Su Aihong helped her little granddaughter take off her outer thick clothes: "Feifei, now weâre finally home. Look, grandpa, second grandpa, and auntie are all watching you."
As soon as she finished speaking, the little baby actually smiled.
Xinyan looked at her adorable little niece: "Aunt, Feifei smiled, how cute."
This livened up the room, and everyone tried hard to make the little one smile again.
Unfortunately, the little baby had principles; no matter how everyone teased her, she didnât laugh again.
They hadnât had enough of her yet, but they couldnât stay there forever. Sister-in-law and the little niece had been on the road for a long time and needed to rest.
When they reached the front yard, Han Jingheng said to Han Chaohui: "Letâs go, letâs go out and buy some ingredients for tomorrowâs one-month celebration banquet.
Xinyan heard her eldest uncle talking: "Uncle, Iâve planted a lot of vegetables in my small courtyard, which havenât been eaten much. When my dad goes to pick up my mom, they can bring them over; otherwise, theyâll just go to waste."
Han Jingheng looked at his brother and saw Han Jingchen nodding at him, so he said: "All right then, donât bring too much, just enough for tomorrowâs banquet."
When Han Jingchen brought Gu Wanqing over, the eldest uncle and the others were back, too.
They were just about to move the vegetables into the yard when Auntieâs family arrived.
With many hands, tasks were accomplished quickly; in no time, all the ingredients were in the kitchen.
Auntie Han Chunxue put down what she was holding: "Second sister-in-law, you havenât been to see the baby, have you?"
Gu Wanqing smiled and nodded: "I havenât had the chance yet, letâs go together."
Even their glances at each other were remarkably similar.
Han Chunxue washed her hands, took her bag from her car: "Big sister-in-law, my second sister-in-law and I will first go to the backyard to see Shengfang and her daughter."
Su Aihong laughed: "Iâll go with you."
She was longing to see her precious little granddaughter and couldnât miss the chance.
When Han Jingheng saw his wife dropping everything to run off: "I say, youâre just going to run off like that?"
Su Aihong looked a bit guilty: "Oh well, itâs not urgent."
What she didnât dare to say was that with neighbors coming to help tomorrow morning, theyâd have plenty of time.
Right now, all she could think about was her granddaughter; not seeing her for a moment made her anxious.
Now, with such a good excuse, why not sneak away?
Xinyan had initially wanted to follow along too, but she noticed her cousin seemed preoccupied. Normally a chatterbox, sheâd been unusually quiet since she arrived. Something wasnât right.
Xinyan leaned over: "Zhenling, whatâs wrong with you?"
Sun Zhenling heard her cousinâs question and pretended to be calm: "Iâm fine, just thinking about some things."
Xinyan glanced towards the second gate, seeing her aunt, mom, and auntie already inside, then pulled Zhenling into the living room: "Whatâs really going on? Youâre practically wearing it on your face, and youâre saying nothingâs wrong."
Sun Zhenlingâs eyes reddened at Xinyanâs words: "Cousin, I... I donât even know how to say it."
Xinyan got up to pour two glasses of water, handed one to her cousin, and kept one for herself: "Just take your time. No matter what happens, you still have us, your family, right?"
Sun Zhenling heard this and pouted: "Cousin, Yuan Yikai wants to break up with me."
Xinyan frowned at this. With Yuan Yikaiâs complicated family background, having her cousin like him was his good fortune. How dare he not cherish her and even propose a breakup?
Thinking of how her cousin defended Yuan Yikai before, and then recalling what her cousin just said, she was quite upset: "What exactly happened?"