Chapter 34: How About I Devote My Life to You?
Afraid Huo Chen wouldn’t know the song, Lin Huaizhi specially picked a must-sing song for weddings and purposely left the most familiar line for Huo Chen.
However, there was only silence from the opposite side.
Lin Huaizhi: “?”
Looking at Huo Chen’s strictly cold face, Lin Huaizhi felt numb: “No way… you can’t even sing this?”
The aunties next to him started shouting.
“He can’t sing it!”
“If you can’t sing, don’t think about passing today!”
Su Rui was a researcher. If you asked him to recite the periodic table of elements, he wouldn’t hesitate at all. But asking him to recite lyrics was purely making things difficult for him.
It was even more impossible for Huo Chen.
From morning to night, he was either in this meeting or that meeting, and went on business trips from time to time.
To put it bluntly, he was usually busy as a dog. Even if he had some rest time, he would go out to play ball or exercise to relax. Asking him to listen to this kind of “holy wedding song” and memorize the lyrics? He probably remembered a stock he casually glanced at better.
Fang Mo knew it.
But he glanced at Lin Huaizhi opposite him and just didn’t want to tell Huo Chen the answer. He just wanted to see Lin Huaizhi embarrassed.
Chu Xiaoran also knew clearly.
He made his living in the entertainment industry; how could he not remember this kind of pop song? But his thoughts were the same as Fang Mo’s, yet different.
Similarly, he didn’t want to tell Huo Chen.
Differently, he just wanted to see Huo Chen make a fool of himself.
No wonder these two were a pair. Fortunately, the groomsmen team didn’t consist only of the four guests; there were also several of the groom’s good brothers. They were all young people, so naturally, they had heard this song.
“Handsome guy! Handsome guy!”
“The next line is—Will you marry me today!”
Huo Chen raised his eyebrows slightly. He looked up at Lin Huaizhi, who was surrounded by the aunties, and didn’t miss the excitement almost hanging on the other’s face.
He liked playing word games.
First asking him if it was love or marriage, later asking him to date and be a boyfriend. Now even more direct, directly making him propose.
His guts were big.
Just didn’t know if they were truly big.
With the reminder from the groomsman beside him, Huo Chen completed the song with his deep voice: “Will you marry me today.”
Goal achieved, light instantly lit up in Lin Huaizhi’s eyes.
“Today is too late, how about tomorrow?”
Maybe Lin Huaizhi smiled too brightly, or maybe he was surrounded by sounds of happiness. Huo Chen knew clearly what tricks he was playing, but hearing this sentence, this man who kept a cold face all year round couldn’t help but hook up the corners of his lips.
【Ahhhh! A smile that charms a hundred lives! Is Huo Chen actually this handsome when he smiles!!】
【One second I was shocked by the Miao wedding, the next second shocked by Huo Chen’s smile. No one told me this scary-looking man has such lethality when he smiles!】
【Damn! Who still remembers the first day this season aired, when Lin Huaizhi said he’d chase him, kissed him, and got choked by him? How long has it been? The iron man has turned into soft twine wound around a finger??】
The bullet comments frantically spammed the words “simping face.”
However, hearing the dialogue between Huo Chen and Lin Huaizhi, the aunties instantly sensed something.
“Oh my! These two are a couple!”
“If you’re a couple, you have to sing a few more lines! How can just one line be enough!”
Because of Lin Huaizhi’s operation, the aunties concentrated their firepower on Huo Chen. When they reached the bride’s house, the groom expressed deep gratitude to Huo Chen, stuffing him with several red envelopes and two packs of good cigarettes.
Before receiving the bride, the groom suffered a bit of difficulty, but it was joyous assistance rather than resistance.
Soon, the bride, wearing a red wedding dress and silver hat, draped in silver ornaments all over, walked out of the house.
The ornaments on the silver hat swayed, the colliding sounds crisp and melodious.
The bride was married off.
Drums and gongs sounded all the way.
After holding the ceremony at the groom’s house, the banquet began.
Different from the usual round table banquet, the Miao wedding banquet was a long table with various dishes placed on it, and guests sat on long benches on both sides.
The table was basically full of “hard dishes” (meat dishes).
Chickens, ducks, fish, and meat were all raised in the village, tasting delicious and sweet. The guests, who hadn’t eaten many good meals since arriving in Jinzhai Village, had their appetites greatly stimulated.
Xu Qiao had a bold personality and wasn’t pretentious. She ate the most happily, with oil even staining the side of her face.
The others also moved their chopsticks repeatedly.
Lin Huaizhi moved his bowl and bumped into the person next to him. “You were really cute singing just now. Others were singing; you were basically reciting.”
Huo Chen paused the hand holding the chopsticks and turned his head to look at him: “Skin itching?”
Lin Huaizhi nodded repeatedly, not afraid at all: “Itching. My back is especially itchy. Tonight when we go back, you scratch it for me, okay? I can’t reach it myself.”
Surprisingly, Huo Chen had gotten used to his reaction of climbing up the pole when given one.
Glancing at the meat dishes disappearing constantly before his eyes, Huo Chen moved his hands quickly and fished out the last piece of pig trotter, stuffing it into Lin Huaizhi’s bowl.
“Plug your mouth.”
Lin Huaizhi wasn’t easily fooled. His upbringing taught him early on to observe in all directions and listen to all corners. He hadn’t missed Huo Chen’s action of grabbing the pig trotter just now at all.
“Thank you for specially grabbing the pig trotter for me.”
“I have nothing to repay you with. How about I devote my life to you?”
Huo Chen couldn’t bear it anymore. He directly picked up a large piece of chicken and stuffed it into his mouth: “Shut up and eat properly.”
Lin Huaizhi quit while he was ahead, flirted and retreated, and began to eat seriously.
Eating at this kind of banquet in a mountain village required quick eyes and hands; otherwise, before you took two bites, the meat dishes would all be gone.
But who was Lin Huaizhi?
He grew up in a mountain village and had been to many such banquets. Glancing at the table and seeing nothing left, he sneaked off to the kitchen with his empty bowl.
The cook was from the village.
It happened to be the husband of the auntie who blocked the road today.
Lin Huaizhi had a sweet mouth. The auntie liked him upon seeing him and scooped several ladles of meat into his bowl, piling it full directly.
Lin Huaizhi walked back hiding it, then poured it all into Huo Chen’s bowl like offering a treasure.
Seeing Huo Chen look over, the young man leaned forward cunningly and whispered, “With me here, I definitely won’t let you go back hungry today. Eat quickly. If it’s not enough, there’s more.”
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