At this moment, he really wanted to see her!
It was truly the first time that Meng Xinian had felt this kind of longing for someone, constantly thinking about all sorts of details about the other person.
Most people usually experience their first flush of emotion in their teens, but his teenage years were spent battling with his family, scrambling in the Meng Troop, and before he turned twenty, the impression he had of women consisted of his grandmother, which was reverence, his birth mother, which was but a memory, and that woman now at home, who nearly destroyed all his favorable feelings towards women, making him extremely averse to young women!
Therefore, the emergence of Chiang Xiao was incredibly refreshing and intriguing to him and could be considered a form of redemption.
"Captain Meng, what on earth did you draw?"
"Captain Meng, you’re about to drool."
Meng Xinian was taken aback and actually reached up to touch the corner of his mouth.
Hu Xibing could hardly contain himself.
When had he ever seen Meng Xinian act so silly?
"Captain Meng, Chiang Xiao is really still young, you can’t possibly have..." do you really have that kind of feeling for her?
In fact, they all felt that Meng Xinian had become engaged to Chiang Xiao partly to protect her reputation, as they knew all about how the situation had developed and there was a bit of being pushed into it. Another reason was to deal with the pressure to marry from his family.
And to Meng Xinian, Chiang Xiao was at most the affection one might have for a younger sister.
Even worse, they worried that if this engagement really hindered Captain Meng’s marriage prospects in the future, what would they do? Chiang Xiao was still so young, and they also fretted about what would become of her as she grew up; bearing the title of a fiancée might make it hard to find someone else.
But looking at Meng Xinian now, why did it feel like he was taking this a bit too seriously?
Meng Xinian looked expressionlessly at Hu Xibing.
Was Chiang Xiao really that young?
Yes, her body was small, but somehow, he increasingly felt that she wasn’t that young anymore, right?
He was quite interested in this matter and wanted to thoroughly discover more about her!
As for what kind of feeling this was, sorry, he didn’t know himself.
"Ahem, Captain Meng, could we take a look at the painting?" Chu Liang, seeing the situation, coughed and asked. Hu Xibing, really, they were now engaged, so what if he truly had feelings for Chiang Xiao?
Anyway, judging from that mission, he thought that Chiang Xiao was worthy of Meng Xinian.
Now, he was just curious about the painting!
Meng Xinian rolled up the painting and said indifferently, "I’ll enjoy this painting myself. So tell me, how is she doing now?"
In Chiang Xiao’s letters, she always wrote about fun and happy events, but what he really hoped for was to know her troubles as well.
So since Hu Xibing had come, he had to ask.
"Right, I ran into her in town yesterday when I came here." Hu Xibing shared everything about the encounter from the day before, and at the end, he couldn’t help asking, "Captain Meng, did you teach her martial arts? The move she showed was really graceful! Ho Laidi, an old woman, was subdued by her three fingers, unable to move for a long time. And it seemed like sister-in-law didn’t even use her full strength."
Meng Xinian was taken aback.
Teach her martial arts? How could he possibly have taught her martial arts when they had only met a few times and each meeting was so brief?
Chiang Xiaoxiao actually knew martial arts?!