"But Han Yu is no longer a student," he said cautiously, "Director Xu, Director Yu, and Political Commissioner Wang have been so good to me, I can’t switch jobs."
"Don’t worry, I know you won’t switch jobs, and it’s not good for two people to be in the same unit."
Han Xiangning released his hand and urged him to get out of bed while laughing, "By the way, last night Director Feng had Sister Zhu quietly settle the bill, your sister didn’t have to pay."
"How can I accept this?"
"I didn’t know at first, but later I found out that someone was targeting our bureau in the joint law enforcement with your team. You guys really helped us out a lot this time. Director Yu accompanied the visiting superiors to your office yesterday and spoke highly of us."
"People are targeting you?"
"It seems to be a deputy director from the Mountain City Port Supervision Bureau; he wrote articles criticizing this and that about us. We are at the Yangtze River Tail and he is at the head of the Yangtze River, really far apart—I don’t know what got into him, insisting on antagonizing us."
Han Yu, not familiar with the Port Supervision System, didn’t dare to comment recklessly and curiously asked, "What about Sister Mengmeng? Why didn’t she come to dinner last night?"
Han Xiangning helplessly said, "She saw me going on a trip to Qingdao with you and wanted to go out too. She took two days off and went to Jiangcheng with Liang Xiaojun."
"When did she leave?"
"She left the day before yesterday, apparently went back to my parents’ old unit. They have a lot of friends there. In theory, she should have returned yesterday, but it looks like she won’t be back today either, she has to call to extend her leave."
"Does your mom know?"
"What ’your mom’? My mom is your mom; she loves it when you call her mom."
Han Xiangning chuckled as she reminded him, then sighed, "My mom knows she ’eloped’ with Liang Xiaojun; it would have made her sick before. But now with you here to bring joy as the future son-in-law, she has let it go and doesn’t bother anymore."
Han Yu laughed and asked, "So I’m already the son-in-law?"
"What do you mean by that? Are you thinking of backing out?"
Han Xiangning retorted with a question and giggled, "Last night your sister and brother-in-law decided to ’marry’ you off to me; from now on, you’re our San’er, and whenever you return to Binjiang you have to stay at our place."
This is really marrying into her family!
Han Yu felt everything was so surreal, he couldn’t help asking, "So in the future, during festivals, do I need to give gifts to your dad and mom?"
"Your master told you to give gifts, but my dad and mom not only won’t let you give gifts, they even plan to have me give gifts to your dad and mom during the festivals."
Thinking about what happened after he got drunk last night, Han Xiangning almost burst into laughter.
Realizing this really was marrying into her family, Han Yu didn’t know what to say, and Han Xiangning continued laughing, "From now on, you are not only my boyfriend but also my parents’ son. My dad plans to go back to Si Gang, his hometown, in a few days and he wants to take you to meet my grandparents."
"Of course I’m going. My dad said we’ll pay respects to our ancestors after getting back. Our family doesn’t have a family tree; if we did, we’d definitely add your name to it, and might even change your name."
"Calling you Han Xiang Yu, make you more like his son, hahaha."
"Your dad favors sons over daughters."
"It’s not exactly favoring sons over daughters; it’s mainly because without a son, our family line would end. Actually, Sister Zhang Lan also wanted to have a son, but now one can only have one child, not two."
Until this very moment, Han Xiangning still felt happy about making her parents happy. Looking back with a covered mouth, she laughed, "My mom said when she came back last night, with such a big contribution I’ve made to the family, all the family property will be mine in the future. Mengmeng is disobedient, forget about her, at most we’ll prepare some dowry for her when the time comes."
PS: The update is late because I wrote six thousand words in one go and didn’t split it into Chapters.