The story of Rose starts with being a brother

Chapter 364 Gu Li: There must be something wrong with our Gu family’s ancestral tomb!
The rain was getting heavier, as if God wanted to gather all the rain before and after the Qingming Festival and drop it tonight so that people who went to visit the graves tomorrow would cry less.

On rainy nights, the sky is always darker than usual. Even before midnight, there are almost no pedestrians on the road.

The Audi was still parked under the camphor tree outside the alley, and the street lights not far away were still emitting light, but the yellow glow was compressed into a very small range by the overwhelming rain.

"Senior, if you don't come back I will hug Lin Xiao and sleep."

On the phone, Little Green Tea's voice sounded lazy, and next to her there was the sound of Lin Xiao impatiently slapping her hand away.

"You're so stingy. It's not like I haven't pinched you before."

Hearing Little Green Tea's mumbling, the dog man smiled and said, "The rain is too heavy, wait a little longer."

"What if it rains a lot later?" Lin Quan said with a slightly dissatisfied tone, "Then you won't be back tonight?"

"No." Jian Xi opened the car window a little to feel the moisture coming towards him, "I will definitely go back."

"Okay, let's go to bed first."

After they blew each other a kiss into the phone, Jian Xi hung up.

The only sound left in his ears was the dripping rain, and everything in front of him was misty. Jian Xi looked at the time and found that it had been almost an hour since the previous scene.

Originally, he hadn't planned to stay so long, but after Xiao Lucha had talked on the phone for a while, Lin Xiao, who had just finished taking a shower, took the phone and started chatting with him again.

Thinking I would wait here for a while before leaving, I started talking on the phone for a long time. But it was like a relay, and Xiao Lu Cha took the phone back from the other end, and they talked for a long time.

The dog man usually doesn't feel tired, so he doesn't need to sit in the car alone for a while like some other men do. But it rained so heavily tonight, and it was just the right opportunity. After staying for such a long time, he found it was really comfortable.

Moreover, some things that I would not normally think about suddenly popped up in my mind involuntarily at this moment.

As a time traveler who has traveled through time many times, he has already had experience. Now in this world, according to the story line of the original drama, it has reached the final stage.

It doesn't mean that he will immediately set off for the next world after the original drama ends. In fact, there will still be several years in between. But no matter how long the gap is, this feeling of the unknown will make him a little nervous.

As for the novelty... yes, it is, but I still feel a little tired.

I don’t know what the next world will be like... The dog man thought silently that if he calculated the time based on his own feelings, it was actually less than two years since the end of the previous world.

In less than two years... apart from those miscellaneous things, the girls by my bedside have been almost seamlessly connected, just like when I was in school, I had four girlfriends in my first year of high school, and in my third year of high school, I had three new girlfriends...

The dog man has such feelings not because he feels tired. After all, his physical conditions are there in all aspects, so how could he be tired?
It’s just that people’s emotions always have a period of fatigue. “Talking” and “dating” are actually two different concepts. What’s more, he used to be the kind of beast who would talk and date at the same time.

He is not the bulldozer or strategy-oriented protagonist in harem novels who can maintain great enthusiasm and...desire when meeting every new female character. After all, it's the same after watching it too many times. Is there any more or less?

Sexual hunger is a very distant word to him now. He even thinks that perhaps feeling this hunger occasionally can make him feel more...fresh and expectant about the future.

Maybe I can try this when I go to college... uh, when I enter the next world.

Want to take a self-discipline punch-in challenge?

"Ding dong!"

Just when Jian Xi was lost in thought, his cell phone suddenly received a message.

Lender: Mr. Jian, he wanted to borrow 20,000 yuan from my brother before he left, and I approved it.

Jian Xi looked at the message on the phone calmly. Not knowing what he was thinking about, he chuckled, sighed, shook his head and did not reply.

All I care about is the result.

The rain outside still didn't seem to be letting up, but he didn't want to wait any longer and decided to go back to bed early.

"Ding dong!"

Just as he was about to drive away, the screen of his mobile phone lit up again and another message came.

When Jian Xi looked again, there was a hint of surprise in his eyes. This time the message was sent by another person.

Nan Xiang: Boss, are you free now?
When seeing this message, Jian Xi looked up at the alley entrance in front of him. The street lamp was isolated in the rain and there was no one around.

After thinking for a moment, he picked up the phone and replied.

Jian Xi: I’ll come out of your house in twenty minutes.

Nan Xiang: Okay.

What satisfied him most about Nan Xiang was that she was very obedient. As long as he spoke to her in a commanding tone, she would never ask any additional questions. This was different from his other female companions.

It’s not that the bastard wants all his female companions to be like this, after all, that would be too boring. But in comparison, Nan Xiang has now adapted very well to the role of lover.

Thinking back to how unruly he was when he first started working for me, I wonder if his current change is because he has been through so many things.

It can't be the result of my own training, right?

The dog man smiled and sat in the car silently watching the rain outside. After more than ten minutes had passed, he turned on the headlights and drove the car forward to the side of the street lamp.

As soon as the car stopped, the sound of high heels stepping on the soaked stone slabs became clearer amid the noisy rain.

Soon, a transparent umbrella brim appeared from the alley, and then Nan Xiang walked out of the puddle of water at the entrance of the alley holding an umbrella.

In a blink of an eye, she saw the familiar car not far away, and she hurriedly walked over with a smile.

Jian Xi lowered the window, looked at the person standing in front of him and said with a smile: "It's not even 20 minutes yet, why are you out early?"

"I wanted to come out and wait for you." Nan Xiang bent down slightly, "Didn't you arrive early too?"

The street light shone through the transparent umbrella onto her face, revealing her eyes which were still a little red.

At this time, Nan Xiang had changed into a grey women's casual suit, and her hair was no longer as messy as before due to being wet by the rain. Knowing that her boss didn't like to see her with her hair loose, especially at this late hour, she tied her hair neatly behind her head again.

At first glance, it looks a bit like the secretary outfit she wore when she accompanied Jian Xi on business trips in the past.

"Let's talk in the car." Jian Xi didn't say anything in a hurry and let the other party get in the car first.

When Nan Xiang got out of the passenger seat, she took off her high-heeled sandals and held them in her hands. Seeing Jian Xi's strange look, she closed the car door and explained, "I only have a pair of rain boots at home, and they got soaked in water before."

Jian Xi nodded and smiled: "It's raining so hard, aren't your feet dirty?"

"It's okay, just go back and take a shower."

"Have you taken a shower?"

"washed."

"You seem to have some makeup on your face?"

"You said you were coming, I just drew it."

"..."

The car fell into silence. Nan Xiang lowered her eyes, and the traces of crying that she tried her best to cover with makeup were still very obvious.

Seeing her like this, Jian Xi had no idea what the mother and daughter talked about during their heart-to-heart talk.

So he pretended not to know what had just happened and asked, "What's wrong? You look upset? Are you crying?"

"It's okay. It's just something at home." Nan Xiang raised her head, patted her face and forced a smile, "It's all right now."

Jian Xi nodded and said with a smile: "Then why did you call me over here?"

"Uh, I didn't..." Nan Xiang's face was a little unnatural, and she whispered in the other person's eyes, "I didn't ask you to come over."

"..." The dog man was stunned for a moment, and then he was speechless. It turned out that he was just being too sentimental.

Nan Xiang added: "I just wanted to call you, but I didn't expect you to say you wanted to come over directly."

When she said this, she was quite touched: "Boss, it's raining so hard outside and it's night time, and you still come here..."

What a coincidence, I didn’t have time to leave!

"From the message you sent, I guessed that you were in trouble. I decided to come over to make sure you were safe." The dog man chuckled, "I'm here. If you have anything you want to say on the phone, you can say it now."

"..."

Nan Xiang looked at him quietly after hearing this. After a long while, she shook her head and said softly, "I have nothing else to say."

"Then I'll go back now?"

Nan Xiang was silent for a moment, then looked at the time, then looked outside the car, and after hesitating for a moment, she said awkwardly:

"Boss, if you're not in a hurry..."

As she spoke, she suddenly unbuttoned a button of her shirt: "Can you stay with me a little longer?"

"..."

Even though Jian Xi had thought about all the things the other party might say, he never expected that what she wanted was not words, but actions.

What is this? Are you using him as a tool to comfort yourself when you are in a bad mood?
That's really... the right person!
The dog man raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "You have been out for so long, aren't you afraid that your mother will come out to look for you?"

"She was already asleep when I sent you the message."

"..."

Seeing Nan Xiang biting her lip with tears in her eyes, Jian Xi smiled and said nothing more, but just drove the car backwards.

"Boss, do you want to go to the hotel?"

"No, there are lights here. I'll drive into the dark."

"..."

So a moment later, deep in an alley, Audi slowly danced in the dark rainy night.

"Nan Xiang, I remembered something. In the next period of time, you'd better increase the frequency of 'working overtime' with me."

"Ah? This... the frequency is not enough now...? If it were higher... Lin Quan and Lin Xiao... wouldn't be angry... huh!"

“Am I your boss or are they your boss?”

"you."

"Who do you listen to, then?"

"yours."

"Then why are you asking these questions? Aren't you happy to be asked to work overtime?"

"I am happy to. I like to work overtime."

"You will learn the benefits of working overtime later. This is for your own good."

"I know, kiss me~ Boss... Huh! Boss, today...that person came to see me..."

……

April 4th, Monday, Qingming Festival.

There are many rains in the Qingming season, and pedestrians on the road want to break their souls.

Perhaps it was because of the heavy rain last night, that today, the official Qingming Festival tomb-sweeping day, only some drizzle remained in the sky to embellish the festive atmosphere.

Some people go out for an outing during the Qingming Festival, and secondly to remember their ancestors. After all, birth, aging, sickness and death are the norm in life, and people should always look forward.

But for some people, during Qingming Festival, they feel as miserable as if their ancestors had just died.

For example, Gu Li!

In the morning, seeing that it was not raining outside, he dragged his younger brother Gu Zhun to visit the grave of their scumbag father.

Everything was fine at the beginning. On the way here, the two of them could still find topics to chat about, but after entering the cemetery, the atmosphere became heavy.

Until they stood in front of their biological father Gu Yansheng's grave, the brother and sister could only look at each other in silence, one placing tributes and flowers while the other poured champagne and lit a cigar.

It has only been over a year since my father passed away. Some things seem like yesterday when I recall them. Now, facing this cold tombstone, how can I not feel sad?

If the siblings' lives after their father's death were not entirely smooth, but at least okay, they wouldn't have looked so gloomy as they do now.

Who could have imagined that life would be full of ups and downs after that?

Who would be in the mood to look relaxed in front of a grave?

Especially since some of the things were caused by Gu Yansheng, not pointing at the tombstone and cursing him for his sins was already the greatest filial piety they could show.

"Sister, isn't your mother, Aunt Lin coming?" Gu Zhun asked while looking at his father's photo on the tombstone.

Gu Li placed the wine glasses and poured wine while saying, "No, I told her that my mother went back to her hometown and is looking for someone to check if there is any problem with our Gu family's ancestral tomb."

"..."

Hearing this, Gu Zhun was a little speechless: "Sister, do you really believe this?"

"If not this, what else can I believe?" Gu Li rolled his eyes and pouted, "Before the Gu family became wealthy, there weren't many rules for burials. After so many years and so many things happening, maybe something went wrong back then!"

is not that right?

As for the Gu family, their father died in a car accident and left a mess behind. Their love and friendship both failed in their twenties, which was a small matter. Not only did they lose a lot of their family property, but they also got cancer and they didn't know when they would die. And their younger brother Gu Zhun... liking men was not a small matter? The Gu family couldn't even continue the incense!
Oh, and there's also the mother, Lin Yilan. When she married Dad, she couldn't have a baby! Isn't that a big deal, too?
It would be fine if only one person had problems occasionally. After all, there will always be people who are unlucky, but they generally won't be unlucky forever. And the current situation of the Gu family cannot be generally summarized.

Basically, there is nothing normal about it.

This made it hard for Gu Li not to believe that there might be something wrong with the ancestral grave!

Not to mention that she is a woman who has received higher education and graduated with a double degree from Shanghai University, she still believes this even if she graduated from graduate school!
Otherwise there is really no other solution!
"If the problem with the ancestral tomb is not troublesome, fix it as soon as possible. If the problem is serious, we may have to dig it out and move the tomb." Gu Li said seriously, "When the time comes, Dad will also have to see if he wants to cooperate in moving the ancestral tomb."

"..."

Gu Zhun looked at the tombstone in front of him and frowned, "How long has Dad been buried? Digging him up and reburying him... Isn't that too much trouble for him?"

"If there really is a problem and I need my father's cooperation, I will have to dig it out no matter how long it's been buried!"

Gu Li picked up the wine and toasted his father, then slowly poured it out in front of the grave.

"Dad, don't blame me for being unfilial. I don't want to really make things difficult for you, but if you were still alive and saw the current situation of the Gu family..."

After a pause, the filial daughter continued, "You understand that you have to bear the biggest blame. If you want others to burn paper for you in the future, I hope you can cooperate when the time comes."

When he said this, Gu Li glanced at his younger brother Gu Zhun beside him secretly. Unfortunately, he didn't have time to find a way to straighten his younger brother, so he could only leave this matter to his father.

Dad, you don’t want your eldest son to remain a gay and have no one to carry on your family line, right?
"Gu Zhun, you should also give Dad a toast."

(End of this chapter)