Chapter 71 - I
Xie Qi watched as Qin Yizhi stopped smiling. He felt confused and asked, “Why don’t you laugh?”
Qin Yizhi looked away and replied calmly, “I don’t like to laugh just like you.”
Xie Qi thought, “…”
He actually loved to laugh, okay?
Xie Qi didn’t take what Qin Yizhi said seriously; he just assumed Qin Yizhi was making assumptions.
However, this assumption simply couldn’t be established.
Xie Qi thought about it seriously.
After knowing each other for so long, he still had little trust.
When the food was served, there were no people at Xie Qi’s table who were familiar to him. They were all Qin Yizhi’s brothers and sisters. Even an eight-year-old girl was at their table.
Xie Qi lowered his voice and asked, “Are these all your brothers and sisters?”
Qin Yizhi responded with a “hmm.”
Xie Qi asked again, “How many people do you have in your family?”
In this large, dark place, some were still very young, all wearing small suits and sitting at the table with serious faces. It was obvious that they could hardly hold their chopsticks, and their expressions looked weathered.
Qin Yizhi replied, “There are more than 180 people in my family.”
Xie Qi: “…”
Probably because Qin Yizhi intimidated them, no one at their table spoke, but the people at the table not far away were quietly praising Qin Lingyun—they didn’t even dare to praise too loudly.
Xie Qi didn’t understand much about this, but the atmosphere weighed on him.
Especially seeing the little girl eating at the same table with them, who also looked mature beyond her years, he felt even more uncomfortable.
It was really depressing to stay there for too long.
The dishes were served one after another, tempting people to eat, but Xie Qi had no appetite. Instead, he found himself thinking about the big lotus pods sprouting from the pond.
But he was really hungry, so he picked up his chopsticks and planned to eat something to fill his stomach. However, he heard the little girl’s mother scolding her in a low voice: “How are you holding your chopsticks? How many times have I told you to hold them correctly? Chew your food carefully, count to 32 times before swallowing, and keep your back straight. Don’t you want others to think you have no manners?”
The girl felt a little aggrieved but immediately held it back, sat upright, and corrected her posture with the chopsticks. After the lecture, her mother had to apologize to everyone at the table, worried that it might have affected their appetites.
Everyone looked very polite and careful, their manners elegant.
Xie Qi: “…”
Instantly, he lost his appetite.
Qin Yizhi picked up the serving chopsticks, gave Xie Qi some food, and said in a low voice, “Eat as much as you can.”
Xie Qi: “…Yeah.”
He took a bite silently and, out of the corner of his eye, saw other people looking at him. He couldn’t help but choke. How could he eat this?
Xie Qi quickly found an excuse to escape and asked Qin Yizhi, “Is there a toilet here?”
Qin Yizhi paused and said, “I’ll take you there.”
He stood up and led Xie Qi out of the hall, around the atrium, and through the long corridor. Xie Qi couldn’t help but ask him, “Are the toilets so far away?”
Qin Yizhi was silent, and after a while, he said, “Feng Shui also pays attention to the location of the toilet. The toilet bucket is used in the room, and the large toilet will be in a remote corner.”
“…” Xie Qi was speechless, “Your family is too superstitious.”
Qin Yizhi: “Yeah.”
Xie Qi said, “It makes you look like a beautiful and refined flower.”
Qin Yizhi: “…”
He stopped and said to Xie Qi, “The toilet is here.”
Xie Qi took a look and saw that the toilet was indeed in the corner, with a bamboo forest planted around it. As soon as he walked over, he felt a bit eerie and cool.
Fortunately, the toilet was very clean and scented, just like the public toilets outside. There were also male and female toilets. The male toilets did not have urinals, so one could only enter the cubicle.
Xie Qi entered a toilet and saw that it was a fully automatic smart toilet. As soon as he approached, the toilet lit up with a blue light and automatically played Madame Luxury.
Xie Qi: “…”
Why was it both feudal and trendy =.=
At this time, there was someone standing next to Qin Yizhi. She was the mother who had just scolded her child. She was probably a generation older than Qin Yizhi. She said without any scruples, “Yizhi, you can’t just look at faces when looking for a partner. Even if it depends on the face, isn’t the girl from the Yan family better looking than this boy?”
“She’s much prettier than him. Why did you choose such an uneducated child? I heard that his family is still an ordinary family? Even if you don’t marry the daughter of the Yan family, you should choose someone with a better family background. At least you won’t be embarrassed to take them out.”
Qin Yizhi’s cold face showed a bit of displeasure, and he said in a cold tone, “Every step of my marriage is reasonable and proper, and it is not your place to discipline me.”
The woman said angrily, “I am your sister-in-law, and I am also doing this for your own good. If your father were still alive, he would definitely not want you to marry such a person. And how can you like boys? Your parents weren’t gay, how could you be? Listen to your aunt’s advice, your grandpa is the most conservative. Do you think he accepted you two by giving a thumb-up? I know him best. He doesn’t care about you anymore. Do you not understand? The heir should be your father’s role, but now it’s your turn. How can you be so unlucky!? Do you have to let the bastard born by a mistress take over?”
Qin Yizhi didn’t react at all and said rather perfunctorily, “If he has the ability, he can give it a try.”
“Let him try? How could you do this? If your father were still alive, would he allow you to do such nonsense?”