Zhong Xiong failed to stir up trouble, so he stopped talking and asked, "What time do you go tomorrow?"
Zhou thought, "Ten o'clock! Not too early, not too late."
Zhong Xiong, "Okay! The six of us will be here at nine tomorrow."
Zhou thought, "Why don't you come over for breakfast?"
Zhong Xiong, "If you don't come, I still have to get those naughty monkeys ready and send them to school in the morning!"
"Isn't your daughter only five years old?"
"Send him to kindergarten. He's too naughty. I can't stand him anymore."
Zhou Xiang chuckled, "Could it be Suigen?"
Zhong Xiong was unhappy. "Sister Zhou Xiang, can you please stop making random guesses? I was very well-behaved when I was little."
"Oh~" Zhou Xiang dragged out the last word, "So your daughter has a genetic mutation!"
Zhong Xiong felt that he could no longer talk to Zhou Xiang because his hands were itching.
Ma Zhao, Wang Qiao, Chen Ou and others looked at the deflated Zhong Xiong with a smile. They were always scolded by Zhou Xiang, but they still didn't learn their lesson.
After the deal was settled, the eight people left and said they were going back to pick up their children from school. Zhou Xiang did not try to keep them. He sent them to the gate and back to the yard, but was then called to the dining room by their mother.
There were six red baskets on the dining table. Zhou Xiang didn't want to look at what was in the baskets, but instead observed how the willow branches were dyed red.
Zhou's mother slapped her hand away as she was looking through the basket. "Oh! You messed up the things I had arranged."
Zhou Xiang pointed at the basket that his mother had just snatched away and said, "Am I dazzled? That looks like an empty basket, right?"
Mother Zhou glared at her, "It's an empty basket, but I put a red cloth inside."
My mother has been very busy these days and has been in a bad mood, so I'd better not provoke her.
"Okay! My bad. What did you ask me to do?"
Mother Zhou rearranged the red cloth in the empty basket and arranged the six baskets neatly.
"Look, is this okay?"
Zhou Xiang nodded, "It looks good."
Except for one empty red basket, the other five contained four packs of cigarettes, four bottles of wine, four colored candies, four boxes of tea and the three pairs of jewelry.
Zhou Xiang looked at the four bottles of Moutai and wanted to put them into the space. What should he do?
"Mom! This Moutai costs over 200 yuan a bottle. How could you bear to part with it?"
"Why are you so reluctant? The Ling family has raised their son for over twenty years and they're willing to marry him off. So what's wrong with me giving him a few bottles of Moutai?"
"Yes, Mom, you are right. That's right." Zhou Xiang quickly agreed. Hongtashan cigarettes are acceptable, Huangshan Maofeng cigarettes are also acceptable, and four-color sugar is even cheaper. It is good to have Moutai liquor to save face, so both companies can have face.
Mother Zhou continued, "We've bought the pair of chickens and the two carp. We'll just put them in the empty basket tomorrow."
Zhou Xiang put his arm around his mother and said, "The gifts are ready, but where's the betrothal gift?"
Mother Zhou pointed to the jewelry basket and said, "In that red cloth bag is the money: 10,010."
Zhou Xiang smiled and said, "You're giving so much. Not only will it be difficult for the girls in town to ask for a betrothal gift in the future, but my second sister and brother-in-law will also have objections."
Mother Zhou snorted, "Humph! What can they say? Our family conditions were different back then. Besides, you earned all this money. If you dare to object, move out."
"Mom! What you said sounds nice, but are you willing to give up both Jianjian and Kangkang?"
"Leave the healthy and strong ones behind."
"No matter how bad their parents are, their children still want to be with them. We've strayed off topic. I'm mainly trying to persuade you not to be nervous. You've already prepared well enough."
Zhou's mother breathed a sigh of relief. That was it. Tomorrow was the day, so it would be fine.
At night, Zhou Xiang fell asleep on the bed. In this life, she was the one who would be married, and the initiative was in her hands. She was not worried at all.
The next morning, Zhou's mother, who had been yawning all the time, saw her energetic little girl and really didn't know what to say.
After breakfast, Zhou wanted to go to the bathroom to take a shower and change clothes. She put on the rose-red long-sleeved dress and had just finished combing her ponytail when she was seen by Aunt Wang who walked in.
"Ouch! Hurry up and let your hair down. Let me comb it for you. Why do you wear your hair in a ponytail today?"
Zhou wanted to untie her ponytail and handed the comb to Aunt Wang. "Aunt Wang, wait a moment. I'll go find a hairpin."
After going upstairs, Zhou wanted to take out a jade hairpin that he had found from the bed leg.
When Aunt Wang saw the jade hairpin, she nodded repeatedly, "This jade hairpin is nice and elegant."
Zhou Xiang, with her hairpin tied up by Aunt Wang, looked so beautiful in a rose-red long dress that she blended nobility, elegance and softness into one.
Aunt Wang clapped her hands and said, "Oh! My hands have magic power!"
Zhou Xiang laughed, "Yes, that's it."
Although she didn't look in the mirror, she knew from the expressions of her second sister and mother that her hairstyle had almost changed her appearance. Aunt Wang's hands really had magic.
Zhou Yu came back to his senses and said, "Sister, if you go out like this, you will blind the eyes of the whole town."
Mother Zhou raised her hand and slapped her eldest daughter on the head. "Speak properly. Although your meaning is good, the words you used are inappropriate. Don't say anything unlucky today."
Zhou Yu said 'Oh', "Sister, you are so beautiful, like a fairy descending to earth. Ling Ran is so lucky to marry such a beautiful woman like you."
Hearing this, Aunt Wang couldn't help but burst out laughing. Zhou Yu seemed to be showing more and more potential to be funny.
Zhou's mother couldn't help laughing. Her eldest daughter said such words, which probably meant that she had used up all the ink in her stomach.
Zhou Xiang nodded seriously, "Second sister is right. Being able to marry me is the blessing that Ling Ran has cultivated for eight lifetimes."
Mother Zhou nodded at her little girl and said, "Alright, you two sisters are bragging and beating each other, aren't you ashamed?"
Zhou Xiang went to the bathroom to look at herself in the mirror, then casually took out her lipstick and applied it. She didn't need to put on any makeup anymore, as it would look more radiant.
At half past eight, three couples, Zhong Xiong, Ma Zhao and Chen Ou, arrived. When they saw Zhou Xiang, they were all stunned for a moment.
Zhou Xiang coughed lightly and they came back to their senses.
Zhong Xiong, "Oh my! I almost lost my soul. You look like a monster when you dress up like this!"
Fisher pinched the soft flesh on his waist and asked, "Can you speak?"
Zhong Xiong wailed, "Wife, be gentle. I'm all fat now, and it hurts wherever you pinch me. I was praising Miss Zhou Xiang. She looks like a fairy in this outfit. She's so beautiful! But my wife is still the most beautiful."
Fisher's face flushed slightly, and she quickly moved away from her husband, looking completely out of place.
Everyone in the room laughed. Tang Mei walked up to Zhou Xiang and said, "You look really beautiful today! But I want to congratulate you on winning the handsome man you are about to marry."
This time, the laughter in the room was even louder. Zhong Xiong clapped his hands, "That's a good point! Isn't it about winning over a handsome man?"
Fisher stood back beside him helplessly, stood on tiptoe and covered his mouth, "These words are not suitable for you men to say, but for us women to say."
With his petite wife covering his mouth, Zhong Xiong could only tilt his neck and listen, nodding repeatedly to show that he understood.
Fisher then let him go, "Don't talk nonsense again."
"Okay!" Zhong Xiong nodded obediently.
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