Chapter 136 A Good Abacus
The TV hanging on the wall of the lounge was connected to the outside equipment. Yan Qilin and Xu Yiqing sat on the sofa and watched everything outside. This was why Zhou Ran invited them here today, as an explanation to them.
The dinner ended smoothly at eleven o'clock. Yan Nian stood boldly beside Zhou Ran, seeing off wave after wave of guests.
Xu Yiqing and Yan Qilin walked out of the lounge and looked for Yan Nian, and happened to run into Zhou Ji and Zhao Ning.
The eight eyes met, it was very mysterious.
Ever since Xu Yiqing found out that Zhou Ran was their son, the fact that she personally sent Yan Nian to Boya was like a lamb walking into a tiger's mouth. She felt somewhat embarrassed facing Zhao Ning and Zhou Ji, but thinking from the perspective of a parent, she was still able to remain calm.
Yan Qilin smiled and walked over to them, extending his hand: "Mr. Zhou, Mr. Zhao."
Zhao Ning and Zhou Ji were both a little surprised by their appearance. Zhou Ji calmly raised his hand and shook hands with them. "Professor Yan, President Xu, I apologize for the poor hospitality."
Zhao Ning and Xu Yiqing smiled and nodded to each other.
Zhou Ji and Zhao Ning were a little confused when they saw that the two were getting along so well.
Aren’t they divorced?
Zhou Ji and Yan Qilin exchanged a few pleasantries. Zhao Ning had been dealing with them all night and was very tired. Zhou Ran and Yan Nian had both visited their elders, and she didn't want to hear any of this polite talk.
Thinking about how they had initially disliked her fur coat, she felt somewhat uncomfortable. The coat leaked everywhere on them, but was warm on others. Zhao Ning was dissatisfied with her son for another day. However, she was quite satisfied with Yan Nian as the daughter-in-law of the Zhou family.
At present, in her heart, none of the girls introduced to her by her family can compare with Yan Nian.
Thanks to her parents' strict management, she felt a little more balanced.
Yan Nian is excellent, and her future children will definitely be excellent too. Zhao Ning unconsciously thought about becoming a grandmother, and she must be the youngest and most beautiful grandmother.
When it comes to marriage, you can't let the woman speak first. Zhao Ning and Zhou Ji have already given enough face tonight, so they don't care about this at all now.
She also wants to experience what it feels like to be a mother-in-law as soon as possible!
Zhao Ning stepped forward, took Zhou Ji's hand, and said with a smile, "When Professor Yan and President Xu are free, let's have a meal together."
If they respond perfunctorily or don't understand what I'm saying, they're definitely pretending.
Yan Qilin was stunned for a moment and looked at Xu Yiqing.
This trip shows the Zhou family's sincerity. In addition, when they came back from Lingyun, they personally sent people to Boya through President Ma, and Zhou Ran helped the elderly in his family, and now they still owe them a favor.
Xu Yiqing and Yan Qilin couldn't refuse either.
Yan Qilin and Xu Yiqing have been married for so many years, and he knows Xu Yiqing's temper quite well. He probably has the same idea as him now, because some of the previous things are difficult to talk about.
As Yan Nian's father, he also wanted his only daughter to be happy, so he gave an answer immediately.
Zhao Ning was in a good mood and immediately set the date at the end of this month.
A trace of confusion suddenly flashed through Xu Yiqing's mind. She didn't grasp what it was. She had a vague feeling that the daughter she had carefully raised seemed to be trapped, and she suddenly felt depressed.
The four of them chatted for a while, and then Yan Qilin and Xu Yiqing said goodbye.
When Yan Nian was found, most of the people at the scene had already dispersed.
Yan Nian followed her parents home. Zhou Ran had other things to do and stayed behind to see them off to the door.
Before getting into the car, Yan Nian saw Zhang Xiaohui and the police going out from the other door. When Zhang Xiaohui looked over, she withdrew her gaze, waved goodbye to Zhou Ran, and closed the car door.
Zhou Ji and Zhao Ning were also picked up by their drivers.
Zhou Ran took out his cell phone and called Zhang Xiaohui.
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A bar in Lindu.
A tall, thin man with a rectangular face and two burly fat men came out of the bar, arm in arm. They were drunk.
The skeletons of these three people were different from those of the people around them, and they spoke their native language. Even in the dark, one could tell that they were three foreigners.
There are very few people on the streets in this place, and the street lights above are not very bright. The signboards of several bars here are too conspicuous, and people avoid them if someone occasionally shows up.
People who often walk this road know that there are three foreigners who often visit the bar here. After getting drunk, they harass girls in the street.
People who often come here know that many girls have been teased by these foreigners.
A girl with a good figure just came out of a bar. Before she even lit the cigarette in her hand, she was approached by three people and dragged to a dark alley nearby.
"What are you doing?" The girl came here for the first time and had drunk a lot. She was not sober at the moment. It was her first time encountering such a situation and she was so frightened that her legs went weak.
"What are you doing? Let me go, help!"
Since the bar was at the end of the street, no one heard her cries for help.
Several foreigners pushed the girl into a car, speaking in a foreign language that the girl could not understand. After they finished speaking, they burst into laughter. In fear, she struggled and resisted desperately, and screamed for help.
“Help!”
The three foreigners were unbuckling their belts when suddenly, their vision went dark and someone hit their heads with something from behind.
The girl shivered in the cold wind in the dark, her eyes vacant as she watched several figures punching and kicking three foreigners.
Someone said: "Fuck, kill these foreign bastards for me."
A man came over and threw a coat to the girl: "Put it on and go home quickly. Don't come to such a smoky place again."
The girl held her coat in her arms and stumbled, almost going in the wrong direction.
The three foreigners hugged the domed heads and asked who they were in a foreign language, but no one understood.
Just as the three were being beaten up and taken to a secret room behind the bar, Zhang Xiaohui had already changed into casual clothes and was standing on the side of the road waiting.
Zhou Ran parked the car.
Zhang Xiaohui stepped forward and said solemnly, "Our people said someone else wanted to take action, but we got there first. I'm guessing it was Director Zhou and President Zhao."
"Yeah." Zhou Ran, holding a file bag in his hand, asked, "Where are the people?"
Zhang Xiaohui said, "In the house behind the bar."
Zhou Ran handed the file bag to Zhang Xiaohui: "Give this to the police."
Zhang Xiaohui took the file bag, opened it, took out the evidence and took a look. It contained evidence of crimes committed by several people in the country.
Zhang Xiaohui put it away and said, "Okay, the security personnel arrested a few minions today, and I sent them to jail."
Zhou Ran said, "I'll go over and take a look."
In the old residential building behind the bar, several foreigners were tied up in sacks and thrown on the dirty ground, cursing at them with obscene words.
When Zhou Ran pushed the door open and walked in, the five men who were watching him shouted in unison, "Mr. Zhou."
"Yeah." Zhou Ran took off his coat and threw it to them.
Someone brought a stool and wiped the dust off it for him: "Mr. Zhou, please sit down."
Zhou Ran sat down facing the three of them, crossing his long legs.
A man pulled the black sacks off the heads of the three men. The three men had hideous bruises on their faces, and it took them a long time to see the man in front of them because of the glare of the light.
The rectangular-faced man's eyes widened as he angrily said, "Zhou. It's you."
Zhou Ran had an evil smile on his face as he looked at them quietly, and the three of them were horrified by his gaze.
Franio struggled, speaking a language from an unknown country.
The man next to Zhou Ran kicked him mercilessly: "Speaking human language, you can't understand bird language."
Franio groaned and looked at Zhou Ran in embarrassment: "Here, hitting people is also illegal."
Everyone present seemed to have heard some ridiculous joke and burst into laughter. One man angrily said, "It's a relief if you weren't beaten to death for molesting a girl in the street. You should be thankful that this is our country and they didn't castrate you in public."
Zhou Ran stood up, his towering figure looming over the three men on the ground. He looked down at them, "No one told you that in our country, foreigners must also abide by our laws. Let's settle our old scores today. I've handed all the evidence against you to the police. Take care of yourself."
Franio's eyes widened. "What evidence of a crime? Don't slander me."
Every time Zhou Ran looked at the person in front of him, he would think of the shame he had suffered in the past, when a large number of containers were stranded at sea and the liaison person had run away and broken the contract.
Just yesterday, they used the same tactics as before, bribing and threatening actors in an attempt to sabotage Boya's 20th anniversary celebration.
Zhou Ran took the coat and said coldly, "Send the person over."
"Okay, Mr. Zhou."
Zhou Ran waited a long time for the bad guys to show their true colors. He wasn't happy with the outcome. He wanted to strangle Franio and trample him underfoot, but that wouldn't wash away the mistakes he made in his youth; the stain would remain with him for the rest of his life.
Everyone will pay the price for their youthful recklessness. In the future, we must take every step down to earth.
In the Dongcheng Villa, Zhao Ning received a call from his subordinates in a daze. He told them not to worry about it and hung up.
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The Zhou and Yan families had dinner together at Manfeng Manor.
Yao Lijun and Song Zhiyin hit it off right away. They held each other's hands tightly and sat together. Song Zhiyin directly called her grandma.
After dinner, Song Zhiyin asked Zhou Ran to take Yan Nian out for a walk.
Manfeng Manor has a swimming pool, a cinema, a cafe, and areas for golf and fishing.
It covers a large area, and Zhou Ji is also a shareholder of Manfeng Manor. Yan Nian only found out about it when she attended the wedding of Wang Hongyu and Cheng Xiao.
In the private room, Zhao Ning, in order to help Pi Daiyi marry her sooner, said bluntly, "They have known each other for a long time and their personalities are compatible. Let's decide on a date and wait until they get used to each other before getting married. What do you think?"
Of course, Zhou Ji supports his wife unconditionally.
Xu Yiqing began to worry. She only had this one daughter. Before returning to Lindu, she had strictly prohibited her from falling in love, but now she was in confusion.
They all knew that the Zhou family treated Yan Nian very well, and the old ladies on both sides liked these two younger generations.
Zhou Ji and Zhao Ning pressed on step by step.
The two had indeed known each other for a long time, but the total time they had been dating was less than a year. If they had hastily decided on the marriage, then marriage would have been a natural outcome.
Although I accepted Zhou Ran from the bottom of my heart, I still felt it was too early.
But in many things, she seems a little passive.
Just as Xu Yiqing was about to speak, Yao Lijun smiled and said, "Let's leave this matter to the two children to decide. We'll be living together from now on."
The three elders of the Zhou family liked what Yao Lijun said. Song Zhiyin smiled and said, "Grandma is open-minded. I think so too. Your baby is also our baby. If anyone wrongs her, I will be the first to disagree. Don't worry. Our Xiaoran is not an unreliable child."
Xu Yiqing's face didn't look very good. She had been making decisions for Yan Nian for so many years, and now the matter of marriage had to be left to her.
I can't describe the feeling in my heart.
Yan Qilin neither supported nor opposed it. Zhou Ran had no bad habits, nor was he like those rich second-generations who spent their days in debauchery and idleness. In his mind, these were already plus points.
Except for the two elders who don't know about what happened in the past, they know that their daughter has been brooding over it, and it shows how difficult it is for them to get back together.
Just because my marriage failed, I can't impose bad ideas on my daughter. Everyone has the right to pursue their own happiness, and Yan Nian has it too. As parents, we can't deprive her of this.
Besides, he has no say.
This meal ultimately gave the choice to Zhou Ran and Yan Nian.
A few days later, Yan Nian gathered his family to discuss going to the coast, and Xu Yiqing's anger, which had been suppressed for several days, finally broke out.
"I disagree."
The Zhou family had a good plan. They wanted to kidnap her daughter right after they met.
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