Chapter 50 Chapter 50 Part 2
He also took his mother's surname.
She has disliked her eldest brother since she was a child. In her parents' words, her eldest brother is an unkind person, even less so towards family. He is only focused on work and always puts profit first in everything he does.
Ever since she could remember, she had always felt that Qin Lian looked at her with a cold gaze. No matter her age, whenever she was naughty and did something wrong, her eldest brother would first give her a severe scolding, forbidding her to do this or that. In her eldest brother's eyes, the reputation of the Qin family was more important than family members. She had even witnessed Qin Tianrui being beaten to tears every time. Although Qin Lian seldom beat her, he would always make her watch how Qin Tianrui was beaten.
Qin Lian seldom went home, and every time he did, he had a lot of unpleasant arguments with his family. In the end, they just lived separately, thinking out of sight, out of mind.
He was obsessed with wealth, power and status, and brought all his outside habits home.
So she didn't appear with Qin Lian, and never liked to participate in activities in the same circle. Instead, she lived freely. Qin Lian disliked her, and she did the same.
Occasionally, when she saw reporters interviewing or praising Qin Lian on TV news or the Internet, she also felt that they were so fake.
He can smile so happily in front of the camera, but when he gets home he never says anything rude to his family.
Are his family members still his enemies?
They're all fake.
She also felt that people who were familiar with Qin Lian were fake, just like people like Qin Tianrui.
Although she looked down on Qin Tianrui, she often ate at the dinner table with him because of her parents. She listened to Qin Tianrui always complain about his dissatisfaction with the people in the Lu family, and also heard her parents talk about how the former Lu Jiang, the president of the Lu Group, had not educated him well.
None of the Lu brothers are good people.
So when she saw Qiao Wu, she categorized this person into the same category as everyone else she had in mind.
But she didn't expect that Qiao Wu was more decisive, straightforward, and courageous than Qin Lian.
At least in all these years, this was the first time that she was directly pushed against the wall and punished, and she was almost suffering from heatstroke in the sun.
She didn't expect that Qiao Wu would dare to keep her to watch. She wanted to see what Qiao Wu could do.
Cong Yi got up. The clothes on her back were wet and stuck to her body, making her very uncomfortable. She was also a little dehydrated after being exposed to the sun for a long time. She glanced at the water thrown by Qiao Wu on the ground.
It can't be for her to drink, right?
Give a slap and then give a sweet date? It's like hitting Qin Tianrui and then pulling him up.
She's not that stupid.
She didn't look at the bottle of water, but walked to the pool, scooped up the water and took a few big gulps, then washed her face, and then looked back at Qiao Wu provocatively.
Qiao Wu didn't bother to care about these childish actions and just decided not to drink.
She picked up the water and threw it to Guo Liyan behind her: "If she asks for water again, don't give it to her."
Guo Liyan: "Okay."
Zhong Min, who was standing on the ridge, saw for the first time the way Qiao Wu dealt with people, and he felt secretly relieved.
Fortunately, the last time he was at his sister's house, Qiao Wu just sat on the sofa and verbally communicated to him. Otherwise, he suspected that Qiao Wu wanted to throw him off the building, and his sister would agree without hesitation.
The group climbed up again and left, leaving Cong Yi to compete alone, and no one looked back.
Cong Yi held his breath, packed up his things, climbed up, and followed closely behind the main group.
Worried that they wouldn't be able to get back before noon, everyone went to a nearby hilltop. Looking out, the entire village was in sight, looking so small and fragile.
Lu Yingchi was a little stunned. He put down his hands from his pockets and turned his head to whisper to Qiao Wu, "Is it my illusion? Why does it feel smaller than home?"
"Master." Cong Yi, who had been following behind Qiao Wu and staring at her, sneered, "People are different. Do you know what suffering is like in the world?"
Before Lu Yingchi could say anything, Qiao Wu asked, "How could you possibly know anything about the sufferings of the world? Born into a family like this, do you know how much a bag of salt costs, how much a pound of corn costs, how much you can grow on a piece of land in a year, how much the bus fare is from here to town, how much you can sell the vegetables in your backpack at market, and how much rice and meat you can buy?"
Cong Yi was stunned by the question and it took him a while to retort: "You know?"
"Know."
Everyone couldn't help but turn around, even the village cadres were curious: "Chairman Qiao also knows this?"
Qiao Wu roughly said all the answers, and glanced at Cong Yi, who looked unhappy: "Common sense."
"Some people always like to use their self-righteous gaze to criticize others and show off their own differences." She raised her lip, "In fact, it only makes her look contrived and mediocre."
Although Lu Yingchi didn't understand this common sense, he was happy to see people like Cong Yi get humiliated. He said condescendingly, "Can you shut up in front of Qiao Wu? You'll only look smart."
"How dare you say that to me?" Cong Yi was not convinced.
"Why should I be embarrassed?" Lu Yingchi said frankly, "I don't know about this. My house is indeed big, but I won't use that so-called superiority to mock others. It's disgusting."
"Alright." Qiao Wu retracted his gaze. "Don't disturb others at work. Go do what you need to do."
Cong Yi's face turned red from being choked. He walked to the front with his schoolbag on his back and set up the equipment with the teachers angrily.
Qiao Wu stood with Zhong Min. She said slowly, "What did the school say?"
This time Zhong Min came here mainly for the Hope Primary School here.
"The population base is too small," Zhong Min said. "The children here either don't go to school or, like the village head's daughter, have been taken to town by their parents for boarding school. It takes a long time for the scattered families living nearby to walk here to attend school. The teachers here are mostly volunteers, so building a school is unlikely."
"I'm considering putting the money directly into the foundation. Every year, we'll count how many children have reached school age and send them to town. We'll cover their tuition and living expenses." After a pause, he tentatively asked, "What do you think?"
Qiao Wu smiled and said, "That's feasible."
It is actually not difficult to build a Hope Primary School in the village.
But building a school without people is not a solution. The teaching staff and resource distribution will be unequal. It is better to send the children out to study so that they can better integrate into society.
For no reason, Zhong Min breathed a sigh of relief.
It seemed that getting Qiao Wu's recognition was something that made him proud.
"You treat the symptoms, I'll address the root cause." Qiao Wu raised his hand, his fingertips circling the village entrance. "Build a road here, and then the whole village will be transformed into a comprehensive resort. Residents inside can also go out. You can consider building a kindergarten in the village. Yesterday I asked the village chief about it. There are many left-behind children aged three to seven in the village. Because they are too young to be sent to school, they have to stay at home. So a kindergarten would be more cost-effective than an elementary school. We can also build an activity room and a library so that both children and adults can use it."
She really put the advice into practice.
In fact, Lu could also do these things, but Qiao Wu did not take them all on, but gave them to him.
It doesn’t cost much to build a kindergarten and activity room, but no matter how big or small the charity is, as long as it is done, it is done.
Zhong Min took a deep breath and said, "Okay, I'll talk to the village chief later."
After climbing for most of the day, Qiao Wu was really tired. She just sat on the ground, picked some grass, and wove it in her hands while talking to the village cadres.
"Go, bring water to the teachers." Qiao Wu said to Lu Yingchi, "Don't bring water to Cong Yi."
Lu Yingchi was very happy about this and went there happily.
He also deliberately spoke loudly to the teachers: "Teacher, you have worked hard, teacher, please drink some water."
Then he walked in front of Cong Yi, walked around, and then walked back.
It can be said that he has never been so attentive to any of his previous teachers.
Cong Yi was so angry that her teeth were itching, but she had given up on drinking the water today, and now there was no pond for her to drink water, so she could only endure it and refused to give in.
After the geologists finished their survey, they came back to talk to Qiao Wu.
Qiao Wu was holding a blueprint in her hand, which she had drawn along the way today. It clearly marked where construction could begin and what was suitable for each task.
She listened to the geologists and made marks on the paper.
When it was Cong Yi's turn, she didn't hear any sound for a long time, so she raised her head.
Cong Yi stood beside her with a complicated expression, not understanding why Qiao Wu could still speak to him so naturally.
But thinking of Qiao Wu asking her to do her job well, she told him the data she had measured with an expressionless face.
Qiao Wu asked the experts for their opinions, and the teachers nodded: "She has always done well in this regard."
Only then did Qiao Wu write it down on the paper and casually handed her a bottle of water: "Thank you for your hard work."
Cong Yi's face was distorted. What did it mean to give her water now?
"I'll count to three. If you don't want it, you won't get any more water until you finish the next thing." Qiao Wu said slowly, "One, two..."
Before he finished counting to two, the bottle of water was taken away by Cong Yi.
If it were anyone else, Cong Yi would still hesitate, but Qiao Wu would really drink up the water in front of her and would not let anyone give her more.
If she didn't drink this bottle, she couldn't guarantee that she could walk down the mountain safely.
The morning inspection came to an end and everyone temporarily returned to the village chief's house for dinner.
It was still the same table, but this time even Lu Yingchi didn't make any trouble. He now found that he could still eat several bowls of food without missing a piece of meat even if he ate in a room that was covered in dust and smelled of cooking smoke.
After dinner, everyone went to their respective villagers' homes to enjoy the cool air and take a nap. Qiao Wu sent Lu Yingchi to the village entrance. He had a flight in the evening, and the driver had to take him to the airport.
Lu Yingchi had been exhausted these past two days and looked gloomy. He hung his head and asked, "When are you coming home?"
"I'll be back when I'm done." Qiao Wu handed him a small box. "I asked the village chief for some cooling oil. If you get carsick later, you can smell it. It won't help. When we get to town, go to the pharmacy and buy some motion sickness patches."
Lu Yingchi felt something was wrong: "Don't treat me like a child."
Qiao Wu did not refute: "Yeah."
"What the hell is that?" Lu Yingchi frowned and said, "If she does it again, tell me and I will kill her when I get home."
"She's also a child." Qiao Wu said with a smile, "She's just a little harder to manage than you. Have you forgotten that you were disobedient before?"
Lu Yingchi felt that he was being slandered and said angrily: "I'm not as unreasonable as her!"
"Yes." Qiao Wu pushed him into the car. "Go quickly. It will be too late soon. Remember to make up for the classes you missed today."
Lu Yingchi climbed onto the passenger seat, looked at the person standing quietly outside the window, and thought of what Qiao Wu had said about him following Yi Bi.
He had never thought that there was anything wrong with Qiao Wu taking care of him before, but at this moment he felt very unbalanced. Qiao Wu just treated him as a child, a child who needed discipline.
Just like Cong Yi, or just like Lu Ning.
But he didn't want to.
He grabbed the driver's hand that was shifting gears, rolled down the window, and called her, "Qiao Wu."
"Um?"
"Wait for me." Lu Yingchi rarely looked so serious. "I can walk on my own and protect you."
Qiao Wu smiled but didn't say anything.
After Lu Yingchi's car left, she sat down on a rock by the roadside and found Qin Lian's phone number.
"Boss Qin, your family and I always run into each other at unexpected times," she said with a smile.
Qin Lian only needed to think about it for a moment to guess who the Qin family might have met in the mountains with Qiao Wu. To be honest, although he asked Qiao Wu to help discipline his family members, he was always met first and then notified, which really affected his initiative.
"Did she irritate you?"
"That's very rude of me." Qiao Wu pressed the hands-free key and continued, "Although I can earn some extra money by doing this for you, I at least need to know what your family situation is like to raise such brainless offspring."
Qin Lian was scolded at this time but couldn't refute it. He sighed: "My parents doted on them too much."
"That's none of your business." Qiao Wu was puzzled. "She seems to hate you even more than your brother."
Perhaps because of how she had disciplined her brother last time, Qin Lian now trusted her very much, so he briefly explained some of the family situation: "So I'm not very close to them."
"I understand." Qiao Wu sighed, "That's what being a brother is like."
"Don't put yourself in my shoes." Qin Lian understood the meaning behind her words and sneered, "Lu Jinzhi is unpopular simply because he is not a human being."
"Okay, I get it." Qiao Wu stood up. "Boss Qin, remember to send the money this time. Your sister is more valuable than your brother. She's targeting me."
Qin Lian: “…”
He laughed angrily: "I think you and Lu Jinzhi can get along well."
"Well, he and I are good friends."
Qiao Wu hung up the phone and looked back at another car parked there: "Have you finished listening? If you are, get off."
Cong Yi, who had been lying behind the door, froze in expression.
How did she find out?!
Qiao Wu would habitually observe his surroundings before doing anything, especially places he was not familiar with, so when he came, he saw the retracted head and raised window in the other car at a glance.
Later, the car window was secretly lowered a little, obviously to eavesdrop on other people's conversation.
Qiao Wu raised his phone and said, "Your brother has already transferred the money to my phone. Do you know what I'm going to do?"
Cong Yi immediately stuck his head out and rolled down the car window completely, saying menacingly, "Come and fight if you dare."
"I'm tired of hitting you." Qiao Wu walked to the passenger seat, opened the door and got in the car. He smiled after feeling the temperature of the air conditioner inside.
The laughter was so unrestrained that Cong Yi was furious: "I'm going to change my clothes! Can't I use the air conditioner after being exposed to the sun all morning?!"
She did come to change her clothes, as her clothes from the morning were wet and dirty, and she felt very uncomfortable.
Besides, it's lunch time now, and it's not illegal for her to enjoy the air conditioning in her car.
"This car seems to be worth three million." Qiao Wu said.
"So what? My mom bought it."
"Then you drive a three million dollar car and tell me you're rich." Qiao Wu leaned back comfortably in the coolness of the car. "You spend a ton of money, enjoy privileges that others don't have, and then you hold high the banner of justice and integrity to criticize the vulgarity of the rest of us. How can you be so interesting?"
It begins with "I'm not like you, bullying others and pursuing profit."
"Businessmen are all profit-driven. Those who aren't are called bodhisattvas. The three million you earned and wore were all profit driven. The same profit you're using today to provide jobs and help the villagers escape the mountains is also from that little bit of profit," Qiao Wu said. "Even if I'm using it for show, you have no right to say, 'You know what?' Because I did it, and you didn't."
Cong Yi took a breath.
Qiao Wu glanced at the pile of changed clothes at the back and said, "If you hadn't done that today, you would be as respected as your teacher. Others would even praise you for your hard work and ambition, instead of being embarrassed and humiliated in front of so many people like this morning."
"Do you understand what it means to bully others by taking advantage of your power now?" Qiao Wu asked her. "After all these years of studying, hasn't anyone ever taught you the saying 'seeing is believing'?"
Cong Yi wanted to say that she was not like this to other people.
But she couldn't say it to Qiao Wu.
Qiao Wu's phone rang. She looked down and saw that the money had arrived in her bank card. Since WeChat transfers have a limit, Qin Lian had specifically asked for her bank card number.
She showed the record to Cong Yi: "See, one of my lessons is worth so much money to your brother."
Cong Yi's eyes widened, and he raised his hand to snatch the phone away: "Is he crazy? You're committing a scam!"
Qiao Wu slapped her hand away: "Is it possible that you are worth this much in your brother's heart?"
"he?!"
"Even though your brother's explanation was vague, anyone with a brain should be able to figure out that the reason you and Qin Tianrui can live such a carefree life is because your brother served as your experimental subject." Qiao Wu poked her face with his phone. "How come you can accept your parents' way of controlling your brother, but you think your brother is hateful when he controls you in the same way?"
Cong Yi was stunned.
She didn't know how her parents had managed Qin Lian before: "But he is the heir."
"Then I'll give it to you." Qiao Wu shrugged. "You think you're awesome anyway, and you'll definitely be able to manage the company well. Together with your second brother, the two of you will definitely surpass Lu Jinzhi and become one of the top young entrepreneurs in the country."
Cong Yi heard the hidden meaning in her words: "Are you mocking me?"
"I can tell." Qiao Wu nodded. "That's right. With your brains, I don't even need you to wait for a year before the Qin family is completely finished."
She turned her head and raised her eyebrows: "Why, you've been all over the world, but you've never been to your brother's company to see how he works every day?"
Indeed, I have never been there.
She wished she had nothing to do with Qin Lian, but she just heard Qiao Wu talking to Qin Lian on the phone.
Many of her prejudices against Qin Lian came from her parents. If it was distorted from her parents...
Cong Yi frowned.
Qiao Wu's slap on Qin Tianrui cost tens of thousands of yuan. In Qin Lian's mind, that was the price of the lesson Qin Tianrui had learned.
These few minutes in the car today, the hour by the waterhole, her lesson was worth six figures.
"Why didn't he tell me himself?"
"Sister." Qiao Wu laughed. "What good can you expect from people like your parents? Qin Tianrui and you? You'd better be lucky if one of them is normal."
This time, Qiao Wu scolded their entire family.
Cong Yi still couldn't refute it.
She was dissatisfied and said, "Uncle Lu didn't teach his sons well either."
"So the Lu family has Lu Jinzhi, and your family has Qin Lian." Qiao Wu didn't deny it. After all, it was common knowledge that the Lu brothers were superficially close but actually estranged. "And you're mistaken. They may have their flaws, but they wouldn't let anyone else speak so badly of their family members, let alone say it themselves."
She asked, "Think about it, did Lu Yingchi do anything wrong this morning?"
Apart from the original filters, if you didn't know Lu Yingchi, there would be no way to say that Lu Yingchi, who drank four bowls of rice from his master at noon today, was a dandy who was arrogant.
Could it be that he ate too much and was being impolite to others?
Qiao Wu snorted and laughed: "So you are not even as good as Lu Yingchi."
Seeing that time was almost up, she didn't want to waste any more time here, so she sat up straight, opened the car door and got out. When she turned around to close the car door, her hand was on the door: "Cong Yi, next time before you comment on other people's behavior, at least reflect on whether you have done the same. Otherwise, you will be a joke in the eyes of others."
Cong Yi turned off the engine and got out of the car. After thinking for a while, he ran to the trunk and took out several bottles of water and put them in his backpack.
Seeing her actions, Qiao Wu was amused: "Don't worry, I'm not you. As long as you do well, I will give you water to drink."
"snort."
Cong Yi thought that after she went to her brother's company, she would come back and criticize Qiao Wu harshly!
Thinking about the hundreds of thousands of "supplementary tuition fees", the jealous Cong Yi stopped making trouble in the afternoon and followed the teacher obediently to help measure the data.
Qiao Wu also understood why Qin Lian and Qin Tianrui looked like rich noblemen with fair skin and tender skin, but this little girl had a wheat-colored complexion.
It's all exposed. Putting aside her dull brain and low emotional intelligence, she is indeed able to endure hardships.
After returning from the mountain in the afternoon, the village chief cut some watermelon and distributed it to everyone.
Cong Yi didn't speak to Qiao Wu except for discussing data that whole afternoon. He just sat in the yard without saying a word.
Qiao Wu walked over to her, sat on the small stool, and handed the watermelon to her: "Thank you for your hard work, teacher."
Cong Yi's body trembled, and he said in surprise: "Wh, what teacher?!"
"You're more professional than me in this area. Is there anything wrong with me calling you teacher?" Qiao Wu handed the watermelon forward. "Want to eat?"
No one can refuse to take a bite of juicy watermelon at this time.
From also.
She took the watermelon and said, "I'm still a student."
But his ears turned red.
"You're better than Qin Tianrui in this respect." Qiao Wu was also eating watermelon. "You're more self-aware than he is."
"He's always been like that." After saying this, Cong Yi remembered Qiao Wu's words about not speaking ill of family members outside, and changed his words, "But he... forget it."
I really can't praise the advantages.
She lowered her head.
He couldn't help but turn his head to secretly look at Qiao Wu, and saw the red marks on her arms, which were all scratched by the grass when she was walking in the woods.
Even though he had walked so much, Qiao Wu never complained of being tired. He was still able to keep up with everyone, keep good records of the inspections in any place, and seriously communicate with the village party secretary about the future retention issues of the villagers, and then improve the plan bit by bit.
There has never been such a person around her, who uses both soft and hard tactics, yet is truly convincing.
"I'm sorry." Cong Yi said with his mouth on the watermelon.
"Hmm?" Qiao Wu glanced at her. "It would be great if your apology were as loud as your challenge to me."
"..." Cong Yi raised his head and almost shouted, "I'm sorry!"
The people sitting inside eating watermelon glanced outside. Cong Yi's teacher said in surprise, "Chairman Qiao is really capable. He made her behave herself in just one day. That little girl has a very stubborn temper."
Zhong Min smiled and said, "She's always been good at finding people's weaknesses."
"Are you all familiar with Chairman Qiao?"
“Not really,” Zhong Min said, “but I’ve been beaten by her before.”
Others: “???”
Outside the door, before Qiao Wu could say anything, the village party secretary pushed the door open and hurriedly said, "Chairman Qiao, someone is looking for you at the village entrance!"
"Looking for me?"
Qiao Wu didn't know anyone here, "Lu Yingchi is back?"
"No." The village party secretary raised his hand and gestured, "A young man about the same height as him said he was your friend. I said I would bring him here but he refused." Friend?
Qiao Wu stood up and washed his hands first: "I'll go take a look."
Guo Liyan also stood up: "Do you want me to go with you?"
"Need not."
Qiao Wu had a vague premonition.
She quickly walked out of the yard, following the lights coming from every household's yard, and came to the village entrance.
There were no street lights in the village, but the interior lights of a car were on, reflecting the outline of a person standing outside the car door with his head slightly tilted back, tall and straight.
Hearing the sound, he turned and watched her approach.
"Lu Jinzhi?!" Qiao Wu felt like her breathing was about to hold. She stood in front of Lu Jinzhi and was finally able to see his appearance clearly.
He was only wearing a black shirt, and his elegant black eyebrows turned cold the moment he smiled: "Yeah."
Qiao Wu asked blankly, "Why are you here?"
"You said you didn't want to see it anymore, so..."
In the quiet night of the village, Lu Jinzhi's voice was wrapped in the wind and blew very lightly.
"Come and see the stars."
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