MFMBSA 44

Chapter 44 – New Year’s Eve

 

Qi Xi observed Fu Yanchuan carefully with some surprise. Fu Yanchuan had always been silent during their time they had known each other. This was the first time he had said such words to him. He asked with uncertainty: “Brother Yan, what did you think about me?”

 

As expected, Fu Yanchuan fell silent again, but accidentally made him suck his fingers deeper.

 

He shrank in fright, but Fu Yanchuan let him go and asked as if going around him: “Besides hot pot, what else did you eat?”

 

He counted them in detail, “There are a lot of fried chicken, grilled squid, big hot dogs, and milk tea. The mall we went to today has a lot of food. Can we go together next time?”

 

Fu Yanchuan only heard that Qi Xi ate food that was not very healthy, and he became dissatisfied with Qi Xi’s best friend. Did he know that Qi Xi was prone to getting sick? Is this how you take care of people?

 

He touched Qi Xi’s belly and asked, “Are you feeling uncomfortable?”

 

“No.”

 

Qi Xi felt that he was full of energy, but after catching a flight today and shopping all night, he couldn’t help but yawn, “Brother Yan, I want to go to bed.”

 

“Tired?”

 

Qi Xi leaned on Fu Yanchuan’s shoulder and nodded, “Yes. We have been shopping for a long time, and I bought a lot of things for Xie Hui. I can finally buy things for him too!”

 

Fu Yanchuan heard Xie Hui again and pushed him up. “Go to sleep.”

 

“Oh.” Qi Xi reluctantly hugged Fu Yanchuan’s neck and kissed him. “I’m going. Brother Yan, you should go to bed early.”

 

Fu Yanchuan remained motionless. Qi Xi slowly let go of him and got off him.

 

They slept together when they went on the trip for a few days, and nothing seemed to have changed for Qi Xi, so he naturally returned to his room.

 

He stared at Qi Xi’s back until he couldn’t see him anymore, and then his eyes calmed down. He took the down jacket that Qi Xi had just taken off and took out a smartwatch from its pocket that hadn’t been turned on yet.

 

This was probably Xie Hui’s gift to Qi Xi. He held it and observed it for a moment. He then took a photo and sent it to his life assistant.

 

[Buy the same style and have it delivered tomorrow morning.]

 

Qi Xi woke up the next day and thought Fu Yanchuan had gone to work. When he went out with the orange cat in his arms, he saw Fu Yanchuan in the living room.

 

He ran over and sat next to Fu Yanchuan. He leaned against Fu Yanchuan and asked, “Brother Yan, aren’t you going to work?”

 

“No, I’m on vacation leave soon.”

 

Qi Xi remembered that the Spring Festival was approaching. He looked at Fu Yanchuan and asked, “Brother Yan, are you going home for the Spring Festival?”

 

Fu Yanchuan immediately took him over, and he fell asleep on Fu Yanchuan’s lap again. Fu Yanchuan lowered his eyes and looked at him before asking, “Do you want me to accompany you?”

 

When Qi Xi was a child, he was particularly eager to celebrate the Spring Festival. His mother would allow him to eat snacks as he pleased, and his grandfather would buy him gifts. Even Qi Feng would stay at home during those days and play with him for a while.

 

But then no one bought him a gift, and no one cooked him his favorite dishes on New Year’s Eve. It was obviously still the same house, with the same number of people, but everything had changed.

 

At that time, he even doubted whether he had become transparent, otherwise it would seem that no one else could see him. The only one who always accompanied him was the Great Sage Qi Tian.

 

He looked back at Fu Yanchuan and wanted to nod, but he never nodded. Although Fu Yanchuan had been living here since then, he has not forgotten that this is not Fu Yanchuan’s home. Fu Yanchuan has his own family, so he certainly can’t stay here with him all the time.

 

Fu Yanchuan didn’t wait for an answer, he lowered his head and asked, “You don’t want me to?”

 

“As long as you send me a Happy New Year during the Chinese New Year, I will be very happy!”

 

It was as if something stretched out from Fu Yanchuan’s eyes and grabbed Qi Xi. He held Qi Xi’s neck and kissed him. Qi Xi was sucked by him until he grabbed his hair and stared at him inexplicably.

 

He withdrew and said, “Qi Xi, you can ask me to stay.”

 

Qi Xi pursed his red and swollen lips and replied uncertainly: “But aren’t you with your parents?”

 

Fu Yanchuan thought for a moment, “Will you go with me?”

 

“What?”

 

“To celebrate the New Year with my mother.”

 

Qi Xi blinked, “Can I? Would it not be weird? What if she doesn’t like me?”

 

“She’ll definitely like you.”

 

Fu Yanchuan kissed him again, this time much more gently. He dropped the orange cat that Qi Xi was still holding, kneaded the person under him, and sank deep into the sofa.

 

Qi Xi wasn’t that slow either. Ever since he saw him last time, Fu Yanchuan had deliberately avoided getting too close to him when kissing him, and simply let him go after kissing him.

 

The same thing happened this time. When he was kissed to the point where he had no energy to feel anything, Fu Yanchuan let him go again and said, “Go and have breakfast.”

 

“Brother Yan!”

 

He stood up slowly. As soon as he stood up, Fu Yanchuan suddenly took his hand. He thought Fu Yanchuan was going to do something, but Fu Yanchuan just put a smart watch on his wrist.

 

Fu Yanchuan said calmly: “A gift.”

 

Qi Xi didn’t realize that it wasn’t Xie Hui who gave him the piece. During breakfast, he even complimented Xie Hui on how nice the watch was.

 

Xie Hui didn’t notice the difference either. He praised his good taste and then showed Qi Xi his own style.

 

Fu Yanchuan frowned imperceptibly beside him.

 

New Year’s Eve arrived soon. Qi Xi and Fu Yanchuan went to see Grandma Qin first and gave her things, although Grandma Qin still didn’t welcome them.

 

In the afternoon, Fu Yanchuan asked him to put on his pajamas and said he wouldn’t be back at night.

 

Qi Xi thought he was going to Fu Yanchuan’s house, but it turned out to be a nursing home. However, the nursing home here was like a villa area, consisting of small villas with separate courtyards.

 

He looked around curiously and went in. When he arrived at the living room, he saw a very gentle-looking woman. He thought she was Fu Yanchuan’s mother, so he walked up to her and called, “Hello, aunt.”

 

Fu Yanchuan smiled and pulled him over, “This is the doctor.”

 

Qi Xi had never seen a doctor without a white coat. He said to the doctor awkwardly: “She’s also a doctor.”

 

The doctor was amused by him, “Madam is in the yard.”

 

Fu Yanchuan led Qi Xi to the courtyard. Qi Xi did not forget to say to the doctor, “Thank you.”

 

The doctor has been taking care of Lin Xianjing here. He has met Fu Yanchuan many times, and this is the first time he has seen Fu Yanchuan bring someone with him. He looked at Qi Xi twice, and was not sure about the relationship between the two.

 

The courtyard is an antique Chinese-style courtyard with winding paths and pavilions. Lin Xianjing is sitting in a wheelchair under a wintersweet tree.

 

The moment Qi Xi walked into the yard and saw her, he suddenly understood why Fu Yanchuan was so beautiful, and unconsciously praised, “Brother Yan, your mother is so beautiful!”

 

Lin Xianjing looks very young, in her thirties at most, and she is well-maintained. Just like her name, she has a very demure temperament, sitting there like a painting.

 

In fact, Lin Xianjing is almost the same as she was 10 years ago. This is because she didn’t even know who she was for the past 10 years, as if her life was fixed 10 years ago.

 

Fu Yanchuan let go of Qi Xi and walked towards Lin Xianjing. It took a while for Lin Xianjing to raise her head and look at him. After looking at him for a long time, her eyes finally focused as if she had woken up from a dream and smiled at him.

 

“Yanyan, you’re here.”

 

The only thing Lin Xianjing has not forgotten in the past 10 years is Fu Yanchuan’s nickname, the only one she knows how to call.

 

Fu Yanchuan squatted in front of her and said, “It’s cold outside, we should go inside.”

 

“No, the flowers smell so good.”

 

Lin Xianjing looked at the wintersweet again, and Fu Yanchuan broke off a branch and gave it to her, “It will also smell good when you enter the house.”

 

“Yanyan is so smart.”

 

She touched Fu Yanchuan’s head and finally allowed Fu Yanchuan to push the wheelchair. She turned around and saw Qi Xi.

 

Qi Xi became nervous unconsciously and bowed stiffly to Lin Xianjing, “Hello, aunt, my name is Qi Xi.”

 

Lin Xianjing looked at Qi Xi, and Fu Yanchuan pushed her in front of Qi Xi. She took Qi Xi’s hand and said, “You are the little kid in Yan Yan’s class, right? You are so cute. Can I call you Xi Xi?” 

 

After Qi Xi’s mother passed away, no woman had ever spoken to him so affectionately. He didn’t realize there was anything wrong with the term “little kid” for a moment, so he smiled sheepishly.

 

Only his mother and grandfather would call him this. It seemed a bit strange for Fu Yanchuan’s mother to call him this.

 

He glanced at Fu Yanchuan for help, but Fu Yanchuan just looked at him with a smile, so he had no choice but to agree, “Okay.”

 

Lin Xianjing folded a few wintersweet flowers in her hand and gave them to him, “Xixi, here are the flowers from the eaves.”

 

“Thank you, Auntie.”

 

Qi Xi brought the flowers close to his nose and smelled them, and praised them without hesitation, “It smells so good, the eaves are so powerful, and the folded flowers are so fragrant.”

 

Lin Xianjing nodded proudly, “Right, I think so too. Xi Xi should be good friends with Yan Yan.”

 

“We’re already best friends!”

 

Qi Xi spoke without any hesitation. Fu Yanchuan squeezed his hands while pushing the wheelchair and stared at Qi Xi. As a result, he didn’t even wink at him. He said, “Let’s go inside first, it’s cold here.”

 

After entering the house, Fu Yanchuan became a redundant person. Lin Xianjing wanted to put up the wintersweet, while Qi Xi looked around for a vase. The doctor wanted to help get it, but he stopped him.

 

Qi Xi didn’t know who to ask, so he and Lin Xianjing searched everywhere, and finally found a vase that hadn’t been used for an unknown period of time. They put the wintersweet branch in it.

 

He took the small spring Lin Xianjing gave him and said to Lin Xianjing, “Auntie, wait a minute.”

 

After a while, Qi Xi found a small glass vase somewhere, inserted a few wintersweet branches and placed them next to the vase.

 

Lin Jingxian suddenly stood up from her wheelchair, approached the small bottle and said to Qi Xi, “This is so cute, Xi Xi is awesome!”

 

Qi Xi’s eyes widened in shock, “Auntie, can you walk?”

 

Lin Jingxian herself was stunned, as if she couldn’t remember whether she could walk or not. She looked at Qi Xi and said uncertainly: “Probably, yes.”

 

Lin Jingxian stood up and was taller than Qi Xi thought. Although she was thin, her figure was dignified and elegant. He blurted out, “Auntie, you are really good-looking, like a fairy. No wonder Brother Yan is so handsome, he looks like you!” “

 

“Xi Xi is really good at talking, unlike Yan Yan.”

 

“Auntie, are you saying that I am better than Yan Yan?”

 

Lin Xianjing looked at him, and suddenly touched his head to comfort him, “Our Yanyan is still the best!”

 

Qi Xi was not frustrated at all and praised Lin Jingxian in turn, “If I had such a beautiful mother, I would be better than him.”

 

Lin Xianjing suddenly smiled.

 

The doctor had taken care of her for ten years. It was the first time the doctor had seen her smile at someone other than Fu Yanchuan, and it was also the first time he had seen her talk so much. She finally understood why Fu Yanchuan brought Qi Xi here. In everyone’s eyes, Lin Xianjing was a patient, but Qi Xi didn’t seem to realize it and cooperated with her by treating herself as a child.

 

Qi Xi stayed with Lin Xianjing throughout the afternoon, drawing comics and telling her the story of the painting. Lin Xianjing finally praised him, “Xi Xi’s paintings are better than eaves!”

 

Qi Xi suddenly became proud, “Yan Yan also praised me for my good painting!”

 

Fu Yanchuan looked at them and remembered that when he was a child, Fu Zhenrong would punish him to face the wall at the end of the corridor to reflect. Lin Xianjing would take advantage of Fu Zhenrong’s absence to sit next to him and face the wall with him while telling him stories.

 

He still remembered one of the stories. There was a little pig who was taught by the pig father to be a brave little pig. So the little pig met a wolf, bravely fought with the wolf, then met a tiger, and bravely fought with the tiger again. Finally The little pig came home covered with bruises and thought he was not brave enough.

 

Later, the little pig met the rabbit. The rabbit told the little pig, “You idiot, not everything your father said is right. Everyone has their own specialties. You just have to do what you like.”

 

Lin Xianjing would give him a chocolate candy every time she finished telling a story.

 

When it got dark, the New Year’s Eve dinner ordered by Fu Yanchuan was delivered. There were only three of them on the full table.

 

Lin Xianjing didn’t know that today was New Year’s Eve. In her eyes, today was just a day after school for her son’s kindergarten. Qi Xi was the child her son brought home to play with, but in fact, Fu Yanchuan had never been to kindergarten.

 

During the meal, she kept picking up food for Fu Yanchuan and Qi Xi, telling them, “Don’t be picky about food. Children who are picky eaters will not grow taller.”

 

Qi Xi was generally not picky about food, but Fu Yanchuan was quite picky. Qu Xi squeezed next to Fu Yanchuan and served Fu Yanchuan some food. His other hand pressed Fu Yanchuan’s thigh on the table, as if he had found someone to support him. Qi Xi said: “Yanyan, you have to eat well, you know? If you don’t eat on time, your mother will be sad.”

 

Fu Yanchuan caught Qi Xi’s hand, put it in Qi Xi’s ear and said, “Xi Xi is not good.”

 

Qi Xi was so excited by Fu Yanchuan’s “Xi Xi” that he hurriedly stepped away and complained to Lin Xianjing, “Auntie, Yan Yan doesn’t eat well and bullies me!”

 

“Yan Yan, don’t bully Xi Xi. It’s not easy for you to make friends, so you have to get along well, you know?”

 

Fu Yanchuan smiled unconsciously.

 

Lin Xianjing had to take medicine after dinner. Because the medicine had sleeping ingredients, she would go to bed after eating it.

 

Before going to bed, she suddenly took Qi Xi’s hand and gave him one candy. He then said to him inexplicably, “Don’t be afraid, just listen to dad and it will be fine.”

 

After Lin Xianjing left, Qi Xi picked up the candy and recognized it to be the same as the particularly sweet candy Fu Yanchuan had given him before. He finally asked Fu Yanchuan, “Brother Yan, is your mother not that smart like me?”

 

There was no one else in the living room. Fu Yanchuan hugged Qi Xi and sat on the sofa. He suddenly hugged Qi Xi tight and buried his face in his neck for a long time before saying, “She’s crazy.”

 

Qi Xi was surprised. Fu Yanchuan was silent for a long time and told him, “10 years ago, I left for 2 years. She committed suicide after I left. Only when I came back 2 years later did I know that she had attempted suicide and became crazy.”

 

He didn’t expect this. He didn’t know what he wanted in return, so he could only hug Fu Yanchuan back hard and pat Fu Yanchuan’s head like Lin Xianjing patted his head.

 

Fu Yanchuan continued: “She used to be a dancer. When I was a child, I learned cello and played it to her, and she would dance with me.”

 

This scene turned into a picture in Qi Xi’s mind. He was stunned for a moment. Fu Yanchuan suddenly raised his head, looked at him steadily and asked, “Did it scare you?”

 

“What?”

 

Qi Xi asked in confusion, and Fu Yanchuan suddenly picked him up and walked to their bedroom tonight.

 

“Nothing, we should go to sleep.”