Chapter 160

Chapter 160: Fed a Mouthful of Dog Food

Du An Rao was not in the group chat. Seeing everyone’s reactions, she looked at them in surprise and asked: “Dad, Mom, did something happen?”

Mother Du gave a dry laugh and said: “It was your fifth aunt. She said your second cousin-in-law ran into something funny when he went to pick up the child today, so he recorded it and sent it to her, and she sent it to me. I just opened it and it really is interesting.”

“What interesting thing?” Curious, Du An Rao moved closer. With one look, she saw in the video Li Zhao Yang with a bruise at the corner of his eye, holding a bouquet of roses and smiling foolishly.

“Isn’t this… that Li family cousin of Fourth Sister’s?”

Mother Du pretended to be surprised and said: “So it is him! I was just thinking he looked familiar!”

[Wuhu, Cousin Li finally opened his mind and went to chase his wife? But with that eye-blinding entrance and such a tacky way of chasing, you can tell he does not have much dating experience. He probably searched for all of this online.]

[If he were chasing some young girl with no dating experience, this might still work. But he is chasing an ex-girlfriend, and an ex-girlfriend who already had a child with him, and he still puts on such a flashy show. Does that not make people think he is a playboy young master with a rich love history? He really did not suffer that beating for nothing.]

Everyone suddenly understood. Only now did they know why Li Zhao Yang had been beaten.

[But given the misunderstanding between the two of them before, this beating was not for nothing. A smart man would already be planning how to use this injury as a bitter-meat trick to make the woman soften. But with his IQ, I am afraid he will not think of that for a while.]

Everyone: “Pfft…”

So this was what people meant by “the person in the middle is confused while the bystander sees clearly.” This little girl could talk so clearly about other people’s love problems, but when it came to her own, she was terribly slow. In a way, that made them feel very at ease.

Du An Rao was still sighing that someone with emotional intelligence this low could still have a wife when her phone suddenly rang.

Everyone in the room looked at her again at once. Du An Rao took out her phone and saw that it was actually a call from Du De Sheng.

She answered: “Granduncle, is there something you need from me at this time? Do you want me to go live in City B for a while and keep Grandma Qin company?”

The ears of the whole Du family in the room perked up at once. Du An Rao also glanced at them and said hesitantly: “I could go, but if I go alone, I do not really know anything. I might trouble you all a lot and make you worry.”

As soon as she said this, even though she had not turned on the speaker, the few people sitting close by could still faintly hear the hearty laughter on the other end of the line.

“Mm, alright then. I will talk it over with my parents later and give you an answer.”

“Was that your granduncle?”

As soon as Du An Rao hung up, Mother Du, who was sitting next to her, could not help asking curiously.

“Yes. Granduncle said Grandma Qin is not very used to living in City B, and she does not have any juniors in her family who can go and keep her company. So he asked if I could go live at his place for a while, walk around with her, and come back after their wedding.”

Du De Sheng had always done things in a very bold, decisive way. That day when he said they would get a marriage license and hold a wedding, he meant that whatever other people had, the two of them also had to have.

It had only been a few days since they went back, yet almost everything was already done. Only the wedding itself, because of the size and the guest list, had been set with some pain for a month later. Even that was already very rushed.

When Du De Sheng asked Du An Rao to go keep Qin Yan Qing company and come back after the wedding, what he meant was that he wanted Du An Rao to live in City B for a whole month.

It would be her first time traveling so far and even staying long term. In both feeling and reason, Du An Rao should discuss it with the elders at home. That was why she had not agreed right away just now.

Mother Du was also shocked when she heard this, but she still respected her daughter’s own wishes and asked: “Then what do you think? Do you want to go keep her company?”

“I do not have anything important to do lately anyway. I can just go walk around City B and feel the customs of the imperial capital.”

Mother Du had wanted to remind her daughter that while the imperial capital was very prosperous, the more dazzling a place was, the more trouble there usually was too.

But then she thought again. With Du De Sheng watching over her, these things were not really a problem. Besides…

“If you really want to go, you can also visit your uncle while you are there. Your aunt was just telling me a few days ago that she missed you and wanted to invite you to visit their home.”

Du An Rao’s eyes lit up: “Great, great. Then I will have Big Cousin or Second Cousin take me out to play when the time comes!”

“Alright, alright. I will call your aunt in a bit and tell her to prepare ahead of time. But if you go alone, will you feel lonely? How about letting a few of your brothers go with you?”

If it were Du Yu Xi, it would be fine. Even though the two girls were the same age, Du Yu Xi had gone everywhere with them to travel since she was little. She had not only visited other provinces, she had even gone abroad several times.

But this little girl in her own home had grown up on the mountain. She had barely even come down from the mountain a few times, let alone traveled to other places. Mother Du really did not feel at ease letting her go so far away alone.

“No need. My brothers all have things to do. I am already an adult, not a little kid. And Granduncle already told me that once I get on the plane here, he will arrange people to pick me up at the airport over there and take care of me the whole way. Nothing will go wrong. I can go by myself.”

Seeing her insist, Mother Du did not argue with her anymore.

After asking her parents, Du An Rao quickly called Du De Sheng back.

When Du De Sheng heard that she agreed, he was overjoyed and immediately booked her a ticket for early the next morning.

The next morning, Du An Rao got up very early. After breakfast, she yawned and pushed her suitcase to the airport. But as soon as she got out of the car, her suitcase was picked up by someone.

“Third Brother, why are you here?” Du An Rao looked up. The person helping her with her suitcase was none other than her third brother, the research maniac.

“I have been working on a new project lately. B University invited me to go over and exchange and study. Mom said you were going to City B too, so she told me to go along with you.”

“What a coincidence?”

“Exactly this coincidental.”

Du An Rao blinked and, in the end, did not dig into how true Du Yi Han’s words really were.

Even though they had left in the morning, the two cities were far apart and they had to transfer on the way. By the time the two of them reached City B, it was already afternoon.

Du An Rao had taken a nap at noon and woke up just as the plane was landing.

She had thought that Du De Sheng would send someone to pick them up. But just as they walked out of the airport doors, she saw a familiar figure.

“Granduncle, how come you came yourself?” Du An Rao looked carefully at Du De Sheng. His face was rosy and his energy was especially good. [Sure enough, people really do glow when they have happy events.]

“Where is Grandmother? Did she not come with you?”

When he mentioned his beloved, the smile on Du De Sheng’s face was so big it almost looked silly.

“She is waiting for us at home. Her health is still not fully better, and it is very windy outside at this time, so I did not let her come out.”

Du An Rao: “[… I suddenly feel like I was fed a mouthful of dog food!]”

“Also, Grandfather has something he wants to ask your help with, so it would not be very convenient to bring her along.”