Chapter 210 Nothing, just pink eye
Cui Yue had lunch with the old lady at noon, and in the afternoon he went to the research institute to pick up his lover Qin Nian to come to the old house to celebrate the New Year together.
Qin Nian is a scientific researcher. He met Cui Yue through a blind date. They got married and got their marriage certificate in less than a month. After marriage, the couple were busier than each other, but their relationship was still pretty good.
She was passionate about scientific research and insisted on doing research even when she was eight months pregnant. She would not leave the institute until the last minute during the Chinese New Year.
After the meal, the kitchen became extremely busy, and the Cui family members also returned to the old house one after another.
The Cui family does this every year. The small family celebrates the New Year at noon, and the big family celebrates the New Year at night. After the New Year, they stay overnight at the old house and can leave if they want to or stay if they want to the next day.
Before four o'clock, most of the Cui family members had returned.
The little snowman in the yard became everyone's favorite. Everyone who saw it would stand in front of it and look at it. Sisters Cui Shuangshuang and Cui Weiwei also added two little friends for it, and three snowmen stood in a row.
Cui Shao hurried into the yard and saw three snowmen piled on the gray grass.
The one in the middle is the largest, roundest, and most festive symbol. The two next to it are one thin and one black, and look crooked and uneven.
He stopped and looked down at the three snowmen of different shapes. Then he called over the servant who was sweeping the snow and asked, "Who made these?"
The servant replied, "The big one was made by the young master and Miss Gu, and the small one was made by Miss Shuangshuang and Miss Weiwei."
Cui Shao smiled, a faint hum escaping from his lips, so low that only he could hear it, "I knew it."
No one in the Cui family has such childlike innocence and elegance, except Gu Nan, who is like the wind, bringing bright spring sunshine wherever he goes.
He walked up the steps and brushed the falling snow off his shoulders at the door.
The heating in the villa was blasting. Cui Shao took off his coat, changed his shoes, and went to greet the elders who were sitting on the sofa and chatting.
On the left of the old lady sat Gu Nan, and on the right sat Qi Yan. One was talking and joking, while the other was serving tea and massaging her shoulders. She bent her eyes and laughed so hard that she fell forward and backward, looking just like an ordinary retired old lady who was enjoying her old age and didn't care about anything.
"Grandma, uncle, aunt..." Cui Shao called everyone one by one.
The old lady wiped her eyes and rarely gave him a cold look. She smiled and said, "If you don't come again, we will call you."
Cui Shao: "It's snowing heavily again, and there's a traffic jam on the road."
The old lady waved her hand and said, "I don't blame you. I'm glad you made it. It's rare for the whole family to get together like this."
Cui Shao nodded and said, "I'll go upstairs and change my clothes first."
"Oh, wait a minute." The old lady remembered something and called him, "I've cleared your room. Your current room is on the fourth floor."
Cui Shao: “…”
The Cui family villa has four floors in total. The elders live on the second floor, and the younger generations live on the third floor. When they bought this villa more than 20 years ago, he was only a few years old and needed care, so the old lady arranged him to live on the second floor close to his parents.
The layout, which had not changed for more than 20 years, suddenly changed one day, and I was directly sent to the fourth floor as if I were banished to the cold palace.
For whom it is self-evident.
And if I remember correctly, he should be the only one living on the fourth floor.
The old lady is really his grandmother.
Cui Shao took a breath, and under the gaze of more than ten pairs of eyes, he tried his best to restrain his gaze from glancing at Gu Nan, and turned around and went upstairs with his clothes in his hands.
Qi Yan lowered his eyes and carefully peeled an orange and handed it to Gu Nan, calmly as if it had nothing to do with him.
Cui Zhao noticed that his son's reaction seemed a little strange. He hesitated for a moment and asked, "Isn't there an empty room on the third floor?"
Jiang Wan glanced at him and lowered her head to drink tea. "Don't worry too much. You're such a grown man, are you afraid of sleeping on the fourth floor?"
The old lady just smiled and said, "I gave the room on the third floor to Gu Nan. Girls need a cloakroom, and that room is just right."
The room on the third floor was one that Cui Mingzhu had specially fought for Pei Xing. Its specifications were similar to the old lady's, and it was the largest and most spacious.
Qi Yan and Gu Nan are not married yet, so it is not appropriate for them to live in the same room. Living on the third floor is just right.
Cui Zhao didn't say anything else, and everyone tacitly passed over this somewhat awkward topic.
Cui Shao changed his clothes and went downstairs. He found a seat in a corner and started watching TV.
The news was being broadcast on TV. A reporter on the ground was holding a microphone and conducting street interviews. When he asked about a young and loving couple, he changed the channel with an expressionless face.
But what good things are available at this time? Either news or the urban dramas that are played over and over again. After changing a circle, I stopped at the movie channel and watched the old hero tearing the Japanese apart with his bare hands.
The machine gun kept firing, and finally, Gu Nan's voice could no longer be heard.
"What's irritating you?" Cui Shuangshuang said, trying to suppress a laugh. "Didn't you hate watching this the most before?"
Cui Shao looked straight ahead and said calmly, "It's nothing, I just have pink eye."
Cui Shuangshuang listened to his sarcastic words and thought he was depressed about moving his room. She laughed and fell on Cui Weiwei, "Stingy guy."
The New Year’s Eve dinner started at 7 o’clock. Cui Mingzhu and Pei Hong arrived late, and they were obviously a little uneasy after they sat down.
During the journey, Pei Hong kept chatting with Cui Zhao and Cui Shao, constantly bringing the topic to the new project, but neither of them was very enthusiastic, so he ended the conversation awkwardly.
Cui Mingzhu looked unhappy and angry when she saw this.
She has always had everything she wanted since she was a child, and her parents and brother all doted on her. But as soon as Qi Yan came back, everyone changed, and their attitude towards her changed as if they were treating a stranger.
How could she like Qi Yan?
When she thought of Pei Xing spending the New Year's Eve alone at home, she felt even more upset.
After finally finishing the New Year's Eve dinner, she called Cui Shao aside and said, "Xiao Shao, there is something you must help your aunt with."
Cui Shao knew what she was going to say. It was nothing more than that Pei Hong's company was in crisis and needed capital injection, new cooperation, and a few reliable projects.
He leaned against the windowsill, one hand in his pocket, looking a little tired. Outside the window behind him, heavy snow was falling, and the rustling sound of the falling snow was dense and heavy.
The inquiring gaze passed over the figures moving around, and finally fell on the back of the person who was bending over to cut fruit at the kitchen counter. The bright red sweater wrapped around her slender figure, and the sleeves rolled up and tucked at the elbows, revealing her fair and smooth arms.
Cui Shaowei perked up a little and said, "Aunt, I can't help you."
"You don't even know what I'm going to say." Cui Mingzhu was shocked, and for a moment she felt a little hopeless about his decisiveness, but she still said, "Your uncle's company has been in some trouble recently. The stock price has been falling, and several negotiated cooperation agreements have been cancelled. Hundreds of millions of yuan are disappearing every day."
"Xiao Shao, auntie, please give me some advice on what to do?"
Cui Shao had been staring at Gu Nan. Hearing this, he said calmly, "Aunt, it's no use looking for me. You should go find Qi Yan."
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