Chapter 70 Return Home

"Grandma, what are you looking at?" Once again, Wang Jiaxiang was rejected by his brother because of his poor piano skills. He angrily put down the guitar in his hand and moved to the side of Grandma Su.

"It's just one of those crappy Cantonese movies - this movie is about a child bride who stayed at home to take care of the elders and finally waited for her fiancé to come back from studying abroad. Before she could be happy, she saw the heartless fiancé bringing the newlyweds home to meet his parents and saying that he wanted to resist the arranged marriage..." Granny Su cursed while watching the movie with great interest.

"Fortunately, there is no such custom of child brides in our time, otherwise it would be really degrading." Wang Jiaxiang was amazed when he heard this.

"Hey, Silly Xiang, stop watching TV. There are only three of us eating at home tonight. Hurry up and come to the kitchen to help Jennifer serve the dishes!" Jennifer is the name of the Filipino maid who takes care of Grandma Su. Although she looks like a typical middle-aged Filipino woman with short, fat and dark skin, she is very good at cooking Cantonese cuisine and traditional Chinese soup. She is one of the gold medal maids in the Filipino Maid Center. Su Yun was able to get her because of the relationship of her foster master Xu Gujie.

Neither the Su family nor the Wang family is a class that is accustomed to employing servants. In addition, Grandma Su has recovered quite well after a year of care. Jennifer, the Filipino maid, is no longer required to live in the house. She only needs to prepare three meals a day and clean the house, and then she can go home at night when she has nothing to do.

Jennifer was also very satisfied and grateful for her job at the Su family: as a domestic worker in an ordinary family, she would only have a few days off a month to go home and see her family, and would be ordered around if she met a picky client; but at the Su family, Granny Su and the Wang family were all very kind and courteous, and would help her if they were free at home.

To show her gratitude for this job, Jennifer puts in a lot of effort, making every meal rich and fresh. She works diligently and conscientiously, striving to satisfy her hosts.

"Wow, this pot of soup tonight is perfect!" Wang Jiaju came to the kitchen and smelled the aroma. He immediately picked up the big pot of medicinal chicken soup and prepared to go out happily.

"Jiaju! The soup is so heavy!" Jennifer turned around and found that the big casserole used for cooking soup had been taken away by Wang Jiaju, and she shouted hurriedly in worry.

"What am I afraid of? I have strong resistance!" Wang Jiaju took a few steps and felt that the big casserole was indeed heavy, but he had already held it in his hands. He was too embarrassed to put the casserole back in front of his younger brother and lose face as the eldest brother, so he could only grit his teeth and hold on.

"Second brother, don't work so hard. People who don't know would think you are our family's child foster husband. It's so hard!" Wang Jiaxiang joked with a playful smile while sitting on the sofa.

"Why should you suffer so much? If I can lift it, I will put it down!" Wang Jiaju retorted to his younger brother, gritted his teeth and continued to move towards the dining table.

One step, two steps, three steps...Okay, take bigger steps, there are still eight steps to reach the dining table and put down the big casserole!

Just as Wang Jiaju was silently counting the distance between himself and the dining table, the door was suddenly opened from the outside: "Dear ones, I'm back - hey, why are there only three of you?"

"Second brother, watch the soup! Ouch!" Seeing Wang Jiaju passing by him, he was so frightened that he almost dropped the casserole. Wang Jiaxiang hurriedly lay on the back of the sofa and stretched out his hand to support it - he was immediately scalded and screamed.

"What are you doing? As soon as I came back, you two put on a six-nation ceremony for me!" Su Yun rushed over, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, to help support Wang Jiaju who was about to fall. Then, while laughing and cursing, she grabbed the edge of the casserole which was not very hot, and together with Wang Jiaju, lifted the casserole onto the dining table.

"Ms. Mary, you're back - oh my god, who are you?" Not knowing whether Su Yun had teleported to the dining table to save the chicken soup, Jennifer came out of the kitchen and looked towards the door, she only saw Zhuang Long standing at the door with a confused look on his face.

"He is a friend of mine who went abroad to live when he was very young. It was a rare opportunity for us to film together in Japan this time, so I brought him back to Hong Kong to celebrate the traditional New Year." Su Yun explained, and then looked at Wang Jiaju, who was still in shock, and asked, "Why are there only three of you at home today?"

"The garment factory is rushing to get orders, so they all went to work overnight. Then tomorrow morning, they will send big rewards to let the workers go back to their hometown to celebrate the New Year. Just ask the two brothers Jiaju and Jiaxiang to bring food over later." Grandma Su stood up from the sofa and pulled Su Yun, who was running towards her, into her arms and fumbled with him. "Hey, didn't you eat well outside? Why did you lose so much weight?"

"I'm not used to eating food from outside. I can't even taste the clear soup and water, so I just feel comfortable in my own home." Su Yunwo coquettishly acted coquettishly in Grandma Su's arms for a while, and by the way, she also secretly warned her. Zhuang Long, who was hesitant to speak, glanced at him: If you dare to tell me that I still eat and sleep well outside, don't even think about eating my food!

Zhuang Long understood, but couldn't help laughing: no matter when and where, the elders will always think that the younger generation has lost weight when they see them - even though Su Yun obviously ate too much sushi and snacks in Japan, you can tell with your naked eyes that her breasts have become a little plumper without having to touch them.

Don’t ask why he tried to weigh Su Yun. It was a dark history that he couldn’t bear to recall. He couldn’t stand the little lazy girl’s coquetry and finally had no choice but to carry her back to the hotel.

The strange thing is that he felt a little annoyed when he had to take care of her before, but when he came here and saw the two little boys surrounding her like guardians, Zhuang Long inexplicably had the illusion that he was being "sucked up" by someone...

The saying "噍完松" means running away after eating; it is usually used to describe a bad man who irresponsibly sneaks away after deceiving a good girl physically and mentally.

Although the roles were reversed and the plot was not that serious, Zhuang Long still inexplicably felt aggrieved that his role had been abandoned: this was clearly a movie about four people, but now he had no name...

However, if he gave up so easily, he would not be the man who dared to travel alone in a foreign country at such a young age.

"Hello, are you Mary's grandmother? It's just a small token of my appreciation." Seeing Su Yun being pulled around the dining table by two little boys and talking to them in innocent and childish ways, Zhuang Long, a scheming adult, decisively made his first target after entering the house towards Grandma Su, Su Yun's only elder.

"Oh, how can this be so embarrassing? I'm a guest when I marry into your family, and I still want you to give me a gift..." Grandma Su refused again and again.

"I have been without family since I was a child. It's rare for me to meet an elder as kind as you, grandma. I am actually very touched..." With the acting talent of Zhuang Long who learned Peking Opera since childhood and then studied drama when he grew up, his gestures are really more real than the real thing.

Moreover, the face he has is meant to kill any man from the age of ninety-nine to the age of just walking. When he acts pitifully, it can definitely be said that I feel sorry for him.

If the target of the strategy is a homosexual whose sexual orientation is not very firm, he might be led astray by his watery eyes...not to mention the kind and easy-to-please Grandma Su.

After some pitiful actions, he coaxed Grandma Su into accepting the gift with such joy that she almost treated him as her own son or grandson. Then Zhuang Long looked up at the two brothers Jia Ju and Jia Xiang and said, "I brought gifts for you too."

"It doesn't have to be so expensive, does it?" Su Yun was a little surprised: she really didn't know that Zhuang Long, a half-foreigner who transferred to study drama, followed ancient etiquette so much and even prepared gifts for everyone in advance.

"It's just like grandma said - everyone who comes to your house is a guest. Since I'm staying here as a guest, I naturally have to understand the rules of reciprocity." Zhuang Long smiled and handed over two gifts wrapped in beautiful wrapping paper.

The brothers Jiaju and Jiaxiang took it with a serious face: "Thank you."

Although they didn't know where this man's hostility towards them came from, they didn't need to know the source of their hostility towards him.

"I feel like we are a bit like the poor child bride in that old Cantonese movie..." Wang Jiaxiang whispered to his brother.

"Don't talk nonsense, Su Su is not the kind of person who forgets the old and is greedy for new things!" Wang Jiaju hurriedly interrupted his brother's fantasy.

"But I'm so unwilling to accept this. We are the ones who grew up with Susu, but we haven't been together for less than a year and she no longer needs us..." At this moment, Wang Jiaxiang finally understood the sadness that Wang Jiaju felt in the past: the person he always thought needed protection not only no longer needed his protection, but also had new bodyguards... He felt wronged every time he thought about it.

While the brothers Jiaju and Jiaxiang were still immersed in their sorrow, Su Yun had already begun to ask Zhuang Long to take off his "clothing": "Hurry up, take off your windbreaker and scarf and hang them on the coat rack over there. You know that Yunnan has spring all year round, while Guangdong has summer all year round!"

"I just came back from Kyoto where it snows. I can't even remember that the temperature here in Hong Kong can be over 30 degrees Celsius during the New Year..." Zhuang Long helplessly took off his scarf, windbreaker, jacket, and woolen vest and hung them on the coat rack one by one.

Seeing him dressed in a long-sleeved shirt and trousers, Su Yun nodded with satisfaction: "Come on, let's eat. Our Jennifer's cooking skills are better than those of the restaurant chef!"

Su Yun was busy serving soup and food to Zhuang Long, who had just arrived, and had no time to pay attention to him. During this meal, she actually neglected her two bodyguards on the left and right.

But Su Yun didn't think much of it: the desire for favor, no matter what the starting point, needs to be cultivated from time to time.

The best thing would be to fight from the end of the year to the beginning of the year like we are doing now, that would be the best...

If she didn't let them know that she had so many backups, then when she wasn't around, these SSRs that she had collected with great difficulty might be taken away by others.

"I'll take you to the third floor to see my room." After eating and drinking enough, Su Yun felt sleepy and turned around to call Zhuang Long to follow her.

"We're going too!" The two brothers Jiaju and Jiaxiang hurriedly took the suitcases and luggage bags from Su Yun and divided them among themselves.

"You guys really love me, our years of friendship are worth it!" Su Yun sighed with satisfaction.

"Aren't you coming up yet?" Zhuang Long, who was tall and had long legs and had reached the corner of the stairs first, turned around and looked down.

"Go!" The two brothers Jiaju and Jiaxiang hurriedly rushed up with their luggage.

Jennifer, who came out to clean up the dishes, looked up at Su Yun's leisurely figure following behind, and was very confused: "Madam, what is this?"

"Alas, as the saying goes, if no one cultivates barren land, people will fight for it when it blooms. Su Su is such a troublemaker..." Grandma Su, knowing that it was Su Yun who was causing trouble, smiled dotingly and looked at the peach blossoms next to the stairs, "The peach blossoms I bought this year haven't bloomed yet?"

"Yes, I heard from people that if you buy more flower buds, they will almost all bloom in the new year. This is the most auspicious sign and will bring prosperity to the whole house!" During the New Year in the Cantonese area, people like to buy peach blossoms, kumquats, silver willows and other flowers to put at home. They are looking for the auspicious signs of great achievements (red peaches), good luck (kumquats), and more and more (silver willow). As a gold medal Filipino maid, Jennifer is naturally well aware of this.

"Fortunately, the flowers haven't bloomed yet, otherwise the house would be a real 'bustling place'." Grandma Su smiled meaningfully and shook her head.