Sweet Wife in My Arms

t was tender and the soup was fresh.
He drank a mouth of the egg soup.

Soon, he was full and satisfied.

After eating, he was busy again.
He only knocked off from work past seven and when he returned home, the bottle of milk was waiting for him outside.
It was the milk delivery boy.

He bent down and picked up the milk before opening the door and walking in.

Just as he entered, he heard knocking outside the door.
He walked out again only to find a middle-aged woman in her fifties standing outside.
She was dressed cleanly and she had tied her hair into a ponytail.
Even though the clothes she was wearing weren’t the best, they were incredibly clean.
There were no oil stains or dirt.

“Excuse me, are you Mr Lu Yi?” The middle-aged woman took a glance at the door number.
This place was right, he was very tall and didn’t like to laugh.
Yeap, it was this place.

Lu Yi nodded, “I am, what’s up?”

Only then did the middle-aged woman take out a lunchbox.

“I am the nanny that Mrs Yan hired.
I started today and before Mrs Yan left, she had asked me to prepare food for you every morning and night.
Also, do not worry,” The woman smiled again, “We all are professionals and are trained by experts.
We will not reveal anything about our employers at all.
Also, just place the bowl outside when you are done eating.
I will come and collect it.”

“This is for tonight, some congee and 2 vegetables.
It is a little bland but if there is anything that you like, do let me know.
I will take note tomorrow.”

“Thank you,” Lu Yi took it over; he didn’t have much requests when it came to food.

“It is fine, that’s all.”

Only then did Yan Huan’s nanny leave.
Lu Yi carried the lunchbox over before placing it on the table.
He washed his face, changed his clothes, heated up the milk before picking up the newspaper that he hadn’t finished reading this morning and placing it on the table.

He opened up the lunchbox.
It was a bowl of congee that was still hot.
There were some bits of corn inside the congee and no sugar was needed after he drank one mouth of it.
It was very sweet and silky, and he finished it in one gulp.
The vegetables were decent too and as for the milk, he didn’t feel like drinking it now.
It could wait till before he slept.

There was milk every morning as well as the food that Yan Huan’s nanny delivered over.
Sometimes it was egg and mantou, sometimes it was dough fritters and soy curd, sometimes it was buns and wonton.
Whatever the case was, he must drink milk every day.

Within a week, he felt incredibly refreshed.
He looked good and even his body felt better too.

He didn’t know that at this moment, there was something brewing within the Ye family that could topple his family with centuries of history.

“Old Su, see, our family has had so many years of ties, why can’t you help us with this?”

Old Ye, Ye Jianguo’s voice was quivering.
He wasn’t the loud person he used to be where he wouldn’t bow down to anything.
In this world what was the hardest? Pleading with others, asking for help and borrowing money.

He was all three things right now.
If it didn’t concern the life and death of the Ye family, he wouldn’t open his mouth too, especially for Su Ancheng.