Quick Wear: Cousin, Come to the Bowl Quickly

Compared to Lin's father's cold and indifferent attitude, Lin's mother was much more enthusiastic. She stepped forward and grabbed Li Xu's arm, looking him up and down, her face full of distress and tears flashing in her eyes, "You've lost so much weight. You must not have eaten well when you were out alone."

After saying that, he seemed to have just noticed the large and small bags in Li Xu's hands, and hurriedly patted Lin's father beside him, "Don't you see that the child is carrying such heavy things? Don't you know how to help take it?"

Father Lin snorted coldly and folded his arms, unmoved. Lin Xi quietly raised her head and glanced at her father's expression. She rolled her eyes and reached out to hug his arm, saying in a coquettish tone, "Dad, didn't you say we were going to make dumplings? I didn't eat anything this morning in order to catch the plane. I'm so hungry."

"The kids are hungry, why are you still standing at the door?" Mother Lin glared at Father Lin angrily, winked at him, turned around and looked at Lin Xi and the others with a smile on her face, "Come in, come in, eat some snacks first if you're hungry. Your father and I have prepared the stuffing and kneaded the dough, and we'll be able to make dumplings soon."

After saying that, she reached out to take the things from Li Xu's hand. Li Xu hurriedly shook his head and said, "Aunt, I'll just take it in."

"Kid, why are you being so polite to your aunt!" Mother Lin snatched the thing from Li Xu's hand without giving it to him, and turned around to hand it to Father Lin.

"Tsk, my hands are full of flour, and it will be everywhere soon." Father Lin was about to reach out to take it reluctantly, but when he looked at the white flour on his hands, he gave up the idea.

"Tsk, what's the use of you." Mother Lin complained impatiently, then she shifted all the things to one hand, freed one hand to hold Li Xu, and welcomed Lin Xi and Li Xu into the house. She turned around and told Father Lin who was posing by the door, "Close the door."

"Hmph!" When Father Lin saw the three people's happy backs, he snorted coldly, slammed the door, and then slowly followed behind them.

"Come, have a drink of water. Here are some candies and snacks. Eat something first. Your uncle and I will go make dumplings and we will be able to eat soon." Mother Lin led the two to the living room, then cheerfully brought out hot water, snacks and pastries, motioning for Lin Xi and the others to eat and drink.

"Aunt, let me help you." Unlike Lin Xi, who became weak as soon as she touched the sofa, Li Xu rolled up his sleeves and prepared to get up and help in the kitchen.

"No, no, it's just a small job, there's no need for you, your uncle and I will be done in a moment." Mother Lin pushed him back onto the sofa and shook her head disapprovingly, "You and Xixi must be tired after rushing all the way back. Sit down and rest for a while, we'll be done in no time."

"Mom is so nice, I love you, I love you." Lin Xi slumped on the sofa like Ge You and launched a barrage of sweet words at Mother Lin.

"You're so poor." Mother Lin glared at Lin Xi, who was curled up on the sofa like a big boss, and turned into the kitchen.

"What happened to you just now? The child has finally come back, who are you showing your gloomy face to?" As soon as she entered the kitchen, the smile on Mother Lin's face disappeared immediately, and she put her hands on her waist, pointed at Father Lin and cursed.

"Hmph! I was wondering why the sun rose from the west. She, a big star who hasn't been home for several years, finally remembered her parents and came. It turned out it was for this bad boy." Father Lin snorted coldly and pressed heavily on the dough with the rolling pin in his hand, as if he was holding Li Xu's head instead of dumpling skins.

"Speak nicely. Who are you showing off to by being so sarcastic on New Year's Day?" Mother Lin reached out and slapped Father Lin on the back.

"Humph! Am I being sarcastic? Your brothers are irresponsible. That brat practically grew up in our family. He is at least half our son, right?"

"But look at us. We raised him until he was this big, and Xixi loved him so much. But he ended up cutting off contact with us after he went to college. Isn't this an ungrateful person?"

Father Lin's hands kept moving. Soon, snow-white dumpling skins were unrolling under his rolling pin. He angrily threw a lump of dough onto the flour-covered chopping board, which immediately produced a fine white mist.

"What an ungrateful bastard! Didn't he call us during every festival and gave us 3000 yuan every month over the years? Have you forgotten all this?" Mother Lin rolled her eyes at Father Lin and scolded him, but her hands were very skillfully making plump white dumplings.

"What's the point of calling? How can I know whether he is fat or flat if I can't see him? As for the money, who wants it? You might as well keep it for yourself to buy some clothes." Father Lin was still unreasonable. At this point he seemed to suddenly remember something and lowered his voice.

"And Xixi, our Xixi has nothing to say about him, right? I didn't allow them to be together when they first started to have that tendency, but you insisted on saying that they were children you raised from childhood, and that if Xixi was with him, it would be reassuring to watch, so you asked me not to interfere."

"But what was the result? This brat actually didn't know what was good for him. He made it seem like our daughter was paying for him. Don't think I didn't know that she cried to you on the night of her senior year."

Father Lin became angrier and angrier as he spoke, and his hands moved faster and faster. He had a gnashing-teeth expression on his face, as if he would rush into the living room with a rolling pin in his hand and hit Li Xu on the head a few times in the next second.

"Alas." Speaking of her own daughter, Mother Lin finally stopped refuting what Father Lin said. Instead, she sighed heavily, glanced at the two people in the living room, and finally said helplessly.

"It's not our place to interfere in their affairs. Let's ask them about their plans after dinner. If Ah Xu is still the same as before, I will definitely not hand Xixi over to him."

"Even if he becomes a better person, I will not agree with them being together. Our daughter is such a beautiful girl who is loved by everyone. Is she really going to be hanged on this crooked tree of his?" Father Lin slammed the rolling pin on the chopping board and said in a firm tone.

"Don't get involved..."

In the living room, Lin Xi leisurely tossed peanuts into her mouth, glanced at Li Xu who was sitting upright, and advised: "Mr. Lin and Ms. Li can't see you, why are you sitting so straight? Relax a little."

Li Xu shook his head gently, took Lin Xi's hand, and put a handful of peeled melon seeds in her palm. "I haven't been back for so many years. My aunt and uncle must be unhappy. I don't ask them to forgive me. I just want to behave better and make them feel better."