Taoist Master and the Cat - Chapter 33

A few days after moving, Xie Rong came back from a business trip abroad. When he arrived at the airport in the afternoon, he asked the driver to take him directly to Pearl Garden.

Xie Rong, forty two years old, had a slender figure and a gentle and refined temperament. Compared with the boss of a listed company, he looked more like a university professor.

He had the key to the house there, but Xie Rong still rang the doorbell when he got to the door.

Su Miaomiao was sitting on the sofa watching TV with Grandma Tao. When the doorbell rang, Grandma Tao said, “It must be your Uncle.”

Su Miaomiao ran to open the door.

She was Su Mingan and Tang Shiwei’s daughter, but in the previous ten years, the elder who had taken care of her the longest was actually Grandma Tao.

Most of the time, Su Miaomiao was a lazy cat, but she knew how to be filial to the elderly. Grandma Tao was sixty-five years old, so there was no reason for her to continue to lie on the sofa and let her run errands.

“Uncle!”

“Miaomiao, how is the new community, do you like it?”

Su Miaomiao nodded, and when Xie Rong came in with the suitcase, she closed the door again.

“Mom!” Xie Rong looked around and said to his own mother who was still sitting on the sofa.

“Are you tired? If you are tired, go back to your room and sleep for a while.”

“It’s okay, I slept on the plane. I’ll go and change first.”

Then Grandma Tao stood up, took her son to the smallest bedroom in the house, opened the door and said, “You won’t stay here often, so you can sleep here.”

Xie Rong smiled helplessly.

Since his second marriage, his status in his mother’s heart had become lower, far inferior to that of his eldest son.

“Where’s Jing Yuan?”

“He went to buy ice cream.”

In the TV drama they were watching, there were children eating ice cream. Su Miaomiao wanted to eat it too, so Grandma Tao asked her grandson to go to the supermarket outside the community to buy it.

Xie Rong could guess that his son went to buy ice cream for Su Miaomiao.

After Grandma Tao took him to his room, she also went to watch TV.

Xie Rong closed the door, opened the suitcase, took out the gifts he had prepared, then took out a change of clothes, and went to his son’s room in the master bedroom to take a shower.

After washing and getting dressed, Xie Rong walked around his son’s bedroom slowly while wiping his head with a towel.

The master bedroom was very spacious, had a separate cloakroom, and a row of bookcases with densely packed books.

The desk and desktop were clean and tidy, and an old laptop was closed.

Xie Rong didn’t touch the notebook, nor rummaged through his son’s drawer, he turned and walked back. At that moment, Xie Jingyuan pushed the door open from the outside.

When the father and son faced each other, Xie Rong showed a fatherly smile.

Xie Jingyuan still had that indifferent face, glanced at the open door of the bathroom, and asked him, “Did you finish bathing?”

“I still have to blow dry my hair. You go to my room. There is a gift for Miaomiao on the table, you take it to her first.”

With that said, he went into the bathroom again and closed the door.

Xie Jingyuan went to the second bedroom and saw three gifts on Xie Rong’s desk, a luxury brand jewelry gift box, a latest notebook, and a perfume gift box.

The notebook must be for him, the perfume was what Grandma Tao liked, the jewelry…

Xie Jingyuan picked up the jewelry gift box and went to the living room.

Su Miaomiao was eating strawberry ice cream, staring at the TV screen.

“Your gift,” Xie Jingyuan directly placed the gift box on the empty sofa next to her.

As Su Miaomiao looked down, her eyes lit up.

Since Uncle Xie became richer, the gift he gave her every year had become shiny jewelry.

Su Miaomiao didn’t really care about the brand, as she liked shiny things.

After asking Grandma Tao to help hold the ice cream, Su Miaomiao opened the gift box in twos, and inside was a pair of hairpins with simple shapes but studded with diamonds.

Diamonds were brighter than gold!

Su Miaomiao immediately ran to the mirror on the other side of the entrance cabinet, and happily put the hairpin on her head.

Xie Jingyuan sat on the single sofa, looking at her expressionlessly.

She was still a student, and her hobbies were already so extravagant. After going to university and seeing the colorful world outside, he had no idea what expensive things she would ask him for.

Xie Jingyuan was afraid that she would have evil thoughts because of greed.

Instead of letting her escape to other places to do evil, Xie Jingyuan would rather be with her, saving his time and worry.

When Xie Rong dried his hair and came out, Su Miaomiao smiled brightly, “Thank you uncle.”

A fifteen-year-old girl, fresh and bright, full of vigor, like a flower, was pleasing to the eye.

Xie Rong smiled and said, “It’s good that you like it. I saw this couple picking hairpins and I immediately thought of you and Lanlan.”

Lan Lan was Xie Wenlan, the younger sister of the twins. She was thirteen years old that year, that was already at the age where she knew how to dress herself up.

Of course, the hairpins that Xie Rong gave to the two girls looked similar, but they were still different in design.

“Come and eat ice cream, or it will melt,” Grandma Tao shouted while holding up the ice cream.

Su Miaomiao hurried back to eat.

Xie Rong sat on the other side of Grandma Tao, chatting with Xie Jingyuan, asking what his son did that summer vacation.

Xie Jingyuan used that summer vacation time to write the second part of the “Suppressing the Demons” series.