Chapter 1326 - 587: Fortunately, It Was Just a False Alarm

Chapter 1326: Chapter 587: Fortunately, It Was Just a False Alarm

He paused for a moment, sounding particularly open-minded:

"Besides, to be honest, our family’s financial situation is quite decent. We don’t need to rely on our daughter’s marriage to break even or make money, so we definitely won’t ask for bride price in the future."

"Not only that, on the contrary, I will give that boy a special bride price."

Song Xin, who was happily watching the drama unfold, corrected with a smile at this point: "That’s called a dowry."

"No, it’s not a dowry." Chen Zhongping shook his head firmly, the smile at the corner of his mouth gradually turning sinister. He flexed his wrists and placed his hands firmly on the shoulders of Lin Li and Bai Bufan, saying word by word:

"It’s a bride price because... I’m going to teach that guy a lesson till he’s black and blue, east and west, here and there, all over, in bright, vivid, multicolored hues."

Bai Bufan: "..."

No, why are you patting me? The one eating your daughter’s food is next door. Uncle, can’t you place both your hands on him?

Besides, isn’t this bride price a bit too violent?

They say a bride price is to bring good fortune.

But this bride price is giving the groom a colorful head start.

At this thought, Bai Bufan glanced at Lin Li, anticipating the sight of Lin Li sweating profusely...

"Uncle, your words are quite impactful," Lin Li said with genuine eyes, just nodding his head, "Perhaps it’s an illusion, but I feel the burden on my shoulders has gotten heavier."

Bai Bufan, Chen Zhongping: "?"

Chen Zhongping swiftly withdrew his hands, shaking them as if he had touched something dirty.

I was discreetly threatening you, what’s this about the burden on your shoulders getting heavier?

That’s my weight!

I put thumbtacks in your shoe sole, and you say "oh oh kimochi" that it feels nice and stimulates blood circulation?

Or is this kid secretly responding to my unspoken challenge?

Chen Zhongping was brainstorming.

Lin Li didn’t think as much as Middle Man, nor did the sweat-drenched scene Bai Bufan was anticipating happen, not even a little bit.

Because what was being discussed seemed too far off.

Graduating from college, the time was still very, very far away.

It’s not that Lin Li thought he couldn’t make it with Chen Yu Ying by then, but at the current pace of cultivation, Lin Li felt he could arm wrestle a nuclear bomb by that time.

By then, all problems would cease to be problems.

Moreover, Lin Li felt he didn’t need to cultivate to be unafraid. As long as he got the approval of Middle Man’s wife and daughter, Middle Man’s opinion wouldn’t be very important.

As for Chen Yu Ying, having a plan in place, she wasn’t embarrassed, but truly couldn’t take it anymore and sighed helplessly, stood up, and said:

"Dad, the more you talk, the more ridiculous it gets. I won’t chat with you guys anymore. I’m taking them downstairs to play."

"Stay and chat for a bit longer, there’s still so much I’d like to talk to everyone about."

"No more chatting!"

"Then go down and play, take these fruits with you," Song Xin nodded without persuading her:

"Yu Ying should have mentioned dinner to you guys, right? We’ve already got someone coming to roast a whole lamb for us, along with some other side dishes. If there’s anything else you’d like to eat, just say so now, it’s no trouble at all."

After a few rounds of polite refusals, Chen Yu Ying led the four of them downstairs — the villa had two whole floors underground.

"Still watching, why don’t you go up and play with them if you can’t bear to see them leave."

And seeing her husband still staring at their backs, Song Xin teased.

"Wife, I still think Lin Li likes our Yingying, and maybe Yingying has a little bit of liking for him, at least some fondness," Chen Zhongping sighed, "Do you think we should get Yingying a pair of glasses?"

Song Xin chuckled: "Cheeky."

"Do you think," Chen Zhongping furrowed his brows, a wave of unease rising in his heart, "is it possible they’re already dating and Yingying just hasn’t told us?"

"How could that be, definitely not, rest assured." Song Xin retorted without hesitation, then added a nearly heartfelt remark:

"Only you haven’t been told, how could it be just us?"

You, lofty, always thinking about yourself~

Not just thinking about himself, but contemplating how to trip Lin Li up, to mold him into a pillar of the state, so he didn’t hear the latter part, Chen Zhongping snapped back to reality, nodded in agreement:

"That’s true."