than before: “A-Ci, this is Ke Xubai, my Senior Brother, and one of the people in charge of the Mor Research Institute. The flying saucer and robot you play with were invented with his participation.”
Fu Yanci was very curious: “Is he the Senior Brother who is going to get the scriptures?”
Sure enough, his head was full of cartoons.
Jiang Zao smiled, “No, but we are studying with the same teacher, so we call him Senior Brother. There is another Senior Brother who is older than him, and I will introduce you to him when we meet in the future.”
Fu Yanci reacted quickly this time, “Oh! It’s Second Brother!”
He waved at Ke Xubai: “Second Brother, hello, I am Third Master Fu.”
Ke Xubai: “……”
He leaned back, as limp as if he had no bones, stroking his chin with one hand, sizing up Fu Yanci, who was wearing overalls and had an innocent look on his face.
“Tsk!” He looked at Jiang Zao again: “Junior Sister, you’re not really planning to spend the rest of your life with him like this, are you?”
Jiang Zao put a napkin around Fu Yanci’s neck, and tested the temperature of the warm water in the cup, making sure it was just right to drink, before handing it to Fu Yanci’s mouth.
“Drink some water before eating.”
Fu Yanci was very obedient, doing whatever he was told.
After doing all this, Jiang Zao looked at Ke Xubai again: “I don’t think there’s anything wrong with this. Anyway, I don’t plan to be in love with anyone. Adult men might be a burden to me. It’s quite good like this with A-Ci. You don’t know how obedient he is, he never disturbs me.”
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Ke Xubai understood this Junior Sister. Her mind was all on her career, and love was simply a waste of time for her.
“Okay, let’s talk about business first. Have you really decided to hand over the Mo1 series to the Fu Corporation?” Ke Xubai said while cutting the steak in front of him.
He also complained: “The steak in this restaurant is expensive and not tasty. It’s really not as authentic as the one you make, Junior Sister.”
The waiter came to serve the dishes.
Jiang Zao helped Fu Yanci cut up all of his steak before putting it back in front of him.
“No, what I’m giving to the Fu Family is Mo2.”
Jiang Zao’s words surprised Ke Xubai, followed by excitement and joy in his eyes: “You upgraded Mo1?”
“Mhm!” Jiang Zao nodded.
Anyway, there was no one else here at the moment, and Fu Yanci was just a three or four-year-old child, so she didn’t have to worry about what she said.
“The previous Mo1 still had some loopholes, and was lacking in functionality. Instead of upgrading it after Mo1 is released, it’s better to launch Mo2 directly. Anyway, our main focus is on high-end, so we can ask for more agency fees.”
Jiang Zao shared some of her caviar with Fu Yanci, not neglecting Fu Yanci even while discussing business.
Ke Xubai wasn’t really hungry. He wiped the corners of his mouth with a napkin and continued, “How much agency fee are you planning to ask the Fu Family for? That’s your husband’s family.”
Jiang Zao looked serious: “Business is business, private is private. Our Research Institute isn’t doing charity. You decide on the agency fee, but in short, we can’t let our Research Institute lose out.”
Ke Xubai nodded, as expected, she was still the Jiang Zao he knew.
Jiang Zao: “I’ll send you the program later, and I’ll have the people from the Fu Corporation’s Project Department contact you about the follow-up cooperation matters.”
“Okay.” Ke Xubai didn’t care about these things.
Anyway, cooperating with the Fu Corporation was already a certainty, so it didn’t matter who he discussed the contract details with.
“What are you planning to do about the Xia Corporation incident? Are you just going to take the blame all the way?” Ke Xubai changed the subject, with a hint of schadenfreude, “Now it’s all over the place that you were arrogant and domineering in the Xia Corporation, relying on your status as a daughter of a wealthy family, lost the documents and blamed your colleagues, made a mess and then turned around and left, and now that you’ve climbed up to the Fu Family, you’re ungrateful and cut off ties with the Xia Family. You’re simply a typical White-Eyed Wolf.”
Fu Yanci could still understand these words.
“Wife is not a White-Eyed Wolf, the Xia Family are all bad people.”
Ke Xubai raised an eyebrow, then looked at Jiang Zao: “He’s quite protective of you.”
Jiang Zao: “Of course, he’s much better than other men.”
Ke Xubai curled his lips, picking a ‘child’ to be her husband, only a career-minded person like Jiang Zao would think that was good.
After lunch, Jiang Zao took Fu Yanci for a walk in the nearby pedestrian street to digest their food.
“Wife! Cotton candy!”
Fu Yanci pointed to the cotton candy shop in front of him, his eyes twinkling as if they could glow, seeming to say: I want to eat! I want to eat!
Jiang Zao couldn’t help but reach out and gently tap his forehead: “Little glutton.”
Then she took him to the cotton candy shop.
The cotton candy here was made into various shapes, including kittens, rabbits, puppies, turtles, and various cartoon characters, all made lifelike.
“Wife, I want a kitty!”
Fu Yanci jumped up and down in place.
Jiang Zao was helpless. Just as she took out her phone to prepare to scan the code to pay, suddenly a few Skateboarders crashed towards them, and some of them had already raised the Baseball Bats in their hands.