Chapter 44
Nan Bo felt so miserable that he couldn't express it. No matter how he explained, his mother and sister just looked at him as if to say, "I understand, stop making excuses."
"You two, stop imagining things. It really was just a mistake. She clumsily spilled coffee on me and was wiping it off. It's not what you think."
Nan Tao: "Really? I don't believe it. Haven't you always disliked people touching you? Even when she wiped your legs, why didn't you just refuse? If mom and I hadn't come in and seen it, would you have developed into..."
Nan Bo bent his index finger and tapped Nan Tao on the forehead, "What nonsense are you talking about."
Nan Tao didn't believe Nan Bo's explanation. If he truly didn't have feelings for that assistant secretary, spilling coffee on him alone would be enough to get him fired, not to mention allowing him to kneel on the floor and touch her. Thighs are a sensitive area; is it something the opposite sex can just touch casually? She didn't believe him. Why hadn't she noticed her brother's tendency to fall in love before?
The secretary assistant just now looked a little ordinary and had a bit of a naive personality, but it didn’t matter. As long as Big Brother liked her, she had no objection.
Nan's mother happened to think the same thing, and she advised earnestly, "Son, I've been through this before. You just don't know it. How else can you explain why you treat her differently than you do others? Let's not play the domineering CEO game in novels. Don't wait until someone is gone before you realize you've fallen for someone else, and then regret it too late and start chasing your wife through the crematorium. How pitiful."
Nan Bo's temples ached, the back of his head swollen, and he pinched his brows. "Mom, have you been reading too many novels lately?"
Nan's mother changed the subject: "Mom is worried about your marriage and relationship!"
Nan Bo: "I know my limits, you don't have to worry."
Nan's mother said with a stern face, "Do you have any sense? You're already in your thirties and still not married? Xiaoze is six years old, and you're still single!"
Nan Bo was speechless and said after a while, "Don't you always say to just go with the flow?"
Nan's mother: "You've been letting fate take its course for over a decade. How much longer do you have to let fate take its course? Now that you've met a suitable girl, you should be more attentive. Your father and I are not old-fashioned and won't force you into marriage. But you have to be proactive in finding a partner. Otherwise, you're just daydreaming about someone who will just drop a pie in the sky and give you a wife."
Nan Tao agreed, "What Mom said makes sense, unless you are single and determined not to get married."
Nan Bo was immediately overwhelmed. "I understand. I will be proactive."
Nan's mother: "Then who are you and that little girl?"
Nan Bo reiterated: "Mom, you think too much."
Nan Ma was suspicious, "Are you sure?"
Nan Bo said with certainty: "Sure!"
Nan Tao was puzzled. Her eldest brother clearly seemed to have feelings for that girl, so why did he keep denying any feelings? She and her mother were not outsiders, and they had asked him several times. He wouldn't lie to his family. Could it be that he hadn't figured it out? He had always been a stellar student. Even if he hadn't noticed at first, she and her mother had reminded him several times. He should have reacted. Could it be that he really had no feelings?
If that were the case, Nan Tao felt deeply regretful that her future sister-in-law had flown away again.
Nan Tao: "Brother, you are not really gay and not interested in women, right?"
Nan Bo bent his index finger and tapped Nan Tao on the forehead again, "What nonsense are you talking about? I, your brother, have a normal sexual orientation. I just haven't met the right person yet."
Nan Tao said bitterly, "Your true love came so late. By the time you got to it, the flowers were already cold."
Nan's mother sighed, "Okay, it's all for nothing. How about you go on a blind date? A friend of mine has a daughter who recently returned from studying abroad. She's a top student with fair skin and beautiful looks. Would you like to meet her?"
Nan Bo just wanted to coax the person away first, so he agreed perfunctorily: "Okay."
Nan's mother smiled happily: "That's a deal. I'll arrange for the person to meet you at that time. You two can chat first. If it's a good match, then we can go together. If not, then we can find another one."
After Nan Bo sent Nan Ma and Nan Tao away, he breathed a sigh of relief, pinched his brows, and sat back in his office chair. He looked at the document for a long time, but he couldn't concentrate and didn't read a single word.
He sighed deeply, put down his pen, opened the locked first drawer, and took out a photo frame. Inside the frame was a photo of a girl wearing a bachelor's gown with a bright and sunny smile.
Nan Bo traced the girl's face with his fingertips, his eyes filled with deep longing.
Knock knock knock, there is a knock on the door.
Nan Bo put the photo frame back into the drawer and locked it again. Fang said, "Come in."
"President, this is a new document that needs your signature." Lin Yirou said with red and swollen eyes, and walked in with a thick stack of documents to be signed in her hand.
Nan Bo raised his eyes, his gaze fixed on the red and swollen eyebrows of the secretary assistant, and he was distracted for a moment.
Lin Yirou's cheeks were hot when she was looked at. She put the documents on the desk with a slightly red face, "President~"
Nan Bo retracted his gaze and said calmly, "Go out."
Lin Yirou was reluctant to leave and stood for a while. She looked at the tall and handsome president and felt a surge of grievances in her heart. She opened her mouth and wanted to say that she was bullied by her colleagues, and she also wanted to say that she would work hard to repay the president.
But as soon as he said the word "I", he was interrupted by the president.
"Why don't you go out?"
Lin Yirou bit her lip and said, "Remember to sign." After that, she closed the door reluctantly and left.
The huge president's office fell silent again.
Nan Bo opened the drawer again, took out the photo frame, stroked the girl's delicate eyebrows with his fingers, sighed slightly, and locked the photo frame back into the drawer.
On the other side, Nan Ma and Nan Tao returned to Nan's house, and Nan Ba was playing chess with Yu Ze in the yard.
Nan Tao walked by and saw the grandfather and grandson fighting with serious faces. She suddenly found it funny and said, "Dad, how can you walk like a horse? You should walk like a horse."
After a while, he asked, "Son, why don't you use the cannon to capture that soldier?"
Seeing Nanba and Yuze fighting to the critical moment of deciding the winner, Nan Tao said nervously: "Don't make that move, you should do this..."
Nan's father reluctantly put down the chess piece: "Watch the game in silence!"
Yu Ze: "Mommy!"
Nan Tao pouted, "Okay, okay, I won't say anything more. Just have fun by yourselves."
Nan's mother shook her head in amusement and took Nan Tao's hand: "Don't disturb them. Let's go in and watch TV. Mom wants to tell you that I recently found a really good TV show. You will definitely like it..."
Nan Tao: "Mom, what kind of melodrama are you watching again? It's completely illogical and fake..."
Nan's mother: "As long as it looks good."
The two of them talked as they walked and soon entered the living room.
Nan's father shook his head and said to Yu Ze, "Your mom has been a nuisance since she was a child."
Yu Ze said with a straight face: "Grandpa, you are not allowed to talk about Mommy like that."
Nan's father shook his head: "You don't understand. When your mother was little, she was very naughty. She climbed up the roof and did everything, just like a monkey. It was only when she entered high school that she became a lady in the eyes of others."
Yu Ze slowed down the pace of placing the chess pieces and asked curiously, "Really?"
Nan's father: "Grandpa has never lied to you." As he said that, Nan's father took advantage of his grandson's inattention and ate the other's handsome guy.
Yu Ze was angry: "Grandpa, you are cheating!"
Nan's father: "Boy, grandpa is teaching you that deception is the key to success in war."
Yu Ze pursed his lips.
Nan's father coughed lightly and said, "At worst, I can secretly show you the childhood photos that your mom hid."
Yu Ze's eyes lit up.
Nan's father looked around and whispered, "Don't tell your mom, okay? She always says that those are her dark histories and can't be seen by others. Some of them, even your dad hasn't seen."
Yu Ze stretched out his hand and looked at Nan's father expectantly.
Nan's father wondered: "Why?"
Yu Ze: "Don't lie to me, you are a puppy."
Nan's father smiled and made a pinky promise with the little brat, "Grandpa always keeps his word."
Nan Tao, who was watching a melodrama with Nan's mother in the living room, didn't know that Nan's father had sold her out, and was happily complaining about the melodrama.
"Mom, look at how he keeps losing his memory. It's so melodramatic. Eight out of ten plots are like this."
"Hahaha, this is so funny. The heroine regains her memory and goes to look for the hero. Then she finds him on the street. The hero tells her not to move and walks over. In the end, he gets hit by a car."
"This is so tacky... so awkward."
"Torture, torture, torture, torture to death, I'm dizzy, it's almost the end, and the hero gets hit by a car?"
"Why don't both the male and female protagonists die!"
Nan Ma's temples ached. "Who did you learn this from? You're just watching TV, and your mouth is always busy. Aren't you tired?"
Nan Tao hugged Nan Ma's arm, leaning against her and acting like a spoiled child. "Isn't this so infuriating? I wish I could crawl into the TV and slap them."
Nan's mother poked Nan Tao's forehead in annoyance: "You, you..."
After watching the final ending, Nan Tao and Nan Ma both cried their hearts out.
Nan's father, feeling guilty, brought Yu Ze into the house. Seeing his wife and daughter bursting into tears, he hurried forward in panic, "Wife, who bullied you? Weren't you fine just now?"
Nan's father hugged Nan's mother in his arms and comforted her with concern.
Nan Tao ate a mouthful of dog food and wiped her tears with a sad heart.
Yu Ze walked over to Nan Tao and said, "Mommy, don't be sad. I will never peek at your childhood photos again next time."
Nan Tao: "??? What childhood photos?"
Yu Ze blinked. Oh no, he seemed to have misunderstood.
Nan Tao looked at her son, whose mouth was like a clam, then turned to stare at Old Man Nan and said in a deep voice, "Dad! Did you do something bad behind my back?"
Nan's father looked at Yu Ze in reproach, but Yu Ze turned his head and pretended not to see it.
Nan's father's scalp tingled: "Um, daughter, I... uh..."
Nan Tao: "You've gone too far! You actually took Xiaoze to secretly look at my childhood photos! I'm going to complain to Grandpa!"
Nan's father quickly begged for mercy: "No, my dear daughter, Dad didn't mean it."
Nan's mother quickly advised: "Taotao, your grandfather is old. What if he beats your father with a stick and gets tired of it?"
Nan's father: "???"
So the wife doesn't feel bad for herself, but for her father? !
Nan Tao: "Then Dad, please give me some token of appreciation, and I won't tell Grandpa."
Nan's father was speechless: "You clever little thing, you just rely on your grandfather loving you the most."
Nan Tao chuckled and said, "Give it or not?"
Nan's father felt sorry for himself and gave his daughter a set of violet jewelry that he had recently auctioned off and was going to give to his wife.
Nan Tao got it and opened her mouth in amazement, "Wow, this is so beautiful."
Dad Nan closed his eyes in pain.
Nan Tao's eyes rolled, and she moved closer to Nan Ma: "Mom, I think this set is elegant and grand, and it suits you very well. I'll give it to you."
Nan's mother's eyes were full of smiles: "My daughter is still filial."
Nan Tao: "Mom, do you like it?"
Nan’s mother: “I like it very much.”
Nan Tao smiled provocatively at Nan's father.
Nan's father: "..."
I feel so sad but can’t express it, I want to cry!
When it was dinner time, after Nanbo returned home, the five of them got together for a rare meal.
At the dinner table, Nan's mother asked, "Taotao, when will your mother-in-law and the others come back?"
Nan Tao: "I don't know. He just called me last week and said he's still traveling abroad. I don't know when he'll be back."
Nan's mother: "Hubby, why don't we choose a date to go abroad for fun."
Nan's father was eager to spend some time alone with his wife, so he nodded in agreement.
Two days later,
Nan Tao took Yu Ze from Nanzhai and headed straight to the airport. After getting off the plane, they went straight to the program crew's bus.
Two hours later, we arrived at the filming location of the fifth episode of the third season of "Mom Takes Her Baby on a Trip".
The village chief introduced the land he was standing on as usual: "This is Shun'an County, which has a long history. More than a thousand years ago, this place was..."
After a lengthy introduction, the village chief officially got to the point: "There's no room selection game for this episode. Everyone will live in the same villa."
The guests looked at each other, feeling a bad premonition, and asked one after another: "Village Chief, tell me honestly, what is the program team planning this time?"
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