Extra 5
The twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month is Luo Xun’s birthday.
Luo Xun did nothing else but take Chi Xia to meet his parents formally.
Luo Weijun and Ling Nan started cleaning the house two days ago and tidied the house. Ling Nan also ordered a lot of flowers and has been enjoying arranging them these two days.
Luo Xun was at work and received messages from his mother every few minutes, always asking about Chi Xia's preferences .
What does the little girl like to eat and drink? Should the plates at home be replaced with new ones? Luo Xunhui couldn't answer any of them.
By the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, the news had stopped. Ling Nan made a direct phone call and told Luo Xun that he must take a leave.
The task force has been quiet recently. Yang Shujun has been in good health recently and has resumed her social life. Chi Xia is busy working as a driver. Director Chang turned a blind eye and finally gave her a few days off.
Luo Xun looked around the office and saw Curly was watching "Detective Di Renjie" for the 108th time and crying loudly.
Luo Xun knew without thinking that he would see the scene where Yuan Fang lost his memory and changed his name to Shuisheng, and finally met Di Renjie.
Cao Bin was watching a football match. He would say “good shot!”, “oops!” and “go!” and he was enjoying himself by dancing and clapping.
Lin Wenjue had just returned from the training hall. He had changed his clothes and was lying on a chair with headphones in his ears, not knowing what he was doing.
Luo Xun was a little curious, so he walked over to take his headphones and asked, "What are you doing? You've been acting sneaky lately."
Lin Wenjue looked miserable: "It's almost the New Year, what can I do?"
Luo Xun suddenly realized what was going on, and with a sympathetic look on his face, he stuffed the earphones back into his pocket and said, "Come on."
There is no other reason. Lin Wenjue is over 30 years old and his family has a gene for longevity. Children in their 30s cannot escape the nightmare of performing shows every New Year.
Luo Xun remembered that he played the erhu last year, and the piece "Erquan Yingyue" was extremely desolate.
The year before last, I played suona. It was a bit tragic. A piece of suona almost killed the old man. He was beaten by his father and couldn’t get out of bed for three days.
Luo Xun was about to leave, but he became curious again: "What kind of performance will you be doing this year?"
"Sing." Lin Wenjue smiled evilly: "Insurance among insurances."
"What do you sing?"
Lin Wenjue said righteously: "Tomorrow will be better!"
Luo Xun gave a thumbs up: "Old Lin, there is some hope in you."
Lin Wenjue fumbled and took out a box from the cabinet: "Birthday present, get out of here."
"You come early every year. You are insulated from romance, right?" Luo Xun took the bag and asked, "What good stuff is in it?"
Lin Wenjue was ready to run away: "See for yourself."
Seeing the commotion here, Juanmao and Cao Bin also hurried over, put down their respective gifts and returned to their own happy nests: "Boss, we can only help you here, happy birthday to you."
Cao Bin just scored a goal and was so happy that he almost jumped three meters high: "Boss, hurry up and go pack up. Take our Chi Xia to meet the parents tomorrow!"
Luo Xun opened the three gifts. Wow, that bastard Lin Wenjue gave him a full set of hairdressing products. Cao Bin and Juanmao were even more thoughtful. One gave him a bottle of expensive mousse and a jar of face cream, and the other gave him a box of hand cream.
Luo Xun could understand mousse and face cream, but he couldn't understand hand cream at all.
After Lin Wenjue and Cao Bin both ran away, Luo Xun caught Juanmao who had slowed down and said, "Explain to me what this hand cream means."
"Boss, you really don't understand my good intentions!"
Curly even said with a hint of disappointment: "Calculate for yourself, how many years older are you than our Chi Xia?"
Luo Xun's face darkened: "What do you mean?"
"Look, look, look, look, what do you call this in psychology? This is called subconscious inferiority complex!"
Curly said earnestly: "But we can't feel inferior! What's the use of feeling inferior? We need to take action! We need to fight against aging! We can't keep getting older like this!"
Luo Xun was speechless: "Your hand cream has all the functions. Can it be applied on hands or face?"
"Why!"
Curly-haired looked regretful, "That's right! Lao Cao got the upper hand in resisting the face, so I can only resist the hands. But change the direction, Boss, you really don't understand, you and our Xia Xia had a little romance at night, but you two didn't hold hands or something? Don't you know how rough your hands are? And you didn't kiss... oh, wait a minute!"
Curly-haired man rummaged around on the table again and found the lip balm that was given as a gift when buying hand cream: "And you have to pay attention to our mouth, too, Boss. I'm not saying this to you, but you really have to learn from Mr. Qu in this regard. Look at him, his personal image is so good, so pleasing to the eye. We can't be worse than him, we have to bring honor to Chi Xia..."
Luo Xun couldn't bear to listen any longer, so he closed his mouth manually, picked up his things and walked out.
Curly-haired chased after him diligently, risking his life to put the lip balm into his pocket: "Remember...moisten it~ Boss, you have to moisturize it~moisten it~"
Luo Xun got into the car with a pile of birthday presents in his arms. After thinking for a while, he took out the tube of lip balm in his pocket, smeared it on his mouth, and then looked left and right at his face. He couldn't help but feel a sense of crisis.
The good thing about Luo Xun is that he listens to others. Although his face can still withstand the beating for the time being, as Curly Hair said, he still has to resist for a while.
After all, Chi Xia is so beautiful, it doesn’t matter if he is a little older, the most important thing is not to lose face for Officer Chi.
So when he met Ling Nan this time, Luo Xun had no resistance at all. He followed Ms. Ling willingly and let her give him a one-day transformation tour.
As for Mr. Luo Weijun, he just followed behind and treated it as a walk. From time to time, he would praise his wife's taste. Apart from that, he had no other purpose.
When Ms. Ling Nan finally got tired of shopping, both the father and son breathed a sigh of relief.
Luo Weijun stared at his son: "You still inherited your father's handsomeness when he was young, just this hair..."
Luo Xun looked at himself in the mirror. He thought he was pretty. He grabbed a handful of hair and said, "Chi Xia, let me cut my hair tonight."
Luo Weijun joked with his son: "It seems that no one can touch your hair in this lifetime, right?"
"It's not that I can't move." Luo Xun smiled: "But I like her to move the most."
"You are already a young man in your thirties. Be careful in the future and don't embarrass Xiao Xia. Without good looks, how can you keep a young girl?"
"Is your son not yet at the stage where he can't keep anyone around?"
Luo Xun pouted in front of the mirror and found that Curly's lip balm was quite effective. With such skill, his lips didn't even hurt when he pouted.
"Dad." Luo Xun showed off his ointment: "This thing is very useful, do you want to use it?"
Luo Weijun took a look and said with a hint of disdain: "Your brand is average. I'll give you two better ones later."
Luo Xun was surprised: "Why do you have so many?"
Luo Weijun smiled smugly: "That depends on how much your mother spends on skin care products. Speaking of which, I have to tell you something about this woman's face..."
Luo Xun raised his hand to stop his father from speaking: "You don't need to explain this to me. I even know what brand of sunscreen Chi Xia uses."
"Then you're great." Luo Weijun gave his son a thumbs up without hesitation and patted the seat next to him for him to sit down.
Luo Xun sat down. Luo Weijun looked at his wife who was still carefully choosing clothes in the distance and said, "Your mother and I went to see your sister yesterday."
Luo Xun hummed: "I haven't had time to tell you yet, the verdicts on Zheng Yanbo and Zheng Jinghuai have come out."
"It doesn't matter whether you come down or not."
Luo Weijun didn't ask further: "No matter what, I can't bring back the lives of your sister and those children. The only consolation is that we can live a stable life in the future. It's good to be here, don't you think?"
Luo Xun did not mention the verdict of the father and son, and only said: "Yes."
“We are all looking completely forward.”
Luo Weijun said earnestly: "Your mother is also looking forward. You have also seen that she has also come out of it."
"I know." Luo Xun looked at his mother: "I saw her take out my sister's photo and also put out the family photo."
"Um."
Luo Weijun smiled: "We will always be a family. This is a fact that cannot be changed. Your sister cannot live in our taboos forever. She will always be mom and dad's child. Mom and dad, including you, our love and longing for her should be aboveboard."
Over there, Ling Nan finally decided to pay the bill and waved to his son.
Luo Xun stood up and walked over, and before he could say anything, Ling Nan stretched out his hand.
Luo Xun was puzzled: "Mom, what's wrong?"
Ling Nan patted his shoulder, not knowing whether to laugh or cry: "What else can I do? Give me the money!"
Luo Xun took out his salary card and gave it to her: "Tomorrow is my birthday, and you still have to meet your daughter-in-law. You are not willing to pay for two sets of clothes for your son? Aren't you too stingy?"
"You're over 30 and you still need your mom to buy clothes for you?" Ling Nan used his card to pay without hesitation: "Be careful you become a mama's boy."
Luo Xun was still defending himself as he followed her with a bunch of bags in his hands: "Your son, I, Luo Xun, am the leader of the special task force, and I am feared by criminals. You say I am a mama's boy? Also, I have a tough guy image. What do you mean by buying a few scarves? To make me dance with the wind?"
Ling Nan got into the car contentedly: "It's a scarf, I bought it for Xia Xia's mother. I was afraid she would be embarrassed to accept it, so I bought one for myself too. Then we can go sisterly. Why, you feel wronged that your own mother and mother-in-law used your card to buy a scarf?"
Luo Xun didn't dare to say he felt wronged, he just smiled and said, "No, no, please brush more."
Ling Nan sat in the back seat, watching her son driving, she smiled gently. Even if the wound was caused by a blunt knife, it should heal slowly after ten years.
While Luo Xun was being taken care of by his parents, Chi Xia was not idle either.
After picking up Yang Shujun, Chi Xia started thinking about what to wear when meeting Luo Xun's parents.
Qu Bai and Yang Shujun had already prepared everything for her, including what to take and what to give.
At this moment, Yang Shujun, Qu Bai and Ade were sitting in the living room, drinking tea and eating the fruit cut by Ade.
Some were drinking tea, some were reading books, some were watching movies, and at the same time, they all seriously gave constructive suggestions for Chi Xia's meeting tomorrow.
Chi Xia came out holding a pile of clothes and gestured one by one: "Luo Xun's parents are very nice. They should like my inner self and not my appearance, right?"
Qu Bai put the bookmark in and closed the book: "You look good too."
"That's right." Yang Shujun also said cheerfully: "My daughter is consistent in appearance and heart."
Ade was thinking about tonight's menu, and he hesitated for two seconds before praising: "I agree with what everyone said."
Chi Xia refused: "Ade, you hesitated."
"I don't have any." Ade shook his head and waved his hands seriously: "I'm thinking about what to eat tonight."
"Can't you have a new hobby?"
Chi Xia frowned: "The world outside is so vast, why don't you find some new interests? Playing football? Playing ball? Badminton? Shopping? Running? Just pick one and develop it."
Ade is still serious: "I am trying to open up a new battlefield."
Not only Chi Xia became interested, even Qu Bai and Yang Shujun looked over curiously.
At everyone's strong request, Ade returned to the room . Not long after, he came out with a bunch of things and poured them all on the carpet.
Chi Xia sat down on the ground and looked at the items one by one: "Wooden fish? Buddhist beads? What are these?"
Ade said, "A small wooden fish."
Chi Xia was anxious: "What do you mean, do you want to become a monk?"
Ade shook his head solemnly: "Absolutely impossible."
"Then you..." Chi Xia sat cross-legged, picked up a wooden fish and knocked it on his legs: "What do you mean?"
"Get rid of anxiety, be calm and love life." Ade said like a commercial: "The sound of the wooden fish saved me."
"Don't say that..." Chi Xia affirmed his new hobby: "After these two knocks, I feel pretty healed. I no longer have the urge to grab you."
Qu Bai and Yang Shujun loved watching them bickering. They watched with great interest. Qu Bai asked, "Who introduced you to this new hobby?"
"Shi Tianyi." Ade smiled a little, which was rare: "He is just that stupid."
"Shi Tianyi." Chi Xia suddenly realized: "Then I understand, he likes to do these fancy things, but..."
She smiled sinisterly and asked Ade: "Why did you call Shi Tianyi stupid? Does he know?"
Ade looked at Qu Bai seriously.
Chi Xia looked over.
Qu Bai felt a little guilty.
Ade smiled and said, "When I passed the clue to you before, he said it would work if I passed it to Shi Tianyi, that idiot."
After he said this, he picked up his pile of wooden fish and said, "I'm going to cook. We'll have noodles tonight."
As soon as Ade left, the remaining three people looked at each other, and then burst into laughter.
Qu Baixiao's tears came out: "Ade has been a little naughty recently, we have to find a day to give him some rest ."
Chi Xia yelled: "Ade, Qu Bai is going to give you some skin!"
Ade came out wearing a pink apron, holding a kitchen knife in one hand. She took out a playing card from her pocket expressionlessly, scanned it, and threw it out.
Chi Xia watched helplessly as his playing cards cut off the peach branches she had just bought that were waiting to sprout. Although the peach branches were not as thick as her little finger, they were enough to drive her crazy with jealousy!
After Ade finished his performance, he left, leaving only a corner of his pink apron fluttering in the wind.
After a while, Chi Xia gnashed his teeth and said, "Qu Bai, Qu Bai, find him a class! At worst, find him a school to study. I can't stand him anymore!"
Qu Bai smiled from ear to ear: "Okay, I'll find him a class later."
That night, Chi Xia always felt that the sound of Ade chopping meat was a little loud.
