Chapter 855
Bai Lanwu’s face lit up with joy at being addressed by Tang Zhou, even though she said, “No need to learn. Whenever you guys feel like eating, just call me and I’ll cook and bring it to you.”
Bai Lanwu moved the dumpling skins and fillings from the kitchen to the dining room and asked Tang Zhou about his life under the sea, worried that they had suffered there. Tang Zhou’s vivid descriptions made it sound not like hardship but rather like an extremely interesting adventure, which greatly reassured Bai Lanwu.
“By the way, where are my brother and my sister-in-law?”
“They haven’t gotten up yet.”
Thinking of how the kids hadn’t slept till late into the night, Bai Lanwu chuckled, “Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”
Huh, from the mother-in-law’s tone, could it be that Big Brother and Xiao Xinguang had made up already?
Bai Lanwu sighed, “Your engagement banquet had to be postponed, we need to choose another date, all because of Xinguang’s delay.”noveldrama
Shen Mo said, “It doesn’t matter. The state assignment itself is a form of engagement. Since the state has already engaged us, the timing of the engagement banquet isn’t a big issue. Even if we skip the engagement banquet, it wouldn’t matter. We could go straight to having the wedding.”
Tang Zhou suddenly widened his eyes, lifted his leg, and stomped hard on Shen Mo’s foot. Had his follower gone mad? He had just psychologically accepted the engagement, and now he wanted to go straight to having a wedding?
A wedding? Tang Zhou didn’t even dare to think about that!
“The engagement banquet is still necessary. Just booking a hotel, creating invitations, sending them out, choosing another date – all that requires some preparation time. You will have to wait a bit longer,” Bai Lanwu didn’t agree with the cancellation.
Shen Mo didn’t actually want to wait, “It could also be kept simple. There’s no need for a grand banquet in a hotel. Just having both families and relatives gather for a meal, like ordinary wage earners, we could even have a party at home.”
Bai Lanwu listened to her son’s anxious mentality but countered, “How could that be okay? That would be too unfair to Tang Zhou. What if his family thought we lacked manners and didn’t value the engagement? An engagement is a big deal.”
Shen Mo pondered, “Tang Zhou’s parents passed away early, his only family is a brother, and Chuan Qi’s parents. They wouldn’t think like that, and besides, we could hold it together with Chuan Qi. If anyone were to be accused of neglect, his son would be neglecting Xinguang too. If no one minds, then it shouldn’t bother anyone. We could keep it simple and efficient. You could discuss it with Mrs. Night; an engagement is just a small procedure, not something to fuss over too much. The wedding, however, we should organize properly.”
“This… ” Bai Lanwu, hearing her son’s tone, wondered if he was really in such a rush?
Bai Lanwu thought for a moment, “Later, we elders will sit down and have a discussion.”
Shen Mo nodded, “Thank you for the trouble. You could call Mrs. Night now, invite her over to have some dumplings with us.”
Bai Lanwu: “…”
Clearly, her son was truly in a hurry, but what for?
Could it be related to what Chuan Qi told him a few days ago, about having his son eventually go to Country S to inherit the throne?
When Bai Peiluan received her sister’s call, she hurried over to have dumplings. As the two sisters talked about the matter, Bai Peiluan said, “This is too rushed, isn’t it? Having it at home is too hasty for such an important event. We should invite all the people in our circle. Otherwise, it would be too unfair to Xinguang. I can’t agree to this, we must choose an auspicious day and prepare slowly.”