There was no sound on the other side of the phone for a while.
Xie Li actually wanted to laugh a little—she could make Ms. Yao, who was laughing one second before and Yan Yan the next, choked up for nearly thirty seconds without saying a word. He felt that he had created something. Enough to record in family history.
After thirty seconds passed, Ms. Yao finally calmed down her turbulent mood, her voice was heavy: "Are you serious?"
"When did I joke with you?"
"... On your dad's side, have you told him?"
"No, I'm too lazy to call him, so I have to trouble your assistant to inform his assistant."
"..." Probably because her son's still lazy tone finally made Ms. Yao a little unhappy. After she was silent again, her voice was slightly harsh, "This matter concerns you and your family. Do you think it is appropriate to notify on the phone?"
"Family?" Xie Li smiled while holding his forehead. "So we still have a family unit. Then, how is it suitable?"
"You take the time to come back and we will talk seriously."
Xie Li frowned slightly, "It's enough for you and my dad to talk. I'll give you my concessions, and you can negotiate the conditions you want—don't you all play like this in business?"
"It's different."
"It's nothing different." Xie Li stood up straight, his tone a little impatient, "The last time we talked was that we didn't interfere with each other when I was an adult, and now I'm taking the initiative to give you my handle. Or it's the same sentence. , you should treat this trumpet by yourself, and give birth to a trumpet again; or…”
Xie Li paused, a little unwilling, but still frowned and finished—
"Don't meddle in my emotional part. You can arrange the rest as you like."
There was a sudden silence on the other side of the phone.
After a long while, Ms. Yao spoke again, "You have a boyfriend? So you took the initiative to hang up the free card?"
Xie Li tutted softly, "It's early. Even if you come to send tens of millions of checks, you will only be thrown in the face by the door."
Ms. Yao was silent for a few seconds, "The rest is up to us to arrange, this is what you said. Don't you pursue your personal freedom and freedom of career choice?"
"… "
"Okay, I'll contact your father recently, and I'll let you know when there is a result."
"Um."
The phone hangs up.
Xie Li looked at the half-deep sunset outside the window and sighed slowly. It's just that he was more than half angry, and he lowered his eyes again and smiled helplessly.
… He struggled for eighteen years to get out of that circle and cage. Unexpectedly, just over a year after it came out, I was caught by someone again.
It should be said that there is such a "robbery" in life.
—
Even though he was mentally prepared, Yu Rui frowned slightly after getting out of the car and seeing the single-family villa.
He turned to look at Sheryl. "It was said in school that you lived in a shanty town in the suburbs."
"It must not be what I said." Xie Li shrugged, his tone innocent.
"You live here by yourself?"
"Um."
"...Then why do you still work in an Internet cafe?"
"This villa is a coming-of-age gift from my uncle," Xie Li sighed, "I can't sell it for money."
Yu Rui: "..."
Xie Li asked the people arranged by Cai Yan to move Yu Rui and Yu Li's luggage to the second floor of the villa. The master bedroom and the largest guest bedroom were cleaned out and arranged as Yu Li and Yu Rui's rooms.
Yu Li visited the villa with novelty and surprise, but Yu Rui kept frowning. After the mover left, he and Xie Li leaned against the wooden stairs on the second floor, looking at Yu Li who was talking with the housemaid aunt on the first floor with a smile, Yu Rui whispered, "Where's your room."
Xie Li looked back, "There are a bunch of guest bedrooms on the third floor. If you want to bring friends in the future, you can also let them live there."
"This is your house, not mine."
"If you can agree, I will take you to the transfer procedure in the afternoon."
"—" Yu Rui gave Xie Li a cold look.
Xie Li leaned over the stairs and looked at Yu Rui with a smile, "I knew you wouldn't agree. You are always so cautious with me, for fear of losing yourself accidentally?"
Xie Li thought for a while, and then said, "But it doesn't matter, the house is only rented to you, and the rent is paid on an annual basis. The servants here are also yours, and you can ask them anything in the future."
"… "
Yu Rui was silent for a longer time this time.
At a certain limit of patience, he frowned, "Your introductions along the way all sound like you're explaining things to you."
Xie Li paused and raised his eyebrows slightly, "Is it so obvious?"
"...what's the matter?"
"It's nothing, but the fact that you moved here must not be hidden from my parents. In order to prevent them from bothering you in the future, I took the initiative to come out with them."
"!"
Yu Rui froze there in shock.
It took him a long time to react, and he gritted his teeth angrily, "Xie Li, you're crazy—"
"I was originally a lunatic, and I'm tired of saying that." Xie Li laughed in a low voice, happy and reckless, "But most of the time when you go crazy, you have to pay a price. My price is that it was already in my hands. The freedom of life that they had, and now they have to give them back."
Yu Rui's eyes tightened slightly, "What will they ask you to do?"
"How do you know that I know."
"If you didn't know, there wouldn't be this conversation now."
"Hey, squad leader," Xie Li laughed, "if you've been so smart all the time, it'll bother me a lot."
"… "
The boy's tense eyes and expressions all showed that he was not in the mood to joke with Xie Li at the moment. Xie Li and Yu Rui looked at each other for a few seconds before they could only speak.
"According to the way my parents used to do things, it was impossible for them to give up without trying." Xie Li thought for a while, "Maybe they will send me to the hardest, most tiring and strictest army for 'training' for a few years... It's a great place to turn waste into talent."
Yu Rui gritted his teeth slightly, "How many years?"
Xie Li smiled lazily: "I don't know."
"Then what about your studies?"
"If you keep your student status, the army can also refer to it without delay."
"..." Yu Rui gritted his teeth, "Is it too late for me and Xiaoli to move out now?"
Xie Li laughed dumbly, "The monitor is obviously very smart, why are you pretending to be stupid?"
"… "
"If you know it's too late, don't ask it."
"..." Yu Rui turned his eyes away angrily, "You didn't even ask my opinion when you did this."
"Ask what?" Xie Li smiled and leaned closer to the boy's ear, "Would you like to be 'morally kidnapped' by me? Would you like me to make such a big sacrifice in exchange for your inability to repay your conscience? "
Yu Rui clenched his fists and frowned coldly, "Or maybe I just turn a blind eye, anyway, it's what you want to do... It has nothing to do with me."
"Then you turn a blind eye, squad leader, why do you have to say it?" Xie Li laughed in a low voice, a little perverted with joy, "And what should I do? This lunatic is betting that you won't, and what he wants is your conscience. Uneasy - so of course I'm not asking you, I'm asking for your whole being - I can do anything to get my way."
"… "
Seeing the boy's red ears from anger or embarrassment, Xie Li lowered his eyes deeply, then he stepped back half a step and laughed hoarsely.
"Squad leader, don't be deceived by me, I'm not a normal person. Since I fell into this disaster for you, of course I want to pull you together, and I have to tie it firmly from body to heart to ensure that you There is no escape from anywhere.”
Yu Rui looked at him angrily, "Are you so sure that you won't regret it?"
Xie Li: "I not only bet that I won't regret it, but I also bet that you won't change your mind. If one loses, I'll lose everything—the squad leader, do you bet?"
"I have a choice?"
"certainly-"
Xie Li leaned over slowly, seeing that the young man was not hiding or retreating, he successfully smiled and kissed Yu Rui's lips:
"… No."
—
Ms. Yao and Mr. Xie, who have been separated for more than ten years due to the discord of the husband and wife, rarely show a high degree of unanimity in the matter of their son.
In the past, every matter involving the family unit had to be discussed back and forth dozens of times before a final decision could be made, but this time, Xie Li received a call from Ms. Yao early the next morning.
The final decision of the two also closely reflects "knowing parents Mo Ruozi".
According to the arrangement of the two, Xie Li went to the airport that afternoon.
Fortunately, it was a Sunday, and Yu Rui took a leave of absence from his part-time tutor's family, and went to the airport to see Xie Li off.
In front of the empty VIP security check channel.
The boy in the white shirt has complicated eyes, but his beautiful facial features are so tense that there is no emotion.
Xie Li, who was dragging the suitcase, looked lazy, as if the person who was about to go to the unknown future was not himself. He just looked at Yu Rui and smiled, "I'm about to leave the range of perverted control, won't the squad leader even smile?"
"...Smile." The young man rarely lost control of his emotions, with a knife in his eyes.
"Tsk." Xie Li smiled more and more happily, "Otherwise go to the bathroom and I'll let you beat me out?"
"..." Yu Rui glanced at him and looked down at the time, "There are only 40 minutes left before takeoff, you should go in."
"All right."
Xie Li lowered his eyes regretfully. He dragged his suitcase, turned around and walked towards the security checkpoint.
It's just that the first step has not yet been taken, and he turns back again.
Yu Rui hurriedly put away the complicated eyes that were almost revealed to the man's back, he frowned, "You still—"
"Squad leader," Xie Li suddenly leaned down and smiled softly in his ear, "When I come back, you should be... an adult, right?"
Yu Rui: "...!"
Xie Li smiled innocently: "Ah, I'm looking forward to it."
Yu Rui: "... Get out!"