Chapter 240 Family

After the Club World Cup, Zhou Yi returned to Dortmund, packed up a few things, and then took Kotana back to China.

Originally, Mark had wanted to come to China with them. He had a good friend from China, but he had never been there. So he really wanted to go to China to see this legendary country for himself.

But Kotana rejected his request without hesitation.

"Why? Just because you have a boyfriend you don't want your little brother anymore!" Mark protested.

Kotana glanced at him.

Mrs. Wagner, who was next to him, quickly tugged at her younger brother: "They're going on a romantic getaway, why are you trying to join them!"

So the third wheel was successfully left in Germany.

Zhou Yi and Kotana took a flight back to China with simple luggage.

They were very low-key, so much so that the media and fans didn't even know.

When Zhou Yi won the Club World Cup, he posted a photo of himself in the locker room holding the trophy, and then he never updated his social media again.

So everyone had no way to know his movements through his social media.

When it came to matters of the heart, Zhou Yi didn't want too many people to know until things were certain. If everything went smoothly on this trip back to China and both sides were sure about marriage, then Zhou Yi would naturally announce the good news online and receive blessings.

The two of them arrived in Beijing discreetly, and then took another flight discreetly to Zhou Yi's hometown, Qingyang.

After arriving at the airport, Zhou Yi's parents were already waiting. They were very low-key, and Zhou Yi and Kotana were also very low-key. They were dressed very ordinarily, and with sunglasses on, no one could recognize them.

Zhou Yi's father had already gotten his driver's license, and Zhou Yi had bought him a car to make life easier for him and his mother. Now it came in handy - driving to pick them up meant they didn't have to take a taxi and expose their whereabouts.

Zhou Yi's parents had already known about their son's relationship with Kotana for a while.

This time, they seemed much more formal.

After all, she was very likely to be their future daughter-in-law.

The question of whether their future daughter-in-law was Chinese or foreign didn't bother the two elders. If Zhou Yi hadn't gone abroad to play football, but was just an ordinary person who went to college honestly and then found a job, they, as parents, naturally wouldn't have thought that their son would find a foreign wife.

Now that Zhou Yi was playing football abroad, and had the opportunity and conditions, there was nothing wrong with bringing a foreign daughter-in-law back home.

It didn't matter whether the daughter-in-law was foreign or Chinese, as long as she was a good person.

Besides, they had already met her once in Germany before, and the old couple had a good impression of Kotana. Otherwise, Zhou Yi's mother wouldn't have given Kotana a gift.

They also knew why Zhou Yi brought Kotana back to China this time, because Zhou Yi had privately asked them for their opinion on finding a foreign wife. Although he didn't say who it was, who else could it be but Kotana?

At home, Zhou Yi's mother prepared a sumptuous family dinner for Kotana, who had come from afar.

She cooked all the dishes herself, because she was afraid that Kotana might not be used to Chinese food, so she even learned to make salads and pan-fried steaks. This time, she didn't let Kotana help in the kitchen, but called her husband in instead.

So there were only Zhou Yi and Kotana in the living room, while busy noises came from the kitchen.

Kotana curiously looked around this typical Chinese home.

Whether it was the decoration or the furnishings, it was a typical Chinese family style.

"Is this where you grew up?" Kotana asked.

Zhou Yi quickly shook his head: "No, no, this is not where I grew up. This is the new house I bought for my parents after I made money. The place where I grew up is in the old house not far from here. China's economy is developing very fast, so it's quite common to change houses and move..."

After listening to Zhou Yi's explanation, Kotana nodded and then turned her attention to a cross-stitch on the sofa wall.

The pattern on the cross-stitch was a Chinese landscape painting.

"My mom embroidered this in her spare time. But it's a big burden on the waist, cervical spine, shoulders, and eyes, so I didn't let her embroider anymore after she finished this one," Zhou Yi introduced.

In the fruit plate placed on the coffee table in front of the sofa they were sitting on, was filled with fruit and candy, and in front of Kotana was a ceramic cup of tea.

For Kotana, everything in front of her was so novel. This was a country completely different from Germany, completely different in terms of race and culture.

It was so amazing. She had an unreal feeling that she was dreaming. She never thought that she would fall in love with a boy from China, and she never thought that she would follow this Chinese boy to his home in China.

Before this, she had never thought that she would come to China. To her, China was as far away as outside the solar system.

Now, it was so realistically presented in front of her.

She suddenly couldn't help but laugh.

Zhou Yi next to her asked, "What are you laughing at?"

"Nothing, I just think life is so magical," Kotana said with a smile.

"How is it magical?"

"I never thought I would be with a professional player, let alone one from China," Kotana shrugged.

Zhou Yi smiled when he heard this: "To be honest, when I was in China, I never thought that I would go from an ordinary high school student to a professional player and have a foreign girlfriend. So we are both quite magical, don't you think that makes us more compatible?"

At this time, Zhou Yi's mother brought a plate of fragrant dishes to the table. Zhou Yi got up to help, and Kotana also got up. Li Cuiyun quickly waved her hand: "Don't help, just sit down and relax, Zhou Yi, take good care of the girl."

Zhou Yi spread his hands: "Mom, you're being too polite. Everyone is family from now on, why do we need to be so formal?"

Zhou Jianliang came out of the kitchen with a pot of soup and also supported his son: "That's right, that's right, don't be so worshipful of foreigners, foreign daughters-in-law can do housework too!"

"Who's being worshipful of foreigners?" Li Cuiyun rolled her eyes at Zhou Jianliang, "Watch where you're going, don't spill it!"

As a result, Kotana had already stepped forward and took the soup pot from Zhou Jianliang.

Zhou Jianliang still wanted to refuse: "It's hot..."

But he only hesitated for a moment, and didn't dare to move too much, so Kotana took the soup pot and placed it firmly on the table.

After doing all this, Kotana looked at the three of them, as if to say, "See, I can do it."

So Li Cuiyun and Zhou Jianliang both laughed and didn't insist on not letting Kotana, the guest, do any work.

The four people crowded into the kitchen, making the originally quite spacious kitchen feel crowded. When serving the dishes, they had to avoid each other, holding the plates a little higher, blocking them with their hands, for fear of splashing the soup, and constantly muttering: "Excuse me, excuse me, be careful..."

Kotana turned her head back and forth in the kitchen, observing left and right, and successfully completed the task of serving the dishes.

Then the family sat at the table, ready to enjoy the sumptuous dinner.

Zhou Yi looked at the food on the table, swallowed, and then said to Kotana: "I'm benefiting from you."

Kotana was very strange: "Why do you say that?"

"Usually when I come home, I can't eat such good things..."

Kotana immediately understood, looking at the table full of food that was definitely not healthy for professional players, and that professional players should stay away from. So it was conceivable that usually when Zhou Yi came home, his parents probably wouldn't make him these delicious but unhealthy things.

So this sumptuous meal was of course made by Zhou Yi's mother for herself.

Kotana felt a little touched and said to Zhou Yi: "You reminded me, you are a professional player, you can't eat such greasy things."

Zhou Yi looked at Kotana with a dumbfounded expression: "Huh?"

Realizing what she said, he protested loudly: "No way! You don't get to decide that!"

The two people's "argument" in German attracted the attention of Li Cuiyun and Zhou Jianliang.

"What are you doing? Keep your voice down when you talk to a girl! What kind of attitude is that!" Zhou Jianliang glared at his son and criticized him mercilessly. Although he didn't know what happened, he saw his son yelling at a girl.

Zhou Yi quickly turned his head to explain to his father: "It's nothing, I'm introducing my mom's dishes to Kotana..."

At this moment, Kotana suddenly said in very awkward Mandarin next to him: "Auntie, Zhou Yi said he usually doesn't get to eat like this when he comes home..."

Zhou Yi turned his head and stared blankly at Kotana, he really didn't expect Kotana to speak Chinese!

This gave him a fatal blow.

And Li Cuiyun also slapped her forehead: "I forgot!"

After speaking, she ran into the kitchen, took out a plate, and placed it in front of Zhou Yi. On the plate was a whole piece of white meat, with a few pieces of broccoli around the white meat.

"Boiled chicken breast, specially prepared for you!" Li Cuiyun said to Zhou Yi with a smile. "Even if you come home on vacation, you can't relax your demands on yourself."

Zhou Yi looked at the plate of meat in front of him, then at his mother's smiling face, and then turned his head to look at Kotana, who had an innocent look on her face.

He suddenly wondered who was his mother's biological child between him and Kotana...