Afterward, Chu Yi pulled her boyfriend toward the vegetable garden. From a distance, Fei Jie saw a young-looking man hoeing the soil.
This was Yi Yi's brother, much to Fei Jie's surprise.
The image he had of a big boss, a billionaire, was someone in a suit and shiny leather shoes.
But now, Chu Fang was dressed in casual clothes, wearing a straw hat, and farming the land, looking like a peasant.
The contrast was too great.
"Brother!" Chu Yi shouted when she saw Chu Fang.
"My ears aren't deaf," Chu Fang said, straightening the hoe and gripping the handle with both hands, his body weight resting on it.
"Brother, are you tired?" Chu Yi asked, taking out a tissue and running over to wipe Chu Fang's sweat. "Let me wipe your sweat."
"Can you not be so disgusting?" Chu Fang's mouth twitched.
He rarely received such enthusiastic treatment from Chu Yi, and he wasn't used to it.
Chu Fang looked up at Fei Jie, who looked nervous. Suddenly, Chu Fang's mouth split into a smile: "Hehe..."
Fei Jie smiled back.
Suddenly, Chu Fang's expression darkened, and Fei Jie's smile froze on his face.
How could the weather change so quickly?
Chu Yi patted Chu Fang: "Brother, don't tease Fei Jie like that."
Chu Fang sighed: "Girls will be girls."
Then he put away the hoe and leisurely walked toward the house. The two of them exchanged glances and followed.
Back in the house, Zhong Tingyue prepared a basin of hot water for Chu Fang to wash his face, then pulled Chu Yi into the kitchen, leaving Chu Fang and Fei Jie alone in the living room.
"Okay," Chu Yi nodded, then started making dumplings with Zhong Tingyue, hesitating, "Will my brother agree?"
Zhong Tingyue asked, "What do you think?"
"I don't know," Chu Yi pondered for three seconds, then shook her head. "I don't understand. I thought my parents, brother, and sister-in-law would all agree to Fei Jie and me, but they have different ideas. They want me to marry into a good family."
Chu Yi knew that Fei Jie's family situation played a decisive role in this.
It was acceptable before, but not now.
After all, their family was considered wealthy now, and it was difficult for them to accept their daughter marrying down.
After experiencing such a setback, Chu Yi felt lost.
Her parents, brother, and sister-in-law had changed a lot after getting rich, and Chu Fang was even richer, so rich that he couldn't spend it all.
Her parents' and siblings' money was like a drop in the ocean compared to Chu Fang's.
Would he also change?
Chu Yi didn't know.
Zhong Tingyue smiled: "Don't frown, you'll become an old maid if you frown any more. Even if they all disagree, as long as you two are happy."
Then she glared at her daughter: "Chu Jin, if you want to help, then help. If you can't, then get out of here and stop getting in the way."
Chu Jin was making her own air force version of dumplings, with aircraft carriers, destroyers, frigates, landing ships... and getting flour all over her face and body.
Hearing this, Chu Jin looked unhappy, then rubbed four round dumplings: "I'll bomb you to death!"
Zhong Tingyue slapped her daughter's face: "Go find your dad to wash your face."
Chu Jin didn't feel hurt at all, instead making a face: "You're stingy!"
In the living room, Chu Fang slowly washed up, not saying a word. Fei Jie sat on half his butt, racking his brains to think about how to talk to Chu Fang.
After thinking for a long time, Fei Jie opened his mouth: "Brother Chu, have you ever been in love?"
Chu Fang opened his mouth and stared deeply at Fei Jie.
"Dad, wash my face."
Just then, Chu Jin ran over, asking Chu Fang to wash her face. Only then did Fei Jie realize he had said the wrong thing, and a clear blush appeared on his dark face.
From then on, Fei Jie didn't dare to say much, and Chu Fang remained silent.
The two of them just sat in the living room like that.
"Dinner's ready! We're having dumplings for lunch today, with pork and scallion filling, and shiitake mushroom and chicken filling," Chu Yi said, carrying out a large basin of dumplings. "What were you two talking about just now?"
Fei Jie couldn't open his mouth, and Chu Fang said with a smile, "He asked me if I had ever been in love. I think he wants to introduce me to a girlfriend."
"That's a good idea!" Chu's mother quickly ran over. "Introduce a few more to my good boy. I want to see if those bad women will dare to be so arrogant in the future!"
Zhong Tingyue walked out and said faintly, "Bigamy is against the law."
"Ah?" Chu's mother was stunned, then waved her hand. "Then forget it."
Then she glared at Zhong Tingyue: "You're really bad, you bad woman. How can you not allow my good boy to marry a few more?"
At noon, the sun climbed into the sky, shining on the earth.
Chu Fang's family and Fei Jie sat down to eat. At the dinner table, Chu Fang only ate, not saying much. Chu Yi chattered non-stop, chatting with this person and that person from time to time, and even chatting with Chu Zhi about life, the universe, and time.
Fei Jie said a few words from time to time.
After eating, Chu Fang put down his bowl, then moved his tea set to the middle of the yard, lay down on the chair, drank tea, and basked in the sun, feeling very comfortable.
"Brother Chu," Fei Jie said, walking over.
"Sit," Chu Fang gestured for him to sit down, then poured him a cup of tea and asked, "How does it taste?"
Fei Jie took a sip and replied, "I'm sorry, I don't know how to drink tea. Besides the bitterness, I can't taste anything else."
"You're good," Chu Fang nodded. "If you don't know, you don't know. Unlike other people, who insist on saying how good the tea is even if they don't know, it's quite pretentious."
"I don't like to tell lies."
Chu Fang said, "I love to tell lies. In the past, when others gave me tea to drink, I didn't know how to drink it, but I could still talk about the cause and effect, and even make up a tragic story."
Fei Jie: "..."
They sat in the sun, basking in the sun, drinking tea.
It wasn't until the afternoon that Fei Jie left. Chu Yi sent her boyfriend out of the community, then returned to the villa and asked Chu Fang, "Brother, what do you think?"
