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Of course, their grandma naturally developed this habit. If their grandma wanted to fatten anyone up, recording their weight daily was their daily homework, and they would even have to weight themselves a few times a day! After a while, Zhai Yi wondered if his grandma could become a nutritionist instead.
Sure enough, with Zhai Yi’s reminder, Zhai Xin immediately thought of his grandma’s way of doing things. “Is it too late for me to regret it now? You know well that the three of us inherited Mom’s genes of not gaining weight no matter how much we eat. I’m not afraid of eating more. I’m just afraid that I won’t gain any weight after the new year even if I eat everything that grandma cooks! What will happen then?”
Zhai Yu was a girl, so she was overjoyed about having such a physique. She never failed to praise her mom for being the best mom who had given her such amazing genes. As for the boys, Zhai Yi and Zhai Xin, they did not feel much about it. Apart from not seeing much effect from their grandma feeding them, having such genes was not bad at all other times.
Being fat and overweight was not a good thing and was not attractive whether on a male or female.
Knowing that their mom had once been the school belle of Peking University, Zhai Yi and Zhai Xin did not really have any reaction to being the most handsome guys in their school on the surface, but they were actually quite pleased with the news. As the sons of the gifted Peking University school belle, they would not deserve to be their mom’s sons if they did not get this title.
Zhai Yi patted Zhai Xin on the shoulder silently, but it was all too clear that he meant to tell Zhai Xin to take this in stride. It was exactly because it was not easy to coax their grandma that he had handed this arduous task over to Zhai Xin.
As a future soldier of the People’s Liberation Army and as a man, he could not take back his words. Neither could he regret what he had said. Since he had said it, he would have to see it through.
After leaving a mess for his younger brother to clean up, Zhai Yi headed downstairs as though nothing had happened and looked around the kitchen to see if his grandma needed any help. In the Zhai family, there was no rule that men could not enter the kitchen or touch anything in the kitchen.
The men in the Zhai family were all used to washing vegetables, handing out bowls, or serving the dishes.
Now that Zhai Yi and Zhai Xin were back, it was not just Miao Jing who was overjoyed. All their elders were happy about it too. Qiao Nan saw Miao Jing constantly sneaking looks at Zhai Xin. Seeing how easily her son had managed to coax her mother-in-law and that her mother-in-law was no longer sick in bed, there was nothing for Qiao Nan to be displeased about.
At this moment, Qiao Nan pulled Zhai Yi over to the side for a chat. “After that time, has Zhou Xing ever gone to find Zhai Xin? Has she created trouble for you two?”
In the two months that followed, Qiao Nan had not asked about the details of the matter because she was confident that her two sons would be able to deal with the matter themselves. As such, she chose not to interfere in the matter any further. But now that her sons were back, Qiao Nan would feel uneasy if she did not get to the bottom of the matter with her sons.
“She did, but after that, I resolved all the problems. Zhai Xin and I are fine. Don’t worry, Mom.” Zhai Yi did not hide the truth and told Qiao Nan exactly what had happened after that incident.
Qiao Nan pursed her lips. “I really don’t know whether to say that Zhou Xing is truly Qiao Zijin’s daughter. Even though Qiao Zijin is gone and Zhou Xing was raised by the Zhou family, this temper of hers is exactly like her mom’s!”
The way she refused to give up without reaching her goal and did not mind to use unscrupulous methods to achieve her goal was the spitting image of her mother!
Zhai Yi poured Qiao Nan a cup of tea to appease her. “That could be because they were both brought up by grandma.” Even though their grandpa was a good man, he had his flaws too and had indeed treated his mom unfairly. As such, he had no expectations toward that legendary grandma of his. “Didn’t you say that Zhou Xing’s father didn’t care about her after he got remarried? Once the old Zhou couple passed away, Zhou Xing grew up with that grandma of hers in the following three years, didn’t she?”
Just based on the way he addressed his grandmother by adding the word ‘that’, it was clear that Zhai Yi had no good feeling toward Ding Jiayi. The only reason he addressed Ding Jiayi as ‘grandma’ was that he could not deny the fact that Ding Jiayi had given birth to his mother. So logically, it was only right for him to address Ding Jiayi as ‘grandma’.
He did so only because his mom had taught him well and because he had manners. That was all.
As for anything else, like kinship, there was absolutely none. This was nothing but a polite greeting. It was no different from how they would have to address elders of their grandparents’ generation politely with an honorific when they met them outside.
Qiao Nan rubbed her forehead. “If she was really influenced by that grandma of yours, I can only say that Zhou Xing is such an unlucky child. I’m afraid she’ll be following in her mom’s footsteps.”
When Qiao Zijin realized what kind of mother Ding Jiayi was, she had chosen death. If Zhou Xing was to follow in her footsteps, Ding Jiayi might have to experience the same pain of losing her beloved daughter through losing her most beloved granddaughter. Then, Ding Jiayi would probably break down for real.
Forget it. There was no need for her to worry about this. What she had to worry about was what would happen in the future now that Zhai Xin had gotten himself entangled with Zhou Xing.
“Da Bao, let me ask you something. Answer me truthfully.” At home, Qiao Nan naturally changed to addressing Da Bao by his nickname. “Ever since that incident with Zhou Xing, has Er Bao had any reaction to girls?”
“No.” Zhai Yi shook his head in denial. “Er Bao won’t reject all girls and think that they’re all bad just because of Zhou Xing. The men in the Zhai family aren’t so cowardly. Besides, other than getting deceived, Er Bao didn’t really lose much in this whole incident. It’s a small lesson to learn, at most. It’s not that serious.”
If an average man encountered such a situation, his feelings might have been cheated.
But Zhai Xin had not even liked Zhou Xing to begin with, so his feelings had not been cheated at all. Zhai Yi felt that no matter how upset Er Bao felt about this matter, there was no way Zhai Xin was going to get overly upset about it.
“All right, then.” Since her son had not become ‘once bitten twice shy’ from this experience, there was nothing else that Qiao Nan was worried about. She believed that Er Bao would walk out of this shadow very soon with Da Bao by Er Bao’s side. Even if Zhou Xing refused to give up and continued to set her sights on Er Bao and was even thinking of getting back together with Er Bao, Da Bao would surely remind Er Bao not to let Zhou Xing’s plan succeed.
But she had to take her hat off to Qiao Zijin and her daughter. Qiao Zijin was so persistent even until the end and wanted to die under Qiao Nan’s wheel. If her mother was crazy enough to sacrifice her own life, Qiao Nan could not be sure just how far Zhou Xing would go if she were to put her mind to it.
Qiao Zijin had schemed against her for two whole lifetimes. Thankfully, she had never been harmed by Qiao Zijin. But she could not let Qiao Zijin’s daughter harm her precious sons either!
