Transmigration: I Have Storage Space in the Apocalypse
Chapter 644 - 640 Xie Jingzi’s Journey to Beijing 05

Chapter 644: Chapter 640 Xie Jingzi’s Journey to Beijing 05

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"What if I give birth to two daughters?" Xie Jingzi couldn’t help but drift along with his train of thoughts when she imagined the future.

"That’s alright too, our Zhou family has plenty of males. We’re just lacking a little princess, neither grandpa nor my parents would mind."

"What about you?" Xie Jingzi didn’t care about what others thought, but she was very concerned about Zhou Zhenghui’s opinion.

She didn’t even realize why she was thinking about these things when they weren’t even married yet.

She could only blame the strange social circle she was in. In southern families, there was never a lack of desire for descendants—if indeed she gave birth to all girls, hmmph hmmph hmmph.

"Me? Of course, whatever you give birth to, I’ll dote on. Silly girl, my family doesn’t favor one gender over the other, whether you have a boy or a girl, they are my favorites." Zhou Zhenghui got so excited just thinking about it that he felt restless.

"Hmph, sounds nice now..."

It’s a different story if you actually have only daughters. Xie Jingzi internally sighed, she had seen this kind of thing since she was very young.

Just because uncle is the legitimate eldest grandson of the Zhou family, if she really gave birth to all girls, that would be the end of her standing.

But her Xie family is known for having many males, so she wasn’t worried.

It was just that, thinking about how uncle just mentioned he was twenty-eight years old...seems really quite old, was she being gnawed on by an old bull?

"Wife, don’t you trust me?" Zhou Zhenghui "tsk"ed and countered.

"No...it’s too early to talk about having children now. Don’t think that you can fool me just like that, I don’t like you this way!" Xie Jingzi quickly turned back to the matter at hand, huffing.

Zhou Zhenghui looked innocently at her as her round eyes glared at him, puzzled, he asked, "What did I do?"

"Uncle, are you still playing? I’m really getting angry now~~" Xie Jingzi narrowed her eyes, sternly threatening.

"Wife, you can’t be so cruel, why is it so hard for me to get married?"

Zhou Zhenghui lifted her onto his lap, so she wouldn’t have to twist her waist too much.

"Are you addicted to this?" Xie Jingzi squinted her eyes, her gaze slightly reminiscent of Xie Jingchen when plotting and assessing.

"No matter. Wife, you’ve agreed to the engagement, my parents know about it, I believe grandpa and the others do as well—"

"Uncle, stop performing!" Xie Jingzi’s small hand "pop"ed as it hit his sturdy shoulder, she exclaimed with a cute huff.

"Wife, wife, wife..." Zhou Zhenghui held her face in his hands, his calling growing more and more intoxicating...

Eventually, Xie Jingzi succumbed to Zhou Zhenghui’s wishes and got engaged in Beijing, choosing the date to be on Xiaojiu and Xiao Ba’s lantern lighting day, the sixth day of the new year.

This time, although Xie Jingzi complied with uncle’s strong insistence to get engaged, she insisted on not having a big celebration. Only the Zhou family would dine together, then recognize the elders and peers, and that would be sufficient.

However, Xie Jingzi really underestimated how many people were in the Zhou Family!

Turns out, on the sixth day of the new year, Xie Jingzi thought at most there would be seven or eight tables at peak. In reality, when she was brought to the main mansion by the makeup artist, all dolled up, and arriving with Zhou Zhenghui, that’s when she saw the Zhou family—there were really a lot of them!

Wow, Xie Jingzi looked at the courtyard filled with people, walking along the way, and roughly estimating, there were nearly thirty or forty tables just by count!

Once they entered the main mansion’s living room, they realized even here the tables were filled, albeit fewer, probably around twelve or thirteen.

And those who stayed inside the main mansion were all the direct line of the Zhou Family and those of significant standing from the collateral lines.

Among these people, she suddenly felt a strong gaze filled with malice, instinctively her eyes followed that feeling—

Was that... Zhang Shanni? That fake Phoenix from Third Sister-in-law?

Why is she here?! How annoying.

Just as Xie Jingzi thought this, Zhou Zhenghui had already escorted her to the main table. Sensing her distraction, he followed her gaze and, sure enough, spotted a nauseating object.

His large hand gently patted hers for comfort, and with one look at each other, Xie Jingzi’s irritation vanished, replaced with a smile of happiness.

To be able to walk this path with Uncle, and to have successfully tied the knot, she felt truly grateful.

For the remainder of the ceremony, all Xie Jingzi had to do was to stand quietly with a gentle smile beside Zhou Zhenghui—the rest was handled by him.

At this moment, Xie Jingzi truly had Uncle, and her future was fulfilled.

Zhou Zhenghui was now holding his beloved’s delicate hand, listening to the witness complete the engagement ceremony, after which they exchanged rings in front of all the guests—

For families of their stature, of course, they did not truly consider it merely an ’engagement’ party. In fact, as far as the Zhou family was concerned, the choice of their eldest grandson’s wife was already a settled affair.

In truth, Xie Jingzi had already been taken by Zhou Zhenghui to register and collect their marriage certificate that very morning.

This was, of course, after Zhou Zhenghui proposed successfully a few days ago, and they both made a call to the Xie Family in Qingfeng Village of Y county town, gaining the family’s approval before it naturally followed that they obtained their marriage certificate.

As for the certificate, of course, it was Zhou Zhenghui who sought the opinion of Xie Jingchen and his son, then used his privilege to process the certification ahead of time, allowing them to successfully get their marriage certificate.

It wasn’t until Xie Jingzi got her marriage certificate that she, still in a daze, truly believed the extent of the effort Uncle had put in behind the scenes—if not for the red booklet in her hand repeatedly proving the ’fact’, she wouldn’t dare believe how hard he had worked for her—

It would be a lie to say she wasn’t moved, to have such a man, desperate to include you in his household registry—if this isn’t sincere love and affection, then what is true love in this world?

Anyway, Xie Jingzi was deeply touched.

Of course, what Xie Jingzi didn’t know was that to obtain this certificate, Zhou Zhenghui had made private agreements with the Xie Family.

If Zhou Zhenghui hadn’t repeatedly assured that what they were holding was an ’engagement’ party, and that they would officially get married and host the wedding banquet after Xie Jingzi finished school next year, the Xie Family would not have agreed.

In fact, Zhou Zhenghui was indeed playing a bit of wordplay.

To the outside world, it was an ’engagement’, but for the Zhou Family Mansion, it was indeed a formal bonding ceremony.

Only someone as naive as Xie Jingzi would still foolishly believe that this was really an ’engagement’ party.

As for Xie Jingchen, he was roughly aware of Zhou Zhenghui’s intentions, being a man himself. Besides, Zhou Zhenghui was indeed not young, being a year older than Xie Jingchen... one wonders if Zhou Zhenghui feels any guilt when he calls Xie Jingchen ’Third Brother’?

Being men who both love their women, of course, they understand that the sooner a wife is under one’s name, the safer it is.

Another point is that Zhou Zhenghui has also shown his deep love for Xie Jingzi.

With the engagement settled and the marriage certificate in hand, Xie Jingzi is officially his wife in both name and law—the absence of a wedding banquet is merely out of consideration for her studies.

For one, Zhou Zhenghui’s reputation was too great; if others knew that Xie Jingzi was his wife, could she study peacefully at school? Just the random people seeking various pretexts to get close would be too many to handle.

Most importantly, he feared that Xie Jingzi might become the target of jealousy and schemes.

Zhou Zhenghui spared no effort to protect Xie Jingzi.

In the corner, Yan Jinxian, watching the handsome and beautiful recently engaged couple sweetly gazing at each other, clenched her hand under the table tightly. If not for her husband gently coaxing her to eat a bit more by her side, she truly wanted to rush up and push Xie Jingzi away—