Looking at the message from Su Ruoxi on WeChat, Lin Feng immediately started a video call.
"Brother Feng."
Su Ruoxi picked up instantly.
A smile immediately blossomed on Su Ruoxi’s face when she saw Lin Feng.
"Ruoxi, what exactly did you mean by what you just said?"
Lin Feng asked, his brow slightly furrowed.
At the mention of it, the smile on Su Ruoxi’s face faded a little.
She glanced toward the door before saying, "That woman, Liu Yan, knew I wouldn’t go out to meet the blind date."
"So she brought him right to my house."
"I can’t stay in this house anymore."
Her face was etched with clear frustration.
It couldn’t be helped.
The National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holidays coincided.
Normally, everyone returning home would lead to scenes of family harmony.
But Liu Yan was clearly determined to use Su Ruoxi.
’And she even brought the blind date to their home?’
"I’ll fly over tomorrow."
A hint of coldness crept into Lin Feng’s voice.
He had originally thought there was no rush to deal with Liu Yan.
Waiting until after the New Year wouldn’t be too late.
But now, Liu Yan’s actions had crossed Lin Feng’s bottom line.
If Lin Feng could still tolerate this, he would be nothing but a coward.
A look of pleasant surprise flashed in Su Ruoxi’s eyes when she heard Lin Feng was coming.
Truthfully, sometimes when a girl talks about these things, it’s not because she actually wants to do something.
It’s just to make the other person value her a little more.
Just like now.
Hearing Lin Feng say he was coming over, a smile immediately appeared on Su Ruoxi’s face.
"There’s no need, Brother Feng."
"I’ve already booked a flight to Xiang City."
"I’ll head over tomorrow morning."
It was hard to get plane tickets during the holidays.
But that was only true for ordinary people.
For the wealthy, there were always channels to get tickets.
If you offered ten thousand for a ticket originally priced at three thousand, someone would definitely sell.
"You’re coming tomorrow morning?"
"What time do you arrive? I’ll pick you up," Lin Feng asked.
"Around eleven."
"It might be a bit later if the flight is delayed."
"Then I’ll go to the airport to pick you up tomorrow morning."
Although the arrangements were a bit rushed and didn’t follow the original itinerary, this was fine too.
Lin Feng and Su Ruoxi chatted idly.
From time to time, a woman’s voice could be heard from Su Ruoxi’s side, trying to call Su Ruoxi out.
But Su Ruoxi completely ignored her.
After they had been chatting for over half an hour, the sound of a door opening came from Lin Feng’s side.
He said a quick word to Su Ruoxi and hung up the phone.
Meanwhile, Lin Xiaoman, who had been out for nearly an hour, returned.
However, when she came back, she was only holding a single lollipop.
"Here, Bro, the snacks you wanted."
Lin Xiaoman handed the lollipop to Lin Feng.
"I gave you two hundred."
"You were out for an hour and only bought a lollipop?"
Lin Feng looked at the True Staff in Lin Xiaoman’s hand, momentarily speechless.
"For two hundred yuan, you’re lucky to even get a lollipop."
"You don’t want it? If not, I’ll eat it."
As she spoke, Lin Xiaoman stuffed the lollipop back into her own pocket.
Lin Feng was about to say something else, but Lin Xiaoman cut him off, "Mom and Dad should be back soon, right?"
Fine...
Hearing this, Lin Feng could only give up.
"Next time you sneak snacks, do me a favor and wipe your mouth first."
"There are still potato chip crumbs at the corner of your mouth."
Lin Feng shot Lin Xiaoman a look and said no more.
"No, there aren’t..."
"I swear I wiped my mouth before I came back."
Unconcerned, Lin Xiaoman chuckled and sat down next to Lin Feng to watch TV.
Lin Feng picked up his phone and downloaded a real estate app.
He started browsing the listings.
It was rare to find anything useful on the website itself.
Lin Feng wasn’t planning on finding a property listing there.
However, a quick browse could give him a preliminary understanding of the real estate market in Xiang City.
The average housing price in Xiang City was around ten thousand-plus yuan per square meter.
But that was a figure calculated from all property transactions within the entire jurisdiction of Xiang City.
It even included the various county-level cities under it.
Lin Feng wanted to buy a place in the urban center of Xiang City.
The average price there was likely between thirty and forty thousand.
Prices varied depending on the prosperity of the area.
If he calculated based on this situation, the 90% off housing discount card in his hand had a limit of ten million yuan.
In other words, Lin Feng could purchase a storefront of about three hundred square meters.
That number might not seem huge, but compared to his parents’ current tiny shop of ten or twenty square meters, it was enough to expand the scale of their business by more than tenfold!
The expansion of the storefront would also mark his parents’ transition from small-time sole proprietors to capitalists.
Because a three-hundred-square-meter shop would be impossible for just two people to run.
They would have to hire people.
His parents would definitely have an easier time then.
’Was he now the one hoping his father would become a dragon?’
"Bro, are you buying a house?"
Lin Xiaoman, who was beside him, happened to see him browsing real estate information and asked in surprise.
"No, I’m thinking of renting a bigger storefront for Mom and Dad."
"That way, they can have an easier time."
He changed "buying" to "renting."
’A little white lie for my sister is fine.’
"Rent a storefront?"
Lin Xiaoman’s interest was immediately piqued.
"How big of a storefront are you planning to rent for them?"
"Two or three hundred square meters should be good."
Lin Feng considered for a moment.
Two or three hundred square meters wasn’t massive, but it wasn’t small either.
His parents had no prior experience with something like this.
If he bought a shop that was too big right away, the initial period would probably be very difficult.
So, a little over two hundred square meters would be enough.
"Then I’ll go with you when the time comes."
Lin Xiaoman was about to say something else, when the sound of footsteps in the hallway suddenly echoed from outside the door.
"Mom and Dad are back. We can talk about this tomorrow."
Hearing this, Lin Xiaoman didn’t press the issue.
Although she couldn’t quite understand why Lin Feng wanted to hide this from their parents, since he wanted to keep it a secret, she would go along with it for now.
Who could blame her? Lin Feng had promised her a necklace.
’A necklace is justice.’
They say sons resemble their mothers and daughters resemble their fathers.
But in Lin Feng’s family, it was the complete opposite.
Lin Feng took after his father, Lin Jiandong, in appearance.
Lin Xiaoman took after their mother, He Yue.
Even after being weathered by time, you could still tell from He Yue’s face how beautiful she once was.
In fact, you just had to look at Lin Xiaoman to know.
Because Lin Xiaoman and He Yue were ninety percent alike.
Because of this, Lin Xiaoman had been well-liked by others since she was a child.
Lin Feng fell a little short.
It wasn’t that Father Lin’s Appearance wasn’t high enough, just that he paled a bit in comparison to He Yue.
When Lin Jiandong was young, he served as a soldier. After returning, he was introduced to He Yue by fellow villagers and they married.
This kind of match was very common in that era.
The couple used Lin Jiandong’s discharge pay to come to the suburbs of Xiang City, where they bought a house and opened a shop.
A few years later, Lin Feng and Lin Xiaoman were born.
They didn’t have any particularly difficult experiences.
But life was decent enough.
If they had followed their original life trajectory, Lin Jiandong and He Yue would have been like any other ordinary couple.
They would have methodically handled the major life events of Lin Feng and Lin Xiaoman, and then waited to look after their grandchildren.
But Lin Feng’s changes were destined to disrupt the family’s original path.

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