I was squeezed out by my boss at work and suffered heavy losses at home.
Du Qinghua, who was sitting helplessly on the sofa, looked in a daze and his eyes were dull.
Seeing that her mother was so lost and desperate, Dong Xiaowan wanted to explain that Lin Ze was not the scum of society as she said. However, after thinking about it, Lin Ze did admit that he was a gangster. It didn't seem like an exaggeration to say that he was a scum of society when his mother scolded him.
——
Dong Xiaowan was caught in the middle and collapsed.
Creak.
The bathroom door was opened, and Lin Ze washed his hands and came out with a calm face, showing no change at all.
Dong Xiaowan looked even more flustered when she saw him coming out, and didn't know what to do for a moment. Du Qinghua, on the other hand, was not even in the mood to look at Lin Ze. As soon as she saw the blood stains on Lin Ze's shirt and his slovenly appearance, she felt depressed
, filled with rage. If it weren't for the good cultivation gained over the years to suppress her irritable mood, she would probably have uttered vicious words.
"Auntie, I——"
The phone rang as expected. Lin Ze glanced at the caller ID, picked up the phone and said, "Director Cheng, yes, I'm Xiao Lin. Well, okay, I'll be there tonight."
Cheng Ying hung up the phone, sweating profusely and almost collapsed.
Xiaolin?
I even want to call you Uncle Lin——
Putting away the phone, Lin Zechong said to Du Qinghua, who had a trace of doubt between his brows: "Auntie, don't be angry, I'm leaving right away."
Du Qinghua crossed her arms and turned away, not looking at him.
Lin Ze cast a comforting look at Dong Xiaowan, telling her not to worry. Then he left helplessly.
After all, Du Qinghua was so desperate that when she went home when she was extremely depressed, she found her daughter flirting with a man covered in scars in her living room. The scene was unsightly. It was different from the reserved and elegant daughter she used to have.
The styles are completely different. It would be difficult for any mother to accept this fact.
After all, Dong Xiaowan was just a senior high school student. She was chatting and laughing with a strange man in the living room. Although there was no physical contact, even so, it was still difficult for Du Qinghua, who had worked in the Education Bureau for 20 years, to accept it.
"Mom——" Dong Xiaowan walked timidly in front of Du Qinghua, trying to comfort her mother's hurt heart.
"If you associate with that man again in the future, I will not recognize you as my daughter!" Du Qinghua said coldly.
Dong Xiaowan collapsed.
Do you not allow yourself to interact with Lin Ze? Otherwise, your mother will sever the mother-daughter relationship with you?
How heavy is this sentence?
Dong Xiaowan cried silently and stood there with blurred tears. After a long while, she suddenly burst into the bedroom with a cry and locked the door.
Du Qinghua's hurt and cold heart felt a touch of tenderness. He sat on the sofa and murmured dully: "Daughter, Mom is doing this for you too. You are still young and ignorant. But Mom has lived a long life.
How can I push you into a pit of fire? No matter how good that man is to you, look at his scars. If he hadn't been a gangster, would an ordinary person have been chopped like this? Mom, I only have a daughter like you. If one day
If something happens because of him, how are you going to let mom live?"
On the other hand, Du Qinghua really couldn't imagine how her daughter, who had always been quiet and reserved, with quite the ladylike demeanor, could develop to this point with a man who didn't have an outstanding appearance and looked extremely sleazy. Even though she had already done this before.
She vaguely guessed that her daughter might like a boy, or even fall in love. But she never imagined that the boy her daughter liked would be such an alien!
Has her daughter really fallen to this point?
Thinking of this, Du Qinghua's eyes filled with tears, and his heart ached extremely.
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Lin Ze had dinner with Han Xiaoyi who was full of complaints, relaxed on the playground for a while, and then went back to the classroom for evening self-study.
Han Xiaoyi had already been mentally prepared for Lin Ze's unexpected class skipping. Xia Shuzhu also seemed to have nothing to do with the careless Lin Ze. She tried to cover him up if she could, but she couldn't - Xia Shuzhu didn't notice that Lin Ze wasn't in class.
Some school leaders are giving him trouble——
Even Li Xiao and Zhang Dachui, who often caused trouble in the past, have ceased their activities.
Little did they know that these two wretched men had switched from working on the stage to working underground, and kept whispering in Gu Xin's ears to get the son of the director of the shareholders' meeting to come forward.
When he entered the classroom, there were still ten minutes left before class started. The students were all whispering to each other, and it was very lively. Lin Ze, who was sitting in the last row, saw Dong Xiaowan at a glance, but found that she was very silent and haggard, holding the book, but her beautiful eyes were lifeless and her expression was gloomy.
Tell Lin Ze that she is not in the mood to read at all, she is just showing off.
Seeing her like this, Lin Ze couldn't disturb him in the classroom. He had to study in the evening with mixed emotions.
The evening self-study was in English. Xia Shuzhu assigned a test paper to be handed in after class.
English classes have always been something that Lin Ze can understand a little bit. Although he has some criticisms about some of the content Xia Shuzhu said. But after all, it is one of the classes that he can barely understand and he does not dare to speak out loud.
Under the influence of these few months, I have made some progress in the written examination. It is not a big problem to score 100 points on the 150-point paper.
The two periods of evening self-study passed by in a hurry. After finishing the test papers and handing them to the group leader, Xia Shuzhu announced that get out of class was over.
When going downstairs, Lin Ze pulled Han Xiaoyi and said, "Today, two people will take you home. You have met one of them."
"Who?" Han Xiaoyi asked curiously.
"Father, the killer who ripped off the roof of your car last time." Lin Ze smiled.
"Let the killer protect me. It's really creative." Han Xiaoyi said jokingly. "Remember to go home early, I won't be able to sleep without eating midnight snacks."
"Well, okay."
After parting ways with the Han siblings, Lin Ze saw with sharp eyes that Dong Xiaowan was walking with his head down under the street lights on the main road, looking very depressed and lost. He was different from the gentle and elegant person he used to be. He felt a slight pain in his heart and quickly stepped forward and shouted:
"Xiaowan, wait a moment."
Dong Xiaowan, who was walking slowly with her head lowered, trembled and her shoulders shook slightly, but she didn't dare to look back and just continued to move forward.
"Are you avoiding me because of your mother?" Lin Ze walked up to her in two steps, a touch of bitter tenderness appeared on his face with his back to the light.
Dong Xiaowan's tears had dried up. With her eyes red and swollen, she raised her head slightly and said with a choked voice: "Mom won't let me see you again - otherwise she will draw a clear line with me. What should I do? What should I do..."
A face that was originally very classically beautiful was haggard and very lovable at this moment. Lin Ze didn't care much, reached out to wipe away the tears on her face, and said in a very caring tone: "Your mother doesn't want to
The reason why you contacted me and didn’t want you to see me is because she thinks I’m covered in scars and that I’m a low-life bastard. Is that right?”
Dong Xiaowan bit her soft lips, nodded ambivalently, and said softly: "But I know you are not that kind of person. Even if you are a gangster, I believe you are different from others."
Lin Ze's mouth felt bitter. He suddenly took her cold little hand and said gently: "Now, let's prove this. Let your mother know that the man you like is not a bastard in your mother's eyes. Let's face you together.
Mom’s doubts, let’s bear your mother’s anger and crusade together, okay?”
Dong Xiaowan stared at Lin Ze's extremely serious expression and said softly: "I know that I will not choose the wrong man after all."
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Du Qinghua lay in bed to rest all night. She was not in the mood to eat dinner or prepare dinner. Her husband called in advance and said that there was an impromptu dinner party and he could not go home for dinner. Her daughter did not eat dinner, so she secretly went to school.
Du Qinghua, who was lying on the bed, suddenly felt as if the sky had collapsed. There was no hope in life.
My daughter likes a gangster?
She couldn't accept this fact. She was an educator, but her ideas were not particularly outdated. After she found out that her daughter might be in love with someone or even fall in love, she didn't object. However, she couldn't accept that her daughter was dating someone.
A man covered in scars falls in love.
Have I, Du Qinghua’s daughter, fallen to this level?
Even if the other person is not an extremely outstanding man, can't he even have an ordinary job?
She could even imagine that if her daughter was really with this man, she would live in a moldy, alcoholic house every day, and might be hunted down by this man's enemies at any time, leading a precarious life?
Tears rolled down unbridled, and her heart was broken.
Ding ding——
The phone rang uncontrollably.
The previous ring was a mobile phone. When she saw that the caller ID was Cheng Ying, she hung up immediately. But now, the landline rang again. The caller ID was still Cheng Ying, and Du Qinghua still wanted to hang up. But the other party was the leader after all, even if he verbally attacked her.
, if you never answer the phone, the impact will be very bad.
After adjusting his mood, Du Qinghua answered the phone.
"Hey, Lao Du, you haven't answered my call. Are you still angry about what happened this afternoon?" Cheng Ying said softly as soon as the call was connected.
"Director Cheng is overthinking, I'm just a little busy." Du Qinghua said calmly, but there was a hint of rejection in his words.
"It's okay if you don't. I have a dinner here and I want you to come with me. Do you have time?" Cheng Ying said with a smile.
"Dinner party?" Du Qinghua frowned slightly. Cheng Ying always took a girl in her twenties to dinner parties in the office. It was never her own fault, and Du Qinghua didn't even bother to participate. But this time he was suddenly called to go.
, couldn’t help but become curious.
Du Qinghua knew that Cheng Ying's private life was quite decent. Even if he asked his colleague who was in his twenties and had a sweet voice to go, it was just to save face, not to have any evil intentions. Furthermore, although he took good care of himself, he was still a human being.
*Wife and mother, a nearly fifty-year-old woman. She is not worried about the unspoken rules that may lead to plundering in the industry.
"Well, I have to have dinner with a very important guest. Please be there before half past nine." Cheng Ying said with a smile.
Du Qinghua was in an extremely bad mood and wanted to refuse, but she didn't know that Cheng Ying's attitude was extremely tough. She had no choice but to agree: "Okay, I'll be over in a minute."
After hanging up the phone, Du Qinghua tidied up a little and was about to go out when he left a piece of paper on the coffee table: Leave the midnight snack in the refrigerator and heat it up before eating.
He drove to the hotel Cheng Ying had agreed on, one of the best high-end hotels in Huaxin City. This made Du Qinghua a little confused.
Although the Education Bureau is also a good unit, it is still unlikely for a director of Cheng Ying's level to go to such an extremely luxurious hotel. After parking the car, as soon as he left the parking lot, he saw Cheng Ying anxiously waiting at the door.
He took two steps forward and asked curiously: "Director Cheng, who is the guest accompanying you this time? How did you come to such a good hotel?"
Cheng Ying raised his wrist and looked at the time, and said urgently: "Don't ask yet, there is already a heavyweight waiting inside. We are already late."
"We are not the only ones accompanying you?" Du Qinghua was even more confused.
"Director of the Cultural Affairs Bureau, he has been waiting for more than half an hour. I was notified only at the last minute." Cheng Ying said with his briefcase under his arm. "Hurry in."
The two entered the hall, and when they arrived at the private room, several people in the private room were stunned——
"husband?"
"Tsinghua University?"
"Why are you here too?"
Dong Qingrui and Du Qinghua were both startled, and immediately their heads were filled with confusion.
But Huo Cheng, the director of the Cultural Affairs Bureau, was sitting here at attention, and they did not react too radically. They hurriedly took their seats, but there was a strong look of surprise on their faces.
Who are the guests who are accompanied by the Cultural Affairs Bureau and the Education Bureau at the same time?
Among the four people, Cheng Ying was the only one who secretly lamented that his cousin was right. Lin Ze, a ruthless man, could actually call the director of the Cultural Affairs Bureau and wait for him for more than half an hour with just one phone call. He really couldn't afford to offend him——
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PS: 2 chapters in a row in the early morning. Well, to be honest, the editor asked Fei Fei to deposit more manuscripts more than once in the past few days. The purpose of depositing more manuscripts is that there must be no explosion. Fei Fei is under great pressure to explode. And
I am not asking for credit. If I want to take credit, Fei Fei will sacrifice part of his interests - to put it bluntly, by applying for free updates to the entire book, Fei Fei has already harmed his own interests a lot. But in order for every reader who likes this book to read it,
Fei Fei still applied for free. This is voluntary, everyone is happy to see it, and Fei Fei is also happy.
When there is no outbreak, Fei Fei basically never asks everyone to provide support that requires spending money. So when there is an outbreak, Fei Fei hopes that friends who have the ability and spare money can give some support, so that during the outbreak, all the data of the book will be improved.
