Chapter 58 — It Would Be a Problem Without It
Years of Heartflutter · Page 2 of 3
"You good-for-nothing child!" Yang Ce was secretly snickering when a slap suddenly landed on the back of his head. He turned around to find his mother glaring at him furiously. "Why do you keep scaring Chen Shutang like that? Do you have nothing better to do?"
Yang Ce broke into a cold sweat—so his mother had been watching his every move the whole time. Especially since the phone receiver at the Yang house had fairly high volume, and his mother wasn't standing far away, she could probably hear everything.
"Hehe." Hearing Mother Yang's voice, Chen Shutang immediately began to giggle.
"Still laughing?" But Yang Ce saw his mother's raised palm and had to hold his tongue for the time being. "Mengyan, how about I go to your house tomorrow, and we talk it over properly with your parents?"
"That works—tomorrow is Little New Year, perfect timing," Chen Shutang said happily. "Then I'll go tell my parents in a bit."
"Haha, not angry anymore?" Yang Ce suddenly asked.
"A-angry about what?" Chen Shutang's tone caught, and she said somewhat awkwardly.
"What do you think?" Yang Hengye said.
"Zhou Yanning came to see me," Chen Shutang said after a moment's hesitation.
"What? She went to see you? What did she want?" Yang Yongjin couldn't help but frown. "She didn't say anything bad about me, did she?"
"Don't worry, Zhou Yanning is a very nice person. She explained that matter to me," Chen Shutang said.
"A very nice person?" Yang Puqi was astonished. He hadn't expected the jealous Chen Shutang to actually praise Zhou Yanning as a very nice person. It seemed this girl had quite some tricks up her sleeve.
"Yes. What do you think of her?" Chen Shutang didn't know why she had suddenly asked such a question.
"Forget it, let's not talk about her." Yang Jiyan had no interest and simply cut the topic off.
"But she—" Chen Shutang seemed about to say something more, but seeing that Yang Puqi had no patience for Zhou Yanning at all, she had to let it drop. She didn't know whether to be happy or sad. "Oh, right, Mengyan, is Uncle Chen there? Put him on, I want to wish him a happy New Year." Yang Yanzhou said.
"Yes, he's here. Hang on," Chen Shutang said.
After a moment, Chen Fei's voice came over the line. "Yang Ce, you were looking for me?"
"Uncle Chen, tomorrow is Little New Year, so I'm wishing you an early happy New Year." Yang Ce repeated what Chen Shutang and his mother had discussed earlier.
"Haha, thank you. Oh, by the way, I'm not very busy these days—come over and sit awhile one of these days," Chen Fei said with a laugh.
"Mengyan and I were just talking about that. Would tomorrow work?" Yang Yanchuan said. "We won't be disturbing your Little New Year celebration, will we?"
"Tomorrow would be wonderful," Chen Fei said. "Tomorrow it is, then—what trouble would you be? Your coming will only liven things up."
"All right, then I'll be there," Yang Hengye said.
"I'll have your aunt fix you something good. What do you feel like eating?" Chen Fei asked.
"I'm not picky—anything's fine," Yang Ce said. "Just go about things as you normally would. Don't mind me."
"Good, I'll have her put something together," Chen Fei said. "Then it's settled. We've made our agreement—don't go backing out on the day, or all my preparations will be for nothing."
"I won't, rest assured, Uncle Chen," Yang Lanxu said. The one who backed out last time seems to have been you, but Yang Ce would never in a thousand years say such a thing aloud—Chen Fei was his elder, after all.
"Then you can talk to Mengyan," Chen Fei said, and handed the phone to Chen Shutang.
"Yang Ce?" Chen Shutang answered the phone.
"Mm, right—are you free tomorrow?" Yang Yanchuan asked.
"I'm free tomorrow. What's up?" Chen Shutang asked.
"Last time I didn't make it to your place. Tomorrow will count as my first formal visit, and besides, it's a holiday—I can't very well show up empty-handed. Let's go out and buy some gifts together," Yang Yanzhou said.