"Brother Kang is four or five years older than me."
"He's the only one at home, and there aren't many others. He said that after he gets married, he'll treat my mom and her family as his own family, and he'll live here with me so I can take care of them nearby."
"He has a two-story house in the city. Today he took me to see it. It's spacious and exquisite."
"He's a wandering thief, usually working as a bodyguard for wealthy families, transporting valuables. He can earn at least ten taels of silver a month. He said that after we get married, he'll give all his earnings to me and let me manage the household."
Why is it a bodyguard? This setting is not added casually by Xue Huan, but is to pave the way for Pei Ji's departure in the future.
A bodyguard needs to be out and about all year round, right? Sometimes you won't see him all year round. If Pei Ji regains his memory and leaves, outsiders will only think he's out on a bodyguard tour, and won't think of him going anywhere else.
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In the process of answering the villagers, Xue Huan once again enriched Pei Ji's character.
The aunties and grandmas listened with great interest until it was completely dark, then they went home with their empty bowls, feeling unsatisfied.
Xue Huan breathed a sigh of relief, finally getting rid of these people.
She was already talking so much that her mouth was dry. After entering the house, she drank two cups of tea before she felt better.
Xue's mother had already prepared the meal, but she didn't come to the table, so everyone stayed silent and waited for her.
"Mom, you guys eat first, you don't have to wait for me. Especially Jun'er, she can't go hungry."
"That won't work." Xue's mother served her a bowl of porridge.
Xue Jun: "Sister, I ate a bowl of egg custard first, so I'm not hungry. But brother, I'm afraid he must have been hungry for a long time. I even heard his stomach growling."
Xue Yao was originally guzzling porridge. Upon hearing this, he hurriedly said, "It's okay for me to be hungry for a while. My sister and brother-in-law have worked hard to go to the city so early in the morning."
As soon as he called him "brother-in-law", everyone at the table stopped eating and looked at him.
Xue Yao looked puzzled: "What's wrong?"
Xue Huan picked up a piece of scrambled eggs for him with her chopsticks. "Nothing. I just thought you adapted pretty quickly. You're calling me brother-in-law now."
Xue Yao chuckled.
Can he say that he is quite satisfied with this brother-in-law, even though his condition is a little abnormal?
Three days passed in a flash, and it was the day for Xue Huan and Pei Ji to get married.
Early in the morning, Pei Ji rode a rented tall horse, followed by a wedding procession with music and drums, all the way from the county town to the door of the Xue family.
The house in Qingyun Lane in the county town has been cleaned up within three days, and all the servants inside have been replaced.
The doorman, the cook, the housekeeper, and two maids.
The house was decorated with red and colorful decorations, giving it a festive look.
Xue Huan gave Pei Ji an emergency training and taught him how to ride a horse. After all, the character she arranged for him was a young bodyguard who once lived in the mountains and had achieved some success after coming out of the mountains with his own abilities.
Isn't horse riding a basic skill?
Fortunately, Pei Ji still had some muscle memory left in his body. He should have been able to ride a horse before, and he learned it once taught. After riding the horse twice, he was able to ride it well.
The bride and groom cannot meet each other the day before the wedding, so Pei Ji has to stay in a house in the city for one night. Xue Huan is worried that he will be scared, so she specially asks Xue Yao to accompany him.
He also told Xue Yao to stay by his side and look after him more.
But her worries were obviously unnecessary. Although Pei Ji had lost his memory and only had memories from when he was three or four years old, could a three or four-year-old child of the royal family be the same as an ordinary three or four-year-old child among the people?
His mind is much more mature than that of ordinary children.
In addition, he always remembered what Xue Huan told him: when he encountered something or a problem he didn't know how to deal with, he should just keep silent or smile.
So nothing went wrong during the wedding reception.
The sedan chair stopped at the door of Xue's house. Pei Ji dismounted swiftly. His already handsome appearance, set against the backdrop of a red dress, made him even more eye-catching.
Xue Huan was helped out of the room by the matchmaker. Pei Ji walked up to her, held her hand, and together they knelt down and kowtowed three times to Xue's mother who was sitting at the top.
After standing up, Pei Ji repeated the words Xue Huan had taught him beforehand: "Mother-in-law, I will take good care of Huan Huan from now on. I will not let her suffer any hardships. I will love and protect her all my life, freeing her from worries and ensuring she lives a peaceful and happy life."
Mother Xue was overwhelmed with emotions as she listened, and her eyes unconsciously turned red. Although she knew that everything in front of her was fake, she still couldn't help but feel her emotions beating fast.
She wiped her eyes and reached out to help them up, "Okay, I just hope you will be well in the future, and live in harmony and love with each other."
Pei Ji took Xue Huan out of the door and put her into the bridal sedan.
The wedding went smoothly and no one from Old Xue's family came to cause trouble. In fact, let alone causing trouble, they didn't even dare to leave the house.
In the past three days, Xue Huan had made a lot of preparations to prevent the Xue family from causing trouble.
Every night she would dress up as a female ghost and go to chat with the people in the Old Xue family. The inspiration for this idea came from the time when she dressed up as a female ghost to scare Qian Dazhi.
For three consecutive nights, everyone in the Xue family was terrified and in low spirits. They would make a fuss and become suspicious at the slightest sign of trouble.
Old Mrs. Xue was the one she paid special attention to. Once, she was so frightened that she fell off the bed and broke her leg.
Without this old woman taking the lead in instigating trouble, Boss Xue, who cares about his reputation, naturally would not step forward.
As for Xue Laosan, he is addicted to the pleasure of gambling.
Xue Huan paid someone to set up a game for Xue Lao San. First, he picked up a large sum of money, and then led him into the casino.
Once you get involved in gambling, it is not easy to get rid of it, especially for someone like Xue Laosan who likes to get something for nothing.
He originally wanted to make a fortune with the money he found, thinking that since the money was found, it would not be a big loss even if he lost it.
When he arrived at the casino, he was unstoppable at the beginning. He won more than ten games in a row, and the silver coins in front of him piled up like a small mountain.
If he could have stopped there, he could have made a fortune. Unfortunately, he was not satisfied and felt that he was on a roll. How could he stop there? Wouldn't that mean he would have lost a lot of money?
From then on, he would win, win, win, lose, lose, win, lose, lose, lose...
How could Xue Laosan accept this? The more he lost, the more excited he became, believing he could make a comeback. When he lost all his money, he would borrow from the casino.
When Xue Huan was carried into the city in a sedan chair, Xue Lao San was gambling with his face flushed and his neck thick.
Several young men in the wedding procession were selected from the village. Naturally, they also saw Pei Ji's house in the city. After having a sumptuous wedding banquet, they went back and boasted about it to the villagers. Pei Ji's identity became more and more deeply rooted in the hearts of the villagers.
Xue Huan, as the female lead and the person who directed the wedding scene herself, was obviously very successful.
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