Chapter 478: Picnic (1)
Chapter 478: Picnic (1)
“Grandpa!”
Nuo hopped and waddled her way towards Liu Hai and jumped into his lap.
“Ah, my dearest grand-daughter!” Liu Hai swirled her in his arms, making her giggle. “Ah, I missed you so much.”
Liu Hai and Liu Chunhua had gone for a vacation of their own and had just returned to Liu villa when their little angel greeted them with her loveliest smile ever.
“Grandma!”
Liu Chunhua laughed and picked her in her arms. “Nuo dear.”
“Grandma, Grandpa, I missed you, and I missed you telling me stories!”
She kissed her cheek. “We missed our little Nuo too. My Nuo was a good girl these last few days without us, so now Grandma will tell lots of stories to you.”
Nuo’s eyes sparkled in delight. “Stories! Lots and lots of stories!” She flailed her hands in the air in excitement.
Liu Chunhua chuckled. “Yes.”
Then she looked at Liu Hai in anticipation. “Grandpa! Where is my gift? You pwomised to bring me gifts!”
“Hoho! I have brought tons of stuff for my dearest granddaughter! This whole bag has your gifts! It’s all yours.”
“I want to see. I want to see! Grandma, let me down.”
“Grandma!” Jian and Nian jumped in her arms. “Grandma, you are back!”
Liu Hai gritted his teeth. “Can you not see me? I am back too.”
The twins didn’t spare him a single glance.
Jian grinned. “Grandma. You look more beautiful than before.”
Nian said, “Grandma. What magic happened at your vacation? You always looked so young, but now you look even younger than before.”
Liu Chunhua laughed. “Oh my, so many compliments. You two are so adorable-“
“What adorable! And you two! Are you freaking flirting with my wife?” Liu Hai roared.
They shrugged. “We are not just flirting. We will marry Grandma too.”
Liu Chunhua was amused. “Oof. Why will you marry an old woman?”
Jian and Nian vigorously shook their heads. “Grandma is not old! Our Grandma is the most beautiful in the whole world.”
“Wait a second! What marry!?” He looked at him, aghast.
Jian and Nian sneered. Jian said, “Well, somebody has to save her from you. Tsk. You have gotten old.”
Nian gave the final blow. “How can our pretty Grandma live with an old man like you?”
“You…”
Jian and Nian peeked at him from behind Liu Chunhua’s head and intensely stared at Liu Hai. “Also, where are our gifts, old man? You gave a bunch of them to Nuo. What about us?”
Liu Hai glared at them. “And this why boys are useless! Didn’t you see how my dearest Nuo greeted your Grandma and me like the most beautiful and purest fairy? And you! You two should come running and jumping in your Grandpa’s hug. And here you call me old man?”
Nian dryly said, “Well, surely you aren’t young anymore…”
Jian’s mouth twitched. “And come running and jumping in your hug…gross!”
Liu Hai dramatically clutched his chest. “You…you two…Chunhua, did you listen to them?”
Instead of answering him, Liu Chunhua said, “Of course, we have brought your gifts too! Come, I will show you.”
With the deadliest blow of his wife’s ignorance, too, Liu Hai could only draw circles on the floor, hunched all alone at the corner of a pillar with an imaginary leaf whistling by him in loneliness.
Cruel…this world is too cruel…
Little Jun trotted and patted on his shoulder along the way and then went on his way to look for his gifts too.
Then he noticed something. “Hey, why do you look so all dressed up?”
Nuo said, “Grandpa! We are going to a picnic!”
“Picnic?”
“Yes. We are going on a picnic with Uncle Jianyu and Aunt Serena and Uncle Shin and Aunt Huian. Our cousins are coming too!”
“Oh yeah, I remember now…”
Jian said, “All the more proof that you have become an old man. Look, you have even begun to forget things.”
“Shut up, brat.”
Just then, Nana and Jinhai came too, wheeling Jin in the stroller, and Jinhai was holding the picnic bags.
“Mom, Dad. You came back. How was your trip?”
Liu Hai nodded. “Ah, it was fantastic, child. Chunhua and I enjoyed it a lot.”
Liu Chunhua asked, “Have you packed everything, dear?”
“Yes, Mom, everything is packed.”
Jinhai’s phone buzzed.
“Broooooooo, where are you? We are waiting for you all outside.”
“En. We are coming-“
“Zixin, stay put, please…don’t jump around in the car.”
Jinhai heard him Zixin giggle on the other end. “No!”
“Zixin…Serena, please say something…”
“Hmph! Why don’t you handle him? I don’t want to talk to you!”
Jinhai’s brow twitched.
Are they having an argument?
“Hey, come on, don’t say that.. please hold Zixin. I am talking to bro.”
Jinhai tried to speak, “Jianyu…”
“Well, then talk to him while Zixin is playing. If you don’t listen to me, then I won’t listen to you either! Hmph!”
Nana asked, “What is happening?”
Jinhai sighed. “I don’t know. They seem to be arguing about something.”
Jinhai cut the call. “It’s no use talking to him. He isn’t listening to me anyway.”
Nana frowned. “Why must they be fighting, I wonder?”
Nuo hugged Jinhai’s leg. “Dada, Dada! Let’s go no. I cannot wait.”
He smiled and picked her up. “En. Let’s go.”
“What about Shin?” He asked Nana.
“Big bro said that they would directly join us at the picnic site.”
“Cool.”
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“Zixin!”
“Jian! Nian! Jun!”
Zixin excitedly waved his hand from the car.
“Cousin Zixin. I am here too!” Nuo trotted in her steps, her little frilly dress was flocking in the air.
Zixin giggled. “Yes, I see you too, Nuo. Come in the back! I will show all the cool stuff I brought with me!”
“Uncle, Aunt!” The little Liu’s greeted them.
Jianyu chuckled. “Hey, kids. Come on, hop in. Lively as ever you all.”
Serena pushed him away and smiled. “Awww. My little babies are so cute! Come to, Aunt!”
Jianyu’s mouth twitched. “Serena…you are crushing me.”
“Do I look like that I care?”
He sighed.
Zixin stopped bothering Jianyu and got back in his seat. He was already beginning to look a lot like Jianyu. His beautiful eyes were just like Serena’s.
The kids already hopped back in the back of the SUV and got busy among themselves.
As Nana sat together with Jin, she immediately sensed the dark aura in the car.