Lin Qingping and Gu Juncheng

Chapter 221 It’s all hers

The waiter who came to explain spoke too quickly and incoherently, "His parents are inside..."

Liu Yan ignored the waiter's words, her emotions running high, and she couldn't understand what he meant. She kept shouting, "So it was an adult leading someone to cut in line! How shameless!"

Zhiyuan knew all too well how rude and arrogant Liu Yan was. To argue with someone like that, in Gu Youlian's words, was to lower one's own worth.

He called the waiter back, quietly packed his bag, whispered something to the waiter, then left his seat and went to the back.

This is Aunt Wu's shop. He still understands the importance of the bigger picture. What if he causes a scene in Aunt Wu's shop and all the customers run away?

The waiter immediately cleared the table and welcomed the next guest to this non-guest seat.

Liu Yan insisted on going, reasoning, "I was the one who chased this person away, so why can't I sit here?"

The waiter glanced at her, inwardly contemptuous, but outwardly remained expressionless. "Didn't you condemn queue-jumping? Why are you cutting in line yourself?"

The customers in front of her also disagreed, and after some arguing, Liu Yan still didn't get the seat.

Half an hour later, Liu Yan finally got to line up.

After they sat down, her companion asked her with a smile, "Didn't you say you knew the owner of this restaurant? Why did you have to wait in such a long line if you knew him?"

"Of course I know them." Upon hearing this, Liu Yan felt utterly humiliated and was determined to save face. "It's Wu Tianjiao, the eldest daughter of the Wu family. We're very close! And there's Mei Li, the daughter-in-law of the Wu family, who's also my best friend. However, neither of them are here today. I didn't inform them before I came, because I didn't want to cause them any trouble."

"Really?" the young mother who came with them laughed. "This isn't like you. You're not the type to trouble others."

Everyone knows Liu Yan; once you can establish a connection with her, she'll cling to you relentlessly.

As they were talking, another mother pointed to the woman coming out of the kitchen and exclaimed, "Hey, isn't that Wu Tianjiao?"

Liu Yan's face turned pale.

“Yes! You know her so well, why don’t you invite her over to sit down and get to know her?” the young mother said with a smile.

Another person chimed in, "Yeah, maybe we can even get our food for free today."

Liu Yan forced a smile, "How can that be? They're just doing business. I can't just offer them a free meal on my first visit. I can't do something like that."

As they were talking, Wu Tianjiao had already left without even glancing in their direction.

As the desserts were served one after another, Yun Xiaoshan recognized them all as ones he had eaten before.

"I've really eaten all of these!" Yun Xiaoshan said, tilting his chin up. "If you don't believe me, I can tell you what's in them."

Yun Xiaoshan started by talking about the pancakes, going through each item one by one, and surprisingly, he got them all right. Then, Yun Xiaoshan saw Zhiyuan again, and this time he wouldn't let it go. He got off the table, ran in front of Zhiyuan, and blocked him, "Li Zhiyuan, why didn't you answer me when I called you?"

What does Li Zhiyuan want to say?

Do you say I hate your mom?

Yun Xiaoshan is chubby and usually slow, but he can be quite agile when he gets going. He pulled Li Zhiyuan to his table and said, "Li Zhiyuan, tell me, haven't we already eaten all of these?"

Yun Xiaoshan completely ignored how much his mother hated Li Zhiyuan, and also ignored that they had just had a fight with Li Zhiyuan. He just wanted to prove to those two little brats that he wasn't bragging!

Before Zhiyuan could even speak, Liu Yan rolled her eyes. "Xiaoshan, I might have believed you a little if you said you ate it, but you brought this country bumpkin here to testify for you, so you're not credible at all!"

Yun Xiaoshan finally lost his temper. After all, he was just a child, and saving face was more important to him than anything else. "I've eaten it before! Zhiyuan's mother knows how to make it all!"

When Liu Yan heard that her son had eaten the country bumpkin's food again, she was furious. "How can the food made by that country woman compare to that of Aunt Wu's shop?"

However, Yun Xiaoshan looked at the things on the table and they were exactly the same as what Zhiyuan's mother had made! But he didn't know how to refute it.

Zhiyuan, however, spoke clearly, "Yes, my mom comes from the countryside, but her cooking is very clean, and many people like to eat it. If you don't like it, then don't eat it!"

"I won't eat it! I'd rather eat bricks than eat anything your mother makes." For some reason, Liu Yan felt unhappy whenever she saw this family, and even went so far as to argue with a child.

Zhiyuan smiled. "You said it yourself, so remember it!"

Wu Tianjiao returned from outside the shop at this moment, rushing around, and immediately saw Zhiyuan standing there.

The young mother who came with Liu Yan said to Liu Yan, "Hey, Wu Tianjiao saw you this time."

Indeed, Liu Yan also noticed that she was looking in her direction.

She thought, no matter what, Yun Yan's reputation must be worth something in the Wu family, right?

So she waved vigorously at Wu Tianjiao.

Wu Tianjiao actually walked over here.

Liu Yan smiled and said, "I'm here. She's just too busy, I didn't want to bother her..."

As she spoke, Wu Tianjiao walked up to her.

Liu Yan's face was full of smiles as she affectionately called her, "Tianjiao..."

Wu Tianjiao noticed that she seemed quite surprised, then smiled and nodded.

She did smile, but it was a polite but cold smile, exactly the same as when she smiled at any stranger.

And that was all she did was laugh. After laughing, she put her hand on Zhiyuan's shoulder and asked, "Zhiyuan, what are you doing here? Have you finished your homework?"

"Not yet..." Zhiyuan said.

"Then go do your homework." Wu said, and then took Zhiyuan's hand and walked away.

The smile on Liu Yan's face froze instantly, as if it were etched onto her face.

Her friend, who came with her, laughed when she saw this, "Didn't you say this kid was a country bumpkin? How come Wu Tianjiao treats a country bumpkin like her own child, but is so indifferent to you?"

Liu Yan was at a loss for words to explain, and could only say with a stiff face, "Who knows? Country bumpkins are good at currying favor."

Just then, people from the newspaper arrived carrying cameras.

The reporter said to the guests, "Hello everyone, this is the Capital Economic Daily. Today we are interviewing a tea and dessert shop that claims to be the first of its kind in the capital. We have a few questions we would like to ask you randomly. Would you like to answer them?"

The guests all agreed, and some even raised their hands to volunteer to be interviewed.

Liu Yan's friend exclaimed, "Wu Tianjiao is really successful; she opened the first store in the capital."

Although Liu Yan was unhappy, the other party was Wu Tianjiao, so she had no reason to be resentful.

The reporter then said that the next step was to interview the boss.

Liu Yan and her friend were convinced that Wu Tianjiao was going to be interviewed. Liu Yan even said, "Wu Tianjiao is definitely qualified for this interview."