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On the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, the banquet began to rest.
Bai Xiaoxi also rested. In fact, she wasn't tired at all, but she couldn't bear the fact that Sister Lin and Su Yingru thought she was pitiful, and they were persuaded by banquets, so she had to temporarily stop going out to have fun.
On the same day, Su Yingru called and asked her and Yan Xingzhi to go to Yan Xingzhi to celebrate New Year's Day in advance. In previous years, Yan Xingzhi only returned on New Year's Eve.
Although I have only seen her once, Su Yingru has already figured out the character of the little girl through several contacts. She is a child who has not grown up and likes delicious and fun things.
So she said on the phone that there is a reservoir near the house. Every year, the fish on the New Year's Eve table is caught by her family in the reservoir breeding area. This year's fish has not been caught yet. she goes.
She also said that dozens of strawberries in the flower house are ripe, and she can pick the freshest ones to eat as soon as she arrives, and she made a lot of jam at home a while ago, and she is preparing to make desserts these two days...
Bai Xiaoxi really took the bait, put down the phone and went to Yan Xingzhi.
Yan Xing stopped in the study. Although he was on vacation, he just didn't have to go to the company. Occasionally, he still had some official business to deal with.
Bai Xiaoxi seldom approached his study, just like in the past on Mingshan, where there were paw prints left by her, but only in the master's study, she didn't dare to go in and make trouble, inexplicably felt a sense of awe.
She squatted outside Yan Xingzhi's study and waited. She took out her mobile phone and started playing games, but she stopped playing Xingxingxing. can be eliminated.
This kind of game that does not need to use her brain and only tests her eyesight and hand speed, she is much easier to play.
When Yan Xingzhi opened the door and came out, she saw her sitting on the carpet against the wall, her legs crossed together, and a fair and delicate ankle was exposed under her trousers.
"Are you done?" Bai Xiaoxi didn't look up, his thumbs moved quickly, poking and poking, and the game was over within ten seconds, then raised his head to look at him, "When are we going to my uncle and aunt to celebrate the New Year?"
"Tomorrow afternoon, what?"
He stood in the doorway, the study door was half-closed, Bai Xiaoxi glanced inward, always felt that the "study center", even the light was darker than other places.
"Because you still have work to do today?" She thought, if he is really busy, then don't mention the matter of going back early for the New Year.
However, Yan Xingzhi had already guessed what she was thinking. Mostly, his mother called her and asked them to go back early.
Although he guessed it, he didn't give a positive answer, but said: "It's not considered today's work, and some can be put in the next year, but now I have nothing to do, let's take a look in advance."
When Bai Xiaoxi heard it, he felt that there was a drama, so he quickly stood up and said earnestly, "Well, you can leave it alone. You don't have to be so diligent, you have worked hard for a year, and of course you have to rest well when you are on vacation."
Yan Xingzhi was a little funny, and deliberately said: "I think staying at home is already considered a rest."
"How do you calculate it, you should at least throw away your work when you take a break. You are like this... this way is not called a rest anyway!"
"Then what do you think I should do?" Yan Xingzhi asked.
Bai Xiaoxi's eyes rolled, and Sima Zhao's heart was obvious, "For example, you can go fishing, pick strawberries..."
Yan Xingzhi smiled and shook his head.
Bai Xiaoxi thought he didn't agree, and begged softly, "Is it alright? If we don't go, the strawberries will be overripe."
Yan Xingzhi looked down, when she begged, she unconsciously leaned closer, her face almost touched his arm, her moist lips opened and closed, and his figure was reflected in those black and white eyes.
He saw his own reflection and nodded.
"Yeah! That's great!" Bai Xiaoxi jumped up excitedly and ran away, "I'm going to change clothes! Auntie Lin, Auntie Lin... We're going to the mountains for Chinese New Year, to pick strawberries!"
Su Yingru was happier than Bai Xiaoxi when she heard the news.
You must know that since Yan Xingzhi moved out, he has only occasionally gone back for dinner on weekends and during the New Year’s Eve. At most, he stayed at home for one night on New Year’s Eve, and left the next day. not like family.
Now the situation has finally changed, even if the son just goes home one day earlier, the meaning is different.
They packed up and left in the afternoon.
The streets were crowded with people, cars were coming and going, and red lanterns were hung on the door of many shops, and the characters and couplets were pasted.
The Yan family's house has also been dressed up, and red blessing characters can be seen everywhere, and the deserted house is a little more festive and lively.
When he was on the road just now, Yan Xingzhi told Bai Xiaoxi that in addition to their family of three, there are other people from the Yan clan who are close to each other, and they will come back in a day or two.
"Then, do I want to take the initiative to say hello when I see them?" Bai Xiaoxi asked, she was a little worried, if seventeen or eight came at once, what would she do if she confused who was who.
Yan Xingzhi shook his head lightly, and said, "I'm relatively senior, except for some obviously older ones, you can take the initiative when you see them, and don't worry about anything else."
Yan Hong is of high seniority. Now he and one older sister are left in the same generation, that is, Yan Xingzhi's aunt. This aunt is not in good health. She has lived in a nursing home for several years and will not go home during the New Year.
And Yan Xingzhi is an old man. He looks young, but his seniority is not low. It can be said that in the family, if he is younger than him, he must be his junior, and if he is older than him, he may not necessarily be his senior.
Bai Xiaoxi nodded to understand.
At home, Su Yingru was already waiting for them. After meeting and saying a few words, she took Bai Xiaoxi to see her room.
She asked Mrs. Lin and learned that the two lived separately at home, so she arranged Bai Xiaoxi next to Yan Xingzhi.
This house is obviously a few years old, and the decorative furniture has a heavy feeling. The bed in Bai Xiaoxi's room even has a gorgeous bed curtain.
Su Yingru said: "These are all previous designs. Your uncle and I are old and don't understand the preferences of young people. Xiaoxi will live first, and we will ask someone to change it after the new year."
Bai Xiaoxi hurriedly said: "It's very beautiful now. I see those retro styles on the Internet, but they are not as good as this room. I like it very much, thank you uncle and aunt!"
Su Yingru smiled. The more she got in touch, the more she liked this little girl. Although she was young, she was sensible and considerate. At the same time, she was full of energy, which made people look bright.
After they had arranged the salute they brought, Su Yingru asked someone to take the fishing tackle and take the two to the reservoir.
Although it is winter, the grass and trees on the mountain are still turquoise, and the birds are chirping in the woods. You can imagine how lively the mountains will be in spring and summer.
Now is the dry season, and there is not much water in the reservoir. Bai Xiaoxi followed Yan Xingzhi and slowly walked down the bank until he reached a large protruding rock.
Yan Xingzhi put on a stance, hooked the bait, threw out the fishing rod, sat on the folding chair, and waited.
Bai Xiaoxi squatted aside and watched for a while, then got bored: "Did you just wait?"
If the fish doesn't come, how long will it take
Yan Xingzhi smiled and said, "Or you can tell those fish to bite quickly, and we can finish work earlier."
Bai Xiaoxi was lost. In her memory, fishing was obviously not like this.
I remember one time, she turned into her original form and fell asleep beside the lake, her tail dangled into the water, and a little fish bit her, biting off a pinch of her tail hair, she got angry and jumped into the water The fish threw ashore, used the way of people, but also treated its body, and let out a good breath.
Although she was later punished for cutting off the tail fins of the koi raised by her master, she always felt that catching fish was an interesting thing. How could she know that she was just waiting here now, so she was happy before.
Yan Xingzhi had expected that she would find it boring, so with a leisurely attitude, watching her frown for a while, pouting for a while, with a face like "Why is it not fun to fish like this? I'm being lied to" , feel a little happy.
It's true that you shouldn't always stay in the study when you're on vacation, and the scenery outside is pretty good.
Bai Xiaoxi waited until she yawned and fell asleep before finally a fish was hooked. She jumped up, happier than Yan Xingzhi, the fisherman.
"Caught, caught, caught!" You can go back!
It took a lot of effort to put the fish into the bucket, and the banquet shook his hand, shook his head and said, "It's a little small."
"Ah?" The smile on Bai Xiaoxi's face collapsed, "Do you want to fish again? I-I think this fish is not small. Look at how big it is, I can't even lift it."
In order to leave early, she did not hesitate to lie. She obviously had the power to knock cars flying, but she pretended to be weak and unable to lift a few pounds of fish. She stumbled while carrying a bucket. Really working hard.
Yan Xingzhi laughed, and finally spared her, took the bucket, and said, "Let's go back first, and let others catch another fish later."
"Okay, okay." Bai Xiaoxi nodded again and again, vowing never to fish again.
Fortunately, the strawberry picking session was her favorite.
The strawberries in the flower room were well taken care of. Although there were not many, each one was bright red and full, which finally comforted the little fox's injured heart.
After dinner, Bai Xiaoxi walked with Su Yingru for a while. Because the temperature at night was a bit low, Su Yingru quickly let her go back to her room to rest.
Recently, Bai Xiaoxi has to take online classes every night. After the school starts, she is a college student. She doesn't expect to understand everything the teacher says, so she can learn as much as she can.
Of course, you can watch some TV dramas between online classes. Although the homework she did last time was rejected by Yan Xingzhi, she has not given up her plan to study TV dramas.
When she took out her mobile phone, she realized that she didn't know the network here, so she had to knock on the door next door.
Yan Xingzhi opened the door. It seemed that he had just taken a shower, wrapped in a bathrobe, and had a few strands of hair on his forehead, which was very different from his usual appearance.
Bai Xiaoxi looked at him curiously and closed his mouth when he realized that he was on the phone.
Instead, he opened his mouth first: "What's wrong?"
"Help me connect to the Internet." Bai Xiaoxi quickly handed over his mobile phone.
Yan Xingzhi picked it up, his mobile phone was still on the call, and the voice on the other end of the phone came out:
"Laoyan? Laoyan? How could I hear you talking to the little girl at night? Didn't you say you were on the mountain? You brought home the little beauty that day?"
Sounds like that director, Bai Xiaoxi thought.
Yan Xingzhi ignored it, connected the phone to her, and said, "Rest early, don't play games too late."
Bai Xiaoxi nodded obediently, she wanted to learn, not play.
Hao Pingan spoke again, "Yo, let's rest early. We've known each other for so many years, why didn't you tell me to rest early? Emphasis on sex over friends, brothers are all in vain!"
Bai Xiaoxi blinked and felt that although the director was very powerful, he had a lot of words.
She waved her paws with Yan Xingzhi and went back to her room to study.
Hao Ping'an was still patting, and Yan Xingzhi hung up the phone neatly.
After a night, the next morning, Yan family members arrived one after another.
Bai Xiaoxi was lying on the balcony of her room and watched with the system as cars drove into the courtyard. The people who got in and out of the cars were all brightly dressed and full of style.
However, when she looked around, she didn't see any one that was better than the banquet.
The system said: "The target person is also in power and family, and he is definitely not comparable to ordinary small shrimps. As far as I know, there are very few people with the real surname Yan in the Yan family group at present, all of them have real talents and practical learning. Most of the Yan family rely on the family fund to live, they receive a pocket money every month, they can do whatever they want, and if they want to join the group, they have to rely on their strength."
Bai Xiaoxi nodded half-understood, "So, Yan Xingzhi is very powerful?"
"Then there's no need to ask, you look at these people below, all of them have to look at his face to eat."
Just as he was talking, someone knocked on the door, Bai Xiaoxi ran over to open it, and found that the person they had just discussed was outside.
Yan Xingzhi said, "The guests are here, would you like to meet me?"
Although he asked politely, Bai Xiaoxi never thought of rejecting it. After all, this is also her job scope.
After closing the door and leaving, walking through the corridor, before going downstairs, Yan Xingzhi suddenly said sorry.
Bai Xiaoxi was wondering when he realized that his hand was being held. The two of them were originally separated by a little distance, but now they are also drawn closer.
Her hand was completely wrapped in Yan Xingzhi's palm, clinging to the temperature of the other person, which felt a little strange and a little novel. She tried to move her fingers, and the fingertips scratched in his palm unconsciously, which was immediately tightened.
Bai Xiaoxi was also a little nervous and didn't dare to move.
In the living room downstairs, there were more than a dozen people sitting or standing. They were all chatting and laughing. When they heard the movement, they looked up and saw a pair of good-looking couples, holding hands and walking down the stairs intimately.
The chatter and laughter suddenly stopped, and Bai Xiaoxi found that the expressions on some people's faces were a little weird. Although it wasn't malicious, it was obviously not very friendly.
She thought, is it strange that Yan Xingzhi holds hands with her? Although she thought so herself just now, but outsiders think so, then it is different.
In her heart, she has a small book. Those who are close to her, those she likes, even if they are her own, those who are not important are outsiders.
Yan Xingzhi's family is in her own circle, and now, outsiders are unfriendly in front of her own people, she is not happy.
Since these people thought it was strange to hold hands, she chose to hold them.
She also held Yan Xingzhi with her backhand, but found that it was a bit tiring to hold it. Her hand was too small to wrap around him, so she simply opened her fingers and intertwined with him.
Yan Xingzhi looked down at her, but Bai Xiaoxi didn't notice, she only looked at the people downstairs, with the "big heroine smile" she learned from the TV series on her face. strong.
Yan Xingzhi couldn't help being distracted and thought: Did she learn some weird knowledge again
Su Yingru broke the silence and said with a smile, "I forgot to tell you, Xingzhi brought friends home this year."
The others came back to their senses, and also laughed: "Xingzhi finally talked about friends, now everyone can feel at ease."
"The girl is so beautiful, is she a local?"
"What are you doing at home? I don't seem to have seen it before."
"It's a local, just an ordinary family. As long as the children like it, the old man and I are not the kind of people who value the woman's family." Su Yingru deserved to be tight.
These people couldn't find a breakthrough here, so they turned to Bai Xiaoxi and Yan Xingzhi.
In the final analysis, although it is barely considered a family, the personal ones have to break up the interests, not to mention them.
Yan's Group was founded by Yan Xingzhi's grandfather. After several generations, the population is still prosperous. Now that Yan Xingzhi is sitting in the position of the head of the family, others can only drink soup behind him. Among them, there must be some people who are unwilling, but they are not as good as him, so they can only make up for it in other areas.
In the past, Yan Xingzhi had an average relationship with his parents, and Yan Xingzhi was over 30 and still not ready to find a girlfriend. These were the reasons for them to comfort themselves.
Look at him, what if he earns so much money, his parents are not close to him;
Look at him, he shows off his ability all day long, so alone, no wonder he is still a bachelor at the age of 30;
look at him...
Although no one dared to say it face to face, there must be something in my heart.
Therefore, when I saw Yan Xingzhi and his girlfriend go downstairs just now, it was obvious that they lived at home the night before, and these people's expressions were just like that.
Just as Bai Xiaoxi and Yan Xingzhi sat down, a woman in her fifties opened her mouth and said, "Xingzhi, second sister-in-law has not seen you for a while, so why don't you talk to everyone about your friends?"
This is the wife of Yan Xingzhi's second cousin. He himself ranks sixth and last among his peers.
Yan Xingzhi had the usual smile on his face, "I mentioned it to my second cousin, maybe he forgot to tell his second sister-in-law."
As we all know, his second cousin and his second cousin have a bad relationship. They have been separated for many years, and neither of them pays any attention to the other. If it wasn't for the divorce to share property, the two would have gone their separate ways.
When the second sister-in-law heard this, her face turned bad, she looked up and down at Bai Xiaoxi, and said, "The little girl is not very old, is she an adult?"
Bai Xiaoxi politely said, "Auntie, I'm twenty years old."
Without waiting for the second sister-in-law to speak, Yan Xingzhi corrected her with a little indulgence: "I'm getting old, you should call the second sister-in-law like me."
Bai Xiaoxi quickly and obediently admitted his mistake.
Although she had a good attitude, the second sister-in-law's face turned even darker.
Next to her, there was a younger fifth sister who had a banquet and said, "Didn't Auntie just say that your girlfriend's family is ordinary? I see that the clothes on her are the latest styles, and the price is not cheap. It seems that Auntie is modest. "
Bai Xiaoxi looked at Yan Xingzhi hesitantly: "This is..."
"It's the fifth sister."
"Oh, so it's my sister." Bai Xiaoxi greeted sweetly, and then said innocently, "It's not just this set of clothes, I have a lot of new clothes and bags in my closet, and I don't have much money at home, these are all Buy it for me dear."
Saying that, she was still shy, and rested her head on Yan Xingzhi's shoulder.
Yan Xingzhi still had a smile on his face. If you look closely, you can see that the corners of his mouth twitch a little.
He was already holding his forehead in his heart, and he didn't know what tricks she had learned recently, and she still hasn't been exposed until now, and her fighting power is quite strong.
The fifth sister obviously didn't expect this answer, so she choked up and said, "Really, I misunderstood, thinking that today's young people like to be independent and fall in love, everyone spends their own money."
Bai Xiaoxi said with a smile: "AA is very good, but I'm still young, studying, and I can't make money like my sister, so I have to let my dear take care of me. But it doesn't matter, he is older than me, when he is old, I will take care of him."
In this way, Bai Xiaoxi used his own strength to fight against the heroes, and achieved great results, which not only made Yan Xingzhi impress, but also stunned the system.
The system muttered to itself: "I was wrong, I shouldn't underestimate you. Little fox, you are no longer the little fox you used to be, you are now fox Niu Colu Jing."
Bai Xiaoxi didn't have time to care what he was thinking, and showed himself in front of everyone, Su Yingru let her and Yan Xingzhi go out to breathe.
Hand in hand, he walked to a clean place in the garden. There was no one in front and back. Bai Xiaoxi slumped on the chair and lost all his fighting spirit. "I'm so tired."
Those actors are really not easy. There are dozens of episodes in a TV series, and she just pretended for a while before she died.
With a happy smile on the corner of Yan Xingzhi's mouth, he asked, "What TV show have you watched recently?"
Bai Xiaoxi blinked, "I don't see much anymore."
She has to study hard, just watch a little bit every day.
Yan Xingzhi didn't expose it, and said very considerately, "Are you thirsty? I'll go get you something to drink."
Seeing that she did her best in the performance just now, she didn't even drink water.
"If you want it, I want strawberry juice, and take some if you have something to eat!" Bai Xiaoxi ordered him with peace of mind.
Yan Xingzhi went into the room, she was paralyzed in the chair for a while, then sat up again, took the flowers in the vase on the table and smelled them, and boredly stretched out her fingers to count the number of petals.
"Your name is Bai Xiaoxi?" A voice suddenly came from the side.
Bai Xiaoxi looked sideways and saw that it was a young man, one of the group of people today, she remembered what Yan Xingzhi had said, those younger than him were all juniors, and since they were juniors, they would ignore them.
She was arrogant and ignorant.
The visitor came over, sat on another chair, and said with a smile: "My name is Yan Zecheng, you are my uncle's girlfriend, then I will have to call you my aunt in the future. By the way, you are Isn't there a younger brother or elder brother named Xiaohe? Bai Xiaohe hahahaha..."
He said it was funny and laughed to himself.
He didn't know that what Bai Xiaoxi liked most was his name.
The word "Xiaoxi" was left to her by her mother, while Bai was both her original color and her master's surname.
When she was on Mingshan Mountain, she only had a first name, but no surname. When she was going down the mountain, her fellow monsters told her that if she wanted to get an ID certificate, she had to have a first name and a surname. When asked what surname she wanted, she said nothing without hesitation.
Bai Xiaoxi, in just three words, closely related her mother and master, the two most important people to her, and herself, so she didn't like someone making fun of her name.
Yan Zecheng didn't realize it at all. After laughing, he said a little familiarly: "Are you an S college student? It's a coincidence, so am I, but I should be one year higher than you. To be honest, I admire you a lot. You just I was stunned to appear hand in hand with my uncle, okay? There are warriors who dare to fall in love with my uncle!"
Perhaps it was the intuition of some kind of small animal, just like the timidness in Bai Xiaoxi's heart when he first saw Yan Xingzhi, Yan Zecheng was also afraid of anyone since he was a child, just his uncle.
Of course, he is not really a small animal, but some aspects are similar to small movements.
He has always felt that Uncle does not seem to have too many human feelings, and the perfect smile on his face all the time is more like a mask.
He even imagined during his second year of middle school that perhaps the uncle was not a human at all, but an alien lurking in the crowd. The purpose was to rule and rule the earth. Maybe one day, he would tear off his mask and reveal an alien face. !
Several times, he almost scared himself to pee just relying on himself to scare himself.
So, you can imagine how shocked the previous scene was to him.
Bai Xiaoxi didn't bother to care about him at all. Her fighting power was exhausted just now, and now she has insufficient energy and needs to be fed in time for the banquet.
Yan Zecheng was still saying: "You looked very good when you talked to the second aunt and the little aunt just now. I haven't seen a few who can talk more than them. You don't know—"
"Zecheng, why are you here?"
Yan Zecheng was talking vigorously when he suddenly heard the voice of the most feared uncle, like a duck strangled by the neck. After a quack, the food stopped.
Yan Xingzhi came over, holding a tray in his hand, a cup of strawberry juice on the tray, and two small cakes that were just out of the oven and exuded a sweet fragrance.
He put his things down, first glanced at Bai Xiaoxi, who was a little wilted, then turned to Yan Zecheng, still gently said: "You know Xiaoxi?"
"No no no... I don't know!" Yan Zecheng was shocked when he saw him, waved his hands repeatedly, and quickly stood up, "I just saw my little aunt sitting here alone, come and talk."
"Oh?" Yan Xingzhi sat down, "I remember that you and Xiaoxi belonged to the same school?"
Yan Zecheng hurriedly said, "Yes, yes, what a coincidence."
It was a coincidence that he just said it in front of the future little aunt. I don't know why, but when he said it in front of the little uncle, he felt completely different. What happened to the inexplicable sense of crisis.
Yan Xingzhi didn't say anything else, and looked back at Bai Xiaoxi, seeing that she took a sip of strawberry juice first, her expression suddenly brightened, and then she ate a sip of cake, her face also lit up, as if she was charged.
Yan Zecheng stood on the edge and wanted to leave a little, but the uncle didn't speak. He didn't dare to run away without authorization, so he had to wait.
Just wait until Bai Xiaoxi has finished drinking half a cup of strawberry juice and eating a piece of cake, and looks like he has recovered his energy.
I saw her little hand stretched out, little mouth opened, pointing at Yan Zecheng and complaining to Yan Xingzhi: "He bullied me just now!"
Laugh at her name!
… What the hell? ! ! !
Yan Zecheng was stunned.