Behind the artificial hill, Li Yanbai peeked out, but couldn't hear the conversation between the mother and daughter in the pavilion.

He was so anxious.

I've mentally cursed that guy surnamed Chu eight hundred times.

After a while, Zhang Xiaoyu reached out and beckoned him over.

Li Yanbai walked into the pavilion with his hands behind his back and a stern face.

Li Qingshu lowered her head, not daring to look at him.

Zhang Xiaoyu said irritably, "Don't keep such a long face, you'll scare our daughter."

Li Yanbai's expression softened slightly, and he cleared his throat: "What exactly happened?"

"Don't be afraid, Shu'er. Your dad is just worried about you." Zhang Xiaoyu patted Li Qingshu's shoulder and said, "You've never been able to hide your feelings since you were little. And you're already so old. It's perfectly normal for you to have a boy you like."

Li Yanbai raised an eyebrow: "You mean that guy surnamed Chu?"

"Don't be so fierce, it's not even close to happening yet, our daughter is just having a one-sided crush," Zhang Xiaoyu said.

"Mom, please stop talking." Li Qingshu's face turned red to the roots of her ears.

Li Yanbai reacted even more strongly.

"Fine, that bastard surnamed Chu, how dare he let my daughter have a one-sided crush on him? Where does he live? I'll go and kidnap him right now!"

Zhang Xiaoyu was both amused and exasperated: "I'm really impressed with you. You call yourself a scholar and a great poet, yet you can do something so rude?"

Li Yanbai said angrily, "How dare he make my daughter suffer? I'll teach him a lesson about winning people over with virtue!"

"Pfft!" Li Qingshu was amused and laughed.

"Dad, he didn't bully me."

“If you don’t bully her now, what about later? Also, let me advise you, a woman’s chastity and reputation are the most important. Don’t give yourself away so easily, understand?” Li Yanbai said seriously.

"What era are we living in? Still talking about chastity and reputation? The Qing Dynasty has been gone for almost a hundred years. How old-fashioned!" Zhang Xiaoyu complained.

"I don't care, our Li family's future son-in-law must be an outstanding individual, a true genius, and a perfect match for our Li family!" Li Yanbai said firmly.

Zhang Xiaoyu couldn't stand him anymore, so she got up and pushed him out: "Okay, okay, I know, you go ahead and do your work, I'll talk to my daughter some more."

Li Yanbai turned around and said, "Remember this: a dragon among men, a crane among heavens, a perfect match..."

Li Qingshu smiled gently.

Zhang Xiaoyu returned and chuckled, "Come on, tell Mom about that boy. Is he handsome?"

Li Qingshu suddenly became shy, and after thinking about it seriously, she said, "It's not a matter of whether he's handsome or not."

"...He is indeed very handsome, but he is the kind of guy who is rare and very special."

Zhang Xiaoyu waited a while: "That's it?"

Li Qingshu nodded: "Mm."

"..."

Zhang Xiaoyu figured she probably wouldn't get any specific information, so she simply said, "How about this, wait until the holidays, then you can invite him over to our house and let Mom and Dad take a good look at him for you."

Li Qingshu immediately tensed up: "Oh? We have to invite him to our house? I'm afraid he won't agree..."

"Are you silly? If you're too embarrassed to ask him out alone, you can invite a few more of your close classmates and bring him along too, right?" Zhang Xiaoyu laughed.

Li Qingshu thought about it and agreed.

My heart was filled with both trepidation and anticipation.

"Okay, I'll give it a try."

…

"Let's give it a try! Once we try, we won't be little kids anymore. Don't be afraid, there's no one here..."

Chu Yang watched "Fight Back to School 2" playing on TV and let out a nostalgic laugh.

He was watching a movie to pass the time, while Tang Wenfang next to him was restless, getting up every now and then to pace around.

"It's past noon, why isn't your dad back yet? Did he get robbed on the way? That's over two million yuan..."

Chu Yang laughed and said, "Mom, don't block my view of the kiss, go to the side."

Tang Wenfang stopped, hands on her hips: "Aren't you in a hurry at all?"

Chu Yang handed her his phone: "If it's urgent, you can call and ask."

"Oh right!" Tang Wenfang slapped her forehead.

"It's too expensive to call him using a cell phone, I'll call him from a landline!"

Then she ran off to make a phone call.

Chu Yang ultimately missed the scene of Stephen Chow and Sister Yin kissing.

"Coming! Almost there!" Tang Wenfang exclaimed excitedly after finishing the call.

Not long after, the door was pushed open.

Chu Chunrong entered wearing an Ultraman mask.

This startled Tang Wenfang.

Chu Yang said, both amused and exasperated, "Dad, you didn't wear that the whole way, did you?"

"Of course, it would be terrible if someone recognized us." Old Chu turned around, locked the door, took off his mask, and let out a long sigh of relief.

This doesn't look like someone going to receive an award; it looks more like they've gone to the bank to pull off a heist.

Tang Wenfang's reaction was also like: "You got the money?"

Old Chu chuckled: "Got it!"

Okay, so now it's time to divide the spoils, right?

Chu Yang gently reminded them, "You two don't need to be so sneaky. We won the lottery, not robbed anyone."

Mom and Dad exchanged a glance: "That seems to be true!"

“Come here, son, there’s 1,961,907.70 yuan in there, after taxes, I didn’t donate a single penny!”

Old Chu slammed a bank card onto the table.

Whether or not to donate is the winner's prerogative, and given the choice, Lao Chu naturally chose not to donate.

His thinking was that who knows if they actually use the money for charity? You can't see it anyway, so donating it would be a waste.

It would be better to personally bring warmth to the widows and elderly people in the village.

"We have almost two million more now. We have so much money now, more than we can spend," Tang Wenfang said with emotion.

"So you guys still don't want to find a way to spend some money?" Chu Yang took the cigarettes that Old Chu handed him.

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