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"Go ahead, and don’t starve our little Xiaojiu and Xiao Shi," Zhou Xiuhua had yet to say anything when Mr. Xie hurriedly waved her off. "Don’t worry, we will take good care of the guests."
Upon hearing that her treasures were crying, Yan Jinsu’s attention was completely diverted, and she nodded before heading upstairs.
Xie Tiesheng really listened to Yan Jinsu’s words, took out the chess set from under the coffee table, and set it up without asking if the others knew how to play.
"Old man, you and your lousy chess, don’t embarrass us." Zhou Xiuhua sat by and glanced over, realizing that Secretary Zhou really knew how to play...
Anyway, Zhou Xiuhua couldn’t really make out the skill involved, but every move the old man made took him a good three to five minutes of wild guessing. She figured that this future son-in-law likely had some decent skills in chess!
Those who didn’t understand the game found it boring. Xie Jingzi wasn’t interested in this mental sport either. Seeing her mother getting up, she stood up as well.
At that moment, she saw her mother nodding satisfiedly, finished speaking to her younger daughter and then turned to Zhou Zhenghui with a beaming smile:
"My dear, come with me, let’s prepare dinner together, so that these men don’t feel we are in the way. Xiao Zhou, please have a seat; stay for dinner."
"Sure, auntie, you go ahead and don’t mind us. Elder, it’s your turn." While talking to his future mother-in-law, Zhou Zhenghui pretended to carelessly make a wrong move with the canon—
No choice, his future father-in-law’s chess skills were really nothing to brag about!
His own grandfather had taught him chess hands-on from a young age, so of course, he was several levels above Mr. Xie.
Not only was Zhou Zhenghui intellectually superior, but his EQ was also high, and even if he lost, he needed to make it look artistic. From the moment he started playing, his thoughtful gestures showed that he was making an ’effort’.
Anyway, Xie Tiesheng and Zhou Zhenghui played three rounds, each lasting over twenty minutes... To keep Mr. Xie from losing face, Zhou Zhenghui had to ’rack his brains’.
Look, if you want to marry their daughter, you must play humble—otherwise, the father-in-law won’t like this clueless son-in-law!
Yan Jinsu said it would only take ’a moment,’ but that was just talk. It could hardly be just a ’moment’.
Once upstairs, she hurriedly cleaned up and fed the twins right away; then, Sister Jiang had her herbal bath ready.
Speaking of which, Yan Jinsu was rather speechless.
She didn’t know if bathing in those herbs was really necessary, but ever since she was discharged from the hospital, she and the twins had been bathing with herbal water.
Of course, after the herbal bath, she would quietly rinse off with hot water because otherwise, she would feel uncomfortable and couldn’t sleep at all!
As for the twins, since the mother-in-law and Sister Jiang were the ones bathing them, as their mother, she was helpless to stop it.
For the good of everyone and to maintain family harmony, she genuinely tried her best to cooperate.
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