"Xiao Nian, I suddenly felt a little uncomfortable so I went back to my room to rest. The birthday party will continue. Don't let everyone be disappointed."
Luo Qi said with a smile.
She is worthy of being the wife who supports the Gong family. She has adjusted herself in such a short time.
"I understand, mother." Shi Xiaonian smiled and said, "I will stay with you here."
If Luo Qi wasn't really feeling well, there was no need to call a doctor.
Luo Qi sat on the sofa, holding his head with one hand. Hearing this, he looked at her in surprise, "You're not going back to the birthday party?"
"No need, I'm afraid I'll be sad, so I'll just hide here, mother."
Shi Xiaonian said, with a hint of cunning flashing in his eyes.
"sad?"
Luo Qi didn't understand what she meant.
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a loud "snap" sound from outside, which was like the sound of a whip.
"What is this sound?"
As Luo Qi listened, she faintly noticed that her expression suddenly changed. She stood up from the sofa and looked out the door.
Shi Xiaonian suppressed her laughter, pinched her neck to adjust her voice, and whispered with a hint of sadness, "Brother and Gong Ou said that they should be punished if their mother's birthday party was messed up, so she received it outside. Where’s the whip?”
"What? When am I going to beat him..." Luo Qi was shocked. Halfway through his words, he suddenly remembered what he had said and became anxious. "I never said they ruined the birthday party. These two children don't take their own bodies seriously. It’s happened.”
With that said, Luo Qi lifted up her skirt and hurried out, throwing away her usual elegance.
Shi Xiaonian snickered, picked up the photo frame on the side, and flicked her fingers on the little boy's face, "Mong Ou, have you lacked control of your expressions since you were a child? You don't even smile when taking photos."
The young boy in the photo has a sullen face and his eyes are full of pride.
Shi Xiaonian held the photo frame and looked at it for a long time before reluctantly putting it down and leaving.
Next time she will have to ask her mother for some photos to make a copy of. She doesn't have many photos of Gong Ou from before.
Shi Xiaonian walked out of the room and walked quickly back to the banquet hall.
"Stop fighting..."
Luo Qi's excited voice stopped suddenly.
No one was beaten.
Gong Yu and Gong Ou had put on handsome and elegant formal suits and stood side by side. Everyone stood behind them and smiled, and the lights above were bright and gorgeous.
"Snapped-"
Another whip sound sounded, and countless flowers splashed up from the ground, captivating her eyes.
Luo Qi lowered her eyes and saw the English words "Happy Birthday" spelled out with flowers on the floor. A particularly large sentence was placed on her high heels.
Was she being plotted
Luo Qi raised her eyes and looked at the two sons in front of her. She didn't know how to react for a moment, "I, you..."
I have seen people like Luo Qi speak incoherently in front of so many people.
She admitted that she was too emotional right now.
"Click-"
After a sound, the lights of the entire cruise ship suddenly dimmed.
Luo Qi was stunned. The dark environment gradually calmed her down.
As if calculating her mood, after she fell silent, a light slowly turned on, and a faint light fell on the entire scene.
She looked forward and saw two hands elegantly handed to her.
Her two extremely handsome sons were asking her to dance.
"This beautiful lady, can you give me a favor?"
Gong Yu raised the corners of his eyes and looked deeply at Luo Qi. He was a complete gentleman.
“…”
Gong Ou didn't speak, but kept holding out his hand.
Shi Xiaonian stood aside. As she expected, Luo Qi slowly lowered his head and looked at their hands. His eyes were full of heartache after seeing those small and dense scars.
Luo Qi's red lips trembled slightly, and it took a long time for her to smile. She raised her hand and made a graceful circle, then handed her hand into Gong Yu's hand.
The violin plays.
Live dance music started playing.
The lights changed and fell on the two of them. Gong Yu took Luo Qi's hand and walked to the center, dancing under the light.
Shi Xiaonian took Gong Ou to the dining table and sat down. Watching everyone come to dance next to Luo Qi one after another, she couldn't help but sigh that the theme of the birthday party had been restored.
It was almost crooked.
"Is this the end?" Gong Ou's gloomy voice sounded in her ears, "There are no unexpected surprises."
Shi Xiaonian turned to look at the unhappy face, "Isn't it surprising enough?"
"It tastes so bad that it ran away. If you come back and dance, it will be considered a surprise?" Gong Ou took a silver spoon and stirred it in the bowl. "It's just perfunctory."
"Why don't you understand?" Shi Xiaonian was really speechless about Gong Ou's emotional intelligence.
"Understand what?"
Gong Ou reached out and played with her long hair.
"Mother has never eaten the food you cooked. She was so moved that she didn't know what to say and ran away. She didn't want everyone to see the aloof Mrs. Gong's wife crying and crying. Do you understand?" Shi Xiaonian was helpless. Explain to him.
What kind of person is Luo Qi? She is elegant and dignified. She is used to looking down on everyone, so she cannot lose her composure in front of everyone.
"oh."
Gong Ou glanced at the dancing mother, and then clenched Shi Xiaonian's hair, "You said she was very moved?"
"Otherwise, why would she rush out when she heard you were beaten, without even touching up her makeup?" Shi Xiaonian opened his hand, "Mother can obviously use beautiful words to thank you for your filial piety, but she just... She couldn't even speak a word, because she was really touched and even so excited that she didn't know what to say to her son."
"oh!"
Gong Ou grabbed her hair again.
"That's why I arranged for you to invite her to dance. Don't let her speak. Don't wait for her to react with surprise. Just enjoy your filial piety quietly." After Shi Xiaonian explained, she took a picture of the slender "Why do you keep pulling on my hair? It took a long time to take care of it."
"I touch the pot every day, and I haven't touched your hair for a long time."
Gong Ou clenched her hair again.
"..." Shi Xiaonian looked at him speechlessly.
"What's your look like? I've been busy with the birthday banquet these days, and you don't blame me for neglecting you?" Gong Ou tugged her hair back and forth dissatisfiedly.
Please, they are together every day, how can they neglect her.
Shi Xiaonian remembered what he had said before. Gong Ou was someone who wanted to spend too little time with her every day, so she couldn't be too ruthless in her words.
Thinking of this, Shi Xiaonian smiled lightly and said, "There is nothing we can do about it. You must be respectful and filial. It is human nature."
"I have never cooked so many dishes for you, will you be jealous?"
Gong Ou looked at her and asked, with a bit of nervousness in his dark eyes.
Uh, should she say she's jealous or not
Shi Xiaonian looked at Gong Ou inquiringly. In Gong Ou's usual way of thinking, she said solemnly, "I'm a little jealous, but not angry."
Yes, this answer is perfect!
Shi Xiaonian silently praised herself in her heart.
Sure enough, Gong Ou curled his lips, hugged her into his arms, and kissed her on the face without any explanation, "I'm sorry for you, I will cook many, many dishes for you in the future."
“…”
Can I not have it
Shi Xiaonian leaned in his arms and smiled bitterly, as if she had thought of something. Gong Ou let her go, picked up a plate of shrimps, put several in the bowl and put them in front of her, "Before mother comes back to eat, you go first Eat some, eat more.”
“…”
Shi Xiaonian was confused.
"Although it is a birthday banquet prepared for mother, if you take the first bite of each dish, your mentality will be balanced." Gong Ou stood up regardless of the appearance, took a spoon and poured a few spoons of each dish into the pile. When he arrived in front of Xiao Nian, he said, "Hurry up and be good."
“…”
Shi Xiaonian looked at Gong Ou stupidly, wondering if he really had low emotional intelligence or was it fake.
Is it too late for her to tell him that she is actually very balanced
"Eat it quickly." Gong Ou doted on her and pushed another bowl of pink soup to her. "The shell of this shrimp is very hard. You need to use special tools. I will remove it for you."
After saying that, Gong Ou picked up the tools aside and started working. These were things he was not good at. The action of removing a piece of shrimp shell was clumsy enough.
The shrimp claws pricked the small wound on his hand. Gong Ou frowned and continued to remove it without saying anything.
When Shi Xiaonian looked at his focused profile, her heart ached slightly.
What a fool.
"for you."
Gong Ou took out a piece of shrimp meat and gave it to her, sweat breaking out on his forehead.
"Yeah." Shi Xiaonian opened his mouth and bit down. The taste of shrimp meat was indescribable in his mouth.
Gong Ou stared at her deeply, "How is it?"
"It's delicious." Shi Xiaonian said sincerely, picking up a clean handkerchief on the side to wipe his sweat, "I'll do it myself."
Watching him dismantle a shrimp is like dismantling a bomb.
"No, I'll take it apart to save you from being jealous and keeping you awake at night."
“…”
As soon as the dance stopped, Gong Yu took Luo Qi's hand and returned to his seat. Luo Qi's mood had completely eased, and he looked at Gong Ou with a smile while Xiao Nian was eating shrimps.
"Gong Ou, why don't you dance a song with your mother?" Gong Yu suggested.
"Don't worry, I'll take a rest first." Luo Qi looked at them and said, "This hard-shell shrimp seems to be quite delicious. Please take a piece of it for me."
Shi Xiaonian looked at Luo Qi in shock and asked silently with her eyes: Do you really want to eat
"Okay, ma'am."
The servant on the side picked up the tools and started to dismantle it.
"Mother, why don't you go dance with Gong Ou." Shi Xiaonian was a little panicked.
"I said I'm tired, let's take a rest."
Luo Qi said with a smile, and answered her silently with his eyes: I will eat my son's cooking even if it tastes bad, and I will definitely show absolute satisfaction.
Gong Ou was busy opening the shrimp meat.
Gong Yu sat across from him and watched the two women going back and forth with each other. He smiled and said, "Didn't mother just find the food on the table unpalatable?"
Luo Qi gave Gong Yu a strange look, "That's because I didn't know that this table of dishes was cooked by you. It's your first time to cook at this level. In time, no cook in the family can match you."
This praise of my son is enough.
Shi Xiaonian ate the shrimp meat silently, watching the servant on the side put the opened shrimp claw meat on Luo Qi's plate.
Luo Qi looked at the bit of white and reddish shrimp meat and said, "The quality is really good."
It was rare for her two sons to have such filial piety, so she had to praise them no matter what. (To be continued)