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Qiao Shuqi was dumbfounded.

I think she's so old......

So old......

Older......

These words are the thunder point of almost every woman, the kind that will die if you poke it!

Therefore, Qiao Shuqi's whole person is about to explode like a monkey! At this moment-

"Phew!" Someone laughed out loud.

If it was Su Fanghua or Ruan Wan who was laughing, Qiao Shuqi would definitely pounce on it without saying a word, but ...... The person who laughed was Qiao Yi. He didn't mean to, he just couldn't help but laugh. If he was still a little worried that the newcomer Ruan Wan would be embarrassed by his aunt, then he can be sure now that this little girl is really not a fuel-efficient lamp, and the first confrontation made her aunt suffer a loss.

"Xiao Yi!" Qiao Shuqi glared at his nephew angrily, eager to go up and grab his ear and yell.

Qiao Yi clenched his fists and coughed lightly on his lips, not knowing what to say.

At this moment-

"Mother Wu! Wu Ma! Joe suddenly shouted.

With this voice, a middle-aged woman in her forties walked out of the direction of the kitchen, wiped her hands on her apron and replied, "I'm here!" She looked at Qiao Xinyuan and asked kindly, "Miss, what are you looking for me?" ”

Qiao Xinyuan turned his head to Ruan Wan and said, "Sister, this is Mother Wu." ”

Others: "......" girl, do you dare to be a little more open-minded!

Ruan Wan herself was speechless, and then she heard Qiao Xinyuan add and said, "This is my aunt." Look, she is much younger than Mother Wu. ”

Wu's mother, who accidentally lay down the gun, was confused.

The rest of the people except her: "......"

Qiao Shuqi's heart is broken, this comparison will not make her feel happy at all! However, her niece is such a character. Moreover, she can pat her chest and say that this unlucky child is really "kind to explain", so even if she has the urge to vomit blood, she can only swallow it silently.

Seeing this scene, Qiao Yi almost didn't laugh again. Su Fanghua couldn't help laughing, and tried hard to purse her lips before she suppressed the desire to laugh, but she still felt very happy in her heart - it was the first time she had seen Qiao Shuqi so deflated after so many years.

Ruan Wan shook her head secretly, thinking that if her mother is a "pig teammate", then Qiao's wish is probably a "god teammate", or rather, she is Qiao Shuqi's "pig teammate". However, she didn't have a good impression of Qiao Shuqi in the first place, and now she was deflated, of course, she was secretly refreshed.

Qiao Shuqi suffered a loss because of her niece, but she remembered this "hatred" on Ruan Wan, she snorted secretly in her heart, looked Ruan Wan up and down, and brewed a new "finding fault"! At this glance, even as a woman, she has to admit that the daughter of her sister-in-law, whom she has always hated, is indeed a rare beauty - even if it is not now, at least it is a growing beauty embryo. However, it was different from what she imagined, because this girl named Ruan Wan was not too similar to Su Fanghua except for her eyes, and her temperament was not quite the same.

Ruan Wan is a little less timid than Su Fanghua, and a little more gentle.

But in the end, it is a mother and daughter, and they are very similar in terms of "being able to dress up". Although Qiao Shuqi looked down on her sister-in-law, she had to admit that although she came from a small place, she was always so decent in terms of hair, jewelry, clothes, etc., and she knew how to highlight her advantages. If this is an innate characteristic of God, then the wish has undoubtedly not been inherited, but it is this little girl named Ruan Wan......

Qiao Shuqi narrowed his eyes and looked critically at Ruan Wan's dress today. She has long hair tied up, and I don't know how this bun is made, it looks elegant and not old-fashioned or too mature, but a little playful. When viewed from behind, it turns to a pitch-black butterfly with its wings outstretched, secured by a silver comb. Wearing a pink dress and long skirt, the texture should be satin, the neckline of the upper body has a rather classical oblique button, the waist is locked, outlining the thin waist that is not in a grip, the long skirt is ankle-length, and the lotus petals tremble slightly when walking. The times have long been different, and children in this year always feel that their temperament does not match when they wear this kind of clothes, but this situation does not appear in this little girl, or rather, this dress is more flattering to her white skin, like porcelain flowing with a faint light.

Qiao Shuqi slandered in his heart: This little girl is a restless master at first glance! I don't know how much trouble it will cause in the future. No, judging from her actions just now, she is already very restless and will get into trouble now!

Others couldn't see Qiao Shuqi's plans, and Su Fanghua, who had been "against her" for many years, couldn't see it, so she hurriedly interrupted: "I'm tired, take a break." Wish, take your sister to put down the bag. ”

"Oh!"

Hearing this, Qiao Shuqi's eyes fell on Ruan Wan's bag, and he immediately let out a sneer. There is no doubt that Su Fanghua played the role of a pig teammate in this matter again - she successfully allowed the sister-in-law to find a point of attack.

"Sister-in-law, this is your fault." Qiao Shuqi really said, "Look at you, you have so much money in your hands, and you don't know how to buy a convenient suitcase for your child." ”

Ruan Wan didn't care, in her previous life, when she dragged her suitcase into the door, she thought that her clothes and supplies were very "fashionable", but she was hit from head to toe and almost lost her confidence in life. In the final analysis, Qiao Shuqi is just trying to find fault and pick bones in eggs. But that didn't mean she would swallow her anger, she opened her mouth and was about to return the salute, when an old voice came-

"You think everyone is like you, dragging those wheeled boxes all over the floor every day? When I ran the whole country, I only carried a small cloth baggage, do you want to dislike me? ”

When a room full of people heard this, they all looked in the direction where the stairs were. I saw a tall old man slowly walking down from above, although his hair was already pale, his spirit was still strong, his steps were very steady, and his spine was very straight. This person is none other than the real head of the Qiao family - Qiao Zesheng Old Man Qiao.

"Grandpa."

"Dad."

The crowd shouted.

From this attitude, it can be seen that Old Man Qiao has a lot of prestige in Qiao's family, and in fact, he is indeed not smiling. At this point, Qiao Jingwei and Qiao Yi can be said to be in the same vein. It's just that Qiao Jingwei's appearance is very similar to that of Old Man Qiao, but Qiao Yi's appearance is integrated into his mother's part, which is more handsome.

Everyone's attitude towards the old man is also different.

Qiao Yi is respectful and reverent from the bottom of his heart.

Joe's wish is love and a little fearful.

Su Fanghua is a mixture of respect and fear, and it is difficult to distinguish.

As for Qiao Shuqi, she has been afraid of her father since she was a child. If the deceased Old Lady Qiao treats her as a "loving mother", then Old Man Qiao is undoubtedly the standard "strict father". When she was young, she didn't know how many times she had been educated by the old man, so although she was married now, she still didn't dare to brush the tiger's beard. Therefore, after Old Man Qiao said what he said just now, she didn't dare to talk back at all, and she was honestly trained.

As for Ruan Wan......

She didn't really understand this old man.

Because his attitude towards her has always been a little strange.

Say you hate it, right?

Whenever someone in the family is embarrassed for her, the old man will always say a few words, such as at this moment.

Say indifference, right?

Actually, no.

Ruan Wan will always remember that in her previous life, when she first came to winter, she had a nosebleed because she was not used to the weather in the north, and no one else paid much attention to it. However, Old Man Qiao noticed it and asked Mother Wu to prepare some medicine for her.

Say you like it, right?

He really can only describe her lukewarmly.

Even when she was driven away in the end, the old man didn't say anything.

So, she really didn't understand the old man's thoughts. But the only thing that is certain is that this old man is much easier to get along with than Qiao Shuqi.

Old Man Qiao walked downstairs, walked not far from everyone, put his hands behind his back and asked, "Fanghua, this little girl is your daughter who left in her mother's house?" ”

Su Fanghua hurriedly replied, "Yes, this is what I told you about Xiaowan." As she spoke, she pushed Ruan Wan forward, "Xiao Wan, this is ...... Wishful grandfather. She wanted to say, "This is your grandfather," but she didn't think it was appropriate, so she changed her words temporarily. After all, her father-in-law just didn't object to her bringing Xiaowan over, but he didn't say anything else.

Ruan Wan took a step forward, listening to these familiar words, and she didn't know what to think in her heart. In her previous life, she was ignorant, and she opened her mouth to say "grandpa", which made the rest of the people embarrassed. This time, she wouldn't make such a mistake again, so she opened her mouth to call Old Man Qiao "Grandpa Qiao." ”

Old Man Qiao looked at her and nodded, "Hmm." It's a pretty little girl. ”

Su Fanghua breathed a sigh of relief.

Old Man Qiao asked again: "The rooms are all cleaned up?" ”

Joe interjected, "Hmm! My sister stayed with me! ”

Ruan Wan was stunned, the room was already ready when she came in her previous life, and the reason why this time was like this must be because she came too suddenly.

Qiao Shuqi was dissatisfied when he heard this, and said, "How can this work!" I hope that this age is the time when you need sleep, if you don't sleep well, it will hurt your body! All in all, her behavior can be summed up in one sentence - seize an opportunity to block the people she hates!

Su Fanghua's lips moved, and she was about to explain, when she heard Old Man Qiao say angrily-

"When we are young, why do we have so many problems, when we lived in Datongpu, we didn't sleep until dawn."

"Dad, don't say much about that." Qiao Shuqi quibbled, "Our family's wish is a girl, and a girl must have a separate room." ”

"Then you go back and give her the room."

“…… Father! "Qiao Shuqi is dumbfounded, this plot development is wrong!

Mrs. Qiao loves Qiao Shuqi, so although the latter has been married for many years, her room is still kept at home, and someone cleans it from time to time to make it easier for her to live when she comes back.

"People who are already married, and they still run to their parents' house twice in three days, and they live for half a month, which is not good!" Old Man Qiao pointed at Qiao Shuqi and said unceremoniously, "If I were George, I would divorce you!" ”

Qiao Shuqi's face was bloody: "Dad...... Your son-in-law's name is William. ”

"Tsk, who remembers the name of the foreign devil." Old Man Qiao snorted, waved his hand, turned his head and asked Qiao Xinyuan, "Xinzhi, do you want to live alone?" As he spoke, there was a sense of "if Qiao was willing to nod, he would immediately sweep Qiao Shuqi out of the house".

Qiao Shuqi almost cried and fainted in the toilet, even if the old man has always been worried about her marrying a foreigner, there is no need to do this...... Bar...... Let's do it! It's so shameless!!

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No matter how depressed Qiao Shuqi is, she can only bear it!

Fortunately, Qiao wished that this child did not pit her again at the critical moment, but just shook his head and said, "No need, I just want to live with my sister!" And I sleep well at night! ”

Qiao Shuqi, who got rid of the fate of leaving home, has a bloody face, this kid rebelled too quickly!

"Well, that's how it should be." Old Man Qiao nodded, "Don't learn from your aunt, she is just a petty bourgeoisie, she has only been abroad for a few years, and her eyes can't wait to grow on her forehead!" ”

Qiao Shuqi was aggrieved, and couldn't help whispering: "I'm enjoying a high-quality life......

"You enjoy a high quality of life, so you don't look down on other people, right?" Old Man Qiao snorted coldly, "Your father and I are from mud legs, do you want to make my counter-try?!" ”

Qiao Shuqi immediately shut up, not daring to take the tiger's whiskers lightly.

"Alright." Old Man Qiao said to Qiao Xinhua, "Take your sister to settle down." After finishing speaking, he looked at Su Fanghua again, "Since you want to live for a long time, you still have to pack up a room and come out alone." ”

Su Fanghua hurriedly nodded yes.

Ruan Wan realized one thing from this, that is, her mother really didn't say that she didn't plan to come to school. Are you going to wait for her to come over and slowly persuade her? This kind of behavior of "vowing not to give up until the goal is achieved" is really ...... Quite a bit, think, oppose, resist. So she opened her mouth and said, "Hey, Mom, didn't you say it?" ”

A hint of panic flashed on Su Fanghua's face, and she whispered, "Xiaowan, don't mess around, we'll talk about this later." ”

"Don't!" Qiao Shuqi became Ruan Wan's "god teammate" in this matter, and she said, "What's the matter, let's all listen to it." ”

Under the gaze of everyone, Ruan Wan said generously: "After discussing with my grandmother, I decided to study high school in my hometown. Then she said that she came here this time because she came to see her "relatives", and secondly, she also expressed her gratitude for her grandmother's affairs - thank the Qiao family for their help. With that, she took out a gift from her duffel bag in a wooden box—something that her grandmother had specially prepared.

Su Fanghua's face was a little hot because of Ruan Wan's words, and she didn't know what to say for a while.

Qiao Xinyuan, who had already known about this, was not very surprised, but was curious about what Ruan Wan was holding, and his eyes kept falling on it.

Qiao Shuqi was sarcastic and secretly happy, and Qiao Yi was a little surprised.

Old Man Qiao didn't care much, and naturally took the thank you gift from Ruan Wan's hands, opened the box and looked at it, raised his eyebrows and said, "Is this a word or a painting?" ”

"It's a picture." Ruan Wan said, "I heard that you are quite accomplished in calligraphy, so I specially brought it to you to appreciate." When she said this, she smiled, looked calm, seemed to be gentle and polite, and had no stage fright - she had never seen any storms and waves in her previous life (although she was not to be proud of), and if she really opened the state of pretending to be X, it must also be able to bluff people.

She's telling the truth.

Although Mr. Qiao sneered at the "vassal elegance" behavior of some people, he did love calligraphy, and it is said that he wrote very well. After Ruan Wan told her grandmother about this, her grandmother chose such a painting to bring to her. The Qiao family itself is not short of money, so it is good to give gifts to their liking.

Old Man Qiao casually handed the wooden box to Qiao Yi on the side, unfolded the scroll in his hand with both hands, and showed a contemplative look between his eyebrows.

Qiao Shuqi glanced sideways, although she said that she had the word "book" in her name, she didn't really know much about calligraphy and painting, but she was also nurtured since she was a child, and she could still distinguish roughly. She looked at it for a moment and then smiled, "It doesn't seem like a good word." ”

Old Man Qiao, who was disturbed by her and came back from his contemplation, scolded: "If you don't learn anything, you talk nonsense!" ”

"It was meant to be!" Qiao Shuqi said aggrievedly, "Look at this payment, it's clear that it's not everyone's work!" ”

"You know!" Old Man Qiao directly burst into foul language, "What do you know about famous people?" Just give you a picture of that Pleasant Goat and a radish carving stamp, and you dare to take it to auction! ”

Qiao Shuqi almost didn't spit out a mouthful of blood, not with such a burying person! Surely she wasn't his own, right?

After speaking, Old Man Qiao rolled up the words in his hand and said to Ruan Wan: "The words are good, I will accept them unceremoniously." As he spoke, he handed the box back to Ruan Wan, "But this box is too valuable to be useless, so you might as well take it back." ”

Ruan Wan roared in her heart: "Grandma, you are a ruined woman!" What kind of valuable good things did you dig out and lose! Old Man Qiao rarely lies, since he said that it is precious, it must be very precious! With a slight smile on his face, he continued to maintain the state of loading x: "No matter how good the box is, it is used to hold things." What's more, this painting has been in this box for some years, and as the old saying goes, 'old objects have spirituality', it is not good to separate them like this. "Ahem, when Old Man Qiao pushes it again, she will take the box home.

Who knows......

Old Man Qiao hesitated slightly, then nodded and said, "Then I'm welcome." ”

Ruan Wan was dumbfounded, she could clearly feel a large stack of ...... Or a lot of small money flew away from his hands, which is really the legendary "don't pretend to be forced, pretend to be forced to be struck by lightning"!! But she couldn't snatch things back from other people's hands, so she could only cry silently in her heart. She decided that when she called back later, she must condemn her grandmother's ruined behavior!

Fortunately, Old Man Qiao is not a person who will take advantage of others, since he has accepted something, he will definitely compensate in other aspects. Thinking of this, Ruan Wan felt a little more balanced in her heart.

That's right, she's such a little family!

In this way, Ruan Wan followed Qiao Xinwan back to her room.

Su Fanghua went to prepare dinner.

Old Man Qiao looked at her back, put the scroll into the box, and handed it to Qiao Yi: "Go and help me put it in the study, the third floor." ”

Qiao Yi was slightly stunned and nodded. His grandfather's study is not a forbidden place for him, so he naturally knows very well that what can be placed on the third floor are objects that the old man likes very much, and it seems that this thing is very pleasing to him. He looked down at the box, but he really didn't know much about it, except that he could see that it was made of wood...... Cough!

Qiao Shuqi asked very directly: "Dad, this thing is really valuable?" ”

"Take it and sell it, enough to buy a dozen or so of your broken snakeskin bags that are always displayed to people."

Qiao Shuqi: "......" She wanted to correct and said, "I'm a snake bag", but she still gave up very wisely. However, if Ruan Wan sends something worthless, she will definitely not be happy; But Ruan Wan sent something valuable, and she was even more unhappy. Thinking of this, she snorted lightly, "Slap the swollen face and fill the fat man." "I don't know how I went bankrupt!

"I think you're a dog and look down on people."

"Dad!"

Old Man Qiao glanced at his daughter, who was dressed very fashionably, sighed in his heart, and shook his head: "Your mother really spoils you." With that, he turned away with his hands behind his back, and went for a walk on his own.

Qiao Shuqi, who was left in place, was neither angry nor scolded, he only felt full of grievances, but he also knew that his father would not lie no matter what, not to mention that he and Ruan Wan had no friendship, so there was no reason to speak for her. In other words, Su Fanghua's mother's family really has some wealth? Or does the old man know something "secret" that she doesn't know? It's quirky.

Not to mention Qiao Shuqi's doubts, after Ruan Wan put down the package, she borrowed the phone in Qiao's wish room to call home - she promised her grandmother that she would call as soon as she arrived here, and the arrogant old man must be in a hurry, right?

Sure enough, the phone rang twice and it was answered.

"Finally know how to call? I thought you couldn't get enough of it. ”

As soon as Ruan Wan heard this, her head was suddenly full of black lines, oops, the old man was really in a hurry. She quickly explained: "After Xinyuan came to pick me up at the train station, he took me around the street and had lunch before coming over, so I didn't have a chance to call home." Because she didn't want her grandmother to know what was happening on the train, she chose to lie.

Fortunately, although Qiao Xinyuan couldn't read most of the subtext, she also knew to avoid Ruan Wan when she called, so she was free to lie.

When my grandmother heard this, her originally "vicious" voice really returned to normal, and she asked, "Is it okay?" ”

"It's good."

After greeting the grandfather and grandson for a while, Ruan Wan asked, "Grandma, isn't the gift you asked me to bring very valuable?" ”

"What are you asking for?"

"Just ask."

"How many times have I said it, little girls don't want to be so rich." Grandma's tone sounded quite "hate iron but not steel", "Aren't words just for people to see?" If you stay at home, you won't look at me, so it's better to give it away. ”

“…… Forget the words, I'm talking about the box. Ruan Wan rolled her eyes, "What's the origin of that thing?" ”

"Box?" Grandma was stunned for a moment before replying, "I just looked for it in the cupboard, it seems to be a red sour branch." ”

"Red sour branches?"

"If you don't learn, you can't do it." Grandma said disdainfully, "It's a kind of mahogany." ”

“……”

"It seems like it's been a bit old, but I hate the pattern on it, it's a bat. What does it mean to be blessed, it's ugly to death, I wanted to dispose of it for a long time, but it was too wasteful to split the fire, so I just used it to load things this time. ”

Ruan Wan deeply felt that her grandmother was a senior pretending criminal! Just this force, she must give her grandmother 99 points, and if she doesn't give a full score, she is afraid that she will be proud!

She also felt that she would probably never succeed in condemning her grandmother in this matter, because the latter did not realize her mistake at all! Take a step back, this thing itself is grandma's, well, she's happy!