What made Ouyang Ming even more incomprehensible was that after venting his anger at home, Ou Jianren turned and looked happily at Ouyang Ming, who was silent at the side, and asked Ouyang Ming if he had a classmate named Xu Li.

Ouyang Ming had foreseen that Ou Jianren knew Xu Li's name before the parent-teacher meeting. After all, the seating arrangement for the meeting was based on the students' seats, and Xu Li happened to be sitting in front of Ouyang Ming. Ou Jianren knew that his son had a classmate named Xu Li, which was something that anyone with a discerning eye could notice at once.

Ouyang Ming was silent for a while, because Ou Jianren only mentioned Xu Li, and Ouyang Ming thought of Xu Li's identity as a rich second-generation, which made Ouyang Ming have some not-so-good associations.

But Ouyang Ming comforted himself, maybe Ou Jianren was just more interested in Xu Li's parents? After all, it was normal for a wealthy family to be more eye-catching and attract other people's attention.

So Ouyang Ming just nodded and expressed to Ou Jianren that there was indeed such a classmate, but he did not say anything, nor did he reveal anything else to his father Ou Jianren.

Seeing that Ouyang Ming just nodded and didn't say anything, Ou Jianren showed a trace of dissatisfaction on his face, but he immediately suppressed it.

Ou Jianren tried his best to put on a warm smile and asked his son, "Ou...Xiaoming...son, how is your relationship with this, this, Xu Li?"

Although Ou Jianren acted as if he cared a lot about his son, no one knows a father better than his son. Ouyang Ming realized from just these few words and Ou Jianren's different attitude that Ou Jianren might have discovered something.

Seeing this, Ouyang Ming concealed his friendship with Xu Li and only told Ou Jianren that he and Xu Li were just ordinary friends. They were not very familiar with each other at school and had never spoken to each other.

It was not that Ouyang Ming was too wary of Ou Jianren, but that Ouyang Ming knew his father too well, so he deliberately concealed his interpersonal relationships and other big and small things from Ou Jianren.

Ouyang Ming found it hard to imagine that a person who had spoken so much to his family members during the New Year's dinner, saying "xx relative, if he is useful, we will curry favor with him, and if he is useless, we will just treat him as shit", would ask this question at this time with a very simple and purposeless motive.

If this is compared with the resurrection of Qin Shi Huang, Ouyang Ming would rather believe that Qin Shi Huang was resurrected and appointed him as the general of national defense than believe that his father Ou Jianren was simply concerned about his interpersonal relationships.

As expected, when Ou Yangming told him that his son and the student named Xu Li were just ordinary classmates, Ou Jianren's face darkened and he scolded Ou Yangming without any hesitation, "You are useless. You only know how to read your dead book!"

After scolding him, Ou Jianren began to instruct and educate Ou Yangming, "Do you know where your classmate comes from? Do you know how rich his family is?! This time, the father of this student named Xu Li is here to attend the parents' meeting! The watch on his wrist alone is worth hundreds of thousands of yuan, which is equivalent to a house in our family!"

"Come on, what's the point of just reading your crappy books?! I've told you so many times that when you're in school, don't just study. You should find out more about which students in your class and school have rich families and which students have officials in their families!"

"After you find out, you can try to make friends with them. After you make friends, can't we invite your friends to our house?! After a few interactions, when both sides are familiar with each other, can I, your father, ask the other party's parents for help?!"

Ou Jianren has an extremely utilitarian view of everything. Even his son's grades in school are regarded by him as an important indicator for interaction. "You should make more friends with those rich and powerful students! Don't you have good grades?"

"That's perfect. You can use your good grades as an excuse to help the other person with his homework. If you improve their child's grades, won't their parents thank us? Then we, as parents, can come forward, and the relationship will be opened, right?! You're so stubborn, I don't know who you inherited your genes from. If you could have inherited half of my intelligence, you would have been the boss of the entire Second Middle School!"

Hearing this, Ouyang Ming couldn't help but sneer, "I help others with their homework? If they have the time, why don't they ask Teacher Zhou for help? Our grades are all due to Teacher Zhou's help!"

Ouyang Ming also suppressed most of his emotions. If he hadn't completely suppressed them, he would probably have mocked Ou Jianren later, asking, "If you are so smart and so good at scheming, why can you only be an ordinary salesperson in a company?"

Fortunately, Ouyang Ming held back. If Ouyang Ming had really said it out loud, Ou Jianren would probably have blushed, and the father and son would have staged a hilarious filial piety show.

"You..." Ou Jianren almost held back his curse and pointed the finger at Zhou Yu, "You have good grades, what does it have to do with your class teacher?! He is just a lousy teacher, and he teaches Chinese! When it comes to education, we parents have to take care of it!"

Ou Jianren has always had a high opinion of himself. He thinks that schools and teachers are useless. When it comes to educating children, it all depends on parents like them. To put it simply, his son's current good grades are entirely due to him, Ou Jianren.

Ouyang Mingkuai was so angry that he laughed at Ou Jianren's words.

Look at you parents? You can tell me how to get ahead and improve my grades by telling me how to get ahead all day? Without our head teacher teaching us and me working hard all day, you can tell me how to improve my grades just by talking, right?!

Ouyang Ming, who knew his father Ou Jianren's character, did not argue and immediately wanted to seize the time to study. However, Ou Jianren told him again, "Did you hear me? You must get along well with your classmate when you go back!"

"Damn it, there are so many rich people in Ruxu County! What on earth does this person do? I must find out later. If I curry favor with him, and he slips a little through his fingers, it will be enough for our family to earn for several years!"

Ou Jianren's words finally made Ou Yangming unable to hold back. He could not help but said with a mocking tone, "You'd better give up this idea! Xu Li's family is from Jiahe, Zhejiang Province, and all the family businesses are in Jiahe. In Ruxu, they don't have any business at all! They came to Ruxu to study only because of our class teacher's relationship..."

Ou Jianren's eyes lit up. He didn't blame Ou Yangming for offending his father's authority. He quickly reminded him, "You kid, why don't you tell your father the truth? You said you were just an ordinary classmate... What does it matter if you are in Jiahe? Just coax him and tell him that we have a market and connections in Ruxu. Let him invest a few million in Ruxu, and then I will be in charge of the market in Ruxu... Tsk tsk, won't the money be in our hands by then?!"

The more Ou Jianren thought about it, the more excited he became. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that his idea had great potential. He wished he could immediately pull Xu Jiacheng over to chat for a few hours, and then make a quick success in crossing the class barrier.

However, Xu Jiacheng did not give him any chance during the parent-teacher meeting and there was no way for Ou Jianren to get Xu Jiacheng's contact information, so Ou Jianren decided to start with the child.

"Did you hear me? Later, you must become good friends with that guy named Xu Li, and you must make Xu Li happy. Do you understand?"

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The other three people saw Ouyang Ming's silence but no one said anything.

Everyone had noticed Ouyang Ming's abnormality some time ago, and when they first found out something was wrong, Xu Li and his friends were very concerned about Ouyang Ming's condition and asked him about it.

However, Ouyang Ming just pretended that nothing had happened and told Xu Li and the others that it was nothing. Seeing that Ouyang Ming was unwilling to say more, they did not continue to ask. They just mentioned to Ouyang Ming that if he really encountered any problems, he could tell them and they would definitely help if they could.

Niu Dehua and Ji Nianping might just be being polite, but Xu Li really meant it, and he really had the ability to help Ouyang Ming.

However, Ouyang Ming didn't want to cause trouble to his friend, so he declined directly.

At the symposium tonight, although Ouyang Ming was very silent and did not participate in the discussion, he also listened very carefully and fully absorbed what everyone was discussing.

With these or that thoughts in mind, after finishing his evening self-study, Ouyang Ming said goodbye to the other three members of his four-person team, then pushed the mountain bike he had been riding for almost six years out of the bike shed and headed for home.

When Ouyang Ming got home, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening.

Thanks to the fact that we are still in the National Day holiday and the temperature in October is not low, everyone's nightlife is still relatively rich. Except for those who are older or more health-conscious, many people tend to go to bed late.

When he returned home, Ouyang Ming opened the door and walked into the entrance hall, only to find that the lights in the living room were still on. The sound from the TV resounded throughout the house, and along with the sound from the TV was the sound of Ou Jianren's comments on the country.

"Tsk, this guy can also do business? Let me tell you, with his level, if it were me, I would have conquered the entire country's market long ago! It's such a waste to give such good resources to him!"

"Some people are like this, taking up resources and positions for nothing! They are nothing like us who have talent but are not appreciated. Damn, what's wrong with this country? These parasites should be dragged out and shot. If it were me..."

Hearing the loud sound of the TV and Ou Jianren's indignant curses and discussions coming from the house, Ouyang Ming, who was changing shoes at the entrance, couldn't help but frown and speed up his movements.

When Ouyang Ming changed his shoes and appeared in the living room carrying his schoolbag, Ou Jianren and his wife noticed that their son Ouyang Ming had already returned home after evening self-study.

"Hey, Xiao Ming, you're home so late?" Mother Ou glanced at the time on her phone and said to Ou Yangming, "Studying at night must be very hard, right? How about it, are you hungry? Mom will make you a bowl of noodles. After you finish eating, you can continue studying!"

Unexpectedly, before Ou Yangming could say anything, Ou Jianren frowned and interrupted him, "What nonsense are you talking about? You just give bad advice! Do you know what the scientists in America said? You can't eat at night!"

"Do you know how harmful eating at night is to the human body?! Eating at night will not only make the organs in the body work when they should be resting, but also make the stomach and other organs unable to rest for a long time, causing huge pressure, and will also make the brain lazy, which is extremely detrimental to the development of the brain. In the long run, the brain will stop developing directly, and even regress."

After saying this, Ou Jianren still looked down on the mother and son, "Don't always eat random food and listen to the nonsense that some domestic experts say! You should read more about what foreign experts say!"

"The world is so big, it's time to open our eyes and see the world! America is so much better than us, do you think it's all just talk?! That's the result of years of technological accumulation! Even if we work hard for another hundred years, we can't even match one finger of hers!"

Since Ou Jianren said so, even if Ou's mother felt sorry for her son's hard work in class, she could only smile and say nothing. After laughing a few times, she sat back on the sofa.

Ouyang Ming touched his empty stomach and said with all his strength, "Mom, no need. I... am not hungry yet!" After that, Ouyang Ming planned to go back to the bedroom.

Unexpectedly, before Ouyang Ming entered the bedroom, he was stopped by Ou Jianren who was concentrating on watching TV.

"What's wrong, Dad?" Ouyang Ming was a little reluctant, but he still stopped and looked at Ou Jianren and asked, "I still have to finish the test paper, and there are still many questions to be answered..."

Before Ou Yangming could finish, he was interrupted by the impatient Ou Jianren, "How many times have I told you not to study so hard? No matter how good you are at studying, can you get into Beijing University or Shuimu University?!"

"Okay, even if you pass the exam, so what?! Can it make you rich?!" After saying that, Ou Jianren changed the subject and asked Ou Yangming, "Have you seen your classmate named Xu Li today? How is your relationship with him recently?"

Here it comes, the thing I was most worried about is here!

Ouyang Ming was very annoyed with his father recently. He would often ask him whether he and Xu Li had a good relationship, whether he had invited the other party to his home to play, etc., but every time Ouyang Ming would make an excuse to get away with it.

It now seems that Ou Jianren will not give up unless there is a good result.

Ouyang Ming thought about it and told Ou Jianren that he had a symposium tonight and he would not have enough time to chat with Xu Li and get along well with him.

"Symposium?!" Ou Jianren was somewhat interested in the symposium that Ou Yangming mentioned. "What is this symposium?! What kind of crappy expert did your school invite again?"

Ouyang Ming thought about it, then told Ou Jianren roughly what he had seen and heard tonight.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Ou Jianren heard it, he immediately refuted it excitedly, "Your teacher knows nothing! He is deliberately leading you students astray!"

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