Chapter 73 Stabbing

Ji Ze spoke for a long time and no one responded in the kitchen. Only then did he notice that something was wrong.

His aunt, who should be responsible for cooking in a normal family, was standing at the kitchen door with empty hands. Instead, his uncle, who always had a cold face, was standing in the kitchen with an apron on.

The apron was made by Xu Li before the wedding. It has a blue base and small white flowers. The craftsmanship of the maker was excellent, and he also sewed a beautiful ruffle around the outside. It was just too beautiful. It looked out of place on his tall and serious uncle.

For some reason, Ji Ze subconsciously glanced at the sharp kitchen knife not far from his uncle's hand.

Ji Duo also glanced at it, but he took off his apron as usual and hung it behind the kitchen door. "What happened?"

"You two can chat while I go upstairs to get something." Lin Qiao wanted to leave immediately.

Ji Duo came out of the kitchen and pulled her aside, "We are not strangers. You know this too."

The pull was not strong, and it was released quickly after just a single pull, but the intention to keep the person was obvious.

Lin Qiao raised her eyes and looked over, and found that the man was also looking at her, with the sleeves of his military uniform rolled up to his elbows, and his eyes were direct and determined.

Although Ji Ze's face was not very good, he also saw it, and hurriedly followed up: "Yes, didn't I tell you before that I thought about taking out a loan to buy a production line?"

Lin Qiao lowered his eyes, turned around and walked out, "I really have something to get upstairs."

After a while she came down with a book. In the living room, the uncle and nephew, one sitting upright, the other a little reserved, were actually all waiting for her there.

When he saw her, Ji Ze sat up straight immediately, like a primary school student who was finally called upon to answer a question.

Lin Qiao had no choice but to walk over and sit next to Ji Duo. Ji Duo immediately poured her a glass of water and placed it on the tea table in front of her.

In the past, this was the job of his mother and grandmother at home. Ji Ze couldn't help but take another look.

Ji Duo looked normal. "Last time I met the fifth son of the Yu family, didn't I tell you that Xiaoze wanted to take out a loan to buy a production line? Didn't my father and I agree?"

Lin Qiao really remembered that she felt something was strange at the time, but when she heard that Ji Ze had failed, she didn't think much about it.

"What my father and I considered was that the amount of money was too large and the risk was high. No one in the Yu family wanted to do this, and we were afraid of something going wrong." Ji Duo explained to her.

"Yes." Ji Ze nodded. "I was not convinced at the time. When I first started doing business with you, I even thought that I would go back to making electrical appliances after I figured out the ropes. That's why I didn't let my uncle tell you. I didn't expect that I didn't buy it, but Chen Weiguo did, and that's when things really went wrong."

This is why Ji Ze looked unhappy when he first came in, and he walked straight in without even paying attention to the situation.

"He took out a loan before the Chinese New Year and started building the factory after the Chinese New Year. The equipment and raw materials arrived at the end of last month, and production began at the beginning of this month. But the products he made were not even as good as those produced domestically. No one wanted them at all, and tens of millions of dollars were wasted."

What they want to buy is not just the production line, but also the advanced technology that the production line brings. Otherwise, it can be done domestically. Who is willing to spend tens of millions of dollars and be a sucker?

Ji Ze was a little depressed. "I met Chen Weiguo in the afternoon. He hadn't slept for several nights. His eyes were red. He was looking for Yu Jin the whole time."

"What did Yu Jin say?" Ji Duo's voice sounded very calm.

"He said that the other party had clearly told him that the equipment had just been eliminated, and asked Chen Weiguo not to worry, and he would go to the other party to ask for clarification."

"Do you believe it?" Ji Duo's eyes fell on him indifferently.

Ji Ze really wanted to say that he believed it. After all, they had been childhood friends for more than 20 years. Subconsciously, he didn't think that the other party would cheat him.

But when the words came to his lips, he swallowed them back and pursed his lips into a straight line.

Lin Qiao didn't believe it either.

If there were no benefits to such a large order worth tens of millions, who would be so proactive in helping to pull the strings?

You can't just want to help your childhood friend, right?

The money has been received and the work has been done. Can he give back the benefits he has gained, or can the other party give back the benefits he has gained?

The living room fell silent for a moment. After a while, Ji Ze wiped his face and said with gritted teeth, "We treated him as our childhood friend, but he actually cheated us!"

As she spoke, the fear that she had been suppressing came up again. "Luckily, I have my uncle and your recipe."

Without Ji Duo to stop him, he had no defense at all against this matter and the Yu family.

Without Lin Qiao's formula to point him in another direction and teach him to be down-to-earth, he would have gone around in circles and might even have thought of turning to electrical appliances.

By that time, he had bought a bunch of broken things and owed the bank tens of millions and didn't know how to pay it back. It would be Ji Ze.

He looked up at the couple and said, "I came here today just to say thank you. I can't tell anyone else about this."

Find his dad, but he's already gone. Even if he's still here, he's still a nobody and won't make up his mind. He'll just say yes to whatever people say. Find his mom...

Since his father was transferred, his mother lost her support and seemed to have no idea how she was going to get by. She would come to him every few days and say that she was sick. Then she started crying and wanted him to go back to her hometown and find a formal job, and wanted him to take the initiative to marry Song Jing as soon as possible.

It was as if he could stand up on his own feet without his father, and if he had a daughter-in-law with a good family background, he would be able to stand up straight again.

Lin Qiao really didn't want to make any comments about Ji Ze's family.

She said that the original character was not a bad person, why was she portrayed like that in the book, and it turned out there was such a mother-in-law.

Ye Minshu looked down on the original woman's background and was forced to marry her. Then, she had to torture and oppress her everywhere and even instigate her son to divorce her?

Ji Jun only knew to listen to his wife. His father and Xu Li were another level apart and he couldn't take them into consideration. His original self knew that he and Ji Ze had not consummated their marriage and he couldn't stand in this family at all. He could only try his best to hold on to Ji Ze. In the end, the tighter he held on, the more mistakes he made and he failed to keep anything.

It is estimated that the future heroine should have a good family background, and Ji Ze should like her enough, otherwise, let alone the original body, anyone would have a hard time with such a mother-in-law.

In silence, Ji Duo glanced at his nephew and said, "You should stay away from the Yu family from now on."

Ji Ze nodded. With this previous experience, he didn't dare to get close to the other party anymore.

Regardless of whether the other party really didn't know or pretended not to know that the batch of equipment had problems, the fact that they asked them to buy it but didn't allow their own family members to buy it is enough to explain the problem.

Lin Qiao thought of Yu Wu whom she met that day, and felt that Ji Duo was not just talking about Yu Jin.

"Chen Weiguo can't pay back his loan, so he might ask you for money." Ji Duo said calmly.

Nephew said.

"I've thought about this too." Ji Ze continued to nod, this time glancing at Lin Qiao, "If he wants to borrow from me personally, I can lend it to him. After all, he is helping me avoid disaster. I won't touch the money in the factory. The factory doesn't belong to me alone."

"Then what else do you have to say?" This time Ji Duo's eyes fell on him without moving.

Ji Ze was stunned for a moment, then he came to his senses from all the complicated emotions, "That's all, I'm leaving now." He quickly got up and ran away.

"Remember to knock on the door next time." There was no warmth in Ji Duo's voice.

"Sure, sure. Next time I come, I'll call you first to see if it's convenient for you."

Ji Ze ran as if there was a dog following him. Nonsense, if he didn't run quickly, would he wait for his uncle to remember and silence him?

Ji Duo withdrew his gaze expressionlessly, and went back to the kitchen to tie his apron.

When he picked it up, he frowned in disdain and said to Lin Qiao, "Don't make it so fancy next time."

Next time? Is he planning to use it next time?

Lin Qiao rested his chin on the back of the sofa and found that this man had done some homework and knew to pick out the shrimp threads with a toothpick first.

He picked the shrimps one by one under the light, with a focused expression the whole time, and his hands holding the shrimps and toothpicks were very steady. It was a little slow at first, but soon became smooth.

This was obviously something he had never done before. Also, how could he, who hated seafood so much, possibly make this?

But when Ji Duo does things, he never seems to be awkward or clumsy. He will check even the oil and salt first before calmly turning on the fire. There is no such thing as him igniting the oil in the pot in a hurry or mixing up the sugar and salt by mistake.

After the things were made, he even picked one up, peeled it open and tasted it, and then...

And then there was nothing else. The man simply put down the plate of shrimps and said, "I'll buy you one from the cafeteria."

Lin Qiao later tasted the shrimp and found that it was a bit too salty and tasted a bit old, but it was not that bad.

But Ji Duo didn't give it to her. For the next few days, as long as the troops were not busy, he would fill a net bag with prawns every day and go straight to the kitchen after work in the evening.

He bought so much that even his colleagues at school asked, "Does your Captain Ji like to eat shrimp? I can see him at the market every day after get off work these past two days. He is the only senior military officer in the market."

Lin Qiao just smiled, "Did you see it or did your brother-in-law see it?"

Her husband is the vice-principal of an elementary school and has more time than her. Many times when she needs to buy groceries after get off work, her husband goes to the market to buy them.

The other party originally wanted to tease Lin Qiao, but unexpectedly, Lin Qiao was so open about it that she ended up teasing her instead.

She changed the subject and asked about Lin Qiao's chemistry competition, "The finals are coming up soon, how are you preparing?"

"It's hard to say about chemistry, but Li Xiaoqiu should be stable in physics."

This girl really fought hard for this opportunity. I heard that it was already the middle of the night and the light in her room was still on.

Teacher Li, who has such a bad temper, has not been angry so often recently. He comes home to cook in different ways every day.

As he was talking, Principal Zeng came over to him and said, "Xiao Lin, come out for a moment."

Principal Zeng is old and doesn't take charge of things much, so usually things are handled by Vice Principal Qi. He would take the initiative to look for someone, and Lin Qiao would quickly get up and leave.

The other party lowered his voice and said, "I just received a call from National Tsing Hua University, asking you to come for another interview."

Still need an interview?

Lin Qiao's heart moved, "Did they say when?"

"Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow is fine. I heard that they want you to do it as soon as possible."

"How about tomorrow afternoon?" Lin Qiao calculated her class schedule. She suspected that the other party asked her to have a second interview because there was some progress with Professor Yan.

Otherwise, why not just inform her that she didn't pass or ask her to change her major? Why bother with a second interview?

President Zeng went back to discuss with National Tsing Hua University, and they quickly gave an accurate time, setting it at 3 o'clock the next afternoon.

Lin Qiao went there according to the address a few minutes in advance, but was stunned at the door. It was not because of anything else, but because she had been to this laboratory a few days ago.

Sure enough, she knocked on the door, heard a voice saying "Come in", and went in. She saw someone who looked familiar.

The reason why he looked only vaguely familiar was that he had shaved his beard and trimmed his hair, and now he was no longer sloppy and looked quite handsome.

He must be still busy, and he didn't even raise his head. "Come over here and help me."

Lin Qiao glanced around and saw the white coat hanging on the wall next to him. He picked one up, put on gloves and went over to help.

This took nearly an hour. When he took off his gloves, he looked at her and suddenly smiled, "This semester is over, come over and register."

This semester is over and I am here to report...

"You mean, I passed the interview?"

"If you don't have a solid foundation or you don't have patience, you won't be able to pass."

The other person took out a few books from the table and gave them to her. "Take them back and read them. Come back after the semester ends. You don't have to wait until the semester starts."

The tutor asked the graduate students to report to school in advance. Lin Qiao had encountered this kind of thing before. Usually, graduate students are required to participate in experiments or research work in advance.

She nodded in agreement, and when she saw that the other party seemed to have finished talking, she was about to send her away, but she couldn't help but ask, "Can I ask who you are?"

The other party was stunned for a moment, then he remembered that he had not introduced himself even though the interview was over. "Zhang Changning, you are currently mainly working on carbon fiber materials. Didn't you say you wanted to study materials-related subjects? When Lao Yan mentioned it to me, I guessed it might be you."

This is really a coincidence. Lin Qiao also quickly introduced himself, "Hello, tutor. My name is Lin Qiao. Please take care of me in the future."

When saying goodbye to each other and walking out of the laboratory, Lin Qiao, who was always steady, had a brisk step.

Because she wanted to study materials, she actually asked around about several professors in this field at National Tsing Hua University. Zhang Changning was definitely one of the best, and his research direction was in line with what she had learned in her previous life.

It seemed like everything was going well. I didn’t have to study for four more years as an undergraduate, and I could still pursue the field that I was best at and had the most advantages in…

Lin Qiao jumped up, picked a fresh ginkgo leaf from the roadside, and then set out on the return journey in the increasingly warm spring breeze.

But this was not the only thing that went smoothly. In May, in the first competition, Li Xiaoqiu won the first prize in the final of the first physics competition.

"There are only five first prizes in the country, and our school won one." Vice President Qi is a man of literary style, and he couldn't help but show his joy after returning.

It’s no wonder that he was happy; Li Xiaoqiu was the only student in the school who made it to the finals, and he had been teaching her personally for the past few months.

Now that the results are finally out, it is a recognition of both the student and his own efforts.

Li Xiaoqiu was even more excited. She was usually an introverted girl, but when she saw Lin Qiao, she actually ran over to her and shouted, "Teacher Lin!" and showed her her award certificate.

Lin Qiao took it and looked at it with a smile, "Not bad, it's worthy of your only sleeping four or five hours a day these days."

"It's not a waste of the opportunity you helped me get." The girl added in a low voice.

"Yes." Lin Qiao rubbed the other person's upturned head and found that the other person's eyes became brighter, just like a dog that finally got praised.

She couldn't help but laugh and joked, "Now I have to decide whether to go to Tsinghua University or Yanjing University. Isn't it a headache?"

Li Xiaoqiu smiled with her lips pursed, her face flushed. After a while, she couldn't hide her excitement anymore, she walked forward and hugged Lin Qiao, but was too embarrassed to step back.

However, Lin Qiao was right. After the results came out, Tsinghua University and Yanjing University did contact the school, intending to recruit Li Xiaoqiu in advance. After all, there were only five first-class awards in the country, and Li Xiaoqiu's grades were excellent enough, only his language skills lagged behind.

Before the college entrance examination began, Lin Qiao had to help students choose between Tsinghua University and Yanjing University. Every class teacher in the school would be envious when he was mentioned.

However, without Lin Qiao, Li Xiaoqiu would have lagged behind in Chinese and might not even be able to get into a good major at Yandu University of Technology.

The teacher and student studied the matter for several days, consulted other people's opinions, and considered Li Xiaoqiu's own personality and preferences, and finally decided to choose Yanjing University.

If you want to study engineering, of course Tsinghua University is the best choice. Li Xiaoqiu is shy and obviously more interested in theoretical research, so Yanjing University is better.

On the day when the recommendation was officially confirmed, Teacher Li found Vice Principal Qi and Lin Qiao and wanted to treat them to a meal. "Without Teacher Lin, Xiaoqiu would not have had this opportunity. Without Principal Qi, Xiaoqiu would not have achieved such results. You two have given so much, and as a father, I really don't know how to thank you."

Of course, both of them declined politely, but the other party did not give up and later bought a lot of things and sent them to the office. Since the two could not return them, they took them all and divided them up.

In comparison, the results of this chemistry competition were a little worse, with only Qi Huaiwen winning the third prize.

Although he is one in a million across the country, there are still first and second place students ahead of him. When it comes to him, the college he can be admitted to is not so ideal.

The boy didn't care, "If I can't get in through recommendation, I can take the exam myself."

He didn't say this for nothing. In the last placement test, he had already ranked among the top five in his grade. If he works hard, it is possible for him to be admitted to Peking University or Tsinghua University.

It was at this time that Lin Qiao's graduate school admission notice was officially delivered to the school, and the whole school was really shocked.

"Graduate students from National Tsing Hua University?! Isn't Teacher Lin going to take the college entrance examination with us?" Junzi was incredulous. "I want to take the exam with you."

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Qi Huaiwen heard that Lin Qiao went to National Tsing Hua University for an interview, but was not accepted. He only just found out about this.

Junzi didn't know whether to be happy for Lin Qiao or sad for himself, "I thought we would be in the same class with Teacher Lin after entering college, but she went to study for a master's degree."

The brat was still dreaming about being in the same class with Lin Qiao. When he went back and told his family about it, Brigadier General Liang finished taking photos of Liu Cuiying and asked, "If you are in the same class, your teacher is not here?"

After patting her son down, Liu Cuiying couldn't help but sigh to Brigade Commander Liang, "What do you think of Xiaolin's brain? It's hard to say whether he can get into our university, but he went straight to graduate school."

Brigade Commander Liang was quite open-minded. "With our educational level, it would be abnormal for a soldier to be able to study for a master's degree."

Liu Cuiying: “…”

After taking the notice home, Lin Qiao thought about it and decided to call his grandfather and Xu Li to tell them.

No matter what, this time it was all thanks to Yan Maoshan's help. Xu Li also gave her a lot of support in her work and study before.

When they heard that she was admitted as a graduate student at National Tsing Hua University, the old couple were very happy. The old man, who was usually a very dignified person, took the phone and asked her what she wanted to eat.

The news finally reached Ye Minshu's ears when Ji Duo called her personally to inform her.

Ye Minshu was quite surprised when she received the call. After all, Ji Duo was a man of few words and had a cold temper. He used to contact Ji Jun and Ji Ze occasionally, but after the Lin Qiao incident, he never called here again.

But she has been having a hard time recently. After Ji Jun left, the old couple wouldn't even let her go to the old house. People outside are not blind, so how can they not see the wind direction? They used to be friendly, but now they are squeezing her out. Plus, with Xiaoze's incident, she hardly dares to go out recently.

At this time, Ji Duo called her. She was still thinking that Ji Duo's words would be effective and whether he could help persuade Xiaoze. But Ji Duo actually wanted to say this.

Her face froze at that moment. “Is it, is it?”

"Yeah." Ji Duo seemed to know what she was thinking. "Without any help from her family, she won the gold medal at the Invention and Creation Exhibition and was noticed by National Tsing Hua University."

It was just like a slap in the face, and Ye Minshu's face instantly felt hot.

This was what she thought before when Lin Qiao made the suggestion. Now that Lin Qiao had made an exception and was admitted as a graduate student, she was completely speechless.

Unexpectedly, Ji Duo hadn't finished the call yet. "Song Jing is getting engaged to Yu Jin. You must have heard about it."

"What? Song Jing is getting engaged to Yu Jin!" Ye Minshu heard her own raised voice, "Impossible! This is impossible!"

"I thought you had such a good relationship and you knew it long ago." Ji Duo's voice was calm, but it sounded sarcastic no matter how you listened to it.

After hanging up the phone, Ye Minshu went to Song's house, and happened to run into Yu Jin having dinner there. The Song couple were very affectionate, and it was obvious that they were treating their future son-in-law well.

Her head buzzed at that moment, and she wanted to question, but Song's mother greeted her with a smile, "Your Xiaoze's business has been booming recently."

Obviously, he knew that Ji Ze had changed his career and returned to the local area to do business.

Then another sentence followed: "And your second son, I heard that his wife was admitted to the graduate school of Tsinghua University."

Ye Minshu felt a chill from the soles of her feet to her heart as her hand was held.

The other party was clearly reminding her that their family knew the whole story of the Ji family's marriage exchange, and if necessary, they didn't mind telling others.

Ye Minshu walked out of the Song family with one foot deep and one foot shallow. She felt that she was blind to have been with such a family for so many years.

And Lin Qiao, who was able to invent something and even get an exception to study as a graduate student at Tsinghua University. If I had known this earlier, I would have known this earlier...

"Sister-in-law is sick again?"

When Lin Qiao heard about this, Ji Ling had already returned to the old house and lived there for four or five days.

Ji Duo's expression showed nothing at all. "I heard that it was because Song Jing was getting engaged to Yu Jin, and she was angry." He served out the braised prawns.

That was quite infuriating. After all, Ye Minshu kept talking about people every day, but in the end, the Song family stabbed her in the back.

Moreover, she had always complained about this person's bad background and that person's inadequate background, but in the end, she was criticized for her son's poor future, and her attitude took a sudden turn.

"It's okay." As usual, Ji Duo peeled one and tasted it himself, and this time he peeled another one and passed it to Lin Qiao's mouth.

Lin Qiao was still thinking about Song Jing. He didn't know whether the other party had negotiated this time or it was arranged by his family, or whether he knew about the production line. He subconsciously took a bite.

Unexpectedly, it was delicious. I could taste it very similar to the one at Gu Lao's place.

And he has been practicing for this dish for a long time...

Lin Qiao paused, then suddenly raised her eyes and looked at the man seriously, "Ji Duo, I'm going to buy a house near the school."