Seeing Huo Shiqian say this, Master's wife couldn't help but stop smiling and nodded. She said, "You are good, truly worthy of being Bao Jiaye's nephew."
"Master's wife, are you acquainted with my uncle?" Hearing Master's wife's words, Huo Shiqian couldn't resist asking.
Upon hearing this, Xia Chuyi also immediately looked towards Master's wife.
She had always been quite curious about this matter, just too embarrassed to ask about it.
"It's not really an acquaintance," Master's wife sighed and said to everyone, "It's more like just knowing of each other, I guess."
Pausing, Master's wife continued, "Bao Jiaye and I once had a verbal marriage engagement."
Xia Chuyi, Huo Shiqian: ...
This ... there was an engagement, and it's still only knowing each other?
Old Sir Guan, who was sitting nearby, huffed dissatisfiedly.
Xia Chuyi blinked, recalling something Master's wife had mentioned before.
So, the marriage engagement that Master's wife had evaded was with Professor Bao? But later, Mrs. Gu married Professor Bao, and the story behind that was still unclear.
Master's wife looked at Old Sir Guan and explained, "It was the elders' wish. Bao Jiaye and I weren't close, and we rarely interacted privately."
"As for Xiu Zhi, she knew Bao Jiaye when she attended the private school."
Sighing again, Master's wife added, "I did not know when I left the Capital City that later on, Xiu Zhi would marry him."
Obviously, Master's wife held some regret. If she had known at that time that Xiu Zhi would marry Bao Jiaye, perhaps she wouldn't have needed to elope with Mr. Guan at all.
"Anyway, all of that is just old history. Better left unmentioned," Master's wife concluded in the end.
After saying this, she glanced at Old Sir Guan.
By this time, Old Sir Guan was already visibly upset.
As the younger generation, Xia Chuyi and Huo Shiqian exchanged a glance, nodded at each other, and said nothing.
After introducing Huo Shiqian to Master and Master's wife, because Huo Shiqian's team was arriving in G City in the afternoon, Xia Chuyi left with Huo Shiqian and went back to the guesthouse first.
On the way back, Huo Shiqian suddenly said to her, "Chuyi, have you and your Master and Master's wife met before?"
"You seem very close to them."
Hearing his question, Xia Chuyi stopped in her tracks, stood still, facing him directly, and said, "Brother Shi Qian, do you believe in 'a kindred spirit at first sight'?"
"A kindred spirit at first sight?"
Huo Shiqian looked at her without answering.
Xia Chuyi said to him very seriously, "That's how I feel towards my Master and Master's wife. I felt a connection the first time I met them."
"So, from now on, in addition to uncle and auntie, Master and Master's wife will also be very important elders to me."
There was an unusual seriousness in her eyes.
Huo Shiqian watched her intently, silent.
Clearly, the girl was harboring a secret.
However, he had already said he would wait until the day she was willing to share it with him.
After a while, Huo Shiqian patted her head and said, "Chuyi, I am very happy you brought me to meet your very important elders."
Skirting around other issues.
Xia Chuyi understood what Huo Shiqian meant and, relieved, laughed, "Yes, the most important elders to me have met you, and they approve of you, Brother Shi Qian!"
Huo Shiqian nodded and said, "Hmm, so when will you also accompany me back to the Huo Family?"
Now that the girl's parents had been met, naturally, it was time to meet the boy's parents.
Xia Chuyi hesitantly replied to him, "Actually ... I've already met your father and stepmother."
"You ... should know that, right?