Take it, I thought about it again and again and replied: Okay, I understand.
I have never met Ji Guanxin's sister, but after all, she talked with Luo Xiangdong and attempted suicide by cutting her wrists for him. Thinking of my current relationship with Ji Guanxin, I always feel a little awkward towards her. I didn't want to keep in touch with her, so when she didn't reply, I packed my bag and went upstairs.
I took my room card with me, and when I pushed the door in, I heard someone say: "Brother Xin, you have been feeling unwell lately..."
The person sitting directly opposite me was Zhang Danqing. When he saw me coming in, he greeted me in a very loud voice: "My brothers and sisters are back."
The person who was talking to Ji Guanxin before had his back to me. After hearing this, he turned to look at me, smiled, and called: "Sister-in-law."
With a smile on my face, I walked over and said, "What were you talking about just now?"
Ji Guanxin sat in the middle of the sofa. Hearing this, he smiled lightly and said, "We didn't talk about anything. By the way, is there a place to eat in the hotel downstairs?"
I said 'oh' and then said: "The front desk manager said there is a large private room with three tables that can seat all of us."
Ji Guanxin said that he reached out and pushed Mak Ka Fai, who was sitting next to him, and then said: "Go to the other side, you are so blind."
As Mak Ka Fai stood up, he said that Ji Guanxin was a white-eyed wolf.
Ji Guanxin patted the empty seat next to him, smiled and said to me, "Come here."
I was stared at by a roomful of men, and I felt awkward and awkward emanating from every pore in my body. I didn’t want to sit there blatantly, but I didn’t want to refute Ji Guanxin’s reputation, so I bit the bullet and sat there.
As soon as I sat down next to him, Ji Guanxin immediately put his arm on my shoulders and hugged me towards him.
Mak Ka Fai said with a smile, "That's alright. We are all singles in this room, and we can't bear to show your affection in such a variety of ways."
Ji Guanxin looked proud, with the corners of his lips raised high on his fair face. He raised his eyebrows and replied, "What bachelor? You didn't bring your girlfriend here, did you?"
Mak Jiahui said: "We booked a ticket to go back to Winter City at eight o'clock in the evening, and the ticket is at ten o'clock. Why bring a girl here after all this trouble?"
I first said: "Why did you go back so soon?"
Mak Jiahui smiled and said: "Brothers and sisters, the Chinese New Year is tomorrow. Do you think we are like Guan Xin, who can wait for his girlfriend to become a son-in-law without even returning home?"
I suddenly realized, yes, the Chinese New Year is tomorrow.
I was touched that such a large group of people could spare the time to celebrate Ji Guanxin's birthday this year.
A lot of people were gossiping about the time Ji Guanxin and I were in Liangcheng. I said, "We just came back from the countryside today."
Zhang Danqing was particularly interested and asked aloud: "Do you still have a kang in the countryside in the northeast?"
Ji Guanxin answered it for me. With an exaggerated look on his face, he said loudly: "Don't mention it. The bed was so hard that I couldn't straighten my back the next day after sleeping on it."
Zhang Danqing winked and whispered, "Are you sure it's because the kang is hard... isn't it for some other reason?"
Hearing this, the room full of grown men burst into laughter.
I was caught in the middle and I couldn’t even smile, and I couldn’t even stop smiling. The corners of my mouth were twitching.
Ji Guanxin put his arms around my shoulders and said with a smile: "Do you think I am going to you? I am sincere to Zijin. We are in a serious love relationship. We don't take care of our hearts and our minds."
"Hey, hey, he said it seriously, if you have the ability, don't take out your kidneys in your life."
The person who said this was Mai Jiahui. He glanced at Ji Guanxin with a look of disbelief.
Ji Guanxin said: "The kidney must go, it just depends on when. Anyway, I am not like you bunch of dressed-up beasts. It is a thing of the past without even knowing the name of the person."
A young handsome guy sitting diagonally across from me hugged a cushion and said with a smile: "Third brother, you didn't teach us this way back then. You said that now men and women are together, it's equivalent to the old way of doing good deeds without leaving their name. Just ask for the name."
"Yes, third brother did say that."
A few people jumped out to deliberately tear down Ji Guanxin's stage. Ji Guanxin's first reaction was to look at me sideways. My expression remained normal, even smiling.
Ji Guanxin deliberately made a sullen face, pointed at them and said: "Hey, Danqing, who are these? Are they your friends? I don't even know them. Buy tickets for them to go back to Night City. Don't come here. Eat rice."
Zhang Danqing leaned lazily on the sofa. Hearing this, he replied with a smile but not a smile: "They are here to celebrate your birthday, not me. If you want to send them away, come forward yourself."
Ji Guanxin said seriously: "You have come all the way to slander me. Don't you know that my wife is jealous? Now that you see her smiling, you might be able to trick me behind my back soon."
Ji Guanxin pushed me out, and for a while everyone was talking at me.
The handsome guy who had previously demolished Ji Guan Xintai said to me with a smile: "Sister-in-law, I was joking with you just now. You must not take it to heart."
I just smiled and said nothing.
Another said: "Yes, sister-in-law, my third brother is really infatuated with you. I have never seen him be so obsessed with any woman..."
Before he could finish his words, Mak Ka Fai quickly interrupted: "Go, what are you talking about? It sounds like Guan Xin has had many women."
I know that these people are just watching the fun and don't think it's a big deal.
I couldn't help but keep silent, it didn't seem enthusiastic, so I had no choice but to reach out and pinch Ji Guanxin's face next to me, raised my eyebrows and asked, "Am I the woman you love most?"
As soon as I said this, everyone in the room whistled to cheer me on.
Half of Ji Guanxin's face was pulled by me, and he spoke in a leaky way and answered vaguely: "Who has never experienced the time when they were young and ignorant and blind? I was not sensible before. You are my only girlfriend since I became sensible. I only care about you, right? Others... I'm sorry, I can't see other women."
Ji Guanxin's mouth can really turn black into white, and dead into alive. I felt like a mirror in my mind, people like them always love to play, and they have dated as many as eighty women, but he said it nicely, and I softened my heart.
As soon as I let go of Ji Guanxin's face, Zhang Danqing stepped in to make trouble. He smiled and said, "Did you become sensible only yesterday?"
Hearing this, there was another burst of laughter.
In the end, it was Cheng Lin who came forward to smooth things over. He smiled lightly and said, "That's about it for you. Don't talk nonsense in front of Zijin."
Cheng Lin speaks less frequently among the group of people, but he is very heartwarming. Even if Ji Guanxin is demolished, he is not joking about the relationship between men and women. For some reason, his warm heart reminds me of Wei Zheng, and when I think of Wei Zheng, I can't help but think of Luo Xiangdong.
Sitting next to Ji Guanxin, the figure of Luo Xiangdong flashed in my mind. Although it only lasted for three to five seconds, I felt very uncomfortable in my heart. I always felt that I was particularly sorry for Ji Guanxin by doing this.
So I tried hard to control myself not to think about it, and kept hinting to myself that I was Ji Guanxin's girlfriend, and I was already with Ji Guanxin. From now on, Luo Xiangdong and I were strangers, at best we were old friends.
I tried to integrate into Ji Guanxin's circle of friends to get rid of distracting thoughts in my mind. Around four or five o'clock in the afternoon, my mother called me. I got up and went next door to answer the phone.
My mother was still worried about whether Ji Guanxin and I would do something outrageous when we returned to the hotel. I replied helplessly: "Ji Guanxin's friend came to Liangcheng, and we were chatting outside."
My mother said, "A new friend is here? Let's ask him to come over to our house for dinner."
I said, "How can we accommodate a family of forty or fifty people?"
My mother was shocked: "Forty or fifty people? So many people here?"
I said 'hmm': "It's said to be a chartered flight."
My mother felt a little proud again: "Zijin, sometimes my mother is very conflicted, because she is afraid that you will find a rich man who will not be able to control him, but sometimes I think about it, you guys really help my mother face."
I smiled and said, "Okay, I've been taught to care about face since I was a child. Now I'm just doing my job. Face is more important than my life."
My mother said: "A tree needs a skin, and a person needs a face. Who doesn't care about what other people do these days? If you don't live a better life than others, then everyone will look down on you..."
Whenever the issue of outlook on life and values is discussed, my mother always talks about many experiences she has accumulated over the past forty years of her life.
My grandmother was always afraid that my mother would educate me badly. There was even a time when I found my mother quite annoying. I felt that she was too utilitarian and even a little vain.
But as I grow older, I feel more and more that my mother is right.
There used to be an old saying, "A man has a poor ambition but a thin horse has a long hair." In today's world, what do we use to prove that we live better than others? One is that you are excellent, and the other is that the people standing around you are excellent.
I have to say that Ji Guanxin's arrival is like a ray of sunshine in the endless darkness. He just shines on me, warming me and guiding me.
I like Ji Guanxin, and our whole family likes him, so it is natural for me to be with him.
After chatting with my mother for a while, I left the room. Some people in the living room were playing cards, some were chatting, and some were sleepy and went to the guest room to sleep.
When Ji Guanxin saw me coming out, he smiled and asked, "Are you my mother-in-law?"
I was used to him calling my mother that, so I nodded subconsciously.
Seeing this, Mak Ka Fai smiled and said, "Have you decided on your prospective son-in-law so soon?"
Ji Guanxin looked proud and said with a smile: "No, my mother-in-law ordered me to go home and sleep in the same room as Zijin."
I immediately glared at him: "What are you talking about? My mother asked you to go to my house because she was afraid that it would be too deserted for you to live alone in the hotel. When did she tell you to sleep in the same room with me?"
Ji Guanxin said: "Then there are only two rooms in your house, one for my future father-in-law and my mother-in-law, and the rest can only be one for the two of us."
I said: "That's great, just wait and sleep on the sofa!"
Ji Guanxin raised his eyebrows and said, "Your sofa is made of solid wood. Do you want to kill me?"
Zhang Danqing said while playing cards: "The solid wood sofa is dead, and it's cool to be a ghost. Who makes you happy?"