128: Chapter One Hundred Twenty-Eight

Some people in the village found that the Wang family’s jam was published in the newspaper, and even broadcast on the news. Its reputation became more and more widespread. Only a small number of people in Chengping didn’t know of the Wang family’s jam. After this incident, most people knew about the jam shop. Many people came there specifically, and the business of the jam shop was booming. Mama Wang had quite a bit of research experience on jams and had discussed it with her grandma, so she occasionally went to the jam factory. In order to accompany her, Papa Wang had not come to the jam shop these days, and Wang Cheng had to watch it himself.

His family bought another truck, which was driven by his cousin and Uncle Liang. Song Hai sat in the passenger seat as Uncle Liang’s deputy, and Guan Ying stayed in the shop to help.

Although the shop was called a jam shop, the variety of food sold in the shop was gradually increasing. It need not mention, but the bestseller was jams, followed by fruits. Their family’s fruits were produced in the fruit mountain and were pure and natural, pollution-free. Many villagers ate them. Afterward, they felt it was very sweet, and it was sold out after less than half a day each time.

Sending away the last customer, Guan Ying ran in and poured herself a large glass of water. After drinking, she rubbed her shoulders and said to Wang Cheng, who was at the counter, "Cheng Ge, there are so many guests today. If this continues, we can open a second jam shop."

Wang Cheng paused. He had thought about this problem, but at present, the jam shop was too busy, and he still had to make a good plan before opening the second one. He squinted and looked at Guan Ying, who had a tender face, "Guan Ying, I heard that you often go home with Song Hai recently? Have you developed a man-and-woman relationship?"

He asked directly, and Guan Ying, who was not thick-skinned, blushed, saying bashfully: "Cheng Ge, I asked you about the jam shop. Why are you asking me about Song Hai?"

There was a reason why Wang Cheng would ask this question. The person who had been with his cousin with delivering goods before was Guan Ying, because the store had insufficient staff. However, later the cousin mentioned vaguely to Grandma that one was married and the other was not. It was a bit inappropriate to stay together every day like this. Grandma told Mama Wang, and Mama Wang said that she also felt that it was not good and separated the two. However, Wang Cheng later felt that their worries were unnecessary. According to his observations, Guan Ying obviously had a good impression of Song Hai. It just so happened that Song Hai also liked Guan Ying very much. He noticed the two talk and laugh a few times, with such feelings of affection, it was time to start the relationship.

"Since you like each other, what does it matter if you say it?"

"Cheng Ge, I’m ignoring you." Guan Ying blushed and ran away without answering.

Wang Cheng shrugged, for a little girl who blushed easily, not admitting that would be a problem, everyone would be happy if they just confessed to each other.

In the afternoon, Guan Jiahe and Uncle Liang’s trucks came back one after the other. Wang Cheng poured a large bowl of water for them. After checking the goods, Wang Chengcheng let them go home from work. Guan Ying got off work later. Song Hai left saying that he had to wait for a while before getting off work, but Guan Ying glared at him.

"What's wrong?" Song Hai was stunned.

Wang Cheng patted his shoulder, saying earnestly: "Girls have thin skin. You are a man and should take the initiative."

"Cheng Ge, how did you know?" Song Hai learned that Wang Cheng already knew that he and Guan Ying were in an ambiguous relationship with each other, and finally knew why Guan Ying glared at him.

"My two eyes aren't for decoration." Wang Cheng said. Not only him, Uncle Liang and his cousin probably both saw it, but they were more considerate and didn't expose the two. Song Hai scratched his head in embarrassment, and smiled, "As expected of Cheng Ge."

"So obvious. Don't say I'm not considerate, I’ll watch things in the shop. You and Guan Ying get off work together." Wang Cheng shook his head. Were people in love so stupid? When he and Chu Yifeng confessed, it wasn't like this at all, and he even started a big fight.

"Thank you, Cheng Ge." After saying this, Song Hai rushed to find Guan Ying immediately. With Guan Ying's insistence, the two came over and told him before leaving.

After Wang Cheng finished the accounting that he had no time to calculate yesterday, he saw that the sun had gone down, and there were no customers in the store. He was ready to close the shop. When he was halfway packed, Chu Yifeng came. He no longer fussed; this was already the nth time.

"Why did you come so early today?"

The previous few times, Chu Yifeng arrived at almost eight or nine o'clock. At that time, Wang Cheng had finished eating and showering and was ready to return to the room. As a result, he had to boil water for him again. Fortunately, the weather was now not below zero. The solar water heater installed in the toilet could spit out hot water after being turned on for more than half an hour.

"Boss Chu, don't you say that you like cleanliness? The apartment is much cleaner than here. Aren’t you tired after running to my place every day?" Wang Cheng held the door frame of the bathroom, watching Chu Yifeng's action of preparing hot water to take a bath. Seeing him watching this all the time, Chu Yifeng didn't evade his gaze at all, but took off his clothes in front of him.

"If you lived in the apartment, I wouldn’t have to run here every day." Chu Yifeng put his removed tie in the fixed washbasin.

Wang Cheng saw that he began to take off his shirt, and his strong abdominal muscles were exposed little by little. It was those abdominal muscles that he admired. Although he also had them, the two men exercised differently, after all, so the abdominal muscles were also different. Chu Yifeng's abdominal muscles were obviously better than his. Then he takes off his pants, revealing long, straight, and strong thighs, and upwards, what should be outlined was outlined by his underwear. He decided to be a person with thin skin, and when he took off his underwear, he turned around and considerately helped him close the door.

As he heard Chu Yifeng's laughter come out, Wang Cheng tsked, taking off an apron from the wall donning it as he went into the kitchen to make dinner for him.

When Chu Yifeng came out of the bath, his dinner made by Wang Cheng had just come out of the pot. It was a bowl of fragrant, grass-green dumplings. It was not his first time to see a colored dumpling, but it was the first time he saw Wang Cheng make this.

"This is the shrimp and asparagus dumpling I made during the day. I originally planned to keep it for tomorrow morning. Now you got it cheap." Wang Cheng made a 'you found it cheap' expression. He didn't make too much because he was the only one eating, so he had planned to keep it for tomorrow.

"Then I have to taste it."

Chu Yifeng picked up a dumpling with his chopsticks and took a bite. The soup penetrated into it immediately dribbled. It was Wang Cheng’s homemade mushroom broth that he deliberately simmered for three to four hours with a lot of ingredients during the afternoon.

"How is it?" Wang Cheng asked expectantly. This was the first time he had boiled this kind of broth. He felt it was okay after he tried it, but he wanted to know how others felt.

"Good."

Although it was only one short word, Wang Cheng was very satisfied. In Chu Yifeng's thoughts, good was good, and bad was not good. There were no other euphemisms. Since he said yes, it must be good.

Chu Yifeng glanced at his happy expression, "Since you like to study food, why haven't you thought about opening a restaurant or catering business before?" When he first learned that Wang Cheng had good craftsmanship, he thought that Wang Cheng could be an entrepreneur mostly related to catering. He didn't expect him to end up as a fruit farmer.

"Even if I like it, I only like to make it for the people close to me. I wouldn’t like to stay in the kitchen every day." In fact, Wang Cheng didn't like the smell of smoke in the kitchen.

Chu Yifeng did not say anything when he heard his words, took the big bowl, and drank the soup.

At this time, a car was parked somewhere not far from the shop. The smoke coming from the car obscured Zheng Jingen who was in the driver's seat. He was still staring at the jam shop that had closed its doors. He came earlier than Chu Yifeng, and after seeing the other never come out, he didn’t go in.

Although he had long guessed that the two had an unusual relationship, he did not expect it to have reached the point where Wang Cheng lived with the other, and Wang Cheng obviously accepted his courting. He finally found his younger brother who had disappeared for twenty-five years. Now he was kidnapped by another man, Chu Yifeng. Zheng Jingen didn't know how to tell this to his father.

After the last showdown, Father Zheng suggested that since it was determined that Wang Chengcheng was his son, he would get him back as soon as possible. He even wanted to come over in person, but was stopped by Zheng Jingen. Now that he found out that Wang Cheng was picked up by Papa Wang, he naturally knew that their family relationship was very harmonious. Wang Cheng’s parents now treated him as their biological son, and Wang Cheng had been treating them as his biological parents. If he knew that he was not their biological son, he didn’t think that he would go back to his real home with him. The contact some time ago had made him clearly understand that Wang Cheng was a very independent person.

However, the biggest problem now was not how to recognize his younger brother, but the relationship he had with Chu Yifeng. With Zheng Jingen's identity and status, men and men were not unusual. Many of the nouveau rich or second generations around him have tried the taste of a man, but there was no one who really dared to be with a man. Their parents did not allow it, society did not allow it, morality did not allow it. Once exposed, they would not only bear pressure from their family.

Chu Yifeng may not matter, but what should Wang Cheng do?

Zheng Jingen was very worried that the public would not hesitate to attack this young man who was only 25 years old. He was even more afraid that this would destroy his brother who he had only just found. He who was never afraid of any difficulties did not know what to do. He leaned weakly on the back of the chair and drove away after a while.

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