Jiangcheng, Li Family Villa.
"Li Mu!"
Lin Hongluan wiped away the tears that blurred her vision and hugged her beloved tightly.
The act of offering a kiss seemed so eager and natural.
Li Xuan, who had just run to the door, saw this scene, covered her eyes with her hands, but spread her fingers open, leaving a large gap.
"Hey! Aren't you two ashamed?! Couldn't you wait until later to be all lovey-dovey!"
Lin Hongluan blushed deeply at her sister-in-law's words, and then she saw her second uncle, second aunt, and Aunt Xia behind Li Mu.
"Oh!"
The beautiful girl fled directly into Li Xuan's room and buried her head under the covers.
When Li Mu saw Lin Hongluan again, he sensed a completely different Lin Hongluan.
He had just begun to respond to the kiss that was offered to him when Li Xuan, that clever little devil, ruined it.
He licked his lips, glared at Li Xuan, and was genuinely still somewhat unsatisfied.
"Hey! You silly blockhead, you actually know how to come home now!"
As Li Xuan spoke, she leaped onto Li Mu and bit his ear.
"Ouch! Ouch! Xuan'er, it hurts! Let go right now."
The three elders couldn't help but chuckle at this scene.
He Hua scolded:
"Hey! You're all grown up, why are you still making such a fuss? Calm down for a bit and come downstairs for dinner."
"Oh dear! My food..."
Aunt Xia was the first to rush downstairs; there was still food cooking in the pot.
.
Twenty minutes later, Li Mu came downstairs with a beautiful woman dangling from one shoulder to the other.
The Li family's dinner consisted of only seven or eight dishes, yet they ate in a very harmonious and satisfying manner.
Li Mu never put down his small bowl, and everyone was intentionally or unintentionally shoveling food into it, as if he were being besieged.
He accepted everything offered and kept eating until he was quite full.
After dinner, Li Mu went into the study with his second uncle and aunt to chat.
Lin Hongluan was calling her mother to inform her of Li Mu's return.
Upon hearing the news, Lin Hongluan was taken aback when her mother-in-law decided to set off for Jiangcheng the next day.
The mother-in-law was increasingly impressed with her son-in-law and couldn't wait to include him in the Lin family genealogy.
In the study, Li Mu was recounting his experiences over the past year.
Seeing Lin Hongluan and Li Xuan enter the study, his speech became less fluent.
He felt guilty and panicked when facing Lin Hongluan.
The matter of Yue Ling cannot be discussed yet; we must first be honest with Lin Hongluan before letting Second Uncle and Second Aunt know.
At this moment, Lin Hongluan's entire world revolved around Li Mu, unaware that he was no longer hers alone.
After Li Mu finished recounting his experiences over the past year, the women left the study.
Li Hongjun briefly explained the business matters, knowing that Li Mu didn't care much about such mundane things, so he didn't say much.
With the combined support of the Cheng family of Xishan and the government, the Li family's interests are now largely protected.
If things continue like this, Li Hongjun is destined to remain a leisurely, wealthy man.
Then, Li Hongjun changed the subject and talked at length about the medicinal herbs that Li Mu had made at the Cheng family's house in Xishan.
Baimu Pharmaceutical has become a leading health and wellness pharmaceutical company, enjoying great success, and its valuation has surpassed that of the former Li Group.
A simple bottle of affordable health and beauty pills can sell for thousands or even tens of thousands of yuan, and they are still hard to find.
Hearing Li Hongjun's impressive introduction, Li Mu also felt a sense of accomplishment.
Making money is easy, right? I, Li Mu, always have a winning hand.
This forced Li Mu to pretend to be something he really wanted.
.
The father and son didn't chat in the study for long.
Li Hongjun got up and went back to his room, hoping that Li Mu would go back to his room and spend more time with his future wife.
As a result, before he even left the house, he saw Li Mu take out two red gourds.
This is the flat gourd that Li Mu obtained. He has already picked it, but if it is not refined, it will lose its spiritual power and eventually wither and become useless.
I didn't have time to refine them before, but now that I'm home, I'm going to refine two.
He had already devised a recipe for a medicinal wine made from a gourd, with the main purpose of strengthening the body and prolonging life.
He planned to ask Cheng Yishi to help him find a winery, buy dozens of tons of raw liquor to make medicinal wine, and put it in a gourd to give to his second uncle.
With the spiritual power of the Lingbao gourd, plus the medicinal wine it's made with, as long as Li Hongjun and his second aunt keep drinking it, they'll have no problem living past 100 years old.
When Li Hongjun returned this time, he didn't mention cultivation at all during our conversation, which suggests that he's no longer as enthusiastic about it as before.
As an ordinary person, a wealthy man, to live to be over a hundred years old is a life well-lived.
After he finished making another flat gourd, he planned to use it to store the remaining two gourds.
It would be quite wasteful for him to refine gourds with his current cultivation level, but that's also because he has obtained a lot of gourds and has the means to do so.
The best way to preserve a flat gourd is to put it inside a properly prepared gourd.
Once his cultivation level improves, he can refine two more gourds and make the best use of the spiritual treasure.
An hour later, a burst of spiritual energy flowed through the two flat gourds, before they returned to their original, unadorned state.
To the naked eye, the two gourds are nothing special except for their good looks, but in reality, they hold a secret within.
The internal space of the gourd is about a hundred cubic meters, which can hold a lot of things.
.
Li Mu put away the gourd. He originally wanted to refine a few more magical artifacts, but he sensed Lin Hongluan spying on him with his divine sense.
The reason he stayed in the study was that he hadn't figured out how to face Lin Hongluan, let alone how to bring up Yue Ling's matter.
Lin Hongluan is now openly scanning him with her divine sense, probably urging him to hurry upstairs.
No matter what, we still have to face it, even if it means going through fire and water, let alone with our loved ones.
With a heavy heart, he returned to his room dejectedly.
When the kiss was given again, he responded with mixed feelings.
However, the woman had already noticed these subtle emotional reactions.
With a woman's intuition, Lin Hongluan could sense that Li Mu was different; this feeling was neither estrangement nor blame.
She just felt that Li Mu seemed a little uncomfortable with her enthusiasm.
After a period of not-too-intense passion, the two regained their composure.
"Li Mu, I'm sorry. I don't know what was wrong with me during that time. I made you suffer."
Lin Hongluan said apologetically.
Then she opened up and recounted everything that had happened in the past few months.
Even after hearing about how Zhou Zhe and Yi Hongming attacked her, Li Mu still felt resentful.
It feels like killing them casually in the Tianxuan Sect would be too lenient for them.
Upon hearing about the experiences of the mother and daughter in Africa, he felt an urge to fly to Africa and kill them.
When he heard that Lin Hongluan was frantically searching for him, he knew that Lin Hongluan's feelings for him had never diminished.
He also knew that he could no longer keep his relationship with Yue Ling a secret.
He held Lin Hongluan's hands, gently stroking her soft back, and said:
"Hongluan, I met a woman in the Outer Divine Continent, which is also the Inner Hidden Sect. Her name is Yueling..."
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com