Chapter 98 Is this fate?
As soon as these words were spoken, the banquet scene suddenly became quiet. Many of the Du family relatives who were still secretly observing Du Anrao all widened their eyes at the same time, looking as if they had seen a ghost.
Du Junyan and his companions had anticipated this, and secretly took note of the changed expressions of their close friends and relatives, thinking that they would go over to "reminisce" with them one by one later.
Among this group of people, the one who bore the brunt of the impact was none other than his fifth cousin who was standing in front of Du Anrao. He was the youngest son of Du Anrao's second grandfather, a whole generation younger than Du's father. Because the elders in his family had been cheated by some swindlers, he hated those so-called strange people and things the most.
At this moment, he looked dazed, thinking he was dreaming: "This...she..."
Father Du grabbed his hand that was pointing at Du Anrao and said with a faint smile, "The two children look very similar, right? Although they were not together since childhood, their appearances and personalities are very similar when they grew up. It's hard to say it's not fate."
The fifth uncle was stunned for a moment, but he was not a fool. How could he not see that his elder brother did not want him to break this window paper? So he laughed awkwardly twice: "Yes, yes, it is indeed very similar."
Duanrao couldn't bear to look at this.
[Dad, how can you lie with your eyes open without changing your expression? Let’s not talk about my and my fourth sister’s personalities. Who would put the looks of a sweet girl and a queen together? Look at you, you’ve made your fifth cousin speechless. ]
Upon hearing this, Fifth Uncle's face twisted again, and he thought to himself, I'm not speechless because of your father, but I'm scared by you, a little girl!
Seeing that the early tests had produced initial results, in order to avoid unnecessary complications, he quickly signaled to Du Yuxi and the others, asking them to take Du Anrao away for a while, while he and the Du Junyan brothers, along with his fifth cousin and others, went to entertain other relatives.
According to the observations of Du's father and others, the relatives who were able to hear Du Anrao's inner thoughts were basically on good terms with their family, and most of them were Du Anrao's elders, with good character and upright behavior.
This also proves that their previous guess was correct. People who harbored ill will towards Duanrao and had bad character could not hear what she was thinking, even if they were related to her.
With this prerequisite, the Du family finally felt relieved.
After a brief silence, the discussions around became noisy again.
Some people chose to wait and see what would happen, while others looked at Mr. and Mrs. Du who were acting separately and thought about it, and then wisely ran to find out the situation from the father and son of the Du family.
Of course, there are still a small number of people who choose to go directly to Du's mother and others, but they did not point the finger at Du Anrao right away to arouse her suspicion, but...
"What on earth is going on? How come your family has another daughter? Could it be that you gave birth to twins?"
The woman who was speaking was in her early fifties. She was wearing a long black dress. She was slightly plump, with a face as white as a silver plate, and looked very blessed.
At this moment, she was standing in front of Du's mother, with her arms folded across her chest and her chin slightly raised, looking domineering. However, it reminded Du Anrao of the mandarin duck-eyed Persian cat from the neighbor's house who liked to come for a walk near them every day.
[Is it my illusion? Why does the second half of this aunt's words sound a bit... sour? ]
Du Yuxi, who was very familiar with the person in front of her, almost couldn't help laughing out loud. Du's mother also couldn't help laughing. Only Ruan Xiuru's expression was a little stiff. She wanted to explode but had to endure it, feeling very aggrieved.
After Du Yuxi lowered her head and smiled, she quickly pulled Du Anrao aside and lowered her voice: "This is Fourth Aunt."
"Fourth aunt?"
"Yes." Seeing that Du Anrao was still a little confused, Du Yuxi continued to explain.
"Aunt Four is the wife of Uncle Four. Uncle Four and Uncle Five are both sons of Grandfather Two. Our great grandfather had four children in total, namely our grandfather, Grandfather Two, Grandfather Three and Grandmother Four. Grandfather only had Dad, and Grandfather Two also had four children, namely Aunt Two, Aunt Three, Uncle Four and Uncle Five. As for Grandfather Three, he also only had Aunt Lianshuang."
Duan Rao was stunned for a long time before he figured out the relationship between the person in front of him and them: "Actually, the relationship is quite close."
"It's quite close. But my second grandmother is from Province Y. After my second grandfather married her, he asked to go to the branch in Province Y to expand the territory, and finally settled in Province Y. Now several aunts and uncles basically live in Province Y. They don't interact much at ordinary times. They only get together during the New Year and other festivals. It's not like Aunt Lianshuang comes to visit us from time to time."
"I see." Du Anrao nodded, and then glanced at Ruan Xiuru who was talking awkwardly with Du's mother not far away, "But why do I feel that Fourth Aunt and our mother seem to have some conflicts?"
Du Yuxi seemed to have thought of something and smiled even more happily: "They don't have any conflicts, they are just too familiar with each other."
"Too familiar?"
"Yes, my mother and Fourth Aunt were classmates in elementary school. Fourth Aunt's family and Grandpa's family were neighbors. They grew up together. They were the same age, went to the same school, and were sometimes in the same class. It was inevitable that they would be compared by their parents. From small things like interests, weight, and height to big things like school grades, education, and work, they have been compared in almost everything that can be compared."
"…Then who wins and who loses?"
"There are winners and losers on both sides, but Mom probably wins more." Otherwise, Fourth Aunt wouldn't be so full of fighting spirit every time she sees Mom.
"I thought we could put a temporary truce after graduation and work, but I didn't expect that Mom would fall in love with Dad, and Fourth Aunt would fall in love with Fourth Uncle..."
Du Anrao: “…” Ah, this is also hard to comment. Should she sigh and say: This is fate?
"Then they competed again?"
"Compare husbands, compare children, compare children's academic performance, and... compare the number of children."
Duan Rao was full of questions: "How many children?"
"right."
Du Anrao: “…” No wonder Fourth Aunt sounded sour when she mentioned that there was another child in their family just now.
"How many children did Fourth Aunt give birth to?"
Du Anrao originally thought that Ruan Xiuru should have given birth to three or four children, which was why she was so concerned about having another child in their family.
Unexpectedly, Du Yuxi gave an unexpected answer: "One, Fourth Aunt gave birth to one."
"one?"
"When Fourth Aunt gave birth to cousin Hongyun, she had a difficult labor and was injured. Fourth Uncle felt sorry for her and did not allow her to have another child. However, Fourth Aunt adopted an orphan from her grandfather's family as her youngest daughter, so they actually have two children."
"So that's how it is." Du Anrao was listening to the gossip while stuffing juice into his mouth. Halfway through the drink, he suddenly remembered something and his eyes widened. "Wait a minute, what was the name of the fourth aunt's brother?"
"Um, Du, Du Hongyun."
"What about her adopted sister?"
"It seems to be called Zixuan, Du Zixuan."
Duan Rao: “…”
[Oh my god, I never thought that the previously popular pseudo-orthopedic sweet and abusive love story was actually written by Fourth Aunt! ]
Ruan Xiuru, who had just talked to Du’s mother about Du Anrao’s situation: “???” What orthopedics? They don’t have a hospital, so where does the orthopedics come from?
(End of this chapter)
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