CH 51.1

Le Baiqiu saw that her daughter was on her phone and wasn’t even eating fruit, so she stabbed a piece of pear and sent it over. Her head unconsciously bobbed in Ning Yi’s direction and she said, “What are you looking at so seriously? Here, this is sweet.”

Ning Yi only felt a small shadow moving over. She thought the other person was coming over to look at her phone, and immediately panicked and locked the screen and turned it over on her knee. She didn’t expect that she would be choked by the strawberry in her mouth in her panic, causing a great disturbance.

“What’s going on?” Le Baiqiu was frightened by her and hurriedly threw down her fork to pat her back. Zheng Yu Hong on the side also reached out to pour her a cup of tea without delay.

Ning Yi wiped the tears at the corners of her eyes that came out from the coughing, drank two sips of tea, and finally felt better.

Le Baiqiu picked up the phone that fell on the ground for her, saying with a bit of blame, “So easily frightened and flustered, don’t always play with your phone, eat slowly and pay more attention!”

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Ning Yi answered yes yes, and only when she saw the two women start talking about a new topic did she unlock her phone and replied to Xu Xing Ji with a couple of stickers one after another to express her confusion.

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It seemed most kids were like this, the older they grow, the more they like going out. Whenever they meet up, it would be outside. As long as they were at home, it’ll feel like they were being monitored by their parents.

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Le Baiqiu’s last impression of attending to children for her child’s get-together was the kindergarten classmates that were invited for Ning Yi’s fifth birthday.

Upon hearing Ning Yi say that a couple of classmates were coming to visit her, she was much more excited than her daughter. She quickly told Nanny Tang to discuss what sweet snacks and drinks should be prepared to entertain the guests, then thinking that it was going to in the afternoon after school, so they must stay after for dinner, so the menu must also be determined in advance.

After Ning Yi was questioned repeatedly by her mother with “do they have allergies, “do they have things they avoid eating”, and “what is their taste like”, she vaguely thought some important business partner was coming and not her classmates.

When Lu Xu Nan and Ning Xiu came downstairs, they just happened to hear Le Baiqiu mention telling the driver to go pick people up at school.

Ning Xiu said, “Did we agree to rest at home for an extra two days? Why are you going to school again?”

Le Baiqiu beamed as she told him, “No, there are three classmates coming to visit Yiyi tomorrow. I’m thinking of telling Lao Zhao ahead of time to pick them up, so the children don’t have to fetch a car themselves.”

Ning Yi helplessly said, “There’s no need, they’ll take Mengmeng’s family’s car over.”

Le Baiqiu went “ah” when she heard that and appeared quite regretful. Seeing this, Ning Yi wanted to hold her forehead.

Lu Xu Nan interrupted, asking, “Three? Ju Meng, Mu Wanqing, and who else?”

“Xu Xing Ji.”

Hearing the answer that he’d guessed from Ning Yi’s mouth, Lu Xu Nan’s eyes involuntarily darkened. He wanted to ridicule xiao xue ji, this man. What was he doing always mixing in with girls? But he couldn’t say this in front of the seniors.

He looked at Le Baiqiu’s expression and suggested, “Since there’s no need to arrange a car, then I’ll accompany them back in Yiyi’s stead. This way, it seems more like we hold importance to it.”

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Le Baiqiu’s eyes lit up, “Right, Xiao Nan is thoughtful. You receiving the classmates in Yiyi’s place couldn’t be better! Then I’ll trouble you tomorrow! Tomorrow, your classmates will be eating dinner here, Aunt Le will make your favorite sweet and sour ribs for you!”

This was precisely to Lu Xu Nan’s satisfaction, he agreed on the spot: “Okay, thank you, Aunt Le.”

Zheng Yu Hong couldn’t help raising her eyebrows as she looked at her son. Lu Xu Nan pursed his lips as he looked away a little embarrassed. She didn’t say anything, holding a teacup to cover the slightly raised corner of her mouth.

On the way home after saying goodbye, Zheng Yu Hong then spoke up, “That wasn’t like you today.”

Lu Xu Nan pretended he didn’t hear and did not answer her.

Zheng Yu Hong seemed to think this awkward appearance of his was very interesting and said, “Why are you a mute now? You weren’t like this in front of Aunt Le just now!”

Lu Xu Nan still didn’t say anything.

Thus, Zheng Yu Hong lifted her arm and put it around her son’s shoulders, she said to him as if chatting, “I saw Yiyi was continuously messaging someone tonight, I don’t know who’s on the other side. Either way, they’re not sawtooth gourd like you, they made Yiyi laugh a good several times. Oh, it wouldn’t be a male classmate, right?”

“Mom!” Lu Xu Nan heard the teasing in his mother’s voice, and couldn’t help calling out and cutting her off.

Zheng Yu Hong finally couldn’t resist laughing out loud this time, she said, “Oh, are you anxious? Is it really a male classmate?”

Lu Xu Nan’s expression was gloomy, but Zheng Yu Hong wasn’t afraid. She added fuel to the fire and said, “I didn’t hear Yiyi call you Nan gege all evening, are you guys fighting? Speaking of which, Yiyi is such a cute and pretty girl, there must be a lot of people who like her in the class, right? Now her grades are also good, she’s probably the school goddess! I don’t know which family’s kid will benefit~”

“You’re asking me, then who do I ask?” Lu Xu Nan shrugged Zheng Yu Hong’s arm off, walking into his family’s yard first, clearly unhappy.

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“Who told you to face Yiyi with a dead face all the time, now you have a sense of crisis, right?” Zheng Yu Hong crossed her arms, watching her son’s back, silently criticizing him.

After that, she still couldn’t resist frowning: “Tsk, he’s exactly like his brother! How did I end up giving birth to these two stuffy gourds!”

The next day, Lu Xu Nan spoke about the arrangements with Ju Meng and the others: “Because no car had to be arranged, Aunt Li specially told me to bring you guys home in her place and hopes that you don’t feel neglected.”

Ju Meng rarely saw Lu Xu Nan so amiable, she smilingly said, “Aunt Li is so polite. It’s not my first time, yet she still had you pick us up, how can this do?”

Lu Xu Nan looked at Xu Xing Ji and said, “It’s nothing much, Aunt Le is my godmother, I’m considered a half a son of the Ning family. You guys are going to visit Yiyi, receiving you is what I should do.”

He expressed their closeness clearly in one sentence.

Ju Meng sighed, “Your families’ relationship is truly very good~”

At this moment, the milk tea employee pushed out the packaged drinks, “Your total is 86 dollars.”

Lu Xu Nan and Xu Xing Ji took out their phones to let the employee scan the QR code at the same time. The latter smiled as he asked the two guys, “Who’s paying?”

“Me.”

“Me.”

They spoke in unison again.

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Lu Xu Nan frowned at Xu Xing Ji and said, “Aunt Le told me to entertain, how can I let a guest pay?”

Xu Xing Ji had a smile on his face: “Yiyi and I agreed that I would bring her purple yam with taro balls yesterday.”

Lu Xu Nan heard these words and immediately recalled what his mother told him last night. His expression sank slightly.

Two guys of similar height blocked the counter, neither yielding, making the employee stand there looking embarrassed. Just as they were thinking about whether to say that the scanner was broken and they only accept cash, one of their phones rang.

Lu Xu Nan saw this and indicated to the employee to scan his code.

Xu Xing Ji unobtrusively raised his eyebrows, and went outside to pick up the call.

Lu Xu Nan split the drinks, holding Ning Yi’s share himself, and walked out the door with the others to see Xu Xing Ji taking a bunch of flowers from an express delivery personnel.

Ju Meng let out a stunning “wow”, and said, “Which store is this from, it looks so good!”

Xu Xing Ji said the store name, and smiled as he said, “It’s good that it looks nice, I didn’t spend a long time communicating the packaging to the store for a long time last night for nothing.”

Mu Wanqing couldn’t help exclaiming in admiration, “Classmate Xu, you’re so thoughtful. Yiyi will definitely like it.”

Ju Meng also followed up in agreement, “En, Yiyi’s favorite flowers are sunflowers!”

Xu Xing Ji’s eyes curved, smiling as brilliantly as the sunflowers in his hand.

Fang Ci glanced at Lu Xu Nan and discovered that his Brother Nan’s face was so stinky there was a great sense of comparability with others.