Chapter 496: Irony

Zhulan called Li, but Li did not come alone, and Minghui was with her. The little guy saw his grandmother twisting her body to get down to the ground. He had just learned to walk and wanted to run away as soon as he got down to the ground.

Zhu Lan quickly reached out her hand to catch it. "You want to run just after learning to walk? Aren't you afraid of falling?"

Minghui grabbed the clothes, "Grandma, Grandma."

Zhulan laughed, this boy looked so much like her. Sometimes she was lost in thought when looking at Minghui. She reached out and picked up Minghui, but he was so heavy.

Minghui pouted, "Uncle, uncle."

Zhulan pinched the boy's nose and said, "Minghui, remember your uncle."

Li continued, "He came here just to see Changzhong."

Zhulan smiled and said, "Children like children."

After saying that, he put Minghui down and motioned Liuya to watch and play with Changzhong on the bed.

When Mrs. Li saw her son taking off his shoes, she was worried. She didn't dare to bring her son here often because she was afraid that her son would hurt Changzhong seriously. Changzhong was the apple of his parents' eyes!

Fortunately, Minghui was sitting aside playing and didn't do anything.

Li heaved a sigh of relief, "Mom, what do you want to talk to me about?"

Zhulan took the invitation and said, "This is an invitation from Xu Qi, inviting you to taste tea."

Li took it and looked at it, "Mom, should I go?"

When she arrived in Jinzhou, a lot of things happened. Although she did not go out, she knew that the Zhou family was in the center of the storm. She did not dare to make the decision on her own, although she wanted to go very much, because Xu Qi was her friend after all.

Zhulan looked at Li and said, "If you want to go, go. If you don't want to go, don't go. It's up to you."

Li pondered her mother's words and grinned, "Mom, I'll go."

Zhulan nodded with satisfaction. She still hoped that Li would have her own ideas instead of listening to her in everything. "Yeah."

On the second day, Dong Lin recovered. Zhulan invited Dong Lin to have tea in the garden. Zhulan knew what Dong Lin was hesitating to say, "Mother-in-law, please have some tea."

Dong Lin came back to her senses. She had no mood to enjoy the scenery and sip tea. She was anxious because Dong Liao did not come back last night. She took a sip of tea and felt that her status had changed. In the past, the Zhou family only gave a few hundred taels of betrothal gifts, but in just a few years, it had increased to tens of thousands of taels. The tea they drank was all top-grade. She could rarely say, "Good tea."

Zhulan, "My mother-in-law is well now. How about inviting her to the temple to worship Buddha tomorrow? The temples in Jinzhou are very famous."

Dong Lin became excited and said, "Even if my mother-in-law didn't mention it, I still want to say it."

She was going to ask for a lucky charm for her daughter, and then ask Dong Liao if she could succeed in the next year. Thinking of Dong Liao, Dong Lin felt depressed again.

Seeing that Dong Lin was distracted, Zhulan did not call her again this time. Dong Liao did not return yesterday, so she sent someone to follow him. Dong Liao is the eldest grandson of the Dong family. He is twenty years old this year. He took the exam twice before he passed the examination and will take part in the provincial examination next year.

As for where Dong Liao went yesterday, Zhulan also knew that it was the largest inn in Jinzhou, and he went to the library where students in the city gathered early this morning.

Dong Lin came back to her senses. Her old son and eldest grandson were both her lifeblood. She didn't like her eldest son very much, but she really liked her eldest grandson who had been by her side since he was a child. She was indeed angry yesterday, but after she got over her anger, she became worried. It was very rude of Dong Liao not to come back, but she was worried in her heart. If her son-in-law had not simply rejected her eldest grandson, she would not have been able to help but mention it to Yang.

Mrs. Dong Lin picked up the teacup, but she couldn't lift it because her son-in-law had already refused. If she lifted it again, it would be a slap in the face of her son-in-law and would embarrass her daughter. Besides, the friendship between the Zhou and Dong families couldn't be used in this way. There was a limit to how much affection they had, so she had to use it a little less.

Zhulan enjoyed the feeling of the breeze and the drowsiness of basking in the sunshine. She especially liked to stay outside.

Zhulan and Dong Linshi didn't say anything. Each of them was accompanied by only a maid. They found a place under the grape rack, where the lush grape leaves blocked their view.

Hearing footsteps, Zhulan opened her eyes and turned around. It turned out to be Rongchuan and Dong Liao. How did these two get together?

Dong Lin wanted to speak, but it was too late, Dong Liao had already spoken.

Dong Liao said sarcastically, "Master Zhang, no, you are not a master, you are just a child foster husband."

He was angry. He was angry that his uncle didn't help him, that his grandmother ignored him, that no one called him back last night when he went out, and that he wanted to test his abilities today, but he lost to Zhang Rongchuan, who was younger than him. Today he lost an adult in the study, all because of the guy in front of him.

Rong Chuan curled his lips in his heart. The eldest grandson of the Dong family was really bad. He was almost the same as Ming Yun. It was obviously because he was too strong that he stepped forward and thought that he was willing to help. If it wasn't for the fact that he was the nephew of his third sister-in-law, he would not have bothered to pull this guy out of the pit.

As for the sarcasm, Rong Chuan's eyes deepened. He would refuse to associate with such relatives in the future. He said with sarcasm in his eyes, "First, I am the elder. You sarcastically criticize the elders. Is this the etiquette you learned? Second, today I pulled you into a trap. Not only do you not appreciate me, but you also get angry at me. Do you think I am easy to bully?"

Dong Liao clenched his fist. The boy in front of him was much younger than him, but he had a more imposing aura than him. He felt inferior to him. When Zhang Rongchuan appeared in the bookstore today, he was jealous. A child fosterer actually had people fawning on him, and among them was the person he fawned on. Wasn't this a slap in his face?

Rongchuan saw the jealousy in Dong Liao's eyes, and felt sad in his heart that the grandchildren of the Dong family were really no good. He was too lazy to say anything more. They were not the grandchildren of the Zhou family, so why should he educate them verbally? However, the grandchildren of the Zhou family did not need him to educate them either. Mingyun was an outstanding eldest grandson. Mingteng and Mingrui loved to play, but they did not fall behind in learning what they should learn.

(End of this chapter)