Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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At the Wei family, the second young master of the Wei family had already polished the signboard to a shine. When he heard the horn behind him, he turned around and saw his mother’s puzzled expression.
Wei Chengshu looked down at the bucket and rag in his hands, not knowing what to say for a moment. He looked at his mother gloomily, “Mom.”
Shu Wanrong had just returned home from her trip when she saw this puzzling scene. After parking the car, she was still a little confused. She ran to the door and looked at the hanging sign again: “Isn’t this the door to a room in the house?”
Wei Chengshu looked at the door that was exactly the same color and shape as the one in his room and fell silent again. After a long while, he said briefly: “This is a plaque.”
Three question marks popped up in Shu Wanrong’s head: “What the hell?”
Wei Chengshu explained more fully this time: “Big brother’s plaque.”
The three question marks on Shu Wanrong’s head suddenly turned into a hundred, but her son had an attitude of “don’t ask me, I don’t want to say anything”. She could only suppress most of her questions and choose a simple one: “Isn’t this nonsense? Where is your father? Your father doesn’t care about him?”
This question should be easy to answer, but Wei Chengshu’s expression became even stranger after hearing it. He glanced at her and silently carried the small iron bucket into the house.
Shu Wanrong couldn’t figure out why her wild-horse-like son was acting like this. She thought that her hot-tempered husband was not at home, which was why Wei Xi acted like that. But when she entered the house, she saw Wei Tianyi, a handsome man, sitting on the sofa reading a newspaper.
Wei Tianyi heard the noise and looked up at her: “Are you back?”
“Ah.” Shu Wanrong was about to ask about the sign when her attention was immediately drawn to another thing. “What time is it? Why are you wearing sunglasses at home?”
Wei Tianyi: “…”
He shook the newspaper: “Why are there so many problems?”
Shu Wanrong keenly felt that something seemed to be wrong but she couldn’t put her finger on it, and frowned suspiciously. At this moment, she heard a faint noise, and looked up to see Wei Xi slowly walking down from upstairs.
Wei Xi was dressed shabbily, not looking at all like the well-behaved and serious person he used to be. He walked in a sloppy manner, holding a mobile phone in his hand and playing games. His temperament was very unfamiliar. Fortunately, his face had not changed at all. Shu Wanrong recognized him immediately and called out to him with a smile, “Xiao Xi!”
Wei Xi really looked up at her, but that gaze only lasted for about half a second. Then he hummed and turned his head to the other side of the stairs: “Is the meal ready?”
Shu Wanrong was stunned by his carelessness. Although their relationship was stiff and distant in her memory, they always seemed to get along well on the surface. Wei Xi had always been respectful to her both at home and outside. No matter how dissatisfied she was, she dared not show it in front of his father.
But when Shu Wanrong turned to look at her husband, she found that he was still reading the newspaper very attentively, with no intention of expressing his opinion at all.
She was a little overwhelmed, so she had to smile and change the subject: “You kid, you’ve been out for such a long time without contacting your family, you’re so naughty, don’t you know we were worried?”
After hearing this, Wei Xi finally stopped, looked at her and said:
“Well… you’re back just in time.”
Shu Wanrong keenly noticed that her husband and son looked up at her when they heard this. She was confused for a moment, and then she heard Wei Xi finish his thought and slowly say the second half of the sentence: “But there is not much miscellaneous work in the sect right now. You can wait for a few days. When I plant something in the yard, you can go and take care of the flowers and plants.”
Shu Wanrong: “???”
Suddenly, her husband shouted angrily, “What did you say? You want to plant something in my yard? I won’t allow it!”
This anger frightened Shu Wanrong, but Wei Xi didn’t seem to take it seriously at all. He just replied calmly: “No rush, if you are interested, you can change the job privately.”
Wei Tianyi stood up, threw the newspaper, and gasped. He looked like he was about to faint from anger, but after gasping for a long time, he did not have an attack. He just picked up the newspaper and sat back in his original place.
Like a timid little pig.
Shu Wanrong: “???”
She looked at her son with a confused face, with a thousand question marks in her mind. The second young master of the Wei family avoided his mother’s gaze, and his expression seemed as if he had experienced a lot of vicissitudes of life.
She had to wait with endless doubts until dinner started, and saw a strange face at the table, who was quite good-looking. The handsome boy smiled at her politely, and she pulled her son’s sleeve: “Who is this?”
Wei Chengshu’s answer was still brief: “Brother brought him back.”
Shu Wanrong thought about it and was immediately shocked. People outside said that Wei Xi was… that something. Could it be true? But this was too blatant. He actually brought a man home?!
She immediately wanted to ask her husband why he didn’t intervene, but when she looked closely, she saw something even more surprising. Her husband was holding chopsticks and desperately picking up food into his bowl while Butler Zhou was serving the dishes. He didn’t follow any manners at all and was so fast that he soon piled up the small bowls in his hand into a small mountain.
When she turned around again, she saw her son doing the same thing. Although his expression was very complicated, his hand speed was no slower than his father’s. He even held a piece of fat pork trotter and tried desperately to keep it steady on the tip of the pile of vegetables.
Shu Wanrong had so many question marks on her head that her neck was about to collapse. Seeing his wife looking at him in shock, Wei Tianyi felt extremely ashamed while holding the bowl of rice. He could only utter through his teeth: “Don’t look at me. Hurry up and pick it up.”
Shu Wanrong suddenly felt that there might be something wrong with the feng shui in the house. Otherwise, how could her husband and son become mentally unstable after she was away for just a few days?
Then Wei Xi picked up the chopsticks… Ten minutes later, she sat back on the sofa in the living room in a trance, holding her hungry stomach and falling into confusion.
Wei Xi also sighed with sympathy: “I’m not full at all.”
Shu Wanrong looked towards him, her eyes filled with fear for a moment. Wei Tianyi covered his face with a newspaper, pretending not to understand Wei Xi’s words. Wei Chengshu recalled the piece of plump pig’s trotter meat that he had only eaten a bite of and fell into deep thought.
Time seemed to have stepped into the 1960s, and the entire Wei family had fallen into a miserable state of hunger.
Wei Xi didn’t get the answer he wanted and continued playing mobile games in disappointment. When Xing Kai and his group went to visit them, they ran into such a hungry family.
The living room was filled with an awkward and poor silence, which made the already nervous people even more at a loss. Xing Kai came back to his senses after a while and smiled at Wei Xi who was looking at him: “Wei Xi, you kid, you didn’t even contact us after you came back! How rude of you!”
Wei Xi returned the look calmly and indifferently.
Xing Kai was stunned by his gaze, and for a moment he was filled with anxiety, but he couldn’t tell what the other person’s gaze meant, so he could only pretend to be calm and wave: “You’ve been away for so many months without even calling me, I can’t let you go so easily. Come on, I’ll treat you to a meal!”
He didn’t know if it was an illusion, but after he finished speaking, Xing Kai felt as if the entire Wei family started looking at him vaguely.
He felt a little scared when he was stared at, and then he saw the second young master of the Wei family, Wei Chengshu, raise his face with a smile, and his tone was also full of meaning: “I advise you not to do it.”
What should I not do? What should I not do?
But before he could figure out the meaning of this sentence, Wei Xi’s voice had already arrived. It was much warmer than the look in his eyes just now, and his tone could even be said to be gentle: “You want to treat me to a meal? What? How much?”
Xing Kai felt something was wrong. What was wrong with this family? He answered inexplicably, “You decide what to eat. Eat whatever you want. It should be enough to take you to the State Guesthouse, right? As for how much to eat, that’s nonsense. You can definitely eat until you can’t eat anymore!”
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