The two spent two or three days tidying up and finally got the house mostly ready. There were many things missing, and they all had to be bought later.
After shopping for household necessities at the department store again, Shen Chaoxi returned home and tidied up his things. Looking at Xu Nian washing clothes in the yard, he felt a little dazed.
After hanging the clothes to dry, Xu Nian turned around and met Chen Chaoxi's staring gaze. She said irritably, "What do you mean by looking at me like that again?"
"Niannian, don't you feel that our way of getting along is a lot like that of a married couple?" Shen Chaoxi's handsome face was teasing, and his fingers unconsciously tightened. He was testing Xu Nian's attitude again.
"..." How is it similar? Apart from the last step, has he neglected to do what a married couple should do these days?
Xu Nian glanced at Shen Chaoxi, then turned and went into the kitchen to prepare lunch.
"Niannian, leave the cooking to me, you go out and eat some melon seeds." Shen Chaoxi followed Xu Nian in and pushed her out of the kitchen, then deftly started a fire to cook.
While waiting for her meal, Xu Nian was reading in the living room when several uninvited guests arrived at the front door.
Everyone was carrying large and small bags. Before Xu Nian could even speak, these people were the first to come in with their packages.
As soon as she put her things down, the middle-aged woman at the head of the group warmly grabbed Xu Nian's hand and said, "Nian, you're back, why didn't you come to see your second aunt? If your brother Xu Hao hadn't seen you in town looking for work, I wouldn't have known you were back."
While the woman who called herself Aunt Xu Nian was speaking, the two couples who had come with her had already taken their belongings into two empty rooms on the first floor.
After looking around and observing, they all smiled with satisfaction.
Three or four children followed behind the couple, shouting that they had a new home.
Xu Nian coldly withdrew her hand. She realized that she could not accept following the script, let alone getting along with this family in the future.
She simply couldn't bring herself to be polite and polite to people she didn't like.
"What are you doing? Trying to openly seize my house?" Xu Nian said with a cold laugh.
The couple, who had been all smiles, froze, and Aunt Xu cried out that she was innocent.
“Nianya, why are you saying such harsh things? It’s your brother Xu Hao who found a good job in the county town. We just don’t have a place to stay yet, so we wanted to stay with you for a few days. Anyway, your place is big, and with us here, we don’t have to worry about bad people targeting a young girl like you.”
Xu Nian almost burst out laughing when she heard this. The way this family was carrying it was clearly not for a few days; they had brought all their belongings with them.
Their overly familiar manner just now wasn't feigned; they genuinely treated this place as their own home.
They didn't even need her permission as the owner; they just picked out rooms on their own. It seemed they had her figured out since she was all alone.
Thinking that the original owner of this body was killed by this family, Xu Nian didn't want to give them a kind look.
"Sorry, this is not a refugee camp, nor do I take in homeless people. You've misunderstood, ma'am." Xu Nian sneered disdainfully, displaying an attitude of looking down on people.
"Nian girl, how can you turn your back on me like this? I'm your own aunt."
“Although your parents and my deceased husband are gone, I, as your second aunt, cannot abandon you. As a young woman, you have no elders or siblings to support you. You will easily be bullied by your husband’s family after you get married.”
Feeling humiliated so bluntly, the middle-aged woman couldn't keep up the smile, but she didn't immediately turn hostile. Instead, she tried to build a relationship with Xu Nian.
"Shen Chaoxi, will you bully me?" Xu Nian didn't want to talk to this second aunt Xu, but looked at the man standing at the back door.
Upon hearing this, Shen Chaoxi was overjoyed and hurriedly shook his head, swearing, "It's only my wife who bullies me; I'm too busy doting on my wife to even think about it!"
When Aunt Xu and her family saw the strange man who suddenly appeared and called Xu Nian "wife," they felt a sense of foreboding.
Their wishful thinking today seems to be in vain.
I don't know what's wrong with Xu Nian, this pushover. She came back from a trip to the countryside and became so domineering, speaking without any consideration for others.
Originally, they planned to keep Xu Hao there under the pretext that he had found a job but had nowhere to live, and then come up with another excuse to keep him there after a while.
Aunt Xu felt more at ease being Xu Nian's elder, since Xu Nian's parents had no son, and the house should rightfully belong to her family.
Xu Nian, being a young woman, will eventually get married, so this house shouldn't be allowed to fall into the hands of outsiders.
Thinking of this, Aunt Xu immediately became sarcastic. "Nian'er, it's not that I'm criticizing you, but when looking for a man, you can't just look at his appearance; you also have to look at his abilities. This man clearly doesn't know how to manage a household or make money. Break up with him as soon as possible, and I'll introduce you to an honest, reliable man who knows how to manage a household another day."
Upon hearing this, Shen Chaoxi's smile vanished, and his expression instantly turned icy.
His tall frame strode up to Aunt Xu, shielding Xu Nian behind him, his eyes flashing with fury as he stared at her.
He laughed coldly and contemptuously, "What right do you have to stand here and criticize my wife and me? If I'm not good enough for my wife, who is?"
It really infuriated him. He had finally gotten Xu Nian to acknowledge their relationship, but someone didn't want him to have an easy time.
“Nian’er, look at the person you’ve found! Not only does he disrespect me, his elder, but he also disrespects you and doesn’t take your family seriously!” Aunt Xu said to Xu Nian with tears in her eyes, while also giving her two daughters-in-law meaningful glances.
The eldest and second daughters-in-law understood immediately and chimed in with their own words.
Three women make a drama, and the living room became exceptionally lively for a time.
Regardless of how noisy the group was, Shen Chaoxi noticed that Xu Nian's brows were gradually becoming irritated. He narrowed his eyes, immediately went into the room, grabbed the group's belongings, and threw them out.
As Aunt Xu chased after them, heartbroken over her belongings, Shen Chaoxi turned his attention to her two sons. "Are you going to leave on your own or do I have to do it for you? I can report your behavior to the neighborhood committee director."
"We'll go by ourselves, we'll go by ourselves." Aunt Xu's two sons were both bullies who preyed on the weak and feared the strong. They were intimidated by Shen Chaoxi, a tall northerner.
Besides, they are indeed in the wrong today. If they take this to the neighborhood committee director, they won't be able to stand up to the law, and it might even affect their own work.
Of course, they didn't think they were wrong; they just regretted not finding out more about Xu Nian bringing a man back, which they considered a mistake.
If I had known this would happen, I should have seized the house as soon as the news of Xu Nian's parents' death came back.
They were afraid that if their family moved to this county town, they would be forcibly relocated and miss out on such a good opportunity.
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