Mr. Du saw that the third discipleâs affairs had reached a conclusion.
Only then did he talk about Xinyanâs engagement with everyone: "On the sixth day of the month, your junior sister is getting engaged. Please make arrangements in advance."
After speaking, he looked at Qian Wanning: "Old Fourth, you donât need to force it. Your little junior sister can understand."
Upon hearing this, Qian Wanning first took out a thick red envelope: "This red envelope is from your fourth senior brother as a belated meeting gift."
Xinyan felt embarrassed to accept it and waved her hand directly: "Fourth senior brother, thereâs no need for a red envelope, is there?"
Qian Wanning smiled and said: "This is not your New Yearâs money; itâs the meeting gift from your fourth senior brother. You absolutely cannot refuse."
Xinyan felt a bit troubled and couldnât help looking at her master.
Mr. Du smiled and said: "Itâs from your fourth senior brother; just accept it."
Without waiting for Xinyan to react, Qian Wanning directly stuffed the red envelope into Xinyanâs hand.
Later, Qian Wanning said with a guilty expression: "Little junior sister, Iâm truly sorry. Your engagement banquet, Iâm afraid your fourth senior brother cannot attend."
Xinyan knew that, although the fourth senior brother was just a military doctor, he was still a soldier and had to obey orders. "Fourth senior brother, work comes first."
At this point, Shen Guqing interjected: "If you canât attend the engagement banquet, you must return for Xinyanâs wedding."
Qian Wanning nodded and replied: "Indeed, Iâll make sure to arrange everything in advance."
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Beijing Zheng Family
Zheng Huaizhong rushed to find Mr. Zheng in a hurry: "Dad, thereâs news, thereâs news."
Mr. Zheng understood the meaning behind his second son Zheng Huaizhongâs words immediately: "Really, quickly tell me."
Zheng Huaizhong did not respond but took a glass of water for himself first, gulping it down before speaking: "The pair of children from third brother are in Beijing."
Mr. Zheng stood up directly from his chair: "What did you say? Theyâre in the capital?"
Mr. Zheng anxiously asked: "Is their situation completely investigated?"
Zheng Huaizhong feared that the old man couldnât take it, promptly poured him another glass of water: "Dad, donât worry, theyâre found and wonât run away."
Seeing the old manâs eyes almost ablaze, he quickly said: "The aunt from the Guan family adopted our Jingzhong and his biological nephew after her husband followed a railway engineering team.
Both husband and wife felt that adopting these two children was good. Thinking that outside, people didnât know them, naturally there wouldnât be anyone who knew the children werenât biological, which was good for both the children and the couple.
Later, they still didnât have their own children, so they treated our Jingzhong fairly well. However, human hearts are biased, and in the end, our Jingzhong and those people were not blood-related.
After the Guan family auntâs husband passed away, she made the decision to divide the family.
She let her biological nephew take her husbandâs position in the railway engineering team and also told our Jingzhong about their familyâs inheritance, saying he wasnât entitled to any share.
Our Jingzhong likely understood early on and naturally didnât compete over it.
Fortunately, Jingzhong was also hardworking, and through his own efforts, he became a formal worker at the screw factory, and his life after the division was not bad.
After he passed away, the leader of the screw factory took care of the family, allowing Jingzhongâs wife to take over his position, which was barely enough to make ends meet.
But good times didnât last long; later, Jingzhongâs wife also passed away, leaving only the two children dependent on each other, and Zheng familyâs daughter, Guan Zhiyue, stepped up to support the family by taking over her motherâs position to provide for her younger brotherâs education."
After hearing this, Mr. Zheng immediately asked: "Have you seen the two children?"