Fang Manping knocked on the door and walked in, her gaze landing on Li Shuyao.
Li Shuyao was indeed very beautiful, with a pure and gentle deanor, giving off a warm and approachable feeling. For instance, at this mont, Li Shuyao was holding a cat in her arms, feeding it.
From this angle, it was a very warm and gentle scene.
Fang Manping thought, perhaps this was why so many elders in the compound liked Li Shuyao, not just because of the Li Family behind her, but also due to the gentle facade that Li Shuyao presented, which very much fit the standard of a prominent family’s matriarch.
Even her picky stepfather wanted Sheng Zexi to marry Li Shuyao, didn’t he?
Fang Manping knew that although over the years her stepfather had been harsh with Sheng Zexi, his own son, due to her mother’s instigation, deep down he valued Sheng Zexi the most.
So he also wanted to choose the most suitable wife for Sheng Zexi.
Who would have thought that Sheng Zexi got married on his own, and his stepfather only found out after he filed the marriage report, he even kept the news hidden to this day. Even though he brought his country wife to the Northwest Military Region, he hadn’t let the family know.
Fang Manping thought that if her stepfather found out, he would definitely fly into a rage.
"Mimi, co, have another bite."
Li Shuyao’s voice interrupted Fang Manping’s thoughts, and as she snapped back to reality, she was already standing beside Li Shuyao.
Her gaze fell on the brown cat in Li Shuyao’s arms, and then at the bowl in Li Shuyao’s hand from which she was feeding the cat—it’s at!
Fang Manping’s mouth twitched. At a ti when people couldn’t even eat enough, let alone at, Li Shuyao was feeding at to a cat. Truly, people lived worse than cats back then.
This cat, Fang Manping rembered, had been raised by Li Shuyao for several years and was nad Mimi.
Li Shuyao cherished it a lot, taking it with her to performances, personally feeding it.
This ti, she brought it to the Northwest Military Region as well.
"Yaoyao," Fang Manping suppressed her thoughts and called out.
Li Shuyao didn’t really care, responding with an "Mm," without looking up, "Are you here because you’ve found out about that woman’s information?"
Fang Manping: In Li Shuyao’s eyes, was that her only value? Well, it seed like it.
Fang Manping nodded, then relayed the information she’d sourced from Peng Wenjing about Gu Jia Ning.
"You an, she’s beautiful? More beautiful than ?" Li Shuyao’s eyes turned cold as she looked at Fang Manping, causing the latter’s body to stiffen.
Fang Manping tugged at her lips, "It’s not what I said; it’s what Peng Wenjing and others said. But I think they’re exaggerating. How could a country woman be that beautiful? It’s probably because they haven’t seen city girls or girls from our art troupe that they admire a country bumpkin."
Hearing this, Li Shuyao withdrew her gaze, visibly satisfied with Fang Manping’s words.
But...
"Does that woman know dicine?" Li Shuyao asked again.
"Yes, I heard she even succeeded in a surgery that even the hospital director couldn’t perform, and she has two prescriptions. The military is planning to collaborate with her."
"I see..." Li Shuyao lowered her eyes, continuing to feed Mimi, her thoughts unknown.
"In the next couple of days, find a ti to visit her personally." After a mont, Li Shuyao said.
Fang Manping was taken aback, did she have to pay a visit?
But, she wasn’t familiar with Gu Jia Ning, nor was she close with Sheng Zexi. Although they were nominally siblings, they weren’t close.
When she followed her mother, Fang Wanrong, and married into the Sheng Family, she’d tried to curry favor with Sheng Zexi in the beginning.
But Sheng Zexi had never paid attention to her, showing neither hostility nor viewing her as family or a sister, treating her like a stranger.
"You’re his sister, after all. Since you’re here, you naturally should pay a visit."
"How can you know what kind of person that woman truly is without seeing her for yourself?"
Fang Manping: Alright, Li Shuyao wanted her to use this excuse to visit and investigate Gu Jia Ning.
Could she refuse? Of course not, even if she feared Sheng Zexi a bit, she still agreed.
Li Shuyao held Mimi and suddenly laughed, "Manping, my brother is having a vacation after the Spring Festival, and I will arrange for him to go to the movies with you."
Fang Manping was first stunned, then delighted, imdiately beaming with joy, "Okay, Yaoyao, thank you."
Fang Manping knew that although Li Shuyao understood her intentions, she didn’t regard her highly.
Now that she was willing to play matchmaker between her and Li Tingxuan, did it an she finally acknowledged her?
Although Fang Manping knew that a large part of it was because she had helped gather information on Gu Jia Ning and Sheng Zexi, she didn’t mind. She knew Li Shuyao was using her.
But so what.
The process didn’t matter; as long as the outco was what she wanted, that was enough.
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The next morning, Gu Jia Ning, who rarely had a day off from her training class, was still in dreamland when she faintly heard a knock at the door.
"Who is it?" Gu Jia Ning mumbled, reluctant to get out of bed in the winter, she covered her head with the quilt, pretending not to hear.
Outside, Fang Manping knocked on the door for a long ti, but heard no response from inside.
She couldn’t help but frown, could it be that the woman wasn’t ho at this ti?
Impossible.
She had deliberately found out that at this ti, Sheng Zexi would be training, and only that woman would be at ho, so she had intentionally chosen this ti to co over.
As she pondered whether to keep knocking or leave, suddenly the door next door opened, and a woman walked out.
The woman sized her up and then asked, "Who are you? Who are you looking for?"
Zhang Shuwan was busy in the kitchen when she heard the incessant knocking next door. She was puzzled as to who would be visiting Jia Ning at this hour, given that those close to her, like Sister in law Yu and Jiang Baihe, all knew that Gu Jia Ning liked to sleep in and was probably still asleep at this ti.
Generally, they wouldn’t choose this ti to visit Gu Jia Ning.
Hearing the knocking persist for a long while without stopping, Zhang Shuwan went out to see, and to her surprise, it was a young girl with a city-style outfit—soone unfamiliar whom she had never seen in the military region.
"Hello, Sister-in-law. May I ask if this is where Battalion Commander Sheng and his wife live? I am Battalion Commander Sheng’s sister, and I arrived yesterday with the art troupe from Beijing."
Battalion Commander’s sister?
Zhang Shuwan was stunned; did Battalion Commander Sheng have a sister?
Honestly, Zhang Shuwan wasn’t sure and hadn’t heard Gu Jia Ning ntion it.
But since the girl said so, it should be the case.
Being friends with Gu Jia Ning, Zhang Shuwan thought that this might be Gu Jia Ning’s sister-in-law, and her attitude improved significantly. Nonetheless, she reminded her, "Your brother is likely at training at the mont, and your sister-in-law probably hasn’t gotten up yet. Maybe you should co back a little later?"
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