Chapter 23:

Xu Lian took her mother back to her place. When they got home, Xiang Changkong hadn't come yet.
"I don't know how your father stuffed so many things in." Xu Lian's mother complained about Xu Lian while she was packing the suitcase she brought back. Xu Lian leaned on the sofa with her mobile phone and sent a message to Changkong: "Where have you been?"
Xiang Changkong: I'm out of the subway, I'll be there soon
Xu Lian: OK, I'll come down and pick you up
Xiang Changkong: No need, I ’ll come by myself
Xu Lian: It doesn't matter
When she finished sending her phone, she said to her mother, "He's here, I'll pick him up."
"Okay, you go." After listening to her, Xu Lian's mother quickly packed up what she had taken out. Xu Lian went down holding the key, and as soon as he reached the door, he saw Xiang Changkong also come over. She smiled at him and called him: "To the sky."
Hearing her voice, he raised his mouth slightly towards Changkong, and walked quickly: "Are you waiting long?"
"No, we have just arrived." Xu Lian said, looking up and down for a few moments, and smiling at him, "You look like ... today is not the same as usual."
Xiang Changkong coughed uncomfortably, "Yes, right?"
Xu Lian said: "Yeah, I feel more handsome than usual."
Xiang Changkong blushed slightly and said to her, "Let's go up, don't let the aunt wait too long."
"it is good."
The two went upstairs together, and Xu Lian's mother heard the sound of opening the door and ran over from the house. Xu Lian changed her slippers and looked up when she looked up.
She went down to the sky, her mother even changed a skirt ...
She smiled indiscriminately, and pulled into Changkong: "I'll introduce it to you, this is my mother."
"Ah, auntie." Xiang Changkong looked a little nervous, and his hands were a bit stiff. "The first time I met, I was to Changkong. This is a gift for you, I hope you like it."
As soon as Xu Lian's mother saw Xiang Changkong walked in, her eyes brightened. The first impression was that the young man was really tall. When he looked closely, he found that he was very handsome.
She smiled and took the paper bag in his hand, and said to him, "I like it, you are so kind."
Xiang Changkong smiled and said, "It should be."
"Sit first." Xu Lian's mother greeted him to sit down on the sofa, glanced casually over the slippers on his feet. When she came just now, she noticed the pair of slippers. She was still thinking who this was for Xu Lian. Now she understands it.
Glancing at Xu Lian without a trace, she said to Changkong with a smile: "Xiaoxiang, I brought a lot of special products back this time, I'll get you some and wait."
Xu Lian's mother's large suitcase had been dragged into Xu Lian's bedroom. She went in for a while, carried a lot of things, and put it on the sofa: "This is a tapestry. The cashmere fabric over there is very famous. I bought it. There are several, this one is for you. And these pine nuts, Xu Lian's father also stuffed a lot, you take some back to eat. Oh, I heard Xu Lian said you have a sister, you look at these gadgets Is there anything your sister likes? Their handmade products are also very famous. "
Xiang Changkong didn't expect Xu Lian's mother to be so enthusiastic, but he was even more embarrassed: "Auntie, you're too kind, these are left to Xu Lian."
"She still has a lot, but her father stuffed me with a box full of them, and I was afraid the customs thought I was purchasing."
Xiang Changkong: "..."
"Take it away, there really is a lot in my bedroom." Xu Lian said to Changkong.
Seeing Auntie so enthusiastic to Changkong, it is not good to refuse: "Thank you Auntie."
"Are you polite with your aunt?" Xu Lian's mother packed things for him and sat down on the sofa. As soon as she sat down, she felt that her hand had touched her, and she felt a little stubborn. She turned around and took the thing out, telling Xu Lian: "What do you put under the sofa?"
Xu Lian and Xiang Changkong both looked at her, then both fell silent. After Xu Lian's mother took things out, she could see it clearly—a small red box, although it was written in Japanese, but she still understood what it was.
...
so awkward.
She shoved it back again, as if she had never taken it out: "Well, let's watch TV for a while."
She took the remote control board and turned on the TV. Regardless of which station, she turned up the sound directly.
The news was being broadcast on TV, and the anchor's wording was slightly relieved of the embarrassment in the room. Xu Lian's mother coughed twice, following the anchor's words in the news: "You show that you know the situation over there is chaotic, and those people still want to go on a tour, is it because the money is burning?"
Xu Lian said: "It may have been scheduled before, but it's not easy to cancel it now."
"Anyway, I definitely won't go, hey, I also hear and report these news every day abroad."
"Ok……"
So three people sat in the room and talked about the current affairs news in the afternoon.
At five o'clock, Xu Lian asked a thought-provoking question: "Are you hungry? Should I order something?"
Xu Lian's mother had an airplane meal at noon, and sat here for an afternoon current affairs. She had her pressed against her back.
Xu Lian said: "It can be called Xingguang Park, and the restaurants there are not bad, just to be more expensive."
After thinking to Changkong, she asked, "Did you finish all the vegetables you bought before?"
Xu Lian shook her head. In addition to those dishes used in the sky, she cooked noodles with lettuce leaves.
Xiang Changkong said: "Let me do it. There are some leftovers last time, and it will break if we don't eat them."
When Xu Lian's mother heard this, she said quickly: "No, no, you are a guest, or I'll do it."
Xiang Changkong smiled at her, and said, "It's okay, auntie, I cook all in my house, and soon."
He took off his jacket and said to Xu Lian: "Then I'll cook first. Let's chat with your aunt."
Xu Li followed him and walked to the kitchen together: "Let me help you."
After thinking to Changkong, he nodded to her, "OK."
When they entered the kitchen, Xu Lian's mother took out her mobile phone and sent a message to Xu Lian's father: "I saw Xiao Xiang, this child is really nice, people are smart and good, and they can cook! It ’s impossible that Xu Lian made the table.

In the kitchen, pull up the sleeves of a sweater to the sky, open the refrigerator and look. There are still a lot of vegetables and some meat left. It should be enough for dinner. He turned around and said to Xu Lian, "Come and cook. I will cook."
"Okay." Xu Lian said something like a reminder, and took an apron out of the cabinet. "Did you say you wanted to use an apron last time, I bought it and put it on?"
"Um." He smiled to Changkong, put the dishes in the sink, and tied the apron in Xu Lian's hand. Xu Lian looked at him aside, and Xiang Changkong was uneasy at her gaze: "What do you look at me like this?"
Xu Lian still looked at him, and a bright smile flashed in his eyes: "I always thought you were conservative, I never expected that you would still wear a low-necked sweater, so coquettish."
"..." Xiang Changkong was silent for a while before she said, "Wear and wear a high collar."
"Oh." Xu Lian responded, and the smile in her eyes even worse. "It looks pretty and a bit sexy." Xiang Changkong's collar is lower than the collarbone. His collarbone looks good, under the sweater. Vaguely, it's really sexy.
Xu Lian's words made Xiang Changkong pull his neckline subconsciously. Xu Lian stepped forward, hooked his neck, and stomped on his lips. Startled into Changkong, but didn't push her away, just whispered to her: "Don't make trouble, aunt is still outside."
Xu Lian didn't take it seriously: "She's all seen 001, what are you afraid of?"
Xiang Changkong: "..."
He finally forgot about it. Xiang Changkong was really upset. On the first day she met Xu Lian's mother, she was shown that kind of thing. What would she think of herself?
Xu Lian understood his mind and relieved: "Relax, my mother is very avant-garde." After all, they can accept that she won't marry in her life, what a 001 is.
"But, but ..."
"Stop it, let's cook first."
"……Ok."
Xu Lian opened the faucet, scoured rice next to him, looked at Changkong and called her: "Xu Lian."
"Ok?"
"I signed up."
Xu Lian paused for a moment and stopped to see him: "Graduate?"
"Well." Today, I met with Xu Lian's mother. Although she didn't ask herself anything, he knew that she must be uneasy. He can understand this mood. If one day brings a boyfriend to Nuan, he will certainly care about what the boy is doing, his ability, and whether he can take care of Xiangnuan.
They don't ask, he should also take a stand to make them feel at ease.
Xu Lian didn't turn off the water until the water in the rice cooker was about to overflow, she turned off the faucet, and smiled towards the sky, "Congratulations."
Xiang Changkong also laughed. "Congratulations? I just reported my name, but I didn't pass the exam."
Xu Lian said: "You will definitely be admitted."
The smile at the corner of Changkong's mouth was a little deeper: "Do you have such confidence in me?"
"Of course, my mother boasted you that there was nothing in the sky, and said that my university was a pheasant university."
After listening to her, Xiang Changkong couldn't help laughing.
At the kitchen door, Xu Lian's mother opened a video and quietly pointed her mobile phone at the kitchen, sneaking a picture of the movement inside. He glanced at the door towards Changkong, and Xu Lian followed, "Mom, what are you shooting?"
"Nothing, nothing." Xu Lian's mother hurriedly hid her phone behind her, and said to both of them, "You keep cooking, I won't bother you."
She went to the living room and passed the video just taken to Xu Lian's father: "Did you see it?"
Next Xu: Just like that? What can I see?
Xu Lian's mother rolled her eyes and said to him, "I don't want to take photos with my old face and sneak shots? I don't think I'll tell you if I come back to see the real person myself."
Xu Lian mother said, really turned off the phone.
Xiang Changkong used all the vegetables and meat left in Xu Lian's refrigerator, and made a total of three dishes and one soup. Xu Lian's mother looked at the dishes on the table, tasted a piece of fried lettuce, and suddenly looked at Xiang Changkong with admiration: "Xiao Xiang's technique is good, Xu Lian, you should learn from others."
Xiang Changkong said, "Xu Lian also helped this meal today, and she learned very quickly."
Xu Lian's mother laughed and said, "Don't speak for her. I don't know what level of her? I have learned to cook noodles for so many years."
Xu Lian said: "That's because the teacher is too poor."
Xu Lian mother: "..."
After the three had finished eating, they planned to pack up in the sky, and Xu Lian's mother quickly stopped him: "I'll do the dishes. The rice is made by you. How can I let you do the dishes?"
Xu Lian also said, "Well, let's wash it."
After thinking to Changkong, he didn't insist: "Okay, I'll go back first."
When Xu Lian's mother heard him say this, she subconsciously glanced at the time: "It's less than eight o'clock, so go back so early?"
"Well, I have been interrupted for too long today. Auntie, you must be tired when you just came back. You and Xu Lian will rest early."
Xu Lian's mother thinks this guy is so considerate: "Okay, you remember to bring everything I gave you."
"Okay, thanks aunt."
He went to the living room to put on his jacket and brought the gift that Xu Lian's mother had given him. Xu Lian took another insulated bucket from the kitchen and gave him: "This, I've washed it."
Take back the insulation bucket to Changkong and smile at her: "You don't have to order any food tomorrow noon, I'll do it for you."
Before Xu Lian talked, Xu Lian's mother exploded first: "What? You still want to give her lunch at noon? Oh my god, see how she used to!"
He smiled at Changkong's mouth, and said to Xu Lian's mother, "It doesn't matter. I would have to cook every day, just to do more."
What did Xu Lian's mother want to say, Xu Lian opened the door and pushed out to the sky: "I'll send him off."
Xu Lian's mother looked at the closed door and turned on her cell phone. Xu Lian's father has sent dozens of messages, all asking about Xiang Changkong.
Xu Lian's mother replied to him: "You say Xiao Xiang? I'm almost seeing him. [Smile]"
Xu Lian Dad: "..."