Gou An shared the news about "Little White Flower crossing the class and entering the nouveau riche stage" in the Qianjintuan gossip group. After sending the message, he hesitated, withdrew the message, deleted the three words "nouveau riche", and sent it again.

【Danzu Zhou: @Gouzhu, don’t be afraid. I can win. I saw it.】

[Daniel Zhou: It doesn’t matter. If it weren’t for my mom, my dad would have been a nouveau riche who opened a farmhouse. After he got rich, he used to say something nice, “resort”, haha.]

[Danzu Zhou: He has a brain like a watt, he thinks he is a piece of cake, he wants to praise that illegitimate daughter to the sky.]

[Daniel Zhou: Have you seen the Audi A6 he drives to pick up Lu Wan every day? Hehe, he bought it when he first made his fortune a few years ago. Guess why he drives this car that has been gathering dust in the garage for tens of thousands of years? Because my mom had other cars driven away, and he dared not even fart.]

[Don't be afraid of me winning...]

【Don't be afraid, I can win: Zhou Yanji, why are you in the group? 】

[Daniel Chou: That's really sad. I've been from the same country as you guys for a long time, okay? We can talk to each other easily!]

【Daniel Zhou: For example, I know that bag you mentioned is really hard to buy.】

[Don't be afraid of me winning...]

Gou An was trying to teach the young ladies of the Qianjin Group not to be so easily infiltrated by unknown people.

At this time, the shy groundhog made a move.

[Shy Groundhog: The nouveau riche you are talking about is now waiting at the gate of our school and waving at me. ]

Zhou Chu couldn't understand why Lu Wan had caused such a commotion in his family. It was just one more person and one more pair of bowls and chopsticks. What difference would that make? Xu Hui's dominance left him speechless. After all, she had always been brooding over Lu Wan's mother. After returning to her parents' home, she had no contact with him. It was said that she was preparing for a divorce. Zhou Chu couldn't see what good it would do her at this age to get a divorce.

But that group of children made him very annoyed. Zhou Yanji had two older brothers. His two sons were studying abroad and called him long distance to question whether their father had gone crazy in middle age. They would not admit that they suddenly had a younger sister. The son and daughter in China also refused to return home. Zhou Yanji stayed at a friend's house for many days, and Zhou Yutong never sent him a message. This really concerned Zhou Chu.

He somewhat missed the noisy and lively atmosphere at home when he returned home before, so he came to find Zhou Yutong and the first thing he said was: "Tongtong, talk to Dad."

Zhou Yutong had just finished the last subject of her final exam, carrying her schoolbag. Amid the crowd of people coming and going, the word "Dad" successfully made her eyes tear up.

The person in front of her was not without feelings. Regardless of whether they were related by blood or not, he was the one she had called "Dad" for nineteen years.

When she was little, she had ridden on his neck and acted like a spoiled child in his arms. She knew that her father liked to drink mung bean soup the most and did not like peach gum and white fungus. After get off work, he would ask her if she had finished her homework well and why she was playing around with her brother here.

Look, Zhou Chu used to be a very normal father. He probably did everything a qualified father should do, except that he could not resist the powerful force of blood calling.

Zhou Yutong carried her schoolbag and followed Zhou Chu into the Audi A6. Her red, frozen hands unconsciously picked at the straps of her schoolbag. The father and daughter chatted for a while, and no one mentioned the matter of "adoption" again.

Zhou Chu asked Zhou Yutong if she was doing okay outside, and Zhou Yutong nodded numbly. Why ask such nonsense? No matter how good it was, it would not be better than the days at home.

At that time, she had parents and two brothers who were responsible for loving her and one for pissing her off. Her home was lively every New Year. But this year, as the New Year was approaching, she didn't know where to go on New Year's Eve.

Zhou Chu seemed to see through her thoughts: "I will apologize and explain to your mother. Tongtong, you are already a senior in high school. It is not a good idea to always live in a hotel. You should go home and live, okay?"

The word "go home" touched Zhou Yutong again. The girl was only a teenager and had been spoiled in the past. How could she understand so many twists and turns? She moved her lips in confusion and almost nodded in the gentle voice of the elders.

Until she kicked and hit a book.

What he picked up was a book about marine geology. He opened the first page and saw Lu Wan's name on it.

Zhou Yutong woke up almost instantly and suddenly realized that the car she was sitting in was the one Lu Wan had sat in in the morning; the person she wanted to call "Dad" but suddenly didn't know how to start was Lu Wan who had called her that before.

Compared to the damn love between men and women, what can really kill people is family love, which is like a knife stabbing into the chest and then turning around. The pain can make people bend over and almost unable to breathe.

"What about Lu Wan..." Zhou Yutong asked, "Where is Lu Wan?"

Zhou Chu fell silent, and the heater in the car seemed to lose its effect. He sighed, "You have never been to Zhaipu District, so you don't know how bad the environment there is. Dad saw it when he went to pick her up these days. It's hard to imagine that a girl has lived in that kind of environment for so many years. Can you imagine that while you were drinking Evian, they were still using teacups to drink water, and they needed to boil water--"

Every word made Zhou Yutong's scalp tingle. She wanted Zhou Chu to stop talking, but when she opened her mouth, she didn't know how to refute.

"What's wrong with boiled water?" Zhou Yutong was at a loss, "Is drinking boiled water something to be ashamed of?"

The little daughter's question was innocent and direct. Zhou Chu's emotion was stuck in his throat. After a while, he said, "You don't know, you don't understand. You have lived such a good life since you were a child. Wanwan, she lived in such an environment and had to take care of her sick grandmother. Actually, it was her grandmother. She often went out to work and studied very hard. She often worked until midnight. There was no air conditioning in the summer and no heating in the winter. That kind of life is nothing compared to yours."

“…”

"Tongtong, if you want to be kind, just treat it as a kind act..."

Sometimes, many things become simple math problems when heard by others.

And people's despair is often built on some ruins in an instant -

The ruins may come freshly from the high wall that was built just a second ago, which collapsed suddenly.

"I see."

Zhou Yutong felt a sense of calm in her heart - as if a carefully maintained taut string suddenly broke - and then, suddenly, everything became indifferent.

I didn’t even feel like crying anymore, and my eyes that were sore a second ago became numb.

Putting down Lu Wan's textbook and placing it between the father and daughter, as if a barrier had been erected from then on, the girl said expressionlessly: "Mr. Zhou, you are joking. I am an orphan, adopted by my mother. What right do I have to be kind to others?"

The sudden change of address made Zhou Chu look at her in surprise.

Without crying or shouting, Zhou Yutong blinked and said, "I'll go live in Zhaipu District."

Zhou Chu let out a brief sound of shock from deep in his throat.

"I'm going to live in Zhaipu District, and I'll give Lu Wan the life she wants as a young lady." Zhou Yutong put on her schoolbag and opened the door of the Audi A6. "Is there nothing more to say now?"

She got out of the car quickly.

Until the last second before the car door closed, those dark brown eyes that looked like Xu Hui's, which sometimes made Zhou Chu realize that this was their daughter, were always fixed on him.

"Don't ever come to me again."

When Gou An received the message, Zhou Yutong had already checked out of her hotel.

A huge question mark appeared in her head.

On the phone, facing Comrade Marmot's announcement on the phone that she was going to live in a tube-shaped building, with a tone so firm that there was no doubt that she was completely crazy, Gou An felt like a thorn in his throat.

After a long while, he could only sigh helplessly: "You are really such a fool."

Zhou Yutong made a decision that no one could change. Xu Hui and Zhou Yanji almost scolded her to death, but all she got in return was: I will give it all back to him.

Gou An suspected that this groundhog was the reincarnation of Nezha, otherwise where did he learn such an outrageous trick of "cutting bones to return the father's wealth".

Finally, she called a few people, asked them to take off their suits, wear tattered clothes, and accompany her to move Zhou Yutong's not-so-many belongings into Zhaipu District.

Winter vacation is in a week.

After the second round of chaos in the Zhou family, when Lu Wan heard that Zhou Yutong had moved into the tube-shaped building with her belongings, she also moved out of her original home.

The heroine of the original novel finally escaped from the slums and lived in a small apartment in the city center, with bright windows, sufficient lighting, and a clean bed.

The material leap did not make her completely lose herself, otherwise how could she continue to be the little white flower heroine? The four words "excellent in both character and academic performance" seemed to be engraved on Lu Wan's personality. As long as she did not have to work and used the rest of her time to study, a mere final exam would not be a problem for her.

Gou An was scrolling through his phone and looking at his final exam results. Lu Wan got the same score as him. The teacher was happily @ing them in the WeChat group: Tied for first place, that's awesome, congratulations.

Gou An experienced what it really meant to "bite a mouthful of silver teeth" and vomited so much.

This day was the first day of the winter vacation. Gou An was sitting in the Marine Biology Research Institute waiting for Chen Jinli to come and assign work. Lu Wan was sitting two steps away from her. Gou An saw her holding her phone and pressing it. Lu Wan's reply popped up in the group message -

【Evening Breeze: Thank you, teacher (*^_^*）】

Gou An: “…”

grass.

This emoticon pack has a strong old-fashioned flavor. Who wouldn't want to give her a knife?

Just when I was speechless and wanted to stamp my feet, Chen Jinli came.

For a while, Gou An was in a room with two people who were abusing small animals (groundhogs). He immediately wanted to call the Animal Protection Association to come and arrest them with handcuffs.

It was obvious that Chen Jinli was too lazy to pay attention to these two college students who knew nothing, and came over to throw two tasks to them -

One was to collect seawater samples from the future oceanarium construction site at Jinshan Pier; the other was to go to the basement to take care of his fish son.

Jinshan Wharf is now the Zhaipu District. Fifty meters behind the coastline next to the wharf is the famous Zhaipu District shantytown complex known as the "scar of the city."

Gou An went there once when he helped Zhou Yutong move, and it was no exaggeration to say that the air was indeed smelly.

Chen Jinli had a very hands-off attitude, but because he was assigning work to two temporary workers who knew nothing, although the tasks were completely unskilled, the content of the tasks was very detailed.

It includes the intervals for seawater sampling and how his fish son should be fed.

Seawater samples are taken every hour, from daytime to sunset, and people who go there may have to blow the fishy sea breeze there all day long; the fish son breeding plan is good, after all, it is a shark that is less than a month old and dragging a nutrition bag. All you have to do is: sit, watch it, and don't let it die suddenly.

Gou An was not a fool. He rolled his eyes and snatched the plan for raising fish sons: "Professor Chen is really good at taking care of people. This is a thoughtful task assignment tailored for different groups of people. Student Lu, you are familiar with Zhaipu District. You can walk there with your eyes closed. Go quickly."

Chen Jinli glanced at Gou An who was clinging to the "Fish Breeding Plan" tightly. He was not surprised at her ability to be lazy and not put in any effort. This job was originally prepared for her.

Throwing down a sentence "You can distribute it slowly", he turned and walked out, apparently in a hurry to attend some seminar.

After the annoying Professor Chen left, Lu Wan seemed to have finally grown a mouth. He glanced at the remaining seawater sampling plan and just wanted to sneer: "Aren't you in a higher position than me? Shouldn't you be doing the technical work?"

"But you have a criminal record. You killed my cat. Have you forgotten?" Gou An gave her a fake smile. "What if you are unlucky with small animals and the fish dies on the spot after taking one look at you? Professor Chen Jin... Professor Chen will send us to the sea to be buried with you?"

Lu Wan really wanted to tear her mouth apart.

He suppressed his anger and grabbed the task list that meant he was going to drink the sea breeze. He turned around and was about to go out when Gou An called out to him casually, "Remember to go to the equipment room and apply for a collector."

Lu Wan glared at her fiercely.

At this time, Gou An's cell phone rang, and the marmot who voluntarily moved into the Zhaipu area was crying, and a mouse got into her closet.

Gou An: “…”

Gou An: "I beg you to hurry up and find a boyfriend."

Zhou Yutong: "Who? Li Du? That idiot is not only afraid of mice but also cockroaches - ah! It's out! Aaaaaaah! Don't come over here!"

Amidst the earth-shaking screams, Gou An hung up the phone with a gloomy face, snatched the seawater sampling interval schedule from Lu Wan's hand, and stuffed the Tianxuan "Playing with Mobile Phone and Taking Care of Fish Son" plan into her hands.

"Watch carefully, Buick killed those two fish bastards, and made me and you suffer together... I would rather die with you than die together."

Without waiting for Lu Wan to speak, he marched to the laboratory to get the equipment for collecting seawater.

Arriving at Zhaipu District, I found Zhou Yutong's residence with ease. She lived in the same empty house where the old lady in the sun-drying field thought she was a homeless person and recommended her to live there crazily when Gou An bravely entered Zhaipu District last time.

It's still shabby, but it's close to the playground so at least it can get a little bit of sunlight in the afternoon.

At Zhou Yutong's house, Gou An drove away the mouse with a broom, then carried a heavy toolbox and walked non-stop along the coastline to the beach.

After getting the sea water, she went back to Zhou Yutong's place and sat there. She went again an hour later, repeating this process over and over again. She made a total of seven or eight trips in the morning and afternoon.

When she finished her last trip in the afternoon, with her messy hair and face that was almost cracked by the sea breeze, Miss Gou had already planned in her mind how to resign gracefully.

After being held by Zhou Yutong and hearing "I love you" and "Will you come tomorrow?" countless times, Gou An slapped her hand away speechlessly and replied, "I'm not coming."

At the entrance of the alley, she bent down and got into the Bentley that her family had sent her to pick her up. She looked at the seawater collector in the toolbox that made crisp sounds as it bumped against the road, and thought optimistically: Wow, the microorganisms inside never thought that they would be able to ride in a Bentley in their lifetime.

When he arrived at the research institute, Gou An delivered the samples and went back to the basement.

She did not forget that she got the "Fish Breeding Plan" in front of Chen Jinli, and the job of writing the report must be just as easy. She was really not prepared to be so generous as to exchange it with Lu Wan.

When they arrived, Lu Wan was already waiting at the door with his bag on his back. The two of them met each other, and for a moment, no one spoke.

I don’t know if she was bitten by some good fish with eyes when she was feeding the fish. Compared to Gou An who was busy all afternoon, the little white flower heroine looked even more listless than her. Her little face was pale and she looked like she was going to die in the next second.

Gou An was puzzled, but he still slapped the seawater sampling form into her hand, and snatched away the fish observation record form from Lu Wan's hand, which probably didn't contain much useful information.

This time, Lu Wan didn't complain about her being too strong. He just nodded hurriedly and said, "I'm leaving."

Gou An raised his chin and said, "Go away."

Gou An passed her and entered the basement. There was no light in the basement, like a darkroom, except for the light above each seawater aquaculture tank that was suitable for the current fish to adapt to the living environment. In short, it was very dark.

The basement was cleaned very clean, but because of the fish and the smell of sea water, there was still a headache-inducing salty and humid smell. Gou An looked around and found a white-tip shark swimming slowly in front of the largest sea water tank.

"Hello?" She was lying outside the fish tank. "Where's your son?"

A white tip shark gave birth to two cubs half a month ago, which were not in very good health. I heard that the only living creatures Chen Jinli had kept in his sights for the past half month were Zhou Yutong and these two little sharks that could die at any time.

Gou An searched for a long time and found the luxurious single-family villa where they were isolated. There was only a small fish tank placed next to the big fish tank for the white tip sharks.

Sitting next to the small fish tank, Gou An greeted the two little babies, then opened Lu Wan's report, took a look, and said "tsk tsk" twice in disdain. She took out a pen and prepared to say a few more words -

After writing two lines, I suddenly felt something was wrong.

She raised her head and thought blankly for a few seconds, then threw away the pen and went back to the fish baby's villa, and peeked again - this time she didn't care whether it was afraid of the glare or not, Gou An directly turned on the flashlight on her mobile phone and shone it down, and found two fish babies, one of which was holding a nutrient bag and swimming around in the fish tank a little impatiently, and the other was motionless.

That feeling of uneasiness instantly rose to the top of his head.

Gou An choked and shook the fish tank directly.

The small shark that was swimming around swung its tail, splashing the fishy sea water on her face. The other shark flipped over directly, and its eyes had turned gray.

Gou An's mind exploded.

Three minutes later.

There is still half an hour left before the Oceanographic Institute gets off work.

Gou An leaned against the basement door and made a phone call.

"Um?"

The call was connected, and the lazy nasal sound from the other end almost made Gou An burst into tears.

"He Jinxing, what are you doing?"

"...Go to work." The person on the other end of the phone obviously heard something wrong and was very puzzled. "What's wrong with you?"

"Don't go. If you don't want to be a widower in middle age, come to the Marine Biology Research Institute now." Gou An's voice was a little shaky. "In thirty minutes at most, Chen Jinli will come and kill me."

"?"

"Husband, help me."

“…”

(End of this chapter)