Auntie, Can I Call You Sis?

Elder Wang spoke with righteous conviction, looking as though he was determined to do just that.

Wang Yixue grew even more anxious.

"But you don't have to find two female secretaries, do you?"

"It's not like I can't help!"

Wang Yixue blurted it out.

Then she blushed.

In the rearview mirror, she saw both Elder Wang and Elder Hua looking at her.

Her face flushed red. She cleared her throat and said seriously,

"I mean, when there aren't any mecha deployment missions, I can also go to Xu Fan's house and help look after his family."

"It's all for the country. I'd be happy to!"

At this point, Tong Yao chimed in too.

"I can help when I'm free as well. Surely we can't be any worse than those girls fresh out of college?"

A smile crept into the corners of Elder Wang's eyes as his cunning scheme succeeded.

He made a show of nodding.

Sounding gratified, he said,

"Since you both say so, we'll do as you suggest."

"When you two aren't busy, go look after Xu Fan's family, or help Xu Fan with his work."

"Just give us a heads-up beforehand."

The four people in the car each harbored their own schemes, and all ended up thoroughly satisfied.

The car sped down the highway.

In a flash, it had shot up to 120.

If the speed limit hadn't been 120, Wang Yixue would absolutely have driven the engine into the scrapyard.

Wang Yixue was even wondering whether she could take the mecha out the next time she went to see Xu Fan at night.

There was practically no one in Xu Fan's abandoned industrial park anyway.

After Elder Wang and the others left, Xu Fan spent another two hours studying the deep-sea submersible in the old warehouse.

This thing was the fruit of his father's painstaking efforts.

It was also Xu Fan's obsession.

The more deeply he studied the deep-sea submersible, the more powerful it would be when he manufactured it using the Super God Technology System.

As he continued letting his imagination run wild, drawing on the manuscripts his father had left behind,

a deep-sea titan standing a full thirty meters tall gradually took shape on the drafting paper.

However, this was only a preliminary concept. It still needed revisions from the system and so on.

There was plenty of time now. There was no rush.

He had to hurry home. If he was late, his mother would start scolding him again.

He rode his electric scooter toward home.

Early the next morning.

Xu Fan had just gotten up when he heard his mother, Li Lanhua, nagging as she made breakfast.

She complained that Xu Fan wasn't taking blind dates seriously.

It had been days since his blind date, and there was still no sign of anything happening.

Xu Fan had intended to tell her what had really happened.

On second thought, he decided to forget it.

Otherwise, his mother would get angry again.

What had made Xu Fan happiest lately was that his mother no longer had to go out to work.

When he had given his mother money a few days ago, he had nearly scared the life out of her.

She had thought Xu Fan had broken the law. Fortunately, after a lengthy explanation, his mother finally believed him.

Amid Li Lanhua's constant nagging, Xu Fan got out of bed and washed up.

The doorbell suddenly rang.

Xu Fan opened the door and found Wang Yixue there, to his surprise.

"Xu Fan, good morning!"

Wang Yixue wore a long white spaghetti-strap dress that day.

Her milky-white skin gave off a translucent glow in the morning sunlight.

Her moist eyes were clear and bright, flecks of light sparkling in her pupils.

Xu Fan froze briefly, then smiled and greeted her.

"Yixue, what brings you here? Come on in!"

"Okay."

Wang Yixue entered and saw that Xu Fan's home was rather modest.

Then she remembered how Xu Fan had handed over so much cutting-edge technology to the country.

She felt a little unsettled.

She thought to herself that she absolutely had to apply for a big house for Xu Fan in a few days.

After all, Grandpa himself had said they couldn't let scientific researchers' hearts grow cold.

Li Lanhua had just brought breakfast to the table.

Then she saw Xu Fan bringing a bright, youthful girl inside.

Her eyes immediately lit up.

She had just been complaining that Xu Fan was clueless, and now a girl had come straight to their door!

It seemed her son wasn't that hopeless after all.

Li Lanhua hurriedly invited Wang Yixue to join them for breakfast.

Although Wang Yixue had already eaten, she couldn't withstand Li Lanhua's enthusiasm.

So she ate another small piece of griddle bread.

As Li Lanhua looked at Wang Yixue, she found that the girl wasn't just pretty.

She also carried herself with grace and poise.

She had quite the air of a well-bred young lady.

The more Li Lanhua looked at her, the more she liked her.

At the table, she asked about everything under the sun, even asking how much bride price Wang Yixue planned to request when she got married.

That question stumped Wang Yixue.

She was only eighteen and really hadn't thought that far ahead.

By the end, even three-piece and five-piece gold jewelry sets had come up, making Xu Fan wish he could find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

Although the young Wang Yixue was shy, she answered everything politely.

As they went back and forth, chatting away, the two grew familiar with each other.

"Auntie, you look so young!"

"Really?"

"Auntie, your skin is so nice!"

"Haha, it's all right!"

"Auntie, can I call you Sis?"

"Hahaha, do I really look that young?"

"..."

Listening beside them, Xu Fan was completely dumbfounded.

Did she not even need a rough draft before spouting nonsense?

Then Xu Fan watched his mother lose herself in Wang Yixue's stream of compliments.

She was so happy that her eyes squeezed into slits.

A breakfast that could have been finished in five minutes somehow lasted an hour.

Only after Xu Fan's vehement insistence did the two "sisters" temporarily end their conversation.

And they agreed to continue next time.

Xu Fan pulled Wang Yixue outside and ran, disappearing from Li Lanhua's sight.

Li Lanhua looked in the mirror and murmured, "I really do look quite young. That Yixue has such a sweet tongue. If only she were my daughter-in-law!"

Wang Yixue drove a military jeep along the highway with Xu Fan aboard.

The window was open a crack.

Wind whooshed through the car.

"Yixue, how much longer until we get there?" Bored out of his mind, Xu Fan asked casually.

"Half an hour!"

Wang Yixue answered.

Then she suddenly remembered something. After a little hesitation, she asked,

"Xu Fan, how come I didn't see your dad earlier? Is he away on business?"

"He... passed away ten years ago."

Wang Yixue's hands jerked on the steering wheel.

"S-sorry, I..."

"It's fine. It happened a long time ago. I can barely remember it anymore."

Although Xu Fan said that, his voice was a little subdued.

Clearly, he had still thought of something he couldn't let go of.

Wang Yixue didn't pursue the subject. She turned on the car stereo and played a soothing piece of music.

Half an hour later.

The car drove into the Zhonghai Third Ordnance Factory.

After getting out, Xu Fan looked at the ordnance factory sprawling across ten thousand mu, his mouth twitching.

Once the country made a move, you could tell whether it had the goods.

He had only asked them to find somewhere reasonably spacious to serve as a mecha construction base, yet they had gone straight ahead and requisitioned the Zhonghai Third Ordnance Factory.

He really didn't know what to say.

With Wang Yixue leading the way, Xu Fan took a quick tour.

This place really was good.

It was remote and had both aboveground and underground sections.

It had everything, from large cranes to gantry cranes.

There was even an underground air-raid shelter capable of withstanding a nuclear blast.

Even if a powerful enemy launched a sudden nuclear strike, it could preserve a spark for the mecha industry.

Just then, Wang Yixue's phone rang.

The caller told her that Xu Fan's multifunction workbench would arrive in twenty minutes.

Xu Fan let out a long breath.

An inexplicable excitement stirred in his heart.

It looked like he would be rolling up his sleeves and throwing himself into work over the next few days.

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