Chapter 166: Thyme

[Duan family: elegant grandmother. 】

Grandma Duan usually likes to drink jasmine tea, so she took three glass cups of water to prepare to make tea.

"Grandma, I don't drink it, can you soak it for Yi Ni to drink, or do you want to drink ice?" Duan Yiqiao said as he prepared to walk towards the restaurant.

Grandma Duan said with a half-annoyed smile and said, "It's not good to drink ice."

"I'll just drink my grandmother's jasmine tea." Ai Shangni said obediently.

Duan Yiqiao opened the refrigerator, and except for some ingredients that could be stored for a long time, the freshness was almost invisible. The two old men lived frugally, and the vegetables and meat they usually ate were bought directly by Duan Qingrui after work, and they bought as much as they ate, and they would not buy more to store.

"Grandma, let's go buy some ingredients later, and then I'll pick up grandpa from work."

"You don't have to pick him up, he doesn't advance it, let's come back after buying vegetables and cook it together, just wait for him to get off work."

Duan Qingrui's working hours are relatively free, as long as it does not affect his work. But Duan Qingrui's conscientious character did not allow him to arrive late and leave early, unless there was really an emergency.

"Grandma, then I'll take you on a tour of our house first."

"Go, kid, it's boring to sit, let the bridge show you." Grandma Duan gently patted Ai Shangni's knee.

"Okay, Grandma."

The actual space of the villa is not as large as many modern super mansions, the space inside is very well distributed, and there are more compartments, in addition to the basic kitchen and bathroom hall, there are also study rooms, storage rooms, music rooms, wine storage rooms, treasure rooms, etc.

"Treasure Room?" Looking at the empty shelves, Ai Shangni stopped as he spoke.

"Grandpa said that when he was a child, this treasure room had everything, antique paintings, precious jade and gold jewelry, all kinds of rare treasures, and later experienced wars and social changes, because of various changes, the treasure room slowly emptied, some were directly sold for money, some were bartered, some were given away, and later there were those who entered the public museum. Until my family went bankrupt, there were still many collections in this treasure room, and at that time I had to sell some of them, and the remaining few pieces were not the most valuable, but had special significance, and they were kept."

Duan Yiqiao told her that his ancestors were officials, and there were also those who led troops to fight, and it was not uncommon for them to have financial resources and like to collect.

After visiting the first floor, they went to the second floor, where the family's bedrooms were all on this floor. There is also a hall in the middle, and the hollow carved ceiling is decorated with crystal tassels, which are not opened, but you can imagine how brilliant it will be when you look at the sparkling crystals.

"Although your old bungalow has been repaired for a hundred years, it is still so beautiful, giving people a real Western visual sense."

"Real Western?"

Ai Shangni: "Yes, now villas and mansions are everywhere, fake Western-style, and there are many Western-style decorations, which are too fake, without characteristics and unaesthetic. Your house was built with the participation of Western architects, but it is different, and the details are full of Western characteristics."

"Speaking of which, I'm not humble about my old bungalow, it's really exquisite. Alas, Uncle Night wouldn't have wanted it so much."

Ai Shanni jumped up to him, took his hand with both hands, and said, "Now that it is in my hands, mine is yours, you can have peace of mind and not be afraid of others coveting it."

"Yes, it's safe. Let's go, I'll take you to my room."

"Good Lat."

Ai Shangni thought that he was going to refute her again and make it clear about the ownership of the old bungalow. Presumably, after seeing the foundations of those unfinished buildings and shopping malls today, he should be more confident that he can end the transaction and take the old bungalows back, so he doesn't care about any temporary statements.

As soon as Duan Yiqiao opened the door, he said, "It seems that grandma often comes to open the window to ventilate, and it doesn't smell very good." He turned his head and asked Ai Shangni.

"No, it seems to have a faint fragrance."

Duan Yiqiao pointed to the dried flowers on the desk, "Grandma has dried flowers."

"Grandma is so careful, keep the air well ventilated, so that you can come back and stay at any time."

His room is quite large, and the beds and the like are all Western-style, with a bit of historical traces, and it is estimated that they are

It's not just his generation's use of it.

Ai Shangni put his hand on an easel at the back of the room, and looked closely at the rising sun that looked like it hadn't finished painting.

"When did you draw it?"

"During the Chinese New Year, I got up early one day and painted it on a whim, but then something broke off, and I didn't sit down to finish it." He continued, "This place was originally for round tables and chairs, but I didn't think it was necessary to change it to a place for painting, so there were easels."

"No wonder."

Then, Duan Yiqiao took her up to the third floor for a brief look, and then went to the outside of the villa, that is, the garden and the theater. The outside area is really big, you can walk around for a while, a real private garden.

At four o'clock, Grandma Duan took them to the vegetable market. The afternoon was not as crowded as the morning, but there were still quite a lot of people, and Grandma Duan familiarly walked through the crowd to the stall she frequented.

"Grandma Duan, this is the eldest grandson who has come back, and he has brought a beautiful girl, shouldn't he be the future granddaughter-in-law?" The stall owner chatted enthusiastically with Grandma Duan.

Grandma Duan smiled at her and picked up the lotus root, "I'll take three of these lotus."

"Okay, I'll put it in a bag for you."

"Thank you!"

Watching Grandma Duan bargain with the stall owner, Ai Shangni whispered to Duan Yiqiao, "Grandma is so gentle, she is not even in a hurry to bargain with others."

"Grandma usually doesn't even speak in an unusual tone under any circumstances."

"What did Grandma do before?"

"Translation."

Ai Shangni looked at Grandma Duan with envy and admiration, "I think grandma has a very good temperament, and her knowledge is also quite good."

"The old piano in the music room belonged to my grandmother, and I sold many instruments in the music room at that time, and the piano was dilapidated, and it was my grandmother's only hobby, so I stayed."

"What a multi-talented grandmother."

"If you spend more time with her, you'll find that she's still cute."

Ai Shangni suddenly had the idea of getting along with Grandma Duan for a while, but unfortunately she had to go back to school.

After Duan Qingrui went home from work for dinner, it was about eight o'clock before Duan Yiqiao took Ai Shangni back to Jinglidu University.

In dormitory 312, except for Shangguan Chen and Fu Yuke, the other three were there, and they came back with a smile when they saw her.

"Yo, the future boss lady of Zuozuo, has she been asking for leave more frequently lately?" Situ Bingling turned around and teased her.

"What kind of lady, where is it?" Ai Shangni took off the bag and put it away, and went to the refrigerator to get a bottle of ice water.

Xie Yirui, who was sitting in the chair, turned around and also faced her, "Didn't you think about the future of Yiqiao?"

At this moment, Fu Yuke also returned to the dormitory, "Yi Yi is back."

"Keke, Iqiao and I also went to your house today. But your mother is the only one in your house, so we'll sit for a while and leave."

"My dad may have gone out to do something. Why did Ihashi suddenly take you home today, and it's just the two of you?"

Ai Shangni replied, "Yiqiao originally just took me to see his family's plot of land, and then stopped by to visit his grandparents. Suddenly, I didn't prepare any gifts, so I went empty-handed."

"It's okay to be empty-handed. During the Chinese New Year, didn't you also give Yiqiao the dry goods you prepared for us, and he brought a lot of them back. When I went to his house, Grandpa Duan and Grandma Duan boasted to me that it was a rare good product. There are only two elderly people in the family, so I guess they haven't finished eating until now."

Ai Shangni listened comfortably, thinking that Gu Yao was thoughtful, and it was Gu Yao who proposed to send dry goods to everyone. Especially dried seafood is unlimited for her family, and when it is a gift, everyone will not feel embarrassed to accept it.

"Grandma Duan's temperament is elegant, making tea, buying vegetables, cooking, no matter what she does, her movements are very gentle."

Fu Yuke smiled, "Grandma Duan is well-known in us for being a well-educated person."

"What did Grandma Duan do before?" Chen Sijie asked.

"Russian translation."

"That's amazing."

Chatting and chatting, Situ Bingling returned to what Xie Yirui had just asked Ai Shangni, "You haven't said that you haven't thought about the future with Yiqiao?"

Ai Shangni was not shy to answer, Duan Yiqiao promised to accompany her for the rest of her life, but as long as the debt was not resolved, she felt that their future would not be settled one day.

"Did the little witch think about Hehao's future?" Instead, she asked.

Situ Bingling replied directly, "I have thought about it, Hao and I have thought about it. If nothing else, we will be married after graduation. Of course, due to the relationship between the two patriarchs, it will certainly not be so easy as we wish. Therefore, we said that it is better to wait two years after graduation, that is, two years for the elders to digest the fact that we are together. It's their business whether they can accept it or not, and we'll get married in two years anyway."

"The little witch and Hao are so brave." Two or three people gave her a thumbs up.

"Although we can't be so irresponsible and say that the elders don't accept it, we don't care about getting married, we give them time to accept, to understand, and everyone works together, right, but if they are stubborn, we can't be hard-working mandarin ducks, what age."

Chen Sijie once again praised Situ Bingling, "I see that you have to complain to us every time you are preached by Professor Hao at home, but you still have your own insistence on ideas, which is good, great."

"Hehe~ Happiness has to be fought for by yourself." Situ Bingling smiled brightly.

Ai Shangni also said: "It may be a long time before I and Yiqiao do, and you all know that now that the money he owes has come to my family, he must want to pay it back and think about our future."

"That's right."

When the four of them were discussing this topic, Fu Yuke, who was sitting in the chair, looked down at her phone, almost silent, and didn't get up to get ready to take a shower until everyone was almost over.

Everyone was about to stop her and ask something, but they couldn't say anything and looked at each other in silence.