Chapter 568

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Based on her trust in Du Xiaojuan, Wang Dashan, though full of confusion, ultimately chose to follow Du Xiaojuan's arrangements.

He felt that Du Xiaojuan arranging it this way must have her reasons.

In the blink of an eye it was past noon twelve o'clock, and Wang Dashan and Du Xiaojuan finally arrived at Du Xiaojuan's hometown, a small village called Tianxin Village in Yuexi.

Du Xiaojuan's family was not considered poor; they had built a two-story building.

The exterior of the building had not been decorated, still exposing red brick walls.

However, the inside was decorated quite beautifully.

When the broken Wuling Hongguang minivan pulled up to the door of the house, Du Xiaojuan's parents Du Guoqing and Lin Xiudi came out to look, and couldn't help but darken their faces.

"Dad, Mom, I'm back!"

Du Xiaojuan got out of the passenger seat of the minivan.

Du Guoqing, with a black face, muttered a sentence:

"This dead cheap sister, what kind of men does she find, one worse than the other?"

Lin Xiudi was also displeased that her daughter had found someone who drove a minivan to meet them.

But she still said:

"Being able to find one is not bad; she's not young anymore, so don't be picky, otherwise she won't be able to marry in the future."

Wang Dashan had just gotten off the minivan, only glanced at Du Guoqing and Lin Xiudi, and sensed the strangeness on their faces.

He couldn't help but feel uneasy inside, also feeling that driving a minivan to meet the girlfriend's parents was very face-losing.

But since things had come to this, he could only bite the bullet and go on.

Taking out the gifts bought from the trunk, then carrying them forward, he greeted Du Guoqing and Lin Xiudi:

"Uncle hello, Auntie hello! These are gifts I bought for you two!"

Du Guoqing glanced at them: two boxes of milk, two packs of ordinary cigarettes, and other miscellaneous things, none of which were valuable.

His evaluation of Wang Dashan in his heart became even worse.

The man his daughter found was obviously just a good-looking skin, shabby to death, and didn't understand basic etiquette!

"Mm, go inside and sit."

Du Guoqing glanced at the things in Wang Dashan's hand, then turned around and went inside.

He didn't give Wang Dashan a good face to look at.

But he didn't immediately tear his face either.

Instead, Lin Xiudi politely welcomed Wang Dashan.

Helping to take the gifts, she smiled and greeted:

"Come inside and sit; driving a minivan from far away, you've really gone through trouble."

Hearing this, Wang Dashan felt Lin Xiudi's words had hidden meaning, and his self-esteem couldn't help but be frustrated.

He glanced at Du Xiaojuan beside him, and his eyes inevitably held some complaint.

He really didn't know why Du Xiaojuan wanted him to meet her parents in such an image!

Du Xiaojuan saw Wang Dashan's inner displeasure, took his hand, and comforted him in a low voice:

"Don't mind how they look at you; what's important is whether we two can live a good life, adjust your mindset, and when they ask questions later, answer according to what I told you."

Wang Dashan couldn't help but ask:

"I really don't understand, why do you want me to do this?"

Du Xiaojuan didn't answer his question, but said:

"Hurry inside, don't dwell on these things, just listen to me."

The two walked into the living room.

Only to see there was another person in the living room.

That person was very young, just in his early twenties.

He had long side-swept bangs on his head, dressed like a non-mainstream delinquent teenager.

He was Du Xiaojuan's younger brother, Du Jiabao.

Du Jiabao sat on a wooden sofa, playing Temple Run on his mobile phone.

Wang Dashan noticed that the mobile phone Du Jiabao was using was actually the latest Apple 5S released in September this year.

When Wang Dashan and Du Xiaojuan walked in, Du Jiabao looked up:

"Sis, you're back, Brother-in-law!"

After greeting, he continued playing his mobile phone.

Wang Dashan felt Du Xiaojuan's younger brother was too impolite; with guests coming, he actually kept his head down playing his phone.

Du Guoqing and Lin Xiudi didn't say anything to him, letting him continue playing.

"This is my younger brother, Du Jiabao."

Du Xiaojuan briefly introduced her younger brother to Wang Dashan.

At this time, Du Guoqing shouted at Du Xiaojuan:

"Cheap sister, go brew tea!"

Du Xiaojuan hurriedly put down the things in her hands:

"Fine."

After Du Xiaojuan finished brewing tea, Du Guoqing called out to her again:

"Go help your mom cook, don't just sit here being lazy!"

Seeing Du Guoqing bossing his own daughter around like that, and then looking at Du Jiabao who had been sitting there playing on his phone the whole time, Wang Dashan couldn't help but feel something was off.

But Du Xiaojuan didn't have any complaints, only replying lightly:

"Okay."

Then she turned and went to the kitchen.

Wang Dashan quickly stood up:

"Why don't I go help too?"

Du Guoqing stopped him:

"Don't go, women's work—what are we men doing here? Just drink tea with me!"

He said it with an air of it being only natural.

Wang Dashan couldn't help but feel disgusted inside.

Still, he politely smiled and nodded:

"Fine then."

The two drank tea and chatted, and Du Guoqing began interrogating Wang Dashan about his situation.

"Dashan, my daughter told me you work at a factory. Working at a factory, how much can you earn in a month?"

"..." Wang Dashan answered with a dry laugh.

He didn't answer with the figure Du Xiaojuan had told him to say. Du Xiaojuan had originally told him to say his monthly salary was over four thousand, but he felt four thousand was too little, too shabby, and thought six or seven thousand would be better.

"How come I heard Xiaojuan say your monthly salary is only over four thousand?"

Once Du Guoqing said this, Wang Dashan didn't know how to answer for a moment.

Instead, Du Xiaojuan, who was bringing up the dishes, hurried to speak up for Wang Dashan:

"Dad, Dashan also delivers takeout after work, so together it's six or seven thousand!"

Du Xiaojuan gave Wang Dashan a complicated look.

Wang Dashan knew Du Xiaojuan was complaining that he hadn't done as they had agreed beforehand.

Only now did Wang Dashan realize that Du Xiaojuan had already told her parents about his situation long ago, so his best choice now was to say exactly what Du Xiaojuan told him to say; otherwise, in her parents' eyes, he would be lying.

After all, he had driven back a Wuling Hongguang; even if he told the truth, Du Xiaojuan's parents definitely wouldn't believe him, and would instead think he was boasting.

So Wang Dashan could only honestly do as Du Xiaojuan instructed.

Du Guoqing asked at this time:

"Have you bought a house?"

"No... but I'm building a house at my rural hometown, expected to be finished next year..." Wang Dashan said while lying, obviously feeling guilty, because he was never good at lying.

But this guilty look of his, in Du Guoqing's eyes, was a different kind of guilt. Du Guoqing felt he was guilty because he had no money and no ability, not because he was lying.

"A house in the rural hometown—how can that count as a house? These days you at least need to buy a house in the County Town. Tell me, do you have plans to buy one...?"

"Not for a while, I'm afraid I can't afford it..." Wang Dashan said as Du Xiaojuan had instructed.

Du Guoqing immediately showed displeasure:

"That won't do at all. You at least need to buy a house in the County Town, otherwise where will the child go to school?"

Wang Dashan felt Du Guoqing's contemptuous gaze, his self-esteem as if being tortured.

And this torture, originally he didn't need to suffer it.

But Du Xiaojuan made him suffer it.

He lowered his head, unable to speak.

For a moment, he even had an impulse to explain to Du Guoqing that he was very capable, that he was the Boss of Shanhai Real Estate, that he already had over a million in savings! That he and Du Xiaojuan had already bought a luxury mansion worth tens of millions in Guangzhou!

But in the end he still held back this impulse, because Du Xiaojuan brought up dishes again, and deliberately gave him a look to remind him.

"Uncle, I will work hard in the future, and strive to buy a house in the County Town as soon as possible..."

Wang Dashan lowered his head and said this sentence in a very hollow tone.

Du Xiaojuan's look at him changed from a reminder to satisfaction.

But Du Guoqing's look at him changed from displeasure to even greater displeasure.

Even the contempt in his eyes was no longer hidden at all.