Chapter 79: The Tiger is Away from Home
Chapter 79: The Tiger is Away from Home
Coo coo.
King Kong Lolita: My dad just called me. He said he and Yu Meilin went to Yun Di to check out the mine. They will stay for two days. Do you have any plans?
In the elevator, Li Zian looked at the message he had just received from Mu Chuntao. He felt a little amused and a little itchy.
King Kong Lolita’s words could actually be understood this way.
Your wife has flown away.
My dad has flown away too.
Should we…
His mind was full of messy thoughts.
King Kong Lolita: I’ll leave the door open for you. You can come over anytime.
Li Zian replied: What would I come over for?
King Kong Lolita: What do you want to do?
Li Zian: …
He felt itchy again.
When your body itches, you can scratch it to solve the problem. But how do you scratch an itch in your heart?
King Kong Lolita: Just say, are you coming or not?
Li Zian hesitated for a moment, then replied: I’ll come, but I have to make dinner for the child and the Old Matriarch. I’ll come over tonight.
King Kong Lolita: Okay, I’ll wait for you.
She also sent a picture emoji of a cat making a heart shape with its paws.
Li Zian slapped his forehead and decisively cleared the chat history.
His opponent was Yu Meilin, an elite among elite women. He had to be careful.
Of course, he felt that he and Mu Chuntao were innocent. He was just afraid she would misunderstand.
It was also about fairness. You mistreat me a thousand times, I treat you like first love, but you keep thinking about your first love. Isn’t that wrong? You pursue grand ambitions, I just want to live a normal life. My demands aren’t high, just having meat to eat. That’s not too much to ask, is it?
Nobody owes anybody anything.
Back home, Lin Shengnan, who was sitting on the Panoramic Balcony fingering prayer beads and chanting scriptures, looked up at Li Zian.
“Grandma, I’ll make Great Benefit Phoenix Claw Soup for you tonight,” Li Zian said.
Lin Shengnan’s face showed joy: “Mm, I was just thinking about your soup.”
Li Zian tied on an apron and walked towards the Kitchen.
Lin Shengnan added: “Earlier, your dad called.”
Li Zian stopped walking. His own father had long passed away. The dad Lin Shengnan mentioned could only be Yu Taishan.
“What did he say?”
“He said you hit Yu Jiaxing. He wants to talk to you. He invited you to his house for a meal and asked me to come too,” Lin Shengnan said.
Yu Meilin’s words at the airport had already come true.
Li Zian felt a little admiration for his “Empress”.
“What did you say?”
“I said I’d ask you when you got back and then decide. Are you going?” Lin Shengnan asked.
Li Zian shook his head: “If I go, I’ll just get scolded. Would I be stupid to go? I’m not going. Do you want to go?”
“I don’t want to go either. My old bones don’t want to move. I’m counting on your soup for health, to last until Xiaomei finds a partner,” Lin Shengnan said.
Li Zian smiled: “You underestimate yourself. You will definitely live to see Xiaomei bring you a Sunzi.”
Lin Shengnan rolled her eyes: “Go on, go on. Then I’d become an undying old monster. You just know how to make me happy. Go make the soup quickly.”
Li Zian took two steps, then turned back and said: “Grandma, if Dad calls again, give him my Mobile Phone number. Let him call me. I’ll talk to him.”
“He’ll surely scold you over the phone. Jiaxing is the apple of his eye.”
“He’s Dad. It’s only right for him to scold me,” Li Zian said, looking very obedient.
“Okay, if he calls again, I’ll tell him,” Lin Shengnan said, then lowered her head and went back to chanting scriptures.
Li Zian went into the Kitchen and got busy, making soup and cooking dishes.
As dusk fell, dinner was ready.
Li Zian went upstairs to call Tang Qing and Li Xiaomei for dinner.
Beside the small desk, Li Xiaomei looked miserable, counting on her fingers. On the homework book in front of her was a problem: 1+3=?
Tang Qing knelt beside the small desk. Inside her denim shorts, it seemed like there was a lump of fermented white dough. In her slightly inclined posture, her tight T-shirt had ridden up a bit, revealing a slender waist, as beautiful as pure spring snow.
Scientific research says that men often looking at beautiful women is good for physical and mental health, and can also promote men’s ambition and desire to strive.
And it’s true, if you have no money, even if the streets are full of beautiful women, what use are they to you?
“Brother Zian, you’re here,” Tang Qing said, getting up from the carpet and instinctively pulling down her T-shirt.
Li Zian said with a smile: “Dinner is ready. I came to call you for dinner.”
Li Xiaomei, hearing it was time to eat, immediately stood up from her small chair and ran towards the door: “Time to eat, charge!”
Tang Qing gave a wry smile: “We’ll continue calculating after dinner!”
Li Xiaomei’s footsteps were already fading away.
Li Zian glanced at the unsolved arithmetic problem on the homework book and wondered: “Yu Meilin is extremely smart. How come Xiaomei is so dumb? Could it be she inherited my genes?”
“She calculated two problems correctly today. That’s already very good. After all, she’s only three years old. Other children her age can’t even count yet,” Tang Qing said, seeming to read Li Zian’s mind.
Li Zian smiled somewhat awkwardly: “Let’s go, we should go down for dinner. By the way, your Sister Meilin went to Yun Di. She said she’ll be there for two days. You can stay here these two days.”
Tang Qing nodded.
“Let’s go, let’s go,” Li Zian said, walking towards the door.
Tang Qing didn’t move. Her lips trembled. She hesitated but still spoke: “Brother Zian, I have something…”
Li Zian turned to look at her, with a smile on his face: “Look at you, being so formal. I told you, both Meilin and I see you as a younger sister. Whatever difficulty you have, just say it. If I can help, I definitely will. Even if I can’t, I’ll try to find a way.”
Before Tang Qing could speak, her face turned red.
Li Zian guessed what it was: “Is it something at home, needing money?”
Tang Qing said in surprise: “You… how did you know?”
Li Zian said with a smile: “You’re so simple, it’s obvious at a glance. Just say, how much do you need?”
“My younger brother got into trouble. He hit an old man while riding an Electric Scooter. The other party wants thirty thousand, otherwise they will just stay in the hospital and not leave. The family also said they would go to his school to cause trouble. I…” Tang Qing bit her cherry lip, her voice becoming quieter, “I just paid my rent, I don’t have that much money, so… could you lend me some?”
Li Zian said nothing more and immediately took out his Mobile Phone, opened the WeChat contact “Teacher Xiao Tang”, and transferred fifty thousand to her.
Tang Qing didn’t know why he took out his phone until her own phone rang. She took it out and saw Li Zian had transferred fifty thousand to her. She said uneasily: “Brother Zian, why did you transfer so much? I don’t need this much.”
Li Zian smiled: “It’s better to have more. Give it to your parents for pocket money. Just spend money to settle the matter. Don’t let it affect your brother’s studies. He’s about to take the college entrance exam, right?”
“He’ll be a senior in high school in the second half of the year. The exam is next summer,” Tang Qing said, completely unaware the topic had been shifted.
“You’re so smart, your brother must be very smart too. Let him work hard, try to get into a university in Shanghai. Then you siblings can be reunited and take care of each other.”
“No, I really don’t need this much money, Brother Zian. I’ll return… return twenty thousand to you,” Tang Qing said, reacting now, and started to send the money back to Li Zian.
In a moment of urgency, Li Zian grabbed her hand: “Really, no need to return it. All these years, Meilin has been busy with the company and didn’t take care of the child. You’ve been taking care of the child all along. I am Xiaomei’s father. Before I didn’t know, so I won’t say, but now I know. I’ve wanted to thank you for a long time, but never had the chance. Please just keep the money.”
Tang Qing became flustered: “That… how can that be okay?”
“Let’s not talk about it anymore. Continuing would be too formal. Let’s go, we should go down for dinner,” Li Zian said, turning and walking away.
Tang Qing stood in a daze for a long moment before leaving the room and going downstairs. Throughout the entire dinner, she seemed a bit distracted, and from time to time she glanced at Li Zian out of the corner of her eye.
After dinner, Tang Qing again escorted Li Xiaomei into the “classroom”, forcing her to solve the math problem of what three plus one equals.
Li Xiaomei dawdled for a long time before finally calculating the problem. Then she threw down her pencil, patted her forehead and said: “Whew, finally figured it out. My hair turned white from worry.”
Both Tang Qing and Li Zian couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
Washing up, bedtime stories. Finally, after managing to get the little ancestor to sleep, Li Zian’s heart could no longer be contained. It had long flown out the door.
But to be cautious, he decided to stay in his room for one more hour, waiting for the Old Matriarch and Tang Qing to fall soundly asleep before going out.
Circulating his Zhenqi, practicing boxing, his fists grew hot, and his punches carried wind.
There was a reason why even a professional Mercenary like Kun Li couldn’t beat him. Although Ji Da’s Branch-Breaking Boxing was ancient and simple, it was great skill appearing clumsy. Every move contained the secret of gaining the advantage over the enemy. Combined with Zhenqi, it really wasn’t something Kun Li could defeat.
After practicing two sets of Branch-Breaking Boxing, Li Zian was covered in sweat. He went to the bathroom to take a shower, changed into a Tang Suit, got himself properly tidied up, and then went out.
When he left, he glanced at the time on his Mobile Phone. Exactly one hour had passed.
Excellent people are just this punctual.
Li Zian crossed the Living Room, reached the door, pulled it open and walked out, then casually closed the door behind him.
He completely failed to notice that there was a person standing on the stairs, looking at the door with a face full of astonishment.
This person was Tang Qing. She was still holding a Mobile Phone in her hand, her fingers still on the screen.
On the screen was an unsent message: Brother Zian, I’ve thought about it. You and Sister Meilin have been good enough to me. I really can’t accept your money. If I accept your money, what kind of person would I be? I want to talk to you. Can you come to the Living Room?
Actually, she had been standing there for ten minutes. After typing this sentence, she had been hesitating there, wondering whether to send it or not. Then she couldn’t help but think: Would Li Zian be unhappy if he saw the message? Would it be awkward when we meet?…
As a result, before she could send it, she saw Li Zian come out, sneak across the Living Room, and slip out the door.
What was going on?
She originally wanted to call out to stop Li Zian, but somehow, even though she tried hard to open her mouth, in the end, she didn’t make a sound before Li Zian went out.
She stood there stunned for a long moment, then deleted the unsent message.
The person was already gone. What was there to talk about?
“It’s so late. What is Brother Zian going out for? Could it be he encountered some emergency?” Tang Qing mumbled to herself, then turned and went upstairs.