35: Brewing Storm

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"Here, here, your sister's all yours," Zixuan put out his tongue at them and placed her on the floor beside them.

"Shijie!"

"A-Jie!"

Yanli hugged them close. "Guess who get to be the jiujius!"

"YAY!"

"Ah, to think I'll one day be a Da-jiu! Shijie, I'm so happy for you!"

"Da-jiu? I AM THE UNCLE!"

"AND I AM OLDER! Which makes you xiao-jiu and me Da-jiu!"

"Why! I'm already A-Yuan's Xiao-shu, I want to be the older one for once!"

"Tell that to your mother," Jin Zixuan laughed.

"A-Yuan calls you Xiao-shu? Cute."

"My nephew's the sweetest thing on earth," Jiang Yanli smiled. "A-Xian, I'll tell A-Ling to call A-Yuan gege someday, yes?"

"Why not! Ey, so the unborn Jin second heir's name is Ling?"

"Birth name. Courtesy name, you give me one."

"If it's a girl?"

"I'm asking A-Niang for the girl's name. But if it's a boy, we need a courtesy name. A-Xian tell me," Yanli smiled. 

"Yeah, not like we can ask the uncle who named his dogs Love and Princess, can we?" Jin Zixuan snickered.

"OIII!"

"Haha! Erm... what's the generation letter?"

Zixuan thought for some time, counting on his fingers, before answering, "Ru."

"Ru... 'like a'... Eh, Jin Zixuan's child, how about Ru... kongque? Peacock?"

"Good one," Jiang Cheng chuckled.

"But then... Shijie's child would be like a... Hm... Gentle and warm. The silent carer." All of a sudden, his head inadvertently twisted to the right, where the Twin Jades were seated and chatting with Nie Huaisang. He stared at the younger Jade for a few minutes before nodding to himself. "Rulan."

"Like an orchid?" Yanli beamed. "Splendid!"

"I feel like he meant another Lan but the orchid Lan fits," Jin Zixuan smirked. "Oi, Wuxian, stop daydreaming."

"Er, sorry," Wei Wuxian turned his head back to them, blushing furiously. "Got a bit... distracted."

"Clearly." Zixuan and Wanyin snickered.

"Could you excuse me, perhaps?"

"Want to go outside?"

"Yeah, find A-Yuan."

"Wuxian, teach me father tactics later. Now get going, he went that way." 

"Thanks," Wei Ying nodded and marched down the hall. He stopped once at Jiang Fengmian's table, bent down and whispered, "it's sorted, Jiang Shushu. All sorted."

"What's sorted?"

Wei Ying whispered a single word before walking out the door.

"Wei."

Jiang Fengmian's eyes swelled. He turned to Lan Wangji across the hall and pleaded with his eyes. Lan Zhan understood immediately and hurried over. "Shushu?"

"Wangji, please check on him. He just told me that the Wei curse is now all taken care of. You know what that means."

"Dare you to follow my path to hell

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