When he heard Four say that this road was built by her brother alone, he finally recovered from the shock. Just as he was about to praise the beauty of this villa district, he heard Four say that all the villas in this area belonged to her brother. He saw her brother's courtyard!
Courtyard?
Such a big courtyard?
Poverty limited his imagination!
The villas here were developed by Li Shubai. Later on, Pinsong, Li He, Li Aijun and the others all bought land here and built their villas next to each other. However, Li Shubai was imprisoned halfway through. Other than him, the others only managed to build half of the villas.
Li He had it easy. He took over and stayed here. Ping Song and the others would not feel sad when they saw Li He. They would naturally be frightened when they saw him, so they would not find it uncomfortable to stay here anymore. They might as well just give everything to him. He redid the overall planning, and that was how it came to be today.
"What does my brother like to eat?" Four asked.
"Braised pork," Bi Xiangdong answered absent-mindedly.
"Who do you hate the most?"
"A person with no ambition."
"Wrong!" Four gave him a slap. "Where's your brain?"
"You said it yourself. You said that your brother hates people who don't study," Bi Xiangdong explained, feeling wronged.
Four asked, "Is that the same?"
"Doesn't not study mean unmotivated people?"
"Who asked you to interpret it blindly?" Lao Si said in a gloomy tone, "Let me tell you, you better memorize everything I say. If you make a single mistake, I'll beat you up."
"You're making things difficult." Bi Xiangdong hung his head dejectedly.
"Alright, I won't make things difficult for you." Four pointed at the door. "No one's stopping you."
"Don't. I don't mean anything else." Bi Xiangdong immediately admitted defeat.
Four said, "Don't think that everyone is as careless as you. I'm telling you, as long as my brother doesn't agree, we won't have a chance. Do you understand?"
"From what you're saying, your brother isn't easy to talk to?" Bi Xiangdong's heart suddenly hung in his throat.
"My brother is easy to talk to, but it depends on who he's talking to." Four looked indifferent on the surface, but in fact, she was very nervous. She thought for a moment and said, "Anyway, you'd better be careful and don't talk nonsense."
"Don't worry, I will." Bi Xiangdong felt strange about her family. Generally speaking, didn't people meet their parents first?
There was no logic in meeting her brother first. But as strange as it was, he still had to comply.
Four said no more and went to the kitchen to help the old lady.
"Daughter, take a rest. I don't need you to cook for me," the old lady said with a smile. "It's his first time back. It's not good to leave him hanging."
"It's okay. It's faster if two people work together." Four started to pick the leeks.
"You didn't call your brother?" The old lady didn't hear the phone ring.
"Don't delay him. It wouldn't be good if he was busy." She still couldn't make up her mind to call. She hadn't thought about how to say it. Even though she had thought about it eight hundred times in her heart, she rejected it again and again.
"Why don't I call your sister-in-law?" The old lady understood. Her son-in-law had a good personality, but she knew that he was a difficult person to deal with.
"This …" Four hesitated for a moment, but finally agreed. It was a good strategy to take them down one by one. She wiped her hands on her apron and went out to make the call.
With mixed feelings, she dialed He Fang's number. "Big Sister."
"Four?"
"Are you coming back for lunch?"
"You're back?" He Fang asked happily. "When did you come back?"
"I haven't been home for long," Four said. "Auntie and I are making lunch. We'll see if you'll come back for lunch."
He Fang said brightly, "How can I not go back when you're back? Wait for me. I'll be back in half an hour."
Four tightened her grip on the phone and said, "I didn't come back alone …"
"That's good." He Fang was stunned on the phone. Then she asked, "Does your brother know?"
"I haven't had the chance to tell him yet." Four's voice became even lower.
"Oh, then wait for me. Let's have a drink at noon." He Fang said and hung up.
Four and the old lady had just stewed the chicken when He Fang's car stopped at the door. She didn't rush to get out of the car. In order to not make the other party too nervous, she purposely honked the car horn. She only got out of the car when she saw Four and the man at the door.
"Big Sister, I missed you so much." Four hugged He Fang and gave her a hug.
"Aren't you going to introduce me?" He Fang's eyes were on Bi Xiangdong.
"Hello, Sister-in-law. My name is Bi Xiangdong." Bi Xiangdong's hands were hanging by his sides. He wanted to shake her hand out of habit, but he gave up in the end.
"Hello." He Fang nodded at him. "Come in. Don't just stand in the house."
She put down the things and went to the kitchen. Four followed closely.
"You guys go ahead. I'll go dry the clothes." The kitchen didn't need so many people, so the old lady took the initiative to leave. "Salt the tomatoes."
Four smiled and said, "Auntie, put them down. Hurry up and go rest."
He Fang saw that the old lady had left the kitchen and said to Four, "Tell me. You must have something to tell me since you're looking forward to my mother's leaving."
"Sister-in-law, you're so smart." Four gave her a thumbs up.
He Fang smiled and said, "Don't try to bewitch me. Save some tricks to deal with your brother. It's useless to me."
Four shook her arm and said, "Doesn't my brother have to listen to you?"
He Fang asked in return, "When has your brother ever listened to me about your family matters?"
She couldn't interfere at all.
Four muttered, "Then a few sentences from you is worth a hundred sentences from me."
"Are you really going to keep this boy?" He Fang couldn't feel anything good about the boy. She wasn't sure about his family background, but at least his looks were very ordinary. He was no different from a passerby.
"Yeah." Four nodded.
"What do you like about him?" He Fang was also a gossipy person.
Four said seriously, "He has published no less than ten papers in journals with an impact factor of more than 50."
"That's it?" He Fang couldn't help but laugh.
"Yeah." Four nodded.
"You're going to follow him just because his academic ability is better than yours?" He Fang suddenly couldn't understand Four's logic.
"That's the first condition. If he can't surpass me, what's the use of having him?" Four said, "Of course, he's a good person too."
"I don't know what you're thinking. Anyway, get your brother." He Fang shrugged with the spatula in her hand. "I don't know what to do."
"Sigh." Four sighed again.
When the meal was ready, Bi Xiangdong went into the kitchen to serve the dishes.
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