Nanke Yifu Chapter 25

Wild geese come and go (6)

“But…”

“There’s nothing good about it.” Yan Laixi still hesitated, but was interrupted by Chi Fu. He took out his mobile phone and took a selfie, pointed it at Yan Laixi’s face and said, “If nothing else, let’s just say that you know it yourself. Look at your face. Even if you put the photo on the table, you can eat two more bowls of rice.”

Yan Laixi turned away the camera that was facing him and said with a smile, “Am I here to serve food?”

“Of course not.” Chi Fu said, “Even if it’s a dish, you have to be the most exquisitely presented main course.”

“Okay, then you can put me on the dining table. In this kind of entertaining situation, a good-looking but not necessarily delicious dish is more pleasing to the eye than a good-looking but not good-looking dish.”

“You are the one who looks good and tastes good when it comes to the table.” Chi Fu moved his butt and sat closer to Yan Laixi and said, “Let me put it another way, not everyone likes kittens and puppies, but most people like furry animals, right? And even people who don’t like small animals, when they see these cute little guys make a mistake, quite a few of them will only think they are cute and will not blame them.”

Chi Fu held up Yan Laixi’s face and said to him: “Beautiful people also have this privilege, and so do you. If you are worried that you will make any mistakes unintentionally or accidentally, then just treat yourself as a furry little animal. No one will blame you, and no one will dislike you because of a small mistake.”

“I’ll be a vegetable and an animal for a while…” Yan Laixi stood up and picked up the shopping bag, “Stop coaxing me, I’m not nervous anymore, come on up.”

“I’m not coaxing you.” Chi Fu stood up and said, “If you don’t believe me, go up and take a look. My parents definitely like you very much.”

Yan Laixi didn’t answer his words, looked at the time, and urged: “Take two steps quickly. If you wait for so long, you will be late.”

“Don’t worry.” Chi Fu took hold of Yan Laixi’s wrist and said calmly, “Actually, I’m fooling you.”

“You told me half an hour ahead of the agreed time?” Yan Laixi asked.Just after heaving a sigh of relief, he took it back again. Not only did he take it back, he almost didn’t pull it out.

Chi Fu said, “I told you that I delayed the appointed time by a quarter of an hour.”

“Then why aren’t you in a hurry?” At this moment, Yan Laixi couldn’t wait to have another meal. He was late for the first meeting and made people wait. It was over before it even started.

“No, no, please listen to what I have to say.” Chi Fu was staggered by Yan Laixi, and he pulled him back with his body. He explained quickly, “First of all, even according to the correct time, there are still nearly five minutes now, and there is plenty of time to go upstairs. Secondly, I guessed that you were scared by your appearance two days ago. Later, my parents also told me that it was five o’clock. In other words, there are still nearly twenty minutes before the appointed time.”

Yan Lai relaxed, but was still dubious: “Aren’t you fooling me this time?”

“That’s not true. Everything is under control. The meal probably isn’t ready yet.” Chi Fu said, “So don’t worry, we’ll go up later.”

Yan Laixi: “Ignore the process, the time I know is the correct time, so why are you scaring me?”

Chi Fu touched his nose and said, “Wouldn’t it be helpful to be frightened to relieve tension? And to put it in a roundabout way, don’t you think you have plenty of time? Although it is already plenty.”

Yan Laixi felt it for a while, nodded reluctantly, and moved his legs towards the entrance of the building: “Then go over now, or go and help.”

Chi Fu walked around to the opposite side of him, stopped him again, and asked, “Do you want to be worried for no reason or see me being questioned?”

“I don’t want to.” Yan Laixi felt that his question was puzzling, but since there was still time, it didn’t matter whether he played with Chi Fu for a while or just talked for a while.

Chi Fu: “Then just wait for a while before going up.”

“Why?” Yan Laixi asked.

Chi Fu smiled sheepishly and pointed to Yan Laixi’s wrist, which had a red mark on it: “I just stopped you because I didn’t control my strength.”

After he said this, Yan Laixi realized that there was still a faint pain on his wrist.He is actually quite afraid of pain, but Chi Fu doesn’t know that, or almost no one knows it except himself. After all, Yan Laixi’s habit since he was a child is to try his best not to show pain when it hurts, not wanting to worry others.But this time I couldn’t bear it. It wasn’t a serious pain in the first place. Plus I was so flustered just now that I really didn’t notice it.

Yan Laixi put down the sleeves of his shirt that were originally rolled up to his forearms, and adjusted the collar and inner layer. He stretched out his wrist covered by the sleeves and shook it towards Chi Fu, saying, “That’s good. Let’s go up. Don’t be too late.”

“It won’t be too late even if we lie on the ground and squirm over.” As he said this, Chi Fu followed Yan Lai.

In fact, he also hid something from Yan Laixi.Chi Fu not only deceived Yan Laixi, but also deceived his parents.When he told his parents to change the time to meet at five o’clock, what he said was: “Xiao Shu is used to moving half an hour in advance. I originally told him that the scheduled time was wrong by half an hour. It was a bit tight and it might be late. You should prepare a little later. It will be almost finished at five o’clock. He won’t be comfortable if he sees that you have to wait.”

Yan Laixi stood half a step behind Chi Fu, waiting for him to straighten his collar again, hold the shopping bag in his hand, and say he was ready, before Chi Fu pressed the doorbell.

one two three.

Three seconds, no more, no less, exactly three seconds, the door was pushed open from the inside, and Ms. Chi Huan appeared behind the door with a warm smile that was just right.

“Hello, aunt.” Yan Laixi took the initiative to say hello, exposed most of his body from behind Chi Fu, and bowed slightly to the people inside the door.

“Hello, hello, come in.” As if Chi Huan couldn’t see his own son who was so big, he leaned forward to take the things in Yan Laixi’s hand, turned sideways to let the door open, and asked, “Can I call you Xiao Xi?”

“Of course.” Yan Laixi pushed Chi Fu quietly from behind. Chi Fu immediately understood that he didn’t know what to do when he entered the door and asked him to go ahead.

“You wear…” Chi Fu’s parents rarely have guests at home. When they do, they usually let them in directly and mop the floor afterwards. Therefore, they did not prepare slippers for guests. After entering the entrance and closing the door, Chi Fu originally wanted to give his slippers to Yan Laixi. When he bent down, he saw a brand new pair of slippers that had never appeared next to him. “…You can wear these.”

“Bai Xiafang!” Chi Huan shouted inside, “Xiao Xi is here, show your face first.”

“Hey!” Hearing the sound, a middle-aged man with a gentle appearance leaned out of the kitchen. He was still wearing an apron. He smiled at Yan Laixi and said, “I still need a cold dish, which will be ready soon. Let’s sit down for a while.”

Chi Fu pursed his lips and suppressed the corners of his mouth that wanted to raise.

It seemed that not only Yan Laixi’s side, but also Ms. Chi Huan and Mr. Bai Xiafang were quite nervous.

Ms. Chi Huan is not so quick to open the door for others, and Mr. Bai Xiafang always cooks cold dishes first and then hot dishes.

Chi Fu could almost imagine the scene before opening the door, preparing the food and tidying up the house, deliberately leaving a cold dish that would be ready in three or two minutes. Mr. Bai Xiafang was responsible for staying in the kitchen, creating an illusion of “coming at the right time, just the right time.”

Chi Huan led Yan Laixi to sit next to the sofa, pointed to the kettle, paper towels, and trash cans, and left, saying that he was going to put the coconuts in the refrigerator so that he could make a coconut milkshake after the meal.

Yan Laixi glanced at the dishes on the table next to him, elbowed Chi Fu with his elbow, leaned over and whispered, “Didn’t I tell you to just tell your uncle and aunt to cook whatever you want? Why did you order the dishes for me?”

Not counting the cold dishes that have not yet been served, there are five dishes and one soup, each of which is so delicious that Yan Laixi can put it in his mouth with his eyes closed, and there is even a plate of peeled tomato prawns!

“It’s unfair.” Chi Fu rubbed the slapped waist and whispered back, “They insist on letting me give you a menu, so I will definitely give you what you want.”

“Then what’s going on with that plate of shrimps?” Yan Laixi asked, as if the two were conspiring, “Don’t tell me this is what your family does, I don’t believe it.”

“That’s free play.” Chi Fu said, he was really wronged now, “I just mentioned don’t do anything inconvenient to eat, and everyone should pay attention to their appearance when we meet for the first time.”

“Chi Fu, Xiao Xi, come and help get the bowls and chopsticks.”

A female voice interrupted the “whispering” between the two. Yan Laixi glared at Chi Fu and stood up.

The kitchen was not very spacious, and it would be a bit crowded for the third person to enter. Yan Laixi stood obediently at the door, waiting for instructions.

Chi Huan handed Yan Laixi the chopsticks and the bowl used to hold the soup, and asked him if he wanted to eat rice, more or less, and asked Chi Fu to wait beside him to help serve the rice.

Yan Laixi had just set out the dishes and chopsticks, and Bai Xiafang also came out with the last plate of cold dishes, followed by Chi Fu and Chi Huan, each carrying two bowls of hot rice.The four of them sat down, and Chi Huan was the first to use his chopsticks. He was neither too enthusiastic nor too lively. For Yan Laixi, such an atmosphere would make him much more relaxed.

Chi Fu’s eyebrows are actually more like his father’s, with a less angular but not feminine appearance, but his temperament is more like his mother’s, as well as his personality. With Chi Fu and Chi Huan chatting back and forth, and Bai Xiafang accompanying Yan Laixi to eat quietly, with only an occasional word or two, the meal was much more relaxed than Yan Laixi imagined.

When he was almost done eating, Chi Fu stood up and filled the soup. After putting his bowl away, he reached out to Yan Laixi and said, “Give me the bowl.”

“Anyway, we all stood up. Just fill it up with one piece and that’s it.” Chi Fu added. He sat on the right side of Yan Laixi and put the empty bowl on the left. It was not convenient to take it directly. If he didn’t add this sentence, his little book would definitely say that he would do it himself.

The bowl of Yan Laixi was just put down, and Chi Huan’s bowl was handed over. Chi Fu held the spoon and looked at Chi Huan for two seconds, took the bowl to fill the soup, handed it over, and then reached out to the last empty bowl.

It’s really troublesome. If you want to serve a bowl of soup to your lover, you have to fill it in a circle. Once you get to know each other, it will probably be rare in the future.

Sitting back on the chair, Chi Fu picked up the soup bowl and took a sip. He raised his head and said to Bai Xiafang, “Dad, help get the salt.”

“I’ll go.” Yan Laixi was about to get up when Chi Fu pushed him back to his seat.

“Why are you going? You don’t have to go.”

“Well, you don’t have to go.” Bai Xiafang smiled, but did not prepare to stand up as he spoke. Instead, he raised his hand, “The salt shaker will come by itself.”

Then, Yan Laixi saw a small transparent glass jar filled with salt floating out of the kitchen and landing steadily next to Chi Fu’s hand.

“How about my dad’s abnormality? Isn’t it very convenient? It would be great if this could be passed on to me.” Chi Fu said, adding some salt to his bowl of soup, put the spoon back, and pushed the salt shaker towards Yan Laixi’s hand, “Here, add it yourself.”

Yan Laixi usually doesn’t have a heavy mouth when it comes to eating, but when it comes to soups – especially fish soup, chicken soup and bone soup, he doesn’t have a heavy mouth.For people with a slightly lighter taste, a bowl of soup is just right. He has to add half a spoonful of salt with a small spoon like a seasoning spoon. Over time, even Chi Fu was made unaccustomed to drinking bland soup.

Chi Fu glanced sideways at Yan Laixi, maybe because he felt a little more relaxed after eating a meal, or maybe because he had just added salt to it himself, and those strange embarrassments didn’t happen again, so he just opened the salt shaker, put the salt in, then closed it and put it aside.

“It’s great to have such a convenient anomaly.” Chi Huan sighed as he picked up the soup bowl.

Yan Laixi looked at Bai Xiafang who was sitting opposite and hesitated to speak. He held his chopsticks and waited patiently until Chi Huan put the soup bowl firmly before he said: “When you were a child, you said that all I had to do was raise my hand. It was all my job to take things and throw away the garbage. When I grew up, you said that I didn’t have to come back and run around. It was still all mine to wash clothes and cook.It’s even more outrageous after having Chi Fu.I asked you to help me carry the baby and I’ll make some milk powder. You said that although you didn’t give birth to the baby yourself, you want to take care of yourself as a mother, so you asked me to float the baby and soak it.Shouldn’t you add the prefix “people around you”?

Yan Laixi touched Chi Fu’s calf and asked, “So when you were a child, you had to float for a while before drinking milk?”

Chi Fu shook his head: “Even a newborn child is much heavier than a clothes drying pole with bottles, cans, small paper balls, and cannot float.”

He pointed to the ceiling above the small table next to the water dispenser and motioned for Yan Laixi to look up: “Did you see the two hooks there?”

Yan Laixi nodded.

Chi Fu: “It was originally a very small hammock. It is called a hammock, but it is actually no different from hanging a piece of cloth from the ceiling. It is said that when I was a child, I had to hang for a while before eating.”

“It’s not just before eating.” Chi Huan said, “When you were a child, you cried as soon as you put it down. Later, I accidentally discovered that putting you in a hammock has the same effect as holding you. If someone hadn’t had to stand by to watch you and don’t fall off, we both wanted you to sleep and fell asleep on it.”

“Listen, listen.” Chi Fu approached Yan Laixi and whispered blatantly.

Yan Laixi thought he was going to say something jokingly accusatory, such as “This is how they treated me when I was a kid,” or take the opportunity to act pitiful and coquettish with him, but Chi Fu said, “It would be very annoying if the child looked exactly like me.”

“Do you still remember?” Yan Laixi said helplessly, “I told you I was just teasing you.”

“Does Xiaoxi want a child?” Bai Xiafang asked, realizing the hidden meaning in the conversation first.

Yan Laixi waved his hands repeatedly, this was really a big misunderstanding.

“No, no, I don’t want to, it was just a joke as I mentioned before.”

Chi Huan obviously didn’t believe it and gave him advice: “It’s okay. It doesn’t matter if he looks like Chi Fu. Let him watch by himself.”

“I really don’t want it.” Yan Laixi sat up straight, as if if he didn’t explain clearly today, there would be multiple human cubs in the house tomorrow.

“Why are you so nervous again?” Chi Huan looked at his reaction and rolled his eyes with a smile.

Mr. Chi Fuxing said something very important – his face control can be said to be copied and pasted from Ms. Chi Huan.

It is not difficult to see from Bai Xiafang that Ms. Chi Huan likes someone with softer facial features, more elegant temperament, and a softer temperament.

Based on Chi Fu’s understanding of his own mother, it is not difficult to tell from the way Ms. Chi Huan looked at Yan Laixi the moment they entered the door, as well as Ms. Chi Huan’s expression now, that Yan Laixi’s face is enough to make Chi Huan like him as much as he likes. It perfectly meets Chi Huan’s desire for a well-mannered and well-behaved child, and even makes Ms. Chi Huan want to coax Yan Laixi to become her son.

After all the trouble, Chi Huan still reminded: “It’s okay if you don’t want it. If you want it, you still have to think about it carefully.”

She glanced at Chi Fu and said, “You also know that Chi Fu’s situation is quite special. You can’t tell what will happen next. If the child’s condition is not very good and he happens to fall out of control, it will drag you down.”

“Of course.” Bai Xiafang added, “These words are just a reminder. We will not interfere in your decision. We are also willing to help if necessary.”

“However, you should know without me telling you that you two don’t have children.” Yin Yuqiu said, “Let alone children, Nan Ke doesn’t even dare to raise a kitten or puppy. He is afraid that he will not be able to raise them well, he is afraid that he will not be able to find out in time if he gets sick, and he is afraid of this or that.”

After all, Yin Yuqiu was not the one who experienced it. When Yan Laixi told him these things, the two of them just treated it as a daily chat.What he can recount now is limited, and it is estimated that there are many discrepancies with the original situation.

Hearing that they had discussed whether they wanted a child, for a moment, Chi Fu wondered if Yan Laixi would not leave if they really had a child.

A moment later, there was a flood of happiness and fear.

Fortunately, there were no children, no pets, no deeds, and nothing that would tie Yan Laixi tightly.

If there was, Yan Laixi would definitely not leave his children or pets who were as unremembered as him, and he probably wouldn’t dare to let himself take them away easily when he was in a bad state.

Fortunately, there are only feelings and only half of the memory left. Although it will be sad, painful, and entangled, at least there is a choice, and at least it can eliminate a lot of worries.

“You don’t know about this?” Yin Yuqiu asked, “Have you never asked your parents?”

According to what Chi Fu told him before, he had even asked the courier and the snack shop owner, and could even find him by following the work. It was not the first time he learned about it from his mouth. Yan Laixi and Chi Fu’s parents had not met many times, and it was their first meeting, so it was unlikely that they had missed it.

“No.” Chi Fu replied, “I didn’t ask them, and I didn’t tell them about my current situation. I don’t know if there is any contact between them and Laixi, what is their relationship… He probably doesn’t want to be disturbed by people related to me right now.”

“Speaking of which…” Yin Yuqiu finally noticed those two words that always made him feel that something was wrong, “Do you know how you called him before?”