"I really haven’t thought about it." Su Xi hugged the quilt and leaned against the headboard, thinking seriously before answering, "Maybe when I meet him and he moves me, whatever he is, he is."
"So you haven’t met anyone who moved you?" Xu Nianhua pursued.
"No." Su Xi shook her head, saying, "I spend so much time practicing piano every day, where would I find the time to date anyone?"
"What about Wa Lei?" Xu Nianhua asked.
Su Xi quickly shook her head and said, "Forget it, he’s just a smiling tiger; he smiles on the surface, but who knows if he’ll stab you in the back later. With someone like that, I’d always be guessing, is he really smiling or faking it?"
"Too exhausting!"
Whenever Su Xi thought of that scenario, she felt her life was bleak, which is why she’d never choose Wa Lei.
"True." Xu Nianhua agreed with Su Xi’s words. She wanted to ask what she thought about her second brother, but then changed her mind and said, "Oh, right, speaking of which, my older brother and sister-in-law are really good together."
"Yes, I noticed that too. Your brother is very caring towards your sister-in-law. Is your sister-in-law pregnant again?" Su Xi followed along with the topic.
"She’s due in March. I’ll soon be an aunt again."
Xu Nianhua thought about how her older brother was hoping for a daughter, secretly teaching Zhuangzhuang to say that there’s a little sister in the belly, but Zhuangzhuang insisted it was a little brother, or he would get agitated.
"Congratulations, I’ll come to see the little baby when the time comes." Seeing the chubby Zhuangzhuang made Su Xi inexplicably more excited. She said, "Actually, my older cousin, your real older brother, and Sister Manyin are also great together. Even when Hongen was sick, they never gave up. Many advised them to have another child, but they refused, saying it would be unfair to Hongen."
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"Jinrong, am I dreaming?" Jiang Wanru lay in the Xu Family guest room, unable to fall asleep, feeling like she was in a dream. If she wasn’t afraid of startling Xu Nianhua, she would have sat by her bed watching her sleep, to make up for all these years of not knowing her daughter’s existence.
"No, you’re not dreaming. We’ve found our Yuyu, she is indeed our Yuyu."
Su Jinrong affirmed, having repeated it to Jiang Wanru numerous times since returning to the room.
"We’ve found our Yuyu." Jiang Wanru, thinking of years of sorrow over Yuyu’s early passing, felt even more hatred for Jia Sufen.
"Don’t worry, I won’t let Jia Sufen off." Su Jinrong knew what Jiang Wanru was thinking, so he changed the subject to distract her. He said, "Wanru, do you think we should buy some land nearby and build a house? That way, we can be closer to Yuyu, right?"
"Yes, yes, this New Year we must have a family reunion!" Jiang Wanru, holding his hand, excitedly said, "After all these years, this New Year will be a true family reunion. Nianhua will surely be reluctant to leave her adoptive parents, and we’re also getting old, so it doesn’t matter where we live."
"Then I’ll have Xiaolie check tomorrow to see where’s suitable for building a house." Jiang Wanru agreed with Su Jinrong’s idea.
Jiang Wanru added, "The Xu Qinghe couple have been so good to Yuyu. Without them, who knows how our Yuyu would have turned out. How should we thank them?"
"Honestly, we were really rude today, showing up empty-handed and even staying at the Xu Family!"
Jiang Wanru felt another pang of regret thinking about their lack of preparedness.
"Don’t worry, the Xu Family couple are good people and won’t dwell on it. Wanru, we should change how we address her; she’s not only Nianhua, she’s also our Yuyu." Su Jinrong had thought he would be stuck with those two rascals for life, but unexpectedly, fate has been kind to him.