The Ye family lives between the North 4th Ring Road and the North 5th Ring Road, close to the Old Summer Palace. The Ye family also bought a house in the city center, but Ye’s father and Ye’s mother still prefer to live in the old house on campus - the environment is good, there is a lot of greenery, and the surrounding
All my colleagues live here, so it’s convenient for work and convenient for students to come and ask questions...
Ye Xiu put on his peaked cap and sunglasses very skillfully, and followed his younger brother as he walked all the way looking around. It had been many years since he returned, and the community was still the same as before. The green trees he climbed when he was a child were hiding the gray brick walls, and there was a small garden on the ground floor.
Here, flowers or weeds are growing vigorously, and in the distance, the noisy voices of children are blown by the hot summer wind...
Of course, there are some inevitable new things:
"Wow, Great God Ye Qiu!"
"We got the wrong person...I just look like..."
The students passing by looked at Ye Qiu suspiciously, looked him up and down, and finally apologized and left. Ye Xiu buried his head in the back and chuckled. Ye Qiu had an expression of "He has nothing to do with me" and sped up with a straight face.
He kept walking, trying hard to leave his brother behind. It wasn't until the two people turned into the doorway and made sure that no one was around that he turned around and grabbed Ye Xiu's collar, saying:
"Why are you laughing? Look, you're the one who's responsible! You're still laughing!"
"Just be content. At any rate, you've been able to avoid this kind of life for nine years, okay?"
Ye Xiu calmly patted his brother's hand away and climbed up the stairs. This residential building was built in 1993, with a total of six floors. It looked a bit old at this time, the stairs were narrow, and the lighting was dim.
Ye Xiu muttered as he climbed up: "Oh, I'm so tired - I haven't climbed to the fifth floor in many years -"
"You know how to climb the second floor? It's thanks to your landlady, right?"
As an elite person who has been exercising regularly, although Ye Qiu's legs were spoiled by the elevator, he was not as useless as his brother at this stage. He quickened his pace and ran to the fifth floor before ringing the doorbell for the first time.
The iron gate was pulled open with a clang.
Standing in front of the door is a lady who looks to be only in her fifties. Her waist is straight, her face is full of energy, and her eyes are as bright as stars. Some of her gray hair is elegantly tied into a bun on the top of her head, even though she is wearing a light blue home.
Even though he was wearing an apron, he could not hide his ability and dignity.
As soon as the door opened, she looked over Ye Qiu's shoulder and towards her other son, who was taking off his sunglasses a few steps away.
"Back?"
"Back."
Ye Xiu stepped forward step by step. Ye Qiu had already slipped through the gap between his mother and the door, and went straight to his room. In the dark corridor, there were only a mother and a son who had not seen each other in nearly ten years.
The threshold stands opposite each other.
Her mother was much older. There were wrinkles on her once smooth cheeks, and the skin on the back of her hand that was leaning on the door frame was visibly sagging. Even though the years had been completely kind to her, those subtle marks still made Ye Xiu...
He realized how much time he had missed spending time with his mother and being filial to her.
He stopped, subconsciously tugged on the strap of his backpack, and straightened his back a bit.
"Mom, I'm back."
"Your dad is in the study."
The mother looked at her son carefully from top to bottom, nodded, turned around and walked towards the kitchen. As she walked, she asked without looking back: "What are you going to eat?"
Ye Xiu followed him in. He put down his backpack on the shoe cabinet at the door, closed the door with one hand, and deftly touched the corner of the second floor of the shoe cabinet with the other hand - the slippers were still in the same place. Smelling the hot aroma in the kitchen, Ye Xiu
Xiu suddenly laughed and said loudly: "Dumplings!"
"Nonsense! Get out of the dumplings and catch the wind. I just came home. What dumplings are you eating?"
In the kitchen, his mother's voice came unexpectedly. The smile on Ye Xiu's face grew bigger and bigger. At the same time, Ye Qiu also started shouting through the door:
“fennel dumplings!”
“Didn’t buy fennel!”
“Stuffed with chives and pork!”
"You go buy leeks at this time!"
"I want cabbage and beef stuffing!"
“No beef!”
“I want three fresh dishes too!”
The two brothers rushed to make requests one after another, mixed with the mother's retorts and scoldings, and the room was filled with excitement. Amidst the hustle and bustle in the room, Ye Xiu threw his backpack into his room and stood at the door of the study that was ajar.
Determined, he knocked gently on the door:
"Dad, I'm back."
"Come in."
Surrounded by towering bookshelves, Father Ye buried his head among several piles of materials as high as his head, writing furiously. Hearing his son come in, he did not raise his eyes, but slightly turned his face to the side and raised his chin:
"sit."
"Oh." Ye Xiu sat on a chair on the side of the desk in an orderly manner. In the Ye family's study room, two large desks were placed opposite each other. The male and female owners of the Ye family each occupied one. The chairs next to them, as well as those next to the door
The sofa along the road wall is prepared for students and visitors. When Ye Xiu was a child, he did not know how many times he sat on the chair next to the desk, waiting for his father to sign the exam paper. After so many years, sitting like this did not feel at all strange.
Unnoticeable.
After sitting down, he realized that there was a thick stack of A4 papers in front of his father. He should be grading some student's paper. Fortunately, it was already at the end. Ye Xiu only waited for less than three minutes. His father had already finished grading and closed the paper.
file, looking up at him:
"Retired?"
"Retired."
"What's next?"
"You should read some books first." Ye Xiu met his father's gaze without hesitation, "First make up for what you owe, and then talk about other things."
"Okay." Father Ye raised his thick black eyebrows and nodded in approval: "You don't need to rely on academic qualifications now, but systematic education is still very important for shaping a person's quality in an all-round way. First, let's talk about
Go through the contents of high school, and if necessary, I will help you read the reading list."
"Yeah. Thanks dad."
The brief conversation between father and son ended. The room became quiet again. Ye Xiu rested his chin on the desk with one hand, staring at his father's side face amidst the hum of the air conditioner, watching his father open another paper.
, watching the tip of the pen scratching across the paper, after a while, his eyelids slowly drooped.
"Go back to sleep."
"Well, I'm going to take a shower."
Ye Xiu stood up and left. After he took a shower and before drying his hair, he heard his mother shouting in the living room: "Old Ye! Phone!"
"Here comes—who is it?"
"Old Liu from the General Administration of Sports! I'm looking for you!"
Ye Xiu immediately ran out of the bathroom, opened the door to his room wide, pretended to make the bed, and eavesdropped. After a few words, his father's voice suddenly rose to a higher level: "My family
Boss?!"
"...Just him?"
"Is it your responsibility to play games these days?"
A head full of water vapor suddenly poked in, stood straight in front of him, and made a special face. Ye Xiu was almost startled by his brother, but before he could roll his eyes, his boring brother
He turned around and walked out of the door as if nothing had happened, humming a song softly, and staggered towards the balcony.
Ye Xiu shook his head, snorted, and continued to lean his ear against the door. But it was obvious that his father's excitement period had passed. Ye Xiu listened for a long time, and only vaguely heard a few "international" words.
"Competition", "rejection", "retirement" and other words, all that's left is a sigh of relief.
After a long while, the phone hung up with a click, and my father's voice rang: "Ye Xiu!"
"Dad, what's going on?"
"Come out!"
"Wait a minute, I'll make the bed and come out soon-" Before Ye Xiu could finish his words, his mother slammed a plate of dumplings onto the table and ruthlessly complained: "You've been making the bed for a quarter of an hour, right?
!”
"Uh..." Seriously, biological person?
Ye Xiu moved out dejectedly, stuffed himself into the other end of the sofa, and curled up into a ball. Father Ye frowned and looked at the look of him with all his bones drained, and endured it again and again, but finally waited patiently.
After he sat down, he cleared his throat and said:
"Did you hear the call just now?"
"Ah? What phone number?"
"The General Administration of Sports called. The director called me personally and asked you to lead the national team and play in the competition."
"Dad——! I retired!"
"You can't go after you retire?"
"Of course!" Ye Xiu said so confidently: "We agreed to find players from the league, so what if I join as a retired player? According to league regulations, those who have retired for less than one year cannot come back!"
"Can't we go abroad to fight?" In the phone call just now, Father Ye obviously learned a lot of urgent science knowledge, "Can the alliance still manage the World Invitational Tournament?"
"Dad!" Ye Xiu leaned forward and looked like he was having a heart-to-heart talk. He wanted to be as sincere as possible: "I am already 28 years old! I am a super old player! Otherwise, why would I retire? Dad, go to the league.
Ask here, there aren’t many left in the second season!”
"But Director Liu said, you just won the championship? You didn't lose a single duel last season? Are you some kind of master tactician?"
"Oh, you have to give the younger generation a chance. You can't let me, a retired person, steal the spotlight. They will hate your son to death——"
"Ye! Xiu!"
"If I don't go, I won't go! Professional players must keep their word. If they say they will retire, there will be no cheating!"
"Um--?"
Ye's father's thick black eyebrows slowly rose. Ye Xiu, however, was not afraid of him at all. He held his hands and dangled in front of his father's gaze, almost rolling on the sofa in a live performance.
"It was you who wanted to separate at first, so you should separate~~~~Now you want to use true love to coax me back~~~~"
Ye Qiuhuang's singing voice came from the balcony. Father Ye's face darkened, he suddenly turned his head and shouted in the direction of his youngest son:
"You little brat, you're itching!"
Ye Xiu laughed so hard that he almost fell off the sofa. Father Ye took a few deep breaths, stood up with lightning speed and calm movements, and picked up his eldest son:
"Okay, don't be poor anymore. Let me win glory for the country! Damn it, come back as a champion!"
"……dad?"
Ye Xiu stood stunned. His father's old and bright eyes were still staring at him. He seemed a little uncomfortable, but he patted his shoulder without hesitation and pushed him to turn in another direction.
Push it out:
"Go for it!"
"Ah ah ah, dad, you can't be so cruel. At least let me finish my dinner first——"
Ye Xiu screamed.
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So is this the truth behind Ye Xiu's "being kicked out before the sheets were laid out"...
And, it's obviously a very happy plot... I come back and roll around like a coquettish person, asking for dumplings or something...