Out of place

Cheng Boyan was still chatting with Director Xu, and Xiang Xi was anxious to ask about the details, but he didn't wait for a long time, so he had to go over and push him, and mouthed: "Hang up first!"

Cheng Boyan nodded, said a few more words to Director Xu, and hung up the phone.

"Your mother wants to come? Director Xu wants to come?" Xiang Xi saw that the phone had hung up, and immediately grabbed his arm and asked.

"Well, there's me... grandma and old aunt..." Before Cheng Boyan finished speaking, Xiang Xi had turned his head and rushed into the bedroom. He followed and saw that Xiang Xi opened the closet and was putting himself Taking the clothes out, he was stunned, "What are you doing?"

"Your mother is coming! And your grandma is coming! Even my aunt is coming!" Xiang Xi threw the clothes on the bed anxiously, "I'll take care of it, how long will they arrive?"

"Xiang Xi," Cheng Boyan pulled him back, "You mean to run away?"

"Otherwise, should I stay here?" Xiang Xi looked at him, "Your mother! Director Xu, and Director Xu's mother-in-law and Director Xu's sister-in-law..."

"And then?" Cheng Boyan still grabbed him and did not let go, picked up the clothes he threw on the bed with the other hand, and hung them back in the cabinet one by one.

"I...don't know," Xiang Xi frowned, "I just think...it's not appropriate for me to stay here, right? When Director Xu came back, I was almost scared to pee..."

"What's inappropriate? My mother knows about me, my grandma knows about it, and the whole family knows about it," Cheng Boyan frowned when he thought about how the whole family knew about it, "Our relationship lives together What's wrong?"

"Your family..." Xiang Xi was stunned for a moment, and then struggled to shake off Cheng Boyan's hand, "I don't know if I know it, why don't I go for a walk first, just because I'm full, ah! The bowl hasn't been cleared yet... ..."

"Xiang Xi," Cheng Boyan pinched his chin and stared into his eyes, "you don't have to be so nervous."

"I'm not nervous!" Xiang Xi also stared at him, "I... dare not."

"Don't dare?" Cheng Boyan smiled, "Just..."

"I'm going to the bathroom," Xiang Xi struggled again, "You go first, let go! I really want to go to the bathroom!"

Cheng Boyan had no choice but to let go of him, and Xiang Xi quickly ran into the toilet and closed the door.

Cheng Boyan stood in the living room and waited for several minutes, but he didn't see Xiang Xi coming out, so he went to the toilet door and knocked on the door: "Did you freak out?"

"What about your elegant qualities!" Xiang Xi clicked his tongue inside and sighed again, "I wanted to pee, but I couldn't pee when I stood here..."

"I know what you're thinking," Cheng Boyan put his hands on the door frame, "Do you think my mother and the others will look down on you?"

Xiang Xi lost his voice inside, and after a while, he responded softly: "En."

"I don't have time to talk to you about this bit by bit now," Cheng Boyan tapped his finger on the wall, "You..."

"What an excellent son, handsome, good-looking, good at studying, and good at work," Xiang Xi said in a low voice. There is no... bastard with a bunch of messy things on his body."

"Former gangster." Cheng Boyan corrected him.

"It's the same with ex-gangsters. Some things, I can feel that they are in the past, you can also feel that they are in the past, and friends can also feel that they are in the past." Xiang Xi's voice was a little unsteady, "But in the eyes of the family, it is difficult to pass, you know Do I mean?"

Cheng Boyan didn't speak.

"If I'm just a random person, I believe Director Xu won't mind what I've done in the past, and maybe he'll encourage me to look forward, come on," Xiang Xi lowered his voice, "but I know this is his precious son Picked...boyfriend, would she still think so? It's human nature, don't say you haven't thought about it. "

"So?" Cheng Boyan asked after being silent for a while.

"Why?" Xiang Xi asked in a daze.

"Even if what you said is true, it makes sense," Cheng Boyan said, "So what? You're going to hide? Well, I'll let you hide. You're willing to run, you like to take a walk, and then what?"

There was no sound from the toilet.

"What about you, the one who can't poop," Cheng Boyan knocked on the door, "and then?"

The toilet door clicked open, and Xiang Xi stood at the door: "It's not that I can't poop, but I can't urinate."

"Really," Cheng Boyan whistled, "How is it?"

Xiang Xi was stunned: "How about what?"

Cheng Boyan whistled again: "Can you pee out?"

"...You're hopeless," Xiang Xi squeezed past him and entered the living room, "You have the feeling that you'll play with this insanity when Director Xu comes."

"Aren't you going for a walk?" Cheng Boyan followed and sat down on the sofa with a smile.

"No, but I'm really nervous now," Xiang Xi sat down next to him, and put his hand on his lap, "Do you feel it?"

Xiang Xi's hand was shaking, and it was shaking very badly.

Cheng Boyan grabbed his hand and rubbed it vigorously: "It was a bit too sudden today, it's okay, if you are still nervous for a while, you can go in and stay in the room, no one will go in my bedroom."

"Are you nervous?" Xiang Xi turned to look at him, "I feel like my ears are buzzing."

"Me?" Cheng Boyan laughed suddenly, and leaned back on the sofa, "When my mother said she was coming, I didn't even bother to ask about my grandma's going to the hospital. It hasn't stopped yet."

Xiang Xi laughed along: "Damn, I thought people like you wouldn't be nervous by nature."

"Don't be nervous about other things, but this matter still needs to be nervous." Cheng Boyan ticked his tear mole with his finger, "Xiang Xi, let me tell you, I won't force you to do anything else, you're just messing around." , Just don’t jump out in front of my mother for a while.”

"Oh," Xiang Xi closed his eyes, took two deep breaths, and let it out slowly, "I won't talk."

Both of them were very nervous. After clearing away the dishes on the table, they sat side by side on the sofa and stared at the TV that was not turned on.

When Cheng Boyan's cell phone rang, Xiang Xi jumped up and stood in the middle of the living room: "Is it Director Xu!"

"Well," Cheng Boyan took the phone and answered the call, "Mom?"

"Which floor do you live on?" Mom's voice came over.

There was a grandmother's voice next to her: "You are a mother, you don't even know which floor your son lives on..."

"Twelve," Cheng Boyan smiled, "arrived?"

"Here we are, let's go up here, I think your grandma probably wants to fly up directly." Mom said.

"Mom," Cheng Boyan hesitated, and decided to vaccinate his mother, "I... have someone here."

"Is there a friend here?" Mom paused, "Or..."

"Well," Cheng Boyan glanced at Xiang Xi, Xiang Xi stood there stiffly and did not move, "You should have seen it."

My mother was silent for a while before saying: "Got it, I don't remember what it looks like, let's go up and have a look later."

"Did Director Xu say anything?" Xiang Xi stiffened his body and asked in a tight voice.

"Just say I'll come to see you in a while." Cheng Boyan hugged him, tightened his arms and shook.

"Okay, if you die, you die," Xiang Xi bit his lip, "It's up to you."

Cheng Boyan laughed, let go of him and turned on the TV: "It's not that serious."

"Hey, just turn on the TV," Xiang Xi yelled, "Just now I said something was wrong, it was too quiet and made me nervous."

"Feel better now?" Cheng Boyan asked him.

"No, I can only promise not to swear." Xiang Xi rubbed his nose.

"Don't be nervous." Cheng Boyan leaned in front of him and kissed him hard on the forehead.

"...Don't be nervous," Xiang Xi rubbed his forehead, "I've already knocked on my teeth."

The door of Cheng Boyan's house is well insulated, and usually he can't hear the sound in the corridor, but today when the elevator arrived, Xiang Xi could still hear it through the sound of the TV.

"Come! Come!" He pointed to the door.

Cheng Boyan was still a little uneasy at first, but when he saw Xiang Xi's face as if facing a formidable enemy, he couldn't help being happy: "Honey, you're a mess anyway, you haven't seen any scenes..."

"Stop talking nonsense!" Xiang Xi lowered his voice, "Open the door!"

As soon as this was said, the doorbell rang.

"Go!" Xiang Xi pushed Cheng Boyan, too nervous to control his strength, and pushed him staggeringly.

Cheng Boyan smiled and opened the door.

"The temperature of the air conditioner is also set too low. The temperature difference between here and outside is [-] degrees..." Director Xu was the first to enter the door. After saying this, his eyes swept around the room.

Xiang Xi took a step forward, and wanted to kneel down to say hello to the empress dowager, feeling that he was so nervous that he would definitely go along with it.

"This is Xiang Xi..." Cheng Boyan introduced.

Before he finished speaking, Xiang Xi bowed to Director Xu: "Hello, Auntie."

"Hey, don't be so polite." Director Xu opened the shoe cabinet and took out a few pairs of slippers.

Xiang Xi saw a fat old lady entering the door behind Director Xu, so he quickly bowed again: "Grandma is good."

As soon as this greeting was said, Director Xu was stunned, and turned to look at him.

"Oh my God!" the fat old lady yelled in embarrassment, "Did he call me?"

"This is my old aunt." Cheng Boyan turned around and looked at him, with a suppressed smile on his lips.

At this moment, Xiang Xi almost jumped out of the window.

This is actually the old aunt?

Is this fat old lady an old aunt?

Embarrassment and nervousness made him suddenly not know what to do.

Ordinarily, this old aunt should be younger than Director Xu...

But she looks a little too late, and she's fat!

"Let you rush to join in the fun! You know how to squeeze forward!" An old lady's voice came in from outside the door, "You will be too grandma if you squeeze a little longer."

"...Hi, old aunt," Xiang Xi finally came back to his senses, added a greeting, and moved forward again, calling out to the grandma who was still outside the door, "Hello, grandma."

"Okay, okay," the grandma replied, pushing the old aunt, "Go ahead."

"Isn't it time to change your shoes?" the old aunt said while taking off her shoes, her eyes kept sweeping back and forth on Xiang Xi, "Bo Yan is just like my sister-in-law, she's very particular, I always say don't come, don't come, it's hard work .”

"Don't change your shoes," Cheng Boyan said, "I haven't wiped the floor for the past two days."

Because of the meal before, the temperature of the air conditioner in the room was indeed lowered, but after a few people entered the door, Xiang Xi was so nervous that his back started to sweat.

Seeing Cheng Boyan help grandma to sit on the sofa, Xiang Xi remembered, ran into the kitchen, took out a set of cups, poured water, and gave grandma Director Xu and that fat old lady... no, fat old aunt I carried it over.

"This is Boyan's..." The old aunt looked Xiang Xi up and down, then leaned into Director Xu's ear and whispered, "Male..."

Director Xu smiled and said nothing, just glanced at Cheng Boyan.

"Grandma went to the hospital to see her eyes today?" Cheng Boyan ignored the old aunt, patted Xiang Xi's arm, and sat down on the sofa next to grandma.

Xiang Xi hurriedly sat next to Cheng Boyan.

"Well, your mother insisted on an examination and said she needed an operation, so she went to your hospital." Grandma took a sip of water from the cup, then looked at Xiang Xi again, "Is it called Xiang Xi?"

"Xiang, Xiangxi." Xiangxi said with a smile.

"Yo, it's quite written, don't go west, go west," grandma said with a smile, looked at Xiang Xi again, and touched the old aunt with her arm, "How beautiful she looks."

"Looks good," the old aunt nodded, and then asked again, "Are you two living together now?"

She looked at Xiang Xi and asked this question, but Xiang Xi froze, not knowing how to answer.

The word cohabitation came out of the old aunt's mouth, with a feeling of indescribability. Even if the word itself was asked directly between relatives, it would be quite speechless, and it still carried the tone of curiosity and prying.

Make him a little upset.

"Why didn't you tell me when you went to our hospital to see your eyes?" Cheng Boyan peeled a banana for grandma and handed it over.

"It's just to check, let's take a look first, and I will notify you when the operation is performed," Director Xu said aside, "Your grandma won't let you."

"You're so busy, it's useless to tell you," grandma patted his hand, "I'm still making trouble for you, it's not like I can't walk anymore."

The old aunt's words were just skipped over. She drank her saliva and started watching TV.

Xiang Xi's ten years of experience in looking at people's eyes allowed him to have a rough judgment on Cheng Boyan's three family members in just a few minutes.

Grandma is a talkative old lady, and she loves Cheng Boyan very much. The old aunt... is not popular. Cheng Boyan ignored her words and was not dissatisfied by the higher-level leaders. You can tell.

The one who was not sure was Director Xu, who didn't say much, and couldn't tell what was going on in his heart. Xiang Xi couldn't even make sure that she still remembered the last time she bought food.

Grandma chatted with Cheng Boyan for a while, then looked at Xiang Xi: "Go... Xiang Xi."

"Let's go west," Xiang Xi smiled, and moved towards grandma, "grandma."

"How old is it? Are you still in school?" Grandma asked him.

"Twenty, no school anymore," Xiang Xi said, "I'm learning tea from Master now."

"Learning tea? Picking tea leaves?" Grandma didn't quite understand.

Director Xu smiled at the side: "It's the tea ceremony, the one your eldest son has been thinking about all day long."

"Oh, I see." Grandma nodded, "Pouring water back and forth with a pot and a few cups to play with, that still needs to be learned? I really can learn everything..."

"Hey, Boyan, let me take a look at your kitchen." The old aunt sat on the sofa restlessly, stood up again, walked to the kitchen door and looked in, "Oh, you don't even know how to cook , is it still so complete?"

"It was all done during the renovation." Cheng Boyan looked back at her.

"What a waste," the old aunt clicked twice, then looked over to Xiang Xi, "Is it you who cook?"

Xiang Xi didn't speak, and the old aunt went around asking if they were living together. If it wasn't for the last bit of face, she probably could go straight into the bedroom to look in the closet.

"Why don't you do it." Xiang Xi said.

The old aunt was stunned, and slapped her face a few times with her hand: "Oh, this kid speaks quite aggressively."

"Much better than me." Cheng Boyan smiled.

"You talk too much, if you can't wait, you go back first." Grandma took a mango and tapped Cheng Boyan's shoulder, "Cut one for your old aunt, and gag her."

"I can't eat one. I'm losing weight." The old aunt said.

"You and my mother are half of each other." Cheng Boyan looked at his mother.

"Okay." Mom nodded.

Cheng Boyan lowered his head and cut the mango, removed the core, and took a knife to draw a grid on the flesh. Xiang Xi sat beside him and didn't speak anymore.

From the sitting posture, he could feel that Xiang Xi was nervous and uncomfortable. People who had never been in contact with the family members of "ordinary people" were suddenly put into this "meeting parents" session...

"Do you want to eat it?" Cheng Boyan turned his head and asked after handing the mango to his mother and aunt, "Do you share one with grandma?"

"I can't eat anymore," grandma quickly waved her hand, "You two share one, and if I eat again later, your mother will say me again."

"Eat it," my mother smiled, "I won't talk about you."

"I really can't take it anymore." Grandma gave her a blank look, "You think I'm afraid you'll tell me."

Cheng Boyan took another mango and cut it slowly, while Xiang Xi sat beside him feeling uncomfortable.

He was not used to this kind of situation where unfamiliar people sat in a room. In the past, when someone came from Uncle Ping, he would hide outside. Now he not only has to sit here, but also has to behave like Cheng Boyan as much as possible. Graceful and cultivated, it's just... so painful.

Don't know what to say.

Not knowing where to look.

Except when Cheng Boyan handed him the mango, he secretly pinched Cheng Boyan's butt to express his discomfort, and he just stayed on the sofa with his back straight.

"Xiang Xi." Director Xu suddenly called him from the opposite side.

"Hey," Xiang Xi jumped up, "What's the matter, Auntie?"

"...Make me a cup of tea." Director Xu was probably taken aback by him, and leaned back, "It's lighter."

"Okay." Upon hearing this, Xiang Xi immediately turned around and ran into the kitchen.

As soon as he entered the kitchen, he immediately felt relaxed. With his hands on the desk, he closed his eyes and let out a long sigh of relief. Then he slowly boiled the water, washed the cups, and put the tea leaves.

"Bo Yan," said the old aunt while nibbling on a mango, "how long have you two known each other, why is this kid so hot-tempered?"

"Don't rush at me," Cheng Boyan smiled, "That's fine."

"Hey, it's a short-term protection," the old aunt sighed, "Just learn from your grandma."

"Not everyone is like Boyan," my mother said, "20 years old is not too old, and you can't hide your temper. You can almost get into a fight when you help others out on the street."

Cheng Boyan was stunned when he heard this, and looked up at his mother.

"Fighting?" The old aunt became excited when she heard it, "Sister-in-law, what's going on? Have you seen it?"

"Suppose for me," my mother said, "I met Gasser who was unreasonable, and there was a quarrel, and he came to help me."

"I thought what's wrong," the old aunt leaned back on the sofa as if she was not interested when she heard this, and whispered after thinking about it, "Sister-in-law, are you quite satisfied?"

"I don't care if I'm satisfied or not," my mother glanced at her and said with a smile, "It doesn't count if you say so."

"That's right," grandma said on the side, "what are you worrying about, asking around, and no one will listen to you after asking."

Is Xiang Xi still outrageous to his mother on the street?

Cheng Boyan looked over to the kitchen, Xiang Xi never mentioned this matter to him.

Mom didn't go any further, and started chatting with grandma, so it was hard for him to ask any more questions in front of the old aunt, but he kept thinking about it.

Xiang Xi gave his mother a head start, he could almost imagine what the scene was like, maybe he just rolled up his sleeves, said fuck it, and then went up...

It's really hard to say what kind of impression it will leave on my mother.

Xiang Xi took out the brewed tea and put it in front of his mother: "Auntie drinks tea, it's a little hot."

"Thank you," my mother smiled, "What kind of tea is this?"

"My master gave me the tea research institute's new tea this year, which is pretty good," Xiang Xi said.

"Okay, I'll try it." Mom nodded, picked it up and took a sip, "Actually, I don't know how to taste tea, and drinking tea is a bit of a waste."

"It won't be wasted," Xiang Xi sat back beside Cheng Boyan, "drinking tea is like reading a book or listening to music, listening to it, seeing it, drinking it...it's all the same."

Cheng Boyan turned his head and glanced at him. It was a little surprising that such philosophical words came out of Xiang Xi's mouth under such a tense situation.

Mom was obviously also a little surprised, took a sip of tea and didn't speak.

"That's right, if you drink it in your stomach, it won't be wasted." The old aunt also agreed.

"I don't mean..." Xiang Xi tried to explain helplessly, "I..."

"I know." Mom smiled.

After chatting for a while, grandma got up and walked around the house slowly, checking Cheng Boyan's living conditions, whether he was eating well, sleeping well, whether he was tired after tidying up the house like this every day...

"Don't worry," Cheng Boyan followed her, "I'm such an old man."

"You two," grandma asked softly, pulling him into the bedroom, "are you sure?"

"Are you sure?" Cheng Boyan didn't know what grandma's concept of determination was, so he could only understand it in his own way, "Sure."

"Never mind what your old aunt says," said grandma, "I think the child is very good, good-looking, and quite well-behaved."

"Yeah." Cheng Boyan nodded with a smile.

Xiang Xi is cute?

It's okay, at least he behaved very well today.

After staying for more than half an hour, grandma waved her hand: "Let's go, let's go home."

Xiang Xi quickly stood up: "Grandma is leaving?"

"I'll take you down." Cheng Boyan said.

"Don't give it away," my mother said, "the car will be parked downstairs, and it will take less than a minute to go down the elevator. You can clean it up."

Xiang Xi looked at the table, there were only a few cups, the fruit peels and so on had been thrown into the trash can, he didn't know what else to clean up, he just felt that this cleanliness habit was really inherited by Director Xu...

He followed behind Cheng Boyan and sent grandma and the others to the elevator door. After they entered, he bowed and said goodbye one by one. When the elevator door closed, he yelled in a long voice: "Hey——"

Cheng Boyan pointed to the floor indicator light on the elevator, and said with a smile: "The elevator hasn't gone down yet, so they can't hear you if you shout so loud?"

"Damn." Xiang Xi was startled, covered his face, turned around and ran back into the room.

"How is it?" Cheng Boyan entered the room and closed the door, "Tired?"

"I'm exhausted," Xiang Xi fell on the sofa, "my face is sore from laughing, my waist is sore, my back is sore..."

"Lie down," Cheng Boyan squatted beside the sofa, "Let me give you a squeeze."

"The service is so considerate?" Xiang Xi immediately turned over and lay down.

"Well, I did pretty well in front of your mother-in-law today," Cheng Boyan squeezed his back lightly, "I just called the wrong person..."

"My mother-in-law?" Xiang Xi tilted his head and raised his eyebrows.