266: 262 Family Feast 266: 262 Family Feast “Rui Rui said they went to Fourth Middle School in the afternoon and they’ll be here soon.”
Taste Mansion.
It’s not exactly high-end,
but for ordinary families, it’s already considered a nice restaurant.
For a group of more than ten people to eat, it would cost a few thousand.
Inside the second-floor private room.
There sat five or six people, all middle-aged, including Xue Mingqin.
“Where are Ya Li and the others?”
“They’re out shopping with Xiao Liu.
I’ve ssaged them; they’re on their way.”
The reply ca from a middle-aged woman with a gold necklace around her neck; she was Li Shuru’s aunt.
Although she was no longer young, she still led a fairly delicate life, her face powdered, but her laugh couldn’t hide the crow’s feet at the corners of her eyes.
“Sis, did Shu Rui really take her boyfriend to pay respects at your husband’s grave?”
The others looked at Xue Mingqin in unison.
It’s normal for young people to date, but bringing soone ho and taking them to their father’s gravesite signifies sothing else.
“Yes.”
Xue Mingqin nodded.
“When Zhe Ming was hospitalized in East Sea, Xiao Jiang helped a lot.
Unfortunately, by the ti he got there, Zhe Ming was in a coma and they never t.”
“Sis, I know that kid is quite good, but isn’t Shu Rui being a bit hasty?”
Li Shuru’s Aunt Zou Luoxia said euphemistically, “After all, they are still in school, with so much uncertainty.
Shu Rui mustn’t confuse gratitude with liking soone…”
“Why don’t you keep quiet?
Shu Rui is an adult now.
Doesn’t she know what kind of boyfriend she wants?”
It was Li Shuru’s uncle who spoke up.
“I’m just worried she might confuse gratitude with affection, that’s all.”
Zou Luoxia retorted to her husband discontentedly.
“Rui Rui is not with Xiao Jiang because of gratitude; they are together out of genuine feelings,” Xue Mingqin said with a smile.
The room fell silent.
Everyone present was from the Xue Family, and it seed like it had been a long ti since the sister-in-law had smiled since her husband passed away.
“Sister-in-law, have you t Ya Li’s boyfriend?
What do you think of him?”
Li Shuru’s Aunt Xue Shuzhi changed the topic.
She worked in administrative managent at a state-owned enterprise, always sporting a bob haircut and an intellectual deanor, as did her husband, who had quite the scholarly air and was her colleague at a company.
However, they were approaching forty and still childless.
“I think he’s quite good, very polite.
He brought a lot of gifts for and your brother, all foreign goods that aren’t available here.”
Upon ntioning her prospective son-in-law, Zou Luoxia’s face was wreathed in smiles.
Xue Shuzhi and her husband exchanged glances, both sowhat helpless.
The sister-in-law just had one flaw that couldn’t be changed: a deep-rooted adoration for anything foreign.
Decades had gone by, but her attitude hadn’t changed in the slightest.
Li Shuru’s Uncle Xue Gui, however, seed to have a different opinion from his wife and took a sip of water.
“He certainly knows the etiquette, but he seems a bit ostentatious.”
“Ostentatious?
I think you just haven’t seen the world.
He works on Wall Street.
If you don’t understand what he’s talking about, you think it’s ostentatious,” Zou Luoxia imdiately scolded her husband, protective as a hen with her chicks.
Xue Gui glared at her, and without arguing further, silently began to smoke.
“That cigar was bought by Xiao Liu, too.
‘Ungrateful’ is the word for people like you!”
In any case, everyone was used to these situations by now, so nobody said anything.
About twenty minutes after the discussion, the door to the private room was pushed open.
The Xue Family mbers in the room instantly turned their gaze.
“Lily, Xiao Liu.”
Zou Luoxia quickly stood up with a smile.
“Dad, Mom, Big Auntie, Little Auntie…”
The girl who walked in had a temperant sowhat similar to Xue Shuzhi’s, only her hair was shorter, just reaching her earlobes, but her facial features were very distinctive.
Girls with such facial features generally had a stronger personality.
It was obvious, this had to be Li Shuru’s cousin, Xue Yali.
There was also a man with her, around twenty-five or twenty-six years old, wearing casual designer clothes and a pair of gold-rimd glasses without prescription, genteel.
He followed Xue Yali, greeting each person in the private room in turn.
Then he started to distribute the shopping bags he held.
“Lily, I won’t stand on ceremony with you, little aunty.”
Xue Yali had prepared gifts for all the elders without exception.
Zou Luoxia was all smiles, beckoning her daughter and future son-in-law to sit down.
“Auntie, where is sister?”
Xue Yali asked.
She put the shopping bag she hadn’t given out next to a chair, clearly ready for Li Shuru.
“She went to the Fourth Middle School; she should be arriving soon.”
“It’s been over a year since I last saw sister.”
“That’s what you get for not coming ho last Chinese New Year.”
Zou Luoxia seed like she was scolding, yet her gaze toward her daughter was full of indulgence.
And why not?
Her daughter was so outstanding, getting accepted to a university abroad, achieving her long-held dream, and even finding a boyfriend who worked on Wall Street.
She had earned great face in front of relatives and friends.
How could she not be joyful?
“Have you visited your great uncle yet?”
Compared to his wife, Xue Gui’s deanor was visibly stern.
Xue Yali hadn’t just failed to return last Chinese New Year, but also hadn’t co back for Li Shuru’s father’s, her great uncle’s, funeral.
Xue Gui had always held onto this grudge, but being henpecked, with his wife protecting him, even if he wanted to educate his daughter, he was powerless.
“I’ll go tomorrow,”
Xue Yali said softly.
“Tomorrow?
Have you forgotten how good your great uncle was to you when you were little?
Whenever he bought sothing tasty for your sister, he always brought so back for you.
It was understandable that you couldn’t co back due to an exam when he passed away, but now that you’re here today, don’t you have ti to offer him a bouquet of flowers?”
Xue Gui finally couldn’t hold back anymore.
Not to ntion Xue Yali, even the Wall Street prodigy sitting next to his girlfriend couldn’t help but adjust his glasses, clearly feeling a bit awkward.
After all, he had been with Xue Yali that afternoon.
The other party seed to be just scolding his daughter, but in reality, he was also reprimanding him.
“Why are you shouting?
Our daughter is back for a rare visit…”
Zou Luoxia once again began to defend her daughter.
Even though she did feel that her niece had done sothing inappropriate, at a ti like this, Xue Shuzhi would undoubtedly help to ease the tension.
“Brother, didn’t Lily just tell you she’ll go tomorrow?
There’s no need to get so angry.”
“Right, it’s just a small matter, what’s there to be so angry about?”
Xue Mingqin shot her brother a glare and flashed Xue Yali a comforting smile.
“Lily, don’t mind your dad, you can go anyti you want.
Your great uncle liked you so much, he definitely wouldn’t have minded these things.”
Xue Yali lowered her eyelids and kept silent.
“Look at you!”
Zou Luoxia gave her husband a shove.
“Did I say sothing wrong?
If you don’t know the words loyalty, honesty, filial piety, and brotherliness, what’s the use of reading so many books?”
Xue Gui’s face darkened.
“Uncle, I could hear your voice from outside, what’s gotten you so angry?”
The door to the private room was pushed open again.
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