Chapter 233 Shen Xinyi and Jin Nana perform on stage
Chapter 233 Shen Xinyi and Jin Nana perform on stage
Having stayed in the country for two months, both of them were exhausted and the fight lasted until the early morning.
The next day, Saori lay on the bed and fell asleep, while Chen Xi leaned on the edge of the bed, his eyes sweeping across the mess in the room. Although the room was in a mess, Chen Xi's mouth corners turned up, revealing a smile.
Recalling the madness of last night, Saori's liveliness and enthusiasm made the whole house full of vitality.
"Woo~ I will never be a Q-soldier again."
Saori slowly opened her eyes, her face looked a little pale, and she muttered to herself, her voice weak and confused.
"You're awake now. You were screaming really hard at the beginning yesterday! Let's see if you can still keep your word."
Chen Xi noticed her condition, turned his head slightly to look at her, and a teasing smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"The one behind me was screaming pretty loudly too..." Saori muttered to herself.
"What's wrong, baby? Did you play too hard last night and can't get up today?" he said jokingly.
Saori frowned slightly, seeming somewhat dissatisfied with Chen Xi's teasing, but she also knew that her current condition was indeed not very good.
She took a deep breath, trying to sober herself up, then glared at Chen Xi, signaling him to stop making sarcastic remarks.
"In the second half of last night...that..." Chen Xi seemed to remember something and touched his nose.
"It's okay, I still have the medicine, I can take it myself."
Saori crossed her arms, pouted, and glared at him unhappily.
"Baby, you're still in school now. When you graduate and get married, you'll give birth to me to death!"
"You treat me like a pig! Go to hell! Pfft~"
Saori was so angry that she wanted to kick him off the bed, but she had no strength at all. As a result, she laughed out loud while talking.
"You performed so well last night. It seems you haven't been messing around in China." Saori leaned her head on his chest and drew circles with her hands.
"Of course! Who am I? A loyal and good man. I almost locked my underwear." Chen Xi felt his face turn red as he said this.
"I'm planning to open a pastry shop, and I went to Taiwan this time to learn about the milk tea there."
"Okay, baby, you're going to have your own career, I will definitely support you with all my strength!"
After hearing Saori's idea, Chen Xi put his arm around her and patted his chest with the other hand and said.
"Yeah, don't be too tired. I opened the shop to help you. Otherwise, you would have so many things to do by yourself, how would you have time to pay your taxes?"
"You are becoming more and more proficient in Chinese. I really want to know what else your Chinese teacher taught you."
"Hehe... Oops! The nightgown I just bought yesterday!" Saori saw that the newly bought nightgown on the ground had turned into a few pieces of rags, and pinched Chen Xi angrily.
"Buy another one. No, ten! I'll pay for it!" Chen Xi said proudly, stretching out his hand.
"I asked my family for some money this time, so I have sufficient funds. I also asked for some more. If you have any difficulties in business, please come to me."
"I'm not in financial difficulty. I'm even planning to buy a house!"
Chen Xi refused directly, but he was quite touched in his heart. However, he didn't want to be a gigolo. He could accept gifts from time to time, but he always looked down on his father for making a fortune by relying on women, and he didn't want to be like him.
"Buy a house? Are you planning to stay here? Didn't you say you wanted to return to your country?" Saori became alert when he heard that.
"Buy it to live in, and sell it when you leave. Now that house prices have started to rise, you can still make money by selling it!"
"Well, I noticed this a long time ago. The house prices in the city center have started to rise, but the increase is not much."
“Where are you going to open your store?”
"City! It's close to where I live. By the way, if you want to buy a house, are you going to live with me?"
"I'll stay with Dongdong and Xiaoming. You don't want to be separated from Nana, do you?"
"Yeah... that's true, but I'll have to make surprise visits to your place from time to time."
"Welcome, it's an honor!"
Chen Xi smiled and kissed her on the cheek.
He doesn't really like living with his girlfriend. They say that distance creates beauty, and living together for too long will lead to quarrels. Now that they are not married, he wants to be free and easy. It is convenient for him to work and play with Dongdong and Xiaoming.
"What did you bring yesterday? It was even more terrifying than last time." When Saori thought about what happened yesterday, she couldn't help but find a hole to crawl into. If the previous one was a C4 bomb, then yesterday's one was simply a missile.
"I don't know. The clerk recommended it to me... No, I just picked it up from the shelf without really looking at it. It said "for women" on it, so I just picked it up..."
"Oh my god! Who invented this thing?"
After hearing what he said, Saori buried her head in the quilt shyly.
"I see that you are in much better condition than last time. At least you are still conscious."
"Fuck you! Bad husband!"
Saori replied to him and rolled over in the quilt.
"Ha, you're already an old married couple and you're still shy, fuck"
Just as Chen Xi continued to tease her with words, he felt his whole body startled, and then he sat up, and then leaned back on the edge of the bed, with one hand behind his head and the other hand on the quilt.
"Oh my god, this is too exaggerated. It's almost evening." At nearly five o'clock in the afternoon, Chen Xi looked at the time on his mobile phone and exclaimed.
"It's because my husband has good physical strength!" Saori said happily while lying on him.
"Did I disturb Nana's rest again yesterday?" Chen Xi thought of his neighbor next door and smiled embarrassedly.
"Ah! Nana has a performance today! I had totally forgotten about this."
"What show?"
"Taekwondo! I still have two tickets! I agreed to go cheer for her today. It's all because of you that I haven't gotten up yet. Hurry up and pack up, I'll be there soon."
"Humph, you were praising me just now, and now you blame me."
Chen Xi curled his lips, got out of bed and got dressed.
"Are you hungry? How about going to get something to eat?"
"I'm hungry, but the performance will start soon, so let's go and join in first, otherwise Nana will whisper in my ear again." Saori ran into the bathroom.
Hearing the sound of water in the bathroom, Chen Xi took off all the clothes he had put on and strode into the bathroom. Soon, there was a burst of crying and begging for mercy from inside.
A convention and exhibition center in South Bank. Today, many foreigners gathered here. The exhibition hall performed special performances from various countries. The performers were all foreigners living in Australia.
The event was not big and not well-known, and most of the people who came to see the performance were local foreigners.
"There aren't many people! What's so good about Taekwondo performance? Besides, her uncle doesn't run a Taekwondo gym!"
"The tickets are only ten dollars each, but not many people are coming to see them! Nana said she wanted to promote the culture of the country overseas so as to unite the patriotism of the people of Australia."
"Kimchi has no culture! If there is any, it is stolen."
After hearing what Saori said, Chen Xi shook his head in disdain.
"Are you sure she's here to perform Taekwondo? It looks like a girl group performance to me."
Walking into the exhibition hall, Chen Xi couldn't help but open his mouth when he saw a group of boys holding promotional posters with Jin Nana's photos.
"Nana is pretty and very popular among the boys in the Korean country. Now many boys in the martial arts gym go to learn from her." Saori covered her mouth and laughed.
"That tomboy? She's so mean all the time. If I marry her, she'll probably go crazy."
"No way, Nana is very gentle now."
"Haha, no matter how gentle you are, can you compare to my little baby Saori?" Chen Xi pinched Saori's cute little face.
"Okay, let's go in!" Saori took his arm and the two of them strode inside.
"What is that? Savages?" Saori stared at the stage intently, and saw those men with bare upper bodies, colorful patterns painted all over their bodies, their skin darkened by the sun. They were wearing strange and eye-catching costumes, and were dancing enthusiastically. This scene made Saori open her mouth involuntarily.
"Those are the Maori people from New Zealand, and they are dancing the Maori dance." Chen Xi explained to Saori.
"Their dance is so funny, and they keep sticking out their tongues. They look like gorillas."
"They are a famous warrior race. In history, they even defeated the United Kingdom and the Hollanders! They are the aboriginals of New Zealand. Their dance and culture are still preserved. They look a bit like Indians."
"My husband is great. He knows so much."
"When we were in high school, our teacher took us to the museum, but you forgot about it."
"Uh..." Saori tried to recall, but couldn't remember it, so she stuck out her tongue.
"What is that?" After the Maori dance performance, Sazhi looked at the group of people wearing strange clothes on the stage and asked. "Samba dance is a kind of dance that originated from Bahia, which originated from the indigenous people of Africa..." Although Chen Xi couldn't appreciate these dances, he still patiently explained them to Sazhi.
Today's performance lineup was unusually large, with a dizzying number of participating countries. The number of performers seemed to be even greater than the audience, and they came from many different countries, some of which Chen Xi had never heard of.
Some performers are well aware that their country is not well-known, so they will give an introduction before going on stage to let the audience know about their cultural background.
Most of those people come from small places in South America, the Middle East and Africa, and the programs they bring are strange and unique.
Some of the performances left Chen Xi dumbfounded because they were so funny and unexpected. He and Saori couldn't help but laugh.
"Isn't this from your Sakura Country?" Chen Xi pointed to a group of women in kimonos dancing on the stage.
"Yeah." Saori nodded.
"I heard that people don't wear underwear under a kimono!"
“…Next time I’ll buy you a set… and wait for you at home…” Saori’s face immediately turned red when she heard that.
"Hehe." Chen Xi grinned wickedly. He had seen this said on the Internet before, and it seemed to make things more convenient. He didn't expect it to be true.
"Eh? Isn't this from your China? That person looks familiar, it seems to be Shen Xinyi!"
"Ok?"
After the performance of the Sakura Country ended, the next performance group to appear was the Chinese Country Performance Troupe. There was a woman sitting in front of a guzheng, and there was a group of accompaniment beside her, like a women's band.
The person playing the guzheng really seems to be Shen Xinyi.
"What's going on? Are your eyes about to pop out of your head?" Saori was teased by Chen Xi, so she naturally would not miss the opportunity to fight back.
"No, it's too far away to see clearly. I just opened my eyes wide to take a better look!" Chen Xi smiled awkwardly.
The person on the stage must be Shen Xinyi. I didn't expect her to perform here. I originally thought Shen Xinyi only knew how to play the piano, but now it seems she is also proficient in other instruments.
Shen Xinyi gently plucked the strings of the guzheng, and as her fingers danced on the strings, beautiful music instantly filled the entire exhibition hall. Every note seemed to jump on her fingertips, converging into a moving piece of music.
The audience was deeply attracted by her performance and listened with bated breath.
She plays the guzheng so well that the music seems to have magic that makes people indulge in it.
As the music rises and falls, the audience's mood also rises and falls, as if they were brought into a charming musical world.
Chen Xi could tell that she was playing "A Laugh in the Ocean", a classic piece of music.
"Crack! Crack!"
"Snapped!"
When Shen Xinyi finished her performance, thunderous applause broke out throughout the exhibition hall. Shen Xinyi stood up gracefully with a smile on her face and bowed to the audience. Her guzheng performance undoubtedly added a touch of bright color to this feast of performances featuring various countries.
"Why, does Young Master Chen like this kind of talented girl? Alas, I don't have any talent. I think Young Master Chen is going to be snatched away by someone else." Seeing that Chen Xi was looking so intently, Saori said sourly.
"What are you talking about? You have talents too. Your talent on C is great!" Chen Xi smiled brightly.
"Hateful!" Saori pinched him when she heard that. When she got up today, she even performed a talent show.
"NANA! NANA!"
“,!”
Suddenly, a group of Korean voices rang out. Although Chen Xi didn't understand Korean very well, he had seen and heard it a lot in movies before, so he could still understand the line "Nana, chalangheyo!"
"Fuck, are they really going to have a concert?" Chen Xi was startled by them. Those crazy boys were holding up posters and shouting loudly.
"Nana is so popular!" Saori clasped her hands together and looked at her friend on the stage with admiration.
"What's so rare about it? So many people like tomboys. I don't think there are any in Korea." Chen Xi shook his head gently and refocused his attention on the stage.
Kim Nana was wearing a white martial arts uniform and appeared on stage with her companions. Her hair was neatly tied into a ponytail, highlighting her delicate features and strong temperament.
Under the gaze of the crowd, Jin Nana performed a standard martial arts salute, then stepped aside and waited for her performance moment.
As the music started, Jin Nana began her performance.
The movements are swift and accurate, and every punch and kick is full of power and beauty.
Her figure moved quickly on the stage, like a flash of lightning across the night sky, dazzling the eyes.
After a difficult kick, Nana's leg suddenly cramped. She frowned and changed to a simpler move instead of the next performance.
Nana was actually in a very bad state today, because Saori's noise last night kept her from sleeping well. She really couldn't stand it anymore at night, so she shamelessly solved her own problem, which resulted in her not having enough energy to perform today.
“It’s a bit fancy, but it’s pretty nice.”
"Hehe~ Look, the boys over there are drooling."
"There are so many bootlickers in Korea, I am impressed!"
Chen Xi looked in the direction of Saori's finger and couldn't help but complain.
"Dog licker? What's that?" Although Saori had learned Chinese well, she had never heard of this Internet slang that only appeared several years later.
“This is hard to explain…”
Chen Xi scratched his head, not knowing what to say. He had explained it to Dongdong and the others before, but neither of them understood what he meant.
"Do you like them? They seem to like Nana very much. I want to be your dog too!" Saori said with her head tilted.
"…Baby, that's not good, don't learn it."
"I don't care, I just like you...I want to be your licking dog."
"..."
Saori's words made Chen Xi lower his head in embarrassment.
Fortunately, no one knows what this word means now, and the people around him don’t understand it, otherwise he would not be ashamed to bring Saori here to continue watching the performance.
"Xinyi, you are so amazing. My heart was beating when you played that song." Zhang Ruoxi said while hugging her friend's arm in the audience.
"Well, I performed pretty well today." Shen Xinyi nodded. She performed well today and was in a good mood.
"Why don't you ask Chen Xi to come over and see you? They say men like talented women! You can play both the piano and the guzheng."
"Forget it, he and I..."
Thinking of what happened last time at Huajing dinner, Shen Xinyi's eyes dimmed.
"Look at you. Didn't I counsel you the whole night last time in Qinhuai? Do you still look like the Shen Xinyi I know? The Shen Xinyi I know is always confident and calm."
"Well, thank you, Ruoxi. I understand!"
With the guidance of her good friend, Shen Xinyi's eyes regained some spirit.
Yes, she used to be confident and cheerful, and nothing would scare her. She was going to find a way to explain the matter between her and Chen Xi. Otherwise, it would be bad if the misunderstanding between them grew bigger and bigger.
She was also clear about her family's attitude. The Li family was also on good terms with her father, and Li Xin seemed to have different ideas about her.
She is a woman, how could she not understand!
But she didn't like Li Xin, that blockhead, at all. She guessed that few women would like that type of man.
She is not talkative to begin with, and if she brings home a cold-faced man, won't it be difficult for her to even chat with him after they get married?
As a girl from a well-off family, she knew that her marriage would definitely be influenced by her parents, and she didn't want to go down that path.
However, her father is very ambitious and the environment within the family company is very complicated. According to the situation in the TV series, a child born in a family like hers would most likely be arranged a good marriage partner by her family, or to put it bluntly, she would be arranged to marry.
She couldn't figure out what her father was thinking. Before, he brought Li Xin to meet her, and now he wanted her to meet Chen Xi. Both meals were arranged without her consent, which caught her off guard.
Now, she had a feeling deep in her heart that she had become a bargaining chip in her father's hands.
Although her father has always doted on her and she has always been an obedient daughter, she longs to take the initiative in the matter of marriage.
She hopes that her future significant other will be someone who can empathize with her and go through ups and downs with her, rather than a tool used by her father to exchange benefits.
"Xinyi, what are you thinking about?"
"No...nothing."
"You've become strange after returning to China. Hehe, your family must have introduced someone to you. If you don't like him, just refuse! You see Dongdong has been pestering me, and I just scold him. But this guy is really shameless. I'm almost annoyed to death by him. He won't leave no matter how I scold him." Zhang Ruoxi picked up the phone and looked at the text message sent by Dongdong.
The content was asking her whether she had returned and whether she had come to school.
Zhang Ruoxi replied angrily: What is it to you!
Then he turned the phone to silent mode.
(End of this chapter)