917: Engagement
Shao Xia finally raised her head and looked straight at Jia Zan.
Jia Zan also looked at her with a scorching gaze. It was the first time she saw such an uncontrollable expression on Jia Zan's face. That scorching gaze burned directly into her heart, making her heart boil as well.
Jia Zan murmured again:
"marry me?"
Shao Xia felt like she was about to faint. Faced with the sudden proposal, her mind was confused and she had no idea what to do. She could no longer think normally.
It was unknown how much time had passed, until she was embraced by a broad embrace and heard her heavy, rapid breathing, and then she began to regain her senses.
I heard Jia Zan ask again in my ear:
"Did I scare you?"
"Well, you scared me." Shao Xia's voice trembled.
"It's okay, you don't have to answer in a hurry. You have to think carefully about such an important matter. If you are willing to marry me, I will marry you in this life. If you don't marry me, I will never marry again in this life-"
As he spoke, Jia Zan touched Shao Xia's head lovingly, and then let her go.
Shao Xia looked up at Jia Zan, her eyes red. She suddenly started to cry and laugh at the same time:
"You know, you're not a romantic at all."
"It's not that I'm not romantic, it's that I don't dare to be romantic. I'm afraid that my romance will be seen as hooliganism to you."
"I don't believe you can be so rude—"
Before Shao Xia finished speaking, Jia Zan suddenly approached, and then, a pair of warm hands held her face and kissed her with his soft lips.
Shao Xia opened her eyes and saw Jia Zan's eyes were tightly closed, as if he was in extreme pain and extreme happiness, and he kept kissing her on the lips.
At first, Shao Xia was numb and felt nothing. Gradually, she relaxed and began to feel the strength of Jia Zan's kiss. She slowly closed her eyes and immersed herself in a feeling of infinite expansion.
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Shao Xia and Jia Zan are officially engaged.
Of course, the Jia family is extremely satisfied with this daughter-in-law, a hundred percent satisfied!
Even Jia Song was satisfied.
Jia Song never expected that Shao Xia, whom he had known for almost ten years, would suddenly become his sister-in-law.
He welcomes this sister-in-law.
In the past, because of You Wenyue, he hated the title of "sister-in-law" and felt nauseous when he heard it. However, Shao Xia made him change his prejudice against "sister-in-law". For the first time, he felt that the title of sister-in-law was quite cute.
As soon as Jia Song saw Shao Xia, he called her "sister-in-law" all the time, and he was very affectionate with her, which made Shao Xia feel embarrassed.
Shao Xia would still call Jia Song "Brother Jia". Whenever this happened, Jia Song would say with deep fear:
"Oh, sister-in-law, you are embarrassing me. You are my sister-in-law, how can you call me brother? Change your words!"
Shao Xia had no choice but to change her words and call him by his name.
Jia Le was confused about his father's marriage to Teacher Shao. He didn't know why Teacher Shao suddenly became his stepmother.
Stepmothers are so scary. I heard that stepmothers will beat children and not give them food. He doesn't want such a gentle and beautiful teacher Shao to become his stepmother!
He is very resistant!
He turned back into the rebellious kid he used to be, locking himself in the house and refusing to come out or eat.
Shao Xia patiently persuaded Lele, chatted with Lele, and even stayed at Jia's house to sleep with Lele at night. She asked Lele:
"Jia Le, are you worried that I will become a vicious stepmother?"
"Well, I hope you will always be Teacher Shao. I don't want you to become a stepmother."
"Then how about this, you always call me Teacher Shao, okay? I won't be your stepmother, I will always be your Teacher Shao, okay?"
"Okay, you will always be Teacher Shao, not a stepmother."
"Um!"
From then on, Shao Xia told everyone, especially the Jia family, not to try to get the child to call her "Mom" anymore. She just wanted the child to call her "Teacher Shao" in the future. She didn't care. She hoped the child could feel at ease instead of being forced to call her "Mom".
So, Lele continued to call Shao Xia "Teacher Shao" as before, and slowly returned to his previous state.
The Jia family quickly accepted Shao Xia, but for the Shao family, it might be difficult for the old couple to accept their daughter marrying a man who was eleven years older than her, divorced, and had a son.
The old couple would think that their daughter was greedy for money and power, selling herself out to become a stepmother to someone else. They might even be ridiculed by their neighbors for being shameless and trying to climb up the social ladder.
Shao Xia understood her parents' thoughts, so she was worried that they would not accept it.
She told Yu Xiaoye about this, hoping that Yu Xiaoye could help her with some advice.
Yu Xiaoye patted his chest and said:
"It's easy, leave it to Brother Heng!"
So Zhou Ziheng acted as a matchmaker and took a day off to visit the Shao family with gifts and Yu Xiaoye.
The old couple of the Shao family had both met Yu Xiaoye, knew her background, and knew that Yu Xiaoye’s husband was now a ministerial-level figure.
Now that they saw the minister coming to their home in person, they were truly honored and could not believe it. They were extremely polite to Zhou Ziheng.
Although Zhou Ziheng was acting as a matchmaker for the first time, he was so experienced that he seemed to have arranged hundreds of marriages. He described Jia Zan's situation, praised him truthfully, and then said:
"Uncle, aunt, Shao Xia and our Xiao Ye have been friends for many years. You two elders already know this. I have known this friend of mine for over 20 years and grew up in the same compound. You can rest assured about her character. She is absolutely honest, reliable, and responsible. I can guarantee this for you two elders. I promise that Shao Xia will not suffer any grievances or unfair treatment after they get married. I will be their officiant when they get married, and I will be responsible for any problems that arise in the future!"
What else could the old couple of the Shao family say? The minister had come to their house to propose marriage, so what else could they do?
Seeing that their daughter seemed willing, the old couple had no choice but to agree and let Jia Zan come.
Only then did Shao Xia dare to bring Jia Zan home.
As soon as they entered the house and saw Jia Zan's appearance, the old couple felt relieved, because Jia Zan was born with a good face that made people trust him, and his gentle and honest eyes could not deceive people. In addition, Jia Zan was mature and had first-class interpersonal skills, so Jia Zan had been in the Shao family for less than half a day and successfully gained the approval of Shao Xia's parents.
Although Jia Zan was a bit older and was on his second marriage with a child, he was impeccable in other aspects. When the old couple thought about Minister Zhou's matchmaking, they felt more relieved and agreed to their marriage.
So the two of them got engaged naturally.
Jia Zan gave the Shao family a betrothal gift of 1,000 yuan, including all the necessary gifts for an engagement, not to mention clothes, shoes, socks, gold and silver jewelry for Shao Xia. He bought everything that needed to be bought, and also bought Shao Xia a brand new Phoenix brand women's bicycle, giving Shao Xia enough honor and face.
These were all prepared by the Jia family.
Zhou Ziheng also prepared generous gifts for the newlyweds and bought them the latest refrigerator and washing machine and sent them to their home.
The person who was happiest about Jia Zan's marriage, besides Jia's parents, was Zhou Ziheng.
Yu Xiaoye couldn't help but teasing him:
"You are happier about Brother Jia's wedding than your own."
Zhou Ziheng thought for a moment and said seriously:
"I feel the same way. Why do I seem to be happier than when I got married myself?"
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