"What!" The water glass Shui Qingzhang picked up suddenly stopped in mid-air, "Were you having an unpleasant conversation?"

Li Yuanlang cocked his head and sighed: "Xue Lu won't let me attend tonight's engagement ceremony."

He put the tea cup on the table so hard that the water came out, and asked angrily: "Did Xue Lu really say that?"

"Absolutely true."

Shui Qingzhang stood up and paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, and kept muttering: "It's too much to bully others, it's simply too much to bully others!"

He stopped and said to Li Yuanlang: "I think she is the one who should not be present, not you, because she relies on her brother's influence. People who come from a small family can't get rid of the petty mentality and the ambition of a villain.

face."

From what Shui Qingzhang said, it seems that Xue Lu's family background is not that prominent. This is strange. It is said that Mr. Ye was also a well-known big shot when he was alive. Why did his eldest son find Xue Lu as his wife?

Due to the specific reasons of this type of family, they basically pay attention to being well-matched, and political marriages are very common.

Even if they are not from a famous family, the other party must have something extraordinary, either outstanding in appearance or a unique talent.

Obviously, Xue Lu did not account for these two points. Li Yuanlang was very curious as to why Ye Mingren married Xue Lu in the first place.

Without asking Li Yuanlang, Shui Qingzhang took the cigarette from Li Yuanlang and slowly told the story of the extraordinary marriage of Ye Mingren and Xue Lu while puffing on the smoke.

Xue Lu's father was once an old subordinate of Mr. Ye, and his status was not low, reaching the chief executive level.

It's a pity that he died unjustly in that catastrophe.

Before his death, he had arranged a baby marriage with Mr. Ye, and betrothed his eldest daughter Xue Lu to Ye Mingren.

It was just a casual conversation at the wine table, and no one took it seriously.

As a result, after Xue Lu's father passed away, the Xue family naturally went downhill. No one was there to protect them, and they fell from a red-top official to an ordinary family.

Mr. Ye felt very heavy when he saw it. After all, Xue Lu's father had been friends with him for decades. During the war, Xue Lu's father even saved Mr. Ye's life.

It can be said that Mr. Ye and Xue Lu's father not only have a superior-subordinate relationship, but also have a life-long friendship.

When Mr. Ye saw the difficult life of the Xue family's children, he felt compassion for them.

She took it seriously when she said she was going to kiss him as a joke, forcing Ye Mingren to marry Xue Lu no matter what.

Ye Mingren had played with Xue Lu since he was a child and was a classmate in kindergarten.

Xue Lu was beautiful when she was a child, chubby and very cute.

There is a saying that when a woman changes her age, she becomes more beautiful.

Ye Mingren thought that after more than ten years of growth, Xue Lu's appearance would definitely be the same.

When he saw Xue Lu for the first time, he was shocked by Xue Lu's appearance.

Xue Lu actually grew crookedly.

Not to mention short in stature, her appearance was mediocre and not attractive at all. Ye Mingren even doubted whether the woman in front of him was Xue Lu.

Ye Mingren was extremely disappointed with Xue Lu and refused to agree to the marriage.

Even though Mr. Ye denounced the persecution, he was completely determined and threatened to become a monk.

Mr. Ye had no choice but to force himself to do something, and his son really didn't want to, so he had no choice but to fulfill his wish and prepare to recognize Xue Lu as his goddaughter, which could be considered as a consolation to the spirits of his old subordinates in heaven.

Although Xue Lu doesn't look outstanding, she is very scheming.

She invited Ye Mingren out for dinner, got Ye Mingren drunk with her ability to drink a thousand glasses of wine, and then got Ye Mingren into her bed.

When Ye Mingren woke up, he found a naked Xue Lu lying next to him. When he saw that he was also naked, he was dumbfounded.

Xue Lu shyly pushed herself into his arms and said tenderly that she would be his in this life.

Ye Mingren regretted it. In those days, doing such a thing while unmarried was considered moral corruption and had to bear serious consequences.

The only solution is to marry Xue Lu.

Ye Mingren originally followed the official career. Once this matter spreads, his future will be over, even if his father is Mr. Ye.

In desperation, Ye Mingren had no choice but to break his teeth and swallow it in his stomach, crying to eat the bitter fruit he had sown.

But when he and Xue Lu received their marriage certificate, on their wedding night, he was shocked to find that this was Xue Lu's first time.

Ye Mingren was shocked and knew that he had been deceived by Xue Lu, but it was too late.

From this, he truly understood that Xue Lu was an extraordinary woman.

Shui Qingzhang and Ye Mingren are good buddies who talk about everything, but he only said this when he was drunk.

Being plotted by a woman was somewhat humiliating. No matter how good the relationship was, Ye Mingren was too embarrassed to reveal anything. If he hadn't been drunk, this matter would probably have become his lifelong secret and be buried in his coffin.

After saying this, Shui Qingzhang said: "Xue Lu saw you, Akihito didn't know. You ignore her, you have to go tonight. I want to see what Xue Lu can do to you."

"Yes dad, that's what I mean too."

Next, Li Yuanlang did not talk about the matter during the video chat with his wife.

It is not a husband's responsibility to cause trouble for his wife. What's more, Shui Tingyue is pregnant and emotionally unstable, which will be bad for her and the fetus.

At six-thirty in the evening, at the entrance of the banquet hall of the Jingcheng Hotel, there was an endless stream of guests coming and going. It was very crowded and very lively.

As today's protagonists, Wang Song and Ye Qingrou, as well as the parents of the Wang and Ye families, all stood at the door to welcome the arrival of guests and friends.

According to northern customs, the woman should be the one to host the engagement.

But looking at today's occasion, the guests coming for the man and the woman are almost the same.

Ye Mingren is the governor of Nanling Province, but Wang Minghong is also the secretary of the Donghe Provincial Party Committee and is about to join the game. His status is obviously much higher than Ye Mingren.

After joining the bureau, Wang Minghong became a deputy national leader, half a level higher than the provincial party secretary and governor.

Not only that, the bureau committee has one vote in major decisions, and the power it exercises has also risen to the national level, no longer limited to one province or one department.

The power is obviously much higher than that of the secretary of the provincial party committee and the governor.

Wang Minghong, with a cheerful face, led the Wang family to stand on the left, smiling and greeting everyone.

The brothers Ye Mingren and Ye Mingming, standing opposite, also greeted each guest with a smile.

Li Yuanlang followed Gu Zheng, Chuan Gu Zhenggang and Shui Qingzhang behind him, and appeared at about 6:40.

Gu Zhengchuan first shook hands with the Ye brothers and said congratulations, then congratulated Wang Minghong and presented Mr. Gu's calligraphy.

We have been playing in the same compound since we were children. We are familiar with each other and have the same status.

And with our current status, even if there is any estrangement, we won't show it on our faces, and we can make it fair on the whole.

After the elders shook hands and greeted each other, it was Li Yuanlang's turn.

However, when he met Ye Mingren face-to-face for the first time, Li Yuanlang's heart felt as if a spice box had been knocked over, with mixed emotions that were hard to describe.

It was the man in front of him who destroyed his family and made his mother and father angry to death.

To say that he has no ideas at all is unrealistic and not objective.

When he and Ye Mingren were face to face, everyone present, especially Ye Qingrou and Shui Qingzhang, were all paying attention to Li Yuanlang to see what he should do.

Ye Mingren knew Li Yuanlang, even if no one introduced him, the face that was highly similar to Fan Yuqin also let him know who the man in his thirties was in front of him.

Ye Mingren's mood was equally complicated, including curiosity about Li Yuanlang and deep self-blame for Fan Yuqin.

Back then, he was impulsive, but he didn't expect it would have such serious consequences, destroying Fan Yuqin's good family.

Seeing Li Yuanlang and Ye Mingren looking at each other, without moving or speaking, they were in a stalemate for a while.

Next to him, Ye Mingming immediately reminded Li Yuanlang: "Yuen Long, this is my brother Ye Mingren."

After a while, Li Yuanlang took the initiative to reach out and said to Ye Mingren: "Hello, Governor Ye, I am Li Yuanlang."

He did not call Ye Uncle, but directly called him an official, which shows that in Li Yuanlang's heart, Ye Mingren is not worthy of the title of uncle.

Ye Mingren didn't care, shook hands with Li Yuanlang, and said with a complicated expression on his face: "Li Yuanlang, on behalf of the whole family, I welcome you to come."

The two words "can come." also represent more content.

The most important thing is that I am very relieved that you can put aside the past grudges.

The time the two held hands was very brief, just a few seconds.

This is a handshake, not a handshake, which explains many things better.
Chapter completed!