Love, touching
About five minutes later, Lu Xinyang came out of the room with a red mouth. He took some clean clothes and took a shower. Then he went to the kitchen to prepare dinner.
Lu Huaicheng and Liu Qingzhi took turns going in with their hands behind their backs to inspect the work. Seeing Lu Xinyang wearing an apron and cooking with great skill, they were so satisfied that they wanted to embroider a red wedding dress for him on the spot.
It was almost six o'clock in the evening. Ji Rongyu carefully placed the bowls, chopsticks, cups and plates on the table. As soon as he finished one dish, someone immediately pulled out a chair and sat down. When it was finally time for the dish to be served, he looked up and for a moment he couldn't remember how many years had passed since the last time so many people had dinner at the same table at home.
"Uncle and aunt, it's time to eat."
Lu Xinyang brought out the dishes and shouted, "Uncle, aunt, grandpa, and sister, it's time to eat!"
The table was filled with delicious dishes, with all five flavors of sour, sweet, salty, spicy and fresh. Lu Xinyang walked around with a soup spoon and attentively scooped a full bowl of tomato fish soup for each person. Then he sat down next to Ji Rongyu, looking at them with shining eyes.
Liu Qingzhi picked up a piece of fish and took a bite. "Oh, this is so tender and sweet. It's so delicious. It's all thanks to Xiaoji!"
Lu Xinyang nodded: "Yeah, is there anything else?"
"I like this crispy chicken! And the sweet and sour spareribs are delicious too. I think it's the orange juice that's added. It falls off the bone with a light bite. It's fragrant and flavorful, not greasy at all. Brother, you are a great chef, and Brother Ji is even a famous chef!"
Lu Xinyang continued to nod: "Yes, next one."
"What kind of shrimp is this? Wow, the shrimp is well-selected and fresh. How could Yangyang have known this before? You've worked so hard, Xiaoji. Come, eat more. I'll also pick out the best piece of beef brisket for you..."
"Yes, yes, Xiao Ji, eat more. Chew, chew, chew. I'll have another piece too. Awooo, awooo, awooo..."
Lu Xinyang listened intently, but he realized they were just repeating the same few sentences: "Wait a minute, don't you have anything else to say? I just heard you guys talking about getting married or having a wedding banquet in the room..."
"Who's getting married????" Ji Rongyu raised his head from the full bowl of food with great difficulty, suspecting that he might have been hallucinating from being fed.
"Of course we are getting married!" Lu Xinyang said loudly.
Liu Qingzhi was stared at by him fiercely, and didn't react for a moment: "Just now? How long ago did you mean just now?"
Lu Xinyang said: "Just now!"
Lu Huaicheng asked: "Then why are you in the room again?"
"Don't worry about why!!!" Lu Xinyang was so anxious that he almost broke his chopsticks. "Just keep talking about the wedding! The banquet!"
"Oh, well..." Liu Qingzhi also hoped that the wedding could be arranged as soon as possible. It was so rare for her silly son to meet such a good family. She immediately cast a hopeful look at Ji Rongyu, "What do you think, little Ji?"
"Me? I..." Ji Rongyu, with a mess of thoughts in his mind, looked at Ji Guanghui in a daze.
At this time, Ji Guanghui was slowly drinking the soup in the bowl. The soup was well-cooked, with a sour and fragrant aroma and a sweet taste. Moreover, it was made by Ji Rongyu himself. He has liked this taste since he was a child and will probably continue to like it in the future.
The slightly sticky orange-red soup made people feel warm just by looking at it. She could continue to accompany him at the dinner table for many, many years. Thinking of this, Ji Guanghui slowly nodded and said, "Then let's get married."
"Get married!!!" Lu Xinyang cheered, but when he saw Ji Rong holding the bowl in his hands without any expression, he quickly pulled himself back.
Oh, he is so unreserved. He is getting married soon, and he should be more mature and sensible. A married man has to shoulder the responsibility of the family!
Lu Xinyang straightened his posture and spoke calmly, "Come on, let's continue talking about the banquet. You all said these dishes are delicious, right? Then let's add them to the banquet menu."
"Okay, okay, I agree!"
"No problem, you guys can make the decision on this matter."
"Yeah, add whatever you like. Are there any dietary restrictions?"
"No, I like all the dishes my fiancé likes," Lu Xinyang said, picking up his chopsticks and tapping the plate. "When I get married, I'll ask you to be the main course. And you, you agree, right? Okay, you agree!"
Everyone agreed and was particularly supportive of their wedding! Lu Xinyang wanted to cheer again, but when he turned around, he saw Ji Rongyu's face, as if in a trance, still expressionless.
Look, this is his example of composure. No matter how he sits, he is so elegant, charming, and cute... Lu Xinyang stared at her and couldn't move his eyes away.
Finally settling their son's most important event, the parents were overjoyed and celebrated on the spot: "Come on, let's have a toast and wish them a successful wedding!"
"Good! Good luck with the wedding!"
"Happily ever after!"
"Have a baby soon!"
The people around him immediately applauded and toasted. Lu Xinyang quickly poured himself a small half glass of wine and thanked them with a surge of emotion: "Thank you everyone! I hope what you said is true!"
Ji Rongyu, who appeared calm but was actually confused, said: "..."
Ji Rongyu raised his glass a little late, and just when he was about to regain his composure, Lu Xinyang quickly put his arm around him, hooked his wrist, and drank a cup of wine from him. Ji Rongyu didn't even taste anything before he found that his glass was empty.
Then he continued to stay where he was, frozen in time.
Ji Guanghui put a piece of fish into his frozen bowl, and also put a piece for Lu Xinyang: "After you get married, you two should live together well and have a good life. So tomorrow I will prepare a fortune telling for you to see when is the right time to hold the wedding."
After he finished speaking, he looked at Ji Rongyu again: "Are you still busy with work? If you have anything to do, try to do it as soon as possible. Don't put it off and delay the wedding preparations."
Ji Rongyu's heart was beating like a drum. He felt that most of his body was stiff and unable to move. But he just said, "When did you learn to tell fortunes again?"
"Grandpa always does," Lu Xinyang held the empty cup in his hand and clinked it with Ji Rongyu's cup with a crisp sound. "He knew I was his new grandson the first time we met!"
"Yes, I hit the jackpot," Ji Guanghui nodded, patting their arms that were still linked together. "Alright, alright, let go. On the day of the wedding, you two can hold hands and have a drink together in front of your relatives and friends. I'll take a picture and keep it for you as a souvenir."
Lu Xinyang said: "Okay!"
Everyone else also said, "Okay!"
"Remember to develop the photos," another cheerful voice said, "and release them together with the surrounding products!"
What's the surrounding area? What does it mean? I don't understand it again.
Ji Rongyu's mind was still at a standstill. He listened to the heated discussions of the people around him with empty eyes. Suddenly, he felt like a bowl of soup simmering in a casserole. The endless noise cooked him up and melted him into a sticky state that he had never seen before.
Honestly, he was willing to meet Lu Xinyang's parents because he had already made the necessary mental preparations. But the reality was that his meager preparations barely lasted a meal before he was violently struck by an oncoming excavator. He and the ground beneath his feet were lifted up by the shovel. Lu Xinyang stood on the roof of the excavator to catch him, shouting excitedly: "Look! This is our wedding car!"
Ji Rongyu, who was dizzy from the noise of the wedding car, ate his food with his eyes downcast. He ate very slowly, his attention not on the bowl at all. However, Ji Guanghui stretched out her hand, passed Ji Rongyu in the middle, and kept picking up food for Lu Xinyang.
Perhaps Ji Guanghui felt that since his in-laws had come with tens of thousands of gifts, he should show some appreciation. Coincidentally, Lu Xinyang accepted everything and ate whatever was given to him. This aroused his sense of accomplishment in feeding the children, and he became more and more excited as he took more food.
Lu Xinyang just kept eating and eating and eating. He was so happy eating that he didn’t even have time to talk!
After waiting for a long time for the meal to end, Ji Rongyu cleaned up the plates and went into the kitchen. Lu Xinyang immediately picked up his bowl and followed him.
Ji Rongyu looked at him and said, "You're still missing a bowl of soup, right? I'll get it for you."
Lu Xinyang held out the bowl with a bitter look, and pointed at his chubby cheeks.
Ji Rongyu said, "One bowl is not enough, do you want two?"
Lu Xinyang whimpered and shook his head, then used his chopsticks to scrape the bottom of the bowl. Ji Rongyu said, "Not talking?"
"Dang, dang, dang!" Lu Xinyang knocked on the bowl to emphasize that he really had only one bite of rice left, and leaving only one bite was not considered a waste of food! Ji Rongyu tolerantly kicked the trash can towards him, and Lu Xinyang squatted down to pour out the rice.
Then he chewed for five long minutes, stubbornly finishing off those big cheeks, and finally managed to speak: "Burp... Or give me another bowl? I want to save the leftover cake for a midnight snack."
"No," Ji Rongyu said, "Don't eat so much."
"Is that too much? Actually, I was planning on making a three-story wedding cake for our wedding, and then eating it all by myself."
Lu Xinyang said it as if it were true. After that, he put his arm around Ji Rongyu's shoulder and kissed him, then went out to continue cleaning the table. Ji Rongyu lowered his head and slowly poured the leftovers from the plate into the trash can, but his hands were empty and he watched helplessly as the entire plate slipped in.
Ji Rongyu: “…”
He took a deep breath, grabbed an old rag and threw it in to cover up the evidence before the footsteps outside approached. He turned around and turned the faucet on the sink to the maximum, letting the water flow over his hands to calm down for a while.
As the cool water droplets kept splashing on his face, Ji Rongyu's head also started to crackle. The major events in his life were stamped and confirmed in this short meal time, so quickly and so unreasonably.
This is definitely not true, he thought. Lu Xinyang was just bragging again. The things about the wedding and the banquet were definitely exaggerated. Their whole family spoke in an exaggerated way!
Anyway, he would never invite relatives, friends and strangers to watch him drink the wedding wine together.
All he had to do was think of a way to make them give up these messy and bad ideas. If that didn't work, he could even ask for leave from the wedding... Ji Rongyu remained calm and came up with several feasible plans. After getting a little bit of vague comfort, he felt that the situation was back under control.
So he turned off the faucet, carefully wiped his hands, face and neck with kitchen paper, and then looked down to check if there were any obvious water stains on his clothes.
Turning around and walking out, the last thought in his mind was: This is so annoying, I must shut Lu Xinyang's mouth later. What banquet, what three-layer wedding cake, how could he even say that... What if he starves to death, should we still get married?
Just as Ji Rongyu walked to the edge of the living room, the main light above his head went out with a "click", and a warm yellow flame slowly lit up in front of him. Lu Xinyang carefully lit the candle, held the swaying candle flame in both hands, and raised his head from the edge of the cloud-like cream.
The rosy pink cake looked like a cherry orchard with a bountiful harvest. In the middle of the orchard stood a pair of familiar little sugar figures: a little chubby-faced boy wearing a black coat and another little chubby-faced boy held high by him with a fish tail hanging down.
Lu Xinyang said, "I made the cake, and the little sugar figurine was made by a craftsman after the friend of yours who couldn't come back to celebrate your birthday drew the design and sent it to you. Do you like it?"
Now, it was Ji Rongyu who was staring at Lu Xinyang. Lu Xinyang smiled with his teeth showing. He was enjoying this moment very much. The love words that he had been brewing for a long time were still on the tip of his tongue. Lu Xinyang said... but he didn't say it. Ji Rongyu stuffed the chocolate with birthday wishes written on it into his mouth.
Lu Xinyang: “……?”
The three parents looked at each other: loving and touching.
The remaining two people nodded vigorously with relief: Now that he has finished eating, it’s our turn, right?
Ji Rongyu clasped his hands together, quietly made a wish, and blew out the candles. Lu Xinyang swallowed the chocolate and was about to speak when Liu Qingzhi pushed him away: "What are you standing there in the dark for? Go turn on the light!"
Lu Xinyang: “…………” He went to turn on the light while writing it down angrily, “It’s all because of you that I couldn’t hug Ji Rongyu affectionately! Later, I will definitely hug him back again and again in front of you!”
"Happy birthday, Xiao Ji!" The lights came on, and the parents lined up to take the gifts placed at the entrance, looking forward to letting Ji Rongyu open them personally.
The first gift box contained a three-piece suit, as well as matching cufflinks, collar clips, watches and leather shoes. The second gift box contained comfortable casual wear with excellent texture and style. He had never found any clothes that he liked so much even when he picked them out himself.
Liu Qingzhi held up the shirt and gestured to his shoulder, "I hadn't thought of anything to get you, but when Yangyang sent us your photo, I wanted to buy you some clothes. It's a bit tacky, but we thought you would look great in it, so we couldn't help but buy it. Look, it's really beautiful."
Lu Xinyang was listening at the side, feeling so happy as if he was the one being praised. He also wanted to squeeze to the front to help Ji Rongyu change into beautiful clothes, but his mother thought his high back of the head was too unsightly and pushed him away.
Then she continued, "Yangyang also secretly measured your size. He also promised us that you would never find out... Oh, luckily the measurement was accurate. You look better than in the photo. I love buying clothes for you so much."
She took another piece of clothing and turned it around for Ji Rongyu. The more she looked at it, the more satisfied she became: "Tell us what style you like in the future. We will buy a few more according to your preferences next time."
His mother's warm hands caressed his back. He held the clothes in his hands and nodded gently: "These are very good. I like them all. Thank you, Auntie."
Is giving clothes as a gift tacky? Ji Rongyu looked at the smiling faces of the two little sugar figures on the cake and thought that the wish he had just made was also a very tacky one.
"Be good, you're welcome," Liu Qingzhi patted the back of his head with a smile, "I'll pack your clothes back for you. Then take a look at what uncle's gift is."
Upon hearing this, Lu Huaicheng handed over a gift box with the same bright red packaging, but it was much smaller in size. Ji Rongyu took it with both hands and took out a pen from it. Then Lu Huaicheng handed him a book. The moment their fingers touched, Ji Rongyu instinctively felt a sense of familiarity. He looked down and found that it was his newly published book, and it was the most expensive hardcover and uncensored collector's edition!
"I just heard from Yang Yang that I have read the book you wrote. When I first knew that he was going to make a TV series based on your book, I looked for it and now I still remember many of the story lines in it." The more Lu Huaicheng spoke, the more he felt that the fate between the two was unfathomable, and he had actually heard the sound of fate stamping the marriage certificate of the newlyweds a long time ago.
It really is love at first sight!
"Xiao Ji, if you think about it, I am also your loyal reader. Can you sign an autograph for your uncle?"
Ji Rongyu: “…”
The golden tip of the pen in his hand reflected a thin layer of golden light, and Ji Rongyu's expression seemed to be frozen again.
Lu Xinyang was still standing by, grinning foolishly and taking credit: "Yes, yes, I was the one who told them, and I also bought the books and gave them several copies each!"
Ji Rongyu: “………………”
You just buy the abridged version!
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