Meng Sheng laughed along, took his arm, and rested her head on his shoulder. "This is no nonsense. My brother is quite reliable. When we found out you were sick during the New Year, I felt like the sky was falling. But after you came back, I felt like you held up the sky, and the pressure on me was greatly reduced."
"I'm sorry to have troubled you."
Upon hearing this, Meng Chengli thought of how she had just gotten divorced and had just climbed out of an abyss, basking in a little warmth from the sun, only to have her life become shrouded in darkness again because of him.
My heart couldn't help but ache.
He patted her arm with loving eyes, "Sheng Sheng, don't worry, Dad is fine, nothing will happen. I still have to help your mother see you and your brother get married and start your own families, and have grandchildren."
Meng Sheng's eyes crinkled into a smile. "I'll call my brother later and tell him to step up his game and find a girlfriend. I wonder what's going on between him and Sister Qiuyi now, and if there's still a chance. If not, I'll arrange blind dates for him."
"You've certainly got the knack for making sarcastic remarks now," Meng Chengli glared at her. "But speaking of which, I'm also curious about his relationship with Qiu Yi. They're both getting on in years."
The conversation between the father and daughter took a completely 180-degree turn, veering off course and becoming utterly illogical.
After gossiping for a bit about Meng Shixu and Qiu Yi's relationship, Meng Chengli didn't forget the main topic and quickly brought it back to the point, "Who was that woman who just told me the truth about your mother's car accident? How did you know so quickly?"
Mentioning this, Meng Sheng's smile vanished instantly, and her eyes turned cold. She didn't hide anything, "Gu Ci's nanny, under Gu Ci's instructions, came up to you to deliberately annoy me. She'll feel better if I'm unhappy."
"Gu Ci?"
Meng Sheng nodded, and worried that it might not affect him, so she specially circled it with a red pen for him to remember, "Yes, the third young lady of the Gu family in the west of the city, last time her sister spread rumors and hired online trolls to smear me, and then the Gu couple came over and apologized to you arrogantly. Do you remember?"
Meng Chengli frowned, clearly remembering, then his face showed resistance and incomprehension, "Are the Gu family members now so...unscrupulous? What grudge do you have against each other?"
Meng Shengyi corrected him seriously, "Dad, you're being too gentle. They're not just shameless, they're despicable and shameless. To be honest, we didn't have any grudges at first, but she tried to steal my boyfriend, and then she used all sorts of dirty tricks on me. Calling her human is an understatement; I'm being too polite. You shouldn't be too polite to people like them, or they'll take advantage of you."
Meng Chengli asked in surprise, "Steal your boyfriend? Pei Sui?"
As he spoke, he seemed to remember something, "Oh, right, Ah Sui and that third girl from the Gu family were engaged before, but didn't they cancel the engagement several years ago?"
“Yeah.” Meng Sheng spread her hands helplessly. “I don’t know what’s wrong with her. If she’s going to steal it, fine, but if she’s so capable, why doesn’t she try to take it from Pei Sui? What’s the point of constantly targeting me? It’s absurd, incomprehensible, and she’s out of her mind.”
Meng Chengli laughed again, "You've got quite a set of insults up your sleeve now."
Meng Sheng raised his eyebrows, looking proud, and smugly told his father, "Yeah, it's all thanks to those scumbags that I've been trained. Now I can not only curse, but I can also hit people."
"Hitting someone?"
Meng Chengli was startled. "Who did you hit?"
Meng Sheng honestly replied, "Ning Weiwei, I beat her up before."
"What about Gu Ci?"
"Of course I hit her too," Meng Sheng said matter-of-factly, scoffing. "She didn't let me off easy, so of course she can't get away with it too easily. If she calls the police, we'll both end up in jail. With her physical condition, do you think I can outlast her?"
"You just went and started a fight?"
"Um."
Meng Chengli never expected that his obedient and gentle daughter would now be able to hit people.
After a while, he nodded and began to "reason" with her, "It's all their fault. They deserve to be hit, so be it. But next time, you have to be careful. If there are many of them, don't rush in recklessly. What if you get pinned to the ground and beaten? That would hurt a lot. A wise man doesn't fight a losing battle. Next time, wait until she's alone before rushing in to fight. Don't get hurt."
Meng Sheng looked at him as if she had seen a ghost, "Dad, you've changed."
Meng Chengli glared at her. "People deserve to be this bad. Should we give her an award if we don't beat her up? Oh, by the way, next time you hit someone, remember to send a message to Asui and tell him to get ready to bail you out of the police station."
"..."
Meng Sheng was speechless. "You've really thought of everything."
The father and daughter were furtively discussing the feasibility of fighting in front of the window. Before long, the heavy and oppressive atmosphere that had been hanging between them disappeared.
As they chatted, they started talking about what to eat for dinner.
Meng Chengli asked, "Is Ah Sui coming over for dinner tonight?"
"I have to work overtime tonight."
Meng Sheng pushed him to the bedside, helped him onto the bed, and said with a smile, "I'll be eating with you tonight."
Meng Chengli sighed, "Alright then."
"What are you doing, Dad? Do you look at me with disgust?" Meng Sheng put her hands on her hips. "Wasn't it enough that I had dinner with you?"
"No, don't talk nonsense. You are my daughter, how could I dislike you?" Meng Chengli retorted, then asked sincerely, "Then go back tonight and ask Asui when he is free to come over for a meal and a chat with me."
Meng Sheng was angry. "You're trying to fool me! Humph, I'll definitely pass on your message when I get back tonight. Tell him that his father-in-law misses him terribly and that he should come see his father-in-law as soon as possible."
"What, you're jealous?"
"No."
Meng Sheng stayed at the hospital until almost nine o'clock before driving back to the Left Bank Courtyard.
As she was going down in the elevator, she sent a WeChat message to Meng Shi and Xu Fengyun, informing them that Meng Chengli knew about Xu Li's cause of death.
Meng Shixu called first, and after clarifying the situation and learning that she had hit Gu Ci, he remained silent for a long time before asking, "Did you win?"
Meng Sheng: "I agree."
Meng Shixu: "Okay, that's good. I'm going back to Denmark the day after tomorrow, and I'll visit Dad tomorrow."
"good."
The siblings hung up the phone, and Xu Fengyun called in. His first words were, "Who were you talking to? I had to call five or six times before you finally got through."
Meng Sheng laughed, "With my brother."
"How did your dad find out? Who told him? Is he alright? Did he suffer any shock?" Xu Fengyun asked bluntly.
Meng Sheng repeated what she had just said to Meng Shixu to her uncle, who then praised her, "Well done, well done! How did that old man Gu Yuan raise his daughter? How could he raise such a person and still have the nerve to call himself a scholarly family? I'll go and give him a piece of my mind tomorrow. Does he even care about the Meng and Xu families? Does he even have the Sahara Desert in his eyes?"
Meng Sheng laughed at his scolding, but didn't say anything.
Finally, Xu Fengyun left with the words, "Leave the Gu family to me, you just do your thing," and hung up the phone.
It was almost ten o'clock when we got back to the Left Bank Courtyard.
Pei Sui had just arrived home and had just prepared cat food for Sisi. He was about to call her to ask when the fingerprint recognition door opened with a "beep" sound.
"I'm back."
He put away his phone, took a few steps forward, and reached out to take her bag.
With her hands free, Meng Sheng wrapped her arms around his waist, threw herself into his embrace, and looked up at him with her chin, "Have you had dinner tonight?"
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