novel for you Chapter 2563 Free Guide
Chapter 2563 Free Guide
Neither Zhan Yue nor Zeng Xiaoya knew that after they left the house, their elders had already begun discussing marriage for them.
Zeng Xiaoya liked the sea of flowers. After leaving the house, Zhan Yue took her down the mountain first.
He originally wanted to drive a sightseeing bus himself and take Zeng Xiaoya down the mountain, so that she wouldn't be able to enjoy the scenery along the way.
But Zeng Xiaoya refused.
She suggested walking.
Even though Youyou Mountain Villa provides sightseeing buses, they just whiz by in a flash, so enjoying the scenery isn't as good as walking.
Zhan Yue laughed: "If you want to walk, then let's walk. I'm just worried you'll get tired later."
"Let's walk down the mountain first. When we get tired, I'll call the housekeeper and have him drive down the mountain to pick us up."
"It's probably because we were just on the way up the mountain that we arrived at the resort in no time," Zeng Xiaoya said. "We're all people who exercise regularly. We're not tired after walking for a while."
"This mountain isn't very high, it's flat-topped, let's just treat it as a hike. I sometimes go hiking when I'm on vacation."
Zeng Xiaoya believes she has excellent physical strength.
Climbing such a mountain is no problem, and the road up the mountain is paved with cement, so it's not too difficult and easy to walk on.
Zhan Yue smiled and said, "Alright, let's walk."
He led Zeng Xiaoya out of the resort on foot. As they walked, Zeng Xiaoya looked at the scenery and asked him, "Can we explore the whole resort in one afternoon?"
“We’re going to admire the flowers at the foot of the mountain now, and then we’re going to pick fruit on the orchard. You don’t have much time to explore the whole resort. Come back next time you have time, and I’ll show you around the whole resort.”
"If you want to appreciate the scenery carefully, it usually takes a whole day to walk through the entire resort. If you just want to take a quick look, a few hours will suffice."
"The scenery isn't that beautiful now. It's most beautiful in spring when all the flowers are in bloom, and in summer there are lotus flowers, which is also nice."
Winters in Dongguan are not cold. If you were in the north, you could enjoy the snow scenery when it snows in winter.
Zeng Xiaoya turned her head to look at Zhan Yue, her expression quite surprised, and said, "Is your house this big? It would take a whole day to walk around it."
She was inside and couldn't yet see the vastness of the entire Youyou Mountain Villa. However, from the open-air parking lot to the main house in the center, you needed to take a sightseeing bus to see a corner of the villa, which was already quite large.
She glanced around and saw that besides the main building, there were several other buildings, neither too close nor too far from it.
As they walked and chatted, Zeng Xiaoya asked again, "Do you live separately, or do you all live in the main house in the center?"
“They live separately. My father and his two brothers live separately. Each family lives in a house and has their own private space. When they eat together during holidays, they all eat in the main house in the center.”
“My grandmother lived with my eldest uncle and his family in the main house in the center, which is where the head of our Zhan family lived.”
“In the future, my brothers and I can build a few small villas and live separately, so that everyone has their own private space. However, as of now, my brothers don’t seem to have any plans to do so.”
“We are usually scattered in different places and rarely come back to our old house. Even if we do come back, the house we live in now is enough for us. When the children grow up, they will all go out to live elsewhere, so we don’t need to build too many houses.”
"It's enough to live in. The old house is actually a place for us to spend our retirement years in peace. The whole villa is in the style of a garden. My grandmother especially likes the style of the garden, so my grandfather spent a lot of money to build this villa for her."
"Actually, Youyou Manor is not the real old residence of our Zhan family. The real old residence is in another place. The house is very old and is a real ancient building. It is repaired every once in a while to ensure that the old residence does not collapse."
“We haven’t lived in the real old house since then. Just a few years ago, my older brother took my sister-in-law home for the Chinese New Year without telling her his true identity, and the whole family lived in the real old house for a while.”
Zeng Xiaoya had heard about Zhan Yin and Hai Tong's love story, and she asked gossipily, "How did your older brother manage to keep his identity a secret for so long before his marriage to your sister-in-law was exposed?"
“Our whole family cooperated with his act. In truth, we were also at fault. We are sorry to my sister-in-law.”
“But my brother asked us to cooperate with his act, so we had no choice but to cooperate. At that time, my brother thought my sister-in-law was a gold digger. He had only met my sister-in-law two or three times before the whirlwind marriage. She was someone he had met but was not familiar with.”
"Because it was my grandmother who forced my eldest brother to marry my sister-in-law, my grandmother fell and got injured when she went out to play. It was my sister-in-law who took my grandmother to the hospital, but it's hard to say whether my grandmother did it on purpose or by accident."
“We all suspect that Grandma did it on purpose. My grandma knows kung fu, and she’s very good at it. When she was young, she was more than just a powerful figure in the business world.”
Have you ever heard of the Su family?
Zeng Xiaoya said, "Is it that mysterious Su family who are so good at gathering information?"
"Yes, the Su family respects my grandmother very much. Some of their connections were given to them by my grandmother. Our family follows the legitimate path of business, so my grandmother handed over those connections to the Su family."
"We signed an agreement that the Su family will provide full assistance whenever the Zhan family needs our help in the future."
"Therefore, our two families are old friends, and my elder brother and Brother Su Nan are best friends, so the friendship between our two families is even deeper."
"Grandma said that her sister-in-law was her savior and she wanted to repay the kindness. She wanted to matchmake her brother and sister-in-law. At first, her sister-in-law refused. Later, her brother-in-law disliked her living there, and the couple quarreled. Her sister-in-law was anxious to move out."
"I remembered that my grandma wanted to introduce her to a boyfriend, so I took the initiative to contact her, which led to my older brother and sister-in-law's whirlwind marriage."
"My eldest brother was pushed too far by his grandmother and was full of resentment towards his sister-in-law. So at the beginning of their whirlwind marriage, he guarded his sister-in-law like a thief and even concealed his identity to test her character."
"The result is that if you tell one lie, you have to tell countless lies to cover it up."
At this point, Zhan Yue looked at Zeng Xiaoya and said, "I think you've heard about what happened next. My elder brother and sister-in-law's love story is no secret in Dongguan. You could say it's common knowledge."
Zeng Xiaoya laughed: "I have heard about it. It is indeed common knowledge. It is said that after your sister-in-law married your brother, many ordinary people dreamed of becoming Cinderella and fantasized about being as lucky as your sister-in-law and marrying into a wealthy family to become a young mistress."
"Later, when everyone learned that your sister-in-law was also a descendant of a wealthy family, they suddenly realized that all the marriages in your family were still based on the principle of matching social status."
It is said that the elders of the Zhan family are not picky; as long as the children like it, they will accept it.
In fact, all of Zhan Yue's brothers married heiresses from wealthy families and were successful women.
Therefore, all marriages in the Zhan family still emphasize matching social status and economic conditions.
She no longer dared to dream.
Compared to the young mistress of the Zhan family, she was like Cinderella.