Chapter 6
Since he had already accepted the thank-you gift, Yan Qing no longer refused and returned to the room with his bag.
After taking a shower, it was already pouring rain outside. Yan Qing turned on the computer to prepare for work when the cell phone rang.
"mom?"
"Xixi, your dad and I will go to Haicheng tomorrow to see you."
You came to check on me so soon.
Looking at the heavy rain outside, Yan Qing opened his mouth to stop it: "The weather in Haicheng has been bad recently."
Yan's mother could tell her daughter was unhappy. "We haven't seen each other in six months. The last time we met was when we were abroad, and we just met briefly at the airport. Don't worry, your dad and I are just going to see where you live. Yan Zheng said you rented a room in a B&B for a long time, so your dad and I have to check it out before we can be assured, right?"
"What time is the flight?"
After hanging up the phone, Yan Qing closed the computer he had just opened and returned to bed.
Looking at his parents chatting and laughing in front of him, Yan Qing took a deep breath, and they both turned around at the same time: "Xixi, let's have lunch at the B&B restaurant."
Yan Qing: "There is no lunch at the B&B."
Yan's mother flipped through her phone, occasionally showing it to Yan Qing.
After checking my parents in, the drizzle started again.
Yan's mother sighed, "It rains so much in Haicheng. I felt sticky as soon as I got off the plane."
"When I was a child, I went to your company. The climate there was similar to that in Haicheng." Yan Qing looked at the birds taking shelter from the rain under the eaves and felt that he was very lucky to be reborn as a human.
No one paid any attention to her words.
Mr. Yan didn't care about these things. He refused the help of the B&B staff and pushed the two large boxes by himself.
The two of them wandered around Yan Qing's room, offering their opinions from time to time.
"Eat in the room at noon. I have ordered lunch and it will be delivered soon." Yan Qing reminded the two.
At the dinner table, the three of them chatted, and Yan Qing mentioned that Zhou Mingshu had returned to China some time ago, which sparked the conversation of Yan's mother.
"Mingshu has brought her boyfriend home. I met him. He's good-looking, tall and strong, with a nice personality. He smiles and talks a lot, and can chat with anyone." Speaking of this, Yan's mother sighed with emotion, her eyes a little sad. "I remember the first time I met Mingshu, it was her parents who invited us to dinner. I thought he was a scammer at the time."
Father Yan was a man of few words, and had been listening quietly to his wife's chatter. Upon hearing this, he couldn't help but join in: "We're not home all year round, and Xixi is grateful to the Zhou family for taking care of her."
Seeing that the two of them seemed to be about to cry, Yan Qing quickly interrupted them: "It's been so many years, there's no need to cry."
Realizing that she was losing control, Mother Yan immediately changed her expression: "You're always like this. Even if it's your own business, you don't care at all when it comes to your mouth. Since you don't want to talk about this, then talk about yourself."
"I'm fine."
"Boyfriend." Yan's father beside him reminded silently.
Yan Qing was thinking of finding an excuse when he was interrupted by the ringing of the phone. The two people beside him looked at each other and pricked up their ears.
"Come and eat crabs tonight."
"My parents are here."
The person on the other end didn't seem to expect this result. After a few seconds, he said, "Okay, I'll buy some more vegetables. Are there any dietary restrictions, uncle or aunt?"
Before Yan Qing could say no, her mother, who was eavesdropping nearby, accepted the offer on her behalf.
After hanging up the phone, Yan Qing looked at the man with a dark face, who seemed even a little complacent. "Why did you agree without asking me? Do you know who he is?"
"Anyone who calls you to invite you to dinner is definitely not a stranger. There's nothing wrong with having a meal together. It's a good opportunity to experience the customs and culture of Haicheng." Yan's mother ignored her daughter's dark face and muttered. The more she spoke, the more she felt that what she said made sense. Even Yan's father nodded.
The two of them did business and traveled all over the country. With the love and care of her husband and family, Yan's mother developed a willful personality. Once she made up her mind about something, no one could pull her back.
Yan Qing felt that her explanation was unreasonable. As a mother, once she made up her mind about something, she would not change it even if the sky fell.
"The owner of the B&B?" She didn't believe it. "Why would the owner of the B&B invite you to dinner? Is he interested in you?"
When talking about Yan Qing's feelings, Yan's mother became excited.
Yan Qing didn't expect Ming Xu to call her specifically to have dinner, so she could only find an excuse to call him and remind him of some things to pay attention to.
In the evening, the three of them came to Mingxu's office, and the person who invited them was waiting there early.
The four of them exchanged greetings for a while, Yan Qing and Ming Xu looked at each other, and then everyone sat down one by one.
Looking at the table full of seafood, there were many kinds she had never seen before. Ming Xu must have gone out to buy them on the spur of the moment. Now she owed him another favor.
Father Yan raised his glass first: "Boss Ming, thank you for taking care of Xixi during this period. Today, I will use water instead of wine to toast you."
Xixi? Mingxu glanced at Yan Qing thoughtfully, then quickly looked away. "We're all friends living here, it's only natural. You're too polite, uncle."
Just as Yan's mother was about to say something, there was a hurried knock on the door. Mingxu signaled others to eat first, and he got up and went out, closing the door behind him.
A moment later, he opened the door nervously, but did not come in: "Uncle and aunt, I'm so sorry, I have something urgent to do and have to go out." After saying that, he looked at Yan Qing expressionlessly.
Yan Qing gave him a thumbs-up with her eyes.
"Okay, okay, go ahead and don't worry about us."
"Wait until I come back and book a table, then we can talk."
Watching Ming Xu's performance, Yan Qing couldn't help but want to give him the Best Actor award. His acting skills were so superb that it was impossible to tell that he was acting.
After he left, Yan Qingshun took out the mobile phone on the table and sent a text message: Thank you.
The other party replied quickly: There really is something going on.
The three words on the screen made Yan Qing feel like a drop of blue water was falling on her head. Mother Yan raised her hand and gave her a chopstick: "I think this child is not bad, but he is too far away, two or three thousand kilometers." Her tone was full of regret.
Father Yan peeled a crab and placed it in his wife's bowl, saying soothingly, "Why don't we buy a house in Haicheng? Even if we don't live there, Xixi doesn't have to stay in a B&B. The neighborhood will be safer there, after all."
After leaving the B&B, Mingxu drove back home.
"Mingxu, if you don't bring your girlfriend back this year, don't come back."
Mingli had just finished a meeting when he received a call from his mother urging him to come back. Before he even entered the door, he heard furious voices from inside.
He paused at the door and opened it.
Ming Xu heard the door open and raised his eyebrows to look at his mother. Seeing his eldest son coming back, Ming's father went upstairs without looking back.
"There's a family war going on every month, Mom. If it happens again, just buy a plane ticket and go out for a few days."
Listening to Mingli's joking words, Ming's mother glared at him and said, "This brat should buy the plane tickets."
Ming Xu, who was leaning against the wall, picked up the mobile phone on the ground, shook it at the person who made sarcastic remarks, operated everything with difficulty, and picked up the car keys lying on the other side.
"Where are you going?"
Seeing her youngest son about to go out, Ming's mother immediately stepped forward to stop him.
"Big Brother plans it, you stamp it, and I execute it."
As soon as he finished speaking, a voice came from upstairs: "Let him go!"
Mingxu patted his mother's shoulder and said, "Keep in touch." Then he made a hushing gesture.
After watching his brother leave, Mingli picked up the scattered items on the ground and said, "Every time you throw pillows, why did you throw your phone today?"
Ming's mother wanted to laugh when she thought of this: "Your brother stepped on the pillow and slipped."
"Poor kid." He gestured upstairs. "Let's split the blame fifty-fifty."
Someone upstairs popped their head out from the side of the stairs and said disdainfully, "Let's put it this way. I certainly won't shirk responsibility. Whoever bought a new one, bring me the invoice."
After leaving home, Ming Xu looked at the phone whose screen was shattered into pieces, started the car and sped away.
Yang Mingzhou looked at the uninvited guest at the door and woke up: "Why are you here? You scared me."
"Why are you feeling guilty? Are you worried that your ex-girlfriends will come and cause trouble for you? Why don't you turn on the lights? Are you afraid of the light?"
"I didn't sleep from yesterday morning to this afternoon, and you came right after I fell asleep. And, I don't like what you said. We're all friends, and we should part ways amicably. You make it sound like I've let them down." Yang Mingzhou poured him a glass of water and saw the phone on the table. He understood, "Did you have another fight with President Ming? But he has to compensate you for this phone, right?"
He was used to the quarrels between father and son, but this was the first time Mingxu came to him for refuge. Yang Mingzhou felt that this matter was a bit serious.
Ming Xu lay on the sofa and asked, "Tell me, how can you find someone's contact information without knowing anything?"
"Dude, you can't do anything illegal. It will delay your child's civil service exam."
Mingxu rolled his eyes. He sat up and stared intently at the person on the sofa. "[Let's eat spicy hot pot], do you remember?"
Yang Mingzhou was suspicious: "You are not still thinking about me, are you?"
Seeing Mingxu didn't say anything, he changed his posture and tried to persuade him earnestly: "I say, it's been so many years, she might have been married long ago, and her children can speak. What's more, you don't even know what she looks like, it's really..."
"She is twenty-five."
Yang Mingzhou was stunned for a moment: "Twenty is the legal age. I'm already twenty-five. If I had a childhood sweetheart or something, I could get married right after graduating from college."
"I saw her."
"who?"
Mingxu raised his eyes, and Yang Mingzhou reacted and asked tentatively, "Spicy hot pot? Where? In a dream?"
"A gentle breeze is coming."
Yang Mingzhou was completely dumbfounded: "You don't even know what she looks like, how can you be sure it's her?"
"One year, a new member joined the guild group and posted a photo. The servant exposed it as a fake photo, and the person in the photo was actually her."
"Why haven't I seen that photo?"
"I withdrew."
"You won't save it?"
Ming Xu fell silent again. Yang Mingzhou was completely confused. He grabbed his shoulder and asked again, "You didn't really save it, did you?"
"I have it in my mind. When I saw her in the breeze, I was still unsure, but that day, I was sure it was her. It was all her."
Yang Mingzhou didn't understand what Mingxu meant by what she said, but based on Mingxu's habit of writing three solutions to math problems at a time, he believed it.
For his brother's happiness, Yang Mingzhou decided to go and find out about the situation for him. Just as he was about to find someone, he suddenly remembered something and approached Mingxu mysteriously, "There's a couple getting married in the gang in three months. They're [Pink Lightning], you know them. They sent out invitations to everyone. You should have received them, right?"
Ming Xu nodded: "I'm not going."
"What if she goes too? I'll go find out the situation for you."
Half an hour later, Ming Xu was almost asleep when he heard Yang Mingzhou's loud voice: "Good news!"
Looking at the chat box on the phone, the two of them exchanged a glance. Yang Mingzhou tilted his head back and shook his legs, looking like, "How awesome is this bastard?"
Yan Qing was writing when she received Zhou Mingshu's message. She was still as impatient as ever. Messages came one after another, and after clicking on them, she was attracted by three words.
[Zhou Mingshu]: Confirmed news, the gang leader and Coal Ball Brother will also attend Lightning’s wedding.
[Zhou Mingshu]: Are you there?
[Yan Qing]: I understand.
Zhou Mingshu could feel Yan Qing's indifference even through the screen. He felt a little discouraged and quickly complained, "Can you be more lively?"
[Yan Qing]: Got it. (/laughing/)
After exiting the chat box, Yan Qingfang looked at the keyboard and hesitated to continue.
People change. Some people are no longer the same after just one night.
She didn't want to gamble, didn't want to tie her joys and sorrows to another person, someone who knew nothing about her.
But what if it were me back then? Would I be willing to take the risk?
Yan Qing stood on the balcony, letting the wind blow her hair. From time to time, the sound of young couples playing could be heard not far away. The sound was getting closer and closer. The three of them looked at each other. Yan Qing looked at their backs, opened her phone to look for something, but stopped.
Zhou Mingshu, who was woken from his sleep, sat up with a start: "You want to change the computer?"
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