Cross-Dressing Boss with Great Skills × Thick-Skinned Chatterbox Making Do 14

During the National Day Golden Week, almost all tourist attractions in China were extremely crowded, with congestion comparable to a rush-hour subway and people packed everywhere. If you didn't hold hands tightly, you could be swept away by the crowd in a flash, which was quite scary.

Traveling during this time was not an easy task, and the place Guo Rong chose was the capital, where the crowds were even more intense.

Before leaving, Guo Rong hugged her son and said, "He has grown up to this age and hasn't been to the capital yet. Let's take him to see Tiananmen Square, the Great Wall and the Forbidden City!"

She also wanted to see how different the capital of the motherland in this world was compared to the one in her previous life.

Under her boss's hesitant gaze, she added with certainty, "And I heard that the security there is very strict, so nothing will happen for sure. Didn't you say someone was sneakily following us? Going there will make us feel much safer."

Chun Yuxi believed her twisted logic. Tiananmen Square was a sea of people with red flags fluttering—a joyous ocean. Especially during this time, there were many parents bringing their children out. After being jostled for a day, Guo Rong returned to the hotel drenched in foul sweat, exhausted like a dog, sticking out her tongue and admitting her mistake. She didn't see any sights, only people.

After all, Chun Yuxi was a man who persisted in exercising, so his physical strength was much better than hers. Even after being tossed around for a day, he didn't collapse. He said to her, "You chose to climb the Great Wall yourself, so you must persist and finish climbing it tomorrow!"

"No! No!" Guo Rong suddenly let out a miserable cry and hugged his thighs, "Daddy, daddy I was wrong, please spare me, can we not go climb the Great Wall tomorrow?"

Chun Yuxi: "Heh, of course not. Do you think I'm the kind of man who comes and goes at your beck and call?"

Early the next morning, she was mercilessly dragged out of bed by her boss and stuffed into the bathroom. Guo Qian brushed his own teeth while using the toothbrush to scrub his biological mother's wide open mouth, while Guo Rong just stood there dumbfounded with her mouth agape.

Undoubtedly, this day's Great Wall sightseeing trip once again exhausted people to the point of collapse. It was a feeling of climbing a high mountain, where even if you were very tired, you couldn't stop, because there were always people behind urging you to hurry up and not block the way. At this moment, the Great Wall was like a narrow road, with all the gaps filled with people.

In a daze, Guo Rong even had the illusion that she was a migrant worker building the Great Wall here many years ago, under the scorching sun, sweating profusely.

She looked at her son being carried by Chun Yuxi, tears streaming down her face with envy.

"Daddy, I can't walk anymore. Carry me, I can even call you grandpa!"

Chun Yuxi ignored her completely. He let Guo Qian hold tightly onto his neck, reached out a hand to hold Guo Rong, and dragged her down like a big sack.

During these two consecutive days of suffering, Guo Rong was definitely not the most devastated. The most devastated were the people Li Ye sent to follow and monitor them. A total of four men were instructed to closely follow Chun Yuxi's group and absolutely not lose them. If the opportunity arose, they were to take action against Chun Yuxi. So on the first day at Tiananmen Square, two of them went to follow.

These two men used to engage in some shady business and had homicide cases on their hands, otherwise they wouldn't have caught Li Ye's attention. But their mental fortitude wasn't particularly good. When they arrived at Tiananmen, where there was a plainclothes police officer every ten steps, seeing those sharp gazes made their hearts tremble involuntarily, wondering if the other party suspected them.

It was once rumored online that in this place, as long as you did anything slightly abnormal, you would immediately be tackled to the ground by plainclothes police. The two men following felt uneasy, their eyes wandering, which immediately attracted the attention of several plainclothes officers. If it was just that, it would have been fine. But one of the younger ones, upon seeing a man rushing towards him, somehow thought the other party was a plainclothes officer coming to catch him, and ran away in fright.

He had only run a few panicked steps with a frightened look when he was pinned down by two plainclothes police officers who rushed out from the side. "Don't move! What are you doing!"

Before he could make a sound, his accomplice saw that his partner was caught and was afraid of being implicated, so he also hurried to run, but was also inevitably caught. The two were taken to verify their identities, and their information was found in the criminal database. They turned out to be two fugitives.

The two accomplices who went to monitor didn't return. The two remaining in the hotel didn't know what happened and didn't dare to contact them rashly. Moreover, they had taken money to deal with Chun Yuxi, so they couldn't just leave. They could only temporarily ignore the two accomplices and follow Chun Yuxi's group to climb the Great Wall the next day.

These two also had criminal records. One of them was particularly daring. This "business" was introduced by him to the other three accomplices. He had killed several people and had a bad temper. While climbing the Great Wall, because they were too far from Chun Yuxi's group, they almost lost them several times. Feeling a bit impetuous, he vented his anger by pushing down a bear child* in front who was blocking the way and making a scene.

*T/N: A wild, naughty child.

The bear child's grandmother wouldn't stand for it. Seeing her precious grandson's knees scraped from the fall, she immediately put her hands on her hips and started cursing, pulling the two men and not letting them go.

The so-called bear child comes with a bear grandma. These fifty or sixty-year-old ladies are the hardest to deal with. In an instant, the two men were trapped. Moreover, watching a scene is human nature. In the chaos, the two lost Chun Yuxi's group.

When they finally broke free and couldn't find Chun Yuxi's group anywhere, they hurried to the hotel only to discover that the three had checked out and left.

"Did they discover us? Are they deliberately trying to shake us off?" said the thin, tall man with a mole on the corner of his mouth.

The short, fat man with a sullen face spat, "No matter where they ran to, when we find them, let that man die!"

Chun Yuxi's group who checked out and left did not do so because they discovered the people following them. In fact, with so many people around, the two groups of followers were ineffective and constantly lost track of them. Consequently, the trio never felt as if they were being followed. The reason they left so quickly was Guo Rong's fault.

After coming down from the Great Wall, Guo Rong was left with just one breath to sustain her life. She refused to go see the Forbidden City no matter what, her legs soft as she sat on the ground, hugging Chun Yuxi's leg and wailing, saying she wanted to leave now and never come again.

Because Chun Yuxi was with Guo Rong and the little kid, Guo Qian, the three of them looked like a family. Guo Rong hugged his leg and wailed, refusing to leave, causing people around them to point and whisper. Some even speculated that he had an affair outside and his wife brought the child to catch him cheating, begging him to go back.

Chun Yuxi had no choice but to agree to Guo Rong's request and cancel his trip to the capital for the next few days. With a few days left of the holiday, since they weren't staying in the capital, they had to choose another destination. This time, Guo Rong flopped down and waved her hand, saying, "Anywhere is fine, as long as there aren't many people." She was scared and couldn't handle it anymore.

In the end, Chun Yuxi chose to go to H City, the hometown where he lived with his mother as a child and where he grew up. After his mother passed away, he was taken to his father's side and hadn't been back for many years. Perhaps he didn't want to go back alone. This time, looking at the mother and son beside him, he suddenly really wanted to take them to see his childhood hometown.

The feeling of homesickness suddenly welled up. Chun Yuxi immediately searched for plane tickets and found a flight to H City leaving in just four hours. So he quickly took the two of them to pack their luggage and head to the airport.

While the two men—one tall and thin, the other short and fat—were looking everywhere for them, the family was sleeping on the plane. When the two men couldn't find them and called Li Ye, Chun Yuxi and the others had already arrived in H City and were taking a car to Chun Yuxi's small hometown.

"This is your hometown? It looks quite unremarkable, not lively at all. I thought you grew up in a golden nest, boss." Guo Rong dragged her luggage as she walked on the small town's street.

Chun Yuxi was also looking around, his eyes full of uncertainty. He had been away for too many years, and many familiar scenes had completely changed. After all, this was an era of rapid change. The old houses, the bridges over the streams, and the ponds by the streets from back then were all gone.

The disappearance of familiar things often makes people sentimental. Chun Yuxi looked at his surroundings and fell silent.

Seeing this, Guo Rong signaled to Guo Qian with her eyes. Guo Qian gave her an OK sign, went up and pulled on Chun Yuxi's hand, acting cute. "Dad, I'm so hungry, I'm about to starve to death!"

Chun Yuxi came back to his senses, also feeling a bit frustrated. Used to the convenience of big cities, all kinds of apps for quickly finding hotels and restaurants were useless in this small place. They could only go find a place to stay themselves.

It was getting late and they were tired, so they didn't bother searching much. They just picked a nearby inn, and then very coincidentally, there was only one double room left.

"Ah, there's a group of college students here to sketch, several of our inns are all full!" The innkeeper spoke with a local accent, soft and sweet as if she was acting coy. Guo Rong glanced at the boss, thinking that he was also from here, and wondered if he would speak like this.

Chun Yuxi wanted to go look for another place, but Guo Rong and Guo Qian were too tired to walk. Chun Yuxi glared at Guo Rong, disappointed that she wasn't considerate. "I'm doing this for your sake!"

Guo Rong sat on the suitcase with her legs crossed. "Don't say that, it's not like we haven't slept together before."

For a moment, Chun Yuxi couldn't remember this happening. "When did we ever sleep together?"

Guo Rong: "On the plane. Your head was resting on my chest, friend. Was it soft? Was it comfortable to rest on?"

A few young men and women walking down from upstairs, carrying drawing boards and sketchbooks, were probably the college students the innkeeper mentioned who came to sketch. They happened to hear this and looked at them with amused curiosity.

Chun Yuxi vaguely heard two female students whisper, "Oh my god, what dog food, I'm not eating it, yuck!"

He pressed his forehead. "Okay, fine, let's hurry to the room."

As soon as Guo Rong entered the room, she wanted to pounce on the bed, but Chun Yuxi grabbed the back of her neck. "You've been running around all day and haven't showered, what are you rushing to bed for? Hurry up and take a shower first, I'll go ask the innkeeper to buy some food."

Guo Rong reluctantly let him shove her into the bathroom. Ever since Chun Yuxi came into her life, the usually sloppy and disheveled Old Guo was forced to become a clean and tidy beauty.

Much of her decadent roughness had been polished away. And her son, who used to be rough like her, had become an exquisite, fragrant boy - he would take the initiative to learn his father's refined style.

When Chun Yuxi returned, he found that Guo Rong had finished showering and fallen asleep on the bed with her hair still wet. Guo Qian was still taking a bath. He put down the food he bought, took out a dry towel, covered Guo Rong's head and gave it a vigorous rub, waking her up.

Guo Rong's eyes were hazy with sleep. She pulled the towel off her face. "Lady, your service is not gentle. I won't pay for it."

After saying that, she rolled to the edge of the bed with exceptional agility, successfully avoiding Chun Yuxi's strike.

After the three of them got ready and finished eating, Guo Rong lay on the bed but couldn't fall asleep. She got up and started rummaging around. Chun Yuxi found it strange and asked her, "What are you looking for?"

Guo Rong: "I'm looking for little cards, you know, the kind that say 'lonely at night, miss will keep you company' little cards. Since we're bored anyway, why don't we find a miss to play cards with?"

Chun Yuxi threw a pillow at her face, knocking her over.

Guo Qian was lying on Chun Yuxi's bed. He sat up and defended his dad, "Is my dad not good-looking enough that you want to find another girl?"