Chapter 113 Now that we've got our marriage certificate, we have to sleep in the same bed.
After everyone dispersed.
Ji Xuening personally cooked dinner, which was much more substantial than usual.
After the family finished their dinner around the main table, Grandma Ji suddenly asked Wang Yuqing to sit in the seat to the right of the offering table.
Wang Yuqing looked at Ji Xuening standing next to her, puzzled. She noticed that he didn't seem happy, but there was a faint smile in his dark eyes.
She asked, "What are you doing?"
Ji Xuening stood ramrod straight and said, "You can just sit down."
Grandma Ji was also chuckling beside her.
The three children were missing, but they came in soon after.
Ji Daming carried a basin of water for washing faces, Ji Xiaoming carried a basin of water for washing feet, and Ji Meimei carried a bowl of sweet soup. The three children all had happy smiles on their faces.
Ji Daming stood in front of Wang Yuqing. Although he was a little shy, he said happily, "Mom, I'll bring you water to wash your face."
Wang Yuqing was stunned for a moment, then realized what she meant and said with an embarrassed look, "This is not necessary. We are all family now."
Grandma Ji said, "That's necessary. From now on, you'll be the children's biological mother. They'll all have to listen to you, serve you, and be filial to you."
He urged Ji Daming, "Why don't you tell your mother to wash her face quickly?"
Ji Daming said, "Mom, wash your face."
Although Wang Yuqing felt very uncomfortable, she had already put her hand into the washbasin to wring out her handkerchief and wash her face. Ji Daming then knelt on the ground and kowtowed to her three times.
Ji Xiaoming said impatiently, "It's my turn."
He was the happiest, his mouth agape, and he exclaimed, "Mom, I've brought you some water to wash your feet, go wash them!"
After saying that, he put the foot basin on the ground and reached out to take off Wang Yuqing's shoes.
Wang Yuqing quickly replied, "I'll do it myself."
Ji Xiaoming said, "Mom, I'll take off your shoes and wash your feet. I'm your son, it's only right that I do this."
Wang Yuqing blushed.
Ji Xuening, who was standing next to her, suddenly spoke up to stop her: "That's enough. Hurry up and kowtow to your mother. Your mother can wash her own feet. Your hands are dirty and you'll make her feet dirty too."
Ji Xiaoming disagreed and held out his hands: "Where are my hands dirty? I just scrubbed them many times in the kitchen."
He insisted on washing Wang Yuqing's feet.
With just one look from Ji Xuening, he immediately cowered, knelt down and kowtowed three times to Wang Yuqing, then stood to the side looking aggrieved, occasionally stealing glances at Ji Xuening.
Next, it was Ji Meimei's turn. She carefully handed a large bowl of sweet soup to Wang Yuqing, her voice sweet and clear: "Mom, have some sweet soup."
Then she knelt down and kowtowed like her two older brothers, and even kowtowed one more time. She giggled and said, "I am more obedient than my two older brothers and I like Mom more, so I have to kowtow one more time."
Wang Yuqing sipped the sweet soup, feeling a sweet sensation in her mouth and a sweet feeling in her heart. These three well-behaved and kind children must have had a good life with Chen Xiangxue in their previous life, right? However, she still didn't understand why these three children seemed to have disappeared afterward.
Wang Yuqing thought it was over, but to her surprise, Grandma Ji suddenly took out a handkerchief from her pocket, inside which was a silver bracelet.
She handed it to Wang Yuqing, chuckling, "Yuqing, I'm giving you this bracelet. It's not worth much, and it's not anything valuable, but..."
Grandma Ji smiled broadly: "But this was given to me by your grandfather back then. I was only eighteen years old at the time, hehe."
After saying that, she added, "I wouldn't give it to anyone else, but I'm willing to give it to you."
Wang Yuqing felt that the bracelet was too precious for Grandma Ji, so she quickly refused, "Grandma, you keep it. You can't give me this precious bracelet."
Grandma Ji was displeased: "You must keep it. Valuable things should be given to valuable people, you know? You are the treasure of our whole family."
Ji Daming, Ji Xiaoming, and Ji Meimei were all kept by Wang Yuqing.
Wang Yuqing was deeply moved. She took the bracelet and put it on her wrist. The bracelet was neither thick nor thin, and the workmanship was so-so, but it was carved with lifelike dragons and phoenixes.
This bracelet may not seem very valuable now, but in thirty years, its collectible value and worth could be comparable to gold.
She thanked her, saying, "Thank you, Grandma."
Grandma Ji smiled kindly and gently: "Thank me for what? Grandma should thank you for not minding that our family is poor and that we have a few children. On the contrary, we are sorry for you. We have already registered our marriage and we have nothing to offer. We have made you feel wronged."
Wang Yuqing shook her head: "I'm not wronged at all. Your whole family has been so good to me. My own parents and sisters have never been so good to me. Since coming to the Ji family, I haven't suffered any grievances. Everyone has spoiled me."
The whole family's faces were beaming with happiness.
When Wang Yuqing was about to go back to her room to sleep, Grandma Ji called out to her, "Yuqing, you two are a couple now, you should sleep in the same room and on the same bed, it's auspicious that way. Why are you sleeping in separate rooms? Before, we slept in separate rooms to avoid people gossiping and accusing you of having affairs, but things are different now."
A bed?
Wang Yuqing's heart jumped. Except for sleeping with her grandmother when she was little, she had always slept alone since she was a child and was used to sleeping alone.
That's not important. What's important is that she's going to sleep in the same bed with a man, and a very sexually active and muscular one at that...
Before she could speak, Ji Xuening's handsome face was already flushed. He spoke first: "Grandma, we just got the marriage certificate. Let's wait a while. It's a bit strange."
Grandma Ji objected: "What are you not used to? In our generation, we were used to sleeping in the same bed at night after meeting for the first time when we got married. What are you not used to?"
Grandma Ji added, "Besides, it's bad luck if we don't sleep in the same bed, it'll cause disharmony in the family. You should quickly tidy up the room, change the blankets, and make it clean so Yuqing can sleep. She's been tired all day."
After saying that, she said gently to Wang Yuqing, "Yuqing, don't listen to him. A couple is bound to sleep together. There's nothing to be uncomfortable about. Men are more fussy than us women. Once he's tidied up the room, you two should go to sleep early."
Wang Yuqing: "..."
Grandma Ji happily went back to her room to sleep, urging the children to go back to their rooms as well.
Wang Yuqing stood in the main room watching Ji Xuening bustling around, sweeping the floor, wiping the tables and chairs, and then changing the bright red quilt that Grandma Ji had prepared in advance.
After everything was settled, he stood at the door, steadied his breathing, and said, "Why don't you sleep in your own room?"
Wang Yuqing blurted out, "Didn't Grandma say that this is bad luck?"
As soon as she finished speaking, her heart skipped a beat, and her cheeks flushed. Did saying that make her seem eager to sleep with him? Did it make her seem shameless? Would he think she was too impatient to sleep with him?
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