Chapter 131: Auntie Wang Yinghao

Sheng Hanyu greeted her with a smile: "Auntie, it's been a few years, but you're still as young as ever; you haven't changed a bit."

"Look!"

The proprietress reached out and pointed to her temples: "I have gray hair now."

Sheng Hanyu acted like a big kid looking for a toy: "Where? Where is it? How come I can't see it?"

"Hahahaha..."

The proprietress laughed heartily and kindly.

"Hurry and come in. The room is all prepared for you two. If we stand at the door talking, I'm neglecting your girlfriend..."

Sheng Hanyu corrected her: "Auntie, she is my wife, not my girlfriend."

"A slip of the tongue, a slip of the tongue, I'm just getting old and muddled..."

The proprietress led the two to their room, told them to rest for a while and that she would come to call them when dinner was ready, then she left.

The room was very tidy and carried the unique charm of Jiangnan everywhere; the furniture was all in the Chinese style... but there was only one bed!

The two felt a bit awkward. Although they slept in the same bedroom and the same bed at home, the bed at home was big enough!

Every night, Shi Youxuan would put Zai Zai in the middle, but she hadn't brought Zai Zai with her on this trip, and the old-fashioned Chinese bed was not very wide.

Although it could fit two people, the distance between them was a bit too close.

Sheng Hanyu said to her: "If you're tired, sleep for a while. I'm going out to talk with Auntie." After he finished speaking, he went out, leaving the room to her.

Shi Youxuan was indeed sleepy; she collapsed onto the bed and fell asleep.

Jiangzhou, Prince Hotel.

"A Kai, it's already this late, why hasn't the Chairman of Tianma come yet?" Bai Xue pulled her son to the side and asked suspiciously: "Is your wife fooling us? Is the Chairman of Tianma really her sister? What if she's just bragging?"

Bai Xue began to regret it. She regretted not investigating the relationship between the Chairman of Tianma and Shi Yuke in detail before rashly agreeing to marry her into the family in such a grand manner, and even putting up so much in dowry.

"Mom, I'm going to tell you something, but don't get anxious, and don't go looking for trouble with Yuke at a time like this. You have to promise me before I tell you." Sheng Yukai tried to prepare his mother, but Bai Xue immediately wanted to go settle accounts with Shi Yuke.

"Fine, so she really is lying to me, isn't she? No way, if I don't make her spit out the dowry today, this wedding isn't happening..."

Sheng Yukai hurriedly stopped her: "Can you wait for me to finish what I'm saying?"

His mother wasn't like this before. It was as if she had reached menopause; she had become impatient and increasingly unreasonable.

"Speak." Bai Xue stopped, fuming.

"Look at this."

Sheng Yukai took out his phone and opened some screenshots to show her.

The screenshots were of a conversation between "Shi Youxuan" and Shi Yuke, as well as a record of a transfer amount.

The gist of the "conversation" was that "Shi Youxuan" had suffered a miscarriage, so she could not come to attend the wedding.

However, even though she couldn't come in person, the gift money could not be less...

In Jiangzhou City, there was a custom that women who had suffered a miscarriage or were pregnant could not attend weddings, as attending would "clash" with the bride, which was very unlucky.

Seeing the reason, Bai Xue didn't bother reading the polite pleasantries that followed; her eyes were fixed firmly on the gift money that had been transferred.

So many zeros.

She counted with her eyes several times before she was sure—one hundred and fifty million!

There was no need to look at anything else; this amount alone explained everything. It showed that the sisters' relationship was quite good; if they didn't have a good relationship, how could she send so much gift money?

"I'm going to go greet the guests. You go see if your wife has finished her makeup yet? Once she's done, come down together to greet the guests. Let those people see that you've brought the number one beauty of Jiangzhou home, and let them be envious."

Bai Xue changed her tune very quickly. Sheng Yukai went to the lounge and relayed what his mother had said to Shi Yuke, and she secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

It was a good thing she had prepared, otherwise today would have been really hard to get through.

Jiangnan town.

A gentle breeze blew.

Shi Youxuan was catching up on sleep in the room, while Sheng Hanyu was chatting with the proprietress in the courtyard.

There was a pavilion in the courtyard, and the pavilion was built in a very interesting way; it had no roof, only a frame, and a few grapevines and gourds were climbing on the frame.

It wasn't the season yet, so the grapes weren't ripe and were still green, hanging on the vines in clusters.

The gourds hadn't borne fruit yet, and white flowers shyly poked their heads out from the green leaves, not very conspicuous.

Under the pavilion was a round table with a few round stools around it.

Sheng Hanyu and the proprietress sat on the round stools, and in front of them was a small round basket woven from bamboo strips, containing some fresh green beans and vegetables just picked from the garden.

The proprietress deftly removed the strings from both sides of the green beans, glanced at him, and said nonchalantly: "I can see you've taken an interest in Xuanxuan. That's good; you can't live in the past forever."

Sheng Hanyu was also helping, and the movement of his hands suddenly paused.

But he quickly returned to normal and said: "Don't guess wildly, there's no such thing."

"Fine, if you say there isn't, then there isn't."

The proprietress didn't argue with him: "But I want to give you a piece of advice: a woman's heart is very delicate. If you want to live with someone, you must treat her sincerely and not be half-hearted."

Sheng Hanyu said: "I am not fooling around. Please rest assured, I am not that kind of person."

The proprietress smiled, and there was a faint sadness in her smile: "How could I not know what kind of person you are? Although you and your father are not alike in other ways, you are very much alike in this..."

Realizing she had gone off-topic, she pulled the conversation back: "I'm not talking about actions, I'm talking about this." As she spoke, she pointed to the location of his heart.

Sheng Hanyu was silent.

Shi Youxuan woke up; no, she was enticed awake by the aroma of food.

"It smells so good!"

She walked out of the room just as the proprietress was bringing dishes to the round table in the pavilion. Seeing her come out, she smiled and said: "Perfect, I was just about to ask Hanyu to call you, and you woke up."

Sheng Hanyu chimed in, "She is particularly sensitive to food; there's no need to call her, she'll come out just by smelling it!"

"Exactly..."

Shi Youxuan didn't think there was anything wrong with this sentence at first, but seeing the two of them smiling with ill intent, she immediately realized: "Fine, you're finding ways to insult me!"

She chased after him, raising her fist to hit him.

Sheng Hanyu ran around the table, and she chased him around the table; the two of them were flirting, and the proprietress stood to the side, watching them with a smile.

Sheng Hanyu still didn't "outrun" her; he was caught, and she raised her fist to pound him a few times.

The one being hit didn't feel much pain, but the one doing the hitting vented her frustration.

After venting, the two sat at the dining table; there were no delicacies from land or sea, just an ordinary four-dish-one-soup meal: stir-fried green beans with cured meat, Steamed Lion's Head, assorted pork platter, sweet and sour fish, and a bowl of West Lake beef soup.

Sheng Hanyu didn't tell the proprietress that Shi Youxuan liked seafood; he didn't want his aunt to think he attached special importance to Shi Youxuan.

The proprietress finally brought out a plate of crab roe buns and served a jar of Daughter's Red wine, then left.

Shi Youxuan was curious and asked in a low voice, "Hey, why do you call her Aunt?"

"Nonsense, if she's my aunt, what else would I call her?" Sheng Hanyu gave her a look of disdain.

"What? Your aunt? A biological one?" Shi Youxuan's mouth hung open in surprise, and she forgot to close it.

But after receiving confirmation from Sheng Hanyu, she was even more shocked.

"How is that possible? You must be fooling me; your mother is the type who..." She started, then realized that speaking this way wasn't very polite.

Although Wang Yingzhi was indeed not great, it was inappropriate to say so in front of her son.

She had a sudden inspiration: "Your temperaments don't match."

Wang Yingzhi was like rotten cotton wrapped in gold and jade, yet the proprietress here had an elegance like an orchid in an empty valley.

"I'll tell you later; the matters involved here are a bit complicated."