Chapter 1650: My Mother Found Out Even Later Than You; You Aren't the Last One

Fu's mother heard her husband's words: "I naturally have no objection, I'm just afraid someone might be unhappy."

Fu's father merely waved his hand: "We have given subsidies to the children of those families before; among the brothers, the fourth is the one who suffers the most, so compensating him a bit is only right."

Fu's mother stopped dwelling on these matters and, mysteriously, took a small box out of the wardrobe: "Look, what is this?"

Fu's father leaned over to look and immediately widened his eyes: "When did you prepare this?"

Fu's mother smiled, picking up a jade pendant in her hand: "When I learned that the fourth's wife was carrying triplets, I found Old Fang and had that jade piece I had been keeping cut up to make pendants. He made ten pendants in total; on nine of them, he carved the zodiac signs, and the remaining one was originally meant to be a plain pendant, but I thought better of it and had him keep it for now."

They both understood the meaning behind these words.

Fu's father picked them up one by one to examine them closely: "Perhaps we shouldn't give these pendants this time?"

Fu's mother naturally understood his meaning: "That works too; it wouldn't do for them to receive a good thing and then speak coldly behind our backs—that would be my fault. We can't invite trouble for Fu Bao and the others."

Hearing his wife speak thus, Fu's father pressed his lips together and smiled: "Mm, hearing you think this way puts my mind at ease."

Fu's mother rolled her eyes at him: "I'm not stupid; besides, the New Year is just around the corner, so a few days won't matter."

The next day, to Liu Chuxue's surprise, the first to arrive were not her in-laws, but her eldest uncle and his wife.

The two entered carrying large and small bags, heading straight for the triplets.

After interacting affectionately with the triplets long enough, Zhang Haitang finally took Liu Chuxue's hand and said: "Getting into Peking University is a good thing; why didn't you tell us sooner? If my younger aunt hadn't come yesterday, we still wouldn't have known."

As soon as she finished speaking, Xiao Fu's voice came from the doorway: "Big sister-in-law, what did you say?"

Everyone in the room turned to look and saw Xiao Fu walking in, carrying a small three-wheeled pedal cart.

Looking at Zhang Haitang, he asked again: "Big sister-in-law, what did you just say?"

At this point, there was no point in hiding it, so Liu Chuxue simply said without waiting for her aunt-in-law to speak again: "Dad, Peking University; I got into Peking University."

The small three-wheeled cart in Xiao Fu's hands nearly slipped from his grip, but fortunately he reacted quickly and grabbed the cart back.

He set the small three-wheeled pedal cart on the ground and looked straight at Liu Chuxue: "Such a huge matter, and I, as your father, am the last to know."

Even though he said that, the corners of his mouth were stretched almost to the back of his ears.

Liu Chuxue simply replied: "It's fine; my mother found out even later than you; you aren't the last one."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Fu didn't know how to respond: "When did this happen?"

Liu Chuxue deliberately did not mention the exact day she received the admission notice, saying only: "It was just these past few days; if my younger aunt hadn't come yesterday, she wouldn't have known either; see, now that you've come today, you know too."

As she spoke, she shrugged, implying it was fair, since he had come late.

Xiao Fu was not the type to dwell on things: "As long as you got in, that's good; as long as you got in, that's good."

At this, Xiao's eldest uncle chimed in: "Our Xiao family finally has a university student; if Xia Qiu can also get in, that would be double the good news. Dad said that for such a great event, after the New Year, we should all return to the ancestral village, and at that time, let the two sisters offer incense to the ancestors."

Fu's father and Fu's mother exchanged a glance, thinking: This is clearly our Fu family's daughter-in-law; why does she have to return to your ancestral village to offer incense? Yet although they thought this, they did not say it, after all, the girl did indeed bear the surname Xiao.