Chapter 840 Ruan Fengmian's Identity Revealed (Part 5)
"Look at you, and then look at him!" Jiang Yan was very disappointed. "You and Laojiu grew up together. Laojiu is about to get married, and what about you? You don't even have a partner!"
Bo Ye: "..."
Bo's head was buzzing from the beating, but he was thinking about the meeting between the Xi and Ruan families.
His ninth brother is really the most amazing one. After waiting for so many years, he is finally getting engaged.
Bo also knew about Xi Jiu and Ruan Qi's past and was happy for Xi Jiu from the bottom of his heart. At this moment, the voice of Mr. Qi came from the box.
"Xiao Ran, who's that outside? Why does it sound like Jiang Yan's voice?"
Jiang Yan quickly replied, shouting into the room, "Master Xi, it's me! And Bo Ye!"
The box was quiet for a while, and then Mr. Xi and Xi Jiu stood up and walked out.
Jiang Yan and Bo Ye immediately greeted the old man respectfully.
"Mr. Xi, I'm inviting everyone in the team to dinner here. The hotel manager just happened to tell me you were here, so I brought Bo over to see you. I didn't expect you were meeting with Xiao Qi's family today. Did I bother you?"
Old Master Xi smiled and waved his hand. "No, it's nothing. It's no use bothering me. The Bo family kid is here too. He looks a lot darker than he did at the beginning of the year."
Bo also nodded respectfully: "I got tanned during the special forces' field training in the past two months." After saying that, he winked at Xi Jiu, meaning that you have met your in-laws, why didn't you tell everyone?
Are we still brothers?
Xi Jiu sensed Bo Ye's resentment and looked away expressionlessly.
He doesn't want any brothers, he just wants a wife. The engagement date hasn't been finalized yet, so who has the time to chat with you?
A bunch of singles.
Xi Jiu looked down upon his brother coldly in his heart. On the other side, Ruan Qi also walked out of the box.
When she saw Jiang Yan and Bo Ye, she greeted them with a smile, and then enthusiastically invited the uncle and nephew.
"Uncle Jiang and Bo Ye, if you're free, why don't you come in and chat with us?"
"Is this appropriate?" Jiang Yan hesitated. After all, this was a family affair between the Xi and Ruan families. Would it be inappropriate for an outsider like him to get involved?
Ruan Qi, however, had no such concerns and said, "Bo Ye and Jiujiu are good brothers, Uncle Jiang and Uncle Xi are good friends, and we're all family, so what's inappropriate? Besides, with Uncle Jiang's uniform, my grandparents will feel more at ease with Jiujiu."
The older generation always had a favorable impression of those wearing dark green uniforms. Jiang Yan and Bo Ye both held high positions and were both upright. If Grandpa Ruan and Grandma Ruan knew of their close relationship with the Xi family, they would definitely be more reassured about the Xi family's character.
Moreover, Bo had saved Ruan Qi in the Middle East, and the Ruan family wanted to personally thank their child's savior.
Faced with Ruan Qi's enthusiastic invitation, Jiang Yan was a little moved. He looked at Mr. Xi inquiringly, and the old man smiled and nodded: "Xiao Qi is right, we are all not outsiders, please come in."
So, Jiang Yan and Bo Ye also joined in this important event of meeting their in-laws.
Everyone quickly set a date for the engagement.
Since it was just after the Spring Festival, the capital was still chilly and bleak, making it unsuitable for an engagement ceremony. So after some discussion, the two families set the date for six months later.
Six months later, it was the end of September. The weather was clear and pleasant, making it a perfect time for an engagement and wedding.
Xi Jiu wasn't actually happy with the outcome of this discussion. Half a year was too long, and he couldn't wait to marry Ruan Qi tomorrow.
But he also knew that this season was not suitable for an engagement. Young girls all loved beauty and wanted to be dressed beautifully at their engagement ceremony, rather than being wrapped up like a bear.
So, no matter how anxious Xi Jiu was, he still endured it.
It doesn’t matter. He has been waiting for ten years, so a hundred days won’t make a difference.
…
After agreeing on the date for the engagement, the two families finally put their worries to rest. Afterwards, everyone chatted for a while, and it wasn't until after eight o'clock in the evening that the dinner ended with a sense of satisfaction.
Ruan Qi and Xi Jiu first sent the elderly people to the car. The Xi couple and the Ruan couple talked for a while at the hotel entrance before returning to their own cars.
Before getting in the car, Yang Liu asked Xi Jiu, "Where are you going, Lao Jiu? Are you going back to Yu Garden or the old house with us?"
"Yuyuan." Xi Jiu put his arm around Ruan Qi's shoulders and said respectfully to his mother-in-law, "Xiao Qi and I will take a walk. Auntie, you guys can go back by car first."
Yang Liu raised her wrist to check the time and nodded: "Then you should go back early, we'll leave first."
After saying that, the Ruan family members got into the car one after another, and Ruan Fengmian, the last one to get in, closed the door.
At the same time, a black Mercedes stopped on the other side of the hotel gate and several middle-aged men and women got out of the car.
"Cheng Qing, what are you doing standing there like an idiot? Come on."
Cheng Qing, who was a little dazed, reacted and raised his hand to grab his wife He Yun beside him.
"Look at that man over there, does he look like that guy?"
He Yun looked in the direction of his finger and saw a Rolls-Royce that had just left the hotel.
She looked confused: "Which man? Who does he look like?"
"That one!" Cheng Qing's expression was one that could only be understood but not expressed in words. "That one! The one our old man gave birth to before!"
He Yun was stunned for a moment, and then his pupils shrank: "Are you talking about Cheng Boyan?!"
This name seemed like a plague, and Cheng Qing's face changed immediately.
"Why did you mention his name? If the old man finds out, neither of us will survive!"
He Yun, however, looked nonchalant. "He's just a dead man, what's there to be ashamed of? Cheng Boyan's been dead for ages, only your old man has such evil intentions..." Noticing Cheng Qing's warning look, He Yun quickly swallowed his words. "There are no ghosts in this world, so why should we be so wary of a dead person?"
When He Yun married into the Cheng family, Cheng Boyan, the legitimate eldest son of the Cheng family, had already died, so she didn't know much about the Cheng family's past.
But Cheng Qing, Xu Qingya's third biological son, knew about the bloody storm that happened back then.
Therefore, he was very secretive about the deaths of Cheng Qi's first wife Liu Qiuyu and her son and daughter-in-law Cheng Boyan and Lin Yan.
"The bodies of Cheng Boyan and Lin Yan have not been found yet. My mother has always suspected that they were not dead at all. The man I saw just now looked very similar to Cheng Boyan from the side. But he got into the car so quickly that I didn't see clearly."
He Yun frowned when he heard this. "Do you think that man just now was Cheng Boyan? That's impossible, right? It's been over 20 years. If he wanted to return to the capital, he would have returned long ago. Why would he have waited until now?"
"That's hard to say." Cheng Qing's face was solemn. "No, I have to tell mother about this. If Cheng Boyan is really not dead, then he lay dormant for twenty years before coming back to kill. That's too scary."
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