Qiu Yan smiled at Gu Xiaoran and said, "Let's go see Xiao Dingtian."
"I'm not going," Gu Xiaoran changed her tune.
He looked down at his royal blue dress, "If I go there like this, people will laugh at me."
Qiu Yan's smile deepened. "Let's go, let's see if the little girl can recognize you."
Hearing Qiu Yan's words, Gu Xiaoran rolled her bright eyes; it was quite interesting.
Before Qiu Yan and her two companions even arrived at the Ding residence, they could hear Ding Tian's silvery laughter from afar.
Zhang Yuyan was holding the child and tenderly playing with him.
"Auntie, you've raised Tiantian so well. None of my younger sisters are as pretty as her."
Perhaps because she raised her herself and took care of her personally, Mrs. Ding found Xiao Dingtian more and more beautiful the more she looked at her.
"Thank goodness Qiu Yan saved the child." Now, whenever Madam Ding thinks about how her sister-in-law almost abandoned her when Xiao Ding Tian was just born, she feels extremely fortunate.
"Yan'er, you should learn from Qiu Yan in the future. Look at her and then look at yourself. You're not young anymore, and you don't do anything productive all day long."
I heard that your second aunt is currently arranging a marriage for your second sister.
If you ask me, this marriage proposal should be handled by you.
"Why?" Zhang Yuyan refused to take a husband, no matter what, because of a man.
Zhang Yuyan touched her brow with her finger.
"I'm not trying to be mean, but your second sister isn't your biological sister. The Zhang family's assets shouldn't fall into the hands of a concubine."
“This…” Zhang Yuyan really hadn’t thought that much about it.
"Don't I have my own younger sister? My fourth sister is doing just fine, isn't she?" She's just a little younger.
"Your second sister is already on a blind date. She's a cunning woman, while your other sisters are as obedient as quails. Yan'er, you'd better be wary of the concubines in the family."
Zhang Yuyan frowned; at this moment, she felt a little resentful towards her own father.
Why would someone with nothing better to do marry so many concubines? Doesn't he find it troublesome?
In her opinion, she dealt with them one by one and that was it.
"Hmph, with me here, they won't stand a chance!" Zhang Yuyan put on her young lady's air. As the eldest daughter in the family, her father had always spoiled her and indulged her every whim.
The aunt and niece were talking when a servant came to report that Miss Qiu had arrived.
Just moments ago, Madam Ding was lecturing Zhang Yuyan with a stern face, but in an instant, her face lit up with a smile.
Led by servants, Qiu Yan and the other two arrived at Madam Ding's courtyard.
"Qiu Yan, you're here. Come in quickly... serve tea... your face..." Madam Ding's smile froze, and her body stiffened.
The knife scars on Qiu Yan's face were shocking to see, and even an outsider like herself felt sorry for her.
Upon hearing Madam Ding's words, Zhang Yuyan suddenly turned around.
"Qiu Yan, you... sigh, what a beautiful face you have, what happened?"
Zhang Yuyan's originally concerned question took on a completely different meaning when heard from someone else.
Gu Xiaoran's eyes suddenly widened, her displeasure written all over her face.
Gu Xiaoran's demeanor made Zhang Yuyan somewhat intimidated.
She smacked her lips twice and silently retreated from Qiu Yan.
Qiu Yan shook her head and casually said to Madam Ding, "We encountered a group of robbers who wanted to rob us, but I... chased them away."
"The robbers...are they gone?" Madam Ding truly admired Qiu Yan's courage.
"This world is unfair, Qiu Yan. You must be more careful when you go out in the future."
Qiu Yan nodded. If it weren't for safety concerns, she wouldn't have let Gu Xiaoran dress up as a woman.
When Madam Ding saw Gu Xiaoran, she was slightly taken aback. "Xiaoran has a twin sister?" Just now, her whole heart was focused on Qiu Yan, and she had ignored the child beside her.
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