The Golden Cane and the Wild Rose - Chapter 30.1

Chapter 30.1

However, he only took one look and said no more.

Xueyu and Alan waited for a while, but he gave no further instructions.

Xueyu had no choice but to speak up herself: “Let’s make a call and order two roast geese to be delivered right away.”

“Okay, Miss Yun.”

Alan immediately went to make the call.

Jiang Musheng asked, “Xueyu, what time is it now?”

Xueyu said, “It’s almost 9 o’clock.”

“Brother, are you wondering how long it’ll take for our sister-in-law to get here?”

“Ah Ran may not come.”

“I think if our sister-in-law knows this order is being delivered here, she’ll definitely come.”

Jiang Musheng smiled and shook his head.

Xue Yu said, “Brother, let’s make a bet.”

“What’s the bet?”

“We’ll bet on whether sister-in-law will personally deliver the roast goose tonight.”

“Okay. What’s the stake?”

Xueyu thought about it seriously and said, “It’s simple. If I win, you’ll let me go out freely from now on.”

“Twice a week at most,” Jiang Musheng said.

Xueyu pouted, a little unhappy, but she knew in her heart that this must be the biggest concession her brother would make, and she should know when to stop.

“Alright.” Then she looked at her brother with a curious expression, “If you win, what do you want?”

“I just want you to be obedient and not do things I tell you not to.”

“Okay.”

With the bet set, the two entered waiting mode.

In the silent night, time passed exceptionally slowly. Just waiting for Alan to come back after the call made Xueyu restless. She got up from the chair and paced back and forth in her brother’s room.

Jiang Musheng was also not calm, so he didn’t stop his sister.

Finally, Alan returned.

“Mr. Jiang, Miss Yun , the call has been made. They said they will deliver it right away.”

“Alan, quickly tell me, was it my sister-in-law who answered the phone?”

“No, they said Miss Yun’s branch is already closed for the day and will start business again tomorrow morning.”

“Ah? Then what do we do?”

Xueyu slumped back into her chair, deflated.

Alan asked, “Should I make another call and specify that Miss Yun must be the one to deliver it?”

Jiang Musheng said, “No need. Ah Ran should be off work by now. Don’t disturb her rest.”

“Yes.”

An hour and a half later, the roast goose was delivered.

Jiang Musheng got up from the bed, and with his sister’s support, went downstairs to the living room to eat the roast goose.

Jiang Musheng only ate one piece.

Xueyu ate two.

“No, brother, the bet is void. Let’s call them again tomorrow morning and call the branch directly,” Xueyu said.

“Xueyu, you can’t be a sore loser.”

“But my sister-in-law isn’t working at this hour, so I don’t think this counts as cheating.”

Jiang Musheng said helplessly, “I can’t do anything about you.”

“Let’s talk about tomorrow’s matters tomorrow. You go back and rest first.”

“I’ll take that as a promise, and you can’t be a sore loser.”

Jiang Musheng said, “I’m not like you.”

Xueyu made a face. “That’s because you spoil me.” She stuck out her tongue and ran off.

Alan was about to follow to protect her, but Jiang Musheng called her back.

“Alan, find out the branch’s phone number first.”

“Okay.”

“Go.”

At 10 o’clock the next morning, Xueyu personally called the number of the branch Alan had found out last night.

The first person to answer the phone was a man. Xueyu said, “I’m sorry, my brother doesn’t allow me to talk to men from outside. Can you get a girl to take the call?”

Gu Hongfei found the female customer on the phone a bit strange, but he still agreed.

For a business owner, the customer is God.

“Ah Ran, come here for a second.”

Yun Ran went to the counter and asked, “What is it, senior?”

“Help me answer a phone call.”

“… Oh, okay.”

Yun Ran took the receiver, its red plastic cord stretching.

“Hello, this is Gu’s Roast Goose. May I take your order?”

“Sister-in-law!” Xueyu recognized the familiar voice and immediately exclaimed in excitement.

Yun Ran didn’t dare to respond.

“Sister-in-law, why aren’t you saying anything?”

Xueyu’s voice was very clear on the other end of the line. Yun Ran held the receiver further away.

“What’s wrong, Ah Ran?” Gu Hongfei saw her expression suddenly change and asked with concern, “Is it a harassment call?”

“No.”

Yun Ran tried to make her expression look normal and asked the person on the other end of the line, “How many roast geese do you need? This branch requires a minimum order of five to deliver, and the delivery fee is separate.”

Xueyu looked at her silent brother, asking him with her eyes how many to order.

“All of them.”

Xueyu said, “Sister-in-law, all of them. Please send everything in the shop.”

“Okay.” Yun Ran hung up the phone.

“Did you get the details? How many roast geese do they want? And what’s the address?”

“All of them. The address is… is…” Yun Ran didn’t dare to say it.

Gu Hongfei asked keenly, “Is it the Jiang family?”

Yun Ran knew she couldn’t hide it and nodded slightly.

“I don’t know what the Jiang family is up to. I heard from my parents this morning that the Jiang family also called to have five roast geese delivered yesterday night.”

“Did anything happen, senior?”

Gu Hongfei shook his head. “But it’s scarier when nothing happens than when something does. My parents think… they think…”

“Uncle and Aunt think it has something to do with me, that the Jiang family is looking for trouble with me and will implicate the shop?” Yun Ran asked bitterly.

“Ah Ran, I absolutely didn’t mean that. I’ve also tried to reassure my parents, but they’re still not at ease. I’ll continue to persuade them.”

“It’s okay, senior. I understand.”

“Ah Ran…”

“I’ll go deliver it myself. Then nothing will happen to the shop,” Yun Ran said.

“I’ll go with you.”

“No, senior, you should stay and mind the shop. If you go, things will only get more complicated. I’m confident that Jiang Musheng will never hurt me.”

Gu Hongfei hesitated to agree.

Yun Ran took it upon herself to tell the staff to pack all the remaining roast geese and load them into the car.

Before she got in, Gu Hongfei held her back.

“Ah Ran, if you go, will you be able to come back?”

“I’ll come back,” Yun Ran said with certainty.

“If they don’t let you leave, I’ll call the police and go find you with them.”

“Okay.”

Yun Ran chose not to sit in the front. She chose to sit in the back with the roast geese, where it was quiet.

At the same time, she deliberately wanted to be stained with the smell of roast goose and even intentionally smeared some oil onto her red apron uniform.

She thought that seeing this, Jiang Musheng’s interest in her might lessen.

And her younger sister, Xueyu, a little princess, probably wouldn’t like her, who was so dirty and oily.

The small truck wound its way up the mountain, and Yun Ran came to this mountain again.

She was sure in her heart that the Jiang family had deliberately asked her to deliver the roast geese, but she couldn’t be sure whether the intentional person was Jiang Musheng or Jiang Xueyu.

But it was one of the siblings, for sure.

She didn’t understand. She was just a realistic, ordinary person. Did these two still have some longing or fantasy about her?

It was possible that the innocent and simple Sister Xueyu missed her so much that she came up with this method to see her by having her deliver the roast geese.

But Jiang Musheng? She really couldn’t think of what he would be nostalgic for about her.

She thought about it the whole way but couldn’t come up with a particularly solid reason.

But she did think of one, a very vague and hazy one.

Before, at the noodle shop, to distract her from her sadness, Jiang Musheng had said a sentence: “Because that day I happened to see another man giving you a rose.”

That sentence made her suspect that Jiang Musheng had known her for a long time, or at least had known there was a person like her.

She had asked Jiang Musheng, and he hadn’t denied it, just smiled at her gently.

She hadn’t thought deeply about it that day, but now, upon careful reflection, she came up with a somewhat scary possibility.

Jiang Musheng might have had his eyes on her long before she had even met him.

This thought startled her.

“Are you being overly confident?”

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