Chapter 170 "Ayu, I am your elder brother."

Li Zhi's heart softened instantly.

Qi Yubai has always been restrained and polite in his actions. He lowered his eyes and looked at his sister tenderly. His slender white fingers rested on the top of her head, and he was still careful to control himself when kneading it gently.

The sweet scent of sandalwood permeated her breath.

It's like the smell of a Zen room, but not pungent. Instead, it gives people a sense of security that comes from my brother.

Li Zhi looked up at Qi Yubai.

I just felt that he was very tall, probably over 1.9 meters tall, but compared to Lou Yanjing who was also 1.9 meters tall, Qi Yubai's temperament was obviously more calm and mature.

He buttoned his shirt tightly to his neck, and his every move was filled with dignity.

He does not have the sense of power that comes from a life in the world of fame and fortune, nor the dissolute behavior of a son of an aristocratic family. Instead, he has the elegance, gentlemanliness, and self-cultivation that comes from settling down.

But it doesn't feel too soft.

It was an unintentional sense of oppression that made people unconsciously want to respect him. Of course, this sense of oppression seemed to be deliberately restrained in front of Li Zhi.

She didn't notice any of his sharpness.

Recalling the first time I met Qi Yubai.

He did tell her that they would meet again if they were destined to.

But at that time, Li Zhi did not expect that this would be a kinship relationship that was 24 years late.

She blinked her eyes and said in surprise, "So at that time, you actually had already guessed it..."

Qi Yubai chuckled helplessly: "You really look like your parents. I recognized you from the photos before I met you formally."

In fact, it seems that paternity testing is not necessary at all.

The feeling of kinship, it's hard to explain, but the feeling of bond that comes from first sight is really hard to describe.

But Li Zhi's life experience had been a mystery before, so it was better to make sure of such a major matter. If others had any opinions in the future, they could use the paternity test to explain.

"That night, I came to get the paternity identification samples, and by the way, I wanted to meet you in advance out of selfishness." Qi Yubai confessed to her.

He bowed slightly again and looked at Li Zhi.

Because of the height difference, he felt that it was disrespectful to his sister for her to always look down at him.

He raised his hand and placed his palm on the back of Li Zhi's head, trying to look him in the eye: "Let me introduce myself again. I'm Qi Yubai. A-Yu, I'm your biological elder brother."

There was a pause.

When Qi Yubai kissed her again, his voice was filled with a hint of emotion and hoarseness: "Long time no see."

Li Zhi's mood was extremely complicated.

It seems a little sour, but also comes with some joy and a warmth that I haven't felt for a long time.

He said long time no see.

It wasn't a long time since they had parted in a hurry a few days ago, but it was a long time since he was brought back to Kyoto twenty-four years ago before his parents, brothers and sisters, but learned that his sister was missing. It has been a long time since he finally reunited with his sister.

Li Zhi opened her lips slightly and choked with sobs.

But she quickly suppressed her emotions, lightly grasped the hem of her skirt to calm her voice, and pursed her lips: "Big Brother."

She raised her face brightly: "Long time no see."

Qi Yubai's chest rose and fell slightly, and it seemed like he slowly let out a breath.

He slowly straightened up and withdrew his hand.

"This is a meeting gift." He raised his other hand and handed the bag that he had been carrying in person to Lizhi.

Qi Yubai smiled calmly: "I don't know what you would like, so I picked it for you according to my own preferences. It was a bit hasty to customize it, but it's my heart. After you go home, we still have a lot of time and opportunities to slowly get to know each other. Next time, I will try my best to pick something you like more."

The gift bag is neither too big nor too small.

It's about 30 centimeters in size, so it's hard to guess what's inside.

But Qi Jiashu came closer excitedly.

He nudged Qi Yubai with his shoulder: "Hey? What do you like, brother? Is it jade? Bracelets? Necklaces? The whole set?"

Qi Jiashu rubbed his chin with his fingertips.

It sounded like he was talking nonsense, but in fact he was making a reasonable guess. However, looking at the size, he felt that none of them looked alike.

Qi Yubai ignored his brother.

He looked at Li Zhi and said, "You can open it if you want. You can open it on the plane. Your parents have prepared a gift for you. You can also open it together when you get home when you want."

"Then I'll watch it later." Li Zhi narrowed her eyes.

She heard Qi Jiashu say it might be jade, and was afraid it would break if she opened it hastily: "Thank you, brother."

"It should be." He just felt that it was not enough.

After all, I have been absent from my sister's life for 24 years, and no gift I give her can make up for this debt.

Fortunately, I still have a long time to live.

They still have a lot of time to be extra nice to Lizhi, let her feel the warmth of home, and let her gradually trust and even rely on them.

The sense of intimacy lost due to long separation can also be slowly regained in the little things in life.

"It's almost time." Qi Yubai said in a deep voice.

He raised his arm slightly and stretched his wrist, then looked down at the time on his watch: "Shall we board the plane first?"

"Let's go, let's go." Qi Jiashu was the most enthusiastic. "Let's go home! Have you prepared the food at home? Do you have my favorite Tianmu Mountain spring bamboo shoots and braised catfish belly? I can also try Master Jiang's sweet-scented osmanthus roast duck."

He couldn't wait to return to Beijing.

At the beginning, it was because the daughter-in-law of Yanjing from Bagualou took a look at Lianzong and accidentally discovered her sister, so she dragged Sang Ying to Xinjiang to chase her.

It’s not that there’s anything wrong with Xinjiang.

He inherited this from his mother, he loves home.

Especially the cooking skills of several chefs in the restaurant, the most famous Beijing cuisine outside can't compare to this. Moreover, Qi Jiashu prefers Cantonese cuisine, and the Cantonese chef who Yu Lanci brought from Hong Kong and she has been used to since she was a child lives in Qi Garden.

It is said that this master used to be a variety show star.

A celebrity chef.

After being accidentally introduced to the Yu family's cooking skills, he was hired as the family's head chef with a high salary.

Everyone in the family praised his cooking skills.

Originally I was reluctant to let go.

However, Yu Lanci was reluctant when she first married to Kyoto. Her parents loved their daughter, so they let the star chef go with them as her dowry.

I thought that even if she was homesick, she would feel better if she could taste the taste of this home-cooked dish.

Later, after Yu Lanci and Qi Heqing had a good relationship, she gladly accepted the idea of ​​marrying and moving to Kyoto. However, she still withheld the position of chef using excuses such as confinement.

"We have everything." Qi Yubai's figure was tall and straight, "We also have the cooked drunken crab and grouper that Ah Que likes."

He tilted his head slightly, "Zhizhi, tell me what you like to eat, and I will ask the kitchen to prepare it. We have two major kitchens, one for Beijing cuisine and the other for Cantonese cuisine, each with a chef. The chef for Beijing cuisine is named Jiang, and he is my father's favorite. He has a very good taste. The Cantonese cuisine chef is Master Tang, who was invited from Hong Kong. His cuisine is more Hong Kong-style to suit my mother's taste. But my mother is worried that you like Jiangnan cuisine more, so she also invited a few chefs from Yicheng, waiting for you to come home and try their dishes. You can keep the chef whose cooking you like."

Qi Yubai told Li Zhi about the situation at home in detail.

They also thought that Li Zhi grew up in Yicheng and her taste might be different from theirs, so they even prepared this kind of cuisine for her at home in advance.