Whose 520
She didn't really like sea urchins, those spiny creatures, but she did love sea urchin fried rice. When she was a kid and went to eat seafood with her parents, her favorite dish was always sea urchin fried rice.
I remember when I was in sixth grade, our school organized a summer camp trip to the beach. One night, a group of classmates went out for seafood dinner. When it was her turn to order, she chose a dish of sea urchin fried rice. It was also the only time before going abroad that she had dinner with Zhuo Bu Fan at the same table. I didn't expect that after so many years, he still remembered that she loved eating sea urchin fried rice.
On this side, Zhuo Bu Fan elegantly ordered dishes, while on the other side, Yi Shui Han and Ling Yu Wei also sat down. An Lan didn't turn her head back, vaguely hearing Yi Shui Han seeking Ling Yu Wei's opinion, seemingly ordering a serving of sea urchin fried rice as well.
Because the two dinner tables were arranged vertically, Yishuihan's table was just behind Anlan's back. Anlan didn't turn her head around and didn't know who was sitting in the swing basket behind her, but there was a familiar scent of cedar wood coming over, making her vaguely feel that it was Yishuihan.
The dishes on their table were served quickly, the name "Bashan Shuixiu" sounds like Sichuan cuisine, but in fact, Cantonese cuisine is not bad at all in Bincheng, and seafood is no less than those specialized seafood hotels.
Perhaps it was because she saw Yi Shuihan and Ling Yuwei, or perhaps she was eager to leave, but in any case, An Lan didn't have much of an appetite when faced with the exquisite seafood feast, and only ate a little symbolically.
Zhuo didn't seem to have a big appetite, but he surprisingly ate more than half of the 1-catty lobster sashimi. As for the sea urchin fried rice, she only had about one quarter of it, and the remaining three quarters were all eaten by him.
Finally full, Zhuo Bu Fan pressed the bill button and then pulled out his wallet to push it to An Lan: "Lend you all the money in my wallet, take as much as you want!"
An Lan's hand had not even extended to receive the wallet when a detached and distant voice sounded from behind: "I can afford to marry my wife, but I also help my wife pay for her treat? Director Zhuo, put your wallet away."
An Lan slowly turned around, and Yi Shuihan was already standing beside her basket, responding to the approaching waiter in a light tone: "Put this table on my account!"
"Alright, Second Master," said the waiter with a smile and a nod, before taking away their order and leaving.
Zhuo Bu Fan elegantly put away his wallet, self-mockingly smiled and said to An Lan: "I was thinking of becoming your creditor, but it turns out you've already found a gold mine."
An Lan's face turned slightly red, and for a moment she didn't know what to say. Yi Shuihan took over the conversation on the side, saying calmly: "The gold vault isn't much, but at least she can still afford to invite us out for a meal."
Zhuo Bufan just smiled and didn't plan to argue with Yi Shuihan. Seeing that An Lan had finished eating, he asked very considerately: "Can we go now?"
An Lan nodded, put down the handkerchief, picked up the water and took a sip, stood up, but was blocked by Yi Shuihan standing beside her hammock.
"I'll send you back later," Yi Shuihan's voice was indifferent and distant, then he looked at Zhuo Bufan and said: "Director Zhuo, you go ahead and busy yourself, my wife won't bother you."
Zhuo Bu Fan hadn't even had a chance to speak, when Ling Yu Wei had already arrived at Yi Shui Han's side and softly said: "Shui Han, I have an event at the radio station at 3 o'clock, time is a bit tight."
Ling Yuwei's words implied that Gu Anlan lived in the west, while the radio station was in the east, and these two directions were clearly opposite. Yi Shuihan, you want to send Gu Anlan there, what about me?
Yi Shui Han nodded: "So I arranged for Xiao Chen to drive over and pick you up, then he'll take you to the radio station."
Ling Yuwei's face changed color immediately, but Yi Shuihan had already said so, and even if she felt uncomfortable in her heart, she couldn't say anything, and could only nod in recognition: "Okay, we'll wait for Little Chen at the door later."
Zhuo Bufan saw Yi Shuihan personally send An Lan back, so he didn't say anything else. He stretched out his hand to take his own coat and bid farewell to An Lan in a light tone: "An Lan, then I'll go first. If you have something, call me. If not, you can also call me."
"Alright," An Lan nodded, looking at Zhuo Bu Fan, intending to send him out, but Pei Yi Shui Han was standing by her swing, and for the time being, she couldn't leave.
Yi Shuihan looked at Zhuo Bufan, who had walked to the edge of the steps, and said faintly: "Tomorrow is my wedding with An Lan. I didn't bring an invitation card, so I'm inviting General Zhuo to attend our wedding ceremony tomorrow!"
Zhuo Bufan smiled and turned his head to glance at Yi Shuihan, faintly refusing: "Unfortunately, I have a business trip to Singapore tomorrow, an early flight. Congratulations to both of you!"
Yi Shui's lips pursed slightly, "What a pity, it seems we can only invite Director Zhuo to attend when our child is full moon."
An Lan's body trembled slightly, her hands instinctively covering her lower abdomen, a hidden pain deep within her heart slowly emerging...
"I'll definitely attend General Yi's child's full moon banquet when the time comes!" Zhuo Bufan said, his eyes gleaming with profound meaning as he glanced at Ling Yuwei, before adding casually: "No matter who helped General Yi give birth."
Yi Shuihan's face sank, just about to erupt, but Zhuo Bufan had already turned elegantly and left, not giving Yi Shuihan a chance to explode.
Yi Shuihan only turned around to find that An Lan's face was slightly pale, and he frowned slightly, asking: "What's wrong? Is something uncomfortable?"
"Maybe I just had a bit of an allergic reaction to the seafood," An Lan suppressed the pain that was rising from her heart and forced out a smile.
"You're allergic, yet you still come to eat seafood with others?" Yi Shuihan's voice was clearly laced with displeasure. Seeing An Lan standing there like a wooden stake made him even more annoyed: "Aren't you leaving? Are you waiting for me to carry you?"
An Lian was completely speechless, wasn't he with Ling Yuwei? She was so considerate and yet still managed to provoke him. He's really getting more and more difficult to serve.
Ling Yuwei stood awkwardly to one side, seeing Yi Shuihan only paying attention to Gu Anlan and ignoring her. So she tactfully spoke up: "Shuihan, I'll leave first then, so as not to keep Xiao Chen waiting."
Yi Shuihan nodded gently and said softly, "Alright, be careful on the road, your heels are a bit high and they're new shoes, don't slip and fall."
"Alright, I know," Ling Yuwei replied softly, but in the instant she turned around, she gave Anlan a provocative glance.
Unfortunately, An Lan had just turned her head to look at the lotus pond and didn't notice Ling Yuwei's gaze, only noticing that the lotus leaves in the pond were swaying gently in the wind, looking particularly charming.
"Come on," Yi Shuihan raised his voice again as he saw An Lan staring at the pond full of lotus leaves.
An Lan followed silently behind him, the two of them walking one after another towards the gate of Bashan Shuishui. Just as they reached the entrance, they saw Ling Yuwei getting into a white Audi Q5. An Lan felt that the car looked somewhat familiar.
The Easy Water Cold still opens his Jeep, rough, hard, and wild, which is the feeling that this car gives to An Lan. However, in terms of comfort, it has some shortcomings. In fact, if not for self-driving tours, driving a comfortable small sedan in the city might be better than this Jeep.
Of course, these are also An Lan's personal feelings. On the way back, it was very quiet, and neither she nor Yi Shuihan said a word. The spacious carriage was so quiet that only the sound of their breathing could be heard.
Finally arrived at the Quin Garden, as soon as the car stopped, An Lan was eager to push open the door, but found it couldn't be opened. She turned her head back to look at Yi Shui Han, only to find him handing over a card.
"From now on, use this card to pay for expenses outside," Yi Shuihan's voice sounded indifferent: "Remember, starting tomorrow, you are my wife, Yi Shuishan. You should show off your identity as Mrs. Yi, not that you're good at taking red bills from other men's wallets."
An Lan's face sank slightly, suppressing the unpleasant feeling in her heart. She took over the card silently and replied calmly: "I know, I'll try... to be a 'qualified' second young master's wife!"
Yi Shui's mouth twitched slightly, and she quietly opened the car door lock. An Lan quickly pushed open the car door and got out, running towards the entrance of Qin Garden.
As soon as I walked into the garden, 50 meters away from Yunyuan, I heard Anyu shouting: "Anlan, how's this cheongsam? Isn't it beautiful?"
An Lan looked over with the sound, An Yu was just walking out of Yunyuan, she was wearing a pink little dress, and her hand was carefully holding up the hem.
"Hmm, very nice," said An Lankan official: "It would be even more beautiful if you wore a pair of pink high heels."
"Haha, I'm just matching with pink high heels, but I'll wear them tomorrow," Anyu said as she lifted the hem of her skirt and twirled twice in front of Anlan: "How is it? Can I be a bridesmaid wearing this dress? Do you think I'll steal the bride's thunder?"
"Do you want to be a bridesmaid?" An Lan slightly frowned and said: "Then you should ask your friend who is going to be the bride for her opinion, I've never been a bridesmaid before, nor have I ever attended anyone's wedding, I really can't give you any advice."
An Lan said this was the truth, but it made An Yu so angry that she couldn't help but shout: "Gu An Lan, are you doing this on purpose? Tomorrow you're marrying Yi Shui Han, don't tell me you don't plan to invite me to be your bridesmaid?"
An Lan only reacted now, it turned out that An Yu was preparing to be her bridesmaid, no wonder she was wearing the most fashionable dress, presumably intentionally trying to steal her thunder.
She had an almost instinctive dislike of An Yu's behavior, and hadn't even thought about asking An Yu to be her bridesmaid, but since An Yu had already brought it up, she directly refused, guessing that An Yu would probably throw a tantrum and argue with her again.
Tomorrow is the day she will leave Qinyuan, and she doesn't want to spend her last night arguing with Anyu, especially over something like this.
She said faintly, "The whole wedding was arranged by the Yi family. You also saw that I didn't even have the right to choose my own wedding dress, let alone decide who would be my bridesmaid. I think the Yi family has already made arrangements for the bridesmaid."
An Yu heard An Lan say this, and her expression immediately became disheartened. After a while, she asked: "What if they didn't think of that?"
"If they don't arrange a bridesmaid for me, then you can be my bridesmaid tomorrow," An Lan said indifferently and turned away.
"That's settled then. I'll hurry back and get my friend to ask around, see if the Ye family has decided on tomorrow's bridesmaid." Anyu couldn't help but get excited again.
"What's so good to listen to?" Chen Wanru's voice echoed at the entrance of Yunyuan: "Tomorrow's wedding, Yishuihan's parents will probably not attend, and there will be few guests, let alone a bridesmaid."
"Mom, even if there aren't many guests, I still want to go and be a bridesmaid for An Lan," An Yu urged on the side, anxiously making eye contact with Chen Wanru, afraid that her mother would say "with such a dull wedding, we won't go to join in the excitement".
Chen Wanru naturally understood her daughter's thoughts, so she looked at An Lan and said: "So, at this critical moment, it is still our own family members who will think of giving you a boost."
An Lan heard Chen Wanru's words and couldn't help but laugh and cry, was An Yu going to be her bridesmaid just to save face for her? If her face could be saved by a single bridesmaid, wasn't that bridesmaid's ability too great?
With such a powerful bridesmaid, which bride would dare to want her? Isn't this obviously going against oneself?
At this time, she no longer had the mood to refute Chen Wanru and her mother. She gave them a cold look, didn't argue with them, then turned around and walked towards Qingyuan, her mother's place.
Tomorrow is the day she will marry Yi Shuihan, tomorrow is the day they will become husband and wife. If this had happened five years ago, she might have been so excited that she couldn't sleep.
But this thing happened today, she didn't have a bit of excitement, but instead had a sincere fear and confusion about the unknown life.
Yi Shuihan returned home after eight o'clock in the evening. As he walked into the house, he unexpectedly found his mother and sister watching TV and chatting in the living room, clearly waiting for him.
"Brother, you're finally back," Yi Yu Yan pointed to the sofa beside her: "Hurry up and sit down, Mom has something to say to you."
"Oh," Yi Shuihan responded with a single word and walked over, sitting down to look at Shao Hanyan and ask: "Mom, is there something you want to tell me?"
Shaohanyan looked at her son, hesitated for a moment before carefully asking: "Shuihan, you're getting married tomorrow. I want to ask... your mother, Dong Jiahui, will she be attending your wedding tomorrow?"
Yi Shui's expression changed slightly, and he said calmly: "She is in Toronto. This marriage came suddenly, I didn't inform her."
"But didn't you decide to get engaged with Ling Yuwei tomorrow? Didn't you inform her to come back and attend your engagement ceremony with Ling Yuwei?"
"Originally, I wanted to inform her, but before I could, Gu Anlan had already posted the video online," Yi Shuihan replied calmly: "Well, the plan was disrupted, and naturally, there was no time to notify her."
Shao Hanyan nodded after hearing this: "In that case, I'll still attend your wedding tomorrow. After all, you're marrying Gu Anlan. In the future... when you marry Ling Yuwei, let her be the one to attend as your mother."
Yi Shuihan's mouth twitched slightly, and he gave Shaohanyan a meaningful glance before standing up and saying softly, "Thanks, Mom," then turned around and walked upstairs.
Yi Yu Yan slightly stunned, then quickly followed up and finally caught up with Yi Shui Han at the corner of the second floor.
"What are you following me up here for?" Yi Shuihan turned around and blocked Yi Yu Yan who was following him upstairs.
"I'd like to ask, who are the best man and maid of honor tomorrow?" Yi Yu Yan asked this sentence before suddenly remembering something and staring at Yi Shui Han again: "You wouldn't have forgotten to prepare for the best man and maid of honor, would you?"
Yi Shui Han gave her a cold glance: "I'm not an idiot, how could there be no best man and maid of honor at the wedding? I'll let my cousin be my best man and have Yun Xi be her maid of honor."
Yiyu Yan's face fell instantly: "Oh, so it's Yunxi sister as the bridesmaid? Tomorrow's wedding will probably be quite dull."
"What do you mean by this?" Yi Shuihan's eyebrows furrowed, and for a moment, he didn't react.
"If it were Miss Ling as the bridesmaid, wouldn't that be wonderful?" Yu Yan immediately became excited: "In that case, I would be eagerly anticipating whether your wedding will be like a Korean drama, with a melodramatic plot twist where the groom puts the wedding ring on the bridesmaid's finger..."
"Scram!" Yi Shui Han only then realized she was being teased, and laughed as he waved his hand to hurry her away: "Wherever it's cool, stay there, don't always think about fabricating melodramatic plots, I'm getting married, not acting in a play."
"Oh, you're getting married tomorrow?" Yu Yan scratched her head with a look of sudden realization, "Then should I attend your wedding tomorrow or not?"
"Suit yourself," Yi Shuihan said, not in the mood to continue arguing with her: "If you want to go, no one will stop you. If you don't go, no one will drag you there either. Whether or not you go is up to you, Young Miss."
"I'd better go, I'm afraid that in two or three years, my sister-in-law won't be happy," Yu Yan continued with a worried and troubled expression: "But if I don't go, I'm afraid I won't get along well with my current sister-in-law. Oh dear, getting married is really putting me in a difficult spot."
Yi Shui Han glared at her fiercely, slightly using force to shake off her hand, and quickly turned around to walk upstairs, no longer paying attention to the little girl who came to bother her on purpose.
Yi Yu Yan stared at Yi Shui Han's back until he disappeared from the stairs before withdrawing her gaze, turning around to head downstairs, only to find that the door to the master bedroom on the second floor was pulled open at this time.
"Wow, are my eyes playing tricks on me?" Yi Yu Yan exaggeratedly rubbed her eyes: "The big brother who never stays overnight at home is actually here, where did this sun come from?"
"Get up from the north," Yi Tianze symbolically knocked on her head with his hand: "What were you just entwining your second brother for? Don't you know that he's going to be the groom tomorrow and needs a good rest tonight? Are you trying to make him look tired on his big day?"
"Can he really rest well tonight?" Yi Yu Yan said with a hint of disdain, "He's just a hypocrite. He clearly wants to marry Gu Anlan in his heart, but instead, he spread the news that he would be engaged to Ling Yuwei on the 20th of this month? In fact, isn't the 20th actually the day he prepared for Gu Anlan?"
"Really? Impossible?" Yi Tianze had a thoughtful look: "He used to get along well with Yuwei, he never went to find Gu Anlan alone, what makes you say that this 20th is specially prepared for him to marry Gu Anlan?"
"If he really wants to get engaged with Ling Yuwei, wouldn't he inform Dong Jiahui?" Yi Yuyan analyzed for her older brother: "Even if he doesn't consider Dong Jiahui as his mother now, Dong Jiahui is still Ling Yuwei's aunt. How can such an important person be absent from their engagement ceremony?"
Yi Tianze couldn't help but laugh at this, and pinched her cheek with his hand: "Alright, hurry up and go to sleep, aren't you going to attend his wedding tomorrow? Are you planning on showing up with panda eyes?"
"Who said I was going to attend his wedding?" Yi Yu Yan said, looking hurt: "He didn't even invite me, and I'm still hesitating whether to go or not."
Yi Tianze burst out laughing and pushed her with his hand: "Alright, alright, so you want to go or not? It's normal that he didn't invite you, because you're his sister. Does one need an invitation card to invite their own family member? I've heard instead that Gu Anlan didn't send out a single invitation."
"Alas, I don't know how these two are going to get married," Yi Yu Yan shook her head and said: "Forget it, forget it, I'd better hurry up and go to sleep. Tomorrow morning, I'll get up early and join in the excitement. After all, being idle is also idle."
Yi Tianze shook his head, waiting for Yu Yan to walk far away before closing the door. Tomorrow, it seemed he could also go and join in the excitement. After all, it was his younger brother's wedding, how could he, as the older brother, not attend?