Chapter Eighty-Eight: Meet the Parents
When Tang Tang took Xu Tong to find Ji Xincheng, he was surprised that Shang Xuan had already left.
"She's gone beforehand." Ji Xincheng said.
Tang Tang thought that the chat was not pleasant, "Did she embarrass you?" ”
"No, she's forgiven me."
The two walked side by side towards a children's restaurant, Ji Xincheng said with a smile.
Tang Tang disagreed: "It's not your fault in the first place." ”
"When will the three of us find a chance to get together."
Tang Tang was not in a high mood about this, and seemed to be still haunted by Shang Xuan's revenge on Ji Xincheng for the things she had done, even if she understood Shang Xuan's pain, but in the end, the three of them still couldn't return to their former intimacy.
But no one can be blamed.
In the evening, the three people in the playground were a little tired, Gu Shaoze called to urge Ji Xincheng to come back early, saying that there was something to do, and Ji Xincheng broke up with Tang Tang in front of the gate.
"Back to the old house?"
Ji Xincheng, who returned home, heard the man say this, and immediately stopped drinking water.
"Don't want to go back?"
Ji Xincheng nodded boldly, "At least I don't want to ...... now Today, can you not go first? ”
She hesitated, more apprehension than disgust.
Gu Shaoze stepped forward, put the person in his arms, and said patiently:
"It's my parents who want to see you. It doesn't matter, you always have to meet before you get married anyway, and if you delay it a little earlier, it's not a way for you to delay, eh? ”
His gentle tone made Ji Xincheng's uneasy thoughts instantly flattened.
The back of his head was rubbed in his shoulder socket, and he sighed:
"Okay then."
Entering the changing room, Gu Shaoze picked out clothes for Ji Xincheng, a lace beige dress, which was slightly conservative.
"So your parents like conservative girls?"
When she said this, the figure of Xu Ziqian, who loved to wear cheongsam, suddenly flashed in her mind, and the smile on the corner of her mouth froze unconsciously.
Gu Shaoze didn't see anything, and continued to pick out shoes for her, while saying:
"You wear this dress ugly, you don't have to look too good when you see your in-laws."
The unexpected answer made Ji Xincheng stunned, and instead picked up the dress and looked at it carefully, "Is it ugly?" I remember when I made this haute couture, you picked it. ”
"It was then."
The man replied ambiguously, Ji Xincheng only thought that he was disgusted with his past vision and was embarrassed to admit it, so he smiled and did not delve into it.
Gu Shaoze was driving, and when he saw Ji Xincheng at the gate of the old mansion, he was already a little nervous, sitting in the co-pilot, but seeing the twists and turns in front of him, he saw the deep forest and no residence, and couldn't help but be curious:
"Wasn't that the gate just now?"
"It's the gate."
"So where are we now? How it feels like being in the forest. ”
"The pines and cedars you see here were planted by my grandfather and great-grandfather, and the old house is in the middle of the woods."
Ji Xincheng calculated in his heart, and couldn't help smacking his tongue:
"It turns out that your family is a landlord!"
Gu Shaoze was amused by her description, and said lightly:
"It's all yours from now on."
Ji Xincheng didn't have such a consciousness, she only expected Gu Shaoze to be hers, and she had never thought about the rest.
But this is naturally difficult to say, coughing and clearing her throat, she said:
"I don't like planting trees!"
The topic was also passed by in Gu Shaoze's laughter.
Soon, the two stopped the car in front of the main building of the old mansion, and the housekeeper stepped forward to greet them, and Ji Xincheng became nervous again.
Gu Shaoze got down from the driver's seat and took Ji Xincheng's hand first, before saying to the housekeeper that he bought a fresh bouquet in the trunk and gave it to his mother.
Ji Xincheng was surprised: "You have already bought it?" ”
The man nodded, squeezed her sweaty hand, and whispered:
"Just take it easy, take out the mentality you had when you quarreled with me, and it's fine."
Ji Xincheng glanced at him with disgust and muttered, "It seems like I often quarrel with you?" ”
"It's just an analogy."
The two looked at each other and smiled, and entered the main building side by side.
In the living room on the first floor, Gu Tingting nested by the window playing games, and when she saw Ji Xincheng, she didn't have a good air:
"What is she doing at our house?"
This living room is really big, there are four sets of sofa coffee tables of different specifications alone, which are placed in different corners, without interfering with each other but as a complete whole, hearing Gu Tingting's voice, Ji Xincheng looked around the huge living room for a while before he saw her on the rocking chair one step higher.
"Where's grandparents?"
Gu Shaoze asked Gu Tingting with a gloomy face.
"They're out and they'll be right back."
"Call Auntie, don't 'her' in the future, it's not big or small."
Let go of Ji Xincheng's hand and let her sit casually, then Gu Shaoze took off his coat, took Ji Xincheng's bag in person, and hung it on a cleverly designed hook in the corner with his coat.
"Why, Auntie, aren't you still married? Let's talk about marrying into our family! ”
Gu Tingting's expression was invisible to others, but listening to her tone, it was already full of contempt and ridicule.
The housekeeper had tea and refreshments brought up at this time.
Gu Shaoze walked directly to the place where Gu Tingting was sitting, and only listened to him:
"Gu Tingting, what is your attitude?"
"Isn't my attitude based on who the other party is? Have you ever seen me do this to my grandparents? Have you ever done this to Sister Ziqian? You are just eccentric, and you are deceived and cover for others! ”
"Gu Tingting, let me tell you, Ji Xincheng is already your aunt, this fact is not something that you can change with a temper, let me find out that you don't respect her in the future, see how I clean you up."
"You're just eccentric! If my grandparents are at home, see if you dare to discipline me like this! ”
When the uncle and nephew were at a stalemate, Ji Xincheng wanted to step forward to dissuade him, but a fashionably dressed middle-aged lady from the second floor took the lead.
"Oh Tingting, no matter what, it's wrong for you to talk like this to the first-time guest at home, apologize to your uncle."
"Auntie, why don't you even distinguish between right and wrong, I don't want to apologize, I'm not wrong!"
Gu Tingting got up, skipped her young-looking aunt, and glared at Ji Xincheng before leaving.
"Shaoze, won't you introduce me?"
Gu Shaoze glanced at his aunt, his expression was still in Gu Tingting's troubled anger, he ignored her, strode to Ji Xincheng, who had already stood up, and took her to the elevator room.
The two entered the elevator, the door closed, and Ji Xincheng asked Gu Shaoze:
"Is that your aunt? Why are you so kind of to people? ”
"Leave her alone."
Gu Shaoze's attitude towards the elders, Ji Xincheng somewhat disagreed, but she intuitively felt that Gu Shaoze was not for no reason, there must be his reasons, and seeing that the man was still a little angry, he didn't ask again at this time.
On the third floor, Gu Shaoze's room is connected to the study, and the study is separated by a screen, which is the fitness room.
Open up a whole, so that the space becomes more spacious.
The decoration is a very simple style, the aesthetics of straight men run throughout, and the combination of black, gray and white makes the whole space a few degrees cooler. Floor-to-ceiling glass windows are lined with greenery, and one of the windows is a lawn with a view of the mountains and mountains.
Ji Xincheng was immersed in the scrutiny of the new environment, and when she walked around to the study and saw dozens of trophies of Gu Shaoze on one of the bookshelves, she seemed to be dazzled.
"How? Did you know that your husband is very good? ”
This is the room where he was a child, with some memories of the past, blended with the newcomer in front of him, there is an indescribable complex taste, Gu Shaoze's eyes are dark, and there are words in his eyes.
"You even won a prize in a Go competition!"
Ji Xincheng was amazed, and he did not hesitate to praise him at this moment.
Turning around, he looked at the man face to face again, "It's really good, my Mr. Gu!" ”
She deliberately flattered him, and because of the unhappiness she had just caused herself, she put her hands on the jawlines on either side of him, and her eyes were full of his expressions, and then, on tiptoe, kissed him lightly on the lips.
"So, can you look at my face and don't lose your temper with Tingting?"
This sentence seems familiar, Gu Shaoze remembered that he had said this to Ji Xincheng as well.
The wide palm of his hand supported her lower back, preventing her toes from touching the ground, allowing her to just rest on her chest, and the two of them breathed closer.
"Why?"
"After a long time, her misunderstanding of me, I believe that sooner or later it will be solved. But you are her uncle, from childhood to adulthood, you have maintained her, if I make her feel that you don't care about her anymore, this is undoubtedly emotional damage to her, once the number of times is more, it is more and more losses, and in the end, even if it is repaired, it is no longer the same as before, I don't want you to regret it after many years. ”
“……”
"On the contrary, she doesn't like me right now and doesn't actually affect me anything, that is, we have nothing to lose. Weighing the two sides, why not make a choice with no loss? ”
“……”
"Are you listening to me?"
"Listening ......"
The man's eyes were like torches, and the next moment, he had covered Ji Xincheng's red lips, "I only know now that Mrs. Gu is so magnanimous......
He greedily wanted to bite her lips, as if he was bent on biting her into the belly, and became fierce.
I don't know how long it has been, Ji Xincheng was on the verge of the collapse of his reason, and stopped the man's further movements in time.
They had already fallen on the bed that Gu Shaoze hadn't slept on for a long time, it was different from the bed they slept on now, it was a hard bed, but the futon was very fluffy, and even if they didn't come back to live often, someone often came to clean it.
"Gu Shaoze, this is at your parents' house, how can you ......?"
"Why not?"
The man interrupted her by biting her earlobe, muttering, "I couldn't help it." ”
Ji Xincheng pushed him away, tidied up the crumpled dress he had made, and even stood two or three meters away from the bed, staring at the man who was lying on the bed with his head on his side with one hand and a wicked smile on his face, and reprimanded in a low voice: "Your door is not locked!" ”
Gu Shaoze looked at her blushing face, and no matter how unbearable he was, he had to get up, after all, dinner time was almost coming.
The two of them were rearranging their appearance in front of the mirror, when they heard the butler knocking on the door outside:
"Young master, you can go downstairs for dinner."
Gu Shaoze answered, and he heard the footsteps of the housekeeper walking away.
"Look, no one is going to break in."
Ji Xincheng ignored him, and finally inspected it in the mirror, and there was indeed no rudeness, before turning to Gu Shaoze, "Let's go?" ”
Involuntarily, he reached out again to comb his messy hair.
The man lowered his eyebrows and enjoyed such a process.
The two went downstairs, Gu Shaoze's parents had already taken their seats at the long table, and the aunt and Tingting had also taken their seats one after another, and the vacant seat next to Gu Chang was naturally Gu Shaoze's, but Gu Shaoze had already sat Gu Tingting on the other side.
Almost at a glance, Gu Shaoze could see Ji Xincheng's nervousness.
Before the person arrived at the table, he said to Gu Tingting, "Tingting, you sit opposite." ”
His tone was indeed much better than when he reprimanded Gu Tingting earlier, and Gu Tingting probably felt it, although she was reluctant, she still got up and sat next to her aunt and grandmother opposite.
"Dad, Mom, this is Xincheng."
Gu Shaoze led the people to the table and stood still, and then introduced to Ji Xincheng: "Dad, Mom, Auntie." ”
"Hello uncle, aunt, aunt, I'm Ji Xincheng."
Her tone is calm, which is just right after many exercises, neither humble nor arrogant.
"Sit down, you're welcome."
Gu's mother Tong Siya, Ji Xincheng saw it at Gu Shaoze's birthday banquet, compared with Tong Nianya's softness, Tong Siya's beauty is more peaceful, and it gives people a feeling that it is easy to get close to.
Ji Xincheng sat down beside Gu Shaoze.
"This is a fish raised in my own forest, freshly caught, Xincheng, you can taste it."
Tong Siya sat down since Ji Xincheng, her eyes never left her, but she was not very direct, but took the opportunity to recommend dishes to look at her quietly.
This made Ji Xincheng a little uneasy, but he could bear it somewhat, after all, he had lived under the flash for a long time, and sometimes it was not a difficult thing to leave.
"Thank you, auntie."
"Well, your job, is usually mainly responsible for acting?"
Ji Xincheng chewed the rice grains in small bites and replied:
"Yes, the job of an actor is mainly to be responsible for acting."
"Is the food and accommodation all in the crew? I heard that they all eat boxed lunches, and there is no time to sleep, and when the environment is bad, dozens of people open up the shop, but in the end, it still depends on the relationship with the investor to determine the remuneration, isn't it? ”
"In fact, the entertainment industry, like many other industries, has its own industry rules, and of course there are chaos, but in general, it is not the people who create chaos that really promote the development of the industry, but the small number of people who are silently dedicating to performances and works, and those are the real performing artists. But often, chaos in an industry is always the first to be seen, so people feel that the entertainment industry is chaotic, generalize, and even think that actors must rely on unspoken rules to succeed. In fact, this is not always the case. ”
Strictly speaking, she didn't answer the question.
But Ji Xincheng knew that Gu's mother minded the profession of an actor.
And she wants the other party to know that this profession is not so disgraceful, and a real actor deserves people's respect.
Sure enough, Gu's mother looked slightly paused, and then she stopped delving into the topic of her work.