"It's okay, right?" Lao Qiao shook the cigarette case in his hand towards Xiao Nan, Xiao Nan shook his head lightly: "It's okay, you can ...... it."

Lao Qiao took out a cigarette from the cigarette case and put it in his mouth, and when he reached into his pocket to touch the lighter, Xiao Nan had already found the lighter from the fruit bowl on the table one step ahead of him, lit the fire with a click, and helped Lao Qiao light the cigarette.

Lao Qiao was a little surprised by Xiao Nan's subconscious action, although as a strong parent with a bit of machismo, Lao Qiao has absolute authority over most things at home, but only in the matter of smoking, whether it is his wife Liu Juan or daughter Xiaoting, as long as they see him taking a cigarette in his mouth, and the cigarette butt has not been lit, they will definitely snatch the cigarette, and then send a long list of health and wellness principles.

Lao Qiao took two puffs hard to make the cigarette butt completely ignite, and then smiled at Xiao Nan: "Your aunt and Tingting are both against me smoking, so I can only hide in this place to have a good time......"

"My family is the same...... Xiao Nan said, "When my dad wanted to smoke, my mother let him go to the yard to smoke." ”

"Yes, I thought it was like this in our family!" Old Qiao smiled bitterly: "It turns out that it is not easy for us men to smoke a cigarette at home!"

"People should pay attention to taking care of their bodies when they are middle-aged......" Xiao Nan looked at the cloud that Lao Qiao spit out of his mouth and said: "You can drink less wine, smoking is not good for your body, it's better not to smoke, even if you can't quit, you can smoke less." ”

"yes, you're right. Lao Qiao nodded and expressed his approval for Xiao Nan: "Actually, I also know that smoking is harmful to the body, but when I was young, I smoked too much and became too addicted, and now I can't quit if I want to...... By the way, I just said that your dad also smokes, is your dad a big smoker?"

"My dad?" Xiao Nan was stunned, he didn't expect the topic to be led in this direction by Lao Qiao. "My dad is not a small addict to smoking, when he was young, he didn't smoke one pack a day, and sometimes he was busy with work, so he had to smoke two or three packs a day...... But now that he is older, he knows how to control it, and he doesn't smoke as much as he used to......"

"Yes, if you want to say that, your father and I are in the same boat. Old Joe joked with a smile.

"yes, hehe......" Xiao Nan reluctantly agreed.

Lao Qiao pleasantly exhaled a few puffs of smoke, and the small reception room was suddenly filled with smoke, Xiao Nan looked at the smoke that was constantly spreading in the air, and a past incident from a few months ago gradually appeared in front of him......

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On the fourth-floor balcony of one of the rental buildings in the urban village, puffs of smoke with a strong smell of tobacco billowed out of the open plastic steel windows.

Lao Cheng felt that his fingers were a little hot, and when he looked down, he found that the cigarette between his fingers was about to burn out, so he quickly snuffed out the cigarette butts in the ashtray on the windowsill, and found that there were already three or four cigarette butts in it.

In just such a short period of time, I unknowingly smoked so many roots...... Lao Cheng shook the cigarette case in his hand, and found that there was still the last cigarette in it, so he took it out and put it in his mouth.

"Dad, you'd better smoke a few less......"

Xiao Nan, who had just walked into the balcony, reached out and snatched the unlit cigarette from Lao Cheng's mouth and stuffed it back into the cigarette case, and then handed a cup of fragrant jasmine tea to Lao Cheng's eyes.

Lao Cheng reluctantly put the useless lighter back into his pocket, took the cup from Xiao Nan's hand but didn't drink it, just looked at Xiao Nan's face for a long time and looked at it repeatedly, making Xiao Nan a little uncomfortable, so he twisted his face to the side and lowered his head slightly, trying to cut off his father's sight with the long hair that slipped from his ears.

For a long time, Lao Cheng suddenly sighed softly and said, "Hey, it looks so similar, it's like your mother more than 30 years ago......"

Faced with his father's sudden emotion, Xiao Nan didn't know whether to cry or laugh, so he had to remain silent. Lao Cheng took two sips of the teacup, but his eyes never left his daughter's face.

"Twenty-three years ago, your mother and I wanted a girl with the stars and the moon, but unfortunately God just didn't let us get our wish and sent you to this world; twenty-three years later, you finally grew up, and it was about time to marry a wife, have children, start a family, and start a business, I never thought that God would turn my son into a daughter again......

"Dad~~~~~~" Xiao Nan raised his face and protested: "What's wrong with my daughter, what can be the difference between a daughter and a son?

"But your mother and I originally thought that we would be able to hold our grandson in a few years, but now?" Lao Cheng stared at Xiao Nan and said.

"That'...... Isn't that my brother......" Xiao Nan's aura suddenly collapsed, and her answer was obviously lacking in confidence.

"Your brother is your brother, you are you!" Lao Cheng said. "What are you going to do in the future?"

"What should I do, what should I do......" Xiao Nan's answer was obviously a little weak: "The class is still the same, the work is not still the same, in a few years to accumulate experience and save some money to start a project I will start my own business and buy a big house in Z City, at that time you and my mother are also retired, I will take you two over to live together......"

Lao Cheng shook his head: "I'm not talking about this, I'm talking about you, your personal life, what are your plans?"

"Dad~~~~~~" Xiao Nan's already slender voice suddenly raised two octaves: "Didn't we talk about this once just now? That's it for my life, didn't you promise me to let me go my own way?"

Lao Cheng looked at the slightly angry "daughter" in front of him, as if he saw the appearance of the youthful Li Chunhua when she was awkward and lost her temper with herself, and couldn't help but shake her head, and swallowed back a large pile of manuscripts that had been prepared. Although the son has become a daughter, and she is still such a beautiful daughter, Xiao Nan is Xiao Nan, her temper obviously did not change with the gender, and she is still as stubborn as ever.

"Okay, I won't say anything more about your question......" Lao Cheng took two sips of tea, put the teacup on the cement railing of the balcony, and said solemnly: "Xiao Nan, you are twenty-three years old this year, how to go in the future, I think you should have the ability to make your own choice, no matter what, as our children, we parents will respect your choice......"

"Thank you, Dad......" Seeing that Dad did not continue to entangle his "lifelong event", Xiao Nan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Anyway, it's the path you chose by yourself, even if you regret it in the future, you can't complain about others, but ......" Lao Cheng suddenly changed his words: "But you originally made that little girlfriend, Xiaoting, what should she do?"

"Xiao Ting?" Seeing that his father suddenly mentioned Xiao Ting, Xiao Nan's nerves that had just relaxed tightened again. "What's wrong with Xiaoting?"

"You just mentioned to me that the two of you are still in contact now, right?" asked Lao Cheng.

"Yes...... It's connected, it's just to go shopping together, have a meal, watch a movie or something......" Xiao Nan said, but saw that Lao Cheng's eyes gradually became serious, and a hint of foreboding suddenly flashed in his heart.

"Xiao Nan, why are you so confused!" Lao Cheng frowned, and said earnestly: "You are harming other girls, do you know it!"

Xiao Nan's heart sank, Dad just saw the photo of himself and Xiao Ting posted on the wall in the bedroom, and he kept asking this and that, and then suddenly ran to the balcony alone to smoke a cigarette silently, and felt that his mood was a little wrong at the time, and now it seems that he really has some ideas.

"Dad, I'm ...... Xiaoting and I"

Xiao Nan's defense had just begun, and was interrupted by Lao Cheng's gesture. "Xiao Nan, even if you don't care what you do in the future, have you thought about it carefully, you still continue to be together so unclearly, in fact, you are delaying the youth of other girls!"

Lao Cheng's words were like a sledgehammer slammed into Xiao Nan's heart, making the wound that she had so hard hiding in her heart suddenly burst open, drenched in blood, and she couldn't say a word anymore.

Seeing that Xiao Nan kept her head down and was silent, Lao Cheng thought that she was unconvinced, so her tone became a little heavier. "Child, you should think about this matter, you have become the way you are now, you and that girl will never have any results, why do you have to be together like this? Do you think you two can still get married? Don't tell me that you can get married with the same sex abroad, it is in a foreign country, but this is China! In our China, the older generation will not approve of you, even if I don't object to your mother, that girl's parents will definitely not let you get your wish! If you really like that girl and love her, you should separate from her as soon as possible, the sooner the better, it's good for both of you......"

"We can go abroad!" After being silent for a long time, Xiao Nan suddenly spoke. Her retort was not loud, but it was firm and clear.

"What?" Lao Cheng was very surprised by his "daughter's" response, almost a little doubtful that he had misheard.

"We can go abroad......" Xiao Nan repeated what she had just said, only this time her tone was much softer, but her attitude was still firm. "We can live in a country where same-sex marriage is allowed......"

"Nonsense!" Lao Cheng glared at him and said sharply: "You plan to do this for the rest of your life, do you still want to be with you like this for the rest of your life? You abandon your parents and relatives together and run abroad, have you ever thought about other people's parents? Children, we of the Cheng family, we can't be so selfish!"

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"Smack......

The crisp sound of the water heater automatically disconnecting the power brought Xiao Nan's mind back to this small reception room from a few months ago, and Lao Qiao on the other side seemed to be still immersed in the happiness of spitting clouds and mist, but his eyes hidden in the smoke always glanced over from time to time, and every time Xiao Nan felt a chill.

"Xiaolan, aren't you colleagues with my family Tingting? I just happen to have an old buddy, who is a leader in the city library, some time ago I went to him, and I accidentally mentioned you when we were chatting, and I told him that my family Tingting has a good friend who is also in this unit, and she is a very good-looking little girl, called Cheng Xiaolan......"

Lao Qiao leaned comfortably on the sofa, squinting his eyes to observe the change in Xiao Nan's expression while spewing smoke out of his nostrils. "When my friend heard it, he said that it was impossible, he said that there was indeed a girl from Cheng Xiaolan in the unit, but it was a little chubby girl of more than 160 pounds, how could it be a girl with a water spirit? Seeing that I didn't believe it, he gave me a photo, you look at this photo......

As he spoke, Lao Qiao took out the photo that had been prepared from his jacket pocket, pressed it against the glass plate on the table with two fingers, and gently pushed it to Xiao Nan's side. Xiao Nan picked up the photo and looked at it, it turned out to be a library work card reproduced with a camera, Cheng Xiaolan's name was clearly written on the certificate, and a two-inch ID photo was pasted, the girl in the photo had a round and white big cake face, her two eyes were almost narrowed into two thin slits, and she still had a particularly honest smile on her face.

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PS: For those who don't understand the content of this chapter, you can turn to the previous volume 6 and review the content of chapters 200 and 201.

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