Peach and Plum Do Not Speak

Chapter 18:

When the New Year was approaching, Yan Yidong, the eldest brother of the Yan family, came back from out of town, stayed at home for a while, and met An Zhi.

He looks more serious, with a slightly square face, a deep face, and big eyes. He was unsmiling, and even the twins didn’t dare to act like a spoiled child with her.

With Aunt Xin’s reminder, she called out weakly, “Uncle~”

As soon as these words came out, the serious boss Yan narrowed his eyes slightly and showed a smile.

An Zhi found that Yan Xi’s brothers all looked good when they smiled, and they looked a lot like her.

After the eldest brother of the Yan family finished laughing, he didn’t say much, and touched the top of An Zhi’s head.

An Zhi blinked, even loving touching her head, she said very much about her family.

After Boss Yan stayed at home for a while, he drove into the city to meet Yan Xi.

Yan Xi was a little surprised to see him: “Big brother?”

Yan Yidong and Yan Xi are ten years apart. Because of the absence of his parents, his grandparents are also very old, so he consciously played the role of the big head of the family. After he was discharged from the army, he was admitted to the university, and later became a civil servant. He worked for several years in the grass-roots organs in the neighboring city, and achieved remarkable results. He was already a division-level cadre in his early thirties.

With a height of nearly 1.9 meters, he is the tallest and most serious of the brothers and sisters. He is obedient to Yan Xi, a typical sister-in-law.

He heard that Yan Xi had raised a child, so he checked the little girl’s family background. He felt that he could get Xiao Anzhi’s custody. As long as her sister agreed, he would send someone to deal with it immediately.

Yan Xi was stunned when he heard what he said: “Brother, An Zhi is a child, not a baby…” The boss of the Yan family said that there was no difference.

Yan Xi reluctantly persuaded: “No, it’s good, I’ve already said hello to her father, she should stay by my side before she becomes an adult.”

Boss Yan was somewhat puzzled, but he didn’t ask much. He thought of what the third son of the Yan family told him, and asked, “Then it’s fine to stay at home, why do you want to move out? How can you take care of her alone? You still have to work.”

“Is it because of your sister-in-law? In fact, your sister-in-law is not difficult to get along with, but she is just too hard to take care of children…”

Yan Xi did not directly say that An Zhi was not very comfortable with living in the Yan family’s old house. She said: “I understand that, it’s not the problem… Anyway, I’m not used to living in the dormitory in Taili, so I just live with her in my house.”

“It’s just that I need someone to help, otherwise I’m afraid I won’t be able to do it alone, big brother, I need your help.”

The eldest of the Yan family agreed without saying a word: “No problem, tell me your request, and I’ll help you find someone.”

“If you are a woman, you have experience with children, you should not be too young, maybe 40 to 50, you’d better know the characters, you should be able to speak Mandarin, your accent should not be too heavy, you should be patient and loving… your personality should be milder, yes, I also need to be able to cook, so I will stay here for at least a few years, the surrounding environment is more familiar, and it is convenient to pick up and drop off the children.”

Boss Yan: …

Haikou, which I boasted about, can’t be helped. He could only nod in agreement.

Yan Xi smiled and thanked him.

Boss Yan pondered for a while, then asked tentatively, “Have you really broken up with that Gao man?”

Yan Xi smiled.

Boss Yan immediately said, “I’m not interfering with you, just what the third child said in front of me…”

Sorry, let the third child take the blame first.

Yan Xi said lightly: “What questions do you have, you all asked them together. It’s been more than half a year. It’s interesting to gossip in front of me one by one?”

Boss Yan coughed dryly: “Brothers also care about you, that Gao is nothing good. If you break it, you will break it. I still don’t like him. My little five is so good, why don’t you want a man without it…”

Yan Xi glanced at him: “Don’t you have any young talents you want to introduce to me?”

Boss Yan who is being said: …

Yan Xi said leisurely: “I’ll say it for the last time, I don’t have any thoughts about falling in love for the time being, don’t worry about it.”

Boss Yan: “…Understood.”

Boss Yan: “…Brother remember it.”

Boss Yan: “…don’t worry, eldest brother will help you find the right person.”

Yan Xi glanced at him silently again, and said, “As well as my work, don’t interfere, I can do it myself.”

Boss Yan nodded without changing his face: “Of course.”

Different from being gentle and tolerant in front of An Zhi, and different from being decent and polite in front of colleagues, in front of family members, especially in front of her much older and dependable brother, Yan Xi showed the confusion of a young man in his early twenties.

“Brother, to be honest, I don’t even know if my choice is right or wrong, but this is what I want at the moment,” she said.

Work hard and take good care of Anzhi.

Boss Yan patted her on the shoulder: “don’t think about it, brothers support you.”

Yan Xi pursed her lips and smiled. She felt that she was still immature, so sometimes she still wanted to show her weakness to her brothers. This is probably the help of the harmonious family relationship to her.

But little Anzhi was not so lucky. Therefore, she also wanted to be someone An Zhi could rely on and show weakness.

After Laba, the New Year is getting closer. Kindergarten is no longer in school, and the twins’ early childhood classes are also on holiday. A few children followed the adults to prepare New Year’s goods and buy new clothes. After the new year, Yan Xi finally went home from vacation. Yan’s second doctoral student and Yan’s third master’s student came back a few days before her. When she was on vacation, the Yan family finally gathered together.

Yan Lao Er Yan Yixi is the only one of the four siblings who wears glasses. He is taciturn, weak and elegant, and is doing theoretical physics research at Beicheng University of Technology.

He usually can’t speak three words a day, and he doesn’t like to play with children. He spends some time every day by Grandma Yan’s side without talking. He watches TV with her, or listens to her old man playing the piano. The rest of the time, he was in the room, so quiet that he barely existed.

Yan Dafa will stick to Yan Lao San Yan South or Yan Xi, but rarely stick to Yan West. Except sometimes doing fun “little tricks” for them.

On that day, he took a boiled egg and a small narrow-mouth bottle, and made a gesture to several children, indicating that he could put the eggs into this small bottle.

Several children were stunned by his coaxing.

I saw him silently peeling off the eggshell, tearing the paper into strips, igniting it, and throwing it into the bottle quickly.

The children screamed “Ow Oo”, and the eggs really went in! He looked at him with admiration and shock.

Then when Yan Dafa and Yan Xiaopang asked him to do more “magic”, he stopped talking, and did not explain how the magic just now came home. The Yan family twins left boringly.

Yan Yixi licked her lower lip lightly, and when she was about to leave, she found Xiao Anzhi staring at him with dark eyes.

Yan Yixi was stunned for a moment and stared at her for a few seconds before he finally said, “Do you want to know why?”

An Zhi’s eyes lit up and nodded vigorously.

Yan Yixi hesitated, “But I explained to you and you don’t understand.”

An Zhi’s little head tilted, and he blinked his eyelashes suspiciously.

Yan Yixi was quiet for a few more seconds, and then said to her, “Do you want to try it?”

An Zhi’s dimples rose and nodded vigorously.

When Yanxi came back, she was surprised to find that her second brother, who had been arrogant and taciturn since elementary school, patiently told An Zhijie what “pressure” was.

On New Year’s Eve, the tables in the dining room of the Yan family’s old house were full. There was a large table of steaming and delicious dishes, Yan Yinan and the rambunctious twins were there. Everyone laughed and ate the reunion dinner noisily.

The adults were talking and drinking. Small children can drink juice. An Zhi sat beside Yan Xi, staring curiously at the large red wine glass and small ceramic cups in front of Yan Xi.

“Children can’t drink.” Yan Xi turned around and rubbed her hair, and gave her a chopstick of beef.

An Zhi ate obediently. Before the New Year, it was just her and her grandfather. It was the first time she had a New Year’s Eve dinner with so many people on New Year’s Eve. She looked at Yan Xi’s smile, thinking that it would be nice to meet her.

After the meal, there was still some money to receive for the New Year. Like the Yan family twins, An Zhi received a red envelope from every adult. There were six of them, and she couldn’t hold them in her hands. After she blushed and thanked her in a low voice, after everyone’s teasing, she gave the red envelopes to Yan Xi. Yan Xi smiled and said, “Okay, I’ll keep it for you.”

Afterwards, the family gathered in the living room on the second floor to watch the Spring Festival Gala with Grandpa Yan and Grandma Yan, and ate snacks. Like all families, children are called out to perform as long as adults are present. The Yan family twins are very talented in acting. They gestured without any shame that they finished the dance of “Two Tigers”.

An Zhi pouted, with a small face like a blushing bun, hiding in Yan Xi’s arms but not coming out. Yan Xi stroked her cheek with a good hand and spoke for her with a smile.