In the past, Xu Xilin was very busy during the Chinese New Year. In the beginning, he had to bite the bullet and visit many local snakes for his just-started career. Although others saw him as young and did not take him seriously,

The meaning needs to be expressed. Chinese New Year is an opportunity to work hard to build relationships.

Later, the "village" gained a foothold, and Song Lianyuan also became a "door-to-door son-in-law." The two brothers successfully became one of the local bosses, and someone else came to curry favor with them. Xu Xilin's visitors were guests, and they made good friends every year.

He is the convener of a lot of entertainment.

However, this year everyone was shocked to find that they could not invite him.

Xu Xilin flew over on the 29th of the twelfth lunar month. On New Year's Eve, he gave Brother Song a briefing on the company's performance for the year at the dinner table. He took a few chopsticks and laid out the strategic ideas for the coming year on the dining table. He wanted to run away that night, but was troubled by many things.

When he failed to escape, he planned to escape early on the first day of the new year. The reason was very ridiculous - gray parrots would lose their feathers if left for too long.

After hearing this excuse, Song Lianyuan's eyebrows almost flew out of his face: "Why don't you just marry the parrot? You are really incompetent in business. I'll open a zoo and let you be the director!"

"Uh... there's something else," Xu Xilin thought for a long time, and finally the hard work paid off and reminded him of another reason, "I heard that Director Wei was hospitalized for surgery during the Chinese New Year, so we should go and have a look.

Do you mean something?"

Song Lianyuan thought about the considerable dividend he received this year, and reluctantly accepted the reason: "Okay, okay, get out."

Xu Xilin packed up and left, his luggage was all ready.

Song Lianyuan followed him around with a sullen face and kept telling him: "No one will take care of you when you go back. Pay attention to yourself and cook some millet porridge if you have nothing to do. I'm sorry for your rotten stomach... And make more young friends, business and entertainment, etc."

You don’t have to go there in person, just let the people below do the errands. Don’t hang around that broken bird all day long. Can it support you in your old age?”

The last sentence was a subtle reminder. Unfortunately, Xu Xilin, who was in Cao's camp and had a heart for Han, didn't hear it at all. He felt the married man's nonsense and ran away without looking back.

Song Lianyuan worriedly called him a bastard, and when he turned around, he saw Gao Lan looking at him and laughing.

"What are you laughing at?" Song Lianyuan asked inexplicably.

"Your brother must be ." Gao Lan tapped Song Lianyuan's forehead enigmatically, "You can't tell and you still nag, you idiot."

After Song Lianyuan heard her perceptive "announcement of good news", he thought of Xu Xilin's indistinguishable sexual orientation. Not only was he not happy, but he looked even more sad. Gao Lan was so worried that he asked inexplicably: "Who is his mother?"

Xu Xilin was eager to return home. He booked his flight tickets in a taxi. He might have to rush back to reincarnate, so he booked a flight in a very tight schedule. When he arrived at the airport, the automatic ticket machines were closed, so he rushed all the way to the airport, dragging his luggage.

I exchanged tickets at the manual counter, and when I got through the security check with no luck, my lungs almost came out.

We flew all the way back home, and when we landed, we heard the sound of firecrackers being banned. The streets that were usually blocked by parking lots were as fast as a private sports car park. It was hard to get a taxi.

On the way, Xu Xilin, who was running non-stop, suddenly had a whim: "Master, please see if there is a gift shop nearby for me to stop for a while."

The driver looked at him with a crazy look: "Gift? This is the first day of the Lunar New Year, who will open the door? I see you, you can find a flower bed where no one is watching and cut two pieces -

Are you going to your girlfriend’s house?”

Xu Xilin smiled brightly: "No, no."

The driver looked at him with a look on his face: "It's all for nothing. Let me give you a tip - I will leave you in the mall soon. You can go and get some bird's nests and sea cucumbers to send to my mother-in-law. There are so many little girls."

It doesn't matter if you have a few jewelry or flowers, as long as you answer the question from home correctly, that's better than anything else.

Xu Xilin was greatly embarrassed and waved his hands repeatedly. The romantic feelings floating in the air condensed into rain under the master's down-to-earth advice, and all fell on the plain yellow earth.

There were three people in "Grandpa"'s flower shop. Cai Jing was homeless. Dou Xun politely replied a New Year greeting message to Dou Junliang. Even if he had fulfilled his obligation, Lao Cheng showed up when he went home on New Year's Eve the night before and was beaten by the seventh aunt.

The eight aunties were arrested and carried out the annual "beating of children" campaign during the Chinese New Year. They stopped being abused at home and ran out early.

The flower shop, which is closed to the public, has become a gathering place for the three bachelors.

When Xu Xilin burst in wrapped in the wind and snow, Cai Jing was studying how to heat leftovers in the microwave. Everyone was shocked by this uninvited guest.

The gray parrot finally saw its relatives, and abandoned Dou Xun, who had been trying to get close to it, and fluttered its wings and flew onto Xu Xilin's shoulder. After being silent for several days in the old family, it opened its mouth and said sweetly:

"May you be happy and prosperous."

Xu Xilin was so amused by his precious son at the door that he laughed like a dog.

Lao Cheng closed his jaw with difficulty - no wonder there was no news from Xu Xilin after he sent that message. He had been making trouble for a long time and was planning to kill him right back!

Lao Cheng was too embarrassed to watch, so he asked Xu Xilin: "You're celebrating the New Year, what are you doing here?"

Xu Xilin entered the house, closed the door, hugged his precious son, and looked at Dou Xun first, and saw Dou Xun sitting in a small, frustrated space on the second floor of the shop.

The heating in the store was not good. Dou Xun had a blanket covering his legs and a laptop on his knees. He was struggling to maintain his composure on the surface. He was obviously shocked.

Xu Xilin couldn't help but laugh.

"My brother has just been married for two years and has no children. Why should I be a light bulb?" Xu Xilin said, while glancing at the dinner prepared by the three of them and frowning, "It's the Chinese New Year, you three are eating leftovers?"

Lao Cheng plausibly argued: "There is something special about eating leftovers on the first day of the new year. It means having more than enough every year..."

"How big are you?" Xu Xilin thrust the suitcase and parrot into Lao Cheng's hand, then casually took off his snow-stained coat and threw it to the door. He rolled up his sleeves as he walked, "Where's the quality of life? Lao Cai avoids me.

See what else is in the refrigerator?"

Lao Cheng: "..."

He had just spoken to Dou Xun on behalf of the man named Xu the day before, describing him as an empty, lonely and cold workaholic. He also said that he only ate fast food and socialized around all day long, and his whole person exudes a sense of world-weariness.

The breath is so cloudy.

As a result, the real owner came back today and slapped him in the face!

Lao Cheng angrily dragged the doorway where Xu Xilin had stepped on a bunch of muddy footprints, thinking: "You bastard, if you keep meddling in your business, I will be the bastard!"

Xu Xilin's mind has not calmed down since he received Lao Cheng's WeChat message. He wished he could fully reflect the results of his previous years of cooking training - he just regretted that Lao Cheng's family did not have so much material for him to use.

Although Dou Xun was determined, he was braver when facing birds. At this time, when meeting people, he still felt a little shy about home. He hesitantly went downstairs and poked his head into the kitchen: "What can I do for you?"

Xu Xilin turned around and smiled brightly at him: "Okay, what do you know?"

Dou Xun: "..."

Xu Xilin took off his coat and covered himself with a thin layer of cashmere sweater, as if it was casually placed on a moving clothes hanger, revealing the outline of his shoulders and waist in every detail. At this age, he has a very thin frame.

His figure has been finalized, his back is full of the stability and uprightness of a man, and he no longer has the greenness of a teenager, but the smile he looks back at is as warm as before.

This smile was so lethal that Dou Xun almost couldn't resist it. After being speechless for a while, he reluctantly admitted: "...I know how to fry rice."

After saying that, Dou Xun felt a little embarrassed because he found that he had been stuck to himself for ten years and made no progress, whether it was with Xu Xilin or in the kitchen.

Xu Xilin had no choice but to say, "Go and wait to eat. There's a lot of fumes here."

The old man who came back to put the mop was swept away by his conniving look, and immediately left with his hair standing on end against the wall, wishing he could beat the man named Xu out with the mop.

Dou Xun looked at Xu Xilin longingly for a while, reluctant to leave, but "Grandpa" flower shop only had such a small space, and he had to take care of the mood of the other two onlookers, so he reluctantly sat back in the living room.

As soon as the food was served, the dissatisfied old man forgave Xu Xilin and felt that he could love him for another five hundred years.

Thanks to Dou Xun's favor, the three of them, who were living singles, finally didn't have to eat the leftovers from the New Year's Eve takeout. Xu Xilin sat down pretending, wiped his hands with a towel politely: "We don't have enough time today, just make something, you guys

Just enough to eat.”

Lao Cheng looked at the flowers carved from radish next to the vegetarian dishes and thought that he might need to re-include the entry with the word "casual".

After eating, Cai Jing got up and tidied up on his own initiative. Dou Xun tentatively sat next to Xu Xilin like he was approaching a gray parrot. At first, his sitting posture was a bit rigid. Later, he found that Xu Xilin didn't seem to have any objections, so he relaxed a little.

, couldn't help but become a little greedy, and touched Xu Xilin's hand on the pretense of looking for the TV remote control.

Xu Xilin turned his head to look at him - Xu Xilin rarely looked at him in the first few times they met. At that time, Dou Xun was just a little disappointed, but overall he felt fine. Xu Xilin didn't know what medicine he took wrong today... or maybe he was getting used to it.

, and returned to his previous habit - when Dou Xun talked to him, he would look at Dou Xun quietly. His focused eyes and affectionate eyes were actually a bit similar, and it was easy to make people distracted.

"The parrot hasn't spoken much in the past few days. Is he not used to living here?" Dou Xun was not very good at talking to people, so he struggled to find a topic.

Xu Xilin waved to the gray parrot on the shelf, and the big bird flew over and landed on his arm in a well-trained manner: "I'm poor at home, maybe it's because I'm not familiar with it here, and it's a little timid - come on, son, sing a song

Song."

The gray parrot has quite the habits of Mr. Dou when he was young. He is usually spoiled and arrogant, and he is very good at touching his nose and face. But once Xu Xilin gets angry or does not keep him with him for some reason, he starts to feel intensely uneasy.

, he becomes very well-behaved when he feels uneasy, and he is particularly lovable.

At this moment, the gray parrot was afraid that Xu Xilin would not pick it up, so it was so cute that it sang when asked to sing, and even sang a very festive "Gong Xi Fa Cai"... although it went off-key in the middle.

Xu Xilin heard that it was trying to get involved in the love business, so he quickly fed it a peanut to eat.

Dou Xun reached out and touched it. The parrot was very dissatisfied. However, because it was being behaved and could not attack, he had to hold its nose and bear it.

Xu Xilin suddenly grabbed Dou Xun's wrist.

Dou Xun actually showed him the scars on his hand on purpose, but when Xu Xilin touched it, he still shivered slightly involuntarily, and his waist that had just relaxed became stiff again involuntarily.

Xu Xilin's face turned cold: "That little evil beast bit him?"

The parrot was so frightened that he didn't even bother to eat the peanuts. He flapped his wings and flew to the foot of the table, where he stood there tremblingly.

At this moment, Cai Jing came out of the kitchen after washing the dishes. Dou Xun immediately remembered that Xu Xilin had kept a secret about their relationship in front of others. Xu Xilin never liked having physical contact with him when outsiders were around, so he immediately broke away from Xu Xilin.

Hand: "It's okay."

Xu Xiling was just halfway feeling distressed when he was caught off guard and "avoided for fear of not being able to catch up", and his heart inevitably sank.

Fortunately, he received a lot of cold looks in his early years, and his mental state adjusted quickly.

I think back then, he had completely passively accepted Dou Xun's intense and passionate feelings. He had always been confused and couldn't find the right rhythm. Actually, if you think about it, how many men have such luck?

The male bird knows that it is not easy to court a mate, and it is normal to encounter several setbacks. He just needs to adjust his strategy... Fortunately, everyone is at this age. Even if he is as ruthless as Dou Xun, he is not as good as when he was a teenager.

It would feel much better if you were so angry with him in front of him.

Thinking of this, Xu Xilin's mind calmed down.

He glared at the parrot who didn't dare to raise his head: "What did I tell you at home?"

The gray parrot lowered its wings and trembled slightly uneasily.

Xu Xilin was reluctant to hit him, but he was still angry, so he threatened it: "If it bites again, I won't let you go."

The gray parrot understood, was frightened, and stood there dumbfounded.

Although Dou Xun was deliberately complaining, looking at the bird's appearance, he suddenly felt a bit sad.

So he stretched out an arm towards the gray parrot. The bird probably knew who he had offended, and flew onto Dou Xun's arm in disgrace. He carefully retracted his claws and did not scratch him. He glanced at Xu Xilin and saw that his expression did not soften.

He had no choice but to turn to Dou Xun unhappily, jump onto his shoulder, and nuzzle him with his head dejectedly.

Dou Xun said: "It's okay. It bit me a lot when it was a child. It stays like this when it's born. It'll be fine after two days of cooking - how about you let me raise it for another two days?"

After saying that, Dou Xun felt that he was quite clever. This would give him a reason to contact Xu Xilin and see him from time to time.

Xu Xilin, who had evil intentions, got what he wanted and sold his son without saying a word.

That night, Xu Xilin was driven away by Lao Cheng on the grounds that "the room was too small to live in".

He left late at night the night before, and acted like a lunatic the next day. He came back before dawn. Xu Xilin drove around the "Grandpa" flower shop and saw the curtains of several rooms from downstairs.

After pulling them all, he reluctantly left again. In the morning, he came back and found a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables from nowhere.

While Dou Xun was changing the water for the bird, Lao Cheng quietly waved to Xu Xilin: "Come here."

Xu Xilin: "What's the matter?"

The old man gritted his teeth and took a bite of the apple. He saw the "Xiangli" trademark behind the fruit basket and found with hatred that this decadent bourgeois exclusive fruit was indeed expensive.

Lao Cheng: "Let's discuss a matter. Can we take your ancestors away? At worst, we can send them back in the evening. I'll spend all day long with someone like me. Our family can't afford to hire someone of your worth as a cook."

Xu Xilin also had this idea and asked in a low voice: "Where did you say you were going?"

As a lifelong member of the "Go to Death League", Lao Cheng was confused by his question. His eyes widened and he said, "You come to ask me? The first day you met Dou Xun?"

Xu Xilin: "..."

In fact, he didn't go out with Dou Xun very often. At that time, he had to take care of Grandma Xu. The two of them occasionally went out together, probably to attend a class reunion and buy groceries.

He rarely bought any gifts for Dou Xun, let alone asked him out.

The ups and downs of the relationship seemed completely devoid of artificial romance and deliberateness. Without anyone's dedicated maintenance, it could spread out of control like weeds and overrun the garden, becoming a disaster.

Now that everything was starting from scratch, he was a little at a loss.

Lao Cheng saw something was wrong with his expression: "What's wrong?"

Xu Xilin quickly came to his senses: "It's okay, you're right, I took the person away."

After saying that, he jumped up as if he was recharged.

Lao Cheng heard that Xu Xilin first called someone to help him check the latest artistic performances, and then asked someone to help him book tickets for the evening drama, and then ran to ask Dou Xun if he wanted to go out to look at houses with him - although the agency might not be open, Xu Xilin

Claim that he is familiar with it, and he has a rough idea of ​​the traffic conditions and rental prices of houses there. You can show him the environment first, and then you can look at the house in a targeted manner.

The old man knew he was farting when he heard it - Xu Xilin had been away from home for several years. When he came back, he couldn't find his own home. The rent of the rented house had not increased by a penny for several years. Where could he get familiar with the city's housing rental market?

I can't tell you how long I crammed into looking up maps online the night before.

Lao Cheng watched Xu Xilin send Dou Xunyu out with just a few words. He hummed a tune and came up to the gray parrot to scold him: "Oh, you stayed again?"

Gray parrot makes aggressive movements.

"Bite, bite," Lao Cheng laughed, "tell your father after you bite, he won't want you anymore."

For the first time, the gray parrot spoke to an unfamiliar person: "Bah!"
Chapter completed!