Chapter 057 The Fifty-Seventh Melon
"You dead bastard, keep your mouth shut, who is the pheasant and who is the phoenix!"
Mrs. Lin couldn't help but feel distressed when she saw her niece's look, but when she heard Zhang Wu's words, she instantly exploded. She wanted to rush over and give Zhang Wu a slap in the face!
Uncle He and others hurriedly stopped Mrs. Lin, "Oh, Mrs. Lin, forget it, forget it, why bother with such a person, we can't force a cow to drink water. Peiwen is such a capable girl, she will definitely find a better husband in the future."
Lin Peiwen lowered her head, tears streaming down her cheeks.
She took a breath and wiped her tears with her sleeve, "Don't use your dad as an excuse, this marriage won't happen. I, Lin Peiwen, am not so lowly that I must have you!"
"Well, Miss Lin is really ambitious!"
Gu Xicao couldn't help but cheer.
Everyone looked in the direction of the voice, and when they saw that it was her, they all showed overjoyed expressions. Mrs. Liang even said, "Xiao Gu, come over quickly and persuade Mrs. Lin."
"Why should I persuade you? I don't have any ability, but I am the toughest one. Zhang Wu, you and your son listen to me. I will not let you go on this matter. Don't you want to find a good job and a good marriage? I tell you, you are wishful thinking!"
Grandma Lin was so angry that her teeth were about to break. She pointed at Zhang Wu and his son with a trembling hand and said, "As long as you are here for one day, no matter what good things you have, I will ruin them for you. Let's wait and see!"
"You dare!"
Zhang Wu had been feeling smug at first, but when he heard this, his heart tightened and he glared at Mrs. Lin angrily.
Mrs. Lin rolled up her sleeves and said, "How dare you, old lady?"
"You, you..." Zhang Wu felt guilty and angry.
Zhang Qing couldn't help it at this time, and stepped forward and said: "Mrs. Lin, just do it, I want to see what you can do. But I have to tell you, I also know a lot of rich friends in the United States, and they are not easy to mess with, such as Lin Qianshi, the eldest son of the Lin family."
When they heard the word "Lin family", everyone's expressions changed. They went from being indignant to being hesitant, and there was a bit of awe in their eyes when they looked at Zhang Qing.
Mrs. Liang tugged at Mrs. Lin's sleeve and said in a low voice, "Ah Lian, forget it. After all, they are college students who returned from studying in the United States. They are very capable. We can't afford to offend them."
Mrs. Lin's face turned pale and blue, "So what if it's Mr. Lin? I just don't believe that there is no justice in this world, Xiao Gu, don't you agree?!"
Gu Xicao stared at Zhang Qing. At first, she didn't hear what Mrs. Lin said. After Mrs. Lin repeated it, she came back to her senses and said thoughtfully, "Yes, you are right."
"Well, look, Xiao Gu said so. Anyway, I must help Awen get back at her!" Mrs. Lin gritted her teeth, her eyes bloodshot.
Mrs. Liang looked at Gu Xicao helplessly.
Lin Peiwen walked silently to the side of Mrs. Lin and said, "Aunt, just pretend that I was blind this time. I am still young and can bear the grievances. Please don't cause trouble for me."
As Lin Peiwen said this, Gu Xicao clearly saw her clenched fists and her body trembling slightly. It seemed that Lin Peiwen was not angry or did not want to seek justice, but was simply frightened by Zhang Qing's words.
Ordinary people like them have to work hard just to make a living, and a little anger from those rich people is enough to destroy their peaceful lives.
"Awen!"
Mrs. Lin was about to ask something, but when she saw her niece biting her lips hard, the words at her lips seemed to be blocked by something and she couldn't utter a word for a while.
"Poor Awen, she is so capable and considerate, but Aqing still doesn't want her. He is really heartless."
"Speak softly, he is different now, more powerful and more arrogant, we can't afford to offend him."
The neighbors' discussions were endless.
Zhang Wu and his son were not ashamed, but proud of it. Zhang Wu even raised his chin proudly and looked at people with his nose up, "What's the matter? Is everything okay? We still have to go home for dinner."
Everyone was so angry at the smug look on the father and son's faces that they wanted to hit them.
"Wait."
Gu Xicao suddenly spoke.
Zhang Wu and his son stopped and Zhang Wu turned around to look at Gu Xicao. Although Gu Xicao didn't know him, Zhang Wu recognized this famous fortune teller in Ziwei Tower. Before, Zhang Wu had considered whether to introduce Gu Xicao to his son. After all, Gu Xicao earned a lot of money and had close contacts with wealthy people.
But later, he thought about it and felt that fortune-telling was not a decent thing and was not worthy of his top-notch son, so he gave up the idea.
However, Zhang Wu was also somewhat wary of Gu Xicao.
He looked at Gu Xicao warily: "Miss Gu, this matter is over, and it has nothing to do with you."
"Oh, you misunderstood. I'm just curious about something. I want to ask your son, does he really know Mr. Lin?"
Gu Xicao looked at Zhang Qing with a curious look on her face.
Zhang Qing's eyes swept over the well-tailored clothes on Gu Xicao, and a hint of surprise flashed through his mind. This set of clothes didn't look cheap. If he could afford this clothes, why did he still live here?
He pretended to be calm, "Of course, you just don't know. There are not many people from Hong Kong studying abroad, and everyone is very close. Mr. Lin is very approachable and often has parties with us."
"Wow, really? Where do you guys usually meet up then?"
Gu Xicao blinked and asked with interest.
Zhang Qing smiled proudly, "Needless to ask? Of course it's the school dormitory. Our school dormitory is very big, many times bigger than the public housing, and it also has microwave ovens, refrigerators, and vending machines. It's much more developed than Hong Kong!"
"My son is so smart." Zhang Wu's face was full of satisfaction and pride.
Gu Xicao suddenly cried out, propping up her chin and tilting her head: "That's very strange. You studied in the United States, and Young Master Lin studied in the UK. How did you meet?"
Zhang Qing didn't react at all at first and was stunned for a moment.
Mrs. Liang exclaimed, clapping her hands and saying, "Yes, the newspapers said before that Mr. Lin studied in the UK. It seems, it seems to be the Bridge University."
"It's Cambridge University, Mrs. Liang."
Lin Yuan kindly reminded.
Mrs. Liang clapped her hands and said, "That's right, it's Cambridge, it's from the UK, how could it go to the United States?"
Everyone looked at each other and said, yes, even though they were all country bumpkins and had never been abroad, they knew that the United States and Britain were not from the same country.
Gu Xicao looked at Zhang Qing and said, "You need to explain this to everyone. We are uneducated and have never been abroad, so we don't know these things."
Zhang Qing's forehead was covered with sweat, his Adam's apple rolled, and he faltered as he explained, "It's nothing surprising. Young Master Lin is a rich man. Do you think he is like you, who may not be able to go abroad once in decades? He rides a plane just like eating instant noodles. He can fly wherever he wants in a minute."
"Yes, that's right. You poor fellows, Young Master Lin is so rich. He might have his own private jet. It's not surprising that he flies from England to America."
Zhang Wu also hurried to help his son speak.
Gu Xicao nodded, with her finger on her lower lip. "That makes sense. After all, rich people can fly whenever they want. The Lin family is so rich, why would they care about the cost of a few tickets?"
"That's right. You wouldn't believe it if I didn't tell you. He is very generous and often invites us to fly to his villa to play." Seeing that Gu Xicao was fooled, Zhang Qing boasted even more.
He felt extremely proud when he saw the envious eyes of the people around him.
"Is it true? I might as well call Mr. Lin and ask him now." Gu Xicao looked at Zhang Qing's smug and disdainful expression, raised the corner of his lips, and said maliciously.
Zhang Qing was stunned, his expression frozen.
He looked at Gu Xicao for a while, then burst into laughter: "Little sister, stop joking. You are such a boaster that you know Young Master Lin."
"You are the one who is talking nonsense. Everyone in the building knows that Xiao Gu is a famous fortune teller. On the day when his shop opened, countless rich people came to patronize him."
Mrs. Lin immediately protected Gu Xicao and pointed at Zhang Qing, "But you, you look so unlucky, with a lemon haircut, rat eyes, hooked nose, pig mouth, buck teeth, and short legs. You are scarier than Zhong Kui. How could Mr. Lin recognize you and invite you to his villa by plane? What's the matter? Do you want to ward off evil spirits when you move into a new house and invite you to scare ghosts?"
Gu Xicao opened her mouth slightly.
Lin Yuan looked at Mrs. Lin in admiration, his mouth wide open in admiration: "Mrs. Lin is so good at scolding people, there is not a single repetition in such a long paragraph."
Gu Xicao pushed Lin Yuan hurriedly, "Don't learn this, kid. Go home quickly."
"No, I want to finish watching it here." Lin Yuan hugged Gu Xicao's thighs, "Don't worry, sister, I will never use these words to scold anyone casually."
I can't feel at ease after hearing what you said.
I won't use it to insult people casually.
That means they will use it to curse people when necessary.
Children should not learn these swear words.
Gu Xicao felt helpless.
"You, you've become a shrew. I won't tell you anything. Anyway, she is just bragging. Who is Mr. Lin to know a girl like her?"
Zhang Qing couldn't scold Mrs. Lin, his face turned red and he was so angry that he took out his rage on Gu Xicao.
Gu Xicao couldn't help but sneer. She took out the invitation from her bag and said, "Look what this is."
The invitation was very delicately made, with a bright red card with gold sprinkled on it, and intricate patterns on it. It clearly stated the party address and invitees, and three huge words - Lin Qianshi - caught everyone's eye.
Mrs. Liang and others were all shocked.
Mrs. Liang hurried over and carefully held the invitation. "It really is Lin Qianshi's name. It's a birthday party!"
"Yes, take a smell, this invitation smells really good. Oh, these can't be gold foil." Uncle He and the others didn't even dare to touch it.
Zhang Qing was stunned when he saw the invitation.
How is that possible?
Where did this little girl get the invitation?
If she really had the ability to meet someone as wealthy as Young Master Lin, why was she still living in Ziwei Tower? !
"Xiao Gu, you, you really know Young Master Lin." Mrs. Lin was so surprised that she didn't know what to say.
Gu Xicao said, "We met by chance before. Mr. Lin is a very approachable person. I never thought he would invite me to his birthday party."
She paused here and looked at Zhang Qing, "How is it, Mr. Zhang, since you and Mr. Lin are friends, did you get the invitation?!"
She emphasized the word "friends" with a faint smile on her face, which seemed particularly ironic at this moment.
Zhang Qing was embarrassed, so he swallowed and made an excuse: "I just came back to Hong Kong, and I don't know about this. I guess Young Master Lin doesn't know I'm back, so..."
"In that case, I'll call and remind him for you."
Gu Xicao said kindly: "Since we are good friends, how can you miss the birthday party?"
She looked at Uncle He and said, "Uncle He, can I borrow your home phone?"
"Okay, okay..." Uncle He agreed subconsciously.
"No!" Zhang Qing reacted very strongly and grabbed Gu Xicao's hand. His body obviously reacted faster than his brain.
Gu Xicao looked at his hand, raised an eyebrow, uttered an "eh", and covered her mouth with her hand: "Why not?"
Zhang Qing was sweating profusely at this moment, and the eyes of the people around him had changed from envy to suspicion.
Mrs. Lin crossed her arms and sneered, "Could it be that someone is exaggerating? If it were true, why didn't they dare to call Mr. Lin?"
"Even if my son is bragging, he is just joking with you."
After all, Zhang Wu was several dozen years older than his son, and he was still experienced. Seeing that his son had been boasting, he immediately helped his son to smooth things over, "You guys are too serious!"
"Are we serious?"
Mrs. Lin raised her lips sarcastically, "Who just now swore that he knew Mr. Lin, and that Mr. Lin invited him to take a plane and go to the villa? He really thinks that everyone is an idiot and can be fooled."
"Selling vegetables, okay, even if my son brags about this matter, so what!"
Zhang Wu's face flushed with anxiety, and he stiffened his neck and said, "He will definitely meet rich people in the future. There must be a few people in Hong Kong who have the same education level as my son."
At this point, Zhang Wu shook his head proudly and looked at Gu Xicao with disdain: "Unlike some people, mainland girls, without education, so what even if they are good at fortune-telling."
Mainland girl?
No education?!
A crossroads popped up on Gu Xicao's forehead. He was really looking for death and had found himself at the door of Yama.
She smiled and said, "I don't have any education, but your son's education is not that high, right? Let me calculate..." She shook off Zhang Qing's hand, raised her hand and counted with her fingers, then looked at Zhang Qing in surprise, "What's going on? You only graduated from high school."
Graduated from high school?!
Everyone was stunned. They blinked and looked at Gu Xicao with confusion on their faces.
The expression on Zhang Qing's face went blank for a moment, and his body froze as if someone had stimulated his blood pressure.
"What do you mean by high school graduate? My son is a top student who graduated from an American university!" Zhang Wu pointed at Gu Xicao in shame and anger: "You liar, stop talking nonsense here."
“Everyone knows who is the liar.”
Gu Xicao clapped her hands slowly and looked at Zhang Qing with a teasing look in her eyes. "To be honest, I admire you so much. You have a really strong mentality. You actually managed to lie for four years and deceived your whole family and everyone. You were admitted to a foreign university, but in fact, this never happened."
"No way, is this true? Old Zhang's son wouldn't do such a big thing, right?"
When people first heard this news, they were skeptical and didn't believe it.
After all, it was hard for people to believe that a lie had lasted for four years.
Mrs. Lin suddenly said loudly, "You don't have to believe what others say, but Xiao Gu has always been right, and this time is definitely the same. Ah Wen, it seems that we are really lucky. This big talker never tells the truth. It's a good thing that our marriage didn't work out. If it had, I don't know how much suffering I would have to endure in this life!"
Lin Peiwen was already stunned. She stared at Zhang Qing with wide eyes and said in a daze, "It's fake, it's actually fake?"
"Don't listen to her nonsense. How could I lie about something like this? I, I have my diploma to prove it!"
Zhang Qing finally came to his senses, and waved his hands to explain anxiously, sweating all over.
Gu Xicao raised the corners of his lips. "Graduation certificate? What's the use of it? As long as you have money, you can make a fake one in any foreign country. If you want to prove that what you said is true, it's very simple. What is your graduation thesis about? How many thousands of words are there? Also, what is the plagiarism rate? Who is your thesis advisor?"
Four questions in a row made Zhang Qing's head swell. His mouth opened and closed like a goldfish, but he didn't utter a single word.
Although the others had never attended college and had no idea what a thesis or plagiarism check was, they could tell who was the guilty one just by looking at the expressions of Gu Xicao and Zhang Qing.
Gu Xicao was full of confidence and didn't look panicky at all. On the contrary, Zhang Qing looked guilty and confused.
"You can't be unable to answer this, right? Anyone who has attended college for a year knows this."
Gu Xicao looked Zhang Qing up and down, "I don't know how to say hello to you. You are very bold, but you have been lying for four years. You must have had a very comfortable life abroad during these four years."
Zhang Qing swallowed, feeling guilty and angry. He looked at Gu Xicao with a trace of fear and regret in his heart.
"Tell me, did you really deceive our whole family?"
Zhang Wu, however, could no longer sit still. He turned his head to look at his own son, veins throbbing on his neck and his face as red as a thermometer under the scorching sun.
“Dad, I, I…” Zhang Qing’s nose was sweating. Facing his father’s murderous eyes, he kept backing away in fear and guilt. “I was confused for a moment. I just wanted to play a joke on you all…”
Before he could finish his words, his father slapped him in the face. Zhang Qing fell to the ground with several teeth broken.
The surroundings were quiet.
Everyone stared in amazement at Zhang Qing who was knocked to the ground and Zhang Wu who was shaking with anger.
This slap alone was obviously not enough to vent my anger.
Zhang Wu threw himself on his son and punched him again and again, "You fucking bastard, I emptied out our family savings to support your education, a full three hundred thousand, you loser, I'm going to beat you to death!"
"Three hundred thousand?" Uncle He and the others were shocked. "I didn't expect Zhang Wu to be so rich!"
Mrs. Lin folded her hands and watched the joke, gossiping, "How would you know? Zhang Wu's family is so stingy. A block of fermented bean curd can be eaten by four or five people in the family. They spend less than 300 yuan on food and drink in a month. They have saved this money for who knows how many years. God is really watching over them this time!"
Everyone couldn't help but feel pain.
Three hundred thousand is not a small sum. Although it is not enough to buy a house, for ordinary people, this amount of money is a sum that they need to save for several years.
If the money was really used to pay tuition for studying abroad, it would be worth it. But it was given to a prodigal son to squander abroad, and no one would be able to bear this.
"Dad, I know I was wrong, please stop hitting me, please stop hitting me."
Zhang Qing was hiding everywhere on the ground like a mouse.
His mother and several children heard the noise downstairs, and when they came out they saw that it was her husband beating their son, and they quickly ran up to stop Zhang Wu.
Zhang Wu couldn't hold back his anger and kept struggling, "Get out of the way, let me beat this loser to death!"
"Husband, if Ah Zai did anything wrong, just talk to him nicely."
Zhang's mother looked like a loving mother, looking at her beloved son who was beaten black and blue with heartache: "Ah Qing has to go to work now. How can he find a job after you beat him like this? Will his colleagues not laugh at him when they see him?"
Mrs. Lin fanned the flames and said, "Mrs. Zhang, you don't know what your son has done."
Mrs. Zhang rolled her eyes at Mrs. Lin and said, "What my son did is none of your business. We are not related, so don't butt in on the matter."
"Okay, okay, I won't say anything. Anyway, the person who cheated the whole family's money to study abroad and was not admitted to the university is not my son."
Mrs. Lin's smile was particularly bright, and her whole person seemed to be brighter, and the depression in her heart was swept away. At this moment, her mood can be summed up by a line of lyrics, which is - the sky of the People's Liberation Army is a clear sky~
Not accepted into university?
Mrs. Zhang was confused. She looked at her husband and said, "Honey, who didn't get admitted to the university? It wasn't our son, was it?"
"It's you, my boy. I don't know how you taught him. This bastard cheated our whole family's money and is living a good life in the United States!" Zhang Wu became more and more angry as he spoke.
He lived frugally all his life, and in order to save money, he wore a pair of underwear for more than ten years, until the edges turned into lace.
In the end, all the money was spent by this evil son.
"Dad, I don't want to do this. If you hadn't forced me to do this, and told me to go work if I couldn't get into a foreign university, I wouldn't have done it!"
Zhang Qing folded his hands, huddled into a ball, feeling very aggrieved.
"You, you really lied to our whole family?!" Zhang's mother's lips were trembling, and she looked at her own son in disbelief, "You were not admitted?!"
"Need I ask? Of course it's gone."
Mrs. Lin said with a smile: "Mr. Zhang, Mrs. Zhang, you are so lucky. Your son is really a phoenix. Our Peiwen is really not worthy of your son. She is not as bold as your son. He spent three hundred thousand by himself. So generous!"
Hearing these sarcastic words, all the blood in Zhang Wu's body rushed to his brain. He pointed his finger at Zhang Qing and wanted to curse him, but he only felt dizzy and stars flashed before his eyes. He fell to the ground with a thud and fainted.
Before he fainted, a thought flashed through Zhang Wu's mind: If he had known that his son was so unfilial, he would have given birth to a piece of barbecued pork!
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