The old lady thought about it. This was Si Qingxiao’s first ti coming to their house, her family was definitely waiting for her, and it really wasn’t appropriate for her to stay over.
She’d originally only planned to let her rest a bit, drink so sobering tea and leave when she felt better. Looking at her like this, if she took a car ho now, with even the slightest bump, she’d probably throw up.
No one in the Jiang Family had planned to make her drink, much less urge her to. It was just that later, during the round of toasts, this little girl was too honest. Almost every ti she was toasted and toasted back, her cup was filled to the brim, and she drank a little too quickly, so she ended up getting herself drunk.
Si Qingxiao was indeed drunk. Her mind was actually clear, but it was like her body wasn’t under her control, everything felt floaty and woozy.
"Sobering tea." Tang Wan didn’t hand the tea to her, but gave it to Jiang Chengsi instead, afraid she couldn’t hold it steady.
"Xiaoxiao..." Jiang Chengsi sat beside her, his voice unusually gentle.
"Mm?"
"Sobering tea, drink a little."
Sobering tea mostly doesn’t sll that good. Si Qingxiao frowned, clearly not too willing to drink it.
"Be good, have two sips."
Everyone in the Jiang Family: "..."
They were all still here. Could he maybe mind the occasion a little?
This Jiang Chengsi, usually he was a rough guy, sotis even impulsive and reckless. For him to suddenly be this delicate and gentle—how could that not be shocking?
"People always say love changes you, makes you stupid. Seems it’s not wrong." Tang Wan said with a smile.
Jiang Jinsang replied, "If you saw what he’s like when he’s working or studying, you’d say love doesn’t just change a person, it might’ve swapped his brain out too."
Jiang Chengsi studied business, and picked it up extrely fast. If he’d worked this hard back when he was in school, Grandma would’ve never had to worry about his studies again.
**
After drinking half a cup of sobering tea, maybe the aftereffect of the green plum wine kicked in. Leaning against Jiang Chengsi’s shoulder, Si Qingxiao grew drowsy, like she wanted to fall asleep.
The old lady was just about to have the driver take the two of them ho when it started raining outside—not a fine, drizzly rain, but a sudden downpour, sheets of rain dumping from the sky.
The forecast hadn’t said there’d be rain tonight, and it ca so fast and so hard that the Jiang Family hurried to shut all the doors and windows.
Si Yushan stood by the window, watching the rain get heavier, and frowned slightly. He called Si Qingxiao again to ask where her car was and about what ti she’d get ho.
He hadn’t expected the one to pick up to be the Jiang Family’s old lady.
"Madam Jiang..." As a junior, Si Yushan kept his attitude fairly humble.
"I’m really sorry, Xiaoxiao is at our house. She had a bit to drink tonight. I had planned to let her drink so sobering tea and wait till she felt better before sending her back, but now it’s started raining. She’s fine though..." The old lady was a bit embarrassed too. "I’m so sorry for worrying you."
"It’s fine, it’s fine, as long as she’s okay."
"The rain’s too heavy, it’s not safe to drive in weather like this. So I was thinking... why don’t we just let her stay the night at our place? We’ve got clean guest rooms, and I’ll take good care of her."
The rain was too heavy; the old lady was worried sothing might happen on the road.
"Don’t worry, however your daughter ca to our house, I’ll definitely hand her back to you safe and sound." What she ant was to reassure Si Yushan that they wouldn’t take advantage of his daughter.
"Please don’t say that, I’m just afraid we’re troubling you too much." With things said this far, all Si Yushan could do was agree. "Then I’ll trouble you with her. Tomorrow morning I’ll send soone over to pick her up."
"No need to send soone, I’ll have Chengsi take her back."
Jiang Chengsi had gone to help close the doors and windows. As soon as he ca back, the old lady inford him:
"Take her upstairs to rest."
"Upstairs?"
"She’s staying at our place tonight, in the guest room. And you, brat, don’t you dare take her into your own room, and don’t you so much as lay a finger on her."
"..."
What did his grandma take him for, so kind of hooligan?
The old lady would love nothing more than for the two of them to give her a great-grandchild tonight, but this kind of thing couldn’t be rushed, and he couldn’t fool around just because the girl had a bit too much to drink.
Jiang Chengsi helped her into the room, with the old lady watching from the side.
Seeing him wring out a towel and wipe Si Qingxiao’s face, she frowned slightly:
"Can you be a little more gentle? And hey, don’t just wipe her face, wipe her hands too. With how you’re acting, you don’t even know how to take care of a wife—what use are you?"
It wasn’t that Jiang Chengsi couldn’t take care of Si Qingxiao. It was just that having a Supervisor breathing down his neck like this felt terrible.
"Grandma, could you not stare at ?"
"If I don’t stare at you, what if you take advantage of her?"
The old lady wanted to "sell him off," but she couldn’t resort to shady tricks.
"Grandma, what do you take for? She’s my girlfriend, I respect her a lot. How could I possibly do anything to her while she’s drunk? You don’t trust my character?"
"You have sothing called character?"
"..."
Jiang Chengsi was fuming, but there was nothing he could do. After settling Si Qingxiao in, he was kicked out by his grandma and told to get lost to his own room to sleep.
**
Si Yushan started feeling uneasy, pacing around the living room. Barely twenty minutes later, this sudden downpour mysteriously stopped again—
But the Jiang Family had already called over ten minutes ago to say Si Qingxiao was resting, so he couldn’t very well go over now and demand they send her back.
What, even the heavens were helping that punk?
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