If you want a husband, you have to fight for it.

Yellowed, faded...

Wan Chuncao glanced at the women in the center circle for a second longer, then looked away and followed Yu Xiu to the side.

Not all the guests gathered around the woman in the middle.

Yu Xiu chose to go to the side and gather with her closest friends first.

Several women sitting and chatting at a low table saw Yu Xiu and immediately responded to her.

"Are you here? Come and sit down."

"If you want something to drink, ask them to bring it up for you. I heard your Xiao Cheng is back?"

"Come and tell us about your Xiao Cheng. We haven't seen him for so many years. I wonder if he still remembers us aunties."

Yu Xiu took her bag and sat down familiarly: "There was a traffic jam on the road and I came a little late. I didn't expect you to be here first. Our Xiaocheng just came back, not even two days ago."

"If you say I know you, then I definitely don't. You've gotten younger and younger in recent years. I'm sure Xiao Cheng will call you sisters when he sees you. How can he recognize you?"

The women all covered their mouths and laughed: "Oh, you are so good at coaxing people with your mouth."

"That's right. No matter how young we are, we can't be Xiao Cheng's sister. We are all old now."

Yu Xiu sat next to them and said: "I can call you sisters, but I'm afraid you won't respond."

The women covered their mouths and laughed again.

After they finished laughing, they noticed Wan Chuncao behind Yu Xiu: "Who is this?"

The woman closest to Yu Xiu even covered her mouth and smiled at Yu Xiu with narrowed eyes: "Could it be Xiao Cheng's..."

"No, how could she be Xiao Cheng's girlfriend?"

Yu Xiu quickly interrupted her, fearing that they would misunderstand the relationship between Wan Chuncao and Xu Yicheng: "This is his wife from the villa at home."

The three women sitting next to Yu Xiu thought about it before they remembered this person.

They remembered Xu Muyu who lived in the villa that Yu Xiu had mentioned, remembered Xu Muyu's marriage that Yu Xiu had just mentioned in the past two days, and also remembered that the new daughter-in-law was so rebellious that she talked back to her elder Xu Zhi at the dinner table.

These women all tacitly turned their eyes to Wan Chuncao, the wild girl who "disobeyed" her elders.

How could Yu Xiu not see their gazes? Without explaining, she turned around, took Wan Chuncao's hand and said, "Come, Chuncao, say hello to the ladies."

Guan Chuncao had been following Yu Xiu. Since Yu Xiu didn't let her sit down, she didn't rush to sit down. Instead, she observed the situation in the banquet hall.

This banquet hall can accommodate more than fifty people at the same time. It is not big, but it is suitable for a gathering called "tea party".

Not too big to create distance, nor too small to seem cramped.

Otherwise, there is nothing special.

Wan Chuncao even felt a little bored.

I thought the decoration of the mansion would be low-key and restrained, and the banquet hall would also be very distinctive.

Now it seems to be just a common banquet hall with everything you need.

The servants who came and went and took care of the guests' tea could not tell the design of the long and low tables, and even the flower arrangements decorating the tables were trimmed at neat angles.

If it weren't for the fact that all the women here were as beautiful as flowers, Wan Chuncao might not have been able to sit still.

The Lin family invited quite a few people to the banquet this time, about twenty of them, and they were all wearing famous brands.

There are also quite a few custom-made models, and you can almost tell the price at a glance.

But no one was wearing the kind of formal dress that is worn at parties; most people were dressed appropriately and simply.

From this perspective, the suit that Director Li chose for Wan Chuncao in the store did not have any faults except that it looked tacky.

Looking at the outfit she chose, although it wasn't too weird, it wasn't really dignified either.

With such a good figure, it is really difficult to be dignified.

Fortunately, she did not have a fawning look on her face, and her changed makeup was not as seductive as before. She became the only one with cool beauty among this group of dignified women.

People can catch her eye at a glance, and because of her difficult-to-define temperament, guess what kind of person she is.

In short, she is a woman who wants people to guess based on her appearance.

An attractive man, among women.

Even before Wan Chuncao officially sat down, the ladies who were talking to Yu Xiu saw her.

It's just that she came with Yu Xiu, so no one spoke to her first, bypassing Yu Xiu. Instead, they looked at her as Yu Xiu introduced her.

Yu Xiu asked Wan Chuncao to come to the three women and introduce herself properly: "Chuncao, this is Mrs. Jin, this is Mrs. Zhao, and this is Mrs. Zheng."

Wan Chuncao stood obediently in front of these women, her eyes simple and innocent, kind and harmless.

"I..."

She first pretended to look at Yu Xiu, then looked at the three women straight in the eye and greeted them: "Mrs. Jin's cufflinks are so exquisite, Mrs. Zhao's face cream smells very unique, and Mrs. Zheng's brooch on her waist is perfect. Hello, sisters, I am Chuncao, you can just call me Chuncao."

The three women in front of him were stunned for half a second, then they touched their faces, waists and cufflinks, and laughed.

These elaborate attires are hardly noticed by others, and even if they are noticed, no one will say it out immediately.

Even if I say it out loud, I may not be able to praise it as openly and sincerely as Wan Chuncao did.

Among them, Mrs. Zhao was the happiest as she touched her face and smiled. She originally thought that she would have to hint at other people before they would notice her new face cream.

Anyone who met her for the first time could tell. She smiled and said, "Your name is Chuncao? What a special name."

Mrs. Zheng just casually pinned the brooch on her waist, hiding it intentionally for fear that others would think it looked inappropriate. Unexpectedly, she was praised for it right away.

She touched the brooch and smiled happily: "Oh, please don't say that. I'm afraid that others will laugh at me. What perfect or imperfect, Chuncao, Chuncao, right? Oh, I made fun of you."

Mrs. Jin's cufflinks are easy to spot, but no one has praised them for a long time.

As soon as Wan Chuncao came, she praised her. She didn't smile, but showed her cufflink in a pretentious way and said, "Chuncao, you don't look very young, you should call us aunt, why are you calling us sister?"

This time it was Wan Chuncao's turn to cover her mouth: "Oh, I thought you were younger than me! I was afraid you wouldn't agree if I called you sisters, so I changed my name to elder sister."

"Look at me, I'm so rude. I apologize to you sisters. Dear beautiful sisters, it's all my fault. I was so fascinated by your pretty faces that I forgot about manners. I deserve to be scolded."

In the end, Wan Chuncao called "sister" before Xu Yicheng.

The three ladies covered their mouths and laughed, their faces wrinkled with laughter, but they still believed Wan Chuncao's compliment and even automatically ignored her rustic name.

"Oh Chuncao, why would we bother with you?"

"That's right, little girls are just free to speak without restraint."

Since the old sayings were used, Wan Chuncao of course responded politely: "It means that the sisters are beautiful and kind-hearted. The beautiful sisters are kind-hearted."

The three women covered their mouths and laughed again.

Wan Chuncao's praise was sincere enough and didn't seem fake at all, so no one would not believe it.

They also believed that such a simple-minded little girl would not do anything to disobey her elders.

I don’t know what happened to Wan Chuncao all of a sudden, why she became so talkative.

Yu Xiu was a little confused, but she couldn't tell anything from Wan Chuncao's expression.

When they had almost finished talking, Wan Chuncao pulled out the chair next to Yu Xiu and sat down, saying something in a low voice.

Yu Xiu leaned in and heard her say, "Stepmother, I just learned this from someone in the store. How is it? Did I praise it like her?"

It turns out that he learned this from someone else. Yu Xiu felt relieved for some reason: "I'll thank Director Li later."

Wan Chuncao winked at her again: "You should thank your stepmother, it's all because of you who taught me well."

Yu Xiu was relieved and started laughing: "Chuncao is a little girl, please don't bully her."

Mrs. Zheng deliberately smiled and said, "No, it's just for your sake. What else can we say about her? You just feel sorry for her."

Yu Xiu smiled even more happily: "Then for my sake, you must not say anything to her. She is thin-skinned and can't stand what you say."

"Look at you, you are so stingy. With your protection as an elder, how can we eat her?"

Mrs. Jin asked again, "By the way, Chuncao, Xiuxiu said you just got married. Is it to the guy in the villa?"

Wan Chuncao's lips twitched with a fake smile: "Yes, sister, Mu Yu and I just got married."

As she spoke, she took Yu Xiu's arm affectionately and said, "It was our stepmother who introduced us."

"She also told me to listen to my husband after we get married, and that men make the decisions in the house. Women are like married daughters, and sooner or later they belong to someone else's family."

"Since she is from someone else's family, she belongs to someone else's family. Naturally, we should be on the side of the man and this family."

"I don't have to do anything after I get married. I just eat and go shopping every day. I stay at home and listen to my husband. I don't dare to go west when he tells me to go east. Only when I serve my husband well can I live a comfortable life."

Wan Chuncao almost put her chin on Yu Xiu's shoulder, so intimately: "I really listened to my stepmother's words. Tell me, stepmother, am I a good boy or not?"

Yu Xiu tried to pull her arm out twice but couldn't. She was afraid that others would notice if she used too much force. She was even more afraid that Wan Chuncao would say something even more exaggerated, so she could only grit her teeth and laugh dryly at others.

What Wan Chuncao said was fine at first, but it became more and more exaggerated as time went on. In the end, even these women who went shopping and had beauty treatments every day felt that it was really pedantic.

What's more, is this what Wan Chuncao herself thinks, or did Yu Xiu arrange this marriage and then deliberately tell Wan Chuncao about it?

If it is deliberate, one can imagine the intention behind it.

For a moment, the group of women were quiet.

Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, Yu Xiu quickly pulled her hand away from Wan Chuncao.

Just as she was about to explain, a female voice interrupted her.

"After so many years, it seems that Mrs. Xu's desire for control has not changed at all."

Wan Chuncao followed the women around her and looked in the direction of the sound.

The woman under the porch was now standing in front of him, her eyes still cold and distant.

Yellowed, faded, with tiny fonts on the edges...