In his past and present lives, Tao Mu had never experienced this kind of situation where all his aunts and uncles worked together to urge him to get married. Even when he was filming a movie, he had never experienced this kind of plot. He was completely confused.
This kind of thing where the elders of the family hold your hands and ask you in various ways, explicit and implicit, when you will get engaged, when you will get married, where you want to hold the wedding ceremony, whether you want to wear a suit or a wedding dress on the wedding day, and whether you prefer boys or girls...
If it weren't for his good self-cultivation and high endurance, Tao Mu would really want to explode.
He just wanted to order a dress and get his measurements before the awards ceremony, so why did he have to go through such a weird conversation? !
The smile on Tao Mu's face almost froze. While the Li family elders were not paying attention, he glared at Li Xiaoheng fiercely.
Since the winter vacation when he was nineteen, every year during the family gathering, there has been a wave of urging for marriage. Now, Li Xiaoheng has become very calm and can even ignore the conversations of the family elders as if they were background noise. He touched his nose embarrassedly, and in his heart he was already secretly weighing which one is better to use, a mechanical keyboard or a washboard.
Tao Mu spent more than an hour in the Li family mansion, and the designer who came from Shanghai finally arrived.
The old man’s surname is Wu and he is over sixty years old. But it is very well maintained. He has white hair and a youthful face, and a pair of slender and fair hands, which are even more beautiful than many girls' hands. He wore a pair of reading glasses, two cuffs, and a tape measure around his neck. When measuring the size, the tape measure flies across the fingertips, and the slow movements look particularly soothing and leisurely. And as he measured the dimensions, he chatted with him, speaking with that emphasis that is unique to Shanghainese. In a trance, it seemed as if even time had become leisurely.
Tao Mu had just experienced a wave of urging marriage, so his restless mood was immediately calmed down. He looked at Mr. Wu with some curiosity. He had lived in Shanghai for about ten years in his previous life, but had never met this old gentleman. Never even heard of it.
But it’s normal when you think about it. When he was in the Shen family in his previous life, the elders of the Shen family had the habit of flying to Italy to ask famous masters to design and customize their clothes. As for him and Shen Yu, because they had accepted the endorsement, they had to wear dresses provided by the brand on every important occasion. So there is not much opportunity to come into contact with domestic designers. I don’t even know that this is how old-school designers in China chat with customers when measuring sizes.
Feeling very comfortable. Unlike Tao Mu's impression of those fashion designers and stylists, every time they cooperated, they were always in a hurry and aggressive, as if they were going to war.
As if noticing Tao Mu's mood, Mr. Wu smiled slightly and said slowly: "Making clothes should be a very happy thing. When I was young, domestic materials were very scarce. It was not popular to buy ready-made clothes at that time. Every New Year, some people would take cloth coupons to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy cloth. Either make it yourself or ask a tailor to do it. If you ask a tailor to do it, you will pay two yuan for the labor fee. Later, the market was better. Some people would ask people to buy fashionable clothes from Xiangcheng. The situation of us old tailors is even more embarrassing. Fortunately, Mr. Li has been taking care of my business."
When Grandpa Li heard this, he smiled softly and said, "It's because of your good craftsmanship. We all like to wear the clothes you make. We are not used to wearing clothes made by you."
Even big international brands tailor their clothes to suit the body shape and movement habits of Westerners. Grandpa Li has been wearing tailor-made clothes all his life, so he is not used to wearing outer clothes. Anyway, he is old and doesn't want to chase fashion, and he is too lazy to make any fuss. But I didn't expect my family to do the same. In the end, asking Mr. Wu to make custom clothes for the Li family before family gatherings became a habit.
Now Tao Mu was also brought to the house by Li Xiaoheng to measure the size. The elders of the Li family all knew each other tacitly, and were all waiting for the day when the two would make their relationship public and announce their marriage.
However, considering Tao Mu's age and occupation, it is estimated that this day will have to wait.
After measuring the size, I chose the fabric and the style, and the whole afternoon was gone. It was almost dinner time, so Dad Li and Mom Li asked Tao Mu to stay at home for a quick meal. He also specially instructed the kitchen to make some of Tao Mu's favorite dishes. Fortunately, the Li family did not have the habit of urging people to pick up dishes for the meal. They just kept urging Li Xiaoheng to pick up dishes and peel shrimps for Tao Mu.
Tao Mu then noticed that the men of the Li family at the table were all peeling shrimps for their wives and daughters, even the elderly Grandpa Li was no exception.
Noticing Tao Mu's scrutiny, Grandma Li smiled kindly and explained, "It's the pride of the men in the Li family to be able to peel shrimp for their wives. Only married men are qualified to peel shrimp for their other half. Single people can only eat by themselves."
The second and third brothers of the Li family who are still single, as well as other young people of the Li family: "..."
The little aunt had just finished urging Li Xiaoheng and Tao Mu, and turned the gun around and started to urge the second brother Li: "...You said you are not young anymore, even if you are not married, shouldn't you have a girlfriend? I think there is nothing wrong with this family marriage. At least you can find your partner through blind dates, right? You kids reject blind dates and want to have free love. But the key is that if you want free love, you have to bring someone home, right..."
Li Erdi couldn't swallow the food in his mouth. So his biggest headache is family gatherings. Do these elders have any misunderstandings about their children? When they were in high school, they were not allowed to fall in love too early. When they were in college, they were told to complete their schoolwork well and not to fail. As soon as I graduated from college, I started being urged to get married.
At least give me some time to find a partner and fall in love!
Li Erdi was so upset that he peeled a shrimp for himself. Continue to eat.
Li Sandi and Li Xiaomei looked at each other with sympathy. I swore that I would find a partner immediately after entering university. Don’t be urged to get married by your aunt at the age of 22, and don’t be dragged out for blind dates in various ways!
This meal was probably the most difficult meal Tao Mu had ever eaten. He felt embarrassed by the earnest exhortations of the elders of the Li family, embarrassed by the various ways of urging his aunt to get married, and embarrassed by the subtle hints from Li's father and mother. Anyway, in the end, whenever any member of the Li family spoke, Tao Mu felt his heart tremble.
Even so, Li Xiaoheng fed him three bowls of rice without him noticing! I have to exercise and lose weight when I get home at night! depressed!
It was already late when we left the Li family mansion.
Li Xiaoheng drove Tao Mu home. On the way, he apologized actively: "...I didn't expect so many family members to come. Did it scare you?"
"A little bit." Tao Mu admitted frankly. After a pause, he added: "But this feeling is quite rare."
Although I felt a little annoyed and repulsed, I could feel the kindness and care of my elders. This atmosphere is completely different from that of the Shen family. In Tao Mu's previous life, he lived in the Shen family. The relatives of the Shen family were either polite and distant to him, or fawned on him, or rejected him maliciously. Even if someone intends to introduce him to a boyfriend or girlfriend, they have various purposes. She is not like the aunt from the Li family, who is just urging people to get married. Don't even care who the object is. The net is cast comprehensively to sweep away all enemies, and no member of the Li family who is over the age of 22 will be spared.
According to what Li's mother said, Li's aunt is also like this at her husband's side. Even when he was in the company, he was very enthusiastic about finding partners for his young subordinates. The Li family has no rule that female family members cannot enter the company. On the contrary, all the children of the Li family, regardless of gender, have to go to the company for internship and gain experience starting from high school. I started as a trainee assistant, then worked as a tea boy and a sticky note girl in each department to familiarize myself with the company's daily management procedures and department structure. When I started college, I worked in the company during the winter and summer vacations to earn my living expenses and tuition. If you really don't want to work in the family company, then start your own business or apply for a job at another company.
For example, Li Xiaoheng particularly hates the family business and the routine life. So I created Xiaoheng Capital since my freshman year. Later, he even became a powerful force in the family.
"In fact, the children of the Li family hate working in the group." Li Xiaoheng recalled with a smile: "You can imagine that the children who just graduated from junior high school. Some boys who develop late may not even be as tall as a water dispenser. They are forced by their elders to work in the company. Other children can travel abroad during the summer vacation, but the children of the Li family can't. Children aged 14 or 15 are already in the rebellious period of adolescence. When I was first forced to work in the company by my father, I even called the police to complain about Fengxing Group employing child labor."
Tao Mu widened his eyes in astonishment. He didn't expect that Li Xiaoheng, who looked so steady, could be so naughty: "What's the result?"
"Of course it was useless." Li Xiaoheng recalled his childhood and couldn't help laughing: "My dad took me home from the police station and asked me what I wanted to do in the future since I didn't want to work in the group."
"I said I like to play. I want to eat, drink and have fun all my life." Anyway, the Li family is rich and can afford to support a playboy.
"I told my dad that I wanted to be like Luo Yang. The Luo family is not as rich as ours. Why should Luo Yang's dad buy him whatever he wants? Luo Yang doesn't have to work for the family. He can play outside every day."
Then Li's father asked Li Xiaoheng what he wanted to play.
"My dad made a schedule and took me around the world for two months. He forced me to play all the games I wanted to play."
Tao Mu smiled and said, "Isn't that good?"
Li Xiaoheng looked at Tao Mu with a horrible and unbearable expression, and explained: "I said I wanted to go to the amusement park. My dad forced me to go to Disneyland in M country. From the opening of the park at 8 o'clock in the morning to 10 o'clock in the evening, every day except for eating and going to the toilet, I kept playing various projects. I played a project twenty, thirty, and forty times, and I had to write a review after playing. I said I like racing, so he took me to the F1 training ground, still from 8 o'clock in the morning to 10 o'clock in the evening every day. I even had to sleep on the plane..."
Tao Mu thought about that scene. I couldn't help but feel pity for the fourteen or fifteen-year-old Li Xiaoheng.
"I couldn't hold on for two months." Li Xiaoheng also laughed: "I surrendered. I said I didn't want to play anything anymore. My dad took me back to the company and gave me a long stack of bills. He asked me to pay back the money. If I didn't, he would cut off my pocket money and living expenses. Until it was all deducted."
Li Xiaoheng had no choice but to go to work to pay back the money. The children of the Li family have had their own pocket money since they started elementary school. Give your child a certain amount of money every month and let him or her calculate how much to spend. Buy whatever you want. If you spend more, it’s gone. Because Li's father required Li Xiaoheng to set aside half of his pocket money to pay bills, Li Xiaoheng had to live a tight life at a young age. So from that time on, Li Xiaoheng developed a habit of wanting to make a lot of money and quick money and hating to have fun. This is also the important reason why, although the Li family is clearly an industrial family, Li Xiaoheng, the eldest son and grandson, chose international finance when he was in college, and founded Xiaoheng Capital right after entering college, and was determined not to return home to inherit the family business.
As a result, the news spread outside and became a story about the internal fighting between the father and son of the Li family. Li Xiaoheng fled to Country M to establish Xiaoheng Capital, which in turn hindered the family business.
Tao Mu couldn't help laughing when he heard it, and laughed unconsciously.
"At that time, I particularly hated the rules of the Li family. I also thought that everyone in my family was weird. After I graduated from college, my aunt urged my mother to go on blind dates for me. She even urged my mother to pretend to be sick and trick me back from Country M in order to get me to return to China for a blind date."
"At that time, I actually planned to focus my career on Country M and never come back. They probably saw my plan and were afraid that I would really stay in Country M and not come back, so they made such a fuss."
After all, apart from Li Xiaoheng, Li's mother and Li's aunt did not use the trick of pretending to be sick to trick other younger generations into blind dates.
Li Xiaoheng suddenly smiled when he said this, and held Tao Mu's hand while waiting for the red light: "Fortunately, I met you. I decided to shift the focus of my career back to China. Our family is relieved. Now we don't have to toss anymore."
My aunt and Mother Li stopped making trouble. However, Li's father began to stab his son in all kinds of ways, despising his son for his incompetence and worrying that his son would be kicked away by his future daughter-in-law.
But let’s not talk about such embarrassing things!
"Actually, think about it. Although our family is a little annoying, we are a family after all." Li Xiaoheng stared into Tao Mu's eyes and said softly, "If you feel impatient, don't be angry. You can punish me by kneeling on the washboard and keyboard."
Tao Mu: "..." Why did the topic turn to here? !
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