Quick Wear: Cousin, Come to the Bowl Quickly

Mr. Ye held a welcoming banquet for Lin Xi at his old house.

Lin Xi's mother Lin Yurou and stepfather Ye Zhenkai are traveling around the world with their youngest son. As for Ye Huai's parents, they have even fewer roles than Lin Xi in the original plot. It was only mentioned that they were not close to Ye Huai, so this welcoming banquet actually only had Lin Xi, Ye Huai and his grandfather Ye.

The old house of the Ye family is in the suburban villa area, about two hours' drive from the city center. When they arrived at about eleven o'clock, the housekeeper of the old house, Ye Bo, had already been waiting at the door with his men. When he saw the two of them getting out of the car with gifts, he smiled and greeted them, "Thank you for your hard work on the journey. This must be Miss Xixi, you have grown into a big girl. The old man has been talking about you for a long time. Come in quickly."

Lin Xi greeted him with a smile, then followed Ye Huai into the old house.

After passing through the lush garden, the group entered the living room. An old man with gray hair but a vigorous spirit was sitting on a mahogany chair. When he saw everyone coming in, he raised his reading glasses and said lovingly, "Are we here? Sit down quickly. It's probably very hot outside today."

This is Old Master Ye. Lin Xi went up to greet him and motioned Ye Huai to open the gift she had chosen. She smiled and said to Old Master Ye, "Grandpa, I've been out there for so many years and I don't know what you like. I heard from my cousin that you like to drink tea, so I picked this tea set with him. Do you like it?"

In the box was a set of exquisite purple clay tea sets. Mr. Ye had a lot of such tea sets, but he smiled and said he liked them, then motioned for Uncle Ye to accept them. Then he smiled and said, "You've been out for so many years. Are you getting used to it after coming back?"

Lin Xi nodded obediently and answered Mr. Ye's questions one by one, doing everything that the elders liked best. Seeing this, Mr. Ye nodded frequently. Especially when he heard that Lin Xi had eaten so much right after getting off the plane, he laughed out loud and said, "Those foreigners eat dry bread every day. How can they compare to our country, which is vast and rich in resources and has a lot of food to eat."

Lin Xi deeply agreed with this. The country where the original owner studied abroad was indeed a food desert recognized by the world. Apart from dry bread, there were all kinds of weird soups and weird pies, especially the shocking "Stargazing Pie". Lin Xi felt a fishy taste in his throat just by looking at it, let alone eating it.

Old Master Ye and Lin Xi were chatting animatedly, as if they were old friends who had not seen each other for many years. Ye Huai, who was sitting beside them, became a invisible person. However, he was not annoyed. He just sat quietly beside them, occasionally agreeing with Old Master Ye when he was mentioned.

After they chatted for a while, Uncle Ye came over to tell Grandpa Ye that it was time to eat. Lin Xi then stopped talking with a look of unfulfilled desire, and she and Ye Huai supported Grandpa Ye to the dining room, one on each side.

The dishes were very good, and Lin Xi was not a picky eater, so she drank several bowls of rice generously, which attracted some sidelong glances from the servants, but Mr. Ye was very happy. Old people have bad stomachs, so even if they wanted to eat more, they couldn't do it, so he liked to see the younger generations eating so heartily.

In the past, when Grandpa Ye had meals with Ye Huai, he would scold him several times because he saw that Ye Huai, a grown man, ate as little as a kitten. But now, seeing Lin Xi eating so happily, he felt much happier.

After lunch, Mr. Ye was old and had to take a nap every day, so he asked Ye Huai to take Lin Xi around the house and go back after dinner. Ye Huai replied yes and dutifully took Lin Xi to visit the house.

"Host, host, I found out why your memory is incomplete." Lin Xizheng and Ye Huai had just finished strolling downstairs and were about to go upstairs when they heard the voice of the system suddenly ring out in their heads.

"You said."

"The results of the examination show that this is because the original owner appeared too few times in the original plot. The operating rules of the small world did not give her complete consciousness and autonomous behavior ability, so the memory you obtained after entering is also incomplete."

"Is this equivalent to the NPCs in those games? They will only perform the same behavior at fixed times and places." Lin Xi quickly understood the meaning of the system's words.

"You can understand it this way." The system replied.

"But if that's the case, why do I occasionally get a piece of the original owner's memory?" Lin Xi thought of the original owner's childhood memory that suddenly popped into her mind when she was chatting with Ye Huai in the morning. Thinking of the little girl who was not even as tall as the stove but was already doing housework skillfully, her heart felt a little heavy.

"Because of your arrival, the original owner, who was originally only serving the plot, has gained independent consciousness. As a complete person, the operating rules of this small world will gradually supplement the original owner's previous experiences, but specific conditions are required to trigger them." The system said.

"Specific conditions?" Lin Xi recalled what happened this morning. She got up at five o'clock and did so many things according to the original owner's original behavior, but there was nothing abnormal in the whole process. Until Ye Huai asked, she subconsciously answered that she was used to it. Then the memory of the original owner's childhood suddenly appeared in her mind.

"Is this specific condition related to the second male lead?" Lin Xi seemed to have grasped a clue, but couldn't tell the key point. Suddenly, she felt like she was only treating the symptoms but not the root cause.

"Based on the conditions that triggered the host's memories this morning, it should be, but the system is not very clear about the specific content." The system was also a little confused. It had been through so many worlds with the host, and this situation had never happened before.

Although no specific results were obtained, Lin Xi already had a rough guess in her mind. On the surface, this world did not seem to be much different from the many worlds she had experienced before, but it was full of unreasonableness.

Not only is the cause of the second male lead's death a mystery, but even the original owner's memory is intermittent. She originally thought that it was a simple modern world, but she didn't expect that so many situations would occur shortly after she entered this world. It seems that she still can't take it lightly.

Although the Ye family's old house looks no different from an ordinary courtyard villa with red walls and green tiles, its interior is full of ingenuity. The entire villa is divided into two floors, and everything from the floor and walls to the decorative wall clock reveals a low-key and luxurious temperament.

The original owner had come to the Ye family's old house once with his mother when he was a child, but more than ten years had passed and his memory had long been blurred. Therefore, he was indeed very interested in following Ye Huai around on the tour.

After visiting the downstairs, the two went upstairs. Compared with the deep courtyard and magnificent hall downstairs, there was nothing special about the upstairs. There were rooms of different sizes on both sides of the spacious U-shaped corridor, but most of them were locked. Ye Huai casually pointed out to Lin Xi who each of these rooms belonged to.

The first room on the left belongs to Ye Huai's mother Ye Zhenqi, the second one belongs to Lin Xi's stepfather Ye Zhenkai, and the innermost one belongs to Mr. Ye and his wife. However, Mrs. Bai passed away early, and Mr. Ye didn't want to be sad when he saw his deceased wife's old things. Besides, he is old now and it is inconvenient for him to climb stairs, so he moved downstairs. As for the right hand side, there is a row of guest rooms.

Lin Xi glanced at the doors one by one and noticed that one door was very different from the others. The other doors were dark red, but this one was bright milky white, which was out of tune with the surroundings. She couldn't help but wonder, "Cousin, whose room is that? Why does it look different from the others?"

Ye Huai followed Lin Xi's finger and looked towards the door. He paused slightly and said softly, "Mine." Then he looked away, as if he didn't want to say more.