Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 208 Intentional Movement
The more we get along, the more Mrs. Xie likes Du Fangfei's temperament, and he can't wait to marry back and be his daughter-in-law right away.Now that the Du family doesn't shy away from Xu Chengyuan, and still keeps them for dinner with such enthusiasm, the joy in her heart is about to overflow.

"Then we won't be polite." She was afraid that Mrs. Chen was just being polite, so she didn't even dare to refuse, and agreed directly.

She said again: "But we can't take advantage of your family. If I bring rice, noodles and vegetables, don't refuse."

Mrs. Chen herself doesn't like to take advantage of others, and Mrs. Xie's approach is very in line with her wishes.

She said: "Just bring some rice noodles. Our vegetable garden is full of vegetables, so you don't need to take any more."

"That's it." Xie didn't say any more, but he made up his mind, and bought some fish bones and sticks here and there, and it was worth the Du's vegetables and oil, salt, sauce and vinegar.

Both of them are used to doing housework, and they are very agile in their work, and dinner is ready in a short time.

Mrs. Chen said: "I'll ask Sister Fei and the others to set the table, and you will ask Brother Yuan and the others to eat." After speaking, he wiped the water off his hands and went out.

Du Fangfei and the others were surprised when they heard that Xu Chengyuan wanted to eat here.Especially Du Fangfei, remembering that this person had proposed marriage to her, she let go of the awkwardness in her heart, and just blamed her mother for not doing things well.

But everyone stayed, so she didn't want to say anything, just followed Chen's order, moved out a table from Chen's room, and put it in the main room.

Since Du Jinning taught the three older sisters how to read, they were required to hand in two essays a day.She specially asked Mrs. Chen to buy this table, one for each sister's room.The four sisters already had it, but it was hard for Wei to pull down Mrs. Chen, so they simply bought four tables together and came back.

Mrs. Chen also lived a good life before, and she was not the kind of person who was reluctant to spend money blindly.Knowing that at the teahouse, Du Jinning can get a lot of dividends every month, and she is willing to buy food and clothing for her daughters.So adding these four tables, she agreed without saying a word.

There are different seats for men and women, so Du Jinning and the others naturally have to sit separately from the women's family members. Even the pot, Chen made two copies.According to the practice of the housewarming banquet at the beginning, Mrs. Chen could bring one of the pots to Du Jinning's room, and let him and Xu Chengyuan eat alone in the room, and the men and women were completely separated.But since Mrs. Chen understood Du Jinning's intentions, how could she be willing to do this?Naturally, they have to be arranged in one room.

Fortunately, the main room has a large area, and it doesn't look crowded with two tables.

After setting the table and chopsticks, Mrs. Xie also led Du Jinning and Xu Chengyuan in.Xu Chengyuan caught a glimpse of Du Fangfei's shadow, his face turned red, he felt uncomfortable, and he didn't know which leg to take when entering the door.It was Du Jinning who noticed his strangeness, pulled him in by his sleeve, and then pushed him to sit on the seat, so as not to embarrass him too much.

Sensing Xu Chengyuan's fiery gaze from time to time, Du Fangfei was also very uncomfortable, and wanted to bury her head in her chest.

The seven people sat down at two tables. Du Fangling and Du Fanghui scooped up the rice, brought it up one by one, and put it in front of everyone.

Mrs. Chen said: "As the saying goes, you are a teacher for a day and a father for life. Since Aunt Xu has become your embroidery master, Brother Yuan is also your elder brother. We are all a family. Don't be polite, everyone, take it easy and go your own way. Eat food." Then he told Du Jinning, "Brother Ning, please greet Senior Brother Xu."

"Mother, I got it." Seeing that Xu Chengyuan didn't move his chopsticks, Du Jinning picked up some meat and put it in his bowl, "Brother, if you are more polite, I will feed you."

Everyone laughed.

Xu Chengyuan's already red face became even redder.

Worried about her son's embarrassment, Mrs. Xie said: "Brother Yuan, just now your Aunt Du told us to have dinner here every night from now on, and I have already agreed. This room is full of younger sisters and younger brothers. As an older brother, let them take care of them instead of taking care of them. Are you ashamed? I’m ashamed to eat here again.”

"Hey, young guy, thin-skinned, it's normal." Mrs. Chen tried to smooth things over, "It'll be fine when we get to know each other well." Then he greeted Xu Chengyuan, "Brother Yuan, don't be cautious, just treat this as family."

"Hey, good." Xu Chengyuan was both surprised and happy when he heard his mother's words.Knowing that he can see Du Fangfei every day, after getting along for a long time, the Du family knows what he is like, and his family has paid off their debts, so maybe this marriage will be successful, his spirit immediately cheered up.His eyes became brighter, and his movements became less rigid.

Seeing him like this, Xie finally felt relieved.

They are all small families, and they don't pay attention to eating without talking.Mrs. Xie intends to get married, so during the conversation, he intentionally talked about his son, such as how the master of the academy praised Xu Chengyuan for his solid studies and good grades, and incidentally revealed his participation in the county examination this year.

"Oh, he'll be a scholar by then, and he's amazing at such a young age." Mrs. Chen boasted.

Du Fangfei looked up at Xu Chengyuan, then lowered his head to eat again.

Both Mrs. Xie and Mrs. Chen paid attention to Du Fangfei, seeing that she was finally willing to pay attention to Xu Chengyuan, they knew it was the right thing to do today.Mrs. Chen praised Xu Chengyuan more and more, saying how sensible he is, always helping his mother with work at home, and working hard to make money to pay off debts, he is a responsible person.

Mrs. Xie is very shrewd, she knows the truth that too much is too late, Mrs. Chen praised it, but she became humble again, and even brought up two embarrassing things about Xu Chengyuan when he was a child, which made everyone laugh, and Xu Chengyuan also blushed.

After the Xu family's mother and son had dinner and left, Du Jinning pulled Mrs. Chen into the room and told her, "Don't talk about the Xu family and Xu Chengyuan in eldest sister's ears. The more you talk, the more disgusted she will be. It's fine as it is now, let her see with her eyes and think with her brain, which is much better than you nagging all day. Take your time, don't rush. "

The knowing mother is more like a daughter, Mrs. Chen is with Du Fangfei all day long, she knows everything about her daughter is abnormal.When she was eating just now, she could feel that Du Fangfei was obviously moved, so she knew that Du Jinning's method was right.

At this time, she couldn't love Du Jinning very much, she hugged her into her arms and rubbed her twice, and said affectionately: "Ah, if there is no brother Ning, how would we live this day."

"Mother!" Du Jinning broke his face out of Chen's clutches, puffed out his cheeks and gave her a hard look: "My face is red from rubbing your face." He couldn't help laughing as he spoke.

She wasn't used to being so close to people.But she likes Chen's freshness.

"All right, I won't rub you." Mrs. Chen let go of Du Jinning's face, and began to touch her head again, "Don't worry, I won't mention this matter, let her take the initiative to tell me, and let her worry about it."

(End of this chapter)