Chapter 691: A favor worth millions

Li Ye sat before the dining table, chopsticks in hand, blankly watching Li Kaijian wolf down his food, then looked down at his own empty bowl, and in the end, could only swallow his saliva helplessly.

There was no way, absolutely no way.

Ever since Li Kaijian sat at the table, Fu Yiruo, who had always been close to Li Ye, had no room for Li Ye in her eyes, serving her biological father with her whole heart.

"Daddy, I'll serve you rice, Daddy. Eat this, Daddy. Eat more..."

And Li Kaijian didn't know how to be modest either, devouring the food like a whirlwind, completely ignoring that others hadn't even picked up their chopsticks.

Damn it, there were only four dishes and one soup in total. With you eating like that, like the Second Senior Brother, could Li Ye even reach out his chopsticks?

Seeing that the soup plates were all bottoming out, Li Kaijian finally realized something and said sheepishly to Fu Guiru, "You should eat too!"

Fu Guiru glanced at Li Kaijian and said faintly, "Are you full?"

Li Kaijian quickly said, "Full... *hiccup*... full."

Fu Guiru nodded: "If you're full, then go back!"

"What?"

Li Kaijian looked at the cold-faced Fu Guiru, unable to react for a moment.

They had finally managed to get together for a reunion dinner; were they going to break up after less than half an hour?

Fu Guiru narrowed her eyes and said sarcastically, "What? You're not leaving after eating? Do you want to stay here overnight? The one at home is still pregnant with your child! What do you want to do?"

"I don't... I don't want to do anything."

Li Kaijian stood up sheepishly, reluctant to leave, his hands having nowhere to rest.

He really didn't want to do anything when he came over today, but they couldn't just kick him out after one meal, could they?

If he had known they would only let him eat one meal, he would have eaten more slowly just now.

Li Ye sighed, stood up with him, and said, "Then we'll head back first, Mother. We'll come over another day."

But Fu Guiru said, "You stay here and talk to me today; let your father go back by himself."

Li Kaijian's mouth was full of bitterness. He really wanted to ask Fu Guiru: 【Can't you just talk? Can't you tell me if you've suffered over these years? Can't you ask me if I've... suffered over these years?】

But Fu Yiruo was already pulling Li Kaijian toward the door: "Mom, I'm taking Daddy back, I'll be back in a while."

Li Kaijian followed Fu Yiruo into that Ferrari, reluctant to leave.

Fu Yiruo whispered, "Daddy, you can't be too impatient. The fact that Mom let you come over for dinner today proves that she doesn't hate you in her heart, so just let things take their natural course!"

"Let things take their natural course, yes, let things take their natural course..."

Li Kaijian felt a bit more relieved after hearing his daughter's advice.

Given his current situation, there really was no perfect solution. The mainland wasn't Hong Kong, where one could take two concubines.

Of course, if Li Kaijian dared to bring up the idea of a concubine in front of Fu Guiru, he reckoned the female militia leader would shatter him on the spot.

After Li Kaijian left, Fu Guiru didn't show anything unusual, but instead started talking to Li Ye about the "test-tube baby" matter.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Wen Guohua and Pan Xiao Ying decided to come out to solve their infertility problem. Li Ye contacted Fu Guiru that very day; they were all their own people, so it was most appropriate to let her help contact the most suitable place.

"After you told me about this the day before yesterday, I did some preliminary research. Although Hong Kong can perform this kind of surgery, the standards in Europe, America, and Japan are still a bit higher..."

"I've already asked people in Japan to contact the hospital. They said there's some preparatory work that the pregnant party needs to prepare in advance. The relevant information will be sent over tomorrow or the day after; you take it back and show it to your mother-in-law."

"Alright."

Li Ye nodded, then gazed at his mother and asked in a low voice, "Mother, you don't have to be so strict with my father, do you? He didn't actually do anything wrong."

"I didn't say he did anything wrong!"

Fu Guiru said faintly, "But what could I do if I kept him here? Pour out our bitterness to each other and talk about the hardships we've each experienced over these years?"

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Li Ye fell silent. Thinking about it carefully, it seemed that Fu Guiru's heartless decision to drive Li Kaijian away was the best choice.

It satisfied Fu Yiruo's attachment to her father and made up for his sister's lack of fatherly love—wasn't that enough?

"By the way, I have a question for you."

Fu Guiru suddenly became solemn: "What exactly is the nature of the Zhongxin Company that Xiao Yu joined?"

Li Ye said in surprise, "It's an investment company targeting overseas! It seems there are even a few directors here in Hong Kong! Why?"

When Zhongxin Company was founded, there were many honorary directors, and Mr. Huo from Hong Kong was one of them.

Fu Guiru narrowed her eyes and said coldly, "Are you sure it's a normal company? Don't bring danger upon Xiao Yu."

Li Ye immediately understood something.

When Zhongxin Company was founded, it wasn't just about going overseas to do business; it also bore certain other tasks and missions.

Li Ye had allocated funds to register several overseas companies to cooperate with Wen Leyu's work. Perhaps his mother had heard some rumors and was afraid that people would rely on these companies to carry out some activities.

Li Ye said in a deep voice, "Mother, I don't know the inside story, but Xiao Yu and I have already set a path. She doesn't engage in finance, doesn't target overseas, and only focuses on the manufacturing industry in the mainland. She will try her best to stay away from all kinds of danger."

"As long as you know," Fu Guiru said seriously, "If anything happens to Xiao Yu, I won't forgive you."

Li Ye was speechless but didn't dare to refute.

【Why is it that whenever you all have any problems, you have to blame it on me?】

Early the next morning, Pei Wenhui came to invite Li Ye, asking him to go to her house for lunch at noon.

Li Ye teased, "Yo, inviting me over so solemnly, is there some happy event to discuss with me? Don't tell me you want to ask me to be the matchmaker and settle things between you and Li Dayong?"

Pei Wenhui smiled generously and said, "Brother, I haven't graduated yet! After I graduate, you won't be able to refuse helping us!"

Li Ye agreed readily, "Fine, fine, fine. When you graduate next year, I'll bring Li Li Dayong over to propose. But Li Li Dayong is too outrageous this year; he didn't come over to pay a New Year's call in advance?"

Pei Wenhui shook her head with a smile: "No, no, Li Dayong is very busy now! The two projects introduced by Sister Xiao Yu have all been handed over to the Changbei Machinery Company, and he doesn't dare to be negligent."

"Oh, yo, I'm to blame for this, I'm to blame. But I have to talk to Li Dayong later; he can't let work delay love."

"Hee hee hee, then thank you, Big Brother."

Hong Kong girls are just generous. Hearing that Li Ye was going to persuade Li Li Dayong to talk more about love, she even took the opportunity to giggle and thank him.

"Then I'll call him now."

Li Ye picked up his phone, intending to give Li Li Dayong a lecture, to make him understand that love is the most easily fleeting memory of youth, and not to wait until he's over thirty to find that he can no longer taste the heartbeat of youth.

However, just as Li Ye pressed the number and hadn't even dialed out yet, the phone suddenly rang.

Li Ye picked up the phone, and it was actually the voice of his grandfather, Li Zhongfa.

"Grandpa, how did you know my phone number?"

"I just called your father's side, and Xiao Ying told me."

Li Zhongfa didn't waste words and immediately asked, "In the middle of the night yesterday, your Uncle Liu called me and entrusted me to plead for Professor Zhang of the Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute. Do you know what's going on?"

"Plead for?" Li Ye thought for a moment and said, "Is it pleading for Professor Zhang, or for his son, Zhang Rui?"

"Both."

Li Zhongfa said in a deep voice, "According to your Uncle Liu, that person named Zhang Rui seems to have pirated a foreign book, and then very strangely got investigated... That Professor Zhang mentioned the matter of your house in Zaojunmiao. Is that house worth 100,000 now?"

Li Ye thought for a moment and said, "Grandpa, let me tell you two things. First, one-third of the royalties for that foreign book belongs to my mother-in-law. Who do you think is looking for trouble with the Zhang family father and son?"

"Second, that house in Zaojunmiao might only be worth 100,000 now, but it might be worth over ten million in the future. So, does the Zhang family father and son mean that we owe them a favor worth over ten million?"

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