"Xiao Li, this is the steamed crab made by my sister-in-law. Try this."
"And this, crispy quail, Nan Nan likes to eat the most."
"..."
At the dinner table, Li Nanke looked at the pile of bowls in front of him, fearing that they would fall over in the next second, so he quickly said: "No, sister-in-law, I can do it myself. You don't have to be so polite."
"My family, why are you so polite?"
The smile on Yan Yunfang's face never broke. The more she looked at Li Nanke, the happier she became. She couldn't help but pick up another chicken leg.
Snapped!
Leng Siyuan, who was left aside, took a picture of Kuaizi and frowned: "I'm not a child, do you need to take care of me like this?"
Yan Yunfang was startled and said with a smile: "Xiao Li is a guest, so of course he should be treated well."
The woman was very puzzled and didn't understand what was wrong with her husband.
When I heard that my sister had brought a man, I was so happy that I almost smiled.
Now that we have met, he keeps putting on a bad face.
If she hadn't been worried about Li Nanke being here, she would have pulled out her hair and gone out to clean it up.
Leng Siyuan wanted to say something else, but he saw his wife squinting her eyes with a cold light, and then obediently picked up the kuaizi and started eating. However, her face was still as cold as iron, as if someone owed him two hundred and fifty.
Li Nanke ate the food silently, not daring to raise his head.
From beginning to end, I didn't dare to look at my uncle.
I had not dared to utter a single word of the words I had prepared earlier.
Only now did he know that Leng Xinnan's brother was the chief executive of the Yunzhi Night Patrol Department. No wonder Little Rabbit and the others kept complaining.
But sadly...
In the brothel, he beat Mr. Souji.
What is this thing called?
Li Nanke was filled with sorrow and secretly thought about whether to burn some paper money or something. He had been plagued by bad luck recently.
"By the way, Xiao Li, you said you met Nan Nan's brother earlier. Was he in the Night Patrol Department?"
Yan Yunfang randomly picked up a topic and asked.
Just as Li Nanke opened his mouth to make a sound, Leng Siyuan coughed hard.
"What's wrong?"
Yan Yunfang frowned and looked at her husband in confusion.
The man held his throat and took a few sips of tea before gasping and saying, "I accidentally got a chili pepper stuck in my throat."
"Why are you in such a hurry to eat? No one is trying to grab it from you."
Yan Yunfang went over with more tea.
"Thank you, madam." Leng Siyuan smiled, but his eyes glanced at Li Nanke, narrowing slightly in a warning tone.
"We met in the Night Patrol Department." Li Nanke cooperated to cover up, and joked: "I didn't know that Mr. Souji was Sister Leng's brother at the time. If I had known, I would have come to curry favor with you."
"Don't worry, there will be plenty of time to fawn over you in the future."
Yan Yunfang had a teasing expression on her face, with hidden words. When she saw the man finished chewing the chicken drumstick, he took another one and asked with a smile, "Xiao Li, how old are you today."
"When you eat, you eat. What do you do when you ask someone about their age?"
Leng Siyuan once again expressed his dissatisfaction.
"Just chat casually."
Yan Yunfang smiled, then stared at her husband with warning eyes.
It’s like saying again: Shut up and eat!
Leng Siyuan did not dare to say anything anymore and wanted to pick up a piece of chicken drumsticks, but his wife brought them all to Li Nanke, leaving only a plate of fried bean sprouts for him.
The treatment was suddenly different.
Leng Siyuan's face twitched a few times, and he looked at Li Nanke with an increasingly unpleasant look.
"I am twenty-two this year." Li Nanke smiled shyly.
"Hey, you, it's time to start a family and start a career at this age. I wonder if Xiao Li has a family yet?"
"sister in law!"
Leng Xinnan suddenly interrupted, with a bit of dissatisfaction in her clear beautiful eyes, "You are checking people's household registration. I just came here to have a meal. Why are you asking so many questions?"
"You girl, Xiao Li is your friend. I will come here often in the future. What's wrong with me just chatting?"
Yan Yunfang only thought that the other party was thin-skinned, and couldn't help but joke, "You are not Xiao Li's wife, so you are protecting him like this? You have never felt so sorry for your sister-in-law."
"Sister-in-law, what are you talking about?"
Leng Xinnan glanced at her with an angry look, her cheeks flushed.
"Okay, okay, just kidding."
Afraid of really annoying this shameless girl, Yan Yunfang said quickly.
Immediately, he turned to Li Nanke and smiled: "At your age, you are about the same age as my Nan Nan.
Although this girl in my family is beautiful and has a gentle and virtuous temperament, she just has high standards. She doesn’t like this one and doesn’t like that one, so she is still unmarried..."
"What do you mean by how old?"
Seeing his wife starting to get to the point, Leng Siyuan couldn't help but knock on the table and interrupted, "This girl is almost thirty, how old is she?"
Hearing this, Yan Yunfang's expression turned cold.
My husband is getting more and more excessive.
Leng Xinnan's eyes darkened, she lowered her head silently and started eating, her eyes gradually turning red.
After all, it is very heartbreaking for a woman to be ridiculed for her age by others and even relatives in front of the person she likes.
The atmosphere at the dinner table suddenly fell into a deadlock.
It looked like we couldn't continue the conversation.
And this is also Leng Siyuan's purpose, intending to disturb the atmosphere.
Looking at the sad and beautiful boss, Li Nanke knew that he could no longer be a coward. He raised his head and looked directly at the chief executive in front of him, and said in a deep voice:
"I don't agree with what Master Leng said. Let's not say whether Sister Leng and I will become husband and wife in the future. Even if we do, age is not a problem."
Leng Siyuan's face still had that slightly sarcastic look of indifference.
"Besides..."
Li Nanke paused and said, "Master Leng can marry his sister-in-law, so what if he is older?"
As soon as these words came out, everyone's expressions changed.
"What did you say?"
Leng Siyuan's sharp eyes were like actual blades, sharp and cold.
Li Nanke was not afraid at all and said loudly: "Isn't it right? My sister-in-law looks not much older than me, she may even be about the same age as me. How old are you, Mr. Souji?"
Mr. Souji can marry such a young wife, ignore the age gap, and yet take care of his sister. Doesn’t this mean that the state officials only need to set fires and the people are not allowed to light lamps?"
As soon as Li Nanke finished speaking, there was silence in the living room.
Leng Siyuan, who had just become angry, was stunned on the spot, unable to follow Li Nanke's thinking for a moment.
Yan Yunfang laughed, very brightly, and looked at Li Nanke a little closer than before: "Xiao Li, you have misunderstood your chief minister, your sister-in-law and I are almost forty."
, how can I compare with a young man like you."
Li Nanke was surprised and said: "This is impossible, I thought..."
The man immediately stopped laughing and apologized repeatedly, "I'm sorry, I'm really sorry. Mainly because my sister-in-law looks too young, so I misunderstood, and I also misunderstood Mr. Leng.
In addition, many officials like to marry young and beautiful wives. So I also thought... I am really sorry, Mr. Souji, because my thinking is too narrow-minded.
I'll take tea instead of wine and punish myself with three cups."
Li Nanke stood up, poured three cups of tea, drank it in front of Leng Siyuan, and then bowed.
Although every sentence expresses apology.
But he praised the two of them in disguise.
One praises Yan Yunfang for being young and beautiful, the other praises Leng Siyuan for being devoted and devoted to her love.
The atmosphere at the dinner table also regained its harmony.
Beside her, Leng Xinnan bit her cherry lips and glared at the man with her watery, charming almond eyes.
This guy just likes to scare people.
Leng Siyuan's lips curved, mocking Li Nan
Ke was acting like a cliched flatterer. But he didn't say anything more. Instead, there was a hint of appreciation in his eyes that he didn't have just now.
Smart people are very likable.
Especially those who are officials like this kind of smart people who are very knowledgeable.
But such smart people can easily deceive women.
Leng Siyuan glanced at the knife on Li Nanke's waist, his eyes a little complicated.
"Xiao Li is right, age is not a problem. As long as two people like each other and can live together, then they are suitable." Yan Yunfang took the initiative to take over the topic and said with a smile.
Although he knew that Li Nanke was deliberately trying to flatter him, Yan Yunfang was very useful.
There is nothing cliché or cliché in this world.
As long as you can capture someone else's heart, that's your skill.
"Okay, let's talk first. I still have official business to deal with." Leng Siyuan still had a great prejudice against Li Nanke and was too lazy to bring them together here. He stood up and left.
"Okay, then go ahead."
Yan Yunfang wished that her troublesome husband would leave as soon as possible.
After Leng Siyuan left, Yan Yunfang started asking questions like a mother-in-law again. Finally, Leng Xinnan, who couldn't bear to listen anymore, forced Li Nanke to leave with her sister-in-law's dissatisfied eyes.
Yan Yunfang felt doubly amused when she saw Leng Xinnan's little daughter's demeanor trying her best to hide her true feelings.
The girl finally has someone she likes and doesn't need to worry anymore.
Yan Yunfang cleared the food on the table, came to the study and stared coldly at her husband who was sitting on the chair reading documents, and said dissatisfiedly: "What on earth is going on with you today? Are you trying to show off your face?"
"Li Nanke, we are married."
Leng Siyuan handed over the personnel information of the Night Patrol Department in his hand and said calmly, "I have been busy these past two days and I didn't bother to pay attention to him."
Got married?
Yan Yunfang looked shocked and walked over to pick up the information and take a closer look.
For a long time, she frowned and murmured: "How could this happen? Looking at Nan Nan's expression, she clearly likes that boy."
"I'm not blind."
Leng Siyuan pinched his eyebrows and said calmly, "I don't like that kid, so I will transfer him tomorrow."
Yan Yunfang's face darkened, "Did you see that knife?"
Leng Siyuan was silent.
Yan Yunfang said: "That is a relic left by your mother to Nan Nan. It is her most precious item. But now it is given to Xiao Li. How can you beat a mandarin duck with such feelings?"
"Then what do you mean, let Nan Nan be your concubine?" Leng Siyuan asked back.
Yan Yunfang remained silent.
It's really hard to accept having your precious girl be someone else's concubine.
Leng Siyuan said: "Just now I looked at the cases in Dongqi County in detail. This Li Nanke is a talent. If he can be cultivated properly, he will have great achievements. But... he recruits women too much."
Although I have some criticisms about her husband's attitude of beating mandarin ducks, I have to admit that what he said makes sense.
That Li Nanke is indeed very attractive to girls.
"If Nan Nan likes it, as long as she is happy, what's the point of being a concubine? I think Xiao Li is a man who loves women very much."
Yan Yunfang decided to speak up for Li Nanke, "Nan Nan will not be wronged if she follows him."
Leng Siyuan said: "I am very accurate in judging people. This Li Nanke will definitely have three wives and four concubines in the future. By then, do you think Nan Nan will still be happy? Will she not be wronged?"
Yan Yunfang opened her mouth, but finally just sighed.
But remembering the gentle look in Nan Nan's eyes when she looked at Li Nanke, Yan Yunfang said softly: "Nan Nan is not a child anymore, she is an adult. If you get involved at will, she won't hate you to death.
Let them handle emotional matters on their own.
You feel sorry for Nannan, but you can't always protect her like this.
It’s hard for Nannan to find someone she likes, so just let her like her for once.”
Listening to his wife's persuasion, Leng Siyuan fell into silence.
——
It was late at night when Li Nanke returned home.
The sky is dotted with sparkling stars, looking dark, hazy and psychedelic.
Li Nanke entered the living room, with some warm food still on the table. Luo Qianqiu sat quietly on the chair, her slightly thin and elegant dress making her figure look extremely graceful.
Li Nanke, who was in a guilty state, forced out a smile and asked, "Madam, haven't you eaten yet?"
"Waiting for my husband."
Luo Qianqiu's smiling eyes were particularly bright under the oil lamp.
Li Nanke said "oh" and sat down to eat normally. But because Yan Yunfang had brought too many dishes, the man's stomach was so full that he didn't want to eat after two mouthfuls.
"Have you gone to Sister Leng's house?" A woman's intuition is extremely accurate.
Just because the man's guilty conscience was too obvious.
Li Nanke smiled and said: "The main thing is to meet her brother, the chief executive of the Night Patrol Department, and discuss some business matters."
"When do you plan to get married?"
"..."
Li Nanke was silent for a long time with his head lowered, then raised his head and said to the woman: "I kissed her today, and I took the initiative."
Luo Qianqiu's slender eyelashes lightly covered her eyes, as if she had closed her eyes.
The snow lotus seems to be lonely in the night, with a sad feeling of being abandoned.