Qi Huai Zhi opened her mouth and said nothing.
She didn't expect it to be like this.
Gu Yuan probed behind her and called out, "Sister."
The woman turned around, "Xiao Yuan, wash your hands, don't just come in and collapse on the sofa."
She turned back and nodded at Qi Huaizhi, "I'm Gu Wanqiu, Xiao Yuan's sister.Don't be nervous, this is the only rule in the family, no hitting or killing, don't worry."
Qi Huaizhi smiled, a little wanting to shiver.It wasn't fear, but some sort of unspoken tightness loosened.
She followed Gu Yuan through the door.
There wasn't much luxurious decoration in the house, and there was a group photo of them as children hanging on the wall.Big brother is in the study, leaning against the window wearing gold-rimmed glasses, reading "Memories of Water-Like Years", a cup of hot tea in his hand, his eyes are very artistic, and the rumor is that the cold-faced Gu Changzhao who "opens his mouth is the price of a dead man" is a far cry from the outside world.
"Big brother."Gu Yuan called out to him.
He raised his eyes, and his eyes landed on Qi Huaizhi.Nodding his head as a greeting, his tone was light: "Come in and sit down, don't be formal."
Second brother, on the other hand, happened to be holding a dog back from the backyard, and at his feet were a golden hair and a small Tianyuan.The dog wagged its tail furiously when it saw the stranger.Gu Yuan's second brother squatted down to feed the dog and asked, "Is Xiao Yuan's girlfriend?Domesticated or a fighter?"
"The kind that can beat you in a fight."Gu Yuan was not amused.
The second brother smiled like an old fox, "Okay, the kid has vision."
Qi Huaizhi had never seen Gu Yuan like this.He was wearing a wide sweater and playing a game in the corner of the sofa, biting on a straw and sucking on a white peach soda, and from time to time he told her, "Don't sit so upright, they don't eat people."
She tried to relax.But sitting in this house, listening to the sound of her sister's stir-frying in the kitchen, the clattering sound of her elder brother turning the pages of his book, the low laugh of her second brother teasing his dog, and the cursing sound of Gu Yuan's game playing.She thought it was no wonder Gu Yuan had never been emboldened, his family's love gave him total confidence.
Gu Yuan's parents didn't appear too abruptly.Qi Huaizhi slowly realized that they existed.
The family made dinner together.Gu Yuan squatted in front of the kitchen door to play a game, but the kitchen was bustling with activity, the elder sister chopping vegetables with her mouth constantly talking about the strange customers encountered today, the second brother spitting out the wood-like stupid subordinates in front of the dishwashing basin, the elder brother, as usual, did not make a sound, but only suddenly asked when preparing the dessert, "She eats sweets?"
She, referring to Qi Huaizhi.
Qi Huaizhi was sitting on the living room sofa, pretending to be watching the fight in Gu Yuan's game, but in fact, the corner of her eyes had long drifted uncontrollably towards the kitchen.
Then she heard another person's voice, slowly sounding from the corner of the kitchen.
Gentle, rational, and with a bit of careless composure: "Does she eat sweets or not, doesn't Ah Yuan know yet?"
Qi Huai Zhi blinked, her afterglow catching a man in a house shirt walking out.He wasn't young, his features weren't much harder, but his temperament was extremely stable.Qi Huaizhi knew who this was - it was Gu Yuan's father, the man who was rumored to be ruthless and ruthless.
But he was just passing by the living room at the moment picking up a piece of paper towel on the floor in passing and throwing it into the trash.
"Good question for your brother," a female voice from the kitchen answered with a smile, her voice warm and soft, "Desserts can't be too sweet, she can't eat that mushy, creamy chocolate."
The voice sounded like it came from far away, and like it was soothing against the heart.
Qi Huai Zhi turned around and saw a woman in an apron standing in the kitchen, wringing out a rag.Her face was gentle, her movements were skillful, and she didn't look like a "mobster's wife" at all, but more like a university professor or a sensible and elegant housewife.
That was Gu Yuan's mom.
Qi Huaizhi suddenly understood why Gu Yuan could play games in this house, why his sister could open the door in casual loungewear, his second brother was feeding the dog, and his elder brother was translating Polish poetry.
Outside, the Gu family was notorious and had made countless enemies.
But in this house, they were family.
Gu Yuan didn't turn around, just said lazily after a game of Passage, "She doesn't eat creamy chocolate, too mushy.Likes lemon tart, sour."
There was a pause in the kitchen, and then Gu's mother softly said, "Good."
At that moment, the corners of Qi Huaizhi's mouth gently curved up.
She doesn't cry, she laughs.She laughed like a child who stole the moon in someone else's home.
The lamp in the living room was warm and yellow, and the last dish was being brought to the table in the kitchen.