Chapter 38 Chapter 38 He is drunk
"I told you, Didi Taxi can be accessed from here, right?"
The old man with a straight posture said seriously.
The old lady next to him snorted: "What's the next step? How should we proceed?"
"Just wait, I'll figure it out soon." The old man was not convinced and lowered his head to think.
The gentle woman at the side said: "Mom, how about letting me..."
"My dear son, don't remind your father. Let him come. I want to see how long it will take him to reach his destination." said the old lady.
"Hmph, I don't need you to teach me." The old man said stubbornly, "I'll do it. The operation is so simple. I don't believe I can't get a taxi!"
The more he thought about it, the more he broke out in a cold sweat. The cell phone signal was not very good. After clicking on it, the map did not refresh and various pop-up windows popped up. The more he thought about it, the more troublesome it became. Before he could figure it out, a voice sounded like the sound of nature -
"Grandpa, grandma, mom, why are you three here?"
A slender and familiar figure suddenly appeared in front of them, looking at them speechlessly.
"Oh, why is Xiaoyan here?" Grandma covered her mouth in surprise. Could it be that her son leaked the news?
"Come if you want. You've already got off the plane, but you haven't called me yet? If we hadn't met by chance, you would have planned to contact me, right?" Qi Yan stared at them with sharp eyes.
"What nonsense are you talking about!" Grandpa was so surprised that he put away his phone, patted Qi Yan's shoulder, and laughed heartily, "Aren't we meeting each other now? We are a family and we are destined to be together!"
Grandma saw through his intentions and said, "Xiao Yan came at a really bad time. She actually saved your grandpa once."
"What nonsense are you talking about, old woman? Even if Xiaoyan isn't here, I can still get you a taxi!" Grandpa said seriously.
"Really? Then you take a taxi and leave. I'll go back with Yao'er and Xiaoyan."
"…Forget it, let's save some money."
"I knew it."
Listening to the two old people's noisy voices, Qi Yan looked at Xia Yunqie who was smiling beside him. Seeing that she was in good spirits, he asked, "Mom, are you two traveling together? Does uncle know about this?"
"Your uncle asked us to give you a surprise." Xia Yunqie looked him up and down, his eyes reddened. "You haven't been back for half a year, how come you've lost so much weight?"
There is a kind of thinness, when your mother thinks you are thin.
"You've lost weight." Grandma looked over and pinched his face, sighing, "Youngest is right. This face isn't as pretty as before, but it's still very handsome. It's many times more handsome than when I was young."
Grandpa was standing by with a frown on his face, but Qi Yan faced everything with a smile and let his grandmother rub his face.
Shen Xiliu drove the car near them and met the curious eyes of three strange yet familiar elders. Qi Yan was about to introduce them: "Grandpa, grandma, mom, this is my..."
"Hello, everyone. Nice to meet you. I'm Shen Xiliu, Qi Yan's friend." Shen Xiliu whispered, interrupting Qi Yan's words and introducing himself with a smile.
friend? Qi Yan raised his eyebrows, and seeing that the smile on Shen Xiliu's face was very gentle and decent, he winked at him while pushing up his glasses.
It was my first time meeting my elders in such an abrupt setting. It was so embarrassing! So let’s just be friends first and then try to develop into lovers later.
"Ah, yes, grandpa, grandma, this is my good friend." Qi Yan successfully received the information from Chen Xiliu and spoke very cooperatively.
"It's rare that a kid like you can actually make friends with..." Omega? Grandpa found it incredible, but since his grandson’s friend was right in front of him, he changed the subject, “It’s great to have such an outstanding person as a friend.”
"You're too kind. It's my honor to meet Qi Yan." Shen Xiliu was talking politely to the three elders. Facing their curious gazes, he tried his best to behave elegantly and properly so as not to ruin the first impression.
Knowing that the other party had just helped to send Qi Ge away and was now picking them up, the grandfather felt that his two grandsons had probably caused him a lot of trouble, so he told Qi Yan with a serious face to stop causing trouble for others. Shen Xiliu smiled and said that he had taken the initiative to come and see the person off because they were neighbors and Qi Yan had helped him a lot before. Now he had the opportunity to help back and he was very fortunate.
It was easy for Shen Xiliu to appease his elders. As long as he continued chatting about topics they liked and praised his favorite grandchildren, it would be hard for them not to like what he said. By the time they got home, the two sides had become quite intimate, and Qi Yan didn't even have a chance to get a word in.
After all, he was standing at the first-person perspective on some things and didn't think there was anything wrong with them, but when they came out of Shen Xiliu's mouth, they completely changed their meaning and were particularly pleasing to the elders.
"...After all, only someone as outstanding as Qi Yan can always complete the tasks at hand so well, making the doctoral students and mentors of the institute pay great attention to him."
"So that's how it is. No wonder Xiao Yan is so busy now. She doesn't even video chat as often as before. This kid is really something. He never tells us anything and always reports good news but never bad news."
"Maybe because I'm afraid you'll worry. Qi Yan has always had a good personality, he's kind and filial..."
"Wait, when you say these things, can you consider the feelings of the people around you?" Qi Yan couldn't listen anymore and interrupted the communication between the two sides. If he continued to listen, would he still have any sense of shame?
Shen Xiliu knew that he was shy, so he held back his laughter and said as a matter of course: “What we just said are all facts, no fiction, right?”
Qi Yan's cheeks and ears were a little red, not because of shyness, but because of shame. He said weakly: "Although it is not fiction, but..."
"Since it's not fiction, Xiaoyan, please don't bother me. If you don't want to listen, just cover your ears. We are having a great time chatting, don't learn from your grandfather's shortcoming of liking to make things awkward." The grandmother thought that the child was learning bad habits. It was a rare opportunity for her to have a good friend to chat with them happily, but she still wanted to stop it.
Qi Yan was speechless: "...then can you change the subject and not talk about me?"
"Of course not."
It was impossible not to talk about him, after all, both sides were talking excitedly. Qi Yan felt like he had lost all hope in life and really wanted to cover his ears. He waited until he got off the bus to finally feel relieved.
The three elders originally planned to stay in a hotel, but for various considerations, Qi Yan took them back directly. His own house was more comfortable, convenient and safer than a hotel.
After Chen Xiliu sent the person away, he found an excuse to leave and was unable to stay despite the old man's enthusiastic invitation.
"Xiao Yan, isn't he your good friend? Why don't you try to keep him?" Grandpa frowned and said when he saw Qi Yan who was playing with his mobile phone with his head down.
Qi Yan finished sending the message and took back his phone: "She is busy dating her boyfriend, I can't just leave her here with me."
“……” Xia Yunqie looked at his son strangely and said nothing.
Grandpa was a little surprised: "Really? I thought you were interested in her, but it turns out you are just an ordinary neighbor and friend?" It was rare to see Qi Yan become friends with an omega, so he thought they had some unusual relationship.
"That child is really nice. What a pity." Grandma also said with regret, "I thought you liked her. Such an excellent and beautiful omega actually already has a partner. I'd better not force you to be a mistress. It's not very moral."
Qi Yan: “…” Thank you, I’m not a mistress, I’m the wife, I should have known better than to say that.
"Mom, where is the scarf I bought for you?" Ms. Xia Yunqie did not comment on this and helped her embarrassed son divert his parents' attention.
After returning to the apartment and putting away their things, Xia Yunqie even found an excuse for Qi Yan to leave: "By the way, Xiaoyan, I heard from your uncle before that you are now helping out with his friend's work. It's so late now, are you going over?"
"Yes, but don't worry, Mom, I'll take you to eat first..."
"Since you want to help, just go quickly and don't delay. We are not children. Who needs your help?" Grandpa refused Qi Yan to stay and shook his hand at him in disgust.
"Hurry up, hurry up, we just came out to have fun, we don't want you to meddle in our affairs and disturb our good mood. I have walked more roads than you have eaten salt, and you just want to control us all day long, go away!"
Qi Yan: "...Okay, call me if you have anything."
"You talk too much nonsense, just like your uncle."
Qi Yan was kicked out of his home. He skillfully went down the elevator, went to the parking lot, found a familiar car, opened the door, and closed it.
"Mr. Shen, you are really going too far." Qi Yan said in a long tone, staring at the person sitting in the driver's seat, "In just a short while, I went from being a boyfriend to a friend?"
"After all, meeting your parents under such circumstances is very impolite." Shen Xiliu had just taken off his glasses and was wiping them carefully. Hearing this, he smiled at him, his narrow eyes filled with apology, "I'm sorry, if it's not too abrupt, I also want to get your family's approval."
"...Mr. Shen, don't say that." Qi Yan frowned slightly, not understanding why Shen Xiliu always gave him a sense of dislocation and put himself in a very low position.
"You don't need to get anyone's approval, not even my family. Being in love is just between the two of us, right?"
Shen Xiliu put on his glasses and smiled at him: "Well, you are right, but you still have to pay some attention to it, right?"
He blinked, "If you're so fearless, why don't I take you to meet my uncle someday? Not the one from the research institute, but the one who raised me and is You Yi's father."
The topic was changed, and Qi Yan said: "That's not what I meant..."
"Want to meet him? I think my uncle would like you very much. Just look at how he indulges You Yi, and you'll know that he's easy to get along with." Shen Xiliu teased.
He did not shy away from his background. His mother died in a car accident when he was young, and his father was too obsessed with art to take care of him. When Shen Xiliu was young, his uncle took him out, but his uncle almost got into an accident due to negligence. In a fit of anger, his uncle took him home and raised him personally.
"...If Youyi is kicked out of the house, is it still possible to get along well with him?" Qi Yan's heart moved.
He remembered the list he and Gu Yanxing had seen. Those antiques were bought by the head of the Shen family. Should he take this opportunity to take a look?
Shen Xiliu: “His character is considered normal in the Shen family. If you knew what You Yi did to get out of the house, you would only sympathize with my uncle, not him.”
"It sounds terrible." Qi Yan finally rejected the idea. There are other ways, don't take advantage of feelings, otherwise there will be no difference between him and Yi Hongli.
"You will see it for yourself sooner or later. It's better to sympathize with my uncle than to sympathize with him." Shen Xiliu smiled, "Since you don't plan to meet the parents, let's go eat first. Didn't you say before that there is a restaurant whose dishes are very much to my taste? It's a good time to try it now. I've been looking forward to it for a long time."
Qi Yan collected his thoughts and said with a smile, "Okay, let's choose this one. I'll drive."
"Okay." Shen Xiliu got out of the car and switched seats with him. When he buckled his seat belt, he asked, "Are you going to help out at the bar tonight?"
"Well, I promised Brother Xu before that today is the last day, and there will be a lot of customers. I guess we don't have enough staff. And there will be new activities in the bar tonight, it will be very lively, would you like to come over and play with us later, Mr. Shen?"
Shen Xiliu narrowed his eyes slightly and said in a calm voice: "Not this time, I want to go back to the old house to get something later, let's go next time. I wish you a good time tonight, if there is anything, don't forget to call me."
"This sentence sounds so familiar." Qi Yan immediately laughed and said to him, "I just said the same thing to Ms. Xia and the others, and my grandfather accused me of treating them like children and worrying about nothing. I didn't expect to hear it from Mr. Shen."
Because we care and concern, we remind others to contact us immediately if they have any problems.
"But I don't think I will cause you any trouble." Qi Yan considered himself a peaceful person.
Shen Xiliu glanced at him meaningfully. That might not be the case tonight.
…
"...No, I'm going to vomit. I really can't drink this anymore!"
“I felt like I was dying and the world was spinning!”
In the drinking booth, Xu Langlang and Chen Buqian leaned against the sofa, covering their mouths, looking as if they were about to be unable to bear it.
"Eh? You can't drink now? That's too much. I drank them all." The man sitting opposite them was playing with the wine glass in one hand and supporting his chin with the other. The moving lights passed across his face, his handsome cheeks were dyed red, and the corners of his lips were raised in an arc that seemed to be a smile.
The half-closed peach blossom eyes were gleaming as she gazed at the person in front of her with deep affection. Her voice was low and pleasant, with a certain bewitching meaning that made people blush and their hearts beat faster.
"Ah, I admit defeat, I admit defeat!" Chen Buqian slid down from the sofa, supported himself on the table and climbed up, feeling dizzy. "You're so cruel, you're so drunk and yet you still act like a decent person!"
"Then kneel down and recognize your father!" Gu Yanxing, who was sitting next to Qi Yan, stood up in shock. "And you guys also agreed to pay for my breakfast for the next month!"
"Don't say dad, as long as you don't drink, it's okay for me to call you grandpa!"
"Ahh, my breakfast money, but I really can't drink anymore!"
"Why isn't Qi Yan in the same group with us? Damn, this guy is drunk, why is he still so serious?"
The group of people who were drinking were howling like ghosts. Youyi, who had called back, looked at the chaotic scene and took a breath. Was he going too far?
Will Shen Xiliu be able to handle Qi Yan now?
Perhaps it was because Youyou's sight was too noticeable, the person lazily leaning on the sofa glanced at him. Qi Yan tilted his head slightly, his peach blossom eyes half closed, as if there were spring water rippling, and more like a misty pond: "Don't call him, do you hear me?"
“…”
Such a look was so intimidating that Youyi subconsciously took a step back and took a breath. No one told me that he would look like this when he was drunk? It’s over, Shen Xiliu will definitely be eaten to death!
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