Chapter 347 – They’re more like family

“What is it?”

“Just want to trouble you to help me watch a little Meimei …… Meimei she …… Meimei although martial arts is good, but she is not as smart as Ruo’er sister, I’m afraid that she will be cheated by those brats in your house who are accustomed to moving crooked ideas ……”

Said Xu Zhengyong, his cheeks slightly flushed red.

“You should speak to Ruo’er about this matter.” Wei Jin also said.

“That won’t work, Sister Ruo’er and Meimei are together, tell Sister Ruo’er and Meimei she’ll know.”

“I am aware of that, and will keep an eye out for Brother Xu.” Wei Jin also replied.

Hearing this reply, Xu Zhengyong happily patted Wei Jinye’s shoulder, “Then I’ll thank Second Brother Wei in advance!”

After talking business with Xu Zhengyong, Wei Ruo and Wei Jin didn’t leave right away, and stayed for a late dinner together under the generous invitation of the nanny’s family.

The table was set on the patio, and Nana had made a home-cooked meal by hand.

These dishes are not as good as the chefs at the Drunken Immortal Residence, nor do they have as many high-grade ingredients, but they have a taste of home that can’t be matched anywhere else, and they are a treat for the palate.

At the dinner table, seeing Wei Ruo and the Xu family talking and laughing with each other, Wei Jin also saw a different Wei Ruo.

Perhaps this was the real her, whereas the schoolmaster’s house was bound to her.

And the way the Xu family and Wei Ruo got along with each other made Wei Jin also feel relaxed and cozy in a way that he had never felt before.

“Second Brother Wei, you eat more.” Xu Zhengyong enthusiastically pinched food for Wei Jin Yi, “Look at you, you’re so skinny and weak, you can fall down when the wind blows, I’m guessing that you won’t be able to stand up with one of my fists going up, so you have to eat more and eat stronger.”

Xiu Mei snickered.

“Meimei, what are you laughing at?” Xu Zhengyong asked.

“Nothing, I was just kind of expecting you to punch the second youngest.” Xiu Mei said with a smile.

“I’m just making an analogy, Second Brother Wei is good to Sister Ruo’er, why would I want to beat him up?” Xu Zhengyong said and then turned his head to explain to Wei Jinye, “Don’t worry, Second Brother Wei, although my fists are hard, they are not to beat you up, I only beat up people who bully Sister Ruo’er.”

“Uh-huh.” Wei Jin also answered.

Xiu Mei smiled even more happily.

“What the hell are you laughing at, Meimei?” Xu Zhengyong wondered.

“It’s fine, it’s fine, I just think that you’re so awesome, Brother Yong.” Xiu Mei said with a smile.

Xu Zhengyong was skeptical, always feeling that Xiu Mei was saying this to ridicule himself, but he couldn’t find any evidence.

Wei Ruo chucked a large piece of Dried Plum Cabbage Buckle Meat into Wei Jin Yi’s bowl, “Brother Xiao Yong is right, you look weak, you really should eat more, this Dried Plum Cabbage Buckle Meat is my Nurse’s specialty, you eat it.”

This kind of dish-pinching behavior would not happen in the Wei family, and in a high family, this kind of behavior seems indecent.

But in the Xu family, we do not have such taboos, and there is no rule that you can not talk during the meal, the whole table is hot and lively, with the warmth that Wei family does not have.

“Hmm.” Wei Jin also picked up the meat and savored it, “It’s delicious.”

Seeing Wei Jin Yi said it was delicious, the milkmaid breathed a sigh of relief, she was worried that he wouldn’t like it, after all, the young lady’s brother grew up in the school captain’s mansion, he was used to eating fine food, and eating moldy vegetables and pickled vegetables would probably be uncomfortable.

Xu Zhengyong said to Wei Jinyi, “Second Brother Wei, you should come with Sister Ruo’er and my senior sister more often in the future, my mother knows a lot of dishes.”

“Uh-huh.” Wei Jin also answered, a shallow, gentle smile on his face.

“Who’s your senior sister now?” Xiu Mei was dissatisfied with the way Xu Zhengyong addressed herself.

“You!” Xu Zhengyong justified.

“Don’t you dare, I’m your senior sister!” Xiu Mei retorted.

“No, you are my senior sister!” Xu Zhengyong insisted.

“……”

These two are back to bickering about seniority ordering.

Wei Ruo, Nurse and Xu Zhushan were all very used to it.

Wei Ruo explained to Wei Jin Yi, “The two of them have to quarrel so much every once in a while, and I might not be used to it if they don’t quarrel one day.”

“Well, it’s quite good.” Wei Jin also said.

This kind of bickering only happens to people who are in a good relationship, not to the average person.

In the midst of laughter, all of them finished their dinner in the backyard of Four Treasures. And afterward, Wei Ruo and Wei Jin also rode the carriage back to the school captain’s mansion together.

On the way, Wei Jin Yi looked at Wei Ruo in a good mood and relaxed himself.

“Ruo’er, do you want to go back to that home?” Wei Jin Yi suddenly asked.

That family, the Hsu family.

Perhaps for Ruo’er, a place with the Xu family was more like her home.

“I want to, but it’s hard isn’t it? The Wei family is still a house of lords even if it’s declining, and even if I can make money, I’m still just a businessman or a woman. The status difference, I can’t fight.”

“So you want to marry someone.” This matter Wei Jin also learned from Wang Caiwei, and this was the first time he talked to Wei Ruo positively after returning.

“Yes, I want to be free, and I wonder if the Second Brother can understand that. I know my idea is a bit shocking, but it will allow me to get the life I want.” Wei Ruo explained.

The light inside the carriage at the moment of dusk was not bright, and one side of Wei Ruo’s face reflected the light of the evening sun, while one side was hidden in the darkness.

Wei Jin also stared at Wei Ruo’s face and didn’t say anything for a long time.

Wei Ruo raised her head and smiled at Wei Jin also, “So second brother don’t stop me next time, I am thinking clearly.”

Wei Jin didn’t agree or retort either.

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Early the next morning, Wei Mingting also returned to the school captain’s residence.

There had to be a reason why he went home so frequently, or else given the current tense situation along the coast, Wei Mingting, as a deputy guard, would never have been able to leave his post so frequently.

After returning to the residence, Wei Mingting locked himself inside his study.

Out of concern, Yun asked the kitchen to make some food to visit.

“Husband, why have you come back? But something happened over at the military camp?” Yun’s face was full of concern.

“Something has happened.” Wei Mingting frowned with a grave expression.

“Is it the problem of rations that hasn’t been solved yet?”

“The question of provisions has come to a head, but there is another matter just as grave that now besets me.”

“What was that about?” Cloud pressed.

Wei Mingting looked at Yun and sighed, “Go and call Ruo’er over, I have some things I want to talk to her about.”

Wei Mingting’s heart is depressed, but these things Wei Mingting felt that the words with his wife were not very useful, instead, the image of his eldest daughter came to his mind.

Yun was a bit surprised, not expecting that the person her husband thought of at this time would be the eldest daughter.

After thinking for a moment, Yun replied, “Okay, I’ll have someone go get Ruo’er here.”

And then Yun called Cui Ping and asked her to go to Listening Pine Court to ask Wei Ruo to come over.

When Cui Ping came to listen to Pine Court to look for Wei Ruo with Yun’s order, Wei Ruo was looking at the account book in her room.

(End of chapter)