Chapter 1 To be a man, one must have affection, righteousness and responsibility...
As night falls, the lanterns are lit everywhere, and Jinguan City enters the night life of feasting and feasting.
However, these are of no concern to Lin Yang, who is eager to find a part-time job.
Walking out of a job agency, Lin Yang looked up at the waning moon in the night and breathed a sigh of relief: "After paying the tuition and accommodation fees, I don't have much money left in my pocket. If I can't find any more,
If I get a part-time job, I’ll really have a northwest wind next month.”
Since registering at school, he has been looking for part-time jobs near the university town. Three days have passed in the blink of an eye, but he has gained nothing at all.
This is not surprising. At the beginning of each new school year, part-time jobs are most in demand around university towns. It is not easy to find a part-time job. Moreover, he came a few days late, so the opportunities are naturally more
vague.
A monotonous melody of bells suddenly rang.
Lin Yang took out the long-discontinued Nokia 3100 from his trouser pocket. After seeing the caller number on the screen clearly, he couldn't help but frown.
The caller was none other than his father Lin Wenzhi.
After a brief hesitation, Lin Yang pressed the answer button. Before he could speak, a dignified middle-aged man's voice came from the phone: "Where are you? Why didn't you report to Stanford University's GSB Business School?
"
"I didn't go to the United States."
Lin Yang neither lied nor concealed anything, because he knew very well that as long as his father wanted to investigate, within two hours, his whereabouts, including what he had done in the past few days, would be fully investigated.
"I have already gone through the admission procedures at West China University School of Medicine, and I will not go to Stanford University."
"Nonsense!" Lin Wenzhi was very angry: "I asked you to study financial management at Stanford University to train you to be my successor. After you return from your studies, you will gradually take over the family business and become the next head of the Lin family.
.You should know how many people are coveting the position of being the helmsman of the Lin family. Do you really want to betray my hard work and ruin your own future for a woman?"
Lin Yang explained: "Dad, you also know that Xiaoyun became a vegetative state in order to save me. She is unconscious now, and I will definitely do my best to save her. You once taught me that to be a man, you must be compassionate.
Be righteous and responsible! Let me ask you, if I don't care about my woman, what qualifications do I have to take charge of the family business? "
"Sun Xiaojun's condition is handled by doctors, why do you have to go study medicine?"
"Yes, over the past year or so, we have invited many famous doctors in related fields at home and abroad, but they are unable to do anything about Sun Xiaojun's condition..."
Lin Wenzhi couldn't help but sneered a few times and asked: "Famous doctors at home and abroad can't cure Sun Xiaojun. If you go to study medicine, can you cure her?"
"This..." After a short silence, Lin Yang replied: "I can only say that you should do your best to obey fate."
Lin Wenzhi could no longer control the anger in his heart and said angrily: "You are just messing around with your own future! Well, I don't have the time or energy to continue arguing with you, so get back here immediately and follow the instructions
My plan is to study at Stanford University. If you continue to persist, don't blame me for freezing all your cards!"
Lin Yang laughed when he heard this, but the smile was slightly bitter: "Dad, didn't you realize that when I came out this time, I put all my bank cards and credit cards at home and didn't take them out? Your son
Now that I have grown up, I can support myself even without using the family’s money.”
Lin Wenzhi laughed angrily: "Okay, I didn't expect that you are quite brave!"
Lin Yang said in a sincere tone: "Dad, I know that my choice this time has failed you and disappointed you. But if I don't do this, I'm afraid I will regret it for the rest of my life. So, please let me be willful."
Just once."
There was silence on the other end of the phone.
After several minutes, Lin Wenzhi spoke again, saying "Just don't regret it" and hung up the phone.
After sighing, Lin Yang put the phone back into his trouser pocket, feeling a little confused and complicated.
At this moment, a clean and refreshing female voice suddenly sounded in his ears: "Lin Yang? It's really you."
Lin Yang turned around and saw four young girls standing five meters in front of him to his right.
The most beautiful girl among them, who had a somewhat classical graceful beauty temperament, looked vaguely familiar.
"Who are you……"
"Why, you don't recognize me?" the beautiful girl asked with a smile. When she smiled, her eyes would involuntarily narrow into a crescent shape, making her look very cute and cute. "When we were in high school, we were classmates for a year.
Woolen cloth."
After such a reminder, Lin Yang finally remembered her identity: "Wen Xiaoqi, yes, you are Wen Xiaoqi. Ha, I really didn't expect that I would meet you in Jinguan City."
This Wen Xiaoqi was his classmate in the first year of high school. Later, due to the re-classification, he was no longer in the same class.
"I didn't expect that." Meeting an old friend in a foreign country made Wen Xiaoqi a little excited: "Why, you are also studying in Jinguan City? Which school?"
"West China University School of Medicine."
"What a coincidence? I am also at West China University, but at the School of Art."
It can be seen that Wen Xiaoqi really wants to chat more with Lin Yang, an old classmate. Unfortunately, Lin Yang is not in a good mood at the moment, and because he is eager to find a part-time job, his attitude is a little
Appearing perfunctory.
"What, are you busy with something?" Wen Xiaoqi obviously noticed this.
Lin Yang did not hide this, and readily admitted: "I am looking for a part-time job nearby."
Feeling regretful, Wen Xiaoqi said: "In this case, I won't bother you. However, it's okay to give me your mobile phone number? We will get together more often in the future. It's rare to meet in a foreign land.
old classmate."
Lin Yang was not a shy person, so he immediately exchanged mobile phone numbers with Wen Xiaoqi, and then the two said goodbye.
"Xiaoqi, who is that boy?" After walking a few steps, the other three girls became curious and gossiped.
"My old classmate from high school." Wen Xiaoqi replied.
The other three girls obviously didn't believe it: "Really an old classmate? Why does it look like an old friend to me? Otherwise, the most beautiful girl from liberal arts college among the freshmen in our art school would take the initiative to exchange mobile phone numbers with him?"
Wen Xiaoqi was anxious and hurriedly defended her innocence: "I'm really just an old classmate. Please don't create scandals, okay? You guys are such gossips. You should really study journalism and become an entertainment reporter after graduation instead of
Learn national musical instruments like you are doing now.”
Lin Yang didn't know what the four girls were joking about. After breaking up with Wen Xiaoqi, he continued to look for part-time jobs nearby.
After all, this matter is the most important to him at the moment.
It was after nine o'clock in the evening, and he still had no results, so he hurried towards the School of Medicine of West China University.
There is a rule in the medical school dormitory that the door closes at ten o'clock in the evening. He doesn't want to end up sleeping on the street because he goes back late.
In the previous three days, Lin Yang traveled around the university town. Although he failed to find a part-time job, he found out the roads around him.
He knew that there was an inconspicuous alley nearby, which could lead directly to the gate of the medical school.
In order to hurry up, he quickly walked into this alley.
The alley has existed here for more than ten or twenty years.
On its left side is a wall covered with moss and ivy. Behind the wall is West China University. But it is not the medical school, but the site of the School of Art.
On the right side of the alley, there is a row of small buildings in the style of the 1980s. Among these buildings, there are not only various restaurants and grocery stores that specialize in student business, but also countless daily rental houses and hourly rental houses. Every time you arrive,
Weekends and holidays are the busiest time here...
Of course, the side close to the alley is just the back of the small building. Not only is there no bustle and bustle on the front, but there is also a different kind of eerie loneliness.
Lin Yang had walked through this alley several times before, so he was familiar with it.
However, it was extremely cold in this alley tonight.
It stands to reason that although September is already early autumn, there is still some residual heat from summer, so it shouldn't be so cold. What's more, the temperature in other places outside the alley is normal, but it's as cold as winter inside.
It's really weird.
However, the anomalies in the alley did not scare Lin Yang.
I remember that when he lived with his retired grandfather in Jiufeng Mountain, he often walked on the night road. At that time, the mountain roads were rugged and difficult to navigate, and there were many ferocious beasts lurking in the dark night. Compared with the one in front of him that looked like this
It's weird, but the alleys in bustling cities are much more dangerous.
Ten minutes later, Lin Yang walked three-quarters of the way out of the alley, and could already vaguely see the lights coming from the alley entrance in the distance.
When you exit the alley, turn right and walk another fifty or sixty meters to the gate of the medical school.
Calculating the time, he would definitely be able to get back before the dormitory door closed tonight, and he would not have to worry about something tragic like sleeping on the street happening to him.
While heaving a sigh of relief, Lin Yang stopped at an abandoned wooden cabinet in the alley.
A black wild cat poked its head out of the abandoned wooden cabinet and looked up at Lin Yang.
Because he had passed through the alley several times before, Lin Yang had already become familiar with the black cat living in the alley. Almost every time he passed by here, he would bring some food to feed the black cat, and today was no exception.
"Have you been waiting for me for a long time?"
Lin Yang smiled and took out a meat bun wrapped in a plastic bag and handed it to the black cat.
According to past behavior, when seeing a black cat eating food, it will immediately get out of the wooden cabinet, rub its head against Lin Yang's hand as a sign of friendship, and then pick up the food and return to its own 'nest' to feast.
However, the performance of the black cat today surprised Lin Yang.
It did not come forward to take the bun away, but stared at Lin Yang with wide amber eyes.