Chapter 86 This guy has a lot of cousins
Chen Tang turned around upon hearing the voice and saw that the person coming was a man in his early twenties with fair skin, a high nose and thin lips. He walked briskly and was obviously a regular customer.
He kept calling "Ali" and walked straight into the door. When he saw Chen Tang, he stopped immediately.
"Oh my! I forgot you already had a wife. How rash of me."
After saying that, he turned and walked away, retreated a few steps to the outside of the courtyard gate, closed the door, knocked twice, and shouted loudly.
"Is Huai Jing at home? Huai Jing?"
Qi Huaijing looked at the man coming in and out rashly, and couldn't help laughing, and he insisted on replying loudly.
"He's not in now!"
The man coughed, seemed to straighten his brocade robe, gently pushed open the door, put his hands behind his back, and walked in slowly, very gentle and elegant.
"Ah! Huai Jing is here. When did you arrive? Are you tired from the journey? You didn't even tell me in advance so I could pick you up... Is this your wife? Nice to meet you!"
Chen Tang looked at the returning guest with a smile, then looked at Qi Huaijing, his eyes filled with "Who is this person? What's his name? Stand up and introduce him to me!"
Qi Huaijing sat as steady as a rock, even crossing his legs.
"This is the scoundrel at our doorstep. Hurry up and call someone to chase him out!"
"Oh, look at you, you haven't improved at all even after getting married!"
The man clicked his tongue repeatedly, pointed at him with a frown, turned to Chen Tang, and immediately relaxed his brows and smiled as gentle as jade.
"…Wife Huai Jing, I am his uncle-in-law."
"Ah, so it is..."
Chen Tang didn't expect her uncle-in-law to be so young. When she was about to salute, Qi Huaijing grabbed her.
"Don't move! He is your peer, just call him by his full name, Zhao Wenzheng."
"Tsk tsk, Qi Huaijing you...nephew, your uncle won't bother with you, be good!"
Qi Huaijing slapped the hand that was about to touch his head and it flew away.
"If you dare to move again, I will break your arm!"
"Bah! You stinky boy..."
Chen Tang watched the two of them bickering with each other and was very sure that if he had not been there, they would have probably already started fighting.
A long time ago, these two people were indeed peers.
Zhao Wenzhen is the son of a business friend of the Yue family. He is two years older than Qi Huaijing. They have known each other since childhood and have similar personalities, so they usually call each other brothers.
When Qi Huaijing was thirteen years old, in order to cultivate their children's character, his two families each gave them five hundred taels of silver and asked them to try to open a small shop. Regardless of the profit or loss, as long as they could run it for three months, it would be considered a success.
The two brothers hit it off and opened a small spice shop, working from dawn to dusk every day... After persisting for half a year, they finally couldn't hold on any longer and closed the shop.
After closing the shop and calculating the accounts, the two of them made a total net profit of... twenty taels.
The elders on both sides said that they had done a good job. The two brothers were extremely proud. They spent all the twenty taels of silver and added some pocket money to set up several tables of banquets and invited people from both families to celebrate.
That day, fifteen-year-old Zhao Wenzhen met eighteen-year-old Cheng Xinyu for the first time.
"This is my aunt."
Zhao Wenzheng smiled sweetly, "Sister~"
Qi Huaijing frowned and corrected him, "We are of different generations, don't try to take advantage of me!"
Cheng Xinyu ignored everyone and just walked away.
Zhao Wenzheng looked at her for a long time before turning around and snorted at Qi Huaijing.
"Little brat, you know nothing!"
Three years later, Zhao Wenzhen suddenly told Qi Huaijing that he was going to marry his fierce aunt who was in her early twenties and had not yet married.
Qi Huaijing: "You...you are crazy! She is our elder! She is so much older than us!"
Zhao Wenzheng disagreed, "What does a kid know? A girl is a junior in college, so she can move around day and night!"
Qi Huaijing: “…”
Zhao Wenzheng patted his good brother on the shoulder.
"From now on, you should call me uncle, and don't mention the generation difference."
Here, two people were arguing fiercely when suddenly a little head popped up at the door.
“Daddy!”
The voice was soft and the tone was clear. A pretty little girl let go of her nurse's hand and ran over quickly.
The two of them immediately stopped arguing. Zhao Wenzheng agreed, turned around, took two quick steps, and hugged his daughter.
"Hey... Hey! My dear, Xixi, why are you here too?"
The little girl was about three or four years old, fair and tender, with rosy cheeks. She seemed to have just woken up. She was rubbing her sleepy eyes, grabbing her father's arm, and giggling again.
"Haha, I caught Daddy, I won! ...Hey, Brother Ali!"
The little girl's eyes lit up, Qi Huaijing smiled and pulled her little hand.
"Little cousin, you are here too? Come quickly, this is your sister-in-law."
Chen Tang greeted the little girl with a smile, thinking to himself, this guy has a lot of cousins.
As soon as little cousin Xixi came over, the two of them behaved like adults and sat down to drink tea and chat.
"...Xixi and I just came down from Baoyun Mountain and arrived home in the afternoon. As soon as I entered the door, I heard the servants say that you were back. While the girl was sleeping, I hurried over to find you... but she still found me. Look at you! You didn't even give me a notice in advance if you were coming to the capital! If I had known, my whole family would have come back earlier, hehe, so that we could meet your wife~"
Chen Tang looked up and smiled. She was sitting side by side with Xixi, the two of them taking turns eating pea yellow.
She raised Chen Li herself. This soft and sweet little girl likes a sister like her the most...cousin-in-law.
Qi Huaijing asked, "Your whole family went to visit your aunt, why did you two come back first? Where's your aunt? Where's your second brother?"
"Oh, you don't know, these two siblings can't be together. They will fight if they are close to each other! They fought so hard yesterday that Xinyu got furious and scolded the whole family. He ordered me to take one of them away... I chose Xixi."
The little girl raised her head and grinned, "Daddy loves me the most!"
Qi Huaijing looked at his three-year-old cousin who looked very much like his aunt.
"Xixi, can you beat Dongdong?"
The little girl clenched her fist.
"I beat him until he cried!"
Zhao Wenzheng clapped his hands proudly.
"This girl is very capable. She doesn't tolerate bullying at all. During those few days in the mountains, even Miss Yue..."
He suddenly stopped talking, subconsciously looked at Chen Tang, his eyes turned halfway, then turned back abruptly, and coughed in a nonchalant manner.
"...Xixi won't suffer any loss either."
Qi Huaijing had a blank expression on his face, but Chen Tang smiled calmly.
"Uncle-in-law, why don't you call me niece?"
Zhao Wenzhen was speechless for such a simple question.
Qi Huaijing suddenly laughed with interest, and there was a tacit understanding in his tone.
"Because—he, doesn't, dare!"
Zhao Wenzhen smiled awkwardly and wiped Xixi's little face which was stained with pea yellow.
"I'm a little afraid indeed... What if he gets upset and tries to trip me up in secret? I'm not afraid, because I have two stingy people at home... Haha, I'd rather offend Huai Jing. At worst, we can just fight. It's not like I can't win..."
Zhao Wenzheng looked at Chen Tang, who was smiling like a flower, and added another sentence.
"Sometimes I can't beat him, but he's just a kid, so I have to give in to him."
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