CHAPTER 62

"Sister, congratulations on your promotion to vice president. Why didn't you tell me about such a big thing? We should celebrate it!"

In a luxurious private room of a high-end SPA center, Lin Mixue and Bai Xiaojie lay side by side, enjoying the meticulous service of the female technician. One of them was tall and plump, and the other was petite and tight. Even the female massage technician felt ashamed. "Sister, you are still laughing at me! Others don't know, but you don't know. I am the vice president of the bank, which was given to me by Brother Xu. If it weren't for his 500 million deposit, do you think our president could have promoted me? By the way, where is Brother Xu? I saw him answer a phone call this morning and drove away in a hurry."

Bai Xiaojie asked curiously. She had originally thought of treating Brother Xu and Lin Mixue to a meal and buying some gifts to thank them, but before she could finish her words, Xu Fuhai received a phone call and left. "Oh, you mean him? He went back to his hometown. Maybe something happened. I didn't ask him."

Lin Mixue said. "Sister, how can I thank Brother Xu? I already owed him enough favors before, and now he has helped me become the vice president. I feel like I owe him more and more, and I will never be able to repay him in this lifetime, ah."

Bai Xiaojie said with some distress. "Promise yourself to me. I think Brother Xu likes you very much."

Lin Mixue said with a smile. "How could I not see that? I did the same thing last time..." Bai Xiaojie was halfway through her words when she suddenly realized that there were two female technicians next to her, and she quickly stopped talking. Thinking about what happened that night still made her cheeks hot. If she hadn't been angry with Ding Xiaofei, she would never have dared to do that. "You're stupid."

Lin Mixue joked. "Can you teach me, sister? I'm quite stupid sometimes."

Bai Xiaojie said with some annoyance. "It's not impossible to teach you, but I have to ask you something first. Is there really no hope for you and Ding Xiaofei?"

Lin Mixue turned her head and asked in a low voice. Hearing this question, Bai Xiaojie's expression immediately darkened. "Sister, he and I are completely done. When he is released from detention, we will go to the Civil Affairs Bureau to handle the formalities! Now when I think of the things he did, I feel sick!"

Bai Xiaojie gritted her teeth and said, "Okay, then let me ask you another question. Do you want to be with Brother Xu simply to repay a favor, or do you like him as a person?"

Lin Mixue continued to ask. "Of course it's not to repay a favor! I want to be with Brother Xu willingly. I...I like Brother Xu!"

Bai Xiaojie's already rosy face turned even redder when she said this. "Okay, sister, I feel relieved after hearing your two words. Don't be anxious. We have to take our time with this matter."

Lin Mixue smiled and consoled. "Thank you, sister. That... Sister Lin, you really don't mind."

Bai Xiaojie looked at Lin Mixue with a guilty look on her face and asked, "Silly sister, how many times do you want me to say it? I really don't mind! My lips are almost callused. Don't ask me again in the future!"

Lin Mixue rolled her eyes at her and said, "Oh, I know, sister!"

Bai Xiaojie shrank her neck, but she was delighted in her heart. She lay on her back, closed her eyes, and concentrated on enjoying the massage from the technician. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Xu Village is located in the suburbs of Fu City. It is surrounded by mountains and rivers and has beautiful scenery. It is more than 20 kilometers away from the city by car. Near noon, a black Mercedes-Benz Maybach slowly drove into the village. Xu Fuhai lowered the window and greeted the uncles and aunts who were basking in the sun at the head of the village. Looking at these familiar faces, Xu Fuhai felt a sense of intimacy and relaxation, as if he had returned to his childhood. Xu Fuhai's hometown is in the north of the village, an ordinary three-room bungalow with spacious front and back yards. The door of the house was open, and Xu Fuhai drove the car directly into the yard. After entering the yard, he found that there was already a white Porsche 911 parked there. If it wasn't Xu Ran's, whose was it? Xu Fuhai's face suddenly darkened, thinking that this girl was too bold. The capital was so far away from Fu City, but she actually drove back. It was simply ridiculous! He received a call from his mother at ICBC, telling him that Ranran was back from summer vacation and asked him to go home for lunch. Xu Fuhai thought that this girl came back by plane, but unexpectedly she drove back by car. "Dad, is this the new car you bought? It looks really classy!"

Hearing the sound of the car, Xu Ran quickly ran out of the main room and asked, holding a half-eaten cucumber in his hand. He didn't need to look at it to know that it was picked from the vegetable garden. "You are too brave. You drove such a long way back alone. What if something goes wrong? Why don't you take a plane? High-speed rail is also fine."

Xu Fuhai got out of the car and said unhappily to Xu Ran, "It didn't feel that far. It took more than six hours, and we even stopped at a service area to rest. I just learned how to drive, so it's new to me."

Xu Ran said with a smile. "Fu Hai, why do you talk about my granddaughter as soon as you get home! Ran Ran ignore him, go into the house quickly, don't laugh outside!"

My mother came out of the main room, glared at Xu Fuhai and said, "Mom, where's my dad?"

Xu Fuhai didn't care about being scolded by his mother. He walked into the house and picked up a cucumber soaked in well water from the basin and started to bite it. The pure natural and pollution-free green cucumber grown at home was cool and crisp after being cooled by well water. The mouth was full of fragrance when he took a bite! This is the taste of Xu Fuhai's childhood memory. Even though he can afford a feast worth tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of yuan now, he still misses this taste! "Your father is watering the vegetable garden. Come in and sit for a while. I'll make two more dishes and then we'll eat."

Xu Fuhai's mother continued to work in the kitchen while talking. "Mom, just make two less. I can't eat that much."

Xu Fuhai said, "You thought you made it. My eldest granddaughter hasn't been home for almost half a year. You have to make something delicious, right?"

My mother said without turning her head. "Grandma, I want to eat braised pork!"

Xu Ran said while chewing on a cucumber. "It's being stewed! Your grandfather went to the morning market in the village to buy it early in the morning. The meat today is really good. It's from a big fat pig raised by a family in the neighboring village. The meat smells delicious, unlike the small fat pigs in the breeding farm, which are all fed with fine feed and don't taste good at all!"

Xu Fuhai's mother said with a smile, "You're still eating braised pork. You must be almost 130 kilograms."

Xu Fuhai looked at his daughter Xu Ran and said with a chuckle, "Dad, why are you bringing up all that? I inherited my body shape from you! You're almost 190 years old and you're still talking about me. Hey... Wait a minute, Dad, you're losing weight!"

Xu Ran looked at his father who was sitting on the kang. He hadn't noticed it before, but now he saw that his father had lost a lot of weight, especially his face, which looked younger! "I just noticed it, hehe!"

Xu Fuhai said with some pride. "You have...really succeeded in losing weight! How much do you weigh now, Dad?"

Looking at his father's perfect figure, Xu Ran was envious. "Less than 75 kg, how about that, perfect!"

Xu Fuhai proudly showed off to his daughter. "Standard, how did you practice it, Dad?"

Xu Ran ran to his father and sat down next to him. While asking, he pinched the strong muscles on his father's arm and lifted up his quick-drying T-shirt to take a look at his belly. "Hey! What are you lifting up!"

Xu Fuhai knocked away Xu Ran's little paw and scolded him fiercely. "Oh my god! Dad, you even developed abdominal muscles? You are too good! No no, tell me how you did it, I want to do it too!"

Xu Ran pulled his father's arm and acted like a spoiled child. "How old are you? Why are you still acting like a spoiled child with your father?"

At this moment, Xu Fuhai's mother came in with a large pot of braised pork and placed it in the center of the table. "Wow, it smells so good!"

Looking at the pieces of red, greasy, and temptingly fragrant braised pork in the basin, Xu Ran swallowed his saliva. "You have to practice too, okay, then from now on, you can only eat vegetarian food at noon today, and don't eat braised pork."

Xu Fuhai said with a chuckle. "Ah?"

Hearing his father's words, Xu Ran immediately made a bitter face, looking at the large pot of braised pork on the table, and fell into a painful tangle. "Why don't you let my granddaughter eat meat? Ranran, don't worry about him, eat if you want! Why lose weight? Don't listen to him, my granddaughter is beautiful anyway!"

Xu Fuhai's mother brought in another plate of stewed bighead carp, glared at Xu Fuhai and handed a pair of chopsticks to her granddaughter. "Dad, I've decided to listen to my grandma and lose weight after this meal!"

Xu Ran took the chopsticks and said in a very unpromising way. Before he finished speaking, he had already reached into the basin with his chopsticks, picked up a piece of fat and lean meat, threw it into his mouth, and chewed it. "Wow, it smells so good, so delicious! I've been craving it for months at school!"

Xu Ran said intoxicatedly. "This is for my eldest granddaughter. If you want to eat, just eat more. Is the food in school bad? Is the food allowance your father gave enough? If not, I have more here!"

Xu Fuhai's mother watched her granddaughter eat with relish, her eyes full of smiles. Listening to his mother's words, Xu Fuhai was a little speechless. More than a month ago, when he went to the capital to see Xu Ran, he transferred one million to her. When he went to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Liu Yumei and Jiang Wei gave her a red envelope of 66,000 yuan each as a meeting gift. And Lin Mixue took her to buy a lot of clothes, shoes, bags and so on, and gave her red envelopes several times. This little girl's purse is bulging now, is there any need to worry? "No, grandma, I have money!"

Xu Ran said vaguely while eating the braised pork. "Okay, just eat two pieces. The meal hasn't started yet, and your grandfather hasn't even come to the table yet. You don't know the rules at all!"

Xu Fuhai watched her eat piece after piece and reminded her with a dark face, "Don't bother with my granddaughter! What are you talking about in your own house?"

Mom choked Xu Fuhai, then took out a big red envelope and stuffed it into Xu Ran's pocket. "Ran Ran, this is 10,000 yuan from grandma. It's vacation time, buy whatever you want!"

"Well, no need, grandma, I really have money!"

Suddenly, grandma stuffed a red envelope into Xu Ran's mouth. Xu Ran, who was enjoying his meal, quickly declined. "Mom, why are you giving her money? She doesn't need money!"

Seeing this scene, Xu Fuhai was speechless. A few days ago, he just transferred two million to his mother, but he didn't dare to transfer more, fearing that his parents would worry, and he made up an excuse for them for a long time. Then, his parents put the money into a fixed deposit in a blink of an eye, and did what they should do. He wanted to take them to the city to live with him, but they didn't agree after several times, saying that they were used to living in their hometown and couldn't bear to leave the acres of land and a few old neighbors. It's really not easy to change the simple life concept for decades. Xu Fuhai didn't think about really changing. His parents are at this age and have their own lifestyle. Forced changes may not be really good for them. And they really don't lack money. His father is a retired teacher with a pension of several thousand a month. There is nothing to spend money in the countryside, and the old couple live a very comfortable life. The so-called filial piety, the key is still in the word "obedience". Let parents live according to their wishes and make them happy every day. In Xu Fuhai's view, this is the greatest filial piety. "Grandma will give it even if you don't lack money. This is the money I spend on my eldest granddaughter. Don't worry about it."

Xu Fuhai's mother doted on Xu Ran as she stuffed the money into his pocket. "Just keep the money your grandma gave you. Don't spend it recklessly, okay?"

Xu Fuhai reminded, then looked at his mother helplessly and said, "Mom, just spoil her!"

"My eldest granddaughter must be spoiled. She will always be the apple of my grandfather's eye!"

At this moment, Xu Fuhai's father also walked in from outside and said cheerfully, "Would you like a drink?"

Xu Fuhai's father took out a bottle of Moutai from the small wine cabinet beside him. During the Dragon Boat Festival, Bai Xiaojie came to see the old man on behalf of ICBC and brought several boxes of good cigarettes and good wine. "Dad, I have to drive in a while."

Xu Fuhai said that he didn't bring Lin Mixue here today, so he didn't have a driver. "It's okay, Dad will find you a professional driver later!"

The old man said cheerfully, then unscrewed the lid and tried to pour the wine. Xu Fuhai quickly took it. "Who is it?"

Xu Fuhai asked as he poured the wine. "Zhuzi, the one who used to play with you since he was little, the second kid from your second aunt's house next door."

Xu Fuhai's father said, "Zhu Zi? Is he back?"

Xu Fuhai asked, thinking of the little kid who used to follow him around and called him "Brother Fuhai" when he was a kid, and he couldn't help but recalling familiar and warm memories. "I just changed my job this year."

Xu Fuhai's father said. Xu Fuhai said "oh", clinked glasses with his father and drank a glass of wine. "This morning, Zhou Na's father called me and invited our family to dinner in the city in the evening."

After taking a sip of wine, Xu Fuhai's father said casually, "He invited me to dinner? I won't go!"

Hearing his father's words, Xu Fuhai refused without a second thought. "That's right, I won't go even if I say so! Have you forgotten how the Zhou family treated your son? You old man, when people say something nice to you, you forget your last name."

Xu Fuhai's mother glared at her old man and said angrily, "He didn't say anything else, just that it was summer vacation and he wanted to see Ranran."

Xu Fuhai's father muttered, and took another sip of Moutai. You know what, this Moutai is delicious, and it doesn't make you drunk. After getting used to it, the old loose wines are really unpalatable. "I don't want to go either!"

Xu Ran took a bite of the fish and said unhappily. She hated her old home and that family from the bottom of her heart. As soon as she finished speaking, Xu Ran's new iPhone 13pro suddenly rang. After seeing the phone number, Xu Ran looked up at his father, sighed and said, "My mother called."

"It's okay, go ahead and answer it," Xu Fuhai nodded