Chapter 275
While Fu Zhengzheng and Zhu Linglong are talking, her father Zhen Mingzhi shouts in the yard suddenly . She rises immediately and responds while going out quickly .
“Dad, what’s up?”
“Honey, today I…” Seeing Zhu Linglong is here too, Zhen Mingzhi swallows back the words .
“Hi, uncle . ” Zhu Linglong greets him and then points to the kitchen sensitively, “I’ll help in the kitchen . ”
After Zhu Linglong goes away, Zhen Mingzhi drags Fu Zhengzheng to his room, cranes his neck to look out and then closes the door .
Fu Zhengzheng asks restlessly, “Dad, what happened?”
“Honey, today I went to the interview scene again . ”
Then Fu Zhengzheng notices her father looks excited . Reflecting he went to the interview scene to look for a girlfriend for her brother yesterday, she sighs with relief secretly .
When she is about to speak, her father takes out a piece of creased paper from his pocket . She is amused, “Dad, is it the paper you showed me yesterday?”
“This is the first-hand information I’ve got . Honey, come to look . ” Zhen Mingzhi walks to the desk and spreads the paper flat carefully .
Fu Zhengzheng gets close to the desk and has a look . Many names are written on the paper, but most of them have been crossed off . Three names are underlined and one of them is double underlined .
Zhen Mingzhi explains, “We won’t talk about those that have been crossed off . So far, I find only these three girls are qualified to your sister-in-law candidates . ”
Fu Zhengzheng looks at the name that is double underlined . She thinks it looks familiar and can’t help reading it, “Yan Weixao?”
Seeing that name, Zhen Mingzhi puts on a smile, “I like this girl most . She is quite pretty and has a good education background . The most important is that she is nice in nature . Yesterday, I took advantage of various opportunities to test the girls whose names are on the paper . Her performance was the most satisfying . ”
When the interview was nearly over, Zhen Mingzhi fell over deliberately . There were not many people at the interview scene . It’s time for them to have interviews, so they feel nervous . Seeing him fall over, some candidates wanted to lift him up but hesitated and some even ignored him . Only Yan Weixiao ran over, lifted him up and asked if he needed to go to the hospital .
Zhen Mingzhi reminded her on purpose that if sending him to the hospital, she would miss the interview . Unexpectedly, Yan Weixiao said lightly that it’s only an interview . So long as she was capable, she would find other opportunities, but if he was hurt and went to the hospital late, his body would be greatly influenced .
Zhen Mingzhi was deeply moved . When Yan Weixiao was interviewed, he looked aside secretly . All examiners were satisfied with her performance, which meant she passed the interview . He was delighted .
Hearing what her father says, Fu Zhengzheng, who has recalled Yan Weixiao, says smilingly, “The girl is really great . ”
Then she tells him Yan Weixiao gave the position to her after she was misunderstood to jump the line and got criticized .
Zhen Mingzhi becomes excited at once, “I’m right . I tell you she is great . It seems that we don’t need to consider the other two girls . She is chosen . I have asked the girl . She is single . What do you think about my idea?”
He looks at his daughter expectantly, hoping she can reach a consensus with him .
“I think…” Fu Zhengzheng pauses deliberately .
Zhen Mingzhi asks, “What?”
Fu Zhengzheng has a good impression of the girl, but finding a girlfriend for her brother isn’t so simple as employing a clerk . She thinks it’s only her father’s one-sided wish .
What kind of person is her brother? He is surrounded by many excellent girls . Moreover, her brother is an adult . How can he allow his father to arrange his marriage?
Thinking of that, she puts a damper on her father, “Dad, don’t worry about my brother’s marriage . We can’t help him with it . Besides, many girls like him . Maybe he has had a plan . ”
Zhen Mingzhi thought his daughter would be doubtful about the girl he chose at most, but unexpectedly, she disapproves of his action without hesitation . His face darkens instantly and snorts, “I asked your brother when he came back last time . He still said he hadn’t considered it . That means he doesn’t have a plan at all, and he isn’t interested in the girls around him . I think your brother probably likes a girl like Yan . Perhaps your brother will fall in love with her at the first sight when he sees her . ”
Zhen Mingzhi beams with joy again .
Fu Zhengzheng is amused but continues to put a damper on him, “You don’t live in my brother’s heart . How do you know he likes this kind of girl?”
Zhen Mingzhi glares, “I’m his father . He was trained by me . How can I not know about him? If you don’t think so, we can bet . ”
“Bet? How?” Fu Zhengzheng looks at her father with great interest .
“You create some opportunities for Yan and your brother to come into contact . If they can’t kindle the spark of love, I lose . ”
Hearing the expression of “kindle the spark of love”, Fu Zhengzheng throws herself on the bed instantly and laughs out .
Of course, she knows the so-called bet is to stimulate her to help create opportunities .
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Zhen Mingzhi snorts, “I’m sure you will lose . ”
After quite a while, Fu Zhengzheng stops laughing and says, “Dad, it’s you that will lose certainly . ”
Zhen Mingzhi looks glad, “That means you are willing to create opportunities?”
“Even if Yan Weixiao works in Siqi’s company now, my brother is not in C City . Will you ask me to send her to my brother’s troop to create opportunities? Or make up an excuse to ask my brother to come back? He is always busy . What if his work is affected because of my ‘ulterior motive’? Don’t you always teach him to place the state before the family? It’s contradictory to your instruction . ”
Zhen Mingzhi pauses, thinks for a while and says without giving up, “So long as Yan works in Siqi’s company and is single, we’ll have a chance . Your brother often comes to C City actually . He just has no time to come home . Pay more attention to your brother’s whereabouts . Once finding that he comes to C City, you can create opportunities to arrange his meeting with Yan . ”
Knowing her father is stubborn, Fu Zhengzheng can’t be bothered to go on talking about it with him . Anyway, she doesn’t know when her brother will come back . Moreover, before her brother comes back, if either of them has found his or her beloved, it must stop . Thinking of this, she turns to stalling tactic and promises her father, “OK . When my brother comes back, I’ll arrange for them . ”
Zhen Mingzhi reminds her at once, “You must keep it in your mind!”
“Got it!”
“Honey, lunch is ready . ” Chen Yuying calls her outside .
“OK . Coming . ” Fu Zhengzheng responds immediately, rises and stretches herself, “Dad, let’s have lunch . ”
“Honey, you must keep it in your mind . Don’t forget it . ” Zhen Mingzhi reminds her again worriedly .
Fu Zhengzheng smiles, “Don’t worry . It’s about my brother’s lifetime happiness . How can I not keep it in my mind?”
Just because it’s about her brother’s lifetime happiness, she must be very prudent, she says in the heart .
Fu Zhengzheng and her father come to the dining room . Han Tengyue and Zhu Linglong are seated at the rectangular table . Seeing her mother scooping rice, Fu Zhengzheng goes over instantly .
But Ji Yashu, who is standing by Chen Yuying, signals her to sit down smilingly .
“Zhengzheng, come on, sit here . ” Zhu Linglong moves the chair beside her and calls her to sit there .
Fu Zhengzheng looks at Ji Yashu with flattering eyes, but she sits down at last .
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Jia Yashu takes over the rice Chen Yuying has scooped and passes it to Zhen Mingzhi .
Zhen Mingzhi moves it to Han Tengyue, “Old Han, you first . ”
Han Tengyue moves the bowl back at once, “Old Zhen, you have a big appetite . You first . ”
Old Han? Old Zhen?
They call each other so familiarly?
Fu Zhengzheng is flabbergasted .
Zhu Lingkong looks at Zhen Mingzhi and grins, “Uncle Zhen, you have it first . I want to watch you and my uncle play chess after lunch . ”
Zhen Mingzhi waves right away, “I can’t rival your uncle . I’m going to take your uncle as my teacher . ”
Han Tengyue laughs, “You are joking . We can learn from each other . ”
He speaks suddenly as if something occurs to him, “I can’t play chess today, Old Zhen . I taught Xingxing calligraphy when he was in B City . He has been out of practice for a long time . Maybe he has forgotten it, so I went out to buy writing brushes, ink and paper this morning . Please help me watch him practice later . ”
Zhen Mingzhi looks awkward at once, “I am good at guns and swords, but I’m a layman in calligraphy . ”
Han Tengyue smiles, “You don’t need to teach Xingxing . You just need to help him tidy the table and I’ll teach him after he comes back . Siqi can teach him after I leave . ”
Fu Zhengzheng has seen Han Tengyue’s handwriting . But hearing Han Siqi teach Xingxing, she asks at once, “Is Siqi good at calligraphy too?”
Ji Yashu puts a bowl of rice before her and explains smilingly, “Siqi is best at calligraphy among the three brothers and his handwriting looks like his father’s most . ”
“Yes, Siqi’s handwriting is beautiful . I’ve seen it . ” Zhu Linglong proves it .
Han Tengyue says again, “Calligraphy is a tradition of our family . Xingxing must learn it well . But he used to knock over the ink in B City . You will be troubled . ”
Zhen Mingzhi responds happily, “So long as I don’t need to teach him calligraphy, other things are all easy for me . ”
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After two mothers sit down, Fu Zhengzheng rises to pick up a piece of chicken for each of them and says earnestly, “Thank you, moms . ”
Ji Yashu responds with a smile, “You’re welcome . Your mom deserves the thank . ”
Zhu Linglong picks up some food for Fu Zhengzheng and laughs, “Eating more is the best way to return two moms’ love . ”
Hearing that, all people laugh out . The lunch is full of joy .
After lunch, Fu Zhengzheng plans to collect bowls and chopsticks . Ji Yashu stands up quickly too, but they are both pushed out by Chen Yuying .
Chen Yuying collects bowls and chopsticks while saying with a smile, “I’m enough here . I will be hindered with more people to do it instead . ”
Fu Zhengzheng understands her mother’s meaning, so she doesn’t insist but turns around to cut fruit . Then she takes fruit to the sitting room . But she finds everyone is in the study, so she enters it with the fruit too .
In the study, writing brushes, ink and paper have been laid out . Han Tengyue is standing before the desk and measuring the paper .
“Uncle, what are you going to write?” Zhu Linglong asks curiously at the desk corner .
Han Tengyue glances at her and smiles . Then he picks up a writing brush, dips it into ink, flourishes it quickly and dexterously and finishes at one go .
Zhu Linglong reads the sentence, “Neither anxious in poverty nor eager for wealth . ”
Then she claps smilingly, “Uncle, I understand its meaning . A person is not anxious when he is in poverty and not wild about honor . Is it a portrayal of Uncle Zhen?”
After writing his name down, Han Tengyue laughs, “I wanted to write a sentence of Mencius, ‘Neither riches nor honors can corrupt him; neither poverty nor humbleness can make him swerve from principle; and neither threats nor forces can subdue him . These characteristics constitute the great man . ’ It’s a pity that I asked the assistant to cut the paper in the shop . It’s too small . If many Chinese characters are written on it, the calligraphy majesty can’t be shown, so I wrote this sentence . But they have the same meaning . ”
Zhen Mingzhi’s face lights up with pleasure . He says modestly, “I’m flattered . ”
Fu Zhengzheng puts down the fruit tray, holds her father and smiles, “It’s typical of soldiers to be devoted to the state safety without time to think about anything else . Look at my brother . He is almost 30 but is too busy to look for a girlfriend . ”
They all laugh out .
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