novelraw Chapter 983 - 969: Back-to-School Barbecue at Yong Mu’s House! (Part 2)
Chapter 983 - 969: Back-to-School Barbecue at Yong Mu’s House! (Part 2)
Chapter 983: Chapter 969: Back-to-School Barbecue at Yong Mu’s House! (Part 2)
It’s getting closer to the start of the school year.
As the school opening approaches, various conversations start buzzing in all the school groups.
Everyone is asking each other in the group when they’re returning to school, who will reach school first, who will be the last to arrive, and how to arrange the cleaning once they get back to school.
In Pu Sangzhi’s dorm, Mu Mu and Minal stayed at school over the year.
So, in their dorm, the only ones yet to return are Pu Sangzhi and Wei Zixuan.
Pu Sangzhi and Wei Zixuan agreed to return to school on the same day, then the girls would have a meal together for a small gathering.
On the other hand, Huo Feng naturally wouldn’t miss out on the girls’ dorm gathering.
Upon hearing that they were planning to get together, Huo Feng directly invited a few guys from his dorm to gather on the same day.
So, the gathering plan from the small group of girls was moved to the larger group of the two dorms...
The four people from Pu Sangzhi’s dorm and the four from Huo Feng’s dorm, and they added Gu Erhao’s sister, Lu Youyou...
The nine of them started chatting in the group.
On the sixth day of the new year, those already in Beijing were Mu Mu, Minal, Yong Mu, and Lu Youyou, who was still running her shop during the New Year.
Apart from these four, the rest of the classmates were still in different provinces around the country.
So, they all agreed to arrive at school early on the twelfth day of the new year, then go out, have a meal, and consider it the first gathering of the new year!
This proposal was met with no objections from the nine people in the group.
The question now was what to eat during the gathering? How to arrange it?
They were still discussing it...
After all, with nine people, they’d make a big table wherever they went to eat.
So, they really needed to carefully decide on the place for the gathering.
While everyone was still chiming in about whether to have a hot pot, barbecue, Japanese cuisine, or Peking duck, Yong Mu suddenly proposed a bold idea!
Yong Mu posted in the group: "Why don’t we all buy some ingredients and have a barbecue at my house?"
Before that, during the endless discussions, Yong Mu barely spoke, as if he were just a follower in the team.
However, no one expected him to suddenly make this suggestion...
It must be said, his suggestion... was simply too awesome!
The twins, Gu Yihao and Gu Erhao, immediately liked the idea!
Gu Yihao said: "@Yong Mu, you’re so understanding! I’ve always been interested in your villa with a pool~~"
Gu Erhao said: "@Yong Mu, I want to see your villa too! A poor person like me has never seen such luxury!"
Both dorms knew that Yong Mu’s family was very wealthy!
According to the words Yong Mu shouted while climbing a mountain: his family isn’t just rich, they’re extremely rich!
As kids from ordinary families, they were all eager to see what ’extremely rich’ looked like!
Thus, Huo Feng also chimed in the group: "@Yong Mu, buddy, I’ve been waiting for your invitation to your house for so long! By the way, can I not see your sister?"
Aside from these few guys, the girls were also quite interested in Yong Mu’s home.
Minal and Wei Zixuan also posted in the group: "Wow, going to a villa with a pool, doesn’t that mean we can have a party?!"
Yong Mu was just making a small suggestion; he originally thought Huo Brother wouldn’t want to visit his house.
Because he had invited him before, but was rejected by Huo Brother, who said he didn’t like his sister.
Unexpectedly, Huo Brother still didn’t like his sister, but didn’t refuse the invitation to visit his house.
Just that alone made Yong Mu quite happy.
So, in good spirits, Yong Mu posted in the group: "My parents are still abroad traveling and haven’t returned. If everyone wants to come, I’ll let my dad know, and we can have a barbecue at my family’s villa in the suburbs. My sister doesn’t live over there, so it can just be us. There’s a pool, but I don’t know when the water was changed? If you guys want to swim, I can ask the maid to change it. But it’s an outdoor pool, and swimming in this weather will be cold."
With that simple sentence, everyone in the group inadvertently witnessed the wealth of Yong Mu’s family.
A villa with a pool in the suburbs of Beijing that they don’t live in regularly!
According to him, did it mean there was also a house with a pool in the city?
Wow...
This can’t be overthought; the more you think about it, the more you feel like you’re poor as dust! Blown away like nothing!
"Yong Mu’s family is just too rich!" said Pu Sangzhi, holding her phone, clearly stunned.
"Yeah, they’re rich~ he’s a second-generation rich kid after all!"
Sitting across from her, also holding a phone, Huo Feng shook his head and commented, "His monthly allowance is six times my total savings~"
Pu Sangzhi seemed to smell a hint of jealousy in the air and couldn’t help but look up at Huo Feng, "Someone’s a bit envious, huh?"
"Unbelievably envious!"
Huo Feng replied straightforwardly, "If my family were as rich as his, my wife’s family’s little bit of debt back then could have been settled in no time!"
Pu Sangzhi countered, "Being able to pay it off doesn’t mean you’d be willing to pay it off. If you really were in Yong Mu’s kind of family, maybe your parents would also strictly forbid you from associating with me. Just like Mu Mu..."
Both Huo Feng and Pu Sangzhi were aware of the situation between Mu Mu and Yong Mu’s families.
Under similar circumstances, Yong Mu’s family reluctantly helped and then looked down on Mu Mu’s family ever since.
"Hmm..."
Huo Feng nodded, "If I really had parents like Yong Mu’s, they’d be even harder to deal with than my old man, Lao Huo! Though Lao Huo is strict and stingy with me, he’s unfailingly good to you. I’ve never experienced family targeting my girlfriend~"
Just as he finished, Pu Sangzhi reached out to the other side, patted his laptop, and gave a serious warning, "No flights of fancy! I definitely don’t want that kind of experience! If your family didn’t like me, I wouldn’t want to be with you!"
"Haha~"
Huo Feng laughed at her words, "So, it’s actually understandable that Mu Mu fell out with Yong Mu before. It seems you girls all think the same way~"
Pu Sangzhi pursed her lips and said, "I’m not sure about others. But if I were Mu Mu in her situation, and Yong Mu couldn’t make me feel completely at ease, I certainly wouldn’t want to be with him either." Even though she had advised Mu Mu before leaving school.
Huo Feng continued, "So, will Mu Mu join the barbecue this time?"
Pu Sangzhi responded, "I don’t know."
With that, both Pu Sangzhi and Huo Feng looked down in silent accord, their attention returning to their phones...
Scrolling through the accumulated chat records in the group, there was no sign of Mu Mu speaking up, as if she was once again responding with silence.
So, Pu Sangzhi privately messaged Mu Mu on WeChat, asking her: "Are you there? Will you go to Yong Mu’s for the barbecue?"
Within half a minute of sending the message, Mu Mu replied to Pu Sangzhi: "I don’t know... Sangzhi, do you think I should go or not?"
"Still really torn..." Pu Sangzhi murmured.
"What’s up?"
Huo Feng, hearing her words, immediately guessed her meaning, "Did you message Mu Mu? Is she hesitating?"
Pu Sangzhi nodded, "Yeah."
Huo Feng suggested, "Try to persuade her, and I’ll go convince Yong Mu."
Pu Sangzhi inquired, "Convince Yong Mu of what?"
Huo Feng replied, "I’ll tell him to message Mu Mu privately and invite her. You know how girls can be shy; if you want to make up, the guy should be the one to lower his head first."
Pu Sangzhi said, "Oh."
Thus, the two of them, in perfect sync, respectively messaged Yong Mu and Mu Mu on WeChat privately.
Encouraged by Huo Feng, Yong Mu quickly messaged Mu Mu privately, cautiously asking if she’d like to join everyone for a barbecue at his house, without any elders or his sister, just him and classmates.
On the other hand, with Pu Sangzhi’s encouragement, Mu Mu overcame her inner barriers, bravely taking a step forward and agreeing to join the barbecue.
This thrilled Yong Mu, who turned around and sent Huo Feng a 52.1 yuan red envelope as thanks!
"Ahahaha!"
Seeing the red envelope, Huo Feng burst into a Stephen Chow-esque laugh.
This caught Pu Sangzhi’s attention, and she asked him puzzled, "Why are you suddenly laughing?"
Huo Feng promptly stifled his laugh, pointed at his phone, and explained seriously, "It’s Yong, he succeeded in asking, and told me he’s very happy!"
Pu Sangzhi narrowed her eyes at him, "It was he who succeeded, not you, why are you so happy..."
Huo Feng earnestly tapped the table, "He’s my brother, and it’s rare for his love life to make such qualitative progress, so of course I’m happy for him, don’t you think that’s reasonable?"
Pu Sangzhi replied, "...Yeah."
And so, Huo Feng kept the fact he received a red envelope from Yong Mu under wraps.
That precious 52.1 yuan robustly fattened Huo Feng’s little secret stash!
He was so happy~