Apple and apple peel

  An Lan didn't need to ask her mother, the signature on the postcard told her who it was - Jason, the only person in Toronto who knew her address in China.

  She had promised Jason that she would return within three months when she went back to her country, but now it's mid-June and she still hasn't returned, nor has she contacted Jason. I guess he must have something on his mind to send himself a postcard.

  As soon as she logged in, several avatars started flashing, and the first one she opened was Jason's avatar. A string of messages popped out immediately.

  Anna, you've been back for a month, why didn't you get in touch with me?

  Anna, see message and reply quickly!

  Anna, it's been two months, why haven't you contacted me yet?

  Anna, it's been three months already. You don't contact me and you don't come back. Teacher Deng Jingcang also said there is no news about you. Is something wrong with your family?

  Anna, come back quickly, I really can't cope on my own.

  Anlan, if you don't come back, I'll have to run all the way to China to find you.

  There were too many messages, a dense mess that made Anlan's eyes spin, so she simply scrolled to the bottom and looked at the last message.

  The last message from you was half a month ago: Anna, I've been waiting for your news all the time, I sent you a postcard, hoping that after receiving the postcard, you can log in to MSN and contact me as soon as possible.

  Anlan rubbed her eyebrows, Jason's head was gray at this moment, should not be online, so she opened her email, planning to write a letter to Jason, telling him about her recent situation, and then letting him not wait for herself, re-find someone to match the duet and deal with his family affairs, and she would not return for a while.

  However, she had just written two sentences when the monotonous ringtone of her mobile phone beside her rang out, mechanical and piercing in the quiet night.

  She picked up her phone, took a look at the unfamiliar landline number, hesitated for a few seconds before finally pressing the answer button. To her surprise, as soon as she said "hello", an unfamiliar woman's voice came from the other end of the line.

  "Is it Easy Water Cold's family?"

  She was slightly stunned before reacting to the two words "family members" and hastily responded with a "Yes!"

  "Hurry up and come to the city hospital's emergency department, Yi Shuihan drank too much wine and is being treated in our hospital..."

  Boom, An Lan only felt a sudden clap of thunder on her head, and she didn't even have time to give Jason's letter. She quickly shut down the computer, changed her clothes, and rushed downstairs in a hurry.

  Zhang Shuo was closing the door on the first floor, saw An Lan rushing down, and quickly asked: "Young Madam, where are you going so late?"

  "I'm going to the city hospital," An Lan replied to Zhang Shu's question while changing her shoes at the door: "Shui Han got drunk and is in the emergency room, I have to hurry over..."

  "Let Old Zhang drive you there," said Zhang's wife, finishing her sentence without waiting for An Lan's response, and immediately took out her mobile phone to call her husband Zhang Wenshan.

  "Wait a minute, Mrs. Zhang has already changed her clothes and will be out soon," said Zhang's wife, who had just finished the phone call to stop An Lan from leaving.

  Zhang Wenshan is Zhang Shu's husband, the manager of Yi Family Compound, responsible for logistics procurement and greening work in the compound, also in charge of two security guards.

  When Wen Shan drove his Buick car, which he usually used to buy goods, to send An Lan to the municipal hospital, it was already half an hour later. Yi Shuihan had also come out of the emergency room and been sent to the observation room.

  When An Lan arrived, Chen Nan was already waiting at the door. Seeing her, he quickly said: "You've finally come, Second Young Master is having a tantrum and has scolded nurse after nurse."

  An Lan nodded and quickly walked in, and indeed saw a nurse covering her face and rushing out, presumably having been scolded again.

  "What's wrong?" An Lan put down the bag and looked at the man with a pale face on the hospital bed, asking softly: "Did the nurse offend you? Don't you need a nurse when you're sick in the hospital?"

  Yi Shuihan's icy expression slightly softened when he saw her, then he muttered: "The nurse said I need to take a urine test and that you have to help me go to the bathroom. Do you think my thing can just be taken out for women to see?"

  An Lan's forehead immediately dropped three black lines, and she quickly said: "Isn't there Chen Nan?"

  "You mean... let me show that thing to the man?" Yi Shuihan's originally pale face turned icy black with anger.

  An Lan was speechless again and couldn't help but say: "Can't you just hang a drip? One hand is also possible..."

  An Lan's words trailed off as she suddenly noticed that Yi Shuihan had an IV drip hanging from his right hand, and his left hand... well, his left hand was still bandaged with a small splint, looking like it couldn't move.

  She helped him with one hand holding the IV bottle and the other supporting him as they walked towards the bathroom in the observation room, still unable to help but tease him: "You got drunk and even hurt your hand?"

  "What's wrong with your hand? Didn't you get hurt from the fall?" The drunk person's temper was still big: "I'm drunk, I wasn't steady on my feet, and when I went downstairs, I fell and twisted my left hand."

  At this moment, An Lan was completely speechless. She supported him into the bathroom, took out a urine cup, and then blushed as she helped him unzip his pants...

  Yi Shui Han couldn't help but feel delighted seeing her shy face, and jokingly said: "You've used them all, now you're so shy about it, are you going to let me show them to others? Don't I know what it means to be shy?"

  An Lan was speechless, when did she let him show it to others? Besides, aren't medical personnel supposed to be gender-neutral?

  Help him tidy up his pants, support him back to the hospital bed, and then hand over the small half cup of urine to Chen Nannan outside the ward, letting him rush it to the inspection department.

  Chen Nan gave her a grateful look: "Fortunately you came, if you didn't come, he would probably suffocate to death tonight, or directly pee on the bed."

  An Lan just felt that Chen Nan's words were a bit exaggerated and couldn't help but say: "Then he hadn't been hospitalized before?"

  "He lived here," Chen Nan replied seriously. "Three years ago, he had a car accident and at that time, nothing else was hurt except for his two wrists being dislocated and unable to move his hands, so he couldn't even go to the bathroom by himself."

  "Isn't that enough?" An Lan gave Chen Nan a white eye.

  Chen Nan smiled and said, "At that time, it was Miss Ling who went to the hospital to take care of him. However, Miss Ling also couldn't get him to use the toilet, so in the end they inserted a catheter."

  "I'm hungry," said the man on the drip, turning his head sideways to look at the woman who was helping him boil water by the bed.

  An Lan turned around and looked at him: "Didn't Chen Nan say you were socializing tonight? Do people only drink when they're socializing, not eat?"

  "How much food can you eat at a banquet?" Yi Shuihan gave her a white eye: "The main thing about banquets is drinking, eating dishes as a supplement, and almost no one eats rice."

  "It's already midnight," An Lan kindly reminded him: "The restaurants should all be closed, or I can go to the 24-hour convenience store at the hospital to buy you a box of instant noodles? Do you want Master Kang or Uni-President?"

  Yi Shui's mouth twitched slightly at the corner, instant noodles, how could she say that out loud, didn't he dislike that thing the most?

  "Then wash an apple for me to eat," Yi Shuihan compromised and stepped back, his eyes fixed on the basket of fruit on the tea table.

  An Lan immediately got up, took two apples to the bathroom, washed them quickly and brought them back to his mouth, indicating that he could eat.

  Yi Shuihan turned her face away: "I don't eat apples with skin, you know that."

  A silent sigh, this guy has been like this for so many years and still hasn't changed his stinky temper. I told him a few years ago that apple peels are more nutritious than apples themselves, but he refused to eat them.

  "There's no fruit knife here," An Lan rummaged through the bedside table and tea table.

  The cold water didn't make a sound, she felt helpless, turned around and walked out of the ward, went to find the nurse, but the nurse also said: "We don't have fruit knives either, we're too busy with work every day, where do we have time to eat fruit? Ask someone else!"

  She went to ask someone else? Yi Shuihan lived alone in a luxurious single observation room, and there was no one to ask, so she returned to the observation room again, looking at the man lying on the bed: "Can't find a fruit knife, can't you just make do for once?"

  The corner of his mouth twitched, he had always been a person who wouldn't compromise, with a personality that would rather be lacking than excessive. She wasn't unaware of this, could it be that five years had passed and she had truly forgotten him completely, even forgetting all his annoying habits?

  An Lan saw him like this and couldn't help but say: "Then don't eat it, just drink water instead, no need to peel the skin."

  Yi Shuihan couldn't help but laugh at her words, and his originally stiff attitude towards her also eased up a bit. He compromised slightly: "No fruit knife? Can't you use your teeth to help me peel it? Didn't you say that apple peels are nutritious? Let you eat the nutritious part first, and leave the less nutritious part for me?"

  An Lan silently sighed in her heart, and after a while, she turned her face to look at him, asking doubtfully: "That is, if I gnaw the skin off with my teeth, then the whole apple will be covered in my saliva. Aren't you afraid?"

  Yi Shuihan glared at her fiercely, unable to hold back a low growl: "Gu Anlan, are you doing this on purpose? Haven't I had enough of your saliva already? Didn't I have my fill seven years ago?"

  Alright, An Lan was completely speechless this time. Since he said it like that, what else could she say? She couldn't say that her teeth were already unable to bite through apple peels, right?

  Then, An Lan picked up the washed apple and put it to her mouth, nibbling at the apple skin with her teeth, peeling off the apple skin. This was absolutely the first time in her life, because she had no experience, several times she even nibbled her own tongue.

  About five minutes later, an apple that had been gnawed into a rough and uneven shape was handed to Yi Shuihan's mouth. This time, the young master didn't throw another tantrum, but obediently opened his mouth and took a bite.

  The IV drip was finished at a little past one in the morning, and when the nurse came to remove the needle, she was already extremely sleepy. The nurse removed the needle and left, while An Lan directly fell asleep on the bedside.

  "Hey, Gu Anlan, I'm going to the bathroom," Yi Shuihan's voice sounded above her head.

  "Oh," An Lan dizzily got up, held his hand and walked towards the bathroom, then habitually pulled down his zipper to let him urinate.

  Waited for him to finish using the toilet, and even helped him tidy up his pants. It wasn't until he was led out and reached out habitually to take the IV drip that it was suddenly discovered that he had already pulled out the needle...

  An Lan's originally confused mind suddenly cleared up, and she found herself being played by Yi Shui Han. She couldn't help but furiously shout at him: "Yi Shui Han, you scoundrel!"

  "Haha" Yi Shuihan's mood was great, seeing the woman with a furious face, he immediately stretched out his hand and pulled her into his arms, smiling softly and saying: "Alright, wife, isn't my hand still hurting from just pulling out the needle? Besides, whether you help me take off my pants or I do it myself, what's the difference? We're husband and wife, why care about this? If someone else wanted to help me take off my pants, I wouldn't even let them! Do you think anyone can take off my pants?"

  "Who wants to take off your pants?" An Lan gave him a white eye, annoyed and pushed him away, walking directly out of the bathroom, too lazy to bother with the naughty man.

  Yi Shuihan quickly followed out, and when she found herself sitting back down beside the bed again, she couldn't help but call out to her: "Isn't there a bed? My IV is already finished, hurry up and get on the bed, let's sleep together."

  An Lan glanced at the 1-meter-wide hospital bed and silently lay down. He was so big that there was hardly any space left when he lay down, where could she sleep?

  Yi Shuihan seemed to know what she was thinking, stretched out his right hand and pulled her towards the bed: "Hurry up and come over, sleep in my arms, I won't be able to sleep if I don't hold you."

  An Lan stared at his hand: "Don't mention the pain of just pulling out the needle, how is it not painful now? Having the strength to pull people, but no strength..."

  "Uh, taking off pants hurts, doing other things is barely manageable," Yi Shuihan shamelessly explained: "Gu Anlan, hurry up and come over, don't forget that I'm drunk, a wine crazy person. If you don't come over soon, be careful that I'll get drunk and become lustful, at that time don't blame me for not considering that this is a hospital's observation room."

  An Lan finally climbed onto the bed obediently, then lay down in his arms obediently, letting him hold himself with that right hand, and his chest stuck to his back.

  Yi Shuihan tightly wrapped her in his arms, his chin on her shoulder, his thin lips hotly blowing wine breath against her neck, murmuring "An Lan".

  She was originally dazed but had already woken up from lying in his arms and softly responded to his cries with a gentle "uh-huh".

  "I went out on a business trip that night and went to a bar with Shao Yifu," his voice continued to whisper in her ear: "At the time, there were two hostesses sitting next to me. I won't drink with hostesses from now on, no, I won't go to bars to drink anymore. Can you bring my coat back from the balcony?"

  An Lan only felt her nose turn sour and her eyes sting, the warmth in her eyes swirled around for a long time before she finally controlled it, took a deep breath, and then spoke in a low voice.

  "That day, Zhuo Bu Fan asked me to help him with a small favor, Zhuo Bu Fan helped me a lot, I couldn't forget his kindness," An Lan didn't turn around, lying in his arms and muttering softly: "That night he invited me to dinner, you called when we hadn't finished eating yet......"

  Yi Shuihan's hands involuntarily tightened around her, and after she finished speaking, he said in a low voice: "From now on, we can't have such a cold war, okay?"

  "Mm," she murmured vaguely, her heavy eyelids slowly falling.

  "Sleep," he said, resting his chin on her shoulder, pulling himself and her closer together, slowly closing his tired eyes.

  Division line

  Yi Yu Yan came down from upstairs and saw Yi Tian Ze already sitting on the sofa reading the newspaper, waiting for her. She couldn't help but whisper: "How did you get here so fast? Weren't we going upstairs together?"

  Yi Tianze rolled his eyes at her: "We men just need to find a set of clothes that fit and change into them, can't we be quick about it? Unlike you women, who try on this and that, then wash your face, apply masks, put on makeup...".

  "Hey, I don't have makeup!" Yi Yu Yan couldn't help but shout out: "I've already learned from Second Aunt, it's all light makeup, okay? My makeup didn't even take five minutes."

  Yi Tianze's eyes lifted from the newspaper and glanced at her before pointing out ruthlessly, "Others like Gu Anlan are fine without makeup, okay?"

  "Hey, look at you, it seems like you think Gu Anlan is not bad after all? If I had known that the blind date would be with a Gu Anlan, wouldn't you have run away on that day?"

  Yi Tianze gave her a cold glance and elegantly sipped his tea, too lazy to bother with her.

  Ke Yi Yu Yan continued, "Actually, according to me, you don't need to regret it. Let me tell you, at the matchmaking dinner that day, Gu An Lan wore an outdated old dress, with a simple hairstyle and a ponytail, standing among a group of beautiful women, she didn't stand out at all. Even if you were the one choosing, you might not have been able to pick her out from the crowd, and might have eliminated her in the first round."

  "Your meaning is——" Yi Tianze looked at his own sister and asked in a low voice: "Is my vision not as good as your second brother?"

  Okay, Yi Yu Yan was directly speechless, her words seemed to have also offended her own brother, and he was the one person she least wanted to offend.

  No, she is someone none of her brothers are willing to offend, because offending any one of them would make her life difficult.

  "It's already three o'clock in the afternoon, why hasn't Second Brother come back yet?" Yi Yu Yan looked at her watch and changed the subject: "Second Brother shouldn't have forgotten that today is Grandma's birthday, should he?"

  "Who knows, maybe he has other things to do, let's go," Yi Tianze put down the teacup in his hand and stood up: "I'm leaving, are you waiting for your second brother or going with me or driving over by yourself?"

  "I'll go with you instead," Yi Yu Yan hastily picked up her bag and followed: "I'd rather not ride in Second Brother's car, who knows what kind of woman he has sitting in there?"

  "Who else could it be?" Yi Tianze opened the trunk and gave her a glance: "You should have figured it out with your toes that it's Gu Anlan."

  "That's not necessarily true," Yi Yu Yan helped put the gift in the trunk, then explained to Yi Tian Ze: "Second brother's thoughts can't be seen through, let alone he and Ling Yu Wei haven't broken up yet."

  "Even if he didn't break up with Ling Yuwei, he wouldn't take her there," Yi Tianze said as he got into the driver's seat and looked at Yi Yuyan sitting in the passenger seat: "You don't understand a man's thoughts."

  Yiyu Yan suddenly fell silent, she thought that men's thoughts were indeed beyond her comprehension, if she had understood, she estimated that she wouldn't have ended up in such a predicament.

  But can her two brothers understand a woman's thoughts? If they did, wouldn't she have had an elder sister-in-law by now? No, wouldn't she have had nephews and nieces by now?

  At the city hospital, the doctor helped Yi Shuihan with a check-up and said that there was nothing serious, the dislocated wrist had been reset, but it was still swollen. Fortunately, it was his left hand, as long as he didn't do anything strenuous, it would be fine in a few days.

  As soon as they walked out of the hospital, Yi Shuihan tossed the car keys to An Lan: "You drive next time, I'm afraid my one-handed driving won't be that smooth."

  "I don't have a domestic driver's license," An Lan said truthfully, she could drive, but her driver's license was from Toronto and couldn't be used domestically.

  "As long as you don't break the rules, the police won't stop you," Yi Shuihan said nonchalantly. "And if the police don't stop you, who knows whether or not you have a domestic driver's license? Are people supposed to stick their licenses on the car when they drive?"

  An Lan was speechless, she meant to say that since she didn't have a domestic driver's license, Yi Shuihan should call Chen Nang over to drive, but who knew he would say something like this, it seemed like if she refused again, she would be going against him.

  And what she least wanted was to go against him, because that would cause trouble in life, and she hoped her married life with him would be calm, even if this marriage wouldn't last long.

  She took over the car key and walked with him towards his car, which was a Jeep, apparently he often drove different cars.

  "Where are you going?" An Lan asked Yi Shuihan in the passenger seat after driving out of the hospital gate: "Is it the Yi family's large courtyard or Yipin Jiangnan?"

  "First go to International Trade City," Yi Shuihan said indifferently, but the address he mentioned was neither of the two places An Lan had asked about.

  "Ah?" An Lan was visibly shocked and couldn't help but turn her head to look at him with a puzzled expression: "You still have the mood to go shopping at this time?"

  "What are you doing wandering around?" Yi Shuihan couldn't help but give her a white eye: "Grandma is 77 years old tonight, we're going to celebrate her birthday, can't go empty-handed, right?"

  An Lan was speechless again. She didn't know that his grandmother's birthday was tonight, let alone the fact that he had a grandmother at all, which he had never mentioned to her before.

  The International Trade City has specialties from all over the world, but An Lan doesn't know what Yi Shui Han's grandmother likes, so he can't give any suggestions.

  Fortunately, Yi Shuihan didn't ask for her opinion and casually said: "Grandma seems to like jade, let's go pick a piece of ancient jade. She also seems to believe in Buddhism, so picking an ancient jade Buddha pendant will do."

  An Lan nodded on one side, whatever he said and did, anyway, looking at Yi Shuihan's gift-picking appearance, it seemed that his relationship with his grandmother was not particularly close.

  Buy a good gift and drive back to Yijia's big house. Last night, I stayed in the hospital observation room for a night. Both of us had disinfectant smell on our bodies, so we naturally wanted to go home first.

  When they drove back to the Yi family's courtyard, Yi Tianze and Yi Yuyan had already left. Seeing them return, Zhang Shu said: "You'd better hurry up, just now the lady called to urge you, asking if you've left yet, saying that there will be a banquet at 7 o'clock tonight on the other side, and it's almost 4 o'clock now."

  "No rush, it's only a two-hour drive from Bin City to G City," Yi Shuihan replied indifferently to Zhang Shu's words, then led An Lan together upstairs.

  "I don't drive fast, it's definitely not possible to arrive in G city within two hours," An Lan said to Yi Shuihan who took the clothes and walked towards the bathroom: "Or you can call Chen Nan instead, let him come over and help you drive."

  "Chen Nan is resting today," Yi Shuihan replied casually, "If it doesn't open quickly, then so be it. At worst, we'll just arrive late. What's the big deal? It's just one meal."

  An Lan was speechless again. This is going to celebrate grandma's birthday, Yi Shui Han is so careless, can't he like his grandma?

  She remembered that on the second day after she married Yi Shuihan, she didn't see his grandmother at the Yi's house. Hadn't his grandmother returned to G city after attending their wedding ceremony?

  Or maybe his grandmother didn't attend their wedding at all?

  When Dong Anlan and Yi Shuihan finished collecting their things and went downstairs, it was already 4 pm. As expected, Yi Shuihan didn't call Chen Nan over, but Old Zhang had already driven his Audi Q7 out.

  An Lan thought Yi Shui Han would ask Zhang Shu to drive, but he didn't call him and still let her drive, saying it's okay, today is Saturday and there won't be traffic jams, they will definitely arrive by 7 o'clock.

  An Lan nodded, since he insisted on letting her drive, she had no choice. Fortunately, the highway from Bin City to G City was all high-speed, and An Lan prayed that there would be no traffic jam before getting on the highway and after getting off it.

  Unfortunately, God only heard half of her prayers. On the highway before Bin City, there was no traffic jam and it was smooth all the way. However, after exiting the highway in G city and entering the urban area for a short while, it started to get congested.

  Yi Shuihan's phone kept ringing nonstop on the highway, but he pretended not to hear it and didn't pick up or hang up. When the ringtone stopped, he simply turned off his phone and reclined his seat to sleep.

  "Can't you just answer the phone? Just say you've arrived and that's it?"

  She was obviously being kind, but Yi Shuihan didn't appreciate it and instead scolded her: "Can you not be so loud on the phone? I want to take a nap, can you sleep with all this noise? Just follow the GPS directions and you'll be fine. You slept like a pig last night, I didn't get any sleep at all."

  An Lan was choked for a moment, and it took her a long time to refute him: "It's not my fault, I told you not to get on the bed, but you pulled me onto the bed. The bed is so small, two people sleeping on it are so crowded, definitely can't sleep well."

  She muttered to herself for half a day without waiting for an echo, and couldn't help but turn her head to take a look. Good guy, Yi Shuihan was indeed sleeping on the chair, I guess he didn't hear what she just said at all, it was purely self-talk.

  Anlan's phone rang only after she got off the highway, and at that time, there was a small traffic jam. Anlan was not familiar with the roads in G city, and she didn't have a domestic driver's license, so she was afraid of encountering traffic police ahead and dared not to take out her phone to answer it.

  The phone kept ringing with a monotonous tone, finally waking up Yi Shuihan from her sleep. She sat up and pulled over the bag she had placed on the back seat, irritably taking out her phone and pressing the answer button. Before the other party could even speak, she said: "Don't rush me, I've already gotten off the highway a while ago, I'll be there soon."

  The person on the other end of the phone was silent for a moment before a woman's voice asked hesitantly, "Excuse me, is that Gu Anlan's cell phone you're holding?"

  Yi Shuihan was taken aback for a moment before reacting, realizing that this wasn't a call from Yi Yu Yan or his own mother. He quickly cleared his throat and said, "Ah, she's driving and can't answer the phone right now. Who's looking for her?"

  "I'm her colleague Du Hai," the woman's voice obviously relaxed: "Because I made an appointment with her to go to a concert tonight, since she's with you, I guess she won't have time, that's okay, I'll hang up first."

  Yi Shuihan hadn't had time to respond when Du Xian hung up the phone. He held her mobile phone and said to An Lan, "Your colleague Du Xian said she made an appointment with you to watch a concert."

  "Yes, I had forgotten about it," An Lan remembered that Yi Shuihan said so, yesterday after work, Du Xi did tell her about this, seemingly one of her relatives gave her two tickets and invited her to go together.

  "Is Du Xi a man or a woman?" Yi Shuihan frowned at her.

  "When I was hospitalized, didn't you see her visiting me? She doesn't look androgynous, can't you tell whether she's a man or a woman?"

  He just casually asked, why was she so angry? Didn't he suddenly remember Du Xian as a person?

  The traffic jam was quite severe, and they were stuck in the city center, unable to get out. An Lan couldn't help but feel anxious, so she told Yi Shuihan: "Call your family and tell them we're stuck on the road and can't make it, even a helicopter wouldn't be able to fly in this traffic, let's not keep them waiting."

  Yi Shui's mouth twitched slightly, but in the end he still took out his phone and turned it on. Dozens of missed call reminders popped up, which he directly ignored, before finding Yi Yu Yan's number to dial out.

  As soon as the phone was connected, Yi Yu Yan's voice came over in a high octave: "Second brother, what's going on? Why is your cell phone turned off? Can't you even tell us if you're coming or not? Is this how you behave?"

  "Didn't you guys drain the battery of my phone? " Yi Shuihan said calmly, "I just charged it for a bit in the car and it barely turned on. It's not even seven o'clock yet, did I delay your banquet? Why are you so angry?"

  Yiyu Yan on the other end of the phone was so angry that she almost vomited blood, and couldn't help but ask: "So did you come or not? No, did you bring Er Sao or not?"

  "We're stuck in a traffic jam in the southern suburbs, I reckon it'll take at least an hour and a half to get there. Gu Anlan is driving, she asked me to tell you that even if a helicopter could fly, it would be blocked from taking off!"

  Yi Shui Han finished speaking and didn't wait for Yi Yu Yan to respond, he hung up the phone like a big shot, then leaned back in his chair with an air of nonchalance.

  "You knew it was grandma's birthday tonight, you should have left the hospital early this afternoon. After all, she is our elder, and we are late, making her wait, which is indeed a bit inappropriate."

  "What's the point of being so enthusiastic about an elder who never liked you in the first place?" Yi Shui threw out a chilly sentence.

  An Lan immediately fell silent, okay, it's said that every family has its own unspeakable difficulties, and her own family relationships are also very complicated. The relationships in the Yi family are obviously even more complicated, after all, Yi Shuihan is not Shaohanyan's biological child, and his grandmother doesn't like him. It's probably reasonable, as most elderly people don't like their son's children born outside of marriage.

  An Lan thought that Yi Jia's old mansion was probably similar to Yi Jia's large courtyard in Bin Cheng, which was a villa in a pure villa community, or like Gu Jia, it was a courtyard with an area of over 10,000 square meters.

  However, when she drove all the way according to GPS, she found that Yi's old house in G city was a military compound, and what she didn't expect even more was that Yi's banquet did not start on time at seven o'clock, but waited for them.

  They were late for half an hour, and when the car stopped outside the old mansion, Yi Yu Yan had already run out with a hint of anger on her face. Seeing Yi Shui Han, she said rapidly: "Don't think we're waiting for you, we're waiting for Second Aunt. Grandma heard that Second Aunt is coming, so she directly said to postpone the banquet time."

  Yi Shuihan pouted and said: "No need for you to remind me, I already know that in Grandma's heart, I'm not even as good as a person she's never met."

  Yiyu Yan hadn't even had time to respond when she heard a slightly aged female voice behind her say, "Shuihan, what are you saying in front of your wife? Are you badmouthing me again?"

  "How dare you?" Yi Shuihan responded with a single word, then smiled and shouted: "Grandma!"

  "Do you still remember that I'm your grandma?" Xu Qinglian symbolically hit Yi Shuihan with her hand: "I thought you'd forgotten about your grandma after getting married!"

  An Lan raised her head and looked at the old lady walking up, without introduction, she knew it was Mrs. Yi, although Yi Shuihan said his grandmother was 77 years old, but this white-haired and youthful-looking woman seemed to be only in her early sixties.

  "What's wrong with you, aren't you going to call Grandma?" Yi Shuihan glared at her and took down a jewelry box from the car, handing it over: "A jade pendant, happy birthday Grandma!"

  Xu Qinglian took over the jewelry box and opened it immediately. Seeing that it was a Buddha statue made of jade, she happily said: "Hehe, I like this Buddha statue, and the jade is not bad either. It's an old jade, come, Yu Yan, hurry up and help me put it on."

  Yu Yan whispered with a cold smile: "Look, grandma is giving you face?"

  Yi Shui's mouth twitched slightly as he stretched out his hand to pull An Lan's hand and introduced her to Xu Qinglian: "Grandma, this is An Lan, my newlywed wife."

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  Friends, I updated 10,000 words today, is Hu Yang's update powerful enough?