Fall in love with your enemy

Continuing from last time, I took over the job of dealing with the Xiang and Meng families from Cheng Cheng. I didn't want to get involved, but it involves officialdom after all. Even when Old Fu was in charge in the previous life, he didn't let Cheng Cheng get involved in officialdom, not to mention that Wen Ke and Wen Xichang were mentioned this time.

Wen Xichang was brought down by my second uncle, and I can say that I was the one who lifted Wen Ke up. Actually, in order to make my second uncle feel at ease, I pretended to be stupid and let him do it for me. No one can explain the favor, let alone any betrayal or not. I don't dare to believe in a relationship of exchange of interests.

Just as the matter was settled, there was some noise at the door. Before entering the door, she started to tease cats and dogs. I didn't even need to guess to know it was Lulu. She used to come to my place often, and now there was one more "trap" for her in the yard. I saw that Chengcheng was dressed quite neatly today, so I ignored her. I turned around and called Li Xi from the main room, and signaled someone to clean up the guest room.

Li Xi didn't even need me to say anything, he gestured "OK" and nodded heavily: "Master's luggage will be confiscated, only one bed will be left in the guest room, and the others will be soaked, Miss Han's tires will be punctured, all our cars will be sent out for maintenance, the horses will be drugged and all will be knocked out, the gate will be rusted and closed and can't be opened, I guarantee that no one will be able to leave the old house today."

It's really impossible to stop Li Xi from talking once she starts. She doesn't even whisper, as if she's talking specifically to others. Cheng Cheng and Lulu, who just walked in, were both stunned. As soon as she finished speaking, Cheng Cheng covered her head and sighed, while Lulu gave me a look that said "I understand me".

Cheng Zai was very helpless: "Sis, you might as well just set a price and sell me off."

Lulu: "It's not impossible. Just name a price. I'll buy out the person and the peripherals. Any price is fine."

Me: “One hundred billion.”

Lulu: "Forget it."

Cheng Cheng got angry: "You just said any amount is fine, may I ask?!"

Lulu shrugged: "The right of interpretation ultimately belongs to me. I like people who behave well, so..."

Cheng Cheng: “So…”

Lulu finally came closer and hooked my chin with her index finger: "Come home with me, and I'll give you two babies in my belly as a gift. I won't treat you badly."

Before I could say anything, Cheng Cheng closed her folding fan and pushed her hand away: "I'm so sorry, boss, this is not for sale."

"Then I don't want to spend so much money to buy back a disobedient ex-boyfriend. I'm losing money on this business, Mr. Fu?"

Cheng Cheng pursed his lips and said, "If you don't like me, then go buy those two little brats lying under the stool. They are very obedient and look good. Since you are so sincere, I will reluctantly give you a buy one get one free discount."

I followed their line of sight and saw that Yangyang and Jinjin, the two little guys, had come in at some point and were waiting quietly under the stool. I didn't know where they had been rolling around, but they were all dirty. Even Lulu, who loved children, was forced to take a few steps back when she saw them come out. It was the first time I saw someone speak in a roundabout way.

"Hey, isn't this our lovely Yangyangbao——Bay?"

"Wow, it looks like your baby Yangyang is rolling in the mud." Cheng Cheng smiled sarcastically.

Not only did Lulu glare at him this time, but before he could finish his words, Yangyang rushed up to take revenge. He jumped onto Chengcheng, hugged his face and kissed him, calling him brother sweetly. Chengcheng was really disgusted and regretted not running away, but he could not bring himself to do anything to Yangyang except to grimace at him.

As the saying goes, you shouldn't hit a smiling person. Yangyang has learned all the ways of the world from me, her sister.

Yangyang saw that his brother was really disgusted and couldn't stand it anymore, so he jumped off, wiped the mud off his face, and then stood half a meter away from Lulu and made a cute "gentleman's salute". He wiped his hands and mouth with a wet towel, took Lulu's hand and kissed her: "My beautiful sister, you are here, you didn't know it, I missed you so much when you didn't come over these few days!"

This made Lulu very happy. The mud all over the kid's body became a symbol of the child's vitality. She took out a handkerchief from her pocket and wiped Yangyang's face carefully, calling her dear. Chengcheng leaned close to my ear with a bitter face and almost gnashed his teeth: "You have been a flatterer since you were a child--"

"It's better than you not being able to speak. You can chase away the wife you have just got several times, it's all because of you having such a face." I replied in a low voice, and out of the corner of my eye I saw Chengcheng suddenly wilted, and was so angry that he couldn't speak.

It was at this time that Lulu noticed that there was a pretty little girl standing behind Yangyang. She exclaimed and turned back to ask me, "Whose child is this?"

I just remembered Jinjin, and I panicked for a moment but then I suppressed it. Chengcheng was calm, leaning her head on her wrist and answering slowly: "Of course she is my child in my house. Her name is Yi Yanjin, you can just call her Jinjin. She is the same age as Yangyang, and we raised her in the old house. Uncle Shao saw that Yangyang was bored without a playmate, so he brought her here."

Yangyang was very excited, and took Lulu's hand and took the initiative to introduce: "Beautiful sister, this is my wife!"

Lulu laughed out loud, squatted down and looked at the two children carefully: "How old are you when you have a wife? Do you know what a wife means?"

Yangyang was interrupted by Jinjin before she could say anything. The little girl was very arrogant. She raised her head and snorted, "I don't want to be your wife. You said before that you would give me all the best things, but you snatched my candy this morning and pushed me into the mud pit just now!"

Yangyang scratched her head and smiled, then went up to hold the other person's hand with a shameless face: "Don't be angry, I just think that lollipop is too disgusting! It's not worthy of you! I will find you a better one, and all the treasures in my cabinet will be given to you, please don't be angry with me, okay..."

Lulu laughed out loud and tapped Yangyang's forehead: "You little kid, you're quite good at talking despite your young age. That's how you can get a wife!" After saying that, she turned around and glanced at Chengcheng, as if she was hinting at something.

However, Chengzi... looked up, looked down, looked left, looked right, but he didn't look at Lulu.

I was so helpless that I covered my eyes and couldn't bear to watch. Even if his sister was a god, she couldn't chase girls for him! How could this be possible!

Jin Jin was not so easy to coax. She glared at Yang Yang and wiped her face, then bowed to Lu Lu in a proper manner: "Beautiful sister, I often hear my brothers and sisters talk about you. I like you very much and want to get along with you, but Fu Shucong will never be my husband. I don't want him. I am his boss, and I will still treat him as my best friend."

"Boss?" Lulu watched the little guy finish his words with joy, and turned her head with confusion: "Boss, isn't it..."

She didn't finish what she was saying, but she understood what I was saying from my expression, so she pretended nothing had happened and went back to entertaining the child.

I knew she would see through it, but luckily I had never intended to hide it. I took a sip of tea and wondered if what I was doing was right.

The rules for the head of the Fu family were set by my grandfather. It has long been made clear that the head of the young ladies can be either a man or a woman, but the head of the young masters must be a boy.

For the young lady of the family, the girl is the one in charge. She will choose a compatible friend to grow up with. In the future, the friend will be closer than the parents. If it is a boy, the parents probably do not want their daughter to get married and leave home, so they will carefully choose a "child husband". The two will get married when they reach the right age. In this way, even if there is no love, they are childhood sweethearts and are familiar with each other, so the marriage will be acceptable.

As for the rules for the young masters, they are different. Although the Fu family is not that bad to their daughters, the concept of favoring boys over girls still exists. It can be seen from the fact that the head of the family is the best outcome for daughters. It is believed that the best outcome for daughters is to marry the head of the family. Whether they are willing or not, they are their closest relatives. To put it bluntly and realistically, they drink a bowl of medicine, close their eyes, and become unconscious for a night, and then accept their fate the next day. They are thus confined to the home, but the young masters cannot have a female head of the family.

On the one hand, it is a good thing, as they are afraid that they will raise a bastard who bullies the girls closest to them when he is still young. On the other hand, they are biased. Everyone is happy when their daughter marries the head of the family, but when it comes to their own son, they despise the head of the family for her humble background and believe that she will not help their son's career. The Fu family used to have female heads of the family, but one of them insisted on resisting a girl of the same social status from outside and tried her best to marry her head of the family. In the end, her career failed, and she has been greedy for pleasure ever since.

The Fu family has always believed that once they have a son, they have decided to have him inherit the family business, so naturally they have to be careful with matters of marriage, and they must not allow their son any chance of being "seduced" from a young age. This rule has been passed down for three generations, and it reappears with Yangyang. The two children speak so clearly about their "visions" for the future, how could this have such an effect without anyone doing it on purpose or teaching them?

Lulu knew that I wanted to lock Yangyang in a circle that posed no threat to me and Chengcheng. No matter how successful he is in this life, he won't be able to go far. Even heirs like Chengcheng and I who are highly respected have to try our best to marry someone higher up when we fight for power. How could Yangyang be immune to this? It's just that we won't stop him from pursuing a suitable girl to be his wife, nor will we help him make plans. The only one who can be regarded as my hard work is Jinjin. She has impeccable looks, but mediocre talent. She is not smart, but she is not stupid either.

My considerations are not really too excessive or too harsh. No matter who Yangyang's mother is, whether he has a legitimate status, or who his name is recorded under, no one in the Fu family will forget that he is the son of Old Fu and one of the legal heirs of the eldest branch of the Fu family.

I just hope that he will really like Jinjin when he grows up, so that he can still live happily with his sweetheart with the more or less sense of responsibility that Chengcheng and I have for him. Even if there is no future, there is nothing wrong with being rich and healthy.

I looked back at Chengcheng, wondering if he could see through my "good intentions", but I guessed not. He never cared about Yangyang. As long as he could keep her alive, why would he care about her marriage? He probably thought that Yangyang could like whoever she wanted, even if it meant bringing back a different species, as long as it didn't cause him trouble.

Thinking of this, I smiled and drank a sip of tea calmly. I waved to Jinjin and said, "Come here. Let me braid your hair again. It looks so messy. I'll ask Tongtong to clean it for you two later. Otherwise, I won't have you for lunch."

Jinjin came over obediently and turned her back to let me comb her hair. If I hadn't smelled the medicine on her body, I would have almost forgotten that she, like Yangyang, had some problems with her legs. Yangyang's leg was injured later in life, causing her to walk with a limp, while Jinjin's was congenital. But both of them can be completely cured. It is difficult to have surgery now because they are still young. When they grow up in the future, they will probably spend all their time on medical treatment. They will depend on each other and love each other, but they will not have any future.

The more I think about it, the more I feel like a villain. I can't help but smile bitterly. So be a villain, as long as I can live an easy life.

I quickly fixed Jinjin's hair, and told Li Xi and I to each take one and go back to the house. Before leaving, I looked back at Chengcheng and Lulu and said, "You two can chat. I won't disturb you."

Lulu pretended to be in pain and annoyance: "But I came to see you!"

I shrugged. "Forget it. You've never looked at me before. I don't even bother to tell you. You better try your best. We have to put this marriage on the agenda. Otherwise, when my child is born, I won't know whether to call you aunt or auntie."

"Aunt is still the best. She sounds very close, right? We are a solid family!" Lulu replied, and then pounced on Chengcheng with a... a wretched look on her face.

Don't look at or listen to anything inappropriate. I turned around and left. Outside, I heard Cheng Cheng howling like a pig being slaughtered. I didn't know how far the relationship had progressed. They should be getting back together soon. Young couples love to do this kind of thing. It's all about romance. Well, who cares? It's better than him pestering me all the time.

I don't want to mention what happened in the past, and I hope it will stay like this and no one will mention it. Chengcheng shouldn't be suppressed by the self-righteous arrangements of the elders. Although Lulu has made up her mind to tell me that she doesn't care who Chengcheng likes, even if it is just a marriage, she has found someone she likes and it is not a waste of time, but she still hopes from the bottom of her heart that Chengcheng likes her. If it can really go on like this and nothing goes wrong, maybe it will really happen.

As soon as I went upstairs, I ran into Tong Hua who came down to look for the children. I saw Yangyang and Jinjin making sharp noises and dragging the two clay dolls to take a bath. I walked away immediately, and the corridor was just returning to normal. Feng Shizhi rushed up to support me, as if he was afraid that I would fall accidentally. He looked at my stomach like a time bomb.

"How dare you walk alone, lady?" Comrade Xiao Feng put his hands on his waist and grimaced, and his outstretched hands were bent as if they were electrocuted.

I patted my belly and said seriously: "Who told you I was alone? I was obviously three people!"

"Please spare me. Your belly is so big that I'm afraid the baby will fall out if you speak too loudly. You walk up the stairs without finding someone to support you. Can't you see your feet?" Feng Shizhi's facial features looked like the word "囧".

I tried to lower my head, but it seemed that I really couldn't see my toes. I felt a little embarrassed and stubborn: "What's the matter? My children will help me. If I miss a step, they will kick me to remind me."

Feng Shizhi glanced at me like a fool and said, "Thank you, your joke comforted me."

"Okay, I want to talk to you about something serious." I poked the person's shoulder with a smile.

"Business? Your delivery bag is ready, and the test results are all normal. You will be given an epidural and converted to a cesarean section during the normal delivery, and you will be given anesthesia as much as you can to minimize the pain. As for you, just eat what you need to eat and make yourself happy. That's the most important thing."

"I'm not talking about having a baby! I'm not worried about that. Didn't you hear what I said to Cheng Cheng just now?"

"Listen, so what? It's just the Wei family's business, let him deal with it on his own. You don't really intend to take care of it with such a big belly, do you? Be honest, my little aunt, my little heart can't stand your scares..."

Feng Shizhi kept nagging for a while before finally putting me down safely on the sofa in the living room on the third floor. I don’t know if he was tired or angry, but he kept sighing and looked at me helplessly.

I pondered for a long time and finally came up with a good idea: "Zhizhi, I feel really uncomfortable recently. Many times I feel like I am about to give birth. Why don't you bring some people and a delivery bag with me down the mountain? I will stay in the hospital in advance to feel more at ease."

"Don't give me that. I've put the doctors, the birthing equipment, and even the blood bags on the mountain for you. If you want to give birth, I'll call them right now. You can just lie down and give birth. The question is, can you do it? The best you can do is give birth to the food you had this morning. Auntie, just be quiet!" Xiao Feng stared at me so hard that it made me shudder. His tone was firm: "Anyway, I won't let you run around until you give birth."

"Then tell me, did you know about the Wei family's affairs in advance?" I put my hands on my hips and looked serious.

"I don't know. So what? Is it important?"

"Important! Think about it, how long have I been pregnant? In the past, whenever Linjiang had something to do, they would come to me first, and never thought of Chengcheng. But now, they can make demands without even mentioning my expressionless face, even involving such a big matter as officialdom! Even if I am inconvenient because of my pregnancy, I should have informed you of this in advance, right? In the end, you don't know what it means. It means that the power of the eldest house is really slowly shifting to Chengcheng's side. I have to withdraw from the front line of my career just because I am pregnant? How can I be willing to accept this!" I gritted my teeth and pounded my legs, imagining that my acting skills must have improved, but...

"But isn't your wish to have money without having to work and have nothing to do? You have shares in Chengcheng, which is equivalent to him making money legally for you to spend. What's wrong with that?" Xiao Feng tilted his head and looked very "sincere".

I choked and coughed, then turned around and put on a wronged look: "Please, I'm really worried. You know Chengcheng is like that. What if someone plotted against her? If I try to remedy the situation when it's too late, I'll be so angry that I'll have a difficult time..."

"It's only two months. You'll probably give birth before he gets into trouble. Don't worry..." Feng Shizhi stretched out his tone with a "threatening" tone.

After so many rejections, I finally couldn't stand it anymore and had to resort to coercive measures! I clenched my fist and compared it to my stomach: "I don't care! Anyway, if you don't let me go down the mountain, I will!"

"What's wrong with you?" Feng Shizhi narrowed his eyes and looked mocking.

I clenched my fists. I couldn't really hit myself because I would be a fool. So I stuttered for a while and changed my tactics: "I will eat a lot of lotus seeds to induce labor, and then I will run away after the birth!"

Feng Shizhi sighed, covered half of his face, and rolled his eyes in melancholy.

Me: “What’s that expression on your face?”

Feng Shizhi: "Come on, auntie, I will show you how to make your eyes go black."