start with a pet store

Chapter 950: Can you be more reserved?

Lu Jingxing nodded, thought about it, and gave a position to his childhood friend.

My childhood friend called me right away: "Here you are, hurry up, I just made a big meal today..."

"I just smell it...haha..." Lu Jingxing laughed. In fact, he just looked at the calendar and remembered that today was his childhood friend's mother's birthday. He really didn't think about it before coming here, but he suddenly remembered it in a flash.

"Well, your nose is really cool. Come on, come on, it's just right for us to have a couple of drinks..." There was joy in his little words.

"We'll be here soon, and there's a little guy with us." Lu Jingxing turned a corner and continued.

"No problem. Not to mention one, three or five will be no problem." My childhood friend laughed.

Seeing that they were almost there, Lu Jingxing hung up the phone with a smile.

Before the car came to a complete stop, Xiaofeng was seen standing on the steps, jumping for joy: "Uncle Xiaoxing, Uncle Xiaoxing..."

Lu Jingxing threw the car keys to Xiaopang: "That's the car wash over there, give them the keys and ask them to wash it."

Xiaopang grabbed the key and ran away.

"Hey..." Lu Jingxing jumped out of the car, opened his arms and picked up Xiaofeng, then used one hand to stroke his head: "Do you miss Uncle Xiaoxing?"

"Xiaoxing is here..." Xiaofeng's grandmother saw Lu Jingxing from a distance. Only when he came closer did she stand at the door and look at him with a smile.

"Hello, auntie, happy birthday." Lu Jingxing smiled and looked at Grandma Xiaofeng whom he hadn't seen for a long time.

"Thank you, it's amazing that you still remember..." The distressed look on Xiaofeng's grandmother's face made Lu Jingxing's heart tremble slightly. When he was a child, he often ate at his childhood friend's house. Xiaofeng's grandmother had a very good relationship with his mother at that time, so when his parents were too busy, they would let him go directly to their house.

He hadn't seen Xiaofeng's grandmother for a long time, and suddenly realized that his parents seemed to have left him for a long time.

Upon hearing the noise, his childhood friend came over immediately and put his arm around his shoulders: "Just indulge him, Xiaofeng, come down quickly..."

Xiaofeng turned around, hugged Lu Jingxing tightly, and made a face at Xiaopang who was following behind them.

Xiaopang laughed at the clever look of the little guy.

All I heard was Lu Jingxing saying with a smile: "Even if I spoil him, how many times can I spoil him? I don't see him many times a year, right, Xiaofeng?"

The childhood friend winked at his mother.

His mother sighed secretly, then immediately put on a smiling face and followed him.

My childhood friend’s wife came out of the kitchen carrying some dishes: “Xiaoxing is here, we can eat soon.”

"Thank you for your hard work, sister-in-law..." Lu Jingxing smiled and nodded to his childhood wife.

There were two tables playing mahjong inside, and it seemed that many of my childhood friends and relatives had come.

The childhood friend guided Lu Jingxing to sit at the dining table in the hall, and then sat down with him. Lu Jingxing pointed at Xiaofeng, and then said to his childhood friend: "You go and do your own thing, don't worry about me, Xiaofeng just accompanies me."

Xiaopang also sat down beside him.

The childhood friend didn't hesitate: "Okay, I'll come and accompany you when we eat. My uncle is coming over there, I'll go pick him up."

"Go, go, is there anything I can help you with?" Lu Jingxing asked.

My childhood friend waved his hand and said, "No need. We've hired a cook. You don't need to help." He stood up and walked straight outside.

After Lu Jingxing sat down, Xiaofeng twisted her little butt and got off Lu Jingxing's body.

"Xiaofeng, where is the paper? Why can't I see it? Has it grown fat..." Lu Jingxing asked Xiaofeng with a smile.

Xiao Feng pouted: "Dad said there are many guests today and he was afraid that he would bite people, so he asked me to lock him up. He also said that if I don't lock him up, he will be allowed to wander around tomorrow."

Lu Jingxing laughed: "Does paper like to bite people?"

"It likes to bark. It likes to bark when it sees strangers. Anyway, it won't bite me, but my dad said that it likes to play with children too much and he is afraid that it will bite the children. Look, there are so many children here today..." He pointed to the house behind.

There were indeed quite a few children, each playing with a mobile phone.

"Why don't you go play with them?" Lu Jingxing asked curiously.

The little guy shook his head and said seriously: "Dad said that if I want to raise Paper, I can't play with my phone, so I haven't played with my phone for a long time, otherwise, Paper will go out and wander again."

"Your dad is really mean..." Lu Jingxing smiled and whispered, "Xiaofeng is awesome. He knows that he has to throw away his favorite phone for a piece of paper. The piece of paper must be very happy. At least Uncle Xiaoxing was very happy when he heard Xiaofeng say that."

"Really? But this is dad's condition. Isn't it normal for me to do this for the piece of paper?" The little guy was only three or four years old, with a chubby face and clear speech. Hearing Lu Jingxing's words, he asked back.

"Yes, that's right, but Uncle Xiaoxing still thinks Xiaofeng is great." Lu Jingxing smiled and pulled him onto his lap again.

Xiaopang couldn't help but ask, "What is the paper?"

"The piece of paper is my little friend..." Xiaofeng answered quickly.

"Oh, it's Xiaofeng's little friend. What is it?" Xiaopang also likes this chubby little boy and teases him on purpose.

"It's a little puppy. Uncle Xiaoxing helped me save it..." Xiaofeng looked at Xiaopang. This brother had a round face like him. He felt very close to him.

"They saw it themselves. He was almost out of breath at the time, so we saved him." Lu Jingxing explained to Xiaopang with a smile.

Xiao Pang pointed at the people in the room and the tables in front of him and said, "Brother Lu, is this someone's birthday?"

Lu Jingxing smiled and nodded: "Yes, it's Xiaofeng's grandmother's birthday, it's okay, they are all their relatives, you just need to eat later."

Xiaopang scratched his head habitually, smiled and nodded. It didn't feel very reassuring to just eat for free.

"It's time for dinner..." After a while, I heard my childhood friend shouting, and then the people in the kitchen started serving the food.

I saw people who were playing cards in the inner room coming out one after another. Most of them were elders of my childhood friends, so they were naturally Lu Jingxing’s elders.

Lu Jingxing immediately stood up and invited them to take a seat with a smile.

He had met many of his childhood friends' relatives when he was a child, but he had been away from home for many years and could not remember their names at once.

Seeing how polite he was, the others nodded to him. Only his childhood friend's aunt turned around from time to time to look at him, and then suddenly shouted: "Is this Xiaoxing? Lu..." Lu Jingxing also recognized him and nodded with a smile: "Hello, aunt, I am Lu Jingxing..."

When people heard him say that he was Lu Jingxing and knew what happened to his parents in the past, they couldn't help but show expressions of regret and sympathy.

"Oh, it's really you. I haven't seen you for so many years. You've grown up so much. Well, our son Guiya is so big now, so you must be this big too, right?" The aunt sat down on the stool beside him with great surprise.

Lu Jingxing smiled slightly. He had let go of the death of his parents, so he could face the looks of these relatives calmly.

"Are you married? Hey, did you open a pet shop? I seemed to have heard someone say that..." My aunt is a very outgoing person and she started talking nonstop after she sat down.

Their conversation attracted everyone's attention again.

Lu Jingxing nodded awkwardly to everyone, and then replied to his aunt: "I'm not married yet. Yes, I opened a pet shop and did some small business."

"He, he is Lu Jingxing, the owner of the pet park, right?" Suddenly a girl at another table looked at him excitedly and said loudly.

The childhood friend patted the girl and said, "Don't make such a fuss. You're scaring people."

Lu Jingxing didn't know whether to laugh or cry. How could he be so scared? His childhood friend was exaggerating. However, it was indeed embarrassing to be treated like a monkey like this.

"Is that so, uncle? Is that him..." The girl pulled her uncle and started to act coquettishly.

The childhood friend looked at his niece with some doting: "Yes, it's him."

"Really? God..." Then she jumped in front of Lu Jingxing and said, "Doctor Lu, I often watch your videos. I know you are amazing. Can I add your WeChat?"

"Ah?" Lu Jingxing was suddenly stunned by such a lively and proactive girl and was a little unresponsive.

"That's right. I also want to have a cat. I'll buy one from you when the time comes. Is there a discount?" the girl said excitedly.

"That's okay, no problem." Lu Jingxing breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile.

"Then add me on WeChat, and I'll look for you then." The girl looked at him with sparkling eyes.

"Sister Lin, do you like this brother? Do you want me to be a matchmaker for you?" Another woman next to her, who was about fifty years old, looked at her cousin and said with a smile.

The girl was not at all reserved, instead she laughed out loud: "Sure, but I don't know if Dr. Lu has a girlfriend, and whether she likes me."

"Hey, hey, hey, his aunt, please don't match them up blindly. Not to mention that Xiaoxing already has a girlfriend. Besides, what will happen if he and Miss Lin get together? Wouldn't that mess up the generations? Miss Lin has to call him uncle. Also, Miss Lin, you're a girl, can you be a little reserved..." As he said this, he gave his niece a brain bang, and the girl immediately jumped away screaming.

This laughter disrupted the sad mood that everyone had when they first heard that he was Lu Jingxing, and the whole room was filled with laughter.

My childhood friend pushed my aunt to the side and said, "You sit over there. I'll accompany Xiaoxing. We haven't seen each other for a long time."

My aunt moved to the side and retorted: "Why do we have to sit next to each other when we can just sit at the same table?"

"How are they the same? Hey? Auntie, why are you sitting next to him?" asked the childhood friend.

"His aunt, if Sister Lin has no chance, you have even less chance, especially since you are of that generation." The cousin who had just teased Sister Lin laughed.

The younger aunt threw a peanut at the older aunt: "I can't stop you even when you're eating. I'm that kind of person. Although I like handsome men, as the old saying goes, rabbits don't eat grass near their nests, right? How can I do that?"

As soon as she finished speaking, everyone in the room burst into laughter.

The older generation even laughed and called her shameless.

It seems that this aunt is a person who likes to joke around, and the whole family knows her personality and knows that she can take a joke.

Lu Jingxing smiled politely. This feeling of being treated as the protagonist and made fun of by everyone was not very good, but he knew that he couldn't show a bad face and lose face for his childhood friend, so he had to keep smiling.

My childhood friend picked up a big chicken drumstick for my aunt and said, "You gave me peanuts to stuff my mouth with, so I'll give you a big chicken drumstick. Eat it quickly, and be quiet for a while. I'm thin-skinned and can't stand your jokes."

The aunt slapped her childhood friend and said, "You are so bold, you dare to make up stories about your aunt."

Then he leaned forward, walked around his childhood friend, and said to Lu Jingxing with a smile: "Xiaoxing, don't mind it, we just like to joke around..."

Lu Jingxing smiled and shook his head: "It's okay, it's okay..."

In fact, compared to the sympathetic looks from everyone at the beginning and the joking now, he would rather everyone joke around.

The childhood friend's mother looked at Lu Jingxing from time to time, and wiped her eyes quietly from time to time, until she heard Xiaofeng's baby voice: "Grandma, happy birthday..."

The joke was finally over.

Next, everyone clinked glasses and drank together.

Lu Jingxing, who usually doesn't drink, also drank two glasses of wine.

But fortunately, this was fruit wine. Although he was a little tipsy, he was very sober.

After most of the guests had left, he walked up to his childhood friend's mother and took out the red envelope he had prepared in the car and stuffed it into her hand.

"Aunt, happy birthday. I don't know what you like, so I'm giving you a small red envelope. You can buy something you like..." He handed the red envelope to his childhood friend's mother.

"No, no, Xiaoxing, your aunt is already very happy that you can come. Your aunt won't accept red envelopes..." The childhood friend's mother kept trying to stop him from leaving.

"Aunt, listen to me, I'm so happy to see you. I wanted to go see you a long time ago, but I'm really busy with work, so this... Don't think it's too little..." Lu Jingxing's tongue was rolling when he spoke.

"Xiaoxing, how could I dislike you, it's just..." The childhood friend's mother's eyes were slightly filled with tears.

"Oh, aunt, be happy. It's your birthday, right..." Lu Jingxing, under the influence of alcohol, gave his aunt a tight hug. He hadn't felt this way for a long time. Seeing his aunt was like seeing his own mother, especially after drinking.

"Good boy, be good in the future..." Aunt patted his back gently and didn't worry about the red envelope anymore.

Xiaopang was watching quietly from a distance. He didn't know about Lu Jingxing's experience, so he didn't quite understand why these people had such looks in their eyes. But he could still clearly feel that everyone, regardless of whether they were familiar with Lu Jingxing or not, loved him very much.

Sister Lin, who had gone and returned, rushed in again in a hurry: "Doctor Lu, can I go to you to buy a cat tomorrow?"

Lu Jingxing loosened his hand from his aunt and looked at Sister Lin with a smile: "Sure, I'll be in the store tomorrow, you can come anytime, I'll give you the lowest discount."

(End of this chapter)