Charlie nodded and looked at Jacob, who was sitting on the floor with a flushed face and sweating profusely. He joked, “Dad, why didn’t you come with a bowl of millet porridge?”
Jacob said angrily: “I want to know that millet porridge has this effect. I must have bought an extra bowl at the time.”
After finishing speaking, he deliberately turned off the topic, pretending to be helpless, and asked him: “Oh, Charlie, why are you here so soon? Didn’t I say that you waited half an hour to pick me up? I still have to Run with your Aunt.”
Charlie was a little bit astonished at first when he heard the words of Mr. Athlete but soon recovered.
Presumably, the old man was afraid of losing face in front of Meiqing, so he said this deliberately, acting as if he was not in a hurry to escape.
So Charlie smiled and said, “My side ended early, so I came here first. If you haven’t run enough, you will continue to run for a while. I’ll be waiting for you.”
As soon as Jacob heard this, he waved his hand quickly: “If you don’t run away, you won’t run away. It’s so late. I’m sorry to keep you waiting for me.”
Charlie smiled and said, “Waiting! I don’t have any serious business all day long. You don’t know. Besides, Claire has a meeting in the Emgrand Group today. I am not in a hurry to go back.”
Jacob gave Charlie a faintly white look and said in his heart: “It’s because I call you my son-in-law every day. At this time, you don’t know how to find me a step-down, and you deliberately demolish my platform.”
Thinking about it, he couldn’t help sighing, and said, “Oh, just remembering, I made an appointment with an old man to pick up something from his house in the evening. It was too late, or let’s go there first.”
After speaking, he looked at Meiqing and said apologetically, “Meiqing, why don’t I come here today and I will run with you when the sky gets down?”
Meiqing smiled and nodded, and said, “Okay, it’s not too early, you and Charlie will go back. It is so hard for you to come and take care of me so far, and you have been running with me for so long.”
Jacob wanted to cry without tears in his heart, but he smiled and said, “These are all trivial things, or you can go with us and let Charlie send you home.”
Meiqing thought for a while, nodded, and said, “Okay, it’s not interesting to run by myself, so please trouble Charlie to drop me.”
Charlie smiled and said, “Auntie, you are too polite. Get in the car.”
Jacob immediately opened the rear door for Meiqing diligently. When Meiqing was about to board the car, someone suddenly shouted in surprise, “Meiqing! Why are you here?!”
FAQ Novel
Q: What is Meiqing’s condition when Charlie arrives?
A: Meiqing is feeling well and energetic, having made a quick recovery from a high fever after consuming millet porridge.
Q: How does Jacob react to Charlie’s early arrival?
A: Jacob pretends he is not in a hurry to leave, acting as if he still wants to run, to save face in front of Meiqing.
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