Chapter 798
Chapter 798: Chapter 782: No One’s Word Counts Chapter 798: Chapter 782: No One’s Word Counts Food was quickly laid out on two tables—one for the men and one for the women.
The men drank alcohol while the women had medicinal drinks.
The children were with their mothers; Ren Li was holding one, and Zhang Xiangcao the other.
They couldn’t eat the food on the table, but they could enjoy the pumpkin puree specially prepared for them.
As the adults dug into the spread, Xiaobai and Xinxin spooned pumpkin puree into their little mouths, managing in no time to get their adorable faces covered in orange, looking like little tiger cubs.
Their big, bright eyes shone like two black pearls.
Seeing their cute, messy faces, one could hardly resist pinching and squeezing those chubby cheeks.
Of course, everyone couldn’t resist the charming little tots.
Before long, numerous hands reached out to them, thoroughly spoiling the two chubby babies to their hearts’ content.
Tang Yuxin watched from the sidelines, holding herself back.
Go ahead, spoil them, she thought.
After all, as their mother, she had no idea how many times she’d already spoiled them herself.
Tang Sisi touched Xiaobai and Xinxin’s heads and thought how quickly children grow.
She lamented that her own Little Bean didn’t seem to grow at all.
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If Little Bean turned out as good-looking, she would have no regrets.
But she felt Little Bean was already turning out fine, at least already much more so than at birth, right?
What he didn’t realize was that Yuxin’s eyes had been on him the whole time, from the very start, she hadn’t looked away.
After the meal, Tang Sisi stepped out into the yard, craving a breath of fresh air since her father and uncle had been drinking, which she didn’t enjoy the smell of, so she came out to clear her head and would return only after the alcohol scent dissipated inside.
“Sisi…” An unexpected voice abruptly made her freeze in place.
“Hmm?” She turned around, and seeing who it was, she couldn’t help but smile.
“Lidong, what’s up?
Did you come out for some fresh air too?”
“No, I came out to find you.”
Chen Lidong felt the ring in his pocket.
Young girls nowadays liked this kind of thing.
He had waited for over a decade, and now at last, he could speak his heart out and do what he wished to do.
“Hmm?” Tang Sisi tilted her head.
Why was he looking for her?
It couldn’t be to ask her to set him up with a girlfriend, could it?
If that were the case, she still had plenty of unmarried classmates to choose from, of all shapes and sizes.
“Sisi, I’m not married yet.”
Chen Lidong was about to take out the ring.
“I know,” Tang Sisi definitely was aware.
Hadn’t he just said he was still single?
See, he really must have been stirred today, probably wanting her to introduce him to someone.
Fine, she’d take it upon herself to find him a smart and pretty girlfriend.
“Sisi…” Chen Lidong suddenly grasped Tang Sisi’s hand, causing her to flinch.
Something felt off about the atmosphere, and she quickly withdrew her hand, stepping back.
And Chen Lidong’s intense gaze was indeed frightening, even awkward for her.
She was his sister; it was weird for him to look at her like that, wasn’t it?
“Sisi…” Chen Lidong called out her name again.
“Yes, I’m here,” Tang Sisi replied, taking another step back and pretending to pluck flowers from the garden, hiding the awkwardness she inexplicably felt.
It was at that moment that Chen Lidong suddenly knelt on one knee, holding a velvet box in his hand.
“Sisi, will you marry me?
I promise to treat you well for the rest of my life.”
Tang Sisi’s hand had just picked a flower when it dropped to the ground, and she was startled, standing there with her eyes wide and mouth agape.
Who could tell her what was going on, what exactly was happening?
She had been proposed to, and by Chen Lidong, the man she had thought of as an older brother since she was a child.
“Sisi, I know this is very abrupt,” Chen Lidong continued, “but you must believe me, I will treat you well.
Though I am much older than you, I promise to cherish you and hold you in my heart for the rest of my life, to love and never betray you.”
Just as he was about to recite the vow he had pondered over for a long time, a woman came walking over.
She reached out, picked a flower from the garden, and then pinched it, tearing the petals apart.
“Sisi, how many times have I told you to stay away from older men?
Why won’t you listen?
If one isn’t enough, you bring another, is it because you think I’m too easygoing?”
Such words, such a voice, and such a tone could only belong to Tang Yuxin and no one else.
Tang Yuxin loathed older men more than anything in her life, and now Chen Lidong had become the embodiment of what she considered an old man.
It was only now that Tang Siguo realized her definition of an old man wasn’t just about the age; it included any man harboring ill intentions, any man who tried to take away someone important from her side, regardless of his age.
Such was the old man she despised.
When Chen Lidong saw Tang Yuxin, his face froze in embarrassment.
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He was sure he hadn’t seen anyone just now, which was why he had proceeded, but how unlucky was he to have been caught in the act, especially with Tang Yuxin witness to it?
He really wasn’t thick-skinned enough for this, and to be caught red-handed by Tang Yuxin was simply too awkward.
“Yuxin, aren’t you going to help me?”
He looked pained.
“We grew up together.
You should know what kind of person I am.”
“I don’t,” Tang Yuxin interjected, cutting off Chen Lidong’s words, “the world changes every second, how much more so people?”
“But you should know my character.”
“I don’t.”
Tang Yuxin, as if deliberately opposing Chen Lidong, had been pleasant during dinner, but now she wouldn’t even spare him a smile.
“Yuxin, this is about your sister’s happiness.”
Chen Lidong was getting a little angry, feeling that Tang Yuxin was being too coy and interfering too much.
“Yuxin, I know you’ve always been good to Sisi, and one could say you practically raised her, but Sisi has to marry someday.
You can’t expect her to stay single forever, right?”
“This isn’t something you can decide just like that,” Tang Yuxin spoke without any anger, her tone as cold as ever.
“Then who gets to decide?”
Chen Lidong stuffed the box back into his pocket, “I’ll go to Uncle Tang.”
“You don’t have to go to my second uncle or my second aunt; neither of them has the final say.”