Chapter 82 I'll accompany you to let my mother get to know you

"People without a home can't celebrate this kind of festival."

Zhou Youlan: "Are you... an orphan?"

Wei Wei lowered his eyes and said, "I am the only one left at home, and I have a sister."

It sounds like it's not that they were not born with their parents, but that something unexpected happened and there are only two siblings left at home.

Zhou Youlan didn't want to ask any more questions, so he stuffed another mooncake into his mouth and said, "As long as your sister is here, you're not without a home."

Wei Wei looked around for the tablets of Zhou family's ancestors, but there was no tablet of Zhou Zheng. But hadn't he heard before that the Zhou family were descendants of Zhou Zheng?

"Whose nameless tablet is that?"

Zhou Youguan knelt for a while and then sat cross-legged on the ground. "No one, just... the ancestor of the Zhou family."

Obviously he didn't want to say it, so Wei Wei didn't ask any further.

Wei Wei didn't stay for too long. When Assistant Zhou came to bring lunch to Zhou Youxuan, Assistant Zhou drove him away. Wei Wei had no choice but to leave and go back to Zhou Youxuan's bedroom to feed the cat.

The main Mid-Autumn Festival banquet was in the evening, and it was a dinner attended by Zhou's distant relatives. Originally, Zhou Youlan didn't want to attend, but Zhou Liyue asked Wei Wei to ask him to attend, so Zhou Youlan had to obey.

Zhou Youguan had been kneeling for the entire afternoon, and his knees were shaking as soon as he stood up. He reached out to Wei Wei, "Hurry, help me up."

Wei Wei hesitated for a moment, then stretched out his arm for him to support.

Taking Wei Wei's hand, Zhou Youxuan took the opportunity to throw himself on Wei Wei. He was tall to begin with, and when he pounced on him, he was like a bear. Wei Wei stepped back, and Zhou Youxuan stuck to him again.

Zhou Youguan took the opportunity to put his hands on Wei Wei's shoulders and pressed on him, "Ouch, it hurts so much."

Wei Wei stretched his neck and tried to step back, but Zhou Youguan kept chasing him like he had no bones. Wei Wei couldn't push him away, and he knew he was deliberately clinging to him, so he just let him go.

"Ah, my knees hurt."

"Don't talk back to the master, and don't kneel."

Zhou Youguan leaned on Wei Wei's shoulder, not looking at all painful, but rather enjoying himself. "Ah Wei, I'm so hungry."

Wei Wei pushed away the furry head resting on his shoulder, pushed it away and then it moved closer, pushed it away and then moved closer again, and he had no choice but to bear it.

When Assistant Zhou saw that Zhou Youlan had not shown up for a long time, he had to come over to urge him. But when he arrived, he saw that Zhou Youlan and Wei Wei looked like conjoined twins, and he opened his mouth in surprise.

Although he had not spoken many words to Wei Wei, he still understood Wei Wei's temper. Wei Wei was not close to anyone, and ordinary people could not get close to him. Unless there were special circumstances, he would never let anyone get so close to him.

Wei Wei pulled Zhou Youguan away and stood aside.

"Master, the master and everyone else are waiting for you. Do you want to go change your clothes?"

Zhou Youguan shook his wrinkled trouser legs and said, "It's not a family dinner, why would you be so burdened?"

In fact, most of the Zhou family’s relatives are from their grandmother and maternal grandmother’s side, but Zhou Youlan had never interacted with those people. He had only seen them a few times when he was a child. After he grew up, he was busy filming and had no time, so this family banquet was actually troublesome for him.

"Ah'an, wait for me. I'll go in and say hello and then come out."

Without waiting for Wei Wei to respond, he walked into the restaurant.

Assistant Zhou looked at Wei Wei meaningfully. Didn't the master warn him? Why did Wei Wei seem like he didn't listen? Besides, Wei Wei himself didn't mean that.

Just as Wei Wei was about to leave, Assistant Zhou stopped him.

"The young master asked you to wait for him, so stay."

Zhou Youguan didn't stay in there for too long. He came out after just a few words.

"Hey, Master, what are you doing?" Assistant Zhou sighed when he saw Zhou Liyue's gloomy face. "Master, today is Mid-Autumn Festival after all. You should at least have a good meal with Mr. Master. Where are you going now?"

Zhou Youxuan dragged Wei Wei away and said, "There are so many people inside, why would he need me to accompany him?"

Zhou Youxuan pulled Wei Wei directly to the garage, apparently intending to go out.

Wei Wei: "Today is Mid-Autumn Festival, where are you going?"

"Didn't I tell you to eat?"

"But today is not the right day."

"You are my personal bodyguard now. You follow me wherever I go." Zhou Youguan opened the car door and pushed him in. "Get in. I'll take you for a walk."

Wei Wei couldn't beat him, so he had to get on the passenger seat.

Zhou Youlan booked a restaurant on the spur of the moment. Actually, he wanted to prepare well, or at least be more formal, but he didn't want to stay in the old house with all the messy people around.

Although this seemed very ignorant, Wei Wei could sense that Zhou Youlan seemed to be preoccupied with something.

It took half an hour to drive to the city center. Zhou Youlan booked a Chinese restaurant and asked the restaurant to serve all the dishes, filling up the long table.

Wei Wei looked at the dozens of dishes in front of him and asked, "Did you invite anyone else?"

"No, just the two of us."

Wei Wei looked at the long table full of dishes. There were so many dishes that were enough for more than ten or twenty people. How could the two of them finish them?

Seeing his worry, Zhou Youxuan smiled and said, "I'm not asking you to finish it. Just eat whatever you like."

"That's also very expensive."

Zhou Youxuan scratched the back of his head. "The main reason is that I don't know what you like. If I ask you, you definitely won't want to tell me, so this is the only way."

Wei Wei never expected that Zhou Youlan would spend money like water just to find out his preferences.

"Besides, didn't you say you didn't have any family? Today is Mid-Autumn Festival, I'll spend it with you."

In fact, Wei Wei never cared much about food, but Zhou Youxuan ran around the long table with a plate in his hand. If he ate one more bite, Zhou Youxuan would bring the dish to him.

It seemed like he was trying to please her, but there was no calculation in Zhou Youguan's eyes.

Although there were many people who hated him secretly but flattered him openly after he joined the Western Factory, those people all had selfish motives, while Zhou Youlan... just wanted to know what he liked and disliked.

"You don't like spicy food." Zhou Youguan stood up again and brought the light-flavored dishes from a distance. "These are Cantonese dishes, with light flavors and a sweet and fresh taste. Try them."

Wei Wei had only tasted two or three dishes when Zhou Youlan inferred that he did not like spicy food.

"Stop busying yourself." Wei Wei held his wrist and said in a much gentler voice, "Sit down and eat."

Zhou Youxuan secretly took note all night long. Wei Wei liked to eat boiled shrimps, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, stir-fried pork with celery, and pork rib soup. Zhou Youxuan secretly thought to himself that starting from tomorrow he would ask the chef at home to learn how to cook these dishes. In the future, he could cook them whenever Wei Wei wanted to eat them.

It was as if he had made up his mind and was so motivated that he was full of energy.

Wei Wei didn't eat much, and there were still a lot of dishes left, but they didn't touch many of them. In the end, Zhou Youlan asked the boss to give them to their employees as a Mid-Autumn Festival employee meal.

As he was leaving, the boss chased after him, carrying a gift box of pastries. The boss and Zhou Youguan were old acquaintances, and his tone was very familiar: "I almost didn't catch up with you. Here you go."

"No need, Boss Zhao. Share it with your store employees."

Boss Zhao stuffed it into his arms and said, "Everyone has a share. Do you think I'm an unscrupulous boss who doesn't give employees benefits during the holidays?"

"This is the pastry your mother used to order from me every Mid-Autumn Festival. Since your mother passed away, no one has ordered from me anymore. I hurriedly made this in the kitchen while you were eating. You've only come once in all these years, and the last time you came it wasn't a festival, so I had no reason to give it to you. So today, I made you one. Don't be disgusted, try it and see if the taste has changed."

Zhou Youguan stroked the box in his arms with his palm. Even the patterns on the box were exactly the same as those he had seen when he was a child.

"Thanks."

Boss Zhao patted him on the shoulder and said, "Drive carefully."

After getting in the car, Zhou Youguan prepared to take Wei Wei to see a movie. He was flipping through the recently released movies, but he couldn't decide which one to watch.

Wei Wei saw his absent-minded and secretly impetuous look, and thought about the trouble Zhou Youlan had gone to for him tonight, so he rarely said anything: "Why are you unhappy?"

"Ah?" Zhou Youguan turned his head and smiled casually, "I'm not unhappy."

Wei Wei helped him hold the box of pastries and looked back quietly.

Zhou Youxuan continued to look down at his phone, his thumb twiddling anxiously, and finally he put the phone on the center console in annoyance.

"Tomorrow is my mother's death anniversary." Zhou Youguan's eyes were a little hot, and he turned his head away because he was embarrassed to let Wei Wei see it. "But at the family dinner today, no one mentioned it."

"Including my dad."

Zhou Liyue attached great importance to things like going to the ancestral hall to burn incense, but he had not planned to go to the cemetery to give his mother a bouquet of flowers after the Mid-Autumn Festival, so he was angry, so he and Zhou Liyue argued in the ancestral hall.

He scoffed lightly, "Even the owner of a restaurant my mother hadn't visited for over a decade remembers what she likes to eat, but none of her relatives remember."

The car windows were closed, the air flowed slowly, and the silence seemed even heavier.

Zhou Youlan couldn't help but twitch his nose. He started the car, but it only made a brief beep and then didn't make any sound.

"Zhou Youlan." Wei Wei called him.

"Actually, I don't want to go to the movies." Zhou Youguan's voice was trembling. He looked at Wei Wei, "Ah Wei, I want to go and see my mom."

"Okay, I'll go with you."

Zhou's mother's grave was not far from the old house, just outside the border town. It was already past nine o'clock when they arrived.

Zhou Youxuan bought a bouquet of flowers and took the box of cakes that Boss Zhao gave him upstairs.

"If you're scared, you can wait for me in the car."

The cemetery was deserted at night and felt eerie. Wei Wei was very generous to accompany him here.

"Didn't you say I'm your personal bodyguard? I have to go wherever you go."

Zhou Youlan smiled and said, "Thank you."

The two of them walked for a long time before they arrived at Zhou's mother's tomb. Wei Wei tactfully stood a few meters away and did not get any closer. Zhou Youguan saw a pile of fallen leaves in front of the tombstone, and his resentment towards Zhou Liyue became even deeper.

It seems that no one has ever visited his mother except him.

Wei Wei was just about to walk away so that Zhou Youxuan could talk more easily, but as soon as he turned around, Zhou Youxuan called him.

Zhou Youxuan waved at him: "Come here quickly, let my mother get to know you."

Wei Wei: “……?”

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