"Grandma, look at Grandpa! He keeps taking back his moves, and what's worse, he messes up the chessboard when he's about to lose!" As soon as Grandma returned, Ruan Ruan ran over and started complaining.

"Such a big girl, how come she's still tattling?" The old man's eyes darted back and forth between Ruan Ruan and his wife a few times before finally settling on Huo Haocheng. He seemed to be saying, "If I can't touch them, then I can't touch you either."

Huo Haocheng's inner thoughts: What did I do to deserve this?

"Alright, don't you know your own chess skills? You're terrible at chess but have a huge addiction. Come help me pick some vegetables."

After lunch break, Ruan Ruan took Huo Haocheng and the gifts to the Gu family first. Although Grandpa Gu had said that he had something to discuss with his grandfather and that they would come over, there was no reason for the grandson-in-law to have the elders come first when meeting the elders for the first time. How could Huo Haocheng go out and meet people in the future?

Both Grandpa Gu and Grandpa Ruan were founding generals, and their families lived in the same compound. Because they were related by marriage, their houses were arranged not far apart. The Ruan family was in the middle on the left, and the Gu family was in the middle on the right. It only took about ten minutes to walk to the left from the Ruan family's house.

"Grandpa, Grandma, I've brought your grandson-in-law to visit you!" Ruan Ruan said to the two elders as soon as she entered the Gu family's courtyard.

"Come in quickly and let us see!" Hearing Ruan Ruan's voice coming from outside, Old Madam Gu got up and went to the door to wait for the two to approach.

"Grandma, this is my husband, Huo Haocheng," Ruan Ruan first introduced Huo Haocheng to the old lady, then said to Haocheng, "Haocheng, this is Grandma."

"Grandma, hello, I'm Huo Haocheng."

"Haocheng, hello there too. Come in quickly, your grandfather is waiting for you."

Upon entering, Ruan Ruan saw Old Master Gu sitting on the sofa, looking up at them.

"Grandpa, it's been half a month since I last saw you. Did you miss me?" Ruan Ruan said as she ran over.

"Heh." Among the younger generation of the Gu family, who doesn't act like a mouse in front of a cat when they see him? It's quite strange that this one is the opposite.

"Grandpa, look at the grandson-in-law I brought you! Isn't he tall, imposing, and handsome?" Ruan Ruan ignored the old man's reaction and pulled Huo Haocheng over to shower him with praise.

"Not bad, he's a good lad. You have good judgment." Like Grandpa Ruan, Grandpa Gu saw Huo Haocheng's physique and achievements and thought he was a rare military talent.

Hello, Grandpa.

"These are some mountain products we brought from home. We hope Grandpa and Grandma won't mind them." They brought wild game that they had hunted a few days ago, which they had cleaned and dried, along with some nutritional supplements.

"How could I dislike it? I just love these things." Looking at the dried pheasants and rabbits in front of him, the old man sighed, "It's been many years since I've eaten these." Since moving into this compound, the old folks have rarely been able to go out. Every time they go out, someone has to accompany them and be responsible for their safety. They don't want to cause trouble for their children, so they try to avoid going out as much as possible.

It was the first time that Grandpa Gu and Grandma Gu had met Huo Haocheng, so they prepared a red envelope for him. Huo Haocheng thanked them, accepted it, and then gave it to Ruan Ruan, which made Ruan Ruan very happy.

Look how sour Grandpa Gu's teeth are falling out!

"Don't you keep some money for yourself?"

"Ruan Ruan gave me pocket money, and I didn't need much money in the army."

Ruan Ruan looked at the old man smugly and 'humphed'.

"Judging from his tone, Grandpa's secretly hiding some money!" Come on, let's have some fun!

"You brat, don't talk nonsense. I have no secret savings. Our family's money has always been with your maternal grandmother," Old Master Gu tried his best to defend himself.

"Grandma, look, Grandpa's getting anxious."

"You!" Old Mrs. Gu watched the old man and the young woman bickering and tapped Ruan Ruan's forehead with her finger in annoyance. She knew her husband well enough to know he had some money, but not much.

After sitting at the Gu family's house for a while, Ruan Ruan and Huo Haocheng accompanied the two elders out. On the way to the Ruan family's house, they encountered many elderly men and women from the compound.

"Hey, Lao Gu, I've never seen this young man next to you before."

"This is Ruan Ruan's husband. They just got married last week. Since we couldn't come, they brought him to see us!"

"Oh, newly married? Congratulations! What do you do for a living?"

"This is Haocheng, he's a soldier just like us."

"Soldiers are great!"

The two elders kept talking about Huo Haocheng to people along the way, and it took them more than half an hour to walk a journey that should have taken only ten minutes to reach the Ruan family's courtyard.

"Hey old man Gu, have you no shame? Hao Cheng is my granddaughter's husband!" From afar, you could hear old man Gu talking about Huo Hao Cheng to someone.

"How am I shameless? Haocheng is your granddaughter's husband, so he's not my granddaughter's husband. Aren't they the same?"

"You said it yourself, it's 'outside,' so how can it be the same with the extra 'outside'?"

"Okay, okay, okay, I'm the outsider, you're the insider, alright?"

"No, you've explained yourself clearly. How did I become 'the insider' again?"

The two old men chattered away, while the two old women, used to it, went inside and chatted on their own, leaving the two people involved alone in the yard, looking at each other. Even if they were thick-skinned, they couldn't help but be surrounded by a bunch of grandpas and grandmas praising them.

Based on her experience of reading novels for ten years, Ruan Ruan could imagine that in the future, Huo Haocheng would definitely become the "other people's child" that the grandparents in the compound talked about.

"What are you two doing standing in the yard? Come in quickly!" Grandma Ruan called to them while holding a watermelon, then sat down next to her great-aunt and put the watermelon on the coffee table.

"It's so hot outside, have a slice of watermelon to cool down!"