"Oh, hello, Mr. Lu." Su Jinru nodded blankly.
There were no men in the house, only women. It was late at night, so Lu Mingji didn't want to stay any longer. He said goodbye and said, "It's too late today. I won't bother you anymore. I'll visit you another day."
He had a smile on his face, and was gentle and polite, exactly the type the elders liked. Su Jinru had previously been very pleased with Zhou Du, thinking he and her daughter had been childhood sweethearts and a perfect match. But now, after meeting him, she couldn't help but feel a little shaken.
Xia Xi saw Lu Mingji out: "Why don't you drive my car back? Tomorrow is Saturday anyway, and I don't need a car."
"That's fine." Lu Mingji took the car keys and entered the elevator.
Xia Xi leaned against the door frame. After the elevator door closed, she withdrew her gaze and walked back into the room. Before she could even catch her breath, Su Jinru grabbed her and asked, "Who is this Lu Mingji?"
"Didn't he just say that? It's a friend I met abroad." Xia Xi pulled at her mother's hand, "Please let go. I'll go get a glass of water. I'm so thirsty."
Su Jinru followed behind her and watched her take a glass of water and drink most of it in one gulp. Then she asked, "Where is Zhou Du? Why did he send you back?"
"Zhou Du had something to do, so he went back to the hotel first. The dinner tonight was originally arranged by Lu Mingji and me, and Zhou Du just went there to eat for free." Xia Xi did not mention a word about meeting Xu Yanfeng.
Su Jinru pondered for a few seconds and said, "I can see now that you and Zhou Du really don't have that intention. As for Lu Mingji, I think you can consider him. He seems quite nice to me."
Xia Xi choked on the water and covered her neck. "...Before dinner, you were still praising Zhou Du, but now you've changed your mind?"
She changed her mind too quickly.
Su Jinru said innocently: "Didn't you tell me that you two are boring? I'm doing this for your sake."
"Okay, okay, I know you're doing this for my own good. I'll go see the two kids." Xia Xi put down the cup and made an excuse to slip away quickly to avoid being urged to get married again.
Su Jinru was a bit "obsessed", wanting to pair up with any man she caught. It was terrible. Xia Xi shuddered and hurried to the children's room.
The two children were sleeping soundly, and she didn't have the heart to wake them up to take a bath, but wiping their hands and feet was still necessary.
Xia Xi went to the bathroom to get a basin of warm water, wrung out a towel and wiped Youyou clean first, then pulled the quilt over her, and then Ziheng.
Just after I wiped his face, the little guy woke up, blinked his sleepy eyes, and said in a hoarse voice: "Mom."
"Yeah, you're awake." Xia Xi changed the towel and wiped his feet. Suddenly, she thought of what happened at the dinner table. She leaned over and asked him, "Why did you call Zhou Du daddy then?"
Ziheng had just woken up and his brain was working slowly. He thought for a while and told the truth: "Mom doesn't want that person to know about my sister and me, right?" Of course he had to help his mother.
Xia Xi was speechless.
She threw the towel into the basin, looked at her son for a long time, and said, "Why don't you ask your mother why?"
Ziheng sighed, acting like a little adult: "You adults always have your own reasons for doing things."
*
On Sunday, Xu Yanfeng went home to have lunch with his parents. The common topic of conversation at the dinner table was marriage.
He said a few perfunctory words, ate his meal and drove back to his residence without staying any longer.
After lunch break, Xu Yanfeng received a call from Guan He and went to the study with his phone.
Guan He's steady voice came from the receiver, his words chosen with caution: "Mr. Xu, the paternity test report you received might be fake. I found out that one of the testers, Du Bingchen, had an additional deposit of two million yuan into his account three days ago."
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