Chapter 434 The Bai Family is Back
I once again enjoyed the underwater world's way of ordering food. It's not because I love seafood so much, but simply to fit more high-value food in my limited stomach.
During the meal, at Huang Tianyi's request, Xiao Shiqiu told Tang Yi one embarrassing story after another from his childhood.
When Tang Yi was a child, he didn't like eating carrots. His mother coaxed him by saying that carrots could help him see clearly at night. So one day in the middle of the night, Tang Yi was found missing. His family was so anxious that they called the police. Later, he was found in the woods behind the villa.
At that time, Tang Yi was shivering under the tree with a carrot in his hand. He said it was too dark and he couldn't see anything even with the carrot in his hand.
Another time, Tang Yi's belly button became inflamed and his mother wanted to take him to the hospital, but he refused to go, insisting that he was not sick and that the watermelon was about to grow.
After careful questioning, I learned that after he swallowed a watermelon seed, he poured water into his belly button every day and waited for it to grow out of his belly button.
He thought that this way he would have endless watermelon to eat.
His mother was so angry that she took him to the basement and let him take a good look at the more than 100 kilograms of watermelon in the basement, so that he would understand that the family was not short of food for him.
Huang Tianyi was overjoyed when she heard this. "Ayi, you were so silly when you were little. It must have been difficult to grow up like this."
Tang Yi felt helpless. "When I was little, my mom was always worried that I would get stomach upset, so she limited the amount of watermelon I could eat. So I had no choice but to think that I could only eat as much watermelon as I could because I grew it myself."
"After all, I still didn't get to eat my own watermelon, haha~" Huang Tianyi laughed without caring about her image.
When they were almost done eating, Tang Yi seemed to be hesitant to speak. Xiao Shiqiu noticed this sensitively, "Just say whatever you want to say. Are you afraid that I will hear you, or that your wife will hear you?"
Huang Tianyi glared at him with her eyebrows raised when she heard this. Tang Yi immediately stated, "No, no, I heard about it. Just to be clear, I just heard that the Bai family has returned to China and will be attending the banquet tomorrow."
After Tang Yi said this, Xiao Shiqiu's expression remained unchanged, but the hand holding the cup paused for a moment, and then he calmly picked it up and took a sip of tea.
The Bai family? I suddenly remembered that Bai Yue, the white moonlight, who was called Bai Yue. She must be her family, right? I hesitated whether to ask, but Huang Tianyi asked heartlessly: "The Bai family? The one in the big house?"
Tang Yi glanced at Xiao Shiqiu, and seeing that he had no reaction, he told us about the Bai family.
It turns out that the Xiao family, the Tang family, the Bai family, the Zhang family, the Su family, the Ling family, the Gu family, and the He family are the eight major families in City A. Whether it is their influence in the political arena or the accumulation of family wealth, they have reached a level that ordinary people cannot imagine.
The eight families have complex inter-marriage relationships with each other, and they are all large families with a history of more than a hundred years.
Even after experiencing war and turmoil, they still retained most of their strength. The family is well aware that one should not put all their eggs in one basket and has considerable assets overseas.
Among the eight families, Xiao, Tang, Bai and Zhang are financially stronger, with the Xiao family being the leader and the He family being the weakest.
So when He Qingrong was entangled with the two brothers of the Xiao family, the He family was happy to see it happen, but they hoped that He Qingrong would marry Xiao Shiqiu.
Unfortunately, Xiao Shiqiu never liked her, so she had to settle for the second best and thought about marrying Xiao Shiyan. However, she didn't expect that Xiao Shiyan died early.
After many twists and turns, she finally married Xiao Shiqiu and they were nominally husband and wife for eighteen years.
The Bai family also hoped that their daughter could marry into the Xiao family, but Bai Yue suddenly passed away before she reached adulthood. With only two older brothers in the family, there was no suitable marriage partner for the Xiao family.
Bai Yue's parents divorced early in her life, and she was raised by her father, who treated her like the apple of his eye. The pain of losing his daughter almost broke him down.
Since Tang Yi was much younger than them, he heard all these things from his elders.
"I heard they brought up the engagement between the Bai family and my cousin again."
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