"Xiao Chuxia, what do you an by this, huh?" Old Master Li pointed to the pastry tins Chuxia had placed on the ground, "Do you think I’m such a greedy man?"
"Who said you were greedy?" Chuxia widened her eyes, looking indignantly, "If anyone dares say you’re greedy, I’ll have a bone to pick with them!"
"It was you who said it," Old Master Li snorted, "I was just joking with you, and you went and brought over such a big bag of things. You’re slapping an old man’s face, do you realize that?"
"Grandpa, you’ve misunderstood..." Chuxia looked desperately towards her eldest maternal aunt, Li Aiyuan. Neither grandma nor grandpa had ntioned Old Master Li’s birthday; she was completely clueless about the situation and didn’t dare to fabricate excuses.
It was also her fault for rushing in so hastily earlier that she forgot to bring the gifts. Ah, she must rember next ti, "it is no cri to bring too many gifts".
"Dad, don’t be too hard on Chuxia, my in-laws were in such a hurry to send her over, there must be sothing urgent at ho..."
Old Master Li interrupted her displeasedly: "What does it have to do with you? I’m talking to Xiao Chuxia, what does it have to do with you, huh?"
This old man, wasn’t this difficult in the past...
Helpless, Chuxia could only force a silly smile without speaking—she didn’t know what to say and was wracking her brain for a solution.
"Chuxia, you’ve married into a good husband’s family, haven’t you?" Old Master Li asked.
"Grandpa, how do you expect to answer that?" Chuxia looked troubled, "I think my husband’s family is quite good, but if I openly admit it, won’t I seem a little too thick-skinned? What if you, because of my thick face, punish with a drink, then what would I do?"
"Hahaha..." Old Master Li laughed and waved his hand, "Alright, I won’t make it difficult for you. Go on, Xiao Chuxia, co visit at my place when you have ti, don’t be so successful that you forget about your grandparents and your uncles and aunts."
Although she didn’t understand which act Old Master Li was playing, Chuxia hurriedly responded, "Grandpa, how could I? No matter when, I could never forget about you and grandma, and my uncles and aunts."
"Alright, alright, get going now. Don’t keep Old Man Zhao waiting..." Old Master Li pointed to the pile of food on the ground, "Chuxia, take these back to show your grandparents so respect. I’ve received too many birthday gifts today, I can’t eat all this in a short ti, and it would be a waste if it goes bad. Take it back to them. Lu Ping, pick so more precious items to add. You can’t let that old man say I’m stingy. I want him..."
"Dad, we’re leaving now." Not waiting for Old Master Li to finish, Li Aiyuan pulled Chuxia and walked out, Zhao Yushan and Zhao Qihui hurriedly followed.
"A daughter married off is like water poured away, it’s true. I favor her and she doesn’t know I do." Old Master Li waved to everyone, "Pay her no attention, let’s continue our chat."
Li Aiyuan’s brother, sister-in-law, and younger siblings had all followed them out. Seeing the car parked at the entrance, surprise was evident in their eyes.
"Aiyuan, it seems your in-laws are in a hurry, leave the car here for now, we’ll let Lu Ping and the others deliver it later, you guys go ahead," Li Aiyuan’s eldest sister-in-law reacted quickly. The mont she saw the car, she took the responsibility of sending the bicycle onto herself.
"Okay, eldest sister-in-law, then I’ll trouble you," Li Aiyuan was not courteous, she opened the car door and got in. Glancing at Lin Chuxia, who was sitting obediently in the back seat, she seed to hesitate for a mont. However, after another look at Lin Wenbin, her face cleared up, revealing a sense of understanding. Clearly, she had misunderstood, having t Jing Zhe before and not Lin Wenbin, she naturally mistook Lin Chuxia for soone like Lin Wenbin’s girlfriend.
"Aunt, uncle, sister, hello," Lin Chuxia greeted them politely, her smile forced, with the remnants of tears still visible at the corners of her eyes.
Li Aiyuan, after a quick glance at Lin Wenbin and seeing his usual deanor, pursed her lips in mild displeasure and warmly put her arm around Lin Chuxia’s shoulder, "Good girl."
Seeing her aunt’s expression, how could Chuxia not know what she was thinking? She quickly introduced, "Uncle, aunt, sister, she is Lin Chuxia from Xiaoxia Village. We t her on the way and gave her a ride."
Li Aiyuan, rembering how she had looked at Lin Wenbin earlier, felt a bit embarrassed and coughed to cover it up, "I was thinking this girl looked familiar, and it turns out she has the sa na as our Chuxia, hehe..."
Chuxia felt a headache coming on, just because of a na she looked familiar...
In front of Lin Chuxia, Chuxia didn’t inquire in detail about why her grandparents didn’t tell her about Old Master Li’s birthday, nor about Old Master Li’s strange behavior just now, but for the mont, she could only keep these doubts to herself.
The short trip from Poer Village to Xiaolin Village was over in a few minutes, after dropping off her aunt’s family at the entrance of the alley, Chuxia, Jing Zhe, and Lin Wenbin hurried towards her younger aunt’s house.
"What happened when I entered?" Chuxia asked, observing Lin Chuxia’s gloomy expression. Rembering that she looked normal when she got out of the car, Chuxia felt compelled to ask.
"He followed here and shouted at , but..." Lin Chuxia quickly glanced at Lin Wenbin, "this big brother helped drive him away."
"The ’he’ you’re talking about, is it the man who ca out of the yard when you were hit by the car door?" Chuxia asked.
"Mm," Lin Chuxia nodded, "he and I were betrothed, and we were supposed to get married next month, but the day before yesterday, his family sent a matchmaker with a ssage, asking to co over.
I went there, and as soon as I stepped through the door, his parents and he told they didn’t want to marry anymore, they wanted to call off the engagent, and they asked to give back the money for the engagent banquet.
They said they were worried I wouldn’t return it, so they took my bicycle as a pledge. I asked them what exactly had happened, but they wouldn’t say, just that we weren’t compatible anymore."
"Is there really such scum?" Chuxia blinked in disbelief, swallowing hard, "Can there actually be such scum?"
Her expression was just too cute, Lin Wenbin couldn’t help but turn around and ruffle her head: "Yeah, there are all sorts of people in this world. Do you think everyone is as nice as your brother?"
"Bro, it’s not good to be so narcissistic," Chuxia said, shaking her head speechlessly, "I never imagined there could be soone so perfect in being so despicable. But Lin Chuxia, I think with a family like that, it’s better for you to be away sooner rather than later. Otherwise, if you really married into their family, you’d be the one suffering in the end!" After finishing, she couldn’t help shaking her head again, "It’s so odd we share a na. It feels like I’m advising myself."
Before, her na was Lin Chuxia, and it still is Lin Chuxia. So, when speaking this na, she felt a strong sense of belonging, as if she was truly advising herself.
"Pfft!" Lin Chuxia was amused into laughter by her, "We may share a na, but our personalities couldn’t be more different, if I were as cheerful as you, they definitely wouldn’t reject ."
"It’s not that you’re not good; it’s that they don’t know how to appreciate you, don’t be sad. You’re still young; there will definitely be better n waiting for you. Right, what was that man here for just now?"
Jing Zhe’s mouth twitched imperceptibly. Having spent so much ti with Chuxia, he had co to understand her character quite well. Her curiosity, it was pretty much like that of a cat.
"When you guys left, he probably hadn’t snapped out of it. Later on, he must have thought things through and followed to say that I..." Lin Chuxia bit her lip, unable to continue.
After a mont of thought, Chuxia guessed most of it: "Is it because he suspects you have so sort of relationship with my brother and his friends, and then he slandered you?"
"Mm."
"That’s just terrible!" Chuxia looked towards Lin Wenbin, "Bro, did you knock his teeth out?"
Lin Wenbin slapped his forehead hard, "Right, how could I not have thought of that? I should have knocked out all his teeth. Geez, giving him two black eyes was letting him off too easy. No way, next ti I see him, I’m definitely knocking a few teeth out. How dare he speak ill of Chuxia! Can just anyone ntion my sister’s na recklessly?"
"That man had just ntioned ’Lin Chuxia’ when Lin Wenbin went over and gave him dark circles around his eyes," Jing Zhe explained.
"Your brother is really good to you." Lin Chuxia said genuinely, at the ti she had been so angry that she was a bit confused and hadn’t understood the situation. Now, hearing Jing Zhe’s explanation and thinking back, she imdiately realized that the fight wasn’t for her, but for his own sister, because they had called his sister’s na too harshly, or rather, he didn’t want the man to follow up with any insults towards the na.
Having a brother is so great! Unfortunately, that’s not sothing to envy.
"Bro, you really are my dear brother..." Chuxia giggled at Lin Wenbin, "I hope in the future, even when you have a wife, you will still be this caring towards , alright?"
"Of course, no one is more important than my sister," Lin Wenbin gave Jing Zhe a knowing look, "You can tell from this incident who is more caring as a brother, right?"
"I concede defeat to you," Jing Zhe nodded, "I must admit, you’re a brother who’s more caring towards his sister. From now on, I’ll learn from you."
"Forget it, I’m her real brother, no matter what I do for her, it’s never too much. If you really did the sa, people would get the wrong idea," Lin Wenbin said with sympathy, patting Jing Zhe’s shoulder, "Old Second, you can only be Old Second."
Jing Zhe: "..."
The trio first dropped Lin Chuxia off at the entrance to Xiaoxia Village, and then they headed to the Luan Family Village where Lin Baojuan lived.
Lin Baojuan was standing at the gate, chatting with a neighbor’s wife, when she saw the car approaching from afar, she stopped talking and craned her neck to look.
The neighbor’s wife also craned her neck to look, and then said with envy, "When can we too ride in such a grand car? Sigh, my brothers back ho tell it’s so comfortable, just like sitting in your own house." Then, smacking her forehead, she added, "Oh right, sister-in-law has already ridden in it. Look at my mory. Sister-in-law, tell , is it really like my brother said, just as comfortable as sitting at ho?"
"Creak!" Just as the neighbor’s wife finished speaking, the car stopped right beside the two won, and Chuxia’s little head peeked out first from the car window, "Auntie!"
"Xia?" Lin Baojuan’s face lit up with surprise, "Didn’t you just go back? Why are you back again?..." Then her face fell suddenly, "How’s dad doing?" (To be continued. If you like this novel, you are welco to vote for it at Qidian (qidian), your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please go to m.qidian to read.)
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