Rebirth in the 90s: Her Counterattack and Redemption

Chapter 1399: Chapter 828:

"Alright, then I’ll accept it. My big nephew is quite something, even the Mayor is giving gifts, tsk tsk..." Li Xiaogu suddenly realized, "Sister-in-law, did you say Mayor Luo sent it? Does that mean Mayor Luo came to our house?"

Mrs. Li nodded: "Just around noon, the two biked back to warm up, ate a plate of sweet potatoes and then left. Gosh, that young mayor, he’s really able to endure hardships, city kids like him who can endure so much are truly rare."

"You sent the Mayor off with just a plate of sweet potatoes?" Li Xiaogu widened her eyes.

"Speaking of that, your second brother, right in front of him, kept calling them pig feed sweet potatoes, sigh, it’s fortunate that Mayor Luo is broad-minded and didn’t mind."

"Second brother..." Li Xiaogu looked speechlessly at her second brother, "No wonder you’re not pushing Xiao Kun anymore. You embarrassed him like that, how can you still bring yourself to push him?"

"How is it embarrassing?" Father Li proudly took a puff from his tobacco pipe, "Mayor Luo is close to our Xiao Kun. Doing this would only make him feel more at home, talking like this is because we don’t consider him an outsider, Mayor Luo understands, he surely understands."

"Yeah, I see you understand quite well, not even able to speak clearly." Li Xiaogu shook her head as she walked out, "I’m going to have a word with the girl’s family, you know, our Xiao Kun is very favored by the Mayor."

"I’ll see you off." Father Li hurriedly climbed down the kang, Li Xiaogu turned back and pushed him, "Alright, just get back up there, I’m your real sister, no need to put on a show."

"Grandpa, I want cookies." Zhuangzhuang, who had been sitting obediently on the kang, scooted out.

"Alright, you can have them." Father Li took another pack of cookies and opened it, handing it to his little grandson, giving his daughter a glance, "Zhuangzhuang is more sensible than you. How did I end up with a daughter like you, really have no idea who you take after?"

"No matter who I take after, I’m still your daughter." Li Zexia hesitated for a moment but still asked, "Dad, are you really planning to let Xiao Kun marry auntie’s niece?"

Father Li shot his daughter a look: "Is this something that can happen just because I want it to? The two of them have to like each other first, it won’t work unless both parties are willing."

"Anyway, I think marrying an only daughter is not good, it’d be too much burden in the future."

"Alright then, I never planned on relying on you for my old age, so stop worrying pointlessly!"

Zhuangzhuang had a cookie in his mouth and mumbled: "Grandpa, I’ll take care of you, and also Grandma, but not my mom, she doesn’t listen!"

"You little brat!" Li Zexia slapped her son’s butt, "I provide for you, clothe you, raise you this big, and you dare think of not taking care of me. I might as well beat you to death now to save trouble."

"Waaaaaa..."

Mrs. Li returned from seeing off Li Xiaogu and saw her little grandson crying wide-mouthed while her husband was hitting their daughter. Affectionately, she embraced her little grandson: "Xiao Xia, did you snatch Zhuangzhuang’s cookies again?"

"No, I was saying...I said I’ll take care of Grandma and Grandpa, and she...she hit me." Zhuangzhuang sniffled and said.

"Mom, he even said he wouldn’t take care of me!" Li Zexia jumped off the kang while speaking, "Dad, he said he wouldn’t take care of me, yet you still hit me."

Father Li snorted: "With someone like you, it’s right not to take care of you. Just ask yourself, do you act like a mom at all? Without his grandma and his aunt, Zhuangzhuang would either freeze or starve to death."

...

Luo Feng and Li Zejun returned to the town government office, their hands and feet frozen numb. After putting away their bicycles, they mechanically walked toward the office.

The only sounds on the way were heavy breathing and the sound of footsteps, it’s not that they didn’t want to talk, but their mouths were too frozen to utter a word properly.

"Brother, where have you been? Goodness, almost got yourselves frozen, huh?" Before reaching the office, Luo Ye came up from afar.

"Ye’er, what are you doing here?" Luo Feng struggled to speak a complete sentence.

"Get inside, warm up brother, you’re making me worry a lot." Luo Ye compassionately dragged him into the office, Zhu Hongyu smiled and stood up, "Luo Feng, I’m Zhu Hongyu."

"Hello!" Luo Feng quickly greeted her.

Zhu Hongyu smiled and said: "Warm up first, we can chat later."

Luo Ye poured hot water for Luo Feng and asked the woodenly standing Li Zejun: "Are you the Li Zejun who gave my brother a big hand?"

"I’m Li Zejun, didn’t help much." Li Zejun hastily explained.

"Sit down and warm up for a bit." Luo Ye cheerfully pointed to the sofa, helping him pour a cup of water too, "Have some water to warm up."

"Thank you!" Li Zejun reached out trying to take it, his eyes fell upon Luo Ye’s fair hand, he quickly drew back, then reached out again...

Luo Ye’s lips curled up, calmly placing the water in front of him: "Brother Li, sit down and drink, you are my brother’s friend, which makes you like my brother too, don’t be shy."