Chapter 181 Candlelight Dinner

Clearly, everyone had eaten together during the New Year, and Mu Chen believed that the composure he had developed from facing such a large family alone at that time now felt as if everything had returned to square one.

The atmosphere at the dinner table at this moment was quite strange.

Yan Hui, who often stirred up trouble, was unusually well-behaved at the moment, sitting there quietly eating, without making a sound, not even raising his head or giving Mingmei and Mu Chen a glance.

And Mingmei and Mu Chen were sitting opposite Mingyi and Meishi, and when they ate, they felt that nothing tasted good.

They felt that Yan Hui's performance was a kind of alternative warning, for example, Meishi might not be happy right now.

"What's wrong? Didn't you say you wanted a candlelight dinner?"

Seeing the silent eating attitude of the two young people, Mingyi, who knew that Mingmei and Mu Chen were uncomfortable, still asked.

As he asked, he calmly cut a piece of medium-rare Star Beast meat and exchanged plates with his wife beside him. Then Mingyi looked up and saw Mu Chen following his movements and exchanging plates with Mingmei.

Mingyi: "..."

Sure enough, he knew how to please.

Mingyi pursed his lips and looked at his daughter. Suddenly, he let out a soft sigh.

He would have been happier if the plate of fried insect willows that Mu Chen had exchanged away from his daughter had been complete.

Seeing the surprise and joy Mingmei showed, Mingyi felt even more disdain in his heart.

He was sure that Mu Chen didn't take such good care of his daughter when they usually ate together!

Mu Chen, calmly receiving the gaze of disdain from his future father-in-law, could understand. He glanced at Mingmei beside him, who was completely unaware, his eyes full of warmth.

Mingmei was currently completely unaware of the undercurrents between her boyfriend and her father.

Because the atmosphere was already strange, Mingmei was only focused on eating and didn't want to make herself unhappy.

While eating the meat Mu Chen had cut for her, Mingmei secretly glanced at the food on the table and couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

Usually, when she and Mu Chen ate together, almost everything was what she liked. Looking at the food on the table now, Mingmei could see that it was basically all what Meishi liked.

It wasn't that she didn't like what Meishi liked, but compared to her mother, who liked to eat everything, Mingmei's preferences were more singular: desserts and light, fresh, and delicious dishes.

Okay, she admitted that the food on the table was just varied, and she was just picky. _(：3」∠)_

When Mingmei was almost seventy percent full, she finally plucked up the courage to break the strange silence at the dinner table: "Dad, Mom, how did you get here? Did something happen?"

She didn't think her parents had come all the way just to see her, not that she was underestimating herself, but mainly because her parents generally wouldn't do something like coming all the way just to see their child.

"It's nothing, we were just passing by. We didn't originally plan to see you, I came to see your uncle."

Compared to what Mingmei thought, that they might have come to do something and came by the way, Meishi's words were even more heart-wrenching. They were here to see Yan Hui.

Mingmei: ...

Was this her real mom?

"Mei-jiejie, if you keep joking, you'll make Meimei cry."

Seeing the visible disappointment on Mingmei's face, Yan Hui finally couldn't help but laugh and tease her.

Hearing what her uncle said, Mingmei turned to look at her mother, who seemed to be holding back a smile. Mingmei's heart was instantly filled with countless small speakers shouting, "Can we still get along?"!

"Really, so sensitive~" Meishi glanced at Yan Hui reproachfully, then smiled gently at Mingmei and said, "Be good~ Mom, I'm just passing by to ask your uncle for money."

Yan Hui: ...?

Can we still get along?

Mingmei: ...?

Mom, are you implying that I'm so poor you don't even want to see me?

Mu Chen: ...!

What a genuine temperament!

Even Mingyi, the head of the family, stopped the movements in his hands.

"I have money."

As a man, Mingyi felt he still needed to have some dignity. It sounded like he couldn't support his wife and she had to go back to her parents' home to ask for money.

"I have it too."

Mu Chen watched Mingmei's gaze shift from Yan Hui to Mingyi, and he followed up with this sentence.

In this matter, Mu Chen believed he was performing better than his future father-in-law.

"Um... I have it too."

Mingmei, who probably, possibly, maybe, definitely didn't get Mu Chen's meaning, immediately looked at her mother as well.

Mingmei said that she also had money, and she could give it to Meishi if Meishi didn't have any.

So Meishi, who had been smiling, completely darkened her face.

Why did it seem like she had become a beggar passing through everyone's world just by making a joke?

Everyone else has money, so doesn't that just mean she's the only one who doesn't?

"Have some soup, it will get cold if you don't drink it."

Yan Hui was the first to sense Meishi's low mood. He pretended to be blind and pointed to the soup pot, which clearly had a heating device underneath, and asked Mingyi to serve Meishi soup.

Mingyi's actions were very quick in response to this.

While serving the soup, he also distracted himself and turned his head to glare at Mingmei and Mu Chen at an angle Meishi couldn't see.

Mingmei: ??

Why was her dad glaring at her?

"Drink the soup."

As soon as Mingyi finished serving the soup, Mu Chen followed closely behind and served soup, interrupting Mingmei's attempt to ask a question.

Finally, when the family's "candlelight dinner" reached the point of serving the fruit plate, Yan Hui dismissed the service staff in the private room and replaced them with his intelligent security guards to stand nearby, and only then did Meishi and the others fully open up the topic.

"You've been in Zerg territory for more than half a year?"

Hearing what her parents had been doing since the end of the New Year, Mingmei was stunned. Looking at her parents, who looked like immortal partners, she felt like her heart was not well.

Why did the things these two people did not match their image at all?

"Yeah, wasn't it hard enough to finally change places to spend the rest of our lives, but we were disturbed by those unlucky Zerg every day? You don't mind, but I do!"

Meishi ate the fruit, then turned to glance at Mingmei and Mu Chen, adding, "You two soldiers need to be more alert. Those Zerg guys are insidious! What if something like what happened to Xiaoqiu happens again..."

Realizing that what she might have said wasn't a good thing, Meishi immediately shut her mouth.

"Mom, did you and Dad discover something amazing?"

Seeing her like this, Mingmei followed up with this question.

"It's nothing..."

When Mingmei asked this, Meishi was obviously a little guilty. She subconsciously looked at Yan Hui, but Yan Hui didn't seem to think this matter couldn't be said, as if he was watching a play.

He even seemed to imply that this kind of thing could be discussed with the children.

Originally, although Yan Hui and Mingyi and his wife had been in contact, they hadn't told him everything about what the two of them had done in the Zerg territory.

"Really →_→?"

As soon as Mingmei saw Meishi like this, she knew that Meishi wasn't telling the truth. But if it was just confidential, her mother could have directly retorted her like this, but her mother's face actually showed a rare guilty expression. Mingmei believed that they might have already made a big mistake.

"Dad, what do you think?" Seeing that Meishi didn't speak, Mingmei looked up at Mingyi again and asked, "Could it be that you and Mom were just wandering around in the Zerg territory? Does my brother know you two are so laid-back?"

"How did you know it had something to do with your second brother?"

Meishi's slip of the tongue caused the veins on the foreheads of Mingyi and Yan Hui to twitch.

"Forget it, if Mei-jiejie doesn't say it today, Meimei probably won't be able to sleep tonight."

Yan Hui stepped in to smooth things over, glancing at Mu Chen, who had been sitting there calmly drinking tea and spacing out. This time, the other party was letting Mingmei do as she pleased.

Suddenly, Mu Chen raised his head, and Yan Hui's gaze collided with his eyes, which were like calm, deep pools.

Obviously, the man was pretending to be spacing out, and listening to the story was the only real reason.

"Did my second brother ask you to do something again?" As soon as Mingmei heard that Meiqiu also knew about this, her beautiful and delicate willow eyebrows immediately furrowed together.

The things that Meiqiu asked Meishi and the others to do were definitely not simple matters.

"It's nothing, just updating the existing Zerg information as usual. Going deep inside to see if there are any Zerg we haven't seen before."

"Going deep?!" Mingmei's tone suddenly rose, "Isn't that dangerous?!"

Mingmei didn't go to school for nothing. The reason why the Zerg still haven't completely updated the races in the textbooks is because the degree of danger in the Zerg realm is incalculable.

Does her second brother really know what her parents are doing?!