Time Travel: The Queen's Coronation

After a few days in Boston, we gradually adapted to life here. Rong Zixuan looked at the huge lawn in front of the house and suddenly turned to me and said, "Honey, let's have a barbecue this weekend and invite Zheng Lan to come too."

"sure"

"Shen Junhui!"

"You want to call him?" I was puzzled.

"No, isn't that Shen Junhui?" Rong Zixuan said to me, pointing to the front.

"Really!" Shen Junhui parked the car in front of our house and walked towards us.

"Hello!" Shen Junhui greeted us happily.

"Why are you here?" I asked puzzledly.

“I go to school here!”

"Aren't you in California?"

"I went to high school in California, and I went to Boston for college!"

"You're not in Massachusetts too!"

"No, I'm at Harvard next door!"

"No, why didn't you say so earlier?" I replied excitedly.

"You didn't even ask!"

"Then why are you here today?" Rong Zixuan looked at him with hostility.

"I'm here to congratulate you on your new home!"

"We're just living here temporarily to go to school, where are we moving to?"

"Well, I don't care. You guys are staying here anyway, why not have a party?"

"We're planning a barbecue this weekend," Rong Zixuan said coldly, "but we're not inviting you!"

"Don't be so stingy! Haoyang Group will be mine from now on, and you are also in Yuanyuan. We have many opportunities to cooperate! You must put the overall situation first! You can't be so hostile to me anymore, and I have let go of my hostility towards you first!" Shen Junhui patted Rong Zixuan's chest.

Rong Zixuan immediately shook his hand away. "I'm just confused. You're a rich second-generation playboy. You can find any beautiful woman. Why do you always pester my wife?"

"Did I? I just wanted to make friends with her, and my grandfather also asked me and Wei Qing to learn more so that it would be easier for us to manage the company in the future. We are partners now, so isn't it normal to have more interactions? This time I came to visit you, next time I will invite you to my place!"

At this moment, a taxi stopped at our doorstep and someone got out. It was Zheng Lan! I walked over to greet her.

"Lan'er, why are you here!" I said excitedly while grabbing her hand.

"I just missed you, so I came to see you!" Zheng Lan smiled and her eyes curved like a less-than-full moon.

"I'm so excited! You know, there are foreigners with yellow hair and high noses around here. I'm really excited to see someone with yellow skin like me, and she's my good sister!" I shook her excitedly!

Zheng Lan noticed Shen Junhui and asked, "Why is this guy here too?"

"I don't know either. He arrived earlier than you."

Shen Junhui came over and said to us, "Since your friends are here, why not have a party today? Do you want me to invite Li Zhanwen as well?"

"What! Li Zhanwen is also in Boston?" Rong Zixuan was very unbelievable. Even though he was abroad, he still couldn't escape these two guys!

"He's also at Harvard, but he's a graduate student and I'm an undergraduate."

"Go ahead, go ahead, make it more lively!" Zheng Lan agreed with Shen Junhui's suggestion.

"It will be quite lively!" I said helplessly.

"Auntie Wang!" I shouted into the house.

"Hey!" Aunt Wang came out in response.

"We have some guests coming to our house. Please make some arrangements. We are going to have a barbecue. Please check if there is anything missing at home and go to the supermarket to buy some."

"okay!"

They were invited into the house and Aunt Zhou brought them tea.

"Where's the baby! Look at me!" Zheng Lan said as she sat down and drank some tea.

"I want to see it too!" Shen Junhui echoed.

"There's no place for you!" Rong Zixuan said unhappily.

"Why are you so stingy! It won't hurt you to take a look!"

"I just won't show it to you, for fear it will corrupt my child!"

At this time, the child's crying sounded, "Look at you, you are talking so loudly that you woke the child up!"

I asked Rong Zixuan to go upstairs and bring the child down. When Zheng Lan saw the child, she couldn't wait to take it from me, but the child was shy and didn't want to let her hold him. He hugged me tightly and cried.

"Hahahaha! This kid is shy!"

"Yeah, Jiashu is shy, so you hold Jiache!"

Rong Zixuan gave Jiache in his arms to Zheng Lan, "Is this Jiache? He looks like you!" Zheng Lan said, looking at Jiache in his arms.

"Of course I gave birth to a child that looks like me!"

"But, aren't these two brothers twins? They don't look that alike," Zheng Lan said, looking at the two children back and forth.

"My older brother looks like my father, and my younger brother looks like me. We are probably fraternal. It's normal that they don't look alike."

Shen Junhui teased Jiache, "Looking like mom is good-looking, but looking like dad is so ugly!"

Rong Zixuan and I both looked at him silently with gloomy faces. He replied guiltily, "Did I say something wrong?"

"You actually called someone's child ugly in front of their parents! If we were even slightly angry, a beating would be inevitable!"

"Sorry!"

"Is the one I'm holding my little brother? Rong Jiache is his real name?" Zheng Lan let the child stand on her lap.

"Yes, but he and I have the same surname, Wei, so he's called Wei Jiache. My brother and father have the same surname, so he's called Rong Jiashu."

"Rong Zixuan, I can't believe you're so open-minded that you agree to let your son and wife take the same surname!"

"Tsk, what's the big deal? I can agree with that!" Shen Junhui muttered beside him.

"Your family is wealthy. Even if you agree, it would be strange if your parents agree!" Zheng Lan retorted to Shen Junhui.

“They are also very open-minded!”

"But, your family's surnames are Shen and Xiao, and your surnames are very romantic novel-like!"

"Then why don't you just marry him, and the child can have the surname Shen! Hahahaha!" Rong Zixuan complained about Zheng Lan.

Zheng Lan rolled her eyes at Rong Zixuan, "Shen Jiashu does sound very nice!"

"This is my biological son! How can he have the surname Shen!" Rong Zixuan retorted Zheng Lan.

"I didn't give your son the surname Shen. I'm going to find a husband with the surname Shen, and my son will be named Shen Jiashu!"

"Shen Jiashu is great! My son will be called Shen Jiashu from now on!" Shen Junhui deliberately angered Rong Zixuan.

"Are you uneducated? You even copied someone else's son's name!" Rong Zixuan was furious.

"You haven't applied for a patent, so why can't others use it?" Shen Junhui continued.

"Hmph!" Rong Zixuan was so angry that he couldn't speak.

"Hahaha, stop teasing him!" I said, trying to smooth things over.

"This little round face is so cute!" Zheng Lan teased Jiache in her arms, and Jiache smiled at her, "Oh, look at this smile, it's so cute that it can melt an old aunt's heart!" Zheng Lan teased Jiache head to head, making Jiache giggle.

"Give me a hug too!" Shen Junhui stretched out his hand to hug Jiache.

"No! It's too cute, I won't share it!" Zheng Lan hugged Jia Che and turned to the other side.

"Then give me your brother!" Shen Junhui reached out to me for Jiashu again.

"No! You just complained that your brother looked like what dad said was ugly, and now you don't want to hold him!" Rong Zixuan slapped his hand away.

I felt helpless watching the two immature men competing with each other. But strangely, when Shen Junhui offered his hand, Jiashu actually agreed and extended his hand to Shen Junhui, which made Shen Junhui very happy.

"Look! The baby also knows that I am a good person!" Shen Junhui took Jiashu and lifted him up high, and Jiashu was also amused and giggled.

"Be careful, don't hurt my son!" Rong Zixuan nervously protected him with his hands.

"I work out regularly. I'm so small, I can't fall!"

"I feel like my brother is a little bigger," Zheng Lan said, holding Jia Che beside her for comparison.

"It seems so!" Shen Junhui also carried Jiashu over to compare with Jiache.

"What's that smell?" Zheng Lan sniffed.

"Ah! It's this little guy!" Shen Junhui smelled the scent on Jiashu.

I took Jiashu over and said, "The baby must be too big, I'll go change his diaper." At this time, Aunt Yang came over and took Jiashu away, "Let me do it!"

"Why does this kid's shit stink so much!" Shen Junhui was so irritated that he put on a mask of pain.

"Hahahahaha! Next time you should not let the child wear diapers and let him poop on you, a weird uncle!" Rong Zixuan laughed.

"What weird uncle! He's obviously my brother!" Shen Junhui retorted.

"You are more than twenty years older than my son, and you are only three years younger than me. How can you let my son call you brother?"

"So what? I'm not even married yet, so I have to call you brother!"

"Then call me uncle! Since you are the same age as my son, little brat!"

"Hahahahahahaha!" Zheng Lan laughed so hard that she couldn't straighten her back.

"Since it will take some time to prepare the ingredients, why don't we take advantage of this time to play some other games?" I suggested.

"what game?"

"Of course it's Landlord!" I took out the playing cards hidden behind me.

"Great! Great!" Zheng Lan said excitedly while hugging Jia Che.

"But I don't know how to play!" Shen Junhui looked at me blankly.

"It's okay, we will teach you!" Zheng Lan looked at Shen Junhui with ill intention.

I put the two children in the stroller and put it next to me. The four of us played Landlord. Shen Junhui was a novice and was undoubtedly the loser every time. By the end, he was so frustrated that he had no confidence at all. He collapsed on the sofa, feeling depressed.

"Brother! Just play more and you'll become familiar with each other!" Zheng Lan patted Shen Junhui and said.

At this time, Aunt Zhou said there was a guest outside the door, so I asked her to bring him in. Unexpectedly, Li Zhanwen came quite quickly.

"You are all here!" Li Zhanwen looked at the people in the room.

"You came at the right time. Do you know how to play Landlord? Shen Junhui lost everything!" Zheng Lan said excitedly to Li Zhanwen.

"Fighting Landlords? What is it?"

"Oh no! It seems you can't do it either!" Zheng Lan was poured with a bucket of cold water.

"Don't be like this, let's find someone who knows how to play another day. Or we can play a three-person game," I comforted Zheng Lan.

"No, then we can't play!" Shen Junhui didn't agree with us playing with three people.

"Let's play the game of You Draw, I Guess!" Zheng Lan suddenly became excited.

"Okay, this is fun!" Shen Junhui also agreed.

We played "Draw, Guess" until afternoon slipped by. There were so many jokes and blunders, some of which became lingering "black marks" that we constantly revisited. After Aunt Wang bought the ingredients, we set about preparing a barbecue. We grilled and chatted on our lawn, sharing warmth in a foreign land. It was the happiest day of my Boston life.