why not

, raised his lips inexplicably, but didn't speak.

"I seem to hear you scolding me in your heart..."

"What are you scolding? Are you stupid?"

"Just think about it," Yue Xiaolou said seriously, "How can you still say it?"

Chatting casually like this, Yue Xiaolou suddenly found that Xie Huaijin led her out of the house.

"Where are you going?"

"Hmm..." Xie Huaijin seemed to think for a while, then didn't speak, just led her away.

"Mysterious and mysterious."

When we left the ancestral house, we could hardly meet the light of electric lights. Fortunately, the moon was very bright.

Xie Huaijin originally wanted to take her to a fun place, but in fact, she wanted to go around to see if the natural mazes, jungles and swings that she explored when she was a child were still the same as in her memory.

When I got there, I realized that the area had long been deserted and ruined, and the weeds were overgrown, almost covering the way I walked.

Xie Huaijin sighed softly, looked at her twice, and dragged her to continue walking silently.

"Where are you going?"

"Where do you think it's going?"

Yue Xiaolou held her hand and was taken away. He lowered his head and saw the rice fields covered in weeds under the night, his small face was a little excited, and he murmured: "Go to the immortals, pick the immortal grass, refine the elixir..."

Xie Huaijin: "..."

She laughed dumbfounded, "Have you never been to the country before?"

"No," Yue Xiaolou shook his head, only stepped on the dirt lawn in the middle of the playground, not the real native vegetation, "but I have read a lot of rural literature, and the countryside in the book is different from here."

Xie Huaijin was noncommittal, walked for a while, and stopped.He breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Only nothing has changed here."

The night is dark, but the moon as a dotted light source has a strong sense of presence, illuminating the vague landforms, and shining a layer of light on the small lake in front of us.The light and shadow are harmonious, and the beauty has a sense of tranquility and stability.

The plain is so vast that it seems endless, but it is sunken at the lake, and the sloping lawn is just right for lying on.

"It's so beautiful..." Yue Xiaolou couldn't help but raise his chin slightly, staring at it steadily.The broad sky was reflected in her eyes, and a few stars melted into her eyes.

Xie Huaijin took two steps forward, supported the lawn, and sat down after a long absence.

"Did you often come here with Gu Linzong when you were young?"

"I won't bring him here. When we were young, there were many children in the village. Gu Linzong always gave them money to buy firecrackers and play war games with them. It was very noisy. I basically didn't play with him."

"Then go help him fight?" Yue Xiaolou lay down beside her, his face full of curiosity.The prickly and soft wild grass feels completely different from the green grass when it is dry.

"He was bullied by the children in the village. The whipào was thrown on his clothes, which burned holes all over. I just helped throw some back."

Yue Xiaolou imagined that scene, held back his laughter, and leaned against her and said, "You said it lightly, I guess, you must have bullied those children to cry later. Terrible sister."

"fear?"

Yue Xiaolou gave a fearless "hmm".

Xie Huaijin turned her face sideways, and brushed off the hair on her face that blocked her eyes, and put it behind her ears.He smiled kindly.

The thick night couldn't hide the scenery, the surroundings were silent, and there were only two of them beside each other.

In this situation, Yue Xiaolou really didn't want to spoil the atmosphere, but he still couldn't help it, and whispered, "Your grandfather was right in not wanting to accept me, such a big ancestral house, of course..."

Her throat became hoarse, and she paused before she could forcefully continue, "Of course I hope to continue. Although he didn't say anything bad, in fact, he loves you too much, so he tried his best to bear it..."

"You said it the wrong way. In the entire Xie family, we are the only ones coaxing grandpa."

Xie Huaijin stretched her hand to her side, found it, and held her hand, "My grandfather, he doesn't value family inheritance that much. He just wants to treat the career he has worked hard all his life as a gift." , to give me this granddaughter whom he brought up with his own hands."

Yue Xiaolou turned his face sideways when he heard the words, and looked at her.

Xie Huaijin continued:

"I was still at the age of reciting the Three Character Classic, and I heard my grandfather sigh and say that if the road in front of the ancestral house is not repaired properly, it will be abandoned when he passes away. But even so, the road has not been repaired year after year .Grandpa didn't want to fix it."

"When I grow up, I finally understand why he sighed. It's not that he has no money to build roads, but that building roads won't really change anything. In fact, the ancestor worship itself is for grandpa. When we spare time, we gather a few times a year. It’s just the sky. If Grandpa, the head of the family, is not around, the tradition of worshiping ancestors on the winter solstice will not last for a few years.”

The Xie family's ancestral house built in the wasteland can escape the chaos of war and fire, but it cannot escape the quiet erasure after peace and prosperity.

The Xie family has a great business, but it has never been a family business, and it will be cut off directly when it comes to the juniors.

It is no longer a society with a clan system.

The existence of such things as ancestral halls is history, a part of the past.Later generations do not want to inherit, so it is meaningless.

Yue Xiaolou wanted to understand, and couldn't help sighing, "What a pity."

"No pity."

"If we..." Yue Xiaolou hesitated to speak, looked at her expression, and murmured, "If there is a child, your grandpa won't hate me."

Although Yue Xiaolou herself doesn't like children, she doesn't mind taking care of Xie Huaijin's children.Now that technology is so advanced, the money for surrogacy is quite affordable for them.

Saying it out, the little calculations in my mind have been done.

"Fool."

Xie Huaijin turned sideways, hugged her waist, and said patiently, "Grandpa raised me not only. It doesn't matter if Gu Linzong changed his surname. Let him have a bunch of children and choose the smartest one named Xie. My grandpa is not stupid." , he really cares about this and mentioned it a long time ago."

Yue Xiaolou felt that what she said made sense.

Xie Huaijin can persuade her every time, especially with reason, making people want to listen, and she can't help but raise her lips.

"Sister, you are so reliable and smart."

Xie Huaijin bent her lips slightly, afraid that she would think about it again, so she said a few more words: "If grandpa really hates you, I won't just take you home to worship the ancestors. He's just a little awkward."

"Ah."

When Xie Huaijin turned sideways to talk to her, the neckline loosened a little, and a small collarbone could be vaguely seen inside, which disappeared quickly.

So close.

Yue Xiaolou suddenly fell silent.

"What's the matter?" Xie Huaijin looked at her shining eyes and laughed softly, "What are you thinking about?"

"I was thinking, why are you wearing a suit today?"

"I have to see a client in the morning."

"Did I tell you..." Yue Xiaolou gently tugged on the hem of her clothes, looked at the white shirt in her black suit, and said in the dark night, "Every time I see you wearing a suit, I feel very curious." The desire that was picked up..."

The ending is soft.

After finishing speaking, he glanced sideways at her from the end of his eyes, paused for a moment, lowered his eyes and smiled.

"Is that so..."

Xie Huaijin pinched her cheek lightly, also bent her lips, and moved closer.It wasn't until she saw her breathing relaxed that she became tense, and then slowly said: "Be patient, good boy. It's easy to roll into the lake here, and there is no way to clean it up."

Laugh teasingly.

Yue Xiaolou was speechless for a moment, clenched his fists, bumped his face into her chest, and blushed violently.

asshole!She didn't intend to fight on the spot...

The next day.

Yue Xiaolou woke up just after dawn, lay down for a long time, and finally couldn't help getting up lightly.Wash and dress up.

Looking at the phone, it's only seven o'clock.

Xie Huaijin is a liar.

He also said that he was holding her to sleep, and there was a small room in her room, like a hotel, a suite.

Surprise, not unexpected?

Yue Xiaolou glared at her from a few meters away.

He chuckled again.

Holding the mobile phone, she suddenly remembered that the signal in the room was very poor. After thinking about it, she went out lightly.I know that there is a small hall outside the room.

It was still early, Yue Xiaolou thought there was no one outside.

Unexpectedly, Wang Yiting was sitting and reading and studying seriously.

Yue Xiaolou was shocked for less than half a second before he noticed that her movement angle and eyes were very strange.

Go over and change the angle.

I found that under the pages of the book, there were two thick padded jacket sleeves under the cover.

Wang Yiting pulled her arm out of her sleeve and hid it underneath to play with her mobile phone.

"..."

Yue Xiaolou didn't deliberately suppress the sound of footsteps.

When Wang Yiting heard the movement, her eyes fell on the book silently, and she pushed the phone in, hiding it in the lower abdomen of the hem of her clothes.

Pretending to read a book.

Yue Xiaolou looked to the left and right, but there was no one else. He walked over and asked curiously, "Why don't you study in the room?"

Looking at the book, the content is still quite familiar to her, "Have you all studied in college?"

"Get ready for college."

Seeing that it was her, Wang Yiting rolled her eyes, stretched her arms back into her sleeves, and knocked impatiently on the French window next to her.

"My mother said that the lighting is good here. Some people will walk around and it is like a library environment. It is easy to concentrate."

walk around?

Yue Xiaolou thought to himself, could it be that Mr. Xie would pass by occasionally, so the adults instructed her to "perform" and study hard?

But none of her business.

Yue Xiaolou sat down and took out his mobile phone on his own.

It may feel like someone is coming to check your homework.

Wang Yiting temporarily put down her mobile phone and was about to read a book, but just after reading a line, she was so sleepy that she yawned again and again.I was so excited when I was playing with my mobile phone just now, but I was so tired all of a sudden.

She gets sleepy after reading a book, she is really a silly girl from the landlord's family.

Yue Xiaolou glanced at her, pursed his lips to hide a smile, and said nonsense with his eyes open: "My grades are very poor. I also studied economics and management back then. It doesn't matter. If you work hard, you can pass the exam."

Anyway, it doesn't cost money to make fun.

After hearing this, Wang Yiting laughed, put down her pen, and prepared to chat with her: "You also studied economics and management? What school? I heard people say that you will lose your hair if you study this. I think you have a lot of hair."

Yue Xiaolou was thinking about what to say when he caught a glimpse out of the corner of his eye and turned his head to see that the person walking over was Mr. Xie.

He hurriedly stood up, met his eyes, blurted out after hesitation: "Grandpa..."

She finished the greeting a little bit on her own initiative, and she wasn't embarrassed, just smiled shyly.

Mr. Xie was wearing plain clothes, and there were not so many people around him. Under the soft morning sun, his aura seemed to be less fierce.

He nodded reservedly.

Walking up to Wang Yiting, picked up her book and looked at her book, and said, "Study hard, otherwise how will you get into the major your mother is talking about, and why don't you go abroad to study?"

"It's okay to say that she has poor grades in business management."

Wang Yiting pointed at her, not polite.

Mr. Xie put down his book and looked a little interested: "Oh? Didn't you go to the same school as Xie Huaijin? Why aren't you a lawyer?"

Yue Xiaolou: "..."

She was so shocked, so madam... touched.

Has Mr. Xie never investigated her situation?

This is too moral!

Unlike her, even Aunt Li's birth date is clearly arranged in advance.

"Huaijin is my senior in high school, and I majored in economics and management in college."

"now what?"

"My grandfather's company, I am helping to take care of it now..." Yue Xiaolou simply didn't want to say that the company belonged to her father.

Mr. Xie looked her up and down, then asked, "Grandpa's company?"

Yue Xiaolou cleverly declared his family name, with a sweet and well-behaved face: "My grandfather was one of the first batch of doctors who went to the United States to study, and the company also took over the family property. He is a university professor. I was brought up by him. Therefore, the major he chooses at the university also depends on the wishes of his elders.”

"Oh," turned into a homely tone, "what university?"

Yue Xiaolou began to rejoice that he had studied hard and applied for the name of the university.

A well-known prestigious university.

"..." Wang Yiting's expression changed immediately, she picked up the pen, and poked at the page unwillingly.I guess he was crazily scolding her eldest son in his heart.

"Undergraduate or postgraduate...or is it called a monk over there?"

"Undergraduate."

"Oh," Mr. Xie's tone changed slightly. He knew that the school's undergraduate admission was more difficult than that of a monk, so he nodded, "That's right."

After saying something, I felt that it was not enough or something, and added a sentence with complicated meaning, "It's much better than Xie Huaijin."

"..."

This dare not compare dare not compare.

Yue Xiaolou paused slightly with a smile.Under the gaze of Mr. Xie looking over, observing the words and expressions, the arc of the corners of his lips raised again after half a second, and his tone was humble: "Senior sister is also very good."

The implication: Grandpa, what you said makes sense.

Super cheeky.

After chatting with Mr. Xie, Yue Xiaolou felt dizzy as if he had just finished his graduation defense, and happily walked back to the room.

One foot deep and one shallow.

Entering the room, he saw that Xie Huaijin had also gotten up.

She had long hair draped over her shoulders, and she was facing the mirror and tied it into a ponytail. She caught a glimpse of her out of the corner of her eye, smiled, and pretended to straighten her clothes and said, "Restrain yourself, don't be impulsive. Next, there will be more business."

Yue Xiaolou looked at her formal attire: "..."

Her happy smile collapsed, she pursed her mouth, lowered her eyes and murmured to herself in a low voice, "So underestimate me... I'll buy two handcuffs when I go back, if I say I'm cheating, I'm sure I'm cheating, huh..."

Xie Huaijin looked at her expression, suppressed a smile, and put on the watch in the box slowly.

This was just found out of the drawer last night, the watch Yue Xiaolou gave her.

"Yo," Yue Xiaolou saw it, his eyes were slightly bright, and he leaned against the door frame and said intentionally, "Aren't you reluctant to wear it? Why are you wearing it now?"

"It's not what it used to be. My daughter-in-law is so developed. Let her buy it if it breaks."

Xie Huaijin glanced at her sideways, "Buy it?"

Buy and buy!

If you want a castle, she will go crazy and move bricks to build it...

When Yue Xiaolou and Xie Huaijin walked out of the room, they turned to the small hall and met Gu Linzong who had just woken up.

"Have you had breakfast?" He came over to say hello, showing his canine teeth with a smile, "I heard that in the afternoon..."

The words suddenly stopped.

"Sister, why are you wearing this little broken watch again?"

Gu Linzong grabbed her wrist and saw it clearly. He couldn't help but shook his head and sighed, "The money I gave you back then was a lot of money, and you only wore it a few times. A broken CK watch worth a thousand dollars can be worn vigorously. I don't know you..."

Yue Xiaolou was shocked, and immediately took Xie Huaijin's hand, and took a deep look at him.

Not a word was spoken.

Gu Linzong is a person who is good at observing words and expressions, as if he felt something, he suddenly stopped speaking in surprise.

The gazes of the two people met far away, staring complicatedly across time and space.It's you

Gu Linzong: That broken watch...

Yue Xiaolou: That miscellaneous brand...

Chapter 45 045

The day of ancestor worship.Gu Linzong told Xie Huaijin that there will be guests in the afternoon.

It seems quite normal for ancestors to have family friends come to visit, but in fact it is not so common.After all, worshiping the ancestors of the Xie family is just a tradition that is as complicated and simplified as possible. If you don't invite others, this place is too remote.

After hearing this, Yue Xiaolou felt that it had nothing to do with them.

Who knew that the person who came to the door would also