Chapter 642: The Man of the Xi Family (Part 2)
Duan Wei pursed her lips and said with a hint of guilt: "Sorry."
Ruan Qi couldn't let her future mother-in-law apologize, so she quickly waved her hands and said, "I was so focused on watching that I didn't notice the noise outside. Auntie, did you just come back from outside?"
Duan Wei nodded lightly.
"I went to the outskirts of the city with Laojiu's dad and bought some free-range chickens. You're usually too tired from work, and free-range chickens are the most nutritious for making soup." Duan Wei said, her eyes inconspicuously glancing at the sketchbook on the ground. "What were you doing just now? Where's Laojiu?"
"Jiujiu went to take care of work. I was just looking at this notebook." Ruan Qi said, squatting down to pick up the sketchbook.
But Duan Wei was one step faster than her and picked up the sketchbook.
Seeing Duan Wei pick up the notebook, Ruan Qi was too embarrassed to reach out for it. She just scratched the tip of her nose awkwardly and said with a smile, "I didn't expect Jiujiu could draw. I didn't even know he had this skill."
Duan Wei hummed, "He taught himself when he was a kid. He used to paint quite often, but hasn't done so much in the past year."
After she finished speaking, she raised her eyes, and her phoenix eyes lightly swept across Ruan Qi's face, and asked calmly: "After reading it, what do you think of Lao Jiu's painting?"
"Ah, this..." Ruan Qi scratched her hair embarrassedly, "I haven't had time to look at it yet."
Duan Wei's hand, which was tightly gripping the sketchbook, loosened without a sound.
She put the sketchbook back into the drawer and said, "Dinner is almost ready, let's go downstairs and eat first. I'll let Lao Jiu draw it for you when we have time."
Ruan Qi naturally would not refuse what her future mother-in-law said.
She helped Duan Wei close the drawer, and then Duan Wei took her hand and left the bedroom together.
The bedroom door slowly closed behind him.
At the last second before the door closed, Ruan Qi suddenly turned her head and cast her gaze on the drawer containing the sketchbook, her eyes dark.
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Xi Xiaoran and Duan Wei's return home added a bit of liveliness to the quiet mansion.
Not long after, Xi Jiu's aunt Xi Xiaoyun also came back.
No one had seen Ruan Qi for a long time. When they saw the little girl, they all surrounded her enthusiastically and asked her all kinds of questions.
When Xi Jiu finished his business and came down from upstairs, Ruan Qi had already been conquered by Duan Wei and Xi Xiaoyun, her sister-in-law, on both sides.
Duan Wei was not good at speaking, sitting on the girl's left and constantly feeding her snacks. Xi Xiaoyun loved to chat, holding the girl's hand and mumbling endlessly.
As for Ruan Qi, who was surrounded by beauties on both sides, she didn't feel uncomfortable at all at her boyfriend's house. With her future mother-in-law on the left and her future aunt on the right, she was enjoying herself and was very happy.
Xi Jiu looked at this scene and inexplicably felt that his position in Ruan Qi's heart was in jeopardy.
They haven't even gotten married yet, but his mother and aunt have already monopolized the girl.
If they get married in the future, won't these two sisters-in-law kick him out of the house and stick to the little girl 24 hours a day?
Thinking of this possibility, Xi Jiu's eyes darkened. He tugged at the collar of his shirt and walked towards Ruan Qi.
Ruan Qi, who was chatting about entertainment gossip with Xi Xiaoyun, noticed Xi Jiu's figure out of the corner of his eye and immediately looked at him with a smile.
"Jiujiu, are you done?"
Xi Jiu hummed, walked around the coffee table and came to Xi Xiaoyun.
"Auntie, make room for me."
Xi Xiaoyun finally got to see Ruan Qi, and they hadn't talked enough, so he wasn't willing to leave.
"No!" She decisively rejected her nephew's request, "I finally got to see Xiaoqi once, you stay away."
“…”
Xi Jiu was silent for a moment, then looked up at Duan Wei.
But as an icy mother, Duan Wei was only icier than the iceberg. She didn't even look at her son, lowered her head and cracked walnuts for Ruan Qi, her attitude of rejection very clear.
Xi Jiu: "..."
Xi Jiu never expected that after he dealt with many rivals outside, he would fall into trouble at home.
He could fight against his love rival, but now he couldn't touch his mother or his aunt, let alone hit them.
The aura around the man became visibly weaker.
But Duan Wei and Xi Xiaoyun acted as if they didn't see anything. They surrounded Ruan Qi on both sides, leaving her no time to even talk to Xi Jiu.
Xi Jiu stared at the three of them for a while, and finally walked silently to the single sofa opposite and sat down. He looked so lonely that he seemed like a loyal wolf abandoned by his master.
Seeing him like this, Ruan Qi couldn't help but feel a little distressed. She was just thinking about whether to comfort him when Duan Wei brought the peeled walnuts to her mouth.
Ruan Qi quickly opened his mouth and ate the walnut.
"Thank you, Auntie. It's delicious~"
Duan Wei hummed, brushed off the walnut crumbs on her hands, and said abruptly, "Don't believe men who play the victim. They're full of drama."
Ruan Qi: “?”
Xi Jiu: "..."
Duan Wei ignored her son's dark gaze and opened a bottle of lactic acid bacteria, handing it to Ruan Qi. She said calmly, "You can't always spoil men when you're in a relationship. The more you spoil them, the more they'll go too far. You allow him to cling to you today, but tomorrow he'll interfere in everything you do. In a few days, he might even go so far as to lock you up at home and not let you go out. We're all adults, and we should have our own space. How can we give it to each other 24 hours a day?"
Ruan Qi listened carefully and nodded thoughtfully.
“…” Xi Jiu’s face was almost frozen.
He looked at Duan Wei coldly, trying to evoke a bit of maternal love in Duan Wei with his eyes.
But Duan Wei's heart was as hard as iron. She continued to say to Ruan Qi, "Although Lao Jiu is my son, I have to be fair - the men in the Xi family are really dramatic. When his father was pursuing me, he feigned illness and misery. The most outrageous one was that he pretended to be lame, put both of his legs in plaster, and even bought a pair of crutches. He miserably lied to me that I took care of him for a month."
"And the old man, when he was pursuing Lao Jiu's grandmother, he also played the victim. He went swimming in the middle of winter, hoping to catch a cold so that Lao Jiu's grandmother would come to see him. But he was an ancient martial artist, and his physique was too good. He swam in the river for six hours in minus 20 degrees Celsius, and ate several ice creams, but he didn't even have a runny nose. Guess what he did in the end?"
"How, how did you do it?" Ruan Qi's mouth twitched.
Duan Wei's eyes flashed with a smile, "The old man bought six hot water bottles, filled them with hot water, stuffed them into the quilt, and forced himself to have a fever of 40 degrees. He successfully tricked Lao Jiu's grandmother into coming home and sleeping with him all night."
Ruan Qi: “…”
What kind of big grudges are these?
Ruan Qi really didn't expect that Mr. Xi and Uncle Xi looked serious, but they were so good at acting when they pretended to be sick and miserable.
Is this a family trait?
She couldn't help but raise her head and look at Xi Jiu who was sitting opposite her.
Xi Jiu: "..."
At this moment, Boss Xi suddenly understood the meaning of the term "pig teammate".
It’s okay if you can’t defend yourself from your own mother.
His grandfather and father are the biggest stumbling blocks in his love life.
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Xi Jiu: My Family That Holds Me Back
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