A gentleman is not a group

Zhou Chi and Xie Jianmian walked upwards, and the half-exposed villa finally revealed the whole picture step by step. Zhou Chi suddenly felt a sense of fulfillment, not only because it was a place that everyone in the world wanted to visit, but also because he could finally see Xie Jianmian. grown up home.

There was no one guarding the door. Although the door was closed, it was opened with a slight push, and only then could the scene inside be seen. A few children were sweeping the ground in the courtyard, playing and playing from time to time. They did not have the majesty of a martial arts family at all. Everywhere embodies the leisurely nature of Xanadu.

Zhou Chi finally understood why Xie Jianmian was able to develop this temperament.

When those little boys heard the movement at the door, they turned their heads to look. When they saw Zhou Chi for the first time, the little boys who hadn't seen a stranger for a long time couldn't help being stunned. Then they saw Xie Jianmian at the side, and said in surprise: "The young master is back. Already!"

Xie Jianmian nodded and asked, "Where are my parents?"

The little boy hastily pointed out: "It's in the backyard. This morning, Madam was still talking to the owner, saying that the young owner was playing wild outside, and he didn't want to come back."

"I see."

Xie Jianmian rubbed his forehead, he could already foresee the nagging coming soon, he took Zhou Chi's hand with a headache, and walked towards the backyard together, leaving a few children looking at each other in surprise, some couldn't believe what they saw.

Before they reached the backyard, they heard the sound of conversation.

"Amian has been out for a long time this time, we can't let him go out and run around again when he comes back."

Xie Jianmian pouted and whispered, "This is my mother."

Zhou Chi held back a smile and nodded.

Then I heard a thick male voice, it should be Master Xie: "It's easy to say, you don't know what your own son is, can you stop him? If you can stop him, he won't be able to escape this time. Besides, the child is grown up after all, so it's good to go out for a walk."

Mrs. Xie's voice was aggrieved: "Amian has never been out of the villa since she was a child, so I am worried about him."

Seeing his wife's sad expression, Master Xie rebelled instantly, coaxing: "Yes, yes, I won't let him go out when he comes back."

Xie Jianmian: "..."

He seemed to hear something he shouldn't have heard.

Zhou Chi couldn't hold back a chuckle, and it was too late when he realized that the two were eavesdropping.

Master Xie turned around and asked, "Who's here?"

Xie Jianmian glanced at Zhou Chi, coughed lightly, walked out of the shelter, and said, "Father, mother, I'm back."

Zhou Chi touched his nose and followed, saying respectfully, "Thank you, Mrs. Xie."

"Amian!"

Seeing Xie Jianmian, Mrs. Xie came over in a hurry, took Xie Jianmian's hand and began to chatter, from basic necessities of life to housing and transportation to wind and rain, there was even a faint tendency to develop towards which tree in the villa bears the best fruit, Xie Jianmian hurried He cast a look of help to Master Xie.

Zhuangzhu Xie pretended not to see and turned his head away.

Xie Jianmian: "..."

Mrs. Xie asked again, occasionally interspersed with a few exclamations of unknown meaning, and finally noticed Zhou Chi standing beside her when she was tired of talking and paused.

"Who is this……"

Zhou Chi quickly said, "I'm Ah Mian's friend."

He spoke quickly, before Xie Jianmian opened his mouth, completely oblivious to Xie Jianmian's sudden gaze after hearing this sentence.

"It's Ah Mian's friend." Mrs. Xie looked at Zhou Chi with glowing eyes. Seeing that the young man was handsome and upright, he looked like a good boy from a decent family. The more she looked at it, the more she liked it. She felt that her son was picking on friends. That's great, smiled and took Zhou Chi's hand, "Amian grew up in this villa, and it's rare to make friends outside. If he has any minor temper problems, please bear with me."

Zhou Chi was about to nod, when Xie Jianmian said lightly, "He's not my friend."

"Ah?" Mrs. Xie held Zhou Chi's hand and froze, "You child, why..."

Xie Jianmian looked at Zhou Chi resentfully, and blinked his upturned eyes at him: "We have worshiped before, why don't you recognize it?"

Zhou Chi: "..."

Zhou Chi felt that Mrs. Xie's hand holding him became more stiff.

Master Xie was also stunned, suspecting that he had heard wrongly, and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

"I said that we have worshiped. Although there is no word from the matchmaker ordered by our parents, it can be considered that the matchmaker is married."

Mrs. Xie shook her hand, retracted instantly, and looked at Zhou Chi awkwardly, as if she wanted to see flowers from his face.

Zhou Chi didn't say it before, because he was afraid that Master Xie and his wife wouldn't be able to accept it for a while, thinking that there would always be a chance in the future, and it would be fine for him to accompany him as a friend. He hesitated and changed the address: "Uncle, aunt?"

"Ah?" Mrs. Xie pointed at herself blankly, "You called me?"

Master Xie pulled Mrs. Xie aside with a headache, managed to maintain his composure, and said to Zhou Chi, "Can I ask this...Young Master to stay away for a while, let's talk with Ah Mian first."

Zhou Chi nodded, took a look at Xie Jianmian, turned around and walked out of the backyard, found a corner and squatted down bored, feeling extremely nervous.

The little boys I saw just now were talking about something, and as the footsteps approached, Zhou Chi heard a few words clearly.

A little boy said: "Hey, did you see the Young Master and that young master just now, are they... are they..."

The other person hissed: "Sure, you can still run with your hands hooked together. We are going to have a wedding in the villa!"

"What happy event?"

"Idiot, marry the young lady."

Zhou Chi accidentally listened to the corner, feeling very complicated.

In the backyard, Master Xie and Mrs. Xie managed to calm down their frightened mood, and quickly asked, "Amian, what's going on?"

Xie Jianmian didn't want to hide it. He told the confrontation between him and Fu Yabutou when he first arrived in Jinzhou and the changes in their relationship. What he talked about was the important part that could be told, focusing on Zhou Chi's burden and forbearance. Zhou Chi portrays the image of a poor young man who has gone through hardships and is persevering.

Sure enough, Mrs. Xie quietly wiped away her tears after hearing this, took Master Xie's hand and murmured: "I didn't expect this child to be so difficult..."

Zhuangzhu Xie looked at his wife who was led away by Xie Jianmian with complicated emotions, he saw through Xie Jianmian's little trick at a glance, and it was not easy to expose it in front of his wife, so he could only agree: "Yes, yes, Mr. Zhou is not easy. "

Xie Jianmian smiled with satisfaction.

Mrs. Xie remembered that Zhou Chi was still waiting outside, and hurriedly said: "Go and ask someone to prepare meals for you to clean up the dust. If you have anything to say, let's talk while eating."

Until the food was brought to the table and several people sat around to eat, Zhou Chi couldn't get used to the eyes that Mrs. Xie looked at from time to time. I don't know what Xie Jianmian said to her. Zhou Chi always felt that Mrs. Xie looked at him like a A yellow cabbage growing in the field, cold and rainy, no one cares about it.

While Mrs. Xie was talking to Master Xie, Zhou Chi poked Xie Jianmian's leg under the table and asked softly, "What did you just say?"

Xie Jianmian curled his lips into a smile: "Your kind words."

"Cough." Seeing that the two of them acted like no one was talking, Mrs. Xie felt uncomfortable again, but Xie Jianmian spoke clearly.

Although she was shocked, she was not unacceptable, and even looked at Zhou Chi and began to think strangely that her family, Amian, had a good eye, and the husband she chose...

"Madam or Husband?"

Thoughts popped out of Mrs. Xie's mind.

Xie Jianmian, Zhou Chi: "..."

Owner Xie felt even more headache, suddenly thought of something, changed the subject and said, "Zhou Chi is from Jinzhou, right? It's so coincidental that his surname is Zhou, so do you know Zhou Kuangxi?"

Hearing his father's name suddenly, Zhou Chi was stunned, and said, "It's my father."

Zhuangzhu Xie obviously didn't expect that the topic he was talking about would actually bring out something unexpected: "It turned out to be like this, and that's even more coincidental. I went to Jinzhou when I was young and met your father. It was like old friends at first sight. It's just that I haven't looked for a chance to go back to see him since I left, I never thought... oh..."

Zhou Chi didn't expect that his father had such a relationship with Master Xie, and his fate with Xie Jianmian seemed to be much earlier than he could think.

Zhuangzhu Xie went on to say: "Although your father was not very old at the time, he was no longer sticking to business and loved to study everything. I also gave him some books on Qimen Dunjia, which were unique to Liuyun Villa. Yes, he was quite happy."

Qimen Dunjia...

"Is there a seven-star formation?"

"I don't remember clearly." Zhuangzhu Xie thought for a while and said, "Maybe there are."

It turned out that this is the case, which makes sense. 17 years ago, the Rin gang looted those books from the Zhou family, and regarded the seven-star formation in it as a gatekeeper formation.

Unexpectedly, 17 years later, Xie Jianmian saw through it at a glance, and ended up being wiped out inside and out.

Zhou Chi is actually the son of an old friend. Because of this relationship, Master Xie became closer to Zhou Chi. Most of the previous discomfort has gone, and he even accepted that his son brought a man back without realizing it. thing.

When the meal was almost done, Xie Jianmian cautiously said, "Well...Father, Mother, I came back this time to see you, and I plan to leave tomorrow..."

"Hey, what did you say?" Mrs. Xie suddenly covered her chest, and leaned over on Master Xie's body, "My chest hurts so much, help me back to my room to rest."

Xie Jianmian: "..."

Sure enough, it was easy to get in, but difficult to get out.

Zhou Chi smiled and looked at Mrs. Xie's back who was carried away by Master Xie, and said, "Do you want to stay for two days before leaving?"

"How can you, you don't know my mother, the longer you stay, the less likely you will go out."

"Then we..."

"Shh." Xie Jianmian pulled Zhou Chi into his room, leaned into his ear and said, "Take a good rest first, and we will sneak out at night."

Zhou Chi's worry, which he could barely put down, was born again, and now he might become a bad guy who abducted other people's sons again.

When the moon was in the middle of the sky, there was gradually no movement in the mansion. Xie Jianmian took out a piece of paper, wrote a short letter and put it on the table, and pulled Zhou Chi out over the wall familiarly.

They didn't see that behind them, Master Xie and Mrs. Xie were watching furtively in the corner. Mrs. Xie snorted and said to Master Xie: "I still want to hide this little trick from me. If I If you don't turn a blind eye, that kid really thinks he can slip out, he wasn't even born when I climbed over the wall!"

"Okay, madam, the child is too old to control, so we don't care, let's go back and rest."

Madam Xie snorted again, then turned and went back to the room.

Until the twilight appeared in the sky, Zhou Chi hadn't recovered from the shock of seeing Xie Jianmian's parents sneaking away again, he and Xie Jianmian rode forward endlessly.

Xie Jianmian asked, "Where are we going?"

Zhou Chi looked over with a smile: "Anywhere..."

As long as there is you, everywhere is the world of mortals.

The two figures walked towards the rising sun in the east, and the warm glow reflected on their bodies, as if they were reborn.

From then on, the rivers and lakes are far away, and the rest of my life is in peace.