“In a lifetime, who knows?” Ou Yingxin thought, and suddenly became serious.
“What’s wrong?” Dad Qiao looked at his daughter worriedly, thinking there was something wrong with their marriage.
Ou Yingxin glanced at her father, hesitated for a moment, and then asked in a low voice, “Why did you divorce back then?”
Mr. Qiao’s face changed when he was asked this question. He felt a little embarrassed to be asked this by his daughter.
But as an elder, I also hope to give my children some experience.
“Back then…” When Mr. Qiao mentioned those years, his mood became heavy. “I don’t know why. Maybe we have been together for a long time, so our tolerance has decreased.”
Ou Yingxin was no longer angry with him. She poured him a cup of black tea and listened to him continue talking.
Father Qiao took a look at the tea in the cup and said disdainfully, “Why are you drinking black tea? I have some Da Hong Pao and I’ll bring you some.”
“My wife has a bad stomach, so she drinks this. It’s up to you to drink it or not!” Ou Yingxin yelled at him rudely.
In fact, she knew her father’s faults: he had a bad temper and was a bitchy. She herself inherited his bad habits.
From Mr. Qiao’s hesitant explanation while drinking black tea, Ou Yingxin finally understood what happened back then.
Back then, Mother Ou spoiled him too much, which led to Father Qiao becoming fearless and his temper becoming worse and worse.
Mother Ou could tolerate him at first, but later Father Qiao went too far and had an affair with other women, even letting the mistress dance in front of her. Eventually, the two broke up and separated.
“You deserve it, scumbag!” Ou Yingxin commented on her father unhappily.
Mr. Qiao was scolded so much that he kept silent, but he still sincerely shared his experience of failure with his daughter.
If he was really a scumbag, he would say that after Mother Ou gave birth to Baby Ou, she devoted all her attention to her daughter and ignored him as her husband, which allowed other women to take advantage of the situation.
Moreover, a woman’s figure and appearance will be affected after giving birth.
Thinking about this, Mr. Qiao said selfishly, “Yes, yes, it’s my fault, but my daughter, if you really want to live on, don’t have children. If you really want to have children, let your wife have them.”
“Why should we have children? Children are so troublesome.” Ou Yingxin didn’t think that it was time for them to talk about children. Although they had been married for so many years, they had only recently been truly together.
If you haven’t had enough of your own world, why have children?
Besides, Lin Cijiu doesn’t like children at all and always thinks they are troublesome.
Seeing his daughter’s resistance, Mr. Qiao didn’t dare to say much, but as she was old, she still wanted to experience the feeling of having a house full of children and grandchildren.
“Okay, okay, okay, just talk to me when you want to have a baby. Dad fully supports you.”
The father and daughter were chatting intermittently when Ou Yingxin’s cell phone rang.
She took a look and saw that it was Lin Cijiu calling.
He looked lazy at first, but suddenly he became energetic.
“What’s wrong?” Ou Yingxin’s voice immediately became sweeter.
“Wife, I met the monitor. Can I ask her to come and play with us?” Lin Cijiu asked carefully, afraid of making his wife angry again.
“No.” Ou Yingxin was not polite to her at all. It was their rare holiday, and not only had Mr. Qiao come to join in the fun, but Li Yuzhi also came, and Sister Qiao and her little niece would come over soon. They might as well just celebrate the New Year here as a group.
“Oh.” There was a hint of disappointment in Lin Cijiu’s voice. She thought her wife would agree. She was not such a stingy person.
“Bring more food so that your squad leader won’t have enough to eat.” Ou Yingxin was just teasing her. There was no way she would really not let her friends come over.
“Okay.” Lin Cijiu curled the corners of his mouth with relief.
“Call my sister.”
“it is good.”
“So that you won’t get tired carrying things by yourself.” Although Ou Yingxin’s voice was not soft at all, she was concerned about her. Poor Sister Qiao was indeed her biological sister, but she was being used as a porter again.
But she has a handsome young assistant, so moving some food is not a big problem at all.
After a while, a group of people came over by boat carrying a lot of things.
The lively little niece Su Xiaoxuan followed Lin Cijiu with a big bag of snacks.
She followed Lin Cijiu, stretched her neck and asked worriedly: “Can I really stay here tonight? Will it not disturb me? Will my boss be angry?”
“You won’t make much difference if you add one more. There are a lot of people here today and it’s snowing, so you don’t have to run around, just play here.” Lin Cijiu knew that there would be an opening ceremony in the scenic area tomorrow, and Mr. Qiao came for this, so he naturally had to stay in the scenic area tonight.
It would be bad to chase my father-in-law away. When Sister Qiao was choosing a wooden house for them, she specifically picked this island with two houses connected, so that she could play with them when the time comes.
With such a big place, it is no problem for five or six people to live there.
“No.” Su Xiaoxuan was a worrier. She advised Lin Cijiu earnestly, “Aunt, you should discuss it with my boss first. If you find that she is not happy, don’t tell her. It’s okay for me to stay in a hotel.”
Lin Cijiu saw that she was not very old, but she worried more about her than her grandmother, so he felt helpless.
“Go and play with your aunt.” Lin Cijiu couldn’t persuade her, so he let her go and play with Sister Qiao.
Su Xiaoxuan has been in more contact with Sister Qiao in the past two days, and their relationship has become much closer, even closer than with her biological aunt.
She jumped to Sister Qiao in two steps, took her arm and said, “Aunt, did you bring fried chicken and beer? Fried chicken and beer go better together on a snowy day.”
When Sister Qiao heard the rustic and heartbreaking name “Auntie”, she was so angry that her wrinkles were about to appear. She said angrily: “Don’t give me that. You are a star and you dare to eat fried chicken and beer. I think you just want to drag me down. I will be scolded by Ou Baobao soon.”
“No.” Su Xiaoxuan said stubbornly, “My boss is my aunt now, so she won’t scold me.”
“Isn’t it?” Sister Qiao snorted, “Your aunt is still being bullied by her, so why should Ou Baobao let you do what you want?
“But I want to eat it.” Su Xiaoxuan failed and started to act coquettishly.
“You don’t look very healthy. You should eat more.” Li Yuzhi, who had been silent all this time and almost hidden in the furry white down jacket, suddenly said.
She pushed up her glasses and looked very serious.
Su Xiaoxuan glanced at her and said “Oh” coldly.
Even though Su Xiaoxuan appears lively and cute in front of her aunt, she is also a child of the Lin family after all, and is just as cold by nature as Lin Cijiu.
When facing strangers, she actually speaks very little and is difficult to get close to.
Sister Qiao and I became closer because we are relatives.
Li Yuzhi didn’t even think about it, but the class monitor seemed a little curious about the little girl. She pushed her glasses and looked at her puzzledly.
“Do you have a dual personality?” Li Yuzhi suddenly asked, leaving the others stunned.
Sister Qiao asked in confusion: “What are you talking about?”
Su Xiaoxuan raised the corner of her mouth and sneered, “I don’t understand.”
“Squad leader, don’t use my niece as a research subject.” Lin Cijiu separated the two of them to avoid any tension.
Li Yuzhi pushed her glasses and said nothing more, but her eyes were still looking at Su Xiaoxuan intentionally or unintentionally. This child was very strange. She had been studying human confusing behavior for so long.
Su Xiaoxuan is more difficult to understand than Ou Yingxin.
“Xiaoxuan, is your dad here too?” Lin Cijiu remembered that his father-in-law seemed to be a boring man, and he didn’t know what he liked.
“My dad? Yes, Sister Qiao invited him to perform a magic show. Aunt, will you go to see it?” When talking to Lin Cijiu, Su Xiaoxuan became intimate, and the smile on her little face returned.
“Magic? Sure.” Lin Cijiu looked at his niece and vaguely realized that there seemed to be a big difference in how she treated her own people and outsiders, and he didn’t know whether it was good or bad.
Soon a group of people came to the door of the villa, and Ou Yingxin opened the door when she heard the sound.
“Are you all here?” Ou Yingxin was standing at the door waiting.
The temperature outside made her shiver. She crossed her arms and said, “Come in.”
Everyone greeted her politely and entered the room one by one, carrying their things. Lin Cijiu quickly closed the door behind them. Ou Yingxin stood by the door and stamped her feet in the cold.
“You go and warm yourself by the fire. We’re putting things away. We don’t need your help.” Seeing that she was cold, Lin Cijiu quickly told her not to help.
Ou Yingxin didn’t leave, so it wasn’t so cold when the door was closed.
She walked up to Lin Cijiu and helped her brush off the snowflakes on her body.
“Are you cold?” She helped Lin Cijiu take off his down jacket and hat.
“Not bad.” Lin Cijiu put down the things in his hands and prepared to take off his down jacket and hang it at the door.
The clothes were too thick, making it inconvenient to do anything. I just kept carrying things and my hands were a little stiff from the cold.
Ou Yingxin seemed to act before her, helping her unzip her coat and taking it off.
Sister Qiao had just changed her shoes and saw the dog abuse scene next to her. She pretended to be angry and raised her neck and said, “I want one too.”
“Can’t you take it off yourself?” Ou Yingxin rolled her eyes at her, still helping Lin Cijiu to tidy up his inner clothes.
“Hmph, a sister who’s married is like water spilled out.” Sister Qiao snorted angrily, threw the things in her hands to the handsome assistant, and took off her coat in a frustrated manner.
She glanced at Su Xiaoxuan and whispered, “Ask your aunt for help.”
“I can take it off by myself.” Su Xiaoxuan just took some snacks and wrapped herself tightly so that she didn’t feel cold at all, so she didn’t need help.
She was so happy that she secretly watched her aunt and the others showing off their love that she even forgot to change her shoes.
Li Yuzhi, who was standing next to the shoe cabinet, helped her get a pair of slippers and placed them next to her.
Su Xiaoxuan looked at the same black cotton slippers that everyone was wearing with disdain. She didn’t want to wear them at all. She pointed to a pair of pink slippers with rabbit ears on top of the shoe cabinet and said, “I want that pair.”
The villa really pays attention to the small details, and even prepared a few pairs of cartoon slippers to be placed on top.
Ou Yingxin discovered early in the morning that she and Lin Cijiu were wearing a pair of panda-style shoes.
There are several other pairs, displayed eye-catchingly.
Li Yuzhi didn’t know if she heard it wrong, so she gave her the red little devil slippers next to the pink rabbit ear slippers.
Su Xiaoxuan squinted her eyes and took a look, but put it on without thinking.
“Aunt, I want to eat fried chicken.” Su Xiaoxuan clung to Ou Baobao fearlessly.
“Really? I also want to blow you up.” Ou Yingxin was gentle for a while, and then became fierce again.
Su Xiaoxuan immediately felt wronged, and tears welled up in her eyes, “But I haven’t eaten fried chicken in a few years, please.”
“Don’t think about it. I just ate it secretly a few days ago. Don’t think I don’t know.”
Lin Cijiu and Li Yuzhi were behind. The old squad leader suddenly pulled Lin Cijiu and whispered, “I feel like your niece is in danger.”
“Not really, you’re overthinking it.” Lin Cijiu passed by the shoe cabinet and pointed at the pair of pink bunny ears shoes, “Why don’t you wear this pair?”

(End of this chapter)