I turned around and walked up to Ji Guanxin with the water glass in my hand and handed it to him. My mother took one look and said aloud: "Pour cold water?"
Before I could respond, Ji Guanxin immediately took it and took a sip, then said, "Auntie, I don't like hot water."
My mother looked at me with a straight face, and immediately smiled at Ji Guanxin, and said loudly: "You don't have to speak for her. Zijin is usually careless and doesn't take care of others very well."
Ji Guanxin said: "This is true."
I looked at him with a threatening look in my eyes, and Ji Guanxin quickly changed his words: "But I don't have anything to take care of from her, it's okay."
Our sofa is a long set with two separate seats. Now Ji Guanxin and my father sit on a separate sofa, while my mother and I sit on the couch diagonally opposite.
My mother asked Ji Guanxin: "Is this coming from Night City?"
With a polite and friendly smile on his face, Ji Guanxin replied aloud: "I first flew to Dongcheng from Tokyo, and then drove to Liangcheng."
My dad said: "You came back from Japan?"
Ji Guanxin nodded.
My mother said: "Are you going to Japan for tourism?"
Ji Guanxin smiled lightly and replied: "That's right."
Ji Guanxin talked so much about the train in front of me that I didn't even know he was back from Japan.
The three of them talked about everything. My mother looked at Ji Guanxin and said, "You seem to be a little thinner than the last time we went to Night City."
Ji Guanxin smiled and said, "Yes?"
My dad said, "It's a little bit."
Ji Guanxin said: "Maybe I'm not used to the food there and I don't have much appetite."
My mother said: "We northerners are not used to the food in many places, let alone the Japanese who always eat raw food. By the way, how long can you stay in Liangcheng this time? Auntie and uncle do Donghao, please have some fun here."
Ji Guanxin smiled and replied: "To be honest with auntie, I came to visit Zijin this time and wanted to stay here for a while."
My mother's eyes quickly flashed with a hint of surprise, and then she said: "That's great. I'll ask your uncle to open a room for you in the hotel down below. You can live here. Come up and play when you have nothing to do. Let's eat together." Let’s act together.”
Ji Guanxin said: "Uncle and aunt, then I won't disturb you, right?"
My parents all said they wouldn't bother me, and it was too late to be happy.
At first I thought Ji Guanxin was joking, but after a long period of time, Ji Guanxin stayed in Liangcheng and refused to leave, so I realized that he was serious.
While we were chatting, it was time for lunch. My dad said to Ji Guanxin, “Let’s have lunch together?”
Ji Guanxin smiled and replied, "Okay, I'll have some drinks with my uncle."
My mother said, "Guan Xin, what do you want to eat? Let your uncle find a place."
Ji Guanxin said: "I can do anything."
My mother asked: "How about eating fish?"
Ji Guanxin didn't even move his eyebrows, but still smiled and said, "Okay."
I said, "Mom, don't listen to his nonsense, he doesn't eat fish at all."
When my mother heard this, she glanced at Ji Guanxin subconsciously, and Ji Guanxin said, "It's okay, Auntie, I can really do anything."
My mother said: "You're welcome, there are only a few of us here. In fact, I don't like fish either. I thought you did, so I asked."
Ji Guanxin has such a sweet mouth. It was up to my parents to choose the place. My parents were concerned about Ji Guanxin, so they pushed around and finally it was me who chose the place.
I said: "I want to eat the old fisherman's iron pot stew."
My mother looked at Ji Guanxin and asked him if he liked to eat. Ji Guanxin said sourly: "I like to eat whatever Zijin likes to eat."
Finally, the four of us packed up and went out. When my mother saw the silver-white Aston Martin downstairs, her eyes lit up and she couldn't help but said aloud: "What kind of car is it? It's so beautiful."
I said: "The rich second generation's latest car, they said it would be troublesome to transport their own car, so they just bought one."
My mother likes cars very much. My dad had already gone to the garage to drive. Ji Guanxin smiled and said to my mother, "Auntie, why don't you sit with me and let Zijin and uncle take the same car."
My mother looked at me and asked me if this was okay. I said calmly: "You can sit down if you like."
I really don’t regard Ji Guanxin as an outsider, because I am quite familiar with him.
Finally, my mother got into Ji Guanxin’s car, and I got into my dad’s new Toyota Jeep. After getting in the car, my dad said to me: "Isn't your mom too obvious?"
I asked, "What's obvious?"
My dad said: "You hate the poor and love the rich."
I burst out laughing, turned my head and glanced at my dad, and said, "Why does it sound so sour? Are you jealous?"
My dad replied half-truthfully: "When we bought this car before, your mother said that everyone else drives cars worth more than 200,000 yuan, so we must buy a car worth 300,000 yuan so that we can beat them. Now I see It’s not okay to have a good car and have your eyes light up right away.”
I said, "Dad, don't compare with me on this. Ji Guanxin's car costs more than 5 million. Our more than 300,000 yuan is really not enough to buy tires for him."
My dad said: "Zijin, what is your relationship with Ji Guanxin? He came to our house to give gifts or something. Your mother and I collected his things, so it doesn't have any impact on you, right?"
I said, "It's okay. To him, getting ten thousand yuan is like getting one piece from us. If you ask him to give you something worth several hundred yuan, he won't be able to get it. He probably doesn't even know where to buy it."
My dad said: "If he has money, it belongs to him, and we can't take advantage of others. Later, your mother and I will go to the Winter City Mall to choose some gifts for him. You should also entertain him well these days. After all, he is a boss." Come from afar."
I nodded and said, "I know."
After leaving the community, my dad’s car drove in front of Ji Guanxin’s sports car to lead the way. All the way to the Old Fisherman Hotel, the four of us got off the bus one after another.
In a place like Liangcheng, you can see countless luxury cars such as Mercedes-Benz and BMW costing hundreds of thousands on the road, let alone Aston Martin. I guess many people don’t know them, but they can guess that they are expensive.
The car was parked on the street, and many people were staring at it. When Ji Guanxin and my mother got out of the car, everyone had different looks.
The four of us got together and walked into the hotel. Now is the New Year, and restaurants are booming. When we entered, a group of people came out, and some of them knew my dad.
The man greeted my dad with a smile, and then saw me and Ji Guanxin, he asked aloud: "Xiao Fei, is this your daughter?"
My dad nodded and said to me: "Zijin, this is your second uncle."
Northeastern people like to call you uncle all over the street. I didn’t even think about it. I smiled and nodded: “Second uncle.”
The second uncle I met for the first time quickly asked again: "Is this your son-in-law?"
He looked at Ji Guanxin and asked.
My dad smiled and replied: "No, Zijin's friend in Yecheng drove here specially to see her. I don't want my child to come all the way and take him to try Northeastern specialties."
"Okay, okay, then go in quickly, it's cold outside."
The two sides said hello and we walked inside. My mother said: "Is that the director of the Water Conservancy Bureau just now?"
My dad nodded, and then said: "He had dinner with me before and asked me specifically about Zijin, asking if she would come back in the future. He wanted to persuade our two families to become in-laws."
My mother asked: "His son didn't get married the year before last, so why did you go and celebrate with him?"
My father whispered back: "Young son, illegitimate son."
While we were talking, we had already entered the private room, and my mother said with a look of disgust: "The illegitimate son still wants to introduce us to Zijin? Are you crazy?"
Ji Guanxin and I followed behind them. After hearing this, Ji Guanxin lowered his voice and said to me: "You have just come back and so many people are thinking about you. Even you are ready to have an illegitimate child."
I struck quickly, elbowed his arm, and glared at him.
Ji Guanxin frowned, covering his arms and looking at me aggrievedly.
As soon as we sat down, the female clerk wearing a red apron followed us. She asked in a crisp voice: "What do you guys want to order? Our specialty is stew in an iron pot. You can stew chicken, stew ribs, stew fish."
My mother said, “No fish.”
After that, she looked at Ji Guanxin again, smiled and said, "What would Guanxin want to eat?"
Ji Guanxin was winking at me a second ago, but when he heard my mother's voice, he immediately turned his head, with a harmless smile on his face, and replied: "Auntie, I can do anything."
My mother said, "Anything is fine, just order it." After saying that, my mother handed the menu directly to Ji Guanxin.
Ji Guanxin is usually very good at making decisions, but today he was extra humble and pulled me along to order.
I said, "Then let's stew the ribs and chicken together."
The female clerk wrote it down and said, "Let's have it for four people? Do you need any other dishes?"
I have eaten with Ji Guanxin many times, and I know his taste well, so many of the dishes I ordered are things he will like.
After taking the order, the female clerk asked: "What drinks would you like to order?"
I saw that her eyes almost fell to Ji Guanxin, and she didn't look at any of us at all.
I secretly kicked Ji Guanxin under the table, and Ji Guanxin immediately glanced at me. I motioned him to look at the female clerk at the door without leaving any trace. Ji Guanxin ignored me and said to my dad: "Uncle, what do you want to drink? I'll accompany you."
My dad drank hard wine, and Ji Guanxin accompanied him, and later he hooked me up. In the end, only my mother ordered a bottle of beer on the whole table. I said to Ji Guanxin, "You are so proud. My mother doesn't drink alcohol easily."
Ji Guanxin immediately smiled and said to my mother: "Auntie, you are so generous. I have to toast you first. Thank you and uncle for inviting me to dinner."
During the dinner, the atmosphere was particularly warm, and with Yuuki Kanshin there, I didn’t need to say anything to warm things up. I just focused on eating, and from time to time I would pick up some dishes that were far away from Ji Guanxin with my chopsticks and give them to him.
Ji Guanxin prefers to eat chicken. I have laughed at him before, saying that he was designated as a male fox in his previous life.
I took a small bowl and gave him a bowl of chicken from the iron pot. Ji Guanxin said, "No, uncle and aunt are still eating."
My mother said: "It's okay Guan Xin, you eat yours, your uncle and I can eat whatever we want."
Ji Guanxin said: "Thank you, auntie."
I whispered: "Who pinched it for you? Why don't you thank me?"
Ji Guanxin turned his head to look at me and said meaningfully: "I'll thank you when I get back." He winked at me, and I suddenly felt a shiver all over my body, and the next second, goosebumps rose up.