Chapter 6
For Diana Swift, the most embarrassing thing in the world was not that her self-amusement in the bathroom was bumped into by her unfamiliar husband, but that after she was bumped into by her unfamiliar husband in the bathroom, she had to pretend that nothing had happened and ask her unfamiliar husband to help her with her personal clothes.
This directly led to the silence all the way back to Luxury Bridge.
Josh Hunter was stunned by Diana Swift. He wanted to read a document in the car, but when he opened it, there was a mobile barrage playing back the masterpiece of rapper Diana.
As for Diana Swift, she was probably so embarrassed that she couldn't speak. She closed her eyes all the way, and her head was tilted towards the window.
When they arrived at Luxury Bridge, the couple who had nothing to say all the way somehow both picked up their acting instinct, holding hands and smiling tacitly, as if they were a young couple who loved each other.
Especially Diana Swift, she specially wore a simple pink dress that she didn't usually wear. The color of her lipstick was light, and her wavy hair was temporarily permed straight and tied into a docile ponytail, which made her look like a virtuous daughter-in-law.
The alley was narrow, so it was hard for cars to stop when they drove in. Diana Swift and Josh Hunter got off at the intersection and walked arm in arm.
Sam Rodriguez followed behind with gifts. After two years, he saw the couple's face-changing skills again, and somehow, he felt a little cordial.
Walking to the door, Diana Swift couldn't wait to say hello, "Grandpa, Grandma!"
She was always sweet-talking in front of the elders. When she entered the door and saw the family busy setting up a banquet in the pavilion, her eyes were all smiles.
When Julie Hunter saw her, she also smiled along with her, "Oh, Diana is here!"
She handed the dishes in her hand to Mia and wiped her hands carefully before holding Diana Swift and gently patting the back of her hand, "Today you are lucky. I cooked your favorite braised short ribs!"
"Why did you cook it yourself? Let me take a look." Diana Swift held Julie Hunter's hand and looked it up and down, and said painfully, "Why have you lost weight? I haven't visited you for just a short time. Is there anything wrong with you?"
"Don't worry about it. I'm perfectly fine! It's hot recently. I don't wear so many clothes, so I look thin. That's what you young people say...what is called, the visual effect!"
The Julie Hunter spoke with a lot of energy and spirits, and she really didn't look like in poor health. Diana Swift was a little relieved.
Diana Swift was sweet-mouthed, cheerful and lively from an early age, and she was especially able to please the elders.
Julie Hunter also watched her grow up, taking her as her own granddaughter completely. A few years ago, when the little girl married to her own home, she smiled from ear to ear and showed off to everyone she met that she had won a lovely grandson's wife.
On the contrary, Josh Hunter, her first grandson, returned to Hunter family halfway at a sensible age. He'd been a mild-mannered but actually indifferent all these years, and Julie Hunter didn't know how to get close to him.
She had mixed feelings for him, including love and guilt. It's just that there's always some indescribable distance between them.
Not only Julie Hunter, the entire Hunter family was not as close to Josh Hunter as to Diana Swift. As he grew older to take the lead and right now he was likely to take over as the new head of the Hunter clan, the younger generation were even a little scared of him.
When eating, the little cousin accidentally bumped into Josh Hunter's chopsticks, and she even blurted out an apology "I'm sorry" in a panic. The scene suddenly became quiet.
Diana Swift was dazed, too. Her eyes wandered between the little cousin and Josh Hunter. For a moment, she had a fantastic thought that this man had done something worse than beasts to his little cousin, so that she was as scared as chickens in front of him.
Josh Hunter didn't care about this episode, but also gently gave his little cousin a piece of rib, making him look like a considerate elder brother.
It's a pity that the little cousin was young and didn't know how to hide her feelings. She smiled stiffly and didn't dare to eat it.
Today was an ordinary family dinner. Although the family did not all arrive, a table was full of people, including those who were afraid of Josh Hunter and those who were not.
Seeing the cold scene, his sister-in-law, Renee Hunter, started a conversation. "By the way, Diana, my friend likes what you changed to my home last time. She recently bought a house in America, and wanted to find an interior designer to design it well. The fee and budget, etc., all of these are not problems. I just don't know if it is inconvenient for you recently."
"It's convenient, of course. I'm the most available." Diana Swift replied, and made a witty remark, "I just like such friends and I can earn some pocket money to buy bags."
"Oh, you said that. Josh is reluctant to buy bags for you?" Renee Hunter joked.
Diana Swift leaned against Josh Hunter's side, and said sweetly, "Josh works hard to earn money. I can't always let him keep me. Besides, I'm idle, and it's good to find something to do."
Hearing these words, Josh Hunter turned his head and looked at Diana with a smile in his eyes for three seconds.
The "what should I do with you, you lovely little baby" look was coming again.
Diana Swift sometimes admired this man, because his acting skills of pretending to be affectionate in front of the elders were comparable to hers.
When the stare-off was over, she unconsciously got goose bumps.
"Josh, this is your fault." Renee Hunter automatically blocked the performance of the two, and criticized Josh Hunter as his elder. "Now that you're back in Lux Hotel Group and Diana is usually idle and bored, you can arrange for her to join the company to learn more and give full play to her strengths."
Give play to your specialty?
How to make the group go bankrupt in place?
Josh Hunter paused for a moment, then said in a warm voice, "I am willing to raise Diana. Raising her is what I should do."
-The large-scale sitcom "Loving Couple", scene 1, act 3, cut.
Perhaps because the sweet love of the youngsters was spicy to the eyes of the older single female doctor, Renee Hunter got up to go to the bathroom.
When she came back, she suddenly stared at Josh Hunter again before she sat down.
Then, as if she had discovered a new world, she put down her chopsticks and asked, "Josh, how come your hair is growing so fast? Two weeks ago, Diana posted a photo of you in her Moments on WeChat, and your hair was still so short at that time." She used her thumb and forefinger to compare the length.
"Ahem!"
Diana Swift was drinking soup and choked unexpectedly, almost coughing to death on the spot.
Josh Hunter was very sweet, patting her back while feeding her water, and also took a tissue to wipe her lips.
Others sitting next to Diana also greeted her with concern.
Diana Swift recovered, saying that nothing was wrong. But before she could be glad that the deadly topic had passed, Renee Hunter played the female doctor's thirst for knowledge and scientific research spirit, changing the word order of the same question and asking it again.
She even found out Diana Swift's Moments, looked back and forth between Josh Hunter and the picture, and murmured surprisedly, "It's really growing fast. According to the picture ratio, you've grown at least two centimetres in these fourteen days. Normal people's hair growth rate should be one centimetre a month. Did you use any hair growth hormone? What do you do with hair growth hormone at a young age? Which brand? The effect is so good. I can recommend it to the old bald men in our institute! "
Josh Hunter looked at Diana Swift without a trace.
Diana Swift bowed her head, turned a deaf ear to other affairs, and only focused on the roasted ribs.
After all, she did not understand why the little aunt was so meticulous and rich in research spirit but could not see that the picture was retouched.
In the past two years, Josh Hunter had been abroad, and he had been so busy that he didn't even return to China for the Spring Festival.
Diana Swift traveled all over the world with nothing to do. As Mrs Hunter, if she didn't often visit her husband abroad, it seemed that their persona of a loving couple couldn't be maintained.
But she really didn't want to have too much self-seeking communication with Josh Hunter, a plastic husband, so she came up with a method. She found a retoucher to help retouch photos of them, and then posted a Moment only visible to Josh Hunter's family regularly, creating the illusion that she often flew abroad to visit Josh Hunter and they were so sweet.
She did so for two years without a flop. Even at this moment, the young aunt found Josh Hunter's hair was surprisingly long, but she also did not question the authenticity of the photo, which seemed to prove that the retoucher she found was highly skilled and deserve the money she paid.
Thinking of this, Diana Swift was even a little relieved.
It's probably because the old and the young sat at a table, and the topic that Renee Hunter started seemed so nonsense on this occasion, before Josh Hunter answered, Ken Hunter said majestically, "Keep quiet during meals and bedtime. You have studied a lot. But why you are getting more and more unruly? You are in your thirties and still like a child. No wonder you can't get married! "
Renee Hunter: "...?"
Didn't everyone just talk noisily? Why did she have to keep quiet? Besides, what did this have to do with her not getting married in her thirties? Did this family still discriminate against older unmarried young women?
Renee Hunter felt innocent and wanted to say something to justify herself.
Richard Hunter gave her a timely look and motioned for her not to talk back.
Renee Hunter didn't listen to other people's words, but the eldest brother Richard Hunter's words were quite useful. She endured it and silently suppressed what she was going to say.
The second half of this meal was eaten very quietly because of Ken Hunter's words.
At the end of dinner, Ken Hunter called Richard Hunter and Josh Hunter to go upstairs to talk, and the rest stayed in the gazebo to chat and cool off with Julie Hunter.
It was not until the starry night fell that the conversation between the three generations of men in the Hunter family ended.
The light was dim at night. Diana Swift and Renee Hunter were laughing and joking, and they didn't notice that Josh Hunter had walked out for a while. When Josh Hunter walked up the steps of the gazebo, she caught a glimpse of his figure.
Renee Hunter, however, was talking in high spirits, and suddenly forgot the taboo at home. "... I've never seen a little girl who loves to wet the bed more than you. I guess you don't remember these things. Once upon a time, there was no one at your house and you ran to our house to watch cartoons. But later you fell asleep and peed on the sofa! Toby Hunter loved cleanliness and hated you very much! He carried you to the bed, and he tore down the sofa cover and washed it himself, hahahahahaha ... "
When Renee Hunter suddenly mentioned "Toby Hunter", everyone didn't react too much.
After the reaction, everyone noticed Josh Hunter who set foot on the gazebo, and felt that the night wind was colder.
Diana Swift had gestured to Renee Hunter with her eyes at the first time, but Renee Hunter was too excited to notice it.
She seriously suspected that her sister-in-law was doing too much physics research and wanted to change direction to sprint for a prize in the "Touch the tender spot" contest.
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It was only eight o'clock when they left Luxury Bridge, and the night was already dark.
Sitting in the back seat of the car, Diana Swift felt uncomfortable unusually. She turned to look out of the window and couldn't help but quietly observe Josh Hunter's look through the reflection of the window.
But Josh Hunter leaned on the seat back, and his side shadow was too thin and shallow. She unconsciously also leaned back, her head close to the seat back ...
The next second, she had eye contact with Josh Hunter in the car window defenselessly.