Her father was not Honest Tang, even if he married a woman who was neither virtuous nor kind-hearted, he would not indulge her in bullying the three of them, her siblings and herself. Besides, were they the kind of people to be easily bullied? With her status as the County Lord and several ferocious beasts, honored as Rui Beasts by imperial decree, protecting her siblings was hardly a difficult task. If a stepmother entered the scene one day, it should truly be the stepmother who needed to worry, right?
Xin Er didn’t quite grasp it at first. After careful thought, she finally understood the unspoken aning in her sister’s words and fell silent for a mont.
After a long while, as if coming to an understanding, Xin Er said to her sister with a pained expression, "Sister, I know what you’re saying is right, but the thought of another woman living with us just makes feel awkward and sad. Am I too selfish for not considering our father’s happiness?"
"No, it’s perfectly normal to feel this way. Sister felt the sa way before," Mo Yan reassured her bewildered sister with a smile. It was difficult to make things clear; even if she laid out the reasons for her sister, it still required her sister to co to terms with it on her own. She had already understood that ensuring their father’s happiness was for the best, but still, she couldn’t quite get over that emotional hurdle.
She herself wasn’t as at ease as she had spoken. Their family had been living happily together, and suddenly, the thought of a strange woman entering their family and living with them indeed felt awkward. But when compared to their father’s happiness in his later years, what was this bit of awkwardness? In the end, she wished for their father to live even better once her siblings and she found their own place in life!
Mo Yan’s comforting words worked; Xin Er’s expression relaxed, and she managed to muster a rueful smile, "Sister, you are truly open-minded; so is Zhenzhen. I can’t compare to you both."
Mo Yan gently ruffled her sister’s hair, earnestly saying, "It’s human nature to feel that way; it has nothing to do with being open-minded or not."
Pausing, she continued to ask, "We’ve talked so much, but sister still doesn’t know what actually happened. Can you tell now?"
Xin Er’s mood had improved considerably, and upon hearing this, she imdiately nodded, "I don’t know the specifics; Zhenzhen told about it when she ca back yesterday..."
With Xin Er’s narration, Mo Yan gained a general understanding of the whole matter.
It turned out that after she left the Liu Family’s wedding yesterday, their father finished watching the ceremony and returned to the Cui family. After the wedding banquet, no one knows how, but he ended up eting Auntie from the Cui Family in one of the family’s gardens.
At that ti, Zhenzhen wanted to return ho early and, not seeing their father where the Cui family was entertaining guests, split up from Yun Zhao to look for him, only to see the two of them talking together in the garden.
Although there was no inappropriate behavior between them, and Auntie from the Cui Family had two maids behind her, Zhenzhen felt sothing indescribable between them from their conversation and deanor. He saw their father and Auntie from the Cui Family exchange a few words and prepared to leave separately when, sohow, the auntie missed her step while descending the stairs and stumbled forward, falling right into their father’s arms.
If it had rely been an accident, they could have just gotten up and felt a bit awkward inside, but after Auntie from the Cui Family was helped up by the maids and hurriedly apologized to their father before leaving, she couldn’t help but look back midway. And their father stood still, watching her depart, their gazes locked in that mont.
Even without exchange of words, the unspeakable tension was so palpable even Zhenzhen, a re ten-year-old, could sense it. On the way ho, Zhenzhen made so oblique inquiries to their father and finally confird his suspicion was not wrong; his father indeed had special feelings for Auntie Cui Pingan.
Once ho, Zhenzhen couldn’t wait to tell his second sister all about it. In truth, he didn’t have a particularly strong opinion on the matter; he found Auntie from the Cui Family to be kind and he liked her. If their father wanted to marry such a woman, he wouldn’t object.
As for the idea that a stepmother would bring a stepfather, Zhenzhen had never considered it, because he believed that their father was not that kind of person, and he also believed he wouldn’t beco a victim of a wicked stepmother.
On the other hand, having never experienced maternal love, he yearned for a mother’s care more intensely than others did. The character and appearance of Cui Qingrou fulfilled every beautiful fantasy he had of a mother. In short, if his father could one day marry Auntie from the Cui Family, he wouldn’t be upset; he’d actually be happy.
Zhenzhen told his second sister about the possibly unfounded matter with the hope that his sister would stand by him and encourage their father to propose marriage to the Cui family. Cui Pingan was at ho at the ti, and he ntioned that the elder Lady Cui wished for auntie to remarry, but it never ca to pass because Auntie herself didn’t want to marry. Now, seeing that Auntie from the Cui Family felt differently about their father, Zhenzhen instinctively believed that if their father proposed marriage, the Cui family wouldn’t refuse.
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