all for the cub

When Li Wangbai drove back to Li's house, Sister Zhang and others were happily pasting blessing characters and hanging lanterns.Several half-grown children were chasing him on the lawn in the garden. When they saw him coming down, they swarmed over and surrounded him, laughing and making noise.

"Second brother, where did you go to play, and why did you come back?"

"Second brother, you came back just in time, Yang Xu always bullies us, you should teach him a lesson!"

Li Wangbai let the younger ones hold him back, looked up at the half-grown teenagers standing outside, and asked them, "Why did he bully you?"

"He keeps kicking the ball away to prevent us from playing, and even grabs Nan Nan's hair!" The girl with bangs pouted and complained.

She is the daughter of Li Wangbai's third uncle, named Li Yuan. Although she is only 15 years old, she is a bully in elementary school. She has already attended high school.

Yang Xu is the only son of Aunt Li Wangbai, a little older than Li Yuan, and is in the third year of middle school.He has been studying in a fully closed noble school since elementary school. Thanks to the strict rules and regulations of the school, he has a somewhat domineering personality. He always teases cats and dogs at school.

In addition to the three older ones, there is also a pair of seven or eight-year-old twin brothers who belong to Li Wangbai's fourth uncle's family. These two are usually mischievous at home, but they become silly quails in front of Yang Xu, only to be bullied. .

Li Wangbai was amused by the dependent faces of his younger brothers and sisters, so he pretended to scold Yang Xu.

Yang Xu stared and said fearlessly, "It's just playing games, they are too stupid."

"So many of you can't play with him, so you're ashamed to sue," Li Wangbai laughed at them, and Li Wangbai reached out and took the football over to the little ones, motioning them to play with it.

Li Yuan took the ball and ran away with the three little ones. Yang Xu was not angry, but deliberately made a face at them, turned around and wanted to hook Li Wangbai's shoulders, but was held down by the neck.

"Whatever you do, play with yourself," Li Wangbai gave him a stern look.

"What are you carrying in your hand? Let me take a look," Yang Xu curled his lips, turned around and saw that he was carrying two handbags, and looked through them curiously.

"Do you like the homework I bought for you?" Li Wangbai stared at him coldly without stopping.

When Yang Xu heard this, he withdrew his hand boredly, and pretended to say, "Second brother, I want to go to the study to read."

Reading books is fake, but playing computer games is real.

Li Wangbai didn't expose him, and walked into the room with his shoulders on his shoulders, "Don't cause trouble, or I will make you really memorize all the books in the study."

"Hey, I know!" Yang Xu happily entered the study under the cover of Li Wangbai. As soon as he sat down, he turned on the computer and started playing. Seeing that Li Wangbai was about to go out, he begged, "Second brother, If my mother asks, you have to cover for me!"

Li Wangbai ignored him, and closed the door for him when he went out.

When he went downstairs, he happened to meet his aunt Li Xian coming out of the kitchen with a plate of peeled and washed strawberries. Li Xian saw surprise on his face, "Allen is back?"

"My aunt is young again," Li Wangbai praised her with a smile, and hugged her gently.

"Oh, Allen, you are not only getting more and more handsome, but your mouth is also getting sweeter." Li Xian smiled happily, "Do you want to eat strawberries? I just washed them."

Li Wangbai grabbed one and put it in his mouth like a friend, and asked her, "Where are uncle and the others? Why didn't they see anyone?"

"I'm drinking tea upstairs with your father and the old man. The old man was still asking about your whereabouts just now. Go up and have a look. A Xu can't get into his old man's eyes. He's still talking about you and Noble every day."

Noble refers to Li Xiaoyu.

"Distance produces beauty. If grandpa looks at us more, maybe he still thinks A Xu is more cute when he is alive and kicking."

Li Wangbai originally wanted to find his mother, but after hearing what she said, he had to go upstairs to accompany a few elders first. Not only did he humbly accept Mr. Li's compassionate complaints, he also acted as a tea maker for several hours, waiting for Ding Yuan When I came up to tell me to eat snacks, I raised my hand and saw that it was already 03:30 in the afternoon.

The whole family sat under the flower stand in the garden and enjoyed afternoon tea. The air was filled with all kinds of tempting food aromas, and they chatted happily.

Li Wangbai sat absent-mindedly for a while, and when Ding Yuan went to the kitchen alone to check the banquet, he quietly got up and followed.

As soon as Ding Yuan came out of the kitchen, Li Wangbai dragged him into the room, "Mom, I have a gift for you."

Zhizi Mo Ruomu, as soon as he said this, Ding Yuan understood that he was here to make amends, exactly the same as when he was a child, when he was reprimanded for doing something wrong, he would always use some gadgets to please her afterwards.

"Replaying the old tricks, I didn't make any progress," she glared at him, but still took the gift box and opened it to see. Inside was a simple and elegant silk scarf, which was her favorite brand.

Li Wangbai accepted her comment with a smile, and accidentally knocked another box on the table to the ground with a movement of his elbow, revealing a pair of small baby shoes.

Ding Yuan picked it up and looked at it, a momentary daze appeared on his face.

"When I bought you a gift, I saw it was cute, so I just bought it. I don't know if I can use it or not. Is it more comfortable for a newborn child to wear socks?" Li Wangbai asked her casually.

But no matter how innocent he behaved, Ding Yuan saw through his performance at a glance. The emotion of receiving the gift just now was beyond the reach of the sky, and he said with a straight face, "...you are using the excuse of giving me a gift. Transfer the topic to that person, and then try to get me to promise you to let him celebrate the New Year with us today, right?"

"Mom, don't be angry, shall we discuss it calmly?" Li Wangbai was embarrassed to comfort her.

Ding Yuan took a few deep breaths, held back his anger and continued, "Do you know what kind of behavior you call this? You are proud of being favored! Make an inch of it! Don't think that if I let go and don't object, I will love it when you find a man as your partner. Whether you blame me for being cruel or unreasonable, anyway, he can't appear on this occasion today!"

"..." Li Wangbai shot himself in the foot with a stone, and provoked Ding Yuan into a rage without even mentioning a single word. At this moment, he really realized that his mother really didn't let go of her heart.

After yesterday's quarrel, the mother and son had another unhappiness in private today, which would spoil the mother's interest in celebrating the New Year again, so Li Wangbai had no choice but to stop mentioning that he would bring Jiang Chengchuan over to celebrate the New Year together.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the reunion dinner started, and exquisite delicacies prepared by specially hired hotel chefs were brought into the restaurant like flowing water.

There was a lot of toasting and laughter.Mr. Li sent a big red envelope to each of his grandchildren, including Li Xiaoyu and Li Wangbai.

"If you are not married, you are still a child, and it is natural to receive red envelopes," Mr. Li is over 70 years old. He has always been tolerant and loving to juniors. He smiled kindly and stuffed the red envelopes into Li Wangbai's hands. I'm not young anymore, it's time to start a family, marry a good wife and come back, so that I, an old man, can embrace my great-grandson sooner."

"You live to be a hundred years old, you will definitely be able to hold your great-grandson," Li Wangbai said with a smile.

Li Xiaoyu smiled pointedly at the side, "Yes, maybe Allen will be brought back to you someday."

"Hey, listen to what Noble said, is there something wrong with Allen?" Li Xian asked sensitively.

Ding Yuan and Li Yong looked at each other, pretending not to hear, not to answer her fault.

Li Wangbai smiled and said nothing, his third uncle Li Cheng joked beside him, "Noble already has a girlfriend, don't worry about it, but Allen hasn't seen you for a long time, could it be that his vision is too high to pick a suitable one? How about third uncle introduce a few to you?"

Fourth Uncle Li You also booed, "What you said is that our family hasn't held a wedding for many years. You two brothers have completed your career. It's time to start a family and spread your branches!"

Li Wangbai had already guessed that he would be urged to get married today, so he brought the topic to his elder brother without haste, "Fate is determined, I don't need to rush. You should care about elder brother, when will you get engaged and married?"

So everyone started booing Li Xiaoyu again, bottle after bottle of red wine was opened, and the little ones went outside to set off fireworks after eating and drinking.

The hour hand pointed to 21:[-], Li Wangbai found an excuse to leave the meeting, and was about to go back to Qingjiang Garden to accompany Jiang Chengchuan, Ding Yuan followed him out, and handed him a thermos, "...I asked Sister Zhang to stew pork belly soup, you bring Go to him."

Li Wangbai nodded and took it, "Thank you, Mom."

"You don't need to say thank you, just don't blame me," Ding Yuanshang shook his head helplessly, turned and went in.

Li Wangbai entered the garage and was about to get into the car, when Li Yuan and his younger siblings came over and asked, "Second brother, it's so late, where are you going?"

"Go see someone."

"Who is so important that you want to see him during the Chinese New Year?" Li Yuan smiled and winked at him, "Is it your girlfriend?"

"Children, don't ask so many questions." Li Wangbai smiled condescendingly, opened the car door and sat in, tilting his head to signal for them to make way, "Go in when you've had enough fun, where's Axu?"

The little ones shook their heads in unison, as if there was some secret on their faces, "I don't know."

Li Wangbai didn't think too much, started the car and drove out of Li's house slowly, and called Jiang Chengchuan on the way. There was lively and festive background music on the other end of the phone, he must be watching the Spring Festival Gala.

The streets are extremely quiet, rows of red lanterns hang all over the streets, and fireworks bloom one after another in the night sky. The most lively place tonight is not the shopping center or the playground, but the New Year's Eve dinner table in every household.

The two chatted all the way, and did not hang up until Li Wangbai's car drove into Qingjiang Garden. He didn't tell Jiang Chengchuan that he was back, and wanted to scare him.

But Li Wangbai didn't expect to get out of the car, he was almost scared to death first, he drove all the way without realizing that there was someone hiding under the back seat of his car!

"...Why are you here?" Li Wangbai grabbed Yang Xu by the collar and pulled him out of the car, asking in a deep voice.

Yang Xu rolled his eyes and snorted, "You caused me to be scolded by my mother today, so I just want to scare you!"

"...Are you trying to scare me or get beaten?" Li Wangbai sneered.

Yang Xu shrank his neck and shouted bravely, "If you beat me up, I'll tell grandpa that you're in a relationship!"

"You think I'm you? Are you afraid of being caught by your parents for a puppy love?"

"Hmph, so what about my puppy love, I'm dating a girl, not like you, you're dating a man!" Yang Xu rolled his eyes again.

"..." Li Wangbai squinted his eyes, and Yang Xu suddenly felt a little dangerous.