Chapter 83 Granddaughter-in-law, please get up quickly
Seeing Chen Tang coming over to serve tea, Old Man Yue stood up, threw away his straw hat, and took the tea bowl with a smile.
"Granddaughter-in-law, please get up quickly."
Chen Tang looked up. The old man had gray hair and a full beard, but he was tall, with a voice like a bell and bright eyes. His manner was bold like a Northwestern man, experienced in the world, and had the air of a veteran.
Looking closely, Qi Huaijing's eyebrows and eyes are three-quarters like his.
Qi Huaijing had been acting with him for a long time without saying a single soft word, and he never expected that he would accept Shen Tang's tea so readily. He also stood up with a smile, stood shoulder to shoulder with Shen Tang, and paid his respects to his grandfather.
"Old man, long time no see."
Old Master Yue ignored him and just looked at Chen Tang with a smile.
"Granddaughter-in-law, how did you recognize me? Did this boy give you a heads up?"
No one asked him, but Qi Huaijing just leaned over to deny it.
"Of course not! Old man, this is a very cunning move of yours. From such a long distance, I only felt the familiar scent of tea, but I couldn't see it clearly. I only knew it when I got closer. How could I have tipped her off?"
Chen Tang smiled and said, "Just now, my husband suddenly said that he wanted to get off the car to drink tea, and I felt strange. I didn't notice anything unusual while walking along the way. After drinking the tea, I felt something was wrong. Such good tea can't be drunk on the road! The most important thing is..."
She smiled and pointed at Qi Huaijing.
"Isn't your boy's figure and demeanor modeled after yours? With a careful look, anyone can tell they are grandfather and grandson."
Mr. Yue's eyes were full of approval.
"Seeing is believing. I didn't expect that girl Tang is so smart and good-looking. No wonder this brat has been thinking about her for so many years."
It seems that my grandfather has known the young man's thoughts for a long time and understands him better than Mrs. Yue.
Chen Tang smiled shyly, but Qi Huaijing put his arm around her shoulders.
"How is it? A good match, right?"
Old Man Yue took a step back, looked at the young couple carefully, and sighed.
"Looking at her looks, she's barely a good match. But, the girl is so dignified, and you are such a scoundrel! Tang girl, you're at a big disadvantage!"
Several people laughed in unison.
After laughing, Mr. Yue waved his hand, and the tea drinkers who were sitting in groups of three or four left, and someone immediately served new tea.
It turned out that all the tea drinkers present were Mr. Yue’s people.
Qi Huaijing picked up the Doucai cup, smelled the familiar aroma of Yunwu tea, and smiled.
"At first, I was wondering why there was a teahouse on the roadside for no reason. But when I got closer and took a closer look, I saw that the tables, chairs and benches in the teahouse were all old..."
He pointed to the thatched roof of the tea shed.
"But the broken ends of the beams are still white, which shows that they were built not long ago. So, your kid is not stupid, right?"
Old Man Yue glanced at him with his eyes slanted, with an unconcealable smile in his eyes, but he just snorted first.
"The Communist Party only has this little bit of cleverness, and they used it all to destroy me."
Although he was being scolded, Qi Huaijing smiled with brighter eyes and hugged Chen Tang tightly.
"Old man, I've said it before, a man like me should marry a woman like her. Only a girl like her can marry a husband like me. What do you think?"
When Mr. Yue heard this, he raised his long eyebrows slightly, took a sip of tea, and neither nodded nor shook his head.
Qi Huaijing's eyes dimmed a little.
Chen Tang looked at the expressions of the two people and thought to himself, he had just made the old man laugh so hard, accepted the gift, drank the tea, and praised him like a flower, why are these grandfather and grandson...
The old man finished his tea, coughed lightly, threw down the teacup, and stood up.
"Let's go home and talk about it. What's the point of talking in this wilderness?"
Qi Huaijing's smile faded, he sat still, raised his leg to hold down Chen Tang who was about to get up, and casually added new tea to the empty cup.
"Okay. We should go home too."
Old Master Yue looked at him and said, "Why don't you leave?"
He drank a cup of tea neither hurriedly nor slowly.
The bigger the deal, the more patient one has to be and wait for the other party to make the first offer. This was a trick the old man taught him personally.
He learned very well.
"You go first, our house is close, drink first and then leave."
Old Man Yue heard it, and even if he came to the capital, he would not go to the Yue family, but would return to his own house.
Even though things had turned out like that, when I got the news that he was coming, I still had the nerve to go out of town to pick him up in person. Even after doing so much, this kid was still so stubborn.
Why do I only raise stubborn people, some smart, some not so smart.
After all, this was a child he raised himself, so the old man took a step back.
"…There's no one at home. The children are all out. It's quite lonely. Go back and live there. I miss you too."
Also - misses you, which means he misses you too.
Qi Huaijing was slightly moved, but remained silent, waiting for his bottom price.
Chen Tang was also on pins and needles as he held his legs down and prevented him from moving.
What was going on? The grandfather and grandson, one sitting and the other standing, one relying on his favor and being arrogant, the other relying on his age and being affectionate, were clearly confronting each other from a distance.
But the old man had clearly already warmly acknowledged his grandson's wife, even skipping the awkward word "outside". And judging from what he just said, the little cousin should not be at home, and there was no need to worry about the cousins being awkward when they met. So why did Qi Huaijing still insist on not going to the Yue family?
He didn't speak, and neither did Chen Tang.
The grandfather and grandson have been friends for twenty years, and they have an unbreakable blood relationship. They were warm just now, but now they have suddenly cooled down. There must be a reason.
It must be a reason that cannot be solved by a few witticisms.
She drank her tea in silence.
The more you drink the tea, the colder it gets, and the air becomes more stagnant.
But the old man is not Mrs. Yue. Without a temper, how could he have earned a good fortune with his bare hands?
He was a little annoyed as he looked at his grandson who was just drinking tea.
"What!"
Qi Huaijing considered whether to take advantage of his favor and drank the tea in the cup in one gulp without refilling it.
"There's really too much to do in the shop. If I stayed at home, I'd have to go in and out all day, which would be really inconvenient."
The old man had gotten a chance to take advantage of a loophole. He raised his foot, stepped loudly on the bench and laughed twice.
"How dare you talk to me about things, kid? I own hundreds of shops, but I never say I'm busy! If you dare to talk too much again..."
He looked at his granddaughter-in-law who was as pretty as a flower beside him and swallowed the dirty words he usually cursed at.
"…Twist your head off."
Qi Huaijing couldn't help but smile, still sitting still.
I haven't seen him for a year and he's married again. He looks more mature and tougher than before. When he smiles, he looks more like my uncle.
"Let's go back..." Old Master Yue had completely given in. "Shu'er is getting engaged next month, and there are a lot of things to do at home. As brother and sister-in-law, you should go over and help."
When Qi Huaijing heard the news for the first time that Yue's cousin was going to get engaged, he raised his eyebrows, breathed a sigh of relief, and slammed the table.
"Okay, okay!"
He turned to look at Chen Tang, "Come on, we have to back up the goodies for our cousin."
Chen Tang smiled and stood up, "I'll listen to you."
My grandfather chuckled, put his hands behind his back, and walked in front of the two of them, with an unspeakable bitterness on his face.
After climbing onto his horse, Mr. Yue looked back at the tea stall that had just been set up yesterday, and waved his hand to call his servants over.
"Don't tear down this shed. Leave it by the roadside to provide shade and shelter for passersby. It will also be a good deed."
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