When I arrived at the door, before I even entered, I heard the lively noise inside.
The grandparents looked at each other. Su Wanping didn't have so many relatives, so why were there so many voices inside?
"Xiao Yu, why do I feel a little nervous?" Chen Xiaoying was probably a little too nervous and covered her chest.
Li Yutong was a little scared: "Grandma, are you okay? Why are you panicking?"
To cure an illness, you need to find the cause. If you feel troubled, find the knot and solve it.
Chen Xiaoying said quickly, "It's okay, it's okay. I'm just new to the world and I'm afraid I'll embarrass your aunt in front of foreigners."
Li Yutong was relieved immediately: "Grandma, what are you afraid of? The foreigner is my cousin's husband, your junior. He should follow the local customs and respect you, instead of you just watching his face."
"Foreigners are not supernatural beings, so why should we be afraid of them? They just live in different places on the earth. The climate there is different from ours, so people grow up differently from us. For example, in tropical climates, nostrils are larger to dissipate heat. Ultraviolet rays are strong, so people are generally darker. Don't think too much about it."
After Li Yutong's comfort, Chen Xiaoying felt much more relaxed: "You're right, let's go in now."
After saying that, he knocked on the door.
Li Yutong immediately recalled the comment she heard when she rode past him: "His face is a bit dark, and his hair is black. Isn't it said that Americans have very white skin and yellow hair?"
Ma Hongxiu's husband was probably an American with black hair and slightly dark skin, but Li Yutong didn't care because Americans are a multi-ethnic country.
When Chen Xiaoying entered the house, she was stunned by the scene in front of her.
There were so many people that the sofas were full of people, and the stools and chairs on the floor were filled with men, women, young and old. Some people had no place to sit, so they just stood against the wall. There were four or five children, some were eating, some were crying, and some were rummaging through drawers.
"Stop moving, stop moving, there's nothing to eat here." Su Wanping's face was full of anxiety. She pushed the open drawer back. The child ignored her and turned around to fiddle with other things next to her.
Su Wanping could do nothing but watch and the child's parents didn't care either.
Chen Xiaoying and Li Yutong, the grandparents and grandchildren, stood at the door in a daze and looked at everyone in the room. Li Yutong was a little confused, as if they were the idle villagers in the village. Her grandmother Chen Xiaoying recognized half of the dozen or so adults in the room.
Isn’t this cheerful old lady with white hair the grandmother of Ma Hongxiu who was hospitalized?
The guy wearing a big sweatshirt and looking fierce, isn’t he Ma Hongxiu’s biological father? And the one next to him wearing a bright red dress and talking nonstop to a fashionable woman, isn’t she Ma Hongxiu’s biological mother Zhu Dahong?
Needless to say, those younger ones are Ma Hongxiu's older brothers, sisters-in-law, or older sisters from her biological mother's family, and the kids running around must be Ma Hongxiu's blood-related nephews.
"Bang——" the sound of glass breaking on the ground.
"You naughty kid, why don't you be careful." A woman hurriedly grabbed a little boy who was running around and spanked him twice on the butt.
"Wow——" the child burst into tears, and the sharp cry hurt the person's ears.
"It's okay, it's okay, I'll sweep it, be careful not to hurt the child." Su Wanping was a gentle person, she didn't care about anything else and quickly took the broom to sweep it clean.
The middle-aged woman said rudely, "Auntie, you are so mean. How can you put a glass in such a dangerous place? Look, if a child touches it, it will fall to the ground and get hurt."
Su Wanping smiled unhappily and quickly swept the glass shards on the ground. Some of the fragments were a little far away, so she went over to sweep them up.
Chen Xiaoying noticed that the woman who was wearing makeup and looked very fashionable raised her foot impatiently: "And here, here, it all needs to be cleaned up."
Su Wanping bent her waist and lowered her head to sweep.
In the whole family, it seems that Su Wanping is the nanny and they are the ones who are in charge.
Chen Xiaoying couldn't catch her breath. She felt anxious just now, and it turned out to be because of this reason.
"Who are you? What are you doing here? Did you come to the wrong door?" The young man who opened the door for them frowned and stared at them.
The people in the room looked over and found two people standing at the door, one old and one young. The old one looked very simple, and the young one was about seventeen or eighteen years old and looked a bit like a student.
Su Wanping also saw it and felt a little embarrassed, but she still came to greet him: "Sister, Xiaoyu, you are here. There are too many people at home today, and we don’t have a place to entertain you."
Chen Xiaoying took a deep breath and forced a smile: "Are you going to entertain all these people today? Didn't you say that only your Hongxiu and her husband would come? Who are these relatives of yours?"
She asked this on purpose, and anyone with a little shame would feel embarrassed.
The daughter has been given away and is someone else's property. How can I have the nerve to bring my family to someone else's adoptive mother's house and try to build a relationship with her?
But the Wang family is not a shameless family.
Zhu Dahong shouted enthusiastically: "Hey, Auntie, I'm Hongxiu's mother. You've seen me before, how could you forget?"
"Let me introduce you. This is Hongxiu's grandmother. This is Hongxiu's eldest brother. This is her second brother. This is her eldest sister and her eldest brother-in-law. This is her second sister and her second wife. This is her younger sister. This is her brother-in-law. Oh, and standing over here are her eldest sister-in-law and her second sister-in-law. These are her nephews, and this is her niece."
Chen Xiaoying looked around at everyone, and saw that Ma Hongxiu's grandmother asked her to sit down quickly, with a smile on her face, in a good mood as if she had encountered a big happy event.
Ma Hongxiu's biological father looked at her with a bit of wariness, as if she was someone who was trying to steal his benefits.
They are simply a group of jackals. How can Su Wanping, a person with a gentle temper, stay here? She will be torn to pieces by them.
"Oh, I thought it was someone from Ma Guoxi's family who came." Chen Xiaoying said deliberately again.
Ma Hongxiu was adopted by the Ma family since she was a child. The Ma family is her relative, and the Wang family is actually nothing.
"This is us talking as family, why is Ma Guoxi here?" A hoarse shout came from Ma Hongxiu's father.
As soon as you see her angry look, you know that she is not someone you can easily mess with. Yes, Chen Xiaoying had heard about it a few years ago. Ma Hongxiu's biological parents are also lazy and not easy to mess with in the village.
Li Yutong was afraid that her grandma would suffer a loss due to her impulsiveness, so she secretly pulled her clothes: "Grandma, let's not say anything first, let's listen to what they want to do."
"Sister, please sit here." Seeing her coming, Su Wanping wiped her eyes and shed tears of gratitude. She led Chen Xiaoying to the side and pulled out a chair from the study.
She locked it again.
The daughter-in-law who had just beaten the child laughed: "Oh, what treasure is hidden in this room? The door is locked. There are so many people here. We can still steal from inside."