A Dish Best Served Cold (The Man In Rage)
Chapter 689 A Warm Welcome

"Auntie Ye, didn't you tell Fan's friends and relatives that he was conning back?" asked Lu Wen-Jing a little indignantly.

She thought about how her aunts and uncles and even her cousins came out to welcome them when she went to the Qiu house with her own mother.

Ye Fan had come back for the first time in three years and he was going to spend Lunar New Year here, but only Ye Xi-Mei had come out to welcome him, so Lu Wen-Jing was both puzzled and curious. After hearing Lu Wen-Jing's question, Ye Xi-Mei suddenly realized that a pretty little girl had followed Ye Fan back as well.

"Fan, this child..." Ye Xi-Mei was shocked and turned to look at Ye Fan.

Ye Xi-Mei clearly thought that this young lady was Ye Fan and Qiu Mu-Cheng's child.

But that wasn't right either.

Ye Fan had only married into the Qiu family for three years, but this girl was definitely at least eleven or twelve. Could she have grown super quickly?

Ye Fan chortled and quickly explained what happened.

Ye Xi-Mei got it now. "Oh, so she's a relative on Mu-Cheng's side."

Ye Xi-Mei had never seen Qiu Mu-Cheng, but she could at least remember the name of her daughter-in-law."

"Auntie Ye, you haven't answered me yet. Didn't you tell anybody else that Fan is coming home?" asked Lu Wen-Jing again.

Ye Xi-Mei laughed and replied her quietly, "I did, and they're all waiting at home. He's not some government official or a high ranking person in society, did you expect us to be waiting with gongs and cymbals?" Ye Xi-Mei knew very little about Ye Fan's life after he left the village.

She only knew that Ye Fan had become a live-in son-in-law after leaving.

Even though she was dead against Ye Fan's decision, she couldn't do anything about that. She and her son had to surrender in the face of the cruelty of life, so what else could she do?

But Lu Wen-Jing didn't agree with that. "Auntie Ye, my Fan is amazing! And he's better than all those government officials and high ranking people. So I do think it's appropriate to receive him with gongs and cymbals. Don't you think so, Fan?"

Ye Fan just laughed at Lu Wen-Jing's cheeky and adorable face and patted her head. "You terrible girl. You're pretty young, but you really like the glamorous life."

While they were still chatting and laughing, a large group of people started walking towards them.

Some were large sized, some small sized, some old, some young, some men, some women. There were nearly twenty of them.

As they walked, they looked around anxiously.

"What's going on?"

"It's almost noon time!"

"Quickly call and ask!"

"We're already prepared all the firecrackers!"

"We're just need the person to appear."

The noise from the group attracted Ye Fan's attention.

Ye Fan glanced over and said in surprise, "Huh? Mum, isn't that Grandma and Grandpa? And my uncle and even my aunts?"

Yup - the large group coming their way was Ye Fan's extended family.

Ye Fan's maternal grandfather had two sons and two daughters.

Ye Fan's mother, Ye Xi-Mei, was the eldest daughter of the Ye family.

HAHA! Fan, I knew it! You've come back in glory, so your family would definitely come out to welcome you. You didn't believe me before, so how about now? You believe me now, right?" Before Ye Xi-Mei could reply Ye Fan, Lu Wen-Jing was already jumping about excitedly as if she had discovered a new country.

She was more than happy to see that her precious Fan was so well loved.

While Lu Wen-Jing was laughing merrily, the huge group had reached them.

Ye Fan looked up with a smile and was about to greet them.

But the entire group seemed to have not noticed Ye Fan at all. They just walked right past him and didn't even care.

Lu Wen-Jing was so amused.

"HAHA! Fan! You've left home for so long that your relatives don't remember what you look like anymore."

She laughed as she turned and shouted at them, "Heyyy!! You've walked too far!"

"Fan is right here! Don't walk any further ahead!" shouted Lu Wen-Jing loudly.

This attracted the group's attention and they turned back to look at Ye Fan and his mother.

"Oh, Sis! You're here! I was just wondering where you went to. Hurry along, our niece, Yu-Yan is coming back for Lunar New Year this year! She hasn't come back for two years! But she just called and said she's at the entrance to the village, so we're all going to welcome her!" Ye Xi-Mei's younger sister called out to her as she waved.

"That's right Sis, let's go and fetch our niece together," shouted Ye Ya, Ye Xi-Mei's younger brother.

But Ye Xi-Mei shook her head and smiled faintly, "It's alright, you go ahead."

"Fan is back, I'll take him home first, and I'll be there in a while."

"Fan is back too?"

Ye Fan's aunt and uncle suddenly noticed the skinny young man next to their sister.

"Oh! Fan is back too! That's great, we'll talk later. Sis, we'll go over first!" Ye Fan's aunt, Ye Xi-Lan, just left them with a few words and walked off.

The others just looked at Ye Fan from afar and took it as their greeting to him. They didn't even bother with niceties.

"HAHA! She's here! She's here! I see the car! Yu-Yan is back! Ya, hurry up and light the firecrackers!" Ye Fan's eldest uncle, Ye Tian, gave a shout and the rest of the family immediately ran over.

As the noisy and ear deafening firecrackers went off, a woman in an army uniform walked out from the jeep.

She carried a cold and authoritative aura around her, and her exquisite face was confident and arrogant.

The moment she alighted, all her relatives surrounded her to ask after her.

"Yu-Yan, you're back! Did you miss Grandpa?"

"Haha! After two years, you've become prettier!"

"Did you know that your uncle was so happy that he couldn't sleep all night knowing that you were coming home? Your aunt even rushed back from Jianghai just to see you!"

"Yu-Yan, it's been a long journey home and you're tired right?"

"Come, let's go home, we've got a feast waiting to welcome you!"

The entire family couldn't stop talking and kept asking about her, while the rest helped to carry her things from the car.

So just like that, Ye Yu-Yan walked back into the house surrounded by all her relatives.

Compared to Ye Yu-Yan's arrival, Ye Fan's

arrival looked pathetic.

Everyone walked right past Ye Fan and his mother, but their attention was focused on Ye Yu-Yan and nobody cared that Ye Fan had come back.

It was as if Ye Yu-Yan's homecoming was a huge matter that was worth celebrating, while Ye Fan's return was a small matter that wasn't even worth mentioning.