But Lin Yizhen refused. If Xiao Chen stayed here, how could she get things from the space?
Lin Yizhen told Xiao Chen that she only needed to clean up one room to temporarily live in. She would be going back in a few days anyway, so there was no need to clean up the whole place.
Xiao Chen thought it made sense, so he let her do what she wanted. He helped her unload the luggage from the car and drove away.
After Xiao Chen left, Lin Yizhen closed all the doors to the courtyard. She began to take things out of the space, released the puppet eunuchs and palace maids, and began to clean up the house.
Although she only needed to clean up one or two rooms, Lin Yizhen didn't want to do it herself anymore.
Lin Yizhen had the puppets clean out only two rooms, a side hall, and a kitchen. She left the other rooms alone for the time being, and even after cleaning them out, they were still covered in dust.
Moreover, Lin Yizhen is planning to renovate this house again.
It’s just that I don’t have much money now, and I have to live in the countryside for the next few years.
Therefore, she planned to save some money in the next few years, and then ask her godmother to help find someone to repair it. By then, the college entrance examination would be almost back, and she could come to Beijing to live.
Lin Yizhen asked the puppets to clean up the rooms they needed. It was already past midnight. Just as she was about to eat, she heard someone knocking on the door.
I guess it was Xiao Chen or someone from the Xiao family who came. After all, no one knew that she moved here except Xiao Chen.
After Lin Yizhen put all the puppets and some things that shouldn't appear into the space, she went to the front yard to open the door.
Fortunately, the room she chose was right in the front yard, so she could hear the knocks on the door. If she had chosen one of the back doors, she would definitely not have heard the knocks on the front door.
When I opened the door, it was indeed Xiao Chen.
He was standing at the door, holding a bamboo basket with two lunch boxes in it. It seemed that his godparents knew she was moving and were worried that she would have no lunch, so they asked Xiao Chen to bring her lunch.
When Xiao Chen saw Lin Yizhen coming to open the door, he handed the bamboo basket in his hand to Lin Yizhen and said, "Madam knew you moved, so she made this especially for you."
"Thank you, Xiao Chen. Please also say thank you to my godmother for me!" Lin Yizhen thanked Xiao Chen after taking the bamboo basket.
Xiao Chen waved his hand and turned away.
Lin Yizhen thought that since she had moved, she should invite her godparents to come over for a meal and heat up the food, which is commonly known as a housewarming.
But now she is the only one in the house, and she can't cook. If she really invites her godparents over, it will probably be her godmother who cooks, so it's better not to invite them!
But it would not be good if I really didn't invite them, after all, they already knew that I had moved.
If you don't invite them, they will probably have some thoughts in their minds.
"Well, please! At worst, we can have the puppets in the imperial kitchen prepare it in advance. Then, we can say we bought it from the state-owned restaurant and brought it back."
So, when Xiao Chen came to bring her dinner that night, Lin Yizhen followed him to the Xiao family and told them about the housewarming.
The people in the Xiao family were quite surprised to see Lin Yizhen at first. After all, she had just moved today and must have a lot of things to do.
Originally, Wang Shumeng wanted to ask for leave to help her clean up, but was persuaded by Xiao Defeng.
Lin Yizhen didn't even need Xiao Chen's help, so why would she ask for leave to go over and help? Don't let his wife's visit delay his goddaughter's work.
Xiao Defeng also knew that house. It was originally the home of a nobleman, but because of the war, his family had to hide outside.
Later, when the country won, their descendants returned to this house.
Maybe because they were in a hurry to move in, they renovated the interior and moved in directly.
Originally, the leaders didn't want to care about them.
Anyway, this house is their ancestral property, and they want to live in it. The leaders are not the kind of people who would encroach on the property of ordinary people.
Who would have thought that these people were actually spies from abroad? If those foreign forces hadn't asked them to come back, they would never have wanted to come back in their entire lives.
They were reluctant to spend the money given to them by foreign powers and even planned to keep it for going abroad!
So, I only renovated the inside.
However, what they didn't expect was that they were accidentally exposed. Then they had no choice but to arrest them and take the house back to the state.
This family was arrested not long ago, and the authorities haven’t figured out what to do with the house yet!
Unexpectedly, it had only been a short time before the second-in-command gave the house to their goddaughter.
It seems that their goddaughter means more to the leader than he imagined.
From now on, I'll have to warn my family not to even think about having any secret thoughts about her.
If they don't listen to his advice, don't come to him if something happens.
In fact, Xiao Defeng is still very confident in his wife, son and daughter-in-law, but he is worried about the families of his two younger brothers.
One of his two younger brothers is easily influenced by others, and the other one doesn't care about anything except going to work.
The key point is that the relationship between the two families is very good. If there is any problem, they will get together to discuss it. They will not tell him, the eldest brother, at all. They will only tell him when there is a problem that they cannot solve themselves.
Thinking of the stupid things they had done in the past, Xiao Defeng rubbed his temples helplessly.
However, his two younger brothers are not without their merits.
Although they like to make their own decisions, they also value feelings.
When the news broke that he had gotten into trouble and was forced to stop working, they didn't cut ties with him, nor did they retaliate. Overall, they were pretty good.
This is also the reason why Xiao Defeng has always tolerated them and is willing to help them.
So, Xiao Defeng specially called both families over the next day and warned them not to go to Lin Yizhen no matter what.
Don’t say anything you shouldn’t say, otherwise you will bear the consequences.
Xiao Defeng's two younger brothers were frightened by their eldest brother's serious look.
He quickly sat up straight and replied: Yes.
Their wives saw Xiao Defeng's cold face and their husbands' legs were shaking with fear. They didn't dare to say anything, but just nodded continuously, and even dropped the chopsticks in their hands in fear.
Not to mention the remaining children from the two families, they didn't dare to say a word from beginning to end.
The children of these two families were not afraid of their parents, but they were afraid of their uncle. Every time they came to Xiao Defeng's house, they would shrink to one side like a quail until they left.
Seeing that his two younger brothers and sister-in-law had agreed, Xiao Defeng nodded in satisfaction and said, "That's good to know. Let's continue eating!"
After hearing Xiao Defeng's words, the two families picked up their chopsticks and continued eating.
After eating, the two families said goodbye to Xiao Defeng and Wang Shumeng and left in a hurry, almost forgetting to ride their bicycles.
The movements were so neat that Xiao Defeng even suspected that they had gone somewhere for training without his knowledge.
On the day that Lin Yizhen agreed to warm up the house, Lin Yizhen asked the puppet chef to prepare the dishes early.
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