Chinese New Year's Eve was too late, and then there was a toss after the ear grinding, and Ling Li didn't get up until almost noon.

Fortunately, although the old mansion is deserted, the space is private and no one disturbs it, so it is leisurely.

But when she woke up, she didn't see where Nan Zhiyi was.

After looking around, no one answered the mobile phone, and suddenly saw Lu Jinran coming in from outside the door, carrying a bag of vegetables in his hand.

"Sister Lu, where has Teacher Nan gone, do you know?" She asked hurriedly.

Lu Jinran was stunned: "I want to worship my ancestors early in the morning of the first day of the new year, and it starts at six o'clock, don't you know?" ”

Glancing at the time again, he continued to explain to Ling Li: "It won't end until eleven o'clock, and there is still more than half an hour. ”

"Oh!" Ling Li patted her heart with relief, and became a little curious: "Then why don't you go?" ”

Lu Jinran gave a rare mocking expression: "How can there be a woman for such a thing as ancestor worship?" We can't even enter the ancestral hall, even if it's a mother, an academician-level figure, we can take the lead while standing outside waiting for a man. So Mom never goes, and I won't go. ”

I don't know what's going on, Ling Li suddenly felt a sense of hatred and hatred in her heart, and said indignantly: "If you don't count the Nan family, those men together can't be as powerful as Auntie alone, and they are patriarchal, I don't know what to say!" ”

"Are you still calling Auntie?" Lu Jinran laughed, "I don't think it's far from changing my words." ”

Ling Li's face flushed, and she didn't dare to talk to her again.

This time she returned to her hometown with Nan Zhiyi, she and Nan Zhiyi lived in the same room - this was Lu Jinran's natural arrangement, Nan Zhiyi was desperate, and none of the Nan family's parents raised the inappropriateness, and it seemed that they had acquiesced in their relationship.

The more she thought about it, the more embarrassed she became, Ling Li hurriedly ran into the back room, followed by a string of Lu Jinran's laughter.

After eleven o'clock, Ling Li, who had hidden herself for half an hour, heard the movement outside, and her heart was about to move.

It seems that the ancestor worship is over, and the men have returned.

She really wanted to see Nan Zhiyi, but when she remembered Lu Jinran's ridicule just now, she felt weak again.

So, quietly moving his footsteps, from the most inconspicuous position, slowly slipped out of the hall, and peeked inside.

Unexpectedly, I only saw Nan Huairen and Nan Zhijun.

"Excessive! It's too much! Nan Huairen, who has always been good-tempered, actually patted the window lattice vigorously, "Those people are too bold, and Tai Sui's head is full of soil." ”

Nan Zhijun's voice couldn't help but be cold: "This group of people, after all, there must be a lesson." Dad, you don't care, I naturally want to seek justice for Xiaoyi. ”

Hearing that Nan Zhiyi was involved in their conversation, it still didn't seem to be such a good tone, Ling Li's heart sank, his steps were chaotic, and he kicked to the threshold.

She held back the pain and didn't scream, but the muffled sound had already alarmed the two people in the room.

Seeing that she was at the door, Nan Zhijun, who had always been calm, lost his sense of proportion, pulled the corners of his mouth, and didn't look like he was smiling at all, and his eyes were embarrassed.

Nan Huairen was obviously a little older and spicy, and asked her with a smile: "Xiao Li, what do you want to eat for lunch?" ”

Hurriedly dealing with the two of them, Ling Li was a little flustered.

They talked about Nan Zhiyi in their words, it seemed that something unpleasant happened during the ancestor worship, and Nan Zhiyi did not come back with them.

Ling Li became worried, and was determined to find Nan Zhiyi and ask well.

Fortunately, Nanzhiyi's mobile phone is connected.

Ten seconds after she dialed her mobile phone number, Nan Zhiyi picked it up.

"Where are you?" She asked hurriedly.

"Me? On this side of the stage. He replied, not the slightest hint of bad mood in his voice.

Ling Li breathed a sigh of relief and asked again, "Where are you doing?" ”

"Me? Buy orange trees. It just so happens that the truck can't get into the alley, so you have a lot of strength, come and help me move it. ”

Half an hour later, two kumquat trees close to two meters in size were moved to the door of the house, and Ling Li was panting, admiring the spectacle she had never seen before.

She had never seen an orange tree as a bonsai, especially one of those so huge – two meters tall enough for two or three people to hug it, and the most exaggerated thing was that it was surrounded by yellow kumquats.

Ling Li wanted to pick one to eat, but she was afraid of destroying the shape of the tree, and she was even more dispelled by Nan Zhiyi's words.

He told her: "If you want to eat oranges, I'll take you to buy them and don't know the fire, this thief is sour, don't eat it." ”

I didn't eat lunch at home either. Nan Zhiyi took Ling Li to set up the orange tree, went to the back room to talk to the elders, and dragged Ling Li out of the door.

"Where?" She blinked, stunned.

"Take you to experience the Spring Festival in the flower city." He shook his head and said, "If you stay away from the city for so many days, and don't get some fireworks from the mortal world, you will really become an immortal." ”

It's right not to eat lunch, because in the eyes of foodie Nan Zhiyi, the so-called Huacheng Spring Festival is just eating in Huacheng.

Fish skin, grilled oysters, double skin milk, boat porridge...... Walking down a food street, two paper people who eat as much as cattle are stuffed with no more food.

In the end, under Ling Li's strong request, Nan Zhiyi reluctantly took her to a mountain park.

Ling Li didn't like this kind of hilly hill, but there was a huge banyan tree in the park, which made her linger.

Not only is it rare to see a tree that is hundreds of years old, but also the wisps of red ropes wrapped around the branches of good men and women, and concentric locks.

Ling Li had to take a photo with the tree, and he was going to pull Nan Zhiyi, but he didn't expect him to die.

"Do you still believe this?" Nan Zhiyi laughed at her, "It's time to learn the core values of socialism." ”

Ling Li raised his fist and threatened: "Just say that you don't take it!" ”

Under the iron fist, Nan Zhiyi spinelessly succumbed, and took the scene for a long time, until Ling Li's face stiffened with a smile, and then he made an OK gesture with her.

After that, Ling Li looked for a minute in that atmospheric photo before she found herself who was as small as an ant, and she was angry.

She held the phone up in front of him and was furious: "Nan Zhiyi! You might as well be a selfie stick! ”

Nan Zhiyi looked at the photo and said unashamedly: "It's good to have this artistic conception, why bother?" Vulgar! ”

A pleasant afternoon passed in a hurry, and by the time he was on the way home for dinner, Ling Li no longer wanted to ask why he didn't worship his ancestors in the morning, but went to visit the flower market.

Since he didn't want to say it, she didn't ask.

And the family at dinner was also pale, and there didn't seem to be anything to hide.

After eating too much in the afternoon, Ling Li and Nan Zhiyi almost only moved a few chopsticks and put them down.

Out of concern, Lu Jinran asked Ling Li: "Why don't you eat it?" Isn't it appetizing? If I feel weak, I soaked some small kimchi in the kitchen, the same way as Funan. ”

Before Ling Li could explain, Nan Zhiyi said coldly: "We can't afford to do it with your own hands." ”

His words made Nan Huairen's face collapse quickly, and the chopsticks slapped heavily on the table: "Xiao Yi! She's your sister-in-law. ”

"Really?" He pursed the corners of his lips, "It's a pity I don't recognize it." ”

After speaking, ignoring the elders at the table, he got up straight and entered the back room.

The festive atmosphere of the New Year in the house suddenly cooled down.

Ganwo was motionless, as if Nan Zhiyi's words and deeds did not affect her at all. And grandma couldn't hear or see clearly, and slowly ate the dishes that Ganwo Yu had put into her bowl, still smiling.

Ling Li felt very uncomfortable in her heart, and wanted to follow Nan Zhiyi into the house and ask him why he suddenly became angry, but seeing Nan Zhijun's face sinking like water, Lu Jinran had some pleading eyes, Nan Huairen's expression was complicated, she just stood up and sat down silently.

If she left again, she would really not be the same.

It was another tasteless dinner, and after cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, Ling Li silently followed Lu Jinran to the kitchen.

She felt that it was time to ask what the relationship between Nan Zhiyi and Nan Zhijun was for, and it became such a strange relationship today.

Lu Jinran obviously knew what Ling Li was staying for, the two of them silently washed the dishes, cleaned up the kitchen, and turned to her with a wry smile: "Since Xiao Yi has come back with you, I can't hide anything from you." The two of them were not like this before, everything was because of an accident more than ten years ago. ”

Ling Li didn't expect her to take the initiative to speak, and she was stunned for a moment.

After that, he bit his lip and asked the conjecture in his heart: "Is it an accident related to Dongsheng?" ”

Lu Jinran had a sad look in his eyes: "That's right, it's indeed related to Lu Dongsheng." ”

Speaking of this name, her usual gentle expression suddenly became cold: "Nineteen years ago, Lu Dongsheng was Xiao Yi's tutor; Sixteen years ago, she jumped from the roof of the Tenth People's Hospital in Huacheng, and since then, Xiao Yi has regarded me as an enemy. ”

Until she returned to the room and saw Nan Zhiyi, Ling Li was still in a trance.

Lu Jinran told her that Lu Dongsheng committed suicide, and this name has a deep relationship with Nanzhiyi.

Nan Zhiyi heard the sound of the door, saw the porridge in Ling Li's hand, looked surprised, stood up and took the bowl from her hand, and ate it by himself.

took a bite, and with a little grievance, he looked at Ling Li with a blank eye: "I knew you were still worried about me." ”

The implication was that Ling Li seemed to be blaming Ling Li for not following him when he left the table.

Ling Li met his childish eyes, and he didn't know what to say.

The grievances between the two brothers of the Nan family that she had been imagining were really related to a woman, although that woman was much older than her and even Nan Zhiyi, but it always made her feel uncomfortable.

She bit her lip, but still asked, "After eating the porridge, can you tell me about Lu Dongsheng?" ”

"I knew the woman was uneasy." Nan Zhiyi's eyelids moved, lowered his head, and continued to eat the porridge in the bowl.

Ling Li didn't ask any more questions, just waiting for him to speak again.

When the bowl was at the bottom, he said: "When Nan Zhijun was working in Huacheng Intermediate Courtyard, my parents didn't have time to care about me, so I followed him to study in Huacheng City." At that time, Lu Dongsheng was my teacher, because of my relationship, she and Nan Zhijun knew each other, and they were almost to the point of talking about marriage. As a result, Lu Jinran snatched her fiancé, and the teacher couldn't think about it, so he got sick and went to a dead end. ”

Ling Li didn't expect that he would be able to say the past that sounded very tangled in such a tone, but it seemed that her opinion was a little different.

Life or death, after all, is your own choice, end your life for the sake of a relationship, no matter how important that man is, Ling Li asked herself, she can't do this.

Ending one's life for a man who doesn't love him is undoubtedly the most stupid act, and a woman's feelings like that are really unbearable.

She pondered it and tried her best to evaluate this matter from a neutral standpoint: "The relationship problem is complicated, there is no prerequisite for marriage, I think your brother has the right to choose freely." ”

"Feelings?" Nan Zhiyi sneered, as if he had heard a big joke, "If it's just because of feelings, I have nothing to say, after all, it's a matter of the two of them." However, Lu Jinran was able to marry Nan Zhijun first, just because she had a good background. ”

Seeing that Ling Li didn't know what to do, he explained: "Let's put aside the feelings or something, let's analyze and analyze the difference between Mr. Lu and Lu Jinran." Teacher Lu is just a teacher, and Lu Jinran is the daughter of the secretary of the provincial party committee, you said that Nan Zhijun will let go of this opportunity? ”

When Ling Li heard it, she always felt that something was wrong.

Lu Jinran's impression of Ling Li was low-key and self-contained from the beginning, and her words and deeds faintly revealed a sense that her family background was not simple, so when she heard that she was the son of a high-ranking cadre, Ling Li was not surprised at all.

It's just that she seems to have heard Nan Zhiyi reveal that Lu Jinran and Lu Dongsheng are sisters.

She finally noticed the loophole in it, and asked with some hesitation: "Since they are sisters, don't they have the same background?" Lu Jinran is the daughter of the secretary of the provincial party committee, so isn't Teacher Lu the same? ”

"Who told you that the secretary of the provincial party committee can only be a man?" Nan Zhiyi laughed and explained, "Lu Jinran and Teacher Lu are half-sisters, the difference is that Teacher Lu's mother died early, and Lu Jinran's mother is just a high-ranking official. Nan Zhijun's vision has always been very good, and choosing a wife is naturally like this, you can check his resume, when did he rise quickly? Isn't it that after he arrived in Funan and had the administrative head of Funan as the backstage? ”

He paused, shook his head and sneered: "Also, the king of the south has become a deputy province at forty-two, you can check it to see if he can rank in the top ten of the Celestial Empire at this speed." ”

Ling Li was dumbfounded, and came back to her senses for a while, with a faint thought in her head.

She confirmed again and again in her heart, and asked with some astonishment: "Could it be that Lu Jinran's mother is ......?"

Although Ling Li didn't care about these things at all, she was still deeply impressed by the fact that a certain secretary of Funan Province was a woman more than ten years ago.

Because it is really rare for a woman to be the leader of a province, she does remember it deeply.

It seems that the secretary of that term had a good reputation and was vigorous and resolute, and now he has left Funan Province and joined a certain ministry that starts with the national character.

You must know that female cadres at the vice-national level are rare and have a bright future.

With such a powerful backer, if Nan Zhijun is really rising step by step for this reason, then Nan Zhiyi's resentment is not unreasonable.

The gentle and kind female teacher, the brother who met because of herself, the two quickly fell in love, but after meeting her half-sister, the brother decisively abandoned the teacher for her sister, and finally the teacher went to a dead end, which led to a tragedy.

If it were Ling Li, he would not easily forgive Nan Zhijun.

Nan Zhiyi had already finished drinking the porridge, with a sneering face, and stretched out his hands to look at Ling Li: "So, Fan Sister, tell me, how should I let go?" ”