This is not the first time Asaba Rika has come to Chen Yu’s house.
I stayed here for six days during the Mid-Autumn Festival. I also came here once for dinner in early November, and again half a month ago, when Zhang Xiaoru happened to teach her how to make bacon. This is the fourth time she has come here. .
Before she lived at home, Shen Yu would only come back during the New Year and holidays. Most of the time, her parents would go to the old house to visit him.
After Li Xiang moved in, she even took him home more often, and every time she went back, she was carrying large and small bags.
It's not that he is idle, but that his mother always calls and asks him to take Lixiang back. It doesn't matter whether he comes back or not. He wants Lixiang to come back, but Lixiang doesn't know how to get there, so she has to take Shenyu with her.
On the contrary, his parents visited him less often, for fear of disturbing their little life. For so long, excluding the time in September, they only went back to the old house to visit him once, and paid him back before going. It was inconvenient to call and ask for directions, which made Shen Yu feel weird.
After getting off the car, Shen Yu took the initiative to pick up these large and small bags, while Li Xiang stayed with him empty-handed.
It’s impossible not to take it! Otherwise, you will definitely be scolded as soon as you enter the door!
Although Lixiang was a road addict, she knew what to do as soon as she entered the elevator. She quickly landed on the 23rd floor. After the elevator opened, she went to the right side of the corridor and stopped in front of the door of 2302.
Shen Yu was about to take the key to open the door, but suddenly his eyes widened:
Li Xiang turned the small bag on her shoulder in front of her, took out a key from it, clicked twice, and opened the door to his house.
Seeing Shen Yu's stunned look, she proudly held the key in her hand and waved it in front of his eyes, laughing and saying, "Auntie gave this to me!"
"Why did my mother give you the key?"
"Because I'm good."
"You're a good kid, tell me now."
Li Xiang said honestly: "Auntie really gave it to me. She said you often forget to bring your keys when you go home, so she gave me a copy to keep. She said that when I want to come back for dinner, I can come over to eat with her myself..."
Shen Yu wanted to speak but stopped, stopped talking but wanted to...
He didn't know what his mother was thinking. She and her father had been thinking about how to bring them together all day long. Shen Yu himself was calm, and Li Xiang looked like he was cooked by them.
I even gave you the keys to my home. In a few days, why don't we buy a new house for us and add your name to it
Shen Yu stretched out his hand: "Give me the key. I never forget to bring the key."
Li Xiang hurriedly hid the key back in her bag like a baby. For a girl, having the key to the boy she likes is a status symbol! How could you give it back to him!
"No! Auntie gave it to me! Shen Yujun has to go tell auntie! Humph!"
"Just give me the key first, and then you can say no to her..."
"Can't!"
Rika slightly stuck out her tongue at him but refused to give him the key.
The two chatted at the door for a long time, and Shen Deyou and Zhang Xiaoru who were in the room also came out.
Li Xiang pulled Shen Yu in happily.
"Uncle, aunt, we are back!"
"Ouch, come in, come in, why are you standing at the door? Will there be a traffic jam on the road?"
When Zhang Xiaoru saw Li Xiang, she was like seeing her daughter-in-law, so she couldn't wait to send her to the house. The more she talked with Li Xiang, the more Zhang Xiaoru fell in love with her.
"No traffic jam!"
"Are you cold, my dear? You look like you're wearing so little, don't let your body freeze..."
"It's not cold! I wore a lot of clothes..."
Li Xiang is also very familiar with Zhang Xiaoru. She likes this middle-aged woman very much, not only because she is Shen Yujun's mother, but also because Zhang Xiaoru is very similar to the person she ideally wants to be. She is virtuous, family-oriented, and cooks delicious food. Ah, wait.
"Auntie, we made some bacon, but not much... I only took one piece for you and uncle to try. It's the first time I made it. I don't know if it tastes good. There are also these pickled radishes. Shen Yujun and I have them every day. The food is still very delicious, we also brought some for you to try..."
Li Xiang took out the bacon, pickled radishes and other food she had brought over. Although they were not expensive items, it was obvious that Shen Deyou and Zhang Xiaoru were very happy, even happier than receiving the gifts she specially bought at the mall last time.
Why Zhang Xiaoru likes Lixiang is not because of these trivial things. For example, when she talks, she uses "we" instead of "I", like "we made some bacon" and "we brought some to you'.
She doesn't take any credit for herself and takes Shen Yu into consideration in everything. How can this make Zhang Xiaoru not like her.
Shen Yu is ignorant and doesn't know how good a girl like this is as a wife, but Zhang Xiaoru and Shen Deyou are not willing to miss such a good daughter-in-law.
"Hmm! It smells very fragrant. I must have just made it in the past few days. The weather is good and the cooking is pretty good. Let's try it tonight. There happen to be snow peas in the refrigerator. Auntie will teach you how to make fried bacon with snow peas. Shen Yu also likes to eat."
"OK!"
Li Xiang secretly remembered and learned another dish Shen Yujun liked to eat.
It is already five o'clock in the evening. Winter nights come earlier, and dinner in leisure time is a little earlier than before.
Li Xiang didn't talk much to Shen Deyou. After Zhang Xiaoru's greeting, she ran into the kitchen to prepare dinner with her aunt.
Now that the game is online, Shen Yu is relatively free during this period. He just had dinner when he came back. He didn't run to the room to face the computer. He just sat on the sofa and watched TV in a bored manner.
"How's your game going now?"
Shen Deyou took a sip of tea and glanced at his son on the sofa.
"It just went online last week. It seems okay now. Dad, how did you know?"
"You don't care how I know..."
Old Shen changed the topic and did not betray Li Xiang.
After thinking about it for a moment, Shen Yu knew that her parents must have asked her in the group, but there was nothing to hide, and it would be good to know about it, just to change her father's impression of him. After all, she was doing Business.
"How much did you make?"
"You should be able to earn this amount."
Chen Yu made a seven with his fingers.
"Seven thousand yuan? That's fine... It's better than spending money on a broken computer all day long. Now you know it's not easy to make money, right?"
"... Well, seven thousand."
Old Shen continued to ramble: "I always feel that you are not very good at playing games. Why don't you just find a good girl and get married? After you graduate, come to work here. Our family is here. I can only inherit this property to you. If you come and take over earlier, your father and I can retire earlier. When I was young, I promised your mother to take her to travel around the world. Until now, she has not even left the map of China. She is here every day. It’s nagging in my ears and it’s so annoying…”
"Or if you want to go work on your own, I know those of you who work on computers can get quite high wages, but don't even think about going to Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. Just stay here and work for two or three years before you come back to my place. Go to work, our family’s little property..."
Chen Yu was a little confused after hearing this. After all, I was asked to get married early, go home early and inherit the family business, and then the old couple would travel around the world.
Of course there's no problem with traveling around the world, but he won't agree with getting married early. His family is engaged in industry, and he's not interested in this industry either.
"Hey dad, I have something to discuss with you."
"What's the matter? Did you borrow money?"
Shen Deyou blocked his gloomy thoughts when he opened his mouth. He had borrowed a lot of money to buy computers, servers, and equipment before, but he still hasn't paid it back, and his obsession has worsened.
"How can we tell the difference so clearly..."
"If you get married and have no money, I will buy you a house and a car. If you borrow money to play games, no."
"This game project is my first pot of gold. My idea is to build a technology company. Technology, you know? The kind with a market value of hundreds of billions."
"You make 7,000 yuan and tell your father that you want to make hundreds of billions. Even Jack Ma is not as deceptive as you!"
"Seven hundred thousand!"
"seven… ?"
Seeing that his father was silent, Shen Yu found an opportunity and said: "I plan to formally establish a company, but the funds may not be enough. Dad, how about you invest one million in me? If I don't pay you back within a year, I... "
"What do you want? Huh?" Shen Deyou asked forcefully.
"I will find a girl to get married! I will give birth to two grandchildren for you and my mother to play with, and then focus on going home and inheriting the family business, and will never have other messy thoughts!" Shen Yu was forced to panic, and he kicked the ground to get out of the pot. It bounced.
"Okay, deal." Shen Deyou lit a cigarette and said calmly.
"...Where's the money?" Shen Yu stretched out his hand expectantly.
Shen Deyou slapped his hand away angrily and said speechlessly: "Have you ever seen an investor give you all their money at once? When your company starts up, I will give it to you in batches. Do you think one million is very small?" , and even said that if you don’t have money, you’ll get married, which is an advantage for you.”
"Then I started a company to make more money, get married, have children, etc., and have a better life."
"Oh, it's rare for you to think like this, so you have to remember this sentence."
Shen Deyou ignored him, opened the balcony door and went outside to smoke. Halfway through, he ran in shivering from the cold: "I'm old, I can't resist the cold anymore..."
While Shen Yu was sitting on the sofa wondering if he had stepped into a trap again, the aroma of dinner was already wafting from the kitchen.
Li Xiang came out with hot dishes. Wearing a goose-yellow apron, she looked extremely well-behaved: "Uncle, it's time to eat! Mr. Shen Yu, it's time to eat!"
"Okay, Li Xiang, just sit down, you're welcome... Shen Yu! Why are you still sitting there? Why don't you go over and help get the dishes and chopsticks!"
Shen Yu: "..."
Dinner was four dishes and one soup, all home-cooked. The bacon Lixiang brought was also stir-fried. It was stir-fried with snow peas, and there were two portions.
One of them was fried by Zhang Xiaoru, and the other was cooked by Li Xiangxian. Her cooking skills are quite good now, and she can cook many dishes just by looking at them once.
Neither of them said anything out loud, but secretly looked at Shen Yu as he picked vegetables. He really liked eating fried bacon with snow peas.
Chen Yu picked up a piece of fat and thin bacon and put it into his mouth. He felt that it tasted very good. The bacon was made by Li Xiang, and the rack for drying the bacon was made by him. It was considered the result of working together.
After eating for a while, he found that the taste of the two dishes was slightly different. He preferred the other dish with less oil, which was fried with snow peas and bacon, so he almost always ate from that dish. Maybe because he was used to living with Li Xiang, she added oil when cooking. Not much.
"Which dish is better?" Zhang Xiaoru asked.
"Well, didn't you fry it together?" Shen Yu stretched out his chopsticks and continued to pick.
"That plate is made by Li Xiang."
Shen Yu's chopsticks froze in mid-air for a moment, and he subconsciously looked up at her, and he could clearly see the happiness in her eyes.
"Oh, pretty good."
Shen Yu praised her and continued to eat the plate of fried peas and bacon she made as if nothing had happened.
"You don't know how to cook. Rika will go back to Yokohama in two days. Let me see what you eat."
"Then I can still be hungry..."
"Don't order takeout if you can."
Zhang Xiaoru said, and gave Li Xiang a big piece of chicken: "Come on, Li Xiang, try this chicken. The local chicken bought in the country is very delicious."
"Thank you, aunt~"
Lixiang didn't like eating chicken skin, but this piece of meat had chicken skin on it, which made her a little embarrassed.
Chen Yu pushed his bowl next to her, and Li Xiang sensibly tore off the chicken skin and put it into his bowl. Seeing the two elders looking at them with ambiguous eyes, she held the bowl and took small bites of the rice, with a small face on her face. Wei Hong said nothing.
Shen Yu also noticed it, put the chicken skin in his mouth, and complained: "She doesn't eat chicken skin, she is a very picky eater!"
"Nonsense, you are obviously greedy for Lixiang's chicken skin. How can Lixiang be a picky eater?"
“…”
She is the pickiest eater! I only eat the bread on the side, but don’t eat the strawberries!
The family didn't talk about anything serious when they ate together, they just chatted here and there. Compared with the previous times when they ate together, Shen Yu was no longer as dull and silent as before.
After dinner, Shen Yu and Li Xiang took a short rest and planned to go back. There were still classes to attend tomorrow, and Zhang Xiaoru and Shen Deyou did not keep them at home overnight.
"Daughter, please be safe when you go home. Give Shen Yu a call when you get to Yokohama and ask him to pick you up when you get back."
"Yeah! Goodbye, uncle and aunt!"
"After you finish celebrating the Chinese New Year over there, come to our house to celebrate the Spring Festival this year and have a lot of fun together!" Zhang Xiaoru seemed to be saying something very ordinary.
Chen Yu almost fell over after hearing this. Where did he end up? Are you planning to have Lixiang come to your house to celebrate the New Year? !
"Yeah! Okay!" Lixiang happily agreed.
"Then when you come to our house to celebrate the New Year, Auntie will give you a big red envelope!"
"Auntie, you are so kind!"
Chen Yu pulled Li Xiang home with a solemn expression.
Probably because she felt the family atmosphere tonight. Seeing that she was going home in two days, Lixiang became quiet and looked at the neon lights outside the car window in a daze.
Shen Yu helped her connect to the Bluetooth of her mobile phone and played a Japanese song with a female voice, which was quite nice.
Li Xiang suddenly turned her head and looked at him with a smile: "Tomorrow is Christmas Eve. Is Mr. Shen Yu ready to give me a gift? I have already made a wish to Lord Martian!"
"Don't you just like things that are warm, huggable, cute, plush, and have... strange smells..."
"Yeah! Mr. Shen Yu, you still remember!"
Shen Yu had a strange look on his face. It was a gift... He had already prepared it and had hidden it secretly. He would not tell her what it was for the time being. Although it might seem a bit strange, it took him a lot of thought...
Thinking of this, he asked again: "Then what do you want to give me? I don't want your clothes..."
"Shen Yujun is so perverted! How could I, how could I give you my clothes..."
Li Xiang looked embarrassed, stretched out her little hand and gestured: "It's also warm, plush, and... has a fragrant smell..."
"what?"
"I won't tell you!"
Shen Yu was in a good mood and looked forward to receiving gifts for the first time.
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