This guy is quite meticulous and careful.
"Dad! How could you! If I had known, I wouldn’t have agreed to let you drive us!" Chen Yu Ying, who had mastered the ability to extract real information from Lin Li’s exaggerated descriptions, successfully analyzed the situation and said with great dissatisfaction.
We clearly agreed beforehand.
"I really didn’t, just took a look at them, didn’t glare, and there was noise in the back, so isn’t it normal to look? Not looking would be wrong! No worries, just keep talking, I don’t dislike the kids." Chen Zhongping tried to explain. Newest update provided by novel✶fire.net
"I don’t believe you."
"When did Dad ever lie to you."
"This morning, when you said your driver was sick."
Chen Zhongping: "..."
"Dad! Stop the car!" Chen Yu Ying demanded in a commanding tone.
When Chen Zhongping stopped the car, Chen Yu Ying immediately got out and sat in the front passenger seat.
"You guys keep talking, I’ll keep an eye on my dad. If he dares to glare at you again, I’ll glare at him and let Mom be mad at him throughout the National Day." After fastening her seatbelt, Chen Yu Ying glared at Chen Zhongping.
Chen Zhongping: "..."
"Oh." Chen Zhongping blinked and started the vehicle again, now forced to stare straight at the road ahead.
The four in the back exchanged looks, then Lin Li and Bai Bufan began to chuckle softly.
Lin Li quickly turned to gaze at Ding Sihan:
"Ding Sihan, I’ll make it clear once more, I wasn’t watching borderline videos before, I was watching #normal wear# no bad influence# dress freedom# freedom from being defined independent women, don’t insult them!"
Lin Li must have held this in for several minutes.
But this is the real Lin Li.
"No looking back! Focus on driving!"
Just as Ding Sihan was about to speak, she was interrupted and amused by the voice from the front seat.
Lin Li and Bai Bufan exchanged glances.
Now, neither of them is feeling awkward.
Chen Zhongping sat up straight, eyes on the road, occasionally hearing the chatter and laughter of his daughter’s friends and those dangerous creatures behind him, and if his glance in the rearview mirror was a bit stern, his daughter’s headband would land on his hand.
But he didn’t feel the slightest discomfort.
Glancing at his daughter, who was glaring unhappily at him with arms crossed, Chen Zhongping found her adorably fierce, but... sigh...
Whoever dares to mess with my precious daughter, this old man will end him—I’ve already got the pig-killing rune ready to go.
"No laughing! Watch the road!" Watching her father suddenly enter a state of simultaneous laughter and sternness, Chen Yu Ying sternly tapped her father’s arm with the headband again.
Since Shanting is adjacent to Nansang, it took less than an hour to reach Shanting.
"Ying Bao, are we almost there?" Ding Sihan asked after seeing the road sign "Next Stop: Shanting".
"Yeah, about ten more minutes. Since it’s a single-story house, it’s a bit on the outskirts, I sent the exact location in the group," said Chen Yu Ying, glancing at the car’s GPS.
Ding Sihan nodded, checked her phone, "Then it’ll be almost noon when we get there. We can drop our stuff and find a restaurant to eat. I’ll check the guide to see if there’s a must-eat place in Shanting."
"Alright, we can cook for ourselves tonight." Chen Yu Ying agreed.
"Aren’t you going to ask Bufan?" Lin Li asked curiously, looking at Ding Sihan, "He’s the expert in this field."
So I’m an expert again?
"Did Bai Bufan already make a guide? I thought you two weren’t interested in stuff like that," Ding Sihan looked curiously at Bai Bufan.
Bai Bufan pointed to himself: "Me?"
Faced with Bai Bufan’s puzzled gaze, Lin Li explained, "Ding Sihan is looking for a must-eat place, and among us here, the most ’must-eat’ is you, who else should she ask?"
Ding Sihan bowed her head and couldn’t stop laughing.
"I’m never believing it again when Lin Li says Bai Bufan is an expert," she concluded.
——The last time he was supposedly an expert was when he was an eunuch.
Let’s just say, having a close relationship with Lin Li is dangerous, you can’t avoid being part of his stories.
A dozen minutes later, the car finally arrived at the destination.
Chen Yu Ying said calling the place a cottage was selling the homestay short, though not luxurious, it felt more like a self-built small villa from the countryside, with down-to-earth decor that’s both pretty and ugly.
But hey, it’s free, no need to be picky.
"I feel house hugged me when I was a child, it looks quite like my home, hope the internet is good," Bai Bufan commented.
Lin Li glanced at Bai Bufan without speaking, and when Bai Bufan curiously turned his head, surprised there was no jab coming,
Seeing Lin Li lost in thought, he couldn’t help but ask, "Lin Li, what are you thinking about?"
"I’m thinking about if Little Dragon Girl saw the place Yang Guo used to live, would she sigh and say, ’I also want to experience the life Yang Guo lived’," Lin Li said.
Where’s the cockcrow?
Sometimes Bai Bufan really wants to open up Lin Li’s head to see what exactly is inside.
After the car stopped, everyone got out with their luggage.
Chen Zhongping searched the mailbox at the entrance for a while and found a set of keys left there, which he used to open the gates to the courtyard and house.
"Come inside," he said.
The girls went in first, and just as Lin Li and Bai Bufan were about to follow, Chen Zhongping slightly blocked their path.