Chapter 234: Siblings at Peace

Jiang Siyu panicked instantly.

"That's not it, stop guessing blindly," she said, afraid Jiang Sinian would see through her, "It's not that I think Lu Fei is all that handsome; I just purely think you aren't worthy of being the school hunk of our Yizhong."

After saying this, she hurried back to her room.

Closing the door, Jiang Siyu's heart was still thumping; liking Lu Fei was truly a dangerous thing.

She had almost been discovered by that annoying brat Jiang Sinian.

Jiang Siyu rolled back and forth on her soft bed; what was she thinking about? Liking Lu Fei? Hadn't she not yet decided whether she liked Lu Fei?

That night, Jiang Siyu had a dream.

The dream was still in that alley from the daytime, that punchable yellow-haired guy was chasing her and teasing her, and she didn't know how she ended up on top of a wall.

The wind whistled over her head, and Lu Fei stood under the wall; after punching the little yellow-haired guy away, he opened his arms and said to her, "Siyu, jump down, I'll catch you!"

And so Jiang Siyu leaped—

Then she woke up.

"Woooo..." Jiang Siyu pounded her pillow in anger.

By now the sky was already bright, and Mom was calling them to get up for breakfast.

Jiang Siyu didn't like eating breakfast; she always felt that when she had just woken up, her stomach wasn't ready to accept food, but there was no help for it; her mother could occasionally indulge her in other small matters.

But regarding this major matter of eating breakfast, she was extremely strict.

In Mom's eyes, not eating breakfast was roughly equivalent to seeking death.

After breakfast, the family drove to the Si Family with the gifts prepared for Grandpa.

"Happy birthday, Grandpa! Wishing you younger and younger!"

Jiang Sinian congratulated him loudly.

"Grandpa, Grandpa, Siyu also wishes you fortune as vast as the Eastern Sea and days as bright as the sun and moon!"

After saying this, she also cast a contemptuous look at her brother.

Heh, she was still the cultured one, right?

"Thank you, my two little treasures!"

Father Si looked at his daughter and son-in-law's family now and felt very gratified.

The granddaughter was cute and sensible, and the grandson was also a person.

In short, as long as his little cotton-padded jacket was happy, he felt happy too.

"Dad, your daughter wishes you laughter always; this is your birthday gift!"

Si Rong presented a small box, looking forward to her father opening it.

Seeing it was the manuscript he had always wanted, Father Si immediately smiled from ear to ear.

"You child! You just love wasting money!"

Mother Si:...

This old man, does he want to see what he looks like smiling right now?

"Alright, hurry and go inside; your second brother ordered a cake as tall as a floor for your dad, everyone have a taste!"

Father Si agreed with a smile, but as he turned, he suddenly felt a sharp, intense pain in his chest; however, it was fleeting, and when he went to feel it again, his body had returned to normal.

It should be nothing, Father Si thought; today his old friends were all here, and several of his children had returned as well.

Gathering together like this made him feel his body was still very young.

Especially watching the children bickering.

"Sinian! You must yield to Siyu, she is your younger sister!"

Father Si's words only earned a grimace from his grandson.

"This child!"

Father Si didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

He was just about to call his daughter when he saw his little cotton-padded jacket walking toward the back garden with her eldest brother.

Thinking of the relationship between these two siblings over the past few years, he held his tongue.

There are many things where, if the older generation interferes, it will only make things worse.

It is better to let the two siblings communicate themselves.

The midday sun poured down; Si Rong walked behind her eldest brother, suddenly remembering that when she was young, she always liked to walk by stepping on her brother's shadow.

You won't let me eat a popsicle? I'll step on it!

You won't let me go far away to play with classmates? I'll step on it!

You won't let me wear a short skirt? I'll step, step, step!!!

She stepped on that shadow, as if seeing her childhood self.

Her parents were busy with work, and she was a little girl raised by her two older brothers.

Her brothers could endure any hardship, but they just couldn't stand their only little sister suffering.

Si Rong remembered most clearly the year she was thirteen, because everything in the house had been investigated, so she couldn't even afford her tuition fees.

She didn't cry or make a scene, just went home and told her two brothers she didn't want to go to school anymore.

Later, the next day, her eldest brother brought money from who knows where to pay her tuition, and also bought her a pair of light blue bows.

He patted her head and said, "Little sister, trust your eldest brother; I will definitely work hard so my little sister doesn't suffer anymore."

He really did it.

So, how did they become like this?

However, Si Rong looked at her eldest brother's gradually hunched back, and she thought, nothing seemed that important anymore.

"Little sister, I want to say sorry to you for the things in the past."

Si Yan spoke up.

It was he who had been narrow-minded; those few years were like walking into a dead end.

The second brother's business was doing better than his, and after the younger sister remarried, her investments were also doing better than his; he, the eldest brother, had felt inferior.

It was his own fault.

Later, after talking things through with the second brother, the company now adopted the second brother's suggestions, and efficiency had improved quite a bit.

"Eldest brother," Si Rong said, holding his arm with slightly reddened eyes, "between us siblings, there is never any need to say such things."

The siblings buried the hatchet.

Si Han, behind the garden, felt very gratified; the three of them were supposed to be the closest people in this world, even after getting married.

The birthday banquet was held grandly and successfully.

When it ended, only their big family remained, and Si Han took a camera out from the room.

He prepared to take a precious group photo.

Father Si and Mother Si sat in the very center, while Si Yan and Si Han stood behind their parents on either side.

Si Rong stood between her two brothers.

All the children crouched in the very front.

The spouses all stood beside the three siblings.

Click—

Time seemed to stand still, so beautiful that even the wind was unwilling to make too much noise.

"It looks so good!" Father Si said, wearing his reading glasses and pointing at the photo to his wife.

Mother Si nodded in agreement.

By the afternoon, the children had all returned to their own small homes, and the two of them sat in the living room watching television.

The nanny they had hired, Xiao Jing, was busy in the kitchen.

When she finished cleaning the kitchen and entered the living room, she heard the television volume turned up very high, and the two elderly people were leaning back on the sofa, appearing to have both fallen asleep.

The late spring chill was still very cold at night, so Xiao Jing was afraid they would catch a cold and called out, "Nainai! Wake up and go sleep in the bedroom?"

People's hearing is not good when they get old, so Xiao Jing raised her voice and called out a few more times.

Mother Si opened her eyes in a daze and frowned; she had just had a very bad dream.

She dreamed that her husband... forget it, it was better not to think about such an inauspicious dream.

Mother Si went to nudge her soundly sleeping husband, "Old man, wake up!"

"Go back to the room to sleep!"

Mother Si thought her voice was too soft, so she called out to Xiao Jing again, "Quick, call Grandpa!"

Xiao Jing did not know why, but she suddenly felt a bit afraid, yet she still obediently called out twice, "Grandpa?"

"Nainai, something seems wrong..."

Mother Si also realized it; when she pushed him, Father Si's entire body slowly slid off the sofa.

She instinctively stepped forward to hold him and urgently ordered, "Xiao Jing! Quickly call for an ambulance!"