Chapter 186 Bodyguard

The rosewood dining table was filled with exquisite and sumptuous dishes, and two bottles of Moutai 80's were opened on the table.

Grandpa Song sat at the head of the round table, with Song Mianzhi and Cui Ning on his right, and next to him was Song Leyan, who looked disdainful and unwilling.

On his left, one empty seat away, sat He Tingzhou, who had a date.

He was wearing the same blue-gray suit he wore during the day. His shoulders were straight and broad, and the way he sat with his legs crossed revealed an innate dignity.

He and four other pairs of eyes looked at Shuang Xu together. The slightly raised arc at the corners of his eyes expressed three words: Surprise?

...When he said he had an appointment with someone, did he mean someone from the Song family?

Shuang Xu frowned. She didn't want He Tingzhou to have too much involvement with the Song family. They were being nice to him now just because they were treating him as a profitable tool.

He Tingzhou pulled out the chair next to her and tapped her fingers on the back of the chair twice. She walked over and sat down.

"Why are you back so late?" It was the first time Shuangxu had seen such a gentle look on Grandpa Song's face. "Tingzhou has been waiting for you for a long time."

Shuang Xu asked He Tingzhou: "Why are you here?"

Without even telling her, he must have known that she didn't want him to come.

"I invited him here. I asked you to tell him but you refused, so I had to call him myself." Grandpa Song blamed her for refusing outright in the morning. "Tingzhou knows more etiquette than you. I invited him to dinner at home, and he agreed without hesitation, and even turned down a dinner invitation in the evening."

He Tingzhou said, "Don't think too much. I'm just here to be her bodyguard. I heard that you Song family would eat people. If I don't come to watch over her, if she gets eaten by you, where can I go to cry?"

“…”

The words of Grandpa Song got stuck in his throat, and his old face almost turned purple: "This is her home, who would eat her?"

"If you want to eat, you have to be able to eat." He Tingzhou said, "There are a lot of dishes today, and I see that you don't have big appetites. If you want to become fat in one go, you'd better take it easy and be careful of indigestion."

Don't be too insinuating.

The Song family members all looked very happy.

Grandpa Song originally wanted to ease the relationship with Shuang Xu. If she married into the He family in the future, the Song family would be the biggest beneficiary.

He had witnessed He Tingzhou's attitude towards Shuang Xu with his own eyes. He even took on such a difficult problem for Shen Changyuan. He thought that for Shuang Xu's sake, he would maintain superficial harmony with the Song family. However, he had no idea how wild He Tingzhou's methods were, and he never expected that he would give them a warning right from the start.

"What do you mean by that?"

He Tingzhou's laziness was mixed with contempt: "I'm speaking Chinese. If you don't understand, please ask Director Song to translate for me."

Song Mianzhi was only wearing a simple and elegant white shirt at home. Compared to Cui Ning and Song Leyan's hidden unhappiness and Grandpa Song's face that was almost deformed by choking, he remained calm and said, "Tingzhou is joking. Let's eat."

Shuang Xu came back just to discuss the household registration issue. He didn't want to eat this meal, and he didn't have the appetite to eat with the Song family.

Just two sentences made Master Song furious. He Tingzhou, who was not at all embarrassed, wiped his hands with a disinfected towel and started peeling shrimps for her.

He fed her the cleanly peeled shrimps: "Eat first, then quarrel."

Song family: "..."

Frost Preface: “…”

Could you please not say it?

She opened her mouth and ate the shrimp. Never mind, let's eat first.

The Song family doesn't have such a good appetite.

There was a strange silence for a moment, and Grandpa Song personally used a serving chopstick to pick up a piece of thinly sliced ​​raw beef for Shuangxu: "This raw cut is well done."

The more He Tingzhou cared for Shuang Xu, the more he believed that he had made the right decision to abandon the Zheng family and join the He family.

His hand was just halfway extended when Shuang Xu said without raising his head, "I don't eat raw meat."

Grandpa Song paused the chopsticks holding the raw beef in mid-air, put them down, and replaced them with a piece of fried foie gras: "Then have a piece of foie gras..."

Shuang Xu: "I don't eat dirty food either."

As an elder, he lowered his face to please her, but she made him lose face twice in a row. He really didn't know what was good for him! Mr. Song's face turned bad: "So what do you like to eat?"

"I love eating shrimps. Didn't you see me peeling them?" He Tingzhou said, "You are so young, how come your hearing and eyesight are not good?"

"...You!" Grandpa Song, who is already over 70 years old, was so angry that his face turned black. "I am your elder, why do you talk to me like this?"

Song Mianzhi frowned slightly: "Tingzhou, your grandfather had surgery for a heart attack, don't be angry with him."

He Tingzhou seemed not to hear and put the peeled shrimps in a row on the plate. Shuangxu held his hand to stop him from peeling them. He asked, "Are you full?"

"Almost."

"It's really easy to stay healthy if you eat this little."

He Tingzhou took the towel to wipe his hands, then he raised his eyelids and looked at Song Mianzhi: "She's done eating, so let's talk business. Those with bad intentions are advised to stay away."

The Song family specially invited this person to cultivate some relationship, but they never expected that he had bad intentions.

Even Shuang Xu looked at him in surprise.

What does he want to talk to the Song family?

Grandpa Song and Song Mianzhi looked at each other, and Song Mianzhi put down his chopsticks: "What do you want to talk to us about?"

He Tingzhou put the towel on the table, leaned back in his chair, and said as if it had nothing to do with him: "Don't ask me, I'm just a bodyguard."

“…”

Shuang Xu didn't waste any more time and went straight to the point: "I want to move my household registration out."

As soon as she finished speaking, Master Song rejected her proposal in a decisive manner: "No! We have no objection to your relationship with Tingzhou, so you don't have to move your household registration. When you two discuss marriage in the future, the elders of both sides will need to intervene. If you cut off ties with your family, it won't sound good if others tell you about it."

Then he softened his tone, "Don't worry, your family will not treat you unfairly. When you get married, your father and I will definitely prepare a generous dowry for you."

Shuang Xu only felt it was ironic. Did she really care about that little bit of dowry?

"My relationship with him does not require your consent. I am not begging for your pitiful concern. Fifteen years have passed. You can't make up for our relationship by giving me a few pieces of vegetables I don't like or a dowry. I am not seeking your permission for the household registration. Whether you agree or not, I will move out."

"I have already talked to you about this before." Song Mianzhi said, "You were born in a family like ours, so you should be aware of it and not be as willful as ordinary people. You should consider the consequences before doing anything. I don't mind you getting close to the Shen family, but if you transfer your household registration to the Shen family, it would be a slap in my face."

All he cared about from beginning to end was his reputation and his career.

"You misunderstood." Shuang Xu said, "I want to live on my own."