Ch 210: Mother-in-law Wen Qinglan

Under the joint protection of Zhao Mingwen and Bai Jintong, the women successfully returned in the late afternoon after purchasing the supplies they needed, and entered the meditation room that night to begin their seclusion.

As the wedding date approached, Hua Kong and Bai Jinzhu also began to attend various gatherings, all banquets or outings held by elders or peers close to the Bai Family.

Hua Kong, as an artisan who likes to be alone, does not like these gatherings, but these are all relatives and friends of Bai Jinzhu, so of course he will not refuse. Fortunately, Bai Jinzhu likes to attend these gatherings with Zhao Xiangzi, and Lin Yu will naturally go when Zhao Xiangzi comes, so Hua Kong will not be too embarrassed.

What makes Hua Kong even more at ease is that Bai Jintong is responsible for protecting Bai Jinzhu. Bai Jintong will also be present when Bai Jinzhu is there. With Bai Jintong present, except for those playboys like Bai Jinran, those inexplicable people dare not make excessive remarks.

Of course, Bai Jinran and others are well-known for their reputation. Generally, gatherings without elders present will not invite them. Besides, even if they are invited, they will not come. How can these aunts, cousins, and younger cousins be as interesting as brothels.

Bai Jintong, who came from the bottom of the Bai Family, is very familiar with the methods of those guys who flatter the powerful and bully the weak. Now that Bai Jintong’s strength far exceeds them, no one dares to make small moves in front of Bai Jintong.

For example, today, Bai Jinzhu was invited to her third aunt’s house, saying that she wanted to meet Hua Kong, get familiar with him, and make it easier to interact in the future.

Bai Jinzhu naturally would not refuse. More importantly, Bai Jinzhu’s Mother also wanted to meet Hua Kong, so she discussed with her younger sister, it would be better to go to her sister’s house to meet him together.

After Hua Kong received the invitation yesterday, he spent a lot of thought and specially went to the Chamber of Commerce to select some gifts for Bai Jinzhu’s Mother and Third Aunt, as well as her younger cousins.

Buying gifts for elders is a technical job. You can’t buy them too expensive to appear ostentatious, nor can you buy them too cheap to appear stingy. Finally, after Hua Kong asked Bai Jinzhu, he bought a very high-end rouge powder for her Mother and Third Aunt. Even if women don’t use these things, they can give them away, which is the safest.

As for her younger cousins, they are not very old and have just started cultivating, so he bought them some Magical Artifacts to play with. He bought Wings of Light for the two younger cousins to fly with, and a Dream Mirror that can create gorgeous Illusions for the little boy.

Hua Kong, holding the prepared gifts, entered the Chen family, the husband’s family of the Third Aunt, with Bai Jinzhu, Zhao Xiangzi, Lin Yu, and Bai Jintong. The appearance of Bai Jinzhu, Hua Kong, Zhao Xiangzi, and Lin Yu naturally aroused the interest of the Chen family, but they did not dare to say or do anything excessive, but occasionally cast curious glances.

Under the guidance of the Shop Assistant, the group quickly arrived at the side hall for banquets. At this time, Bai Jinzhu’s Mother Wen Qinglan and her younger sister Wen Qinghe were gently sipping tea, while there were three half-grown children playing around them in the hall.

Although Wen Qinglan and Wen Qinghe are sisters, they only look three or four points alike, which is very normal in large families.

Both of them are standard beauties, with a pair of dark and watery Dragon Eyes, wearing light-colored Imperial Dresses, gorgeous but not ostentatious. The years will not leave too many traces on the faces of Cultivators of this level, only an inviolable noble aura. Hua Kong only glanced at them and lowered his gaze to avoid offending them.

“Mother!”, Bai Jinzhu ran over quickly when she saw her Mother and hugged Wen Qinglan’s neck.

“Zhuzhu is back! How is your mood recently?”, Wen Qinglan said, stroking Bai Jinzhu’s cheeks. Wen Qinghe also patted Bai Jinzhu’s head with her hand.

“Good! How is Mother?”, Bai Jinzhu asked.

“Mother is fine! Let me and my sister take a look at Xiao Kong! That day, your aunt and I went back to our Mother’s house and didn’t see him!”, Wen Qinglan turned her head.

“Hello, Mother-in-law! Hello, Third Aunt!”, Hua Kong put the gifts in his hand on the table and cupped his fists in salute.

“Good! This young man is not bad!”, Wen Qinglan and Wen Qinghe looked at each other and praised.

“Thank you for your praise, Mother-in-law and Third Aunt!”, Hua Kong quickly thanked.

“Don’t be so polite! We are all family!”, Wen Qinglan waved her hand.

“Okay! This is a little token of my appreciation! These two are for you two, and those three are little gadgets for my younger siblings!”, Hua Kong returned the gifts.

“You are too polite! Don’t spend any more money next time!”, Wen Qinglan and Wen Qinghe both said.

“Understood!”, Hua Kong replied.

“Xiao Huan, Xiao Guo, Xiao Zhu, Brother is here to bring you gifts!”, Wen Qinghe greeted the children around her.

“Mother! I’m here!”, the three little guys ran over, took the gifts and started playing with them.

“Come on! Sit down! Xiangzi, you sit down too!”, Wen Qinghe greeted.

“Okay!”, Hua Kong replied, sitting next to Bai Jinzhu.

“Aunt Qinglan!”

“Aunt Qinghe!”, Zhao Xiangzi and Lin Yu greeted the two and sat next to Hua Kong.

“Xiao Kong, you should also know about Zhuzhu’s matter! She has suffered so much, you must not let her down in the future!”, Wen Qinglan put down the teacup in her hand and said.

“Understood! Mother-in-law!”, Hua Kong nodded in agreement.

“Mother! I’m not that fragile!”, Bai Jinzhu pouted.

“You little girl!”, Wen Qinglan looked at Bai Jinzhu and shook her head.

“I don’t care about your twittering swallows, after all, they have been following you all the way, but you can’t provoke other people in the future, you must wholeheartedly focus on Zhuzhu!”, Wen Qinglan turned her head and said to Hua Kong.

“Uh! Okay!”, Hua Kong was embarrassed. It seems that the Bai Family really knows his details very well.

“Okay! We are not unreasonable shrew! You can tell from Zhuzhu’s temperament! It’s just that I misjudged last time and was deceived by that kid Zhou Zhizheng, causing Zhuzhu to be hurt. Now you can’t let me and Zhuzhu down again!”, Wen Qinglan said softly, but the tone of threat was obvious.

“Understood!”, Hua Kong said firmly.

“Mother! Xiao Kong is not that kind of person!”, Bai Jinzhu said coquettishly.

“Look! She’s protecting him before she even gets married!”, Wen Qinglan turned to look at her younger sister.

“Haha! It shows that Xiao Kong has a good temperament!”, Wen Qinghe replied with a smile.

“Okay! Let’s eat something!”, Wen Qinglan and Wen Qinghe put away the gifts Hua Kong gave them and said.

“Yes! Let’s eat something!”, Wen Qinghe responded, and then greeted the Shop Assistant outside, “Go and prepare quickly!”

“I think Xiao Kong is good! He is more honest than that kid Zhou Zhizheng!”, Wen Qinghe knew what her sister was worried about, so she added.

“Hmm!”, Wen Qinglan responded noncommittally. That’s how he looked at Zhou Zhizheng back then.

“Mother! How do you play this!?”, the two younger sisters in the back suddenly rushed to Wen Qinghe and shouted.

“You can’t play this now! Sit down quickly! Eat with your older brothers and sisters! Don’t be naughty!”, Wen Qinghe greeted the three children behind her.

“Oh~~”, the three children were a little unhappy, but they obediently took the toys and sat next to Wen Qinghe.

“Is the one next to Xiangzi Xiao Yu?”, Wen Qinghe turned to look at Lin Yu.

“Oh! Yes! Aunt Qinghe!”, Lin Yu replied.

“Sure enough, he is also a talented person!”, Wen Qinghe saw that Lin Yu was handsome and elegant, and admired him very much.

“Thank you for your praise, Aunt Qinghe! But there are some bad habits!”, Lin Yu said with a smile, showing the demeanor of the Royal Family in every gesture.

“Where are the bad habits! You are too modest!”, Wen Qinghe said with a smile, and turned to Wen Qinglan, “Sister! The shadow of a person, the branch of a tree, you see that Xiao Kong’s friends are such serious young men, this time there must be no mistake!”.

“What my sister said is true!”, Wen Qinglan also laughed. Although she was worried, she saw that Hua Kong and Lin Yu’s temperament were indeed different and much stronger than those playboys, and she had more confidence in Hua Kong in her heart.

“Hehe, what Mother-in-law said is true!”, Hua Kong was a little speechless, his character actually needs Lin Yu’s appearance to verify.

“Mother! Third Aunt! Xiao Kong is very good!”, Hearing the conversation between the two, Bai Jinzhu quickly defended Hua Kong.

“Of course! Of course!”, Wen Qinglan rolled her eyes at Bai Jinzhu, thinking how could there be such a biased daughter, but she felt relieved in her heart, knowing that Bai Jinzhu sincerely recognized Hua Kong.

“Xiangzi, you must take good care of Xiao Yu in the future, this young man is good!”, Wen Qinghe turned to Zhao Xiangzi and said.

“Understood! Aunt Qinghe, Xiao Yu is very good to me!”, Zhao Xiangzi heard the implication in Wen Qinghe’s words, but she did not overreact.

“Third Aunt! Xiangzi is very good!”, Bai Jinzhu said a little angrily.

“This stinky girl! You dare to glare at me! See if I don’t beat you to death!”, Wen Qinghe pointed at Bai Jinzhu and said to Wen Qinglan beside her.

“Zhuzhu! How can you talk to your Third Aunt like that?”, Wen Qinglan also reminded.

“I’m sorry! Third Aunt!”, Bai Jinzhu apologized.

“Oh~~ Auntie is also doing this for your own good! Let’s not talk about it, the dishes are here!”, Wen Qinghe knew that Zhao Xiangzi was a stubborn person and was afraid of making her unhappy, so she didn’t say any more.

The Shop Assistants and Maids quickly brought up the dishes and drinks, all light dishes, vegetables and fruits that women and children like to eat. Seeing Wen Qinghe and Wen Qinglan start, everyone else picked up their chopsticks.

After that, everyone stopped talking and quietly ate their meals. Occasionally, Wen Qinghe and Wen Qinglan would ask about Lin Yu and Hua Kong’s background and experiences. In fact, the Bai Family had already investigated the two of them clearly, and they knew them very well.

But the two were still very interested in Lin Yu and Hua Kong’s experiences. After all, it was not an easy task to kill all the way from the Low-Level Small World to the World of Light. This was also one of the reasons why the two families were willing to agree to Lin Yu and Hua Kong marrying Zhao Xiangzi and Bai Jinzhu.

Lin Yu and Hua Kong simply told Wen Qinglan and Wen Qinghe about their experiences, and the two listened with great interest. However, Lin Yu was mainly talking during the period. It has to be said that Hua Kong was indeed inferior to Lin Yu in this regard.

So the focus on the table gradually shifted from Hua Kong to Lin Yu. Although several people also noticed that something was wrong and thought that the protagonist this time was Hua Kong, Hua Kong’s words were too dry, so they finally transmitted the sound to let Lin Yu speak.

Bai Jinzhu also pinched Hua Kong a little, feeling that Hua Kong was showing timidity and was a little dissatisfied. Hua Kong had no choice. He only knew how to be wild in the forest since he was a child. He didn’t know how to tell stories. Lin Yu was different. He grew up in the Royal Family and was best at pleasing elders and was very accurate in grasping people’s hearts.

Along the way, Hua Kong also wanted to learn from Lin Yu, but Hua Kong found that telling stories and guessing people’s hearts was much more difficult than cooking. This was Lin Yu’s childhood skill, so he had to give up. After all, the happiest thing for him was to create artifacts.

In the end, the focus of the dining table was inevitably taken over by Zhao Xiangzi and Lin Yu. Both of them were eloquent, which was very similar. They quickly made Wen Qinglan and Wen Qinghe very happy, leaving Hua Kong and Bai Jinzhu aside. The two had no choice but to whisper to each other and chat about their own things, occasionally chiming in with a few words.