Siheyuan: Grassroots Counterattack

Let’s not worry about Sha Zhu’s fantasy for now. After Lou Xiao’e ran back home, she looked outside with lingering fear. When she saw that Sha Zhu didn’t follow her, she breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing her so flustered, the family's driver thought something had happened, and hurried forward to ask, "Miss, what happened? Why are you so flustered?"

Lou Xiao'e calmed down and said, "It's nothing, Uncle Li, just go and do your own thing."

Seeing that Lou Xiao'e refused to speak, the driver had to busy himself. After Lou Xiao'e entered the house, she saw her mother sitting on the sofa drinking tea. Lou Xiao'e said hello to Tan and was about to go upstairs, but was stopped by Tan, "Xiao'e, why did you come back so early today? How are you getting along with Xu Damao?"

When Lou Xiao'e saw her mother asking about it, she simply didn't go upstairs. She sat on the sofa and asked Tan about the Xu family.

In fact, Tan didn't know much about the Xu family. She only knew what Xu's mother told her. She left the subsequent events to her husband Lou Zhenhua to investigate. Today, her daughter suddenly asked about the situation of the Xu family, and Tan really couldn't answer for a while.

"What's wrong, Xiao'e, why do you suddenly ask this today?"

Lou Xiao'e hesitated for a moment, and just as she was about to tell him what had just happened, she saw Lou Zhenhua, who had been in the study upstairs, coming downstairs. "Xiao'e, why didn't you hang out with that kid Xu Damao more today?"

"Dad, do you know the Xu family? Do you know Xu Damao?" Lou Xiao'e asked a little aggrieved.

"What? Did Xu Damao bully you?" Lou Zhenhua was a little unhappy. In his opinion, the fact that his daughter could go on a blind date with a boy from a family like the Xu family showed that he respected their family very much. If it weren't for the current environment, how could his Xu family have the qualifications to contact Lou Zhenhua's daughter?

"No, Dad. Just now someone stopped me and said something to me. I didn't know whether it was true or not, so I came to ask Mom."

"Oh? What?" Lou Zhenhua asked curiously.

So Lou Xiao'e told Sha Zhu everything he said. When Lou Zhenhua mentioned that Sha Zhu claimed to be Li Tianyi, his eyes lit up and he thought to himself, is it because Li Tianyi likes his daughter? Is that why he came to Xiao'e to say bad things about Xu Damao?

After Lou Xiao'e finished speaking, Lou Zhenhua asked, "Did that person really claim to be Li Tianyi?"

Lou Xiao'e nodded, "But Dad, this person is not Li Tianyi at all, he is pretending to be him."

Lou Zhenhua frowned, "How do you know?"

Lou Xiao'e blushed slightly, and looked at Lou Zhenhua embarrassedly. After a while, she said, "I know that I have seen Li Tianyi's photo in the newspaper. Moreover, I also saw Li Tianyi when Xu Damao and I were shopping today. Li Tianyi and Xu Damao are neighbors, and Xu Damao also introduced Li Tianyi to me."

"It's just that Li Tianyi went to meet his girlfriend today and left without saying a few words." Lou Xiao'e said disappointedly.

Lou Zhenhua and Tan looked at each other and knew that their daughter had developed a crush on Li Tianyi. Tan thought that since her daughter had found someone she liked, could she bring them together?

Lou Zhenhua had a headache, remembering that someone had told him before not to hit on Li Tianyi. Now his daughter was obviously attracted to him, and he admired Li Tianyi very much. If it were 20 years ago, he would have plenty of ways to make Li Tianyi submit. But it was not possible now. If he made the slightest move, his family would be in disaster.

It seems that I have to dissuade Xiao'e from doing this and not let this girl get deeper into trouble.

"Xiao'e, don't worry about Li Tianyi for now. What do you want to do about you and Xu Damao?" Lou Zhenhua wanted to change the subject. Although Tan saw it, Lou Zhenhua winked at her and Tan had to swallow the words back.

Lou Xiao'e thought for a moment and said, "Dad, let's not talk about whether he and I can be together, but why don't we check whether what that person told me is true?"

"What if what that man said is true, would my daughter still marry him?"

"Yes, Master, my daughter is right. If it is true, we have a reason to reply to the Xu family."

Lou Zhenhua nodded, "Okay, then I'll ask someone to check it out."

"And the person who informed you obviously had bad intentions. You should have stayed away from him when you saw him before."

Lou Xiao'e nodded, then took her bag and went upstairs to change clothes.

After Lou Xiao'e went upstairs, Tan finally asked the question in her heart, "Zhenhua, are you hiding something from us?"

Lou Zhenhua sighed and sat down on the sofa dejectedly, "Ah, I never thought that my daughter Lou Zhenhua would be picked and chosen by others one day."

"What happened?" Tan asked anxiously.

"I wanted to bring Li Tianyi and our daughter together before, but Li Tianyi is already engaged. I heard that he is getting married soon, and someone also told us not to go after Li Tianyi."

"It's just now. Twenty years ago, who would dare to look down on our daughter?" Lou Zhenhua said angrily.

Tan was so scared that she stood up quickly, looked outside and saw that there was no one, then she sat back on the sofa, "Zhenhua, be careful, is it okay to say such things?"

"What about Xu Damao's case? Didn't you check it out before?"

"I checked it out. It's true that he was having an affair with the widow."

"Ah? Then why did you agree to your daughter's blind date with this kind of person?" Tan didn't understand her master's behavior. Isn't this pushing her daughter into the fire pit?

Lou Zhenhua did not take this matter seriously. He was a man from the old society, where every man had three wives and four concubines. It was only in the new society, when the country stipulated monogamy, that he dismissed his concubines. Those without children were sent back to their hometowns, and those with children were sent abroad. His two legitimate sons were also sent away.

"Men love to play before they get married, but once they get married, they become more reserved."

Lou Zhenhua could ignore it, but Tan didn't want her daughter to fall into the fire pit, so she retorted: "How do you know that Xu Damao will change after marriage? If he still doesn't change by then, won't our daughter be unlucky for the rest of her life?"

"Anyway, I don't agree with Xu Damao's marriage. I heard Mrs. Xu brag about how outstanding her child was, but I didn't expect that he turned out to be a pervert." Tan felt a little annoyed when she said this. She was deceived by Xu's mother.

"Also, Master, you have to find out who informed our daughter of this. Although he had bad intentions, he indirectly helped our daughter, didn't he?"

Lou Zhenhua nodded. He really needed someone to investigate this matter. According to the information provided by his daughter, this person should be easy to investigate. And his wife was right. It seemed that the Xu family could not marry into the family.

"Oh, the most difficult thing now is how to dissuade my daughter from this idea. She is obviously attracted to Li Tianyi." Mrs. Tan was very worried.