Mr. Du saw that the third disciple’s affairs had reached a conclusion.
Only then did he talk about Xinyan’s engagement with everyone: "On the sixth day of the month, your junior sister is getting engaged. Please make arrangements in advance."
After speaking, he looked at Qian Wanning: "Old Fourth, you don’t need to force it. Your little junior sister can understand."
Upon hearing this, Qian Wanning first took out a thick red envelope: "This red envelope is from your fourth senior brother as a belated meeting gift."
Xinyan felt embarrassed to accept it and waved her hand directly: "Fourth senior brother, there’s no need for a red envelope, is there?"
Qian Wanning smiled and said: "This is not your New Year’s money; it’s the meeting gift from your fourth senior brother. You absolutely cannot refuse."
Xinyan felt a bit troubled and couldn’t help looking at her master.
Mr. Du smiled and said: "It’s from your fourth senior brother; just accept it."
Without waiting for Xinyan to react, Qian Wanning directly stuffed the red envelope into Xinyan’s hand.
Later, Qian Wanning said with a guilty expression: "Little junior sister, I’m truly sorry. Your engagement banquet, I’m afraid your fourth senior brother cannot attend."
Xinyan knew that, although the fourth senior brother was just a military doctor, he was still a soldier and had to obey orders. "Fourth senior brother, work comes first."
At this point, Shen Guqing interjected: "If you can’t attend the engagement banquet, you must return for Xinyan’s wedding."
Qian Wanning nodded and replied: "Indeed, I’ll make sure to arrange everything in advance."
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Beijing Zheng Family
Zheng Huaizhong rushed to find Mr. Zheng in a hurry: "Dad, there’s news, there’s news."
Mr. Zheng understood the meaning behind his second son Zheng Huaizhong’s words immediately: "Really, quickly tell me."
Zheng Huaizhong did not respond but took a glass of water for himself first, gulping it down before speaking: "The pair of children from third brother are in Beijing."
Mr. Zheng stood up directly from his chair: "What did you say? They’re in the capital?"
Mr. Zheng anxiously asked: "Is their situation completely investigated?"
Zheng Huaizhong feared that the old man couldn’t take it, promptly poured him another glass of water: "Dad, don’t worry, they’re found and won’t run away."
Seeing the old man’s eyes almost ablaze, he quickly said: "The aunt from the Guan family adopted our Jingzhong and his biological nephew after her husband followed a railway engineering team.
Both husband and wife felt that adopting these two children was good. Thinking that outside, people didn’t know them, naturally there wouldn’t be anyone who knew the children weren’t biological, which was good for both the children and the couple.
Later, they still didn’t have their own children, so they treated our Jingzhong fairly well. However, human hearts are biased, and in the end, our Jingzhong and those people were not blood-related.
After the Guan family aunt’s husband passed away, she made the decision to divide the family.
She let her biological nephew take her husband’s position in the railway engineering team and also told our Jingzhong about their family’s inheritance, saying he wasn’t entitled to any share.
Our Jingzhong likely understood early on and naturally didn’t compete over it.
Fortunately, Jingzhong was also hardworking, and through his own efforts, he became a formal worker at the screw factory, and his life after the division was not bad.
After he passed away, the leader of the screw factory took care of the family, allowing Jingzhong’s wife to take over his position, which was barely enough to make ends meet.
But good times didn’t last long; later, Jingzhong’s wife also passed away, leaving only the two children dependent on each other, and Zheng family’s daughter, Guan Zhiyue, stepped up to support the family by taking over her mother’s position to provide for her younger brother’s education."
After hearing this, Mr. Zheng immediately asked: "Have you seen the two children?"