Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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After his eldest son went out, Wei Tianyi felt relieved after sulking for a while, so he went upstairs to start working.
Unexpectedly, while the conference call was on, he suddenly heard an annoying noise in the yard, as if someone had suddenly driven five thousand wild ducks towards his house.
He stopped the conference call and yelled irritably: “Lao Zhou! Lao Zhou! What’s going on at home? Why is it so noisy all of a sudden!”
After a while, Butler Zhou came up, wiping his sweat, and looking as if he wanted to say something but didn’t: “Sir…it’s the Madam who is back.”
Wei Tianyi: “What does her coming back have to do with all the noise outside?”
Butler Zhou: “…Madam, she also brought her friends home with her.”
???
Wei Tianyi was puzzled: “So what? What are they doing? Having a party?”
Butler Zhou was silent for a moment and looked out the window sadly.
Wei Tianyi suppressed his anger, thinking that Butler Zhou was becoming more and more outrageous. What was there that he couldn’t say? He walked to the window and took a look, and immediately said: “…”
Outside the window, in the yard of their home, a group of ladies dressed in jewels were walking barefoot in the mud that had been dug up. They didn’t seem to feel dirty at all, and they were cheering and spinning around in the mud, some holding shovels, some holding hoes, and other tools, digging the ground diligently, and from time to time they would stop and pinch the mud they dug out, looking like they wanted to bury their faces in the pit.
“Wanrong!” One of the curly-haired ladies shouted, “Don’t you want to join me? I’ve already dug two pits! Come and see if they are that deep?”
Shu Wanrong, the mistress of the Wei family, just stood silently on the path in the yard amid the cheerful calls of many good friends. And her dazed face was filled with questions like “Who am I, where am I, and what am I doing?”
Wei Tianyi: “…”
Butler Zhou: “Sir…”
Wei Tianyi raised his hand: “…Don’t talk to me, I’m about to lose my temper.”
….
As Wei Xi walked, he suddenly raised his eyebrows and smiled.
Huang Jue, who was leading the way, couldn’t help but wipe his sweat, look up and look around. Was this place funny?
At this moment, a passing neighbor met his gaze. He was about to say hello, but after the neighbor saw him clearly, his face changed and he left in a hurry.
Ruan Shixing frowned: “What’s wrong with your neighbor? Isn’t he so rude?”
Huang Jue said, “Who knows? The people in this neighborhood are quite cold. When I first moved in, I greeted the people upstairs and downstairs, but after they asked for my house number, they all looked like they didn’t want to talk to me.”
Ruan Shixing took a closer look and found that it was indeed the case. This was an old residential area with many old neighbors chatting and talking outside, but none of the residents he met took the initiative to greet Huang Jue. Some old men and women who were playing chess in groups of three or five saw Huang Jue and gathered together to point at something and whisper to each other.
Huang Jue seemed to be used to it: “Oh, don’t worry about it, I guess they look down on me because I’m from another place.”
He lived in No. 702, Floor 7, Building 3. The dim elevator went up very slowly. When he opened the door, he said a little embarrassedly, “My house is a little small, and the decoration is rough. Don’t mind it.”
The prices of houses in Beijing were really scary, especially here in the good school district of the Second Ring Road. Even if his relatives had sold it to him at a lower price, the average price was still more than 80,000 yuan per square meter. The total price of a small house of more than 100 square meters was considerable.
The house was indeed not carefully decorated and still bore some traces of the old residents. It was designed entirely according to the structure of a wedding room, with a large “囍”[1] character pasted on the wall. The bright red color was very eye-catching in the slightly dim room.
Huang Jue saw that everyone’s attention was drawn to it, and tore off the happy couplet with a bit of embarrassment, and shouted loudly into the house: “Mom and Dad, why did you put this up again? Miaomiao has broken up with me!”
An old couple came out of the room after hearing what he said, looked at what he had in his hand, and said with a wronged look: “We didn’t put it up.”
Huang Jue seemed a little anxious as soon as he entered the house. He did not believe their explanation. He scratched his hair and said to Wei Xi: “I’m sorry, Master, they are just like that. I have torn this thing off many times. I don’t know what they want to do. Every time they stick it back when I’m not paying attention.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Wei Xi had already taken the Red Double Happiness from his hand and looked at his second disciple in silence.
Huang Jue: “How…what?”
Shuo Zong said slowly: “It may not be posted by them.”
What the hell? Huang Jue didn’t understand for a moment, and when his parents asked who these people were, he briefly explained it.
His parents seemed a little surprised after hearing this. The old lady pulled her son’s sleeve and asked, “What’s going on? Didn’t you say that you were suffering from neurasthenia due to too much stress? Why do you still believe this? Besides, aren’t these people a little too young? If you want to get a ritual performed, you have to go to a temple to find a master. Be careful not to be cheated.”
Then her son, who had never burned incense and worshipped Buddha before, stopped her nervously and said, “Mom, don’t be rude to the master.”
“…” Mother Huang and her husband exchanged an incredulous look, becoming more and more certain that their son had been deceived. The young man who had spoken turned his gaze towards the two of them and asked, “Did you put up this happy couplet when you came?”
The old lady said: “Yes, they agreed to get married. When his father and I came here, Huang Jue had put it up himself.”
Huang Jue was stunned when he heard this: “How is it possible? I had already blown it with Miaomiao by the time you came. Why would I be posting this? Isn’t it because you and my dad are unwilling, so you post it every day?”
Recently, because Huang Jue had not been able to rest well and had a bad temper, the family members had always been unable to communicate well. Finally, they cleared up their misunderstandings, but for a moment, there was no relief that the misunderstanding had disappeared, only deathly silence.
Huang’s parents swallowed, their faces finally changed, they looked around the room, and asked their son in disbelief: “No, no, no way?”
Huang Jue collapsed. He had been angry with his parents every day recently because of this “囍” character, but he never expected that he really misunderstood his parents. He was so frightened by this weird truth that the hairs on his body stood up instantly: “It’s not you, it’s not me, then, then, then who put this thing there!”
Tuan Tuanyi had the face of a black-hearted doctor who was happy to see a patient and wished to make money from him immediately: “You are so stupid, it must be a ghost.”
The Huang family members immediately hugged each other: “Wow wow wow wow wow!”
Shuo Zong: “…”
Shuo Zong looked at his nominal senior brother with an indescribable look and thinking that this man seemed to be able to pick locks, he silently pulled Wei Xi a few steps away, warning him not to learn bad things from him.
Ruan Shixing was also ashamed: “No, how come you didn’t notice such obvious signs? Apart from not sleeping well, don’t you feel any other problems?”
The old man and the old woman also remembered it now, and recalled: “Sometimes when flushing the toilet, the water is red. Does this count?”
“…” Ruan Shixing, “Of course it counts!”
“Wow, wow, wow…” The old lady cried and lay on her son’s shoulder, “I thought I had hemorrhoids. Wow, wow, wow. My stool has been very dry recently. I’m too embarrassed to talk about it at my age. I have to eat different kinds of vegetables every day. It turns out it’s not hemorrhoids. This is so good…”
Ruan Shixing was silent for a while, thinking that the point might not be this: “Third brother, there must be something wrong with the house you bought.”
Father Huang looked incredulous: “How is this possible? I bought this from Huang Jue’s uncle, and it was one-third lower than the market price!”
Ruan Shixing: “…Why would he give you millions of dollars for nothing? Have you ever thought about it?”
Father Huang replied weakly: “I thought it was because we had a good relationship…”
Wow.
Ruan Shixing sighed and couldn’t help but want to clap his hands – what you said makes so much sense, why couldn’t I think of such a great reason!
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[1] Xi meaning double happiness or good luck especially to couples.