The Most Pleasant Thing to Hear

Ye Shu Wei’s parents lived in the suburbs, they need to drive for a half hour to get there. Bei Er Duo looked at the two level mansion in front of him. She felt it’s too beautiful to be true.

She thought that a butler or maid will welcome them, but it was Ye Shu Wei’s mother, Liu Ai, that personally waited for them on the doorway.

Ye Shu Wei’s mother looks really different from what Bei Er Duo expected.

In her imagination, she should be a noble graceful madame. The one with a great charisma, perhaps someone with courtesy but not too easily to get close to. But in front of her, this aunty with light cheong sam , long hair and delicate unexpectedly looked shy. She was looking at her and said tenderly: “You are all here? It’s too hot right today, let’s get inside and drink.”

Bei Er Duo was shocked, but she didn’t forget to greet her. She passed the gifts to her.

“You are too modest. Thank you.” Liu Ai was surprised. She didn’t expect it was her favorite strawberry layer cake. She stroked the box, it was cold.

“It’s my little gift. I hope that you like it.” Bei Er Duo smiled.

“I like it so much. Let me put this inside the fridge first. Shu Wei, take Er Duo inside.” Liu Ai instructed him.

Er Duo….. She called her by her name.

She followed Ye Shu Wei inside.

The room was decorated in ancient style.

The time she inside she noticed a seventy years old man was sitting on the sofa and reading his book. The time he heard the steps, he raised his head and examined them.

“Pa, she is Bei Er Duo.” Ye Shu Wei held Bei Er Duo’s hand and came in front o fhim.

Bei Er Duo immediately greeted him. When she was about to call “Hi, Grandpa.”, she thought about it and greeted, “Hi, uncle.”

“O, sit down.” Ye Yuan Xing’s voice was very deep. He glanced at Bei Er Duo and didn’t exchange any pleasantries.

Bei Er Duo sat down worriedly, she gripped Ye Shu Wei’s hand. She examined the elder in front of her. He was healthy, with straight bridge of nose. He looked like Ye Shu Wei.

Ye Yuan Xing seemed to notice they were holding hands tightly, he seemed to despise it.

“Pa, do you drink your medicine on time?” Ye Shu Wei asked.

“I don’t drink it.” He waved his hands, he was impatient: “Why should you ask me that question every day, aren’t you tired of it? Oh right, where is your mother? She has been out for half day, why isn’t she back yet?”

“I’m here, I’m coming.” Liu Ai sped up her step.

“What are you doing? Sit down now.” Ye Yuan Xing pointed at the seat beside him.

Liu Ai sat down and tried to calm down her husband. She explained to Bei Er Duo: “He always be like this.”

“It’s okay.” Bei Er Duo waved her hand: “I’ve heard it.”

“What did you hear?” Ye Yuan Xing raised his head and asked her.

Bei Er Duo was speechless in a second and realized that she said something wrong. She just spoke honestly: “I heard that you guys are a lovey-dovey couple.”

“Just like that?” Ye Yuan Xing laughed coldly.

“…..You like to stick close to your wife.”

The time she said, the temperature around lower down. Luckily, Ye Shu Wei’s palm was warm, it didn’t let Bei Er Duo to be cold.

“Do you think it’s a mistake?” Ye Yuan Xing asked.

“No, it shouldn’t be a mistake. It’s a a right thing.” Bei Er Duo said.

Ye Yuan Xing snorted for a while and flung his face aside. His face eased up.

Looking at this Bei Er Duo requested help by looking at Ye Shu Wei, Ye Shu Wei was so calm and used his eyes to tell her that it was okay. This situation could be classified as normal.

Liu Ai started to smooth things over by chatting intimately with Bei Er Duo. She asked her about her favorite food, favorite place to hang around, favorite color, brand. She even asked about how Ye Shu Wei’s attitude toward her, whether he bullied her or not. Bei Er Duo answered it one by one. Before she couldn’t notice any probe or testing attitude from Liu Ai, she started to relax.

“For real, your appearance made me feel relieved. Shu Wei is almost twenty eight years old. He never been in relationship. He never have any opposite sex friend. I almost worry to death. Luckily luckily, one day he took initiative to say that he has someone that he likes. I almost cried when I heard it.” Liu Ai joked.

Ye Yuan Xing snorted coldly when he listened to his wife’s joke. Liu Ai hurriedly patted his back of hand, to warn him to not act up.

“It’s the first time I encountered someone that I like.” Bei Er Duo also expressed her inner heart words, “I don’t want to hide it from you. In the past I also thought that I will not find someone that I like to get marry. I think it’s better to be single than be together with someone that I don’t like. Luckily he showed up.”

Liu Ai couldn’t contain her happiness when she heard it. She took a cup of tea for her husband. Ye Yuan Xing drank two gulps of it then looked at Bei Er Duo. Without showing any mood, he asked; “What do you like from my son?”

Bei Er Duo answered courageously: “I like his everything.”

Ye Yuan Xing frowned: “I don’t expect that you couldn’t even one thing that you like from him.”

Bei Er Duo: “……..”

Ye Shu Wei took a fresh grape and fed Bei Er Duo. He ignored his father annoying trouble attitude: “She is very sincere and honest. She always practices what she preaches. Indeed she likes everything about me.”

Bei Er Duo ate it, then considered. She said seriously: “First of all it’s his appearance and body.”

Ye Yuan Xing ridiculed her: “Little miss is so shallow.”

Ye Shu Wei naturally protected her: “Is it wrong to declare a fact?”

Liu Ai laughed: “Of course, the first thing we will see is appearance. Er Duo is very honest.”

“Then his temper, personality, talents, working ability and attitude. Part of his manly responsibility. Besides, he is very attentive and caring toward me. He always respects me.”

“Er Duo, to one’s surprise you could say a lot of his strong points.” Liu Ai was somewhat surprised. “At first you would be do it with difficulty.”

“Ma, please explain what do you mean by do it with difficulty.” Ye Shu Wei said.

“Because since little, you don’t have many friends. When you were in elementary school, junior high school and even senior high school, there was always a friend that reported to teachers that your temperament are too hard to get along with. You are not easily interacted with anyone. You seem to have despised them all the time. I thought you will be also hard to fall in love. Perhaps you took Er Duo home by using a scheme.” Liu Ai analyzed slowly. She always knows her son too well, so she couldn’t help to undermine.

“Are you being forced?” Ye Shu Wei turned his head to see Bei Er Duo.

“No.” Bei Er Duo looked at the elders. She blushed: “I come willingly.”

“Then are you willing to marry him, and give birth to his children?” Ye Yuan Xing tried to hit the point.

Bei Er Duo couldn’t answer, she didn’t expect his father to be so frank and blunt, how should she answer it? She thought that it was inappropriate question to answer.

“Is it too hard to answer? Didn’t you before said openly and made a solemn vow that you like everything about him?” Ye Yuan Xing continued to deliberately make things difficult.

Bei Er Duo: “…….”

“Don’t you know that how could we see that woman loves his man so much? It’s for willingly give birth for his children. If you are not willing, it’s not a real love. It’s just a a shallow infatuation. It will not last long.

Bei Er Duo was in complete speechlessness, she just looked at Ye Shu Wei.

Ye Shu Wei looked at her back calmly, then helped her: “She already agreed silently. Don’t you keep on chatting about this.”

Bei Er Duo: “……”

Liu Ai in due course also involved in this topic of discussion: “Yes, by willingly coming here, Er Duo already expresses that she is willing. She is a girl, she shouldn’t agree with it openly. She just agrees silently. We just need to be well aware about it.

Just like that, Bei Er Duo was being dallied by this three people. At last her willingness to come over to visit is interpreted by willing to give birth to Ye Shu Wei’s kids.

……………

After reaching this common understanding, Ye Yuan Xing’s attitude turned gentle. Liu Ai also became even more friendly toward Bei Er Duo. She took her to the room to look at Ye Shu Wei’s younger picture. She also shared her own painting and gave her some small gifts. She sees Bei Er Duo not only as her soon-to-be daughter-in-law but also her little best friend.

Liu Ai draped her hand-made snowflake mantle on Bei Er Duo’s shoulder and examined her for a long time. She then opened her jewel case and looked for a swan brooch and placed it on her collar.

“It’s very beautiful.” Liu Ai gently brushed away that woolen mantle. “This mantle is for you, this brooch is also for you.”

“It’s too expensive.” Facing Liu Ai’s friendliness, Bei Er Duo just can turn it down politiely.

“It’s nothing. It’s just a little gift. It’s my own craft. It’s good that you don’t dislike it. Er Duo, wait until you are married to Ye Shu Wei, I will give you even more and better.”

“You are too kind. I really don’t lack of anything.”

“I know you are not lacking, but it’s just my kindly feeling.” Liu Ai is so sincere, “In the future, if you need anything, you could say it to me. I will do in my best ability to help you. Although I am maybe not like your mother that will do anything unconditionally, but I will do my best to regard you as my own kid, be patient and foster our relationship. I will take care of you.”

Bei Er Duo was moved when she heard it. She thought Ye Shu Wei’s mother is too modest. She is completely different from Xu Zhen Fen…. it’s no wonder that Ye Shu Wei’s father really loves her.

“Come here and see.” She opened her jewel case: “It’s just a small thing. See whether there’s anything that you like, I will give it to you.”

“You really have a lot of gems.” Bei Er Duo was so moved.

“Yes, it’s all given by Ye Shu Wei’s father. Since we were dating, I always keep everything. It’s all five big chests.”

“Uncle Ye is really good.”

“He is loving toward me.” Liu Ai smiled.

Bei Er Duo didn’t expect her to be so frank.

Liu Ai blushed: “Don’t you envy me. Ye Shu Wei is similar like his father.”

By mentioning Ye Shu Wei, Bei Er Duo recalled his actions and nodded proudly and happily.

Looking at a pile of shinning jewelry, Bei Er Duo didn’t dare to choose. At last under Liu Ai’s firm determination, she just took a bird-model old gaze ring and wore it on her middle finger.

During the dinner, Ye Yuan Xing’s keen eyes looked at the ring, he unhurriedly said to his wife: “It’s my present to you for your forty years old birthday right. The name is “you are my one and only”.

Bei Er Duo was drinking her soup, the time she heard it, she felt pressured that her hands started to quiver. Ye Shu Wei was peeling the shrimp for her. When he heard it, he asked: “Then what’s the problem for her to wear it?”

Ye Yuan Xing used his spoon the knock the egg shell: “I’m just thinking that you are too modest. You even let your woman to wear the ring that your father paid.”

Bei Er Duo: “…….”

Ye Shu Wei looked calmly at his father then retreated. He placed the well-peeled shrimp to Bei Er Duo’s bowl.

“Pa what you said is right. Tomorrow I will take her to buy ring.”

Liu Ai laughed; “Shu Wei, if you don’t have enough money, you could ask me to borrow you. No need to be embarrassed.”

“No need, I think my money is enough to buy the best for her.”

“Heng, last year during my and Ai Ai’s wedding anniversary, I gave her ring with six figures, I hope you will not lose for me.” Ye Yuan Xing reminded him.

Ye Shu Wei said: “Don’t you worry, I will give her better than you.”

“Don’t think that you able to deceive me. Let her wear it when you buy it. Come home and let me see it.

“No problem.”

Bei Er Duo was confused of their chat. When she understood it, it seemed that they were finalizing a big matter?

In the middle of the dinner, Ye Yuan Xing took a tissue to wipe his mouth, then he used his hand to pinch his wife’s face. Then said to his son: “I think you have enough, now go to Ji Xiang market and took the teapot that I ordered.”

Liu Ai said: “Why you need to rush it, we could just take it tomorrow?”

“So tomorrow I could use that teapot to drink tea.” Ye Yuan Xing said it with unhesitating, “This couldn’t be discussed.”

“I will help you to take it.” Ye Shu Wei stood up, then lowered his head and said few sentences to Er Duo.

Bei Er Duo nodded.

After Ye Shu Wei gone, Ye Xing Yuan let the housemaid to take Chinese bayberry, and gave it to Bei Er Duo to drink. Bei Er Duo couldn’t refuse it. She hid the fact of her alcohol tolerance and drank it with two elders.

After twenty minutes, Bei Er Duo lied on her stomach on the table.

Liu Ai was surprised to see this, she hurriedly patted her shoulder and yelled her name. Bei Er Duo shook her head and continued her sleep.

“But you also couldn’t sleep here? Let me and auntie help you up to sleep at the guest room upstair.”

“Why should she sleep in the guest room? Of course you should take to our son’s room.”

Liu Ai suddenly understood what her husband’s intention was, she frowned and scolded him to be unhonorable man. How could he cheat on someone else daughter.

“They also will marry soon, why should we don’t let her sleep there? Ai Ai, do you forget? I’m almost eighty years old.” Ye Yuan Xing sighed, “Every year I need to go to hospital to cure, it’s no difference with being in the death battle. In a while, they will find out another illness in me. I really couldn’t wait.”

“You also shouldn’t be that rushed. Wait until they married for two months then they will have one soon.”

“For the wedding we need to see the almanac, didn’t know when would it be. Don’t we delay it anymore. Today it’s really extremely good day.” Liu Xing Yuan suddenly stood up. He was a tall man with one hundred ninety two centimeters. With determined tone: “Send him to son’s bedroom, let them do it tonight, there’s no room for discussion.”

……….

When Ye Shu Wei returned, the light in the living room was off. There was no light. He found it to be weird. He went to the second room. Liu Ai went outside of her room and saw him, she said in light voice: “Er Duo is drunk, I let her to sleep in your bed for a while.”

“You guys let them drink alcohol?” Ye Shu Wei asked.

“It’s just a Chinese bayberry alcohol. We don’t know that she couldn’t drink.” She was worried, “Go inside and look after her.”

Ye Shu Wei got inside. Before he came over the bed, he heard his father’s voice: “If tonight you couldn’t finish your task, then you cannot go home. I remind you, the night I married your mother, we had you already. The men in our Ye family is quick, ruthless, and precise. Please don’t you embarrassed me.”

…………

“But, don’t be to ruthless. A man also need to be tender. Then she would be even more incorrigible in love with you.”

……….

Ye Shu Wei frowned. Although since the beginning he already knew about his father’s obsession. But this matter was excessive, he didn’t expect this.

This moment and this time, the moon was shinning so brightly. Bei Er Duo looked beautiful and admirable, it let people felt so in love at her.

He came over and sat down on the bedside. He looked at her sleeping figure.

She slept soundly.

He touched her forehead and felt the hotness of her forehead. Her ears were red.

He enjoyed this moment.

“Since you couldn’t be awake, then sleep peacefully.”

Just sleeping beside her, made him felt in suffer. He determined that very quickly he couldn’t control himself.

He extended himself and explore her. Until he touched her gentle main part. He suddenly couldn’t breath properly. It was so hot.

Then he pecked her neck.

After he did it, he got off the bed. He took the pillow and slept on the floor. He closed his eyes and entered the sleep