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It was almost lunch time, and some people came to the main house one after another.They are all the elders I have seen often since I was a child. They didn't treat me very well when I was a child, but now I have finally learned to be hypocritical, so I greeted and chatted with them one by one.Andre has been upstairs and never downstairs, and everyone doesn't think he is rude. Good-looking people are always easy to forgive.

The old man was the last to come back, and the aunt had already prepared all the dishes and served them on the table.The guards helped him remove his hat and fishing gear. As soon as he came in, the other people who were talking with him fell silent, and some juniors even stood up.The old man looked benevolent, glanced at the hall and said, "It's pretty neat today."

Xu Yuzhong stood beside him with his hands hanging down. At this moment, he behaved like a quail: "Grandpa."

"Hmm." The old man has always been relatives from generation to generation, and Xu Yuzhong is the eldest grandson of the head of the house, so he spoke in a very gentle tone, "Why didn't the boss come?"

"Father went to City F on a business trip to investigate the market there." Xu Yuzhong said clearly, as if he was very focused on company affairs, "That's why I couldn't come."

"Work needs to be focused on." Mr. Xu said lightly, "Let's have dinner, what are you waiting for?"

After he sat down, everyone took their seats, and I sat down too.According to seniority, Xu Yucheng sat next to me, and I asked in a low voice, "Where's Andre? Aren't you coming down for dinner?"

"He's still sleeping, and he doesn't answer when he calls." Xu Yucheng whispered, "Let's ask auntie to make something for him in the afternoon, isn't he not used to this kind of occasion?"

Who would feel comfortable with this kind of occasion where the family is happy on the surface but the undercurrent is turbulent?I have always disliked the depressing atmosphere of the main house, because everything here revolves around Mr. Xu. He is the backbone of the family and can easily decide everyone's small family—everything in the Xu family depends on him. The old man who "talks" above.Everyone carefully followed his winks and acted faithfully to curry favor with him.

And I have always been ignored by him.

The meal was boring. Fortunately, Mr. Xu was probably tired in the morning. He didn't talk much during the meal, so he finished lunch and went to take a nap.At this time, everyone began to chat about each other's business, and some female family members passed on gossip about each family.

According to the rules, we juniors should stay overnight, but everyone obviously didn't want to stay in Mr. Xu's main house, so they reasoned that there were not enough rooms in the villa, and they wanted to go home to live separately without disturbing the old man's quiet rest.The reasons were very high-sounding, so in the end, except for the second aunt and his wife and Xu Yucheng and Xu Yuzhong who must stay, the others dispersed after eating and playing cards for a while.

"Strange, why did Second Aunt stay here?" I took Xu Yucheng's car keys and prepared to drive Andre back who had just woken up.In the garage, I asked Xu Yucheng, "Didn't she always get along with the old man?"

The second aunt disobeyed the old man's arrangement and married an ordinary employee in Xu's company.Although my uncle promoted the man to be the manager because of her face, she has been doing poorly among the female relatives for so many years, and she rarely talked to anyone even when she went back to the main house.

"I want to ask Grandpa for something." Xu Yucheng was not surprised, "I heard that her husband is out in the pharmaceutical business, and he has a lot of ways."

"Okay." I didn't want to get involved with the rest of the Xu family at all, so I just asked casually.Andre was already in the car, I waved to Xu Yucheng, "Let's go, return the car to you later."

"Be careful." Xu Yucheng smiled, looked at me gently and said, "Be careful on the road."

After the college entrance examination, the Xu family gave me a sum of money to go out and start my own business, so I got a duplex house in City B through one of the elders who were in real estate.The location of the house is good and the area is large, so I feel that it is really easy to walk around with relatives. Even if they don't like me, they have to show me some face for the sake of my surname Xu.

Because Andre returned to China suddenly, and it was inconvenient to arrange to live in the main house because of the language barrier, my careless mother called me and asked me to live with Andre.In fact, she has treated me well all these years. She has always given me generous living expenses and let me save a lot of money. In addition to the funds from the Xu family and the great discounts given by the elders, I can live in B, where housing prices are rising day by day. Buy a house of your own.

So when Andre was pushed over, I had no objection, and I also acted as his translator by the way.

After all, no matter how much you hate him, you are still your younger brother.

I parked the car in the garage of the community, and Andre curled up in the passenger seat without speaking or getting out of the car.He was tall but also very slender, and he looked a little pitiful when he huddled into a ball.

"Qu'est-cequineva pascheztoi?" I asked.

Andre glanced at me, obviously looking pitiful, but his expression was still indifferent.He spit out a word: "Hungry."

It seems that the Chinese tutoring during this period is still useful.Moreover, in the main house, Xu Yucheng and I forgot to ask my aunt to cook him a meal, so he hasn't eaten since breakfast until now.I tried to put down a gentle tone and said: "On rentred'abordàlamaison, puis jecuisinepourtoi. (We will go home first, and then cook for you.)"

He glanced at me and said, "Okay."

This kind of weird state where I speak French and he returns to Chinese probably cannot be changed.I reluctantly opened the car door to ask the young master to get off, and then ordered a takeaway while waiting for the elevator - I don't know how to cook, so I can at most order takeaway.By the time the takeaway arrived, Andre had rolled on the sofa several times wrapped in a windbreaker, protesting my behavior of fooling him by ordering takeaway.

I took out the plate and put it on the takeaway, and put a spoon for Andre: "It's time to eat."

He could understand these simple everyday expressions, and Andre sat down at the dining table slowly, and said word by word: "On purpose."

I laughed: "What intentional?"

He put a spoonful of rice into his mouth, chewed and swallowed it, probably thinking about the wording: "I'm hungry, you did it on purpose."

He accuses me hard of deliberately starving him.The blond hair almost glistened under the warm lighting, and those clear blue eyes didn't seem indifferent now, a bit aggrieved.I held my chin with one hand, and casually wiped the rice grains from the corner of his mouth, reminiscing about the smooth and tender skin touched by my fingertips, the flawless skin like a baby, what a beautiful face—I whispered: "I will make it up to you tonight." .”

He snorted and repeated the word: "Make up, make up."

The blonde angel continued to eat gracefully, and I sniffed the back of my hand.

If it is said that Xu Yuzhong has an absurd aura composed of countless women's powder fragrance, then I am the depraved smell that seduces the fallen angels in everyone's hearts.

I smiled.