Chapter 9

Lin Shutong ate very happily, praising as she ate.

"Jiang Lai, your cooking is really good, no wonder A-Xun praises you! How is this any different from what a chef makes in a five-star restaurant?"

"I'm relieved to have you by A-Xun's side, I'll toast you."

She raised her juice, her gaze filled with sincere triumph.

"Thank you for taking care of A-Xun all these years. I know about his stomach problems, but when I was abroad... I won't say these things, anyway, thank you."

After speaking, she drank the juice.

Jiang Lai looked at her: "Is a toast all you have to thank me for?"

Lin Shutong's expression paused, and she smiled: "Then what do you mean? How should I thank you?"

Shen Xun's brow furrowed, and his smile disappeared again.

"Jiang Lai, what do you mean by that? We're husband and wife; isn't it natural for a wife to take care of her husband?"

"Shutong, don't listen to her nonsense, she doesn't understand things very well." Shen Xun also raised his juice and clinked it with hers.

Seeing Jiang Lai's face getting darker and darker, Lin Shutong smiled: "It's okay, I just didn't expect a husband and wife to be so calculating."

A sentence that made Shen Xun's face droop again.

Shen Xun glanced at Jiang Lai: "Can't you smile? Always with a cold face."

"I'm not naturally inclined to smile, is this your first day knowing that?" Jiang Lai stood up, "I'm full."

"Jiang Lai!" Shen Xun raised his head and scolded, "What temper are you throwing?"

"A-Xun, A-Xun, don't be like this." Lin Shutong glared at him, "You can't scold a girl, I told you that before."

Shen Xun managed to restrain his emotions.

"She gives me a cold face just because I asked her to resign and stay home. What's so important about that job that it's more important than me?"

He was increasingly dissatisfied with Jiang Lai's lack of control, and even more determined to put the pregnancy matter on the agenda.

A child would definitely be able to tie Jiang Lai down.

She was a soft-hearted person.

"Of course nothing is more important than you." Lin Shutong put a piece of braised pork into his bowl.

Shen Xun suddenly said: "Didn't you also insist on going abroad back then?"

Lin Shutong paused in the act of putting the braised pork.

Shen Xun realized he had said the wrong thing and quickly apologized: "Shutong, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to blame you."

Lin Shutong smiled: "It's okay."

Shen Xun picked up the braised pork in his bowl and chewed it twice, suddenly feeling something was wrong.

He had always eaten light, didn't eat spicy food, and didn't have a sweet tooth. Every dish Jiang Lai made for him had less oil, less salt, and less sugar.

Lin Shutong noticed his expression and asked: "What's wrong? Is it not good?"

"It's too sweet."

"No, it's not. This is the normal level of sweetness; Jiang Lai controls it quite well."

Shen Xun looked at the half-piece of braised pork in his bowl, then at the closed door of the master bedroom, his expression complex.

Ke family old house.

It was a three-story garden villa passed down from the Republic of China era. Although it was only three hundred square meters, the Ke family had lived here for generations, and the house always maintained the style of that era, with people regularly coming to renovate it.

Ke Zhongyu had just gotten out of the car when he heard his sister, six years his junior, calling him from the second floor.

"Brother! Brother! Come quickly! I've encountered a problem!"

Ke Zhongyu couldn't be bothered to pay attention, walking straight in to greet his grandparents and parents.

"Brother! Brother! Brother!" Ke Zhongying rushed down from the second floor, hugging his arm and trying to pull him up, but her brother didn't move an inch.

"Brother!"

"Clucking all day, are you going to lay an egg?"

"Yes, yes, yes, my son has a problem, and I can't find where the problem is no matter how I look. If I can't find it, I can only take him apart."

Ke Zhongyu still didn't move.

"The problem with your bionic robot is in the crystal core."

Ke Zhongying hung her head: "This is already the best crystal core I can get."

Ke Zhongyu: "Wait a bit longer."

"Wait for what? The crystal core?" Ke Zhongying's eyes lit up instantly, "Did someone under the Ke Clan research it?"

"No."

"Oh..." she cursed in a low voice, "Useless big brother."

"I see you're asking for a beating." Ke Zhongyu's eyes turned cold, and Ke Zhongying covered her head and fled, instantly drilling into her parents' arms and starting to fake cry.

Ke's father and mother laughed on the side.

"It's rare for your brother to come back, don't fight all day."

"Cut it out, who's fighting with him? My brother suddenly came back, he definitely didn't come back for anything good." Ke Zhongying narrowed her eyes and guessed, "Did he cause trouble? Tell me quickly!"

Ke Zhongyu smiled: "Do you still want to continue researching your bionic robot?"

"Brother! You're the best big brother in the world! Big brother coming home must be because he misses Mom, Dad, Grandpa, and Grandma. Look at how filial my brother is!" Ke Zhongying did a 360-degree personality turn.

Ke Zhongyu swept a glance: "Second aunt isn't here?"

He had two aunts and one uncle; his father was the third. The eldest aunt married far away in B City, the second aunt stayed at home and loved listening to pingtan when she had nothing to do, and his fourth uncle and aunt were abroad accompanying their children's studies.

They sounded worry-free, but in reality, at the annual shareholders' meeting, each one was more capable of expressing opinions than the last.

"The tailor is here, measuring the second aunt for a new cheongsam." Ke Zhongying said, "Brother, what are you looking for the second aunt for?"

"Ask something."

"What are you looking for me for?" Ke Yunhui appeared, dressed in a cheongsam, her hair also in a Chinese-style bun.

"Second aunt." Ke Zhongyu nodded slightly, "I have an employee who suddenly wants to resign. She was arranged by second aunt. I don't know if second aunt was told about this resignation?"

Everyone was slightly stunned.

Everyone in the family knew that Ke Zhongyu had been strictly cracking down on nepotism in the company for the past year. Now that an employee arranged by a family member suddenly appeared and wanted to resign, anyone would overthink it.

Ke Yunhui thought for a long time but couldn't remember who it was.

Ke Zhongyu reminded: "Jiang Lai, ginger for ginger, Penglai for Penglai."

"Jiang Lai?" Ke Yunhui spent a lot of effort to remember, "Wang Ruohua's student, I remember now. It was Wang Ruohua who asked me to find her a job. I entrusted it directly to HR at the time. Did she have a problem? No way, Wang Ruohua said she just needed a job to make ends meet."

"Wang Ruohua?" Ke Zhongyu felt the name sounded familiar, but couldn't remember it.

Ke's father said: "Professor Wang, who retired from A University. Her husband was the late Academician Cui."

"Is it that one!" Ke Zhongying said excitedly, "The Academician Cui who led the self-developed chip!"

Ke's father nodded.

Ke Yunhui sighed: "What a pity, the person is gone, the project is stopped, leaving Ruohua alone, and she has no children. Fortunately, there is a thoughtful student accompanying her, that is, the one named Jiang Lai. Why did she suddenly want to resign?"

Ke Zhongyu knew that his second aunt didn't know either.

But he had another doubt.

"Since Jiang Lai is Professor Wang's student, she shouldn't just be looking for a job to make ends meet."

"I don't know either. It seems like something happened, and Wang Ruohua came to ask me for this favor. We've known each other for decades, and this is the first time she's asked me to do something. I thought I must get it done, so I personally brought her to the Ke Clan. Did she have an accident?"

"Just resigning." Ke Zhongyu knew he couldn't ask anything, so he skipped the matter.

He couldn't stop thinking about it at night.

Jiang Lai was full of disharmony everywhere.

In the middle of the night.

Assistant Zhou suddenly received a call from the President.

"Find out about the marriage situation of Jiang Lai and her husband."

Assistant Zhou: "..."

Had the President also started learning the bad hobbies of other company presidents?

Xu Rong also received a call.

"Have Jiang Lai report to the President's office tomorrow morning."