Chapter 349: Missing the Old Man

Chapter 349

The child knew that striving for progress was a good thing. He also could not dampen his confidence.

Failure is not terrible. What is terrible is not having the heart to stand up again.

Zhi Xia patted him on the shoulder to encourage him, "Then go for it, work hard for your goals. If you have any difficulties, you can come to me."

"Okay, thank you Aunt An," Wu Xiaohua said.

At the An family.

Zhou Nan looked at Pei Shuangshuang who approached again, and was simply extremely headaches.

At the beginning, she didn't know what was going on. Ever since the third son came back, this girl had been running over here all the time, ostensibly to keep her company. But as soon as the third son came back, her eyeballs were almost thrown onto the third son.

Over time, Zhou Nan finally figured it out.

But this was not a trivial matter either.

Her daughter was married to Pei Jing. Although Grandpa said he let them handle their own affairs separately and not get entangled, there was still no reason for Pei Shuangshuang to marry the third son.

Otherwise, it would be a mess at home, which would not look proper to outsiders.

Moreover, Zhou Nan really did not like Pei Shuangshuang.

Forget about this girl's spoiled temperament. Just talking about how she made things difficult for her sister-in-law when she was a young lady, and got Guo Momo to have a premature delivery. She was quite ill-mannered.

Plus Wang Yue's troublemaking at the time. If her daughter followed her mother, and brought back such a troublemaker as a daughter-in-law, how could she not be crossing her?

She wouldn't say her children were all exceptionally good. But even in the eyes of outsiders, they were all outstanding. Her three daughters-in-law had some minor flaws, but in general they were still decent.

At least no one dared to make trouble in front of her because of family property or anything.

"Shuangshuang, are you on vacation from your company?" Knowing her intention, Zhou Nan asked with a stiff smile.

"Not yet. I still have to wait a few more days before I can take time off," Pei Shuangshuang said. Zhou Nan was picking vegetables with her hands, and Pei Shuangshuang also acted like she wanted to help. "Auntie, are you making lunch? Let me help you."

She was about to get started, but Zhou Nan dodged, "You don't need to help with this. It's just a casual thing for me. But since you haven't gotten time off work yet, you should still have to go to work in the afternoon. It's getting late now. Auntie won't keep you. Hurry back home to eat and then go to work."

He didn't know what she was thinking, already so old and still without a partner, actually having her eyes on the third son.

Come to think of it, it was the same situation in his own home. When it came to getting them married, it was like getting them enemies.

In the past, the second son had also been tricked by a woman because he didn't listen to him early on and find a partner.

There wasn't anything terribly wrong with Zheng Suchun either. She was just too clingy. As a grown man outside, she would follow him taking tiny steps with the two children in tow.

Actually when he thought about it, who didn't have some flaws?

Liu Ling was petty, but she still had a sense of propriety, so they just turned a blind eye.

At present, Su Ying still seemed decent, but she lived at Grandpa's place, so it was possibly an issue of absence making the heart grow fonder, and not seeing each other's flaws by living together.

An Jingzhi also felt some sympathy for Pei Yong. No matter how capable a man was, if both his children were not raised well, he would only start to bear the bitter fruits in his later years.

But he also had to admit Pei Yong's contributions. Aside from being muddled regarding family matters, he could be called a hero when it came to his country and people.

In this aspect, he was better than himself.

Pei Yong had never known that Pei Shuangshuang would actually like An ZhiXian, and even the reason she had refused to find a partner and get married all these years was because of him.

When he found out, he was also shocked, and at the same time realized this marriage could not happen.

Otherwise, An Jingzhi would not have come to see him today either.

Zhi Xia didn't know any of this, because she was busy with New Year's matters.

On the 28th, Pei JianGuo sent over New Year gifts. Fortunately Pei Jing was also there, so he went to receive them himself.

Zhi Xia had told Sister Zhang she could take the day off on New Year's Day, so there was no need for her to come.

She also had her own family to go home and celebrate a good new year.

But in reality, men could just shrug it off while women still had to bustle around busily. So it was impossible for her to actually relax.

Zhi Xia was discussing with Pei Jing what dishes to prepare for New Year's Eve dinner. After all there were many children who all had quite the appetite, and preparing too little would definitely not be enough.

Just then, PingAn came scrambling in from outside. "Grandpa and Grandma, my grandpa said tomorrow he wants you all to come to our house for New Year's Eve dinner. Grandpa bought lots of meat and vegetables today, chicken, fish, and meat."