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Chapter 61




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That night, Feng Fei asked Hai Xiu,
“Where do you want to eat? As long as we don’t leave the suburbs, we can eat anywhere.” Ew1t95
Hai Xiu laughed. He himself wasn’t too picky about his food, and still felt that the restaurants around the school were actually okay. After thinking about it, Hai Xiu suggested a restaurant near Feng Fei’s home. 
“Let’s go there. It’s convenient, and we can go home afterwards.”
Feng Fei nodded in agreement.
“Okay!” DIq2r5
After school ended, the two people were slow to begin packing their bookbags, waiting until the students were almost all gone. Feng Fei told Hai Xiu to be low-key about it, and to not let the other students know that they didn’t have to go to self-study. Otherwise, everyone would go to Ni Meilin to ask for the same, which would put her in a difficult situation.
Hai Xiu sighed at Feng Fei’s carefulness. While he was still admiring him, Feng Fei took both of their bookbags together and smiled at him. “I’m not being too careful about this. The teacher made an exception to help you. If everyone knew that, you might offend some of our classmates.”
Feng Fei coughed and added, “The main reason is just that I’m afraid that we’ll be too conspicuous. When that happens, we won’t be able to go out by ourselves anymore.”
Hai Xiu nodded, feeling secretly happy. 9bkgsh
Just after the two had left school, Feng Fei took out his mobile phone to look at it. “My older brother called me twice.”
Hai Xiu glanced at his phone.
“You can call him back.”
“I’ll call him back when we get home.” Feng Fei put his phone on do-not-disturb. “He should be driving right now.” dGXxcq
Hai Xiu nodded hurriedly.
“Then you shouldn’t call, it’s easy to get into an accident if he answers the phone during rush hour.”
The day was still long at this point. It hadn’t gotten dark yet when they left school, and the weather was just right, so the two of them walked to the restaurant instead of taking a taxi.
“Aren’t you tired?” Just a while ago, Hai Xiu had taken his own backpack back and slung it over his shoulder. Feng Fei adjusted the shoulder strap of the backpack for him. “Why don’t you give it back to me….” UDEQpC
“I’m not tired.” Hai Xiu shied away. “I’m really not… Besides, we’re almost there. I think we got here faster than if we had taken a taxi.”
Feng Fei smiled, saying, 
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“Well, it was rush hour when we got out. Oh right… I remembered something.”
Feng Fei took out his phone and sent a text message to Feng Xuan. IBPkpz
“What’s the matter?” Hai Xiu asked.
After asking this, they arrived at the restaurant, so they first went and sat down after finding a table. Feng Fei put his mobile phone back in his pocket.
“Didn’t I call him in the morning and ask him to pay the aunt for the electricity bill? He told me that my sister-in-law was in the hospital. At the time he was really anxious and didn’t speak clearly, so I asked him what was wrong.”
Hai Xiu felt uneasy. V0sQFK
“Are they okay?”
“What could be the matter? They’re still young and in good health. Maybe they went to the hospital to visit someone. I don’t know if they’re our relatives. If they’re related to me, I’ll also go visit them on the weekend.” Feng Fei did not take it to heart and laughed. “What do you want to eat? You can choose whatever you want. I’m good with anything.”
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Feng Fei laughed and nodded.
“Alright. I’ll say one more thing then. It’s all because of you that I was able to score so high.” rn0o3g
Hai Xiu felt very embarrassed at this, but he really wanted Feng Xuan to like him, so he didn’t say anything, and just smiled shyly.
While the two were talking, Feng Fei’s cell phone rang. He glanced at it in confusion and answered the call. “Brother?”
Feng Fei looked at Hai Xiu with a strange expression, and said, “He’s also here, what’s the matter?”
Hai Xiu hurriedly put down the chopsticks in his hand, swallowed what was in his mouth, sat down, and looked at Feng Fei. 3dpa4A
“We’re not going to self-study at night. We’ll go back home after dinner.”
“What the hell?”
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“No, no, just say it over the phone…Hello?”
Feng Fei looked down at his phone, which the other party had just hung up on. s14fmT
“What did your brother say?” Hai Xiu was concerned.
“He… I don’t know why he’s acting so crazy, saying that he’ll come home in a while.” Feng Fei furrowed his brows, wondering what kind of plan his older brother was thinking again, and urged Hai Xiu, suspicious of what his brother might do. 
“Let’s hurry up and finish eating. I’ll send you back to your own home after eating.”
“How could I do that?” Hai Xiu retorted in a low voice, “Didn’t your older brother ask if I was here just now? He might have something important to tell me.” F37r8Y
“What would he say?” In the past few days, the left half of his face would still throb with phantom pain whenever he thought of Feng Xuan. He frowned. 
“Listen to me. I’ll pick you up tomorrow… if I can stop him from coming, then I will. The only thing is that he has our keys. It’ll be useless even if I tell him not to come… I have no idea what he wants to do.”
Hai Xiu sat down and insisted.
“I want to go back… We already agreed to study in the evening… and If I’m there, your older brother might not dare to hit you… I… I want to go.” BrUlRC
Feng Fei chuckled. 
“If he wants to hit me, would you be able to stop it?”
Hai Xiu said weakly, 
“Isn’t there a saying, ‘Don’t beat children in front of guests?” wB ESe
Feng Fei sneered. 
“Do you think my older brother is such a gentleman?”
“Isn’t he?” Hai Xiu remembered how Feng Fei had been beaten last time because of their relationship, and decided not to say anything more.”You promised me. When that kind of stuff happens in the future, you’d let me stay with you. Didn’t you …didn’t you promise?”
Feng Fei thought, when did I ever tell him that?
“That’s fine too then. Let’s not talk too much and eat quickly. I’ll call you when my older brother leaves and tell you what he said. Don’t worry about it! Just eat quickly and leave when you are full.”
At this, Hai Xiu felt a little angry. He pushed the small bowl in front of him forward, and said, “Then I won’t eat.”
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Feng Fei couldn’t help laughing.
“You’re not hungry anymore?” epk5ih
As soon as Hai Xiu said his words, he regretted it. He felt that his attitude wasn’t very good. Shamefully, he pulled the small bowl back. 
“How could you break your promise….”
Feng Fei felt his heart go soft. 
“What would you be able to do? I’ve never seen you like this, so anxious to see your future brother-in-law, don’t you know how suspicious you sound? I… My brother is also very ignorant. Wanting to see your brother-in-law late at night, how shameless….” 5bLqY2
Hai Xiu was stunned, his face flushing red. 
“You, what are you talking about….”
“I’m talking about you of course.” Feng Fei smiled and put more vegetables into his bowl, “Alright now, nothing will go wrong, no need for you to go.”
Hai Xiu ate the food while stubbornly protesting. ROXcAN
“No! I have to go. if you don’t take me, I will follow you! I will follow, so you can’t leave me….”
Feng Fei imagined how Hai Xiu would secretly follow behind him on the way home, and could not decide whether to laugh or cry. He thought that if he really sent him back to his own house, Hai Xiu would just come out again and follow him the minute he turned around. It would be too troublesome to convince him to stay at home, and so Feng Fei had to admit defeat.
“Okay, I don’t dare to offend you! You can just follow along.”
Only at this did Hai Xiu feel just a little bit happier. He lowered his head to eat, grumbling, E Hpqf
“You weren’t going to keep your promise….”
 
Feng Fei was overwhelmed with cuteness, and nodded and apologized while eating.
“Yes, yes, it’s all my fault. Baby, why don’t you try this dish….” cLu2vz
The sky was already dark by the time they left the restaurant, so the two took a taxi home. When they got there, Feng Xuan had already arrived.
Seeing Feng Xuan again, Hai Xiu actually felt very embarrassed.
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If it wasn’t for the fear that he would start a fight with Feng Fei, Hai Xiu wouldn’t have wanted to see Feng Xuan at all. Now, he had no idea what to say.
Hai Xiu lowered his head and greeted him quietly. In response, Feng Xuan nodded his head at him and said nothing in return. Awkwardly, Hai Xiu took his and Feng Fei’s bookbags and stepped off to the side. 5wJcr8
Feng Xuan got up, looked at Hai Xiu, and said to Feng Fei,
“I just came to have a look, so I’ll be leaving now. You should come out and chat with me while you send me off.”
An alarm bell rang in Hai Xiu’s heart. He boldly said, 
“You can say your goodbyes here… I will go upstairs! I won’t listen.” UJPodK
Feng Fei glanced at Hai Xiu soothingly with a smile in his eyes. At this time, Feng Xuan spoke up again, this time to Hai Xiu.
“I wanted to bring you some fruits, but I didn’t manage to buy it today. Next time, I’ll bring you whatever fruit you like.”
Hai Xiu was flattered and hurriedly denied him.
“No, no, you don’t need to do that.” 1EdyY5
“It’s okay.” Feng Xuan glanced at Feng Fei and stepped outside first.
When Feng Fei turned around to follow, Hai Xiu hurried over to him, and handed him his mobile phone, saying,
“Don’t…don’t forget your phone.”
Feng Fei took it and looked at the screen – it was in the middle of a call with Hai Xiu. dCqKYw
Feng Fei laughed. Hai Xiu was so  sneaky, only now did he find out that the phone he had put in his bookbag had been taken away by Hai Xiu. He smiled admiringly at him while putting the phone into his pocket, and then followed Feng Xuan out.
Outside the house, Feng Xuan lit a cigarette and took a drag on his cigarette. They had quarreled with each other the last time they’d met, and now Feng Xuan also felt a little uncomfortable. He didn’t mention what they said last time, and stood in front of the car while smoking.
“You took your practice exam two days ago, right?”
Feng Fei frowned. 1XkKMx
“You want to see my results?”
“I’ve already seen it. Mom sent them to me this afternoon.” Feng Xuan said lightly, “I came here today to tell you something. Your sister-in-law….”
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Feng Fei frowned again. “What happened to her?”
Feng Xuan smiled. 9BeYhM
“She’s pregnant. The baby is almost three months old.”
Hai Xiu who eavesdropped on the phone from upstairs gasped in shock.
Feng Fei was also taken aback, and couldn’t find any words to say. 
“She’s pregnant?” BwD nC
Feng Xuan has been married for many years and yet has never had any children. Feng Fei faintly remembered hearing that his sister-in-law had some physical problems that had negatively affected her fertility.
Feng Xuan nodded.
“We haven’t been able to have a baby all these years. I didn’t have much hope anymore… She didn’t believe it at first either. Only when we went to the hospital today did we realize it’s been more than ten weeks already.”
Feng Fei counted the time… it was exactly the week before Feng Xuan found out about his relationship with Hai Xiu. OP4Zre
Feng Xuan spoke some words with hidden meaning.
“If anything comes up after I let mom and dad meet the baby… they probably won’t be as angry.”
Feng Fei understood instantly. With mixed feelings in his heart, he paused for a moment, then said, 
“Thank you.” 6SBPqM
“It’s nothing to thank me for.” Feng Xuan was a soon-to-be father, so now he was in a good mood. “Your sister-in-law said, this is a lucky star in our family.”
Feng Fei felt humbled, and said, 
“No need to exaggerate so much.”
Feng Xuan paused in confusion before he understood Feng Fei’s words. G Qx8w
He then said coldly,
“She meant the child in her womb.”
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In the second-floor bedroom, Hai Xiu howled with laughter.
Feng Fei smiled sheepishly. XLBy6W
“That’s good, that’s good… you go back now, and say hello to my sister-in-law for me. Tell her I will visit her when I get some time off.”
“No need, just go do your own thing. No matter what… we’ll wait until the college entrance examination is over.” Feng Xuan thumped Feng Fei’s shoulder. Between brothers, there were more than just words between them.\n