Chapter 58
No matter how angry or annoyed he was, a group of unlucky kids insisted on going to the banquet, and Gu Chi had no idea what to do.
Pei Shen and his people are all shrewd people.
He could fool the silly Cancan, but he couldn't fool them.
Oh no.
He couldn't even fool Cancan, and in the end he was tricked by Cancan.
He got angry after eating candied haws. I don't know who learned this from.
Gu Chiwu thought with regret.
In the car, Gu Chi glanced at the three adults and one child sitting in the back seat and frowned, "I told you not to come earlier. It's so crowded here."
Pei Shen, who was sitting on the far left, glanced to the side and said sincerely, "We are not crowding in, you are trying to squeeze us out of nothing."
Gu Chi was choked and speechless.
After two seconds of silence, he turned his head and looked back.
"I'm not worried. I'm only worried about whether my Canbao is squeezed. Look, there are three of you sitting there, and our Canbao can only be carried by you. There's not even a seat, and you still say she's not squeezed."
Cancan, who was held by Qi Sen, blinked in confusion, took a bite of the custard bun in his hand, and looked silly as if he could eat anything as long as there was a bun.
Qi Sen lowered his head and asked softly, "Cancan, do you want to squeeze in?"
Cancan shook her head and chewed slowly.
Qi Sen, Pei Shen, and Sheng Jing all looked up at Gu Chi with a look of contempt on their faces, as if to ask, "What other excuses are you looking for?"
Gu Chi pursed his lips.
He had nothing to say.
The cow is still a brilliant cow.
Just like the song that was played in Cancan’s kindergarten, “It’s so awesome~!”
Wei Xun has already arrived in the restaurant's private room.
Gu Chi took Cancan's hand and opened the door. The moment he opened it, Cancan rushed into Wei Xun's arms like a galloping pony and started the act of acting cute and coquettish that Gu Chi was very accustomed to.
"Mother, do you miss Cancan?"
"Yes."
"Cancan misses you so much. Cancan hasn't had dinner with her mother for a long time. I'm so happy today~"
Cancan gained Wei Xun's favorability with just a few words. Gu Chi admired her superb skill from the bottom of his heart.
But he couldn't say it.
Qi Sen, Pei Shen, and Sheng Jing randomly found a seat and sat down. They scanned the QR code and glanced at the menu. Pei Shen was surprised and asked, "All Sichuan cuisine?"
Qi Sen's tone was indifferent, and his ability to criticize others was still top-notch: "Didn't you read the name of the restaurant before you came in? The three characters "Sichuan Cuisine" are so big that they are almost printed in your eyes."
Pei Shen didn't even remain silent. Being scolded had become a habit for him. He nodded calmly, "So it's Sichuan Cuisine Restaurant."
It is said that Sichuan cuisine is very spicy, but in fact, Sichuan cuisine is numbing. A lot of Sichuan peppercorns are added to the dishes, and the spiciness is average, not as spicy as Hunan cuisine.
The spicy rabbit head that Gu Chi likes is Sichuan cuisine.
This Sichuan restaurant is famous throughout the country for promoting Sichuan cuisine.
Before, they always ate in restaurants with light food, firstly to take Cancan's taste into consideration, and secondly because Sheng Jing had to protect his throat and couldn't eat spicy food.
Qi Sen, Pei Shen, and Gu Chi had no choice but to follow their tastes every time, sacrificing themselves for the sake of their success.
But people always have greedy moments.
Gu Chi and Pei Shen have been craving spicy food for a long time, especially Pei Shen. Because he was taking Chinese medicine, Wan Yao strictly forbade him to eat spicy food, and his three meals a day were mainly light. Later on, he felt a little nauseous when the word "light" was mentioned.
But there's no way.
Cancan is a plain-smelling kid who would complain that she doesn't want to eat green peppers when she sees chopped green onions. Following Cancan, Pei Shen is destined to eat plain food.
Pei Shen was surprised to be able to eat Sichuan cuisine this time.
The restaurant was what Wei was looking for.
Wei Xun can't tolerate spicy food, so he thought they would find a light and affordable Cantonese restaurant as usual, but he didn't expect to find a Sichuan restaurant.
It is just what Pei Shen, Gu Chi and Qi Sen like.
"Why did you choose Sichuan cuisine? Don't you like spicy food?" Sheng Jing asked.
Wei Xun pinched her earlobe, her gaze drifting towards Gu Chi, then she looked at Pei Shen and explained, "I haven't eaten in a long time, so I wanted to satisfy my craving."
Gu Chi couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth. He glanced at Wei Xun secretly and said calmly, "Why are you asking so many questions about a meal? Sit down and eat."
He took the lead and sat down with Cancan.
Wei Xun sat on the other side of Cancan, with the little Cancan between them.
Wei Xun had ordered the dishes before they arrived. When the dishes were served one by one, Gu Chi subconsciously observed Wei Xun's expression. Seeing that she had not picked up her chopsticks for a long time, he thought for a few seconds and then went out.
Twenty minutes later, when Pei Shen was enjoying his meal, the waiter suddenly brought some Cantonese dishes such as boiled chicken, assorted winter melon hat, and casserole porridge.
Cantonese cuisine is exquisite, light but not bland, oily but not greasy, and Wei Xun likes it the most.
Qi Sen served Cancan a bowl of porridge and asked calmly, "Why are there Cantonese dishes?"
Pei Shen was also stunned.
"It's quite strange. Did you arrange this, Gu Chi?"
Sichuan Cuisine Restaurant has always only served Sichuan cuisine. I have never seen any branch selling other cuisines.
Gu Chi turned the glass turntable and calmly moved the white-cut royal chicken in front of Wei Xun. His voice was calm: "Cancan can't eat spicy food. I went out to ask if there are any light dishes. They said they do."
After a moment's thought, he added, "Perhaps this is the magnanimity of Sichuan cuisine. While promoting Sichuan cuisine, we also encourage the development of other Chinese cuisines, such as Cantonese cuisine."
Qi Sen glanced at him impatiently and was about to open his mouth to retort him when he noticed that Wei Xun's mouth corners slightly raised. His gaze lingered on her and Gu Chi for a while, and after a while he said lightly: "Leave Cancan to me."
As he said that, he took Cancan away from Weixun. When he walked to his seat, he nodded to Pei Shen beside him and said, "Go over there."
Pei Shen had no choice but to move his seat next to Gu Chi. Gu Chi was squeezed and subconsciously moved his bench towards Wei Xun. After a while, without Cancan, the two of them sat very close to each other, so close that if they moved their elbows a little more on the table, they could touch each other's.
Gu Chi bent his lips and drank the porridge. Qi Sen glanced at him lightly and lowered his head to feed Cancan.
In the evening, after dinner, Wei Xun was about to return to the crew.
Qi Sen said casually: "Gu Chi, you take Wei Xun away. The three of us will take Cancan home."
A hint of joy welled up in Gu Chi's eyes, but this joy disappeared instantly because of Cancan's words.
Like the beach after the tide recedes, leaving behind a bitter patch.
"Cancan wants to go too!" Cancan stood on tiptoe and pointed at her face with her little finger, afraid that others would forget her. As if she was trying to promote herself, she said enthusiastically, "Cancan is here! Cancan wants to see mother off too."
Qi Sen hugged Cancan who was trying to run towards Wei Xun and said, "It's windy at night, you are not allowed to go out."
After saying that, he threw the little carrot head in his arms into the car, stood in front of the car door to block her way out, and turned his head to Gu Chi and said, "You can go now."
Sheng Jing sat in the car, looking at the receding backs of Gu Chi and Wei Xun, a hint of confusion flashed in his eyes.
"Why don't you let Cancan go with you?" Sheng Jing asked.
It was windy at night, so not letting Cancan go out was just an excuse.
As long as Cancan stays in the car and doesn't go out, this little difficulty can be completely solved.
Qi Sen has always doted on Cancan. Except when Cancan was fussing about wanting candy and didn't listen to her, he would do whatever Cancan said otherwise, living up to his good brother persona. But his behavior today was a bit inconsistent with his character.
Sheng Jing thought to himself.
Qi Sen did not hide anything and expressed his inner guess.
The one who reacted the most was Pei Shen.
"Gu Chi likes Wei Xun? And it's a mutual affection? How is it possible??"
Pei Shen curled his lips, "I believe that Gu Chi likes Wei Xun. But there is no reason for Wei Xun to like that silly Gu Chi."
Qi Sen's words solved all of Sheng Jing's confusion.
Sheng Jing shook his head and analyzed seriously: "Gu Chi is usually cheerful and carefree, but he is very attentive to Wei Xun."
"Weixun doesn't eat Sichuan food, so there was Cantonese food on the table just now. This is Gu Chi's concern, but the point is—" Sheng Jing paused and added: "Weixun doesn't eat spicy food, and neither does Cancan. Why did she choose this place for the dinner?"
The answer is obvious.
Pei Shen shook his head and waved his hands, resisting this answer from head to toe.
"impossible!"
Qi Sen said in a serious tone: "Gu Chi took Cancan to S City to buy curtains that day. There was a big problem."
Sheng Jing nodded in agreement.
While Qi Sen and Sheng Jing were analyzing the situation, Pei Shen listed the reasons why he disagreed one by one. By the end, his mouth was dry and he saw that Qi Sen and Sheng Jing had no intention of listening to him. He asked angrily, "Are you even listening to me?"
Sheng Jing and Qi Sen glanced at him and said in a cold voice: "No."
Pei Shen: ....
He turned his head to seek Cancan for comfort, but he didn't know when Cancan had fallen asleep in Sheng Jing's arms, her body rising and falling slightly with each breath, and she was sleeping soundly.
The people in the car lowered their voices in tacit understanding.
Qi Sen covered Cancan with the blanket from the car very gently.
The driver in the driver's seat smiled slightly.
Turn down the radio volume.
The soft music slowly came, like the moonlight floating quietly in the world, quiet and peaceful.
No one spoke anymore, just enjoying the moment of peace.
**
At eight o'clock in the evening, Gu Chi returned home.
Cancan, who had just woken up, poked his little head out of his little tent, raised his head and called out in a baby voice: "Daddy~"
Gu Chi smiled and touched her little head.
Pei Shen walked towards Cancan, bent down and handed the little yellow duck water cup to Cancan. From beginning to end, his eyes were fixed on Gu Chi.
Gu Chi felt a little uncomfortable under this scrutinizing gaze, frowned and asked, "Why are you looking at me like that?"
Pei Shen got straight to the point: "Are you two together?"
Gu Chi was stunned for a moment.
Qi Sen walked in quietly, waiting for Gu Chi's answer.
"I don't know what you are talking about. Where is Sheng Jing?" Gu Chi's eyes wandered and he subconsciously began to change the subject.
"Sheng Jing will join the crew to film tomorrow, so he's gone." Pei Shen explained.
Qi Sen: "Don't pretend, we all know it, let's talk business."
"Are you together?" Pei Shen asked again.
Gu Chi knew that he couldn't escape this disaster, so he walked to the sofa and said unnaturally: "No."
He didn't lie to them.
They had only met a few times, so how could Wei Xun be with him? However, he did talk to her a lot on the way back.
All the content was meaningless. It seemed like neither of them wanted to let the car calm down. They talked about Cancan, then about TV dramas, and chatted aimlessly.
Recalling his performance just now, Gu Chi shook his head and sighed. He always felt that his speech was not precise enough and his performance was not very good when talking about the film and television industry.
Pei Shen and Qi Sen looked at each other, then followed Gu Chi to sit on the sofa. The two of them sandwiched Gu Chi in the middle, one on each side, like the sandwich in an Oreo.
Just as they were trying to get something out of Gu Chi, Cancan, who had been stunned for a long time, crawled out of his little tent, stood in front of them, blinked his eyes and asked in confusion: "Daddy, second brother, third brother, what do you mean by being together?"
Pei Shen explained concisely: "It means that your father and mother can live together in the future, and they can live in the same room."
Cancan was confused.
Her blinking speed slowed down significantly, as if she was watching TV at 0.75 times the speed. Cancan stared at Gu Chi blankly and said something nonsensical after a while.
"What about Cancan?"
"Huh?" Gu Chi, Qi Sen and Pei Shen were puzzled.
"Cancan is my mother's husband! Only Cancan can live with me!"
The three of them looked stunned:
ah? ?
**
Among them, Gu Chi was the most confused.
Not only has the little carrot head Cancan always been the light bulb in his pursuit of his wife, but now she is trying to steal his wife from him.
"Only husband and wife can sleep together. Cancan has slept with my mother. Cancan is the husband and my mother is the wife!" Cancan explained to them the origin of husband and wife in a serious manner.
Pei Shen took a long breath, and tried hard to suppress the laughter that was about to burst out in his heart. He said with a forced smile: "As expected of us Cancan, you know everything."
Cancan nodded proudly.
"Cancan is very smart!"
Gu Chi: ....
Why is his Canbao so stupid that he can’t tell the difference between good and bad words?
Gu Chi covered his face, feeling extremely helpless.
Qi Sen patted his shoulder and whispered, "May the best be to you."
Pei Shen and Qi Sen went upstairs with a smile, leaving Cancan with a serious look on his face and Gu Chi with a helpless look on his face staring at each other in the living room.
"Cancan. How about letting daddy be the husband?"
Cancan snorted twice and tilted her head proudly: "No way."
"Daddy will give you some candied haws."
Cancan's little head moved almost imperceptibly towards Gu Chi.
Seeing that there was something going on, Gu Chi quickly launched a food offensive.
"Daddy also bought you rainbow candies."
Cancan's little head moved again, this time a little bigger.
"I'll build you a chocolate castle."
!!
"Really? Is it a chocolate castle that you can live in?" Cancan asked happily facing Gu Chi.
Gu Chi was embarrassed: "You can't stay here. Didn't Daddy take you to see the movie about the chocolate castle? The chocolate will melt. But Daddy can give you an edible chocolate castle."
Cancan said in a baby voice: "Cancan doesn't want to eat the castle. The castle is the princess's room and cannot be eaten."
"So what do you want to eat?"
Cancan: "Eat candied haws! Chocolates shaped like candied haws!"
Gu Chi: "If I give you these, will you still be your mother's husband?"
Cancan shook her head like a rattle.
Gu Chi was secretly delighted.
This time he learned his lesson and did not give all these things to Cancan at once. He planned to give her some candy to try every few days.
There is no other way. Only a steady and long-term approach can prevent Cancan from breaking the agreement.
**
For three consecutive days, Cancan had a very happy time.
Wei Xun had been rushing to shoot location scenes these days, and it was already one or two in the morning when he took a break. His schedule was completely out of sync with Cancan's, and he didn't even have a chance to make a video call.
It wasn't until Friday night that she found the time to call Cancan.
Cancan was drawing on the table in Gu Chi's study.
Her drawings were all over the white paper.
Gu Chi was writing the last part of the project plan, typing quickly on the keyboard, looking very busy.
When the phone rang, Cancan answered the video call herself.
After making so many WeChat calls with Wei Xun and Sheng Jing, Cancan already understood these operations, and she can handle the small pop-up windows that suddenly pop up when she is on a call by herself.
The little hand slid upwards skillfully to prevent the small pop-up window from affecting his conversation with his mother.
"Mom, Cancan painted a lot of paintings today." As soon as the call was connected, Cancan subconsciously showed off her paintings.
Gu Chi's hands on the keyboard paused for a second, and he glanced at the faces around him with disproportionate features and eyes as big as their heads, and sighed silently.
"Hmm? Let me see."
Cancan proudly held up a painting, pointed at the man with a big head and big eyes, and said, "This is the third brother!"
Wei Xun pursed his lips and looked at the strange painting with a complicated expression, not knowing how to comment on it.
"Why is it your third brother?" Wei Xun asked.
Cancan pointed at two circles around her big eyes that were bigger than her head and said, "Mom, these are Third Brother's glasses."
Wei Xun was stunned for a moment, then started laughing.
"Cancan also knows how to draw glasses, that's awesome."
Cancan shook her head proudly and introduced each of her paintings to Weixun.
During this time, Gu Chi would appear on the screen from time to time, pretending to drink water or take something.
Cancan's facial features wrinkled into a ball, and she said seriously: "Daddy, didn't you finish your homework? Why are you moving around all the time? You are so disobedient."
Wei Xun chuckled.
"Your father is disobedient?"
Cancan nodded righteously, his voice a bit serious.
"Daddy is not as obedient as Cancan."
"Mother, do you really want Dad to be your husband? He was your husband for so long in his previous life, why can't you let Cancan be your husband?"
At this time, Gu Chi was pretending to look for a book on the bookshelf behind Cancan. Upon hearing this, he stood there like a stone statue, motionless, his cheeks as red as if touched by the sunset glow, so red that even Wei Xun could see it.
Wei Xun raised her eyes and looked at him quietly, with a slight smile on her lips. She felt like laughing at Gu Chi's silly look.
Cancan tilted her head and called out in a baby voice, "Mom, Mom?"
Wei Xun came back to his senses and moved his gaze to Cancan.
She thought for a moment and asked softly, "Can't we just let him be the boss for a while?"
Cancan pursed her lips in grievance and whispered, "Okay. I'll let Daddy be my husband."
Behind her, Gu Chi stood like a sculpture, his hand holding the book trembling slightly.
He didn't dare look at Wei Xun. He took two steps to a place where he couldn't be seen by the phone screen. He jumped twice excitedly, like a child who finally got candy. He happily hugged the baby in his arms and jumped repeatedly with excitement.
Cancan stared at Gu Chi blankly.
Wei Xun asked, "What is your father doing?"
Cancan scratched his hair and said seriously, "Daddy is jumping like a frog."
"Um?"
Seeing that her mother didn't know, Cancan put the phone on the table and jumped twice like Gu Chi, "Daddy is jumping like a frog."
The table was very high, and Wei Xun couldn't see Cancan at all. He could only vaguely see her small forehead when Cancan jumped up. After listening to Cancan's analysis, Wei Xun roughly guessed what Gu Chi looked like at the moment.
She smiled and patted her face, fanning the heat off her face with her hands. No matter how restrained and calm she tried to be, she couldn't help but cover her face and laugh.
**
After finishing the call with her mother, Cancan walked to Gu Chi with her head down.
She handed over the phone, looking a little depressed.
Gu Chi asked with concern: "What's wrong?"
Cancan raised her head slightly and sniffed a little aggrievedly.
"Cancan can't be my mother's husband."
Originally, Cancan still held a glimmer of hope. If her mother didn't let her father be her husband, then she would still be her mother's husband!
But now...
Cancan hung her head and stared at her feet in a daze.
Gu Chi was helpless.
"There's no way around it, right?"
"You're still young." Gu Chi was about to say that she would find another husband in the future, but when she thought of that scene, she felt sour and angry, and hurriedly said, "You couldn't have a husband or wife when you were young, and it's best not to have one when you grow up."
Cancan didn't understand what Gu Chi meant. She pouted unhappily, and her clear eyes were filled with countless grievances.
Gu Chi sighed and rubbed Cancan's little face.
As I was rubbing my head, an idea suddenly flashed through my mind.
He smiled and said loudly: "Cancan, Daddy can give you one day to become Mom's husband."
Cancan's eyes and eyebrows gradually became brighter, like billions of stars flashing by.
"Which day? Tomorrow?"
"no."
Gu Chi said in a serious tone: "Cancan, remember, from now on, every February 29th, you can be my husband for a day."
Cancan nodded happily.
She can live with her mother again!
but...
When will February 29th arrive?
Seeing that he had coaxed Cancan, Gu Chi felt proud and happy.
This little kid would never have guessed that February 29th only comes in leap years.
The next time will probably be in three years.
Gu Chi: triumphant.jpg
The author has something to say:
The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet once a year, but Canbao and his mother can only live together once every four years. It is Canbao who suffers the most, and Gu Chi is the most deceiving one.
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