Friends (love line)
On Saturday morning, the first people to come were not their two friends, but the aunt that Shen Baichuan specially called over. Otherwise, they can use their cooking skills to entertain friends?
I'm afraid my friends will laugh at me. It would be better to just eat fruits than the food they cook, or go out to a nearby restaurant for dinner when the time comes.
Aunt Yang used to work at Shen Baichuan's grandfather's house. They were also from Rong City. Shen Baichuan came back from studying abroad and settled in Rong City. Aunt Yang, her husband, and children followed him back and stayed to work at Shen Baichuan's house.
The driver who drove Shen Baichuan back before was Aunt Yang’s husband, Uncle Wu.
Aunt Yang was busy in the kitchen, and the meat and vegetables were brought over by Uncle Wu. Chen Jin and Shen Baichuan were not idle either, they were moving tables and chairs to the backyard.
"You didn't sleep well last night?" Chen Jin pointed at his eye circles and said exaggeratedly, "Like a national treasure."
"Yeah, I can't sleep."
Chen Jin said with a smile: "Isn't it just inviting friends to dinner? You don't have to cook, and it's not the first time you meet, why are you so nervous? Eh..."
Looking back, Aunt Yang and Uncle Wu were busy and didn't look at the backyard, so she came closer and looked at Shen Baichuan's eyes carefully and seriously, and said in surprise: "I found that your pupil color is very light, is this considered light brown?"
Shen Baichuan was stunned, his body stiff and he dared not move. It was the first time she came so close to him. After a long time, she whispered: "I inherited it from my mother."
"Oh." Chen Jin realized that he was too close, and when he saw Shen Baichuan's face start to turn red little by little, he was no longer embarrassed. Hehe, whoever feels shy first will be embarrassed.
He took a step back as if nothing had happened and said, "They should be here soon. I'll go to the kitchen to see the snacks Aunt Yang made."
Shen Baichuan saw her walking very fast. Coincidentally, she had tied her hair into a high ponytail today. Without her hair to cover it, her two ears, which were red enough to drip blood, were exposed.
Psychologically balanced.
Nie Rong arrived first. He brought a box of wine with him and said, "Let's see. If no one wants to drink it, then keep it."
Xie Ning and Shang Jing both followed his car and chose to go to Chen Jin's house between Chen Jin's and Shen Baichuan's houses.
It was the first time that Nie Rong came here. When Chen Jin led people to the backyard, he waved his hand and said, "You go about your business. We don't need to entertain you." After that, he started walking around in the backyard, looking everywhere for the hidden big orange.
They were indeed old acquaintances. Chen Jin knew that he was not just being polite, so he turned around and went out to pick someone up. The security guard also said, "Teacher Shen's house also has guests."
"Yes, we invited them together. They are all our friends. We just wanted to invite them together to be our guests."
As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Jin waved at the incoming cars, signaling them to park the car in the open space next to the entrance of the community.
Professor Kong and Professor Qi walked out together with their hands behind their backs. Seeing this, they asked, "Xiao Chen, are you and Teacher Shen organizing a social gathering?"
"Haha, no, no, it just happened to be a friend we both know. We haven't seen each other for a long time, so I asked him to come over to my house as a guest." Chen Jin explained with just one sentence.
Professor Kong said with a smile: "Then you guys have fun, the two old guys are going to go find some friends."
After walking a few steps, I heard Professor Kong and Professor Qi say, "Young people don't like socializing these days. Look at what you're talking about. Socializing... tsk!"
Professor Qi quickly retorted, "Why is it not popular? You retired and don't teach anymore, so you don't know the current situation of students. There are many students in the school who participate in social activities!"
Chen Jin at the back sighed helplessly. Whenever these two got together, they would start bickering every once in a while.
Chen Jin looked and saw that most of her friends had arrived. Yang Qian, Nie Rong, Xie Ning, Shang Jing and Wei Zhenhua, as well as her second cousin, Zhuang Yao and third cousin, Chen Yongan. After a careful count, Shen Baichuan's friends were all there, there was no one she didn't know, they were all old acquaintances.
Chen Lu and Lin Xinran are busy as weekends are their busiest time and they simply can’t spare the time to come over.
Her second cousin and Zhuang Yao were the last to arrive. She held Zhuang Yao's hand and walked behind them. Before Zhuang Yao got married, she could still go shopping and play with Chen Jin, but after they got married, they no longer did that. They only met at gatherings at home.
"Third sister, a lot of your friends are here." The second cousin was walking and looked back. He saw two people behind him whispering to each other. When she saw him turn around, she stopped talking immediately.
The second cousin raised an eyebrow, "What are you two talking about me?"
"Who is talking about you?!" Chen Jin directly skipped the topic and asked, "Why are you so sensitive? Are you feeling guilty?"
"What do you mean you feel guilty? Can't you say something good for me?" The second cousin glared at her unhappily. But his wife didn't speak for him and even echoed beside him: "Yeah, we are too lazy to talk about you. There are so many things to talk about."
When Chen Jin went back, she found that everyone had come to her house, so the tables and chairs in the backyard of Shen Baichuan's house were moved over. In addition to Chen Yongan, who is now playing games at Shen Baichuan's house...
Qin Yi patted the fence in the middle and said, "This fence is a bit of an eyesore. You can take it down. Next time you come, the backyard will be spacious enough."
As soon as he finished speaking, Xue Zhonghua and Xiong Jiahao rolled their eyes at him: Can you please shut up? !
Sure enough, the next second, Chen Jin's third cousin laughed and said, "No, it's quite spacious like this."
Shang Jing liked this place very much, so he asked Chen Jin whether it was easy to buy a house in this community.
Without waiting for Chen Jin to reply, Yang Qian said, "No, I've been asking Chen Jin for almost two years, but now I can't buy it. No one in the house wants to move out."
Zhuo Jiyu turned his head to look at her, without saying anything, but his eyes were asking her: Do you want to buy the house here? How come I don’t know?
Yang Qian thought to herself: It will be the same result whether I tell you or not. Can you actually create a building out of thin air? They don’t sell it!
There was no need for Chen Jin and Shen Baichuan to entertain them, as the group was able to start a conversation on their own. No one even noticed when the two of them quietly moved back to the living room and sat down.
The weather is nice today, and the sun hasn't yet reached the backyard, so it's a great place to sit lazily, eat, and chat with friends.
Chen Jin held a plate of snacks and ate and chatted with Shen Baichuan, glancing at the people in the yard from time to time.
Shen Baichuan leaned back on the soft pillow, feeling that a thousand pounds of weight had been lifted off his brain and body. At this moment, he understood what Chen Jin often said about "wasting time happily and carefreely".
"I feel like this is just a meeting place. I can turn my home into a place selling drinks in the future. I guess the business will not be bad." Chen Jin thought so and even planned out how to change every part of his home. After he finished speaking, he laughed to himself, not understanding why he had such a strange idea.
“It’s the first time I’ve brought so many friends home.”
Even her family members only gathered together once, on her birthday last year.
"Me too. I didn't know I had so many friends before." In the past six months, she has had dinner with her friends several times, and gradually, her circle of friends has expanded.
Not just friends with whom you do business, but friends with whom you can have a quiet meal together without talking about work.
Well, even if his friends wanted to talk about work, Chen Jin would still concentrate on eating, and so would he as well. This feeling is not bad.
They thought no one noticed them in the house, so they spoke in low voices. As they were talking, Chen Jin secretly covered his mouth and laughed, saying, "We invited guests to our house, but why do we act like thieves?"
At this time, everyone in the backyard secretly looked inside and saw that the two "hosts" were too lazy to talk to the side. No one pointed it out to them, and they all pretended not to see it tacitly.
Qin Yi had a very satisfied look on his face, not only because the snacks and fruit tea made by Aunt Yang suited his taste, but also because he was thinking that his cousin was about to get married.
My second cousin and Zhuang Yao didn't stay in the house for long and said they wanted to go out for a walk. They originally wanted to go out for a walk, and Chen Jin happened to be inviting friends over, so it was a good opportunity for them to go out and meet some people, and also to take a stroll around Nanjing University.
When passing by the living room, seeing the two people sitting on the sofa pretending nothing happened, the second cousin held back his laughter and reminded them not to forget that there were many friends in the backyard, and as the guests, they should not be too rude.
Chen Jin and Shen Baichuan agreed in person, and as soon as their second cousin and Zhuang Yao left, they all leaned back on the sofa, took a bite of snack, drank a sip of fruit tea, and sighed with contentment. “Shen Baichuan, Aunt Yang’s cooking skills are really good.”
Without waiting for Shen Baichuan to speak, Chen Jin changed the subject and asked again: "Aunt Yang has been to our house. Your mother and your grandfather's family will not know that we are dating soon, right?"
Shen Baichuan was stunned and looked into her eyes seriously. Suddenly he became so serious, Chen Jin also became serious, many thoughts flashed through his mind, and then he patted him, "If you have something to say, say it now!"
Shen Baichuan's eyes flashed with helplessness, and he touched the arm that was slapped, thinking that Chen Jin still had some strength to hit people. "I've already told you that I've already told my family about you and my boyfriend. My mom, my grandpa, everyone knows about it."
"Ah? When did you say that? Did you tell me about this?" Chen Jin frowned and went through all the recent memories in his mind. No!
"What did you say in your dream?"
"I told you the next night after I came back from dinner with my family. You said you were too sleepy and wanted to go to bed."
"...Then I might not have listened to you." Chen Jin felt guilty for a moment, then said confidently: "Next time when you tell me something important, don't do it before going to bed. I might not be listening." She might even mistake his voice for hypnosis.
Shen Baichuan sighed, "Okay, next time I'll make sure you're clear-headed."
"...What you said is a bit strange." Chen Jin waved his hand and said, "This is not important, so what is the situation now? What do your family say?"
"Nothing much happened. My family had no objection to my dating and getting married. They all let me make my own plans. Grandpa told me that it would be better for me not to rush into getting married this year and to postpone it."
"Why? Isn't this year unlucky?"
Shen Baichuan was amused by her, "No, my mother is getting married at the end of this year, and my grandfather said it's not good to get married too close to each other."
"Ah...well, well, uh, your mother is getting married, so I should give her a gift." Chen Jin scratched her head. She didn't expect this development. She had heard Shen Baichuan mention his mother a few times, but didn’t he say before that he didn’t plan to get married?
"No, we can just send one. She got married and will live abroad in the future. She won't come back often." Shen Baichuan added: "However, she may come over in a while and say she wants to have dinner with you."
Before Chen Jin could come to his senses, Shen Baichuan continued, “It’s not that I didn’t say it, she just called me last night and told me about the marriage.”
Chen Jin blinked and said "Oh". The two were quiet for a while, and when Shen Baichuan was about to change the topic to break the quiet atmosphere, he found that his eyes were looking at Chen Jin in the backyard, and a hand came over silently and held his hand.
Shen Baichuan pursed his lips, suppressing the corners of his mouth that wanted to rise, not knowing where to look, so he turned his head to the door.
Before they held hands for long, Qin Yi in the backyard stood up and waved at them, "Brother, Teacher Chen, Xiong Er wants to ask if you have talked enough? If you have, come out and eat!"
"Oh my god! You dog!" Xiong Jiahao's angry voice came from the backyard.
The friends outside laughed.
Shen Baichuan turned his head to look at their clasped hands, and suddenly felt that the present moment was really good.
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