novelraw Chapter 422 : What Does the Future Father-In-Law Do_
Chapter 422 : What Does the Future Father-In-Law Do_
Chapter 422: What Does the Future Father-In-Law Do?
The pure Su Ruochu had never encountered such a situation before.
In an instant, she was frightened like a startled little white rabbit, her whole body tensed up, her hands tightly protecting her chest.
"You... you get up quickly, my parents are still outside."
Chen Fan grinned "evilly".
"Then give me a kiss, just one kiss and I'll get up immediately."
"I won't!"
Su Ruochu turned her head away, her little face bright red.
"Then we'll just stay like this, I'm not afraid of embarrassment anyway."
"You..."
Su Ruochu was furious.
"You're bullying me. I... I won't talk to you anymore."
"Are you angry?"
Chen Fan smiled and voluntarily let go of her, sitting up on the bed.
Su Ruochu sat on the edge of the bed with a red face, not making eye contact with Chen Fan.
Chen Fan secretly leaned over and whispered: "I checked just now, there was no one in the living room before I hugged you."
"Hurry up and get out. My parents will be coming out soon."
Su Ruochu pushed Chen Fan out with a red face.
Seemingly aware of Su Ruochu's embarrassment, Chen Fan started to change the subject with a smile.
"By the way, I've known you for so long, but I've always forgotten to ask, what do your parents do for work?"
Su Ruochu turned her head to look at him.
"Why are you asking this?"
Chen Fan argued confidently.
"Look at your family's conditions, they're at least a generation ahead of us common folks."
"Back in school, in my eyes, you were simply a high and mighty princess. Although I secretly liked you, I never dared to confess."
"I was afraid of being mocked for not knowing my place."
Chen Fan chuckled: "But fortunately, I gathered up the courage before the college entrance exam, and it was successful. This little country bumpkin managed to marry the princess home."
Su Ruochu found it amusing and indeed temporarily forgot her previous shyness.
"My dad sells Xiaolingtong mobile phones."
"He has two stores in Luocheng, and also acts as an agent for several nearby cities."
"My mom opened a small company, dealing in wholesale clothing. She also has a store in Luocheng, bringing in fashionable clothes from the south and wholesaling them to individual businesses in several nearby cities."
Xiaolingtong?
Chen Fan's mouth slightly opened, his face full of surprise.
He never thought his future father-in-law was in this business.
According to the timeline, the Xiaolingtong business was indeed booming these years, no wonder Su Ruochu's family had already moved into a big house and owned such nice cars.
However, Chen Fan remembered that the Xiaolingtong business didn't last for many years.
In 2002, Xiaolingtong had launched its service in more than 200 cities nationwide, and by next year, the number of users would exceed 47 million. By 2006, this number would reach over 93 million.
This shows just how popular Xiaolingtong was during these two years.
But.
Such "prosperity" was ultimately just a flash in the pan.
In the following years, as people's consumption levels increased, more and more people began to switch to more convenient mobile phones. Various operators also began to gradually exit the Xiaolingtong business.
Coupled with the various problems and shortcomings of Xiaolingtong itself, being phased out was just a matter of time.
Starting from 2007, the number of Xiaolingtong users began to plummet.
Until 2011, Xiaolingtong began to make way for domestic 3G technology, gradually shutting down base stations and officially exiting the historical stage.
All in all, his future father-in-law's business could last for at most another five or six years.
As for his future mother-in-law's clothing wholesale business, Chen Fan wasn't very optimistic about it either.
Because this May, Alibaba had officially launched Taobao.
This heralded the official beginning of online shopping in China.
In the coming years, Taobao would prove its terrifying online shopping power.
Individual wholesalers like his mother-in-law, without their own sources of goods or brand positioning, would soon be beaten to a pulp by Taobao.
Especially in a small city like Luocheng, the future of her business was almost predictable.
Chen Fan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, thinking about whether he should give them a heads up.
But after some thought, Chen Fan immediately dismissed this idea.
After all, their businesses wouldn't fail immediately, they still had a few years.
If he dared to open his mouth now, they would probably think he was crazy.
At worst, he could remind them when the time came.
"What's wrong? What are you thinking about?"
Seeing Chen Fan's strange expression, Su Ruochu couldn't help but ask.
"Nothing, I actually quite admire your parents."
This wasn't just a polite remark from Chen Fan, but sincere.
After all, in this era, the businesses they were doing were almost at the forefront of the times.
They could be considered the first generation of pioneers in the business world.
"Let's go out."
Su Ruochu estimated that her parents would be coming out soon, so she quickly got up and pulled Chen Fan towards the door.
"Okay, okay, I'm going out!"
Chen Fan laughingly pleaded.
As they reached the door, he suddenly grabbed Su Ruochu's wrist, pulled her forcefully, and drew her into his arms.
"Ah..."
Su Ruochu was startled and almost cried out.
Before she could react, Chen Fan had already pushed her against the wall.
"You..."
Chen Fan, with lightning speed, quickly kissed Su Ruochu on her little mouth, then ran out as if escaping.
Su Ruochu stood frozen in place, watching as this guy acted as if nothing had happened and started chatting with her dad in the living room.
Su Ruochu stomped her foot angrily.
"Always bullying people."
Worried that her parents might notice something unusual, Su Ruochu didn't dare to go out immediately, but sat in the bedroom for a while.
Thinking about what had just happened in her little room, Su Ruochu felt her heart racing and her face flushing.
As a traditional, pure girl, when had she ever experienced something like this?
That person was really too bold.
But now thinking back, she didn't seem to mind it.
Was it because it was Chen Fan?
Su Ruochu sat on the bed, pretending to flip through a photo album, her expressions changing from embarrassment to shyness, then to a bit of joy...
A gentle and charming smile bloomed, the young girl's heart fluttering with newfound love.
Young girls, after entrusting their true hearts to someone, often gradually give up their principles and persistence.
After about ten minutes, Su Ruochu finally closed the photo album, got up to adjust her clothes, and walked out of the bedroom.
From beginning to end, she never noticed that a photo was missing from her album.
...
In the living room, Chen Fan was curiously examining the unexpected guest who had just entered.
A boy wearing a set of branded sportswear.
As soon as he entered, he called out to Uncle, saying he came to visit his cousin.
Chen Fan understood that this was probably the child of Su Ruochu's aunt.
Just then, Su Ruochu came out of the bedroom, and the boy immediately called out excitedly.
"Cousin."
"Why are you here?" Su Ruochu was a bit surprised, "Where's your sister?"
"My sister went shopping with her classmates," the boy looked at Su Ruochu, full of excitement.
"Why didn't you go with them?"
"Pfft! It's so boring when girls go shopping."
Su Xuecheng joked from the side with a smile: "Listen to you, have you forgotten your cousin is also a girl?"
"Ah?" The boy immediately panicked and quickly waved his hands to explain, "Cousin, I didn't mean you, I just didn't want to go shopping with them."
Su Ruochu walked to the sofa and sat down, deliberately keeping a distance from Chen Fan, not daring to make eye contact with him, her face clearly trying hard to act normal.
Su Xuecheng didn't notice his daughter's unusual behavior and smiled as he invited the boy to sit down.
"Xiao Chen, let me introduce you two."
"This is the child of Ruochu's aunt, called Gao Xiaohu, he has an older sister called Gao Xiaoxi."
"The two were born just a few seconds apart, they're a pair of fraternal twins."
"This kid, he's never been close to his own sister since he was little, but he's incredibly close to his cousin here."
"Xiaohu, this is Ruochu's boyfriend, Chen Fan. You can call him brother."
Gao Xiaohu didn't greet Chen Fan, but after hearing the word "boyfriend", his gaze towards Chen Fan immediately changed.
Chen Fan looked the boy up and down, the corners of his mouth slightly curling up.
As if he had discovered something interesting.
This kid... seems to have a bit of a sister complex.