I was reborn after my cousin stole my life.

Chapter 190: Bracelet

An Hui patted him on the shoulder. "If you had married her back then, I would have given him this bracelet. Didn't you not like her? I've also learned about Yuan Xiu. She's a very nice girl, better than Cheng Chen Yumei. She's also pretty. Your father didn't choose the wrong wife for you back then."

"I don't know who suggested that I get to know Chen Yumei," Jiang Zhou said calmly.

His mother had always opposed his childhood betrothal to Yuan Xiu. She had argued with his father about it many times, scolding him for being a feudal and uncultured man who didn't understand what free love was. After his father passed away, his mother married Uncle Chen. Knowing that Chen Yumei liked him, she wanted to match them up and didn't take the marriage seriously at all.

"I did it for your future."

An Hui said, "Although Chen Yumei is a bit stingy, her other conditions are not bad. Most importantly, it's your Uncle Chen. He is now the top official in the city. If you marry her, your Uncle Chen will support you unconditionally. Whether you go into the military or politics, your path will be easier. Right now, there is still a gap between you and him."

"Who cares!" Jiang Zhou's voice was even colder. "I can forge my own path on my own!"

"I know you don't care, so I haven't said anything about it all these years."

An Hui handed him the jewelry box. "Give this to your wife. Don't worry, I definitely won't mention Chen Yumei in front of her."

Jiang Zhou didn't stand on ceremony this time and accepted it: "I'm not afraid of you bringing it up. There's nothing between her and me. It was just wishful thinking on your part back then."

After saying that, she turned to leave, but after taking two steps, she turned back. "Who in the army tipped you off? You know Yuan Xiu, but what channels did you use? Also, who brought you in? Yuan Xiu said that when she saw you, you were already inside the compound."

An Hui smiled: "Guess?"

Jiang Zhou went downstairs.

Yuan Xiu was reading a textbook at her desk in her first-floor bedroom when he entered the room and handed her the jewelry box.

"What?"

"This is from your mother, keep it."

Yuan Xiu opened the jewelry box and saw, "A jade bracelet!"

Jiang Zhou raised an eyebrow: "You recognize him?"

If you take this bracelet out, there are probably no more than ten people in this courtyard who can recognize that it is jade.

Yuan Xiu's expression froze. "It really is jade? Actually, I was just guessing. The landlady in my hometown is a bit crazy. She used to always tell us that she had a jade bracelet, and that the more it looked like glass, the more valuable it was. This one looked pretty much like it, so I guessed."

There was indeed a eccentric landlady in the village. Yuan Xiu didn't know if she owned a jade bracelet, but she could tell its material from the bracelet's appearance. She remembered a boss she met in her past life when she worked in the city. He liked buying stones, gambling on them, and talking about jade to the workers. He often showed off the jade pendant he wore around his neck. That pendant wasn't as translucent as the bracelet, so Yuan Xiu had somehow acquired a little knowledge about jade through this exposure.

It's a pity that the owner of the once-prosperous hotel lost everything due to gambling on jade, and had to sell the hotel.

"This must be very expensive, right? Mom just gave it to me like that?"

Jiang Zhou nodded: "If I don't give it to you, who else would I give it to? Try it on."

Yuan Xiu took the bracelet, slipped it onto her clasped hands, and pushed it in firmly to put it on.

Yuan Xiu shook her wrist: "Does it look good?"

Jiang Zhou nodded. The skin on her wrist was dazzlingly white, and the green flowers floating inside the jade bracelet resembled a pool of water sealed within. The bracelet swayed slightly as her wrist moved...

Complement each other.

"It's very beautiful."

Yuan Xiu also thought it looked good, but after trying it on, she took it off. Wearing it now was too flashy, so she would wear it again when she had the chance later.

Yuan Xiu thought her mother-in-law would come down after taking a bath, but to her surprise, most of the afternoon had passed and she was still upstairs.

Is Mom sleeping?

"no."

"Are you still packing your luggage?"

Is it really possible for just one suitcase to take so long?

"She's getting herself ready."

Yuan Xiu: "?"

At exactly four o'clock in the afternoon, An Hui finally came downstairs. She had changed her clothes, and her hair was loose and draped over her shoulders. It must have been washed, as the ends of her hair were slightly damp.

Yuan Xiu noticed that her hair was curlier than when she saw it that morning.

She thought it was just naturally curly hair, but she later discovered that her mother-in-law would put curling irons on her hair every night before bed and only take them off the next morning.

Pay attention!

Yuan Xiu smelled a fragrant breeze. She had smelled it when she met her that morning, but it was very faint. Now it was much stronger, the scent of a high-end face cream.

Did you wipe your whole body?

If it's just for applying to the face, it shouldn't smell this good.

"Mom, I received the bracelet. Thank you so much! You also sent me a gold necklace and a gold ring before, and I haven't had a chance to thank you in person yet. Thank you so much for spending so much!"

An Hui waved her hand: "If you want to thank me, just tell Jiang Zhou to be more diligent and heat up my bath water every day."

Yuan Xiu: "..."

Jiang Zhou: "Dream on! Do it yourself and you'll have plenty to eat and wear. Don't forget why you came here."

An Hui sighed deeply, "I've raised this son for nothing. He doesn't even know how to be filial to his mother."

Jiang Zhou was not fooled.

An Hui added, "There's a dinner party tomorrow night, why don't you come with me?"

"Are you being treated, or are you treating them?"

"Of course they invited me. They're guests from afar. Unlike you, an unfilial son, you have no sense of propriety at all."

"Guests are invited. You came on your own. If you consider yourself a guest, then stay for a few days and leave. There's no reason for guests to stay in my house for extended periods."

An Hui rolled her eyes at him. "Trying to kick me out again? This house isn't just yours. You think I'll just leave because you tell me to? Xiao Yuan, tell me, are you letting me leave?"

Yuan Xiu looked at this and then at that: "Hehe, of course not, Mom can stay as long as she wants."

An Hui raised her chin at Jiang Zhou, giving him a look that said it was useless for him to say anything.

Jiang Zhou pretended not to see it.

……

Knowing that Yuan Xiu's mother-in-law had arrived, Shen's mother, who lived in the front, came over with her granddaughter to visit.

She had assumed that since the two were about the same age and both were visiting their daughters/sons, they would have a lot to talk about. However, when she saw Ms. An Hui sitting on the sofa, she realized that she had been overthinking things.

Xiao Yuan's mother-in-law... is too young.

Yuan Xiu gave an introduction and then invited Shen's mother to sit down.

She bent down to tease the little Xuanxuan in Shen's mother's arms, making the chubby girl grin with her toothless mouth.

"Little Xuanxuan is so good!"

Mrs. Shen laughed and said, "She likes you. She laughs when you tease her, but turns her face away when her father teases her. I don't know what this little girl is thinking. She has two faces even when she's still a baby. She'll be quite something when she grows up."

Yuan Xiu laughed and said, "Perhaps Political Commissar Wang's smile is too bright."

She's not young to begin with, but when she's teasing the child, she laughs so exaggeratedly that wrinkles appear on her face. The child turns away, probably because she can't bear to look.