On Chinese New Year's Eve, when Grandpa and Yan Luo were having a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, a family banquet was also being held in a renovated antique courtyard house in the imperial capital.

This is the Cao family.

Mrs. Cao died relatively early, and it can be said that the Cao family was able to prosper so far, partly due to the merits of the ancestors, and partly thanks to Mrs. Cao's painstaking management. The old lady has three children, two of them and a daughter, the youngest son is Cao Yuanxing, the eldest son is called Cao Shouwang, and the second daughter is called Cao Feifei.

For his son's arrangement, Cao Yuanxing is now the mayor, with his ability and age, his future will definitely not be bad, and the eldest son Cao Shouwang is now an official in the imperial capital, although the official position is much higher than Cao Yuanxing, but compared to potential, compared to power, but not as good as Cao Yuanxing. As for her daughter Cao Feifei, although she has already been married, she still belongs to the Cao family with her husband. Unlike her two sons, Cao Feifei is in business, although the business is far inferior to Dong Lin, but with the power and connections of the Cao family, their company is also famous in China.

And today, the annual Chinese New Year's Eve night, is also the time when the Cao family gathers for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. Sitting on the top is naturally Mrs. Cao, who has white hair but still looks very energetic, and then on both sides of her are her sons Cao Shouwang and Cao Yuanxing, and then below are Cao Feifei and his wife and Cao Shouwang and Cao Yuanxing's wife, and then the next generation of the family.

Cao Shouwang has two sons, the eldest son Cao Qirong is twenty-eight years old this year, has been married, and the child is also two years old; The second son, Cao Qifeng, is 25 years old this year and is in the process of talking about marriage. Cao Feifei has only one daughter, 23 years old this year, named Cao Jingjing, who has just graduated from college and is now working in her family's company. The rest of Cao Yuanxing's family, son Cao Zhixing and eight-year-old daughter Cao Xinyin were also sitting at the dining table at this time.

Now, everyone was sitting at the table, as if they had come not for dinner but for a meeting, and the old lady at the head was not an elder but a leader. If the leader doesn't speak, the people below can only sit dryly, and the delicacies on the table can only be seen but not eaten.

"Alright, let's eat!"

Old Madam Cao's angry voice came out, and everyone was relieved that they could finally eat.

"Mom, why didn't my sister come today?"

Just when everyone picked up the chopsticks and was about to start eating, Cao Yuanxing's daughter Cao Xinyin's crisp voice sounded.

"Xinyin, what are you talking nonsense!"

Yang Shu's face changed, and he reprimanded him coldly.

"I'm not talking nonsense, you said that our family is going to eat together today, and my sister is also a family with us, why don't you come?"

Cao Xinyin said aggrievedly.

"You still say!"

Yang Shu glanced at the old lady Cao with an unnatural face, and said coldly.

"Wow!"

Cao Xinyin was reprimanded by her mother like this, and she cried on the spot.

Suddenly, everyone's eyes on the table turned to Yang Shu, and Yang Shu was also a little weak-hearted, and cast a look for help at Cao Yuanxing.

"Mom, it's just a little thing, let's continue to eat!"

Cao Yuanxing whispered to the old lady next to him.

"A trifle?"

Old Madam Cao snorted coldly.

"Even my sister and the like have come out, can it still be a trivial matter?"

"Yang Shu, let me ask you! Did you travel far away and have a woman outside, and you got some illegitimate daughters? It's not right, if it's an illegitimate daughter, it should be a sister. ”

"Mom, there's nothing to do, it's a young lady I know from Xinyin, and I have a good relationship with her, so I treat her as a family."

Yang Shu hurriedly explained.

"Are you treating me like an old fool?"

Mrs. Cao suddenly slapped the table, although the force was very small, but after she hit it, everyone on the table put down the chopsticks with a brush, sat still with their eyes, noses, ears and hearts, and did not dare to breathe, of course, in her heart was crazy complaining: Can you still let people eat well, you have to do this every time!

"Xinyin is already an eight-year-old child, doesn't she know what a family is?"

After Mrs. Cao finished training Yang Shu, her face slowed down, and she asked Cao Xinyin gently: "Xinyin, you tell grandma, who is my sister?" ”

"My sister's name is Yan Luo, my mother said that she is also my father's daughter, and my brother said that my sister is her only sister, and I am not!"

When Cao Xinyin answered the question, she didn't forget to sue Cao Zhixing.

"Yan Luo? Her surname is Yan? ”

Old Madam Cao's face also became unnatural at this time, she looked at Cao Yuanxing and asked him to tell her what was going on.

"Mom, let's eat first, I'll tell you about this later!"

"Say it now!"

Facing the stubborn old lady Cao, Cao Yuanxing knew that the matter could not be hidden.

"Yan Luo is the daughter of me and Yan Ran, she was pregnant when she left me, and I only found out some time ago."

Great news!

Although the juniors at the table all sat on the table with a serious face, this did not affect them to prick up their ears and eavesdrop on the gossip, and now it is a big gossip, the third uncle actually has a daughter, named Yan Luo, in other words, this Yan Luo will not be that Yan Luo, right? Hehe, how is that possible!

After listening to Cao Yuanxing's explanation, Mrs. Cao lost her mind for a while, and the mention of Yan Ran reminded her of the gentle, virtuous, pure and beautiful girl back then, but she was such a weak girl, but she was a stubborn and proud person to the core.

Alas, twenty years have passed in a blink of an eye!

"No one is allowed to talk about today's matter, otherwise they will directly break their legs and be expelled from the Cao family's gate!"

After Mrs. Cao sternly explained to everyone present, she put down her chopsticks and got up and left directly.

"Mom!"

Seeing Mrs. Cao leave without saying a word, her three children immediately got up and chased after her. Then there was only a group of juniors left at the table.

"Zhixing, your sister is so coincidental and called Yan Luo, I don't know if there is that Yan Luo beautiful?"

"People may be really Yan Luo, but they can't say!"

"Keep eating!"

Listening to the unscrupulous discussions of everyone at the table, Cao Zhixing slapped the table and chose to leave, and before leaving, he didn't forget to glance coldly at Yang Shu, who was a little weak-hearted. He didn't believe that tonight's incident was just Cao Xinyin's unobstructed mouth, if he wanted to say that there was no Yang Shu's plan behind it, hehe, even if he saw a ghost, he wouldn't believe it!

The Cao family's family banquet broke up unhappily, and the Yan family's light meal also came to an end.

Every year during the New Year, it is a torment for Yan Ran, because she was born on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, and every time she thinks of this, she feels sad for Yan Ran, so every year her birthday is not so much a celebration as a sacrifice to Yan Ran's pain.

Looking at the fireworks that passed by from time to time outside the window, Yan Luo was distracted and didn't know what he was thinking.

(End of chapter)