#662 - Happiness is someone waiting for you to come home

In the evening, Xu Ye and Qin Zhiwei met at the old place.

The two did not go to eat directly, but at Qin Zhiwei's suggestion, they took a walk around the high school campus together.

Things that happened in high school are already a long time ago in Xu Ye’s memory.

But for Qin Zhiwei, it is still vivid in his mind.

Originally, the two thought they couldn't get into the school, because even during summer vacation, there would still be guards on duty at the gate. Before they even got close to the gate, they were stopped by the guards. Xu Ye was about to tell Qin Zhiwei to forget it, but the guard suddenly seemed to get excited, pointed at Xu Ye and asked, "Are you Xu Ye?"

Xu Ye also widened his eyes.

I wondered when I became so famous that even the school security guard knew me.

"Do you know me?"

The guard led the two into the school. Before they had walked a few dozen steps, someone outside the door pointed at a photo of Xu Ye on the bulletin board and said, "Look, isn't that you?"

Xu Ye looked up and saw that it was an article written by the school for him. The title of the article was "The Billionaire from No. 1 Middle School".

Before Xu Ye started reading the main text, Qin Zhiwei next to him couldn't help but laugh.

"What are you laughing at, you bastard?"

"Study hard, be good in both character and learning, is this you, the fuck?"

Xu Ye raised his foot and was about to kick Qin Zhiwei in the butt, but Qin Zhiwei immediately dodged to the side.

The guard also spoke at this time.

"Then you can walk around freely, but you'd better be out before nine o'clock. I'm going to lock the door."

"Okay, thank you uncle."

Qin Zhiwei said with emotion: "When I was in school, it seemed that only the top three students in the school in each midterm and final exam were eligible to be on this bulletin board, and at most one photo could be posted. I didn't expect that after so many years of graduation, there is actually a special page in the bulletin board with articles about you."

"It's the same with the School of Finance. They hung my portrait on the wall of the outstanding graduates exhibition before I even defended my thesis."

“These four years have really been like a dream.”

"You are dreaming. I have come this far step by step."

Qin Zhiwei did not refute. He did take advantage of Xu Ye. He smiled and said, "Let's go to the classroom and take a look."

"Um."

Xu Ye also brought Chen Qingqing here last time, but they just walked around outside and left. Xu Ye couldn't even remember which classroom he had been in. For him, apart from Qin Zhiwei and Gu Mengyao who ruined his life, there was actually nothing else that could leave any memories in his mind during the three years of high school.

However, Qin Zhiwei quickly helped Xu Ye recall.

"Do you remember that place over there? It was a dog hole at first, and then someone smashed it bigger. During our sports meet, we sneaked out through that dog hole to surf the Internet."

"Damn, the basketball court is now so well renovated. When we were there, the basketball hoops were all broken. As expected, the school always starts renovating after graduation."

"This is our senior year classroom. The desks and chairs have been moved, but the positions haven't changed. Do you remember where we sit?"

Having reached the window, Xu Ye of course started to think about it.

"You used to sit in the second to last row, but later on your grades improved and you moved up two rows. I sat next to the window. Damn it, the guy sitting in front of me had body odor, and every time I opened the window, he would close it."

"Haha, then you told him about his body odor in person, and you were moved to the last row."

"Let's go, let's go eat skewers. I promised my wife that I would bring him some crayfish when I get back."

“Can pregnant women eat crayfish?”

“Just the right amount.”

"Then I'll bring some back for Xinyi."

The two left school, took a bus to the night snack street, and found a lobster barbecue restaurant. Because there was no air conditioning inside, Xu Ye and Qin Zhiwei found a seat at a roadside stall outside and sat down.

The two of them ordered five pounds of crayfish, plus some other barbecue. Since they were each driving a car, they didn't order any wine, but just a large bottle of Sprite.

The Sprite was iced. As soon as the boss brought it over, Qin Zhiwei poured himself a glass. He took a sip, shook his head and sighed, "Sprite is still the best."

Xu Ye felt a little emotional.

In his previous world, Qin Zhiwei was an alcoholic. He started to gain weight at the age of 25, and within two years his beer belly looked like a pregnant woman.

Of course Xu Ye hopes that Qin Zhiwei will always think that Sprite tastes better than beer, because Sprite is a beverage, while beer is a short-term regret medicine for men.

"Are you spending the New Year in Shanghai or Jiangzhou today?"

"I don't know. I haven't thought about it yet."

"I'm going to Shanghai to celebrate the New Year, and the house is almost ready."

“What about your parents’ supermarket?”

"Nowadays, we buy everything online. My supermarket business has been failing for a long time. I plan to ask my parents to quit."

Xu Ye smiled and said, "They may not listen to you."

Qin Zhiwei also smiled and said, "I plan to let Xinyi tell my mother, and my mother will listen to her."

"When your mom was playing mahjong, she boasted to my mom that if you ever got a wife, she would make sure she would control her. Now, whatever your daughter-in-law says goes."

"My grandmother wasn't very kind to her when she was alive. My dad was doing OK at the time, and my grandmother always felt that my mom wasn't worthy of him. So every time my parents quarreled, as soon as my mom brought up this matter, my dad would immediately shut up. My mom herself never had a good life in front of her mother-in-law, so how could she be harsh to her own daughter-in-law?"

"After all, your mother is the best."

"After this marriage, will your mother stay in the Magic City with you?"

"Um."

"When the baby is born, I will also take my mother over."

"When I was in high school, I would drool every time I passed by here after evening self-study and smelled the barbecued lobsters. Now I can finally eat them whenever I want."

"You are a bandit. You eat it without even peeling the shell."

"trouble."

"Do you think this kind of roadside stall will clean the crayfish's intestines?"

"It's not clean, but you won't get sick if you eat it."

Xu Ye ate for a while and felt full, so he asked the boss for a take-away box. He put on gloves and began to peel the shrimp tails one by one and put them into the box.

Seeing this, Qin Zhiwei quickly followed suit.

…

Red Leaf Villa.

Seeing that it was getting late, Chen Qingqing said to Jiang Meilin, "Mom, go upstairs and sleep."

"Xiao Xu hasn't come back yet."

"Just leave the door open."

"Okay, then you should go upstairs early as well."

The mother and daughter went upstairs one after another.

After lying down on the bed, he picked up the phone almost at the same time.

Chen Qingqing originally wanted to call directly, but she was afraid that Xu Ye would go out for a midnight snack with Qin Zhiwei at night, and calling would be suspected of checking up on him, which might make Qin Zhiwei laugh at her, so she just edited a message and sent it over: "Honey, what time will you be back? I've let Mom sleep, I'll go downstairs and open the door for you later."

At the same time, Jiang Meilin also sent a message to Xu Ye: "Xiao Xu, call mom when you come back so I can go down and open the door for you. Don't press the doorbell, or you might wake Qingqing."

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