This year's Chinese New Year is the most boring year in the history of the Xue family, because there are many fewer people. Cheng Jue and Xue Hui did not celebrate the New Year in Qihe, they took Xin'er and the child in their womb to Jingtian to celebrate the New Year with Cheng Qingshan and Fang Yuan. Xue Yan and Sui Xuefei's family took their children to Yunhai for the New Year, and only Xue Fei's family of three was left in the family, plus Qu Yuanyuan and Tong Dazhi.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Xue Fei received a call from Ouyang Jinxiu, telling him that he had to rush to Jingtian before the night of the third day of the Lunar New Year, and it was a death order, he had to go, and he didn't say anything on the phone, Xue Fei judged from his previous experience that eighty percent was not a good thing, but he still agreed, because he really couldn't refuse, which seemed to have long become a habit.

Xue Fei wanted Xue Rengui and Zhang Fengxia to go to Jingtian with him, and by the way, visit the major temple fairs in Jingtian during the Chinese New Year. Xue Rengui and Zhang Fengxia actually had the intention to go, but when they thought that once they went, Cheng Qingsong and Fang Yuan would definitely know that they would have to entertain them again, it would be too disturbing for others, and it would be easy for people to gossip, so in order to let Xue Hui live a better life in front of her in-laws, it would be better not to go.

So Xue Fei and Qu Yuanyuan went to Jingtian early in the morning of the third day of the Lunar New Year.

It was only one o'clock in the afternoon when he arrived in Jingtian, and Ouyang Jinxiu said that he would arrive before the evening, so Xue Fei did not go to see Ouyang Jinxiu immediately, but took Qu Yuanyuan to meet with Cheng Qian first.

The relationship between Xue Fei and Cheng Qian can be said to be friends, or it can be said to be like brothers, but since Cheng Jue and Xue Hui got married, there is another layer of kinship between them.

This time I went to Cheng Qian's house, not only Cheng Qian was at home alone, but there was also a girl, about 1.7 meters tall, born with a beautiful appearance, whether it was figure or appearance, compared with Qu Yuanyuan, it can be said that it is more than equal. When Xue Fei saw her, he was stunned at first, and then his heart tightened. The girl also looked at Xue Fei's eyes very strangely, and she also looked at Qu Yuanyuan beside Xue Fei.

"Who is this?" Xue Fei glanced at the girl and asked Cheng Qian.

"If you don't say it, I'll forget it, so I'll introduce it to you." Cheng Qian took the girl's hand and introduced: "Her name is Ling Ziyue, and she is my girlfriend." Ziyue, his name is Xue Fei, he is a good friend of mine, and the relationship between us is a friend plus brother and relative. Her name is Qu Yuanyuan, you should have seen her on TV, the famous program host, Xue Fei's girlfriend. ”

"Hello, it's a pleasure to meet you." Ling Ziyue smiled and greeted Xue Fei and Qu Yuanyuan.

"Hello." Xue Fei and Qu Yuanyuan responded in unison.

"You two really have a tacit understanding." Cheng Qian said with a smile.

Xue Fei and Qu Yuanyuan looked at each other and smiled when they heard this.

Ling Ziyue glanced at Xue Fei playfully.

Cheng Qian bought a few precious celebrity calligraphy and paintings from a collector a few years ago, and Cheng Qian knew that Xue Fei was very interested in this kind of thing, so he called Xue Fei and Qu Yuanyuan to the study upstairs and showed them to them.

Xue Fei admired it for a while and then went to the bathroom, so that when he opened the door and was about to go back to the study, he saw Ling Ziyue standing at the door, Xue Fei frowned slightly.

Xue Fei thought that Ling Ziyue wanted convenience, so he wanted to walk past her, but Ling Ziyue stopped him, he wanted to go to the other side, and Ling Ziyue stopped him again. Ling Ziyue's face was gloomy, she looked at Xue Fei's eyes and said, "You actually pretend not to know me, you're a little too much, right?" ”

"I don't understand what Miss Ling said, isn't this the first time we've met, so why not pretend not to know each other?" Xue Fei said expressionlessly.

"Are you an actor now? Your acting skills are really good. Ling Ziyue said sarcastically.

"I'm sorry, I'm going out, please let me go."

"Give me your phone number."

"I don't have a cell phone number."

"Then don't even think about going out." Ling Ziyue said with her arms outstretched.

Xue Fei was a little angry, he asked with a straight face, "What do you want to do?" Aren't you afraid that your ex-brother will see the misunderstanding? ”

Ling Ziyue sneered: "Are you afraid of being misunderstood by Qu Yuanyuan?" If you don't want to be misunderstood, just tell me your phone number. ”

Xue Fei didn't want to entangle with Ling Ziyue, he was really afraid that Cheng Qian would suddenly come out and see this scene at this moment, so he had to take out his mobile phone and hand it to Ling Ziyue.

Ling Ziyue used Xue Fei's mobile phone to dial her phone number, and then returned the phone to Xue Fei.

"Let's meet alone in the evening."

"I don't have time, I'm going to see another friend in the evening." Xue Fei refused.

"Tomorrow, then."

"I'm going to be with my girlfriend tomorrow."

"Then the day after tomorrow, the day after tomorrow is always okay, right?" Ling Ziyue really wanted to meet Xue Fei alone.

"I'll leave Ice City the day after tomorrow." Xue Fei and Ling Ziyue's thoughts were just the opposite, he didn't want to meet Ling Ziyue in private at all.

"Are you afraid to meet me alone? I really didn't expect that after a few years, you would become so cowardly, you asked me to ......" Ling Ziyue didn't finish speaking, and at this time Qu Yuanyuan came out of the study.

"Miss Ling, I'm sorry, I took a bit long to keep you waiting." Xue Fei's reaction was very fast.

Ling Ziyue glanced back at Qu Yuanyuan, glared at Xue Fei angrily and entered the bathroom.

Because of Ling Ziyue, Xue Fei didn't stay long, and left after staying for a while.

As soon as Xue Fei left, he received a text message on his mobile phone, which was sent by Ling Ziyue: I'm not done with you, you wait for me.

Xue Fei deleted the information directly after reading it, and he didn't save Ling Ziyue's mobile phone number.

Xue Fei never thought that he would be able to see Ling Ziyue again, let alone that Ling Ziyue would become Cheng Qian's girlfriend, Xue Fei suddenly realized that this world was really too small, so small that it seemed that the people he knew knew each other, and the relationship was not ordinary.

No matter what, he would never meet Ling Ziyue again, he had to keep his distance from Ling Ziyue.

After staying at the Deep Blue Hotel, Xue Fei sent a message to Ouyang Jinxiu in the evening, asking her if she was still going to the previous villa, Ouyang Jinxiu replied that it was not, and then told him an address and asked him to arrive before seven o'clock in the evening, and call her when he arrived.

Before coming to Jingtian, Xue Fei had thought of an excuse to go out alone, he said that he was having a reunion with his college classmates, so Xue Fei went out at night, and Qu Yuanyuan didn't say anything. Qu Yuanyuan also has her own arrangements, she is going to a colleague's house to pay New Year's greetings.

Rushed to the place where Ouyang Jinxiu said, Xue Fei found that it was the door of a courtyard in an old alley, took out his mobile phone and dialed Ouyang Jinxiu's number, Ouyang Jinxiu asked him to wait for a while, and said that he would arrive immediately.

About five minutes later, Ouyang Jinxiu arrived, and she parked the car at the mouth of the alley.

"What kind of place is this?" Xue Fei asked.

"This is our family's old house, the courtyard of Sijin, which has a history of more than 200 years." Ouyang Jinxiu said.

"What are you doing here?"

"Today is a big gathering of our family."

"Huh?" Xue Fei was taken aback: "Your family party, what am I doing here?" ”

"Of course it's pretending to be my boyfriend, otherwise they should talk about me looking for a boyfriend again." Ouyang Jinxiu hugged Xue Fei's arm and said, "Let's go, let's go in." ”

"No, no, no." Xue Fei took Ouyang Jinxiu's hand away, and said with an embarrassed face: "Didn't you say that you just pretend once, why do you still pretend, you let me go, auntie, I really can't do it." ”

"When I say that, you listen to it, and you don't know that I have always spoken like this."

"I can promise you anything, this thing really can't work, I'll go first." After Xue Fei finished speaking, he turned around and left. Seeing Ouyang Jinxiu, her father and her sister, Xue Fei was really a little scared when she saw the people of the entire family.

"Stop me, are you trying to make me angry?" Ouyang Jinxiu's face changed, she hugged Xue Fei's arm tightly and ordered, "You must see the people of our family tonight, otherwise the consequences will be very serious." ”

"Auntie, just spare me, okay?"

"Nope."

"What are you two doing?" At this time, Ouyang Ruolan came over, she was always so quiet that she didn't even make a sound when she walked, if she didn't speak, Xue Fei and Ouyang Jinxiu wouldn't notice.

"I didn't do anything, I was about to go in." Ouyang Jinxiu pushed Xue Fei with his elbow, and told Xue Fei with his eyes, you had better go in obediently, otherwise I will really be unkind to you.

Xue Fei was hurt by Ouyang Jinxiu's ribs, but he was dumb and ate Coptis chinensis, and he couldn't tell if he was bitter. After saying hello to Ouyang Ruolan, he and Ouyang Jinxiu followed Ouyang Ruolan into the courtyard.

The Ouyang family is a big family, if everyone gathers, there will be almost fifty or sixty people, and they are all immediate family members. But it is generally difficult to gather them all, even for the Chinese New Year, because there are all over the world, both at home and abroad, and it is difficult to achieve time unification. But even so, there will still be more than 30 people gathering in Beijing during the Chinese New Year.

This courtyard house was built by the nobles of the former Qing Dynasty, and was bought by the Ouyang family during the Republic of China, and now it has long been turned into a cultural relic, and it is also the only place where the Ouyang family gathers every year. Gathering here for the New Year, in addition to the festive reunion, is also to find the taste of the past year, the old taste, which is incomparable to the current high-rise buildings, and it is also missed by people.

After Ouyang Jinxiu's grandfather passed away, Ouyang Xinzhong, as the eldest son, became the most respected person in the Ouyang family and the head of the Ouyang family.

Entering the inner house, Ouyang Jinxiu took Xue Fei to greet her father and mother first.

Ouyang Jinxiu's mother's name is Jin Shiyi, as her name suggests, not only beautiful, but also always gentle and elegant, because of her poor health, she is now recuperating abroad for many years, and only occasionally returns to China, which is why Xue Fei didn't see her last time he went to home.

Ouyang Xinzhong is resolutely opposed to Ouyang Jinxiu and Xue Fei being together, after talking to Ouyang Jinxiu last time, he thought that the two of them had separated, but he didn't expect the two to be together, Ouyang Jinxiu also brought Xue Fei to participate in the family party, Ouyang Xinzhong's face was ugly, Xue Fei greeted him and he didn't pay attention to it, if it wasn't for the New Year, considering that it was a family party, he would have been angry a long time ago.

Jin Shiyi didn't know anything about Xue Fei's situation, but when she saw Xue Fei for the first time, she liked it. Seeing Xue Fei and Ouyang Jinxiu standing together, whether they were tall or good-looking, she felt that they were a match made in heaven.

Under the introduction of Ouyang Jinxiu, Xue Fei and the other people from the Ouyang family greeted them one by one, although Ouyang Jinxiu did not introduce their specific identities, but Xue Fei could still see that these people were not ordinary people.

When it was about to eat, Ouyang Xinzhong's youngest brother, Ouyang Xinsheng, arrived.

Ouyang Xinsheng is 45 years old this year, a full 15 years old difference from Ouyang Xinzhong, and is a member of the Standing Committee of the Jingtian Municipal Party Committee and executive vice mayor.

"Fourth uncle, let me introduce you, this is my boyfriend Xue Fei." Ouyang Jinxiu introduced to Ouyang Xinsheng.

"Hello Fourth Uncle, my name is Xue Fei, I wish you a happy New Year." Xue Fei said respectfully.

"Happy New Year." Ouyang Xinsheng looked at Xue Fei and said to Ouyang Jinxiu with a smile: "Xiuxiu, your boyfriend looks good, what do you do?" ”

"He's with you."

"Really? Working in Kingtyen? ”

"No, I work in a county town below the ice city." Xue Fei said.

"He became the secretary of the county party committee at the age of twenty-nine, and he is only thirty this year, so he is even more powerful than you back then." Ouyang Jinxiu said proudly.

Ouyang Xinsheng was the secretary of the county party committee at the age of thirty-two, and he was already very young, hearing that Xue Fei became the secretary of the county party committee at the age of twenty-nine, Ouyang Xinsheng couldn't help but look at Xue Fei carefully, thinking that it was not simple, could it be that the background was very hard?

"The fourth uncle is here." Ouyang Ruolan came over to greet Ouyang Xinsheng.

"Ruolan is really getting more and more beautiful. Embroidery has a boyfriend, when will your relationship problems be solved? Ouyang Xinsheng said with concern.

"I'm not in a hurry, I'm still young, but the fourth uncle, you should hurry up, hurry up and find us a fourth aunt." Ouyang Ruolan said with a faint smile.

"Stinky girl, talk about you, what are you pulling on me. Your parents are in the back room, right? ”

"Here, I'm here to call you in, my dad has something to do with you."

Seeing Ouyang Xinsheng and Ouyang Ruolan enter the back room, Xue Fei asked in a low voice, "Your fourth uncle and your sister are both single?" ”

Ouyang Jinxiu replied in a low voice: "They have all been married, but they are all divorced. ”

Xue Fei let out an "oh" and didn't say anything more.

After Ouyang Xinsheng and Ouyang Xinzhong finished talking about business, thinking of Xue Fei who he had just met, Ouyang Xinsheng said: "Big brother and sister-in-law, your prospective son-in-law looks good, and it is a good match for embroidery." ”

As soon as Jin Shiyi arrived to talk, Ouyang Xinzhong said in a very impulsive tone: "What's not bad, where did you see that you are a good match?" ”

"From the outside, how handsome and energetic the young man is. In addition, I heard Xiuxiu say that he is the secretary of the county party committee, it seems unusual to be so young, does he have any background? Ouyang Xinsheng asked with interest.

"It would be nice if there were, there was nothing, it was not worthy of splendid at all." Ouyang Xinzhong didn't want his daughter to find someone who was not in the right household, and he was worried that it would affect his daughter's life.

"You don't agree with them being together?" Ouyang Xinsheng didn't expect it, he thought that Xue Fei came to attend the family reunion with Ouyang Xinzhong's permission.

"Of course I don't agree, do you need to say that? Okay, don't mention him, mention him to spoil the fun. Ouyang Xinzhong got up and went out after speaking.

"Sister-in-law, you don't agree either?" Ouyang Xinsheng looked at Jin Shiyi.

"I look good." Jin Shiyi smiled.

This novel is from Reading Rim