Siheyuan: No One Can Be Left Behind

Hearing the noise, Lou Bancheng also walked out of the study. He saw Li Dongfang with a smile on his face, but as if he suddenly thought of something, he snorted and his face turned cold.

Li Dongfang pulled Lou Xiao'e aside and asked quietly, "What happened to your dad? He looks so bad."

Lou Xiao'e turned her head and said, "What else can I do? I'm not happy with you. Look at how many times you've come to see me since I got pregnant. Don't even mention him. I'm already dissatisfied with him!"

Li Dongfang was speechless for a moment, and smiled awkwardly, "I was busy then. Then I went to visit my parents in the west. They are going to have a grandson soon, so I had to go and tell them the good news."

As he spoke, Li Dongfang reached out and touched Lou Xiaoe's increasingly bulging belly.

"Hmph, you still have some conscience. By the way, mother-in-law...what did your mother say?" Lou Xiao'e called out mother-in-law without thinking, and it was obvious that she had repeated the word many times in her mind.

Li Dongfang smiled and said, "Of course they are talking about your daughter-in-law and keep asking me why I don't take you with me."

Lou Xiao'e still looked innocent. After hearing what Li Dongfang said, she immediately smiled and said, "That's right. I told you not to take me with you. You deserve it!"

Li Dongfang immediately struck while the iron was hot and took out a gold bracelet and said, "This is what my mother asked me to bring to you. It's our family heirloom."

Lou Xiao'e happily snatched it and put it on her wrist. However, she was not happy for a while. She frowned and looked at Li Dongfang, and said doubtfully, "Why does this bracelet not look old to me? It's too new. It's even newer than our gold bars. It looks like it was just made. Do you think you made it to fool me?"

Li Dongfang immediately realized that he had taken this bracelet out from the space gold shop. Fortunately, ordinary people did not know how to distinguish the purity, otherwise this four-nines gold would not be seen in this era.

With today’s purification technology, it would be great if we can get two nines.

Li Dongfang thought of an excuse after thinking for a while, "This is indeed our family heirloom, and it is indeed newly made."

When Lou Xiao'e heard what Li Dongfang said, she felt that her brain was not enough. Why did the newly made heirloom sound so fake?

Li Dongfang did not wait for Lou Xiao'e to ask further questions and explained directly: "Originally, this bracelet had no patterns and looked like a copper ring. My mother was afraid that you would not like it, so she specially had someone remake it overnight. How about it? She values ​​you so much. Are you satisfied?"

Silly Ezi is easy to fool. She couldn't stop laughing when she heard that and shouted that she wanted to call her mother-in-law to thank her.

Li Dongfang said quickly, "No, no, they are a confidential department. If you call them, not only them, but also you may be investigated. It's better not to call. Anyway, we will have a chance to meet in the future."

Only then did Lou Xiao'e give up in disappointment.

Compared with Lou Xiao'e, Lou Bancheng was obviously not so easy to fool. Sitting on the sofa on the other side, listening to Li Dongfang fooling his daughter, Lou Bancheng was obviously unhappy. However, seeing Lou Xiao'e's smiling face, he did not expose Li Dongfang on the spot, but just snorted to express his dissatisfaction.

Li Dongfang didn't care at all when he heard the snort. He continued to use sweet words to make Lou Xiaoe laugh.

After chatting for a while, Lou Xiao'e wanted to go to the bathroom, and Li Dongfang looked at Lou Bancheng.

Lou Bancheng saw that Li Dongfang finally looked at him, but as proud as he was, he ignored Li Dongfang. He picked up a newspaper, shook it, and pretended to read it seriously.

"Mr. Lou? Uncle Lou? Dad?" Li Dongfang called out in a low voice tentatively from the side.

Lou Bancheng then showed his eyes from behind the newspaper, glared at Li Dongfang and said, "Don't disturb me while I'm reading the newspaper." Then he shook the newspaper and covered his face again.

"Well...Dad, you hold the newspaper upside down..." Li Dongfang said while holding back his laughter.

"Ahem!" Lou Bancheng hurriedly folded the newspaper twice and threw it aside, saying, "Tell me what you want to say!"

Li Dongfang chuckled and said, "I really have something to tell you. Should we talk about business or personal matters first?"

"What about official business? What about private matters?" Lou Bancheng said with a stern face and expressionless expression.

Li Dongfang didn't care about his attitude and said, "Official business is about the steel mill. I have secured an opportunity for the factory to expand. However, the Ministry of Industry will only allocate 80% of the funds, and the factory must raise the rest on its own."

Lou Bancheng glanced at Li Dongfang and said, "What does it have to do with me?"

Li Dongfang smacked his lips and said, "Aren't you still the director of our factory?"

Lou Bancheng laughed at himself and said, "Director? Haha, does anyone still take me as a director seriously? Don't tell me you don't know what's going on outside right now."

Li Dongfang knew, of course, and smiled disapprovingly: "Dad, although the situation outside... forget it, I won't say it. What I want to say is that no matter what happens outside, we still have to do what we should do, even if we have to do it for the higher-ups to see... Don't you agree?"

Li Dongfang's words were evasive, but he believed that Lou Bancheng must have understood.

Lou Bancheng was also intrigued. He looked at Li Dongfang and said, "Oh? Tell me in detail. I want to hear it."

Li Dongfang had analyzed the situation with him last time, so he just mentioned it briefly before saying, "Let's make a gesture to show the higher-ups that we are truly patriotic and can devote everything to national construction. Then I'll help you get a patriotic banner or something. Isn't this going to be a talisman in the future?"

Lou Bancheng hesitated for a long time before saying, "If I can really win the award, then I agree. By the way, how much does it cost?"

Li Dongfang glanced at him and said a little embarrassedly: "Probably tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, the details are not certain yet."

Lou Bancheng's eyes widened and he asked, "How much?"

Li Dongfang said in a low voice with a guilty conscience: "One... several hundred thousand."

"You...you are like a son selling your father's land, don't you feel sorry?" Lou Bancheng glared at Li Dongfang and said with gritted teeth.

Li Dongfang quickly stated that he had no such intention, "Why are you still angry? Please listen to me. If you have any difficulties, I can pay for you. Just come forward. This money is mine... you understand."

Li Dongfang blinked at Lou Bancheng for a long time before Lou Bancheng slowly said, "You can't show your money to others? You better be careful. If someone reports you, you'll be finished."

Li Dongfang was not worried about this. His gold bars were not from this world and others had no idea where they came from. He just took them out directly and it was difficult to explain the origin.