Zhang Ling rushed out of the bedroom like a 100-meter sprint.
She must see Li Xiang before her father does.
She felt that her father's strict requirements were too harsh.
The moment two men meet, it means an unprecedented family war will break out.
And the outcome of the war will definitely end with my father's victory.
Li Xiang's fiasco would definitely not be as simple as being beaten, injured and hospitalized.
It is more likely that her father would impose some unfounded charges on Li Xiang in order to protect her reputation.
From then on, normal interactions between her and Li Xiang were completely restricted.
Thinking of this, her panic became even more panicked.
When Xiaodouzi asked her to find her father, she didn't know how to respond?
Her father continued to arrange endless blind dates, which made her physically and mentally exhausted.
Without the feeling of happiness brought to him by his first love substitute.
…
Many more reasons for panic emerged in her mind, but she perfectly avoided the direct reasons related to Li Xiang.
For example, she is used to the breakfast that Li Xiang makes for her every morning.
It's not that she couldn't think of the direct reason for Li Xiang.
But she was deliberately not thinking about it.
If you don’t think about it, won’t it exist?
But in fact, it's not.
Her behavior of rushing out of the bedroom was to protect Li Xiang from this fearless family war.
Family war!
Yes, the reason why she used these four words.
In her subconscious mind, she already regarded him as a family member.
And she always refuses to admit it directly, citing the reason of being a substitute.
Or maybe it’s because of the inherent shyness of being a woman.
Or she was expecting a more clear attitude from him.
That is, a formal ceremony is used to clarify the relationship between them in front of relatives and friends.
Or maybe it was through her first love, Qi Diaozhe, that she completely understood her own heart.
Whatever the reason?
The most important thing now is that she must prevent the war from happening.
However, as soon as she walked out of the bedroom door, she found that she was still a step too late.
His father had already opened the door, and Li Xiang said with a smile on his surprised face:
"Uncle, you are back!"
Father seemed to really want to see Li Xiang, and said with a smile on his face:
"Li Xiang, it's you! I didn't expect you to come to the door as soon as I came back. Could it be that you already guessed that I would be back today?"
Li Xianggang wanted to tell the truth but found Zhang Ling winking desperately at him.
He could only nod according to her wishes and continue to his father:
"Uncle, this is a small gift I prepared. It's not a respectful gift, so I hope you accept it."
Fortunately, he bought some food before coming.
Considering that Zhang Ling didn't eat anything during the banquet, I planned to serve her as a midnight snack to satisfy her hunger.
When Zhang Ling saw Li Xiang's alert reaction, her tense nerves relaxed a little.
She smiled broadly at him.
The father looked at the gift in his hand and said happily:
"Oh, I really saw you right. You came here, and you were polite enough to bring a gift. You are very particular, you are such a particular person! But next time, it will be fine as long as you can come. Stop being so particular."
As he said this, he took the late-night snacks in Li Xiang's hand and glanced at them casually. They were all Zhang Ling's favorite snacks.
His father instantly understood that what Zhang Ling had said before when he came back was what she wanted to say to Li.
Zhang Ling on the side breathed a sigh of relief for a moment.
I think the crisis should be resolved.
But unexpectedly, she saw her father looking at her meaningfully and smiling.
Her heart was so nervous that it was about to jump out of her throat.
"It should be, it should be." Li Xiang received Zhang Ling's look again, glanced at his watch with some reluctance, and continued to say to his father, "That uncle is getting late. I will..."
From the corner of his eye, his father glanced at Zhang Ling behind him, grabbed Li who was about to slip away, and wanted to say:
"Wait a minute! Li Xiang, where are you so anxious? You're already here, why don't you come in and have a cup of tea."
Zhang Ling obviously started to panic, and immediately stepped forward to stop her father and said:
"Dad, you're not mistaken, are you? When did this happen? Isn't it bad to just let an outsider into the house?"
Although Li Xiang was grateful for his uncle's hospitality, he did not dare to refute Zhang Ling's words easily.
She can only say to her father according to her wishes:
"Yes! Uncle..."
Before he could express his words clearly, his father pulled him in very forcefully at this moment, successfully interrupted Li Xiang's words, and closed the door before continuing to scold her:
"Nonsense. Zhang Ling, you can't talk nonsense. Li Xiang is not an outsider. He is my promising son-in-law."
"Ah, am I talking nonsense?"
Zhang Ling looked at her father dumbfounded.
She called out in her heart what a good guy!
I never thought that my father's double standards would be so convincing.
Is this too reassuring to Li Xiang?
He was still worried that his precious daughter would fall into his hands, so he couldn't wait to marry her off.
No matter what the situation is, Zhang Ling is a little unable to accept her father's current attitude.
The father did not care about Zhang Ling's mood at the moment, and tightly held Li Xiang's hand and walked towards the sofa.
While walking, I didn’t forget to say enthusiastically to Li Xiang:
"A family is one family sooner or later, so there is no need to be so particular. Come on, come on, follow me and sit here..."
She looked at Li Xiang and really enjoyed his current treatment.
He and his father sat together hand in hand, like old brothers reunited after losing contact for many years, with countless things to say to each other.
Li Xiang expressed his longing for his father, saying that his father was like his biological father to him.
He also said that he must accompany his father to pay homage to his mother next time.
What Zhang Ling couldn't accept was that her father readily agreed to Li Xiang's request.
Zhang Ling wanted to express immediately when she heard that she had not personally paid homage to her mother.
But before she could speak, her father praised her for not being as filial as Director Li Xiang.
She also bluntly told Zhang Ling to learn more from Li Xiang when she has nothing to do.
Zhang Ling was not given any chance to defend herself.
To be honest, her inner world was a little broken at the moment.
I began to gradually suspect that the father in front of me must have been betrayed by someone.
The father did not directly learn about the current situation of his daughter from Zhang Ling.
Instead, she was treated as a child who had not grown up, and Li Xiang was regarded as the child's direct guardian.
He said that if Zhang Ling did anything to cause trouble for him, she would give special instructions to Li Xiang to take more care of him.
Zhang Ling finally seized an opportunity to solemnly remind her father.
She said that Zhang Ling was her father's biological daughter.
But her father pointed at her, smiled and said to Li:
"You have seen it! My daughter is really ignorant. I have raised her for more than thirty years. How could I not know that she is my daughter?"
The father then let out a long sigh with obvious disappointment.
Zhang Ling really doesn't understand why her father is like this?
Li Xiang imagined that he completely understood what his father meant.
He made it clear to his father:
"Uncle, don't worry! It's okay, I just know she is your daughter."
After hearing what Li Xiang said, his father was very happy and insisted on dragging Xiang and Li Xiang to have a drink. He even ordered Zhang Ling to get them two side dishes to go with the wine.
Zhang Ling was concerned about her father's health and persuaded her father not to drink.
Not only did his father not listen to her words, he actually thought that her words of persuasion refuted his dignity as a father.
So he roared and accused her of being unfilial as a daughter.
Full of grievances, considering her father's old health, she could only silently complain in her heart that her father was too old and too ignorant to appreciate the kindness his children were doing to him.
Li Xiang saw Zhang Ling's grievances and was not willing to keep her busy at this time.
So he used the excuse that he still had work to do.
Li Xiang just said a few words, and his father smiled again and said he would stop drinking.
Zhang Ling couldn’t even understand it!
She is her father's biological daughter after all.
After living together for many years, she has never seen her father treat her like this.
She began to feel jealous of Li Xiang.
Because she felt that the father's love that was originally exclusive to her was snatched away by Li Xiang.
Zhang Ling sulked and slammed the door and returned to her bedroom.
She didn't want to stand in front of these two men and be abused again.
A man was lying on the bed looking at the ceiling angrily.
It felt like every breath I took out could lift the roof off.
She really couldn't understand why her father was like this?
Even if he was a good son-in-law, his father's attitude towards Li Xiang was far more than that of his biological son.
Looking back, Li Xiang seemed to understand his father's thoughts very well.
She felt that she must ask the reason if she had the opportunity.
Oops!
She closed her eyes but didn't feel sleepy at all.
My unsatisfied ears could still hear the laughter of the two men in the living room, and I couldn't help but imagine what the two men should look like.
The intimate hook-up and shoulder-to-shoulder contact are as short as calling each other brother.
This appearance was the last scene she saw before returning to the bedroom.
She vaguely heard keywords such as "bedwetting" and "map".
Zhang Ling felt that her father must have mentioned some embarrassing things she did when she was a child.
She muttered unconvincedly:
"Really! Make it seem like you have never been young?"
In fact, his father took out a drawing that he had drawn long ago, threw it on the table and introduced Zhang Ling's desired wedding to Li Xiang.
That’s right!
This drawing was drawn by Zhang Ling seven or eight years ago when she and Yan Yuan had nothing to do.
So she misheard "drawing" as "map", "marriage bed" as "bedwetting", etc.
What is particularly worth mentioning is that her ideal wedding bed is not a bed made of solid wood.
Rather, it is like the ice jade bed mentioned in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", a stone bed with special functions.
Wanting to have a similar stone bed was what Qi Diaozhe mentioned back then.
There has been a popular saying among the people since ancient times that "if a person nourishes jade for three years, jade will nourish him for a lifetime".
That's why Qi Diaozhe sketched out a unique marriage bed in the world.
Hetian jade is used as the bed board, garnet is used as the bed frame and legs, cinnabar is used as the gap decoration of the bed, agate is used as the bed head, and tourmaline and aquamarine are used as the bed head decoration.
A pair of interlocking pillows are carved using a combination of jade carvings and garnets.
Why is it called an interlocking pillow?
Simply looking at the finished products carved from jade and garnet, you can't tell what is carved.
As long as the finished products carved from the two materials are combined together like screws according to the carved streamline lines, it will become a pillow.
Meaning: I am in you, and you are in me.
At the beginning, Qi Diaozhe also promised that he would carve a unique wedding bed with his own hands and give it to Zhang Ling.
Li Xiang was definitely shocked by the wedding bed outlined in the drawing.
Even if he can afford to buy such a bed, he doesn't know where to buy it?
What's more, with Li Xiang's current financial strength, he is unable to purchase a bed board made of Hetian jade.
Did his father want to use this method to make him give up?
Li Xiang wiped the sweat from his forehead with one hand and looked at his father beside him with disbelieving eyes.
"Uncle, are you sure Zhang Ling once said that if she didn't have this bed when she got married, she would rather never marry?"
"Of course!" my father said with certainty.
Li Xiang lowered his head for a moment and thought about it.
There are probably not many people in the world who can simply scrape together enough materials to make this bed.
What's more, looking at the exquisite renderings drawn by Zhang Ling.
If there is no internationally renowned stone carving master personally carving.
I'm afraid they will be extremely sorry for the materials prepared for the wedding bed.
The final value of this marriage bed cannot be measured with a string of cold numbers.
Although Zhang Ling definitely deserves the best things in the world for him.
But how should he buy such a bed for Zhang Ling?
Li Xiang quickly calculated in his mind that he could sell all the valuable parts in his body for money.
He couldn't simply scrape together enough materials to make a bed board.
He really couldn't accept that his pursuit was a joke in the end.
Father obviously understood the somewhat frustrated Li Xiang.
So he put a hand on Li Xiang's shoulder and said with a smile:
"You can tell by your son-in-law's expression that you no longer intend to pursue my Ling'er?"
Li Xiang glanced at his father with a wry smile, and then lowered his head sadly.
His father then shook his head in disappointment and said:
"Oh, I guess the old man made a mistake. That's all, that's all, that's all. It's getting late. I'm so sleepy, let's go to bed."
As he spoke, his father yawned and got up to go back to the bedroom to sleep.
"Wait a minute, uncle!" Li Xiang suddenly realized something.
The father stopped and said without looking back:
"Oh, by the way, I almost forgot about you. Li Xiang, please help me lock the door when I leave."
"No." Li Xiang clearly felt that if he didn't say something in time, he might really have no chance. "Uncle, I'm not what you thought."
Li Xiang instantly understood that this might be another test his father conducted on him for Zhang Ling's happiness.
Even if it's not just a test, Zhang Ling really wants to have such a bed.
If he doesn't have enough motivation to work hard.
Then he must not be qualified to stand by Zhang Ling's side in this life.
So he thought that maybe his father wanted him and Zhang Ling to be happy together.
A goal was specially set for him.
"That's what I think? Haha... let's not talk about whether you know what I think." The father paused for a while, then looked sideways at Li and wanted to say, "Okay. Tell me what you were thinking just now.
What?"
His father felt that Li Xiang was just trying to find reasons for his hesitation just now.
In his father's opinion, Li Xiang's hesitation meant that he was not qualified to pursue Zhang Ling.
Because a person shrinks back when encountering problems and does not have the courage to face difficulties and find ways to solve them.
He is also a man with no ambition.
If this man really gets together with Zhang Ling.
The father thinks it is definitely his daughter's greatest misfortune.
"Uncle, you just said that I can find a way to buy the marriage bed that Zhang Ling wants for her. But I don't know if Zhang Ling can give me a few years of grace."
Seeing Li Xiang's sincere look, his father stepped forward with a smile on his face and hugged him, saying:
"Okay, okay, how many years do you want a grace period?"
Li Xiang is hesitating about how many five-year plans to use?
His father couldn't wait, so he grabbed his hand and dragged him to his bedroom and said:
"Good son-in-law, please don't go home today. Come on, sleep at my place tonight. Let's talk about how many years of grace you want."
"Ah, okay!" Li Xiang looked at his father in confusion.
He couldn't understand what his father meant?
The changes before and after made him confused.
However, it is at least certain that his father wants to have a long all-night talk with him.