When Xiao Yuanmu found Mrs. Xiao, she was talking to two women of similar age. When she saw him approaching, the smile on her face instantly deepened. She stepped forward to meet him, and held his hand with a smile. : "You are here, come quickly."
"Mom, let me introduce you. This is Aunt Zhao, and this is Aunt Qian. They are all friends of my mother."
Xiao Yuanmu withdrew his hand indiscriminately, and nodded slightly: "Aunt Zhao, Aunt Qian."
Aunt Zhao smiled and handed him a simple and small wooden box: "This is a meeting gift from Auntie." Aunt Qian next to him also took out a small purse, the things inside looked a bit heavy, and handed it to Xiao Yuanmu made the sound of metal collision.
Xiao Yuan didn't move, Mrs. Xiao said: "Accept it, this is a make-up gift for you. They gave something to your younger brother when he was eighteen years old. You each have a share. This is what you should accept." down."
"Yes." Aunt Zhao said: "We gave you a jade pendant and a longevity lock when you were born, and they are still locked in the cabinet in your room now, so you don't have to see them outside."
Xiao Yuanmu's eyes flickered slightly, and after thanking them, he accepted the two people's things and handed them to Yang Jie who had been by his side all along.
Madam Qian smiled and asked: "I heard that you already have someone you like, why didn't you see him today?"
Mrs. Xiao pursed her lips with a smile just now, and said before Xiao Yuanmu could speak: "The child seems to have something to do and couldn't come over."
Mrs. Zhao said: "It's a pity that I couldn't come at such an important time."
Mrs. Xiao smiled, and changed the subject: "Your father said before that you would come right away, did something delay you?"
"I met Mrs. James and Aunt Song." Xiao Yuanmu said, "I greeted them."
The other two ladies were taken aback, and Mrs. Zhao said, "I know Mrs. James, but who is Mrs. Song? I don't seem to have heard of her name."
Mrs. Xiao was also a little puzzled at first, but after hearing Xiao Yuanmu's address to her, she reacted, the smile on her face paused, and said lightly: "Mrs. James likes you very much, you should go over and say hello .”
The corners of Xiao Yuanmu's lips were slightly curved, and his eyes were downcast.
Mrs. Zhao and Mrs. Qian didn't ask any more questions when they heard Mrs. Xiao's words. They just changed their eyes and changed the topic tacitly.
"Yuanmu." Mrs. Zhao recalled the topic Xiao Yuanmu talked to her best friend before she came, and said softly: "I heard that you still live in the apartment by yourself. The Xiao family has their own house in Y City. Your parents and brother Although you are not there often, you will often pass by, your family has been separated for so long, now you should cherish the opportunity to be together."
Mrs. Xiao nodded when she heard the words: "That house is not far from your company, you can move in and live with us when the time comes."
Xiao Yuanmu didn't speak, but Xiao Bocong walked over through the crowd. He was wearing a well-tailored dark suit and a blue-green silk jacquard tie, vividly reflecting the transition from a lively boy to a calm man, with a slightly childish handsome face With a smile, full of luxury.
He just heard this sentence, and said with a smile: "Is brother going to move to our side? I can ask Ben to help him tidy up a room, but don't we have to go to the main house first?"
Seeing him coming, Mrs. Xiao, who was still a little nervous, relaxed instantly, grabbed her youngest son's hand, and said angrily, "I called you here earlier, where have you been?"
Xiao Bocong smiled and said: "My friends are over there, I talked to them, just now Zeyu and Wei Yang were going to be with me, who knew that they met classmates who hadn't seen each other for a long time, and they abandoned me as soon as they spoke Alright, I'm the only one here."
Zeyu and Wei Yang are the sons of Madam Zhao and Madam Qian respectively. When they heard him talking about their children, their smiles deepened. study."
Xiao Bocong smiled brightly, and said, "If it wasn't because my mother and brother were here, I would have been dragged away by my classmates."
Madam Xiao pretended to be angry and glared at him, and said: "I told you to bring your brother to meet friends who know you, but you have been playing for so long."
"I'm afraid that my brother will look too indifferent and scare them. This is to say hello in advance." Xiao Bocong looked at Xiao Yuanmu and said with a smile, "My brother won't blame me, right?"
Xiao Yuanmu's voice was clear and calm: "No."
"I'll just say it." Xiao Bocong walked to Xiao Yuanmu's side: "Let's go, brother, I'll take you to meet my friends."
Xiao Yuanmu flatly refused: "No need."
Mrs. Xiao, Mrs. Qian and Mrs. Zhao were taken aback, and the smile on Xiao Bocong's face faded: "Brother, you don't blame me for being late, do you?"
"I made an appointment for a five o'clock video conference." Xiao Yuanmu raised his hand and glanced at his watch, and said, "It's almost time now, I have to go up and get ready."
"You child." Mrs. Xiao breathed a sigh of relief: "Why do you have to work today, can't you postpone it?"
"No." Xiao Yuanmu said calmly: "This cooperation is very important to the future development of the company, and it is not appropriate to temporarily change things that have been agreed in advance."
Mrs. Xiao sighed softly, still maintaining a smile on her face, and said: "Then you go to the meeting first, remember it after the meeting, and let your brother introduce you to people of the same age, and make more friends."
Xiao Yuanmu nodded, said goodbye to the two wives one by one, then glanced at Xiao Bocong, and said to Mrs Xiao: "I'm going first."
"Go."
"My brother and I will go up together." Xiao Bocong said with a smile, "I happen to have something left in the room, I'll go up and get it."
"Okay." Looking at her younger son, Mrs. Xiao said in a doting tone, "But don't disturb your brother's work."
"I know." Xiao Bocong looked at Xiao Yuanmu with a smile, and said, "Brother, let's go together."
Xiao Yuanmu's eyes paused on him for two seconds, and he turned around first. Xiao Bocong waved to his mother, and followed Xiao Yuanmu's footsteps with a smile.
"Brother." Although Xiao Bocong is five years younger than Xiao Yuanmu, his height is almost the same as him. He walked quickly to stand side by side with Xiao Yuanmu, turned his head to look at Xiao Yuanmu's profile, and said, "You really know how to move?" Go back and live with us?"
Xiao Yuanmu looked ahead with a calm expression: "No."
Xiao Bocong's eyes paused, and the smile on his face remained unchanged: "Why? Because you're not used to it when you just came back? But we are a family, and we will get used to it after living together for a long time, and we can cultivate our relationship, right?"
"The company is too busy."
"Actually, the house is not far from the apartment." Xiao Bocong said, "If you have a driver to pick you up and drop you off, it won't waste any time."
Xiao Yuanmu glanced at him, but didn't speak.
Xiao Bocong was still smiling, and he didn't seem to care about Xiao Yuanmu's indifference, as if he admired his brother's little follower, he changed the subject again and tried to talk to him: "Brother, I'm only ten years old when I study world history. I went to Huaguo once with my family teacher, and there were too many people with me at that time, it was meaningless at all, is Huaguo fun?"
Yang Jie: "It's not fun."
Xiao Bocong paused, looked at Yang Jie, and frowned a little: "I asked my brother, what are you interrupting?"
"He's right." Xiao Yuanmu also stopped, and said calmly: "I still have a job, if you want to get something, go get it."
Xiao Bocong pursed his lips, and looked at Xiao Yuanmu with a trace of grievance: "Do you not like me very much?"
"Yes."
Xiao Bocong was taken aback, his eyes filled with disbelief, apparently he did not expect him to answer so quickly and straightforwardly.
"Can I go in now?" Xiao Yuanmu raised his jaw slightly, signaling Xiao Bocong to get out of the way.
Xiao Bocong glanced at Xiao Yuanmu and Yang Jie behind him, frowned and said, "Why? There should be a reason for not liking it, right?"
"There is no reason." Xiao Yuanmu stretched out his hand to open the door, he paused when he walked in, then turned to look at Xiao Bocong, his dark eyes were bottomless, with a frozen chill, he said: "Like you. "
The door was closed in front of Xiao Bocong. He stood still for a long time before he suddenly sneered and said meaningfully: "Smarter than I imagined."
After closing the door, Yang Jie listened to the movement outside the door for a while, and after making sure that the outside could not hear the sound inside, he said puzzledly: "Brother Xiao, even if you don't like your brother, you shouldn't... say it."
Xiao Yuanmu didn't say a word, he found a sofa and sat down casually, picked up his mobile phone and dialed the number he was thinking about.
Yang Jie didn't see him holding the phone, and continued: "Also, I remember you didn't have a video conference today, and you came up at this time because you were tired—"
"What's up?"
Suddenly a familiar voice appeared in the air, and a few steps forward, he accidentally glimpsed some unfamiliar faces on the screen of the mobile phone that he hadn't seen for a long time. Quite complicated.
Seeing the person in the video, the corners of Xiao Yuanmu's mouth curled up slightly, he raised his hand and pulled at his tie, and said in a hoarse voice, "Are you awake?"
Song Xuanhe was woken up by the phone call, his sleepy hair drooping on his forehead, his half-closed sleepy eyes, with water vapor in his eyes, in stark contrast to the sharp-eyed man on the other side of the video.
His tone was very impatient: "What happened so early?"
Xiao Yuanmu glanced at the large chest exposed by Song Xuan and the buttons, quickly looked away, looked up at Yang Jie's direction, turned the phone screen, and said: "I just met my aunt. "
Last night, I stayed in the studio until five o'clock before returning to the apartment. Song Xuan and his eyelids kept drooping, and finally opened his eyes. The sun slanted on the clear eyes, and the pupils were very pale: "So?"
In just three words, he closed his eyes again after he finished speaking, full of impatience, as if he was asking, are you going to wake me up for this kind of thing
"She asked me when we were getting married."
Song Xuanhe's thin eyelids jumped, and they opened suddenly: "What?"
Xiao Yuanmu hooked his lips: "Are you awake?"
The author has something to say: Yang Jie: Mrs. Song never said that.