Xiang Yu said, "They've arrived."
The doorbell rang the next second.
Sun Xiaona had the key, and she knew without a doubt who was outside the door.
Xiang Yu silently got up and went to open the door, letting Sun Xiaoli in.
Sun Xiaoli waved her hand, indicating that she could not.
Li Yifan left his seat and leaned out from behind Xiang Yu to observe. The woman who looked six-tenths like his mother must be his aunt.
"Hello, Auntie." Sun Xiaoli exuded a serious and upright aura, and Li Yifan was quite afraid of such a woman, so he greeted her reservedly.
"Hello." Sun Xiaoli nodded, seemingly not intending to stay any longer, and waved a key in her hand at Xiang Yu.
"I'm going to our house first. Xiaona said you have the key there."
Xiang Yu hadn't expected his mother to come in, so he just grunted in response.
Sun Xiaoli just came over to say hello to him, and then left without even stepping over the threshold.
Xiang Yu's house and Li Yifan's house are not far apart; they are both in the same residential complex.
Li Yifan was stunned when he saw his aunt leave without even going through the door. He stared blankly at Xiang Yu and asked, "Um, my aunt, you must be pretty busy, right?"
After saying that, he wanted to slap himself twice, thinking to himself, "What nonsense did I ask? The deputy director of the Public Security Bureau, how could he not be busy?"
Xiang Yu nodded, but secretly sighed.
I've really gotten used to it.
She picked up her phone, intending to tell Gu Chen about it, but then she remembered that he was also going to be a policeman in the future. Suddenly, she didn't know how to start the conversation. She typed and deleted in the chat box, but in the end, she couldn't send it.
It's unclear what Sun Xiaona and Sun Xiaoli discussed in the morning, but Sun Xiaoli didn't return to the Municipal Public Security Bureau during this time; instead, she stayed at the house there tidying up.
Around 11 o'clock, I called Xiang Yu again and asked him and Li Yifan to come downstairs to pick up Xiang's father from the airport.
I vaguely remember my aunt driving this white sedan a few times.
It seems that his father bought it before he went abroad, and then let his aunt's family open it after he went abroad.
Sun Xiaona gave Sun Xiaoli the keys to the house and car there.
Sun Xiaoli doesn't like to play music while driving, and the car's interior environment is the same as when the others came back, so Xiang Yu can get used to this environment.
There was no atmosphere for conversation in the car, which made Li Yifan uncomfortable. He didn't dare to use his phone and just looked around.
Xiang Yu didn't care, focusing on chatting with Gu Chen on his phone, completely unaware of his cousin's awkwardness.
He had just finished telling Gu Chen about his mother's profession, and how he hadn't had a chance to explain his temper because of the various accidents that had interrupted him that day.
The two talked a lot, and Gu Chen also gave him a lot of advice.
A relationship between two people is about going further together, about holding hands and moving forward, not about one dragging the other along.
Although it was both their first relationship, Gu Chen was definitely more in control.
Xiang Yu's lips continued to curl into a smile, which Sun Xiaoli could see by glancing at the rearview mirror.
Sun Xiaoli knew she wasn't a good mother compared to others. Her son hadn't smiled at her like that for a long time, and she knew perfectly well why.
People of the same age will definitely have more in common.
She is very open-minded about matters of the heart regarding children.
"Xiaoyu, are you dating someone at school?" Sun Xiaoli asked casually, noticing that Xiangyu's smile faltered and slowly disappeared.
Li Yifan was almost asleep looking at the scenery outside the car window, but he immediately perked up when he heard a topic that interested him.
The last time he was this gossipy was when he came back from %2FB%2F City, about Boss Gu.
Although in the end, it's unknown whether Boss Gu succeeded in winning over the girl he liked.
"Cousin, who is it?" If eyes could materialize, Li Yifan's eyes would be sparkling right now.
Xiang Yu's reaction further confirmed his suspicions, and Li Yifan asked again, "Do I know him? Is he from our school?"
Xiang Yu said, "No."
"Don't be ridiculous." Li Yifan didn't believe him, and since he felt he was close enough to his cousin, he grinned and leaned over to look at the other's phone. "If you're not in a relationship, cousin, what are you laughing at?"
Although Xiang Yu was quick enough to collect the message, Li Yifan still managed to catch the chat messages on the screen.
I didn't notice what we were talking about; I was too busy looking at the notes at the top.
"Gu Chen?" Li Yifan's gossip spirit was extinguished by a bucket of cold water. He didn't know what the two boys had to talk about. Last time, Boss Gu talked with Xu Lin, and this time his cousin talked with Boss Gu.
Sun Xiaoli asked, "Who is Gu Chen?"
Before Xiang Yu could even speak, Li Yifan explained.
“Gu Chen is my cousin’s deskmate and the class monitor. He usually takes good care of my cousin.” Li Yifan didn’t know what was wrong with him when he said this, and he added, “The two of them are very close.”
Xiang Yu felt that his last sentence was superfluous.
Sun Xiaoli glanced at Xiang Yu through the rearview mirror and, seeing that he still had the same expression as usual, said indifferently, "It's good to have good classmates."
That was the end of that conversation.
Li Yifan felt less awkward being able to exchange a few words with his aunt indirectly. He leaned forward and asked with a hint of excitement, "Auntie, you must be really amazing, right?"
Sun Xiaoli didn't deny it, but glanced at the rearview mirror and said, "Sit still."
Li Yifan leaned back in his seat, feeling embarrassed, but his mouth was still busy.
"Auntie, do you handle any particularly important cases?" Li Yifan thought of certain suspenseful detective dramas, his blood boiling up his spine. "Just like in the movies."
Sun Xiaoli wasn't the kind of person who was difficult to get along with. If the younger generation wanted to hear about certain events, she would tell them, and they were all cases that had been published in the newspapers.
Sun Xiaoli said, "There was a case in S City where a body was hidden in cement—"
Li Yifan quickly answered, "I know that! It's said online that the man strangled his girlfriend and hid her body in cement because of love turned to hate."
“Hmm.” Sun Xiaoli thought for a moment and said, “Strangled and dismembered, each piece of the body is only the size of a palm.”
Li Yifan: "..." His expression gradually turned sour.
Xiang Yu secretly breathed a sigh of relief that her cousin and mother could chat, and took out her phone to continue chatting with Gu Chen.
The conversation ended when they arrived at their destination. There were quite a few people picking people up at the airport, and Xiangyu put his phone in his pocket.
When Li Yifan got off the bus, he stumbled a bit, and Xiang Yu helped him up.
Seeing his pale face, I asked, "Are you carsick?"
"No." Li Yifan gagged. "My aunt's description was so detailed that it made me feel nauseous."
[Author's Note: Gu Chen: We all have a bright future~]
Chapter 77 There's no need to turn a blind eye, because we're already together.
Chapter 77 A Little Bit of Tears: There's no need, because we're already together.
Li Yifan felt that his uncle was much easier to get along with than his aunt. Not only was he funny, but he also brought back gifts from abroad.
"This watch is so cool!" Li Yifan put it on his wrist, looked at it from left to right, and couldn't resist taking a picture and posting it on his WeChat Moments.
"Thank you, Uncle!"
"If you like it, that's fine." Xiang Jun was overjoyed to be back in the embrace of his motherland. The project was completed early, and the company allowed him to return home early to spend the holiday with his family.
"Xiaoyu, do you like the gift Dad gave you?"
Xiang Yu also received a white sports watch of the same brand as Li Yifan, but in a different style.
"I like it." Xiang Yu nodded, closed the box, and put it aside.
Xiang Jun noticed that his son's reaction was not as good as Li Yifan's. Considering that his son was the kind of person who was not talkative and not good at expressing himself, Xiang Jun encouraged him in a guiding way, "If you like it, then wear it."
Xiang Yu felt it was unnecessary to wear a down jacket and a watch in the dead of winter, but his father was driving in front and kept looking back at him, so he had no choice but to put it on.
On the highway to City B, Sun Xiaoli took her two children to the airport to pick up someone at noon. The four of them had lunch at a restaurant near the airport. Sun Xiaoli then asked Xiang Jun to drive her to the Public Security Bureau of City X so that they could go to City B to pick up Grandma Hou and bring her to City X.
Before getting off the bus, Sun Xiaoli was about to take off the scarf around her neck and put it back in the box when Xiang Jun stopped her.
"Don't take it off, it looks pretty good on you, doesn't it?" The gift Xiang Jun brought for Sun Xiaoli was a scarf from a luxury brand.
“I am a public servant.” After wearing it for only a short while in the car, Sun Xiaoli folded the scarf neatly and put it back in the box. “Wearing this is not appropriate.”
“That’s true.” Xiang Jun smiled. “Then I’ll get you a wool one when I get back this afternoon.”
Xiang Jun is the talkative type of person. He was busy abroad and there was a time difference, so he rarely called home. Now that he was finally back in China, he naturally couldn't miss the opportunity.
"Xiaoyu is very smart." Xiang Jun even asked Sun Xiaoli to add him to the Class 2 parents' group. "What reward do you want for getting first place?"
"No." Xiang Yu was busy replying to a bunch of WeChat messages.
He has virtually no material desires, which is similar to his mother.
He did not inherit any of his father Xiang Jun's outgoing personality traits.
Xiang Jun didn't mind and said with a smile, "Then Dad will give you a bigger red envelope for the New Year."
"Hmm." The pocket money Xiang Yu had saved was a considerable sum. "Good."
Xiang Jun was probably so eager to chat with his son that the conversation just kept going on and on.
No one mentioned Xiang Yu's transfer incident at a high school in City B today; everyone was avoiding the topic.
Xiang Jun: "Are you adjusting well to this school?"
This question is like a family member asking a child on their first day of kindergarten, "Did you enjoy going to kindergarten?"
Xiang Yu looked up and then down again, saying, "Hmm."
"The teachers and classmates are all nice, right?"
"Um."
Are you in a relationship?
"..." Xiang Yu didn't know if his father was asking on purpose or just casually, but he almost responded with an "um".
"No talks."
Xiang Jun noticed his hesitation and laughed it off, "It's okay, it's okay. It's alright to be in a relationship. I started pursuing your mom in high school too."