Chapter 140 It's all Xu Muhua's fault
The laughter in the room stopped for a moment.
Xu Jiang and Xu Rui were rarely in the capital, and it was a rare occasion for them to come back, but it still didn't affect their impression of the Xu family next door and their understanding of their style of doing things.
The father and son looked indifferent, not to mention Xu Nan, who rolled his eyes in an uncivilized manner. Xu's mother saw it and glared at him as a warning.
It's the New Year, no matter what, you have to endure it, you can't lose face for your family. When people come to pay New Year's greetings, you don't know what they will do, but you put on a bad face first. If it gets out, will outsiders still blame them?
"Okay, it's the New Year, cheer up."
The old lady said, and everyone just picked up the topic again as if nothing had happened.
Soon, the people from the Xu family next door who came to pay New Year's greetings were led in by the servants.
Compared to the Chengguo Mansion, the population of the Xu family next door is much more complicated!
Xu Muhua's grandfather and the old man Xu next door are brothers. The relationship between the two brothers was pretty good back then, but the conflict came after they each got married. The old lady and the old lady next door don't get along, and they are not tolerant, so the conflict is getting bigger and bigger.
After the separation, the two sides have become a contrast group, and the old lady is in good health now. But the old lady next door is not so lucky, she passed away early.
The Xu family next door said that it was the old lady who pissed people off! Because she always makes the other party angry, the more angry they are, the shorter their life will be over time, right?
The old lady has heard such words a lot in private, but people didn't say it to her face, so she can't do anything!
They also like to use this matter to curry favor, and they are getting more shameless after the old man next door passed away. The Chengguo
Mansion was considerate of the family affection and tolerated it as much as possible. The only thing left in the relationship between the two families was the face-saving work.
The voices arrived before the people, and from the sound, it was a big family, young and old, they all came!
Sure enough, Xu Muhua felt that the whole hall seemed extremely crowded after their family came in! Even the light in the hall seemed to be a little insufficient.
Of course, Xu's mother knew that the old lady's place was a little small, so she let the family pay New Year's greetings to the old lady and then led them to the front hall.
In fact, this was exactly what they wanted. Some things and some words are always difficult to say in front of the old lady. But it is much easier in front of other people.
After another round of greetings, the elders let the younger ones go to the garden to play by themselves, obviously wanting to get rid of them.
Xu Muhua left very quickly. Anyway, if she wanted to know later, she could just act coquettishly to her mother. She really didn't want to see Li's face here.
"Sister Muhua, Sister Muhua, wait!"
Hearing the voice, Xu Muhua had to stop, "What's wrong?"
"Sister Muhua, I heard that you raised a tiger, right? Can I see it?"
"I want to see it too!"
"Sister Muhua, please let us see it. We really want to see a tiger. We have never seen one!"
Xu Muhua looked at the little kids in front of her and barely identified their identities based on her memory.
The older one who looked about the same age as Xu Nan was Li's second son. The remaining one was the son of Li's sister-in-law, and the other was the son of her sister-in-law's concubine.
The youngest one is the youngest son born to Li. He is only four years old this year. He is usually spoiled too much. Other children can run and jump at the age of four, but this one still walks unsteadily.
These children are probably still young and have not yet become hateful. They look innocent and cute.
Xu Muhua is not a person who is easily angry or stingy. After hearing what they said, he said readily: "Okay, you can go to Anan's room and wait first. I will bring the little tiger over."
When the children heard this, they all jumped up and clapped their hands, "Great, great, we can see the little tiger! Let's go to brother Anan's room and wait!"
Although Xu Nan didn't like the people in the Xu Mansion next door, he was not bad to these little ones.
Xu Muhua quickly asked Wu'er to bring the tiger cub over.
When the children saw the tiger cub, they all cried out in surprise, stunned, and their eyes widened.
"It's really a tiger!"
It was the same scene again. The tiger cub had already gotten used to it, and soon played with the children.
Not long after, the grandfather also came over slowly, but he did not join in, but sat aside maturely, like a responsible parent.
Xu Muhua felt that these kids would play for who knows when, and it was too boring for her to sit here and watch a few naughty kids play, so she simply told Wu'er to stay and watch, and left.
She thought that after all, she was at home, and it was the first day of the new year, so nothing would happen. But she didn't expect that something really happened.
As soon as she left, Xu Yuyao and several young ladies from the Xu Mansion next door came over, accompanied by Xu Jinyu.
As soon as Xu Jinyu entered the house and saw Wu'er, she subconsciously searched for Xu Muhua. After searching for a while without finding her, she turned her gaze and fell on the tiger that was playing happily with everyone. Her eyes gradually became deep.
"Did you see it? That little tiger was brought back from other places by my eldest sister. Do you think my eldest sister is amazing? My eldest sister likes this little tiger very much. She loves it so much that she can't wait to hold it to sleep at night!"
Xu Jinyu said casually.
Of course, Xu Yuyao had heard about this, but today was the first time she saw the tiger raised by Xu Muhua with her own eyes.
Tiger, Xu Muhua actually raised a tiger!
Xu Yuyao couldn't tell whether she was more curious or jealous at this moment.
"We all said that big sister treasured this tiger so much. What will big sister do if the tiger dies or something happens to it? I don't know if she can bear it. Big sister will definitely be very sad. Seeing big sister like this, I don't dare to keep a pet."
Xu Jinyu sighed.
Xu Yuyao took her words to heart.
Looking at the tiger, a vicious idea suddenly popped up in her mind.
If something happened to this tiger, Xu Muhua would definitely be very sad, right?
She didn't forget that it was because of Xu Muhua that she was severely slapped by her mother some time ago, and her reputation was almost ruined! She didn't know how Xu Muhua knew her secret, but since she knew it, why didn't she keep it secret for her, but told her mother instead?
Didn't Xu Muhua know what she would suffer if she said that?
Moreover, after her mother knew about it, she locked her up and didn't let her out until the New Year, but she found a strict nanny to follow her all the time. This is only because she was in the Chengguo Mansion, otherwise the nanny would not leave her alone!
She was basically being monitored!