Chapter 436 You Protect Me (Two in One)
After dinner, everyone sat down to rest for a while, chatted, and then went out for a walk together.
As soon as they stepped out of Xie's door, Wenxi teased Li Yu: "Xiaoyu, are you full? Do you want your brothers and sisters to accompany you to sweep the food street again?"
Li Yu's face suddenly turned red. The awkward feeling before the meal almost attacked him again. He nodded vigorously: "I'm full, I'm full!"
Xie Zhuoyi's arrangement would definitely not leave anyone with empty stomachs. The portion of each dish was not large, but there were so many dishes, all kinds of meat and vegetables were served in a continuous stream, and everyone thought that they were going to serve all the dishes on the menu. In the end, Xu Qingsong had to stop the meal after asking the waiter to stop.
Li Yu was the youngest here, and he was six to ten years older than Liu Wangxue and the others. Usually everyone treated him as a younger brother, and sometimes when they were in a good mood, they would tease him like a child. For example, now was a good time to tease a child.
The back and forth chatter made Li Yu so amused that he just lay down and let them laugh at him. He turned around and went to the small shop next door to buy a string of candied haws. He even deliberately picked a string of five, put it to his mouth, stared at them, and took a bite, chewing the sugar coating with a crunchy sound, as if he was venting his anger.
A few people were teasing the child and ended up making themselves laugh.
Tao Huayu laughed and embraced Li Yu, patted his head, pointed at the candied haws with four hawthorns left in his hand and "warned" everyone: "Okay, stop laughing. If you laugh again, be careful that you will be like this candied haws and be broken into pieces!"
No one could hold back and burst into laughter again.
After exiting the food and commercial street and walking along the main road, you will truly enter Sumi Village.
The Xie Family Mansion, located at the end of the main road in the innermost part of the village, is a must-see. The Xie Family Mansion is a five-in-five-out courtyard. The exterior of the building is in typical Anhui style, while the interior design is a fusion of southern and northern art, such as "carved beams" and "painted buildings". There is a small garden in front and behind the mansion, which also combines the styles of the north and the south.
Today, the Xie Family Mansion and the Xie Family Ancestral Hall next to it have been protected as historical relics, and some areas are open to tourists. The front hall of the mansion has been converted into a small museum, displaying some materials and books, telling the past of Yumura.
The Xie Family Mansion was the residence of all the clan leaders and their families, but after that turbulent era, the title of "clan leader" no longer existed, and was replaced by "village chief". After the Xie Mansion was returned, only one person was left to take care of it, but no one lived in it - the last clan leader died in that era, and his descendants were said to have traveled to various parts of the motherland and could not be contacted in the end. After that, the front hall of the mansion was once used as the office of the village committee.
After the tourism development, in addition to the protective repair of the original buildings in Yumura, new plans were also made around the village. For example, in addition to the food and commercial street, a piece of land was also set aside to build new houses. Some old houses were no longer suitable for living, so some were renovated and used as exhibition halls, while others were directly protected and the original residents were moved to the new houses.
Everyone walked, looked and talked. Li Yu was "returning to his old job". He was most familiar with the history and architecture here, so he acted as a tour guide for everyone.
When the tour of the Xie family mansion was almost over, everyone was curious whether the house of Junior Master Xu Qingsong was also like this, and asked him: "Can you take us to visit it?"
Xu Qingsong said, "No, Junior Master's house only has a two-story courtyard. If you want to go, you have to wait for my aunt to come back and I'll ask."
Xie Zhuoyi's family is not large, and almost every generation has only one son. With a small population, the required living space naturally does not need to be too large. Moreover, every generation in their family focuses on the kitchen, and they don't worry about things like houses and deeds. They just focus on having enough space for their daily needs.
Xie Zhuoyi has settled in Beijing now. After all, his wife is from Beijing and the twins also go to school in Beijing. His grandmother died early, and after his grandfather passed away, only his parents lived in the house. Xu Qingsong had only met the old man twice and was not very familiar with him, so he didn't want to disturb him rashly.
Tao Huayu asked: "When will your aunt come back?"
"Tomorrow night." Xu Qingsong said.
Li Yu asked: "What time is it? We are going to play a script-killing game tomorrow afternoon. If you, Brother Qingsong, and Sister Xuxu want to go to pick them up, will you make it in time?" They have already booked the tickets, and the script they chose is one of the more popular ones recently, which happens to be a six-person group. It would be a pity if Xu Qingsong and Liu Wangxue could not participate.
Xu Qingsong said: "It's okay, no need to pick them up, they have arranged a car themselves."
When the twins sent messages during dinner, Xu Qingsong asked them for flight information, but the twins said: [The plane will land late, so we won’t disturb your sweet night with your future sister-in-law.]
It was also accompanied by an emoticon that looked like it saw through everything but was a bit mean.
Xu Qingsong was messaging them in front of Liu Wangxue. When this message popped up, Liu Wangxue almost choked on her soup. She tried her best to hold it back, swallowed it, coughed twice, and asked Xu Qingsong, "How old are they?"
Xu Qingsong raised his hand to smooth her back, and said with a smile: "After the 18th day of the Spring Festival, the college entrance examination will be held in June next year."
"They are little brats." Liu Wangxue commented, and then asked, "They are in their third year of high school now. If they want to come over to play, will the teacher approve their leave?"
Xu Qingsong put down his phone after sending the message: "Their school implements quality education, and they never let students down during holidays. Moreover, they are always ranked first and second in their grade, so teachers usually approve their requests for leave."
"That's great!" Liu Wangxue praised.
After coming out of the Xie family mansion, several people went to other exhibition halls along the way to take a look. After the tour, it was almost time, so they planned to return to the hotel.
Wenxi had originally planned to walk back slowly, but when he saw the sightseeing bus at the entrance of the village, he could no longer walk. He looked at everyone with hope and asked sincerely, "How about we take the bus?"
After riding a bicycle for more than 20 kilometers in the morning and walking here for an entire afternoon, Liu Wangxue felt tired, so she followed Wenxi's suggestion and asked everyone, "What about taking a bus?"
"Okay, let's get in the car." The four men had no objection.
It was only a few steps to the sightseeing bus stop, and Wenxi seemed to be exhausted. She grabbed Du Yunkai tightly and was dragged by him.
Du Yunkai turned around and smiled at her: "How about I carry you over?"
Wenxi thought for a moment and said, "I'd better carry it on my back."
She was joking, but she didn't expect Du Yunkai to actually squat in front of her: "Come on, come up."
"Hey!" Wenxi was happy, and she was no longer exhausted. She jumped up and let Du Yunkai carry her. Under the setting sun, their shadows overlapped, and Du Yunkai even ran a few steps, which made Wenxi laugh out loud, attracting the attention of passers-by, and a group of girls were envious.
Liu Wangxue was looking at them and smiling. Xu Qingsong lowered his head and asked her, "Will I carry you on my back too?"
Liu Wangxue shook her head and shook her interlocked hands: "I think this is great, let's go together."
A breeze blew by, lifting her long hair on her shoulders, which was coated with a layer of golden red by the setting sun. A strand of hair near her ear also floated up, covering her dimple and sticking to the corner of her lips.
Xu Qingsong raised his hand to help her remove the unruly strand of hair, tucked it behind her ear and straightened it. He felt that her bright smile was so touching that he couldn't help but lower his head and kiss her on the lips.
Liu Wangxue didn't have time to dodge. After being kissed, she subconsciously glanced around, fearing that she would be watched.
Tao Huayu had already covered Li Yu's eyes and pulled her aside: "It's a big deal to be in love every day, one or two, there's no end to the dog food."
Li Yu pulled his hand down and laughed at him: "Brother Huayu, if you are envious or jealous, just tell me directly. I will not discriminate against you."
Tao Huayu patted him on the head: "You kid——"
A few people got on the sightseeing bus and returned to the hotel chatting and laughing in the sunset breeze.
We met Jin Zhaofei, Richard and others at the hotel entrance. About ten of them had just come out of the revolving door in a noisy manner. Each of them was holding a small bag in their hands. They greeted Xu Qingsong and the others from a distance.
"Where are you going?" Du Yunkai asked.
Jin Zhaofei threw the bag in his hand up, then caught it and said, "Let's go to the hot spring bath. We plan to stay there tonight."
Gu Zicheng added: "Go and enjoy the one-stop service."
Zheng Zhou complained to him: "Can you please not use this expression when you are talking seriously, otherwise it will easily make people misunderstand that we are going for some kind of health care."
The group of people immediately laughed wildly.
Richard didn't understand, so he asked Jin Zhaofei a question. After Jin Zhaofei finished translating for him, he immediately looked at him with disdain.
Xu Qingsong coughed and said, "Be careful when speaking in public." The most important thing is that there are two ladies around him.
Everyone immediately fell silent, and then waved their bags and said goodbye to them: "We're leaving first!"
Richard asked Xu Qingsong and the others, "Do you want to go? I heard there are Chinese medicine soups and massages. I went hiking with Xiao Jin and the others today, and went cycling on the winding mountain road in the afternoon. I want to go and relax."
Du Yunkai said: "We'll go too, but we want to go back to the room and rest for a while first."
Jin Zhaofei turned around and called Richard. He responded, waved to a few people, and said, "I'm leaving first. See you over there."
"good."
As they walked toward the hotel, through the lobby, and took the elevator upstairs, Li Yu asked, "Where are we going to have dinner? The hot spring bath?"
Liu Wangxue responded, "That's fine. I saw in the brochure that there are quite a lot of restaurants there. What do you think?"
Everyone nodded in agreement. Tao Huayu said, "There's a Dai-style restaurant over there. The food is quite delicious. You can go and try it."
"OK."
Dinner was thus arranged, and as soon as the elevator arrived, everyone went back to their rooms.
Liu Wangxue took off her coat as soon as she entered the room and went to the bathroom first. Xu Qingsong helped her hang up her clothes, took off his own and hung them up, walked to the French window, opened the curtains, and sat on the sofa to wait for her.
Before he got off the sightseeing bus, his phone had been vibrating frequently. He took it out and found that there was not only information about the twins, but also a group that they, the younger generation in the sect, had created together. This group was usually very quiet when nothing happened. The last time it went viral was when Xu Qingsong officially announced his relationship on WeChat Moments a few days ago. Today, for some reason, the number of messages has reached 99+.
The twins even created a small group of three for him, in which they took turns posting messages.
Beibei: [Brother, I heard from dad that you have a little brother who studies landscape architecture. You must introduce him to me when the time comes.]
When Xie Zhuoyi was chatting with Li Yu, he found out that he was not a high school student, but a senior. He asked a few more questions and found out that he was majoring in landscape architecture. On the way to the airport, Beibei called him and learned that Xu Qingsong and Liu Wangxue were here, so the twins wanted to come over. Xie Zhuoyi mentioned it casually. It happened that Beibei wanted to choose landscape architecture as her major, so he suggested that his daughter could take this opportunity to have a good chat with Li Yu.
Kang Kang: [Brother, do you have any plans for the 31st? Mom said if you don’t have any plans, she will invite you and sister-in-law to have dinner at home to celebrate the New Year.]
Beibei: [Brother, you don’t know, we said in the group that we wanted to go back to see my sister-in-law, and Xiaoxiao and the others were so jealous hehe]
Kang Kang: [Bold prediction, they have already started to crawl in the dark]
Beibei: [Brother, you know they are all fans of your studio’s games. I didn’t expect you to win over the screenwriter himself. They are all waiting for you to bring your sister-in-law back for autographs and photos.]
Kang Kang continued: [Hahahaha, we got there first! ! ! They usually bully us, but this time we will definitely show off to them]
Beibei: [I am so jealous of them (distorted face.jpg)]
The two little brats were getting happier and happier as they talked, and if you scroll down, you’ll see only giggling emoticons.
After Xu Qingsong exited, he clicked into the group again. As the twins said, everyone was "crawling in the dark", jealous beyond recognition. He laughed at his phone and didn't send any messages in it, fearing to irritate them. The twins didn't reply for the time being, wanting to wait for Liu Wangxue to come out and ask her what she thought.
After Liu Wangxue finished using the restroom, she stood in front of the sink and removed her makeup. When she came out and walked into the living room, she saw Xu Qingsong laughing. She stood behind the sofa, bent over and put her hands on the backrest, with her forearms hanging in front of Xu Qingsong's chest, her face close to his ear, and asked, "What are you watching so funny again?"
Xu Qingsong tilted his head and looked at her, then pulled her hand and said, "Come here."
Liu Wangxue walked over and tried to sit next to him, but he embraced her with his arms and hugged her, and she sat horizontally in his arms.
Xu Qingsong put his arms around her, pulled up the group message for her to see, and kissed her on the cheek: "Why are you so popular? These people haven't even seen you yet, and they are ready to fight for you. What will they do if they see you in person?"
Liu Wangxue was concentrating on his phone and did not answer.
Xu Qingsong raised his hand and pinched her earlobe, then asked again: "Hmm? What do you think we should do?"
Liu Wangxue smiled, put one arm around his neck, took his phone with the other hand and put it against his neck to swipe through it, looking nonchalant: "Protect me."
(End of this chapter)
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