I'm The Hard Rice King

Chapter 391 Difficulties

Although he and Zhao Qingge agreed to arrive at her house at four in the afternoon, Li Peifeng drove the Mercedes-Benz G and set off to prepare gifts after lunch. Not only the Zhao family, but also the Xu family, who was going to tomorrow, bought gifts for both families. .

Even if it's not the first time you meet your parents, you can't go empty-handed when you visit them. Before the wedding, the etiquette must be as thorough as possible. As for after the wedding... we are all a family. It's not a year or a holiday, no. It's normal to bring gifts to your father-in-law's house for a meal or something, and you might have to order something when you leave.

And this time, the purpose of Zhao Haiqi and Li Xin's couple looking for him, when Li Peifeng was on the phone with Lao Zhao, he guessed very closely.

Probably the second elder also saw the lecture between him and Yu Hua, felt the impact of it, and felt that Li Peifeng was very promising, so he further recognized the relationship between him and his daughter, and wanted to use this meal to encourage and comfort him. Fan, finally plan the future development of the two?

These were all Li Peifeng's guesses, and when he arrived at Zhao Qingge's parents' house at 3:40, he saw the friendly attitudes of Zhao Haiqi and Li Xin, which further confirmed this idea...

"Xiaofeng is here... Hey, what are you carrying in this big pile?"

"Didn't I tell you last time that you are not allowed to bring gifts?"

"At first I just wanted to buy some food, to show off my uncle and aunt's cooking skills, but I ended up buying too much while shopping."

Li Peifeng smiled honestly. After Li Xin and Zhao Haiqi criticized him and warned him again not to do this again, Lao Zhao led him to sit down on the sand room and asked casually: "Can you cook?"

"Yes, Qing Ge really likes to eat." Li Peifeng looked at Zhao Qingge who came out of the study slowly, his eyes lit up.

Today, Lao Zhao is wearing a gray-green suit. The upper body is particularly slim. The double-breasted design has a British OL style. This may be due to the thin leather belt around the waist. His figure is also more graceful than before. . The lower body is a pair of wide-leg trousers made of woven fabric. The legs are straight and three-dimensional. The trousers just reach the ankles. The gap between the trousers and the slippers is half-covered, revealing those beautiful silk feet... If you wear high heels, it will be completely exposed. It hit Li Peifeng's heart.

"Why are you here so early?"

"I came here early because I had nothing to do, and I was going to cook a few kung fu dishes, which took a lot of time. Uncle and aunt, I'm busy now."

After speaking, Li Peifeng got up and wanted to go to the kitchen, but Zhao Haiqi stopped him: "I don't need you for cooking, I have a nanny to do it."

"Just sit there and chat with your uncle, little Feng, I'll wash some fruit for you."

Li Xin also persuaded, and then carried some vegetables bought by Li Peifeng into the kitchen. But the latter even said that he didn't need to wash the fruit, and wanted to get up and show off his cooking skills, so Zhao Qingge said, "Let him do it, he cooks delicious food."

At this point, Li Peifeng entered the kitchen smoothly. Li Xin and Zhao Haiqi still dissuaded him, but it did not affect him to work in the kitchen with his aunt who was cooking.

Washing vegetables, cutting meat, swish swish, swiftly like a chef in a five-star hotel.

Li Xin praised in surprise: "Xiaofeng, have you learned it before?"

"Self-taught, haha, maybe he has talent."

But Zhao Haiqi still had some objections. He criticized his daughter outside the kitchen: "As long as you two are not married, he will be a guest in our house. How can you let him cook?"

“You’ll know after you try his handiwork.”

Zhao Qingge ignored it, and instead followed up with the kitchen, asking, "What do you plan to cook?"

"Today's menu is incredible. Most of them are from the state banquet, stewed lion's head, Buddha jumps over the wall, Dongpo beef, squirrel mandarin fish..."

Dinner was served at six o'clock. Chef Li Peifeng showed a serious attitude, and the dishes were extremely delicious. He reserved a portion of the prepared meals for the nanny, brought the dishes to the table, and everyone sat down.

"Plenty enough."

"Hehe, these few dishes are not common! Thank you for your hard work, Xiaofeng, sit down, have a drink, and then let Qing Ge take you back."

"Well, I'll do it myself."

"sit down."

Before the couple actually moved their chopsticks, they all praised him in unison, and Zhao Haiqi personally poured a glass of white wine for Li Peifeng. Afterwards, the dinner started in a harmonious atmosphere.

At first, the topic was about the taste of the food. Apparently, neither Zhao Haiqi nor Li Xin expected that Li’s cooking skills were so superb. The former was even more surprised and emotional, saying bluntly that he had participated in state banquets at foreign affairs events before and had tasted it many times. There have been similar dishes made by famous chefs, but none of them are as delicious as what Li Peifeng cooked this time.

"No wonder, no wonder Duoduo insists on letting you cook."

"You're exaggerating. Just enjoy your meal and I'll give you a toast."

Li Peifeng laughed and raised his glass with both hands to drink with Zhao Haiqi.

"Is he really self-taught in cooking?"

Li Xin was also impressed by the delicious food on the table that left endless memories on her lips and teeth. She asked her daughter a question in a low voice. Zhao Qingge just nodded: "He is smarter."

Being smart is a good thing...

Li Xin was silent for a moment. Seeing that the atmosphere at the dinner table was slightly cold, she suddenly raised her head and said with a smile, "Xiao Feng, you may not know, but your uncle is now the vice president of Yanda University."

"Ah? Really?"

Li Peifeng looked at Zhao Haiqi in surprise, only to see him slightly nod his head: "There will be a meeting next Monday to formally appoint him. He will serve as the deputy secretary of the school, vice president, and also the director of the organization department. In addition, there are other more detailed tasks in charge. Set it down.”

Zhao Haiqi said it calmly, but he was very happy in his heart, otherwise he would not be able to tell in detail what position he held.

If he was promoted from a dean of Yan University to an ordinary vice president with no actual duties, it would only be an ordinary promotion. It was not worthy of him to elaborate. He could just nod reservedly.

But if you hold the two positions of deputy secretary and organization director while being the vice principal, the nature is completely different. If you go up further, you will either be directly transferred to another double-first-class university as a leader, or you will directly join the department. However, Zhao Haiqi can work for another ten years before retiring. He still has room to go further...

Fuck! This damn is Chi Guoguo’s high promotion! !

Li Peifeng's heart skipped a beat, and he secretly thought that his father-in-law was getting more and more awesome, and he didn't know whether this was good or bad for him. If he found out about his bad deeds in the future... I'm afraid I would have to try the law himself! !

The fear in his heart did not affect Mr. Li, a flatterer, but he had a look of surprise on his face, as if he was honored: "Congratulations, uncle, this is great. As the saying goes; the clouds are blooming, the sun is shining, and the spring breeze is strong. Flying high. Hanging high on the blue clouds, ascending to the nine heavens with auspiciousness... You can better display your ambitions."

"Hahaha, you kid, you can write poems out of your mouth. No matter what ambition or not, it's all about teaching and educating people."

This flattering shot is really comfortable and exciting!

Zhao Haiqi couldn't help laughing, picked up the wine glass and clinked it with him, took a sip, and then smiled again: "You will graduate in three or four months. What are your plans? Do you still want to write a book in peace?"

Li Peifeng answered yes, and Zhao Haiqi tactfully suggested to him that it would be best to continue studying for a Ph.D. and teaching in colleges and universities. With his current capital and talents, he would have a bright future in the future. As he talked, he might be under the influence of alcohol. , or maybe because he feels that sooner or later we are a family, he expressed it more clearly.

"You are still young, capable and smart enough, I will help you too."

Zhao Haiqi's eyes were meaningful and his tone was calm and calm: "As long as you enter the system, whether you want to pursue an academic or administrative career, you will have a great chance of achieving achievements as good as mine. If you meet someone who appreciates you, It only takes one day to rise to the top. And you should know that there was an online novel author who is now a senior cadre, and his administrative level is only one level lower than mine."

"Looking at you, your academic qualifications and other conditions are superior to him, and the popularity of your works is not much worse than the one he originally wrote. Although the subject matter is different, if you settle down and write a book in the next few years, If you write more orthodox content, the future will be broader."

Li Peifeng hesitated and said, "Let me think about it," but he was not thinking about it at all because he had deeper concerns.

It's not that he doesn't want to eat the royal food. Let's make a hypothesis. If Li Peifeng has a job with a staff, no matter what job it is, as long as two hundred years have passed and the unit leader suddenly discovers that this person is still receiving retirement pay... then something big will happen. !

And even if we don’t say that it’s two hundred years ago, just say that forty years have passed, and all the colleagues of the same age around me are gray-haired and about to retire, but they find that Li Peifeng, a handsome guy, has no signs of aging, that will be a big problem!

As long as Li Peifeng has passed middle age and cannot put on makeup every day to go to work, this situation cannot be avoided, so he simply does not look for a job to avoid these troubles.

As for things no matter how far back they are, Li Peifeng doesn't dare to think about them. Every time he thinks about them, he feels very irritable and falls into a deep void...

"What have your parents been busy with lately?"

Halfway through the meal, Li Xin asked casually, and Li Peifeng answered naturally: "I go to work normally, but...my mother is pregnant with her second child."

"What?"

This startled Zhao Haiqi and Li Xin, and they kept asking to determine the age of Li Peifeng's parents, and got the answer that they were only four or five years younger than them. Several hospitals said they could give birth smoothly, and they couldn't help but feel or envy the good health of Li's father and Li's mother.

"It's good. If your body can accept it, having another younger sibling in the family will be good for both you and your parents."

After saying this, Li Xin felt a little embarrassed: "But in this case, won't your parents be able to come to the capital recently?"

Li Peifeng said: "My mother plans to ask for leave in a week to raise her baby at home, because the doctor said that the first three months of pregnancy are more critical, and it is not suitable for overwork. My father also wants to take care of her at home. Recently, they You definitely can’t come to see me.”

Li Peifeng understood the implication of Li Xin's words. It was nothing more than two families sitting together to get to know each other and then talk about their children's problems.

But how can Li Peifeng dare to let the two families meet? Li Qiyuan and Yu Huizhi still had objections to him, and they would definitely not be able to practice acting to help their precious son cope with it. What if the old couple gets anxious and angry, regards their precious son as a scoundrel, and exposes all the things Li Peifeng did... Wow, that's exciting!

Li Xin frowned and said, "I wanted to ask them to come over and have a meal together, but this...Haiqi?"

Zhao Haiqi thought for a while and said: "Then let's go to Ningyuan. The sooner the better, otherwise there won't be much time when I take office on Monday..."

After saying this, he paused and looked at Li Peifeng to discuss: "Tomorrow is the weekend, what about tomorrow? I can come back that evening."

Leader, my principal, are you fucking sick? What the hell, just tomorrow? Why are you so anxious all of a sudden? Didn't you have objections to my relationship with Zhao Duoduo before? How can you condescend to me now? !

Li Peifeng was confused and laughed: "Go to my house tomorrow? Isn't it too sudden?"

As soon as he finished speaking, from the corner of his eye, he saw Zhao Qingge, who had been eating silently, suddenly narrowed his eyes, but returned to normal in the next second: "Do you have anything else to do?"

It was indeed something. Li Peifeng agreed to go to Xu Manying's home to meet her parents...

"If it's not particularly important, then push it back for now."

Zhao Haiqi frowned slightly: "You have been talking for so long, and you lived together during the winter vacation, but the two families haven't seen each other. It's inappropriate. Besides, your mother will be pregnant in a few months, so it's not right for us to sit together and eat together again." convenient."

Li Peifeng could see it. The current situation was so pressing that he couldn't tolerate his refusal, so he could only think of other ways...

"Okay, let me call my parents now."

After saying that, Li Peifeng took out his mobile phone, showed an apologetic smile, left the restaurant, went to the bathroom, and dialed Comrade Lao Li.

While waiting for the call to be connected, Li Peifeng looked at himself in the mirror in front of the sink and felt upset.

Why did Zhao Haiqi and Li Xin change their attitudes and were so anxious to see their parents? There are probably many reasons, and he was a little biased before he came.

Among them, it is not limited to the unexpectedly good results of "Sword and Law". His and Yu Hua's lectures made the pseudonym "One or Two Winds in the World" enter the field of vision of the orthodox literary world and be known by more people. Li Peifeng is famous and rich. this factor.

It was also because Zhao Duoduo was indeed too old; and also because Li Xin found out that the two lived together during the winter vacation. Cohabitation may have played a large role. No parents were not in a hurry after seeing their daughter living with a wild boy.

So Zhao Qingge has accepted the Five-in-One? Impossible, she probably still holds the idea of ​​not agreeing to divorce after marrying her, so that the remaining three girls are not justified, and this is the maximum level of tolerance that Old Zhao can tolerate...

The most critical question at this juncture is: Do the parents of both parties want to meet?

I definitely have to meet him, but I can’t explain it to the Zhao family if I don’t meet him... But if I meet him, how can I explain it to my parents? !

"Hello? Talk."

"..."

Li Qiyuan asked suspiciously: "Is the signal bad? Wait until I hang up and get back to you."

"Wait."

Li Peifeng took a deep breath: "Well, my mother isn't with you, is she? Let me tell you something."

"Your mother is painting upstairs, what's going on?"

After subconsciously asking, Li Qiyuan immediately laughed out loud, guessing, "Have you had a fight with them? Are you going to break up?"

"no."

Hearing Li Peifeng's solemn tone, Li Qiyuan's voice also deepened: "Your affairs were exposed and their parents found out?" Then, he was extremely disappointed: "I knew there would be such a day, and I can tell you that a man is a real man. Do things alone, even if they beat you to death, don't let the parents of those children come to settle accounts with us, your mother is pregnant!"

Li Peifeng was helpless: "You hope that I can order it. It is Qing Ge's parents who want to go to Ningyuan City to see your elders tomorrow."

Li Qiyuan was silent for a moment, then sighed and said, "It's better for you to reveal your secrets."

"Stop complaining. I can't help it either. Prepare for tomorrow."

"Can you not let them come? Just say that your mother is pregnant, it's inconvenient..."

"I told you, otherwise they would want you to come to the capital."

Li Peifeng smiled bitterly: "And let me update the identities of Zhao Qingge's parents. Her mother is still the vice dean of the School of Economics and Trade of Capital University of Finance and Economics, but her father Zhao Haiqi is already the vice president of Yanda, the organizational minister in charge of personnel. In terms of rank and status , he is much taller than the largest official in Ningyuan. If people come to our place on business, they have to pave the road with loess and splash clean water on the street the day before. The top leader of the city organizes a motorcade to go to the station to greet him in person, and two police cars flash their police cars. The lamp walks in front, and the idlers are not allowed to approach... So this couple can come over, it is really a face for our family!"

Li Qiyuan said in a deep voice: "It's too much face, your father and I can't bear it, and your mother has never seen such a big leader, afraid of being frightened, you can solve it yourself."

"...It is you that people want to see, otherwise I can handle it myself, and I will never bother my parents."

Li Peifeng was extremely anxious, knowing that her father's attitude would make it impossible for them to go to Ningyuan City, because Li Qiyuan, a wife-loving maniac, was worried that the meeting between the two parents would cause trouble for his pregnant mother.

But Li Peifeng was also in a hurry and came up with a way to solve the current problem: "How about you come over by yourself tomorrow without bringing my mother, so that she will not be tired from traveling and sulking, which will affect the pregnancy. You can come over by yourself and do whatever you want with them." Just chat.”

"I won't go, I have to take care of my wife."

Li Qiyuan was a little impatient: "Okay, don't let them come. You can solve it yourself. If you can't solve it, I can't do anything."

"one million!"

Lao Li's voice was stern: "It doesn't matter how much you pay, I can't act with you. You bastard, you think you can get away with money?!"

"three million!"

"I said no, this is a matter of principle..."

"Five million, I'll book a ticket for you now!"

Li Peifeng interrupted Li Qiyuan decisively, and then without waiting for the other party to reply, he immediately begged softly: "Dad, please, why do you care about the principle? You are my biological father, and I am your biological son. Thicker than water, please help me just once.”

Li Qiyuan was silent for a long time, took a deep breath and exhaled forcefully: "Just this once, for the sake of... you are my son."

(End of chapter)