On the way, Xu Yanxin had nothing to say, so she remained silent.
Xu Xiao said, "You should learn from Yunzhu, so that she won't follow the crowd."
Xu Yan was stunned, and it took her a moment to realize that her brother was talking to her.
She said unexpectedly: "What?"
Xu Xiao said: "What I mean is, if you don't want to get married, just tell your grandmother and mother honestly and don't force it."
Xu Yan thought to himself: "After the New Year, I am already nineteen years old. Why don't I still get married?"
Xu Xiao couldn't help but laugh and said: "Nineteen, isn't that big? I've seen people get married at the age of twenty-nine, and they lived happily for twenty-nine years."
Xu Yan was stunned. The moral education she had received since childhood told her that this was impossible.
If a woman from an aristocratic family does not get engaged after the age of twenty, there will be gossip outside.
It didn't matter to her, but what she couldn't bear was that they would talk about her relatives.
Such as grandmother, mother, or even brother.
Xu Yanxin sighed and said, "You didn't say it clearly, you were just perfunctory."
Xu Xiao smiled sarcastically, touched her nose and said, "How can you be the same as me? I'm a man, I'm thick-skinned and I can cheat."
Xu Yanxin couldn't help but laugh: "You finally admit that you are thick-skinned."
Xu Xiao nodded and agreed: "You have seen through it all, how can you deny it?"
The brother and sister were very happy and the atmosphere was very good.
When she went to greet Wang Xiu, Xu Yanxin still had a smile on her face, her little cheeks were as red as red apples, her eyes were bright and full of smiles, and she looked particularly lively and cheerful.
Wang Xiu also liked this little girl very much. When they met, he first grabbed a handful of candies and gave them to her, and then asked: "What makes you so happy? Is your brother engaged?"
Xu Yanxin smiled and said: "No, it's my brother who said he was thick-skinned and planned to stay away from the marriage."
"Is that so?" Wang Xiu glanced at Xu Xiao in surprise.
I saw Xu Xiao helplessly saying: "You are talking about getting married, and if you involve me again, isn't this going to break the pot?"
Wang Xiu looked at the two brothers and sisters. They were laughing at each other's jokes. They were really half-hearted.
She immediately said: "You are happy, is your mother going to be worried?"
Sure enough, as soon as these words came out, Xu Xiao and Xu Yan both calmed down a lot.
At this moment, Rongrong happily came to report that Pei Shan was here and had brought back a little girl.
Rongrong's eyes were shining brightly and she was rubbing her hands secretly, as if she saw Pei Shan bringing his wife to greet her.
Wang Xiu couldn't help but laugh and said: "Don't get excited yet. That should be his cousin. He said before that his uncle and aunt will come to the capital to celebrate the New Year this year. They should be here."
"Ah? She's my cousin?" Rongrong was discouraged and not in good spirits.
Wang Xiu smiled and scolded: "You are more looking forward to Pei Shan getting a wife than I am. Why haven't I been anxious yet? Are you eager to drink my new wife's tea for me earlier?"
As soon as this statement came out, everyone was happy.
Rongrong was stunned and said with a red face: "Madam is making fun of us again."
"However, that little girl is so pretty. She is wearing a red coat and skirt, and a cloak. She is holding a small stove in her hand, and she is following Mr. Pei obediently, like a young daughter-in-law who has just entered the house.
"
Wang Xiu had already seen Pei Shan coming with Xia Lan and quickly gave Rongrong a wink to signal her to stop talking.
Rongrong quickly shut up and patted her mouth gently as a punishment.
Seeing this scene, Xu Yanxin couldn't help laughing.
Then they saw Pei Shan coming in with a little girl. When he entered, he reminded the little girl that the threshold was a bit high, so she shouldn't fall.
As Rongrong said, Pei Shan's cousin is really good-looking.
With big eyes, jet black hair, fair and delicate face, and picturesque eyebrows, when two people walk together, people who don't know the truth will naturally make guesses.
But if you look closely, you can still see that the girl looks a bit like Pei Shan.
Pei Shan didn't seem to expect that Xu Xiao and Xu Yanxin were both here.
After being stunned for a moment, he first introduced his wife to Xia Lan. After Xia Lan bowed, he introduced Xu Xiao and Xu Yanxin.
Xia Lan was very obedient and bowed to everyone. She was shy and didn't talk much.
Wang Xiu gave a white jade bracelet as a greeting gift, and Xu Yanxin took off the pendant from his waist as a greeting gift, which made Pei Shan a little surprised.
He has known Xu Xiao for so long and met Xu Yanxin many times, but he has not prepared anything for Xu Yanxin.
Now when my cousin came, she accepted the gifts and felt a little overwhelmed for a while.
Wang Xiu knew that they were cautious, so he said to Pei Shan: "Take Lanlan to see where you lived first, and then come back for dinner later."
Pei Shan nodded and took his cousin out.
Wang Xiudao: "He is better-looking than Ji Xiang. He should look like her aunt, Pei Shan's mother."
Xu Xiao said: "No wonder I always feel that Pei Shan treats his cousin differently."
Wang Xiu agreed: "She's very gentle, isn't she? She's afraid of bumping into her? Maybe he didn't realize it until we met her this time. After all, the girl's facial features have grown, so she's different from when she was a child."
Xu Yanxin asked: "Has Pei Shan's mother passed away many years ago?"
Wang Xiu nodded and said: "Yes, both parents have passed away many years ago. He was forced out of the house by his brother and sister-in-law. When I met him, he was selling paintings on the street corner outside the temple. He was very stubborn.
But he’s very kind.”
Xu Yanxin sighed: "It's very rare to be able to maintain a pure heart after going through so much."
Wang Xiudao: "Isn't that right? Fortunately, he has already stood up, so I don't have to worry about him anymore."
Xu Xiao watched the two people talking about Pei Shan's kindness back and forth, and suddenly remembered the evidence of Pei Shan squatting like a night owl to Ji Xiangxue, and couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth.
I really don’t know, when the matter of the second wife of the Ji family is revealed and Pei Shan gives them a brief summary of the case and explains the whole story, will these two people still be able to sit still?
Xu Xiao glanced at his sister who felt that Pei Shan was pitiful. Suddenly his eyes lit up and he said with a smile: "Yan Xin, how about a gift from my brother?"
Xu Yanxin said inexplicably: "Why did you suddenly think of giving me a gift?"
Wang Xiuye said: "What bad idea are you planning? You are not allowed to bully Yan Xin?"
Xu Xiao smiled and joked: "I just want to go to the theater with Yan Xin."
Wang Xiu said "Huh", obviously not believing it.
Xu Yanxin also saw that his brother had bad intentions, and immediately said: "I won't go."
Xu Xiao was not in a hurry, and just reminded: "The protagonist is Pei Shan, are you sure you don't want to go?"