Chapter 17—Christmas
The whole table looked at him with disgust, Zhu Biao coughed to death, his cheeks were red, he knew that only half of it was choked, and the other half was because of embarrassment.
He couldn't wait to shrink his head under the table here, and the other party opposite, the "pseudo-mother" boy who could be called the culprit, was not calm.
The young man still had a few grains of rice on his bangs on his forehead, but his face remained expressionless, calmly pushed away the chair, and stood up.
Zhu Biao hurriedly jumped up, opened his mouth to speak, the young man reached out in the air, and somehow fished out a white light, and then pinched it, the white light was pinched off the jagged outward edge, and became condensed and contained between his fingers.
The white light turned into a long stick with a silver-white metallic luster, and the young man was holding the stick, and the head of the stick did not touch the ground, but made a soft "tuk-tuk" sound.
Everyone at the table looked at him, and several eyes were focused on him, but the young man was unaware, and he walked away with the stick "tuk tuk", his steps were light and nimble, at least from the back he looked like a normal person with good eyesight.
But they all know it's not.
Zhu Biao slowly closed his mouth and looked around a little helplessly, as if he understood the question on his face, Uncle Xu sighed lightly and introduced: "This is my third son, Xu Yan." ”
After a pause, he said regretfully: "He was originally a student of the Academy of Magic, because he injured his eyes because of an experiment, and he also had some hearing problems. ”
"Ahh Guo Dalu lost his voice and said, "He can also do magic?" ”
"Of course!" Xu You interjected proudly, "My third brother is a genius of magic, and their teacher said that there may not be one in his talent among 100,000 people!" ”
Guo Dalu subconsciously looked at Zhu Biao, who was still a little stunned, noticed Guo Dalu's gaze, shook his head slightly, and signaled him not to say that he could also do magic.
Zhu Biao guessed that the pseudo-lady was from the Xu family last night, and he was ready to see him at the dinner table today, but he didn't expect such a beautiful young man from Tsinghua Yunxiu...... He was both blind and deaf......
The moment Xu Yan looked up at him across the table, Zhu Biao looked at him, noticed that his gaze lacked focus, there was no joy or sadness on his face, and the whole person was like a dead thing that had been withdrawn from his soul.
How so? He thought with some trepidation, is this the "girl" who made him fall in love at first sight last night? No, he didn't believe that he would be tempted by clay sculpture and wood carving, so yesterday's painting was different from today's, although he couldn't clearly distinguish the difference.
By the way, Zhu Biao said without thinking: "I saw Xu Yan last night, he was wearing different clothes than today, it seemed to be a skirt and a wig, I thought he was a girl......"
As soon as he finished speaking, the faces of the three fathers and sons of the Xu family changed at the same time, Xu Zuo and Xu You glared at him desperately with bitter faces, and the beard on Xu Tianshou's face curled up, and he roared: "Left and right, you two bastards let your younger brother wear women's clothes again!?" ”
Xu Tianshou was full of anger, this roar swept the entire table with a chest trill, following Zhu Biao's saliva, Xu Tianshou's saliva was added to the meal, and no one had an appetite now, Guo Dalu, who was only half-full just now, looked at his uncle and put down his chopsticks sadly.
"Father's anger!" Xu You hid behind Xu Zuo and shouted, "My brother and I are also □□ for Christmas, there are no women in the family, only the third brother can wear women's clothes!" ”
"It's really my father," Xu Zuo also exclaimed, "The size of the women's clothes left by my mother is too small, my second brother and I have tried it, but I really can't wear it!" We don't want to bully him into being invisible, but apart from the third brother, there are no other little people in our family......"
He suddenly paused in the middle of his words, the twins had a heart-to-heart connection, and Xu You turned his head almost at the same time as him, and turned around in unison.
Zhu Biao was determined.
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What's Christmas all about? Isn't it December 25? It's only September 28 today, so why do □□ need to start preparing so early?
Zhu Biao muttered in his heart, but he didn't dare to ask more, he restrained a lot after coming to the first district of the capital, and every time he said a word, he had to turn it in his head one hundred and eighty times, so he was still trembling, for fear that he would step on the thunder if he took a bigger step.
But sometimes even if he didn't step on the thunder, he couldn't stop the thunder from falling from the sky to find him.
"Do you want to do it?" The handsome young man hugged his arms, stood on tiptoe, stuck in the corner of the wall and looked at him condescendingly, trying to show a white tooth to make a vicious appearance, but unfortunately he didn't even have tiger teeth, and the intimidation of Cheng Dù was very limited.
This is Xu You, Zhu Biao thought, he is more unreliable.
"Come on," persuaded another handsome young man with a smile, "□□ is very fun, and the whole of the first district will join in that day, and everyone will sing and dance together, and the atmosphere will be as lively as it is." Aren't you here for a tour? There's no better project than this, go back and tell your kids that they're envious of it! ”
This is Xu Zuo, Zhu Biao thought, he loves □□ face, and at first glance his personality looks better than his younger brother, but if he thinks about it more, he feels that his belly is a little dark.
The twins squeezed him into the corner of the living room, relying on his height advantage to knock endlessly, Zhu Biao shrunk up aggrievedly like a little daughter-in-law, neither saying "good" nor "bad".
From his point of view, he could obliquely glance at the study door at the end of the living room, this was another study, there were few books but there were huge writing desks and networkers, Xu Tianshou just brought Guo Dalu in to talk, Zhu Biao wanted to know what they were talking about.
"You have to do something for white food at my house, right? Never? If you don't start from the uncle, I'll kick you out! ”
"That's the thing, it's actually very simple, just walk with us in women's clothes, my third brother can do it without seeing or hearing, can't you?"
The twins were still blocking him from talking nonsense, Zhu Biao couldn't bear it anymore, and asked out loud: "Isn't Christmas December 25?" ”
Xu Zuo and Xu You looked at each other in amazement.
"Of course not!" Xu You said with a sense of superiority, "It's October 21, how do the teachers in your eleventh district teach students, and you don't know what elementary school students know?" You don't have a holiday at Christmas? ”
Zhu Biao shook his head, didn't dare to explain more for himself, and turned his inquiring gaze to Xu Zuo.
"How did this December 25 come about?" Xu Zuo was not as simple as his younger brother, and he seemed more puzzled, "The Holy Birthday of His Majesty the Emperor is October 21, so it can't be postponed to December!" ”
Emperor Majesty? Shengshou?
Just like a thunder ringing in his ears, Zhu Biao finally understood that this "Christmas" was not the other "Christmas", and the twins' so-called "Christmas" was not the birthday of a certain religious god he was familiar with at all, but the birthday of another human god - Emperor Zhu of the Ming Dynasty!