Chapter 318
Ouyang couldn't help but chuckle when he heard her say that, then he slowly said, "Yes, there are indeed many people who are pursuing you passionately."
"The manor I took Ningning to that day was developed by Nangong Hao. Speaking of Nangong Hao, he is one of the many suitors."
Ouyang narrowed his eyes slightly, as if recalling the scene at that time, and continued: "When I told him that I came with your lovely sons, this guy was extremely enthusiastic and rushed to greet me and entertain me well."
"And your little Ningning was held in his arms the whole time. He never let her go."
At this point, Ouyang smiled playfully, and continued, "Not only that, he even approached Ningning and the other three kids and asked them how they felt about themselves as an uncle compared to their father."
"I even jokingly asked them if they would consider having a different dad!"
"If I hadn't stopped him in time, I'm afraid he would have handed over the entire manor to your sons." After saying that, Ouyang looked at the couple in front of him with a smile on his face.
When Xia Ruo'an heard this, a trace of embarrassment instantly appeared on her face. She turned her head to look at Leng Zexi beside her in a panic and hurriedly explained: "That... there is really no special relationship between Nangong Hao and me, really."
"Although he did pursue me, I was still young at the time, just a freshman in college, and had no intention of falling in love, so I clearly rejected him a long time ago."
Afraid that Leng Zexi would misunderstand, Xia Ruoan waved his hands repeatedly as he spoke to prove his innocence.
At this time, Ouyang also nodded in agreement and took over the conversation and said, "That's right, Nangong Hao has been pursuing you since freshman year, all the way to senior year."
"After seeing you and that guy named Zhou Mufan getting together, he had no choice but to give up."
"But now it seems that he still can't completely let go of this relationship." After saying this, Ouyang sighed softly.
"Just in our college, two-thirds of the singles are probably in love with you."
Back then, Ouyang still remembered that when he took good care of Ruoan, he was misunderstood by others as wanting to pursue Ruoan.
At this moment, Xia Ruo'an looked at Ouyang with a pleading look on his face, "Cousin, please stop talking."
Then he hurriedly said, "Look, it's getting late now."
"You'd better go back to your room and rest. After all, you have to go to work early tomorrow morning."
After saying this, Xia Ruoan started to feel suspicious and wished he could just push this guy out the door.
However, Ouyang smiled and responded, "It's okay. I have a day off tomorrow, so I'm not in a hurry."
Xia Ruo'an hurriedly said, "The little quilt that Ningning insisted on hugging when she went to sleep hasn't been delivered yet."
"Cousin, how about you help bring it over? You can just stay with them tonight. I guess they would like to hear a story before going to sleep at this time, so you can go over and read it to them."
As soon as he finished speaking, Xia Ruoan quickly stuffed the quilt that had already been tidied and the books that he had not finished reading yesterday into Ouyang's arms.
Then he waved his hand and urged: "Let's go!"
At this moment, Xia Ruoan secretly complained in her heart, thinking that if she let her cousin continue to chatter like this, she would be the one to be punished to kneel on the durian.
Seeing this, Ouyang no longer intended to tease her. He took the quilt and turned away.
After Xia Ruoan saw Ouyang go out and finally disappear, she flew straight into Leng Zexi's broad and warm arms.
She grumbled coquettishly, "I swear to God, they were really pursuing me, but I have always been a virgin and never responded to them even a little bit!"
Leng Zexi gently stretched out his arms, hugged the person in his arms tightly, and said softly: "Well, of course I know."
Then, Leng Zexi seemed to have opened the floodgates of his memory and began to list them in detail: "Before you and Zhou Mufan got together, seventy-eight suitors took great pains to write affectionate love letters to express their feelings for you."
"What's more, five of them were so creative that they carefully arranged a romantic candle array downstairs of your dormitory and performed a touching confession drama for you in public."
"Besides that, there are seventeen people who risked their lives to sneak into your vegetable garden and steal tomatoes just to get closer to you."
"Afterwards, I gave you the corresponding compensation."
"Oh, and the little animals that Gu Xingchen raises seem to have a special liking for your vegetable garden, and they often sneak in to feast on it."
"And this Gu Xingchen is quite interesting. Because of his pet's mischief, he often sends you delicious meat as an apology. You have become friends with him."
Hearing this, Xia Ruo'an widened her beautiful eyes in surprise, staring at Leng Zexi in disbelief, her cherry lips slightly opened, and she stammered, "How...how did you know these things?"
He could remember so clearly those trivial things from the past that she herself had already lost track of and had difficulty recalling.
"Could it be that you have ever sent someone to follow me, or secretly hired someone to investigate me?"
Xia Ruo'an found it unbelievable and couldn't help but look straight at him with a hint of questioning in his tone.
Leng Zexi noticed that there was no hatred or disgust in her eyes, and he breathed a sigh of relief. Then he said slowly, "Since the moment you stepped into the university, I have arranged for someone to keep an eye on your every move."
"I see! No wonder those suitors who expressed their love to me stopped bothering me after I rejected them. I guess it's all because of you."
Xia Ruoan nodded as if he suddenly understood something.
"That's right. It's because of my instructions that they don't dare to pester you." Leng Zexi nodded slightly to show his acknowledgement.
"But how do you explain Nangong Hao? He has been pursuing me since freshman year and even confessed his love to me in person. Why is he an exception?"
Xia Ruoan frowned slightly and asked suspiciously.
Leng Zexi showed a helpless bitter smile on his face, and said with a sigh: "That guy is simply a man who won't give in to any soft or hard tactics."
"At first, I planned to put pressure on his family to force him to back down, but I didn't expect that his father would come to visit me personally the next day and beg me to give his beloved son a chance to pursue you."
Leng Zexi stared at the woman in front of him and said slowly, "You know, Nangong Hao is the only son in the family. If he fails to win you over and never marries, then their Nangong family will be extinct."
"So, his old man asked Nangong Hao and I to pursue you based on our own abilities." After saying this, his eyes were fixed on her, as if he wanted to catch a hint of reaction from her expression.
Hearing this, she couldn't help but raise her eyebrows slightly, and asked suspiciously: "Just like that, you actually agreed? This is not like your style!"
Indeed, with Leng Zexi's usual style of doing things, he usually would not compromise easily on such matters.
Leng Zexi showed a little embarrassment on his face. After a slight hesitation, he explained softly: "Actually... our Leng family has always owed a favor to the Nangong family."
"Back then, my grandmother was Grandpa Nangong's fiancée, but in the end, she was snatched away by our grandfather."
"This old debt has always weighed on the minds of our Leng family, so it is really difficult for me to refuse the Nangong family's request this time."
Having said this, he lowered his head unconsciously, as if he felt a little embarrassed about this old event.
Xia Ruo'an was shocked after hearing these words. She never thought that there was such an unknown past hidden between the two families.
For a moment, she fell into silence, her mind pondering the implications of this incident.
"Can we put the matter behind us? What happened to Nangong Hao?" Xia Ruoan looked at him and asked.
"I don't have as many suitors as you, and they don't dare to confess their love to me." Leng Zexi looked at her and said.
Xia Ruo'an's mouth twitched. "Isn't Lu Xi one of them? And wasn't the sister who came back from abroad at the wedding also one of your suitors?"
"Yeah, but they don't add up to as much as you do." Leng Zexi didn't deny it. "And I always rejected them directly, and never gave them a glimmer of hope."
After hearing this, Xia Ruoan looked up at him.
"Then what do you want me to do?" Xia Ruoan looked at him and asked. She still had to coax her husband.
"Anything is fine?" Leng Zexi originally just wanted to tease her.
Xia Ruoan nodded.
"Then write me a love letter." Leng Zexi looked at her and said.
"Okay." This is not difficult, she can just copy it from the Internet.
At this moment, Leng Zexi seemed to suddenly remember something and quickly added, "Oh, right! I have already promised my son that I will invite the children from his kindergarten to our home tomorrow and treat them with the vegetables you planted yourself."
As he spoke, he looked at Xia Ruoan expectantly, waiting for her response.
Xia Ruo'an was stunned at first, but then quickly came to his senses and asked, "So how many children are coming?"
After all, I have to prepare vegetables for so many people at once, and I don’t know if they will be enough.
Leng Zexi answered confidently: "There are eleven little ones in total."
"That's okay, it's enough. You can eat the newly planted cauliflower and lettuce." Xia Ruoan looked at him and said.
When she picked vegetables before, she tried to preserve the roots as much as possible, so the growth cycle is quite long.
The next morning the children came over early.
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