Winter vacation officially arrived, starting with Qi Muyang being beaten up by his grandmother.
The winter in city A is very cold. When the holiday just started, Chu Qing and Qi Muyang still had some expectations for the holiday, but when they found out that they still had to study according to the schedule every day after the holiday, they suddenly felt desperate.
“…Dad, isn’t vacation meant for a good rest?” Qi Muyang asked weakly.
Qi Weichen glanced at him and said, "You study half as much as you normally would in school, isn't that enough for you to rest?"
"Not enough!" Qi Muyang immediately retorted.
Qi Weichen was silent for a moment: "That's something I have to learn."
Qi Muyang: “…”
After staring at Qi Weichen for a moment, Qi Muyang was sure that he was no match for him, and immediately called out sadly, "Mom!"
"I told you, he definitely won't back down," Chu Qing yawned as she came out of the room, looking at Qi Muyang with a look of despair, "You still insist on negotiating with him."
"Are you sure you don't want to say anything?" Qi Muyang had a bitter face, but he still didn't give up.
Chu Qing paused for a moment, then looked directly at Qi Weichen: "Didn't you say that if we did well in the exam, you would take us skiing? Or to a hot spring?"
Qi Muyang's eyes lit up: "Yes, Dad! You said you would give us a reward, you can't go back on your word!"
Qi Weichen pondered for a moment and said, "I keep my word."
The mother and son cheered, took his arms, and began to discuss the trip with him. Qi Muyang wanted to go skiing abroad, but Chu Qing rejected his plan because he didn't have enough savings. After a long discussion, they decided to go to the next province.
Going out to play is a very happy thing, and without having to study hard, it is double the happiness. Just when the mother and son were very happy, Qi Weichen said indifferently: "Don't think too well."
Mother and son: “?”
At first, the two of them didn't quite understand what this meant. After arriving at the hot spring hotel, they were stunned when they saw him take out the study materials from the suitcase.
"Do some test papers before going out to play." Qi Weichen said calmly.
Mother and son: “…”
Chu Qing felt cheated and asked with a frustrated look on her face, "Do I have to study when I come out to play?"
"No conflict." Qi Weichen said lightly.
Chu Qing and Qi Muyang looked at each other and once again began to think about starting an uprising.
"I'm not in City A now. If you don't behave, I'll leave you here." Qi Weichen threatened coldly.
After his threat, the penniless mother and son had no choice but to compromise. They sat down and started to do the questions with great difficulty. By the time they finished the test paper, more than an hour had passed.
Qi Weichen did not check immediately, but put the two test papers aside: "Go and play."
The mother and son, who only cared about eating and not being beaten, immediately became happy again. They immediately pulled Qi Weichen to the ski resort. After having fun all afternoon, they returned to the hotel and were so tired that they couldn't even lift a finger.
"If my father asks me to get up and study at this time, I will definitely jump down from here in front of him." Qi Muyang slumped beside the French window, too lazy to even move his eyelids.
Chu Qing was also in a bad mood, but she still reminded him: "This seems to be the second floor. You won't die from falling. If you want to threaten by jumping off the building, it's better to go to the rooftop."
"... Forget it, I'm so tired, I don't want to climb the stairs." Qi Muyang instantly gave up his rebellious thoughts.
Chu Qing snorted and lay on the sofa until she was silent. Qi Muyang looked out the French window with heavy eyelids and murmured for a while: "It's snowing..."
When Qi Weichen came in, he saw the two little guys lying on their backs, each sleeping more soundly than the other. He subconsciously slowed down his movements and slowly walked between the two. The hotel's heating was turned on very high, so he was not afraid that the two would catch a cold, but he felt that sleeping like this was not very comfortable.
After a moment of silence, he moved slightly, and just as he moved a little, Qi Muyang's cell phone rang. Qi Weichen was afraid of waking them up, so he immediately took the phone over. When he saw that it was Chen Xiu's call, he paused, thought about it, and answered the call in the corridor: "It's Qi Weichen."
"Ah... Qi Shen, why is the boss's phone with you?" Chen Xiu was curious.
Qi Weichen said calmly: "He is asleep, do you have something to do?"
"Is that so?" Chen Xiu finished speaking, smiling a little embarrassedly. "Actually, it's nothing. I just wanted to tell you that my dad is very satisfied with my grades. He said that if I can keep improving next semester, he will let me stay in Chengde."
When the parent-teacher meeting was held, Chen's father was at his busiest time at work, so he did not go to school. They only had time to chat together today. After confirming that she did not need to transfer schools, Chen Xiu wanted to share it with her friends immediately.
"Good thing." Qi Weichen's brows relaxed.
Chen Xiu said in a bright voice: "Thank you, Qi Shen, and thank you, Master Chu and Boss. Thanks to you, I have the hope of getting into university. Thank you very much."
"You should thank yourself for not giving up." Qi Weichen spoke in an unconsciously elder tone.
Chen Xiu didn't hear anything wrong, so she thanked him several times before hanging up the phone.
Qi Weichen stood alone in the corridor for a while before turning back to his room. The mother and son were still sleeping in the room, so he quietly reviewed the two test papers they had done in the morning.
The minute hand on the wall turned round and round, and the person on the bed finally groaned, showing signs of waking up. Qi Weichen got up and sat down beside the bed, holding someone's warm little hand.
Chu Qing opened her eyes after a long while, and looked at the person in front of her with sleepy eyes. She whispered in a hoarse voice: "Qi Weichen..."
"I'm here." Qi Weichen's voice softened.
Chu Qing sniffed and looked like a little pitiful person who was not yet awake: "I don't want to write the test paper."
Qi Weichen paused, leaned over and kissed her forehead: "Be good and listen."
Chu Qing closed her eyes and hummed: "Don't make me write the test paper, I will listen to you in everything."
"You'll listen to me in everything?" Qi Weichen didn't get up. He rested his arms on the pillow, and his whole body was very close to her.
Chu Qing's cheeks turned slightly red unconsciously, but she was still sleepwalking: "Well, I'll do as you say."
"Then memorize words and formulas." Qi Weichen was like an emotionless tutoring machine.
Chu Qing: “…”
"You're getting worse and worse. Now you're pretending to sleepwalk?" Qi Weichen pinched her face expressionlessly. "Are you awake?"
“… Qi Weichen, I hate you.” Chu Qing opened her eyes faintly, not even a hint of sleepiness left in her.
A smile flashed across Qi Weichen's eyes: "Get up, I'll take you to eat something delicious."
Chu Qing's hatred was immediately extinguished by the word "delicious", so she jumped out of bed and asked while putting on her shoes: "Wasn't I on the sofa? You moved me up here?"
"Yeah." Qi Weichen responded.
Just as Chu Qing was about to speak, she heard Qi Muyang groan in dissatisfaction, so she put on her shoes and ran out immediately, only to see Qi Muyang still lying on the ground, but with a blanket covering him.
"Dad, Mom," Qi Muyang yawned and glanced at them, then frowned and groaned, "The floor is so hard, it hurts my whole body, Mom, are you also uncomfortable sleeping on the sofa?"
“…Yes, I feel very uncomfortable.” Chu Qing looked at Qi Weichen guiltily and decided not to tell him the cruel truth.
The heartless parents waited for their silly son to finish exercising, and then the family of three went to eat. After dinner, they came back and had another round of tutoring. Although Chu Qing and Qi Muyang protested with wailing, they were finally coaxed by the cake ordered by Qi Weichen. They ate desserts and studied at the same time. When they returned to their rooms, they fell asleep directly.
A family of three spent three days traveling in the neighboring province. When they returned home, they felt like they hadn’t been back for many years. The most important festival during the winter vacation—the Spring Festival—was approaching step by step.
A week before the Spring Festival, Qi Muyang kept receiving calls from his grandparents, both of whom asked him to go back to their place to celebrate the New Year, which made him very embarrassed. Every time Chu Qing saw him answering the phone, she couldn't help but say sourly: "Muyang, my little darling, all the old people in the world love you to death."
"... Stop being jealous, you are the little darling of the four of them, and I am just a gift," Qi Muyang was speechless and had a headache, "Now help me think about how to deal with them?"
"How do you usually celebrate the New Year?" Chu Qing was curious.
Qi Muyang shrugged: "Of course I'm with you. When I was a kid, I took turns to celebrate the New Year with both of them, but I got too lazy to do it after a while. I usually only went to pay them New Year's greetings on the first day of the new year. This year, you guys went to work and didn't come back, so they kept urging me. Now, no matter which side I go, the other side will be sad."
"What if we don't go at all?" Chu Qing asked carefully.
Qi Muyang thought for a moment and said seriously, "You haven't met my grandfather yet."
Chu Qing paused, her cheeks slightly flushed: "How could I, I, I have ever seen your grandfather!"
"I think so, otherwise you wouldn't say that. My grandfather is like a nagging version of my father, the kind who can lecture you until dawn," Qi Muyang was terrified when he thought about it. "As for what my grandmother is like, you also know. If I don't go to either side, I will not only have to endure my grandfather's nagging, but also accept the beatings from my grandmother's snow boots..."
"Okay, you don't have to say it anymore. I understand." Chu Qing imagined the scene and couldn't help but look sympathetic. "You should ask your dad about this."
Qi Muyang sighed and thought there was no other way, so he went to find his father with a sad face.
"Why don't you invite them all home?" Qi Weichen asked back.
Qi Muyang was stunned for a moment: "You are all here, why are you calling?"
"The home where you grew up is not here." Qi Weichen looked at him.
Qi Muyang looked at him for three seconds and suddenly realized: "Dad, this is awesome! I'll tell them right now that if anyone disagrees, it means they don't love me enough and want to embarrass me!" He was very skilled at putting the blame on someone else.
Qi Weichen solved the problem that had been bothering him for a long time with just one sentence, and Qi Muyang happily went to play games with Chu Qing. Chu Qing asked curiously, "I seem to have heard you say before that your grandparents don't have a good relationship with your dad, so why do they love you so much?"
"Who wouldn't like me?" Qi Muyang asked back.
Chu Qing was speechless: "There's no need to be so confident."
"That's right. Haven't you heard of grandparents being close to their grandparents? The four old people all love me so much," Qi Muyang chuckled. "I know what you're worried about. They don't have a good relationship with dad because of their incompatibility in personality and long-term lack of communication. But we don't have these obstacles. There will be no problem with your relationship with your mother-in-law."
"... You think too much, I didn't ask you that." Chu Qing glanced at him. She really hadn't thought about the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, after all, it felt quite far away from her... Actually, it wasn't that far away, after all, her son was so old.
Chu Qing's face turned red again and she silently changed the subject.
In order to avoid being discovered by the elders that he had not lived at home, Qi Muyang went back three days in advance. After returning, he remembered that there was no water and electricity at home, so he moved the New Year's Eve to his grandmother's house, and his grandparents went with him. Although his grandparents were not very satisfied with this arrangement, they happily agreed after Qi Muyang promised to spend a few days with them alone after the New Year.
Qi Muyang went back to celebrate the New Year, leaving only Qi Weichen and Chu Qing at home, and the house suddenly felt a lot emptier.
"It's New Year's time, let's buy some New Year's goods." Chu Qing was bored all day and had to suggest.
Qi Weichen thought for a moment and asked, "What should I buy?"
"Meat, vegetables and the like, we don't have any guests at home, so there's no need to stock up. Just go buy them whenever you want to cook. We have snacks at home too. Couplets and window decorations? They don't seem to be interesting... I don't know what to buy either." Chu Qing struggled for a long time and looked at him innocently.
Qi Weichen's eyes flashed with a smile: "Then just buy something."
"Okay, let's go." Chu Qing said as she pulled him up. The two of them put on warm clothes and went out.
The supermarket was full of the festive atmosphere and bustling with people. The two had to hold hands tightly so as not to be separated by the crowd. Chu Qing pulled a small cart and walked side by side with Qi Weichen. She couldn't help but sigh: "I didn't expect that it's already 2042, and everyone still likes to go shopping in the supermarket during the New Year."
"Do you like it?" Qi Weichen asked.
Chu Qing nodded happily: "I like it."
Qi Weichen held her hand a little harder: "That's good."
The two of them walked around for a while and picked out some snacks and vegetables for the next two days. Chu Qing couldn't think of anything else to buy, so she wanted to pull him away.
When the two walked to the daily necessities area, there were obviously fewer people. Chu Qing breathed a sigh of relief: "It was so stuffy just now. The air conditioner here is turned too high."
"Are you feeling better now?" Qi Weichen asked as he helped her unzip her down jacket.
Chu Qing's breathing became much smoother immediately: "Much better, if there's nothing to buy, let's go back."
Qi Weichen glanced at the side, paused and said: "Wait a moment."
Chu Qing saw him walking towards the display shelf and followed him in confusion: "We have enough paper towels at home..." Before she could finish her words, she saw him pick up a pack of sanitary napkins and study it seriously.
Chu Qing's face, which was already flushed with heat, became even redder at this moment: "What are you doing?!"
"Your sanitary products are running low. Your menstrual period is coming up in the next few days. Buy two packs and keep them at home," Qi Weichen said, pausing for a moment. "I haven't used these, so I can only judge based on the price. But your physical sensation is more important. Are the brands you've used before comfortable? If not, try a more expensive one."
"Why are you asking me these! If I needed it, I would have bought it myself!" Chu Qing was so embarrassed that she wanted to crawl into the ground, and quickly pulled him out.
Qi Weichen frowned: "Are you shy? What's there to be shy about with physiological problems?"
"Shut up!" Chu Qing pulled the man away for a distance before letting go angrily, "Why are your ears red if you're not ashamed!"
Qi Weichen, whose ears always reveal his inner thoughts: "…"
"I'm not completely handless, I can buy these things myself!" Chu Qing said with a red face, "You are not allowed to help me choose anymore!"
Qi Weichen: “…Oh.”
"… What do you mean by your reluctance?" Chu Qing was speechless.
Qi Weichen was silent for a moment, then lowered his eyes to look at her: "I just want to care about you a little more."
Chu Qing moved her lips, and after a long pause she said with difficulty: "You don't have to care about everything. You should just care about other things about me."
Qi Weichen pondered for a long time, then nodded and agreed: "I understand. I will pay more attention to your studies in the future."
Chu Qing: “…” Thank you, but please continue to care about my menstrual period.
As the two of them were facing each other in silence, a shopping guide came over with a smile on her face: "Hello, are you here to buy something?"
Chu Qing responded subconsciously, and smiled awkwardly after realizing what was happening: "No, I was just passing by."
"Oh, you are all shy at your age. Auntie knows. Is this your first time buying here?" The shopping guide looked gossipy.
Chu Qing looked at her in confusion, not understanding what she was talking about. Qi Weichen's ears turned even redder, and he spoke a little nervously: "You misunderstood, we were really just passing by."
"I understand," the salesperson stepped back tactfully, but kindly reminded, "If you are really shy, you can order online. Our supermarket will deliver directly. If this is your first time using it, I still recommend the regular model. Don't be too thin. You can buy other models after you become familiar with it. We have a full range of products here."
Chu Qing looked around blankly, and then her face suddenly felt as if it was burned.
How did she pull Qi Weichen from sanitary napkins to family planning supplies? !