Chapter 76: Postgraduate Study Ruined (9)
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When Zhou Ziqian came out of Zhou Group, his face was twisted with anger.
He called Liu Hao and yelled angrily: "Come pick me up."
Zhu Qingchen dared to point at his nose and scold him, and Huo Jun also dared to be sarcastic to him.
They rebelled! All these people rebelled!
If it weren't for Zhu Qingchen, Xia Shu would have reconciled with him long ago.
If it weren't for Huo Jun, Zhu Qingchen would have been fired long ago.
Zhou Ziqian picked up the phone and wanted to call home, but just as he was about to press the dial button, he hesitated.
He remembered what Huo Jun had just said.
Although he has a bad temper, he is also aware that the private ethics of wealthy families can sometimes seriously affect public opinion and further affect the group's stock price.
What if Zhu Qingchen posts this online?
He doesn't dare.
Grandpa and dad would definitely not help him. They would just tell him to break up with Xia Shu as soon as possible and stop bothering her to avoid getting into trouble.
But he didn't want to break up with Xia Shu!
No matter how he played outside, as long as he turned around, he could see Xia Shu waiting behind him.
He's used to it.
Not long after, Liu Hao and a few brothers drove over to pick him up.
Zhou Ziqian got into the car, leaned against the window and supported his head.
Liu Hao took a look at his expression and asked cautiously, "Mr. Zhou, where are we going to play?"
Zhou Ziqian thought for a moment and said, "Go find Xiao Xu."
"Okay."
After a while, Liu Hao saw that he still had a stern face, so he asked, "What's wrong with you, Mr. Zhou? Are you unhappy?"
Zhou Ziqian snorted coldly: "What is there to be happy about? I was tricked by Xia Shu and his teacher."
The friends sitting in the back row exchanged glances and asked incredulously, "Mr. Zhou, you don't still want to reconcile with Xia Shu, right?"
"You don't understand." Zhou Ziqian lit a cigarette, "Xiao Xu's is just for fun, but Xia Shu can be placed at home. When you get tired of playing, you can go back and rest."
"Then you still want to reconcile."
"Even if it is true." Zhou Ziqian continued, "He liked me in the first place and clung to me like a lapdog, but after being instigated by Zhu Qingchen, he refused."
"How dare he refuse?" His friends were indignant for him. "Mr. Zhou condescended to go to him, but he still refused."
"In my opinion, there are many pure and innocent girls like this. Why do you have to hang yourself on a tree?"
"That's right, Mr. Zhou, why don't you give it a try with Xiao Xu? It won't hurt to try."
"Mr. Zhou, you are giving him too much face. We just broke up yesterday and you are going to find him today. You are too quick."
Zhou Ziqian slowly exhaled a smoke ring: "I also think that I have been giving him too much face recently, allowing him to keep making trouble with me."
He made up his mind: "Stop at the mall ahead. I said I would buy a gift for Xiao Xu last time, but I haven't bought it for him yet."
At eight o'clock in the evening, Xia Shu was typing his paper carefully in the library when suddenly his cell phone vibrated.
He picked it up and took a look. It was a message from someone he didn't know, with a few photos.
Luxury watches lined up on the table.
Zhou Ziqian leaned on the sofa, and the little boy looked at his watch with shining eyes.
It was obvious that Zhou Ziqian wanted to provoke him.
- Look, these things should have belonged to you, but you were so disobedient, so I gave them all to others.
Xia Shu didn't care. He took a look and put the phone down.
He won't take what's not his.
His train of thought for the thesis was interrupted, and he felt a little annoyed.
He couldn't help but think of the boy in the photo, whom they had also met at Zhongming Restaurant yesterday.
He originally thought that the boy would break up with Zhou Ziqian after seeing his true face.
But unexpectedly, they are still together.
Could it be that the little boy was coaxed back by Zhou Ziqian?
Xia Shu couldn't help but feel a little worried.
Not long after, a message came from the other side.
[I am Xu Xi. Thank you, Xia classmate, for personally pushing Zhou Shao to my side.]
There is also a small smiling expression.
Xia Shu frowned, put aside his worries, put down his phone, and continued to write his paper.
It wasn't until ten o'clock in the evening that the library closed.
Xia Shu packed up her things and prepared to leave.
At this time, his cell phone rang again.
Xia Shu sighed, picked it up and took a look. It was the same number again.
But this time, the message Xu Xi sent was different from the previous ones.
He said: [I’m sorry, Xia, I’m just a playmate in the card room. Mr. Zhou paid for my time, and I can’t refuse Mr. Zhou’s request.]
[I didn't say those words voluntarily just now. It's just my job. Please understand.] Xia Shu frowned, not knowing whether what he said was true or false.
However, he still replied: [You have to be careful]
He knew in his heart that this matter was Zhou Ziqian's fault.
It was Zhou Ziqian who deceived him and it was Zhou Ziqian who was playing two-timing.
Regardless of whether Xu Xi was deceived like him or did it for work, Xia Shu would not particularly hate him.
However, Zhou Ziqian changed his attitude quickly.
A year ago, he and Xia Shu were still very much in love.
A year later, he still unscrupulously belittled and ridiculed Xia Shu in front of his friends.
Xia Shu wanted to remind Xu Xi to be careful.
Not long after, Xu Xi replied: [Got it, thank you Xia, remember to delete the message so he doesn’t see it]
Xia Shu deleted their chat messages, carried her computer and left the library.
He really didn't want to get entangled with these people anymore. The end of the semester was approaching, and he had to study harder.
*
Perhaps because Zhou Ziqian suffered losses successively at the hands of Zhu Qingchen and Huo Jun, he has calmed down a bit recently and no longer clamors to kick Zhu Qingchen out of Jinghua University.
But it was just a change of strategy.
He seemed to be in love with Xu Xi. He sent luxury goods to Xu Xi every day and used different numbers to send messages to Xia Shu.
He drove his flashy sports car, whizzing past a coffee shop near the school, and the noise made the students who were writing papers in the coffee shop very irritated.
Sometimes, he would park his sports car in front of a coffee shop, get out of the car with Xu Xi in his arm, and go in to order a cup of coffee.
The two people sat face to face. Zhou Ziqian unskillfully scooped out the chocolate from the cake, and then pushed the bumpy cake in front of Xu Xi.
"Xiao Xu, I remember you don't like chocolate."
Xu Xi was very supportive: "Thank you, Mr. Zhou."
But when Zhou Ziqian couldn't see, Xu Xi would put his hands together and cast an apologetic look at Xia Shu in front of the counter.
——I'm really sorry, this is his job.
Xia Shu watched the farce scene after scene. He would sigh at first, but in the end he got used to it and continued working without changing his expression.
Zhu Qingchen sat in his usual seat, typing his paper, while the system was drinking an electronic coffee beside him.
The system said: "The protagonist has started 'chasing his wife' early again."
"Chasing your wife?" Zhu Qingchen was puzzled.
"Yes, Zhou Ziqian is now in the early stages of pursuing his wife - the hard-mouthed stage. He is not used to Xia Shu's departure, but he is unwilling to admit it."
"He bought luxury goods for Xu Xi, meaning to tell Xia Shu that if he didn't break up, these things could also be his."
"He deliberately got close to Xu Xi in order to provoke Xia Shu and make her jealous, proving that she still loved him."
"Of course, in reality, he doesn't like Xu Xi. He still loves Xia Shu. In order to please Xia Shu, he will completely draw a line between himself and Xu Xi."
Zhu Qingchen had a complicated expression: "So, he would rather buy luxury goods for strangers and take strangers out to play, but he is not willing to buy things for his boyfriend and take his boyfriend out to play?"
"Before he and Xia Shu broke up, they always went AA, right? I remember the original book also said that they shared a portion of Jianbing Guozi and he took all the chicken strips."
The system was shocked: "I don't even remember such details, do you still remember?"
Zhu Qingchen gritted his teeth and said, "That's chicken fillet! If anyone dares to take my chicken fillet, I will strangle him to death!"
Zhou Ziqian’s logic is quite funny.
When she was with Xia Shu, she was stingy and harsh to him, even snatching away a piece of chicken fillet.
When he was with strangers, he was generous and said everything he said was just to stimulate Xia Shu.
If he wanted to stimulate Xia Shu, he could just give Xia Shu a gift. Wouldn't that be more exciting?
Doesn’t Xia Shu deserve good things?
Is Xia Shu only fit to watch from the side?
He only dared to bully Xia Shu because he knew Xia Shu had a good temper and would not leave him.
Why are you being so stubborn? Why are you too embarrassed to admit your shame?
If he really likes Xia Shu, would he still care about face?
Zhu Qingchen said seriously: "If you really like someone, you will hope that he is happy every day. You will not be willing to test him, and you will not be willing to make him jealous and anxious."
Trying every possible means to make the other party admit his mistake first is not called love, it is just the desire to win.
Li Yue never...
Zhu Qingchen took the coffee spoon and gently stirred the coffee in the cup.
I don’t know what I was thinking about, I was a little absent-minded.
Not long after, the sports car parked outside made a "boom" sound, and Zhou Ziqian left with Xu Xi in his arms.
Zhu Qingchen came to his senses, turned around, waved to Xia Shu, and asked him to come over.
Xia Shu came forward holding the menu: "Teacher, do you want to add anything else?"
Zhu Qingchen picked up the coffee cup, took a sip, and asked in a low voice: "Will you regret it?"
Xia Shu was puzzled, with doubts in her eyes: "What are you regretting?"
"If you hadn't broken up with Zhou Ziqian, all those luxury goods would be yours, and that sports car would be yours too. Would you regret it?"
"I won't." Xia Shu looked at Zhu Qingchen seriously, "Teacher, I won't take other people's money."
"And..." He organized his thoughts, "Teacher, Zhou Ziqian's friends said that if I hold on a little longer and don't break up with him, these things will be mine sooner or later."
"In fact, they themselves don't believe this. Zhou Ziqian will never give me these things. He is like painting a pie in the sky for a dog. If you are good, he will give you bones. If I don't give you bones, it means you are not good enough."
"The standard of being obedient is always in his hands. He just wants me to submit. I won't be fooled."
"Yeah." Zhu Qingchen looked at him with relief. "It's good that you have figured it out. Don't be fooled by him. You will meet someone who really likes you in the future, and he won't be willing to treat you like this."
"I know." Xia Shu's eyes were firm, "But now I am only focused on studying, and I also need to make more money."
"very good."
After confirming that Xia Shu was determined and would not waver, Zhu Qingchen felt relieved.
In the original book, Xia Shu suffered a mental breakdown because of his brother's death.
He wants to save money for his brother's surgery, and he will not give up easily until his brother fully recovers.
As long as his brother is alive, he will always have a goal to strive for.
In the next few days, Zhou Ziqian continued to send Xia Shu some incomprehensible messages from time to time, trying to provoke him.
Xia Shu ignored them all and blocked them all.
Zhou Ziqian used the phone numbers of his friends, but in the end they were all blocked, so he stopped.
The end of the semester is approaching, and Xia Shu wants to finish all the final papers early so that she will have more time to prepare for the exams.
Apparently, other students thought the same thing, so the cafe has been particularly busy recently as everyone relies on coffee to survive.
Xia Shu wanted to take a leave, but the owner of the cafe gave him a raise in order to keep him.
There was no other way, Xia Shu could only run back and forth between the classroom, the cafe and the library every day, being so busy that she never had a moment to rest.
He is really too busy.
*
On this Thursday, Zhu Qingchen had morning classes.
Yawning, he walked to the podium and turned on the microphone.
The microphone carried his remaining yawn.
Zhu Qingchen quickly covered the microphone and said, "No."
The students below all quieted down, and then couldn't help laughing out loud.
Zhu Qingchen cleared his throat and said, "Be quiet. I want to remind you that you have to hand in two final papers next week. I want to calculate your grades. You need to submit both the paper version and the electronic version. I want to archive them."
"As agreed, two 3,000-word papers should be two 3,000-word papers. Don't write a thick stack of tens of thousands of words and hand it in. There's no need for that."
"For students who deliberately submit tens of thousands of words of papers, I will not think that you are serious and give you a high score. On the contrary, if you need tens of thousands of words to write a clear argument that others can write in 3,000 words, it just shows that you are incompetent and have poor expression and logical skills."
After making sure everyone heard clearly, Zhu Qingchen lowered his head and opened the book.
"Which one did you talk about last time?"
Xia Shu, who was sitting in the first row, also opened the book and said, "Teacher, we were talking about "Deer Singing" last class, but the get out of class ended before we finished it."
"Yes." Zhu Qingchen nodded. "'Deer Singing' is a song sung at banquets. In ancient times, kings treated the wise and the humble with respect. In order to express their welcome and appreciation for their guests, they hoped that the guests would stay with them for a long time..."
Before he finished speaking, Zhu Qingchen seemed to remember something, paused, and his eyebrows twitched.
He suddenly remembered that when they were learning this poem in the school, Li Yue put his hands close to his ears and sang this song to him.
As a result, Li Yue's singing was out of tune and it sounded terrible.
Zhu Qingchen covered his mouth and said that if he became a king, no one would assist him. However, the more he spoke, the more excited Li Yue sang, and he sang for three whole days.
Zhu Qingchen was so shocked that he dreamed of Li Yue singing to him and even had auditory hallucinations.
It's so annoying.
A painful memory.
He suddenly stopped and the students looked up in confusion.
Zhu Qingchen patted his head, trying to drive Li Yue's voice out of his mind.
Zhu Qingchen calmed down and said, "This... Your Majesty is respectful to the wise and humble..."
Li Yue was particularly rude to him! Where was the courtesy? Where was the courtesy?
Just at this moment, several leaders of the department surrounded Huo Jun and passed by in the corridor.
"Mr. Huo, this is the large tiered classroom. At this time, our department's teacher Zhu Qingchen should be teaching the Book of Songs to the freshmen." Huo Jun turned his head and glanced into the classroom.
At this time, Zhu Qingchen clenched his fist in a place where the students could not see, and said somewhat reluctantly: "Respect the wise and humble the humble. The ancient kings respected the wise and humble the humble... Of course, there are also a few who are very rude..."
Hearing him say this, Huo Jun clenched his right fist, put it to his lips, and couldn't help laughing.
——Very few of me are here.
Zhu Qingqing said bad things about him in front of the students and was caught by him on the spot.
The leader followed his gaze, glanced around the classroom, and introduced in a low voice: "This is Mr. Zhu Qingchen, a lecturer in our Chinese Department, young and promising."
"Yes." Mr. Huo nodded slightly, "Let's go in and take a look."
"OK."
The group walked into the classroom through the back door without disturbing the students.
Huo Jun sat down in the last row, folded his arms, and looked at Zhu Qingchen who was sitting on the podium.
Class started at 8 o'clock, but Zhu Qingchen didn't wake up until 7:45. He came to class in a casual manner, with a tuft of hair on the back of his head sticking up.
The system didn't help him choose clothes, so he just put on a white T-shirt with a little yellow duck on it, which was exactly the same as the little yellow duck thermos cup he placed on the podium. The little red flat mouth was pouted up to the sky, and even the direction was exactly the same.
It's quite cute.
Huo Jun couldn't help but curl the corners of his lips.
Zhu Qingchen also saw him and opened his eyes wide in surprise.
Why is Huo Jun here? Isn't he here to defend Zhou Ziqian?
Huo Jun smiled at him, waved his hand, and told him to concentrate on his studies.
Zhu Qingchen unscrewed the thermos cup, drank some milk tea to calm himself, shook his head, trying hard to drive Li Yue's singing out of his mind, and continued with the class.
*
It's ten o'clock again and the class is over.
As soon as the bell rang, Xia Shu hurried to her part-time job, left a word "Goodbye, teacher" and ran out.
Zhu Qingchen stayed to answer a few students' questions, closed his book, picked up his thermos, and prepared to go back.
He watched cartoons until three o'clock last night and got up at seven o'clock in the morning. He was so sleepy that he went back to sleep.
As a result, he was stopped before he even walked out of the classroom.
"Teacher Zhu."
"Huh?" Zhu Qingchen turned around.
Several leaders brought Huo Jun forward and introduced him: "This is the vice president of Zhou Technology, Huo Jun. Mr. Huo was an outstanding graduate of our school and is young and promising." Zhu Qingchen raised his head slightly, looked at Huo Jun, blinked, and then stretched out his hand to him: "Hello."
The leader continued, "Mr. Huo plans to set up a scholarship for outstanding students in the department, and also plans to establish long-term cooperation with the department to provide holiday internships for outstanding students, so he came here to inspect."
Zhu Qingchen nodded and shook hands with him: "Thank you very much."
Huo Jun nodded slightly: "Hello, Teacher Zhu. I benefited a lot from listening to Teacher Zhu's class just now."
The two people simply shook hands and greeted each other as if they had just met.
Huo Jun's tone was businesslike, but Zhu Qingchen always felt that he had something else in mind.
Zhu Qingchen took his hand back and smiled: "You are too kind."
Huo Jun asked again: "Teacher Zhu, do you have any classes later? Do you have time to go shopping with us?"
The leader smiled and said, "Yes, yes, yes. Teacher Zhu is relatively young, about the same age as Mr. Huo. You have something to say, but we are old bones, and we only talk about money."
"Ah..." Zhu Qingchen choked up, met his leader's gaze that could not be refused, and said, "Okay."
It seems that the leaders attach great importance to this cooperation.
Yes, for students, the more scholarships and internship opportunities they have at large companies, the better.
If Zhu Qingchen can help the students gain more, he will certainly be willing to help.
Zhu Qingchen was pushed to Huo Jun's side by his leader. He raised his head and smiled at Huo Jun.
The system followed him gloatingly and played music for him: "Oh no, oh no, oh nonononono, you can't sleep."
"Shut up." Zhu Qingchen held his thermos cup, sniffed lightly, and barely held back a yawn.
The system then said: "But you are lucky, this is another plot point."
Zhu Qingchen was puzzled: "Huh?"
"Didn't your leader just say that Huo Jun wants to set up a scholarship in your school and provide internships for outstanding students?"
"As the top student in the department, Xia Shu was naturally one of the candidate students. At that time, he and Zhou Ziqian had not broken up yet, so he happily told Zhou Ziqian about this matter."
"As a result, Zhou Ziqian suspected that Huo Jun did it on purpose and wanted to control his boyfriend, so he rushed to Huo Jun, made a big scene, and accused Huo Jun of having ulterior motives."
"In the end, Zhou Ziqian personally watched Huo Jun delete Xia Shu's name and did not give him the scholarship and internship position." Zhu Qingchen:?
Something that originally belonged to Xia Shu is gone just like that?
The system explained: "The original book said that this is a manifestation of Zhou Ziqian's 'love without knowing it'. He has long been in love with Xia Shu and doesn't want him to get hurt or be involved in the fight between him and Huo Jun."
Zhu Qingchen asked: "Did Zhou Ziqian arrange a new internship position for Xia Shu?"
"Uh... no."
It's easy to tell that the salary for an internship at a big company must be higher than Xia Shu's part-time job in a restaurant.
Having accumulated internship experience in a large company, Xia Shu will be able to find part-time and formal jobs more easily in the future.
The rich first-generation man who had no shortage of money had no idea how important this opportunity was to Xia Shu. Under the banner of doing it for Xia Shu's own good, he did whatever he wanted according to his own preferences and thus killed Xia Shu's hard-earned opportunity.
Regardless of whether Huo Jun really has ulterior motives, even if it is true, Xia Shu should be allowed to choose for herself, rather than Zhou Ziqian making his own decision.
Xia Shu had a good temper and a sensitive mind. Zhu Qingchen could almost imagine his expression and thoughts when he suddenly learned that he was kicked off the list.
He would only think that he did not do well enough and would never think that it was someone else who was harming him.
Zhu Qingchen asked again: "Is this all blamed on Huo Jun? Is Zhou Ziqian innocent?"
"That's what the original book said. After all, Zhou Ziqian's original intention was good, and Huo Jun was born a bad guy. When Zhou Ziqian came to see him, he secretly recorded a message and sent it to Xia Shu, telling Xia Shu the truth."
"Zhou Ziqian can do it, but Huo Jun can't say so, right?"
"Um."
Zhu Qingchen held his forehead: "Ah——"
The system was startled: "What's wrong with you?"
Zhu Qingchen cried silently: "My sleep-deprived brain cannot accept this advanced logic. Ouch, system, my head hurts."
“…”
The system was speechless: "Stop acting. There are so many people here. It's embarrassing. Stand up quickly."
At this time, Huo Jun reached out and helped Zhu Qingchen: "Is Teacher Zhu okay?"
Zhu Qingchen quickly stood up: "It's okay, I just feel a little dizzy all of a sudden."
Zhu Qingchen looked at Huo Jun pitifully, and suddenly felt a sense of sympathy for him.
The villain is so miserable too.
Huo Jun looked at him with dark circles under his eyes and a complicated expression.
Zhu Qingqing was probably the first person to say "drowsy" as "dizzy".
He took his hand back, stroked his sleeves, and said calmly: "Let's stop here for today's tour. The department has a good atmosphere and the students are all good. The cooperation can basically be settled."
The leaders smiled happily: "That's good, that's good."
"For the specific matters, we still need a team leader to connect with the group..."
Before Huo Jun finished speaking, he looked at Zhu Qingchen.
Zhu Qingchen cooperated by sticking out his chest and trying to attract Huo Jun's attention. "Me, me, me! Let me do it!"
If he were the team leader, he would never let Xia Shu's name be crossed out, let alone let Xia Shu be bullied by others! !
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