Chapter 130 I've really seen her before
Chen Qi took the initiative to toast and drank it all in one gulp.
Seeing that the banquet was about to end, Chen Qi asked Xue the matchmaker to sit aside and have a good chat.
Matchmaker Xue was also very emotional.
"Thinking back, your marriage to the Second Master was truly a marriage as smooth as any in the world—after just one meeting, the Xie family was incredibly willing, and your family had no other options, so it was an instant match! I, Old Xue, have been involved in at least eight hundred marriages in my life, but I've never seen a marriage go so smoothly!"
Chen Qi smiled and poured her a glass of wine personally.
"Thanks to your foresight and your ability to bring them together, otherwise, if he couldn't wait and went to see another family..."
Chen Qi smiled and touched her daughter's forehead.
“…Now she is gone.”
Matchmaker Xue drank another half cup and felt a little tipsy.
"That won't happen. Thank you, Master. I'll only see one family."
Chen Qi knew about this and nodded with a smile.
"Yes, he just came to see my family and decided to get married."
Matchmaker Xue shook her finger.
"No, no, no, he... only comes to your house to see you, not to other houses."
Chen Qi just thought she was drunk.
"If my family's marriage doesn't work out, won't he just go to another family?"
Matchmaker Xue chuckled.
"That's what he said. If your family doesn't suit him, he won't go to another family."
Seeing that she spoke clearly and did not look drunk, Shen Qi felt a little confused, but remained calm and poured another glass of wine for Xue the matchmaker.
"Aunt Xue, you have a good memory. You can still remember things so clearly even after such a long time. Do you still remember... what he said when he asked you to come to my house to propose marriage?"
Matchmaker Xue was very proud when people praised her for her good memory.
"Why not? I've never seen anyone speak so eloquently in all my years. He said there's a town called Baihe, thirty miles east of the city, and there's a family called the Shen family who run a woolen yarn shop. They have an eighteen-year-old daughter, and they asked me to arrange a match for him."
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That night, Chen Qi sent Xiao Ming'er to sleep in the west wing early.
When her husband returned to the room, she was waiting for him in bed in her pajamas, with her hair down and legs crossed.
Xie Yuduo had been refusing to drink much at banquets recently, so he wasn't drunk at all. He took off his coat as soon as he entered the room, threw it away, and came over to kiss her.
"You're so obedient today, are you really sending her over?"
Chen Qi let him kiss her, her face expressionless, her eyes staring at him without blinking.
"Why do I feel like I've seen you before?"
Xie Yuduo was startled when he heard this and reached out to touch her forehead.
"You don't have a fever, what nonsense are you talking about?"
He stepped back, sat on the spring stool, unbuckled his belt, and continued to undress.
"Not only have you seen it, you see it every day. You've seen every part of it. So, you're the only one trying to deny it?"
He took another step forward and touched his forehead carefully.
"You really don't have a fever?"
Shen Qi pulled his hand down.
"I'm talking about before we get married."
"Oh, didn't you peek at me through the wall?"
"Earlier, before the engagement."
Xie Yuduo thought about it.
"Yeah, that's right. When I went to your house to see you, you were carrying Xiao Ling with you and you ran away very fast."
Chen Qi still shook her head.
"Earlier than that time."
When Xie Yuduo heard this, his eyes lit up.
"You finally remembered?"
Chen Qi's heart moved, thinking that something really happened, but she remained calm on the surface and continued to follow his words.
"Oh, yes, yes... I remember... back then... ah, that was..."
Xie Yuduo blurted out.
"When you were sixteen."
Chen Qi finally understood. It turned out that he had indeed seen her before. This guy was really good at hiding things. He never hid anything from her, but why didn't he tell her this? She decided to continue to ask questions.
"Yes, yes, I still remember it. It was... somewhere..."
Xie Yuduo glanced at her.
"Your shop."
Chen Qi nodded quickly.
Xie Yuduo was careless for a moment, and only then realized that she couldn't remember at all, she was just trying to trick herself.
He had indeed seen her before, more than once.
This matter was actually harmless, and it would have been fine to tell her. However, she was in a difficult situation at the time, and she happened to have forgotten me after they met by chance.
Later, they got married and were so in love that he didn't want her to know. His first meeting happened to be when she was in such an awkward situation.
At this moment, he looked into her eyes and raised his chin.
"It's your turn."
Seeing that he had no intention of continuing and was just waiting for her to speak, Chen Qi had no choice but to guess the most reasonable story.
"Uh...you came to my shop to buy something."
Xie Yuduo nodded.
"good."
"And then... and then..."
Seeing that she couldn't come up with the "then" for a long time, Xie Yuduo made up a story half true and half false.
"Then, when you see me, you will say, 'What a handsome young man! If I could marry a good man like you, it would not be a waste of my youth.'"
Chen Qi immediately knew that he was talking nonsense and went to pinch him with a smile.
"You're talking nonsense! I would never say that!"
Xie Yuduo hurriedly pretended that he had remembered it wrongly.
"Oh...I did remember it wrong. I was the one who said it first."
Chen Qi's eyes lit up with anticipation.
"So what did you tell me?"
Xie Yuduo frowned, thought hard, and then suddenly realized.
"I say - this beautiful young lady, marry me, and we'll have a willful and naughty daughter together, how about that?"
"Bah, you still can't spit out ivory from a dog's mouth..."
Chen Qi couldn't help laughing and was about to pinch him again.
Xie Yuduo smiled and held her in his arms, deciding to tell her some truth.
"Back then, I happened to pass by Baihe Town. The Luo River west of your home was flooded and the ferry was blocked. I didn't want to turn back home, so I stayed in Baihe Town for one night."
Chen Qi stopped struggling and nodded. This seemed to be the truth.
"Then what?"
"I stayed at a hotel and wanted to eat. Someone said the pancakes near your place were delicious, so I went to eat them."
Shen Qi nodded again, it was indeed reasonable.
"And then?"
"And then I saw..."
I can't tell the truth about this paragraph.
He didn't want to make her feel uncomfortable.
"...I saw you at the counter of the shop, helping your father look after the shop."
Chen Qi did help his father look after the shop back then, and suddenly he understood.
"And then you got attracted by her beauty."
Xie Yuduo smiled and nodded.
"That's right."
"No wonder. You only saw me and didn't talk to me. How could I remember you?"
Xie Yuduo was really disappointed with his friend.
"I talked to you!"
Chen Qi was half-believing and half-doubting.
"Ah... then what did you tell me?"
"Just...buy thread."
"Um?"
"You sell wool yarn, so of course I'll buy it."
"Oh... huh? No, you're a grown man buying wool?"
Xie Yuduo was very serious.
"Back then, before I married a beautiful young lady, if my clothes got torn while I was walking on the street, wouldn't I have to mend them myself?"
Chen Qi thought it made sense.
"So you're so attracted to me?"
"kind of."
"Why didn't you propose marriage then?"
Xie Yuduo chuckled, his expression ambiguous.
"You were only sixteen at the time, and I was twenty-two. I thought you were too young, and I couldn't bear it."
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