Lin Duanzheng looked Fang Xiaole up and down and said coldly:
"Our Lin family is a family of scholars, and our requirements for sons-in-law are not worldly. We don't require the man to have good material conditions, nor do we require any dowry. We only require that he has a clean family background and is upright, and not do vulgar or low-class work."
"Then I'm just right, uncle."
Fang Xiaole patted his chest and said sincerely.
"you?"
Lin Duanzheng glanced at him and disagreed.
"No one in the entertainment industry is a good person!"
Fang Xiaole was a little puzzled. He didn't know why Lin Duanzheng had such strong hostility and prejudice towards the entertainment industry. However, it was not a good time to ask further questions. He smiled and said:
"Uncle Lin, you are actually quite similar to my dad."
Lin Duanzheng asked subconsciously: "Your father?"
"Yes, my dad's name is Fang Guoqing. He was born on October 1st, so my grandfather named him Fang Guoqing. My dad said that my grandfather gave him this name not only to commemorate his birth on National Day, but also to hope that he would become a pillar of the country in the future."
Hearing this, Lin Duanzheng nodded in appreciation: "Your family tradition is quite good."
Fang Xiaole smiled and continued:
"Unfortunately, my dad was very naughty when he was young. He often skipped classes and often failed exams, which made my grandfather very angry."
Lin Duanzheng was a little dissatisfied now, and said proudly: "Then I am not like your father at all. I have always been the top student in the class since I was a child."
"I'm sorry, Uncle Lin, I mean your personality is a bit like my dad's."
Fang Xiaole explained apologetically, thinking that Lin Yao's father was so arrogant and really didn't look like her at all.
"My father later barely passed the entrance exam to a third-tier university. After graduation, he had the opportunity to work in a state-owned enterprise, but in order to be with his college girlfriend, he followed her to her hometown. Because of this, my grandfather almost broke his leg.
Later, my father found a relatively stable job in that small city. The income was not high, but it allowed him to keep his love. Later, he married his girlfriend, and then I was born.
Hearing this, Lin Duanzheng couldn't help but ask, "So, Dengcheng is your mother's hometown, and your father is a live-in son-in-law?"
"Yes." Fang Xiaole nodded: "But my grandparents are very good to my dad and never dislike him."
"Then your father and I are not alike. Lin Yao's mother married into my Lin family." Lin Duanzheng corrected again.
"Uncle Lin, although you and my dad have different experiences, our personalities are similar. My dad is also a very upright person who can't tolerate even a grain of sand in his eyes.
"When I was a kid, I envied my classmate's toys, but he wouldn't let me play with them and even laughed at me along with others. I was so angry that I quietly threw away his toys.
When my dad found out, he took me to my classmate’s house to apologize and bought me two identical toys.”
Lin Duanzheng was surprised and asked, "Just give one to your classmate as compensation, why buy two?"
Fang Xiaole smiled, with a nostalgic look on his face:
"One is for my classmate, and the other is for me. My dad is very upright and never shirks his responsibilities when he makes a mistake. But he also loves me very much. Although sometimes he doesn't know how to express it, he always tries his best to be a good father."
Lin Duanzheng nodded thoughtfully and said, "Your father is very good."
Fang Xiaole continued, "Another time, in elementary school, we had to write down what we wanted to be when we grew up. I wrote that I wanted to be a singer, but my dad spanked me. He made me change it to teacher because he wanted me to follow in his footsteps and become a great gardener."
Lin Duanzheng couldn't help but praise him again: "Your father is a great man."
Fang Xiaole couldn't help but laugh: "Uncle Lin, my dad is just an ordinary middle school teacher. He never even became a dean of studies in his entire life. Unlike you, you are a university professor."
Lin Duanzheng glared at Fang Xiaole: "What do you young people know? A person's character cannot be determined by those external things!"
Then he asked, "What happened next? Did you change your ideal?"
Fang Xiaole nodded, then shook his head: "I changed it at home, but after going to school, I secretly changed it back."
"Humph!" Hearing this, Lin Duanzheng couldn't help but think of Lin Yao. He snorted in dissatisfaction: "Young people nowadays are all the same! Your father must be very disappointed in you, right?"
"No."
Fang Xiaole shook his head, a nostalgic look on his face.
"After my father found out, he didn't beat me anymore. Instead, he paid for me to enroll in an extracurricular music class."
"How could that be?" Lin Duanzheng couldn't help but exclaimed in surprise.
"I don't know how my dad figured it out. He just said, 'Since beatings can't kill my ideal, then I can only try to support it.'"
Fang Xiaole looked into the distance, as if recalling the helpless expression on his father's face when he said this, and a smile appeared on his face again.
"If you really can't beat it, then support it?" Lin Duanzheng lowered his head and thought for a moment, then looked up at Fang Xiaole: "Have you realized your ideal?"
Fang Xiaole shook his head: "No."
Lin Duanzheng seemed to be relieved. It was not because he was gloating over the other party Xiaole's "failure of ideals", but because he was glad that his beliefs had not been shaken.
You see, it turns out that parents have richer life experience, so it is still up to parents to make decisions for their children on major life events.
"Uncle Lin, do you think my situation is very similar to Lin Yao's?"
Fang Xiaole smiled and continued:
"But Lin Yao is better than me. My dream has not been realized yet, while Lin Yao is already a successful singer."
"What singer? That sounds nice!" Lin Duanzheng said disdainfully, "It's just collusion."
"Uncle Lin, if you force Lin Yao to go home, she won't be happy, and she won't follow your idea to become a doctor.
What's more, even if you count from college, studying medicine takes at least eight years. Lin Yao is almost 25 years old. How can she possibly start from scratch again? You should know best that this is unrealistic.
Fang Xiaole observed Lin Duanzheng's expression as he spoke. Seeing that he was lost in thought, he knew that he had hit upon his concerns, so he quickly continued:
"Furthermore, if you force Lin Yao to give up her dream of becoming a singer, will your father-daughter relationship become even worse? If Lin Yao gives up on being a singer and fails to become a doctor, what will happen to her future?"
Lin Duanzheng was silent, then said stubbornly: "I will support my daughter for the rest of her life."
"Will you support her for her whole life and let her hate you for her whole life?" Fang Xiaole asked.
Lin Duanzheng was a little angry and said, "That's my family matter, what does it have to do with you?"
"Uncle Lin is right. I really have no right to interfere in the affairs between you and Lin Yao, but..."
Fang Xiaole said seriously, "I have a way that can not only improve the relationship between you and your daughter, but also make Lin Yao willingly go home with you."
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