Chapter 42

Tan Pei took the initiative to say, "Then I'll take you there, and after the meeting..."

"No need," Nie Huaiyi interrupted him ruthlessly, "Our car is full with four people, you can call another car."

Tan Pei:?

Nie Huaiyi was unhappy to explain to Char Siu's son, and turned away.

Tan Li thought about it, and for the sake of the little pocket money Char Siu's father had given her before, she kindly explained, "Grandpa, grandma, me, and Xiao Tong, aren't there exactly four people."

Tan Pei:? ? ?

No, up to Tan Li, he could understand, but why could a small life assistant be ahead of him?

But what's the use of him being dissatisfied? Tan Anguo and Nie Huaiyi were both satisfied. "Baibai is still smart, unlike this kid. Who knows where his brain has been for so many years."

"Xiaotong, drive the car." Tan Li waved to Tong Jing.

Tong Jing responded obediently.

It was said that her boss was Tan Li, so she only listened to Tan Li's orders.

"Where are the keys?" Nie Huaiyi didn't look at Tan Pei, but only at his assistant.

Tan Pei's assistant: ...

Under the high pressure of the old lady, the assistant silently handed over the car keys.

Then, the four of them left without caring about Tan Pei's mood.

Tan Pei, who was left there, was very angry.

Why did he come when he knew that facing his parents would be a punishment?

Thinking about it, Tan Pei still sighed secretly. After so many years, he has realized his immaturity when he was young, but his parents still have no intention of forgiving him.

Some compensation may not be made at all times.

**

In the car.

"Baibai, where did you plan to buy a house?" Nie Huaiyi and Tan Anguo were chatting with Tan Li.

Tan Li really couldn't remember, "Xiaotong, you come and introduce it."

Tong Jing heard Tan Li's instructions and drove while introducing the old neighborhood they were going to buy.

As she listened, Tan Anguo did not hesitate to give her praise, "Not bad, little girl. You have collected quite comprehensive intelligence and information."

Hearing this, Tong Jing smiled shyly, but when she thought of something, she straightened her chest suddenly, "The boss is so nice. As the boss's assistant, I have to be the best!"

"I'll keep working hard!"

Tan Anguo, who was sitting in the passenger seat, was startled by her sudden show of loyalty.

"Hahaha," after being scared, he burst into laughter again, "Great!"

"Young people should have such courage!"

This time, it was Nie Huaiyi who was scared by his loud voice like a bell, "Why are you so loud, you scared me!"

She helplessly rubbed her forehead and said to the little boy gently, "Little boy, right? People also have to learn to combine work and rest."

"You are still very young, and the future is still long. No matter how important work is, it is not as important as physical and mental health. Don't work too hard."

"Don't the young people of your generation like to lie down and do nothing? You still have to lie down when it's time, understand?"

Tong Jing glanced at Tan Li's expression in the rearview mirror, "Don't worry, boss!"

"I'm still young. I don't need to lie down at my age. I can still keep working!"

Tan Li was amused and gave Tong Jing a thumbs up, "Excellent! Here's your processing fee!"

Tong Jing became even more excited.

Tan Anguo and Nie Huaiyi: ... young people really know how to have fun.

Seeing that Tong Jing's loyalty to Tan Li didn't seem forced, Tan Anguo turned his head and quietly gave Tan Li a thumbs up, saying silently, "You're capable."

Tan Li raised her hand and pressed it down, as if to say that this was all basic training.

If she were to say, 99.9% of the problems between bosses and employees can be solved with money, and things that can be solved with money are not a problem.

However, to be honest, there are indeed not many bosses in the world who are as excellent and conscientious as her.

Along the way, Tan Anguo and Nie Huaiyi never asked Tan Li whether she had had a good time these years, nor did they ask her what she had experienced these years.

Just as they themselves said before, the past is past, time is always moving forward, no matter good or bad, it will pass.

Time will heal everything.

At the age of Tan Anguo and Nie Huaiyi, let alone life and death, even life and death are no longer a big deal to them.

When time comes, it will be nothing more than a handful of yellow earth.

No one will be an accident.

Therefore, no matter what Tan Li has experienced before, now that she is here, this time and this moment are the most important.

Life is short, enjoy it while you can.

The philosophy of life that the two inadvertently revealed made Tan Li feel very comfortable.

There are some things that cannot be felt by even the most empathetic people without having experienced them.

If she tells others about her bizarre and bloody past, people will either think she is crazy or sympathize with her pity.

Just...

neither is necessary.

Being with the two elders, Tan Li inexplicably had a feeling that time, which had stopped at a certain moment, finally began to move along with the river that kept flowing forward.

At the same time, Tan Anguo and Nie Huaiyi saw that Tan Li had been sitting in the car for such a long time, calmly and without asking curiously about what happened between them and Tan Pei and Wu Xiu in the past, and they could not help but nod secretly. Although

, when you are older, you can ignore many things.

But you can't stop feeling bad things just because you're older. When life is good, no one likes to be shoved in the face for no reason.

Both sides felt that they were compatible with each other. They were like close friends, not to mention grandparents.

This feeling was even more intense when it came to buying a car.

**

The previous generation of the Tan family's move was naturally extraordinary.

One luxury car after another drove into the garage of Tanjia Hospital, with its own lights. After a while, a proper luxury car exhibition was set up in the garage of the hospital.

Even for a private hospital like Tanjia Hospital, which has many powerful people coming and going, it still stunned many people.

Tan Li and others were waiting for the inspection results in the lounge. A man in a suit knocked on the door and came in, "Mr. Tan, the downstairs has been set up. The cars brought here for display this time are all classic models. There are still a few cars that have not arrived. How about you take a look at the display brochure of the latest and limited editions?"

As he said this, he respectfully handed over a tablet.

Tan Anguo glanced at it casually and handed it to Tan Li, "Child, take a look."

Tan Li took it and was a little lazy to flip through it.

If she had her shopping habits, she might have just asked for one.

But since it was the first time she met her grandparents, Tan Li was still reserved, "Then this one."

She pointed to the page that Tan Anguo had handed over.

"Wait." Nie Huaiyi suddenly said.

She first expressed her contempt for Tan Pei, "What's wrong with you, brat?"

Then she said to Tan Li, "Baibai, it's not right for you to buy things like this."

"Huh?"

Before Tan Li understood what she meant, she heard Tan Anguo say, "Yeah."

He seemed to agree with Nie Huaiyi's words, "It's not right for you to buy things like this."

"Look, we have people coming here with such fanfare, but we can't buy a car."

"This is too tiring," he said, pointing directly at the tablet in Tan Li's hand, "Just this brochure, take them all."

"That's right," Nie Huaiyi nodded in agreement, and turned to Tan Li and said, "Baibai, your father has a problem with his brain. He taught you to be frugal and thrifty."

"He's a thief, don't worry about him."

"When you spend money in the future, learn from grandpa and grandma, don't be so petty."

Tan Li: ... This biological son is really not as good as a piece of barbecued pork.

Tong Jing, who has been watching from the side: If you are not from the same family, you will not enter the same door.

This habit of not looking at the number when buying things and buying things by the dozen, isn't it exactly the same as Tan Li's?

Nie Huaiyi continued to express his dissatisfaction, "I have never lacked anything from him since I was a child. I don't know where he learned this petty mentality. It's okay for him to dig the fruit by himself, but he even let his daughter accompany him to dig the fruit."

"It's his fault."

"If he wants to be crazy, let him be crazy. What's the big deal about involving my granddaughter!"

Tan Anguo was not unhappy because Nie Huaiyi scolded his son. On the contrary, he looked eager to join in the scolding.

Tan Li: Wow.

Applause!

Tan Li clapped her hands in her heart like a seal, but she didn't show it on her face.

However, looking at Nie Huaiyi's appearance of laughing and scolding at his age, she suddenly felt that the character setting of love and peace didn't seem to be really necessary... right?

...

Can she, just a little bit, a fingernail size, live a little more like herself?

Just like she persuaded Tan Xinman to do, be herself?

Tan Li lowered her eyes, the light in her eyes flickered.

"Bai Bai... Bai Bai."

Tan Li suddenly woke up, raised her head, and met Nie Huaiyi's old but clear eyes.

Nie Huaiyi: "Does it make you feel bad that the old man and I talked about your father like that?"

Although Tan Li was thinking about other things, it did not prevent her from doing two things at the same time, "No."

"That's good," Nie Huaiyi said with a smile, "Otherwise I would have to comfort you and say that it was a problem between us and your father and it has nothing to do with you."

"I'm not happy to say that."

Tan Li's thoughts were interrupted by Nie Huaiyi's words. Hearing her words, she nodded subconsciously, "It has nothing to do with me."

Nie Huaiyi was stunned and couldn't help laughing.

"Baibai, you and I really get along well." Nie Huaiyi said.

Tan Li agreed, "I think so too."

Nie Huaiyi looked at Tan Li deeply, "You really don't look like Xiao Xiu's daughter."

Tan Li was puzzled.

Nie Huaiyi was originally not happy to bring up these unhappy things, but seeing that she and Tan Li got along well, she felt like complaining to an old friend.

"Xiao Xiu, that's your mother, how do you feel about getting along with her?"

Tan Li thought for a while, "Silly and innocent, little crybaby, possessed by the Dragon King, tears become a spirit."

Among the four words, three of them refer to Wu Xiu's crying.

Nie Huaiyi couldn't help but laugh, "You're not wrong."

"But, to be honest, Xiaoxiu is a very simple child," Nie Huaiyi's tone was not like he was discussing her biological mother with his granddaughter, but rather like he was discussing a younger person with his peers, "Such a simple child may not be particularly liked, but will not be particularly hated either."

Tan Li agreed.

Nie Huaiyi continued, "I also used to treat Xiaoxiu as my own daughter. She was well-behaved, sweet-mouthed, and did everything with a sincere heart, like a caring little cotton-padded jacket. Which mother wouldn't like her?"

"But," Nie Huaiyi changed the subject, "but when such a daughter becomes a daughter-in-law, many things are different."

"I am an ordinary person."

Nie Huaiyi said this calmly, "I hope my son can be with the best girl in the world, who is well-behaved, sensible, and capable."

"Not only can they taste the sweetness of love, but they can also face the disappointments in life together."

"Even if one day, the old man and I are gone, they can still go through the ups and downs of life hand in hand."

"But Xiaoxiu is not that kind of person."

Nie Huaiyi said this calmly and coldly, like a wicked mother-in-law criticizing her daughter-in-law.

"She is a flower raised in a greenhouse, noble and beautiful, but too fragile to withstand the slightest wind and rain."

"Most importantly, she is willing to stay in that beautiful glass house and has no intention of coming out at all."

At this point, Nie Huaiyi suddenly turned around and asked Tan Li, "Do you think it's not good for grandma to say that?"

This time, she asked like an elder, as if she would not continue what she said before if Tan Li said yes.

Tan Li answered irrelevantly, "She is very lucky."

Nie Huaiyi paused, and smiled a little deeper, "Yes, Xiaoxiu is very lucky, so lucky that people are jealous."

"The Wu family protected her very well before, and later, Xiaopei also protected her very well."

"If this is really my daughter, I will definitely be very happy, after all, it is not easy to find a fool like Xiaopei in the world."

Tan Li held back.

This is not a good thing to laugh at. Some things, her mother said it was okay, but it was not appropriate for her as a daughter to say them.

Nie Huaiyi saw that Tan Li was laughing, and said helplessly, "Laugh if you want to."

Tan Anguo also nodded in agreement.

The two of them were like this, and Tan Li couldn't laugh.

She held Nie Huaiyi's hand, "It's all in the past."

Just like when Nie Huaiyi comforted her.

Nie Huaiyi was stunned for a moment, and held her hand back, "Yes, it's all in the past."

They seemed to be saying this to each other and to themselves.

"My son is my son, and I am me. He has his life, and I have mine," Nie Huaiyi said with a relaxed expression. "As one drinks water, one knows whether it is hot or cold. He likes to be a sucker, and I can't stop him."

"Similarly, I don't like to see the two of them being so nagging in front of me, and I don't have to put up with him."

"So," Nie Huaiyi said to Tan Li seriously, "Baibai, if you can't stand your dad, you don't have to put up with him."

"He hasn't set a good example for his children, and there is no reason for him to ask his children to obey him."