Chapter 787

Seeing Jian Qiu smiled at Zhou Andong, the meaning clear: you explain it.

Zhou Andong scratched his head: "Well, Qiuqiu and I have already registered our marriage."

"Registered? Even if you registered... you registered?"

Yuan Liying's eyes widened instantly, "When did you register?"

Zhou Andong said with a guilty grin: "In May!"

Yuan Liying looked at Seeing Jian Qiu: "Qiuqiu, do your parents know?"

"No!" Seeing Jian Qiu shook her head: "We'll tell them when we go back at the end of the year."

Yuan Liying's head was buzzing. These two children, how could they be so headstrong? They did such a big thing secretly without even telling her.

More importantly, they hadn't even met the in-laws, and her son had already tricked their daughter into registering. If they met later and were blamed, she would be in the wrong no matter what she said.

Zhou Xiaoxin, sitting on the kang, smiled, winked at his son, and secretly gave a thumbs up.

For him, getting the daughter-in-law home was what mattered. As for how to face the in-laws, they could talk about that later.

Whether it's apologizing or making amends, they were already registered anyway; they couldn't just make them divorce.

Xiao Qin really liked Seeing Jian Qiu, and now that she was officially her sister-in-law, she was truly happy.

As for the others, they didn't react much, because in the countryside, registering didn't count as being married; only after the wedding ceremony did it count.

Zhou Andong saw his mother's worry: "You don't need to worry about this; we'll handle it well."

"Sigh!" Yuan Liying sighed, "After you go back, make arrangements to meet Qiuqiu's parents as soon as possible and discuss the wedding."

"No rush for that!"

Zhou Andong refused without hesitation. Are you kidding? Putting aside how the mother-in-law would react, just the father-in-law, whom he had already smoothed over—if he suddenly found out he had tricked his daughter into registering without telling him, he wouldn't give him a good look either.

"At the end of the year, I'll discuss it with them; we'll talk about the rest after the New Year."

Yuan Liying wanted to say something else, but in the end, she said nothing. Her son secretly registered with his partner; she found it hard to accept, let alone Seeing Jian Qiu's parents.

They raised their daughter for so long, only for her to be snatched away without a sound; they would definitely find it harder to accept than she did. It was better to let the two children give the in-laws a heads-up first. As for getting scolded or beaten, that was their business and had nothing to do with her.

"Alright, the deed is done. You decide how to handle it; we parents will listen to you."

At this moment, Xiaobei and Yuan Tao returned, bringing formula and a baby bottle into the room.

"We went over there, and they said you had already come back, so we made a wasted trip."

Sun Hui took the formula and the bottle: "I'll go make milk for the child."

She had just weaned, otherwise, she wouldn't have been in such a hurry to buy formula.

There was ready-made hot water in the thermos. She threw the bottle into a basin and scalded it with boiling water to sterilize it. Then she poured the water back and forth between two tea mugs, and finally tested the temperature before starting to mix the formula.

The little one was truly hungry; she drank the whole bottle of formula quickly.

"This child is really well-behaved. Usually, being this hungry, she would have cried long ago."

After finishing the milk, the little one scanned the room with her big eyes and reached out toward Seeing Jian Qiu.

Seeing Jian Qiu took the child over. The little one smacked her lips twice, yawned, and closed her eyes.

The old lady climbed off the kang and found a mattress and a quilt: "Put the child on the kang."

Seeing Jian Qiu carefully laid the child down and covered her with the quilt.

"Give her a name."

"Right, right, right!" The old lady said: "Give the child a name."

Zhou Andong asked: "What was the child's name before?"

Sister-in-law Shen Qing said: "Zhang Meifeng!"

Everyone brainstormed, especially Yuan Ying, Shen Qing, and Sun Hui, who were the most enthusiastic, but the names they came up with were really not worth complimenting, and they argued until their faces were red. In the end, the old lady had the final say.

"Alright, let the parents, Dongzi and Qiuqiu, name the child."

Zhou Andong said with a smile: "Let my wife name her."

Seeing Jian Qiu looked at the little one sleeping soundly, and suddenly felt a tremor in her heart. From now on, this little thing would be her daughter; she would call her Mom.

Thinking this, a warm smile appeared on Seeing Jian Qiu's face, and the love in her eyes couldn't be hidden.

"Zhou Le, I hope she can grow up happily."

"That name is very ordinary." As soon as Zhou Andong finished speaking, he saw Seeing Jian Qiu's dagger-like gaze and hurriedly corrected himself, "But the meaning is extraordinary. Good, let's use this name."

Several sisters-in-law and sisters covered their mouths and laughed. Zhou Andong said with a straight face: "Let's give her a nickname too. Her mother's surname was Su, so let's call her Su Su, as a keepsake."

"Alright!" Yuan Liying was the first to express her approval, "The child's nickname will be Su Su."

Yuan Ying suddenly asked: "When the child grows up, will you tell her about her background?"

Everyone fell silent. Zhou Andong also paused for a moment: "It's too early to talk about that; we'll talk about future things in the future."

At this moment, the old man returned: "Have you all heard about what happened at the north end?"

"Of course we have." Yuan Lu chattered about the incident, "It was my brother and the others who discovered it first. The perpetrator was Meng Shulin, and he was caught by Brother Wu and the others."

The old man sighed, patted the dust off his body, leaned on the edge of the kang, and looked at the little one.

"Raise her. This is an act of accumulating virtue, and it's also your fate in this lifetime."

The old lady smiled: "It's not just this lifetime. Looking at the child's behavior, it should be that in the previous life, her fate with Qiuqiu and Dongzi wasn't finished, so she found her way here in this life."

"You're right!" The old man also smiled: "Yuling, that child, had too bitter a life. I'll go take a look. The deceased is the most important; I'll go burn some incense for her."

"Grandpa!" Zhou Andong asked: "Where are my uncles?"

The old man said without looking back: "In the fields, snapping some corn and cutting some edamame to boil."

"Dad!" A shout came from the courtyard, and everyone looked out the window.

"My aunt is here." Zhou Andong walked out quickly to greet her. In all the years he had grown up, he had only seen his aunt twice.

The first time was over ten years ago, and the second time was when Old Zhou had his accident, and his aunt and four uncles came to visit.

A large group of people came out of the room, and Zhou Andong shouted: "Aunt!"

Yuan Lihong walked over quickly, looked Zhou Andong up and down, and then laughed.

"My big nephew is impressive now, a boss. If your aunt can't afford to eat in the future, you can't ignore me."

Zhou Andong said seriously: "I definitely won't ignore you; my mom has money, she can take care of you."

Yuan Lihong giggled, tapped him, and her gaze fell on Seeing Jian Qiu.

"Aunt, hello!" Seeing Jian Qiu called out to her, "I'm Dongzi's partner."