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Xia Xiaoli didn't expect so many people to come to his little kid's birthday.

In addition to Jian Rong and Huang Tongtong who Xia Xiaoli called over, and two good classmates, there were also a lot of relatives in this city and neighboring cities, all of whom were so enthusiastic that it was overwhelming.

Thanks to his mother Baizhu's passionate promotion, the focus of the birthday party was completely distorted. The relatives and friends of Xia Bai's family all came for Xia Xiaoberry's boyfriend-to-be husband.

In the "good news" delivered by Baizhu before, the eldest daughter has made the best boyfriend in the world, a great professor, a great designer, handsome and kind-hearted, and a good thing is coming soon, and the enthusiastic relatives can't wait until the Spring Festival, I wanted to see the demeanor of this "big handsome boyfriend" early on, and gathered people to gossip openly.

Poor Xia Xiaoberry didn't know that her mother had done something like this. Everyone knew that she was getting married, but she didn't.

Oh, and poor Professor Jo doesn't know either.

The weather was hot, and the party started after three o'clock in the afternoon. Jianrong Huang Tongtong and two classmates came at noon. Huang Tongtong also called a girl who was close to her to join them. Several high school students played games in Xia Xiaoli's room after dinner. PS' PS, mobile game's mobile game, Jian Rong looked normal, and returned to the normal state of good buddies, neither of them said a word about what happened that night.

Xia Xiaoli thinks this is the best way, let those unspoken words just pass by.

Jian Rong brought him a gift, which he had prepared for a long time in advance. It was a figurine of a flying dragon in "Game of Thrones", a genuine collector's item.

The two of them have been chasing dramas together for several years. Xia Xiaoli Xinshui has been making this figurine for a long time, so Jian Rong simply gave it to him, and he has saved the money for this figurine for half a year.

This gift is very precious, Xia Xiaoli knew it, and he said "thank you" very seriously.

Jian Rong just smiled and yelled nonchalantly: "Come and continue playing the game, let's start another game."

After three o'clock, the downstairs started to be noisy. Xia Xiaoli first saw her aunt, aunt, and uncle at the window, followed by her second uncle, second aunt, aunt, sister-in-law, elder uncle, and younger uncle... Wu Yangyang entered the yard like a group .

He was a little confused... What are you doing here?Celebrating my 17th birthday?As for...

The relatives waved to Xia Xiaoli at the window on the second floor, but they asked loudly, "Xiaoli, where is your eldest sister? Are you at home?"

Xia Xiaoli opened the window and shouted: "She hasn't come back yet, maybe it will be a little later."

The relatives ignored him and entered the living room on the first floor talking lively.

After a while, my aunt Bai Xing came up to knock on the door, came in and saw a room full of boys and girls playing games, Bai Xing said "Yo", touched Xia Xiaoli's head and said, "Happy birthday, little birthday boy."

"Thank you, auntie." Xia Xiaoli was stuffed with a big red envelope after saying this.

It was like this every year, all the relatives of Xia Bai's family came here, and Xia Xiaoli always received red envelopes since she was a child.

Bai Xing called the young man to go down to play: "The swimming pool at the back has been cleaned up. Aunt Zhong has made a lot of delicious food and put them in the yard. Aren't you guys going to have a pool party? Go and play."

"Immediately, Auntie, let's go down after this game is over, do you girls want to change into your swimsuits first?" Jian Rong stared at the game screen, quickly pressed the PS controller in his hand, and turned his head to talk to Huang Tongtong.

The two girls were a little embarrassed, and the other girl was more courageous. She pulled Huang Tongtong up and said, "What are you afraid of? Let's go and change."

Xia Xiaoli took them to Xia Xiaoberry's room and asked them to change here. After thinking about it, she asked, "Do you want to wear a T-shirt over your swimsuit? You can wear mine if you don't mind."

The two girls laughed, and Huang Tongtong said, "Thank you, we'll take it if it's okay, of course it's impossible to just walk around the house in a swimsuit."

Xia Xiaoli closed the door, went back to her room and urged them to play games faster.

He looked at his phone, it was almost four o'clock, Xia Xiaoberry and Xia Xiaocheng hadn't come back yet, he glanced at Qiao Yu's WeChat dialog box, and couldn't help but send a message: "Brother Qiao, are you on your way? "

Qiao Yu came back quickly: "Here, I'm with your sister. I just went to pick up something and was delayed. I'll be there soon."

The corners of Xia Xiaoli's mouth curled up, and just as she was about to say something, the boys next to her yelled, "Okay, it's over, let's go, change clothes and go swimming!"

Regardless of their image, a group of boys directly took off their shorts in Xia Xiaoli's room and put on swimming trunks. The boys' swimming trunks were also loose beach shorts, and then went downstairs screaming.

Xia Xiaoli had no choice but to press the phone and follow them out of the room.

A large group of relatives were crowded in the living room, so lively that Xia Xiaoli thought it was the Spring Festival. The people in the Bai family were fine. The relatives of the Xia family were talking louder than each other, and they were discussing something enthusiastically. Xia Xiaoli saw Bai His eyebrows were beaming, but Xia Yunhan's expression was relatively calm, and he only smiled and responded to the relatives' questions.

When the relatives saw Xia Xiaoli, they took out generous big red envelopes one by one and stuffed them in. Xia Xiaoli only had a pair of beach pants and a white T-shirt, and there was nowhere to put the red envelopes, so she stuffed them all for her mother to put away for him first.

In the backyard, two girls were already sitting by the pool, taking pictures.

The boys crowded at the door of the backyard and made exaggerated booing. The two girls were fair-skinned and wore bright swimsuits like flowers and butterflies. Just get a girlfriend during the summer vacation, and she will still be the classmate next door."

Xia Xiaoli glanced at Jian Rong subconsciously, just as their eyes collided, Jian Rong turned around and whispered to Jiang Zhou, "Don't talk nonsense."

"Yo, you still don't admit it, Versailles is over." Several boys hugged him together.

After taking photos with her classmates, Huang Tongtong waved them over by the pool.

Jian Rong walked to the edge of the pool, took off his T-shirt and jumped down, swam to the side of Huang Tongtong and then popped up, splashing the girls with water.

Most of the girls come to the swimming pool just to take a picture, and they don't want to actually go swimming. They get wet and have to clean up, and the elaborate makeup is in vain. It's too troublesome.

Now the two girls got up quickly and shouted together: "Jian Rong is so annoying!"

Xia Xiaoli gave them the bath towel prepared by Aunt Anbian Zhong, and said, "Stay away from them, or I can drag you two down."

The girls retreated under the umbrellas and wrapped themselves in bath towels. There was a long table with various snacks and drinks, as well as flower arrangements carefully arranged by Baizhu. They started a new round of taking pictures.

Xia Xiaoli looked at the door, Qiao Yu hadn't come yet.

He also took off his shirt and jumped into the swimming pool. The four boys happened to be divided into two groups, and played water volleyball in the swimming pool with a simple net.

He and Jian Rong are in a group, and the water skills of the two are obviously better than the two boys on the opposite side. Jian Rong serves the ball and the other side hits it back. On Jiang Zhou's head.

The force of the water polo is not strong, and the pain will not hurt. Everyone laughed together. Jian Rong and Xia Xiaoli clapped their hands and bumped their shoulders, "It's a happy cooperation."

Xia Xiaoli nodded. Only now did he really feel that the embarrassing atmosphere between him and Jian Rong had disappeared.

That's great, Xia Xiaoli wiped her face, and when it was his turn to serve, he swam back.

Holding the ball high in his hands, he hadn't sent it yet, when he heard the noise of the roof being overturned from the living room, the aunt and sister-in-law exaggerated and boldly called: "Oh, Xiao Berry is back! Come on, let the aunt see your boy." friend!"

Brother Qiao came, Xia Xiaoli was stunned in the swimming pool, why is the whole room full of relatives so excited?

"Xia Xiaoli, serve!" the boy opposite called him.

Xia Xiaoli came back to her senses, threw the ball in a hurry, and the opponent easily caught it and hit it back. Jian Rong called him: "Xiao Li! Catch the ball!"

The ball flew straight in front of Xia Xiaoli, who remained motionless on the spot, Jian Rong flew over and slapped the ball away, and the two boys on the opposite side clapped their hands and laughed.

Jian Rong saw that he kept looking into the room, and asked him, "What are you looking at? Is anyone here?"

Xia Xiaoli said: "You guys play, I'll go in and play first."

Without waiting for Jian Rong to say anything, he turned around and swam down to the shore, and got ashore wet, took a towel and wiped it off, put the white T-shirt back on his body, and ran into the living room with no shoes on.

Xia Xiaoberry was stunned when she first entered the door 5 minutes ago, and quickly realized what was going on, and gave Baizhu a hard look.

Bai Zhu turned a blind eye, she was in a particularly good mood today, her daughter and "son-in-law" were all there, this was her best achievement as a mother.

At this point, Xia Xiaoberry couldn't ask her relatives to leave or hide Qiao Yu, so she could only go up to it, turned her head and mouthed to Qiao Yu, "I'm sorry, I didn't know it would happen. ".

Qiao Yu looked determined, shook his head lightly at him, and mouthed, "It's okay."

When Xia Xiaoli went to the living room, she saw Qiao Yu and Xia Xiaoberry surrounded by a large group of relatives, sitting and standing in the sofa area, making them look like stars.

At this point, Xia Xiaoberry didn't even blame Baizhu, but blamed herself for thinking things too simply.

I thought that with a boyfriend in name, everything would be clean and simple, but it turned out to be the exact opposite.

After telling the first lie, there are countless pits that need to be filled with more lies, one after another, it is a bottomless pit.

I also dragged Professor Qiao into the pit, too embarrassing.

The relatives were all smiling, and they were really happy for them. Xia Xiaoberry also knew that they all really loved her and had no malice. She couldn't get angry right now.

However, everything was just a misunderstanding, and she suddenly felt some sadness. If she was heterosexual, everything would be too simple.

The aunt of the Xia family patted her thigh: "I just said that Mr. Qiao looks familiar. This outline and such a straight nose are exactly the same as the noses of our Xia family men. Look, is it exactly the same as Xiaoberry's father?"

The relatives all looked at the bridge of Qiao Yu's nose in an instant. Even though Professor Qiao had seen countless great things in the world, under the close and straightforward gaze of so many people, his back was sweating slightly, restraining his uneasiness.

Xia Xiaoberry pressed his arm, feeling extremely sorry.

The eyes and mouths of the relatives were full of enthusiasm, and there were praises all over the place: "Oh, I just said, it really looks alike, Mr. Qiao just saw that we are a family!"

The seven aunts and the eight aunts finished admiring Qiao Yu's appearance, and then began to admire his knowledge, asking him one by one what he taught, how he was in the United States before, and what development plans he has in China... I heard that he is engaged in bridges It was designed, and the relatives applauded unanimously. This is a good profession, especially good, and it can also help your future father-in-law.

Xia Xiaoli quietly stood behind the crowd, feeling exhausted for brother Qiao.

When eating at the restaurant on the tower crane that night, Qiao Yu joked that this was his first "interview" after returning to China. Now it seems that it was so far away, and today's big scene is the real "interview".

In the end, Xia Yunhan waved his hand: "Okay, okay, from the moment Mr. Qiao came in, he asked people to ask things, how to say that falling in love is also the young people's own business, don't ask any more, you have to check the household registration Like."

Only then did the aunts and aunts restrain their raging curiosity, and the men in the family began to chat with Qiao Yu about the development and planning of Denghong City in recent years. This topic is what Qiao Yu cares about, and he is very interested listening.

After being surrounded fiercely, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, Qiao Yu looked up and saw Xia Xiaoli who was standing behind the sofa, squeezed to the corner, his eyes lit up, and he waved to him: "Xiao Li, why are you standing there, come here quickly. "