Chapter 26: Chapter 26

As the weather forecast shows, the temperature is getting lower every day.
On the day of worshipping the ancestors, after lingering point, Tong's car stopped downstairs to pick up Jiang Ci.
There was a tap on the door, Jiang Ci opened the door, and Lu Xingxue stood outside.
"You haven't slept yet?" Jiang Ci was slightly surprised.
Lu Xingxue's voice was lazy: "I just finished reading the acquisition plan. There are car lights downstairs. I think I should be here to pick you up. Everything is packed?"
To stay in his hometown for one night, Jiang Ci had to pack some simple clothes with him.
"It's almost there." Jiang Ci let Lu Xingxue in and continued doing the previous thing, putting some miscellaneous things into the storage bag and stuffing it into the suitcase.
Lu Xingxue quietly watched her busy, and finally reminded: "It might snow today, so dress warmer."
"I know." Jiang Ci closed the suitcase and thought for a while: "...After the acquisition, you can see the situation. If the weather is bad, you don't have to rush over. Anyway, the sacrificial day is over."
Lu Xingxue: "Good."
There is nothing else to tell, just go out for a day, Jiang Ci put on his coat: "Then I will go down, you can rest early."
The collar of her overcoat was half drooping. Lu Xingxue noticed that she stepped forward to smooth her and chuckled, "I will send you downstairs."
Jiang Ci: "...oh."
The driver picked up Jiang Ci and returned to Songling Road to pick up Jiang Lin. The old house of Tong's family is in an ancient town four or five hours away from G City. Tong Tingkai has invested a lot to rebuild the family ancestral hall. This is a new ancestral hall completed and ancestor worship. It is very grand. He had already returned two days earlier. Because Tong Zhenni's mother passed away in the old house, Jiang Lin was always unwilling to stay longer, so they delayed until today before leaving.
As for Tong Zhenni, since she had a big quarrel with Tong Tingkai, she often stayed away at night and couldn't communicate. No one can say whether she will show up this time.
Jiang Lin took Tong Junhao into the car, and Tong Junhao happily rushed towards Jiang Ci: "Sister!"
Jiang Lin shook off the blanket behind him: "Haohao, come and sleep."
"I'm not sleepy, I want to play with my sister." Tong Junhao took out a stack of pictures from his pocket and shook his head: "Our school has become popular recently. Look, I have this~ so much! Do you want me to teach? How do you play?"
Jiang Ci: "You go to my mother's place to sleep, and I am going to sleep too."
When Tong Junhao heard it, he was reluctant to say: "No, you are not allowed to sleep, you have to play with me!"
The journey was still long, and Jiang Lin was not in a hurry to urge Tong Junhao. She asked Jiang Ci: "Lu Xingxue said he should come over after the meeting?"
Jiang Ci patted Tong Junhao: "That's what I said, but I let her see the situation for herself, if it snows, don't come, it's not safe to drive on a snowy night."
Tong Junhao complained: "Mom! Look at my sister! She pushed me!"
Jiang Lin ignored her son, and muttered: "I missed the time.... You said her acquisition will be just an excuse, right?"
Jiang Ci: "May I ask her assistant for you?"
Tong Junhao was ignored and let go of his voice: "Play with me, play with me, play with me!!!"
"Don't be noisy!" After Jiang Lin finished training Tong Junhao, she said to Jiang Ci: "You don't give me the yin and yang. Isn't she going to worship the ancestors, it is not you who has the face?-I hope it really snows today, to If she doesn't show up at that time, anyhow she can have an excuse!"
Jiang Ci put the earplugs into his ears and told Jiang Lin with practical actions that the chat between mother and daughter had come to an end.
Tong Junhao was about to yell again, Jiang Lin pulled him aside without saying a word, and covered his face with a blanket. Tong Junhao was first indifferently rejected by her sister, and now she was forced to sleep by her mother. Then the young master got angry, kicked and struggled and howled in one go, and threw the picture in the car.
The earplugs work well, but they can't help the excitement at such a close distance. Jiang Ci brushed off the pictures falling from the clothes room and moved to sit by the car door.
The streets in the early hours of the morning were very quiet, and the buildings near and far were completely dark.
Lu Xingxue had just spoken with a smile in his heart. Such a gentle and decent person regarded her as a capital to show off. Jiang Ci didn't like this.
The Tong family is a big family in the town. The red carpet is spread all the way from the ancestral hall to the entrance of the town. Firecrackers, gongs and drums are noisy for a whole day. In the evening, the gloomy sky finally floated with fine snow.
In the ancestral hall, there was a lot of voices, and cups were exchanged on the table.
Jiang Ci sits at a table with Tong Zhenni by seniority. Tong Zhenni came by herself, one day earlier than Jiang Ci and the others.
In the first ten years of Jiang Ci's life, she was labelled as an illegitimate girl and was not recognized by Tong's family. So even if Jiang Lin is now a well-known Tong wife, she still has no sense of belonging to Tong's family. Especially when she was sitting with Tong Zhenni and others asked her to eat more, her voice was also embarrassing.
"...Yes, it's the president of Forest. Oh, I'm very busy. I had to rush over after the meeting, but it was dark and snowy, so we didn't allow her to come." Jiang Lin was at the next table and said this. Intentionally or unintentionally, the volume was released, and everyone sitting nearby heard it.
To aim at Jiang Ci with a smile, Tong Zhenni almost wrote the sarcasm on her face: Lu Xingxue made it clear that she was too lazy to socialize, so she just found an excuse to fool you, and you will use it here to fool everyone.
"Sister, she really won't come?" Opposite Jiang Ci, a 17-year-old girl couldn't hide her disappointment. "I saw your photos on Weibo last time, and told my classmates that they didn't believe me! I still want to take this photo. Go back with more photos so that they can be convinced."
The girl said so bluntly, it is not very annoying, Jiang Ci nodded and said: "She is busy today, go to—"
"It's rude! If you can't tell me, you have to follow up and ask, did you deliberately embarrass people?" The girl's mother patted the the back of the head, and Jiang Ci's explanation was interrupted.
Tong Zhenni shrugged to Jiang Ci: Look, I'm not the only one who thinks so.
It's a pity that Jiang Ci is not interested in watching her.
Girl mother: "Also, you will stay online less and don't show me those messy things all day long, have you heard?"
The girl was not convinced: "Why am I rude? I called her sister! And didn't you read the last Weibo, you said Sparrow Fei"
Her mother stared: "Tong Xinyu! Are you still talking!?"
The girl was stunned, knowing she hadn't said anything, her face flushed and she didn't dare to look up at Jiang Ci.
Tong Zhenni smirked, and everyone in the room looked subtle. With gazes from all directions, Jiang Ci ate the dishes in his bowl calmly.
She understands, but she doesn't care about it.
The ancestral hall was brightly lit, and the roof tiles had already been covered with snow, and the snow was unknowingly heavy.
Tong Tingkai sent several red envelopes to the juniors several times, and then withdrew the banquet, mahjong served on the table, Jiang Ci took the opportunity to sneak back to the old house.
There is heating in the room. After Jiang Ci took a shower, sitting by the window blowing her hair, Tong Zhenni's fierce voice suddenly sounded in the snowy night.
"Don’t pick it up, don’t pick it up, you have to, it’s dirty, even if you sell it, it’s not worth a few dollars. I’ve been on a tight hand for the past two months, but I have also sent you money. Don’t be reluctant to use it. do not know!?"
Downstairs, Tong Zhenni struggled to hold a large stack of cardboard, pressed her chin, and freed her hand to wrap her waist on the old lady: "Go slow! The ground is snow!"
The old lady carried a plastic bag and shook it in her hand, like a packed lunch box.
"Nini, the mistress knows that you are filial, but how can you use your money? When is our Nini going to do something big, the mistress will give you a big red envelope."
Tong Zhenni: "Who wants your money! Just worry about it, yourself..."
Jiang Ci didn't deliberately listen, just at this moment the phone rang, she looked at it by mistake, and Lu Xingxue called.
Jiang Ci went to the ancestral hall to pick up the deer and snow.
Lu Xingxue came to town and walked down the red carpet to find the ancestral hall. He didn't know the road behind, so he called Jiang Ci.
A few children who refused to go home were still playing snowball fights, chasing me around the old tree in front of the ancestral hall, with a clear voice.
The radiant snowflakes were plated in gold by the street lights. Lu Xingxue stood under the eaves. Across the snow curtain, she was wearing a dark yar, her long hair draped naturally like a waterfall, and her coat was neatly buckled. Like the beauty of the Republic of China in the pictorial.
"I thought you couldn't come." Jiang Ci closed the umbrella and stepped up the steps of the ancestral hall in two steps.
Lu Xingxue turned around, smiling.
She actually doesn't need to come, no one will force her, and no one will accuse her, but she still came.
Once he had this recognition, Jiang Ci's voice felt a little lighter: "Is the road going smoothly?"
Lu Xingxue answered the wrong question: "Jiang Ci, aren't you cold?"
"Huh?" Lu Xingxue's approaching figure was reflected in Jiang Ci's clear pupils.
"Run out if your hair gets wet." Lu Xingxue said softly, taking off her scarf and wrapping it around Jiang Ci. The scarf was soft and gently wound up in circles, almost covering most of Jiang Ci's face.
She answered the phone and went out in a hurry. She did not have time to dry her hair.
The scarf was stained with the scent of Lu Xingxue, which was very strong. Ginger Porcelain pulled her nose, her nose was red, and her face was somehow red.
"...Let's go," she said.
Lu Xingxue pointed to the entrance of the ancestral hall: "Will you take me in and say hello to the elders? Listen to the voice, it's still very lively."
Jiang Ci didn't move, but Lu Xingxue hesitated seeing her: "What's the matter? Nothing?"
Jiang Ci took a deep breath: "No."
She led Lu Xingxue into the ancestral hall. As soon as the two showed up, the mahjong stopped. After the astonishment, Jiang Lin immediately took Lu Xingxue to introduce her to her relatives.
Lu Xingxue greeted them one by one in a humble and polite manner.
Jiang Lin's pride was beyond words. She said that Lu Xingxue was busy before, and that Lu Xingxue was not allowed to come over when it snowed. The listeners agreed on the surface, and tacitly told them in secret-a person who sounds so noble is not a child at all. Home is in your eyes, and your wife is not in your heart, so you won't come, right?
Now Lu Xingxue braved the heavy snow overnight, and all guesses were undefeated.
Jiang Lin deliberately blamed her: "There is so much snow outside. If you say it won't come, you will come again!"
"..." Jiang Ci didn't know how to put his hands and feet in this play.
Lu Xingxue was okay, and replied politely: "It should have come, but it's too late. Don't take offense to the elders."
"Nothing to blame, no one to blame."
"Are you busy..."
I don't know where the voice is: "I'm afraid I came here after I couldn't bear to part with Azi all night, huh?"
"..."
Everyone had a smile on their faces, and Jiang Lin was especially happy. Tong Tingkai asked Lu Xingxue if he would play mahjong, anyway, it was still early, so it was better to sit down and play a few laps.
Several people rushed to give up their seats to Lu Xingxue:
"Here here, my brand is very popular!"
"Just your brand is booming? I'm booming too!"
An aunt simply pulled Lu Xingxue on her hand and smiled heartily: "Let's open another table, not with their stinky men."
"..."
Jiang Ci couldn't stay any longer: "Mom, Lu Xingxue is still hungry."
After leaving the ancestral hall, the cold air of a snowy night poured into his lungs, and Jiang Ci's breathing became smoother.
Things backfired, and things I didn't like still happened.
Lu Xingxue was smiling, Jiang Ci didn't ask her what she was laughing at, so there is no need to ask. His slap-sized face was trapped in a scarf, only a pair of eyes were exposed to look at the person in front of him, the eyes full of helplessness.
Lu Xingxue: "It doesn't matter, I can handle it.... But how can you guess? I really didn't eat dinner."
"You..." Jiang Ci didn't know what to say for a while, hungry and came over in the snow. Is this necessary?
Lu Xingxue looked at her with warm eyes and smiled.
After a thousand words, Jiang Ci turned to the beginning: "...Let's go, take you to eat."
Stepping on the snow-covered blue bricks, Jiang Ci brought Lu Xingxue back to the old house. After Tong Zhenni delivered the mistress, she happened to come back. The three met at the door. Tong Zhenni "chicks" her eyes instead of noses or noses. She squeezed past them and rushed into the house before them.
In snowy weather, she only wore a pair of black stockings, showing half of her white legs, she was not afraid of the cold.
The casserole was boiled with glutinous rice and ginseng chicken soup. Jiang Lin prepared it as a supper for everyone. The porcelain filled a bowl full of snow for Lu Xing.
The two stayed in the kitchen. Before long, Tong Junhao rushed in like a firecracker, without panting, and jumped to Jiang Ci: "Sister smelly, mother said to take me to ski, I won't take you! Humph! "
Jiang Ci: "Whatever, I don't like it anyway."
"You, you, you!" Tong Junhao was jumped with anger by her.
Lu Xingxue blew warm chicken soup and drank it with a smile.
Jiang Lin followed closely behind with a smile: "Xiao Bai, is this soup still to your liking?"
Lu Xingxue: "Mom made everything delicious. Drinking a bowl of hot soup in this weather is very comfortable."
Jiang Lin's cooking skills really didn't have to say, this is not flattery.
Jiang Lin sighed: "Listen, it's really more caring than my own."
Jiang Ci, Tong Junhao: "..."
Lu Xingxue smiled and asked, "Hao Hao said he is going to ski? Has the place been set?"
"That's the idea." Jiang Lin sighed: "Aunt Ning, tell me ahead of time that Mrs. Lin has an appointment with Mrs. Wen, and the two of you will go abroad for vacation together next month. I heard her voice, very lonely. Just as Haohao was making a fuss about skiing, he simply invited her to go with her. Aji, you can help me see if you are free to go."
Before Jiang Ci could speak up, Lu Xingxue said, "If you are skiing, does mother consider S country? I have a place to stay there, and there are many acquaintances. You take Haohao on the trip. If you go there, Jiang Ci and I I can rest assured a lot."
Country S is of course good. It has top skiing resources. The overall security is at the forefront of the world. Since Lu Xingxue will open this mouth, it naturally means to take care of the whole journey. Cost is the second most important thing. The most important thing is that she has this heart. Jiang Lin said with joy: "Is it convenient?"
Lu Xingxue nodded: "You have confirmed the time to tell me."
"Ah, great!" Jiang Lin stroked her palm.
Jiang Ci: "..." Okay, you are the mother and daughter.
Jiang Lin became more and more satisfied with Lu Xingxue. Seeing that her bowl of soup was about to bottom out, she immediately served her a second bowl: "The stomach must be full."
Lu Xingxue: "Thank you mom."
Jiang Lin lifted the lid of the casserole: "Ah, by the way, Xiao Bai, have you been sleeping better recently after taking those medicines?"
When Lu Xingxue stopped drinking the soup, Jiang Ci looked at Jiang Lin suddenly.
Jiang Lin: "Should I sleep with Aci tonight, or arrange another room for you?"