Pei Xiao felt his daughter's gaze, and his heart softened.
He reached out and patted his daughter's back gently, his movements cautiously, as if Yu Zihan was a fragile treasure.
"This is our family, including grandparents, uncle, aunt, cousins." Pei Xiao patiently introduced them to Yu Zihan.
Yu Zihan's eyes swept over these people one by one. Their eyes were full of excitement and love.
She knew her family was kind and she was lucky to have them.
It felt a bit inappropriate for the whole family to stand outside the door, so Pei Xiao invited everyone inside.
"Come in and tell me if you have anything to say," he said to his family.
The Pei family was finally awakened and found themselves standing in the corridor. They were both amused and confused.
As soon as she entered the house, grandma couldn't wait to walk to Yu Zihan's side. She looked at Yu Zihan lovingly and said, "Child, I am your grandma. It's great. You look so much like Xiao'er and Meijuan." The old lady murmured.
"Don't scare the child, there's plenty of time to talk." The old man scolded the old lady. Although he said this, his eyes never left Yu Zihan.
"Grandpa and grandma." After Yu Zihan understood the identity of the people in front of him, he greeted them politely.
"Hey." The two elders answered in unison.
Everyone present was moved to tears. Especially Pei Xiao. He really had a daughter, and she was so outstanding. He couldn't bear to take his eyes off Yu Zihan for a moment.
"Let's leave it at that for today. It's getting late. I'll pick up Zi Han and take him home tomorrow. We can talk then." Pei Xiao made a suggestion out of fear of disturbing Yu Zi Han's rest.
"I still have to participate in the competition." Yu Zihan did not forget the important matter.
"Oh, didn't you see the game time on the game poster?" Pei Shuyan spoke. She had to make her presence felt this time. She was the first one to discover her cousin, and no one could steal the credit from her.
"Before I could take a closer look, I ran into my dad. I was brought here." Yu Zihan saw that the atmosphere here was a bit depressing, so she started to make jokes.
"Yes, that's right." Pei Xiao immediately came to his daughter's aid.
"Tsk tsk tsk, my uncle turned out to be this kind of uncle." Pei Shuyan said this deliberately. In fact, she was very happy to see her uncle like this. Her uncle was too dull and suffered too much. Now he finally has the fireworks of a normal person.
"Cousin, you are so amazing that you got first place in the preliminaries. I am only fifth." Pei Shuyan acted coquettishly to Yu Zihan.
Yu Zihan looked at her quirky cousin and said, "You are also very good. This is just the preliminaries. There are also semi-finals and finals. Who knows the final result?" Yu Zihan said modestly.
"Hey, what's written on the poster?" Yu Zihan thought of this question.
"This is the schedule of the competition. You have free time on May 5th. The semi-finals will be on May 6th. You will have a rest on May 7th. The finals will be on May 8th. So, you have two days to rest." Pei Shuyan explained to Yu Zihan.
"That's great. Zi Han can come home during her rest time. Grandma will cook for you herself." Grandma expressed her opinion happily.
Pei Xiao wanted to listen to his daughter's opinion. He looked at his daughter, and Yu Zihan saw the expectation in his eyes.
Yu Zihan was not a pretentious person. Since she had already recognized her father, it was natural for her to interact with her family. She nodded and said, "Grandma, I might have eaten it. You should make more."
Her words successfully made everyone laugh. When the family saw Zi Han being so sunny, they were truly happy for Pei Xiao.
"There's plenty of time to reminisce about the past. Let Zi Han rest first," the old man said. Pei Xiao said, "You guys go back first. I'll take Zi Han back to the guesthouse." Before he finished speaking, Pei Shuyan said, "Uncle and I will take my cousin back together."
Everyone thought it made sense. After all, outsiders didn't know the inside story. Seeing Pei Xiao, a grown man, sending a little girl back to the guesthouse at night, they would gossip. Grandma looked at Pei Shuyan: "My Shuyan is really thoughtful."
So, the main group left first, and then Pei Xiao led Pei Shuyan and Yu Zihan towards the guesthouse.
The two little girls walked in front. They became good friends who could talk about anything in such a short time. In addition, they knew very well that they were sisters with blood relationship, so they chatted very lively.
Pei Xiao, who was acting as a bodyguard in the back, looked at the two girls with mixed feelings.
He thought of the pretty figure still in the distance, and his heart had already flown away. He wanted so much to go see her right now, to take her to his side, so that the three of them would never be separated again.
Time always goes against people's will, and the journey of more than ten minutes passed quickly.
"Sister, I will pick you up early tomorrow morning and take you to have breakfast in the capital." Pei Shuyan said considerately.
When Pei Xiao heard this, he sighed at his niece's thoughtfulness. As a father, he still needed to work harder. Why didn't he think of this problem?
So he said, "Dad will pick you up tomorrow at 8 o'clock."
"Okay." Yu Zihan agreed readily.
Pei Shuyan waved to Yu Zihan, "Sister, good night, see you tomorrow." Yu Zihan liked this considerate and simple-minded cousin very much.
"Good night, Dad. Good night, sister. I'll go upstairs first." She went upstairs. She felt that her father was looking at her with an affectionate gaze. Her heart was filled with joy.
"I have a father now, I have a family now." She didn't dare look back, for fear of saying goodbye again.
She knocked directly on Teacher Hou's room.
"You're back?" The two teachers breathed a sigh of relief. Although they trusted Principal Pei, they couldn't help but worry. They had been waiting for Yu Zihan. They wanted to know what had happened.
"Yeah." Yu Zihan answered and was invited into the room by the teacher.
"Teacher, Principal Pei and I are relatives, so he took me to meet other relatives. I will go to my relative's house tomorrow and will be back to report in the evening."
Yu Zihan didn't tell the whole story, but she had to go home the next day, so she had no choice but to ask for leave from her teacher.
"Principal Pei is your relative?" The two teachers opened their eyes wide in shock when they heard her say this.
"Oh." Yu Zihan's answer showed that she was not willing to talk about it. Although the teachers were very curious, seeing Yu Zihan's obvious unwillingness to talk more, they had to put away their curiosity.
Then they arranged the competition. Teacher Hou would stay with Yu Zihan the entire time, while Teacher Zhou would take the other three students back to the provincial capital tomorrow. They were all graduating students with further studies to attend, so they couldn't waste any time.
After saying goodbye to the two teachers, Yu Zihan returned to his room.
She told Jiang Ying what she had said to the teacher. It wasn't that she wasn't sincere towards her friend, but it was just a complicated matter. She also didn't know what her mother would think, so she didn't want to make it public.
"Zi Han, your luck is about to change. You actually have such a relative. I envy you so much." Jiang Ying was simply happy for her friend after hearing what Yu Zi Han said.
"I'm very happy too." Yu Zihan was telling the truth.
Yu Zihan tossed and turned all night and couldn't fall asleep.
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