Her tone was calm, but Shen Jingyan was quite surprised.
This was the first time she had ever heard the word "thank you" from Xu Yatong.
She thought that the word didn't exist in Xu Yatong's dictionary.
However, she wasn't particularly moved; she felt she deserved the word "thank you."
She smiled slightly at Xu Yatong in response.
When the three of them returned home, it was already noon, and Xue Hongmei was already cooking in the kitchen.
Xu Yatong went straight to the kitchen and said, "Sister Xue, you don't need to send me food upstairs separately today. I want to eat with Grandpa and the others."
Xu Yatong's sudden change in attitude left Xue Hongmei stunned for a while.
"Okay, sure!"
Realizing what was happening, she quickly said, "Tongtong, you should go out right away. There's a lot of smoke and fumes here, which isn't good for the baby."
When Old Man Xu heard that Xu Yatong wanted to have dinner with her family, he was very happy.
"Why are you back so late? Did you go shopping?"
Just as Feifei was about to speak, Shen Jingyan quickly squeezed the back of her hand.
"After strolling around for a while, I noticed that the streets were quite lively, since it's almost Chinese New Year."
Old Xu had always trusted Shen Jingyan implicitly and had no doubts whatsoever.
Gu Zhiyun looked at Shen Jingyan thoughtfully.
His wife's little schemes didn't escape his notice.
However, since the young wife didn't want to tell Old Man Xu, there must be a reason.
Because Shen Jingyan and Gu Zhiyun were also staying at the Xu family's house for lunch today, Xue Hongmei cooked several extra dishes.
Her cooking skills are excellent, almost on par with Shen Jingyan's. Since Xue Hongmei came to the Xu family, Old Man Xu has mentioned Shen Jingyan less often.
Without waiting to be called, Xu Yatong went downstairs by herself and sat down next to Old Man Xu and Feifei.
A strange yet harmonious scene unfolded once again. This was the first time Shen Jingyan had seen Xu Yatong eating with everyone without causing any trouble.
However, she has always been a woman of few words, and after so many years, she couldn't suddenly become particularly close to Old Man Xu and the others. After finishing her meal and saying hello, she went upstairs.
But the fact that she could do all that made Old Man Xu very happy.
Old Xu had a habit of taking a nap in the afternoon. After drinking two cups of tea, he went to sleep.
After Gu Zhiyun and Old Man Xu closed the door, and Xue Hongmei took Xue Yi out to buy things, Gu Zhiyun asked:
"Did something happen to you on your way back?"
Before Chen Jingyan could answer, the doorbell rang.
Feifei jumped up from the sofa and ran to open the door.
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Seeing her excited expression, Shen Jingyan guessed who the visitor was.
As soon as the door opened, sure enough, Yang Zinuo came in.
"Grandpa went for his afternoon nap." Feifei said when she saw Yang Zinuo looking towards the living room as soon as he entered the room. "You don't need to be so nervous, do you?"
Yang Zinuo said somewhat timidly, "The way Professor Xu looks at me is like he's looking at a giant satellite."
Gu Zhiyun joked, "The plane is already flying, what's there to be afraid of?"
Yang Zinuo looked at Gu Zhiyun with great resentment.
He didn't understand why Old Man Xu didn't have such a big problem with Gu Zhiyun, since they were both beasts.
Feifei couldn't wait to tell Yang Zinuo about meeting Zhou Zhengqing on her way home.
Actually, the little girl didn't mean to complain; she just liked to tell Yang Zinuo about every little thing in her life.
But after hearing this, Yang Zinuo clenched his fist into a hammer.
While Feifei and Shen Jingyan were getting tea and snacks, Yang Zinuo said to Gu Zhiyun, "Old Gu, if you can tolerate this, you're not a real man."
Gu Zhiyun narrowed his handsome eyes and looked at him: "Who said I was going to put up with it?"
Zhou Zhengqing bullied his young wife, threatening and intimidating her. Although his wife didn't respect him, he still saw her as someone being bullied!
Yang Zinuo was furious. His little girl was like a treasure to him, and now she was being threatened and intimidated by a scoundrel?
What are you planning to do?
"Give him a New Year's gift package."
That evening, Gu Zhiyun first coaxed Shen Jingyan into bed.
"It's so late, are you still going out?"
Seeing that he had put on his coat, Shen Jingyan asked curiously.
Gu Zhiyun said, "Haven't we seen Lao Yang in a long time? We wanted to go out for a late-night snack by ourselves. We went to the barbecue stall near our house, where we used to eat a lot when we were kids."
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It turned out the brothers were catching up. Chen Jingyan didn't think much of it and went to bed first.
Gu Zhiyun did go out with Yang Zinuo, but they didn't go for barbecue.
Both of them wore black clothes and hats. After meeting, they exchanged a knowing glance and walked out of the capital compound together.
They waited for almost an hour at the intersection where Zhou Zhengqing would always pass on his way home.
When they were sent-down youths on the farm, the two of them got to know Zhou Zhengqing's temperament very well.
He was both gluttonous and playful, often staying out all night and returning home reeking of alcohol.
Once back in the city, they'll definitely be even more unrestrained than in the countryside.
At ten o'clock, they indeed saw Zhou Zhengqing staggering towards them.
He must have waited for over half a month, finally managed to catch the person, only to be verbally abused and left feeling frustrated, so he drank quite a bit of alcohol.
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