Chapter 384: A beautiful family relationship begins with not being beautiful

Upon hearing this, Wu Min frowned and suddenly stood up, walking toward the kitchen. She opened the refrigerator like a lioness patrolling her territory!

Having been away from home for over a month, there were still quite a few things in the fridge.

No matter how Wu Min looked at it now... she felt these all looked like offerings.

"It feels... eerie..." Wu Min shuddered, frowning.

Lin Li: "?"

No, Sister Min.

If a refrigerator didn't feel eerie when opened, its cooling effect would be terrible.

"Mom, do you need me to participate in 'Boys and Girls Forward' to win you a new fridge?"

"Which ones were stolen?" Wu Min interrogated.

There was no helping it; the credibility of Lin Li stealing offerings was simply too high. "Lin Li" and "stealing offerings" were a match made in heaven.

Lin Li sighed with a smile and changed into his slippers: "Sister Min, your words are truly hurtful."

"Actually, a funeral supply store was running a promotion, giving away free spirit money. It would be a waste not to take it, so I just grabbed a little."

Lin Li casually made up an excuse; he knew Wu Min wouldn't look into it too closely anyway.

This spirit money was, of course, left over from completing the funeral mission yesterday. Since it didn't involve anything supernatural and he hadn't expected Wu Min to return tonight, Lin Li hadn't cleaned it up very carefully.

"A funeral supply store running a promotion? Giving away free spirit money? Really?" Wu Min asked in surprise.

Giving away free spirit money—is this an activity humans could think of?

Today isn't even the Qingming Festival.

"Of course it's true. And giving away spirit money is just one of the trivial activities. The boss also said that as long as customers check in at the store with their own death certificates, they can get a free burial shroud, and buying a coffin gets you the second one at half price."

Lin Li nodded immediately, emphasizing the point.

Wu Min: "..."

Wu Min sighed.

If such an activity really existed and a customer actually went to claim a shroud, the boss wouldn't be happy.

But Wu Min also knew clearly that this activity was definitely made up by Lin Li; this child was speaking nonsense again.

As for why Wu Min was so certain, it was because Lin Li had a track record.

Back in elementary school, the school once required every student to do good deeds during summer vacation and record them.

Lin Li's world-shaking wisdom led him to decide to use his own pocket money to give free basic living supplies like rice, flour, and oil to all the elderly over ninety in Nansang.

There was only one small requirement: these elderly people needed their parents to sign for them before they could collect the items.

Who could understand the sense of redemption Wu Min felt when she heard this requirement at the time?

From the initial reaction of "Time flies so fast, Lin Li has grown up in the blink of an eye and reached a sensible age," it quickly turned to the subsequent "Time flies so fast, Lin Li has grown old in the blink of an eye and reached the age to die."

One could only say that Lin Li's starting point was good, but it was unlikely that Lin Li's starting point was good.

"Alright, alright," Wu Min closed the refrigerator door again, not continuing to press the issue, as she was worried Lin Li might say something even more shocking. She just shook her head:

"However, how many times have I told you, never accept money of unknown origin, don't even handle it.

Just throw this spirit money away, and don't burn it for your dad either. Don't let him get arrested by the Underworld for participating in money laundering... With a child like you in the human world, he doesn't have much merit saved up anyway, he wouldn't even be able to afford bail..."

Listening to Wu Min's nagging, Lin Li fell silent, then felt relieved.

Perhaps his world-shaking wisdom wasn't entirely due to his own talent; Wu Min's genes also played an important role.

"Got it, Mom." Lin Li put his shoes away and said with a smile.

"Are you hungry? Mom will make you a late-night snack."

"A little."

"What do you want to eat?"

Lin Li: "Wellington steak, medium-rare. The outer pastry must be freshly baked until golden and crispy. The filet inside must be thick-cut, and it must be drizzled with port wine sauce. Oh, right, the side dishes should be truffle mashed potatoes and asparagus tips. Remember to mix some shredded Parmesan cheese into the mashed potatoes."

Wu Min: "?"

"Just make me a simple bowl of soup, Buddha Jumps Over the Wall is fine. The broth must be made with South African abalone, Hokkaido dried scallops, and Jinhua ham with an old hen. If I drink anything else, I'll cough."

Seeing Wu Min not speaking, Lin Li clearly felt he had ordered too little, so he continued:

"I'm also craving King Crab, how about you get me a leg..."

Wu Min sneered: "Egg fried noodles. Eat it or not? If not, get lost and take a shower and go to sleep."

Lin Li: "Eat."

Every foodie knows that true delicacies are often found in inconspicuous street-corner hole-in-the-wall shops, or in ordinary households. As for those expensive Michelin places with expensive ingredients... Lin Li's evaluation is, heh.

Damn it, Lin Li hasn't eaten there, how can he evaluate it?

Anything not yet eaten is evaluated as not delicious!

Therefore, Yingbao, not delicious!

Friday afternoon.

"Bufan, are you going home this weekend?"

"How do you still have the nerve to ask me this question!" Bai Bufan, who had just arrived at the classroom from the dormitory, grabbed Lin Li by the collar upon hearing this and asked angrily:

"I don't even dare to imagine how much Old Jian will target me later. Go home? From today on, the school is my true home!"

"Look, getting anxious again." Lin Li grinned, looking very punchable.

"Why ask this? What, do you already have plans for this weekend?" Bai Bufan let go and asked.

"Sort of. Qu Wanqiu should be staying at school this week too. She had her family bring her a phone, and they plan to go shopping at the pedestrian street tomorrow afternoon." Lin Li nodded.

"Shopping at the pedestrian street? Then I don't really want to go. If you want me to go, call me 'Dad' twice, otherwise, forget it." Bai Bufan spoke immediately.

Shopping at a pedestrian street and going to a market are completely different concepts. For Bai Bufan, the former truly held no attraction.

It wasn't like he hadn't gone shopping with his mom before; the only thing that attracted Bai Bufan was the chair in the clothing store.

Therefore, he would definitely reject such invitations from others, but since the "three people and one dog" were different and still had bonds, if Lin Li were willing to call him "Dad" twice, Bai Bufan would indeed be willing to risk his life to accompany his son.

"I don't plan to go either," but Lin Li also shook his head, "The girls have their own rhythm, and they'll mainly be shopping for jewelry and women's clothing. Taking us along for the whole afternoon would be a lose-lose."

"Let's just have dinner with them, and maybe play a murder mystery game at a board game shop in the evening? Nothing is confirmed yet, we can talk in the group chat later. Just clear your schedule for now."

"That works, no problem." Bai Bufan nodded.

If they were going to play a murder mystery, he would need to prepare some onions later.

When they got to the shop, he would squeeze the onions into his eyes and then kneel on the ground and wail.

The DM and players present would definitely exclaim—Holy crap, this guy is a pro player!

Kou Kou stepped onto the podium again in her low heels, causing the two's conversation to pause.

"A bit nervous." Lin Li sat up straight.

"How so?" Bai Bufan looked curiously at Lin Li, who was suddenly acting crazy.

"I proposed to Kou Kou today, and she said she wanted to meet my parents to talk about it properly. Clearly, I've passed her test, but I don't know what my family's opinion is." Lin Li said coyly.

"Asshole," Bai Bufan gave him the middle finger and laughed, then stroked his chin, sized up Kou Kou for a while, then shook his head and patted Lin Li on the shoulder:

"Lin Li, if you ask your dad, you two aren't a good match."

Then, without waiting for Lin Li to retort, Bai Bufan changed the subject: "Because two people are too unstable. A triangle is stable, so Dad hopes you can find another one. Getting married as three people is more appropriate."

Lin Li: "?"

So that's what "you two aren't a good match" meant?

Lin Li added: "I still have Yingbao."

Bai Bufan slapped his thigh: "Good! Three people is appropriate! I approve of this marriage!"

"Thank you, Dad!"

"You're welcome, son!"

The two looked at each other and laughed.

"Bufan, go stand in the back for class." Kou Kou's cold voice came through the microphone, sounding even colder.

However, it was a fixed ending, so Bai Bufan nodded nimbly and naturally, and stood in the back row.

But he still looked at Lin Li with some regret.

They were going to be separated by yin and yang again this class.

Kou Kou was very satisfied.

Ever since she tasted the sweetness of separating Lin Li and Bai Bufan, Kou Kou had been addicted to it.

These two people must have one person in the back and one person in their seat.

So when Kou Kou was in a good mood, she would find a way to make Bai Bufan stand in the back for class.

When she was in a bad mood, she would angrily find a way to make Bai Bufan stand in the back for class.

—Making Lin Li stand in the back for class would completely cut off his possibility of sleeping, which was not what Kou Kou wanted, so she would avoid it.

"Class is finally over. Acting like a normal human is still too hard."

"Agreed."

Lin Li and Bai Bufan tidied up their desks and sighed at the same time.

There were only two classes on Friday afternoon, and the parent-teacher meeting would start around the third class. Therefore, halfway through the second math class, many parents had already appeared in the corridor outside the window, peering at the situation inside the classroom from above the windows that weren't covered by privacy film.

So much so that Lin Li and Bai Bufan, in order not to let these parents worry about their children's future, question the composition of Nansang Middle School, or doubt their own choices, had to sit up straight and act honest, just like in a public class.

"You're a real animal for stuffing that magazine in my drawer. You should have put it in the cabinet in the back." ===== CHAPTER 385 =====