Chapter 244: Her Past

Seeing Ling Feng suddenly appear, Zhang Chao couldn't help but ask, "Where did you come from? Who are you to her?"

"A friend."

"A friend?" Zhang Chao saw that Ling Feng was dressed very well, and since he recognized some designer brands, he asked Mou Lili, "You haven't been kept by him, have you?"

In the restaurant, some other diners couldn't help but laugh.

A man this handsome and this rich, keeping someone?

Begging him to keep you would be more like it, wouldn't it?

Ling Feng suddenly pulled Mou Lili into his arms and said to Zhang Chao, "She is my girlfriend, stop pestering her."

"Sure enough, I knew it!" Zhang Chao shouted in the restaurant like a shrew: "Everyone, come and judge this! This woman already has a boyfriend, yet her father still made me go on a blind date with her and even took 500,000 in bride price from my family. I am the victim here."

Not long after, the police arrived.

They asked the witness waiter about the sequence of events, then took Mou Lili, Ling Feng, and Zhang Chao back to the police station.

After some interrogation, the police also mediated the situation and called the local police station in Mou Lili's hometown, asking them to step in and resolve the matter.

The police's view was that Mou Lili's father was in the wrong; this wasn't marrying off a daughter, it was selling one. Children's marriages should be decided by themselves; what era is this?

However, the few of them were released.

Outside the door, Zhang Chao still wanted to come up and pester Mou Lili: "Where do you live? You have to give me an address. If your family doesn't return the money, I'll come to your place to find you."

Ling Feng pushed Zhang Chao backward: "What are you doing? Still want to try intimidation, huh? I'm telling you, if you dare to touch a single hair on her, do you believe I can make it so you can't survive here anymore?"

"Who are you?"

"Don't ask who I am, and don't provoke me."

After saying this, Ling Feng took Mou Lili to a car and drove away.

……

The cafe downstairs from Mou Lili's home.

Ling Feng looked at Mou Lili, who was half-reclining on the sofa, and couldn't help but say, "You haven't eaten today, right? How about I order some takeout for you?"

Mou Lili sneered, "What kind of takeout do you order in a cafe?"

"Then have some cake."

Ling Feng ordered a few cakes and had the waiter bring them over.

Perhaps people like eating sweets when they are in a bad mood; Mou Lili finished the cakes quickly, then drank an iced Americano, only then feeling a bit satisfied.

But her mood was still bad.

Ling Feng comforted her, "Don't think about it so much. Next time someone tells you to go on a blind date, just don't go."

Mou Lili wiped away a tear, "I don't dare to go anymore."

"Your family is too much, isn't it? Why would they want to sell you to an old man? Does your family need money that badly?" Ling Feng asked.

Actually, Zhang Chao was about the same age as him, but their appearances were vastly different, just like Guo Degang and Jimmy Lin.

Mou Lili said, "My dad wants to get a wife for my younger brother."

"You have to sell your daughter to get a wife?"

Mou Lili drank her coffee, "What do you understand?"

"Is this hard to understand? How can parents be so biased toward sons over daughters?"

"That's why I said you don't understand. Things like this are everywhere in the country."

Ling Feng looked at her with sympathy.

Mou Lili suddenly laughed at herself again, "Why am I telling you all this? We aren't even people from the same world."

Ling Feng asked, "Then you said last night that your ex-boyfriend was broken up by your parents? He couldn't come up with the 500,000 bride price, is that it?"

Mou Lili laughed, "Your imagination is truly rich."

"Isn't that it?"

"I said, he is already dead."

"Really... dead?" Ling Feng hurriedly took a sip of coffee.

"Liver cancer, the month after I slept with you."

Ling Feng opened his mouth wide in an "Ah," "There's actually such a thing?"

Mou Lili said, "At the time, all our money was used for his medical treatment. To save him, I slept with you for a week. You gave me a sum of money, then you forgot about me, until two years later when I found you drunk at a bar."

Ling Feng couldn't help but say, "Then I... actually did a good deed once."

Mou Lili rolled her eyes at him.

Ling Feng said, "So that means all your money went to your boyfriend's medical treatment. No wonder you work so hard, working two jobs by yourself."

"If I don't work, what happens to the money for my brother's wife? It's not like I can actually sell myself, right?"

Ling Feng said, "Then believe it or not, once you pay this money, the money for his children's formula and diapers in the future will all have to be paid by you."

Mou Lili gave a bitter smile, "That's true. So, what does Young Master Ling think I should do?"

"In my opinion, naturally, you should make it clear to your father that your brother's marriage has nothing to do with you, and you only need to take care of your parents."

Ling Feng added, "I see you're quite sharp-tongued outside, why are you so spineless when it comes to your own family?"

"It's not being spineless, it's being annoyed."

Just as they were talking, Mou Lili's phone rang, and she said, "My dad."

Then she picked it up.

Sure enough, the person on the other end of the phone started berating her immediately.

Scolding her not only for refusing to marry but also for hitting someone and calling the police, and now the police had come to their house and lectured their family, causing them to be unable to hold their heads up in front of the neighbors.

Mou Lili listened with a cheerful expression.

"Dad, don't introduce any more dates to me in the future. Even if you do, I won't go. If you want to marry, you marry."

"I'll come find you tomorrow, believe it or not?"

"Fine, come then. I won't give you my address; let's see where you'll go to find me."

"Mou Lili, you... I wonder if I gave birth to you in vain."

"In vain? Why don't you count how much living expenses I gave you last year? If you keep pushing me, watch out, I won't give you a single cent anymore!"

Mou Lili hung up the phone.

After hanging up, Mou Lili seemed to have fully recovered, and she asked Ling Feng: "Didn't you say we were going fishing somewhere? Or playing golf? Can we still go now?"

"We can't play golf anymore, but we can go fishing," Ling Feng said.

"Let's go."

"Let's go," Ling Feng said.

The place Ling Feng mentioned for fishing was a fish pond at a farm; there were many fish inside, and it was very easy to catch them.

Mou Lili was very disdainful when she arrived here, and she couldn't help but say: "Rich people are just pretentious; even fishing is this pretentious."

"How is it pretentious?"

"It just is. If you're so capable, go fish by the river, go fish by the sea; coming to a fish pond to fish."

Ling Feng felt very embarrassed: "It's all fishing; it's not like one is nobler than the other."

Hearing this, Mou Lili's expression darkened.

Ling Feng hurriedly said: "I wasn't implying anything about you, really. I think people are equal, and the ocean and a fish pond are also equal."

Mou Lili threw the used fish bait into Ling Feng's bucket, and it happened to splash all over him.

She hurriedly said: "Oh, I'm sorry."

"Sorry? You did that on purpose, right?" Ling Feng said with dissatisfaction.

"Hee hee." Mou Lili flashed him a smile.

Ling Feng said: "Considering you're in a bad mood, I won't hold it against you!"