Jiang Rui came to Yan’s house as a guest. Originally, Yan Zhao said he would come to Lotus Street to pick her up. She thought that it would be troublesome, so she took a taxi herself. The taxi parked outside the lakeside villa area.
She was wearing a newly bought white skirt today. The skirt reached to her knees, revealing her slender white legs. She wore a pair of red buttoned leather shoes and carried a small pink bag. When she looked at herself in the mirror, she felt that she was too pretentious, but Shu Xiaoyun nodded after looking at it.
Yan Zhao was waiting outside the community with an umbrella. As soon as he saw someone, he walked over quickly and held it up to protect her from the sun. He then took the paper box she was holding and stared at her closely.
“What are you looking at?” Jiang Rui asked with a smile.
Yan Zhao groaned, showing a bit of discomfort, and said in a dry tone: “You look good dressed like this…”
Jiang Rui smiled, looked at the beautiful umbrella above her head, and asked, “Auntie asked you to carry the umbrella, right?”
Yan Zhao nodded. He had just received a text message that she was going out, so he got up and walked out. It was Su Li who stuffed an umbrella for him.
Because he was holding an umbrella in one hand and a paperboard box in the other, Yan Zhao had no free hand to hold her. The two walked side by side for a while. After passing a quiet tree-lined path, he suddenly made a request: “You hold me.”
Jiang Rui glanced at him and held his arm without saying anything.
He looked obviously much happier, and the corners of his mouth turned up. Jiang Rui did not let go until they got outside the Yan family garden.
The Yan family was waiting in the living room. As soon as Jiang Rui followed Yan Zhao into the door, she immediately felt several lines of sight.
She kept smiling and said hello obediently: “Uncle and Auntie, good morning. My name is Shu Manman. I’m a guest at home unexpectedly. Sorry to disturb you.”
Yan’s father nodded gently: “It’s so hot, come in.”
Su Li hurriedly said: “Sit down, sit down quickly, you didn’t disturb us. Auntie has been waiting for you to come for a long time.”
She glared at Yan Zhao again, “You silly boy, what are you waiting for? Why don’t you invite Manman to sit down?”
This guy thought that he was a guest. Even the introduction had to be done by the girl herself. If he could find a girlfriend, Su Li really felt like she was going to burn incense at their old lady’s grave.
The other three people of the Yan family sat in a row on the couch. Yan Zhao asked Jiang Rui to sit on the single sofa, and he sat on the armrest next to her. He remembered the paperboard box in his hand and put it on the coffee table, “This is a gift.”
The simple and elegant paper box exuded a sweet smell. Yan Xing’s eyes were bright. He looked at the gift for a while and then looked at Jiang Rui for a while.
“It’s fine if you come, what kind of gift you bring.” Hearing Su Li’s tone, she was obviously happy.
Jiang Rui said with embarrassment: “It’s a small cake baked by my mother. I don’t know if it suits Uncle and Auntie’s taste.”
“I’ve tasted your mother’s craftsmanship. It must taste very good.” Su Li immediately asked the nanny to carry the paper box to the kitchen, put it on a plate, and bring it out.
During this period, she was talking to Jiang Rui while looking at her without any trace. The more she looked at her, the more she fell in love with her.
People are probably like this, they love whatever they lack. Since she gave birth to two sons, Su Li had always longed for a daughter. Usually when she sees other people’s well-behaved girls in the community, and then she looks at her own brat who goes crazy and plays around, and the nasty brat so greedy that his saliva is drooling, then she wishes that she could trade them with someone else.
Of course, it is impossible to exchange it for real, and there is no way to regenerate it. But when her eldest son told her that he had a girlfriend, she suddenly had a flash of inspiration: she could not expect a daughter, but she could still expect a daughter-in-law!
When she meets her future daughter-in-law today, everything about her is to her liking. Look at her fair and clean appearance, her well-behaved sitting posture, and her white skirt and red shoes. Su Li had always dreamed of dressing up her daughter like this.
Probably seeing that her eyes were too enthusiastic, Yan’s father coughed twice to remind her. Su Li woke up and was afraid of scaring others by asking too many questions, so she hurriedly asked people to drink and eat fruit.
As soon as it calmed down, Yan Xing jumped off the sofa and walked to Jiang Rui. He was wearing overalls today with a bow tie at the neckline, looking as cute as a little gentleman. He tilted his head and looked at Jiang Rui.
Jiang Rui smiled at him.
Yan Xing’s entire face lit up, and he asked in a sweet voice, “Are you my brother’s girlfriend?”
Yan Zhao frowned, “What are you going to do?”
Jiang Rui tugged at the hem of his clothes, smiled, and said softly to the child: “Hello.”
Yan Xing immediately straightened his back and said seriously: “Hello, my name is Yan Xing. I am four years old. I am in the middle class at Little Sun Kindergarten. I have three girlfriends.” As he spoke, he stretched out three short, fat fingers.
The others laughed when they heard this and then heard Yan Xing continue: “I want to trade with my brother and trade you with my three girlfriends. Do you think that’s okay?”
Jiang Rui, Su Li, and others were stunned for a moment. Only Yan Zhao’s brows jumped, and he grabbed the strap on his brother’s shoulders and lifted him up.
“Brother, let me go! Let me go!” Yan Xing struggled like a crab.
Su Li reacted, and instead of rescuing her youngest son, she laughed and fell on the sofa, hitting Yan’s father on the shoulder, “I am laughing so hard, hahahaha…”
Seeing Yan Xing’s face turning red, Jiang Rui hurriedly pulled Yan Zhao away, “Don’t be like this, he is going to cry.”
“I didn’t cry!” Yan Xing said immediately, “I am a man!”
Yan Zhao clicked his tongue, threw him onto the sofa, took Jiang Rui’s hand, and walked upstairs, “Go to my room.”
“Bring Manman down for dinner in a while!” Su Li hugged her youngest son with one hand and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with the other, with a smile in her words.
“Know!”
As soon as he closed the door, Yan Zhao hugged Jiang Rui and said angrily: “That stinky boy.”
Jiang Rui patted his arm, “You have to argue with a three or four-year-old child?”
Yan Zhao doesn’t care how old the other person is or whether he is his biological brother, but right now he has other things on his mind and won’t pursue it further for the time being.
He hugged Jiang Rui, shook it, and said something irrelevant in her ear: “I bought a bag of candy yesterday.”
“Huh? Then?”
He said: “There are strawberry flavours, mango flavours, lychee flavours… Do you want to try them?”
Thinking about it, if it was a simple candy, he would not ask this question. Jiang Rui raised her eyebrows and thought about it. She remembered that she had commented on his milk-flavored kiss yesterday. Later, he asked her what flavor she liked, and she understood.
She raised her head and asked him with a smile: “Do you want to feed me?”
Yan Zhao’s eyes were wandering, but then he thought about it. They had even met their parents and were one step closer to getting married. Why couldn’t he feed her? So he said like a bully: “Yes, you will eat even if you don’t want to.”
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Downstairs, Su Li laughed enough and let out a long sigh.
Yan Xing had already run out of the house to find his three girlfriends for comfort. There were only two of them in the living room.
Yan’s father asked, “What are you sighing for?”
Su Li shook her head, “You don’t understand.”
“Tell me about it?” Yan’s father said with a smile.
“You and your son have the same virtues, and you don’t understand even if I tell you.” Su Li said with great disdain.
Su Li thought to herself, how could other people understand this kind of feeling? Her own pigs had taken advantage of other people’s good cabbages. She did not expect anyone to understand that feeling of excitement and guilt. After all, she had given them the Su family’s cabbage.
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