At this time, he seemed to remember something and looked at his stepdaughter, Fang Manping, who was standing beside him.
"Manping, weren't you saying the other day that your art troupe wanted to go to the Northwest Military Region to perform during the Spring Festival?"
"Yes." Fang Manping immediately perked up, suspecting something.
"Alright, I'll approve it for your art troupe tomorrow. When you go, try your best to get Ze Xi back. Just tell him I have some of his mother's things to give him."
Fang Wanrong's heart skipped a beat. "Husband, what is this?"
Sheng Xin Hao didn't intend to hide it from his gentle and kind wife. "I've talked to Old Li. I plan to have Ze Xi and Old Li's youngest daughter meet during the New Year."
If he directly told Sheng Ze Xi to come back for a blind date, he probably wouldn't come back.
So Sheng Xin Hao could only use other methods.
Fang Wanrong's heart was a little flustered. The Old Li family Sheng Xin Hao was talking about, could it be Commander Li's family?
Was the youngest daughter Li Shuyue?
No, Sheng Ze Xi absolutely cannot marry Li Shuyue.
Not to mention that Li Shuyue herself works in the art troupe and is currently the mainstay, with her good looks and personality. Just the fact that her father is Commander Li, and her brother, Li Tingxuan, became a regimental commander at a young age with a promising future. All these years, she had finally managed to make Sheng Ze Xi almost estranged from everyone. How could she let him have such a powerful in-law family like Commander Li's, and Li Tingxuan as his elder brother-in-law?
Fang Wanrong couldn't help but resent Sheng Xin Hao.
He kept saying that A Yu was filial, but he didn't leave A Yu anything good. She had previously suggested letting A Yu join the army to benefit from his connections there, but he wouldn't agree.
He kept saying that Sheng Ze Xi was a scoundrel and called him unfilial.
But he was still thinking for him, finding such a powerful family for him to marry into.
It was only her cultivated composure that prevented Fang Wanrong from breaking down and speaking out.
Fang Manping didn't expect that her stepfather's ideal choice for his daughter-in-law was Li Shuyue. She couldn't help but feel happy.
Li Shuyue had always liked Sheng Ze Xi and kept asking her to find out news about him for her. But actually, Fang Manping didn't really want to do this. However, she liked Li Tingxuan, that tall, magnificent, and dazzling young man who had long resided in her heart.
If she could help Li Shuyue and Sheng Ze Xi get together, would Li Shuyue help her get together with Li Tingxuan?
Fang Wanrong glanced at her daughter. She knew about the things between her daughter, Li Shuyue, and Li Tingxuan.
If her daughter could marry Li Tingxuan, she would be a thousand times willing, but Li Shuyue marrying Sheng Ze Xi? She absolutely disagreed.
But even if it was difficult, she couldn't show it in front of her husband.
So she pretended not to know and said gently to Sheng Xin Hao, "So you've got your eye on Commander Li's youngest daughter. Then why are you still asking me to look?"
Sheng Xin Hao didn't know Fang Wanrong's thoughts. He said, "That boy is not obedient. I'm afraid he won't appreciate it or be willing. You should find a few more, so he can have more choices."
"Anyway, you continue to look on your side."
"Okay, I will pay attention."
Previously, Fang Wanrong hadn't paid much attention to finding a partner for Sheng Ze Xi, but now she had to.
She had to carefully choose. She would rather have Sheng Ze Xi marry someone she carefully selected than let him have such a powerful ally in the Li family.
Fang Manping went into her room, and Fang Wanrong followed her in.
After the door closed, Fang Manping couldn't hold back any longer.
"Mom, you know, Uncle has his heart set on Sheng Ze Xi and Li Shuyue being together. Why don't we just let them be together?" Fang Manping shook her mother's hand.
"No!" Fang Wanrong slapped her daughter's hand away and glared at her. "Don't think I don't know what you're thinking. You're just thinking that if you help Li Shuyue marry Sheng Ze Xi, Li Shuyue will help you get together with Li Tingxuan, right?"
"Mom also hopes you can be with the eldest son of the Li family, but Li Shuyue absolutely cannot marry Sheng Ze Xi. You should know that if Sheng Ze Xi marries Li Shuyue and has the Li family's support, your uncle will only value him more. Then what will be left for your younger brother in this family?"
Fang Manping fell silent, understanding again as she lowered her eyes.
Her mother did love her daughter, but compared to her son, she was nothing.
"Pingping, if your brother does well, you'll have someone to rely on, and you'll be okay. I hope you can understand my good intentions."
Fang Wanrong thought, if Sheng Ze Xi could never come back or die on the battlefield, how wonderful that would be.
Then everything in the Sheng family would belong to her son.
"Daughter, you really like the eldest son of the Li family that much?"
"Yes, Mom, I like Li Tingxuan, and I really want to marry him."
Fang Manping is 23 years old this year. When she followed her mother into the Sheng family, she was only 11. When she was 16, Li Tingxuan accidentally saved her.
From that moment on, Fang Manping fell in love with Li Tingxuan, deeply and irrevocably.
She didn't inherit her mother's looks, but her biological father's. Her appearance is at most considered pretty, but not outstanding.
But Fang Manping liked the handsome Li Tingxuan and always remembered that moment when he saved her.
Fang Wanrong sighed, about to say something, but ultimately said nothing.
Fang Wanrong always loved Fang Manping, although not as much as her son, but if she could, she wanted to give her the best.
"Mom, Li Shuyue will also go to the Northwest Military Region this time."
"I won't do anything extra. If they can be together this time, then you mustn't stop them. If not, I won't help Li Shuyue anymore."
"Mom, please spoil me one more time, okay? I'll be filial to you."
Fang Manping nestled into Fang Wanrong's arms, full of affection.
Fang Wanrong finally relented and nodded in agreement.
Sheng Ze Xi didn't know that his father had already started thinking about his marriage, nor did he know that Li Shuyue, who had been thinking of him, was about to go to the Northwest to find him.
He had already gone to the Gu family with a matchmaker to set the dates for the engagement and wedding banquet.
The engagement and betrothal ceremony was three days later, and the wedding banquet was fifteen days later, half a month.
He had also told the Gu family that his grandparents would be coming for these two important events.
The Gu family was very happy to learn that Sheng Ze Xi's grandparents would be coming, as it showed the importance the man placed on their family and Ningning.
After learning that Sheng Ze Xi's family consisted of his biological father and stepmother, and that he didn't have a good relationship with them, they didn't insist on his family coming.
Sheng Ze Xi came and went with the matchmaker, and the villagers were very curious. Yao Chunhua and others didn't hide it.
Soon, everyone in Huaihua Village knew that Gu Jia Ning was getting engaged and married to a military officer named Sheng Ze Xi from the Northwest.
These two days, Wen Zhuqing, who was in pain from being beaten, almost knocked over his fish soup when he heard the news.
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