Chapter 1467: Heaven Round and Earth Square

Yuan Haoyu ran to his mother's side to eat, and Zhou Andong carried his rice bowl to sit beside Li Xianghui and Duan Chunsheng.

"Eldest Aunt's husband, when will Li Fang and Li Yuan arrive?"

Li Xianghui had two daughters, twins. The eldest was named Li Fang, and the second was named Li Yuan. They were two years younger than Zhou Andong.

At the age of twenty-two, they married into Chifeng City at the same time, marrying a pair of cousins.

Speaking of Li Xianghui's two daughters, one has to mention the Li family's old man, Li Minpu.

Li Minpu ran away from home and disappeared when Li Xianghui was three years old and his younger brother was not yet a month old.

Li Xianghui's mother endured hardships, acting as both father and mother, raising the two brothers.

Just when Li Xianghui and Zhou Xiufang were getting married, a distant relative revealed a piece of news.

Li Minpu was a Taoist priest in a Taoist temple in Chifeng City. He had recognized him unintentionally, and it had already been a year ago; he didn't know if he was still there.

For so many years, in Li Xianghui's memory, he didn't have any impression of his father, let alone his younger brother.

But his mother had lived as a widow for half her life and suffered so much, so Li Xianghui was full of resentment toward this father.

Therefore, the day after the wedding, the Li Xianghui brothers boarded the train to Chifeng City.

Regardless of whether Li Minpu was still in that Taoist temple, he had to go take a look and wanted to ask clearly.

Why did he abandon their mother and two sons and run to the Taoist temple to become a Taoist priest?

In that Taoist temple, the two brothers did find their father who had been missing for more than twenty years.

No one knew what the father and the two sons talked about, but the Li Xianghui brothers were very calm.

When Zhou Xiufang gave birth to twin daughters, Li Minpu suddenly returned.

He looked at the two granddaughters and personally named them. The eldest was named Li Fang, and the second was named Li Yuan.

Fang Yuan—if you take the rules as a square and circle, you will succeed; if you measure length with dimensions, you will gain. Square is the rules and framework, the foundation of being a person. Circle is roundness and sophistication, the way of dealing with the world.

Without square, the world has no rules and no constraints. Without circle, the world's burden is too heavy and it will not be able to take care of itself. Li Minpu hoped that when the two children grew up, they would be square when they should be square, and round when they should be round.

But mother's name has 'Fang' in it, and the child also has 'Fang', isn't that a bit inappropriate?

But Li Minpu said that Fang belongs to the earth, and Yuan belongs to heaven—heaven is round and earth is square.

The earth is the source of all things; grass grows on it, roots get their degree, flowers get their number, fruits get their quantity, and it is endless.

Square and Fang are complementary. People value them, hide them as rooms, and cut them as symbols of auspiciousness, and nine virtues come out of them.

This old guy babbled a lot, and no one understood, but it felt very awesome, so they agreed.

Then Li Minpu chatted with his wife whom he hadn't seen for more than twenty years. As for what they talked about, except for the old lady, no one else knew.

Anyway, the old lady looked very energetic, and Li Minpu showed his face once and then drifted away again.

Li Minpu appeared again when Li Fang and Li Yuan were twenty-one years old. He came back to be a matchmaker for the two granddaughters.

The other party was also surnamed Li, a pair of cousins. The cousin was twenty-two, and the younger cousin was twenty-one.

The Li family's old man was a retired high official in Chifeng City, believed in Taoism, and was a lay disciple of the Taoist temple.

The two were close friends. Once when chatting, they mentioned the marriage of their grandchildren.

Li Minpu had two granddaughters, and the other party had two grandsons, which could be said to be a perfect match.

As for being well-matched in social status, in the eyes of the two old men, that was not a problem at all.

But Li Xianghui didn't agree. He only had two daughters. Marrying so far away, they wouldn't even see their parents' home once a year. How could that work?

However, the other party's family made him hesitate, and Li Minpu also said that after marrying over, both children could be arranged with jobs.

Just when Li Xianghui was hesitating, Zhou Xiufang made the decision. The children had finished junior high school and hadn't even passed the technical secondary school exam.

Li Xianghui doted on his daughters and wouldn't even let them do farm work, but they couldn't just stay at home forever.

After all, the children were not young, and always staying at home, the fellow villagers would laugh at them.

Then Li Xianghui set up a small shop just to give the two children something to do.

Because the two children were good-looking, they were famous in the village. From the age of seventeen, people started introducing boyfriends.

Li Xianghui and Zhou Xiufang didn't want their daughters to date so early.

After two years, the children were nineteen, and Li Xianghui and Zhou Xiurong thought it was time to date.

They entrusted people to introduce them, but the children grew up and had their own ideas, and they couldn't look down on ordinary people at all.

Just like that, two years passed, and Li Xianghui and Zhou Xiufang began to worry. What to do if they didn't date at twenty-one?

Then Li Minpu came back. Li Xianghui hesitated, but Zhou Xiufang didn't hesitate, and the other party's family was so good; they wouldn't be able to find it even if they wanted to later.

More importantly, even if we agreed, the other party might not be able to look down on our daughters.

Li Xianghui thought it was the same, so he nodded and agreed.

The other party came to Jiangzhou for the blind date, and the four children fell in love at first sight.

The elder sister married the elder brother, and the younger sister married the younger brother.

They had been married for three years and had two-year-old children. Because of work, Li Fang and Li Yuan had never come back once.

It was Li Xianghui and Zhou Xiufang who went to Chifeng City to see their daughters. They went last August.

This year, the couple also had their own careers and were too busy to get away, so they hadn't seen their daughters for a year and a half.

Li Xianghui said: "Get on the train at dawn on the 28th, and arrive after four o'clock in the afternoon."

Zhou Andong looked at Duan Chunsheng again: "What about Duan Xu?"

Old Aunt's family only had one boy, named Duan Xu, who was just twenty this year.

This kid was a typical rebellious teenager, often fighting and brawling.

He dropped out of junior high school and insisted on going to the south to work.

No matter how the family tried to stop him, he ran away secretly one night.

If you run, you run, but you also kidnapped someone else's daughter.

The next day, the girl's parents came looking for him. It was Duan Xu's homeroom teacher.

When Zhou Andong heard about it, he really admired this cousin of his.

Not to mention puppy love, it was puppy love under the nose of the mother-in-law, and finally, he kidnapped the person.

Fortunately, the other party's family were all educated people, sensible and reasonable.

Their daughter was kidnapped, but they didn't make a scene, but discussed finding the person back.

After all, the two children were only fourteen years old and were minors; how could their parents not worry?

After discussing, they could only choose to call the police, and then all they could do was wait.

A few days later, they didn't wait for news from the Public Security Bureau, but the girl called her mother's office.

She didn't say where she was, just said she found a job, don't worry about them, and then hung up the phone.

At that time, there was no caller ID, and the girl's mother ran to the police station again.

With the police coming forward, they checked the phone at the telecommunications bureau, which was a public phone in Dongguan.

Although they knew where the two children were, Dongguan was so big, and there was nowhere to find them.

Just like that, they spent a month in fear, and the girl called her mother again to report safety.

Next, the girl would call her mother every month. Duan Xu didn't call because there was no phone at home.

However, the girl's mother, Duan Xu's homeroom teacher, would also notify Zhou Xiurong after receiving her daughter's call.

It had to be said that as the girl's mother, this heart and this bearing were not something ordinary people could have.

However, the girl's father had been holding back anger in his heart.

Until it was almost New Year, the girl called her mother again, and her father happened to be there.

The little cotton-padded jacket called, and the father definitely wanted to chat. At first, it was quite good.

But as they talked, the father and daughter quarreled. Originally, the girl said she would come home for the New Year.

The father said in a fit of anger, if you come back, I will break your legs.

Then, there was no then. The girl stopped calling her mother.

Duan Xu started calling, but the time was not fixed. He called the brigade office once every two or three months.

For so many years, the two children hadn't come back, no matter how the family tried to persuade them.

Until the Yugong wine agency point opened and a phone was installed, Duan Xu also started calling home once a month.

Last month, Duan Xu called home again, and Zhou Xiurong said that this year for the New Year, they would all spend it in Jingcheng, and asked if he would go.

Actually, whether it was Zhou Xiurong or Duan Chunsheng, they didn't hold much hope.

But what surprised them was that this kid agreed, which excited the couple, Zhou Xiurong and Duan Chunsheng, greatly.

That night, the couple didn't sleep all night. After all, they hadn't seen their son for several years; it would be a lie to say they didn't miss him.

It could be considered that the kid had a conscience; he would mail quite a few photos back every year, otherwise, his parents wouldn't know what they had become. ===== CHAPTER 1468 =====