Moved to Golden Courtyard

……

On the other side, the father and son also ran to the balcony. Xu Youde subconsciously took out a cigarette from his arms, and Xu Qi took out a lighter from his sleeve and lit it for Xu Youde.

"How do you have a lighter? Are you smoking?"

"No, I'm used to lighting cigarettes for others."

"Smelly boy..."

A man puffed out a cigarette for a while. This middle-aged man with gray hair narrowed his eyes and looked at Xu Qi and said, "You...didn't let me down, did you?"

"Actually, when I brought Ai Li here last time, Mei was already my girlfriend. I didn't even have the chance to tell you, but you guys already treated Ai Li as my wife."

"So it's our fault?"

"How could that be possible, Dad? Without you, I wouldn't be able to catch up with Ai Li."

"You little bastard!" Xu Youde stretched out his leg and kicked him, but Xu Qi dodged it with a laugh.

"Two... This isn't ancient times, Xu Qi. We're going to get married in the end! You can't..."

"Don't worry, Dad. I'll take care of it."

……

The child is grown up, it's hard to control him...

Xu Youde shook his head.

④④④, I have too many wives, more than two anyway

"From what you said, have you decided who to get the marriage certificate with?"

"Well, I will get married to Mei, but I will also marry Alicia. They are both my wives."

The father and son looked at each other, and then they both couldn't help laughing.

"Your mother and I have loved each other all our lives. Don't tell me, I only love your mother, so how could I give birth to a sentimental bastard like you?"

"It's the rebellious phase."

Xu Youde was happy.

"That's a little late... These two girls are good girls, you can't..."

"Don't worry, Dad. I won't abandon you no matter who you are."

Xu Youde nodded - what he feared most was that his son only cared about having fun and then cheated on two women. This would bring retribution...

"As for emotional matters, I won't ask too much, but you have to be aware that since you were with Mei first, her dedication is incredible."

"I understand, Dad."

Seeing this, Xu Youde knew that he didn't need to say anything more.

His children and grandchildren have their own blessings, so there is really no need for him to worry about anything.

Moreover... Ever since Xu Qi ran away from home, Xu Youde had let it go - his son could do whatever he wanted, as long as it didn't break the law.

Xu Qi glanced to the side. Last year, he could still find some black hair on his father's head, but this year... it was almost all white.

"Dad, you're still working at the mold factory."

"How can I support your mother if I don't work?"

"I am there?"

Xu Youde was overjoyed.

"How much money do you make..."

“Annual salary 40 yuan”

"Cough! Cough cough!" Xu Youde coughed for a while, stared at his son with wide eyes, and repeated: "How much!?"

"Just like I told you last time, I was originally paid 30 yuan for animation. I've been doing a good job recently, and my boss appreciates my work, so he gave me an extra 10 yuan."

Of course, Xu Qi didn't dare to say that he had even succeeded in wooing the president of his company.

Xu Youde was silent.

"Forget it. Use your money to marry your two wives. Hey? Now that you're in a relationship, why don't you get the marriage certificate? Why not?"

This time it was Xu Qi who remained silent.

Xu Youde's expression changed——"You don't want to get married!? Or..."

"Uh, neither of those, it's just... Meiyi isn't old enough yet."

"what?"

"She...she is only 18 years old this year. The legal age for marriage is 20, so there are still two years left."

……

Xu Youde suddenly lowered his head and began to look for something.

"Dad, what are you looking for?"

"I'm looking for the stick I used to beat you when we were little. Why can't I find it?"

"Dad, don't be like this, Dad."

"You are such a guts boy, so she is living with you?"

"Yes, we live together. Mei is still studying at the East China University of Political Science and Law. Isn't that good? She wants to be a lawyer in the future, and I support her."

"Hmm... Not bad, better than you."

Xu Qi grinned——"That's it!"

"You're coming here today. Will you not stay at home for the Mid-Autumn Festival?"

"Yes, so I came to see you guys in advance."

"Okay, whatever you want. Tonight..."

"Stay here tonight."

Xu Youde looked strange - "But there are only two bedrooms in our house... Oh, you sleep on the sofa?"

Xu Qi remained silent.

……

Xu Youde put one hand on his waist and scratched his head with the other. He looked at Xu Qi with a complicated expression, patted his shoulder, and said the most ridiculous words to Xu Qi.

"Son, I'll introduce you to an old Chinese doctor someday to treat you."

"Dad, let's take care of yourself first."

"Get lost!"

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I don't know what my mother said to Meiyi during the day. In short, Meiyi, who was originally very relaxed, seemed to have returned to the pre-liberation era overnight.

She always looked shy.

She looks like Lin Daiyu, but she is not weak. When cooking in the evening, Lin Lai watched Meiyi fiddle with the food beside him because he heard from Alicia that his eldest daughter-in-law was very good at cooking.

Great... Great... And she looks like she's good at giving birth. Lin Lai has already started imagining the scene of holding her grandchild in her arms in the future.

At the dinner table, the old couple sat together, while Xu Qi and the other two sat opposite them.

Lin Lai was familiar with the girl Ai Li, so he kept chatting with Mei about family matters.

The more I talked, the more I liked her. How come my son was so good at finding a daughter-in-law?

Xu Youde was very silent, looking like a traditional father, intimidating without even getting angry.

After dinner, the old couple went back to the bedroom without disturbing them. Seeing this, Meiyi breathed a sigh of relief and collapsed on Xu Qi on the sofa in the living room.

Alicia poked Mei's face with a smile, and she felt the same as she did before, nervous and at a loss.

It turns out Mei also has moments like this...

"Xu Qi..."

"Ok?"

"I should have... not left a bad impression on my uncle and aunt, right?"

Ai Li chuckled when she heard this, while Xu Qi stared at Mei Yi with a smile on his face and said, "If you don't call them uncle and aunt, maybe they will be happier."

"Ah? What's that called?"

"Call mom and dad?"

Mei was so embarrassed that she instantly fell into Xu Qi's arms.

Xu Qi was so happy - "We are already an old married couple. I don't know how many times I have called you wife, and you don't know how many times you have called me husband. Why are you shy now?"

"No...I just can't say it out loud..."

Ai Li couldn't help but joked: "Okay?~~Xu Qi, don't make it difficult for Meiyi. At most I can go and call them 'Mom and Dad' later."

Mei looked up instantly - "You dare!?"

"Hahahaha!"

Crowdfunding group 4⑤6①2⑦⑨④０ washed the dishes, tidied the table, and then took Mei, who came for the first time, to visit his bedroom.

Alicia also looked over curiously - just like last time, nothing changed.

"After all, this is the house I grew up in. It still makes me feel a little emotional when I come back after not seeing it for a long time."

But before Xu Qi could finish his sigh, he saw Mei starting to crawl under his bed.

"Hiss!~~What are you doing!?"

Then, Mei found an old metal box from under the bed, while Xu Qi looked horrified and Ai Li looked curious.

The size is just right to hold several books side by side.

"Oh huh?~~" Ai Li covered her lips with both hands, a gloating smile on her face.

"Hehe!~~ As expected! This must be the colored thing you secretly hid, right~~"

Xu Qi couldn't stop it, nor could he not stop it. He could only watch Mei open the metal box with a smirk on her face...

Then, he knelt there in a daze.

"Hmm?" Ai Li felt something was wrong, so she moved closer out of curiosity, and then...

"Wow……"

There was no little uncle as expected, but a photo album...

I opened it and saw -- Meiyi...

It was a photo of Mei wearing thick winter clothes and standing with Xu Qi on a winter day. Mei remembered that it was the first Christmas when she and Xu Qi asked a passerby to help take the photo.

They were not boyfriend and girlfriend at that time.

When I opened it again, I found that they were basically all photos of Mei, including photos with Xu Qi, and landscape photos that Xu Qi took of Mei when the two of them went out to play.

The two knew each other online in their second year of high school, and later met offline. Xu Qi pretended to be Mei's brother and attended the parent-teacher meeting for her... It was also on that day that he was like a light, illuminating Mei's gloomy life.

From then on, the two of them would often go on dates together. Everyone else thought they were a couple, and Mei herself thought so too - only Xu Qi, that shy bastard, felt that he was too young and it was not the right time yet.

As Mei looked at it, tears wet her cheeks. Drops of tears fell on the album, and then she wiped them away in panic - she didn't want to destroy this precious album.

She murmured, "These...are all..."

Xu Qi turned his head away and muttered, "I just felt that some memories should be preserved, so... I made an album like this."

445. No work tomorrow!

Accompanying Mei, Alcia's expression was very gentle.

Flipping through the photo albums one by one, it felt like I had accompanied them through the two years when they knew each other.

"It's been three years this year. I actually hid an album like this in the courtyard. I was planning to find time to get the album here, but I kept forgetting about it."