"But I bought this behind my brother-in-law's back. He doesn't know. Tell him later that you won it in a lottery today, and let him take Zhizhi Meng to the movies. That way, they'll have a chance."
"What good will it do if they have a chance?" the mother-in-law blurted out, her expression odd.
"What, have you forgotten who has been urging us and your brother-in-law..." Leng Zhiruo said, lowering her head and biting her lip. "Brother-in-law likes Zhimeng, but Zhimeng is too young, only eighteen. Brother-in-law might feel it's inappropriate."
"And she herself is so scatterbrained, only caring about games, and doesn't even notice your brother-in-law's feelings for her. So I thought, taking them to the movies would help them develop feelings and fulfill your wish!"
"How do you know your brother-in-law likes Zhimeng?" the mother-in-law asked curiously.
"Who else's younger sister-in-law graduates from high school and immediately becomes a CEO? After I graduated from university, I started as a junior worker. Later, my sister saw that I was meticulous and made me her secretary. I worked my way up. Unlike Zhimeng... Alright, Mom, don't be so pessimistic. Your brother-in-law definitely likes Zhimeng!" Leng Zhiruo said, her eyes turning red.
"Well, thinking about it, it makes sense. After all, your sister back then only managed finances, she never even worked as a CEO. And your brother-in-law has indeed been overly kind to Zhimeng!" The mother-in-law felt it made sense upon reflection.
After all, the treatment Zhimeng received was too special. No matter how you looked at it, it didn't seem like a normal personnel appointment, but rather the brother-in-law's affection for his younger sister-in-law.
Could it be that Huang He's true love is Zhimeng?
Not to mention, although Zhiruo is over six years older than Zhimeng, in terms of cleverness and shamelessness, a hundred Leng Zhiruos combined couldn't match Leng Zhimeng.
For example, Leng Zhiruo might at most arrange for her sister to watch a movie with her brother-in-law, but Leng Zhimeng has even prepared a room. That's the difference. If Leng Zhimeng decided to seduce her brother-in-law, Leng Zhiruo would definitely not be able to handle it.
Fortunately, the sisters have a good relationship and understand how to help each other.
But she already had four movie tickets in her hand. What to do!
The mother-in-law wanted to ask her daughter again, but Leng Zhiruo had already left, leaving the mother-in-law alone, looking at the four movie tickets on the table, very distressed.
"Mom, where did you get these movie tickets? They're for Pearl Harbor! I've wanted to see it for so long, but I couldn't find any movie theaters still open in the whole of Wenzhou. You actually found some!" Suddenly, a surprised voice came from beside her.
The mother-in-law looked up and saw that it was Leng Zhiwen who had returned.
"What, are these tickets hard to buy?" the mother-in-law asked, surprised.
"It's not hard to buy, it's just that I don't know where to buy them!" Leng Zhiwen shook her head. "You know, everyone watches VCDs and TV now. Who goes to movie theaters anymore? The environment is bad, and it's chaotic. How can it be as comfortable and convenient as watching TV at home?"
"It's only for some of the latest movies that you can't get on disc, so you have to go to the cinema. Like this Pearl Harbor, I heard it's really good!" The mother-in-law knew that her third daughter didn't have many hobbies, and one of the few was watching movies.
"But that doesn't mean you can't find a movie theater, right?"
"Hehe, Nanjing is so big, there are less than twenty movie theaters left in total. Wenzhou is a small place, and everyone is collectively focused on making money. Besides workers and bosses, who would be interested in watching movies? I asked people all day today and still don't know where in Wenzhou there are movie theaters where you can watch the latest movies!" Leng Zhiwen sighed, this was indeed the state of China's film industry in 2001, it was tragically bad, no one could have imagined how popular the Chinese film market would become in the future.
"Mom, you still haven't told me where you got the movie tickets!" Leng Zhiwen said, looking at the movie tickets with bright eyes.
"Oh, they were given away in a lottery during a supermarket event today!" the mother-in-law explained. They had to have a unified story now.
"The supermarket gave them away? Then, Mom, can you give me one?" Leng Zhiwen quickly said.
"What do you want a movie ticket for? You're not allowed to go to the movies alone at night, it's too unsafe!" The mother-in-law's gaze suddenly became sharp.
Well, mainly because all the movies were showing at the same time. If Leng Zhiwen saw Huang He, it would be awkward.
"Mom, you're overthinking it. I want it for my best friend, Xiao Xiong. She also likes watching movies and can't find tickets like me."
"Then you're not going?"
"It's okay, I've already memorized the location of the movie theater. I'll find time to go tomorrow. It doesn't have to be tonight!" Leng Zhiwen said with a smile. "Besides, you forgot, I have to perform with the martial arts team at the theater tonight. It's just after the first of August, and some units in the city, even the province, want our martial arts team to perform! I came back this time because my Qingping Sword was at home. I have a sword dance in my performance tonight, and it all depends on it!"
Qingping Sword was a performance sword Leng Zhiwen bought for practicing martial arts, it was not sharpened. As for why it was called that, it was purely because she had read "Investiture of the Gods" and felt that the name Qingping Sword was particularly distinctive.
"Alright, here, take this one!" The mother-in-law nodded. She did know about the performance. By the time the performance was over, the movie would have already started, so it wouldn't cause any problems.
So Leng Zhiwen, holding the ticket in her left hand and her Qingping Sword in her right, walked away happily, leaving the mother-in-law to continue to be troubled by the remaining three movie tickets, wondering how to deal with the issue.
Whose request should she satisfy by letting Huang He go to the movies with another daughter?
Oh my, this was truly distressing.
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"Mom, I'm back!" In the afternoon, Huang He returned with two bags of fruit, followed by a somewhat absent-minded Leng Zhiruo.
Then Leng Zhimeng came out of her room to greet her brother-in-law. Huang He scolded her for leaving early. Leng Zhimeng rolled her eyes twice.
Then Leng Zhiting and Leng Zhiyuan, the two sisters, went home hand in hand after school, played around for a while, and then served dishes for dinner. The first hard dish served was pig kidney.
"Hehe, this is the new drunken pork kidney Mom made. It's a brand new flavor you haven't tasted before. Try it!" The mother-in-law served the entire plate of pig kidney in front of Huang He.
"Coming right up!" After so long, Huang He had also come to love pig kidney. Seeing the new version of pig kidney, he was even more eager to try it.
"I want some too!" Leng Zhiting's eyes lit up, and she picked up her chopsticks to grab the drunken pork kidney!
"No!" Before the mother-in-law could speak, Huang He grabbed Leng Zhiting's hand.
"Brother-in-law, you can't eat it all by yourself!" Leng Zhiting said angrily.
"No, this pork kidney has wine in it, and the wine flavor is quite strong. You're too young to drink alcohol!" Huang He tapped Leng Zhiting's head.
"I don't care, I want to eat it!"
"Okay then, I brought gifts this time. If you eat it, you won't get any gifts later!" Huang He said with a smile. Leng Zhiting looked at the pig kidney, then thought about the gifts, and fell into infinite entanglement.
"Alright, brother-in-law is right. Children shouldn't drink alcohol, nor should they eat pig kidney. Wait until you're older!" The mother-in-law also spoke. Leng Zhiting could only look at Huang He with envy, jealousy, and hatred.
"Zhiruo, Zhimeng, you two should have some too!" Huang He said to Leng Zhimeng and Leng Zhiruo.
"I don't like that stuff!" Leng Zhimeng refused outright. Leng Zhiruo had no appetite. All the pig kidney was eaten by Huang He alone.
"Hmph, I'm going to get some water to drink!" Seeing that Leng Zhiruo had main support, Leng Zhiting said resentfully, and then went into the kitchen, ostensibly to get water, but actually, her two small eyes began to search for something in the kitchen.
Then she found a bottle without a label.
"Hmph, you guys won't let Tingting drink, so Tingting insists on drinking!" Leng Zhiting stood on tiptoe, took the bottle of wine from the kitchen counter, and was about to take a sip.
But then she thought, if Mom found out she was drinking, her butt might be in trouble.
So Leng Zhiting had a clever idea. She took a bottle of mineral water from the refrigerator, poured half of it into the wine bottle, filled the wine bottle, then poured the wine from the wine bottle back into the mineral water bottle, making the mineral water bottle full again. Finally, she put the wine bottle back in its place.
"This way Mom won't discover that the wine bottle is less full, and I can openly drink the wine in the mineral water bottle!" Who would have thought that the little Leng Zhiting was so cunning and full of schemes!