After breakfast, the Xiao family's mother and daughter, who were still in high spirits, discussed going shopping and buying some new clothes for everyone. Anyway, the demolition compensation would be received soon, so there was no need to live frugally.
Li Mengnan neither likes nor dislikes shopping, an exclusive entertainment activity for women. However, because he had already agreed with Qingche to treat her injuries, Li Mengnan had no choice but to give up this rare family outing.
But after waiting all morning, Qingche never showed up.
At noon, the three of them, their mother and Minnie, who had returned home with a full load, ate at a famous local roast duck restaurant until they got up from a nap and were about to start preparing dinner. This little loli was like a little one out foraging.
The rabbit appeared at the door of Xiao's courtyard with its head peeping out.
Xiao Hui was sweeping the fallen leaves in the courtyard with a big broom. When she saw Qing Che, she greeted with a smile: "Qing Che, come in quickly...are you here to play with Bao'er?"
Xiao Hui's position was a bit off, so Qing Che didn't see her at all when he poked his head around. He suddenly heard someone speaking and was startled. He turned around and subconsciously replied: "Ah, no, Aunt Xiao, I am
Came to see Brother Meng Nan..."
As soon as Qingche said the words, she realized that she had let something slip. Fortunately, Xiao Hui was just a simple-minded housewife. She always treated the little girl Qingche as her own child, and subconsciously did not classify her as an outsider.
, so he didn't worry too much about her coming to Li Mengnan.
"Xiao Nan is repairing the toilet behind the house. He said he wants to put a lock on the door... You can go directly to him. Your sister Minnie is also over there." Xiao Hui pointed out the direction for her with a smile.
Speaking of repairing the door lock, Qing Che couldn't help but think of the incident when Li Mengnan accidentally broke into the toilet yesterday. His face suddenly felt a little hot. He hurriedly said hello to Xiao Hui and ran away as if running away.
"This kid is too shy. He blushes even when he speaks."
Xiao Hui shook her head, smiled, and continued to sweep her yard.
In front of the toilet behind Xiao's house, Li Mengnan held two nails in his mouth and kept hammering them.
Perhaps he found it inconvenient to work, so he had already taken off his T-shirt and hung it on a nearby tree branch. His sharp-edged muscle lines became more three-dimensional under the skewed sunset, as full of masculinity as an ancient Greek marble statue.
Unique beauty of strength.
Men are most attractive when they focus on their work.
Minnie stood aside with the toolbox in hand and looked at Li Mengnan quietly, her eyes quite mesmerized.
Li Mengnan was indeed the guy with the best figure among the boys she had ever seen.
If Li Mengnan can only score six points at most when wearing clothes, once he takes off his shirt to reveal his standard inverted triangle body shape, his gangster-like hanging silk temperament will immediately undergo earth-shaking changes, and instantly transform into a decadent melancholy.
Stylish man.
If he can maintain his unsmiling expression for a long time, this image will be extremely lethal to a little girl who is inexperienced in the world, or a resentful young woman who is lonely in her boudoir.
Women are equally lustful.
Although Li Mengnan did not meet the standards of Minnie's ideal boyfriend, she had to admit that his body made her extremely fascinated.
Thinking of the madness between the two of them last night, Minnie's body felt strange inexplicably, as if she could still faintly feel the other party's rough kneading and violent collision, and her breathing could not help but become a little heavy.
"Little Nini, can you stop staring at my ass like a pervert? It makes my immature little Daisy very insecure..."
Li Mengnan suddenly put down the hammer, took the nail in his hand, and turned his head to look at Minnie with a half-smile.
Minnie didn't expect that Li Mengnan could notice her gaze even though his back was turned to her. She couldn't help but panic, and stuttered and tried to hide it: "Don't... stop being so pretty, who's looking at you, I... I'm guarding the door.
How's your cultivation going? Wait, who allowed you to call me that?"
Only then did Minnie realize that she was just trying to cover up and defend herself, and actually ignored the change of name Li Mengnan used in his words.
"Does this require your permission? Are you, the state official, allowed to set fires, but not me, the bastard, to light lamps?" Li Mengnan pretended to be surprised.
"Why did I set the fire?" Minnie asked in confusion.
"Who screamed 'good brother, he's going to die' last night...wait, who is 'dying'?"
Li Mengnan used his unique ventriloquism skills. Those nine words imitated Minnie's voice and tone so vividly that they were almost indistinguishable from her own.
"You...you are going to die!"
Minnie was ashamed and annoyed. She couldn't even remember what she said in a daze last night. She didn't expect that Li Mengnan could still remember it so clearly. She immediately grabbed something from the tool box and pointed it at Li Mengnan.
Smashed it over.
Li Mengnan shrank his head, and the flying prop flew dangerously close to his scalp, making a small dent in the brick wall behind him.
"Ah! Help! The murderer has been silenced!"
While the two were fighting, a little head with a ponytail timidly poked his head out from the corner of the main room, wanting to speak, but not knowing how to speak.
Minnie's attention has always been on the corner leading to the small courtyard. She was afraid that her mother Xiao Hui would come over suddenly. Someone appeared silently and almost scared her heart out of her throat. However, she saw clearly that the person coming was
Qingche, the little girl, she breathed a sigh of relief.
"Qing Che? Why are you here? Bao'er is watching TV in the house." In Minnie's impression, Qing Che always comes to see Xiao Bao'er.
Qingche didn't move, just kept lowering his head and pinching the corner of his clothes, and occasionally glanced at Li Mengnan next to Minnie.
"I have something to do with her... So, please come to my room and wait for me. I'll be there soon. By the way, I'm staying in Bao'er's original room now. Don't go wrong."
In order to take care of the papery face of this little lolita Qingche, Li Mengnan did not say that she was looking for him, but changed the opposite statement.
Qingche also heard the care for her in Li Mengnan's words, glanced at Li Mengnan gratefully, turned around and disappeared around the corner.
"You have something to do with her? When did you become so familiar with Qingche?" Minnie stared at Li Mengnan's face with suspicion.
She may not understand Li Mengnan, but she knows this little girl Qingche very well. This little girl is so introverted and shy that she wants to take a detour when she sees a man. How could she take the initiative to go on an appointment with a strange man?
"What's that look in your eyes? Can't you recognize me if I'm not familiar with you?... If my image with thick eyebrows and big eyes were placed in a main theme film and television drama, even if he wasn't a great and upright hero, he would at least be a positive character! Being raped by a little girl
Isn’t it normal for worship to lead to trust and dependence?”
Li Mengnan curled his lips in disdain, expressing his extreme dissatisfaction and protest at Minnie's look that looked like a goldfish with a lollipop.
"You know how to talk nonsense with me!" Minnie rolled her eyes at Li Mengnan, pointed at the tip of Li Mengnan's nose with a serious face and said: "I'm warning you, Qingche is a very simple little girl, don't hit me and Bao'er.
Flag, what harm was done to her, did you hear?"
Li Mengnan sighed helplessly. Faced with Minnie's suspicion, he could only answer with the same words again.
"Don't worry, even if I am a beast, I still have a bottom line."
"Huh! It's not like you haven't crossed your bottom line before." Minnie said still reluctantly.
"I said, even if I really want to change my taste and eat some tender and juicy veal, it's not your responsibility, right? You are just my sister at the moment." Li Mengnan didn't bother to argue with her, and just said it in one sentence.
Hit her in the Achilles' heel.
"I……"
Minnie suddenly lost her temper. Indeed, although there was some super-friendship between the two, after all, she never agreed to date Li Mengnan, be his girlfriend, and interfere with his private life without any status. Indeed
Some tubes are too wide.
"I...I don't care about you! I'm just reminding you that Bao'er likes you so much. Don't go too far and make Bao'er sad..."
Minnie threw down the toolbox and walked away. She was not really angry, but she was afraid that if she stayed any longer, she would not be able to find any excuses.
…
When Li Mengnan returned to the room, Qing Che was sitting on the chair beside the bed, flipping through a booklet with a slightly old cover.
Those are Li Mengnan's magic notes, and he would casually record any sudden inspiration in it.
Of course, more than ten years of inspiration cannot be recorded in one notebook. The book in Qingche's hand is already his seventh magic notebook.
"Ah! Yes...I'm sorry! I didn't mean to peek! When I came in just now, I accidentally dropped this notebook on the ground. I saw that it was not a diary, so I flipped through it casually..."
Seeing Li Mengnan walk in, Qing Che hurriedly threw the magic notes on the table and buried his head low, like a naughty child who went to the orchard to steal peaches but was caught by the fruit farmer.
"It's okay, if it's you, I don't mind." Li Mengnan smiled and sat on the edge of the bed, reaching out to pick up the magic note and hand it to her again.
Although this statement sounds a bit ambiguous, Li Mengnan does not have any other more complicated meaning.
The magic notebook is actually like a code book. It is recorded in secret codes that only the magician himself knows. Even if someone who is also a magician gets it, they may not be able to decipher it in three to five years, let alone
Talking about a little girl like Qingche who may not even have seen any tricks before.
However, the speaker was unintentional, but the listener was intentional. Qingche obviously misunderstood Li Mengnan's meaning. His face suddenly turned red like a ripe apple, and he did not dare to touch the notebook at hand, as if it had turned into a red-hot piece of paper.
iron.
Li Mengnan smiled nonchalantly. He had gotten used to Qing Che's habit of blushing at every turn, and then stood up, pulled up the curtains, and locked the door.
"Wait! Brother Meng Nan, don't!"
Qingche suddenly jumped up from the stool like a frightened little rabbit, opened the curtains again, and opened the door wide. Then he breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Brother Mengnan, I'm not here to treat your injury.
I just want to apologize to you... I was supposed to come to see you in the morning, but I didn't expect that my dad would stay at home unusually today and didn't go out. If he didn't leave, I didn't dare to leave, so I delayed it until now.
Come tell you."
"Oh, that's it..." Li Mengnan didn't think Qingche looked like the kind of girl who casually broke appointments. It would be hard to tell if it was Minnie. She was used to letting other people let her pigeons go, "So your father is gone now.
?”
"Well, my dad just left. He said he was going out to have dinner with a friend and then take a shower. He might not be back at night." Qingche answered honestly.
Li Mengnan suddenly discovered that when Qingche mentioned that her father would not come home at night, she did not have the uneasiness and fear that ordinary little girls would have if they were left alone. The look on her face seemed very relaxed, and there was even a faint feeling of relief.
"In that case, you can feel free to treat your injuries here. I'll tell my mother later and ask her to cook more. You can stay here to eat in the evening."
"No! Brother Mengnan!" Qingche hurriedly grabbed Li Mengnan's sleeves, why: "I won't eat here, and the treatment of injuries...should we forget it? Aunt Xiao, Sister Minnie, Bao
My son is at home, even if he is treating his injuries, it would be so embarrassing to be seen by them..."
"How long has this been, and you are still obsessed with such an insignificant face issue? Do you know how serious the injuries on your body are? I can tell you responsibly that it is no longer a matter of leaving scars or not.
Yes, serious subcutaneous bleeding can lead to death! I don’t want to be in the hospital morgue next time I see you!”
Li Mengnan finally saw that for a girl like Qingche, no matter how much she stated her interests or tried to persuade her kindly, she would only struggle repeatedly and waver between yes and no. Instead, it would be better to just force her to decide for her. She would never do anything.
Resistance will only lead to obedience and submission.
"Oh, then... let me treat it." Looking at Qing Che's submissive expression, it doesn't seem like he is worried about himself, but more like he is afraid of Li Mengnan's anger, "Brother Mengnan, how about... you go to my house, okay?
"
After calming down, Li Mengnan also felt that he was a little careless. There was a huge difference in gender and age between him and Qingche. Things that seemed insignificant to him might be bigger than the sky in the eyes of the little girl.
She would be extremely nervous if she was seen by an acquaintance walking with a boy. She would take off her clothes and have medicine applied to her body by a man she had only met a few times. Moreover, it would be at her best friend's house. This was indeed a little bit for Qing Che.
The stimulation is too much.
Thinking about it this way, going to Qingche's house to help her treat her injuries is a good compromise.
"Then you wait for me at home, I'll go over after dinner." Li Mengnan nodded and agreed.
Seeing that Li Mengnan didn't object anymore, Qingche felt a little relieved. He stood up and was about to leave. When he walked to the door, he seemed to remember something. He turned around and reminded in a low voice: "Brother Mengnan, I overheard me at noon today."
Dad was on the phone, and he was lying on the bed with the speakerphone on. The voice on the other end of the phone sounded familiar to me, like Uncle Mi’s voice..."
"Uncle Mi?" Li Mengnan was stunned for a moment before he realized that the "Uncle Mi" Qing Che mentioned should be Xiao Baoer and Minnie's father.
That man named Mitong.
Strange, hadn't this man disappeared for a long time because of debt evasion? Why did he suddenly get in touch with Qingche's father? And it happened at this critical moment when the shantytown was about to be demolished?
"Did you hear what they said?"
"No, when my father heard it was Uncle Mi, he turned off the speakerphone and deliberately lowered his voice. I didn't hear a word of their subsequent conversation."
"Then do you know where your father is?"
If Li Mengnan guessed correctly, the "friend" Qingche's father wanted to meet in the evening was probably Mitong, who had disappeared for a long time. If we could find the place where they met, we might be able to find out the purpose of his return this time.
Unfortunately, Qingche shook his head again to express his ignorance.
"Oh, I understand. You can go back first. Thank you for telling me this."
After Qingche left, Li Mengnan thought about it again and again and decided not to tell his mother and Minnie Baoer about the incident.
After all, that Mi Tong abandoned his wife and children and disappeared for so long. The mother and daughter of the Xiao family had already completely eliminated him as a husband and father in their hearts, whether he came back this time just to see his wife and children, or for other reasons.
, Li Mengnan didn’t want this person to disturb the peaceful life of the Xiao family at this moment.
Because this is his home now.
After dinner, while Minnie and Xiao Baoer went to the kitchen to wash the dishes, Li Mengnan wiped the table and asked Xiao Hui: "Mom, the house is about to be demolished. Are the land certificates and real estate certificates at home ready?"
Although Xiao Hui didn't know why Li Mengnan suddenly became concerned about this matter, she didn't think much about it and replied with a smile: "It has been prepared for a long time. It has been kept at the bottom of the big wardrobe..."
"The big wardrobe? It doesn't even have a lock. Isn't it safe? Mom, please put these things somewhere else. If not, open a temporary safe in the bank. It's the safest place..."
Li Mengnan couldn't express his worries directly, so he could only give indirect reminders like this.
It's a pity that Xiao Hui didn't know the inside story, so she naturally wouldn't think about it in that direction. She shook her head and said: "It can't be eaten or spent. Who would steal it? What's more, even if it is lost, the real estate bureau has recorded it, so it doesn't matter.
...Xiao Nan, I can understand how you feel, but you think a little too much."
Li Mengnan could only smile casually and deal with it.
He really preferred that he was overthinking it, but he always had a feeling that when that man came back this time, it must be more than just homesickness.
…
After watching TV programs with the mother and daughter of the Xiao family for a while, Li Mengnan got up and said goodbye to Xiao Hui on the pretext of going to a classmate's birthday party.
Although Xiao Hui was a little reluctant to give up, she couldn't interfere with Li Mengnan's normal social interactions. Moreover, Li Mengnan had to go back to school the next day, so she could only tell him to be more careful on the road and give Li Mengnan a bag of snacks bought at noon.
and fruit, let him take them home to eat with his roommates.
To put it bluntly, Li Mengnan only took away the fruits and left all the snacks and other items for Baoer and Minnie.