Seeing Tian Jing, Ouyang Lei anxiously asked, "I just heard from my younger brother that Lili is alright?"
"She's fine," Tian Jing shook her head. "Isn't that why I'm having her move in here?"
Ouyang Lei smiled, "Then I'll have company. Besides Ren Zhi, no one else is willing to live here with me."
"Dad," the fourteen-year-old boy Ouyang Ren Zhi expressed his dissatisfaction, "I'm still a minor, who else would I live with if not you?"
After retorting to his father, he turned to Tian Jing and asked, "Aunt Tian, Dad said if he finds you, he can send an underage me into the army. Can I go now?"
Looking at Ouyang Ren Zhi, who had already surpassed Ouyang Lei in height, Tian Jing smiled and said, "You can. But it will take time, so you'll have to wait."
Ouyang Ren Zhi nodded vigorously, "Then how about after I graduate from junior high this semester? I'll get a junior high diploma."
"That's fine," Tian Jing nodded. "It just so happens that your sister Lili is taking over the company, and your dad will have time to see you off."
Ouyang Lei helped carry the luggage into the suite next to his.
The entire top floor had six suites, each over two hundred square meters with four bedrooms and two living rooms.
The entire family could live here.
After putting down the luggage, Ouyang Lei asked Tian Jing to cook at his place that evening, as he had a lot of food in his refrigerator.
Tian Jing agreed to come cook after she finished unpacking.
After Li Zhengguo had inspected all the rooms, he asked Ouyang Lei to take him shopping for bedding.
Ouyang Lei refused, "If I go out, you won't be able to shop peacefully. I'll have Ren Zhi accompany you."
Ouyang Ren Zhi chimed in, "My dad always runs into acquaintances when he goes out, making it hard to shop seriously. I'm the one who usually buys things, so I'll take you."
Li Zhengguo left with Ouyang Ren Zhi, and only then did Ouyang Lei ask about Xiao Bo's marriage.
Tian Jing told Ouyang Lei Yu Ziyu's identity.
"Heh heh," Ouyang Lei teased her, "You've been hiding for so long, and you still ended up in that circle?"
Tian Jing didn't engage, she had never really dodged it in the first place.
She waved him away, "Hurry back to your place and start cooking and washing vegetables."
After sending Ouyang Lei away, Tian Jing and her daughter quickly organized their clothes. Just as they were about to go next door to cook, the phone rang.
Tian Jing glanced at the number and told Lili to go ahead first while she took the call.
After her daughter left, she closed the door and answered the phone.
The call was from Zeng Jingrong: "Tiantian, I've already asked Han Lushi to submit the marriage application report. I'll approve it as soon as I receive it.
As for Lili, you just need to get a certificate from Lili's school and bring Lili's household registration book and ID card."
Tian Jing wasn't concerned about this. With her current assets and her three sons' contributions, her daughter's marriage wouldn't face any obstacles:
"Zeng Jingrong, who is Han Lushi?"
Zeng Jingrong paused and replied, "Han Lushi is Han Lushi. He told me he wants to marry into the Li family, which is excellent. The child will take the Li surname from now on."
Tian Jing asked again, "Are you sure?"
"Sure," Zeng Jingrong replied without hesitation. "I found him on the roadside and gave him the surname Han. I am his elder, and I can make decisions."
Can make decisions?
If he could make decisions, why would he be waiting for this call?
"Alright, Lili and Han Lushi's matter is settled. The wedding will be held after Lili graduates and the company is in order. But the Gao family, I will deal with them."
"Go ahead," Zeng Jingrong agreed. "Get Old Shen to join you. We can discuss Lili and Lushi's wedding later."
After hanging up the phone, Tian Jing went next door to cook.
When Li Zhengguo and Ouyang Ren Zhi returned with the bedding, they arrived just in time for dinner.
After dinner, Li Zhengguo went to Houyizi Hutong again and brought back his and his wife's belongings. "Where's Lili? Asleep?"
Tian Jing nodded, "She didn't rest at all today. After dinner, I told her to go back to her room to sleep."
Li Zhengguo sat by the bed with his wife as they organized their things. "What did Zeng Jingrong say?"
Tian Jing replied while putting clothes into the wardrobe, "Zeng Jingrong said he is Han Lushi's elder and he agreed. We'll discuss it with him when the wedding is held."
Li Zhengguo pulled his wife to sit on the bed. "That's not right. He was so secretive, and this is his answer?"
Tian Jing nodded, "He also said that Han Lushi wants to marry into the Li family, which is excellent. The child will take the Li surname from now on."
"Han Lushi..." Li Zhengguo looked at his wife. "His identity is definitely problematic."
"I guessed as much," Tian Jing looked back at her husband. "But Zeng Jingrong wouldn't harm us, so he's telling me that it's reassuring for the child to have the Li surname."
"And our behavior of not participating in power struggles, along with Hao Hao's identity, means Han Lushi has fallen into the most suitable family."
Li Zhengguo sighed, "Is this good or bad?"
"It doesn't matter," Tian Jing said indifferently. "Even without Han Lushi, we've always been under scrutiny."
"Let's just treat Han Lushi as an orphan. We love Lili, and we'll treat him well too."
"I think this is what Zeng Jingrong hopes to see. No matter which family it is, ours is the most reassuring."
...
The next morning, Li Weili told her parents that Han Lushi had asked her to go to the Civil Affairs Bureau that afternoon to get the certificate.
Tian Jing nodded, "After breakfast, we'll go to your school to get the certificate."
It was only the twelfth day of the lunar new year, and the school hadn't reopened yet. When Tian Jing and the others went, there was only a duty teacher.
Tian Jing called Old Master Shen. Old Master Shen told them to wait at the school and that he would send the relevant personnel over soon.
After more than half an hour, what Tian Jing waited for was not only the school's registrar and the vice-principal, but also Old Master Shen.
Tian Jing and Li Zhengguo got out of the car with their daughter to greet Old Master Shen:
"Uncle Shen, why are you here?"
"Haha," Old Master Shen laughed heartily, "I'm here to have Lili get to know me. The child has changed a lot, and we haven't changed much. When the child gets to know me, she can come to me directly if anything happens in the future."
"Grandpa Shen," Li Weili called out obediently.
"Hey, hey," Old Master Shen responded twice, then laughed heartily again.
"Oh my, is this young Li Zhengguo? I can recognize him at a glance."
Li Weili leaned closer to her father. "Biological, genuine."
"Hahaha, yes, yes, it's genuine." Old Master Shen laughed heartily.
Then he introduced the vice-principal and the school's registrar to Li Zhengguo and Tian Jing.
After exchanging pleasantries with Li Zhengguo and Tian Jing, the vice-principal and the registrar led the group into the administrative building.
The registrar issued a certificate of unmarried status, and the vice-principal issued a certificate for processing the marriage registration.
Li Zhengguo thanked the two.
They stated that it was within their scope of work.
After a few polite words, Li Zhengguo and his family took their leave from the administrative building.
Old Master Shen invited Tian Jing into his car.
In the car, Old Master Shen got straight to the point. "To what extent do you want to bring down the Gao family?"
"To the bottom," Tian Jing's eyes turned cold. "With power in their hands, they don't care about ordinary people, so let them all become ordinary people."
"Heh heh, yes, you're right. Let them become the ordinary people they despise the most."
Old Master Shen sneered, "Old Gao is still defiant towards me and is colluding with several families to suppress me, wanting me to abandon that bet."
"How could that be? I didn't have an excuse before, but now it's good. You've just given me an opportunity."
"You just watch. We have people on our side. You can only provide money, not manpower."
"Then I'll pay?" Tian Jing also knew that her influence didn't extend into that circle, so she could only use the knife of those in the circle.
"No need," Old Master Shen shook his head. "The resources we will gain from the Gao family will be enough to make us happy."
"Not moving him before was a rule, but if he doesn't abide by the rules, he must be eliminated by the rules."
Tian Jing remained silent. What rules? Wasn't it just that someone wanted to make a move?
She was just a shield for someone else.
It didn't matter. She had always wanted to deal with the Gao family. Pushing her to the forefront would also deter some restless individuals.