Siheyuan: All the incense in the family is counting on you

Chen Xueru had a very proud look on her face.

"How is it? Does it look better than from a distance?"

Xu Huizhen got closer and took a closer look: "Yes, it is. It looks much better than from a distance!"

"No, sister! You don't look at people like that!" Li Bowen had a face full of black lines. These two women treated him as an exhibit and looked him up and down unscrupulously, making him feel uncomfortable.

"Oh, you're still shy." Xu Huizhen giggled.

Chen Xueru next to him joked, "Stay away, don't let your eyes get sore. Be careful your husband might get jealous. This is my new brother!"

"I think you are the one who is losing your mind. Do you want to be an old cow eating young grass?"

"Why not? I'm still a flower now, right, brother!" Chen Xueru raised her head proudly and threw handfuls of autumn spinach to Li Bowen.

This woman is really charming when she plays around. Li Bowen smiled bitterly: "If you do this again, I will take it seriously! Can we still have a good chat?"

"Hahaha!" The two women laughed so hard that they fell over.

After chatting for a while, Xu Huizhen stood up and said, "No, I can't chat with you anymore. I have work to do later. I'll come over to accompany you when I'm done!"

"Okay, then go ahead, so as not to disturb our world of two!" Chen Xueru, who had drunk a little wine, had watery eyes.

"Dexing, be careful that Fan Jinyou might get jealous if he sees you!" Xu Huizhen said this and turned away.

This aroused Li Bowen's curiosity: "Who is this Fan Jinyou? Your girlfriend?"

Of course he knew who Fan Jinyou was, but he couldn't just say that he knew him before the character appeared. He had to have a topic to talk about before he could continue.

"What partner? I'm single now!" Chen Xueru subconsciously distanced herself from the matter, but seeing Li Bowen's expression of disbelief, she continued to recount the relationship between her and Fan Jinyou.

After listening to this, Li Bowen pretended to be enlightened: "Oh, so that's the case, it seems that Fan Jinyou is a good person!"

As a villain, Fan Jinyou likes to climb up the social ladder, take revenge, help his son fight for the family property, etc. He always does things that hurt others and benefit himself, but when you think about it carefully, this person cannot be considered a bad person.

First of all, Fan Jinyou is a filial son. His parents are in poor health and his sister has several children. He not only has to support his family and pay for his parents' medical treatment, but also has to help his sister's family.

Later, Fan Jinyou helped Chen Xueru get the money back and also resisted the temptation of Chen Xueru's beauty, which shows that he is a good person and not a bad person.

As for helping her son calculate the family property later, that is even more understandable, after all, Chen Xueru also has a son, Hou Kui.

"He's an okay person, but a little obsessed with power! But he's not my type!" In front of cabbage, she couldn't say that she originally liked mustard cabbage. Chen Xueru was still sober.

"So what kind do you like?"

"That's just you!"

Seeing Chen Xueru holding her chin with both hands and looking at him with her elbows on the table, Li Bowen frowned: "Here you go again, can't you just talk properly?"

"It's so boring! It's not fun at all!" Chen Xueru curled her lips and sat back down.

In fact, Chen Xueru really didn't have that kind of thought. After all, there was a big age gap between the two of them. As I asked just now, Li Bowen was only 21, and she herself was almost 30 this year. But with such a handsome guy in front of her, if you asked her not to tease him, she really couldn't help it.

Since there was nothing else to do in the afternoon, the two of them sat in the tavern until the street lights outside came on.

Gradually, people started to come to the tavern, and everyone who came in couldn't help but glance at them a few more times, mainly because they were such a perfect match: the man was handsome and the woman was pretty!

Those who were familiar with her came up and chatted with Chen Xueru, and Li Bowen also got to know the main characters in the play one by one.

Looking at the fat Uncle Niu, it was not easy to eat like this in this era, and his family was definitely wealthy. Li Bowen thought that Uncle Niu should be of Manchu and bannerman origin, so there should be a lot of good things in his family. Even if there were no good things in his home, they could definitely be found somewhere else.

His eyes became eager, and he moved closer to Chen Xueru and said, "Sister Xueru, what is the identity of that Mr. Niu?"

"I'm a Bannerman. My ancestors were once prominent. I heard they worked in the Imperial Household Department. But now they don't talk about that anymore. I'm just an ordinary citizen." Chen Xueru also said in a low voice.

Li Bowen directly expressed his thoughts: "No wonder! Do you think he has any good stuff? I want to collect a few!"

"I don't know about that. Logically, he should have a few. But I don't think it's possible for you to buy them. He's not at the stage where he needs to make a living by selling things! If you really want to collect antiques or something, you can ask Pianerye!" Chen Xueru pointed out a target to Li Bowen.

"Pianer Ye?" Li Bowen asked puzzledly as he looked at the man who looked somewhat similar to the third uncle.

"Yes, don't look at Pian'erye's current state. His ancestors were rich and left him a house with two entrances. He must have a lot of things!"

Li Bowen suddenly realized, how could he have forgotten this? Xu Huizhen bought the courtyard house from Pianerye, so he should also use his brain to think about it. It would be great if he could buy a courtyard house at this time.

"Sister Xueru, please come in for a moment!"

"Okay, since you asked," Chen Xueru agreed with a sweet smile, and then said to Pian'erye, "Pian'erye, come and sit at our table, don't stand!"

"Oh, okay, thank you!"

The unwritten rule in the tavern is that if you only buy wine and don't order any side dishes, you basically just stand and drink, and leave when you're done. Pianerye is a frequent customer here, so he naturally knows the rules. When there is an empty table, he can sit down, but whenever there is not enough space, he will consciously stand aside with his glass of wine.

Hearing Chen Xueru's words, Pian'erye responded, smiled and walked over with a glass of wine: "Thank you, I can rest my hips now!"

"Hahaha, look at what you said, Huizhen, give Pianerye a side dish and two taels of wine!"

Xu Huizhen came over with some wine and food: "Do you have something to ask of Pian'erye?"

"Look at what you said, can't you buy someone a drink if nothing happens?"

But Pian'er Ye didn't think so. He must have a reason for inviting people to drink. After Xu Huizhen left, he said, "You'd better tell me first, otherwise I won't feel at ease when drinking this wine!"

"It's not a difficult matter. Look how scared you are. This is my new brother, Li Bowen. You have just met him, right? He invited you!"

Li Bowen quickly picked up the wine glass: "Pianerye, please excuse me for asking for your permission!"

"How could that be possible! Just tell me what's the matter!" Pianerye pretended to listen.