Chapter 210 Do you still like Qingwu?
The last day of the year is Monday.
The law firm assigned Xu Qingwu a new project. Party A was a pharmaceutical company, and two large pharmaceutical companies wanted to acquire them. Party A hired Juncheng to do a project evaluation.
Xu Qingwu was busy all day. When she was about to get off work, she received a call from Shen's mother, asking her to go home for dinner. She returned to Shen's house as soon as she got off work.
Father Shen and Shen Ze had not yet gotten off work, and only Mother Shen and Le Jia were at home, as well as Le Jia's three-year-old nephew.
"Xi Huai isn't coming?"
"Mom, he's on a business trip in Hong Kong Island these days and probably won't be back."
Le Jia pulled Xu Qingwu over to accompany her little nephew, saying that she wanted her to experience the feeling of being an aunt in advance. Xu Qingwu wanted to say that she had already experienced it deeply with Cen Nan and Cen Bei.
Fortunately, Le Jia's little nephew is relatively quiet, not as noisy as Cen Nan and Cen Bei. When Cen Xihuai called, Xu Qingwu was playing a picture-filling game with his little nephew.
"Girlfriend, what are you doing?"
Hearing his voice, Xu Qingwu unconsciously raised the corners of her lips. She deliberately said, "I'm playing games with another man."
There was silence for a moment, and then the call was hung up.
Xu Qingwu was confused. No way, she was just joking and he was angry?
Soon, Cen Xihuai called via video, apparently wanting to see for himself who this other man was.
Xu Qingwu answered the call, and Cen Xihuai's face filled the entire screen. He frowned and said seriously, "Which man? Let me teach him a lesson. Don't covet other people's girlfriends."
"Look, it's him." Xu Qingwu pointed the camera at his little nephew and teased him to call him uncle.
The little guy didn't know anything and just called out in a soft voice.
Xu Qingwu saw Cen Xihuai's stiff face and laughed so hard that she fell forward and backward: "Cen Xihuai, are you stupid?"
Cen Xihuai was so angry that he laughed: "Qingwu, you always make me angry."
Xu Qingwu didn't feel guilty at all: "Who told you to promise me to come back before today? You didn't keep your word."
Cen Xihuai was silent for a moment. Xu Qingwu knew that he was busy with his work and didn't really blame him, so she changed the subject and said, "I'm going back to the Shen family to spend New Year's Eve with my parents, brother and sister-in-law. Don't miss me too much when you're alone outside."
Cen Xihuai: "I miss you very much."
Three words, powerful and resounding.
Xu Qingwu saw Le Jia walking over with the fruit and a teasing smile on his face. She felt a little embarrassed: "I won't talk to you anymore. Bye!"
After hanging up the video in a hurry, Xu Qingwu's ears turned red.
"Sister-in-law, did you hear everything?"
"Don't be embarrassed, you two are so close now, it's like you just started dating."
"We are in love."
"Can you still do this after getting married?"
"Well, it feels good. Sister-in-law, you and my brother should try it too."
"Forget it, we're going to have a baby in a few months, why would we still be in a relationship?"
Le Jia said this, but her eyes were full of envy. She and Shen Ze got married through an arranged marriage, and she had never even been in a relationship before. She also wanted to try what it was like to be in love.
As the two chatted, Shen's father and Shen Ze came back.
The little nephew dropped a pen on the ground. Seeing that Le Jia was about to step on it, Chen Ze strode towards her, helped her sit on the sofa, and then calmly picked up the pen from the ground: "What are you talking about? You look so happy?"
Xu Qingwu smiled: "Sister-in-law wants to fall in love, brother, you should try harder."
Le Jia was almost embarrassed and reached out to pat her: "Qingwu, stop talking nonsense."
Before Shen Ze could speak, Shen's mother called everyone to the restaurant to eat. Shen Ze took Le Jia over, and Xu Qingwu took it upon herself to take care of her nephew.
While eating, Shen Ze picked up a chicken leg and gave it to his nephew. He hesitated for a moment when there was one left.
In the past, the brother and sister each got one chicken leg. After they got married, Xu Qingwu and Le Jia each got one. But today, with the addition of a little nephew, there is only one left.
Before Xu Qingwu and Le Jia could speak, Shen Ze had already passed it to Le Jia.
Le Jia quickly said, "Give it to Qingwu. I eat it every day, and she rarely comes home."
Shen Ze asked her to eat: "Not going home is her problem, not yours. She can eat something else."
Xu Qingwu saw that Chen Ze and Le Jia were on better terms than before, and she was very happy for them. After all, her brother was even less intelligent than Cen Xihuai, and they were still polite to each other after being married for so long.
Xu Qingwu deliberately said: "Brother, you are biased!"
Chen Ze didn't even look at her: "Is there a problem with me being partial to my wife? If you have any problems, go find your husband. He's not around all day anyway, so it doesn't matter if he has any."
Xu Qingwu: "..."
Well, she shouldn't have provoked her brother. When he gets angry, he can kill people with just a few words.
An hour later, there will be a fireworks show by the river.
Shen's father and mother didn't like to join in the fun, but the little nephew and Le Jia wanted to go and see it, so Shen Ze took them there and asked Xu Qingwu to do odd jobs and take care of the little nephew.
A group of people went to the riverside.
Fireworks are prohibited in the city, but this application was made specifically to celebrate New Year's Eve, so there were a lot of people.
For safety reasons, Shen Ze took them to the other side where there were fewer people, but it was only relatively less crowded.
From the moment the crowd gathered, Shen Ze placed his nephew on his shoulders and asked Xu Qingwu to take good care of Le Jia. Because Le Jia was pregnant, Xu Qingwu was even more nervous than Shen Ze.
Le Jia was amused by the brother and sister's alert state: "You guys shouldn't be so nervous."
Shen Ze said seriously, “Pay attention to yourself too.”
Le Jia stuck out his tongue and said okay.
Someone pushed over, and Xu Qingwu immediately became alert to protect Le Jia, not noticing the vibrating and flashing cell phone in his pocket.
The fireworks show began and the crowd exclaimed in surprise. Xu Qingwu suddenly remembered the fireworks that Cen Xihuai gave her at the wedding.
There were all kinds of flower patterns, all the flowers he wanted to give her.
Today is their first New Year's Eve together, but unfortunately he is not with her.
There were a lot of people, and the surroundings were noisy, lively and bustling.
But at this moment, she felt so lonely.
I miss him so much.
Suddenly, my wrist was grabbed.
She turned around in surprise, and a firework bloomed in the night sky above her head, and she fell into a pair of smiling black eyes.
The place was bustling with people, and the sounds of fireworks and exclamations filled my ears.
She saw Cen Xihuai's mouth shape: "Found you, girlfriend."
The fireworks show was divided into two parts. The first half had ended and some people who had just come to join in the fun had already left.
Le Jia also saw Cen Xihuai, and she pulled Chen Ze's sleeve to indicate that she wanted to go back.
After greeting each other, Shen Ze took Le Jia and his nephew back, leaving the space to Xu Qingwu and Cen Xihuai.
On the way back, the little nephew was so tired that he fell asleep. Chen Ze held the child in his arms and Le Jia held his arm.
"Aze..."
Le Jia hesitated to speak, Shen Ze stopped and looked at her: "What's wrong?"
After much hesitation, Le Jia finally exposed the thorn buried deep in her heart, even though she had originally planned to keep it hidden and pretend to be ignorant for the rest of her life.
Maybe it was the sweet interaction between Xu Qingwu and Cen Xihuai that she had just seen, or it could be the chicken leg that Chen Ze had passed to her at the dinner table, or it could be the accidental discovery of his cleared photo album.
Le Jia mustered up the courage to ask, "Chen Ze, do you still like Qing Wu?"
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