Chapter 7: Almost Exposed
"Baihua, don't worry. As long as it's something you want, your mother will help you get it." Li Jinyan rushed forward in a panic, helped Qi Baihua to get up, gently patted the stones and dust off her body, and made a vicious promise.
Although Qi Xu kept walking forward, her hearing was just good enough to hear the conversation between the shameless mother and daughter.
They knew it clearly in their hearts that if they wanted to make her suffer, they might not be qualified enough just by themselves.
Qi Xu did not take the mother and daughter seriously. Even if something happened later, she would deal with it as it came. She was not a pushover.
At around ten o'clock that morning, Qi Hong was smoking his old pipe and watching Qi Xu practicing Ba Duan Jin in the open space in front of his house. From afar, he saw Jiang Hongyi driving an ox cart with his whole family moving forward.
"Captain Lao and Xu Xu are enjoying the sun?" Jiang Boqun leaned forward and greeted the two before getting out of the car.
The back of the oxcart was packed with gift boxes, leaving almost no space, except for the people sitting there.
"Is the old man here? Come in quickly, Qi girl, and take the gift."
Qi Hong was very calm in the face of this big scene. He stood up slowly and knocked the ashes in his old pipe against the wall before greeting people with a smile.
Qi Xu brushed off the non-existent dust on his clothes, rubbed his hands on the edge of his clothes, nodded shyly, and reached out to take a gift box from Jiang Hongyi's hand, then led the way into the house.
All the gift boxes were placed next to the eight-immortals table in the main hall, neatly arranged in rows. Anyone who saw them would say it was a grand occasion.
"Old Captain, I won't beat around the bush. The two children are in love. I compared their horoscopes and they look great. There are only two good dates left this month for a wedding banquet. You can pick which one you like."
While Jiang Boqun was speaking, he took out an old almanac from his left pocket with his left hand, and directed Jiang Hongyi with his right hand to take out a red cloth bag the size of a brick.
"This is the betrothal gift for our daughter. Captain, please give it a try. We will definitely not treat Xu Xu unfairly."
Qi Xu calculated the height of the bricks. If they were all made of Great Unity, there would be about a thousand bricks, right?
When the red cloth bag was placed on the eight-immortals table, Qi Hong's face lit up with joy. "You are indeed very thoughtful. It is better to show this date to Miss Qi. After all, it is her big day."
Then, the old almanac was passed to Qi Xu's hands, but she did not open it to read it immediately. Instead, she raised her head and asked.
"Uncle Jiang, can I see the matching horoscopes first?"
Because the wedding date is matched with their birth dates, of course we have to choose an auspicious day.
Jiang Boqun thought she was simply curious, so he handed Liang Jing the completed birthday gift wrapped in red paper.
Who would have thought that Qi Xu was not only curious but also a half-expert.
She held the old almanac in one hand, opened the birthday paper and placed it on it, then looked it up and down and couldn't help feeling happy.
Their horoscopes are simply perfect. Not only do the yin and yang complement each other, and the five elements generate each other, but the day pillars are harmonious, the three combinations are also six combinations, and even the heavenly stems and earthly branches are mutually generated. Even the wealth and official positions are mutually generated, the rivals help each other, the food and injuries are mutually generated, the seals are mutually generated, and the most critical husband and wife palaces are all in harmony.
Qi Xu couldn't help but widen her eyes, raised her hand and rubbed her eyes uncertainly, and read it word by word. Yes, it was what she saw.
"What's up, Xuxu girl? Is there something wrong with the horoscope you matched? Do you need someone to do it again?"
Jiang Boqun's reconnaissance ability is not comparable to that of ordinary people. He could see the change in her expression at a glance.
"No, I think I can understand each of these Chinese characters individually, so why do I completely not understand them when they are put together?"
She almost forgot that her current personality was that she was fat but timid, fleshy but weak, and she quickly pretended to be innocent.
Knowing their birth dates, she quickly calculated an auspicious date. "Uncle Jiang, I think the Saturday after this week is a good day for marriage. Let's set it on that day."
After the date of the wedding banquet was confirmed, everyone discussed choosing a good day and time in the next few days so that the two children could go and get their marriage certificates.
Jiang Hongyi had already filed a marriage report before returning from vacation, so he did not need to apply separately.
However, Qi Xu looked around and found that there was no other suitable day to get the certificate, and the only auspicious day was the wedding banquet, so she chose to get the certificate after the wedding banquet.
The two elders chatted for a while, and Qi Xu was also asked all kinds of questions by Liang Jing. After waiting for Jiang Boqun and Qi Hong to finish chatting, she quickly found an excuse and returned to her grandfather.
If she stayed with Liang Jing any longer, even if she didn't shed her skin, her past as not the original owner would probably be exposed.
In fact, Jiang Hongyi saw her every move today. Sometimes he thought that this girl had a gentle personality, sometimes he thought that this girl was cunning, and sometimes he thought that this girl was very cunning.
In short, in just this short while, Jiang Hongyi even felt that Qi Xu could perform seventy-two transformations.
When seeing off all the Jiang family members, Qi Xu saw doubt in Jiang Hongyi's eyes. Although she was a little puzzled, she did not delve into it.
After watching the Jiang family leave again, Qi Xu's face slowly showed a little joy. If there were many benefits to marrying Jiang Hongyi, she would be a little impatient.
The weight loss plan is still going on, but I haven’t run into Li Jinyan and her daughter again. I don’t know what they are doing secretly.
As the wedding date approached, Qi Xu was not nervous but a little excited. He gave a lot of betrothal money that day. Later he counted it and there was more than 1,200 yuan, and there were also many rice, flour, sugar and oil coupons.
I don’t know whether it was Jiang Hongyi, Jiang Boqun or Liang Jing, but they were so thoughtful.
The banquet was held in the courtyard of the old house occupied by Li Jinyan's family. It was not until a few days after the banquet that Qi Xu realized how big the old house was. The banquet could easily accommodate ten tables.
But Qi Xu felt something was amiss, because it was Li Jinyan herself who suggested holding the wedding banquet in the old house, and the trick was self-evident.
There is no such thing as the groom picking up the bride. The husband and wife are responsible for toasting each table and getting to know the elders and relatives of both sides.
The small talk at the wedding banquet was nothing more than "May you have a happy marriage" and "May you have a son soon". Qi Xu was getting a little tired of hearing this, and only after he finished his fake smile could he put down the wine glass in his hand.
"Hey, Xuxu, Jiang Hongyi seems a bit drunk. Why don't you let me help him to the guest room to rest? Everyone is still eating, so it will probably take a while before they can leave."
At this time, Li Jinyan appeared from some corner, holding Jiang Hongyi's arm and walking towards the guest room.
"No, no, I'll help him go to the door where there's some wind and he'll wake up."
Tsk tsk tsk, how could she not know what was going on? With so many people coming and going at the banquet, Jiang Hongyi couldn't just delegate.
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