"Look at you, and then look at this person!" Jiang Yan hated the iron, "You and Lao Jiu grew up together. Lao Jiu is about to get married, and you? You don't even have a partner!"<
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Bo Ye: "..."
Bo's head was buzzing from being photographed, but he was thinking about the meeting between Xi and Ruan's family.
What’s more amazing is that his Ninth Brother is amazing. After looking forward to it for so many years, he is finally getting engaged.
Bo also knew the past between Xi Jiu and Ruan Qi, and was happy for Xi Jiu from the bottom of his heart. At this moment, the voice of Mr. Chen came from the box.
"Xiao Ran, who is outside? Why does my voice sound like Jiang Yan's?"
Jiang Yan replied quickly and shouted into the room: "Mr. Xi, it's me! And Bo Ye!"
The box was quiet for a while, and then Mr. Xi and Xi Jiu stood up and walked out.
Jiang Yan and Bo also immediately greeted the old man respectfully.
"Mr. Xi, I invited people from the team to have dinner here. I happened to hear the hotel manager say that you were here, so I brought Bo Ye over to have a look. I didn't expect you to meet Xiaoqi's family today. Am I disturbing you?"<
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Mr. Xi smiled and waved his hand: "Nothing, no need to bother me. The boys from the Bo family are here too, and they look a lot darker than at the beginning of the year."
Bo Ye nodded respectfully and gently: "In the past two months, the special team has been training in the field, and I have sunburned." After saying that, he winked at Xi Jiu, meaning that you have already met your in-laws, why didn't you tell everyone?
?
Are we still brothers?
Xi Jiu received Bo Ye's resentment and looked away expressionlessly.
He doesn't want a brother, he just wants a wife. The engagement date hasn't been set yet, so who wants to chat with you?
A group of single dogs.
Xi Jiu disliked her brother indifferently in her heart. On the other side, Ruan Qi also walked out of the box.
When she saw Jiang Yan and Bo Ye, she said hello with a smile, and then enthusiastically extended an invitation to her uncle and nephew.
"If Uncle Jiang and Bo Ye are fine, why don't they come in and have a chat with us?"
"Is this appropriate?" Jiang Yan hesitated. After all, it is a family matter of the Xi Ruan family. Wouldn't it be bad if he, an outsider, got involved?
Ruan Qi did not have these scruples and said: "Bo Ye and Jiujiu are good brothers, Uncle Jiang and Uncle Xi are also good friends, we are all a family, what's wrong with that? Moreover, with Uncle Jiang's uniform,
My grandparents will feel more at ease with Jiujiu."
People of the older generation always have a favorable impression of people wearing dark green uniforms. Jiang Yan and Bo Ye have high positions and are upright. Grandpa Ruan and grandma Ruan will definitely feel more at ease if they know that they have a close relationship with the Xi family.
The character of the Xi family.
Moreover, when he was in the Middle East, Bo also saved Ruan Qi. The Ruan family wanted to personally thank the person who saved their children.
Facing Ruan Qi's warm invitation, Jiang Yan was a little moved. He looked at Mr. Xi inquiringly, and the old man smiled and nodded: "Xiao Qi is right, we are not outsiders, so just come in."
Therefore, Jiang Yan and Bo also joined in the important life event of meeting their in-laws.
Everyone quickly decided on the date of engagement.
Since the Spring Festival has just passed, the imperial capital is still cold in spring and everything is depressed, which is not suitable for holding an engagement ceremony. So after some discussion, the two families set the date for half a year later.
Half a year later, it happened to be the end of September. The autumn air was crisp and the climate was pleasant, making it a good time to hold an engagement and wedding.
Xi Jiu was actually not very happy with the outcome of this negotiation. Half a year was really too long, and he wished he could marry Ruan Qi home tomorrow.
But he also knows that this season is really not suitable for getting engaged. Little girls all love beauty, and they all hope to dress beautifully at their engagement ceremony instead of being wrapped up like a bear.
Therefore, even though Xi Jiu was anxious, she still endured it.
It doesn't matter, he has been waiting for ten years, and he is not short of more than a hundred days.
……
After discussing the date of the engagement, the two families relaxed their major concerns. Afterwards, everyone chatted for a while, and it was not until about eight o'clock in the evening that the meal ended with satisfaction.
Ruan Qi and Xi Jiu first sent several elderly people to the car. The Xi family and the Ruan family chatted again at the door of the hotel before returning to their cars.
Before getting in the car, Yang Liu asked Xi Jiu: "Where will Lao Jiu go back? Will you go back to Yuyuan or the old house with us?"
"Yu Yuan." Xi Jiu put her arms around Ruan Qi's shoulders and said respectfully to her mother-in-law, "Xiao Qi and I will take a walk. Aunt, you guys will go back in the car first."
Yang Liu raised his wrist to look at the time and nodded: "Then you go back early, we'll leave first."
After saying that, the Ruan family members got into the car one after another, and Ruan Fengmian, the last one to get in, closed the door.
At the same time, a black Mercedes-Benz stopped on the other side of the hotel door, and several middle-aged men and women got out of the car.
"Cheng Qing, what are you doing standing there stupidly? Let's go."
Cheng Qing, who was a little dazed, reacted and raised his hand to grab his wife He Yun beside him.
"Look at that man over there, does he look like that?"
He Yun glanced in the direction of his finger and saw only a Rolls-Royce that had just left the hotel.
She looked confused: "Which man? Who does he look like?"
"That's who it is!" Cheng Qing's face could only be understood but could not be explained in words, "That's it! The one our old man gave birth to before!"
He Yun was stunned for a moment, then his pupils narrowed: "You mean Cheng Bainian?!"
This name seemed like a plague, and Cheng Qing's expression immediately changed.
"Why did you mention his name? If the old man finds out, neither of us will survive!"
But He Yun looked unconcerned: "Isn't he just a dead man? Is there anything we can't mention? Cheng Bainian has been dead for many years, and your old man is the only one who is a thief..." Noticing Cheng Qing's warning gaze, He Yun quickly swallowed
The words that came out of his mouth were, "There are no ghosts in this world. It is taboo for a dead person to do anything."
When He Yun married into the Cheng family, the well-known eldest son of the Cheng family, Cheng Bainian, was already dead, so she didn't know much about the old affairs of the Cheng family.
But Cheng Qing, Xu Qingya's biological third son, knew about the bloody storm back then.
Therefore, he kept secret about the deaths of Cheng Qi's first wife Liu Qiuyu and her son and daughter-in-law Cheng Bainian and Lin Yan.
"The bodies of Cheng Bainian and Lin Yan have not been found yet. My mother has always suspected that they were not dead at all. The man I saw just now looked very similar to Cheng Bainian in profile. But he got into the car too fast and I didn't see clearly.
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When He Yun heard this, he frowned: "Do you think the man just now was Cheng Bainian? Isn't that impossible? It's been more than twenty years. If he wanted to return to the imperial capital, he would have come back long ago. Why would he have to wait until now?"
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"That's impossible to say." Cheng Qing's face was solemn, "No, I have to tell my mother about this. If Cheng Bainian is really not dead, it would be terrible for him to come back after lying dormant for twenty years." p>