Chapter 159: Being Taken Advantage of
Daohua was led all the way into the main courtyard by Li's aunt.
On the way, Fan kept staring at Daohua with a smile on her face. Even though Daohua thought she was thick-skinned enough, she felt embarrassed by her stare.
Even after entering the house, Fan was still looking at the rice flowers intently.
"Sister-in-law, please stop looking. Look, the girl's face is blushing with embarrassment." Second aunt Jiang stepped forward and rescued Daohua from Fan's hands.
Fan said with a smile: "It looks even better when your face is red!"
Rice flower: “.”
This aunt-in-law is a little too much to handle!
Jiang smiled and pulled Daohua to sit on the step, then said, "Your aunt is just like that. She gets obsessed with pretty girls when she sees them. You don't know that your aunt married your uncle because she fell in love with your beautiful mother."
Hearing this, Daohua was startled and her eyes widened.
Even Yan Wenxiu and Yan Wenkai were stunned for a moment.
When Fan heard Jiang talk about the past, she didn't look embarrassed at all. Instead, she was very proud: "I just like my little sister. She is such a beautiful woman. Just looking at her is pleasing to the eyes and makes me feel happy."
As he spoke, he laughed to himself and continued to speak to the Daohua brothers and sisters.
"When I saw your mother, I thought to myself, since the girls in your family are so beautiful, the man must be pretty good too. Later, when I saw your uncle, I was a little disappointed, but he was not bad at all, so I reluctantly married him."
Daohua was stunned when she heard this.
Is this considered an ancient form of face control? And it's a super one.
When Fan saw Daohua’s round almond-shaped eyes, which looked so cute and adorable, she couldn’t help but reach out and touch her fair and delicate cheek.
"Oh my, how come your skin is so good? How do you maintain it?"
Daohua was so shocked that her mouth opened wide. She stared blankly at her aunt who was overjoyed. She had only one thought in her mind: someone was taking advantage of her!
Below, Li Xingnian looked at Fan with some helplessness, and at the same time felt a little amused.
I heard that Daohua is a very brave girl, so she must be shocked now!
"Sister-in-law, stop playing and let the little ones get to know each other."
At this time, Fan put away her playful intention and looked at Li Chenyi and his siblings: "What are you still standing there for? Come over and meet your sister."
Daohua immediately stood up and bowed to her three cousins and two cousins.
Jiang stood up and introduced Daohua one by one: "Since this is your first time here, you probably don't recognize them. Let me introduce them to you."
"This is your eldest cousin, Li Chenyi, who is two years older than your eldest brother. This is your second cousin, Li Chenliang, who is one year older than your eldest brother. This is your third cousin, Li Chenzhi, who is the same year as your fourth brother, but a few months older."
As he said this, he pointed at his two cousins to Daohua.
"This is your eldest cousin, Li Zitong, who is three years older than you. This is your second cousin, Li Zixin, who is two years older than you. You have two other cousins, but they are illegitimate children, so I'll see you today."
The rice flowers silently kept the person in their hearts.
In ancient times, a family could have as few as a few people or as many as a dozen or twenty people, or even more. Recognizing and remembering people's names was definitely a big challenge.
In the Yan clan, some families have four generations living under one roof, with dozens of people in a large family. When Daohua was taken out to meet people by Old Lady Yan, she made a lot of jokes at first.
There was no way, there were too many people, she couldn't remember them all and couldn't make a good match.
After all these years of training, she has gotten much better.
However, in order to avoid making a fool of herself or recognizing the wrong person, she would do her homework in advance.
Daohua recalled the scientific knowledge that Mrs. Li had given her before she came. Her eldest cousin, third cousin, and second cousin were from her eldest uncle's family; her second cousin and eldest cousin were from her second uncle's family.
I repeated it silently in my mind to avoid making any mistakes.
After meeting each other, Daohua was pulled back to sit next to Fan.
Maybe it was the first time they saw rice flowers, so although the cousins were very curious about this cousin, they didn't dare to speak.
"Hey, what are you doing? We all know each other, why are you pretending to be so polite?"
Yan Wenkai couldn't stand his cousins' reserve and silence. He and his elder brother had been to his uncle's house several times and knew all his cousins. When they came before, everyone was having a lot of fun, but this time, no one was saying a word, which made him very uncomfortable.
Seeing his cousins embarrassed by their fourth brother, Daohua couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Her fourth brother is a real funny guy. He dares to say anything, but he doesn't make people feel annoyed.
Li Chenyi saw Daohua smiling at them with a teasing look between her eyebrows. He immediately smiled awkwardly, quickly looked away, and started talking to Yan Wenxiu.
With Yan Wenkai's interruption, the younger generations began to become more active.
"Cousin Yiyi, what do you do at home?"
Li Zixuan pulled Li Zixin to sit next to Daohua and talk to her.
Daohua smiled and said, "Reading, learning to read, learning needlework, and occasionally planting flowers and plants. What do my cousins do?"
Seeing Daohua's gentle tone and sweet smile, Li Zixuan felt closer and less restrained. "We're learning pretty much the same thing, just with a few more talents."
"Oh?" Daohua became interested: "What talents have my cousins learned?"
Li Zixuan: "I learned the guzheng, and my second sister learned dancing. Doesn't my cousin learn any talents?"
Daohua smiled awkwardly: "I don't seem to have any talent."
Li Zixin interjected, "What if there's a talent show at the party, cousin?"
Daohua thought for a moment and said seriously, "Then I will run away!"
Well.
Li Zixuan and Li Zixin didn't expect to hear such an answer and didn't know how to respond.
On the side, Mrs. Fan and Mrs. Jiang just watched the kids chatting and laughing without interrupting.
"Cousin, what are you wearing around your neck?"
After talking for a while, Li Zixin gradually relaxed and pointed at the necklace around Daohua's neck and asked.
Daohua looked down and said with a smile, "This is the necklace my two aunts gave me."
Li Zixin shook her head: "I'm not talking about the Yingluo, I'm talking about the golden pendant on the Yingluo."
They went to buy the necklace with their mother and aunt, so of course they knew about it, but when they bought it, there was no golden pendant on the necklace.
Daohua picked up the necklace and looked at it: "You are talking about this, this is a pocket watch. It doesn't go well with clothes if it is just hanging around my neck, so I inlaid it into the necklace."
"Pocket watch?"
When Li Xingnian heard this, he immediately looked over and said, "That's a pocket watch. It's something foreigners wear. We don't have many of them here. We only have..." He paused and changed the subject, asking, "Where did you get it?"
Daohua: “A friend gave it to me.”
Suddenly, Li Xingnian knew what was going on.
It must have been sent by that little prince again.
"Cousin, can I see it?" Li Zixin was very curious when she saw that her second uncle had never seen this pocket watch.
"Of course." Daohua nodded, and without hesitation, she took off the Yingluo and handed it to Li Zixin and her sister.
Seeing her like this, the smiles on the faces of Mrs. Fan and Mrs. Jiang deepened.
Just then, Li Xingchang came back from outside.
The Daohua siblings quickly stood up and greeted him.
Li Xingchang waved his hand to signal the three to sit down: "My uncle has been busy with social engagements these two days and didn't have time to pick you up. Why did you arrive only today?" Then he looked at Li Xingnian.
Li Xingnian: "We were delayed on the way."
Seeing that he didn't say much, Li Xingchang knew that there was something that should not be said in front of the children, so he stopped asking and smiled and started chatting about family matters with Yan Wenxiu and his sister.
(End of this chapter)
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