Children Without a Mother Were Pitiful, While Children With a Mother Were Treasured

An Hongming had no idea that the reason Lu Jingnan was wasting his time here was actually to wait for his wife's niece to agree to treat him to dinner.

Lu Jingnan could not make a decision on such a big project today.

An Hongming also understood that he was lucky that Lu Jingnan was willing to give An Hong Real Estate a chance by inspecting it today.

The fact that Lu Jingnan brought his special assistant into An Hongming's company was enough to make An Hongming famous.

Even if this big project did not succeed, An Hongming could utilize Lu Jingnan's influence to find a different project to maintain the company's livelihood.

As a person, everyone had their dreams. The dream of becoming rich was probably everyone's goal except for people who had possessed more money than they could spend in their entire lives. The rest of the world would regard the idea of earning money as their life's dream.

Even if it was not the only dream in life, it was definitely the greatest dream in life.

"President Lu, why don't we go to the various departments of the company to take a look?" An Hongming suggested. He wanted Lu Jingnan to take a look at the hard work of the employees in their company first. After understanding the various aspects, their company might have a chance of winning in the end.

"Sure. Tang Shan, you go with President An. Report to me when you come back." Lu Jingnan directly pushed this matter to Tang Shan.

"Understood." Tang Shan accepted the order.

"Then, President Lu, you..." An Hongming felt that it was not very good to leave Lu Jingnan alone in this conference room.

"President An, President Lu is new here. He's a little unacclimatized, so let him have a good rest in your reception room." Tang Shan smiled as he spoke for Lu Jingnan.

Actually, he knew what was going on. Since Song Ruyi had not called yet, President Lu was a little impatient from waiting. The president was very anxious.

When Lu Jingnan was anxious, he would not want to be disturbed. 

Anyone who came to disturb his peace at this time would die an ugly death.

"Since you haven't acclimatized, have a good rest. I'll get someone to bring you a blanket. Don't worry, President Lu. It's new. No one has used it before, so you can rest assured."

"Mm, thank you."

Lu Jingnan looked at his phone. He did not even hear what An Hongming was saying.

'The signal is clearly good here, but why isn't this phone ringing?

'Could it be that Song Ruyi has really forgotten my phone number?'

As soon as An Hongming brought Tang Shan out, Lu Jingnan's phone rang.

Nevertheless, it was not Song Ruyi who called; the caller ID shown was his mother. That said, the person who could call him at this time would not be his mother.

It could only be the tiger kid at home.

When Lu Jingnan left, the child had just recovered from his fever. Kindergartens were rather strict nowadays. Even if the child recovered from his fever, he would have to stay at home and be observed for two more days before he could be sent back to kindergarten.

At this moment, the tiger kid had probably woken up from his afternoon nap.

"Tiger Kid." Lu Jingnan's lips curled up when he picked up the phone.

For some reason, he felt that he had a special affinity with the tiger kid at home. When he went to Wen Yuansen's laboratory, the kid had just been born. He was not sure if the kid was hungry or if he had pooped... The child lay alone on the bed and cried endlessly.

Lu Jingnan had walked over and extended a finger, placing it in the kid's palm. The child subconsciously grabbed it tightly and stopped crying at the same time.

In that instant, Lu Jingnan felt as if he had been electrocuted.

That kid did not let go, and Lu Jingnan did not take the initiative to withdraw it.

When Wen Yuansen returned and saw this, he said after a long time, "Yicheng likes you very much."

"What? Yicheng?" Lu Jingnan did not react at that time. This was the name that Wen Yuansen had given that kid.

"Yeah, haven't you heard of a very warm saying, 'choose a city to settle down in and grow old with someone'?" Wen Yuansen acted as if Lu Jingnan was a clueless businessman and a money-making machine without any literary talent.

At that time, he still despised Lu Jingnan very much.

Lu Jingnan, however, ignored him and asked his assistant to prepare 120 milliliters of milk for the boy.

The child was only a week old and could drink 120 milliliters of milk every meal. His stomach capacity was not small. After Lu Jingnan found out, he gave him the nickname 'Tiger Kid'.

Usually, he did not call the child Yicheng but Tiger Kid.

"Dad, have you eaten?" Lu Yicheng, who was five years old this year, was already in middle school.

As he was born in the second half of the year, he would be a year later than his peers in school.

The family had always thought that it did not matter if the boy studied a little later.

Lu Yicheng was very sensible because he did not have a mother and only had a father. When his father worked outside, he often forgot to eat. In his opinion, it was very tough for his father.

He had grown up, but he was still very young. He could not help his father share too much of his burden, so at least, he had to remind him to eat on time.

"I've eaten. I ate beef noodles," Lu Jingnan replied.

"Daddy, you're very good today," Lu Yicheng praised.

Lu Jingnan: "..."

He felt that Lu Yicheng was too sensible.

Lu Jingnan suddenly thought of the little troublemaker by Song Ruyi's side. That little girl was probably taken care of very well by Song Ruyi. She was childish, naive, brave, and dared to speak her mind.

What was more, the little girl thought that he was ugly. If he was ugly, who in this world was good-looking?

He felt that the little troublemaker was what a child should be like.

On the other hand, his tiger kid was as precocious as a little adult.

It was a little sad. No wonder there was a song that said that children without a mother were pitiful, while children with a mother were treasured.

"Are you busy, Daddy?" Lu Yicheng asked again when he did not hear Lu Jingnan's voice.

"Yes, we're discussing business in someone else's company."

"Then I won't disturb you. Goodbye, Daddy."

"Listen to Grandpa and Grandma obediently and take care of yourself. I'll be back soon."

Lu Jingnan felt guilty when he said the last sentence.

Before this, he had wanted to go back earlier. After his chance encounter with Song Ruyi, he had to figure out what he wanted to know before he went back.

"Okay, I will." Lu Yicheng hung up the phone.

After that, Lu Jingnan stared at the phone screen for a long time. He wanted to pierce through it. He wanted to see what that damn woman, Song Ruyi, was doing on the other end of the phone.

'Isn't she afraid that I'll go straight to the restaurant?'

Song Ruyi had told him the name and address of the restaurant. He did not note them down but had a good memory.

Just then, someone knocked on the door outside the reception room and brought him a blanket.