Chapter 342: Chapter 310 I Really Like Her_2
Gu Qili shoved a spoonful of porridge into his mouth, holding his hand: "Buy back the king of gambling in Aus City to stand guard at your door? Eat."
After Tang Tianyou finished his meal, Gu Qili went to the hospital’s hot water room to clean the thermos.
She had just left when Tang’s father pushed the door open and saw his son sitting on the hospital bed looking totally at ease, he pulled up a chair and sat opposite him: "What’s really going on? Don’t try to hide it from me."
Putting down the newspaper in his hand, Tang Tianyou glanced at his old man: "You’re all-knowing, asking me is superfluous."
"You ungrateful brat." Tang’s father, with his commanding features coated in a veneer of anger, wanted to burst out, but seeing his son’s somewhat sickly face, he still suppressed his temper, "I won’t interfere with your matters, but before any of that, you need to give me a grandson. Our Tang family has a single line of descent, and I don’t want to see it end."
Tang Tianyou, so accustomed to being rushed, kept his mouth shut and said nothing. Experience told him that saying anything at this moment was futile.
"Are you still hung up on that girl Qili? After all these years, if there was anything between you two, it would’ve happened by now. She’s not interested in you, are you really going to hang yourself on one tree?"
Tang Tianyou put down the magazine and looked seriously at his anxious father: "Dad, since it’s out in the open, I might as well be frank with you, I’m going to marry her or remain a bachelor for life."
"She doesn’t like you a bit, what if she gets married to someone else?"
"Then I’ll remain a bachelor for life."
"You..." Tang’s father was so angered he was at a loss for words, encountering such a stubborn son, he was neither able to scold nor to hit him.
Outside the door, Zhuo Yuqing, holding a bag of sticky rice chicken, seemed to have been standing there for quite a while. On hearing this sentence, tears involuntarily fell from her eyes.
She had brought Tang Tianyou’s favorite specialty, sticky rice chicken, and took the earliest flight over, yet unexpectedly, she heard her brother saying he’d only marry Gu Qili or remain a bachelor, and she knew him too well, growing up together, she knew he always meant what he said, there was no joke in his words.
It must be true love, so true that he made such a vow.
"Yuqing, is that really you?" Gu Qili, carrying the clean thermos, came over and saw the joy on her face, "Are you here to see your brother?"
Zhuo Yuqing hurriedly wiped away the tears on her face, with her nose red, she complained: "Why is Aus City so cold? My tears and snot are all frozen."
"Then you haven’t been to the north, winter there is really cold, where you wouldn’t dare leave the house without a cotton-padded jacket," Gu Qili pushed open the door and immediately upon seeing Tang’s father sitting by the bed, she respectfully greeted, "Uncle Tang."
Tang’s father’s stern face broke into a slight smile, "Qili girl, you’ve worked hard these past few days."
"Not at all, it’s what I should do." Gu Qili placed the thermos at the bedside, "Tianyou, Yuqing is here."
Four years had passed, and Zhuo Yuqing had graduated from college, still carrying a hint of youthful naivety. When she smiled, she resembled a blooming lily, fresh and natural, "Brother, I brought your favorite sticky rice chicken, from that place in Eastern City, there was a queue early in the morning."
"My sister knows me best, unlike some people, who come to visit the sick empty-handed." Tang Tianyou, greedy for a taste, took the bag and after glancing at it, gave Tang’s father a sideways look.
Tang’s father snorted coldly.
"I’m going to wash some fruit." Gu Qili picked up a fruit basket and was about to leave, and Zhuo Yuqing quickly followed: "Qili, let me help you."
It was just Gu Qili and Zhuo Yuqing at the hospital’s sink. Gu Qili placed a washed apple in the bag and, amidst the sound of running water, asked with a smile: "Yuqing, you have something you want to talk to me about, don’t you?"
Zhuo Yuqing flushed, her gaze dropping to the peach in her hands, she caressed it with her fingers: "Qili, will you marry my brother?"
"Why all of a sudden do you ask this? Did your brother say something?" Gu Qili turned off the tap, and the water room suddenly became quiet.
Zhuo Yuqing looked up at her with a smile, her curved eyes quite charming: "He didn’t say anything, I’m just curious. It’s almost been four years, both of you are not married, if you both are willing, then just tie the knot."
"If I marry him, won’t you be sad?"
"Sadness aside, I know nothing is possible between my brother and me, so, I hope he can find happiness."
Gu Qili couldn’t help but hold her hand, filled with tenderness for this girl: "Yuqing, you’re a good girl, and there’s nothing wrong with liking your brother. I told him that I’m not ready for a new relationship right now, maybe because I’m scared of getting hurt, becoming timid. I also hope he can find someone suitable for him, so, when you get a chance, try to persuade him."
Zhuo Yuqing looked at her surprisingly: "Are you not at all moved by my brother?"
Gu Qili smiled and held her hand tighter but didn’t answer the question, believing that clever Zhuo Yuqing would understand.
The heart, after all, has been pledged to another many years ago, although trampled miserably, but once given, it’s not that easy to take back.
What Gu Qili didn’t expect was that, a few days later, she would meet that man who stirred her initial feelings once again.
When Chen Yishu called her, Gu Qili was just coming back from the job market, without guessing, she knew he must want her to pick up Tongtong.
"Go to Tongxin Kindergarten." Gu Qili didn’t feel disturbed at all, on the contrary, she particularly liked the child Tongtong, and moreover... Qini was also at that kindergarten.
Tang Tianyou was originally steering the car towards the highway but, hearing her words, he took the previous exit down instead.
Mu Qinian never expected that Mu Shuoqian would come to pick him up today, which felt like an Ultraman falling from the sky, because Mu Shuoqian was busy with work and the number of times he came to pick him up could be counted on his toes.
Mu Shuoqian coming today was really an attempt to make amends; he had quarreled with Mu Qinian quite a bit recently but didn’t want to lower his head to the kid. So, after much thought, he decided to use a softening strategy to mollify him. **
Eight Bro said: Making strides on the road to reconciliation.