Chapter 580

Since he had asked, Gao Zhan wasn't guilty and simply asked directly: "Where is Aci?"

Aci?

The nickname Gao Zhan blurted out made Wang Zhaoning subconsciously puzzled for a moment.

Dr. Gao calling Aci by her nickname felt a bit strange to her ears. Were the two of them that familiar?

But Wang Zhaoning clearly had no guard against Gao Zhan, only thinking that the other party was caring about her as a doctor, so she smiled, shook her head, and explained: "No, I have no problem going out by myself now, I don't need someone to accompany me all the time."

Gao Zhan nodded nonchalantly: "Thank you for your full-month fruit."

Wang Zhaoning didn't think much more about it, said goodbye, and left.

Gao Zhan sat in his chair, his face slightly gloomy as he thought about something. After a long while, he picked up his phone and opened his chat history with Shen Ci, his fingers frozen in mid-air, not knowing what to send.

In the past few days, Shen Ci hadn't taken the initiative to send him any messages either.

He looked up and saw the full-month fruit on the table. Gao Zhan hesitated for a moment, took a photo of it, and sent it to Shen Ci.

"The full-month fruit your sister-in-law just sent over."

After the message was sent, the suppressed expectation in Gao Zhan's heart was instantly magnified to the maximum. He stared tightly at the screen, wanting to use these two bags of full-month fruit to restart the conversation with Shen Ci.

As a result, Shen Ci's reply was straightforward and naked.

"Missed me?"

Gao Zhan stared at these three words and couldn't help but be stunned, but after associating them with Shen Ci's face, he smiled again.

This was too Shen Ci. She broke his thoughts and exposed them without reservation, directly cutting off all those unnecessary processes in between.

And she was such a person. Weren't the final thoughts the same despite the twists and turns? She must also understand the information wrapped in his message, which could also be said to be a signal.

In this way, it made him look like he was trying to hide his silver by burying it here.

Gao Zhan didn't hesitate or dawdle anymore and replied directly: "Yes, I missed you a little."

"Just a little?" Shen Ci pursued relentlessly.

The smile on Gao Zhan's face grew wider, and he typed a reply without sparing his inner feelings: "More than that, I miss you very much."

Shen Ci, who was on her way to Xixi's full-month banquet, couldn't help but hook the corners of her lips upon seeing the message, her fingernails tapping on the phone keyboard with a clatter: "Then keep missing me for now, I'm busy today."

Gao Zhan looked at this reply without the slightest anger, but instead replied with one word extremely dotingly: "Okay."

The car stopped slowly at the gate of Shuiyun Jian. Shen Ci got out of the car carrying the custom-made longevity lock for Xixi worth hundreds of yuan. The main gate had already been decorated with gorgeous balloons and arches.

"Celebrating the full month of Princess Xixi"!

Shen Ci couldn't help but hook the corners of her lips upon seeing the subtitles on the screen and Xixi's photo.

On the banquet hall floor, the most luxurious hall was already bustling. Although Yan Wenxi was not there, the guests who came to attend Xixi's full-month banquet today covered a wide range.

Besides the relatives and friends of the Yan family, there were also senior executives of the group, as well as those brothers Yan Wenxi had left by Shen Ci's side. Of course, there was no lack of close friends like Boss Yang.

When Shen Ci arrived, she happened to meet Boss Yang in the elevator.

He was in a suit, clutching a thick red envelope in his hand. The two looked at each other and smiled as soon as they met. After Shen Ci called him, Boss Yang looked at what Shen Ci was carrying and asked with a smile: "What are you carrying?"

Shen Ci glanced at the red envelope in Uncle Yang's hand, estimating that there should be ten or twenty yuan. In terms of the current currency value, it was truly not a small amount.

She curled her lips and smiled, pretending to be mysterious: "You'll know in a while."

"Still beating around the bush with me?" Boss Yang hummed and smiled, looking as if he had seen it long ago: "For Xixi, right?"

Shen Ci nodded. It just so happened that the elevator arrived. After the two walked out of the elevator and walked more than ten meters forward, they saw Yan Mu and her younger daughter-in-law, which was Yan Wentao's wife, who were in charge of registration.

There were people queuing in front to give gift money and red envelopes. Old Mrs. Yan received them personally one by one, smiling so much that she couldn't see her teeth.

She herself was not short of money, but she couldn't help but feel happy and festive when encountering such a day.

Who doesn't like receiving gifts?

Boss Yang stood in front of Shen Ci, stretched his neck to watch for a while, then turned back and said in a low voice: "I've checked, basically all of them are face-saving money, not even one reaching 'Yuan'."

Shen Ci smiled without saying a word. Reaching "Yuan" was equivalent to reaching "ten thousand." That would require a relationship that was truly deep enough and one's own conditions not to be bad to be willing to spend it, right?

Now that her brother was not there, it was already giving a lot of face that so many people could come. It was enough that the gift money was passable.

"Oh my, Little Yang, Aci, you're here?"

The old lady finally saw the two and hurriedly greeted them happily. Boss Yang took the opportunity to hand over the red envelope in his hand: "Auntie, a little token of my heart, to share the joy of little baby Xixi."

The old lady was a shrewd person. After taking it, she squeezed it casually, and she already knew the thickness of the red envelope. She immediately asked her younger daughter-in-law to open it and register it.

As soon as the red envelope was opened, a stack of brand-new "one-yuan" giant banknotes was pulled out, which gave Lin Shuang, Yan Wentao's wife, a fright.

"Oh my, Mom, so much?"

Even if the old lady had mental preparation, she didn't expect there to be so much.

"Little Yang, this is too much!" The old lady was happy in her heart, but she couldn't bear it on the surface: "No need to be so extravagant, it's enough that the heart is there."

"Not extravagant, Auntie, it's what I should do. I've had a friendship with Xizi for so many years, and Xixi was born at this juncture, so it's only right to favor her a bit more." Boss Yang said sincerely.

Mentioning these, the old lady's eyes turned red again. As a result, before she could shed tears, her younger daughter-in-law Lin Shuang said: "Mom, thirty yuan!"

It directly blocked her tears back.

Thirty yuan?

So much!

As a result, after the old lady did this, the people queuing behind them all squeezed their pockets in embarrassment.

Which good person gives thirty yuan for a child's full-month banquet?

Boss Yang even deliberately turned his head to look at the people behind him, and finally his gaze fell on Shen Ci, and he said with a smile: "Aci, Uncle didn't discuss the red envelope matter with you beforehand. Don't have any pressure. You are a junior, no need to be like me."

"Uncle Yang, today is Xixi's full-month banquet. I am Xixi's little aunt, not some junior." Shen Ci said, directly handing what was in her hand to the old lady: "Auntie, I don't have any gift money today, I prepared a 'little gadget' for Xixi."

Hearing it was a little gadget, the old lady didn't think much and took it casually. As a result, her arm sank and she exclaimed in surprise: "Whoa, it's quite heavy. Aci, what did you buy?"

"A longevity lock, I specially went to the gold shop to customize it for Xixi." Shen Ci explained in a casual tone.

Hearing this, the old lady's eyes widened: "Longevity lock? So heavy?"

Shen Ci laughed: "Not heavy, 5000 grams, just ten jin. But it can't be worn, I'll leave it for Xixi to use as a dowry in the future."

Boss Yang on the side was already dumbfounded.

Not heavy.

5000 grams?

Just ten jin?