"Did Xiao Huai volunteer?"
After a long while, the shocked Qin Ran finally found her voice again.
"Yes, it's more than voluntary, it's like I sent myself there."
Chu Yunrou didn't know how to explain to her brother and sister-in-law that this was a marriage between the two parties on the surface, but in fact it was a love affair between young lovers, so she simply added,
"They should be in Qinghe City now. I'll ask them to come back later and you can ask them in detail."
"It's fine as long as it's voluntary. Xiao Huai must have his reasons for doing this. It's enough that he is happy now."
Chu Yungui let out a long sigh of relief. He was open-minded and quickly accepted this fact. He said,
"Since he is not in the investigation bureau now, why not call him back home? I want to go see my dad first."
When he was in the main god space, whenever he was quiet, he would always think of his hometown involuntarily.
She missed her underage son, thought about how hard it was for her sister to raise Xiao Huai and Xiao Mo alone, and worried about whether her father would die, and when she returned, he would have become a cold tombstone.
...
...
Fortunately, everything was better than he thought.
"Oh, by the way, there are tombstones for both of you in your hometown. Let's tear them down when we get back."
Chu Yunrou nodded and at the same time remembered something embarrassing.
At first, everyone thought that the pigeon couple had died in the mouth of pollution. After unanimous agreement, they built two cenotaphs in the cemetery near the ancestral home, placed the pigeon couple's clothes in the cenotaphs, and people still worship them every year.
"tombstone?"
Chu Yungui and Qin Ran looked at each other and saw the same expression in each other's eyes.
"Yes, it was Xiao Huai who built it for you personally—"
Before Chu Yunrou finished speaking, she saw Chu Yungui and Qin Ran walking towards their hometown arm in arm.
"Hurry, hurry, I want to see what's written on your tombstone. I'm really curious--"
"Bullshit, you obviously want to dance on my grave."
"You talk as if you don't want to. Why are you pretending to be so high and mighty? Let's go, let's go together."
Chu Yunrou:......
**
Qinghe City, Forest Community, Bai Yu’s home.
After throwing all the things in the villa into the system space, Bai Yu dragged Chu Zehuai to his home.
The former had already begun to pack up his things skillfully, and the latter wanted to help, but after hearing the sound of his cell phone and opening it to check, he froze in place, staring at the phone with his golden-orange eyes.
After a moment, Chu Zehuai raised his head, his expression changing: "Bai Yu, is today April Fool's Day?"
Bai Yu threw the oversized kitchen utensils into the system space and thought for a moment: "No?"
"My aunt told me that my parents are back."
Chu Zehuai shook his phone and frowned.
"I suspect her account has been hacked."
Chu Yunrou is a serious person by nature. She would not joke casually even on April Fool's Day, let alone a joke about a deceased relative.
But whether judging from the tone of voice or the investigation bureau background in the photo sent, the person who sent him the message should be his aunt herself.
"Why don't you just give them a call and ask?"
Bai Yu took a look and saw two people in the photo who were disheveled and ragged but smiling brightly. The faces were indeed the Pigeon Couple, and the background was indeed the Qinghe City Investigation Bureau.
"good."
Chu Zehuai found a corner to make a phone call, while Bai Yu continued to pack up things at home.
He actually didn't have a lot of stuff. All he wanted to take away were the gifts Chu Zehuai gave him and the various oversized kitchen utensils that he had customized. After spending five or six minutes to get everything done, Chu Zehuai on the other side had also finished communicating with Chu Yunrou.
"My aunt said that my father and mother were not dead at all. They were just swept into a different time and space, and now they have escaped death and returned."
Chu Zehuai sat on the edge of the bed, not knowing what expression to show for a moment.
The news came too suddenly and was too absurd, completely beyond his comprehension, so that his mind subconsciously did not react at all.
Surprise?
There should be some. If he had come back more than ten years ago, he thought he would have been even more surprised.
But they came back more than ten years later.
After experiencing great sadness and pain, he chose to accept and walk out of the shadow of the death of the Pigeon couple and chose to embrace a new life. Now everything is stable and happy, and then the two of them came back in a flash.
What does everything I went through in my youth, the tears all night long and the heartache that made me almost unable to breathe, compare to?
"Isn't that nice? I remember you always missed them."
Bai Yu didn't know about her boyfriend's complicated feelings, but he still sat next to him.
"Are you unhappy?"
"I am happy, but I think it would be better if they could come back earlier. However, this is probably not something they can decide."
If the pigeon couple could have come back earlier, it would definitely not have taken so long.
Chu Zehuai took a deep breath, calmed down, turned his head and said, "Aunt said they are all in their hometown now, do you want to go back with me?"
"Of course, this should be the 'meet the parents' segment in the TV series. Do I need to bring anything?"
Bai Yu recalled the dramas he had followed in the past, and the thoughtful expression on his face turned a little worried.
"What if it's just like in the TV show, and your parents don't agree with us?"
He has never eaten pork, but he has seen pigs run.
Nine out of ten TV dramas play it this way, and no young couple can successfully gain the recognition of the older generation.
"If you watch less drama, you won't see scenes like this."
Chu Zehuai didn't know when Bai Yu had watched so many bloody mother-in-law and daughter-in-law dramas. He rubbed the other's head.
"Besides, what does it matter? If they don't agree, then they don't agree. No one can interfere with what I want to do."
**
The Chu family’s old house.
"I'm telling you, the scene was extremely thrilling. A black mud-like monster with eight arms and legs crawled out of the mirror. Its mouth was full of sharp teeth and covered with human flesh. It frightened a girl in our team and fainted on the spot."
"I was scared at the time, but after all, I had fought against pollutants before. I asked Ranran to pick up the person and run away, and I hid at the door. When the monster came over, I chopped it into four sections with a knife, and restored its normal number of limbs."
"Also, there was a copy of a sinking cruise ship. We were sailing on the sea and crashed into a fog. We gradually lost ourselves in the mermaids' singing. Seeing my teammates jumping off one by one, I gritted my teeth and stabbed myself in the leg, and rushed to save people while I was still conscious."
At the table, the Pigeon couple were telling their family members how dangerous the copy in the main god space was, how exciting their experiences were, and how they used their talents and strength to fight wits and courage with various bosses, and finally successfully escaped from the copy.
The ups and downs of the plot, the brave and resourceful characters, the unknown that is both thrilling and terrifying, made Lin Mo listen with great interest and exclaim in excitement.
"Uncle, you are so amazing."
Lin Moxing looked at Chu Yungui with a starry eye. He didn't expect that his uncle was so powerful.
"Ran Ran is also very powerful. We are known as the 'deadly couple'. Many people in the dungeon want to curry favor with us."
Chu Yungui puffed out his chest proudly.
"Ahem, husband, keep a low profile. It's just that I smashed a lot of dungeons and got begged by a bunch of people to help me. There's nothing to brag about."
Qin Ran patted Chu Yungui on the shoulder, and then couldn't help but puffed out her chest proudly.
I have to say, this action is quite pigeon-like.
However, just as the Pigeon couple were about to continue talking about how they punched the boss, kicked the dungeon, and beat a group of NPCs until they cried, Chu Zehuai came back.
"Oh, it's Xiao Huai!"
Qin Ran stood up in surprise and circled around Chu Zehuai.
"I didn't expect you to have grown so big. It's really... I..."
Before she said anything, her eyes turned red. She said "I" for a long time and just repeated "That's great" several times, then hugged Chu Zehuai tightly.
"....Mother."
Chu Zehuai looked down at the familiar yet unfamiliar woman and spoke awkwardly.
"The children have all grown up."
Chu Yungui didn't bother to continue telling the story. He looked at the two people hugging each other with a complicated expression.
More than ten years have passed. It has been too long, so long that the arrogant and cute boy in memory has turned into a calm, reliable and taller man. It has also been so long that even the most familiar relatives have inevitably become a little strange and distant.
But no matter what, being able to reunite again is already a great blessing, and we can't ask for too much.
"Sit down first, why are you standing there all the time?"
Chu Yungui pulled out the chair next to him and said.
"That's right, I forgot because I was so excited."
Qin Ran stood on tiptoe and kissed Chu Zehuai's cheek, just like she had done countless times before. Then she dragged the stiff man to sit down.
"You came too late and have missed the most exciting part of the story. It's okay. We can tell it to you again."
Lin Mo nodded at the side: "Brother, you must listen, it's very thrilling. By the way, didn't Xiaobai come with you?"
"I'm here, outside the door."
Chu Zehuai came back to his senses and said.
"How can you let guests outside?"
Grandpa Chu glared at his grandson fiercely, then walked out at a speed that was not suitable for his age.
"No, it's not a guest, it's Xiao Huai's boyfriend. How can you let your family be outside?"
"He himself said he would prepare outside."
Bai Yu refused to come in, and there was nothing he could do.
"Then why don't you bring someone in? Alas, Xiaoyu is just too shy."
After Grandpa Chu went out, he forcibly pulled Bai Yu over from outside.
"Is this Xiao Huai's boyfriend?"
Qin Ran suddenly became interested and looked at the other person from left to right.
He has black hair and black eyes, and looks cute and well-behaved. He is wearing the black uniform of the Qinghe City Investigation Bureau.
This doesn't seem to have anything to do with the 'top pollutant [White Rose]' that Chu Yunrou told them?
Fortunately, they had made mental preparations for a long time and had agreed with each other privately that even if Chu Zehuai brought in a sticky, indescribable thing with tentacles to announce their marriage, they would still smile and say that his son had good taste.
Chu Zehuai opened his eyes wide and looked over with a question.
'You've been out there for so long just to change your appearance?'
Bai Yu gave the other person a look in return.
'Yeah, I don't want to be mistaken for a non-mainstream spiritual guy.'
Chu Zehuai:......
The memory of the dead suddenly began to attack me.
Grandpa Chu didn't know about the eye contact between the young couple. He arranged Bai Yu's seat opposite the pigeon couple and said to his son and daughter-in-law: "Yes, this is the person Xiao Huai is looking for, Bai Yu."
After that, he looked at Bai Yu again: "These are Xiao Huai's parents. They just escaped from a dangerous place. They are both very good people. You don't have to worry."
Bai Yu didn't say anything.
Bai Yu folded his hands and placed them under his chin. The obedient smile on his face faded and his expression became one of thought.
Bai Yu looked at the pigeon couple with a puzzled expression, and after a moment, his brows furrowed tightly.
"Nice pigeons and coos?"
The pigeon couple, who were waiting for each other to call dad and mom, took a deep breath.
It's like having your wild nickname, which you've been hiding from your family, called out at a family gathering, and the embarrassment and shame immediately spread from your toes to your crown.
"No, you, how do you know our codenames? Are you a player too?"
Chu Yungui was so shocked that he stood up. Is the world so small?
"I'm not a player, I just worked in it for a while."
Bai Yu leaned back in the chair with his arms folded across his chest, his dark phoenix eyes narrowed, and he chuckled with an ambiguous meaning.
"It's been a long time since we last met, Mr. and Mrs. Lao Liu. I've been looking for you two for a long time."
When he first saw the photo, he felt that the couple looked familiar, but he couldn't put it into context. Now that he saw them in person, all the dusty memories came flooding back.
"The Sixth Couple" are a couple in the dungeon who are famous for their despicable and shady methods of passing levels. In the dungeon [Botanical Paradise], the woman named "Cuckoo" talked about her bloody and explosive marriage life, attracting the attention of many plants who wanted to hear gossip. The man named "Good Pigeons" took this opportunity to secretly go around the back and burn all the plants.
Before Bai Yu could react, the two of them were automatically judged to have passed the level because they had already caused enough damage to the dungeon NPCs. They were instantly sent to another dungeon, leaving Bai Yu with the painful task of picking up the plant subordinates that had been burnt into charcoal and reviving them.
Among the players who cleared the level by force, intelligence or money, the Lao Liu couple who used this method many times stood out and successfully made most of the NPCs and bosses hate them.
Everyone present was so shocked by this sudden change that they didn't know what to say. The living room, which had been bustling just a moment ago, suddenly became quiet.
In the dead silence, Bai Yu knocked on the table with one hand and snapped his fingers with the other hand, and a thick book made of mental power appeared on the table.
This is the dungeon record book, which contains the videos of all the players who came to [Botanical Garden], from the first player to the last player before the dungeon was broken, from the players who died at the beginning to the players who bravely moved forward and cleared the level directly, no player could escape the records in this book.
Bai Yu liked to flip through this booklet whenever he was bored, to reminisce about the people who had brought him countless joy and fun. He had thought he would only watch it in private - after all, the days of working in the dungeon were a thing of the past, and there was no need to publicize it. But he had not expected that there would be a time to play the recording in public.
The pages of the book flipped through the air, and finally stopped at a certain page. A projection appeared in the air.
It’s Qin Ran.
She was wearing an ID called "Guguzi". Facing many plant NPCs who were listening to her gossip, she pointed to the sky with one hand and said in a sonorous and powerful voice: "I, Guguzi, have three secrets in my life that I cannot tell anyone."
"First, my son is not actually my husband's biological son. He has been infertile for many years and even suffers from premature ejaculation. In order to continue his bloodline, my father-in-law actually let my sister-in-law sneak into my room in the middle of the night. That's right, my sister-in-law is actually a hermaphrodite!"
Grandpa Chu:?
Chu Zehuai:?
Chu Yunrou:?
Lin Mo:?
The family fell into silence, while the projection in the air continued to play.
"Second, because of my husband's incompetence, I spent 180,000 yuan to keep 18 beautiful male college students. Each of them was just 18 years old, 18 centimeters tall and 18 centimeters tall. I lived a life of drunkenness and debauchery every day."
"Third, my husband has kept many mistresses outside, from the mistress to the thirty-third. He thought he hid it well, but he didn't know that I pretended not to know, but in fact I had transferred the common property of the couple to my name."
Faced with such an explosive and bloody plot, the plants listened with great interest and called it exciting.
"I have a question. If your husband is a **, why does he support so many women? Won't those women dislike him?"
Seaweed held up a piece of seaweed and asked.
"Well, this... he can play GB, don't look for bugs, concentrate on listening to the story, do you still want to hear the story of me and my bisexual sister-in-law having sex and pretending to be good sisters and sharing the story of 18 male models together?"
"Think——" the plants said loudly.
In the silence, Chu Yungui’s projection appeared next to Qin Ran’s projection.
While his wife was attracting the NPC's attention, the man with the ID 'Good Pigeons' sneaked around to the back of the plants, and while all the plants were concentrating on listening to the story, he took out a stack of fire cards.
"Don't blame us for coming up with such a despicable way to get through the customs. We have our own difficulties. We two have to go home. Please bear with us."
Chu Yungui first bowed to the plants that were unaware of the danger, then used all of his fire cards and muttered in the blazing fire,
"I have an old father who is six months pregnant and has difficulty moving and suffers from Alzheimer's disease. I have a hyperactive child who likes to yell so much that the neighbors will kill him if I don't take him to apologize. In the middle, there is a mentally retarded little sister who skips classes, fights, smokes, drinks, and dances with mentally retarded boys in the bar late at night. The little sister also has a mentally retarded nephew who was born after tasting the forbidden fruit, who can't talk at the age of three and can't eat at the age of five. Considering how hard my life is, please don't hate us."
Grandpa Chu clenched his cane: "Is there an old father who is six months pregnant and has difficulty moving and also suffers from Alzheimer's disease?"
Chu Zehuai narrowed his eyes: "Is there a hyperactive kid who likes to yell so much that the neighbors will kill him if I don't take him to apologize?"
Chu Yunrou couldn't help but crush the wooden armrest of the chair: "There's also a crazy girl who skips classes, fights, smokes, drinks, and dances with crazy guys in the bar in the middle of the night?"
Lin Mo has become so withdrawn that he is drawing circles in the corner, in a trance: "A mentally retarded nephew with a problem in his brain... a mentally retarded nephew... a mentally retarded nephew."
Facing the dangerous gazes of the whole family, the Pigeon couple swallowed their saliva: "We just...haha...want to clear the level quickly, otherwise we can't beat the boss at all. This is a strategic victory. Well, we are busy dancing on the grave, so we won't disturb everyone's time."
After saying that, two pairs of gray wings spread out at the same time, and the pigeon couple rushed out one after another.
"You burned my subordinates, and you still want to get away so easily?"
Bai Yu leaned against the door frame at some point, his eyes had returned to light green, and he was surrounded by the aura that only belonged to a boss.
Qin Ran pushed Chu Zehuai, who had caught up with her, into Bai Yu's arms. Taking advantage of the moment when the two staggered, she quickly fled with Chu Yungui.
Bai Yu helped the person in his arms up, and when he looked up again, the only things in his field of vision were the pigeon couple, which had become small black dots.
"We have given you our son as compensation, so don't worry about it—"
"Xiao Huai, don't blame your parents, just go with peace of mind."
"Hubby, please fly faster..."
Everyone: ...
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