257 years ago
Wei's serious business was interrupted by Da Luo's unserious business.
Someone came out of the bathroom and went straight into bed, starting to rummage around his bedside like a wild goose, much more aggressive than his three little ones. Li Wei was speechless and asked the heavens, but the heavens ignored her.
She had a head full of questions, but no chance to ask them. She woke up late the next day and got so angry that she threw off the covers and started hitting Da Luo: "What time is it? Get up! Get up!"
This guy has it tough too. He works hard with his dad all day, and then spends the night entangled with his wife, sleeping like a log. He's not much better than a pig.
No matter how much Li Wei struggled, the man was determined not to get up, hugging his pillow and pretending to be dead. Later, he simply hugged Li Wei and wouldn't let go, leaving Li Wei helpless.
Li Wei slumped down, letting out a long sigh. "I know you're tired, but think about it, we're not at home now, this is your parents' house. We have to be more restrained in what we do. Otherwise, your parents might not have any complaints about you—after all, their child is their own—but they'll have some issues with me. They used to have a perfectly normal son, but now that he has a wife, he's been seduced by her and doesn't want to get out of bed. It's the New Year, with so many people coming and going; it'll look bad if they see us like this."
Finally, the guy stopped sleeping, got up with his eyes still closed, and muttered, "Okay, okay, I'll get up, I'll get up right now."
"Alright, that's enough for today. You can continue sleeping, but don't do it again. I'll get up now. I mainly need to act like I'm doing a good job and living a normal life. You can go back to sleep." Looking at Da Luo's squinty face, Li Wei felt both amused and annoyed. Anyway, no one was blaming him, but as someone's wife, she couldn't be too unreasonable.
The student was very obedient, and with a thud, lay down and went back to sleep. -_-|||
Just before drifting off to sleep, he didn't forget his wife: "You should get some sleep too, one more day won't make a difference."
Li Wei shook her head with a smile. This guy can be quite shrewd at times, especially when he's out. But at other times, he's very childish, mainly at home, especially in bed. Li Wei isn't a tiger, so he acts like a monkey king.
Actually, Li Wei was overthinking things. Although the Luo family was old-fashioned, they weren't overly particular about etiquette. Even if they did have some customs, they weren't directed at Li Wei.
In Luo Gang and Zhao Chunyan's hearts, and even in the hearts of Grandma Luo and Luo Er and Luo San, Li Wei had basically been a member of their family since she was a child. No one intentionally tried to find fault with her manners. They treated her like their own child. If Li Wei was too polite, they would feel uncomfortable and distant.
Especially Auntie San. They'd sparred a lot since Li Wei was little. Although Li Wei now seemed refined and well-mannered like a lady from a respectable family, Auntie San had no doubt that if Li Xiaoming got upset, he might just challenge her to a duel, without the slightest fear.
Back in the day, I was so young and already had a run-in with her. Now that I'm older, I have more people backing me up, so I can't afford to offend her anymore.
That girl. She wasn't even afraid of her own parents. She packed up her belongings and ran off with someone. She went back to school and had children. Her audacity had reached an extreme.
Zhao Chunyan thought to herself. Let alone her, even her husband Luo Gang, that girl might not be much afraid of her. So it's best to keep a good relationship with her. Anyway, that girl is kind-hearted. Who knows, she and her husband might even be relying on her to support them in their old age.
So basically, Zhao Chunyan treated Li Wei like her own daughter, without a single complaint. Especially after hearing from her son that Zhong Xin seemed to have a lot of issues with Li Wei, speaking in a sarcastic tone, and that Zhao Chunyan had persuaded her to leave without a word.
They have their own way of speaking about their family members, and they don't allow outsiders to step into their house and gossip about them. In particular, Auntie San doesn't actually have a good impression of Luo Gang's two older sisters.
When they were struggling, they never treated her well, and they were too lazy to even visit the elderly during the Lunar New Year. Now that they've become successful, they all come over and fawn over the old lady, calling her "Mom" this and "Mother" that, and they've become warm towards her. But they're just here to flatter her.
As for Zhong Xin, who is basically not related to her by blood, if her third aunt thought the girl was quite well-behaved and sensible before, over time she had come to realize something was off. Now, after her son told her, she believed him to be about 80 or 90 percent and took action without thinking.
If Aunt Luo treated Li Wei this way, then others must have been even worse.
So when Li Wei went downstairs and entered the nursery, she saw her mother-in-law and several other people busy changing the baby's clothes and making formula. Feeling a little embarrassed, she took a small baby bottle and started making formula. Her mother-in-law saw this and said to her, "You've been so busy these past few days. Why don't you sleep a little longer? Anyway, there's nothing much to do. After the first day of the new year, there will be a lot of people coming and going, and you'll be busy again. You all have nothing to do these past few days, so you should rest more."
Li Wei smiled and said, "It's nothing, I'm not tired at all. I usually have to get up much earlier for school and I'm busy with my studies, but I still managed to get through it. Now I'm at home and it's quite relaxing."
Hearing this, Auntie paused, sighed, and said, "You guys, life isn't that hard, so why are you still rushing around like this? Studying so much, it's tiring just watching you. Sigh, that's how it is for our generation. You're more successful than us, but seeing you working so hard, I sometimes feel a little bad when I nag your mother and the others about it."
Li Wei chuckled, "Mom, you can't just let us live like this all our lives, can you? You all work so hard to earn money, we can't rely on you to support us forever, haha." This isn't how life is supposed to go.
There wasn't much to do today. Li Wei wasn't needed in the kitchen for killing chickens and ducks, cleaning pig's trotters, lamb legs, beef, fish, and shrimp. So after breakfast, she, Da Luo, and Sister Wei took the child and went back to her parents' home.
Li Zhaoxing and his wife had just started their holiday at home. Their company had also given them a year-end holiday and wouldn't officially start work until the eighth day of the Lunar New Year. After a year of hard work, they rarely had a chance to rest, so they stayed home and didn't go anywhere.
They had just finished breakfast when their daughter arrived carrying her grandson, which made the whole family extremely happy. The women all went to Grandma Cheng's room and sat on the kang (a heated brick bed) to talk to the three children, while Da Luo and Li Lianhui chatted with Li Zhaoxing and the elder in the living room.
While making the children more comfortable, Li's mother, Cheng Min, said to Li Wei, "Yesterday, your father-in-law and mother-in-law discussed with us the idea of holding a formal wedding banquet for you and Luo Jianhua after the New Year. Your father and I discussed it and felt it was really necessary. Otherwise, even though the children are so grown up and have a marriage certificate, making them a legally married couple, we feel it's not quite the same. We should at least have a ceremony. Jianhua told you, right? What do you think?"
Li Wei was taken aback. Da Luo hadn't told her about this at all, as he was busy with his own little troubles. But now that she thought about it, she realized that in general, according to local custom, a marriage certificate wasn't as solemn as a formal wedding banquet to announce it to the world. However, their situation was somewhat special. If they really made a big fuss, it might cause a huge scandal, and then she and Da Luo would have a hard time explaining it to the school. So Li Wei was still quite hesitant.
Cheng Min and her husband had obviously considered this as well. Li Ma picked up Luo Yi and stroked his head, saying, "Your dad and I discussed it and felt that since you're both in school, it's best to keep it low-key. We'll just invite a few close relatives and reliable friends for a small meal. If you're not satisfied, you can have a more formal celebration after you graduate. There won't be so many taboos then. What do you think? Xiao Lin, hold Xiao Ya carefully and don't hurt her back."
Li Wei felt that since it was absolutely necessary to hold the ceremony, she had no choice but to go along with it and had no objections. After all, the child had already been born, so it was just a formality.
The rest was just some mundane family matters. Li Wei lay on her grandmother's warm kang (heated brick bed), feeling sleepy, so she asked her grandmother for a pillow and took a nap.
Anyway, the child has her mother, maternal grandmother, and Sister Wei, and Li Lin runs errands and helps out, so she doesn't need to worry about him. She can catch up on her sleep, since she didn't get much sleep last night.
The wife's family home was not as convenient as the husband's family home. After dinner, the two of them took the child and went back to the Luo family home. They went to bed early that night, and Li Wei then asked in detail what important things Da Luo, Lao Luo, and her father had been discussing in the past two days.
To avoid distracting someone, Li Wei lay on the bed and let him massage her, and find some work for Da Luo to do, otherwise he would find work for himself.
Actually, it's quite a big deal.
Luo Er is about to graduate. He originally studied business administration at a vocational school, which sounds pretty good, but in reality, it's not very advanced. Luo Er's original idea was just to get a diploma and then work.
But now that Uncle Luo's business is growing bigger and bigger and he is making more and more money, his ideas have changed. In particular, since his eldest son is in college and it seems unlikely that he will inherit his business, he has set his sights on Luo Er.
So after discussing it with Li Zhaoxing, Ding Hong, and a few others who were close to him, they all thought it was feasible. Luo Er, in particular, also wanted to go into business. He felt that there was no point in finding a job and sitting in an office all day. Since he had to work anyway, it would be more practical to do business and make more money like his father.
Secondly, there's Luo Gang's cousin who's in business. Because her husband got promoted to the provincial capital, many of her family's businesses started closing down this year. They plan to buy a piece of land in the provincial capital to develop commercial housing, which requires a lot of capital. They intend to have Luo Gang invest in them, especially valuing his rich experience in this area and the fact that his construction company is strong and full of talent.
Luo Gang's brother-in-law, although he was a good official, actually only worked in a low-level government department. It sounded good, but it wasn't a department with real power, or rather, it was a department that his relatives couldn't use—the radio and television department.
At least that's how it seems for now.
The family business has always been managed by Luo Gang's cousin, Chen Juan, so Luo Gang still feels somewhat guilty about leaving his cousin's company to start his own business. After all, it wasn't easy for his cousin, a woman, and she had been very good to him.
Therefore, when his cousin mentioned it, Luo Gang had the idea of investing, since the provincial capital was different from his hometown and the market should be broader.
Business and personal relationships are a pair that can never be clearly defined.
Li Zhaoxing and Ding Hong both advised Luo Gang to be cautious about this matter, since they were not very familiar with the situation in the provincial capital, and it was better to do what they knew better than what they didn't.
However, Luo Gang had already made up his mind and decided to let Luo Er go with his cousin to do it, just to let Luo Er get some experience. He wouldn't invest too much; he would only allocate a portion of the funds as a loan to his cousin. As for what would happen in the future, they would see how things went.
When Li Wei heard what Da Luo said, she had a bad feeling. Her cousin was doing fine here, so why did she have to go to the provincial capital to do some business? Even a fool could tell that she was not doing a small business. How could she just pack up and leave like that? It was too casual.
However, it is clear that her father-in-law is not stupid and must know something about the inside story. Since he only invested a portion of the funds and was prepared to let Luo Er see the world, he must have made the worst-case scenario plan. So she doesn't need to worry about it.
So Li Wei didn't say much. After all, she only had a vague understanding of the Luo family's relationships. Da Luo and she weren't too concerned about these things either, as they had a lot to do and didn't spend much time on these issues.
Uncle Luo is in his prime, so they should save themselves some trouble. When it comes to social experience, Li Wei and Da Luo know they can't even catch up with Lao Luo.
Li Wei herself admitted that while her father-in-law was not as good as Luo Yonghao in handling interpersonal relationships, he was probably far superior to him in terms of business management.
Next was the matter of holding a formal wedding banquet for Li Wei and Da Luo. However, the Li family and Li Wei and Da Luo both felt that it was better to keep it low-key. Although Lao Luo was somewhat dissatisfied, in the end, the minority yielded to the majority, and he was allowed to make the arrangements. After all, it was his family's son and daughter-in-law getting married.
After talking for a while, Da Luo massaged Li Wei from head to toe, pinching each of her fair and round little toes as he said, "What else do you want to know? If not, shouldn't I ask you some questions?"
Li Wei was so comfortable she almost hummed out: "Ask away, I haven't done anything shameful these past two days except go shopping with your mom for clothes and jewelry. Oh, by the way, your mom insisted on buying me a gold bracelet too, saying it would match the one from last time. You know, if I wore two gold bracelets and a few gold rings like your mom, people would probably assume we're mother and daughter without even an introduction. We'd look so alike, haha."
The man continued massaging his toes, while also thinking that his whole foot looked nice, so he massaged it as well: "If you don't like it, just change the style. Why force yourself?"
Li Wei continued to hum, "I like it, of course I like it! It's so substantial! Actually, I really want your mom to get me a thicker gold chain to connect the two bracelets together. Don't you think it looks familiar?"
Da Luo's hand had already climbed up his calf, and he asked somewhat absentmindedly, "Why does it look familiar?"
Li Wei said happily, "Don't you think they look a bit like handcuffs? Haha~"
"Yes, it looks like it." It's good that these pajama pants are a bit loose; it's so convenient to touch from the bottom up.
When Li Wei heard that someone hadn't praised her idea at all, she became a little unhappy and realized something was wrong. She tried to pull her leg back, but there was no way to do so.
Just as I was about to speak, someone pressed down firmly on my back, and my pajama bottoms were gone.
Li Wei was on the verge of tears. This guy's skills at taking off clothes were improving day by day, progressing at an astonishing speed. His athletic ability was so developed that it was truly speechless.
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