Chapter 157 - 157 Chapter 156, Blind Date (1)
157 Chapter 156, Blind Date (1)
She looked at Li Yong and instructed, “The children should be up soon. Go to the house and make breakfast for them.”
Li Yong seemed to have grabbed onto a life-saving straw as he quickly left the shop and ran away.
Li Lei stood in the shop and looked at Li Xu with his head drooping.
There was no one in the shop at this moment, Li Xu said bluntly, “What’s the matter with you? The appointment has been made, and you want to change the person at the last minute. What do you want the girl to think? That you treat her like cabbage? And let you two brothers choose?”
Looking at Li Lei’s appearance, she felt a little angry.
Li Lei shook his head embarrassedly, “I didn’t mean that, but I don’t want to go on a blind date so soon.”
“Are you still thinking about Liang Yufang?”
At the mention of the name Liang Yufang, Li Lei’s expression became unnatural for a moment.
“No, I just…” Li Lei denied it. He thought for a moment and said, “It’s just for a while, I can’t get over this hurdle in my heart.”
Li Xu could almost understand Li Lei’s thoughts.
After all, for the past three years, Li Lei had always treated Liang Yufang as a fiancée seriously. Suddenly, such a thing happened.
Although he had dealt with it decisively, he could not accept it in his heart.
His feelings for Liang Yufang might not be deep.
However, this change had a huge impact on him.
“Since that’s the case, you should contact some other people.” Li Xu Sighed, “You can’t just stay where you are.”
He had stayed in the army for eight years. His ability to accept new things was slightly worse than that of an ordinary person.
“I’ve already made an appointment with them. I can’t stand them up. Besides, don’t think too highly of yourself. What if they don’t like you?” Li Xu said, “Let’s meet them first. They’ll be here at ten o’clock. There’s still an hour left, get ready.”
Li Lei lowered his head and did not speak.
When Li Yong came over, the three children were already up.
The two brothers were doing their homework while Ji Yuanyuan was reading a book.
“Dream of the Red Chamber?” Li Yong flipped open the cover of the book and took a look. He asked in surprise, “Where did you get the book? Can you read it?”
Ji Yuanyuan did not even lift his eyelids, “I got it from Grandpa Qin.”
There were a lot of books in Qin Junshan’s villa. Ji Yuanyuan went there every weekend, and most of the time, she read there.
Occasionally, she would bring one or two books back to read, but Li Xu never cared about her.
“Do you know all the words in it?” Li Yong asked curiously.
When he was in school, his classmate had one.
After all, it was one of the four great classics. He heard that all the stories in it were love stories, so he couldn’t help but be curious, so he borrowed it to read.
Who knew that after reading two pages, he could not continue reading it.
The content was difficult to understand, and the plot was not very attractive to him. In comparison, he preferred wuxia novels with ups and downs in the plot.
He looked over curiously and was even more surprised.
Ji Yuanyuan was actually reading the original novel, not the translated version in vernacular.
“Can you understand it?” Li Yong asked again. The tone of this sentence was higher than the tone of the previous few sentences.
Clearly, he was very surprised!
Ji Yuanyuan sighed and slowly closed the book. He pointed to the dictionary next to him, “If I don’t understand the words, I can look them up in the dictionary. If I don’t understand reading them once, I can always understand them after reading them twice!”
In her previous life, she did not like reading Dream of the Red Chamber either.
The book was placed in her space and she had made up her mind to read it to the end several times. However, after flipping through two pages, she did not want to read it anymore.
After being reborn, it was possible that her state of mind had changed.
The book that she could not read in the past was now extremely attractive to her.
Li Yong looked at Ji Yuanyuan, and the expression on his face could not hide his surprise.
To be able to read this kind of book calmly at such a young age, this niece of his would probably not be an ordinary person in the future!
Li Yong was not good at studying, but he still admired people who studied well.
Knowledge changed fate. He was not good at studying, so now he could only farm and cook. Even if he liked someone, he did not dare to say it out loud.
Immediately, he did not disturb Ji Yuanyuan’s reading and ran to the kitchen to cook.
After eating, it was almost 9:30.
Li Yong knew that his sister definitely had not eaten breakfast. In addition, he also wanted to see what his big brother’s blind date looked like, so he brought the meal and three nephews to the shop.
Zhang Kun also came over and was busy working in the shop.
After Li Xu finished eating, it was still ten minutes away from ten o’clock. She tidied up the bowls and chopsticks and told Li Yong, “You help here. Later, your Brother-in-law will send Yuanyuan and the others to Uncle Qin’s place.”
As she was talking, she glanced outside, and then a smile appeared on her face.
She came out from behind the cash register, and Li Yong was standing at the door. Li Xu thought that he was in the way, so she reached out and pulled him aside.
Li Yong didn’t notice, and he was almost pulled down by Li Xu. He quickly held on to the wall, and that was how he survived.
He turned his head and saw that Li Xu had already left the shop. She was chatting with a woman at the door.
Behind the woman was a little girl.
The little girl was wearing a black coat with cow horn buttons. She was wearing a pair of black leather shoes and gray pantyhose.
She had two braided braids on her head, and two cute little strawberries at the end of the braids.
Her face was round and red, and her eyes kept glancing into the shop.
When she saw Li Lei, she seemed to be a little shy, but she quickly averted her gaze.
Li Yong looked at her and was a little surprised.
“Hey, Brother, she’s pretty good. You hold on to it!” He urged Li Lei.
It was obvious that this girl had a good temper. Although she was not pretty, she was quite cute.
Li Lei’s face was also a little red. Of course, he was either shy or a little embarrassed.
Soon, Li Xu entered the door.
“Hurry up, didn’t you come here by bike? Take Xiaoning to watch a movie, have a meal, and go shopping at the same time,” Li Xu urged, she went to the back of the cash register and took out a few hundred-dollar bills from it. She handed them to Li Lei and said, “Take this money, don’t be stingy!”
Li Lei didn’t take the money. He only mumbled softly, “I brought money, I don’t want your money!”
Li Xu wanted to say more, but Li Yong quickly said, “My Brother really brought money, I’ll prove it!”
Li Xu then gave up and handed the money to Zhang Kun, motioning for him to put it back.
“Then hurry up and get out, don’t keep a straight face and smile more. Be more enthusiastic when talking to the girl.” Li Xu pushed Li Lei out of the door.
Liang Huimei’s daughter’s surname was Meng, and her name was Meng Xiaoning. At this moment, she was standing behind Liang Hui Mei, her small hands tightly clutching the corner of Liang Hui Mei’s clothes, and her head was lowered.
Li Lei was pulled out by Li Xu. With his head lowered, he went to look for his bicycle.
Liang Huimei naturally saw the way Li Xu had stuffed money into Li Lei’s hands. Her heart was even more satisfied with this family.
She immediately pushed her daughter to Li Lei’s side, “Go, go, go. The two of you can make do outside for lunch.”
Meng Xiaoning’s hands were nervously clutching her braids.