Chapter 191: The Joke from Back Then
Time passed quickly. By the time Ye Ziming once again held Lin Muqing’s hand and led her upstairs to their room, she already looked as red as a fully cooked spicy crawfish.
“What did they say to you?”
Back in the room, Ye Ziming couldn’t help asking as he looked at Lin Muqing’s flushed face.
“N-nothing…”
She glanced at her “good buddy,” then quickly lowered her head and pressed her lips together, refusing to tell him what had happened.
Although she sometimes liked looking at a few spicy pictures and had occasionally seen things about doing that, looking and actually learning were two different things. When Meng Yue taught her about those things, she explained it as if Lin Muqing herself was the main character. There was even a bit of demonstration with hand gestures. All in all… it was really quite “practical.”
“Want to play a game?”
Since Lin Muqing didn’t want to talk, Ye Ziming didn’t keep asking. He just turned on his computer screen and opened up a game.
That afternoon, Lin Muqing had a great time. She either played games or used her phone, and she even had little cookies to eat.
While she was playing, Ye Ziming left for a while. He went to his father Ye Mingxu’s room to discuss something important.
It was about the DNA test they planned to do at the hospital tomorrow. Ye Mingxu had already used his connections, so all they needed to do was go to the hospital and take the test like normal.
After discussing the plan, Ye Ziming went downstairs and secretly handed Lin Muqing’s hair to Lin Qiwen.
Once everything was settled, Ye Ziming returned to the room and continued playing games with Lin Muqing, acting as if nothing had happened.
Meanwhile, in the Ye family’s study, after Ye Ziming left, Ye Mingxu and Li Muning continued their own discussion.
“Hubby, I remember that before Ziming was even born, we made an agreement with the Lin family, didn’t we?”
Sitting on Ye Mingxu’s lap, Li Muning smiled as she peeled grapes for him.
“Hmm? What agreement?”
Ye Mingxu ate the grape his wife had peeled for him and smiled indulgently, lightly pinching her cheek. He honestly had no memory of the agreement, it had been too long.
“Oh come on, remember when Meng… came out of the hospital and found out she was having a daughter? We happened to treat them to dinner that day.”
Seeing that he still couldn’t recall, Li Muning slowly helped him remember the events from back then.
“Oh, you mean that verbal marriage promise?”
Ye Mingxu frowned and thought for a moment. Slowly, fragments of that memory came back.
He remembered that his wife had been seven months pregnant at the time. He had taken her to the hospital for a check-up that day, so it stuck in his memory.
That evening, at dinner, the Lin couple and their family had jokingly made a verbal agreement, something like a “betrothal before birth.”
He had only treated it as a joke at the time because he always supported letting their children choose their own partners.
“You say… maybe this is fate?”
Seeing that her husband remembered, Li Muning smiled even brighter and popped another peeled grape into his mouth.
“Mm, if you say it counts, then it counts.”
Ye Mingxu smiled and nodded, then kissed his wife’s little hand while eating the grape.
“Hey~ are you eating grapes or eating me?”
Li Muning pretended to be annoyed and shook her hand, then gave him a playful glare.
“Both.”
He lowered his head and kissed her.
“Mmm!”
Evening soon arrived. After spending the whole afternoon playing, Lin Muqing went downstairs to help with dinner, ate, then changed into going-out clothes to prepare for the temple fair.
“Big bro, how are we getting there?”
“We’ll drive there.”
“Where is the temple fair? Is it just us going? I heard Aunt Lin is going too. Are we waiting for her?”
Excited, Lin Muqing had so many questions, and she couldn’t wait to get to the temple fair as soon as possible. While talking, she had already followed her “good buddy” to the parking lot, then got into the car to wait for departure.
“Haha, your Aunt Lin has already left. You’ll see her in a bit.”
Hearing Lin Muqing’s questions, Li Muning couldn’t help but chuckle softly. Sitting in the front passenger seat, she turned her head to answer.
Since Ye Zizhuo and Ye Mengze were already adults, they were allowed to go out on their own. But Ye Ziming and Lin Muqing got to enjoy Ye Mingxu’s personal driver service.
“Okay!”
Lin Muqing nodded obediently, her face lighting up with a bright smile, and continued chatting with her good buddy.
Meanwhile, at the Lin family’s house, they were hosting the Meng family, Meng Yue’s relatives, tonight.
Because Meng Yue had agreed to take her daughter to the temple fair, she suggested that they eat dinner early and all go together. So, when the Ye family’s two cars departed, the Lin and Meng families also went together to the fair.
“Wow~ it’s so lively!”
When they arrived at the temple fair, Lin Muqing couldn’t help but gasp at the sight of the crowd and all the colorful lanterns hanging everywhere.
She had seen similar scenes before, but never on such a big scale.
“Here, this is for you.”
While Lin Muqing was still marveling and pulling Ye Ziming along to look at different spots, Li Muning suddenly grabbed her little hand. Then she took out two lanterns, handing one to Lin Muqing and keeping one for herself.
“Thank you, Auntie.”
Lin Muqing politely accepted the lantern and immediately examined it with curiosity.
She used to think things like this were childish. She had stopped playing with lanterns after she entered middle school. But now, she actually felt it was pretty nice, and quite pretty.
“Lin Muqing.”
Coincidentally, just as she finished setting up her lantern with her good buddy’s help and was about to turn around to ask if Aunt Lin had arrived, she suddenly heard someone call her from behind.
When she turned around, she saw Aunt Lin, wearing a cheongsam, high heels, and holding a traditional-style lantern.
“Wow, Aunt Lin, you look so pretty!”
Lin Muqing gasped in admiration, then quickly went over to greet Meng Yue.
What she didn’t expect was that just after Aunt Meng praised her for being cute, making her feel a little shy and glance around nervously…
She suddenly spotted someone who looked familiar.
“The flower thief!?”
She stared at him for about five seconds, then suddenly pointed her finger at a boy standing behind Meng Yue and shouted loudly.
“!?”
The Ye family, the Lin family, and even nearby passersby were all shocked, turning to look at the boy she was pointing at.
“I am NOT a flower thief!”
Hearing that title, the boy instantly reacted like he’d been triggered, yelling back angrily.
The boy’s name was Meng Wenwu, a relative from Meng Yue’s side of the family, and one of the guests at the Lin family’s gathering.
As a side note, the Meng family’s generational hierarchy was a bit complicated, Meng Wenwu had to call Meng Yue either Great Aunt or Great-Grand Aunt.
“You said flower thief?”
After a brief pause, Meng Yue was the first to react. She held Lin Muqing’s hand and asked with a complicated look.
“Yeah, it’s him. I can’t be wrong.”
Lin Muqing nodded firmly. At this moment, she didn’t even know who Meng Wenwu really was. She only remembered that last time, he had almost tried to touch her.