The three of them sat in the yard for a while, looking at the stars in the sky and the cool moonlight, chatting casually for a while.
Ling Yexue stood up and prepared to leave.
Li Chenguang also stood up, "I'll see you off."
"You can pull him down."
Ling Yexue rolled her eyes at him, "I can't walk within a hundred meters of the place next door. Why are you so polite to me?"
Ling Yexue took a few steps and pointed at Li Chenguang, "Remember to do your homework and read your notes. Do you know?"
"I know, I will remember it this time." Li Chenguang nodded hurriedly.
"And weeds."
"It must be cut, it must be cut."
Unfortunately, Ling Yexue just gave him a completely distrustful look, and finally looked at Li Diexi meaningfully before leaving.
This time, instead of walking through the bushes, he walked around the side of the house and left through the front door.
The designs of the two villas are basically the same.
Ling Yexue returned to her small villa, opened the door gently, and saw her father sitting on the sofa in the living room watching TV.
"Dad, I'm back."
"Um."
Ling Yuanfeng looked slightly older, with a face heavily marked by time. He was wearing a pair of small glasses and holding a newspaper in his hand. He was sitting on the couch in the middle, looking somewhat old-fashioned and majestic.
He first nodded to Ling Yexue, then turned back and looked at Ling Yexue's skirt, "Why is the skirt torn?"
Ling Yexue sat on a low stool at the entrance and answered while taking off her shoes, "I just accidentally scratched it on a branch on the roadside. I'll just sew it up later. I only wear it at home anyway."
"Well, be careful next time. If your skirt is torn, don't leave it. Don't scratch your skin."
Ling Yuanfeng expressed concern at first, and then said earnestly, "Although I was recruited directly by the Imperial Martial Arts without taking an exam, I can't be careless. Read the books in the university as soon as possible. There are some of the most powerful students in the country in the Imperial Capital. I'm afraid you won't be able to keep up. schedule."
"I know, Dad."
"Well, do you have enough money? If you need to buy something, tell Dad."
"I know."
As soon as Ling Yexue took off her sandals and put on her slippers, her mother Zhou Shuhan came out of the kitchen wearing a scarf.
Zhou Shuhan has a plump figure, with the fullness of a mature woman, and a graceful body. She looks a little older in comparison. She looks like Ling Yuanfeng in her fifties or sixties when she is in her 40s. She looks like a mature young woman. The heavy weight on her chest is vague. We can see the future development direction of Ling Yexue.
Zhou Shuhan and Ling Yuanfeng went to that station together. It gave people the feeling that Ling Yuanfeng seemed to have been squeezed dry. His hair was white, but Zhou Shuhan was getting more and more moisturized.
In the past, Ling Yuanfeng was a well-known businessman. He married a beautiful wife who was envied by everyone, and had a cute, smart and talented baby daughter. Unfortunately, a storm directly destroyed his merchant ship.
Now I can only work as an editor at a newspaper, earning a monthly salary of four to five thousand.
Zhou Shuhan came out with a bowl of longan and lotus seed soup, "I gave Chen Guang the strawberries. Come on, try the longan and lotus seed soup that mom made for you. It's good for your brain."
"Um."
Zhou Shuhan put the longan and lotus seed soup on the coffee table and called Ling Yexue over.
Ling Yexue sat on the floor in front of the coffee table, folded her legs, scooped out the spoon, and put it to her delicate mouth to blow the cold air.
Zhou Shuhan also sat down on the sofa next to her, staring at Ling Yexue's beautiful black hair on the back, which fell next to the coffee table, convex as it should be, curled as it should be, and the beautiful and graceful profile, and sighed, "As expected of me. My daughter has the same style as I did back then, she is getting more and more beautiful, and she has reached the age where we should talk about marriage."
When Ling Yexue heard this, she unconsciously sped up the spoon.
Due to the sudden drop in the war population these days, the legal age for marriage has been raised to 18.
The empire advocates that ordinary girls should get married at the age of 18. They can start a family and study at the same time. There are also bonus credits. The main focus is on all-round development and having more children.
Zhou Shuhan said, looking in the direction of Li Chenguang's house next door, and sighed, "That Li Chenguang, his parents were probably eaten by dragons."
When Ling Yuanfeng heard this, he smacked his lips, said "tsk", and looked at Zhou Shuhan with a frown.
Zhou Shuhan also met his gaze unceremoniously, "Why, am I wrong? What's in your eyes?"
Ling Yuanfeng frowned, "Why are you here again? Why are you cursing others?"
"It's been 6 years. Which parent would leave their child at home for 6 years and not come back? The person must be gone. Look at his relatives, the eldest uncle and the second uncle who always run to his house. Just look at two of them. The child is easy to bully, so what’s the remaining property?”
"Okay, okay, we can't control this, so stop talking."
"I don't care. What I mean is, don't worry about Xiaoxue. We have taken good care of their family for so many years, and we often call the two little ones to come for dinner. Why, we will rely on our family Xiaoxue for the rest of his life. Xiaoxue also If you want to get married, if you come so close, people will gossip, do you understand?"
"Look at what you said, you already had a baby to kiss at that time. How can a man go back on his promise?"
"Can it be the same before as it is now?"
"A gentleman's words are hard to follow, so why..."
Zhou Shuhan's voice was amplified several times and could be heard clearly even outside the house. She interrupted Ling Yuanfeng and said, "I used to think that his father, Li Yu, was also from the Li family. I thought he was related to the city lord. Who would have thought that the two families were separated?" In the eighteenth generation, her mother, Feng Weixian, has an unusual temperament, and later I checked that none of the nobles in the 36 cities in our country have the surname Feng."
"Now that the man is dead, he is completely destitute, and his eldest and second uncle are still worried about his remaining house. Soon the house will be gone. Do you still want us, Xiaoxue, to marry him?"
Zhou Shuhan pointed at Ling Yuanfeng's nose and cursed, "Why are you marrying her? Are you going to suffer together? You want your daughter to die."
"No, why are you like this? You were begging for nothing at first, and I said no. You insisted on making a marriage agreement just because the two children would fall in love. You accepted the betrothal gift, and now you regret it?"
"What do you call a betrothal gift? It's just a broken bell."
"Everyone said it was a family heirloom, otherwise they wouldn't have kept wearing Xiao Guang around their necks,"
"Bah, it's a broken pocket watch that can't be repaired and won't move for hundreds of years. Why do you think it's so rare? I asked my antique shop friend. It's worthless at all. It's something that no one picks up on the street. I suspect they're trying to trick us. Well, there are so many liars pretending to be nobles to deceive people nowadays... Think about it, Li Chenguang has no car, no house, no repairs, no future, and drags along a dragster sister. Do you want Xiaoxue to suffer for the rest of his life? Just for you. What kind of man’s promise is that?”
"You were the one who said you wanted to get engaged at first, and now you're the one saying no."
"It's not that you are useless. Who will take care of the family and repay the house loan? With your salary of several thousand per month, Xiaoxue and I would have starved to death. Xiaoxue has opened up three orifices so hard. The secret skills are crystallized. Where is the money... "
Ling Yexue was already used to this situation.
She didn't say a word from beginning to end. Even though her mouth was a little hot, she still raised her neck and drank the lotus seed soup quickly. Then she stood up and turned her back to Zhou Shuhan and said, "Mom, I'm done eating. Let's go upstairs first."
After saying that, he walked quickly towards the stairs next door, as if he didn't want to stay for a moment longer.
Zhou Shuhan quickly followed, "Hey, Xiaoxue, I heard someone said that the city lord's son Li Tianming has been chasing you recently, and he is chasing you very closely. I think he is quite good, and he is the eldest son of the city lord. There is a high probability that he will inherit the jade in the future." Haicheng, do you want to..."
Zhou Shuhan had just reached the stairs when Ling Yexue had disappeared around the corner of the second floor, and then there was a deafening "bang" sound of the door closing, making the floor seem to shake.
"This kid... why are you closing the door so hard? Really, don't hurt your hands."
Zhou Shuhan came to the living room to clean up Ling Yexue's leftover bowl.
Ling Yuanfeng said angrily, "Can you please stop talking about this kind of thing in front of children in the future? The impact will be very bad."
Zhou Shuhan's voice immediately raised another 180 degrees. She put her hands on her hips and said, "No, now you know it's not good? You go to the newspaper office and sit on your butt all day long. You are relaxed. You only care about your daughter." With this salary, do I need to worry about you if you want to make a living..."
When the salary was mentioned, Ling Yuanfeng shivered. He muttered something about "women and villains are hard to support." He picked up the newspaper and covered his face, as if he didn't want to see Zhou Shuhan's face for a second.
But this does not stop Zhou Shuhan's roaring voice and anger, as well as the mouth that outputs like a machine gun...
At this moment, a slight knock on the door sounded.
"Dong dong dong, dong dong dong".
Zhou Shuhan was stunned for a moment, finally stopped talking, and gave Ling Yuanfeng a hard look. She came to the entrance, pulled on a pair of pink slippers, and opened the door.
I found Li Chenguang standing alone at the door under the cover of night.
Li Chenguang smiled at Zhou Shuhan, "Auntie, I just finished eating the strawberries and forgot to bring the basket back. I washed it and brought it over. I don't know if I still want it."
As he spoke, he handed over the small basket in his hand.
Zhou Shuhan's face transformation was as fast and efficient as a Saiyan's transformation. She immediately put on a smile, took the basket and said, "Xiaoguang, come on, come in and sit down, come in and sit down, have you had dinner?"
"Thank you, auntie, I've eaten."
Ling Yuanfeng also put down the newspaper, looked at Li Chenguang, as if nothing had happened, and said with a smile, "Xiaoguang, how are your recent grades?"
"Okay, okay."
"You have to study hard, you know."
"Yes, I know, uncle."
"Whenever I have nothing to do, I go to my uncle's house to play. We are all part of the same family."
"I will. It's very late today, so I'll go back first."
Zhou Shuhan invited with a smile on her face, "You're already here, why don't you come in and sit down? Come in and sit down."
Li Chenguang declined, "No, thank you, auntie, Xixi is still waiting for me at home."
"Okay, then next time, I'll come to my aunt's house to play."
"Um."
As Li Chenguang turned around with a smile, Zhou Shuhan immediately closed the door...
