Chapter 37: The Lin Family's Future Daughter-in-law

  "Why are you looking at me like that?" Jia Kai was driving, turned his head and saw Xing Ye's eyes staring at him without blinking.

  "Hey Jia Ge, got a story?" Xing Ye said with a mischievous tone.

  "What?" Jia Kai looked puzzled.

  "Why did you run away when I saw those two female classmates of yours just now?"

  "They, ah" Jia Kai's face was unwavering, "That Zhuang Xiaomin is okay, she's a silly egg, but that Wu Jing is our department's student union vice president. She looks gentle and quiet, but when speaking and doing things, she's not straightforward, it's as if in her eyes, everyone else is stupid except for her, and she doesn't want to bother with them."

  "Probably not just that?" Xing Ye raised an eyebrow at Jia Kai, hinting for him to continue.

  "What else can be done?" Jia Kai smiled as he gazed at the starry night, and indeed, gossip was a woman's nature, regardless of whether she was sixteen or sixty years old.

  "Alright, no need to say whether it's true or not. Let me remind you, that Song Si-hyun who's having a birthday? She can't be your girlfriend, right?"

  "Who's she?" Jia Kai looked enlightened, "She's the department flower, no one knows who crowned her. She asked me out to watch a movie a few days ago, I didn't go."

  The girl chased after the boy, but he didn't even acknowledge her and ran away. I wonder what role Miss Wu Jing is playing in this situation again.

  "Brother, you're really something. The school flower asked you out and you didn't even go. Your standards are too high, aren't they?" Xing Ye couldn't help but tease him.

  "She's a departmental flower, not a school flower. If she were really the school flower, I might consider giving her face and watching a movie with her, having a cup of coffee."

  Listening to his nonsense on a starry night, I pretended to vomit.

  Jia Kai didn't get angry either and continued driving.

  The two of them went into the house together after Kai had parked the car under the starry night sky.

  "Back again," Aunt Mei called out loudly, then whispered, "Grandpa Lin is here."

  Jia Kai nodded clearly, but Xing Ye was confused and wanted to ask questions, but was pushed into the living room by Jia Kai.

  "Grandpa Lin, you're here." Jia Kai greeted with a sweet smile.

  At night, I saw a robust old man sitting on the sofa. Yes, that's right, the first impression of the old man was his robustness.

  "Yingzi, is this Xīnyè?" The old man asked Xīnyè's grandmother in a loud and clear voice.

  Grandma nodded in agreement under the starry night sky.

  "Alright, alright." The old man stood up and circled around Xing Ye, who felt his scalp explode from being stared at. How could he be treated like merchandise?!

  "You're pretty, just like Yingzi when she was young," Old Man Lin's loud voice rang out. "You have a good body, you'll definitely be able to bear children. Alright, it's settled then? From today on, you're my Lin family's daughter-in-law."

  What kind of person is this? She just came and became his family's daughter-in-law, and can still give birth. This is even more outrageous than a bandit!

  Behind him came Jia Kai's coughing sound, apparently also startled by this sentence that flew in from who-knows-where.

  Staring at her grandmother under the starry night, she asked inexplicably, "Grandma..."

  "Master brother, you scared the child." Xing Ye's grandmother glared at him, and the old man scratched his head and chuckled as he sat back down on the sofa.

  "Don't mind him, he's your Uncle Lin, my master's senior and also the son of my own master. He's always been like that, don't worry." Grandma pulled Xing Ye to her side and comforted her in a soft voice.

  "Yingzi, I'm not kidding, I'm serious." He then turned to Xing Ye and said, "Yu Mingyu, you'd better speak up, I've been talking to you for half a day now."

  Xīng yè cái fā xiàn, wài gōng liǎn sè hěn nán kàn de zuò zài shā fā shàng, zì cóng jiàn dào wài gōng, xīng yè hái cóng méi yǒu jiàn guò wài gōng chū xiàn zhè yàng de shén sè.

  "Don't be so muddle-headed, you're already in your seventies and eighties, how can you not have made any progress at all?" Yu Mingyu said with a stern face.

  The starry night made me even more curious, when did Grandpa become so sharp-tongued?

  "Good grief, you numbskull! You stole my wife back then and drove away the daughter-in-law I had arranged for, now this granddaughter of yours should compensate me by becoming my grandson's wife, isn't that right? And yet you say I'm being unreasonable. If you want to talk about reason, you should give your granddaughter to me as compensation!"

  The starry night is speechless, and it turns out that others look up to me just to use me as a mortgage, but I heard him say that the daughter-in-law he has chosen must be my own mother, what kind of thing is this, repaying debts with one's mother? It seems that my old mom was also used as a mortgage for my grandma, it's really chaotic!

  "You don't have to say anything, I don't owe you anything. Lan Ying and I were free to fall in love, she wasn't your wife at the time."

  "What's wrong with me? I've liked her since I was eight years old, and I've been waiting for her to grow up. Who knew that just a few years after she went out, you would snatch her away from me first? You still don't admit it, you've read a bellyful of books, but you're not as understanding as I am, a roughneck."

  "You're crazy, don't talk nonsense!"

  "You've done it and yet you're afraid of what others will say"

  "That's enough, you two old men quarreling in front of the children, aren't you ashamed? Don't mention those things from back then again, or I'll get angry." Xing Ye's grandmother stopped them as they were saying more and more unpleasant things.

  The two of them immediately stopped making a sound, and could only exchange silent glances with their eyes. They turned their faces away and simultaneously put on smiling faces when they looked at Grandma under the starry night sky.

  Stunned in the middle of the night, which episode is this singing about?!

  "Don't listen to their nonsense, Starry Night. Go put down your things and change into something else for dinner." Grandma patted Starry Night's hand and said gently.

  The starry night didn't understand what was going on and quietly went upstairs.

  As I was leaving, I still heard Old Master Lin's voice, "This granddaughter-in-law of mine is really obedient and listens to me, not bad, not bad."

  The starry night was almost knocked down by a stumble while going upstairs.

  Returning to her room at night, she changed into her home clothes, but the more she thought about it, the more uncomfortable she felt. Not to mention that old man Lin, even her own grandfather was acting strangely. It would be better to find someone who understood and ask them, otherwise she might really become someone's daughter-in-law in a daze.

  Xiang thought of this and rushed into Jia Kai's room. Jia Kai was also changing clothes, and when he saw Xiang rush in, he hastily put the half-removed undershirt back on.

  Starry night glanced at him hastily, unexpectedly finding that Hui Ye, who looked quite slender, actually had abs. But this wasn't the time to think about that; the situation was urgent, and who cared whether he wore a shirt or not?

  "Grabbing Jia Kai's clothes with one hand, 'Say, what's going on with Old Lin?'"

  "You let go first, and I'll tell you everything I know." Ji Ka held onto his shirt, otherwise Xing Ye would have pulled it off with one forceful tug. Who knew that gentle and soft-spoken Xing Ye also had the potential to be a bad girl?

  Xīng yè fàng kāi tā de chèn yī, zuò zài le tā de chuáng shàng, fēi cháng shí qī fēi cháng duì dài le, píng shí xīng yè hěn zhù yì de, jī běn shang dōu bù jìn jiā kǎi fáng.

  Translation:

  Xing Ye unbuttoned his shirt and sat on his bed, treating him extremely well at an unusual time, usually Xing Ye was very careful and basically never entered Kai's room.

  "Hurry up and don't bother buttoning it, we'll be taking them off again soon." Kai, who was usually slow and steady, was suddenly in a rush to fasten the buttons at night, and his words came out somewhat awkwardly.

  "Alright, I'll say it," said Jia Kai, "Grandma was adopted by her master's family when she was a child, you know that?"

  "This I know, trouble you pick what I don't know."

  "Okay, the one who raised grandma was actually Lin Grandpa's parents. He is also Grandma's senior fellow disciple and brother. Lin Grandpa has liked Grandma since childhood, as you heard him say earlier. However, after growing up, Lin Grandpa lost contact because he went to join the Liberation Army to save two underground party members. When he returned to find Grandma after liberation, Grandma had already married Grandpa. He waited for many years for this reason. It's said that he didn't get married until after returning from the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea."

  "It feels like listening to a story and watching TV drama." Starry night sighed.

  "TV dramas originally come from life," said Jia Kai.

  "What happened afterwards?" Xing Ye asked urgently.

  Later, Grandpa Lin was like Grandma's brother, and the two families got along like relatives. However, Grandpa and Grandpa Lin never saw eye to eye their whole lives. One was a strict scholar, and the other was a majestic general. When they met, they were like two little kids who wouldn't give in to each other, and every time, Grandma had to intervene to manage them. Jia Kai told everything he knew.

  "No wonder, when we first came in, Aunt Mei wanted to tell you quietly, it turns out that every time this Old Man Lin comes, he has such a show. Now Xing Ye finally understood the cause, but what about the consequences? 'Do you know if my mom and his family had any relationship back then?'"

  "I haven't heard of this, but don't worry, I think Old Man Lin is just talking big, it's hard for him to force you to marry his grandson. Besides, he got married late in life, and his eldest grandson, whom I've met, isn't that old either, so it's impossible for him to arrange a marriage for him now. Even if the old man wants to, his grandson might not agree, so just put your mind at ease." Jia Kai analyzed with a nod.

  After hearing him say this, I also think it makes sense and feel relieved.

  "Alright, I understand, I'm going downstairs."

  Xing Ye had just stepped out the door and then stuck his head back in, scaring Jia Kai, who was about to take off his clothes, into covering himself back up.

  "Forgot to tell you," Xing Ye glanced at Jia Kai's abdomen with a sly smile, "I didn't expect that despite looking thin, you actually have abs."

  Jia Kai looked up at the starry night sky and quickly withdrew his head, somewhat crying and laughing, wondering if he had just been teased by his own cousin.