four year itch

After finishing the most important annual meeting, the company only has some simple finishing work left. Everyone is listless as the new year approaches, and Ye Jia is no exception.Occasionally thinking about the quarrel that morning, Ye Jia still felt a throbbing pain in his heart, but there was nothing he could do, all he could do was wait for Xu Ruibai to calm down and contact him with kindness.

The actual holiday was already two days before the New Year's Eve. Ye Jia went to the train station with her luggage that night. Ye Jia's hometown is not close to G City, and it happened to be in time for the Spring Festival travel rush. It took more than ten hours of train ride to get home.

Ye Jia's family is very ordinary. His father, Ye Hemin, is a gentle Beta, an ordinary employee of a bank. His mother, Chen Jing, is an Omega who is not weak. She runs a small supermarket, which is quite impressive.Ye Jia often teases that the gentle part of his character comes from his father, while the stubborn part of his character comes from his mother.Of course, it was inevitable that Chen Jing would give him a severe beating when he said this.Ye Jia also has a younger sister who is in high school, a sophomore Beta who is in the rebellious period.

Ye Hemin came to pick Ye Jia up by car, while Chen Jing cooked a table full of dishes, and ran out as soon as she heard the door open.

"Mom, I'm back." Ye Jia put the luggage aside and hugged Chen Jing.

"Baby son is finally back." Chen Jing touched Ye Jia's back, happy and distressed, "Why did you lose so much weight? Didn't you eat well outside?"

Ye Jia let go of her mother: "The food cooked outside is not as good as my mother's."

Chen Jing laughed loudly: "Okay, let's have dinner quickly."

After finishing speaking, he walked towards the kitchen in a hurry, and shouted loudly towards the bedroom: "Ye Ming! Your brother is back, hurry up and eat!"

Ye Jia turned her head and complained to her father: "Mom is still so angry."

Knowing his wife's character, Ye Hemin smiled helplessly, "Go in."

The bedroom door opened with a "bang", and a girl in a Japanese-style padded kimono came out, with a princess-cut hairstyle, and yelled gloomyly, "Brother."

"Well, have you had your hair cut?" Ye Jia noticed the change in his sister at a glance.

"En." The girl cherishes words like gold, and the cold personality cannot be defeated.

Ye Jia was also not good at finding topics, so he just flattered: "It's pretty pretty."

He and Ye Ming are six years apart. As the saying goes, there is a three-year generation gap, and the two generation gaps straddle the two people. Therefore, although they share the same interests, the "professional fields" are different, and the topics are naturally different.

The whole family sat down one after another, and Chen Jing happily raised the wine glass in her hand: "Our family finally got together all year round, let's have a toast first."

Ye Jia raised her cup obediently: "Then wish mom and dad good health, and our Xiaoming can successfully enter the university of his choice next year."

"Thank you son, then I wish our baby finds someone he likes soon." Chen Jing immediately got to the point.

"Mom..." Ye Jia shouted with some complaints.

"My dear son, as long as it's what you like, boys and girls, Alpha and Beta, mom agrees, if it doesn't work, Omega is fine too, let's talk about the most important thing first!" Chen Jing patted Ye Jia's hand and said, also can't Blame Chen Jing for being anxious, his son in his 20s is also handsome, but he has never been in a relationship at such an old age, so everyone is anxious.

"You really don't choose." Ye Hemin complained after taking a sip of his wine.

Chen Jing rolled his eyes at him, "I can't stop you from eating."

"I know, it depends on fate."

Ye Hemin on the side saw his son's embarrassment, and quickly persuaded him: "That's right, let's talk about this as soon as we come back, let the child eat a warm meal first."

Chen Jing sighed: "Oh, that's fine, let's eat first, and save good things for New Year's Eve."

They were all commonplace questions, but they were just topics like starting a family, establishing a career and having children. Children from ordinary families would be surrounded by them during the Chinese New Year, and Ye Jia was no exception.Of course, he is not bad at the love that children from ordinary families can get, and he has got it all, full of it.

Home is the resting place of life, there will be rain and wind and snow outside the home, but there will always be wine and warmth inside the home.Everyone grows up held in their hands, and those who are humbled in love and spent in trivial matters can all be found at home.

After dinner, Ye Jia wanted to help Chen Jing clean the table, but was sent out to watch TV with Ye Hemin.Seeing Ye Ming sitting on the sofa staring at the phone very seriously, Ye Jia asked curiously, "Xiao Ming, what are you looking at?"

Ye Ming raised his face from the phone, and said blankly, "Read comics."

"Comics? What comics?" Ye Jia naturally wanted to chat with his sister a little more since he touched his field.

Ye Ming also remembered that her elder brother was a manga editor, "Brother, do you know Xi'an Fengda? He seems to belong to your W agency."

Hearing the familiar name, Ye Jia was stunned for a moment, "I know it."

More than just knowing.

"Is he as tall and handsome as in the photo?" Ye Ming was rarely willing to say more, his eyes were full of curiosity.

"Well, very handsome." Ye Jia nodded with a light smile, and stroked her sister's hair dotingly.

"Then have you seen the follow-up plot of "2024"?!" "2024" is a comic that Xu Ruibai is serializing.

Ye Jia shook his head, "I don't know."

Xu Ruibai has never had the habit of collecting manuscripts.

"Okay, so is it true that I heard he likes Beta?"

Ye Jia paused, and the scene of that morning came back to his mind. He couldn't help but smiled wryly, "It should... be true."

"So do you have any inside news?" Ye Ming asked expectantly.

"There is no inside information, and I am not very familiar with him."

Just because you've slept through doesn't mean you're very familiar, Ye Jia added inwardly.

Ye Jia's family lives in a small city. If you want to define it by geographical location, you can use the general "South" to answer.If you look at it in terms of specifications, strictly speaking, it should be just a "county", but it is named after "city" by accident.In fact, it is just a non-characteristic city that requires careful consideration when asked whether there are tourist attractions.Most of the people living here are comfortable and lazy, they seem to melt into the history at the base of the wall, fall asleep with the wind in autumn, and fall asleep listening to the rain in summer, year after year.

On New Year's Eve, from the afternoon onwards, the sound of firecrackers on the streets will be heard endlessly, and the atmosphere of the New Year in small places is always better than that in big cities.Chen Jing's small supermarket was simply closed, and he was busy in the kitchen early in the morning, trying his best to cook a substantial New Year's Eve dinner.

At around seven o'clock in the afternoon, Ye Jia received a WeChat message from Chen Lang: I'm afraid that there will be too many blessings on the [-]th night and you won't see my greetings. To my blessing, so I wish you an early New Year here in advance.

There was a smell of group posting, but Ye Jia still replied seriously, "Thank you, Happy New Year", and the other party replied "Happy New Year!" in seconds.

Ye Jia smiled, exited the chat page, and inadvertently caught sight of the silent sticky dialog box. Ye Jia moved her finger slightly, subconsciously clicked in, closed it, and opened it again, repeating it over and over again. several times.In the end, he still failed to overcome his reason, and copied and sent the passage Chen Lang sent to him. After sending it, he quickly turned off the phone as if he could not accept the result, and watched the black screen of the phone. With a worried face, he smiled self-deprecatingly.

"Come to eat." Chen Jing came out of the kitchen with the last dish.

Ye Jia put the phone in his pocket, put his face together and stood up from the sofa, "Hey, here we come!"

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Not all families can be separated from wind and rain, and some families are wind and rain themselves.

The French-style chandelier hangs low in the center of the dining table, the dark yellow light is reflected on the golden tableware, shining brightly, the beautiful crystal glasses are filled with colorful liquids, and the white tablecloth is dotted with champagne roses, extending all the way To the golden tray of purple grapes in the middle of the long table.

On the main seat was an old man with a serious expression. Although his hair was gray, the nobility and majesty in his expression remained undiminished. On both sides sat down in order of age and seniority, and neatly dressed servants stood behind him.

Smoked rainbow trout was served with a watercress salad and rich horseradish dressing, served with a 1999 Dom Pérignon.Once anyone puts down the tableware in their hands, there will be servants who are always ready to remove their plates.

"This wild mushroom was picked by Zhuyu just from the back mountain this morning, right? The game in our back mountain is also good." Xu Yunren, Xu Ruibai's third uncle, was talking. Zhuyu was Xu Ruibai's mother, and he was sitting by his mother's On the right, the two people even laughed in the same way: "Rui Bai, what do you think?"

Xu Ruibai raised his eyes and glanced at them, and replied perfunctorily: "Yes."

The red wine was constantly being emptied and refilled. No one could really taste everything.

The final dessert is the castle pudding, which is said to be more like a cake, covered with honey and lemon curd, and decorated with some lemon slices and cream.

"This honey tastes very sweet." The female Omega in a dark red silk dress praised softly. She is Xu Ruibai's eldest aunt.

"This is honey collected by Zhu Yu himself." This time it was Xu Ruibai's uncle, Xu Haidong who spoke.

"Honey you harvested by yourself? Zhuyu, when did you start preparing?" Xu Haidong's wife, Sun Qiong, echoed her husband with a surprised expression.

Before Bai Zhuyu could speak, Xu Haidong replied, "She started preparing it a month ago. This is the first time she has collected honey. Rui Bai, what do you think of the taste?"

"En." Xu Ruibai didn't even want to lift his eyes this time.

"What's your attitude?" His father in a suit and leather shoes always maintained his strict father's demeanor, teaching his children in a stern tone.

Xu Ruibai softly put the fork in his hand on the table. Whether it was unintentional or intentional, it collided with the dinner plate. There was a crisp sound in the quiet big house. He raised the corner of his mouth: "Then what kind of attitude do you want me to have?" ?”

"Yuwei, have you forgotten what you promised me this morning?" Xu Ruibai's mother patted Xu Yuwei's arm reassuringly and said softly.I have to say that she is a very temperamental Omega. Even if she is only wearing a plain white dress and a little makeup, she can't conceal the grace emanating from her body.At this time, she leaned slightly towards his father, with transparent jadeite on her raised wrist, which made her skin more delicate, light white jade fingers tapped on his father's black suit, and there was a smile on the corner of her lips , There is a romantic meaning in the place where you stare.

Xu Yuwei's expression instantly eased a lot, he calmed down, and let out a cold snort from his throat, but he no longer blamed him.

The man in the main seat didn't seem to have heard their conversation, nor was he interested in the farce at all. He only concentrated on enjoying the food in front of him, and ordered the servants around him to help him refill some wine.

"Rui Bai, it's hard to come back here. It's a way to save face for mom and have a good New Year's Eve dinner, okay?" After appeasing his father, Bai Zhuyu went to do his son's work again.

Xu Ruibai looked at the six people opposite with a blank face. Each of them had a good appearance and temperament, and they seemed to be intimate, like some strange community of destiny.

Xu Ruibai shook his head with a smile, as if he had heard some big joke: "You guys insisted on me coming back, and now you think I'm ruining the atmosphere?"

"Mom and Dad haven't seen you for a long time, and I miss you." Bai Zhuyu said softly with gentle eyes.

Xu Ruibai's eyes lingered on the faces of Xu Yuwei, Xu Haidong, and Xu Yunren. Blood relationship is really a magical thing. These three people have completely different personalities, but they have similar marks on their faces.He is so familiar with these traces that he can see them on his face every day when he looks in the mirror.Everyone says he looks like his mother, but he still bears the stamp of his father.

"I also miss you very much, my father-dad-mother-mother-" Xu Ruibai read the four words "father and mother" one by one to the people on the opposite side, obviously he doesn't like his mother set.The faces of the three men were all a bit ugly, Xu Yuwei was even faintly angry, Xu Ruibai's eldest aunt and third auntie lowered their heads and ate the food in front of them as if nothing was being heard, but Bai Zhuyu was still smiling slightly, He shook Xu Yuwei's hand calmly, signaling him not to get angry.

Seeing the changes in the expressions of the six people, Xu Ruibai smiled even wider, as if he was watching a black and humorous movie.He really has no interest in having reunion dinner or anything, but watching these people perform is really interesting.

Xu Ruibai smiled sarcastically, lowered his head and took a bite of the castle pudding that was said to have been prepared for a month, it was disgustingly sweet.