Siheyuan diet for men and women

Chapter 1260: Far Ahead

"What did you say that took so long?"

Zhang Songying waited for Li Xuewu for more than two hours but didn't see him come back, and she almost fell asleep.

When he heard the door open, he sat up from the sofa and looked at his watch.

My goodness, it’s almost two o’clock.

"I won't have time for her tomorrow."

While taking off his clothes, Li Xuewu explained: "The French Embassy wants to build a cultural corridor in the Liangmahe Industrial Zone as a witness to the exchange of ecological industry and culture."

"This is a bit troublesome."

Seeing Zhang Songying coming over to help, he opened his hands and waited for what was ready.

"If it's done behind closed doors in the compound, I don't care. It's just a scam, a way to cheat people out of money."

He closed his eyes slightly and said, "We have to be cautious when it comes to opening it up to the outside world or using it as a window for cultural export."

“What is a cultural gallery?”

Zhang Songying helped him unbutton his shirt, looked at his face and asked, "Is it a veranda like the one in the park?"

"The meaning is similar, but the architecture is different," Li Xuewu stretched out his arms and took off his shirt, then turned around and said, "In the Chinese architectural system, corridors are not completely enclosed. A fully enclosed corridor is called an underground passage."

"The interpretation of the cultural corridor is rather generalized. The idea of ​​the Foreign Affairs Office is that Red Star Factory and the Santaya Group jointly build a museum-like building."

He sat on the chair and let Zhang Songying help him take off his pants. He continued to explain: "The building includes exhibition halls, cultural halls, restaurants, teahouses, painting halls, concert halls, etc., all of which are industries related to culture and art."

"Isn't that convenient?"

Zhang Songying frowned and reminded, "Will it cause trouble and criticism if we build cultural and artistic buildings at this time?"

"This is inevitable. I am also thinking about it."

Li Xuewu let out a long sigh, lay back on the backrest, closed his eyes slightly, and enjoyed Zhang Songying's massage.

"The factory has built a riverside economic corridor in the Liangma River Ecological Industrial Zone. Now that the stage is up, there must be something to perform."

He spoke in a tired voice: "Markets, shops, restaurants and other commercial businesses are needed, as are banks, security, maintenance and other services."

"In addition, we also need a place for cultural construction and publicity work," Li Xuewu paused before saying, "It would be best if this commercial area could be built into an economic incubation market with the corporate culture of Red Star Factory."

"You're talking too complicated, I can't quite understand you."

Zhang Songying pinched his thigh and asked jokingly, "You guys are just talking about work. Why are you talking until this time?"

"What else? Talk about feelings?"

Li Xuewu raised his head slightly, glanced at her, and said with a smile: "A foreign girl who traveled thousands of miles across the ocean to work in China is staying in her room in the middle of the night. What else can you talk about?"

"Eh..." Zhang Songying raised her finger upwards and said with a curled mouth: "Do you think I can't tell who she is?"

"Even if I can't tell who she is, I can't tell who you are." She pointed at Li Xuewu's big shorts and said, "Even if I can't tell who you are, I can at least see this. You don't know how to clean up."

"Um--?"

Li Xuewu sat up puzzledly and looked down. Why was there a small wet spot on his shorts?
"It's all her fault. She was the one who took the initiative!"

"You are really good——"

Zhang Songying was both angry and amused when she saw that Li Xuewu confessed so quickly and also shifted the blame.

"Do you think my eyes and nose are blind?"

She glared at Li Xuewu in a reproachful manner and said, "I could smell it as soon as you entered the room. From your expression, I knew it just ended."

"Then you really have a sharp eye!"

Li Xuewu held her face with both hands, looked at her carefully and said, "Let me see, are you that powerful?"

"Fuck you, have you washed your hands?"

Zhang Songying pouted and said, "All those foreigners have a weird smell on them, and you dare to do that to them."

"You can say that Western food is not delicious, but you can never say it is not delicious without having eaten it," Li Xuewu lay back down and said with a smile, "I am doing this to look at the problem dialectically and to criticize Western food."

"Are they that casual?"

Zhang Songying stood up, sat beside him, stretched out a blanket and put it on him, and asked, "Didn't you say she's not married yet?"

“That’s their culture.”

Li Xuewu shook his head slightly and said, "You can keep trying love before getting married until you find true love."

"Of course, even after marriage, people are not necessarily more faithful. France is the country with the most lovers in the world, including both men and women."

He turned his head, looked at Zhang Songying and said, "If she were married, she wouldn't have come so far to work."

"Either you work hard for a while, or you work hard for a lifetime."

"Hearing what you said, it seems that French women are looking for ideal men?" Zhang Songying raised her eyebrows and looked at him and asked, "From eighteen or nineteen to twenty-eight or twenty-nine? Until they found the right one?"

"That's not necessarily the case—"

Li Xuewu hugged her sideways and said, "This is a drawback of economic development and cultural openness, which is the so-called degenerate thinking."

"But this kind of thing still needs to be viewed dialectically."

He smiled and said to Zhang Songying: "Those who get married at the age of 28 or 29 may not necessarily have found true love. They may also be afraid that they won't find someone better."

"So the French have marriage problems too, huh?"

Zhang Songying seemed particularly interested in this topic and said with a smile: "Even for people like us who got married at the age of 18 or 19, there were problems."

"It may be an influence of the cultural environment," Li Xuewu moved on the sofa to lie more comfortably, and continued: "Those who get married at 18 or 19 do not necessarily have to get divorced, and those who get married at 28 or 29 are not necessarily mature. It all depends on personal feelings."

"If there weren't so many conflicts and trivialities in the couple's life, and if there wasn't excessive anxiety about daily necessities, why would they want to get divorced?"

"What are you looking at me doing?"

Zhang Songying glared at him and said angrily, "I'm not divorced."

"Oh, I forgot all about that!"

Li Xuewu pretended to be surprised and pulled back his hand, saying seriously: "Sorry, sorry, I offended you just now."

"You are such a bad guy!"

Zhang Songying got anxious and threw herself on him, devouring the food voraciously...

Once the window paper between men and women is broken, this passionate love seems to have no way of being restrained and reserved.

Besides, this time they happened to be reunited after a short separation, so the atmosphere was right and they fell down before they could finish their sentences.

How to describe it?
The battle is fierce, the plot is paid, long story short:
People, big, individual, from, people, slop…
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The International Hotel has six floors and more than 100 guest rooms. From the top floor down, there are deluxe suites, deluxe king-size rooms, deluxe standard rooms, and ordinary standard rooms...

As you go up the ladder, the resources for luxury accommodation decrease and the services become more comprehensive.

But normally speaking, staying in a standard room at an international hotel is also a pleasure.

Think about the location here, think about the status of most of the guests staying here, and think about the accommodation and food expenses here...

The guests staying here are of distinguished status, and the employees and cadres working here also consciously want to show a better and more caring side.

Anyone who travels frequently on business and has stayed here will say that the service at the Red Star National Hotel is the best in the entire city.

The standards come from strict management and the pursuit of service quality.

Early in the morning, He Yushui, the vice president of the International Hotel, led a team to start the inspection work, which is what the vice president on duty needs to do every day.

On the one hand, it is to check the service and hygiene conditions, and on the other hand, it is to avoid the guests and arrange today's work as quickly as possible.

As luck would have it, Li Xuewu had just come down from upstairs and was about to go to the restaurant for breakfast when he met her at the door.

"You stayed here last night?"

"Nonsense, who would come here from home so early in the morning to have breakfast?"

From her tone, Li Xuewu felt as if he had done something shameful and was caught by her.

He Yushui didn't care about his tone. She said a few words to the department manager behind her and followed him into the restaurant.

Li Xuewu replied that he just greeted her when they met and didn't even notice her when they entered the restaurant. It was only when he sat down to order food that he realized that she was sitting opposite him.

"Why, do I have to treat you to breakfast?"

"I can treat you too—"

He Yushui looked through the menu in his hand, ordered bread and vegetable soup, and also asked for sausage and eggs.

The food in the western restaurant tasted like Chinese food, and Li Xuewu was really afraid that she would trick him by eating egg-filled pancakes.

"I'll treat you--"

Li Xuewu shook his head helplessly, ordered a breakfast that was similar and as non-Western as possible, and then handed the menu to the waiter.

Of course the waitress knew him. Even if she didn’t, she knew their vice president.

If we really follow the rules, He Yushui is the supervisor and should not dine in the restaurant, as it will affect the service and guests.

But who asked Li Xuewu to sit here? The waiter didn’t feel anything out of place, and He Yushui naturally didn’t feel the same way.

"Why are you looking at me?" Seeing Li Xuewu looking at her impatiently, He Yushui rolled her eyes at him sensitively and muttered, "What are you looking at? I haven't even said anything to you yet—"

"What did you say about me? Did I need you?"

Li Xuewu picked up the teacup and took a sip of the warm tea, then looked aside and asked, "Don't you eat breakfast when you get off work?"

"Eat, you won't be hungry if you don't eat."

He Yushui imitated him and took a sip of hot tea, then replied bluntly, "I came here to eat with you today because I was afraid you would be lonely."

"Even if I didn't eat when I came out in the morning, I won't eat here."

She pointed at the dining table and said, "Only a fool would eat the food here. There's nothing better to do with a dollar or two."

The waitress who brought the dishes widened her eyes when she heard this. She had never heard of a supervisor speaking to a leader like that.

Li Xuewu noticed the waiter's strange behavior and turned away, not bothering to pay attention to this mentally ill man.

Let him be a fool, but now when he goes out and comes home, he still has to ask Qin Jingru to do some work for him, which must be very tiring.

Besides, he couldn't stand being hungry.

I was quite active last night, especially the physical labor which was very tiring, so I got up a little late.

If he doesn't replenish his strength quickly, this big guy will faint from hunger on the way.

"The way you eat is so ugly—"

Seeing him eating bread and sausage in big mouthfuls, He Yushui couldn't help but remind him with a grin: "After all, you are a big leader!"

"Really? How does a big boss eat?" Li Xuewu ate the bread in his mouth and asked, "How about you teach me?"

"Virtue..." He Yushui rolled her eyes at him and asked, "Why did you suddenly want to live here?"

"Could it be with that Zhou Xiaobai?"

She suddenly widened her eyes, observed Li Xuewu's expression and asked, "Are you really with her..."

"Comrade He Yushui——"

Li Xuewu tapped the plate with his fork and reminded him, "You are a leader after all. Are you going to slander someone's innocence just like that?"

"Do you have a clean slate?"

He Yushui pouted and said angrily, "You are a bad guy who is good at disguising yourself, always saying sweet words, and is affectionate but not loyal."

"Then you can just shoot me—"

Li Xuewu felt like cursing after hearing what she said. Was she saying that he was a scumbag?
Is he a scumbag?
He just forgot to say break up!

"Did I lie to you or sweet-talk you?"

He glared at me and said, "I'm kind enough to treat you to breakfast, but you came all the way here just to cause trouble for me, right?"

"Who did you come with?"

He Yushui tilted her head, not afraid of his change of expression at all, and asked bluntly: "You can't be bored living at home, so you come out for a change."

"What's it to you——"

Li Xuewu pulled the corner of his mouth, ate the bread on the plate, and said: "Don't mess with me, it's the weekend today, and I finally have a good mood."

"Ah--"

He Yushui took a big bite of the bread and started mumbling again.

Li Xuewu looked at her luck and said after a while: "You are not a child anymore, you should be more sensible. You can't live with your family forever."

"Hurt each other, right?"

After finishing the bread in his mouth, He Yushui looked at him and said, "Okay, introduce me to someone. I don't have any other requirements, just money."

"Do you want the stupid son of a landlord?"

Li Xuewu looked at her with disdain and said, "With someone like you, you still want to find a rich man. Who would want you?"

"You have no temper, no patience, and you're not as pretty as me, and you still want to find someone rich!"

"What's wrong with wanting to find someone rich?"

He Yushui said provocatively: "At least you can afford to eat the bread here and sleep in the suite here."

The goal was so clear that all that was left was to report Li Xuewu’s ID number.

Li Xuewu glanced at her and to be honest, this girl was not ugly.

Her current temper is completely a competition with him. Normally, she appears to others as a cheerful Beijing girl.

Li Xuewu didn't believe that she was greedy for fame and fortune, but he could be sure that she was just greedy for her body and was thinking about him as a person.

Lu Xun once said that gay men must protect themselves when they go out.

"If you say so, then I have to ask you something," Li Xuewu teased her deliberately, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Is living here suitable for you?"

"I'm not saying that all the people who can live here are rich, nor am I saying that all the rich are good men, but having money can at least filter out some of the bad guys."

He Yushui used a fork to pick at the bread on the plate and said, "Haven't you heard people say that when rich people pursue you, they just want to sleep with you, but when poor people pursue you, they want to sleep with you for the rest of your life."

"In addition to washing his clothes, cooking, raising children, and taking care of his parents, I might even have to help him pay off his family's debts..."

"Which one do you think is scarier?"

"I think you're pretty scary."

Li Xuewu looked at her for a long time, and when he saw Xu Sinian wandering into the restaurant, he pointed at him and asked Yu Shui, "Do you like him?"

"Director Xu's salary level can definitely meet your material needs, and his backyard is on fire now, burning to pieces."

Li Xuewu raised his eyebrows and asked, "How about I help you get him a divorce? You take advantage of the situation and swoop in. Is that good of a brother?"

"You are immoral or not!"
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"You're back. Have you had breakfast?"

Qin Jingru had just come out of the garden and her feet were still covered in dirt.

He opened the door for Li Xuewu and asked with a smile, "There are some steamed buns left over from this morning. Can I make some porridge for you?"

"Don't bother. I've had breakfast."

Li Xuewu waved his hand, looked back at Han Jiankun who got out of the car and asked, "Have you eaten?"

"I ate it at home this morning. My mom made it."

Han Jiankun took the pickaxe from his wife's hand and pointed to the door, saying, "The car is parked outside your door. I filled it up with gas last night."

"Are you going out again?"

Qin Jingru washed her hands at the faucet, stood up and watched Li Xuewu walk into the house, then said, "Sister Xiaoning is upstairs."

"I understand. Change your clothes and go to the club."

Li Xuewu's voice came from the hallway, and he had already gone up the stairs.

She looked back at Han Jiankun and asked, "The leader lives alone outside? Why didn't you follow him?"

"With Director Xu."

Han Jiankun usually speaks little when he is outside. Even when talking to his wife, he is very direct and only talks about the key points.

Qin Jingru glanced upstairs and understood what Han Jiankun meant, so she didn't say anything more.

In the study room on the second floor, Gu Ning was reading a book.

Li Shu and Li Ning were sitting on the floor playing with toys; the two girls were having a great time.

Perhaps because she is older and more sensible, Li Shu can see many differences between herself and her brother in the mirror.

In fact, Li Shu had asked him and Gu Ning why her brother looked different from her and didn’t have yellow hair.

The two had already agreed on a common story, explaining the difference in appearance between the siblings by saying that their uncle, father, uncle and aunt did not look exactly the same.

Li Shu must have still had some doubts in her heart, but most children of this era are malnourished and many have gray hair.

Although not that yellow, Li Shu's hair is not golden either.

So until she was fully grown up, Li Xuewu and Gu Ning had no intention of telling her the truth, which was a very cruel fact for her.

Especially during adolescence, people are sensitive and may feel lost and inferior. This is also the problem that Li Xuewu and Gu Ning least want to face.

I can only give Li Shu the best education and the best family environment, so that she can understand that there is no difference between her and her brother.

"dad--"

Li Shu heard his footsteps and jumped up first, followed by Li Ning, who was wearing open-crotch pants, who clumsily followed.

The two siblings, one in front and one behind, one fast and one slow, were both caught in his arms and lifted up together.

For children, dad’s arms are always where they can park a boat and run a horse.

Li Xuewu kissed this one and that one, but he couldn't get enough of them.

Gu Ning supported his chin, looked at the three men, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Are you going on a business trip?"

She remembered that after get off work yesterday, Qin Jingru told her that he called her back.

Even though Li Xuewu had reported to her and she knew he had reached a critical position, she still felt that he was too busy to take care of his family.

Although this is the first time I stay out all night.

"No, I don't have any plans to travel for the time being."

Li Xuewu teased his son, kissed his little hand, and placed them both on the desk.

"Liaodong wants to absorb the capital of Red Star Factory and integrate coal resources," he explained. "The factory wants to expand the freight terminal in Yingcheng and take this opportunity to further relocate part of the tertiary industry in Beijing."

"The two sides have just started to contact each other, and it's not yet at the stage of asking for a sky-high price and sitting on the ground to pay back, so I don't plan to waste time going to Liaodong."

"It sounds simple when you put it that way."

Gu Ning propped up her chin and looked at him, then said, "My sister-in-law called yesterday and said that Zhao Yajun and his girlfriend were coming to visit us."

"Really? Why didn't you say so earlier?"

Li Xuewu did not blame Gu Ning, but talked about Zhao Yajun.

He said with a smile: "I met him on the day I came back, and told him to use his vacation time to take care of his personal affairs."

"I heard from my sister-in-law that she went back home and visited Wang Lu's home. She has been visiting relatives recently. She must be planning to get married."

“Well, it should be that Wang Lu’s family is anxious.”

Li Xuewu smiled and explained to Gu Ning the significance of Zhao Yajun's return in terms of work. "Her uncle is the chief engineer of the factory, and he has a lot of ideas."

Gu Ning smiled lightly and said, "They said they would come in the morning, are you still waiting for them?"

"If you're not busy, you should invite them to have lunch, right?"

"No matter how busy you are, you still have to meet your relatives. Otherwise, it would be like you don't recognize your relatives."

Li Xuewu let his son scratch his face and replied, "I'll go out in the afternoon. There's no rush for things at the club. I'll go to mom's house in the evening."

Basically, he would go to my house every week to sit for a while or have dinner.

Although he would pick up Li Shu and take her home in the mornings and evenings on weekdays, he was always in a hurry and had no time to spend with his mother and the old lady.

It’s not that he can’t live without his mother and family, nor is it that he is a mama’s boy. It’s just that he is afraid that his mother will miss him and won’t have enough time and opportunity to see him.

"Just do your thing. I'll change my clothes and take them out to play."

Li Xuewu knew that Gu Ning had been working hard recently. As a doctor, one is always on the road of learning and there is no end at all.

In addition to her regular job at the Seventh Hospital across the street, she also participated in a training program organized by the system last year, which was similar to a graduate course.

Being young, promising, strong-minded, politically qualified, and having rich work experience (battlefield rescue), Gu Ning naturally became the training target of the hospital.

Compared to before, Gu Ning's working environment in the hospital is much better.

Especially with Li Xuewu's rapid promotion, her family relationship shifted from the influence of her father to the influence of her lover.

Beijing is a big city, but it is also a small city. There are always some relatives who can link the two people's workplaces together.
Moreover, in the past two years, Red Star Factory has been frantically absorbing medical resources from the surrounding areas, and many doctors or nurses who are classmates or relatives of Red Star Factory are working there.

Therefore, when Gu Ning's colleagues talked about Li Xuewu, they all referred to him as "your secretary-general" and showed great enthusiasm.

In the past, the hospital had resources allocated to Gu Ning, and it was inevitable that people would say that she had a good father and a good mother.

But few people talk about it now.

On the one hand, Gu Ning has a simple personality. She doesn't care if you talk too much, and she's even too lazy to listen.

This simple character also led to her rapid improvement in medical skills. Combined with hard work, she has now become an important surgeon in the hospital's surgery department.

If your mind is steady, your hands will be steady, and the knife in your hand will be even steadier.

There was no such thing as minimally invasive surgery these days. All surgeries involved cutting open the body and stabbing with a knife, which was a real test of one's mentality and technique.

Long-term training means that medical skills have reached a bottleneck and need further breakthroughs, which also means improvement in status.

Compared with the administrative system, the medical system has professional limitations and challenges.

Gu Ning rejected Vice President Zhang's suggestion and did not transfer to administration, so he could only go through the medical professional title system.

Continuously performing surgery, continuously improving, continuously training, and continuously learning, this is the path for a doctor to grow.

Li Xuewu actually loves learning very much, especially now, he has more and more things to learn.

In addition to the large volumes on ideology and politics, which he had "innate" experience to draw on, he also needed to understand other areas such as mechanical manufacturing, automobile industry, aerospace industry, chemistry, physics, etc.

You don't really think he doesn't understand design.

Let me put it this way, any business leader who is not a fool has a very broad range of knowledge.

He may not be able to speak very specific professional knowledge, but at least he can understand what you want to do.

From the newspapers, we see that when leaders come down to inspect, not all of them are just going through the motions. There are also some capable ones, like the one from Datong, who really understands the situation.

No matter whether he is scolding this person or that person, he always hits the point and leaves the person speechless and unable to give any explanation.

Old Li was not very willing to go to the front line to inspect the work, unless he took Li Xuewu with him, because Li Xuewu could always lead him to the point.

This is also the reason why Lao Li insisted on pulling him to the position of Secretary-General.
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"Don't go too far—"

When Li Xuewu was holding his son and leading his daughter out, Qin Jingru, who was growing vegetables, reminded them, "If they come, I'll let Jiankun go find you."

"It's right by the lake, don't worry."

Li Xuewu sometimes feels that she is a bit like his mother. It’s not that she is like his mother Liu Yin, but the way she takes care of her in daily life and the tone of her voice are like his mother.

You really treat him like a child.

"Dad, let's go fishing—"

Li Shu walked beside her father, jumping up and down happily.

The sun is shining today, and spring is in full swing. The trees on the roadside have already grown new leaves, and there are even a few yellow and pink spots in the corners of the walls, which are early spring flowers.

The drainage ditch is also an open channel. After last year's flood, the old mud has long been washed away.

However, with the cover of snow and the accumulation of dust throughout the winter, the gray-black mud also provided space for the weeds to survive.

Li Shu was a curious girl. She looked here and there, and even looked at the small tree sticks on the road.

She was wearing a flowery cotton jacket and a colorful hat on her head. When she jumped, she was not even as high as the curb, but her voice was very sharp and loud.

All the way from home to the lake, I could hear her chattering away. After she had said everything that was on her mind, she began to recite ancient poems and sing nursery rhymes.

Anyway, I'm out now, so I can't keep my mouth idle.

"It's Grandpa Fish——"

Walking down the stairs, her sharp eyes caught sight of the old man who often brought her fish.

At this moment, she cried out in a baby voice, which not only woke up Old Zhang, but also the big monk who was playing chess with him across from him.

"Wow! You can also bring a ward off evil and solve problems while fishing?"

Li Xuewu squatted beside the chessboard holding his son and said rudely, "You know you have committed a grave sin."

He was not mistaken. The bald man was indeed an old monk. He was not "just released". He still had the scars of ordination on his head.

But the old monk didn’t look very healthy. He looked like a deflated ball, with only a scabby skin left.

Do you think this old monk has a bad face? He has a bad mouth.

"Your friend?" He pointed at Li Xuewu, looked at the other side and said, "You are getting younger and younger. You have even started to make friends with children."

"Xifu, I don't have such a friend." He glanced at Li Xuewu and continued to stare at the chessboard, curling his lips and saying, "Be gentle with your words - you!"

The old monk raised his eyebrows and turned to look at Li Xuewu, meaning: Who are you?
"It's still empty—"

Li Shu was even less perceptive than her father. She habitually looked into the fish basket and found it was indeed empty.

Old Zhang didn't care about Li Xuewu's nonsense, but his face turned red after hearing what Li Shu said. He kept saying to himself that children should not be angry.

"It would be strange if a compassionate and virtuous Buddhist could catch any fish here."

Li Xuewu's sarcasm was no more merciful than the old monk's.

Openly it's a compliment, secretly it's just stuffing shit into the other person's mouth, which is unethical.

Li Shu didn't understand this, and didn't care why there were no fish in the basket. She squatted by the lake and looked at the lake, muttering, "There's not even a toad—"

"Why not?" The old monk looked at the little girl with a kind look and said with a smile, "Isn't there a frog croaking here?"

"Yes, that's right—"

Li Xuewu nodded indifferently and said, "We also came here to take a look after hearing the noises coming from the old turtle, but we didn't expect there were two of them."

"Sharp-tongued..." The old monk carefully looked at Li Xuewu's face for the first time, raised his eyebrows slightly, and said meaningfully: "The donor is not a good person."

"If you hadn't looked at the gun on my waist when you spoke, I would have believed you were an accomplished monk." Li Xuewu curled his lips and told Li Shu not to go play by the lake. He coaxed his son in his hands, stared at his daughter, and said, "Don't be so mysterious to me—"

"How was it? Did you see it?"

Old Zhang looked at his silent friend, his eyes full of anticipation, and said with an unknown smile: "This is a toad!"

"Well, I've learned something new—"

The old monk nodded, looked at the scarred young man who got up and chased his daughter with the child in his arms, and said to his old friend, "He has a hard life and a cruel heart, he is definitely not an ordinary person."

"Then you guessed it—"

Old Zhang chuckled and continued to stare at the chessboard, ignoring even the fishing rod at his feet.

The old monk also withdrew his gaze from the three men and stared at the chessboard. The situation was very tense. For more than ten minutes, the two old men kept frowning and thinking.

It was not until Li Xuewu saw Han Jiankun appear at the entrance steps, walking his two children back and passing by the chess stand that he heard Lao Zhang ask, "Who's here?"

Unexpectedly, the old monk also looked confused: "I don't know either."
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"I used to ask myself whether to start a family first or a career first."

Li Xuewu waved his hand, signaling Wang Lu and Zhao Yajun not to be polite, and sat down on the sofa.

"There are advantages to starting a family first. You can be close friends from childhood, have a deep relationship with your spouse, work hard together to build a good life."

He saw Qin Jingru preparing tea for the two of them, and he grabbed the melon seeds and sugar from the tea tray and gave them to them.

“There are also advantages to establishing a career first.”

Li Xuewu folded his right leg, leaned on the sofa, and said with a smile: "I have a successful career and a full spirit. I will choose a beautiful woman to spend my life with."

Zhao Yajun still felt pressured in front of Li Xuewu and sat upright.

On the other hand, Wang Lu works right across from Li Xuewu's office, so she is the one who delivers some materials to his office and she sees him often on a daily basis.

In particular, she has a cheerful and generous personality. She calls Li Xuewu "second brother" in a very natural and friendly way. She is a good girl who recognizes her relatives.

At this moment, both of them listened to him carefully, respecting his status and admiring his ability.

After all, Li Xuewu is now a leader and a goal for all the young people in the factory to strive for and a role model to learn from.

Li Xuewu looked at the two of them and concluded with a smile: "Later, I also figured it out. It doesn't matter which comes first, starting a family or building a career."

"The purpose of getting married first is to find a good wife and a good mother, and the purpose of establishing a career first is to establish a family and a career," he said with a concise tone: "Read 'good wife and a good mother' and 'establish a family and a career' in reverse order, and everything will become clear."

After Zhao Yajun and Wang Lu repeated it silently in their hearts, they were stunned, and then they looked at each other and understood the meaning of their second brother's words.

Looking at the two people's smiling faces and somewhat shy expressions, Li Xuewu nodded with satisfaction, changed the topic and started chatting about family matters.

"My uncle won't let me go."

When talking about Li Xuewu's next plan, Wang Lu complained: "He said I can't bother you all the time."

"Your uncle is just being falsely polite."

Li Xuewu smiled and hugged his daughter who came over, saying, "If you were really afraid of bothering me, you wouldn't have come to me for help in the first place."

He pointed at Zhao Yajun and introduced him to Li Shu: "This one is called uncle, and this one is called aunt."

"Uncle, aunt——"

Li Shu has a sweet mouth and is not afraid of meeting strangers. She smiled and called out whatever Li Xuewu taught her to call.

The two had been there for a while, and Wang Lu was no longer unfamiliar with Li Shu and Li Ning. She smiled and took Li Shu from his hands.

Zhao Yafang should have reminded the two of them before coming, so when they saw Li Shu, neither of them showed excessive surprise or curiosity.

Li Shu also liked the beautiful and cheerful Wang Lu, and sat on her lap and started chattering.

"You are so beautiful——"

It can be seen that although there is surprise in Wang Lu's eyes, she really likes this doll more.

Li Shu was most proud when others praised her beauty. Her little shoulders shrugged and she could hardly suppress the smile.

"What are Yajun's plans for the next step?"

Li Xuewu smiled at Wang Lu and his daughter, then turned to the somewhat reserved Zhao Yajun and asked, "Did your section chief talk to you?"

"Yes, Section Chief Zhou asked for my opinion," Zhao Yajun put down his teacup and answered seriously when his second brother asked about work: "I still want to stay in the factory guard team."

"Haven't you heard since you came back?"

Li Xuewu glanced at him and reminded him, "The security team will undergo a group-based organizational restructuring in the next two years and establish a unified management structure."

"That is, the Security Corps, the Fire Corps, and the Inspection Corps."

He reminded Zhao Yajun: "You have to think carefully, this is a rare opportunity."

"I understand what you mean."

Zhao Yajun thought for a moment, looked up at him and said, "But I don't have much education, and I can't sit still in the office. I only have this energy to use."

"Well, it depends on your wishes."

Li Xuewu nodded and said, "If you don't like something, you won't have the heart to do it. It will be counterproductive. You should go to the defense team."

He agreed with Zhao Yajun's choice, then looked at Wang Lu and said with a smile: "Tell your section chief to hand over the work at hand, and you can come to the management committee office. I will talk to your uncle."

"Thank you, brother—"

Wang Lu didn't pretend to be polite and agreed with a smile.

It was obvious that Li Xuewu was taking care of her; even Zhao Yajun could see it and said thank you embarrassedly.

The care is real care. Wang Lu is not as resilient as Zhao Yajun. With her personality, she will suffer sooner or later after a few years of tempering and growth.

If I keep her by my side, no one will say anything. After all, she is not his biological sister or brother-in-law. We still have the relationship with Xia Zhongquan.

Gu Ning heard the noise downstairs. He must have finished his work, so he came down quickly to say hello and chat with them about family matters.

Although Wang Lu had learned about the family situation from her elder sister-in-law before coming, she was still a little nervous and surprised when facing Gu Ning, who had an outstanding temperament, was virtuous and quiet. She was not as frank and cheerful as when she spoke to Li Xuewu.

When Gu Ning met Wang Lu for the first time, he had heard about her foolish deeds, but he also knew that she was a simple-minded girl, so he couldn't help but take a few more glances at her.

At the dinner table, Li Xuewu asked about their plans. Zhao Yajun answered less, while Wang Lu said more.

It is now mid-March and the two plan to get married on May 1st.

The house was prepared by Wang Lu's family. In order to prevent Zhao Yajun from feeling awkward, they used the excuse that Wang Lu had set the house on fire as compensation from the in-laws.

In fact, the Zhao family also understood that the eldest son had found a good father-in-law.

Zhao Yajun did not reject his father-in-law's kindness, and he also understood the Wang family's good intentions to take care of their daughter. Zhao Gen brought his wife Yin Xiumei to the city and met his in-laws.

Wang Lu has good parents, and Zhao Yajun's parents are not bad either.

The in-laws from both sides sat together without any disdain or inferiority towards each other and they interacted very closely.

So the marriage between the two was settled.

Today they came to visit Li Xuewu to thank the matchmaker.

I have to say that Li Xuewu is a good matchmaker. He can always match people up with each other with a 100% success rate, which is far ahead of others.