The old man and his daughter met on the 69th evening after her big wedding

  Yang Le'er returned home.

  "What is this?"

  "Somebody sent it over."

  "Who sent it?" Yang Le'er asked while unwrapping the box.

  Of course, it's possible that someone sent it to test us, maybe there's a bug inside. Wen Xuan said softly: "I don't know that person, he just delivered it and left."

  It's also her first time here, how can she know so many people?

  Perhaps it was one of her admirers who sent it, without suspicion, she opened the box and presented to them a vase.

  Jingtai blue and white porcelain products, with a noble and rich body color, are rare art treasures, as if they have some historical marks that seem to be from a long time ago.

  Wen Yu thought: This thing might have been cheap at the time of purchase, now it's possible for one piece to be worth over a million.

  Bang!

  The hurricane swept past the vase and across Yang Le'er's face.

  The vase fell to the ground and shattered into pieces.

  Yang Le'er's face twisted into an octopus, extremely terrifying.

  Wen Yu was so frightened that she hid behind the sofa, a few meters away from her.

  "Get lost!" Yang Le'er slammed the door and stormed out.

  It's obvious that this vase must be related to Yang Le'er's sister.

  ……

  A crashing sound was heard from inside the earplug, along with Yang Le'er's roar.

  He lightly removed the earpiece of the eavesdropping device, his cold eyes revealing a steely color: You're really good at acting, deceiving everyone for so many years.

  "Is the vase Mrs. Lu's?" Yao Ziye heard the loud crash from the eavesdropping device and slightly furrowed his eyebrows.

  "It's a replica. My grandfather gave it to my mom as a wedding gift back then. My dad had made a copy, and I took the replica to give to her."

  "What should we do now?"

  Arrest the person and interrogate them.

  But it's been so long, there is no evidence.

  To think that putting someone in prison or even executing them is letting them off too easily.

  "Doesn't she like winning against my mom? Let her win against my mom in her fantasies every day. After all, she's my aunt, I shouldn't be too harsh on her."

  Poison, you are not just poison, but more poisonous than poison, ruthless and merciless.

  To accompany you is like accompanying a tiger.

  The word "Jun" of Jun Ye is not taken randomly.

  In short, both masters think that the little man is a flea. It's okay to jump secretly, but if he dares to jump onto Master Taisheng's head, he will be pinched to death by Master Taisheng with one finger. Anyway, as long as the little man floats out of the water from the dark, it won't be a difficult task.

  In their hearts, the most troublesome person has always been - Manman.

  As Lao Lu said, his granddaughter has a temper, you want her in your family, but I don't want her.

  Manman now feels that she is living a good life, with a successful career, a loving husband, a healthy father by her side, and a comfortable and upward life.

  It's the Lu family who is worried, not Manman.

  ……

  Early in the morning, Chuxia and Manman set out from the painting gallery, carrying a briefcase and bringing their ID cards. Du Yu personally drove them to the government office.

  Arrived at the entrance of the municipal government department, and met up with Le Wenbin who was driven there by Xiaok.

  Three people attended the briefing session for the government's public welfare advertising project bidding as representatives of Xiao K Advertising Company.

  Registered at the entrance with ID card, entered the office building and came to a conference room.

  Inside, more than a dozen rows of seats were filled with over a hundred people, all representatives of advertising companies that had obtained bidding quotas.

  Màn Màn sat in the corner chair with the government-issued explanatory materials, while Chū Xià sat in the middle.

  Across individuals, Raven Bin sometimes crossed early summer, his gaze spinning on those big glasses.

  An ordinary and unremarkable woman can suddenly radiate dazzling brilliance when focused on something she's passionate about.

  A small fault does not hide a person's good qualities.

  It's not an exaggeration at all.

  For the first time, he deeply felt a sense of crisis - that he might lose to this seemingly ordinary woman.

  But he is not without the air of an artist, and it's not necessarily true that he will lose.

  "Teacher, let's make a bet. If you lose, you have to go out with me and listen to me. Just take a look at her design this time and judge with your own feelings whether you win or lose."

  The Lu family's thousand gold who claimed to be the municipal party committee secretary's daughter-in-law suddenly kissed him and smiled, saying to him like a charming little demon.

  He was kissed by a student, it wasn't his first time. This time was different, she was a high-ranking official's daughter who already had a boyfriend.

  His blood was boiling with rage.

  "I think Teacher Wen's work should be shared with our company's design department."

  When they heard him speak, both Chunxia and Manman looked up.

  Delicate and elegant eyebrows, slightly upturned mouth corners.

  At the beginning of summer, Zhenfeng faced each other with a hooked mouth: "Didn't Teacher Lei say last time that he was not interested in our teacher Wen's design?"

  "Have I said this before?"

  "Your boss called and asked you to go back to the company, but you said you're not interested." Chū Xiā blinked at him with an "innocent" expression.

  Lei Wenbin's face, which was trying to look elegant and refined, turned black.

  Manman Lala's summer sleeves are partners, no need to quarrel, let alone the first draft has been sent to Xiao K's company, it's just that Le Wenbin may not have returned to the company to see.

  "Give."

  Hand over a U disk.

  He took it, his delicate eyebrows slightly raised: This isn't something he can see just by borrowing a computer somewhere.

  Early summer doesn't care about him.

  At halftime, Raven ran away.

  Manman and Chuxia went out into the corridor in search of a restroom.

  The man walking towards me was quite familiar.

  At the beginning of early summer, I remembered that Jiang Dashao took a set of photos at the full moon banquet and came back to show off to them. Among them, there was a man who was framed by Wen Mingzhu and fainted together, wasn't it just this gentleman in front of me who looked like an elite?

  Name - Li Zhenwei.

  "Vines!" Li Zhenwei suddenly shouted, his voice filled with passion.

  Manman eats: Haven't provoked him recently, right? The grudge was settled that day at the dessert shop.

  Think about it, this guy was implicated by Wen Mingzhu that night, but he himself is also a scumbag, serves him right.

  Manman pretended not to hear and pulled Chunxia to brush past him.

  Hand, stretched out, quickly grasped her arm.

  "What are you doing!" Chū Xia snapped open his claws and pulled up his throat alarm.

  Li Zhenwei never expected that Manman had a female bodyguard, and it was a female who had once made Junye suffer.

  This is inside the city government, where he works.

  "Hair standing on end, pleading: 'Don't shout. I didn't mean anything else, I just know Manman and was saying hello.'"

  "Is this how you greet people? With your filthy paws, in broad daylight, you're robbing a married woman?"

  Even those who were just listening on the side felt that this mouth was too powerful in early summer.

  A look of astonishment was cast on the ring finger that had just been adorned with Jiang Da Shao's new wedding ring, and she gasped: "You're really married?"

  "Yes." Meng Meng blocked the early summer, and this question must be answered by herself.

  "What's with that slum?"

  "What's with the broken-down house?" Chūxia couldn't help but interrupt.

  Jiang Dashao's identity is now known to everyone, isn't it?

  In Li Zhenwei's heart, no matter how well Jiang Dashao mixed in the army, he was just a soldier, and could not compare to the local officials who wielded power and enjoyed privileges.

  Her sharp eyes pierced through his heart, her eyebrows slightly raised, and her tone calm: "No matter what his identity is, I've chosen him."

  "Why did you choose him?" As he said this, Li Zhenwei patted his own chest excitedly, "What can I not compare to him?"

  The next sentence left both women stunned on the spot.

  "In the early summer, secretly, a close friend's elbow bumped into mine: 'I'm saying, when did you get an extra admirer? And after your marriage, he's still pursuing you relentlessly?'"

  "What a thing to say!" Manman felt extremely wronged, "He met me for a blind date a few years ago and rejected me because I didn't have looks, household registration, money, or official parents. He couldn't even be bothered to talk to me for three sentences before he patted his butt and left, leaving me to pay the coffee bill."

  What a top-notch guy!

  At the beginning of summer, looking at Li Zhenwei, with a stern expression as a judge: "What's wrong with you now? Did you take the wrong medicine?"

  Lately, there have been a lot of men who suddenly act strangely in front of me, as if they've taken the wrong medicine.

  Li Zhenwei is eating regret medicine.

  Since the full moon banquet that night, he couldn't eat or sleep thinking of Mianmian. Moreover, he compared himself to Jiang Dashao, if Jiang Dashao, also a high-ranking official's son, could accept Mianmian, then his own identity as a high-ranking official's son shouldn't stop him from being with Mianmian. Once he thought this through, he started to feel that Mianmian had no reason to accept Jiang Dashao but not him.

  His job is more stable and lucrative than Chiang's, isn't it?

  "Whatever he can give you, I can also give you, and even better."

  "But aren't you looking to marry a rich and powerful high-ranking official's daughter?" Manman kindly reminded him of his great marriage dream of finding a golden girl from the very beginning.

  "You're not bad." Three words, sharp as a knife, flowed out of Li Zhenwei's mouth, who had always been dissatisfied with everything.

  Early summer never thought that the sworn brothers were different, but the problem is that from this kind of extreme male mouth, the words that come out are not bad at all, and suddenly on top of one's head is - thunderstorm.

  It's too cool, so cool that it gives me goosebumps!

  She pushed her glasses up and looked at him with a clear gaze: "Are you saying this on purpose because you have an opinion about my husband?"

  "No."

  "What is that?"

  Taking a deep breath, Li Zhenwei seemed to be standing on the stage for the first time in his life, his tongue was stiff and his blood rushed to his face: "I think you were very beautiful that night, it made me feel that women are beautiful for the first time."

  Once again, two women were struck by lightning.

  Look at this excellent man's confession, as if he has never experienced love before.

  However, looking at Xia Zhi's simple white shirt and black-framed glasses in early summer, which part of her can be considered a beauty that can make people fall in love at first sight.

  Man Man wasn't fooled at all; for her, the only man in this world who could move her heart was her husband Jiang Dashao.

  "You just said you can give me something better than what I have with my husband, but I think you definitely cannot give me what I want. All I need is the love that my husband gives me."

  Li Zhenwei was stunned: he was rejected by Man Man, and would never be able to compare with Jiang Dashao.

  Poor top-quality man, his first love not only missed himself, but now revenge has come, and he was trampled by Manman and Jiang Dashao together.

  Early summer with "sympathy" in his heart, wiped away two tears for Li Zhenwei: This is called self-inflicted evil.

  "Let's go." said Manman, she was in a hurry to use the restroom.

  When they returned, Li Zhenwei was nowhere to be found, and Lei Wenbin also didn't come back.

  "Ah, my USB drive." Chun Xia cried out in distress.

  "For something worth tens of dollars, he wouldn't even want it." Manman comforted Chunxia.

  Indeed, just by looking at someone like Leifeng Wen, you can tell that he is the kind of person who wants to make a lot of money and do big things.

  After the meeting, I went home and glanced at my watch, seeing that there was still time, so I decided to head back to the gallery to cook dinner and invited Father to come eat along the way.

  Wen Shixuan answered her phone amidst a noisy background: "Mangmang, I'm busy, you guys eat on your own."

  When she heard her father hang up the phone, Manman slightly furrowed her brow: Shixiong Du Yuming had clearly said that today Wen Shixuan took a day off.

  "In early summer, I want to go somewhere." Mianmian said when the taxi was about to turn around and head to the gallery.

  "Where?"

  "XX High School." In the background of Father's phone call just now, there seemed to be a voice saying something about what high school was in what place, as if speaking to Father.

  ……

  The school bell rang, Wen Xuan slowly waited until everyone in the class had left before picking up her own bag and walking out of the classroom.

  Yang Le'er didn't send a car to pick her up, saying that the Lu family doesn't like their children to show off everywhere and told her to take the bus home herself.

  Lu's family isn't very rich, are they? They're as rigid and square as an old man or woman who is overly cautious.

  Wen Yu furrowed her brow, feeling that except for the time spent in the house provided by Yang Le'er, everything else was no different from before. Moreover, going back required looking at Yang Le'er's face, which was unlike when she used to return to the Wen family, where everyone had to look at her face.

  Depression, inadvertently floating in mind.

  Since the day Wen Shixuan sent over that package, she had been unable to shake off the feeling of being watched by that man's cold and unfeeling eyes, which seemed to be constantly boring into her back like a ghostly presence.

  Actually, every time she turned back to look, there was no one.

  Her scorching forehead, does it mean she has become as quick-tempered as Yang Le'er?

  Lowering his head, he walked up to the school gate.

  Suddenly in front of him, an extremely low voice: "Yuan Yuan."

  He slammed on the brakes, looked up, stared at Wen Shi Xuan for three seconds, and immediately lowered his head.

  Wen Shi Xuan was actually uncertain, after sending the package that day, he waited for several days at the entrance of Di Jing Gate. Finally, he inquired about the school she attended and ran to the school. Because this school was exactly the place his youngest daughter had been eager to transfer to day and night.

  "Yuan Yuan, is that you?" Seeing her about to leave, Wen Shi Xuan followed behind her, swallowing his saliva, both hands touching his pants.

  "Stop following me! What's wrong with you, old man? Can't you go somewhere else to find someone? Why are you tailing me?"

  Wen Shixuan's mouth was agape as he stared at her face, which looked exactly like his little daughter when she was angry. No, it was more than that - it was just like his little daughter.

  "Jiāo jiāo."

  Lei Wenbin got out of the taxi that had just stopped at the school gate, and happened to see a middle-aged uncle following Lu Jia's daughter. He raised an eyebrow and walked over, asking: "What's going on?"

  "He's been following me since I left the school gate," said Wen Huan fiercely, hoping to scare Wen Shixuan away immediately.

  Lei Wenbin looked up and down at Wen Shixuan, even the dirty slippers on his feet seemed to be the identity of a vagrant. With his hands in his pockets, he said unpleasantly: "Uncle, I advise you to leave immediately, otherwise, I will call the police."

  "I'm just... " Wen Shixuan looked at his daughter's lowered head and averted face, becoming even more certain, "looking for my daughter."

  Wen Yu's heart tightened: Had her father recognized her?

  "Your daughter?" Raven laughed loudly, his laughter sending chills down the spine. "How could she possibly be your daughter? She's the treasured daughter of the Lu family!"

  "She can't be the daughter of the Lu family. I know that my little girl was born to me and her mother." Wen Shi Xuan stared at Wen Huan, his eyes showing a father's sternness and authority in this moment.

  Seeing Wen Huan's shoulders trembling silently, Leifengbin frowned and shouted at the security guard by the door: "You come over here, there's a madman in here!"

  One or two security guards were about to rush over when a taxi suddenly drove in.

  The car door opened and Manman and Chuxia got out.

  The three people present were all stunned.

  "Dad." Manman stood in front of Wen Shixuan, facing the shouting person, Levin, and her sister, Wen Huan, who was trying to hide her face in the darkness. The crescent-shaped eyes behind her glasses sparkled with a terrifying light.

  Lei Wenbin was also a bit afraid of them, because he had just slipped away from the meeting and didn't know if they had noticed.

  "Alright." Chu Xia stood with his hands on his hips, but instead of scolding him, he was laughing and scolding Wen Huan, who was trying to slip away, "Huanhuan, do you want to become someone else's daughter and not recognize your own biological father? Aren't you afraid of being struck by lightning?"

  "What are you talking about? She's Miss Lu of the Lu family." Léi Wénbīn was deeply convinced of this, and he had put all his bets on Wēn Huì.

  "Let them go." Manman stopped Chuxia who wanted to continue speaking, then turned her head to say to her father, "Dad, I'll make your favorite sweet and sour pork ribs for you tonight."

  "But, Manman——" Wen Shixuan furrowed his brow, looking at his little daughter Wen Huan.

  It's no longer a matter of whether or not he wants to let go, but his chest is burning with unprecedented anger, thinking of teaching this spoiled girl a lesson.

  In Wen Shi Xuan's principles, if he can tolerate something normally, he will. If his daughter throws a small tantrum or is a bit stubborn, as her father, he will be patient. However, if his daughter goes down the wrong path, as her father, he absolutely cannot tolerate it.

  At that moment, she saw the raging flames of anger in her father's eyes, rather than the expected pleading and begging gaze turned towards her, and Wen Xuan's heart was shocked.

  "Dad, we can't afford to live in such a good house or wear such nice clothes, but our lives are comfortable. Some people only realize the benefits of simple food and clothing when they've done so many bad things that it's like they're going to die from heart disease," said Mianmian.

  The elder daughter's words were reasonable, he agreed with her and turned around, without even giving the younger daughter a glance, and left with the elder daughter.

  Dazed, staring at his father without turning back, and got on the car with him.

  Her father saw her success and wouldn't come to ask for her forgiveness in this version, which was too far from what he had thought.

  Manman, still had that look of disdain for her way of doing things.

  No, completely wrong!

  "Are these people crazy? Do they think they can gain some benefit by randomly claiming someone else's child?" Levin spat at the taxi that Mianmian and others were taking, then turned back.

  Wen Yu's face was white and somewhat pale.

  "What's wrong? You're not being affected by those mentally ill people's words, are you?" Looking at her expression, Levin felt a chill in his heart. Could it be that what Mianmian and the others said just now was true?

  "No, I just think they're quite pitiful." Wen Huan found her voice again, and in her heart, she was gasping for air like a drowning person desperately clinging to a piece of driftwood.

  "Right, you're right." Levin's head was spinning and he wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand. "By the way, didn't you say last time that your future father-in-law is the municipal party secretary?"

  "Hmm, my uncle is the mayor, and my future father-in-law is the secretary of the municipal party committee." Mentioning these two elders who are casually boastful, Wen Huan regained her hope.

  As long as, at some point, whichever elder is fine, shake the vines a bit, and the vines will continue to look down on her?

  As she regained her natural tone, Raven's heart calmed down, and he told her that he had already obtained Manman's work and handed it over to the rival company for research. Through this transaction, the rival company agreed to invite him as the main designer of this project. He hoped that when the time came, she could go to the government first and put in a good word for him with her two relatives.

  Wen Yu heard and raised an eyebrow: "No problem."

  It's not difficult, when the time comes, go to an elder and report it, just like I did in front of Zhang Qing before, report Mianmian for plagiarizing others' work.

  ……

  In the evening, Manman made her father's favorite dish, sugar and vinegar spare ribs.

  Wen Shixuan was eating his meal, and although he was scolding his little daughter, he was also doting on her. One moment he would sigh, the next moment he would get angry and slap his thigh.

  The vines quietly hold grains of rice.

  But it was early summer and couldn't bear to look anymore, saying to Wen Shi Xuan: "Uncle, you have another daughter."

  "Manman, where is the jade pendant your grandmother gave you?" Wen Shixuan suddenly asked, as if he had changed the subject to something unrelated.

  It's been so long since early summer and Manman were together, yet she had never heard that Manman had hidden a jade pendant, and she blinked in slight surprise.

  "When I came to Beijing, I was afraid of losing you in the crowd, so I hid in the trunk." Mianmian couldn't lie to her father.

  "It's fine as long as it's not lost." Wen Shixuan patted his chest and said, "That's the amulet your grandma gave you, if you lose it, Dad is afraid something will happen to you."

  Put down your chopsticks and scoop a bowl of soup for Father: "Dad, don't worry, I will never lose that thing."

  "Also, I heard from Du Yu that you're learning to drive?" Wen Shi Xuan took the bowl of soup, but didn't drink it immediately, his whole face full of worry.

  "Yes." Mianmian replied, her eyes flashing, "Dad, when I was young, you said I had been in a car accident."

  Wen Shi Xuan, who had just drunk the soup, suddenly started coughing violently: "Man Man, don't mention that matter again."

  "Dad?" The outstretched hand patted his father's back.

  Wen Shixuan shut his mouth. A honest and simple man, if he doesn't speak, nothing can pry him open.

  However, when Wen Shixuan closed his eyes, his eyelids couldn't help but tremble. Every time he thought of his eldest daughter almost being hit by that car when she was young, another girl standing beside her had been killed on the spot. Fortunately, he pulled his daughter quickly.

  Afterwards, the traffic police caught a suspect, but according to his memory, it didn't seem like the driver he saw that day.

  What he saw was a woman, but the traffic police caught a man.

  Nowadays, there are people who frame others everywhere. In that era, those who could drive a small car were definitely people with an extraordinary background.

  Because of this, he immediately moved his whole family away.

  Got glasses for my daughter and she put them on, doing a little disguise.

  The daughter missed some opportunities because of this ugly big glasses, but she lived a peaceful life. Moreover, the daughter has now found a good home.

  Thinking of this, Wen Shixuan continued to remind his daughter with satisfaction: "Your eyes are always blurry, wear your glasses, do you know that?"

  The crescent-shaped eyes behind the glasses narrowed obediently: "Got it, Dad."

  ……

  Lu Family

  Lu Shuai returned home, and Mrs. Lu happened to be discharged from the hospital.

  A family of four having dinner.

  Lu Shuai asked his eldest son before dinner, after hesitating for half a day: "How's that thing going?"

  "What's going on?" Mrs. Lu turned her head and asked.

  Lu Jun gave his brother a look.

  Lu Huan immediately pulled her mother into the kitchen: "Mom, Dad and brother are discussing business."

  When his wife was gone, Lu Shuai lowered his voice: "You take away that vase of mine, don't mention it to your mom. If you have to say something, say it's been borrowed by someone, I've already had someone replicate another one."

  "I know, Dad." His cold eyebrows had actually inherited a bit of ruthlessness from Commander Lu back in the day.

  Mrs. Lu is a gentle and simple-hearted person, if she knew that her own sister, whom she had trusted, actually hated her and had done many unbearable things to her, her already wounded heart might not be able to withstand the blow again.

  "What a ruthless and poisonous woman." Commander Lu now recalls Yang Le'er's back-and-forth, with a deep color of thick ink in his eyebrows. "When she first entered our house, it just so happened to be when your grandfather had an accident, who would have suspected that she was not good at heart."

  "Dad." He wiped his nose and gazed coldly at the ground, where a faint shadow was visible. "I told Grandpa to bring you back home. Grandpa is afraid, but you won't accept it."

  Lu Siling had always wanted to meet Manman, but he endured and endured again. Hearing this, he couldn't help but slap his hand: "I'll go see her and see what she has to say."

  "Dad, what excuse are you going to use?" Lu Junsi looked around nervously.

  "Didn't she participate in the government's advertising tender?" Lu Siling had reached this point, and wasn't afraid to "use public resources for private gain", "Let my secretary call her and say that a certain leader wants to meet with her privately about this matter."

  This idea is quite good, but I don't know if my sister will fall for it.

  "I'm the city leader, does she dare not see me?!" At a critical moment, Lu Commander patted his chest and decided to play the role of a shameless old father.

  One raised eyebrow, secretly: Ah~

  ……

  Received a call from the secretary saying that a municipal leader wants to see him.

  "Which city leader?"

  With your lordship's cold eyes hinting at his side, the secretary rubbed her eyes confusedly: "The leader of a department."

  Government officials doing things, like mysterious and mysterious, like the emperor in a TV series going out in disguise.

  The small citizens dare not bear the name of offending the officials.

  So before departure, Manman and her husband talked about this matter in their daily courtesy calls every night.

  Jiang Dashao knew that the two bosses had gone out tonight, and roughly guessed who his wife was going to see. He comforted his wife by saying: "I think it shouldn't be some intimidating leader. If it were, they would have directly called you to their office for a lecture instead of inviting you out for tea."

  She thought her husband was right, so she nodded and felt much better.

  Jiang Dashao not only made a phone call with his wife, but also heard Xiaxia's two small reports earlier.

  Li Zhenwei, that shameless dead man, actually regretted it and wanted to chase back his married daughter-in-law.

  Not enough!

  He doesn't need to discuss with his wife, he'll take care of this trash himself.

  The second is Wen Yuan, this old lady's ultimate younger sister, who even disowns her own father.

  "Man man. Your dad is heartbroken and angry, you're a reasonable person, won't be affected by his emotions, have you fallen into Yan yan's trap?"

  Listening to my husband's cautious tone, I can imagine him shrugging and frowning on the other end of the phone, still looking handsome. My little mouth opens: "If I were really angry, I'd be an idiot."

  "Who said that? My wife is incredibly clever!" Jiang Dashao rolled up his sleeves and clenched his fists over the phone.

  Her husband is a treasure, often able to make her laugh with just one sentence. As she laughed and laughed, she unknowingly shared her inner thoughts with him: "She will regret it."

  "A thief's heart is always uneasy, can't you regret it?" Jiang Dashao raised an eyebrow, "Intentionally disguising oneself as someone else's daughter, isn't that thievery?"

  "What I'm more worried about is that she's being manipulated by someone." Mianmian's soft and gentle voice rarely showed a hint of severity.

  "Be careful." Thinking of the two old men's warnings, Jiang Dashao repeated them to his wife, "I'll handle this matter well. You and your father must not act rashly. There are people behind the scenes with ulterior motives, regardless of their official rank, who are full of schemes and petty minds, and we can't guard against them all. After all, they are in the dark, while we are in the light."

  A hidden arrow is hard to defend against, but an open spear is easy to dodge.

  Manman thought that her husband's reputation as a strict instructor was not undeserved. On the phone, he went through the motions one by one, pulling out all the stops, leaving her speechless.

  A newlywed couple of less than a month, ended their phone call, as always, reluctantly.

  Jiang Dashao told his wife about a new idea to overcome the difficulties of being apart from each other one night, imitating a certain movie clip, saying: "We can do it over the phone."

  Manman's face quickly turned red, fortunately no one was at home.

  "Isn't there someone in your dormitory?" Manman was so angry that she wanted to smash her husband's head with a stone.

  "It's okay, I'll use a towel to block Mowen Yang's mouth and ears, then cover his head with a quilt, he won't be able to hear anything."

  On the phone, in sync with Jiang Dashao's words, Mo Wenyang's pitiful wails echoed.

  "Does he treat his comrades like this? He forgets his friends when he sees a pretty face."

  After saying that, her face turned red, no matter how her husband explained, she quickly hung up the phone.

  She doesn't dislike doing that with her husband, but as a traditional woman, she always feels it's quite embarrassing whenever she thinks about it.

  The clock on the wall pointed to a time that was almost there, Manman tidied up her clothes, went down the stairs, walked out of the courtyard, and prepared to hail a taxi at the intersection.

  Jiang Mei was driving her own car, taking Jiang Mu and her sister-in-law Jin Meichen to a gathering. As they passed through the streets, they saw Manman standing by the side of the road, unable to hail a taxi, and shouted: "Sister-in-law, where are you going? I'll give you a ride."

  Tonight I really don't know what's wrong, no taxi has passed by for a long time. The road is unfamiliar and I'm worried that taking public transportation will make me late for my meeting with the leader.

  Helpless, Manman opened the car door and sat in the front passenger seat, avoiding Jiang Mu and her extreme sister-in-law in the backseat.

  All along, the air inside the car was filled with a tense atmosphere.

  Jiang Mei tried to ease the relationship between her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, saying to Manman: "Mom is going to a tea party, everyone there praises you for being good at painting and having a good personality."

  Manman has saved face for Jiang Mu in front of friends, now Jiang Mu is angry about the agreement with her son and husband.

  Jiang's mother was biased and didn't believe it, whatever happened, she had to ask Manman.

  For this fierce and overbearing mother-in-law, Manman remembers her husband's words and pretends to see nothing.

  Because Jiang's mother was going to a relatively distant place, Jiang Mei first took Manman to the place where Manman had an appointment.

  Jiang's mother heard that she was going to be late and became dissatisfied, starting to pick on her: "So late, your husband is not in the army, where are you running off to?"

  "Mom." Jiang Mei hastily interjected, "Mianmian has her own friends, just like you, and it's not unusual for them to meet up at night."

  Jin Meichen looked at Xiao Mei, who was obviously taking advantage of her younger sister-in-law, and smiled as she pushed Jiang Mu: "Why doesn't Manman explain herself? It's strange to let Xiao Mei say it, and it's hard not to think crookedly."

  She had a bit of a temper and thought to herself, "At this time, I must shock my mother-in-law and that extreme sister-in-law," and slowly said: "There's a municipal leader who wants to see me."

  "City leader?" Jiang Mu and Jin Meichen exclaimed in unison.

  Jiang Mei, who was turning the steering wheel, was slightly startled and almost lost control of the car.

  What Manman said is true or false?

  Jin Meichen and Jiang Mu looked at each other face to face, and as they did, their eyes clearly reflected: "No way."

  Can municipal leaders be seen by anyone?

  If they could, Jin Meichen and Jiang Mu should have seen her before Manman, this whatever-official-is-not little city dweller.

  Looking at the rearview mirror, Jin Meichen and Jiang Mu's raised eyebrows were reflected on the lens, and a flash of light flickered across Mianmian's large glasses.

  The car drove to a quaint and quiet little coffee shop, where the environment was partially set up with tables in the courtyard, surrounded by plants, like separate individual spaces. There were very few customers inside, so few that there seemed to be only a handful.

  It's a secluded and good place for discussion.

  The rest sign hanging at the door seemed to prove that this place was not accessible to anyone tonight.

  Jiang Mei stopped her car at the entrance of the coffee shop.

  A man with elegant demeanor walked up, possibly having seen Manman sitting inside, and came straight over to open the car door for her. He bowed slightly and asked, "Is this Miss Wen Man?"

  Judging from his attitude, it seems that Manman is indeed going to meet with the municipal leaders.

  Jin Meichen and Jiang Mu stared at each other in dismay.

  She wiped away the sweat on her palm, and when she saw that her unwelcome daughter-in-law was being treated like a princess as soon as she entered the door, Jiang Mu kicked open the car door with a "pa" sound.

  Jiang Mei didn't even have time to shout: Mom, what are you doing?!

  Just as Manman was about to step through the doorway, a sudden gust of wind came from behind, and her mother-in-law's heavy breathing sounded like an ox, running quite quickly, and immediately caught up to her side, saying to Da Ge who was leading the way:

  "I came with her."

  Shameless

  Even if it's her husband's mother, Manman suddenly uttered a disrespectful word.

  The big brother who led the way looked at Manman with suspicion.

  Tense, it's time to twist the hem of her clothes into a rope, Jiang Mu looked at Xiao Er with pitiful eyes for the first time.

  Is it necessary to see the municipal leaders and be willing to bow down to Jiang's mother?

  Manman didn't care and nodded at Da Ge who was leading the way: "I don't know if the leader will mind or not?"

  "It doesn't matter."

  The sound of Leng Ding came from behind Da Ge's back on the road.

  The orange column lamp at the entrance of the coffee shop carved out a handsome face with clear edges and corners, its dignified demeanor written in those black and white eyes.

  Jiang's mother's mouth was wide open, almost forming an "O".

  Jiang Mei had stopped her car and was now chasing after them with Jin Meichen. When she saw Jun Ye, she exclaimed in surprise: "Lu Shangxiao?"

  So it seems that the municipal leader who is going to meet with Mengmeng is... Mayor Lu?

  Lu Mayor was such a big official, living in the next large courtyard, Jiang's mother had never seen this superior of the whole family.

  Like Jin Meichen, Ming Zhi knew that he was his husband's and father's superior, but he had never seen him in person.

  It's just because Lu Siling is one of those extremely strict officials who particularly dislikes people using connections.

  In this case, only Jiang Mei had the self-awareness to know that Lu Commander and his son Lu Jun were not easy people to mess with, so she quickly pulled her mother away.

  Planting her feet firmly on the ground, Jiang Mu glared at her second daughter who lacked ambition: This was a great opportunity to greet their superior.

  Jin Meichen also felt that Xiaogu was too incompetent, always being timid and fearful, no wonder Xiaogu's husband had only become a team cadre at his age.

  Manman said, with a sharp glint in her glasses, "Can't stand someone bullying you, Jiang Mei. Let's go together."

  No one invited her mother-in-law or sister-in-law, completely ignoring them, but only invited Jiang Mei.

  Jiang Mu and Jin Mei Chen both slightly darkened their faces, not daring to make a scene in front of Jun Ye.

  Comrade Lu Jun pinched his chin, like Columbus discovering another new continent, an extreme newcomer: Jin Meichen.

  "Come on in." The gentleman invited generously.

  Following his father's temper, he couldn't finish eating tonight and walked away with it. One, two, queue up!

  A group of people followed you into the coffee shop and sat down at the only table with customers.

  A rectangular dining table covered with green velvet cloth, two middle-aged people and a young person sitting opposite each other, chatting and laughing.

  Among them, Lu Shuai Jiang Mei was recognizable and had the good fortune to see him in person when Lu Shuai inspected their unit, so he froze his feet at a tense moment.

  The two middle-aged men were unrecognizable to Jin Meichen and Jiang Mu, but the young woman sitting across from them, who was as beautiful as a painting, they recognized.

  Jin Meichen nervously pulled at her grandmother's sleeve: "Isn't that Colonel Yao?"