Dong Xiaowan was curious why the address Lin Ze told the driver was not her home.
Doesn’t it mean that we have to face our mother’s doubts and bear her anger together?
What to do if you take yourself to a hotel?
Dong Xiaowan tilted her head slightly, stared at Lin Ze who looked calm, and asked curiously: "What are we going to the hotel for?"
"Meet your parents." Lin Ze smiled.
"Meet my parents?" Dong Xiaowan was slightly surprised. Could it be that Lin Ze had made an appointment with her parents behind her back? Thinking of this, Dong Xiaowan's heart was full of sweetness, but also a little worried.
What if things don’t go well? What if the mother’s attitude is still the same as that of the afternoon?
There were beads of sweat on her palms, and she bit her soft lips and said, "What if my mother still doesn't want to accept you?"
Lin Ze thought for a moment and said with a smile: "I think your mother is a reasonable person."
"This is not a question of unreasonableness." Dong Xiaowan sighed softly, a bit like Sister Lin. "It's simply that my mother can't accept your style."
"I can change my look. If I hadn't been a model for you, I wouldn't have exposed my breasts in front of women." Lin Ze gently held her cold catkins and comforted her. "Don't worry, I won't let you.
If you are in trouble, your mother will be released from the sea of misery and will be released early——"
Why do you say this so smoothly?
It seems that I need to keep my mouth shut later to avoid firing random shots and offending Du Qinghua again.
Soon, the taxi stopped at the door of the hotel. Lin Ze paid the fare and pulled Dong Xiaowan into the hotel lobby.
He had received a text message from Cheng Ying and knew which room they were in. He was also sure that Dong Xiaowan's parents had arrived. He walked calmly to the private room without letting the waiter lead the way.
"Your parents are in this private room." Lin Ze turned around and said to Dong Xiaowan, who was nervous and had sweaty palms.
"Let's just go in like this?" Dong Xiaowan's eyebrows showed concern that could not be concealed.
"Then how should we get in?" Lin Ze squeezed her palm and said softly, "It's okay, I'm by your side."
Dong Xiaowan mustered up her courage and nodded heavily.
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Du Qinghua and Dong Qingrui both waited for more than half an hour with confused expressions. Frankly speaking, they were a little impatient.
Based on the seats they sit in and their status, they are almost always asked to do things by others. They rarely take the initiative to wait for people, and they wait for more than half an hour.
Which restaurant has such great customers and such big airs?
Dong Qingrui himself is not an impatient boss. He is just aggrieved by his immediate boss. Although with his position in the Cultural Affairs Bureau, he does not have many opportunities to eat with Huo Cheng, but it does not mean that he never has one.
This time, all he saw was that the group of people had been waiting for Huo Cheng for a long time and served him humbly. They were afraid that they might accidentally make Huo Cheng unhappy.
He had never seen this scene before. He couldn't help but feel a little more confused about the guests he was accompanying this time.
Even if Dong Qingrui was like this, Du Qinghua's mood was even worse.
After what happened to Dong Xiaowan in the afternoon, she was now upset, restless, and unable to wait patiently.
However, his immediate boss, Cheng Ying, sat calmly and showed no displeasure at all. This was different from Cheng Ying's past behavior. Although he had a fairly decent private life, his temper was very bad, otherwise he would not have done it.
Blatantly insulting Du Qinghua.
Cheng Ying waited calmly. Her husband's old boss, the Director of the Cultural Affairs Bureau, was more thorough. He simply closed his eyes and rested his mind. He was indescribably calm and calm. There was no hint of impatience and anger.
Isn’t this guest a very remarkable person?
Otherwise, how could two powerful figures with high status wait so willingly?
Creak.
The private room door was finally pushed open. As soon as the door opened, the four people in the private room cast their wandering eyes towards the door——
He saw a man and a woman standing at the door. Dong Qinghua looked shocked. Cheng Ying looked as usual. Dong Qingrui frowned slightly. Huo Cheng stared deeply at Lin Ze with a hint of surprise in his eyes.
The Dong couple almost stayed in their chairs and showed no sign of getting up.
But their leader, the boss, stood up calmly and expressed the importance he attached to the couple. Especially Cheng Ying, like a eunuch meeting the emperor, was a little groveling, bowed his head and walked around the round table to help the couple.
He opened the chair and poured tea and water for them, being very attentive and courteous.
Huo Cheng nodded with a subtle smile as a greeting.
"Xiao Wan——" Dong Qingrui, who was unaware of the situation, finally came to his senses and asked with a dull look on his face. "Why are you here?"
After saying that, he looked at Dong Xiaowan who was coy.
"I——" Dong Xiaowan saw that besides her parents, there were two men she didn't know in the private room. She was so timid and speechless.
"Uncle, I am Dong Xiaowan's classmate." Lin Ze remembered Du Qinghua's warning and did not dare to call her Xiaowan directly in person, so he explained with a smile.
Although Du Qinghua also stood up, the weirdness on his face was self-evident. She was completely confused about the current situation. Vaguely, she remembered that Lin Ze mentioned the process director when he answered the phone at home. Could it be that he was currently serving him attentively?
This young man’s Cheng Ying?
At this moment, Du Qinghua's mind was completely confused.
Dong Qingrui didn't know about that, so he was still stable for the time being. He turned around and asked Huo Cheng: "Huo Bureau, what's going on here?"
"I don't know very well." Huo Cheng said politely. "I just invited Mr. Lin to have a meal and asked you to accompany me. I didn't know that he would bring your beautiful daughter here."
"Okay, okay." Cheng Ying said with a smile. "Director Huo, let's sit down and chat. It's time to serve the food. Mr. Lin, I ordered a few dishes that you should like. I will try them later."
"
"Well, okay." Lin Ze smiled and sat down, not showing off at all.
After the six people sat down, Dong Xiaowan lowered his head nervously, not daring to look at his mother's cold gaze. Dong Qingrui also noticed a subtle change and couldn't help but smile: "Mr. Lin, since you are my daughter's classmate
, that’s Zijinhua’s student, right?”
"Well, I am a student of Zijinhua." Lin Ze took a sip of tea, showing respect for Dong Qingrui in his words and deeds. "Uncle, just call me Xiao Lin. It's weird to call me Mr. Lin."
Dong Qingrui was slightly stunned and thought: "Not to mention that your boss at Tsinghua University, Director Cheng, was very courteous to you. Even the old director stood up when you came. It is obvious that your status is extraordinary. If I want to call you Mr. Lin, wouldn't it be a shame?
Talking about words?" Huo Cheng, who was about to refuse, persuaded him after sitting down and looking at his nose and heart. "Old Dong, since Mr. Lin said so, don't refuse. He is your daughter.
Classmate, it’s reasonable to call me Xiaolin.”
Lin Ze nodded in agreement, Dong Qingrui had no choice but to call him that.
Next, a very awkward dinner continued. Dong Xiaowan was embarrassed, Dong and his wife were embarrassed, and Cheng Ying was also quite uncomfortable. He was an outsider and didn't know what he was doing here, so he could only apologize from beginning to end. Huo Cheng
Having been immersed in the dinner party culture for many years, I have my own way of dealing with this kind of embarrassing situation. I sit on the chair very calmly, occasionally eat a peanut, and take a sip of wine. My expression is relaxed and calm.
After a brief conversation with Dong Qingrui, Lin Ze opened a bottle of Laobaigan and poured the 67-degree Laobaigan into a red wine glass. Half a catty of white wine was poured into the glass in one go, and he raised his hand
He stood up and raised a glass to the taciturn Du Qinghua: "Auntie, what happened in the afternoon was my fault, but please don't misunderstand me. I'm really not the kind of person you think. I apologize to you for this glass of wine."
Then, under the gaze of everyone, he raised his glass and drank half a kilogram of white wine down his throat.
"Good drinker!" Cheng Ying seized the opportunity to slap him.
Dong and his wife looked at Lin Ze blankly. Du Qinghua was shocked by the young man's drinking capacity, while Dong Qingrui was confused by Lin Ze's words. Apologize? Could it be that this young man and his wife met in the afternoon?
Pass?
A twinge of doubt could not help but arise in my stomach.
Lin Ze smiled shyly. After drinking half a kilogram of white wine, he grabbed a bottle of Laobaigan on each side, picked it up with his thumb, popped off the bottle cap with brute force, and poured wine into the big cup at the same time.
A full kilogram of white wine was actually put into a wine glass.
His move once again made everyone in the private room look askance. Even Huo Cheng frowned slightly, wondering what this very familiar young man was going to do.
"Dong Xiaowan is your daughter, auntie, and she shouldn't make you angry. But she definitely can't drink half a catty of liquor, so let me take her place. And since I find someone else to take her place, it will naturally double." Lin Ze raised his wine glass and said with great sincerity.
He said, "With this glass of wine, I will apologize to you on Dong Xiaowan's behalf."
After saying that, he actually raised his head and poured the spicy and pure white wine down his throat.
"Huh -" Lin Ze put down the wine glass, touched the wine stain on the corner of his mouth, looked at Du Qinghua who had a dull face and said, "Auntie, I hope you can forgive us for our abrupt behavior this afternoon."
Du Qinghua said coldly, but Cheng Ying was busy trying to smooth things over: "Old Du, you see that Mr. Lin has already achieved this level, and it's not a big deal. Are you still unwilling to step down for Mr. Lin?"
Du Qinghua remained silent, but Dong Qingrui asked with a strange expression: "Xiao Lin, can you tell me what's going on?"
Dong Qingrui wondered - could it be that his daughter did something like that to him and was exposed by his wife in front of him?
My anxious heart started to flutter, and I started to panic.
"This -" Lin Ze hesitated for a moment. He didn't know whether it was because he drank too much in one go. He was a little alcoholic and still felt embarrassed and didn't know how to explain it. He organized his words and said nervously. "I will recommend myself to be a model this afternoon.
Your daughter was the subject of a sketch and was bumped into by her aunt——"
"I'm just a model -" Dong Qingrui felt relieved at the moment and complained that his wife was making too much fuss.
"What's just being a model?" Du Qinghua said coldly. "Isn't it a big deal for your daughter to sketch a shirtless man at home?"
"Topless?" Dong Qingrui asked inexplicably. "Why are you shirtless for painting?"
"Because -" Lin Ze hesitated with great grievance. I was showing off my strong figure to Dong Xiaowan. But Dong Xiaowan was painting the scars on his body, hoping to keep them as souvenirs. But such a thing, in such a magnificent place,
Is it inappropriate to say it in the private room? Will it make Dong Xiaowan lose face?
For a moment, I was in a dilemma and didn't know what to do.
"Because I want to carve out the scars on Lin Ze's body one by one! Treasure them for a lifetime!"
Dong Xiaowan, who had been keeping his head down since entering the private room, suddenly burst out. He stood up suddenly, with tears in his eyes, stared at Du Qinghua with resentment and disappointment and said angrily: "Mom, I will do whatever you usually say.
When did I not listen to you? But my daughter is already an adult. Doesn’t she even have the right to choose the boy she likes? He has many scars on his body, so does he have to be a bad person? He will definitely not be good to his daughter? My daughter drew a picture for her boyfriend
Is the topless sketch really so outrageous that it is unforgivable and deserves death?" Dong Xiaowan wiped away tears from the corners of her eyes and said loudly. "If you really think so, then just think that you gave birth to my daughter in vain!
"
After that, Dong Xiaowan rushed out the door with tears streaming down her face——
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