It was the middle of the night and everyone else was fast asleep, but in Xu's house, people were sitting around a table eating and drinking. After they were full, they felt sleepy and went to rest. Anything else would have to wait until dawn.

After saying goodbye to grandpa and grandma, Shen Yu took Meng Tao's hand and walked back to the courtyard where they rested. The two whispered all the way, because they just found out tonight that the auspicious date for their wedding had just been set: September 2nd, only 10 days away.

Grandpa Xu specially asked an expert to pick a good day.

It seemed a bit hasty. The wedding was originally planned to be held in winter, but Meng Tao was pregnant, so it had to be moved forward.

Fortunately, Grandma Xu and my aunt had made preparations in advance. After Shen Yu and Meng Tao got engaged, they started to prepare everything. The decoration of the new house has been completed, and the furniture, bedding and even daily necessities are all ready. It's not too stressful to hold the wedding suddenly in advance, and they are not caught off guard.

The invitations have to be written and sent out quickly to notify all relatives and friends.

A wedding banquet requires a large amount of meat, vegetables and food. The supply indicators and tickets have been saved up, and a chef from a well-known restaurant has been booked to come to the house to set up a banquet to entertain guests.

At present, there is no practice of booking a restaurant or hotel for the whole place, as that would seem too extravagant and ostentatious in the eyes of the public and have a bad influence, so even in a big city like Beijing, no one dares to set such a precedent.

Meng Tao whispered: I haven't met the other three cousins ​​yet. It's a bit of a pity that they can't make it back. She feels that based on the personalities and nature of their work, the wedding would definitely be more fun if they were present.

Shen Yu did not comment. He thought it would be better if his cousins ​​did not come, so as to avoid any unnecessary trouble and ruin his and Taotao's wedding.

"Time is tight. Grandpa Liu and Grandma Liu, Grandma Xu, brothers Xu Yulin and Liu Jianye from H Province, Brother Jinniu and Zhou Cuiling from Linshui Village in G Province, and Brother and sister-in-law Liu Jianxin and Sun Hong from Pingjiang City haven't received invitations. Can they come? It takes four or five days to get to Beijing by train, right? Those who work have to ask for leave. If they don't work and ask for leave just to attend the wedding, I don't know if their leaders will approve it?" Meng Tao said.

Shen Yu comforted her, "We'll send out invitations to those who are nearby, and we'll just have to call to notify those who are far away. We'll have arrangements for Grandpa Liu, Grandma Liu, and Grandma Xu from Province H. Meng Zhehan will be in charge of bringing Brother Jinniu and other relatives from Linshui Village to Beijing. As for the others, my eldest brother and sister-in-law from Pingjiang City, as well as Xu Yulin and Liu Jianye, they'll definitely be able to get leave if they want to come."

"As for Xu Yuting and Liu Jianli, they should come to Beijing to study in the next two days. Let them know when the time comes."

"I remember that."

"My eldest uncle said that my second uncle and second aunt went abroad with a visiting delegation, and my second cousin is participating in a project research at work. What about my second cousin's wife and a little cousin..."

"Xu Hengrui is 18 years old, he is not young anymore. He was recommended to go to university this year. He has been busy as a freshman representative in the school these days. He will be back on that day. As for my second cousin's wife Pan Lina, she was originally in the art troupe, and later transferred to work in the government. She is a little different from the other people in this family. You will know when you meet her tomorrow. If you don't like her, you can just ignore her."

Meng Tao: “…”

Are you sure? That's your cousin's wife.

As they were talking, they arrived at a courtyard planted with crabapple flowers. It was Xu Jia's boudoir before she got married. Shen Yu had also lived here since he was a child. There were three main rooms and side rooms. Adjacent to this courtyard was the courtyard of Xu's eldest cousin, which was connected by a flower wall with a moon-shaped door in the middle.

They pushed the door open and entered the house, only to see that everything was newly decorated, with new curtains, new beds, and even the walls had been repainted. All the furniture was mahogany, but it was not newly bought, but old items handed down from ancestors. Some were heavy and elegant, while others had exquisite carvings, all were polished to a glossy finish and spotless. The newly bought modern furniture was definitely not as high-end as these, and the older they were, the more valuable they became.

Shen Yu said, "You can get married here, and I will come to marry you. We will go back to our own home in the east of the city. It has been renovated there as well."

Meng Tao nodded: "Grandpa, grandma, uncle, and aunt have worked so hard to prepare everything so well, and we just sit back and enjoy the fruits of their labor without having to do anything. I feel ashamed."

"We accept the kindness of our elders. You just need to be at ease as a bride."

"Well, you have to be a good groom, and don't do something like in the movies and run away from the marriage."

Shen Yu was closing the window when he was amused by his wife's words: "What nonsense are you talking about? Be careful of the 'crow's mouth'."

Meng Tao pinched him in dissatisfaction: "Why, do you really have an idea?"

"Of course not. It's just that the company has recently launched a lot of important initiatives. You can't see how busy I am. If there is an emergency and I have to go on a business trip, and it happens to be stuck at that time, wouldn't it be..."

"Oh, stop talking!"

Meng Tao hurried to stop him. Good things didn't work, but bad things did. She didn't want to have a wedding full of twists and turns.

Shen Yu pulled his little wife into his arms and kissed her, saying that this way he wouldn't be a bad mouth. The two of them stayed together for a while before going to the bathroom to wash up, then turned off the lights and rested. They both entered the space, practiced and did homework for an hour, then came out, hugged each other and lay on the bed, falling into a sweet dream.

The Xu family has an ancestral martial art that they require their descendants to practice in order to strengthen their bodies and sharpen their five senses. Grandpa Xu once praised Shen Yu for his talent, but Shen Yu knew that his eldest cousin Xu Aoxue was even more powerful, as was his eldest cousin next door. Therefore, he and Taotao had to be more cautious and come out in time after entering the space to do their "homework" and could not stay for too long.

Taotao's spatial secret is too outrageous, even close relatives have to be on guard against it.

At this time, in another small courtyard far away, a mother and daughter in the guest room were lying on the bed and talking without any sleep. Thinking that no one would come to this courtyard in the middle of the night, they did not deliberately lower their voices. As they talked, the daughter occasionally couldn't help but speak in a high-pitched voice, and the mother hurriedly stopped and scolded her, causing her daughter to cry.

They didn't know that outside the lattice window near the bed, there was a light-colored figure lying there eavesdropping.

The mother and daughter in the room were Aunt Deng and Wu Hong, and the one eavesdropping outside on the window was Deng Linlin.

Originally, Wu Hong shared a room with Deng Linlin, but after returning from the front hall after having supper, Wu Hong seemed depressed. She went to sleep with her mother without saying hello to Deng Linlin.

The two cousins ​​have always been very close and have endless topics to talk about. Wu Hong suddenly stopped sleeping with her and ran to find her mother. Deng Linlin felt uneasy, wondering if she had done something wrong. She took the initiative to come over and call Wu Hong, but accidentally heard the conversation between mother and daughter, and couldn't help but listen.

(End of this chapter)