Chapter 56: Their Families
Xiang Chuan spent the entire afternoon worrying whether that Ainuo Classmate would be upset and come looking for trouble again, but right up until before school let out, when Ouyang Yating and Liang Gong organized some optional suppliers for club supplies into a table, and the newly installed school terminal in the club activity room sounded the notice of the school bell, Ainuo and those boys following him never showed up again.
As the three walked toward the school gate, Xiang Chuan suddenly asked:
“Yating, Liang Gong, do you think Ainuo Classmate will cause trouble for my family because of this?”
It wasn’t unreasonable for her to think wildly; mainly, in her previous life, the online novels she read were all about how children of ordinary enterprises offended the young master or young lady of a major family, resulting in the enterprise being tormented until bankruptcy and fleeing. Now that she had become the daughter of a big business owner’s family in this life, it was easy to associate it with that.
There was no helping it; in her previous life, she had lived a 996 life where she could barely get a meal, with no reference experience.
Though as soon as she asked the question, she regretted it, as it made her seem a bit silly.
Sure enough, Liang Gong and Ouyang Yating looked at her with helpless smiles or speechless doubts, all conveying the same meaning: What are you thinking?
“Not to mention whether Ainuo can mobilize so much of the Li Family’s power, Xiang Chuan, my dear club president, you lack basic common knowledge of the Xiang Family’s influence.” Ouyang Yating complained sharply, making Xiang Chuan’s head droop two or three centimeters lower; she had no choice but to lower her head, since even her own family’s matters required others to explain them.
“The Yue Xiang Group, founded by your father, became the largest food processing group in the Third Fleet within just twenty short years. Every new product launch is an impact on the food market—no, in terms of contributions to the food processing field, its influence may no longer be limited to the Third Fleet. Rumors of adjustments to the escort ship formations in the Twelfth Fleet had already circulated thirty years ago, but the new food brought by Yue Xiang Group revitalized many production escort ships. Although new product development has stalled these past two years, and it coincidentally entered the fleet exchange period, so rumors of reorganizing the escort ship formations have emerged again, but…”
Saying this, Ouyang Yating looked at Xiang Chuan. Xiang Chuan blinked in confusion, seemingly not grasping her meaning. Ouyang Yating sighed slightly. Their club president appeared not very smart, yet had an offhand understanding of ancient food, which had extremely high market potential and cultural value. Was this a kind of quality conservation? Ouyang Yating thought jokingly, continuing aloud:
“Moreover, your mother is the Director of Cultural Affairs Bureau. In any case, whether public or private, Yue Xiang Group cannot possibly be at the mercy of the Li Family. What’s more, if it’s just venting anger on your family because a insincere confession was rejected, I think Uncle Li would definitely send him to a disciplinary school for three to five years first.”
Liang Gong at the side nodded. Though he wasn’t very knowledgeable about gossip on nobles and major families, in terms of Yue Xiang Group’s influence, no one would want to touch Xiang Chuan and her three siblings. Moreover, now that Yue Xiang held the new trump card of ancient food, its future influence was unimaginable; the Third Fleet would desperately protect it, so how could it allow other forces to deal with the Xiang Family?
“Then I’m relieved.” After hearing Ouyang Yating’s explanation, Xiang Chuan temporarily set her mind at ease. She hadn’t realized her family’s backing was so solid; now she had much more confidence. If that young man came over tomorrow to pick a fight about today’s matter, she could directly punch him without hesitation.
However, from Ouyang Yating’s description, he probably wasn’t the type to come looking for trouble after a failed confession? While relieved, she felt a bit disappointed; after all, she quite wanted to witness such an obviously female-oriented literary scene firsthand.
[Beep—Miss Ouyang Yating, welcome back]
Returning to the familiar mansion, Ouyang Yating handed her coat to the cross-shaped servant and walked straight into the dining hall.
“Servant, have Father and Mother returned?”
[Beep—Master and Madam are now in the dining hall with Miss Ouyang Yun waiting for dinner preparation to complete]
They’re back really early. Ouyang Yating thought, opening the door to the dining hall.
“Oh? Yating, you’re back.”
Ouyang Shidong was the first to see his youngest daughter’s figure, his tone rising several degrees.
“Father, Mother, Sister, I’m back.” Ouyang Yating took the cleaning device from the servant, wiped her hands, and sat in the empty seat next to Ouyang Yun.
“You’re back really early. I thought your club would be busy until late.” Ouyang Yun said. Unlike the steady Ouyang Yating, Ouyang Yun gave a more lively impression.
“The new club doesn’t have so much to be busy with; today we just discussed together the procurement of club supplies.”
“Yating, hasn’t your club bought equipment and such yet? Do you need us to help ask around?” her mother asked worriedly.
“Mother, don’t be so soft-hearted just because our club president is the sister of that… streamer you like.” Ouyang Yating said helplessly.
These past few days, her mother had been addicted to Xiang Xue’s live stream room. After hearing yesterday that she had joined Xiang Chuan’s club, she was so happy that she privately gave her extra pocket money, so she could have a chance to bring Xiang Chuan over to play.
Her first impression of Xiang Chuan also came from her mother’s description. When they met at school, she didn’t recognize her; after recognizing her, she couldn’t connect the classmate at school who lacked some common sense with the “big sister who dotes on her little sister a lot” image from her mother’s mouth.
“But Yating, do you really plan to stay in your that Tongue Club for three years? Weren’t you planning to major in politics and history at university?” Ouyang Yun asked worriedly, only to receive a sideways glance from her mother, which made her shrink her neck.
“We call it A Bite of China Club.” Ouyang Yating corrected. “These can wait until university to continue studying; it’s not too late. Moreover, ancient food is also related to history; maybe we can learn some new knowledge from before the Dark Virus Crisis.”
“Loving research is a good thing.” Ouyang Shidong nodded, not forgetting to add: “If the Xiang Family has any new developments in fruit, be sure to tell home right away.”
“Father, don’t be too utilitarian…” Not just Ouyang Yating, even Ouyang Yun shook her head outright; their father was good at everything, just too utilitarian in interpersonal relations.
“Mom, I’m home.”
At the same time, Liang Gong returned to his home in the residential area and connected to his mother’s signal via terminal communication.
[Liang Gong, you’re home?]
On the screen was a young woman who resembled Liang Gong by five or six points. Livestock calls like “moo~” and “cluck cluck” occasionally came from behind her, clearly not on the fleet main ship.
“Mom, haven’t you gotten home yet?” Liang Gong checked the time. “It’s almost six o’clock.”
[Just sent off the guests; heading to eat soon.] Liang Gong’s mom smiled. [How was school today? It was your club’s first activity day, right?]
“Yeah, but the equipment isn’t fully equipped yet. Today we kept discussing equipment and supplies.” While speaking, Liang Gong skillfully directed the servant to prepare liquid food dinner for him. “Our club president and another club member organized a table with detailed explanations, which really opened my eyes. I didn’t expect some kitchen supplies usually operated by servants or kitchen AI to have other uses.”
[Oh?] Liang Gong’s mom brightened at this, then shook her head: No, this might be their technical patent; can’t casually ask and trouble the child. So she said: [Seeing you’ve been happy at school these past few days puts Mom at ease. High school has club activity classes; I was always worried you wouldn’t adjust.]
“Our club is all classmates, so it’s fine.” Liang Gong smiled, chatting with his mom across the screen about school life these past few days.
Liang Gong’s mother was the Head of Animal Husbandry on the Third Fleet’s Second Escort Ship, so she was stationed there, only coming to the main ship side during public holidays or annual leave to see Liang Gong. Otherwise, during breaks, Liang Gong would return to his hometown on the Second Escort Ship. They saw each other little over the year. Seeing his mother busy even at dinnertime pained Liang Gong, but he couldn’t be by her side to accompany her, and production escort ships had no entertainment facilities to relax… Right.
He suddenly remembered the live stream room. So while chatting with his mother, he casually asked Xiang Chuan about the invitation code.
In less than half a minute, Xiang Chuan sent him an invitation code, along with the live stream room’s audio-visual program. Xiang Chuan messaged: [Forgot to send this to you today; come to my sister’s side tonight to watch drama and relax~]
Without thinking, Liang Gong replied that he wanted to use this invitation code for his mother, so thanks for Xiang Chuan’s intention. Xiang Chuan replied instantly, giving another invitation code this time.
Xiang Chuan: [Say hi to Aunt on my behalf~ (pasted a little image of a thumbs-up, background looking like some family’s dining table no matter how you see it)]
It amused Liang Gong, and he was also very grateful for his club president’s generosity. He had long heard from Man Man, who often went to Xiang Chuan’s seat to chat with her, about how fun the live stream room was, and knew invitation codes were hard to come by, so he planned to give up his share first. He hadn’t expected the club president to immediately give another one.
[Liang Gong? What are you looking at, smiling so happily?]
Liang Gong’s mom asked curiously from across the screen.
“Our club president just sent me a message.” Liang Gong laughed. “Right, Mom, our club president just sent me something very interesting…”
Tonight, Xiang Xue’s live stream room gained a few more new audience members.
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