Age: My Small World

Yang Jun naturally laughed off Xu Shanshan's words.

She probably knew that Yang Jun wouldn't take her words to heart, so she simply shook her head and laughed along.

"Bang bang bang!"

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door.

"Mommy, I'm hungry."

It was Chen Baoqing's voice. The little guy had been playing for a long time and was so excited that he didn't remember to eat until he got hungry. He searched for a long time but couldn't find Xu Shanshan, so he finally came to the bedroom with the door locked.

Xu Shanshan patted her forehead and lowered her voice, saying, "Oh no, I forgot that my son is home today too."

Yang Jun didn't seem guilty at all, and slowly got up and put on his clothes.

He gestured with his chin towards Xu Shanshan: "Then get up and eat. It'll be a good opportunity for our son to meet his new father."

Xu Shanshan immediately rolled her eyes at him, but then smiled charmingly: "You know how to take advantage of a situation. If my son really called you 'Dad,' I'm afraid people would laugh themselves to death if they saw it. You don't look much older than him."

Yang Jun was only in his early twenties, but he looked no different from a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy.

"So what? You're mine now, so your son is my son too?"

Of course, that's just talk.

Xu Shanshan is different from Gu Nanke, and Chen Baoqing's grandparents are of high status, so they don't need him as an extra father.

So after the two came out, Xu Shanshan made Chen Baoqing call Yang Jun "Uncle," and the principle remained the same.

"Uncle? When did you arrive?"

Although Chen Baoqing was young, she wasn't stupid. She naturally knew that the person who came out of her mother's room was her new boyfriend.

"Hehe, let's go downstairs for dinner together in a little while."

Yang Jun is quite mature, but at this moment he doesn't know how to communicate with the child.

He thought that since he had been a child himself, he would be able to understand what children were thinking if he interacted with them.

However, the generation gap does indeed exist.

His way of thinking and behaving as an adult has long been established, and it is impossible for him to go back to the way he thought as a child. So even if he knows what children are thinking, he still can't integrate with them. That's the generation gap.

"It turns out that when people get old, they really can't go back."

Yang Jun couldn't help but sigh.

"What are you sighing about? Hurry up and get Qingzai to sit down, dinner is about to start."

She cooked a lot of dishes at noon, most of which haven't been touched, but now they can be heated up and eaten.

After all, it was already too late, and there wasn't enough time to cook anything else.

Yang Jun had originally planned to drive down the mountain to a fancy hotel for a meal, but he thought that would be too much trouble and that it would be better to just have a simple meal.

During the meal, Xu Shanshan took the opportunity to formally introduce Yang Jun.

Chen Baoqing had no objection to this, but he was curious about Yang Jun's identity, as he knew his mother had very high standards.

When Yang Jun took out several toys and handed them to him, he suddenly felt that this uncle was indeed quite nice.

After Chen Baoqing went back to his room and played with his toys, Yang Jun almost broke out in a sweat. He was surprised that communicating with a child was so difficult.

If it weren't for the toys he still had left from the last purchase, he wouldn't have been able to manage.

In the evening, Xu Shanshan first coaxed Chen Baoqing to sleep before returning to her room.

At this moment, Yang Jun was reading a recent Hong Kong newspaper, hoping to find some useful information from it.

"So, what brings you back this time? Is there anything I can help you with?"

As Xu Shanshan dried her hair with a towel, she walked to the bedside and looked at him.

She wouldn't believe his nonsense about coming to see her on purpose; he only came because he had something to do.

However, Xu Shanshan was already very satisfied that he came to see her as soon as possible.

Yang Jun chuckled and didn't hide anything: "I do have something to do, but I shouldn't need your connections this time."

He had no intention of telling anyone about the office.

After all, the disappearance of a high-ranking spy could very well be the work of someone living in a villa on the mountaintop. Since absolute secrecy cannot be guaranteed, it's best not to say anything.

At least Yang Jun has someone who can provide some information, so it's not like an investigation starting from scratch.

"Okay, just let me know if you need anything."

Xu Shanshan didn't insist, and then winked at him again.

Yang Jun understood perfectly well what she was trying to do, so he could only put down the newspaper and pull back the covers.

……

The next day.

Chen Baoqing was sent to school early in the morning and wouldn't come back until evening because his grandparents would pick him up, and it would be too difficult for him to come back to see his mother.

Yang Jun also went out and immediately went to Causeway Bay to find Zhou Qiang's jade shop.

Even with the help of the Mi brothers in Beijing to collect jade in the past two years, the quantity has been decreasing. Therefore, the expansion of the small world in the past two years has not been significant. It was nowhere near as fast as when he bought jade for the first time, which directly doubled the size of the small world.

He also thought that Zhou Qiang must have accumulated a lot of good stuff over the past two years.

The jade shop wasn't very profitable, but he made Zhou Yan's clothing store incredibly successful. Backed by Lei Bao and the Xu family's connections, the clothing store's business was booming, and now it had opened five branches. Each branch had a monthly net income of tens of thousands of yuan, which amounted to hundreds of thousands of yuan a year. With the remaining five branches, the annual net income reached several million yuan, even after deducting the costs of opening the store, labor, materials, and so on.

This large sum of money alone is enough to purchase a lot of jade.

Yang Jun had told Zhou Yan last year that, apart from leaving one million yuan in the shop as a precaution, all the remaining funds would be used to acquire jade.

"Hello……"

As Zhou Qiang was about to greet someone entering the store, he discovered that the person was none other than Yang Jun, whom he hadn't seen in a long time.

"Boss, you've arrived," Zhou Qiang greeted him politely, and then welcomed him inside.

"How's business lately? Has anyone come over to cause trouble?"

“Master, look at what you’re saying. With Master Lei here watching over us, no one dares to cause trouble.”

Lei Bao is indeed very responsible. He was not lying when he said he would protect the jade shop. In recent years, he has helped to reduce many troubles in the jade shop. Otherwise, it would be difficult for Zhou Qiang, who has an accent from out of town, to do business here.

However, after so much time has passed, he has learned some basic Cantonese skills, so he can at least communicate with the locals without too much trouble. If all else fails, he can even use gestures to guess what they mean.

"Yes, everything is the same as before, which is great."

Yang Jun didn't expect Zhou Qiang to expand the shop; he just wanted it to remain the same. As long as the jade supply was stable, everything would be fine. (End of Chapter)