When Xia Shao and Xu Tianyin came out of the hotel, the Xia family was sitting and waiting in the leisure area of the hotel lobby.
Originally, they thought Xu Yanshao was just talking to Xia Shao for a few words, but they didn't expect that the conversation lasted for more than an hour. The Xia family was originally waiting in the car. Although the car was not cold, the family simply got out of the car after waiting for a long time, entered the hotel lobby, and sat in the leisure area to chat.
The family had been together all day since morning. They should have been tired. However, even Li Juan, who should have been the most tired, was in good spirits. The two elderly people were not sleepy. When the whole family got together, they went from being surprised that Xu Yanshao's family would come to feeling emotional. Mr. Xu's reasonableness finally led to the conversation about Xu Tianyin and Xia Shao's marriage.
When the two came down, they were already talking about what dowry they would prepare for Xia Shao.
Xia Shao didn't expect that her parents and others were still in the hotel lobby, but at ten o'clock in the night, this family was the only one in the lobby. Xia Shao had a good ear and could hear them muttering from a distance.
Xu Tianyin lowered his head and glanced at Xia Shao. Xia Shao smiled bitterly, took his arm and said with a smile: "Mom, it's too early for you to discuss these. Isn't it too early to get married? We haven't even engaged yet."
Seeing the two people approaching, the Xia family all stood up. Li Juan wanted to ask what they had been talking about for so long, but Xia Shao changed the subject and was stunned. Then she smiled and said: "Hey, yes. ! Look at us, we were still talking about getting engaged tonight, and then we forgot about it in the blink of an eye. After all, this is not popular among our generation."
"Yes! Yes! We should decide on the engagement first, look at our brains." Jiang Qiulin said with a smile.
Xia Zhitao said: "Our Xiaoshao's engagement is also a big event. Will it be done in the capital or in Dongshi?"
When the Xia family heard this, they were all stunned and obviously began to consider this issue. Xia Shao looked on with a wry smile, "This matter won't be done tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. We have time to think about it. It's too late today, we can just talk about it tomorrow."
After Xia Shao reminded them, the whole family remembered that it was indeed past eleven o'clock at night, and they usually rested at this time. Xia Zhiyuan and Li Juan then told their relatives to stop discussing and go home to rest first and talk about it tomorrow.
The three families went back to their respective homes, but the two old people still stayed at Xia Shao's house. Xu Tianyin officially visited the Xia family for the first time today, and the marriage was settled, which made the two old people still feel like they were in a dream. When they got home, the two of them couldn't sleep either. The lights were on in the room and they heard Xia Guoxi sighing with emotion frequently. Li Juan looked into the house of the two elderly people and saw that the lights were still on. She smiled and went to the kitchen to make some ginger soup. After all, on the second day of the Lunar New Year, it was quite cold in Dongshi, and the two old men came back so late. It would be good to drink some ginger soup to ward off the cold.
After Li Juan cooked the ginger soup and gave it to her parents-in-law, she thought about bringing two bowls to Xia Shao and Xu Tianyin, and said a few private words to her daughter along the way. Li Juan first took the bowl to Xu Tianyin's room, and was stunned when she reached the door. Xia Shao was in Xu Tianyin's room, and Li Juan heard the two people talking.
Li Juan also knew that it was not good to listen to the corner. She wanted to turn around but felt it was too late. They were not married yet and it was not good to be in the same room. Want to go in and talk? I was afraid that going in like this would embarrass the two young people. Just as he was hesitating whether to leave or not, Xia Shao opened the door and walked out.
"Mom, you're here, why don't you come in?" Xia Shaoxiao looked at her mother. She had good ears and could hear someone coming over.
Li Juan was holding a bowl, twisting her body, as if she was trying to walk away like a thief. Unexpectedly, she was caught by her daughter, and when she saw her smiling face, she was obviously joking, and her face suddenly turned red. She immediately acted like an elder and reprimanded in a low voice, "I came to bring ginger soup to Xiao Xu, how did I know you were there? You, you, don't even look at what time it is! Two people are not married yet, so it is suitable to be in the same room. What?"
"Senior brother has a stomachache today. I'm here to watch him take medicine. I was about to leave when you came." Xia Shao said with a smile.
Li Juan glared. Although the reason was very legitimate, she still pulled Xia Shao aside and reminded her seriously, "Mom, I'm telling you, you two are not engaged yet, so don't mess around!" After saying this, She was stunned for a moment, then immediately realized something was wrong, and quickly added, "No, even if you are engaged, you can't mess around! Do you hear me?"
Xia Shao smiled, lowered her eyebrows and nodded obediently, "Yeah."
However, Li Juan was still a little worried. She glanced into the room, pulled Xia Shao away, and whispered: "Also, Xiao Xu is ten years older than you, and in every aspect... he is a mature man. Men are always not as tolerant of some things as women. When you are with him, you should advise him to... control it. You, you understand what mom means, right?"
It was also the first time for Li Juan to talk about this topic with her daughter. She was stumbling and blushing before she could finish her words. And Xia Shao's face was redder than hers! She was not talking about this topic because her mother was talking to her, but because although Li Juan's voice was low and she was far away from the house, with Xu Tianyin's cultivation level, his hearing ability... Hold your forehead!
Seeing her daughter blushing and lowering her head in response, Li Juan felt that she might not have spoken clearly enough. She thought about it and wanted to say a few more words. Xia Shao quickly looked at the bowl in her hand and said, "Mom, if you don't If you put it in, the ginger soup will become cold. It will hurt your stomach even more."
Only then did Li Juan react. She quickly took the bowl and walked to the door in three steps. She knocked on the door and entered the house.
Xia Shao followed behind and lowered her head for the first time, not daring to look at Xu Tianyin. Li Juan also didn't dare to make eye contact with Xu Tianyin. She put the ginger soup on the table and said very quickly: "Ah, Xiao Xu, have you taken your medicine? Auntie made you a bowl of ginger soup and drink it quickly. After drinking, go to bed early. It’s too late. Auntie will make breakfast for you tomorrow morning. What do you want to eat? Ah, look at my memory. You don’t have to tell me. I know what you like to eat. It’s not the first time we’ve met, haha. , hehehe.”
Xia Shao held her head behind her, holding back her laughter and enduring the pain. Xu Tianyin said: "Well, thank you, mother-in-law."
Xia Shao then raised her eyes and glanced at Xu Tianyin, and saw him standing opposite Li Juan, with soft eyes and a slight curve at the corner of his mouth. But this slight smile was very different from his usual short smile. Xia Shao actually saw him turn his head slightly and twitch the corners of his mouth.
Xia Shao suddenly felt her stomach hurt even more.
After Li Juan finished speaking, she quickly took Xia Shao out of the house. The mother and daughter returned to Xia Shao's room. Li Juan gave Xia Shao a few more instructions. Although it was very late, the mother and daughter still agreed. A period of self-talk. Most of them told her that the Xu family was not an ordinary family, and asked her to be more cautious in doing things from now on, and not to be proud or arrogant just because she married into the family of the founding father. He also taught her how to respect her elders and how to maintain her family. It wasn't until Xia Zhiyuan waited around in the house for Li Juan not to come back and went to the door to look for her that Li Juan was told a few words and went back to the house.
The couple left the house and heard Xia Zhiyuan mutter, "Why do you have to say something so late? You didn't even look at the time and you said you felt sorry for your daughter..."
"Where do you have time during the day? I guess the three of them will have to come tomorrow. If you haven't seen it tonight, do you still want to discuss where to get engaged? I want to say a few words to my daughter, but I don't have time..."
The couple chatted to each other and went back to the house.
Xia Shao smiled in the room and went to the bathroom to take a shower. When she came out, she saw that the lights in her parents' main room had been turned off, so she smiled, went to bed, and went to sleep! After a busy day, Xia Shao was also a little tired. It was already midnight, and she fell asleep soon after lying down.
While she was drifting off to sleep, something moved behind her. Xia Shao didn't turn around, but curled her lips, secretly thinking that someone was getting better and better at breaking into houses. When she entered the house, she didn't even hear a sound. She didn't feel it until she touched the edge of the bed.
Just as he was thinking about it, the man behind him came in, followed by a familiar scent. His arms stretched out to wrap around her waist, and he leaned close to her, pulling her into his arms and locking her within his reach. Immediately, he habitually moved closer to the crook of her neck, looking for a comfortable position.
Xia Shao was tickled a little by the man's breath, so she couldn't help but smile and hid aside. This time he hid, a large piece of snow on his neck was revealed in front of the man's eyes. Perhaps when he saw that she was awake, he pressed closer to her, rubbing her belly and softness with his big palms, and placed a hot kiss on her neck, which was moist.
Xia Shao took a deep breath, tried to pretend to be asleep but couldn't, opened her eyes, glanced back, and lowered her voice: "Are you a patient? Can you be more honest?"
"Okay." The man's words were always so concise, but his voice was low and hoarse. His fingers squeezed her slender waist forcefully, and the body in his arms trembled slightly!
Xia Shao turned back with a murderous gaze, her cheeks flushed, and warned, "Okay, be honest! This is my house! Didn't you hear what my mother said just now?"
"Well." The man was stunned for a moment, then hugged her tighter, his voice muffled, "It's too late."
late…
Xia Shao bit her lip and wanted to turn around and punch him for the first time. She turned around and said, "It's not too late. If you are discovered, you will be finished!"
When she turned around, she met a pair of dark eyes. The owner of the eyes was not intimidated at all. He looked at her silently for a while and continued to move on her body, "You can get married."
"..." Xia Shao stared, clenching her fists and wanting to punch him. The man hissed in her ear and said, "You will be heard."
This time, Xia Shao was really angry and laughed, "You will be...ah!" Before she could finish her words, Xu Tianyin turned over and pressed her under him. When Xia Shao exclaimed, the man leaned forward domineeringly and swallowed all her exclamations into his mouth.
The room was finally quiet.
As soon as he captured her lips, the suppression he had just restrained instantly turned into robbery. The entanglement of lips and teeth, the entanglement of the body, turned into suppressed gasps and dull growls in the middle of the night.
The cold wind howled outside the window, and the sound of the wind blew against the window, covering up the emotional sound in the room that made people blush...
When Xia Shao got up the next morning, no need to look, there was no one around. But she stared at the half-empty bed next to her for a long time. Xu Tianyin was becoming more and more bold. In Xia Shao's opinion, he was eager to be known by her parents, and then he would skip the engagement and get married directly.
Thinking of what happened last night, Xia Shao ignored Xu Tianyin all morning. Fortunately, Xia Zhiyuan and Li Juan had been saying that relatives would come to the house at noon today to help with advice on the engagement. Neither of them paid attention to Xia Shao. There's something wrong with Xu Tianyin. After eating, Xia Shao said that he wanted to go out and go to the club.
When Chen Manguan called Xia Shao to pay New Year's greetings on the first day of the Lunar New Year, he said that a customer came to him years ago and said that he had opened a factory in Dongshi. Since then, there had been constant accidents, and he wanted her to go and have a look at Feng Shui. On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Xia Shao was going to Qingshi to meet Hu Jiayi, and she also wanted to go to Hong Kong before the Lantern Festival to spend the festival with Master. She has more time in the third and fourth grades of junior high school, so she just decided to do it today.
Xia Shao agreed to go home for lunch, so she went out. Xu Tianyin naturally went with her and acted as driver on the way. The Huayuan Private Club in Dongshi is built on a busy road in the city center. Two streets away is Furuixiang Antique Shop, and diagonally across from the club is a five-star hotel. This hotel was exactly where the Xia family had dinner last night. Xia Shao originally didn't pay attention when she passed by, but she glanced at it inadvertently and frowned: "Stop!"
Xu Tianyin stopped the car on the side of the road, and when he turned to look at the door of the hotel, he saw three people welcoming one person into the hotel enthusiastically.
The person who was invited in was none other than Xia Shao's uncle, Xia Zhitao.
Xia Zhitao has had business partners in the past few years in Dongshi, and it is not uncommon for him to go to the hotel to discuss things. But Xia Shao still frowned, because those three people were not people in the business field, but officials from Dongshi.
Xia Shao didn't know these three people, but she could tell whether they were businessmen or officials by looking at their faces. The official fortunes of those three people were very ordinary. Pay attention to peony.
Xia Zhitao is in the building materials business. In recent years, due to Xia Shao's influence, many building materials for the projects built by the Dong Municipal Government were purchased from him. Although Xia Zhitao's store could not afford so many building materials at first, the Dongcheng City Government would always go to him to purchase some of them first, which also provided Xia Zhitao with the opportunity to accumulate quickly. In the past few years, his store has opened bigger and bigger, and his supply has become more and more abundant. His accumulated wealth is not comparable to that of Huaxia Group, but it is still quite famous in Dongshi. Because of this, it was normal for him to know some officials in Dongshi, but Xia Shao still had to pay attention.
After all, Huaxia Group is not the only one behind her now. She just settled her marriage with Xu Tianyin last night. Even if this matter may not spread all over Dongshi overnight, the news that the Xu family in the capital previously acknowledged her is enough to bring news to Dongshi. The city was shocked. Normally, when Xia Shao is not in Dongshi, her parents and relatives of the Xia family must be treated as relatives of the emperor. Xia Shao was well aware of her parents' temperaments. They were not showy people, but the same could not be said for these relatives.
Xia Shao had already taught Xia Zhimei and Xia Zhitao a lesson several times before, and they must have learned their lesson. But now that she was about to marry into the family of the founding father, Xia Shao was very worried that Xia Zhitao would be self-aggrandizing, not knowing his own surname, colluding with officials and businessmen, or running amok in the East Market.
Although this was just Xia Shao's worry, since it was an encounter, Xia Shao decided to keep an eye on it. If there is such a sign, of course it must be stamped out at the very beginning.
She really hoped not, though. To be honest, she has already dealt with enough relatives.
Xia Shao pinched her brow gently and opened her eyes. At this time, Xia Zhitao and the three officials were already sitting in the hotel room. The food had not yet been served. One of the three people warmly lit a cigarette for Xia Zhitao, said a few words, and took it out of his pocket. He took something out and handed it to Xia Zhitao.
That thing is an envelope.
Xia Shao's eyes fell on the envelope. Sure enough, there was money inside, at least one hundred thousand.
Xia Shao's face suddenly turned cold, and in the hotel room, Xia Zhitao's face also changed. He quickly stood up, pushed the envelope into the man's arms, and said, "Bureau Chen, what do you mean by this? No, no, no!"
Director Chen smiled and said, "Brother Xia, just keep it. I heard that you are planning to invest in solid wood recently. Brother, this is not a big deal, it is just a little bit of consideration, so just accept it."
One hundred thousand yuan was just a drop in the bucket for the business Xia Zhitao wanted to switch to, but it was not that he looked down upon the money. For him, this money was not a small amount of money that he could just say he didn't want in the blink of an eye, but he really couldn't ask for it.
"Director Chen, isn't it just a favor? I have to go to my elder brother's house for dinner today at noon. I can help you with this matter. I can't guarantee whether it will work, but I don't dare to accept the money. It would be terrible if my niece found out about this!" Xia Zhitao waved his hand, not even daring to touch the envelope.
When Director Chen heard this, he smiled and said, "How could Miss Xia know?"
"It's okay if you don't know!" Xia Zhitao raised his voice and simply left the table and hid far away. In fact, it's not that he doesn't love money. In the past, among the four children of the Xia family, he was the one who was the most neglectful and was criticized behind the back by the villagers. No one wants success more than he does, but that doesn't mean he dares to ask for any money.
Although Xia Zhitao has a ruffian temperament, is a bit arrogant, and loves money and face, he is still a monkey. After offending Xia Shao, his building materials store almost collapsed overnight. Later, he learned that Huaxia Group was involved in the real estate industry, so he was encouraged to open a construction company and engage in construction contracting projects. However, he also saw the fate of those few people. He seemed to know his niece's temper. In fact, in the past few years, he had benefited from her a lot and made a lot of money even if he didn't offend her and she didn't signal to suppress his business. Now, she is about to marry into the Xu family. As long as he is honest in the future, how much glory can he not get? How much business has come to your door? Why walk this tightrope
Xia Zhitao has a bad temper, but his brain is not bad. Even if he doesn't accept the money, he probably won't be afraid of offending Director Chen. Now in Dongshi, there really isn't anyone who dares to offend the Xia family. So Xia Zhitao straightened his back and waved his hand, "Bureau Chen, I remembered that my elder brother asked me to go early today. There are many things to discuss at home, so I'll leave first."
Xia Zhitao slapped his butt and ran away comically. Director Chen couldn't stop him from shouting behind him.
Xia Shao withdrew his eyes in the car, and after a while, he finally showed a smile.
No matter what the reason is, just know not to cause trouble.
As for why the official bribed Xia Zhitao, we will find out when we get back at noon. After this accidental encounter, Xia Shao felt that although Xia Zhitao was smarter today, in order to prevent these people from being stupid in the future, she still had to beat them at noon today.