"Why not just find someone whose family doesn't have so much filth? If that doesn't work, like your brother, find someone who lives alone and let him marry into the family."
Li Wanwan rolled her eyes. "It's not that easy to find someone like that. Maybe they're too proud and arrogant to need their father-in-law's help."
The group exchanged glances, thinking to themselves, "Is there a story behind this?"
Li Zhaozhao nodded almost imperceptibly, but said nothing more.
At this moment, Ji Kangyong made a surprising statement: "Why look outside? Can't we just settle it within the family? He's peaceful, unmarried, we know him well, he has no bad habits, and he's absolutely reliable. Even if he does something to wrong you in the future, his three older brothers will beat him to a pulp."
Li Wanwan sized Zhang Heping up and down with her eyes, then chuckled. She hadn't thought of it this way before, but now that he'd brought it up, it didn't seem like a bad idea.
However, Zhang Heping, like a chicken with its feathers standing on end, pointed at Ji Kangyong and shouted, "Old Ji, don't get me into trouble! I still have Xiaoqian!"
Ji Kangyong scoffed dismissively: "She won't marry you, and she won't break up with you. What does she want? To keep you around as a backup plan?"
The fig leaf was torn away, revealing the bloody truth beneath.
Zhang Heping slumped weakly onto the sofa, utterly dejected. Yet, he remained unwilling to accept it: "How much better are you than me?"
“At least I was the one being pursued!” Ji Kangyong said with a resolute expression. “I explicitly rejected him, but it was all for naught.”
Seeing the atmosphere become tense, Shen Yanming quickly stepped in to smooth things over, "Alright, alright, let's not talk about those troublesome things. We're here to have fun today."
"Yes, yes, yes, why haven't my little nephew and niece come out yet? I'm getting so anxious waiting for them!" Li Zhaozhao said with a smile.
As soon as Bi Qiaoan opened the bedroom door, she heard these words, "Here you are, An'an and Nuan Nuan, quickly say hello to Uncle Li!"
An'an and Nuannuan ran over to their fathers and sat down on either side of them, looking at the two unfamiliar people in the living room with some curiosity.
After looking them over for a while, they said in unison, "Hello, Uncle!"
"Oh, my darlings!" Li Zhaozhao was genuinely happy. His adorable appearance hadn't scared the two little ones at all. He was truly "so cute, I want to hug them!"
"Then you can only dream about it. Don't forget about your own reputation," Zhang Heping reminded him from the side.
Li Zhaozhao sighed, and said with a look of utter despair, "Tell me, how am I supposed to be intimate with my wife after I get married?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a burst of gloating laughter erupted in the room. "Just bear with it, or you'll end up turning your wife into one of them."
"My wife doesn't seem to care. She says she can get sunscreen injections soon, so it'll only make her look bad for a while, it's fine. But I'm worried, what if my wife gets pregnant? Will it affect the baby?"
I still want adorable little babies like An'an and Nuannuan!
Shen Yanming can offer some insight into this: "It should be fine. Our security captain's wife just gave birth, and the baby is fair and tender, showing no signs of being affected by impetigo."
Li Zhaozhao took a deep breath, "That's good, that's good!"
“However, I suggest you be cautious about pregnancy,” Shen Yanming advised.
"Why?" Li Zhaozhao asked, puzzled.
Shen Yanming and Ji Kangyong both fell silent. Zhang Heping was also taken aback and asked, "You've been in the labor force for a while, haven't you noticed any changes? You've been busy dating all day!"
Li Zhaozhao frowned. "The ranks of contract workers change every day. What's wrong with that?"
Li Wanwan didn't even want to complain about her brother anymore. She shook her head and said, "Brother, don't ask anymore. Just do whatever Brother Shen and the others say. Just be obedient!"
Li Zhaozhao felt a little embarrassed by his sister's words, but he still nodded and said, "Alright, alright, I know you guys are smart!"
Shen Yanming patted the other person on the shoulder, "Don't overthink it, we're just guessing. The truth still needs to be announced by the league."
"Hmm!" Li Zhaozhao nodded, then said somewhat awkwardly, "Then what am I going to do? I can't just get married and still be a monk, can I?"
Zhang Heping and Ji Kangyong laughed so hard they bent over, while Shen Yanming was speechless: "How can you just blurt out anything like that? Aren't you embarrassed to talk about such risqué topics in front of your sister?"
In particular, my wife and my two children were also there.
"I, I..." Li Zhaozhao's cheeks flushed red, and he realized that he had said something inappropriate.
Shen Yanming didn't press him any further. "Alright, alright, I'll give you some nice things when you leave. You used to have a constant stream of girlfriends, so why didn't you stock up on the necessities when you were hoarding supplies?"
"Isn't that a serious situation? Do you think you'll never get married in your life?"
Shen Yanming smiled and shook his head. "Alright, let's not talk about this anymore. Let's go have a picnic. We can talk about it outside."
Shen Yanming led a few men to the kitchen to move some things. Besides two storage boxes, there was a small thermos, several moisture-proof mats, and a picnic blanket.
Bi Qiaoan didn't follow; her task was to take care of the two little ones. Li Wanwan followed beside her and whispered, "Sister-in-law, actually I don't mind at all. My brother has done so many unreliable things since I was little; I've heard them all since I was a child. There's really nothing to be ashamed of."
Bi Qiaoan thought to herself that it wasn't just the outside world that had caused her psychological trauma, but also her own family of origin.
She smiled and said, "Don't say that again. Even if you know it in your heart, don't say it out loud. People who know you probably won't think anything of it, but those who don't will say you're not good."
Li Wanwan nodded. "I know, that's why I didn't dare to interrupt earlier, afraid of being lectured. Sigh, why is it so hard to be a person? We're all children of the same parents, but just because we're different men and women, we're subjected to double standards by this society. Even in the apocalypse, it's still the same!"
Bi Qiaoan didn't know how to comfort the little girl. She remembered something and reminded her, "Wanwan, do you teach self-defense where you are? If you have the chance, you should practice your punches and kicks more!"
"Yes, I practice with the instructor every day after work. It's just my brother, but he doesn't take it very seriously. Sister-in-law, why don't you ask Brother Chen to help persuade him? I always feel that there's some reason behind their arrangement."
Bi Qiaoan nodded. "I'll talk to Yanming about it when I have some free time. The training there is really intense. It's good for both men and women to learn some martial arts for protection. You don't know, there was a major case in Haishi in January!"
Because communications hadn't been fully restored at the time, the major case only circulated within a small circle and didn't cause a sensation. So Bi Qiaoan briefly recounted the case that Shen Yanming and his team had solved by chance.
"Tell me, how dangerous is it for girls? If they had even a little self-defense ability, they wouldn't have been abused like that. The world is in such a bad state, who knows if boys will also become victims in the future? After all, bad people have no mercy."
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