Chapter 494: The Family is Rushing Things
How should I put it? Given my relationship with my good brother, combined with some of the things that have happened recently, the situation Hu Xixi mentioned seems like it could actually happen.
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Cough, cough, regardless of whether it’s possible or not, Xiaomuqing won’t let that happen. She has principles, okay?
Tidying up her strange thoughts, under the strange gazes of Hu Xixi and Gu Yu, Xiaomuqing entered the bathroom to take a shower.
While showering, two people sent her messages: one was her mother, and the other was Auntie, who could also be called ‘Mom’.
One was asking about Lin Qiwen. Just tonight, after evening study, Xiaomuqing greeted Lin Qiwen and spoke a few words with him before he went to have supper with Luo Yingxue.
Regarding this matter, she immediately told her mother as soon as she returned to the dormitory, exclaiming: “Mom! Our brother has achieved something!”
On the other hand, Li Muning was looking for her about her elder son, Ye Zizhu. She wanted to learn more about Fei Xun through Xiaomuqing.
Li Muning: “It’s fine if my younger son likes petite girls, after all, they are the same age. But this elder son…”
She was feeling a little complicated. When she learned that Fei Xun was a classmate in Ye Ziming’s adjacent class, and knowing that she might have started dating her elder son before she turned eighteen last year.
Then Li Muning suddenly understood why her elder son had never told them who his girlfriend was. It turned out he himself thought it was too scandalous.
Forget it, forget it. Anyway, he’s an adult now, and having someone is better than not having anyone. She had heard of the Fei family; they had good family conditions, and it was quite good that Fei Xun could get into the same university as Ye Ziming.
Putting this matter aside for now, Li Muning was busy taking out the household registration booklet and calling Ye Zizhu to her.
“Look at you, have you no ambition? Little Liu next door, who is the same age as you, is already having his third child this year!”
Ye Zizhu: No, Mom, I’m only 26 this year…
Facing Li Muning’s disappointed gaze, Ye Zizhu found it difficult to bear. He wanted to speak, but hesitated, and hesitated again. The truth is, he already has a girlfriend, and he confessed this to his family last night.
However, he didn’t know that Li Muning was not satisfied with this. She first spoke a lot of earnest words, basically saying that she wasn’t old yet and could help take care of children.
Children!? Ye Zizhu suddenly had a bad feeling. Thinking this, he slightly turned his head and looked at Ye Mingxu, who was sitting on the other side.
Father and son exchanged glances for a while. Ye Mingxu said nothing the whole time, just smiled slightly, and his eyes seemed to convey a message: “Good luck, Dad is rooting for you.”
In the past, when encountering such a situation, he might have spoken up for his son, saying that men should have careers to find partners more easily.
But this time was different. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to help his son, but he respected his wife’s decision more and doted on his wife.
The conversation continued for about half an hour, and then Li Muning suddenly took out the household registration booklet, as if revealing her ultimate intention.
“I checked. The law hasn’t changed over the years; women can get married at twenty.”
“Um… Mom, Fei Xun is only 19 this year.”
“Ah? Won’t she be twenty after her birthday?”
“It’ll be next year…”
Li Muning suddenly froze, surprised that she had miscalculated the age.
However, she quickly reacted and said to Ye Zizhu: “It’s okay, find a time to arrange a meeting between the two families and see when to get engaged.”
“!?!”
“Your grandfather says the sooner the better.”
This last sentence completely cut off whatever Ye Zizhu was about to say.
It’s strange to say, ever since his younger son brought his daughter-in-law (Xiaomuqing) home, the old man’s illness began to improve. This improvement shocked a group of professional doctors.
After two years of recuperation, some time ago, coinciding with Ye Ziming and Xiaomuqing’s engagement banquet, happy news came from the sanatorium again: he had finally recovered.
As soon as the old man’s health improved, before he could undergo further treatment, he heard that his eldest grandson had also found a partner.
So the old man couldn’t sit still and clamored to return here for further recuperation, all for the sake of his granddaughter-in-law and great-grandchild…
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Returning to the school, in the first few days after school started, there wasn’t much to do. Although they were supposed to attend classes, the counselor mostly talked about school rules, what to do during these four years of university, and so on, which was essentially like a class meeting.
In addition, the military training uniforms issued by the school had been received. Xiaomuqing washed them, and now she was waiting for the military training to begin.
“Military training starts the day after tomorrow.”
“Mhmm, we’re going to meet the drill instructor tomorrow night.”
In the dormitory, Xiaomuqing was chatting about military training with her roommates while looking at her phone.
A few days have passed, and as the Vice Class President, apart from joining a group chat to relay some notices, she doesn’t seem to have done anything.
Emmm, she felt like this position was a bit redundant, but considering that being a class cadre could add to her comprehensive evaluation score, she decided to continue. After all, even something mediocre had its benefits.
“Lin Muqing.”
After chatting for a while, just as Xiaomuqing was about to stand up and get her clothes to go to the bathroom to shower, Gu Yu hesitated and came to her side, softly calling her name.
“What’s up?”
“I want to ask you a question.”
“Mhmm, ask away.”
Xiaomuqing found it a bit strange because Gu Yu seemed to be stuttering, as if she had something to say but didn’t know how to express it. Could it be something difficult to talk about?
“Have you… always worn this kind of underwear?”
It was pretty much as Xiaomuqing had guessed. Gu Yu had hesitated for a long time in her heart, and the question she wanted to ask was indeed a bit difficult to say.
Over the past few days of getting along, she had been studying a problem: how did her roommate Lin Muqing have a pair of Cs, and why did she only have a B?
Then she discovered that the underwear Lin Muqing wore were all adolescent styles, very light and simple with no underwire, mainly in light colors. Through these undergarments, Gu Yu could see words like innocent and carefree.
In her understanding, these were for middle school students, just when they were starting to develop. After that, she wore adult underwear, which had a certain shaping function, with more variety in materials and styles.
Noticing this difference, Gu Yu began to wonder if their disparity was due to this.
But wouldn’t wearing these cause sagging? And these looked… too childish. Gu Yu felt a bit embarrassed to use them.
“Ah… ah?”
Following Gu Yu’s gaze, Xiaomuqing looked at her wardrobe. The wardrobe door was currently open, and from this angle, one could see the pile of underwear and panties placed in the top compartment.
Then she instantly felt embarrassed, surprised that this matter was actually brought up.
How could she explain that those underwear and panties weren’t bought by her, but either by her mother or her good brother? This was a big question.
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Author’s Notes:
You can imagine that in a dormitory of manly men, everyone wears plain black or other solid-colored underwear, but you are the only one wearing colorful ones, with cartoon patterns like kittens, strawberries, or turtles…
