Back To The 80s: President's Doted Wife

Chapter 1203: Chapter 1204: Sounding Out Their Intentions

After finalizing the mooncake plans with Old Song and the others, Cheng Su called Song Xiaojang and asked him to contact a printing factory to design and order some mooncake boxes for the Joy Soon Loy Restaurant.

Additionally, they needed to find suppliers for lotus seed paste and red bean paste, which were urgent matters to handle.

Once all the details were settled, Cheng Su called Cheng Yaozu and asked him to send over some boxes of Cantonese mooncakes as samples.

Why couldn’t she ask for something other than mooncakes? Cheng Yaozu found it quite amusing. After asking, he realized that her restaurant wanted to make Cantonese mooncakes, so he mentioned it jokingly to Old Master Cheng.

”In that case, you better send them over quickly so her business doesn’t get delayed. It’s nearly the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, and just over a month until the Mid-Autumn Festival! If you’re late, everyone will have already exchanged gifts for the holiday.” Old Master Cheng responded.

Cheng Yaozu, however, rolled his eyes and said, ”Dad, since I’m going to Qing City Military Region in late August anyway, why don’t I go check it out first? I’ll deliver the mooncakes to Cheng Su myself!”

Old Master Cheng gave him a knowing, amused look.

”You’re getting lazy again, aren’t you?” Cheng Yaozong looked up from a pile of documents and glared at him.

Cheng Yaozu replied, ”Come on, I’m just paving the way for my nephew, and I want to see how Cheng Su’s business is going. Honestly, her couple of small businesses aren’t much to look at, but since we’re practically family, as an older brother, I should help out a bit.”

”You’re like the old man who loves the mountains but not the wine,” Old Master Cheng pointed at him.

”No, no!” Cheng Yaozu’s eyes flickered as he said, ”Dad, you want to adopt her as a daughter and regard her as family, but you haven’t discussed it with Cheng Su yet, have you? I’ll test the waters for you, so we don’t end up scaring her unexpectedly!”

Old Master Cheng, considering this, felt it was a good point but was a bit nervous: ”She won’t refuse, will she?”

He only had sons, and his sons had more sons, so apart from daughters-in-law, there were no girls in the family. He wasn’t very familiar with dealing with young women.

If Cheng Su didn’t want to, then... well, she probably would!

A daughter like Cheng Su would be so considerate, obedient, and smart.

Thinking about this, Old Master Cheng felt a bit wistful, only regretting that his wife passed away early, after having their fourth son. Otherwise, having a daughter would have been nice too.

Seeing Old Master Cheng’s anxious and conflicted expression, Cheng Yaozong and the others couldn’t help but laugh. He was trying to make someone his goddaughter like he was begging them, as if he was afraid they wouldn’t want to. So many people would wish for such a thing!

If the old man just mentioned his desire for a goddaughter to care for him, there would surely be many people eager to oblige!

Cheng Yaozong thought he had two sons. They were still young, and his wife was only in her forties, so shouldn’t they have a daughter too?

Cheng Yaozu held back laughter and said, ”That’s why I need to test the waters!”

”Then go, and go today!” Old Master Cheng immediately said.

”What about the company...”

”Isn’t your older brother here for that?” Old Master Cheng glanced at his second son, and Cheng Yaozong suddenly felt like he was fated to carry a burden.

”By the way, if you see Ning Ge, make sure to mention what Huzi reported.” Cheng Yaozong looked at Cheng Yaozu.

After the last incident, Old Master Cheng had asked them to keep an eye on that Shenglong Transportation. Recently, there had been some news that Shenglong seemed to not be simple at all!

Cheng Yaozu agreed and jumped up from the couch, ”I’ll get things ready then!”