293. Chapter 290 New 0264 Poor Playing Cars Rich Playing Watches
When Li Mengnan arrived home, Minnie and Xiao Baoer had already returned. Hearing the cheerful laughter of the two sisters playing in the living room, it was obvious that they had gained a lot from shopping today.
"Brother, you are back!"
A light and petite body, wrapped in a faint fragrance, fluttered into Li Mengnan's arms, her arms hanging around his neck like a koala, and almost half of her body weight rested on Li Mengnan's body.
"Hey! What a monster! Why don't you reveal your true form soon!"
Li Mengnan pretended to be shocked. With his dynamic vision far beyond ordinary people, he had already recognized Xiao Baoer the moment the figure rushed towards him.
At this moment, Xiao Baoer is no longer the childish-looking little yellow-haired girl in the impression. She is like a bewitched Cinderella. She has transformed into a sweet lolita dressed up for the camera. Her appearance has skyrocketed. This is what she is like at home. If she is walking on the street,
Even Li Mengnan might not dare to recognize him.
Every girl has countless faces, but they will only show the most beautiful side to the person they love the most.
"Brother, you're disgusting! I just put on makeup casually, and you don't recognize me anymore?" Xiao Baoer lightly tapped Li Mengnan's chest with a shy look on his face.
"I recognize it, how could I not recognize it? Not to mention our little cute baby turning into a beautiful fairy, I can recognize it even if it turns into ashes..."
Li Mengnan kneaded Xiao Baoer's chubby cheeks like dough.
In his opinion, girls of Xiao Baoer's age are still the most beautiful without make-up. No matter how much makeup they put on, they feel a bit stale. However, since it is rare for Baoer to feel good about himself, he will not throw cold water on her in such a way.
"What! The second half of the sentence is too ugly...but I like the first half of the sentence." Xiao Baoer happily let go of his hand and slid off Li Mengnan's body.
"Do you dare to ask for any more desserts? This little girl, Bao'er, is almost obsessed with you and can't find anything to do with it."
Minnie, who was also wearing new clothes, swayed out of the living room, reached out to take Li Mengnan's coat, and gave him a charming look.
Li Mengnan smiled and scratched his head, saying that Minnie's change in attitude towards him was so dramatic that he couldn't adjust for a while.
"Sister, you are too meddlesome." Xiao Baoer stood firmly on Li Mengnan's side and made a face like a demonstration to Minnie.
Li Mengnan happily rubbed Xiao Baoer's increasingly smooth long hair, thinking that this sister's pain was not in vain. He took out the "robbed" IPHONE 6 from his pocket and stuffed it into the little girl's hand as a reward.
"Wow, it's IPHONE6! Brother, you are the best to me!"
Xiao Baoer was so surprised that she raised her toes and pecked Li Mengnan on the face, and happily ran into the living room to play with her new mobile phone.
"Bao'er is still a child, why did you buy her such an expensive mobile phone?" Minnie complained a little. Although she knew that the family was not short of money now, the frugal habit she had developed over the past ten years could not be changed in a short time.
"I didn't buy it, I picked it up." Li Mengnan said with a smile.
"You are really capable, you can even pick up an IPHONE6." Minnie curled her lips in disbelief.
"Nowadays, the pace of life is too fast, people are impatient, and even their moral integrity can be picked up when walking on the road, let alone an IPHONE6."
Li Mengnan's own moral integrity is worthless, but Miss Zhuang's moral integrity is definitely much more valuable than a movie called "The Rich Man".
Minnie slapped her forehead speechlessly. In terms of bickering, ten of her tied together could not defeat Li Mengnan.
"By the way, don't you want to say something?" Minnie stood in front of Li Mengnan and turned around deliberately.
"What do you want me to say?" Li Mengnan deliberately pretended to be confused and ignored Minnie's expectant eyes.
"Hmph!" Minnie's pretty face suddenly became covered with a thin layer of frost, "Bao'er is your biological sister, I'm just a passerby who can be ignored, right? Yes, I have nothing to do with you, classmate Li Mengnan
!”
Minnie emphasized the pronunciation of the word "classmate" to show that she would draw a clear line with him from now on.
Li Mengnan stepped in front of the angry Minnie. Minnie was caught off guard and bumped into his arms, and was immediately hugged by his waist.
"Don't make trouble, Mom... Mom is still at home..." Minnie struggled a few times with a blushing face, and kept looking nervously towards the living room.
"You want me to praise you for being beautiful today just like I praised Bao'er?" Li Mengnan smiled and didn't let go, with an expression that convinced her of her rogue appearance.
"Huh! I don't need it!" Minnie's face softened slightly, but she still refused to admit it.
Girls, when they put on a new outfit, they always want to be praised. The more they pay attention to the person's attitude, the more they care about it.
Unknowingly, Minnie discovered that Li Mengnan had begun to occupy an extremely important position in her heart, somewhere between family and lovers, but sweeter than family and warmer than lovers.
"It's not that I don't praise you, there's really nothing to praise... You are different from Bao'er, she is just a little yellow-haired girl, and she looks like a real person when she dresses up casually, but you have always been so beautiful,
Even if you add a few more strokes to this colorful pattern, it will be difficult to enhance it. No matter how beautiful your clothes and makeup are, it can only be regarded as an insignificant embellishment on your body, and it cannot make me feel amazing at all."
"Humph! Sophistry!" Although Minnie was angry that Li Mengnan was deliberately teasing her, she felt sweet in her heart after hearing these words.
Sure enough, it is the mentality that determines the subjective impression. If it were in the past, she would only find Li Mengnan's glib tongue and annoying people, and she would never feel as sweet as she does now.
In the living room, her mother Xiao Hui was sitting on the sofa wearing a light gray sweater. She couldn't help but talk about Minnie's shopping spree today. The general content was that although life is easy now, don't spend money lavishly. You need to be frugal.
It's not easy for your brother to make money when running a household, and so on.
Xiao Baoer was so tortured by Xiao Hui's thoughts that his head was about to explode, but he didn't dare not listen. He could only sit beside him obediently, nodding in agreement like a kowtowing insect.
Seeing Li Mengnan come in, Xiao Baoer, who was on the verge of collapse, quickly gave him a look for help.
Before Li Mengnan opened his mouth, Xiao Hui directly diverted the fire and complained to him: "Xiaonan, you don't care about your two sisters. You have only lived a good life for a few days, so you just follow the example of rich people."
Spending money so lavishly..."
Li Mengnan picked up the ball of wool and sat next to Xiao Hui. He pressed her shoulders with both hands, massaging and kneading her, and said: "Mom, what you said is wrong. Even if we are poor now, we are still standing on the pile of landlords."
Here..."
Having just ripped off Nanlihe, Li Mengnan felt confident in saying this.
"You know how to make mom happy! Even if our family has some foundation now, you, Ni'er, and Bao'er are studying, and you have a partner to talk to in the future, buying a house to get married, and giving a dowry. Which of these things doesn't cost money? Now I don't know how to save money.
Point it out, you should be blinded when you need it urgently..." Xiao Hui said seriously.
"Mom, this isn't fair! Why are you so kind to my brother and so cruel to me? Is it because my brother is your biological son and I gave him to you for free with my phone bill?"
Xiao Baoer strongly protested against Xiao Hui's double standards, but Xiao Hui glared at her and immediately stopped.
"Money is money when you spend it, and it's just a number when it's stored in a card... Minnie and Bao'er are at the most beautiful age in a girl's life. In the past, it was okay if the family didn't have the conditions, but now that they have the conditions,
If I don't dress up properly, when I look back on the past when my years are over, I will have so many regrets in my heart!
Besides, a son raised by a poor man and a daughter raised by a rich man can resist the temptation only if he has experienced wealth. You also don’t want to see your daughter, who has been brought up through all kinds of hardships, being shunned by some weird... er, being ridden by a poor boy with a broken bicycle and a lollipop.
Just cheat him away? How sad will you be!"
Xiao Baoer, who was standing behind Xiao Hui, gave Li Mengnan a thumbs up repeatedly. This was so accurate and an impeccable reason.
"The other party's family background is secondary. The key is good character, responsibility and self-motivation... Huh?"
Only then did Xiao Hui realize that the original topic of criticizing Minnie Baoer for not knowing how to be diligent and thrifty had been diverted in a strange direction by Li Mengnan.
"Money is a bastard. If you don't have it, you can make it again. My sister won't ruin the family. Who can I spend the money on...Mom, don't worry about these things from now on. I have everything. Are you afraid that you won't have anything to eat?" Li Mengnan struck while the iron was hot.
persuaded.
Xiao Hui could no longer hold back her serious face, and said with a hint of smile, feigning anger: "Humph! You, the elder brother, just spoil them, and spoil them to the eldest lady who can reach out for food and open her mouth.
What will you do if no one wants to do it?"
Li Mengnan's eyes subconsciously fell on Minnie, who was leaning against the door of the living room with her arms folded and watching the excitement. The meaning was obviously "No one wants me." Minnie, who read the deep meaning in her eyes, couldn't help but her cheeks turned red, and she wrinkled her nose and glared fiercely.
glanced at him.
"If you really like Bao'er, you will naturally pamper her thousands of times more than I do. If you can't compare to me as your brother, can you trust Bao'er to him?"
Li Mengnan was very clever when he said this, deliberately only talking about Xiao Baoer and not mentioning Minnie. Xiao Hui, who didn't know the inside story, just thought it was Li Mengnan's slip of the tongue and didn't think about anything else.
"That's true, but...well, forget it, maybe I'm old and can't keep up with the ideas of you young people."
Xiao Hui shook her head. Although she felt a little disappointed that "the child is older than the mother," she felt more comforted.
Even among siblings who grew up together, there are few who are as harmonious and friendly as her three children. For her as a mother, this is the greatest happiness.
"By the way, Mom, didn't you go to work today? Why are you back so early?" Li Mengnan didn't want his mother to think randomly, so he immediately changed the topic.
When it came to work, Xiao Hui's eyes obviously had a different look, and she said with a hint of excitement: "It's my first day today. I'm not familiar with many businesses. Everyone in the store is busy, and no one has time to teach me.
After watching for a while, I came back first."
"how do you feel?"
Li Mengnan doesn't care about the high salary and benefits of this job. Anyway, the family is not short of money now, as long as his mother is happy.
"There seems to be a lot to do, but the workload is not huge, and it seems quite interesting."
As people get older, they all seem to have a hobby of helping young people find marriages, and Xiao Hui is very happy when she mentions this job.
"When I had nothing to do today, I looked at the membership registration information of the dating agency and found a very strange situation - there were more women than men coming to seek marriage."
"Isn't this normal?" There are so many leftover women, so what's the fuss about it?
"Is it normal?"
Xiao Hui said in surprise, then looked at Xiao Baoer and Minnie, and got the same affirmative answer from the two girls.
"Isn't it said that there are more men than women nowadays? I thought it was because men have a hard time finding a partner... I really don't understand what's going on with young people today."
Xiao Hui once again lamented that she could no longer keep up with the crazy pace of this era, and her eyes when looking at Minnie changed a little, as if she was hesitating whether to relax Minnie's love restrictions, so as not to end up following in the footsteps of leftover women.
"Mom, don't look at it. No one can leave my sister behind...unless those men are blind."
After all, mother and daughter are connected. Xiao Hui just glanced at her and Xiao Baoer saw through her thoughts.
"That's right."
Xiao Hui is still very confident about her eldest daughter. Especially after the economic conditions at home have improved, Minnie's personal conditions can be said to be impeccable. If they were not from her own family, it would definitely be difficult to find her even with a lantern.
Daughter-in-law selection.
If it can be left like this, it is really unreasonable.
Xiao Hui got up and went into the kitchen to prepare dinner. Xiao Baoer was like a hard-working bee, carrying the large and small parcels that she had brought to her room.
Li Mengnan went back to his room and took off a set of home clothes from the closet and was about to change into it. There was a soft knock on the door behind him, and Minnie walked into the room softly and closed the door behind her.
"What do you want to do?"
Li Mengnan pretended to be extremely frightened and pulled open his home clothes to protect the two points of his shirtless upper body, which made Minnie roll her eyes in annoyance.
"Are you interested in doing this again?"
"I just want to remind you to knock on the door first next time. Although I am a man, I also have self-esteem and shame." Li Mengnan's expression changed, and he calmly put on his home clothes and pulled down his pants in front of Minnie.
He threw it on the bed and said, "Do you have a problem with me?"
"Huh, don't take yourself too seriously. Why do I see you so rarely?" Minnie pouted and threw a small square box to Li Mengnan from a distance.
"Isn't it the kind of trick box where something weird pops out as soon as you open it?"
Although Li Mengnan said he was cautious, he did not hesitate at all when opening the box.
Inside the box is a men's watch. Although I can't recognize the brand, I can still tell from the majestic appearance and exquisite details that it is definitely expensive.
"I saw this while shopping. It's considered a gift...even though I bought it with your money."
This was probably the first time in her life that she took the initiative to give a boy a gift. Although Minnie tried her best to appear calm and indifferent, her fingers unnaturally pinching the hem of her skirt still showed her inner nervousness.
"By the way, I have never worn a watch in my life, and this is my first one."
Li Mengnan was not trying to make Minnie happy by saying this. When he was a child, he had no need for a watch. When he grew up and could use it, mobile phones became more common. Wearing a watch always felt like it was unnecessary.
"Every man needs a watch."
Minnie took the watch out of the box and carefully helped Li Mengnan put it on her left wrist with an extremely serious expression, as if this was not a simple action but some kind of sacred and solemn ceremony.
Li Mengnan shook his wrist. The sudden extra weight always gave him the illusion that his body was out of balance, but the little silver light in his hand was quite impressive.
"It is said that the poor play with cars, the rich play with watches, the fool competes with mobile phones, and the idiot competes with computers... Now I can be regarded as the 'representative' of the clan!"
"Where did you hear this? What does it mean?" Minnie couldn't help but laugh, stretched out her hand to straighten Li Mengnan's collar, smoothed the wrinkles on his chest, and said: "Don't forget next Friday.
My junior high school classmates would like to take the time to buy two sets of decent clothes, and don’t always make yourself look like a decorator."
"It's enough to slap someone in the face with such pretense." Li Mengnan's hobbies have always been very evil.
Minnie pressed her forehead wordlessly, knowing he would say this.
"I took you there just to reduce unnecessary trouble and talk. I didn't ask you to slap someone in the face. Can you be more serious?"
"Don't worry, I'm familiar with attending class reunions. I can guarantee that everything will be done properly."
Seeing Li Mengnan confidently taking care of everything, Minnie suddenly felt that she might have made a big mistake by asking him to block the gun.