"I'm sorry ......"

"It's not me you're sorry for, it's your sister!!"

At the end of this sentence, the aftermath still echoed in Gu Yanxi's ears.

In fact, there is no need for Gu Tianhua to say more, just looking at Li Chen's attitude at the dinner table just now, Gu Yanxi already understands.

She's just a replacement, she's just a substitute for Gu Yansi.

Before going to bed, her father knocked on her door, stood at the door and said to Gu Yanxi, who was already lying on the bed:

"Tomorrow your aunts and aunts will invite us to dinner, and you go and don't show your stuffing."

"yes, got it."

"Li Chen, find a chance to make it clear to him, while it's still early, you guys should break it off quickly."

“……”

After waiting for a long time, he couldn't wait for Gu Yanxi's answer, and finally Gu Tianhua sighed, shook his head helplessly and returned to his room.

The night was thick, Gu Yanxi looked at the silence outside the window out of focus, his mind constantly churning with his father's scolding and his lover's hesitation, and his heart was sour.

That night, Gu Yanxi experienced the feeling of opening his eyes until dawn.

Sleepless nights.

Early the next morning, smelling the familiar aroma of rice, Gu Yanxi rubbed his eyes and got up, washed up briefly and walked out of the room.

The scene in front of her made her a little dazed.

The sun was gently shining in the kitchen, and Gu Tianhua was busy in front of the stove with an apron, as if every dust in the air was shining.

I haven't seen such a scene in many years.

In the past, my father often cooked breakfast in the kitchen, and my mother shuttled back and forth in the living room, grabbing Xiao Gu Yanxi and Xiao Gu Yansi to change their clothes, and then go to school together after breakfast.

But now these four families have become two people, and they are deserted.

My mother is still being treated in a psychiatric hospital, and I don't know when she will recover.

After eating, both father and daughter tacitly agreed not to mention the matter again, and sat quietly on the sofa watching TV.

The silence was due to the fact that both knew what to do next.

In the sound of the TV, Gu Yanxi turned his head sideways and looked at his father silently, Gu Tianhua has changed a lot in four years, his words have become less, his back is not as straight as before, and there are a lot of gray hairs mixed in his hair.

Daddy is old.

I don't know what's wrong, at this moment, Gu Yansi suddenly gave up.

Maybe she's wrong.

Your own persistence will only bring pain to your family.

When it was close to noon, Li Chen came to pick them up, and the relatives, seven aunts and eight aunts had already arrived at the hotel one after another.

Li Chen opened the car door and let Gu Tianhua get into the car first, Gu Yanxi followed behind and was about to get into the car, when Li Chen grabbed his arm without saying anything.

"You sit in the front." There was a familiar hint of domineering in his tone.

“......”

Gu Yanxi did not resist and obediently sat in the co-pilot's position.

Li Chen didn't rush back to the driver's seat, but stood where she was, watching her sit down and help her fasten her seatbelt before returning to the driver's seat.

With such a considerate behavior, Gu Tianhua took in the bottom of his eyes, pursed his thin lips and tilted his head to the side, but he didn't pay attention to it anymore.

"Did you sleep well yesterday?" Li Chen started the car.

"Well, what about you?"

"It's fine."

“……”

After that, there was no word all the way, and the atmosphere was condensed.

The hotel box was ordered by relatives, and when Li Chen and the others arrived, the relatives who came to pick up the wind and wash the dust had already arrived.

The noisy sound filled the entire box, and the cigarettes were filled, Gu Yanxi looked at the slightly unfamiliar relatives, and there was not a trace of ripples in her heart, she quietly leaned behind her father.

"Come on, come on, come in."

"Tianhua has suffered a lot in it, I haven't seen you for four years, hurry up and have a drink with my brother."

The uncles and uncles dragged Gu Tianhua away without saying anything, leaving only Gu Yanxi and Li Chen still standing in place.

The third aunt and the sixth aunt also greeted her, although it was a little noisy, but after all, she was still enthusiastic, and Gu Yanxi silently persuaded herself to adapt to this environment.

"Hey, Yanxi is also a big girl now!"

"Sit down, this Li Chen is still so handsome."

After rounds of greetings, everyone finally sat down.

Let Gu Yanxi really feel the huge size of the family, among the relatives seated, not only the same generation as his father, but also the older generation, the older generation, eighty-seven years old but deaf and blind, the grandfather who is drinking with Gu Tianhua with a red neck is the spire of the family, and there are also some teenagers of the same generation as Gu Yanxi, but they all bow their heads and play with the mobile phones in their palms, regardless of this noisy occasion, the dishes are placed all over the table.

Li Chen barely spoke during the whole process, and he would not answer a few words unless a relative asked him, and the relatives simply reduced their communication with Li Chen and let him be silent.

"Yanxi, you see that you are about to graduate from college, do you have a boyfriend?"

Hearing this, Gu Yanxi turned around and looked at the person who spoke—the second aunt.

This second aunt Gu Yanxi saw it when she was a child, and she was a relative with a strong sense of superiority, one thing in front of her and another behind her back, and she was very good at chewing the root of people's tongues behind her back.

The relatives who avoided her when she was a child now have to communicate with her during the meal.

Gu Yanxi sighed in his heart, but subconsciously glanced at Li Chen, then shook his head and said, "No." ”

"It's not me who said, you should find one, although the child of my colleague's family is not very handsome, but he is a civil servant, at least he married and lived a very stable life."

It seemed that she had long expected what Gu Yanxi's answer was, and while the second aunt was boasting, she noticed Li Chen's gaze.

Li Chen's eyes were dark, and he looked at her fixedly.

"Although it can't be compared to Li Chen, it's more than enough to match you."

She couldn't figure out the meaning of this gaze, she only felt that there was some deep meaning, and she didn't know where she said it was inappropriate, so she subconsciously remedied, and there was still a so-called "good for you" expression on her face, and the role of a good relative could be described as a vivid performance.

The second aunt's words sounded like they were for Gu Yanxi's good, but after thinking about it carefully, she could still hear a little contempt, Gu Yanxi reluctantly hooked her lips and didn't say anything.

"Yanxi is still young, not in a hurry." Gu Tianhua raised his voice and interrupted the second aunt's kindness.

"It's not small, okay, it's in your early twenties, it's time to talk about getting married. The outside world has also changed in the past few years in prison, you can't help but be anxious, it's not easy to marry your daughter in your family's situation, so you have to do it as soon as possible! The third aunt pinched the orchid fingertips and shouted in her throat, completely ignoring that the faces of Gu Tianhua, father and daughter and Li Chen were getting worse and worse.

It is true that the father was in prison and the mother was mentally ill.

It is difficult for anyone to accept such a family, no matter how beautiful and excellent Gu Yanxi is.

"You don't have to worry about Yanxi's affairs." Li Chen, who had been silent, suddenly interrupted the conversation of the aunts, and everyone turned their heads to look at Li Chen, who had a gloomy face.

"Oh, yes, there's Lichen here! There must be a lot of capable and handsome young people around Li Chen, you can introduce them to Yan Xi, after all, she is also your sister. ”

Li Chen had mixed feelings in his heart at this time, and coldly glanced at his relatives who had just exchanged enthusiasm.

The box instantly became silent, as if shocked by Li Chen's unique sense of oppression, and even the naughty children looked at him quietly in an instant.

Gu Yanxi's heart suddenly rose to his throat at this time, for fear that Li Chen would say something.

Everyone saw that Li Chen hooked the corners of his mouth and shook his head slightly, and they didn't understand what it meant, but the second aunt didn't see the situation clearly, and said endlessly: "Oh, Li Chen is not small, he is really a lover, although you have never been able to let go of Sisi, but you still have to find a wife, we won't blame you." ”

"I didn't fail to let go of Sisi." As soon as the second aunt's voice fell, Li Chen picked up the words, "I won't marry anyone else, I have taken care of the Gu family until now not because of Sisi, but because of Yanxi, if you really want to marry her." ”

Sure enough, everyone present was stupid.

No one would have expected Li Chen to say that.

Gu Tianhua patted his thigh with hatred, don't turn his head and say anything unintentionally.

"Li Chen, don't talk about it......" Gu Yanxi pulled the corner of Li Chen's clothes under the table, and gently shook his head and told him not to say anything.

"You two? How can you? ”

"You're Yanxi's brother-in-law, what's your name?"

"What have you learned when you go abroad! Great rebellion! Yanxi, is that how you reciprocate? Got together with my sister's boyfriend? ”

"No wonder, they don't let me introduce you to someone."

Relatives are expressing their disgust at this incident word by word.