Chapter 19: Liu Zhiyan reveals his life story, Qin Xue wants to back out
Looking at the solemn expression on the girl's tender little face, as if she would teach him a lesson if he dared to answer yes, Liu Zhiyan was extremely happy.
After the two of them got along, he basically understood the girl's temperament.
Because of Qin Laicai's undivided love, even though she often boasted about her lack of knowledge and skills, it couldn't stop her from being confident from the inside out. Also, because the Qin family was simple and she grew up in a simple family environment, she had an extraordinary innocence.
Perhaps because she hadn't used her hands much since she was a child, she always seemed a bit flustered and clumsy when she did things. Take the door sill incident, for example. Even though she had been at Fang's Desserts every day for the past two months, she still kicked the door sill every few days.
At first, he was worried she might break herself, but after two months, she hadn't hurt herself once. Furthermore, because she was so familiar with the door sill, she went from being slightly panicked to now being able to move gracefully like a swallow skimming across the water, a truly beautiful sight.
He originally thought that kicking the door sill every day was already an eye-opener.
It turns out that there are things about this girl that are even more bizarre than kicking the door threshold.
That's a mistake made more often than kicking the door sill - wearing the wrong shoes.
That's right, this girl always wears the wrong shoes.
The maid who served her knew that she had this problem, so she always prepared shoes for her.
This girl also wore normal shoes when she went out.
But every time he got on the carriage, he kicked off his shoes. When he got off the carriage, he often mixed up his original shoes with the spare shoes he had on.
The maid tried making several more pairs of the same shoes for each pair, one for her to wear when she went out in the morning, and another for her to keep in the carriage. Even so, Qin Xue still had the ability to make the two pairs of shoes look different.
No one else has this ability.
To be honest, in his twenty-plus years of life, he had never encountered anyone around him, male or female, as clumsy as this girl.
He once thought that getting married was boring. He felt that when two people were together, it seemed like they could see the end at a glance, without any surprises. That was not what he wanted.
Meeting someone who often makes mistakes, and seeing her endless little mistakes every day, he suddenly felt that every day was wonderful. So, he unconsciously got himself into it.
Seeing that he was just staring at her and didn't answer her question.
Qin Xue thought that he had been exposed in a wrong way by her and didn't know how to answer her, so she remained silent for a long time.
He immediately told him seriously, "How many people have you taught? Are all these people here with your brother this time?"
"Although the people you taught didn't open shops outside and steal the boss's job, since the boss doesn't want the recipe leaked, we should abide by it. So this time, we will hand these people over to the boss for disposal. And you must also inform the boss of your private teaching. You will have to accept whatever the boss decides to do to you. After all, you broke your promise first. Do you understand?"
"Do you know who the boss is?"
"I don't know, but don't you know?"
"Then I tell you: the boss is as far away as the horizon and as close as the eye."
"What?" Qin Xue was surprised to hear Liu Zhiyan say that he was the owner of Fang's Dessert Shop. "Sister Ye said that this shop was opened by her elders? You can't be the elders she's talking about, right?"
Although her family is simple, she also knows that seniority has nothing to do with age.
"Of course not." Liu Zhiyan didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "To be honest, this Fang's Dessert Shop is actually my grandmother's business. However, she is old now and doesn't have the energy to open shops everywhere, so she handed over all the affairs of the shop to me."
"The people my brother brought here were originally my grandmother's people."
When Qin Xue heard that it was not someone he taught privately, he put the matter behind him.
She now wanted to know what the relationship was between the man in front of her and Sister Ye. Thinking that the two seemed somewhat similar, Qin Xue guessed, "Are you and Sister Ye brother and sister?"
The future father-in-law calls my mother niece, and my future wife treats him as her mother's younger brother.
Is it because his mother looks too young?
Or is it that he's aged prematurely? He looks like he's from the same generation as his mother!
"In your eyes, how old is your sister Ye? And how old am I?"
"Sister Ye is at most thirty." Ye Qinghan looked very careful about her appearance. With fine lines around her eyes, it was impossible for her to be in her early twenties. "As for you, I always thought you were around twenty."
All right.
Let’s just assume that his mother is too young, not that he is aging prematurely.
Even though I thought so, I still felt upset. "If I said your sister Ye's age starts with five, would you believe it?"
"How is that possible?" After a subconscious reaction, Qin Xue felt that Liu Zhiyan didn't need to talk nonsense about Sister Ye's age, "If Sister Ye..." Thinking that Ye Qinghan was much older than she thought, Qin Xue suddenly felt that it seemed inappropriate to call her sister.
On second thought, when they first met, I called her Sister Ye and she seemed very happy.
Qin Xue suddenly felt that it didn’t matter how old she was, as long as she was happy listening to it.
Anyway, if she is fifty years old in the future and there is still a girl in her teens who calls her sister, she will definitely be happy.
"I believe what you said. Since there's such a big age difference between you two, you're probably not siblings."
"They're not brother and sister. They have different surnames, so they can't be aunt and nephew. They look somewhat similar, so they must be related by blood..." At this point, Qin Xue covered her mouth, her eyes wide open, staring straight at Liu Zhiyan, and said the bold guess in her mind, "You and Sister Ye are not mother and son, right?"
Seeing that she was smart for once, Liu Zhiyan responded to her cheerfully, "As you said."
Although she had made a bold guess, Qin Xue felt it was unlikely. As it turned out, the truth was exactly as she had guessed. She stuttered, unable to form a coherent sentence. "She...she...she is really...really...your mother?"
"Yes, she is indeed my mother, the legitimate one."
Thinking of Sister Ye and her attire, which didn't look like that of an ordinary family, Qin Xue asked him, "Your background isn't simple, is it?"
"Are you sure that a family with a background like yours would be willing to let you be someone's son-in-law?"
Generally, only families with poor financial conditions and no means to find a wife for their sons would let their sons become sons-in-law.
"Anyway, our matter hasn't been settled yet, so it's still not too late to stop now." Qin Xue said with some difficulty.
Although this man had only expressed his feelings for a few days, she was truly prepared to spend her life with him.
As a result, facts told her that this man's background was much better than she had imagined.
Plus, she really liked Sister Ye, whom she had only met twice.
She didn't want to cause family conflicts because of her relationship.
Qin Xue's words made the ease on Liu Zhiyan's face disappear completely.
He rarely lowered his face to look at the girl who lowered her head in front of him, and ordered in a deep voice, "Lift your head and look at me."
"I'll talk to my dad, and you can handle your brother's case yourself."
Seeing that the girl still had her head down and was unwilling to look up, Liu Zhiyan raised his hands, cupped her cheeks, and forced her to look up.
Seeing her tears, red eyes, and heaving chest, he finally calmed down a little.
He stared intently into the other person's eyes, speaking each word with earnestness, "I'm twenty-five, not two or three years old. I know exactly what I've done and said, what they meant, and what difficulties I might encounter. I've already thought of a solution. You don't need to worry about it. Just trust me."
Liu Zhiyan's eyes were so sincere that Qin Xue believed he could do it.
But she knew better the difficulties involved.
So, she subconsciously shook her head, "I believe you, but I'm afraid that Sister Ye, with whom I used to have such a good conversation, will come to me one day and beg me to let her son go."
The woman she had only met twice pointed her in a direction and gave her a chance to change herself when she was in self-doubt about her life.
She was extremely grateful to the other party and didn't want to be ungrateful.
Steadying his shaking head, Liu Zhiyan said seriously, "What if I say that other people in my family might object to me becoming a live-in son-in-law, but my mother wouldn't? Will you stop saying that?"
If he said that his feelings for Qin Xue were so deep that they could not be separated, not only others would not believe it, but he himself would not believe it either.
But it's rare to meet a woman who makes him want to start a family, and he doesn't want to miss it.
"Ever since I was twelve or thirteen, there have always been people around me trying to arrange a marriage for me. I was too impatient to deal with them, so I ran away to Qiongzhou Prefecture and threatened that if anyone dared to bring up my marriage again, I would stay there forever."
Afraid that Qin Xue didn't know where Qiongzhou Prefecture was, Liu Zhiyan specifically told her about the situation in Qiongzhou Prefecture.
"I stayed in Qiongzhou Prefecture for three years. When I came back, my mother took my hand and told those who always wanted to arrange a marriage for me: My son's marriage is his own decision. He can get married if he wants to, and he can marry whomever he wants. As a mother, I don't worry about it, so others don't have to worry about it."
"Someone told my mother at the time that I didn't look like I wanted to get married. My mother said that as long as he was happy to be alone, she had no objection if he didn't get married."
"You could say that the fact that I'm still single at this age and no one is saying anything bad about me has a lot to do with my mother's support."
Thinking of the woman who spoke as freely as the wind, Qin Xue believed that she could say these words.
"Sister Ye's approach in this regard is somewhat similar to my father's insistence on finding a son-in-law for me." Anyway, no matter what others say, she firmly supports her children.
"My previous idea of finding a son-in-law was to find someone who was good enough to have a child with my father, so that I could rely on him when I was old. As for the man I found, if he was a good person, we could treat him with respect for the rest of our lives. Otherwise, if he wasn't, I would just send him off."
According to what Qin Xue said, the son-in-law these two father and daughter hired was not a son-in-law at all, but a tool for making babies. Liu Zhiyan suddenly thought that he had been eager to be used as a tool for making babies, and his face darkened. "What about now? Do you still think so?"
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