A farmer's daughter who traveled through time: Marrying a sickly man

By the time Xia Tian had prepared the gift, Shen Nian had already received a reply.

When the old man and the old lady of the Cui family heard that their grandson was coming to visit them, they were extremely happy.

After sending the messenger away, he began to direct the servants in the house to quickly tidy up the house, clean up, and prepare food.

After receiving the news, Cui's uncle was silent for a while and then returned home.

Among the five uncles of the Cui family, only the eldest uncle and the fifth uncle are currently at home.

The other three uncles are all officials in other prefectures.

The closest one is Cui's third uncle, who is the prefect of Sucheng, the next city to Sangluo City.

It is also under the jurisdiction of Linzhou.

The old man of the Cui family also sent someone to inform him, but he definitely couldn't get back in time.

I got up early the next day in the summer and made some snacks by myself as a token of my thoughtfulness.

Shen Nian asked for leave from Lord Cao and Lord Li, had breakfast and waited for a while before packing up and taking a carriage to the Cui family.

The Governor's Office is located in a relatively central place slightly north of Sangluo City, and the Cui family mansion is in the east of the city. It takes about an hour to get there by carriage.

Xia Tian brought Nanny Zhang, Ningxiang and Ningxue along.

After all, Aunt Zhang is an old acquaintance, and she can point out anything wrong.

Before reaching Cui's house, Xia Tian saw many people looking in through the gap in the curtains at the door.

He quickly said something to Shen Nian, and when the carriage came closer, Shen Nian got off the carriage swiftly, and then helped Xia Tian down as well.

Only then did he look at the people waiting for them at the door.

Even though Shen Nian is so old, this is the first time he has met his grandparents.

The only person he could recognize among them was his uncle; he had never seen anyone else.

He had only met Cui's eldest uncle a few times when he was very young. Later, Cui's eldest uncle resigned from his official position and returned directly to Linzhou.

Since then, he has never seen anyone from the Cui family again.

Shen Nian just called out "Uncle", and before Uncle Cui responded, the old lady of the Cui family came forward and hugged Shen Nian.

"My dear grandson, you finally came back!" Old Lady Cui hugged Shen Nian and started crying.

Shen Nian's body was frozen and he didn't dare to move.

Cui's uncle originally looked a little unhappy, but when he saw his mother like this, he turned his head away with some sadness.

The old man of the Cui family just looked at Shen Nian like that, without saying anything for a long time.

The middle-aged woman standing next to Cui's eldest uncle wiped her eyes with a handkerchief before stepping forward and softly admonishing, "Mother, let's go inside first. Don't let the two children get cold outside."

As he spoke, he turned to look at Xia Tian and said with a smile, "This must be Nian'er's wife. I am your aunt."

Xia Tian quickly smiled and nodded, "Yes, aunt, my name is Xia Tian, you can just call me Xia Xia."

Xia Xia was her original nickname, and Shen Nian would sometimes call her that.

The aunt took her hand and said, "Xia Xia, let's go inside and talk."

After hearing what her aunt said just now, the old lady of the Cui family finally stopped crying and let go of Shen Nian, but still held him tightly with her hand.

"Okay, let's go back and talk in the house." The old lady took Shen Nian's hand and walked into the house first.

The old man and Cui's uncle also went in.

My aunt called everyone else and followed them into the house.

Xia Tian has only recognized the old man and old lady of the Cui family, as well as the eldest uncle and aunt of the Cui family. He doesn't know the others yet.

Shen Nian followed the old lady into the house, and the others also came in and took their seats.

Seeing the two people's embarrassed faces, the aunt-in-law quickly introduced everyone in the room.

After the introduction, Shen Nian let go of Mrs. Cui's hand, pulled Xia Tian to kneel down, and kowtowed to Mrs. Cui and the old man, as well as Cui's uncle, aunt and other elders.

"Grandpa, grandma, uncle, aunt, it's Shen Nian's fault for not coming to see you earlier." After saying that, he kowtowed again.

Xia Tian quickly followed suit and kowtowed as well.

Shen Nian's words brought back Mrs. Cui's tears, "Hurry up, child, it's good that you're here, it's good that you're here."

The old lady wiped her tears and quickly asked someone to help the two of them up.

Shen Nian went over and sat down below his uncle.

The old lady then called Xia Tian over, took a closer look, took his hand and touched it, then said with a smile, "Good boy, sit down quickly."

Xia Tian thanked her and sat down on the stool next to the old lady.

The old lady held her hand all the time and did not let go.

Shen Nian looked at Cui's uncle who hadn't spoken a word, and asked, "Is my uncle still angry with me?"

Cui's uncle sighed, "What's there to be angry about? At that time, your uncles and I felt sorry for you two, and we broke off the relationship out of anger.

However, you are still the nephew of our Cui family, and no one can change that."

After hearing this, Shen Nian stood up and bowed to his uncle again. "Uncle, Nian'er was young and ignorant before. When he grew up, he was too embarrassed to come to your house, so I delayed until now. Please forgive me once."

"You're already here, so what's done is done. Come and sit down." The knot in Cui's uncle's heart was finally untied.

Shen Nian's mother was younger than her three biological brothers and was their eldest sister, so they all doted on her.

When I heard that my most beloved sister had passed away, I naturally had many doubts.

One reason was that they couldn't believe that their young and healthy sister was gone like that, and the other was that they were not happy that Marquis Wu'an had married a new wife only one year after his first wife's death.

Naturally, I felt uncomfortable and took my anger out on others.

When they met for the first time, the elders of the Cui family prepared gifts for them both.

Old Madam Cui gave Xia Tian a set of jeweled head ornaments, Cui's eldest aunt gave her a pair of fine jade bracelets, the fifth aunt gave her two batches of fine brocade, and the youngest aunt gave her a set of pure gold jewelry.

Others also gave them gifts.

Shen Nian received books from the old man, a jade pendant from his uncle, calligraphy and paintings from his fifth uncle, and a jade hairpin from his aunt.

Xia Tian asked Ningxiang and Ningxue to bring in the gifts she had prepared and distribute them to the elders one by one.

"Grandpa, grandma, these are the best medicinal herbs we prepared for you." Xia Tian took out the herbs and handed them to the maid beside the old lady.

He took the calligraphy and painting from Ningxiang's hand and asked Shen Nian to hand them to his two uncles respectively.

The calligraphy and paintings were all works by famous people from ancient books. She thought that the Cui family were all scholars and should like these.

She took out three more sets of jewelry and gave them to her eldest aunt, fifth aunt and youngest aunt respectively.

The others were all peers and juniors. The men were given jade pendants and the women were given earrings.

Younger boys were given the four treasures of the study, and girls were given pearl flowers.

Finally, he brought over two food boxes, placed them on the table, and opened them. "Grandpa, grandma, uncle, aunt, and aunt, these are the snacks I made this morning. They're just a token of my love. Let me give them to you."

The old lady, her two aunts and her younger aunt nodded with satisfaction at her thoroughness.

The aunt smiled and said, "Xia Xia is really thoughtful. It's really expensive for you to come here."

"Aunt, please don't say that. This is my husband and I'm visiting you for the first time, and we haven't prepared anything. I hope you elders won't mind." Xia Tian said modestly.