The system is very abstract, fortunately I am also.

Chapter 483 Distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors
Oh no, it seems Bai Bufan has ruined his hymen himself.

This is terrible.

Ladies and gentlemen, imagine this: on their wedding night, Bai Bufan's wife enters him full of anticipation, only to find that he doesn't bleed. What if she mistakenly thinks that Bai Bufan is a rotten man who is available to any woman?
That's terrifying. At that point, it will become an anti-feudal propaganda slogan—something that's hard to explain.

No wonder Bai Bufan seemed so anxious; this is indeed a problem that needs to be taken seriously.

As a close friend and brother, Lin Li, after careful consideration, offered a possible solution—

Lin Li: Well then, Bufan, when you start dating, just use your uncle's name to fool your girlfriend.

perfect!

Bai Bufan: That's not the point right now. The point is that I'm in so much pain right now. It's still bleeding, it keeps bleeding.

Bai Bufan: Aaaaaaah TAT!!

Bai Bufan: Lin Li, do you know what the antonym of "Happy Match" is?

"Hahahahahaha—" Upon seeing this message, Lin Li couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Of course he knew.

—It is sorrow accumulated over time.

Just like the antonym of Bloody Mary is the pure Shen Teng, and the antonym of doing good deeds is Conan committing murder, they all belong to the abstract and essential antonym phrase.

This is a must-know for the exam, so pay attention!

Bai Bufan: Help me, help me, help me—

Bai Bufan: Lin Li, when I injured my finger, I could put it in my mouth and it wouldn't hurt, but this time I can't reach the wound. Can you help me?

Lin Li: ?

Lin Li: The map of Yan is too short, get lost.

Bai Bufan: Ughhhhh, you cold-hearted bastard!! Do something quick! Make me stop suffering, you jerk!!!

Lin Li: Hesitant.

Lin Li: (Unintelligible characters)

Lin Li: Bufan, what did you see?

Bai Bufan: Much better.

Lin Li: That's good, I'm relieved. I'm going to sleep now, goodnight.

Bai Bufan: (；☉_☉)？

Bai Bufan: You son of a bitch.

Bai Bufan: You quack doctor, Xiao Fu! Your clumsy treatment has made me feel much worse.

Bai Bufan: Is this how you usually fool the class monitor?

Bai Bufan: You bastard! Speak up!

"The message has been sent, but it was rejected by the recipient."

Bai Bufan: ? You beast, you blocked me again!!

"The message has been sent, but it was rejected by the recipient."

……

Having gone to bed late and not slept for forty hours, Lin Li woke up at 9 a.m., which was much later than usual.

Although he only slept for a few hours, under the influence of the "fruits of perseverance," Lin Li's sleeping efficiency continued to improve, so this sleep was still the kind that felt good.

After removing Bai Bufan from the blacklist, Lin Li did not forget his daily routine of practicing the "Eight-Section Body Tempering Technique".

After exercising, the rest of the day is spent in a relatively ordinary way.

I'd like to go out and research how to complete the mecha missions, but Wu Min is still at home, so it's best not to cause any trouble.

The daytime passed by in this way: practicing meditation and chatting.

"Lin Li, change your clothes, let's go—" As dinner time approached, Wu Min knocked on the door and gestured.

"understood."

Wu Min had informed me last week that there was an engagement party for her cousin tonight. They weren't distant relatives, but rather close friends, so I should go out of courtesy and consideration.

Therefore, Lin Li had already asked for leave and would not attend the school's evening self-study session tonight.

"Should we dress more formally?" Lin Li asked.

"It doesn't matter whether it's formal or not, you have to dress like a human being. The groom's relatives will be attending the engagement party, as will the bride's relatives and friends. Don't embarrass yourself and your brother."

Lin Li shook his head upon hearing this; it was blatant prejudice.

"I received it, Mom! Now I'll bring out my most formal and gorgeous clothes!"

Wu Min, who was originally outside the door, heard Lin Li's somewhat excited voice and pushed the door open without hesitation, her face cold: "Tell me what clothes they are first."

"The Emperor's New Clothes".

Lin Li said this while taking off his clothes.

"Get out, change it."

"okay."

……

On the way to the hotel where the banquet was being held.

Wu Min looked at the road, glancing at Lin Li beside her out of the corner of her eye. Perhaps because the child she knew was now engaged, she couldn't help but sigh with a touch of melancholy.
"Time flies, Lin Li. When you were little, you were always laughing and making noise on the bus, and then you would go to sleep after you finished. I never thought that now you would just sit silently and look out the window on the bus, without saying a word or going to sleep. Has growing up brought you some worries?"

Lin Li sighed softly upon hearing this, turned to look at Wu Min in the passenger seat, his expression neither happy nor sad: "Mom, then you drive!"

If you actually fall asleep, you won't be happy.

He was clearly too lazy to drive, so he decisively handed over the driving task to me after going downstairs. Now he can say such a detached sentiment. Lin Li couldn't help but sigh.

If Wu Min were to place her hand on the testing magic stone tablet, it would probably display the cultivation result: "Lin Zhili, Ninth Dan".

Then they would be shocked by the miscellaneous disciples of the Xiao clan, exclaiming things like, "What?! I never expected that the mother of the genius boy famous in Wutan City was also such a hidden powerhouse!"

"Mom, I wish I didn't know you."

After parking the car in front of the grand hotel hosting the banquet, Lin Li said with some regret.

—The mecha mission progress is still 0. After all, although Wu Min is also a citizen of the Empire, she is not a stranger.

Wu Min, who was used to Lin Li's inhuman speech, didn't react much upon hearing this. Besides, she didn't acknowledge this son in public. So she just glanced at Lin Li with disdain and shook her head helplessly.

"Second floor, Huaya Hall."

After glancing at the electronic LED screen displaying scrolling text at the hotel entrance, Lin Li led Wu Min upstairs.

At the entrance of Huaya Hall, there was a red table with a row of red envelopes on it. Several middle-aged people sat around chatting or taking notes, while a young man in a suit stood at the main entrance.

Wu Min went to pay her gift money, while Lin Li walked straight towards the boy and greeted him loudly, "Brother He—"

Seeing this, Fang Qihe smiled and waved. After Lin Li approached, he looked Lin Li up and down, then reached out and patted Lin Li on the shoulder, teasingly saying with a smile:
"It's been almost a year since I last saw you, have you grown taller again?"

"Tsk, you were more pleasing to the eye when you were a kid. Stay away from me tonight, seeing you like this is annoying."

"So tired... Huh?"

A girl in a formal dress walked out of the hall. Her soft sigh stopped when she saw Lin Li. She stood naturally next to Fang Qi and looked at Lin Li with curiosity.

There was no need for Fang Qihe to introduce him further; his identity was self-evident just from his clothes today. So Lin Li immediately smiled and bowed slightly: "Hello, sister-in-law."

Although he is my cousin, there is absolutely no need to emphasize the cousin part. Doing so would make us seem distant, and it also carries a significant risk.

What exactly are the risks?

To put it simply, according to Bai Bufan's self-reproach edict, he was so nervous that when he greeted someone, he meant to say "hello to my cousin-in-law" but ended up saying "hello to my cousin-in-law."

On that day, war broke out in what was once a peaceful place called "a loving family".

That battle was so fierce that the heavens and earth were in chaos, and the hierarchy of generations was completely thrown into disarray. My cousin was not content to just be a brother, but wanted to be an extraordinary father.

That night, the paternal love of both the cousin and the biological father was united in Seven Wolves.

Ladies and gentlemen, as Wei Zheng once said, "Use excrement as a mirror to know the rise and fall of dynasties, and use people as a mirror to know gains and losses."

The alarm bells are ringing.

"Hello, hello." Yu Liu nodded immediately, then looked at Fang Qihe. Lin Li could recognize her by her clothes, but she couldn't.

“This is the Lin Li I was talking about,” Fang Qihe introduced with a smile. “The one over there chatting with my mom is his mother, who is also my third aunt. Just call her that with me.”

"Oh, so this is Lin Li." Yu Liu nodded, looked at Lin Li with even more curiosity, and said with a smile, "I've heard so much about you."

"Oh? Sister-in-law, my brother often talks to you about me?" Lin Li asked curiously, hearing Yu Liu's tone.

“Yes,” Yu Liu nodded, then smiled and squinted her eyes, “but he didn’t say many nice things. Now I feel that what your brother said wasn’t very fair.”

"That's right, my brother has been jealous of me being better than him since I was little, so he's always maliciously slandering me. I'm used to it by now," Lin Li said with feigned sigh.

"Lin Li, what you said is not fair. Your brother is also very outstanding. He is neither jealous of others nor does he need to be.

Fang Qihe: "Liu Liu~"

Yu Liu: "He-ge~"

Lin Li: "(；☉_☉)?"

Lin Li was stunned as he watched the two gazing at each other with deep affection.

Holy crap, is eating dog food really this unpleasant?
I'm sorry, Dingzi, I'm sorry, Qiuqiu, I'm sorry, Bai... Never mind, eat more. You're already thin. I don't know if Bai's mother feeds you some random brand dog food. How come you're only growing taller but not gaining weight?

However, seeing Yu Liu yawn again, Lin Li asked curiously, "Brother, is sister-in-law very tired?"

"That's how it is," Fang Qihe said, putting his arm around Yu Liu's shoulder and patting her, sighing with a hint of helplessness.
“You guests only need to come for dinner tonight, but we, the engagement party, have a lot to consider. Actually, your sister-in-law and I have been busy all day this New Year’s Day. We have to give you a good engagement experience, not the kind where you go back and complain that you shouldn’t have come.”

"What else is there to say, brother? Break off two of my ribs and make a pork rib soup for your wife to help her recover!" Lin Li was quite moved.

Yuliu: "?"

Yu Liu glanced at her fiancé subconsciously... Why did Qi He seem so used to hearing this...?

"Alright, go in. Sit wherever you like. You can sit at the main table with me if you want. We don't need to be so formal," Fang Qihe said with a smile after lightly punching Lin Li's left shoulder with his fist.

"Let's forget about it," Lin Li said, explaining that sitting at the head table would be disrespectful and uncomfortable, and he would definitely have to sit at the same table as the groom's younger relatives. So he simply smiled and then took out a red envelope from his pocket and handed it to Fang Qihe.

"Brother, this is my wedding gift money."

"What are you doing—ouch—" Fang Qihe looked at Lin Li in surprise, and at the same time, he pushed the red envelope away with his iron-mountain lean:

"Putting aside the fact that we never really planned to accept any money as a gift, besides, your mother already gave one, so what are you going to give?"

“I’m an adult now, my mom can’t represent me anymore,” Lin Li waved his hand generously. “Besides, it’s not much money, brother, five hundred yuan is just a token of my appreciation.”

"Five hundred yuan is too much. What are you doing taking out so much money as a student? No, no, no." Fang Qihe waved his hands repeatedly.

"It's not free, there are conditions," Lin Li said with a smile.

Upon hearing this, Fang Qihe immediately relaxed a little. It was good that he had a request, so he smiled and nodded: "Tell me, what do you need me to do?"

Lin Li: "No need to help me, brother, help yourself."

Fang Qihe was taken aback: "Help me? Help me with what?"

Lin Li: "Of the money I give as a gift, you need to fight for it yourself."

After saying that, Lin Li walked into the hall without looking back.

They walked very fast.

It was as if they were terrified of being caught and beaten to death.

Fang Qihe: "(；☉_☉)?"

Wait a moment.

One cent?

Fang Qihe's expression changed, and he no longer cared whether opening the red envelope on the spot was impolite. Without hesitation, he opened the red envelope in his hand.

Then, I saw a QR code.

Scan the QR code.

Congratulations! You've received a 500 RMB cash bonus! -- Your initial amount is 400.27 RMB.

[Great fortune descends upon you! First visit grants you a direct bonus! — 458.46]

[More good fortune! Almost full! -- 497.13]

[Good luck is on the horizon! Success is just around the corner! — 499.87]

[A miracle happened! Just a little bit more! — 499.99]

Congratulations! You have entered the withdrawal area! You are only 0.01 yuan away from withdrawing 500 yuan in cash!

Invite your friends to help you scrape together the last penny!

A series of notifications and alerts eventually led to a total of 500 yuan that was just one cent short of the agreed amount.

Fang Qihe and Yu Liu: "..."

Fang Qihe turned his head and looked at Lin Li's determined back as he left without any intention of looking back. No wonder that kid ran so fast.

Fang Qihe looked at Yu Liu again, and his fiancée happened to be looking at him as well.

"Hmm." Fang Qihe's face showed only a relieved calm as he tilted his head towards his fiancée.

Yu Liu was silent for a moment: "...Okay, your previous assessment of Lin Li was quite accurate."

However, when Yu Liu pulled out the QR code paper completely, she found that there was more than just one card in the red envelope; there were also two 100-yuan bills stuck to it.

Upon noticing this, Yu Liu turned her gaze to Fang Qihe.

Fang Qihe smiled and said, "Keep it. Consider it compensation for emotional distress."

……

Upon entering the hall, Lin Li naturally needed to greet a large group of relatives and elders, some familiar and some unfamiliar.

When the older generation was young, they didn't have cell phones or computers. They would chisel at night, but they didn't know how to use their strength and the chisels would come out rough. This made life very difficult for the younger generation.

It was a jumbled mess of chatter and noise.

I should have waited for Wu Min.

Having only possessed super memory for a few months, he had several "relatives" standing around, none of whom he knew their names. He could only laugh it off and stand there like a lackey, listening to their incoherent dialect.

Finding a gap in the conversation, Lin Li quickly ran away and arrived at the table of the man's relatives.

"Phew—" Lin Li sat down next to his other cousin and let out a long sigh.

Seeing this, Wu Lifeng, who was playing on his phone, looked up and asked with amusement, "What happened? Did a quick greeting take half your life?"

Wu Lifeng is the son of Lin Li's uncle and is already in college.

"How could that be?" Lin Li first denied with a smile, then corrected seriously, "It's clearly a whole life."

“But brother,” Lin Li turned his head and pointed to a few relatives he hadn’t recognized, “who are those, those, and that one? I didn’t recognize them when they greeted me.”

“That…” Wu Lifeng stroked his chin, followed Lin Li’s finger to the target, pondered for a moment, and concluded: “That means Black Ghost.”

Upon hearing this, Lin Li calmly turned his head and stared at his cousin.

My cousin chuckled sheepishly, then followed Lin Li's finger, clicked his tongue, and explained:

"This is my second aunt's cousin, right? That one seems to be a distant cousin. As for this one... I don't know him either. He should be a distant relative. I don't remember him."

"You even invited such distant relatives?" Lin Li raised an eyebrow upon hearing this.

"It's more lively with more people, mainly because the uncles and aunts like it. I guess my brother definitely doesn't have that kind of idea."

Wu Lifeng laughed and said that he also felt that clan relations were no longer particularly important:
"If you ask me honestly, Brother He, you should invite some neighbors instead of these distant relatives. After all, a close neighbor is worse than a distant relative. If something really happens, the neighbors are the ones who can help the most."

"Yes! Absolutely right!" Lin Li nodded excitedly, completely agreeing with Wu Lifeng's statement.
"Brother, let's not even talk about distant relatives. Sometimes, even close relatives aren't as good as close neighbors!"

"You know, I have a friend who needs a bone marrow transplant because he's sick. He went through his entire family tree and found that no one was a match, not even his own father!"
But fate intervened; the kind neighbor was a match! Not only that, but he donated bone marrow without asking for anything in return! He saved my friend's life and even wanted to be his cousin! What a wonderful connection!

"So now my friend has a father who is related to him by blood, and a father who isn't, and he's very happy every day~"

"This is a truly great person!"

Wu Lifeng: "(゜▽゜)?"

"Hey, wait a minute."

(End of this chapter)