Chapter 344 There is no such thing as a person who is born to be possessed by evil!
After making some progress in puppetry, Shao Wenqin created a handsome boy of about the same age as herself. In order to deceive her mother, Tian, Shao Wenqin made the appearance of this boy puppet very outstanding, the kind of handsomeness that would easily make people fall in love with him at first sight.
Shao Wenqin had not prepared for more things. After all, she was marrying a son-in-law, not marrying him. There was no need to prepare a suitable family background for the young puppet. She just needed to take him back.
So when Tian was still worrying about her daughter's marriage, Shao Wenqin brought a handsome young man home that day. She told Tian very directly: "Mother, this is Xu Lang, I like him and I want to marry him."
Tian was stunned for a long time when she saw her daughter suddenly bring a man home and say she wanted to marry him. It was obviously the first time she had come into contact with such a tough side of her daughter.
While Tian was stunned, Si Yuan was not. He could tell at a glance that Xu Lang was a puppet. This little girl had made some progress in making puppets, and her face was also very delicate, which was good.
Si Yuan acted in coordination with Shao Wenqin and said, "Wenqin, where is he from? What is his specific identity? You can't just bring someone back and we'll agree to your marriage, right?"
Shao Wenqin started to make up a story: "Xu Lang is from Fengyang City. Because his family was in decline and his parents died, he came to Yuyang City alone. Unfortunately, his goods were robbed by bandits. Now he has nothing. I saved him, and he is willing to repay me for saving his life with his body."
The background story is quite ridiculous, but ridiculous means classic. Si Yuan suppressed his laughter and said, "Does Xu Lang have no relatives at home anymore?"
The puppet boy Xu Lang lowered his head slightly and said, "Yes, I am alone and have no one to rely on. Miss Shao saved my life. From now on, my life belongs to Miss Shao."
Tian didn't say anything after Si Yuan spoke, she just sat aside and listened quietly.
Si Yuan nodded and said to Shao Wenqin, "Marriage is a lifelong event and should not be taken lightly. You should take Xu Lang to live there first, and we will discuss it in detail later."
When Shao Wenqin saw Si Yuan winking at her, she immediately understood what he meant and left with the puppet boy Xu Lang.
As soon as Shao Wenqin left with her people, Tian couldn't hold back her words and said to Si Yuan anxiously, "Master, Wenqin actually picked up an orphan whose relatives had all died and said she wanted to marry him. How can this be allowed?"
Si Yuan asked back: "Why not?"
Tian was startled.
Si Yuan continued, "The reason why Wenqin fell in love with Xu Lang is very simple. She just thought he was handsome and fell in love with him at first sight. Xu Lang has no relatives in his family, so it's a good opportunity for him to marry into our family. We don't have to worry about his parents' objection. After all, there are not many good men willing to marry into our family now. You worried about Wenqin's marriage before, wasn't it because you found that the men who were willing to marry into our family were all ugly? Regardless of whether Xu Lang is a idiot or not, at least he has a decent face. In the future, our grandchildren will inherit their parents' looks and will also be good-looking."
Tian was convinced. What he said made sense.
She used to think that Xu Lang’s lack of family background and being alone without parents was a disadvantage, but which good man with a good family background would be willing to marry into her family? Even if there are those who are willing to marry into the Shao family, most of them are illegitimate sons or second sons who are not valued in the family. The other party who wants his son to marry into the Shao family probably has ulterior motives.
Considering the situation of marrying into the Shao family, Xu Lang's lack of family is actually an advantage. After marrying into the Shao family, he will be a member of the Shao family and will care about the Shao family wholeheartedly instead of thinking about how to trace his ancestral roots.
Tian recalled the handsome face of Xu Lang she had seen before, and imagined a combination of this face and her daughter's beautiful face to make a cute fat baby. She was instantly moved: "Then, then agree to it. Let them get married as soon as possible so that I can have grandchildren."
Si Yuan: “…” It’s really easy to convince.
Once Tian gave in, there would naturally be no more obstacles.
Soon the Shao family held a wedding and invited some powerful people from Yuyang City to witness the scene of the eldest daughter of the Shao family marrying her young husband. After that, the Shao family continued to live their lives behind closed doors.
Since Tian was a female member of the family, she naturally had very few opportunities to meet her son-in-law Xu Lang. She also found that Xu Lang was even more of a homebody than the ladies of wealthy families who never went out of the house. After marrying into the Shao family, he would never go out unless it was necessary.
Tian asked Shao Wenqin with some concern, and Shao Wenqin only said: "Xu Lang was frightened by the bandits before, so I asked him to rest more."
It was not easy for Tian to show that she cared too much about her son-in-law, so she could only urge her daughter to pay more attention to him and not to affect the relationship between the couple and the birth of her grandchildren.
Shao Wenqin, who was induced to give birth: "..." It seems that she has to stay up late to practice puppetry.
After all, the puppets she could create with her current puppetry could only be of a fixed age and could not grow up over time.
For example, the puppet boy Xu Lang, even after another thirty years, he will still look like a teenager and it is impossible for him to mature and grow old.
Now the time is still short, and the puppet Xu Lang is not in a hurry to grow old, but if he wants to "give birth" to a child to deceive Tian, the baby created by Shao Wenqin's current puppetry will be easily exposed.
After all, babies grow quickly and their appearance can change in a few months. She can't make new puppet babies every day to deceive Tian, right?
Therefore, Shao Wenqin could only temporarily deal with her mother Tian's urging for the birth, while at the same time hurriedly making up for her lessons in puppetry, in order to create a puppet baby that could grow up over time as soon as possible.
In fact, she could have asked Si Yuan for help, but Shao Wenqin felt that asking her father for help for such a small matter would make her seem useless. It was not good to rely on her father for everything, as she was not incapable of learning.
Therefore, except when Shao Wenqin encountered difficulties in practicing puppetry, she would go to Si Yuan for advice. Otherwise, she would learn and practice on her own and had no intention of sitting back and enjoying the fruits of others' labor.
Si Yuan didn't offer to help. After all, this was just a small assignment for Shao Wenqin.
Shao Wenqin was really talented in puppetry. In just three years, she had mastered the art from minor to major. She could now create puppet babies that would grow over time, and they were so realistic that even Jindan cultivators could not recognize them.
Then this year, Shao Wenqin became pregnant.
Tian was overjoyed. After waiting for several years, she finally had grandchildren.
Shao Wenqin had a difficult pregnancy. She was not really pregnant, and of course it was not that the pregnancy was really difficult, but she was just overwhelmed by the care from her mother, Tian.
In order to take good care of her pregnant daughter, Tian wanted to move in with Shao Wenqin and visit her almost every day.
Shao Wenqin was pregnant with a fake belly and was planning to go out to inspect the Shao family's businesses as usual, but Tian forced her to stay at home to take care of the baby. She was even lectured if her walking posture was a little wild.
Shao Wenqin: “…” This is really asking for trouble.
Fortunately, later on, Tian was busy knitting clothes, hats and shoes for the children, so she didn't have much time to keep an eye on her, so Shao Wenqin could relax a little.
After more than nine months, Shao Wenqin no longer needs to pretend to be pregnant.
When she handed the twins, a boy and a girl, to Tian, she felt that her great mission at this stage of her life had been accomplished.
While feeling relieved, Shao Wenqin was still wondering why she thought this way and who assigned her the task?
However, when she saw her mother Tian holding her two children with great joy, Shao Wenqin felt that it was all worth it that she had pretended for so long to coax her mother.
After all, her mother couldn't practice immortality like she and her father did. The short hundred years had passed quickly and her mother's life was not long. She just had to follow her mother's wishes and make her happy.
Shao Wenqin directly said that she and Xu Lang had no time to raise children, so both children were raised by Tian.
Tian was very happy. After all, it was not like the past in Shaojia Village, when her family was poor and she had to take care of the child herself. There were wet nurses and maids at home, so Tian did not need to take care of the child herself. The child was raised by her simply to let her enjoy the happiness of family life.
Si Yuan certainly wouldn't care much about these two puppet children. After all, they were not real children. He would just go over to check occasionally to see if there were any problems.
Because the puppet child can eat but cannot excrete, in order to hide this secret, the wet nurse and maid who take care of the puppet child are also puppet dolls made by Shao Wenqin.
As a result of the joint concealment, Tian had no idea that there was anything wrong with her grandchildren. After all, she only asked the wet nurse to bring the children over to her so that she could take a look at them and play with them when the children were awake and not crying, and occasionally she would take the children for a walk in the garden.
Tian had never encountered a situation where the child cried, was hungry, or had a bowel movement. She just thought that the wet nurse and the maid took good care of the child and did not let her see these situations with her own eyes.
However, Tian noticed that her daughter and son-in-law did not seem to care much about their grandchildren. After all, what kind of mother would go out to inspect the property for several days and come back without looking at her children, but instead be busy discussing matters with others? How could a father stay in his yard for days doing nothing and not come to visit his own son and daughter?
Tian was worried that her daughter and son-in-law did not pay attention to the children, and that the children would not be close to them when they grew up. So, no matter how reluctant she was, she still sent the two children back to them to raise.
Shao Wenqin felt that this way she would not have to worry about being exposed in front of Tian one day. However, these two puppet children were just puppets used by her to please their mother Tian. She kept the children in her own yard and from time to time let the puppet nanny take the children to show Tian to make her happy.
As for Xu Lang, in order to prevent Tian from mistaking him for not liking children, Shao Wenqin told Tian that when she was not at home, it was Xu Lang who took care of the two children at home, and he was a very virtuous wife and child-rearing father.
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