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Chapter 747: Family Happiness

During every Chinese New Year, traffic across the country enters the high-load operation of the Spring Festival travel rush. Train stations and bus stations are crowded, and the airport in the capital is no less bustling with people.

Some came back to celebrate the New Year and then went to work in other provinces, some came back after work to celebrate a belated New Year... The passengers were all in a hurry, and it was this busy situation that made it possible for the couple wearing coveralls and masks to avoid being recognized by passers-by for once, and they successfully squeezed through the crowd and walked out of the terminal.

In the cold wind, someone drove to the square to pick them up. It was Master Yang on New Year's Eve. Liu Xiaoli gave Lu Tao and Zeng Ni, the two personal assistants, a long vacation so that they could go home and spend a peaceful new year. This time when they returned to Beijing, they had to ask another driver from the company to pick them up.

Master Yang helped the family put their luggage onto the nanny car, and then the family got in one by one and sat on the sofa inside the car.

Without the restraint of luggage, the couple's desire to get married together prompted them to naturally hold hands again, fingers tightly intertwined.

If only Liu Xiaoli was there, they might have snuggled up to each other more intimately, but with Ankang present, they subconsciously restrained themselves a little.

It was because I had become more familiar with Ankang during these few days, otherwise the couple would not have been as brave as they were on the first day of the new year when they met, not even daring to hold hands.

Even so, Ankang saw the couple flirting as soon as they got in the car. He was not like Liu Xiaoli who had long been accustomed to it. Although he accepted the couple's intimacy, he still couldn't stand it: "Xixi, stay in a hotel with Dad for the next two days. Dad can help you with some documents and how to fill them out and apply for them."

Liu Yifei was startled, looked at her father, then turned her head to look at Chu Xuan, and the corners of her lips slowly raised an interesting arc.

Since New Year's Eve, her father was jealous and deliberately did not allow her to sleep with Chu Xuan, and separated her from Chu Xuan on the pretext of letting her spend time with his family.

In the past, she and Chu Xuan could only experience the pleasure from the female devil, but these past few days, both she and Chu Xuan felt the pleasure from the "jealous father".

She came back today, but she hadn't thought about this matter yet. Not long after getting in the car, she didn't expect her father to be jealous again. He asked her to stay in a hotel on the pretext of helping her deal with the consulate procedures. His core intention was still to separate her and Chu Xuan.

"Daddy, why are you so cute?" she thought to herself, feeling extremely amused and looking at her father with a pair of smiling eyes.

Chu Xuan glanced at Ankang, then lowered his head slightly.

He was just thinking that from New Year's Eve to yesterday, the fourth day of the New Year, he had to stay alone in an empty room for five whole days in a foreign country. Every night, Liu Yifei was missing from his arm, which made him very uncomfortable and he couldn't sleep well every day.

Now that I'm home, I can finally rest in peace.

But things are unpredictable. No matter how good his intentions are, they can't beat his father-in-law's calculations. They are about to get the marriage certificate, and he just doesn't want him and Liu Yifei to live in peace.

"Father-in-law, you are awesome. I surrender." Chu Xuan complained in his heart. He was really speechless and was also amused by his father-in-law's "jealousy". However, he wanted to laugh but didn't dare to. He felt mixed emotions inside.

A smile appeared on Liu Xiaoli's face, but she quickly retracted it for fear of being seen by Ankang. She looked at the couple with just a hint of interest in her calm eyes.

She was also aware of the couple's separation in the past few days. One main reason was that Ankang "forced" his daughter Xixi to stay in the An family to accompany the An family. Another main reason was that Ankang was jealous of Chu Xuan.

This inevitably reminded her of her past self. When she first discovered that her daughter had lost her virginity, she was so conflicted and tormented inside that it took her several months to slowly get used to the couple's cohabitation.

The couple has been living together for several years now. She has long been accustomed to this kind of family of three life. She has also long regarded Chu Xuan as her own son-in-law and treats Chu Xuan as a half-relative.

She has such a mentality, but Ankang, who has been unaware of the situation for many years, does not.

Ankang is now just like she was when she found out her daughter had lost her virginity. No matter whether you accept it or not, no matter whether Chu Xuan is a good son-in-law or not, she just feels unhappy with Chu Xuan. She feels unhappy when she sees Chu Xuan being close to her daughter, and she feels even more unhappy when the couple does some intimate things.

Hearing that Ankang was going to separate the couple again, Liu Xiaoli saw through Ankang's mentality and thought it was quite amusing - I was very unhappy at the beginning, and now it's your turn to be unhappy.

As the old saying goes, one person's happiness is often built on the pain of others.

Liu Xiaoli is in a very happy mood now. She is not going to express any opinion on Ankang's request to let her daughter stay in the hotel with him, because Chu Xuan must be unhappy. He has not lived with Xixi for several days, and they are in the passionate moment of engagement and marriage certificate. He finally gets home and can sleep with Xixi, but he didn't expect that Ankang would have a backup plan.

Faced with such an interesting situation, of course she would transform into a female devil and decisively choose to watch the show.

"Okay, Dad, I'll stay in the hotel with you." Liu Yifei agreed, holding back her smile and raising her eyebrows teasingly at Chu Xuan.

She found the actions brought about by her father's jealousy so interesting. Every family has different fun at different stages. This might be the fun atmosphere in the initial stage when she and Chu Xuan started their family.

Besides, life should have some sense of ritual. They are about to get the marriage certificate and become a legal couple with Chu Xuan. The separation these days is for the reunion on the day of getting the marriage certificate. This can be regarded as a small ceremony and interest before she and Chu Xuan become husband and wife.

Seeing that Liu Yifei agreed, Chu Xuan naturally had nothing to say. He decided to separate for a few more days, just to temper his mind.

The nanny car drove to the Shangri-La Hotel, and the mother and son-in-law and the father and daughter said goodbye temporarily.

"Bye, see you tomorrow." Liu Yifei only took one suitcase to check into the hotel, and asked her mother and Chu Xuan to help take the other two suitcases back.

"I'll take Xixi to the consulate to get the watch tomorrow morning, and then have lunch with my friend. You guys can come over then." Ankang walked down the driveway with his luggage.

"Okay, uncle, have a good rest." Chu Xuan said.

Seeing that Chu Xuan only greeted his father, Liu Yifei turned around with her suitcase, pouted her lips and pretended to be jealous and said, "Then shouldn't I have a good rest?"

In this situation, Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei looked at each other. It’s okay that your dad is jealous, but you come to make trouble too, right?
Liu Yifei blinked and asked, "Can't I be jealous?"
The two exchanged glances, Chu Xuan glanced at Ankang, and then said softly to Liu Yifei: "Dear, have a good rest."

The word "dear" was spoken with an accent from Taiwan, and it was so sweet that it made Ankang twitch his lips. If thoughts could be transformed into a knife, Chu Xuan would have been turned into ashes in an instant.

Chu Xuan noticed Ankang's unnatural micro-expressions and felt relieved. Although Ankang was his father-in-law, who asked Ankang to find ways to break up him and Liu Yifei?

Before his father-in-law signed the marriage certificate for him and Liu Yifei, he had no way and dared not resist. However, finding an opportunity to provoke him with words to relieve his inner depression was also a satisfying way to fight back.

Ankang used words to find excuses and play word games to break up the couple, and Chu Xuan also used word games to stimulate Ankang.

Chu Xuan's approach, to some extent, is also in line with the move of changing the stars, which is Murong Fu's unique skill.

After Chu Xuan finished speaking, he turned around and ran to the car. Outside the window, only Liu Yifei's overjoyed smile, whose cold wind turned into spring breeze, and An Kang's speechless face, whose forehead was filled with black lines, whose spring breeze turned into cold wind again, were left.

"Hahahaha..." Along with the sound of the nanny car starting, the louder sound was Liu Xiaoli's hearty laughter.

She was really amused by her son-in-law Chu Xuan: "If you want to say it, just say it nicely. And you use the coquettish accent from Taiwan. You are just trying to provoke him, right?"

Chu Xuan lowered his head and was so happy that he couldn't speak. After a while, he raised his head and said with amusement: "Uncle is too jealous. He is marrying off his daughter. Although this is understandable, I still feel a little resentful in my heart, so I can't help but provoke him."

"This is so funny." Liu Xiaoli was so happy that she couldn't breathe.

The driver, Master Yang, also couldn't help laughing. He thought this family was really funny.

When they arrived at the door of Donglin Villa, Master Yang helped the mother and son-in-law carry the luggage out of the car. Seeing that Master Yang wanted to help carry it inside, the mother and son-in-law did not want to trouble others, so they asked Master Yang to go back as soon as possible to spend the New Year with his family.

With Liu Yifei's two suitcases, Chu Xuan's luggage seemed a bit too much. Liu Xiaoli first put her own luggage in the small villa, then returned to the door to help Chu Xuan carry the luggage to the big villa.

It didn't matter if she didn't enter the villa, but after entering, Liu Xiaoli was a little confused: "Did you turn off the main switch?"

"Yes, what's wrong?" Chu Xuan was confused.

Liu Xiaoli sighed and looked at him with her hands on her hips: "Forget about the snacks in the refrigerator. The ready-to-eat cooked food I bought for you is useless. And the fruits are inedible. The water in the indoor swimming pool hasn't been filled yet, right?"

She lowered her hands from her hips, walked to the edge of the large balcony near the lawn, looked at the situation in the swimming pool, and pointed: "Look for yourself, the temperature is low, and ice is still forming. I don't know how much ice there is in the water. If the drain pipe is damaged when the water is released, it will be a big trouble."

“Then just wait until the temperature rises and the ice chips are gone before putting it away.” Chu Xuan said indifferently.

Liu Xiaoli said unhappily, "It would only take a moment to turn off the power to the swimming pool and keep the water at room temperature. Why wait so long for something that can be solved in a moment?"

Chu Xuan shut up and stopped offending his mother-in-law.

"Hey, there's nothing I can do about you, both of you. These common sense issues in life are really beyond your reach." Liu Xiaoli muttered, walking towards the kitchen and opening the refrigerator to check the situation.

Chu Xuan followed her closely, behaving very well: "It's mainly because you are here, Auntie. You are the warmest harbor for our logistics support, so Qianqian and I can not care about these things, but can shine and make contributions in the pursuit of our dreams with peace of mind."

"Heh." Liu Xiaoli was cleaning the refrigerator and said, "What you mean is that you want me to be a nanny and use my hard-working life to highlight your nobleness."

“How could that be!” Chu Xuan was busy massaging his mother-in-law’s shoulders to please her. In the past, his mother-in-law would always be happy when he said nice things to her, but now she was probably used to his nice words and started to talk back. Life would be difficult from now on. He could imagine a situation where he would be scolded by his mother-in-law every now and then.

"Go get the garbage bag quickly, it stinks!" Liu Xiaoli ordered with a frown.

"Okay." Chu Xuan obediently went to find a garbage bag.

Just like that, as the sun set, the two of them cleaned up the house together.

Although Liu Yifei is not here, there is still warmth between mother and son-in-law.

"Your sister Hua and the others are still visiting relatives and friends and Hu Jun and the others are on business trips. What are we going to eat tonight? It's just the two of us."

"Whatever. It's troublesome for Auntie to cook. How about noodles?"

"That's fine. I have some mutton in the refrigerator that can be used as a base."

"Mutton is good. I like it."

After tidying up the big villa, Liu Xiaoli patiently helped the couple change the three-piece suit in their bedroom. Chu Xuan thought that it would only be a few days before he left for Wuhan to celebrate the New Year, so the three-piece suit did not need to be changed, but Liu Xiaoli said that the New Year was festive, so she changed it into a red three-piece suit.

After finishing the work at the big villa, the mother and son-in-law came to the small villa. Liu Xiaoli didn't care that she hadn't taken her luggage upstairs to sort it out yet, and went straight to the kitchen to prepare noodles for Chu Xuan.

"Xiao Xuan."

"Hey."

"Although the engagement banquet doesn't need to be so grand, it's reasonable to set up a few tables and invite some close relatives and friends to celebrate. However, our families don't have that much free time. We're all here for the New Year, so we can have a family gathering on the day you and Xixi get married. We'll keep everything simple and have the engagement banquet. You don't blame Auntie for making such a simple arrangement, right?"

"Well, how can I blame you, Auntie? Without your support, Xixi and I wouldn't be able to walk happily together until today. Without your support, things wouldn't be going so smoothly for Xixi and I in Wuhan these days. The engagement party is just a small matter. Just follow your arrangements."

"Then you can have your engagement party at home in a few days, invite your family members, and make it a big wedding next year."

"Everyone is in period costumes. This is a big deal no matter how small. If we leak a little information, it will be a headline."

In the evening, the mother and son-in-law had a simple but fulfilling dinner of noodles. After watching TV for a few hours, they went back to their rooms to rest.

Chu Xuan took a shower and lay down on the bed. A feeling of security spread all over his body. It was really comfortable at home. No matter how good a hotel he stayed in, it couldn't feel like home.

But without Liu Yifei, Chu Xuan felt a little less comfortable. He turned off the light in the bedroom, picked up his phone, and snuggled in the quilt to text Liu Yifei.

--Shangri-La Hotel.

After the father and daughter checked into the hotel, Ankang took his daughter to have dinner and New Year's greetings with friends in Beijing.

After returning to the hotel after dinner, Ankang told his daughter about the application materials, how to apply at the U.S. Consulate in China, and how to apply at China's foreign consulates, so that his daughter could understand the general process.

After Liu Yifei learned about it, although the process sounded complicated, her father said it would go smoothly, which made Liu Yifei feel very good. She went back to her room, took a shower, and then hummed a song while blowing her hair with a hair dryer.

She had just blow-dried her hair when the screen of her cell phone beside her lit up.

She put down the hair dryer, picked up her phone and saw a text message from Chu Xuan. She clicked it and saw: [Wife, are you asleep? ].

Liu Yifei narrowed her eyes. Chu Xuan called her "wife". Although Chu Xuan had used this title several times before, it was not a common title, and it was not as common now as before. At this moment when they were about to get the marriage certificate, this title made her heart beat sweetly.

But at the moment when she was temporarily separated from Chu Xuan, a kind of interest in each other from a distance made her want to play, which made her not want to follow Chu Xuan and she replied to Chu Xuan with three symbols: [? ? ?].

Liu Yifei raised her eyebrows with a cunning look and said, "You call me wife and I give you three question marks. How should you respond?"
Liu Yifei skipped towards the bed, ready to go to bed and wait for Chu Xuan's reply, but her cell phone rang, interrupting her cheerful steps.

She looked at her phone and saw that it was Chu Xuan calling.

She laughed. Chu Xuan must be confused when he saw her three question marks. Would he doubt himself that he had sent the wrong number?
But the note Chu Xuan gave her number was "Dear", so it was difficult to send it to the wrong number. Now Chu Xuan called her, he must be confirming the situation.

Liu Yifei wrinkled her nose, her eyes rolled around in her sockets, and she looked mischievous.

The next moment, she didn't know what she thought of. She picked up her phone, opened the door and ran out. She came to the door of the opposite room, opened the door, looked in, and walked in: "Dad, it's Chu Xuan calling. He wants to talk to you about something."

Ankang was half leaning on the back of the bed watching TV. He took the phone from his daughter and put it to his ear after answering it: "Xiaoxuan, what's up?"

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a second or two, and then Chu Xuan's voice came: "Uh, uncle, where's Xixi?"

Ankang glanced at his daughter: "She's next to me. She said you have something to talk to me about. What is it?"

The other end of the phone was silent for another two seconds, and then said, "Nothing, I just want to ask if Uncle is staying well. I'm familiar with the owner of this hotel, so if Uncle needs anything, just let me know."

When Ankang heard his daughter say Chu Xuan had something to ask him, he didn't expect it to be such a small matter. He said, "It's enough to have a place to stay. There's nothing else you need. It's great."

He changed the subject: "Why, does this hotel have any special services? Are you familiar with the owner of this hotel and do you visit here often?"

When these words were spoken, Liu Yifei was stunned at first, and then she squatted on the ground and burst out laughing.

She didn't know what Chu Xuan said to his father, but she knew that the call was from his father, which must have caught Chu Xuan off guard.

Chu Xuan was at a loss as to what to do and could only think of a solution quickly, perhaps asking his father if he needed any service.

But what she never expected was that her father would tease Chu Xuan about this kind of thing in front of her. It was really hilarious.

“No, no, no, just normal service, normal service…” The voice in the phone was a little incoherent.

Seeing his daughter's happy face, Ankang raised the corner of his mouth and said, "Then I'll hang up first if there's nothing else. Remember to bring your household registration book, ID card and one-inch photo with you tomorrow."

"Okay." Chu Xuan agreed, and then said, "Uncle, let Xixi answer the phone."

Ankang handed the phone to his daughter. After Liu Yifei took it, she said "good night" to her father, closed the door and walked out before answering the call.

"Hello~"

"Liu Yifei, you are trying to trick me, right?"

Suddenly these words came out, and Liu Yifei, who had just walked to the door of the room, couldn't hold it in. She bent over, holding her stomach and laughing.

"Really? Your behavior is very dangerous, you know? Uncle has asked me for special services. If you answer incorrectly, you will be in deep trouble."

Liu Yifei was so happy that she closed the door, ran to the bed and covered herself with the quilt.

"Are you confused when you see the three question marks I sent?"

“Why did you send three question marks?”

"Fun."

"..." Chu Xuan was helpless: "You win."

Liu Yifei hummed tenderly. Every time she sought fun from Chu Xuan, Chu Xuan would pamper her, which made her feel very happy.

She shook her head happily and replied, "Hubby, I love you."

She had never called Chu Xuan "husband" before, and she didn't know how Chu Xuan would react.

The person on the other end of the phone paused and said, "Just because of this call of husband, I am destined to have a sleepless night tonight."

"I'll stay with you until you sleep." Liu Yifei gave a gentle smile, lay down on the bed, and started a love call with Chu Xuan.

Ankang miscalculated after all. We don't need to be together in person to be in love. Sometimes lovers are even more affectionate when they talk on the phone than when they are together.

If Ankang knew that his daughter was making love all night in the opposite room, I wonder how this "jealous father" would feel.

(End of this chapter)