Being a Guest

Chu Chen smiled. "So you never told your family about Li Xiaoping?"

"I haven't gotten your approval yet, have I? I didn't dare bring it up!" Hu Yong scratched his head.

Zhao Yunlin shook her head. "Hu Yong, I have to say something to you. If you really love her, what does our approval have to do with it? Even if we don't approve, you can still tell your family. The way you're putting it, I feel like you lack confidence!"

Sister Ji nodded repeatedly from the side, feeling that Hu Yong had handled things poorly.

Seeing this, Hu Yong hurriedly explained, "It's not that I lack confidence. It's just that my parents placed very high hopes on me from the time I was little. They wanted me to get into university, but I was immature back then, and my grades fell after I started high school. Fortunately, I eventually joined the army and even found work in the capital, which let me make them proud. If I really told them about this, it would inevitably break their hearts."

Everyone understood Hu Yong's difficulties after hearing this. Every family had its own troubles.

"Then why didn't you bring your girlfriend today?" Zhao Yunlin asked.

Hu Yong chuckled. "It was already too late. It wouldn't have been appropriate for her to visit for the first time. I plan to pick her and the child up tomorrow."

Zhao Yunlin smiled. "All right. Yongning will be back a little late today, so let's go have dinner first..."

The next day, since Li Xiaoping and her daughter were coming, Chu Chen didn't go to the shop after breakfast. Instead, he took out a medical book and sat on the sofa to read.

A little before nine, Hu Yong called to say that he had