In the East China Sea at the end of November, withered yellow leaves can be seen everywhere on the streets, and the whole city is filled with a desolate atmosphere.
It was only seven o'clock, and the sun was gradually setting over the mountains. There were traffic jams on several main roads as usual. Countless cars were connected together, like a long queue of cars, with no end in sight.
The sound of horns, scolding, traffic police whistles, all kinds of sounds combined together, it was so lively.
In order to avoid peak traffic hours, Chen Fan and Susan did not dare to take the main road after shopping. Instead, they took a long detour and arrived at the community where Su Qinghai lived at 6:50.
As an upstart in the business community of the East China Sea and even the South, Su Qinghai does not live in a wealthy area, but in a community east of the city called Minsheng Garden. It is a real estate developed in the past two years. The community covers a large area.
There are seventy or eighty buildings in total, including high-rise buildings and small high-rise buildings.
A community with 70 or 80 buildings is considered to be quite large. The green environment in the community is first-rate, with flowers, trees, rockeries, and artificial rivers. Likewise, such a large-scale community has a very large number of residents.
This was Chen Fan's second visit to Su Qinghai's residence, but he was no stranger to it. He drove the car to Building No. 56 with familiarity.
"Hey, idiot, you have a pretty good memory. I thought you might get lost." Seeing Chen Fan stop the car, Susan looked surprised.
Chen Fan glanced at Susan angrily: "Grandma, don't you look at what your husband does?"
"Oh, by the way, I forgot that you are a special forces soldier." Susan suddenly realized, then she seemed to remember something, and said with a special look: "Huh, speaking of your identity, I remembered what my father hid from me.
Come on, go up later and see how I deal with him."
With that said, Susan opened the car door excitedly and walked straight out.
Looking at Susan's excited look, Chen Fan knew very well that what Susan said about cleaning up was a lie. The reason why she was so excited was because she had not seen Su Qinghai for many days and missed her very much.
As if to confirm Chen Fan's guess, when he arrived at Su Qinghai's home with gifts and Susan, Su Qinghai opened the door early and greeted them with a smile on his face.
"Dad." When Susan saw Su Qinghai, she couldn't help shouting, and then she threw herself into Su Qinghai's arms like a baby.
"You are such an adult, and you are still acting like a baby." Su Qinghai smiled and stroked Susan's hair, and at the same time said to Chen Fan: "Xiao Fan, what are you here to buy for dinner? Put your things down quickly."
"Okay, Uncle Su." Chen Fan smiled and put the gift aside.
Susan raised her mouth and hummed: "Dad, which law in the country stipulates that when you grow up, you can't act like a spoiled child?"
"Okay, let's throw it at Xiaofan." Su Qinghai laughed and said.
"Dad..." Suddenly hearing what Su Qinghai said, Susan's pretty face suddenly turned red. She quickly broke away from Su Qinghai's arms and walked to the kitchen angrily: "Ignore you guys, I'm going to find my mother."
While talking, a woman wearing an apron walked out of the kitchen with beads of sweat on her face and a bright smile: "Xiaofan, sit back with your uncle first, and auntie will fry these vegetables.
After that, let’s have dinner.”
"Mom, don't you care about your precious daughter anymore? I'm standing here, your precious daughter, and you say hello to that idiot first?" Susan was very depressed when she saw Qin Guizhen just ignoring her.
As soon as Susan said these words, Chen Fan and the other three laughed. Su Qinghai laughed the most exaggeratedly, without the demeanor of a successful person at all. While Qin Guizhen laughed, a complicated look flashed in her eyes.
"Mom, how dare you ignore your little ancestor? Come on, don't you always brag on the phone that your cooking skills have improved a lot? Today, show us your skills." Qin Guizhen smiled and hugged the pouting girl.
Susan walked into the kitchen.
In the living room, Su Qinghai opened a box of cigarettes specially provided by the army and threw one to Chen Fan.
Silently taking the cigarette thrown by Su Qinghai, Chen Fan first lit it for Su Qinghai and then for himself.
"Xiaofan, it's been a long time since I came to Donghai. What do you think of it here?" Su Qinghai took a deep drag on his cigarette and asked.
Perhaps due to the guilty conscience of being a thief, Chen Fan, who was fearless, was a little nervous when facing Su Qinghai, but his expression was normal: "Very good."
"Xiaofan, your aunt and I have been too busy recently and haven't come back to see you. It's our fault." Su Qinghai exhaled a breath of thick smoke and sighed: "Although I haven't taken care of Shan Yatou much since I was a child, Shan Yatou
After all, she is my flesh and blood, and as a father, I still know her very well."
Ding!
Suddenly hearing Su Qinghai's words, Chen Fan seemed to realize something, and his heart couldn't help but move slightly. At the same time, he stopped smoking and looked at Su Qinghai eagerly. He didn't dare to answer the words randomly, but just listened quietly.
"I know that Shan Yatou has been spoiled by me and her mother since she was a child. She has many problems and has a very stubborn temper." Su Qinghai said this and glanced at Chen Fan: "I'm afraid she has given you a lot during this time.
Cause trouble."
"Shanshan is actually... quite good. There is nothing wrong with her." Chen Fan said something nice to Susan with a strange look on his face.
"Haha! However, it seems that you are developing well." Chen Fan's words sounded in his ears, and Su Qinghai laughed and said: "To be honest, Xiaofan, I am really happy to see you like this."
Relieved?!
Could it be that... Su Qinghai didn't know about cheating?
Chen Fan immediately realized something.
"By the way, Xiaofan, have you contacted your family recently? I called your dad some time ago and your dad said that your old man seems to be in poor health." Su Qinghai suddenly lowered his voice and asked Chen Fan, with a look on his face.
There is no longer the relaxed smile before, but a sense of solemnity.
Originally, Chen Fan felt lucky that Su Qinghai didn't know about his affair with Li Ying. Suddenly, when he heard Su Qinghai mentioning his family, his face changed slightly, and there was a trace of unconcealable displeasure in his eyes. Then he heard Su Qinghai mentioning his family.
He said that the old man was not in good health, and his pupils suddenly dilated: "Hasn't he always been in good health? Why did he suddenly become bad?"
"Hey, Xiaofan, how should I put it? Mr. Chen is getting old too. No matter how good his health is, he can't withstand the corrosion of time." Su Qinghai couldn't help but sigh at the end of his sentence: "I think about your father and I back then.
When we were killing Vietnamese monkeys on the battlefield, we were so active that we could stay up for days and nights without any problems. But now? We are all old bones!"
"That's right." Chen Fan gently agreed without saying anything more.
Seeing that Chen Fan's expression was a little unnatural, Su Qinghai couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart.
As Chen Fan's future father-in-law and an old comrade-in-arms of Chen Fan's father, although Su Qinghai did not know the Chen family well, he did know some things, including the conflict between Chen Fan and Mrs. Chen.
It's just that... there are some words that he, an outsider, cannot say. The person who untie the bell must also tie the bell, so he changed the subject wisely: "Xiaofan, if you can, use less force in the future, as that will be very harmful to your condition."
unfavorable."
Um?
Hearing Su Qinghai's words in shock, Chen Fan raised his head in confusion.
"Although I haven't been in the East China Sea for a while, I know everything about you." Su Qinghai couldn't help but sighed and said: "I rushed back in a hurry, not because of anything else, but because I heard that you and that
***The martial arts geniuses competed, and I couldn’t let it go. Originally, I planned to go to the scene to watch, but I was afraid that you would feel uncomfortable, so I didn’t go in the end. Fortunately, nothing happened to you."
Hearing what Su Qinghai said, Chen Fan couldn't help but feel warm in his heart and nodded subconsciously: "Uncle Su, I understand."
Although he said this, Chen Fan knew very well that now he had provoked two behemoths, the Yamaguchi-gumi and the Green Gang, and was involved in the whirlpool. It was not easy to escape from the whirlpool.
Su Qinghai seemed to know this, as his expression became a little solemn, and there was worry in his eyes that could not be erased.
As Chen Fan's future father-in-law, his understanding of Chen Fan is very one-sided. He only knows that Chen Fan was sent to a mysterious organization when he was very young. He has no idea how he got here over the years. As for knowing Chen Fan's
The condition was entirely due to what Chen Fan's father told him.
He knew very well that the reason why Chen Fan's father told him this was to let him think clearly about whether he wanted to continue the marriage he had agreed upon.
For Su Qinghai, he had sacrificed too much for this marriage, so naturally he would not refuse it because of Chen Fan's weird illness.
Half an hour later, Susan and Qin Guizhen came out of the kitchen together and asked Chen Fan and Su Qinghai to go to the restaurant to eat.
The dinner was extremely rich, with eight dishes and two soups, all in color, aroma and taste, all made by Qin Guizhen.
In a sense, if it were not for the promise she made back then, Qin Guizhen would never agree to Susan and Chen Fan being together. Although she agrees now, she is somewhat worried about her daughter. This was also the last time she was in
The reason for crying in front of Su Qinghai made Su Qinghai furious.
However, despite worries, Qin Guizhen still behaved like an approachable mother-in-law. She did not make things difficult for Chen Fan and frequently served Chen Fan with food, which made Susan scream for favoritism, while Su Qinghai laughed non-stop and was happy.
Like a child.
For Chen Fan, growing up, there were only a handful of times when he sat down to eat with his relatives like today. He even forgot what his mother's food tasted like.
The harmonious atmosphere invisibly warmed Chen Fan's frozen heart.
After dinner, Susan unusually helped Qin Guizhen go to the kitchen to wash the dishes, while Chen Fan was still sitting in the hall chatting with Su Qinghai.
Perhaps because the dinner atmosphere was too harmonious, Su Qinghai was in a good mood. Instead of talking about those tangled topics, he said with a smile: "Xiaofan, you don't know something. You have tricked Mr. Qin this time. He
The old man called me several times to complain."
Old principal?
Hearing Su Qinghai talk about Qin An, Chen Fan instinctively thought of the promise he made to the old principal.
"Looking back, I will find an opportunity to apologize to the old principal." After thinking about it, Chen Fan did not reveal the private agreement he had reached with Qin An in front of Su Qinghai.
Su Qinghai smiled and said: "Mr. Qin is well-connected in the economic field, so this little trouble is nothing to him. The only thing that gives him a headache is Gu Qinghe, the top leader in the education system."
"How do you say it?" Chen Fan asked curiously.
"Gu Qinghe is extremely rigid and stubborn. He has always been at odds with Mr. Qin. This time he grabbed Mr. Qin's braid and refused to let go." Su Qinghai sighed: "According to Mr. Qin, Gu Qinghe has to personally
Meet you."
"See me?" Chen Fan couldn't help but frowned.
"Teacher Qin said so." Su Qinghai nodded, then hesitated and said: "Mr. Qin didn't tell me what I wanted to do with you specifically. However, Mr. Qin asked me to tell you that this Gu Qinghe is not easy to deal with.
, so that you can be somewhat prepared.”
While speaking, Su Qinghai gave Chen Fan a deep look, as if saying to Chen Fan: As the leader of the Donghai education system, Gu Qinghe is different from those playboys. You can't do anything wrong...
