Ji Chengxuan had gotten used to mooching meals here. He nodded with a smile.
"Sure! I haven't tasted Big Brother Yun's cooking for a while. I've been craving it."
Yun Fujin was amused by him. "You're the sweet - tongued one. It's only been three days since you last came. How could you miss it that much?"
"As the saying goes, 'One day apart seems like three autumns.' Moreover, my dad's cooking is really hard to compliment," Ji Chengxuan complained to Yun Fujin.
In the past, when Zheng Ying was often away, it was always Old Doctor Ji who took care of Ji Chengxuan. Logically, his cooking skills should have been excellent, but Old Doctor Ji really had no talent in this regard. The food he cooked was just barely edible, enough to keep one from starving.
But when compared with Yun Fujin's cooking, it seemed shabby.
Yun Fujin patted Ji Chengxuan on the head with a smile. "All right. Come if you want to eat. But don't let your dad hear this."
He glanced in the direction of the room where Yun Que'er lived. "Why hasn't she come out yet? Xiaojuan, you go in first. I'll go and check on Xiao Que'er."
Yun Fujin pushed open the door of Yun Que'er's room and saw her lying on the kang with her back to him.
"Not feeling well?"
"No," Yun Que'er buried her head in the pillow and replied in a muffled voice.
Yun Fujin noticed that Yun Que'er seemed to be in a bad mood, so he sat down on the edge of the kang.
"Why are you so glum after going out? Did someone bully you?"
"No."
Yun Que'er turned over, but her face was clearly full of concerns. She couldn't fool Yun Fujin at all.
"What on earth happened? If someone bullied you, you must tell Big Brother."
Yun Que'er sighed. "Then you should drive that guy in the next room out. I don't want to see him."
Yun Fujin was stunned for a moment and then suddenly understood who Yun Que'er was talking about. He couldn't help but laugh.
"Why do you two keep quarreling? In just three days, you've argued more than an old couple who've been married for over twenty years."
Hearing this, Yun Que'er suddenly sat up. "Who... who's his wife? What are you talking about, Big Brother!"
With Ji Chengxuan's sharp tongue, the person who would live with him in the future would surely suffer a lot!
Just thinking about it made Yun Que'er's skin crawl.
"Haha, what do you think I mean?" Yun Fujin couldn't help laughing. "What did he do to upset you this time?"
"He made fun of my poor bike - riding skills! And then when he took me back, he rode so fast that I was scared out of my wits," Yun Que'er clenched her fists.
Yun Que'er lifted her wrist and felt her pulse. "Big Brother, feel it! My heart was about to jump out of my throat!"
Yun Fujin didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He stroked Yun Que'er's head to comfort her.
"All right, all right. He just likes to joke around. You know that. And he went out specifically to look for you."
"Specifically?" Yun Que'er was puzzled. "It's the weekend. Instead of playing basketball with his classmates, why did he come looking for me?"
"He was supposed to go," Yun Fujin explained. "He came to our place first to deliver a letter. Then he heard that you had gone out on your bike alone, so he waited for you on the way back. Maybe he was worried that it wasn't safe for you to ride alone."
That sounded better!
Yun Que'er grunted twice, indicating that she was not as angry anymore.
"By the way, what letter?"
"I almost forgot about it," Yun Fujin helped Yun Que'er up. "I was busy this afternoon and forgot to look at it. You take a look first. I'll go and serve the dishes. You should also go quickly. The food will get cold soon."
Yun Que'er changed her clothes and went to the main room. When she passed by Ji Chengxuan at the dinner table, she gave him a haughty glare before going into the inner room to look for the letter.
The stamp on the envelope was printed with a well - known scenic spot in China. It seemed to be a letter sent from a tourist attraction.
Who could it be from?
Yun Que'er opened the envelope, and a line of delicate small characters came into view. It was obvious that the letter was written by a girl.
After reading further, Yun Que'er finally understood what was going on.
"Big Brother!" Yun Que'er rushed excitedly into the kitchen. "Second Brother has a girlfriend!"
The ladle in Yun Fujin's hand dropped to the ground with a thud, and Ji Chengxuan choked and started coughing.
"What?"
The two of them rushed over at the same time and scrambled to read the letter in Yun Que'er's hand.
It turned out that Yun Jianzhou had met a tour group. Thinking that the business was promising, he quit his job at the construction site and joined the group.
After half a year of hard work, he started as a follow - up staff in the vehicle, then became a tour guide, and finally took out his savings over the years to start his own travel agency.
Not only was his business booming and his ambition realized, but he also met a girl during a group tour.
The two hit it off immediately and had a great conversation. They soon established a romantic relationship.
This letter was dictated by Yun Jianzhou and written by that girl.
No wonder he usually just called, but this time he wrote a letter. There was a hidden meaning!
Yun Que'er couldn't help but be amazed at the sweet smell of love.
"Second Brother also said that he would come back before the Mid - Autumn Festival and let us meet our future sister - in - law," Yun Que'er summarized. "There are only a few days left until the Mid - Autumn Festival. Dad and Third Sister will be back soon. Big Brother, we have to prepare early."
Ji Chengxuan nodded in agreement. "Right, right, right. A girl who can travel must come from a good family. Although our family is also okay, we can't leave a bad impression on her."
Yun Que'er gave Ji Chengxuan a glare. "You seem to know a lot. How about you? Do you have a girlfriend too?"
"Amitabha!" Ji Chengxuan covered his chest and took a big step back, looking shocked. "I'm still a kid. Don't talk nonsense!"
Yun Que'er rolled her eyes at Ji Chengxuan again.
Not to mention that if you counted his past and present lives, he was over forty years old. Even at his current age of fifteen, he was still pretending to be young. How shameless!
But Yun Fujin took Ji Chengxuan's words to heart. "Right, right, right. We have to prepare early. As it's her first time here, we can't make her feel that we don't value her."
Once this thought came to him, Yun Fujin couldn't be satisfied with his home no matter how he looked at it.
The house they were living in now was the one they had rented seven years ago. The owner was an old lady. After her husband passed away, she rented the house to them before moving to the city to live with her son.
They sent money to the city on time every month, and the old lady would never come back. Logically, this house was almost like the Yun family's own.
But this was an ordinary situation. Now that Yun Jianzhou was going to bring his girlfriend back, it just didn't seem right.
How could they let her meet the parents in someone else's house?
However, the house in Yuhe Village was too small, and they hadn't been back for many years. It was probably in a dilapidated state by now, which would be even worse.
Yun Fujin was pacing back and forth in a hurry. He was thinking about building a house one moment and buying a house the next, but he couldn't make up his mind for a long time.