Li Xiangdong said a lot more, and Pan Mingzhong left in a daze.

Watching his departing figure, Li Xiangdong whistled, and the winter plum and jasmine in the distance rushed to his feet like arrows.

Although it's unknown what will happen in a few years or a decade or more, as things stand, he and Pan Mingzhong will not have any conflict of interest at present.

As for what happens after that, let's talk about that later!

Five years passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it was 1989.

A lot has happened in these five years.

First is Li Ping. This young woman is twenty-two years old this year and is already a senior at Pengcheng University.

She studied marine biology under Professor Liu Minle, but what she was most interested in was cultivating all kinds of large pearls.

Li Jiabao is twenty years old this year. This guy doesn't like to study. Under the corporal punishment and intimidation of Li Jin and Zhao Sufang, he barely managed to get into a not-so-good university.

He studied horticulture, which is a good fit for Nanbowan Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd.

Because of his younger brother, Li Xiangdong specifically signed an internship and practice base agreement with the school, and every semester he would host agricultural students to intern at the company, just so that the teachers would go easy on Li Jiabao out of consideration for him.

Li Yan is sixteen years old this year. She has long since grown into a graceful and charming young lady.

Li Yan has basically never experienced any hardship in life.

When she was just over three years old, Li Xiangdong had already made a fortune selling Cordyceps militaris, Ganoderma lucidum, and Polygonum multiflorum. As a result, Li Yan was the most fortunate child in the family, which also made her the most innocent and naive among her many siblings.

Because she was the youngest, Li Jin and Zhao Sufang didn't have many harsh demands on her.

So, following her personality, Li Xiangdong sent Li Yan to study dance at the Yanjing Dance Academy Affiliated Middle School at a young age.

Li Weiran is nineteen years old this year. She and her fourth aunt's husband, Liu Junbo, are classmates, both studying law. After graduation, they can work in the procuratorate or the court.

Ning Ruoruo and Li Xiangdong are the same age, both twenty-seven this year.

At their current age, they can definitely be considered as an older single man and woman.

Zhao Xiaojun, who is about the same age as them, already has a two-year-old child.

Of course, Guo Yuxi and Li Guoqing were still old bachelors who worried their parents, and they really shielded Li Xiangdong from a lot of criticism.

After all, although Li Xiangdong is not married, he has a girlfriend who is pursuing a doctoral degree!

Guo Yuxi and Li Guoqing are both genuine bachelors!

If other people are single, it's because their families are poor or their own conditions aren't good. But Guo Yuxi and Li Guoqing are single, purely because they're both unreliable!

They're too picky!

Ordinary pretty girls don't even catch their eye.

These two are now prominent company managers, with chauffeured cars and drivers for all their travel.

If they say they want to find a partner, the matchmakers could line up for miles!

Even so, these two just wouldn't look for partners.

These two stubborn kids have their parents so worried that their mouths are covered in blisters!

Back when Li Xiangjie and Zhao Xiaopei's affair came to light, Guo Yuxi's parents wanted to arrange a marriage for him, but for various reasons, it didn't work out in the end.

Now look what's happened! Guo Yuxi has become an old bachelor in the blink of an eye, without even having held a wife's hand, let alone having a grandson.

Today, Li Chang and Guo Jinfang came to Li Jin for advice regarding the marriage of Li Guoqing and Guo Yuxi.

"Sixth Brother, what are we going to do?! These two lads are getting ambitious!"

Li Chang frowned, a bright, vertical line appearing between his eyebrows.

"Yeah! Sixth Brother, why don't we let Xiang Dong get married first, to set an example for these two rascals?"

Guo Jinfang made the suggestion.

Li Jin does want to!

He couldn't wait for Li Xiangdong to get a marriage certificate with Ning Ruoruo so that he could quickly have a grandson or granddaughter.

Unfortunately, his words no longer carry much weight with Li Xiangdong.

Li Jin even considered using force to suppress him, and planned to take off his size 42 shoe sole and beat him.

Unlike before, Li Xiangdong didn't run away immediately. Instead, he stood there obediently and let him whip him.

Li Jin had just finished one stroke when he couldn't bring himself to do it again.

"Alas, a son is no longer under his father's control once he grows up! If it's going to rain, it's going to rain; if a mother wants to remarry, she'll just let them be!"

Maybe, just let's leave them be. Those rascals might just meet a girl they like!

Li Chang, Guo Jinfang, and Li Jin discussed the matter head-to-head for a long time, but in the end, none of them had a good idea.

After being trapped in this predicament for two hours, the three could only sigh and go home.

never mind!

As soon as Guo Jinfang got home, he started throwing things around and told his wife, "Do whatever you want, I don't care anymore! Even if he stays single for the rest of his life, I won't care!"

Unexpectedly, less than a month after he said that, Guo Yuxi said he had a girlfriend.

This made Guo Jinfang and his wife overjoyed, and they eagerly arranged for Guo Yuxi to bring her boyfriend home.

Guo Yuxi pretended to be mysterious, "What's the rush! Our relationship isn't stable yet. Once it is, I'll bring her back to you all! You two can get ready to hold a wedding ceremony for me and then hold your grandson!"

Guo Yuxi made tremendous progress, while the vertical lines between Li Chang's eyebrows deepened.

Li Guoqing's main work location is Qianjiang in eastern Zhejiang, and he occasionally travels to Beijing and Dalian for business.

He only has the opportunity to stay at home for a few days when he goes to Yanjing and Bincheng on business trips.

Therefore, although Li Chang really wanted to find a pretext to teach his son a lesson.

But looking at her son who was never around, she felt a little soft-hearted and couldn't bring herself to do it.

He was still struggling with this dilemma when, three days later, Li Guoqing brought back a girl from Bincheng, saying that she was his fiancée whom he had dated freely!

Li Guoqing's move truly astonished Li Chang!

He had no time to be happy; instead, he was filled with doubts.

His first thought was, "This kid isn't some girl he hired to scam me, is he?"

Then, looking at the girl's painted eyebrows and her slender figure, he felt she didn't seem like someone who could settle down and live a stable life.

Li Guoqing's mother was also a little displeased. Judging from the girl's demeanor, she didn't seem like a reliable person at all!

These days, more and more people are flying eagles, and they are very worried that their son has been a victim of eagle-flying.

Falconry is a form of marriage fraud.

It involves a couple or a group of men and women who, under the pretense of being siblings or relatives, sell the woman to someone else as a wife. Once they have received the bride price, the woman will run away with the man.

They would scam one family and then move on to another, a practice known as "falconry."

Li Guoqing never expected his father to think so far ahead. "Dad, Mom, this is my girlfriend, her name is He Xiaohong, she's from Bincheng, and she's a year older than me."