After my divorce, I started to have good luck-Chapter 825 - 444: Engagement and Welcoming the Bride (Part 2)

Fang Xiaoyue didn't refuse, and instead said, "Then you can walk me home. There's a road being repaired near where I live, it's hard for cars to get through, and the streetlights are broken. It's pitch black and quite scary. Can you be my knight in shining armor for once?"

Chen Feng, of course, couldn't refuse this request. It was past ten already, and it was indeed late. A woman walking alone at night could be dangerous.

"Sure, no problem, I'll take you home."

"Thanks, I'll lead the way, you follow me."

The two drove their cars, one following the other, towards Fang Xiaoyue's home.

It wasn't far. After driving for about five minutes, Fang Xiaoyue's car stopped by the roadside, and Chen Feng's car stopped behind her.

They got out, closed and locked their cars, and looked ahead at the stretch of road. Indeed, the road was under repair, and cars couldn't pass through. They could only walk on the pedestrian path beside it.

"See, the road here is under repair, and the streetlights up ahead are broken. So, usually, I don't go out at night."

Fang Xiaoyue pointed ahead and said to Chen Feng.

Chen Feng thought to himself, then why did you go out tonight? But it wouldn't sound good if he said it out loud. After all, her original plan was to spend the night with Qi Fulin, and who knew Chen Feng, her old classmate, would bump into her, making her suddenly stand Qi Fulin up.

Faced with a situation like this, Chen Feng did feel some sympathy for Qi Fulin.

"Let's go."

Fang Xiaoyue waved her hand at Chen Feng, then led the way.

Chen Feng followed behind her without saying much.

"Chen Feng, is there something between you and Mengyao?"

After walking just a few steps, Fang Xiaoyue suddenly slowed down and turned to ask Chen Feng.

Chen Feng replied calmly, "Why do you ask?"

Fang Xiaoyue laughed and said, "Mengyao and I are in touch often, and we go shopping together on weekends and holidays. Every time she talks about you, her eyes light up and she sometimes giggles. You helped her when she was in trouble back then, and now you're the second largest shareholder in her company. If there's really nothing between you two, I wouldn't believe it. After all, you're both single now, and if there really was something, it wouldn't be a moral issue."

"You're overthinking it. There's nothing between Mengyao and me."

If it were someone else, Chen Feng might have confessed, but since Fang Xiaoyue was a high school classmate of both him and Guo Mengyao, he definitely couldn't confess. Otherwise, it might spread among their high school classmates.

Chen Feng himself didn't mind, but he was worried it might be bad for Guo Mengyao. In these matters, it's always women who get the short end of the stick.

"Do you really believe what you're saying?" Fang Xiaoyue stared at Chen Feng and asked.

Chen Feng nodded calmly, "I believe it."

Fang Xiaoyue was momentarily speechless, feeling a bit annoyed, turned around, and continued walking forward.

After walking a stretch of over ten meters, they found the streetlights indeed broken. Both turned on their phone flashlights for illumination.

After walking fifty or sixty meters, they arrived at a cluster of residential houses, all ground-level buildings, built along the cement road. There were houses on both sides, looking like they had been there for years.

If it were in the past, this place would definitely be considered suburban, but now it barely counts as part of the city.

"Alright, I'm home. Come in for a cup of tea."

In front of a three-story house, Fang Xiaoyue turned around and looked at Chen Feng again.

Chen Feng quickly shook his head, "No thanks. I have something early tomorrow."

"My parents aren't home, I'm living here alone now. Don't you really want to come in for a bit?"

This time, Chen Feng didn't bother to say no again; he just shook his head, waved his hand, and turned to leave.

Fang Xiaoyue watched Chen Feng's fading figure, wanting to speak a few times, but eventually didn't say a word.

...

The next morning, Chen Feng was woken by the loud knocking of his mom, telling him to get up for breakfast. But Chen Feng knew this was her way of asking him to get up early to accompany Wu Mengting.

Indeed, Chen Feng reluctantly got up and went to the kitchen, where he saw Wu Mengting chatting happily with his mom.

"Alright, come over and have breakfast with Little Ting. I'm going to the supermarket now."

Zhao Xiaolan said and then left, leaving the two momentarily speechless.

"Auntie asked me to join tomorrow's engagement feast with you, you don't mind, right?" Wu Mengting started the conversation.

"No objections. Come on, let's eat."

Breakfast was glutinous rice, a favorite for both.

After finishing breakfast, Chen Feng didn't chat much with Wu Mengting. He went to the room at the back of the kitchen, grabbed his clothes and luggage, and took them to his room on the second floor. He was living on the second floor, and it was only natural for Wu Mengting to stay in his new room.

Chen Feng spent the morning in his second-floor room scrolling through his phone. After lunch, his mom ordered him to take Wu Mengting with him to inspect the supermarket in Yuelou Town.

Thus, Chen Feng and Wu Mengting spent the whole afternoon together.

At the small supermarket, only Mao Xiaoling's mom was there today since Mao Xiaoling was getting engaged tomorrow, so she wasn't working today.

The day quickly passed, and in the evening, although Chen Feng wanted to invite Wu Mengting out again, she declined.

Finally, the day of the engagement arrived, and Chen Feng was once again woken up early by his mom to prepare for the wedding.

They got up around seven and began preparations, especially checking that the gifts prepared for the bride were correct and timely boxed up.

Then there was the car for the bride's home pickup which needed to be decorated at the flower shop.

There was a service for that right on their street, and in about ten minutes, the car was decorated.

Bing, a village acquaintance who drives a Range Rover, arrived punctually at eight; his car was already prepared. He chatted a bit with Chen Feng and his brothers and even handed out cigarettes, being very courteous.

They set off at eight-thirty.

Chen Rui, familiar with the roads, drove Chen Feng's car as the lead car, while Chen Feng sat in the passenger seat. Wu Mengting, Zhao Xiaolan, and Zhao Xiaomei were also in the same car.

Zhao Xiaomei, Chen Feng's aunt, had arrived early that morning.

Wu Mengting had driven her BMW X7 here, but chose not to drive it for the pickup, avoiding stealing the spotlight.

The convoy reached Yuelou Town around nine, first picking up Chen Feng's uncle Zhao Guozhong and the prepared bride's gifts, before heading to Mao Xiaoling's family home.

Around nine-thirty, they arrived, and with a long string of firecrackers, Chen Feng, his brother, and Bing, the driver, together carried the gifts to the door.

Entering Mao Xiaoling's family home, they delivered the gifts, with Zhao Xiaolan and her sister representing the groom's family, chatting with Mao Xiaoling's mother, exchanging marriage certificates, followed by the bride's side preparing snacks and reciprocating with gifts for the groom's family to take back.

Afterward, by the time they returned to Yuelou Town, it was almost eleven. Once the two "newlyweds" entered the room and settled everything in place, the engagement banquet was next.

The whole group moved to the restaurant, and it was officially about noon, twelve o'clock, when the banquet began, not considered late.

According to local customs, banquet guests didn't pay, and they left with at least a bag of wedding candies, and perhaps other gifts like a pack of Chinese cigarettes, bedding, or cooking oil.

This time, Zhao Guozhong was even more generous, besides the candy bag, each guest received a one-hundred-dollar red envelope, instead of other traditional gifts for attending guests.

In this way, it was quite grand. Now that Zhao Guozhong had some money, he wanted to hold the wedding generously and ceremoniously.