"Waterlon ti!"
Pei Yining ca out with the sliced waterlon, ice-cold and delicious, with its red flesh looking sweet just by sight.
"Mom, sister, co eat the waterlon, it’s so sweet!" Pei Yijian followed behind Pei Yining, holding a piece of waterlon and munching it with extra joy.
"Right, it’s especially sweet."
Pei Yining gave Wan Hongxing and Xu Nianhua a piece each and asked, "This waterlon is a good buy, very sweet."
"Auntie Wan, Nianhua, what were you just talking about?"
Pei Yining casually asked.
Wan Hongxing and Xu Nianhua exchanged glances, and Wan Hongxing said with a smile, "We were just chatting about Nianhua’s plan to accompany Professor Fei in receiving foreign guests. I think Nianhua is so outstanding, I wanted to ask how she usually studies."
Xu Nianhua smiled, tacitly agreeing with this explanation, and silently ate her waterlon. The waterlon that Pei Yining had highly recomnded was indeed not wrong, with a grainy texture and a soft, cottony sweetness when it lted in the mouth.
Wan Hongxing and Pei Yijian didn’t stay long and left soon after.
Pei Yijian was reluctant to leave, but unfortunately, he had to go to the Children’s Palace for lessons.
"Nianhua, what did Auntie Wan talk to you about just now?"
Pei Yining looked at Xu Nianhua with intense curiosity.
Xu Nianhua sized her up, her eyes shifting before saying, "Auntie Wan said that I am rely soone born in a small village, and even if my family has started a factory, I’m still not a match for Yicheng."
"Impossible!"
Pei Yining’s eyes rounded in disbelief as she instinctively retorted, "Auntie Wan... she’s not that sort of person... right?"
Pei Yining’s eyebrows knitted in conflict, almost tangling together. Ever since she was six, Auntie Wan had been with her as she grew up. Over the years, Auntie Wan was like half a mother to her.
But Xu Nianhua was the sister-in-law she acknowledged.
"So I’m lying to you?"
Xu Nianhua raised her eyebrows in a challenging question.
"No, not at all."
Pei Yining, fearing that Xu Nianhua might misunderstand, hurriedly explained, "What I ant was, Auntie Wan has always been teaching kindergarten. Later, she started her own kindergarten, and she’s always been so gentle. I just couldn’t believe she would say such things."
Pei Yining’s mouth drooped, sadness filling her eyes as she hadn’t expected Auntie Wan to be like that behind the scenes.
"Cough!"
Xu Nianhua, seeing Pei Yining’s expression and realizing that Yining really believed her and had misunderstood Wan Hongxing, quickly clarified, "Auntie Wan didn’t say those things. She just ntioned that your brother grew up without a mother and asked not to hurt him."
"So, you were lying to just now?"
Pei Yining’s eyes bulged in shock, unable to believe that Xu Nianhua would deceive her.
"I was wrong."
Xu Nianhua sincerely admitted her mistake.
"It’s okay, it’s okay. I knew it, Auntie Wan isn’t that kind of person." Pei Yining breathed a sigh of relief. She was more curious about how Nianhua answered and, thinking just that, asked directly.
After Xu Nianhua gave her answer, Pei Yining murmured in repetition, "Choose a city to grow old in, et soone to spend a lifeti with."
At the bottom of Pei Yining’s heart, there was an extraordinary shock. Wasn’t this precisely what she longed for?
In the evening, before it get dark, Pei Yicheng hurried back. In order to return before nightfall, he had raced against the clock even while eating dinner. Still, he brought back quite a bit of work with him.
"Who ca over today?" Pei Yicheng frowned upon seeing the donkey rolls on the dining table.
Pei Yining, who hadn’t had the chance to leave yet, spoke with a subdued voice, "Brother, Auntie Wan ca with Yijian, and they brought donkey rolls. Nianhua loves them, so I was planning to heat them up for her."
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