When Li Mengnan returned to his residence from Wu Ansu's house, the room was dark, and it seemed that Xiao Baoer and Qing Che had already fallen asleep.
Xiao Baoer left a note on the door of the study room, roughly telling him that the newly purchased furniture had been installed and placed, everything was ready, and he was just waiting to give his mother Xiao Hui a big surprise tomorrow.
Li Mengnan tore off the note and was about to wash up and go to bed when a text message alert suddenly sounded on his phone. When he opened it, he found that it was from Wu Ansu.
There were only a few simple words on it - be careful on the road and go to bed early when you get home.
This violent woman actually cares about people? Could it be that Wu Xia, that immortal fairy, was teasing herself with Wu Ansu’s cell phone?
However, judging from the literal meaning of this sentence, Wu Ansu should be more generous. If Wu Xia was playing, then the words would definitely be much more hot and disgusting than the current sentence.
Now that he agreed to try dating Wu Ansu for a period of time, Li Mengnan no longer talked about the train nonsense like before. He replied "We are already here, you should go to bed early" and threw the phone next to the pillow.
After coming back from washing, he saw an extra text message on his phone. Li Mengnan thought it was Wu Ansu who had come back. When he opened it, he found that it was just a weather forecast, saying that there would be strong winds, thunder and lightning and other strong convective weather at night. He hoped that the general public would take precautions.
Li Mengnan casually deleted the weather forecast and checked all the doors and windows in the room upstairs and downstairs. After confirming that they were all closed tightly, he returned to the study and got into bed.
I don't know how long it took, but Li Mengnan suddenly felt that there seemed to be an extra person in the room. He suddenly sat up from his sleep and saw Qing Che timidly standing at the door of the room with the faint street light outside the window, holding a pillow.
The wind howled outside the window, and the temperature in the room had dropped below fifteen degrees. The thin silk pajamas were unable to withstand the cold and dampness of the autumn night. The little girl's lips turned white from the cold, and she couldn't help but stand there shivering.
"Qingche? Why are you here?" Li Mengnan quickly stood up, put his arm around her shoulders and brought her to the bed, "Come on, come in first to warm yourself up..."
Qingche grabbed Li Mengnan's hand and huddled under the quilt. The remaining warmth gradually restored a trace of color to her pale face, and then she said: "Brother Mengnan, it seems like it's going to rain. I... I'm afraid...
"
Li Mengnan then remembered that Qing Che seemed to have an extreme fear of thunderstorms, so he touched her head comfortingly and asked strangely: "Isn't Bao'er accompanying you?"
Qingche shook his head and said: "In the evening, Sister Minnie called Bao'er and told her not to live outside and told her to go home tonight.
Baoer called you to inform you, but you hung up the phone. Baoer was afraid that it would be inconvenient for you to answer the phone, so he didn't call you again. He asked me to wait for you to come back and tell you directly.
Maybe I was too tired after walking all day, so I fell asleep while waiting on the bed. Then I woke up once, and Brother Meng Nan, you had already come back to sleep, so I didn’t disturb you."
"Oh, that's it... did Bao'er say anything before he left?"
"Bao'er also asked me to tell you that to celebrate Aunt Xiao's birthday tomorrow, don't book a table at a restaurant outside. She has already prepared food in the refrigerator. When everyone arrives tomorrow, she will eat it directly at home."
Li Mengnan nodded. Unexpectedly, this little girl Bao'er was quite considerate. It was convenient to eat in a restaurant, but after all, it lacked the lively atmosphere of a family dinner.
"Brother Mengnan..." Qingche's little hand stretched out from the quilt, grabbed the lapel of Li Mengnan's clothes, and asked cautiously: "Can I... sleep with you tonight?"
As soon as Li Mengnan hesitated, a dazzling bolt of lightning instantly cut through the dark night sky, and the rumbling thunder that followed frightened Qing Che into screaming and threw herself into his arms, hugging his waist tightly and refusing to let go.
"Forget it, you can sleep here tonight."
It would undoubtedly be extremely cruel to leave this little girl alone in such a thunderstorm. Anyway, Xiao Baoer, the busybody, is not here, so Li Mengnan doesn't need to worry about anything.
What's more, this isn't the first time.
Li Mengnan gently pushed Qing Che's shoulder, indicating that he was sleeping inside, then lifted the corner of the quilt and got into the bed.
As soon as Li Mengnan lay down facing the outside of the bed, he felt a hot and delicate body approaching him, wrapping one arm around his waist, and pressing the two soft lumps on his chest tightly against his back.
"Brother Mengnan, thank you."
Li Mengnan patted the little hand on his waist. He could feel that Qingche's hug was just a kind of dependence and gratitude, and did not contain any sexual content.
"Okay, let's go to sleep. I bet that Bao'er will call us early tomorrow to wake us up."
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Early the next morning, the brighter light in the room made Qing Che feel embarrassed to rely on Li Mengnan anymore. He tidied up his messy pajamas and hair, got up and ran to the bathroom to wash up.
Last night, Xiao Baoer only left the ingredients before leaving and did not prepare breakfast for the next day. However, this was not a problem at all for Qing Che. After washing up, the little loli wore an apron and entered the kitchen, almost on one side.
I finished cooking breakfast while humming a song.
Apparently he was in a pretty good mood.
After breakfast, Li Mengnan wanted to stay with Qingche to celebrate Xiao Hui's birthday, but Qingche said that it was not appropriate for her to stay at this kind of family dinner, and she was also worried that her father would come home suddenly, so she hurriedly left after clearing away the dishes
.
After taking a shower and changing clothes, Li Mengnan put the jewelry box containing the gold necklace in his pocket, left the community, called a taxi and went straight to his home in the shanty town.
Although Li Mengnan felt that he had woken up early enough, he did not expect that someone had woken up earlier than him. As soon as he arrived at the door of the courtyard, before knocking on the door, Minnie opened the door and walked out of the courtyard with a nose or a face.
"You still know how to come back? You didn't answer the phone when I called you, and you weren't there when I went to look for you in your dormitory. Do you know how busy my mother and I have been these days? Bao'er is young and in poor health.
Forget it, you, a grown man, leave such a mess and run out to play by yourself, are you embarrassed?"
In order to keep the secret and give his mother Xiao Hui a surprise, Li Mengnan temporarily blacklisted the mobile phone numbers of Minnie and Xiao Hui in the past two days, so it was expected that Minnie could not find him when she called.
After hearing Minnie's complaint, Li Mengnan couldn't help but laugh, and asked as he walked into the courtyard: "The sun really comes out from the west, don't you rarely look for me?"
"Nonsense, we're moving now. You're the only man in the house. If not you, who can we look for?" Minnie closed the courtyard door and said angrily.
"Moving?" Li Mengnan was slightly stunned.
"Yeah, isn't this house due soon? Mom has been running around everywhere these days and finally found a house with a good price/performance ratio... I went to see it with my mom yesterday. The location is pretty good, but the area is a bit small. I guess
You may have to make a few more partitions yourself.”
Li Mengnan noticed that Minnie was holding several contract-like things in her hand, and said in surprise: "Is this a rental contract? Did you even sign the contract so quickly?"
"No, this is just a letter of intent." Minnie handed the pieces of paper to Li Mengnan and explained at the same time: "The house is almost thirty years old. There are many problems in many places. We decided to rent the house.
, but the premise is that the landlord must repair what needs to be repaired..."
Li Mengnan took the letter of intent and glanced at it briefly, then suddenly clapped his hands together, and countless messy scraps of paper flew and scattered in the wind.
"Hey? You...what are you doing?"
When Minnie wanted to step forward and grab it, it was already too late. She could only look at the large and small pieces of paper on the ground and burst into tears.
"Huh? Xiaonan is back?" At this time, Xiao Hui also walked out of the back room and was startled when she saw the paper scraps on the ground, "Ni'er, what's going on?"
"Ask him! It's okay to go out to play these days and not help. He tore up the letter of intent as soon as we met!" Minnie went over to hold Xiao Hui's arm and angrily started to make a report.
Although Xiao Hui didn't understand why Li Mengnan did this, the palms and backs of her hands were all flesh and they were her own children. She also wanted to protect her and advised: "Forget it, it's just a letter of intent and not a formal contract. What a big deal...
…”
"But there is still a deposit of five hundred yuan!" Minnie said unwillingly.
"Okay, okay, are you two naturally incompatible? Why do you quarrel as soon as you meet?" Xiao Hui reluctantly pulled the two tit-for-tat apart again and said to Li Mengnan: "Xiaonan, the moving company will be here in a moment.
, you come here to lend a hand and bring the miscellaneous small items to the yard first, so that when people come later, you can move faster..."
Li Mengnan peeked inside the open door and saw that the floor and bed of the main room were filled with packages wrapped in sheets, big and small, bulging, and he didn't know what was inside.
thing.
Xiao Baoer also jumped out of the room at this time. When he saw Li Mengnan winking at him and giving him a wink that only the two of them could understand, Li Mengnan also smiled and nodded to her.
It seems that this little girl has done a good job of keeping secret. Until now, her mother Xiao Hui and Minnie obviously don't know that he has rented a house outside.
Now it's time to reveal the truth. Li Mengnan stepped forward and put his arms around Xiao Hui's shoulders, hugged her and walked out of the hospital, saying: "Okay, Mom, stop working, I have rented the house, now we
Just go over there.”
"What? You also rented a house?" Minnie was a little unbelievable.
"You don't believe it? Do you want to make a bet?" Li Mengnan said with a smile, "If you lose, you can take my last name. If you win, I will let you take my last name..."
"Go away! Do you think I'm an idiot for making such an old joke?" Minnie glared at Li Mengnan. This girl's reaction was not slow. If it were a little lolita like Qingche, she would probably fall for it.
"Oh... forget it, I still feel uncomfortable with you taking my last name! Li Ni, it sounds like the female Eighth Route Army soldier in some anti-Japanese drama..." Li Mengnan shook his head and spread his hands.
"Mom! Look at him, he's bullying me again!"
"Eh? Why did you say 'again'? So cruel..."
After calling the moving company to explain the situation, Li Mengnan called a taxi at the entrance of the alley and took the Xiao family, mother and daughter, to their new residence.
Just like Xiao Baoer's reaction last time, as soon as they entered the gate of the community, Xiao Hui and Minnie were stunned by the beautiful and quiet environment inside. Xiao Hui said in disbelief: "Xiao Nan, the house you rented is not here, right? We
It’s just a shortcut, right?”
Xiao Hui has visited many real estate agencies in the past two days and is quite familiar with the recent rental market. In her opinion, even the smallest apartment in a community with such a superior location and environment cannot be afforded by her family's income.
Affordable.
Although Minnie had similar thoughts to Xiao Hui and did not believe that the house Li Mengnan rented was here, she remained silent and her eyes never left the gorgeously dressed young women who appeared on the road in the community from time to time. There was a kind of expression in her eyes.
An extremely complicated look.
Judging from the extravagant expenses of these women that are obviously not commensurate with their age, we can probably guess their despicable careers. Although Minnie also looks down on these women who sell their youth without a bottom line, she has to admit that she
But at the same time, I envied their comfortable and worry-free life.
I obviously have better appearance than these women, so why do I have to work hard for life all day long? As long as I am willing to give up my inner persistence, I should be able to live a better and more comfortable life than these women...
For some reason, Minnie suddenly recalled the scene when she first met Li Mengnan at the beginning of school.
I thought I had met a rich young man who had a "private visit in private", but I didn't expect that he was a poor man with only 24K. It's a shame that I treated him as a rich and handsome man for so long... But then again, if this guy is really a wealthy man
It would be nice if he was a rich man. If it were him, he didn't seem to mind being taken care of.
Li Mengnan was sitting in the front passenger seat guiding the driver. He didn't notice anything strange about Minnie in the back seat. He just smiled and didn't answer Xiao Hui's questions.
However, Xiao Baoer took the initiative to help Li Mengnan, pulling Xiao Hui and saying: "Mom, don't ask, you will know when you get there!"
"Eh? Why do you two seem to be hiding something from me? Ni'er, are you with them?" After all, she was raised by herself, how could Xiao Hui not see Xiao Baoer's little thoughts?
Minnie finally regained her composure, shook her head and said: "Mom, you know, I have been with you these two days, I don't know what tricks they are playing... But having said that, Bao'er, you were really cool the night before yesterday
Are you staying at a classmate’s house?”
Seeing that Minnie saw through the previous lies, Xiao Baoer stuck out his tongue guiltily and laughed in silence.
After paying the fare and getting out of the car, Li Mengnan took Xiao Hui and the others into the high-rise residential building where they rented. It wasn't until they got into the elevator and pressed the button for the top floor that Xiao Hui and Minnie believed that Li Mengnan had really rented a house here.
"Xiao Nan, tell mom, how big is the house you rent? How much does it cost per month?" Xiao Hui was not surprised at all, but instead worried about whether she could afford the rent.
"Mom, don't worry, the rent of this house is not expensive, only a thousand yuan a month, and my brother has already paid three years of rent in one lump sum, so you and my sister can live in peace!"
Xiao Baoer finally couldn't help but reveal a little bit of the inside story. She had been holding such a big secret in her heart for so long, but it broke her heart.
Xiao Hui was very surprised. A thousand yuan a month for a house like this near the city center can no longer be said to be cheap, but quite cheap.
At the same time, another suspicion arose in her mind - for such a cheap rent, could it be that the house was extremely small or had some serious quality problems?
But soon she felt relieved. Her family was already in such a state of poverty, what else could there be to criticize? The so-called house was just a shelter from the wind and rain, as long as it could accommodate four beds and a laundry
A place to cook, what else do you want?
However, Xiao Hui and Minnie soon realized that the place they would call "home" for the next three years was much more than just a place for washing, cooking and setting up four beds.
Li Mengnan took out the key and opened the door. Xiao Baoer, who had been anxious to present the treasure for a long time, couldn't wait to hold Xiao Hui and Minnie and rush into the room.
Although Xiao Hui and Minnie had some unbelievable guesses when they saw the gorgeous double-open security doors at the door, they still agreed when they saw the luxurious room interiors and high-end electrical appliances and furniture inside.
He stood stunned on the spot, not even responding to a few calls, as if his whole body had been petrified.
"Xiao Nan...did we go to the wrong room? Are you sure the floor is correct?"
After a long time, Xiao Hui recovered from the shock and asked Li Mengnan with a trembling voice.