Lin Dexun did not break his promise, and accepted Hua Nianping's application in the second year when he stayed at the school to teach. As an instructor, he accepted Hua Nianping as an in-service graduate student at Peking University.
The teacher and student had a tacit understanding and never mentioned Lin Sirer.
Lin Dexun saw that Hua Nianping was taciturn and often looked sad. He didn't know when he started to learn to smoke, and his addiction to smoking was very strong.
I also saw that he only focused all his attention on academic research and papers, and rarely communicated with women, so he felt somewhat guilty, so he was given additional course guidance and training.
Hua Nianping lived up to Professor Lin's expectations. Within a few years after graduating from graduate school, he quickly became a rising young economist in the country. He was promoted to the youngest associate professor at Peking University and appointed as the deputy dean of the School of Economics. However,
Still alone.
One night in the summer after Hua Nianping became the deputy dean of the School of Economics, Hua Nianping went to the teachers' cafeteria after class to have a meal. Suddenly he saw Vice President Lin Desun and his wife, Lin Sirer, Lu Zhichao and his party coming from the cafeteria.
Walk in through the door.
Lin Sirer was holding a young girl in her hand. They were walking towards a round table in the restaurant. Hua Nianping couldn't dodge and happened to face them, only a few steps away.
Lin Sirer didn't expect to see Hua Nianping here, and her face immediately turned pale. For a moment, the two stared at each other in silence.
Seeing Lu Zhichao staring at the two of them with alert eyes, Mrs. Lin hurriedly stepped forward and pulled Lin Sirer away.
Hua Nianping packed his meal and walked past the Lin family with his head down without saying a word.
When he returned to the dormitory, he had no appetite to eat, so he lay down on the bed. He didn't get up and turn on the light until the room was dark, and he just kept smoking.
Late at night, Hua Nianping heard a knock on the door.
Knowing who it was, he sat up suddenly and was about to open the door when Lu Zhichao's wary eyes suddenly appeared in his mind, and he immediately shrank on the bed without moving.
Lin Sirer continued to knock on the door for a while, but when she saw that there was no movement in the room, she said, "Nian Ping, I know you are in the room. Please open the door. Let's talk!"
There was silence inside and outside the house.
After a while, Lin Sirer turned to the window.
She said: "I know, Nian Ping, you don't want to see me again. You will definitely hear me clearly when I stand here to speak at the window. I came here specially to tell you that I will go back to the United States with him tomorrow. Since I saw you at night
, I can’t stay in the capital for even a minute. I haven’t dared to return to China these years, let alone see you. God has tortured me, but he has allowed us to meet today.”
Hua Nianping slowly moved to the window and vaguely saw Lin Sirer's thin figure in the dim light reflected outside.
Two lines of tears flowed down his cheeks.
Lin Sirer continued:
"You must hate me for betraying you, but Nian Ping, do you believe it? I was kidnapped by my mother and uncle and taken to the airport. In the United States, my aunt was afraid that I would fly back to the capital, so she monitored me very strictly. In the past few years, I only gave me pocket money.
Money, I couldn't raise enough money to buy a plane ticket back to China. I wanted to contact you, but I didn't know where you were. It wasn't until we talked after dinner tonight that I learned from my father that you were staying at school to teach and that you had been his graduate student.
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It was because of him that Lin Sirer was forced to go to the United States. Hua Nianping actually knew this many years ago.
Lin Sirer explained: "As for Lu Zhichao, I resisted him for several years at first, until she quit her job at the consulate in order to pursue me and found a job in Sanlan.
There has been no news from you, so I had no choice but to agree to his proposal."
Hua Nianping bit his lips tightly, thinking in his heart: "No matter what, you abandoned me because you gave in!"
Lin Sirer added: "You know, Nian Ping, I have never forgotten you in these years. I often think of you. When I miss you, I sometimes wake up suddenly in the middle of the night. Now he and I have a child.
But dad said that you are still alone, and I was very sad to hear that. Promise me, Nian Ping, to find a woman to live with you. Otherwise, I will always feel sorry for you, and I will be very sad!"
Hua Nianping heard Lin Sirer's sobbing.
After a while, I heard Lin Sirer bidding him farewell in despair and desolation.
She said: "Okay, Nian Ping, I'm leaving, you must be well, well!"
After a long time, Lin Sirer's figure moved away from the window.
Hua Nianping wiped away his tears and stared at the window, as if Lin Sirer's shadow continued to be embedded there, pouring words into his heart over and over again.
Not long after Lin Sir'er returned to the United States, Lin Dexun suddenly called Hua Nianping to the office one day and said that he would invite him to his home for dinner.
The reason is that one of Mrs. Lin's direct relatives has a daughter who is about the same age as Hua Nianping. She works as a nurse in Tiantan Hospital. Not only does she look good, but she also has a separate house. Her newlywed husband died in a car accident last year. Mrs. Lin intends to match them up.
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Hua Nianping thought that this must be Lin Sirer begging his parents to consummate his marriage, and he immediately declined to Principal Lin.
He didn't dislike the fact that the woman was a widowed woman, because many people had been recruiting candidates for him before. Most of the introducers first considered Hua Nianping's physical disability, so the selected woman either had no career or had a short history of marriage.
Hua Nianping felt a little sad just thinking that he and Lin Sirer were not husband and wife, but became relatives.
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Hua Nianping likes to eat pot stickers and dumplings.
One day, he found a stall with "dumplings, wontons, pot stickers, stir-fried vegetables" written on it as usual in the teachers' restaurant, and found that in addition to the boss and his wife surnamed Wu, there was also a girl of eighteen or nineteen years old.
This girl is tall, has a delicate face, slightly dark skin, and a pair of deep-set eyes that make her look like a European gypsy woman of mixed race.
Hua Nianping later learned that this girl was named Wu Ningfang, the eldest daughter of the boss named Wu. She went to the coast to work before graduating from middle school. She recently quit her job and came to the capital to help her parents in their business.
Wu Ningfang knew that Hua Nianping was the leader of the School of Economics. When she saw Hua Nianping coming to buy food, she would always call him "Dean Hua!" and serve him a few more pot stickers.
Chen, an accounting teacher in the college who was close to Hua Nianping, noticed that Hua Nianping often visited this stall intentionally or unintentionally after Wu Ningfang arrived.
One time while having dinner, he and Hua Nianping said, half seriously and half jokingly: "Nianping, that girl is interested in you, let me talk to you about it."
Hua Nianping blushed and argued: "Don't be ridiculous, no, no! There is a huge age gap!"
Teacher Chen seemed to see through Hua Nianping's thoughts, and actually proposed to the boss and his wife named Wu that they would act as matchmakers for Wu Ningfang and Hua Nianping. The boss and his wife asked for their daughter's opinion, and Wu Ningfang agreed: it all depends on the parents.
The boss surnamed Wu and his wife had heard that Hua Nianping was from the same hometown. Since Hua Nianping is the leader of the college and a well-known professor, if this marriage is successful, they will have a place to stay in the capital in the future. For the teachers of Peking University
The restaurant's stall business naturally also took care of it.