Chapter 681

Just as the old couple was chatting in the bedroom, the sound of small footsteps came from the stairwell outside.

The couple looked at each other and immediately closed their mouths.

Not long after, the shower room door outside was pushed open, and the sound of talking was vaguely heard.

Tian Rune pricked up her ears and listened for a long time, whispering, "It's Manzai and Hanhan, probably coming down to take a shower."

Regarding this kind of thing for the younger generation, Li Jianguo was not convenient to express his words, so he simply closed his mouth and didn't answer.

About 20 minutes later, two footsteps went upstairs.

Tian Rune said with worry, "Just got home, don't know if they took safety measures?"

Hearing this, Li Jianguo spoke, "Rather than worrying about Hanhan, it's better to worry about Yu Laoshi and Zhaoyi. If these two get pregnant early, sigh... I'm afraid it won't end well."

Tian Rune listened with a face full of worry, and after a while asked, "Jianguo, whose belly do you hope our eldest grandson comes from?"

Li Jianguo turned his head, "Why ask this?"

Tian Rune said, "In the current situation, we two must have enough psychological preparation, I'm afraid they will fight for this."

Li Jianguo thought for a while and said two names, "Zijin, or Song Yu."

Tian Rune asked, "What's the reason?"

Li Jianguo said, "Our family owes Zijin too much, one must have a conscience; as for Song Yu, if Manzai insists on marrying her, it's relatively more beneficial."

As the saying goes, the mother is honored by the child. If Song Yu gets pregnant first, she will undoubtedly occupy a favorable position. But Li Jianguo couldn't say these words clearly.

Because for the old couple, no matter whose child it is? As long as it is the bloodline of the old Li family, they will naturally attach great importance to it.

But outsiders may not necessarily see it that way.

Tian Rune agreed with her husband's words, "But I don't dare to have too much hope for this."

Li Jianguo nodded, understanding why his wife said this, "After this matter is over, Manzai will probably go to Dongtinghu."

Tian Rune asked, "You mean, we go to Dongtinghu to see Song Yu?"

Li Jianguo shook his head, "The timing is not right now, it's not appropriate. Even if we want to go to Dongtinghu, we must figure out the attitudes of Yu Laoshi and the Huang family before acting, otherwise, giving empty promises to the Song family but not being able to fulfill them will be counterproductive, not good."

"Sigh!"

Tian Rune sighed heavily, "Actually, Hanhan is also quite suitable, why didn't Manzai think about marrying her?"

This was also the place Li Jianguo couldn't figure out.

And precisely because of this, and precisely because they hadn't heard any wind from their son, it led to the couple not daring to say too much when they went to the Xiao family.

….

The next day, the sky was slightly bright.

Li Jianguo and Tian Rune got up to prepare breakfast. Rice and stir-fried dishes made according to custom.

Just past 7 o'clock in the morning, Huang Zhaoyi, dressed neatly, went downstairs.

Tian Rune, who was guarding the living room, immediately got up to greet her, "Zhaoyi, you go wash up first, we'll eat in a while."

Huang Zhaoyi said with a smile, "Alright, Mom."

The Great Qingyi's mouth wasn't this sweet usually, but last night and today, she was willing to call it that.

Especially seeing her mother-in-law's expression of being very satisfied, she also had a sense of contentment in her heart.

She had worries before, because of her age, she was afraid that the old couple would have complaints and resentment toward her.

But looking at it now, it was completely her overthinking, which made her have a sense of secret joy for no reason.

Huang Zhaoyi knew that her coming to the Li family so smoothly was still due to Peking Opera.

It was a coincidence, just as Huang Zhaoyi finished washing up, Li Heng and Xiao Han walked into the washroom together.

The three collided, Huang Zhaoyi greeted with a smile, "Hanhan, morning."

"Morning, Sister Zhaoyi." Xiao Han received the rain and dew last night, and at this moment, the whole person was nourished and radiant, and her mental state was particularly good.

Huang Zhaoyi, as someone who had been there, saw at a glance what was going on with Xiao Han, and was inexplicably envious. But not jealous.

When passing by, Li Heng suddenly spoke, "I'll stay in Qianzhen for a day today, I'll go to Shaoshi to handle something tomorrow, just in time to take your car to Shaoshi."

He said this to Xiao Han, and also to the Great Qingyi, too lazy to explain more afterward.

Huang Zhaoyi and Xiao Han looked at each other for a moment and agreed readily.

During breakfast, the old couple had been secretly observing Xiao Han and Huang Zhaoyi. Especially Huang Zhaoyi.

After all, Manzai spent the night in Hanhan's bedroom last night, and some things between men and women happened during that time. Didn't expect Huang Zhaoyi to have no dissatisfaction, which made the couple even more certain of a suspicion: Hanhan and Zhaoyi might have reached some kind of tacit understanding and were allied.

After the meal, the five of them took a car, brought gifts, and rushed to the Xiao family in the town.

Tian Rune was very thoughtful, and even brought two bags of top-quality rice to the door.

Although the old Li family hadn't been farming at home for the past two years, the dozens of acres of paddy fields hadn't been abandoned, and were cultivated by the eldest brother-in-law's family, and a portion of the harvest could be divided to the Li family. So the family wasn't short of rice.

"In-laws, coming is coming, why bring so many things." Opening the door, seeing that everyone was carrying gifts, Wei Shiman said enthusiastically.

Tian Rune smiled and said, "They are all worthless things, just expressing a little heart, don't be surprised."

Just entering the house, Wei Shiman said to her daughter, "Go quickly and pour tea for your father-in-law and mother-in-law."

Wei Shiman's exhortation made Xiao Han feel embarrassed. When she came back with tea, she finally changed her name shyly:

"Mom, drink tea."

"Dad, drink tea."

"Eh, thank you Hanhan." The old couple was very happy, and sealed two red envelopes for the name change.

Same as last night with Huang Zhaoyi, each red envelope was 1200.

It wasn't stingy in this era, it was a very large amount of money.

Li Heng glanced at his old parents' pockets, feeling a bit magical, actually carrying red envelopes with them? Could it be that they had sufficient preparations for these things long ago?

After pouring tea for the old couple, Xiao Han gave one to Li Heng and Huang Zhaoyi respectively.

Accompanying the Li family to chat on the sofa for more than half an hour, Wei Shiman caught the opportunity to be alone and asked her daughter quietly, "Why didn't you come back last night?"

Xiao Han cleared her throat and said, "Mother-in-law likes me, so she kept me."

Wei Shiman reached out and patted her daughter's arm, "Last night, who did Li Heng sleep with?"

Xiao Han looked at her mother with strange eyes, "Mom, I'm the Li family's daughter-in-law, if he doesn't sleep with me, could he be sleeping on the street outside?"

"You're not ashamed, did you take safety measures?" Hearing that Li Heng slept with her daughter in front of the Li family elders and Huang Zhaoyi, Wei Shiman felt at ease, then asked with concern about safety measures.

Xiao Han's ears were a bit feverish, and she said crisply, "Oh, the last few days are your precious daughter's safe period."

Staring at her daughter's eyes, Wei Shiman thought for a while and said, "When Li Heng is a senior, get pregnant."

"Ah?"

Xiao Han was a bit surprised, didn't expect these words to come out of her mother's mouth, and asked with a raw tone, "Not studying?"

Wei Shiman asked back, "Then do you think studying is important, or marrying Li Heng is important?"

Xiao Han pondered seriously, and said with a bit of fear, "Deserving to be our own mother, teaching the daughter is first-rate. This ghost idea of yours is indeed not bad, but I'm afraid it will have a bad influence."

Wei Shiman couldn't help but pat her daughter again, analyzing, "Pity you're still half a doctor, the first four or five months of pregnancy don't show much, at least until the 5th month will the belly slowly show, then wearing loose clothes is completely fine.

Others won't notice.

In addition, you have to learn to pick the days, it's best to get pregnant during the winter vacation, the two months that show the most are the summer vacation of the coming year, then ask for leave from the school, and it's basically about the same. Isn't there Professor Wen Yan, this vacation shouldn't be difficult."

Xiao Han asked pitifully, "Then what if your daughter has severe morning sickness, what should I do?"

This was a big problem, but Wei Shiman still insisted, "When I was pregnant with you, I was like a person who had nothing, eating, walking, and sleeping had no reaction, I was working all the time, until you were about to be born, then I took maternity leave.

Maybe you're like Mom, worth a gamble."

After speaking, the bedroom suddenly became quiet.

The mother and daughter tacitly didn't speak, staring at each other.

For a long time, Xiao Han said miserably, "I haven't had enough of being a daughter, and I'm going to be a mother."

Wei Shiman felt it was also a bit cruel, but didn't loosen her mouth.

Xiao Han asked curiously, "Why did you suddenly urge me to have a child?"

Wei Shiman came to the door, listened to the situation outside against the door, and walked back to say, "Last night Mom had a dream, dreamed that someone took the lead and gave birth to a boy for the Li family, your father-in-law and mother-in-law were so excited, accompanying that pair of mother and son for several years."

Xiao Han had a sense of urgency for no reason, "Mom, who is that woman?"

Wei Shiman shook her head, "Didn't see the face clearly. In the dream, her face was covered by clouds and mist, relatively blurry, I wanted to see clearly, but never saw clearly. However..."

Xiao Han asked nervously, "However what?"

Wei Shiman tried hard to recall the dream, "However, that person was wearing ear studs."

Xiao Han asked, "What style? Sure it's ear studs? Not earrings?"

Huang Zhaoyi in the living room outside was wearing a pair of large earrings. Wei Shiman knew her daughter's meaning, "Not earrings, it's ear studs. Mom is very sure about this."

Ear studs?

Xiao Han filtered the confidantes around him, and found that Mai Sui, Yu Laoshi, and Zijin all liked wearing ear studs.

On the contrary, Song Yu and Zhou Shihe loved the minimalist style, and the accessories on their bodies were usually relatively few.

Xiao Han asked, "Mom, is your dream accurate?"

Wei Shiman said, "Sometimes accurate, sometimes not. For example, I dreamed several times that your grandmother passed away, but her body is still strong now.

And when I was pregnant with you, I had a dream, dreamed of a butterfly. The next day your grandfather said, it should be a girl."

Chatting about Zhou Gong's dream interpretation for a while, the mother and daughter couldn't stay in the bedroom for long, and went out to accompany the guests.

Returning to the sofa, Xiao Han looked at Huang Zhaoyi's large earrings from time to time, thought for a while, and asked tentatively in the middle, "Sister Zhaoyi, I see you always like wearing earrings, haven't tried ear studs?"

Huang Zhaoyi reached out and touched her earrings, "I have ear studs too, but I don't like wearing them usually, I like earrings more."

Actually, Huang Zhaoyi didn't have any preference for earrings and ear studs before, liking to change and wear them.

But ever since she had a relationship with Li Heng, every time in bed, this man liked to bite her earlobes, play with her earrings, and then praise the earrings for matching her temperament, so she didn't wear ear studs much. Ear studs became a thing of the past, sealed in dust.

The Xiao family had relatives coming to visit, Li Heng's family stayed for a morning, and left after lunch.

Xiao Han and Huang Zhaoyi didn't follow, but stayed at the Xiao family.

Returning to Shangwan Village, Li Heng rode his bicycle, first went to the neighboring village to send 500 yuan to Quexinyan's maternal grandmother.

Didn't expect to meet his old classmate Zou Aiming on the way back.

Zou Aiming was electrocuting fish in the river at this time, seeing him, he immediately reached out and shouted loudly, "Old Heng! Old Heng!"

Li Heng threw his bicycle into the grass on the side, jumped to the river beach and asked, "Old Zou, what day did you come back?"

Zou Aiming stopped electrocuting fish, came up from the river, reached out and took out a pack of cigarettes, stuffed one into his mouth, stuffed one for himself, lit it with a lighter and said, "I arrived home the day before yesterday, nothing to do these two days, all playing with this thing in the river."

Li Heng rummaged through the bamboo basket, poked his head to look, "Ho, not bad, so many sand loaches and stone climbers."

"The beautiful female neighbor praised me as a diligent little bee, seven or eight catties in two hours is there, Old Heng, you take some back to eat, we have a lot, can't finish, simply can't finish." Zou Aiming laughed.

Li Heng wasn't polite, "Done, I was also a good hand at this before, but haven't been in the water for the past two years, where did you buy this fish machine?"

Zou Aiming bit the cigarette and said, "It's not mine, it's my uncle's, I borrowed it to play a few times. But he seems to have bought it from the county town, this thing is expensive, costs more than 100 yuan."

Now the rural labor price has risen to 3 yuan, even so, more than 100 yuan is not a small expense.

Smoking, the two recalled the bitterness and thought of the sweetness on the river beach, and recalled the past high school events well.

During the period, Liu Yejiang was mentioned, Zou Aiming danced with joy and said, "This bastard doesn't study anymore, heard he went to Qingdao to work with someone."

Li Heng answered, "Shandong Qingdao? Isn't that very far?"

Zou Aiming slapped his thigh, spat a smoke ring and said, "Isn't it, this grandson went to sea with a cargo ship, it's considered wasted."

Afterward, they talked about Chen Lijun, Zou Aiming said, "I plan to go to Liu Li to play tomorrow, Old Heng, are you going?"

Liu Li and Chen Lijun were from the same place, and they were junior high school classmates.

Zou Aiming said he was going to find Liu Li, but the drunkard's intention wasn't in the wine, he wanted to go to the place where Chen Lijun grew up.

Li Heng turned his head, "I heard Liu Li say, didn't you have a girlfriend at Normal University?"

"Talked to one, but broke up." Zou Aiming flicked the cigarette ash.

Li Heng asked, "Normal University is a gathering place for beautiful college students in Changsha, heard your girlfriend was quite beautiful, why did you break up?"

"Sigh, don't mention it, I had a photo of Chen Lijun in my wallet, accidentally flipped out by her, then she questioned who the person in the photo was? I answered it was my youth, then we had a big fight, and broke up." Zou Aiming mentioned the past, very sighing.

Li Heng was speechless, "You really are, put the photo in the wallet, wasn't it a matter of time before it was discovered?"

Zou Aiming said, "Doesn't matter, broke up is broke up, anyway she didn't let me touch her body. Old Heng, do you have time tomorrow?"

Li Heng said, "Not a coincidence, no time, I'm going to Shaoshi tomorrow, to handle something."

Hearing this, Zou Aiming had the insight not to ask what he was going to Shaoshi to handle, and after bragging for a while, the two went home.

Before leaving, Zou Aiming gave all the fish and shrimp in the bamboo basket to him, didn't even want the bamboo basket, and just sang mountain songs and slipped away.

This guy's impression on him had always been very happy, and relatively oily, but he wasn't a bad person. In the previous life, until his later years, Zou Aiming's reputation in the hearts of his classmates was quite good.

Returning home, Li Heng handed the fish and shrimp to Comrade Li Jianguo to handle, and he ran to Yang Yingwen's house again, only then did he learn that Old Mabu's father had passed away and was buried under the tea mountain opposite.

Li Heng stood in the courtyard and looked across the river, sure enough, he found a new grave in a corner on the north side of the mountain. The location of the grave was relatively remote, people at the intersection couldn't see it at all, but the Shangwan Village office could see it when going out.

He asked Yang Yingwen's mother, "Auntie, has Yingwen returned?"

Auntie sighed, "The fourth one is a stubborn mule, didn't return, many people are discussing this behind his back."

Auntie then pointed to the old house built during the Qing Dynasty, "Her three sisters have all gone out to do side businesses, none are at home, I'm scared to death alone at night, always hearing footsteps walking back and forth in the house at night, the pots and pans in the kitchen are also clanging non-stop.

I don't dare to stay, in a few days, I'm going to the capital with your parents, Yingwen said he found a job for me there."

Li Heng turned his head and carefully examined this old "Hui" shaped courtyard. According to the third grandfather's statement, this wooden house was hundreds of years old, the roots were rotten, the people who died included old ones, young ones, and children who died at birth, more than 100, very gloomy.

He agreed, "This is a good thing, Auntie, stay there with peace of mind, maybe you can settle down in the capital in the future."

Hearing that she could settle down in the capital, Auntie's face was full of wrinkles smiling, "Take your good words, if I can really settle down in a big place like the capital, this life of mine is worth it."

The huge courtyard, now there were no people, just Auntie and a group of chickens, ducks, and geese. Li Heng chatted with her for a while and left, really feeling that the air here was colder than the road outside, strange and infiltrating.

The whole afternoon, Li Heng was visiting relatives with various gifts, visited the main families in the village. Also went to the Wei family section, dinner was eaten at the eldest aunt's house.

June 30th, past 8 o'clock in the morning.

Li Heng appeared at the entrance of the town post office on time. At this time, Huang Zhaoyi was waiting here in the car.

Xiao Han and Wei Shiman were also there, but the mother and daughter were just seeing them off.

Due to the crowd, due to his sensitive identity in the small town, Li Heng didn't have close contact with Xiao Han, stood under the post office corridor and chatted for ten minutes before separating.

Get in the car, close the door, the car set off for Shaoshi.

Along the way, the two were chatting about the Taste Wei Hao Mei company. Huang Zhaoyi told him, "In the first half of the year, the company's revenue has broken through to 57 million, among which 28 seasoning products have a relatively good reputation in the market. Currently, aquatic seasonings are being launched, including fish sauce, shrimp paste, and oyster sauce, etc..."

Li Heng listened carefully and asked, "Then won't this year's revenue break 100 million?"

Huang Zhaoyi said, "Breaking 100 million in revenue is the strategic goal set by the company this year."

Li Heng asked, "I saw Taste Wei Hao Mei light soy sauce and dark soy sauce in the Shanghai department store, when were they launched?"

Huang Zhaoyi said, "At the end of last year."

Li Heng asked, "Are soy sauce products popular?"

Huang Zhaoyi said, "Sauce types are very popular in eastern coastal cities and the Pearl River Delta, central and western regions prefer chili sauce and these."

Li Heng remembered something, turned his head and asked, "Chili sauce has been launched for more than a year, how much does it contribute to this 57 million revenue?"

Huang Zhaoyi knew it like the back of her hand, "Chili sauce contributes almost one-fourth of the income."

Li Heng was relatively satisfied, "Chili sauce and soy sauce types have huge market potential, you have to be willing to spend advertising money, take advantage of the fact that there are no competitors now, and occupy the market share firmly early."

Huang Zhaoyi said, "In August, Taste Wei Hao Mei chili sauce will be on CCTV advertising, the agreement has already been signed, located in the golden time before the weather forecast."

Li Heng's eyes lit up, "Cost a lot, right?"

Huang Zhaoyi smiled and said, "Still okay."

Hearing her say this, Li Heng understood, this woman in front of him probably used a certain relationship.

Talking about the company's affairs, the car entered the city unknowingly. When passing the Shaoshui Bridge, Li Heng shouted to stop.

Huang Zhaoyi pulled over, then rolled down the window, looked around, and found that the urban construction here was quite average. However, she cleverly didn't ask more, didn't ask why he got off here?

Before getting off, Li Heng thought for a while and said, "Buy me a house in Shaoshi, must be safe, must be hidden, um, try to be close to Chengnan Park."

Huang Zhaoyi kept it in her heart, "Alright."

Li Heng said, "As for Changsha, I'll just go to your house to stay for the time being, prepare a car for me, don't need a big brand, just reliable performance."

Hearing that he wanted to stay at her house, Huang Zhaoyi felt a burst of sweetness for no reason, "Alright."

After exhorting, Li Heng looked at his watch and said to her, "Accompany me to the restaurant on the side of the street opposite to have a meal, you can go back to Changsha in a while."

Huang Zhaoyi put on sunglasses, got out of the car, and followed him to the small restaurant.

Saying it was a restaurant, it was actually a fly restaurant, the tables and chairs inside were old, fortunately, the hygiene was still relatively clean.

The two sat down and discussed ordering 4 dishes.