"I lied to you, do you still take it seriously?"

Seeing that the tall and fat young man opposite had a confused look on his face, and seemed to really believe that he had become a monk, Li Mu laughed loudly: "I am such a good person, why am I a monk? If I had really become a monk, I would have caused a big mess long ago."

The tall, fat young man opposite is Li Mu's cousin Yuan Yicheng.

The two have not seen each other for more than half a year. Yuan Yicheng's height has not changed, but his weight has increased significantly.

During the Chinese New Year, he was still a tall, thin and handsome young man. Now he has gained at least thirty pounds. I don't know what he has gone through.

"Hey, you really scared me!"

Yuan Yicheng breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Your attire looks too much like a Taoist priest! Brother, why are you dressed like this?"

He has a very good relationship with Li Mu. He was Li Mu's follower when he was a child and kept in constant contact with each other.

When he was in love in college and had no money to buy a house, he would borrow money from Li Mu shamelessly. Anyway, he would go to Li Mu if he had no money and would not ask for repayment. Of course, Li Mu would not ask for it.

They all came from students. Li Mu knew how difficult it was for young people to find a house. He finally convinced his girlfriend to go out and live there. It would be really sad if he couldn't have sex because he had no money.

A group of students are playing field games outside. Some of them do it for excitement, but some of them really do it to save money.

Li Mu feels sorry for them just thinking about it...

"Your brother and I have had short hair since I was a kid, either bald or crew-cut. Now I decided to experience the feeling of growing my hair long."

"Then it doesn't have to be so long. It's even tied up in a bun. Can you call it a bun? It even uses a hairpin."

"Since I have long hair, why can't I wear it in a bun for fun? This is so refreshing, isn't it much better than disheveled hair?"

"That's true! But your outfit is a little bit different. You'll definitely turn heads when you walk on the street."

Yuan Yicheng marveled: "Cousin, I always thought you were a tough guy, but I didn't expect you to have such a sultry side!"

Li Mu smiled and scolded: "Is this called coquettishness? This is called individuality! This is called being ahead of the trend! Just wait, there will be more and more people wearing buns on the streets!"

Yuan Yicheng didn't believe it: "I don't believe it!"

When he said this, he approached Li Mu and looked outside the gate: "Brother, what are those gate posts outside? When did your family have sentries on duty?"

People who have guards standing guard in front of their homes are all important people without exception.

Now there is a sentry in front of Li Mu's house, which makes Yuan Yicheng very curious.

"Alas, your uncle is now a big shot in the court!"

Li Mu sighed: "As for what level it is, don't ask. If you ask, it's confidential and I can't tell you."

Yuan Yi was in awe: "I didn't expect that my uncle would become a high-ranking official in the imperial court!"

The official-centered ideology in Hedong Province is extremely serious. In fact, not only Hedong Province, but probably the people in most of the northern Xia Kingdom also have very serious official-centered ideology.

In the eyes of many old people, all millionaires and successful businessmen are idle and unemployed, and only civil servants have serious jobs.

In the eyes of the elderly, a corporate white-collar worker with a monthly salary of 30,000 yuan is not as good as a civil servant with a monthly salary of 3,000 yuan.

This kind of thinking can even be inherited, and many of the younger generation agree with this view.

When young girls are looking for partners, they also like to find people who have the imperial establishment. They would rather find low-paid employees than wealthy office workers.

Folk customs are like this and it is difficult to change them.

Yuan Yicheng was also deeply influenced by this concept. After graduation, he began to take the public examination. After several attempts and failed, he gave up.

But the awe of the court personnel deep in his heart never disappeared.

Today I heard from Li Mu that Li Haichuan had become a member of the imperial court and a high-ranking official. Yuan Yicheng was in awe.

The two have been close since childhood, and they are no strangers to each other when they meet. During the conversation, Yuan Yicheng did not hesitate: "Brother, I came here specifically to borrow a car. Did the second aunt tell you?"

Li Mu smiled and said, "Have you really reduced yourself to a blind date?"

Yuan Yicheng said depressedly: "Otherwise, what else can I do? I have been in Zhucheng for several years and have talked with several women, but those who don't have a car or a house are said to have no sense of security. They can just play for fun, and marriage is free.

talk."

He is no longer as high-spirited as he used to be: "The more women I see, the more I realize the importance of money!"

Yuan Yicheng expressed his bitterness to Li Mucha: "I am a serious university graduate after all, but now I can only barely solve the problem of food and clothing. I can't afford a car and a house. I feel tired to support myself. How can I find the energy to find a girlfriend to marry?

Huh? In my situation, my family is always urging me to get married, ugh..."

Li Mu smiled and said: "You complained so much, why did you return to your hometown obediently? Isn't it great to be alone in Zhucheng?"

Yuan Yicheng: "It's so cool, it's so cool. Now I don't even have a girlfriend. I'm with the fifth girl all day long, and my body is exhausted!"

Li Mu laughed loudly: "It's not easy to deal with the women of the right age in our family!"

Yuan Yicheng showed no signs of indifference in front of Li Mu: "I know that our hometown has high betrothal gifts and high demands on women, but don't I have an uncle to support me? That's what I thought. Isn't my uncle well-connected? Let's see if he can help me.

Find someone who works in the imperial court, or you can work as a temporary worker. As long as you have something to do with the imperial system, you will gain face when it comes to public speaking.

It’s not like you don’t know the women in our family. As long as you are a civil servant, they are willing to give you a virginity even if you don’t have money. As long as I have a stable job, my girlfriend should also be stable, and by then, I can also give my parents one.

explain."

Taocheng City used to be a nationally impoverished area. Now the economy has improved a lot, but it is still not very wealthy, especially in rural areas, with almost no industrial backbone.

Almost all young rural youths go out to work, and only return to their hometowns temporarily during the holidays.

The income here is low, and consumption is not very low. Because you are poor, you have to ask for higher betrothal gifts. Not only are the betrothal gifts high, but you also have to have a car and a house in the city, and you have to have fewer brothers.

Li Mu didn't understand this strange phenomenon for a while.

I don’t even understand what those men who have the courage to get married are after. Once they get married, they’ll be out for a million bucks, and nearly half of them will get divorced within three to five years.

So, you spend so much money and energy just for the right to live in these three to five years?

"Actually, I don't want to come to our hometown for a blind date."

Yuan Yicheng sighed: "Even I can't stand the customs in our hometown, let alone outsiders! Damn it, getting married can cost seven or eight hundred thousand, who the hell has so much money? With all this money, I'm on the second line.

Wouldn’t it be nice to buy a small house in the city?”

Li Mu smiled and said, "Then why did you come home for a blind date?"

Yuan Yicheng: "I don't want to either, isn't it because my parents are urging me to do this? I am the only male in the family, and my parents are going crazy thinking about having a grandson! As soon as I come home, my parents will nag me about this.

The thing is, well, I can’t bear to see more and more wrinkles on their faces.”

He said to Li Mu: "Brother, you are older than me, and your family is still a three-way pass. You should understand my situation."

Li Mu scratched his head and felt the same way about Yuan Yicheng's words.

When it comes to urging marriage, Li Mu is under much greater pressure than Yuan Yicheng.

The reason why he didn't dare to go home in the past two years was because he didn't want to face forced marriage from his parents.

Fortunately, I had an unexpected encounter this year, gained the ability to travel between two worlds, and practiced the family-inherited skills to a very high level. It is not a bad idea to become an immortal and an ancestor.

Now that he has reached this point, his family's pressure to marry him has come to an end.

After all, cultivating immortality is a serious matter, and it is more important to cultivate immortality than to get married.

But even so, Li Chengzu, Li Haichuan and his son, as well as Yuan Qinghua, still hope that Li Mu will get married early so that he can have several children, which can be regarded as the expansion of the Li family and the inheritance of blood.

The reason why Yuan Qinghua introduced Wang Jinping to Li Mu was because it was a kind of blind date.

So Li Mu understands Yuan Yicheng very well.

"Okay, don't say anything, I understand you!"

Li Mu didn't want to discuss the matter with Yuan Yicheng in depth: "I have several cars in the garage down here. Come and pick one."

When Li Haichuan originally built the clinic building, he specially designed an underground garage to facilitate the parking of people who came to seek medical treatment or buy plasters.

When this garage was built, not to mention Li Chengzu, even Yuan Qinghua felt that it was unnecessary and money wasted, and even Li Mu felt that the garage was unnecessary.

You must know that more than ten years ago, the number of cars in Xia Guo was still very low. In the past six or seven years, car prices have dropped, and even zero down payments have greatly stimulated people's enthusiasm for buying cars.

Even in a poor area like Taocheng City, people's car ownership rate has reached a high level. In rural areas, nearly half of the people have cars at home.

Nowadays, many people cannot go out without driving, even if they are only a few steps away.

In this way, the garage built by Li Haichuan came into use.

Since the garage occupies a large area and has two floors, the hospital employees cannot use it at all, nor can the patients and business partners who come to see the doctor occupy it. The extra parking spaces are rented out.

Li Haichuan specially separated a small area and made it his own exclusive garage. This garage is located underground in front of the yard.

"How many cars? Are they all luxury cars?"

Li Mu walked in front, and Yuan Yicheng followed closely behind: "Then I have to choose a car carefully!"

When the two of them approached the garage, Li Mu suddenly thought about it, and he let the Pegasus car out of the storage bag and appeared silently in the garage in front.

"It should be considered a luxury car."

Li Mu responded casually: "You'll know when you get there."

After the two walked to the underground garage, Yuan Yicheng's eyes suddenly went straight as he looked at the more than thirty luxury cars lined up in the garage: "Damn!"

He slowly stepped forward and approached the luxury cars in front of him: "Holy shit!"

It took him a long time to regain his composure, and said with a wry smile: "These cars, the cheapest seems to cost 3 million, and the most expensive seems to be almost 100 million. Even if you have money, you may not be able to buy it. My uncle has made a fortune.
To be continued...