Xiang Jun brought the pickled vegetables that Grandma Hou had made herself from her home in %2FB%2F City and put them in the kitchen. Seeing that Grandma Hou was still standing and looking at the living room decoration, he went over and helped her sit down on the sofa.
"Xiao Na knew Lily was coming back, so she hired a housekeeper to clean in advance."
"Have you troubled Xiaona again?" Grandma Hou patted Xiang Jun's hand and quietly instructed, "Xiaona has put a lot of effort into Xiaoyu's matter. You and Xiaoli should thank Xiaona."
Xiang Jun said, "Don't worry, Mom."
In just two days it will be Lunar New Year's Eve, and neither Xiang Yu nor Li Yifan's family has made any preparations yet.
Xiang Jun didn't seem tired at all, even though he got off the plane at noon. He didn't know if it was because he hadn't adjusted to the time difference or something else, but he was incredibly energetic.
After resting indoors for a while, we prepared to take the whole family to the supermarket to buy some New Year's goods.
We drove to a large supermarket nearby. Xiang Yu sat in the back seat of the car, holding his phone and never looking up.
-Xiangyu: Xu Lin was quite angry.
-Xiangyu: If he insults you, just ignore him.
Gu Chen: It's okay, I don't care about these things.
-Xiangyu: I shouldn't have told him.
Gu Chen sat in the passenger seat, a helpless smile playing on her lips, thinking to herself how adorable her boyfriend was.
-Gu Chen: The people around us will find out sooner or later.
-Gu Chen: Don't feel burdened.
Gu Chen was talking to Xiang Yu while switching between chat windows, trying to reason with Xu Lin who was typing away like crazy.
I sent several messages in a row, and before I knew it, my messages had flooded the screen, but the other party remained silent.
Gu Chen raised an eyebrow, thinking that he had convinced the other party, and sent a '?'.
The next second, a red exclamation mark appeared after the dialog box.
Gu Chen: "..."
Gu Chen: It's alright now, I've convinced him.
-Xiangyu: Huh?
After Xiang Yu sent the message, Xiang Jun had already parked the car outside the supermarket. The group was about to enter the supermarket when Xiang Yu sent a message to Gu Chen saying that they would talk later because she had something to do.
Gu Chen: Okay.
There were quite a lot of things to buy, so Xiang Jun suggested that they shop separately. He took Grandma Hou to buy fresh vegetables and New Year's goods, while Xiang Yu and Li Yifan went to buy daily necessities that the family lacked and snacks that they wanted to eat.
The four of them pushed two shopping carts. At first, they walked together, with Li Yifan accompanying Grandma Hou as she picked out items, while Xiang Yu and his son followed behind, pushing the shopping cart.
Grandma Hou looked at the Spring Festival couplets and the character "福" (good fortune) on the shelf and picked out two identical sets to put in her shopping cart.
"Xiao Fan, come to Grandma's for New Year's Eve dinner with your parents. Don't let your mom cook."
Li Yifan was overjoyed that Grandma Hou had made it clear, nodding his head like a chicken pecking at rice, "Okay, Grandma."
There was a bunch of New Year decorations at the entrance, and further ahead were the left and right sections. Xiang Yu pushed the cart and Li Yifan toward the other side.
With his elders not around, Li Yifan began to let loose, dragging the shopping cart toward the snack section, insisting on browsing through each shelf one by one.
Xiang Yu couldn't dissuade him, so he had no choice but to go with him.
After browsing four or five shelves, my shopping cart was already more than half full.
Spicy snacks, braised dishes, dried tofu, chicken feet—there's more than that, and that's not all.
Li Yifan said, "Brother, I haven't bought any sweets yet."
Xiang Yu: "..."
He only has this one cousin, so I have to spoil him a bit.
Xiang Yu didn't say anything, and followed Li Yifan in the cart to the cookie and chocolate section.
Xiang Yu watched as Li Yifan reached out and picked out one of each flavor of Pocky and put it into the shopping cart.
I was thinking of packing all the snacks into two big bags and letting Li Yifan carry them himself.
Li Yifan was still hesitating over Oreos, but then he realized he had bought too many, so he decided to only buy three flavors from the Oreo section.
On the other side of the shelf was the chocolate section, and Xiangyu suddenly felt like going over to take a look.
Let's see if we can pick something to give to Gu Chen.
In the middle of the chocolate section, a supermarket salesperson had built a three-dimensional heart out of chocolate, leaving a passageway for people to pass through on both sides. Since shopping carts couldn't get through to the other side, Xiangyu simply chose to select items on this half.
The lower and middle shelves were filled with small packages of chocolates wrapped in gold foil. Xiang Yu picked one up and looked at it, noting that there were at most twelve of them.
It's too small.
Looking up, there were exquisitely packaged gift boxes on the top shelf.
The packaging is so exquisite that you wouldn't even know it's chocolate if you weren't paying attention.
Available in pink and blue packaging.
There aren't many pink-packaged ones left, and only one blue-packaged one is left.
Xiang Yu reached out to grab the blue one, weighed it in his hand for a moment, and decided it was okay, so he was about to put it in his shopping cart.
"Um... I'm sorry."
"Um?"
The person next to me must be talking to me.
Xiang Yu turned to look at her; she was a petite girl, much shorter than Xiang Yu, who was over 1.8 meters tall.
Her cute appearance easily evokes a boy's protective instincts.
"Which one..." The girl looked quite nervous, and blushed as she looked up at Xiang Yu.
This scenario is quite familiar to Xiang Yu, who has many suitors.
In the past, when faced with this situation, he, who was not good at socializing, would have simply looked away without flinching.
But now he thinks it would be better to explain things to the other party.
"Sorry, I don't add you on WeChat."
The girl was clearly surprised by this response. Realizing what had happened, she blushed and quickly shook her head, saying, "No, you've misunderstood. I have a boyfriend!"
"..."
The scene became awkward at one point.
Xiang Yu's cheeks flushed slightly; what strange thing had he just said?
The girl spoke softly: "What I was trying to say was that if you're giving your girlfriend chocolates, the pink one is better. This blue one is for girls to give to their boyfriends because it contains a chocolate brand and an anime collaboration figurine."
The girl's voice trailed off: "My boyfriend really likes this anime..."
Now that things have been said to this extent, Xiang Yu understands.
He picked up the blue gift box and handed it to her, saying, "Here, take this."
"Thank you, thank you so much!" The girl was very excited and kept thanking her as she accepted the gift.
"It's okay." Xiang Yu shook his head. Actually, he had plenty of chocolate gift boxes; he didn't necessarily have to buy that one.
Xiang Yu started picking out other gift boxes. After taking the gift box, the girl didn't leave immediately but continued to stand there.
"Which one..." the girl next to her suggested, "Why don't you buy the pink one? It has a collaboration lipstick inside. Although it's random, the colors are all very pretty. It would be a great gift for your girlfriend."
“Hmm…” Xiang Yu paused and said, “I’m taking my boyfriend there.”
"Ah." The girl paused, lowered her head, and quickly said, "I'm sorry, I didn't know. If it were my boyfriend, it would be fine."
After saying that, the girl quickly looked up and glanced at Xiang Yu again, then hugged the blue gift box and ran away with small steps.
Liu Xiangyu stood there watching the other person run away in a panic.
"Ha ha ha ha."
Turning away, I saw a person standing and smiling in the aisle next to the 3D heart.
Seeing Xiang Yu turn around, Gu Chen walked over, leaned closer, raised an eyebrow, and smiled: "Giving this to your boyfriend?"
"Hmm." Xiang Yu reached for the pink gift box again and handed it to the other person. "Buy one get one free, it includes a lipstick, the color is..."
After saying that, he glanced at the random lipstick shades, paused, and muttered, "Rotten tomato, oxblood, auntie red?"
What is all this stuff?
Amid Gu Chen's unrestrained laughter, Xiang Yu, with a dark expression, put the pink gift box back in its original place.
"You choose one."
Xiang Yu gave up the choice and let Gu Chen choose for himself.
Gu Chen said, "It's no fun choosing for yourself."
After saying that, she leaned close to Xiang Yu's ear and whispered, "Boyfriend, you pick one for me."
Before Xiang Yu could reply after Gu Chen finished speaking, a long shout stopped him.
"Brother—brother—where is he—?"
The sound came from the other half of the chocolate shelf, with a heart-shaped stand made of chocolates blocking the way. Li Yifan went around to that side and called out for a long time before he discovered that there was a small path next to the stand.
“Brother—hey?” When Li Yifan saw Xiang Yu, Gu Chen was also looking at him.
"Boss Gu, you're here too." Li Yifan put three large boxes of Oreos into the car.
"My dad and I came to buy some New Year's goods." Gu Chen raised his chin, indicating that he had just come over there. "The shopping cart is still over there."
"That shopping cart full of chocolates is yours?" Li Yifan asked in surprise. "If you hadn't told me, I would have thought it was for the sales clerk to restock."
"There are a lot of children visiting relatives at home, so I picked out more items," Gu Chen said, glancing out of the corner of his eye as Xiang Yu put a heart-shaped gift box, slightly smaller than the pink and blue gift set, into her shopping cart, her smile growing even brighter.
"Brother, why did you buy this?" Li Yifan bought a lot, but in some ways he still managed to save money.
“If you’re just buying it for yourself, why not just buy this family pack?” Li Yifan picked up a regular box and a gift box to compare the weights. “Look, this one is 400 grams, while the gift box is only 380 grams, but it’s almost twice as expensive.”
Xiang Yu: "..." I had no idea you had this knowledge.
Xiang Yu coughed twice, took the heart-shaped gift box from his hand and put it back in the shopping cart, "I'm giving it away."