Chapter 1725: No Matter How Deep the Schemes, They Cannot Outcalculate the Purity Within the Bones

But for some reason.

He actually didn't want to do that.

Facing Huo Zhenteng's show of weakness, Gu Zhihao's heart softened.

He said, "Forget it, don't be too sad. The dead cannot return to life; let the past be the past. As long as you correct your mistakes in the future and become a good person, that will be enough."

Shi Yuke:...

Speechless.

Huo Zhenteng:...

He felt inside that Gu Zhihao was too easy to talk to.

He hadn't even used half of the lines he had prepared, and he was already forgiven?

Huo Zhenteng was still crying, but now there was a hint of sincerity in his tears. He truly couldn't figure out how Gu Zhihao, a man of such an age who had been through so much hardship, could still maintain such a simple, innocent, childlike heart. How did he manage it?

A person like this is either born foolish or kind to an outrageous degree.

And although Gu Zhihao wasn't very smart, he had managed to become Village Chief and held the position for several years, so he clearly wasn't an absolute idiot.

That meant it was genuine kindness.

In fact, for Gu Zhihao, time was the best medicine to heal everything.

So many years had passed, and the reason he still held a grudge was because Huo Zhenteng owed his family an apology. Who doesn't make mistakes when they are young? As long as one can change, it is good.

After Huo Zhenteng left, his wife warned him, "Don't treat everyone as a good person. It is good to have no resentment in your heart, but you cannot be without defenses. You should not have the intention to harm others, but you must have the intention to guard against them."

He said, "I know. I definitely won't give him the recipe; I already gave it to Zichen long ago..."

His expression suddenly changed, and he slapped his thigh hard, "Oh no, do you think Zichen would give the recipe to him?"

Shi Yuke: "Zichen isn't as simple-minded as you. You wouldn't do it, and he certainly wouldn't either."

Although she said that, he was still worried.

After the two of them finished paying their respects in a hurry, the first thing they did when they got home was contact Zichen.

Gu Zhihao got straight to the point: "Our family's recipe, you haven't leaked it, have you?"

Zichen: "Master, don't worry. That is our trump card; there is absolutely no way any word of it will get out. The restaurant is currently using Huo Zhenteng's family recipes, and we are keeping ours for a greater use later."

"Good, good, that's good. Now I can rest easy..."

After Moli and Su Qiangying made up, Su Qiangying's personality changed slightly.

She became gentler than before, sometimes looking at problems from the other person's perspective, and was no longer as strong and overbearing as she used to be.

Moli saw his girlfriend's changes and was happy in his heart, but he was still very tired.

He had to hide things from his girlfriend to deal with the blind dates his mother arranged.

He couldn't always use the same excuse; his mother was so smart, she would definitely figure it out. So, he randomly pointed at a photo and said it was good, then used the excuse of being busy with studies to avoid meeting.

Being too busy to meet was easy to handle; Jian Yixin told her son to add the girl on WeChat so they could chat in his spare time.

He agreed very readily, but didn't add her at all.

When the girl took the initiative to add him on WeChat, he wouldn't accept, and later he would fool his mother by saying he hadn't received it.

But this kind of excuse wasn't a long-term solution; he had to find a way to resolve it.

The day for the weekly gathering arrived, and this time it was at Chenxin Snack.

Moli went to attend by himself and didn't bring his girlfriend along.

The last time his girlfriend was discovered by his mother, it was because she had posted on her social media during their gathering, which caused the trouble. With so many people and so much gossip, it would be troublesome if it leaked out this time too.

Moli didn't bring his girlfriend, and no one asked. The brothers assumed they had really broken up; after all, he had been very obedient to his mother since he was a child, and everyone was used to it, so it wouldn't be strange even if they had broken up.

Moreover, the biggest topic today wasn't him, but Zirui!

Zirui didn't come to today's gathering either.

It wasn't that he didn't want to come; it was because Bai Manman had been blocking the entrance to his dormitory building since early morning, so he hadn't come downstairs.

Everyone offered suggestions all at once, but despite a pile of ideas, not a single one could be used!

Bai Manman's brain was like a stubborn piece of wood; nothing anyone said worked, and everyone was at their wit's end.

Being at their wit's end with Bai Manman, they naturally started blaming Sheng Zihan.

Everyone turned their spearheads toward him.

"It's all your fault. If you hadn't introduced Bai Manman to our mother back then, this kind of thing wouldn't have happened."

"Exactly, you were all classmates; didn't you know what kind of person she was?"

"Now that it's gotten out of hand, what do you suggest we do?"

Zihan looked miserable and aggrieved: "This really isn't my fault. I didn't introduce her on purpose; Bai Manman came to me to ask about Zirui, and it just so happened that Mom said she wanted to introduce a blind date to Zirui, so I just mentioned it in passing..."

"It's all your fault!"

"It's all your fault!"

"Explaining is just covering up."

"Covering up is just the truth."

Zihan was easygoing and could take a joke, so it didn't matter even if everyone went a bit too far.

He would always find a good way to step down.

Just like now.

Zihan covered his ears with both hands and said: "Not listening, not listening, the turtle is chanting scriptures. Today is a gathering for everyone, not a criticism meeting for me. Don't lose sight of what's important."

"Everyone huddle toward the middle, I want to take a photo for my social media."

Moli said hurriedly: "Don't post it on social media, I'm afraid A-Ying will see it and cause a scene with me."

Gu Yuxin was straightforward and blurted out: "Didn't you two break up?"

After she said it, she realized she had been too naive.

"Breaking up" must be an expedient measure of Zihan.

Without any fundamental errors, how could it be so easy to break up?

Moli frankly admitted: "The two of us haven't broken up; announcing the breakup to the outside world was merely an expedient measure to fool my mother and let her vent her anger."

He urged everyone: "But you must absolutely not tell my mother, otherwise I will be in big trouble."

The topic was instantly shifted.

Everyone wondered how he managed to keep everyone happy?

Tsk tsk, it is not easy at all.

Both his mother and his girlfriend are equally overbearing; having one is enough to give him a hard time, yet both of them have the same personality, so how can he keep everyone happy?

This question is a difficult problem for everyone else, but for Moli, it is very easy to solve.

He said: "For so many years, I have been matching wits and courage with my mother and have accumulated a wealth of experience; now, I just need to use this experience to deal with A-Ying, and it works very well."

"Actually, apart from being a bit overbearing, A-Ying has no other flaws."

"She is extremely good to me and takes great care of me; over the years, I have become accustomed to my mother being so good to me, and if I were to switch to someone I had to take care of, I wouldn't be very used to it."

"No matter how overbearing a woman is, she still needs a strong shoulder to lean on, just like my mother and my father. My father usually seems to have no presence, and my mother handles everything, but my mother cannot leave my father at all; my father is her spiritual pillar."

"I think being a person like my father is quite good, low-key and not ostentatious."

Like "Madam Always Wants to Anger Me"