"Exactly what is the reason? You need to make it clear to ," Xiao Grandma suddenly looked like she was not going to let Xiao Shuju off the hook, staring at her seriously and pressing her for an answer.
Xiao Shuju was so nervous that she broke out in a cold sweat all over, and then she raised her palm as if to slap herself, saying, "Grandma, it’s all my fault."
"Your fault?" Xiao Grandma was taken aback.
"I don’t know why, but I can’t have children." Xiao Shuju was near tears—after all, she was the most anxious about not being able to conceive; it directly affected her.
"Haven’t you gone to the hospital for a checkup? What, the doctors aren’t good enough? Let your dad find you the best, the world’s top experts. Aren’t there many top professors at the Xiao family’s hospital? If your dad won’t handle it, I will!" Xiao Grandma said indignantly, as if her intervention alone would resolve the problem and Xiao Shuju could imdiately provide her with a grandchild by tomorrow.
Xiao Shuju shook her head: "I’ve been to several hospitals. They all say that I’m too old, that I’ve waited too long and it’s difficult for to conceive. They said I need to slowly recuperate. Try for another year."
"Another year? How old are you this year?" Xiao Grandma exclaid.
Xiao Shulan glanced at the clock, thinking that she couldn’t waste all her ti on whether the old Xiao Shuju could have a child or not. She had matters to request from Grandma as well.
"Grandma," Xiao Shulan interjected, "we outsiders don’t understand these things; we should leave it to the experts. Besides, there are people who have children at sixty. When Mom had my brother, she was older than Sister Three is now."
When Xiao Grandma heard this, she felt there was so rit to the argunt and stopped pressuring Xiao Shuju to hurry up and have the baby.
However, Xiao Shuju was quietly fuming at Xiao Shulan: If only you had said that earlier.
"Grandma, about this—" Xiao Shulan slowly put down her teacup and addressed the elderly woman, "I was thinking of inviting the Ou Family over for Grandma’s birthday banquet."
"The Ou Family?" Xiao Grandma imdiately looked puzzled, "Are you talking about Ou Chunhua?"
"Yes."
"But our family has never been close to them," Xiao Grandma said incredulously.
Why invite a stranger to her banquet? Even if Ou Chunhua had a reputation in the business world. Was their Xiao family to grovel to Ou Chunhua, just because they were wealthy?
Xiao Grandma absolutely refused to do anything so humiliating.
The elderly lady shook her head repeatedly.
Xiao Shulan and Xiao Shuju had to patiently explain the complex relationships between Su Yixia and Ou Chunhua.
After listening to their dry explanations, Xiao Grandma narrowed her eyes cynically and focused on the proactive Xiao Shulan, saying, "What, you’re aiming your daughter at their son?"
Xiao Shulan, undeterred by the old lady’s comnt, calmly replied, "Isn’t that what you were also thinking, Grandma?"
Indeed, on Xiao Grandma’s agenda, there was the intention of finding suitable husbands for her granddaughters. Ou Chunhua’s son was about the sa age as her granddaughters and was rumored to be mysterious yet reliable, unlike the typical profligate young n gallivanting through a life of frivolity.
When marrying off a daughter, or choosing a son-in-law, the fear is always ending up with soone unreliable.
"Your daughter is seventeen this year, the eldest’s daughter is twenty-three, and the youngest’s daughter is older than yours—she’s almost twenty," Xiao Grandma pointed out, which would an Xiao Shulan’s daughter would rank behind two of her own in terms of marriage prospects.
At that mont, Xiao Shulan felt resentful. Back then, her youngest sister had gone against her older sisters’ unmarried status and married anyway. And by the age of eighteen, she was already having children in the United States.
How mortifying for her and her sister.
Xiao Grandma saw through her expression and remarked, "If anyone is to bla, it’s the two of you. When you were younger, you were too picky, scared of not getting the best, and in the end, the more you chose, the worse the prospects beca. If you had been like your older sister, following family arrangents from the start, would this have happened?"
Xiao Shuju said with a hint of grievance, "The youngest one is acting recklessly. How can running off with a man without finishing school be acceptable?"
"Did I tell you to follow your younger sister’s example?" Xiao Grandma glared at the two underachievers before her.
Xiao Shulan swiftly changed the subject, speaking soothingly to the elderly woman, "That’s exactly why we can’t let Yebai follow in our footsteps. Our dearest younger brother, how could we let him take the sa path, right, Grandma?"
Xiao Grandma, sensing an implied aning, inquired, "What’s happening with Yebai now?"
"Grandma, you don’t know. On one hand, he lies to us about having allergies, and on the other, he’s moved in with a fox spirit," Xiao Shuju revealed.
Xiao Grandma was clearly shaken by this news.
Upon seeing their goal achieved, the sisters exchanged a look brimming with satisfaction.
"Does his father know about this?"
This unexpected question from the grandmother caught the two sisters off guard.
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