The day before the meeting, Zhang Yansheng was told by Yue Song that in addition to Grandpa Yue, he would also meet Yue Song's parents.
"Just pretend you don't know." Yue Song said helplessly, "They both insisted that I tell you, they wanted to give you a 'surprise'."
For any girl who is going to meet the boy's elders, this would be a shock rather than a surprise.
Zhang Yansheng held his forehead with his hand: "Your parents..."
"They are just like children. You'll know once you get to know them." Yue Song's tone was full of helplessness.
In comparison, he is more like the worried parent.
Zhang Yansheng laughed: "I know, don't worry."
Zhang Yansheng arrived as expected on New Year's Day. When she appeared, Yue Song's eyes lit up when he saw the three people in his family.
Zhang Yansheng presented souvenirs. It doesn't have to be too expensive, just a token of your appreciation.
"I didn't know you two were coming back, and I didn't prepare anything," she said seriously. Didn't you tell her to pretend she didn't know? That way I can save myself the worry.
"It's okay, it's okay." Yue Song's mother was very happy, "It's good that people are here."
When they met for the first time, Grandpa Yue gave a thin red envelope, and you could tell there was a check inside when you squeezed it. Yue Song's parents gave him a full green jade bracelet. These are the greeting gifts given by elders when they meet younger ones for the first time.
The elders are all very easy to get along with. Yue Song's parents are very easy-going and have no airs at all. They told Zhang Yansheng about the farm they had just bought in Australia and invited her to join them.
There is no trace of worry and stress between their brows that ordinary people would have, and the couple also gives people a sense of mutual understanding, with a tacit understanding that as soon as one person opens his mouth, the other knows what the other is going to say.
What he said was humorous and even a bit naive, which often made Zhang Yansheng smile.
In comparison, Mr. Yue is much more stressful.
He is energetic, with bright eyes, and gives people a particularly powerful feeling.
He asked about Zhang Yansheng's previous investment in movies and whether she had made any other investments later.
Zhang Yansheng said: "I have invested in two small projects with a value of millions of yuan. Both are in standard traditional industries, which are relatively conservative. The rate of return is not high, but it is predictable. The previous time was pure luck. I didn't know anything yet. Luck won't always come. I should learn from the beginning and start small. I will not make investments of more than 10 million yuan before graduation."
This attitude is neither arrogant nor impatient, unlike some young people who would become cocky when they get lucky and win a small victory.
Old Master Yue looked at Zhang Yansheng even more eagerly.
Zhang Yansheng could feel the old man’s satisfaction and love for him, but the old man was different from Yue Song’s parents - Zhang Yansheng felt that Yue Song’s parents were really just there to watch the fun, and they had no expectations or demands on Yue Song and Zhang Yansheng.
But the old man is different, he obviously has it.
There were several times during the conversation when the old man's tone of voice would deviate from the topic, and he would talk about "the future" or "later on". Every time, Yue Song would interrupt him calmly and then force him to retreat with his eyes.
The old man felt aggrieved and had to put aside his fantasy of living with four generations under one roof, so as not to scare the little girl who had just entered her freshman year.
Zhang Yansheng pretended not to understand. Anyway, she would not continue the conversation.
Miraculously, Yue Song's parents didn't answer either. They both talked about other things, obviously trying to change the subject. Generally speaking, if the boy’s parents are satisfied with the girl, wouldn’t they start urging her to get married and have children?
Without any supporters, the old man felt the sadness of a hero in his twilight years and felt even more aggrieved.
Zhang Yansheng adhered to the etiquette of being a guest, arrived at the right time, had a cordial talk with the elders, had lunch, sat for a while to drink tea together, and stood up to say goodbye at the right time. She didn't drive. Yue Song picked her up in the morning, so naturally Yue Song took her back.
"I guess my parents are going to run away tonight," he said. "They haven't even opened their boxes yet. They came back just to see you. They have no intention of staying."
"The term 'running away' is a bit..." Zhang Yansheng held his forehead with his hand.
"They just ran away." Yue Song said with certainty, "Our family has been a single-line family for three generations. My grandfather always wanted them to have more children. Seeing that I had grown up, he wanted my parents to have another child. But my mother was so squeamish that she was tired of having only me and was determined not to have another one. So my father took her and ran away. Otherwise, why do you think they both refused to return to China? They were hiding from my grandfather."
"My grandfather is old now and more anxious than before. He will definitely urge us to get married and have children soon." Yue Song said, "If you don't like to hear it, just pretend you didn't hear it. Don't pay attention to him. I'll stop him."
Grandma said that if there are any disagreements with elders, there is no need to argue face to face, just let it pass and communicate with Yue Song privately.
Grandma also said that if he cares about you, he will protect you and will not let you put yourself in a difficult position. Meeting the parents is also a good opportunity to understand the boy’s attitude.
Grandma is indeed an experienced person.
Zhang Yansheng raised his lips and said, "Okay."
Yue Song asked her about her plans for the next two days.
Zhang Yansheng said, "Xu Lichen is back. I will accompany him to Nanshan Temple to worship tomorrow." Yue Song was surprised: "He believes in Buddhism?"
"Do you think he looks like him?" Zhang Yansheng said, "He had a dream that he died. He was so scared that he wanted to pray to get rid of bad luck. He's such a coward."
Yue Song laughed.
New Year’s Day is adjusted to a three-day holiday. Early the next morning, Zhang Yansheng drove to Nanshan Temple in the mountains outside the city. He accompanied Xu Lichen to worship first, and each of them donated 100,000 yuan for incense.
The host was alarmed and came out to receive them personally, recorded their names, and posted the merit list - these names will also be engraved on the merit list next time a merit stele is engraved.
He asked the two people why they came to worship, and personally interpreted Xu Lichen's dream.
"In the dream, a life of misfortune has already passed, and in reality, good times will come." Although the old monk does not eat oily food, he has seen too many worldly people and knows what these people want to hear. He was dressed in a monk's robe, with fluttering white beard. He had a very good temperament and his words sounded like philosophy, making people feel as if they were enlightened when they heard them.
Xu Lichen is the one who deeply feels that he has been enlightened.
He slapped his thigh and said, "You're right! It's true, nothing in reality matches up! I'm living a good life now!"
The shadow in Xu Lichen's heart was resolved by the monk. He happily went to eat vegetarian food with Zhang Yansheng, and he was finally willing to talk to her about the bad dream he had.
Zhang Yansheng asked a lot of details, all about Wang Qian.
It was impossible for Xu Lichen not to be suspicious. He asked, "Why did you suddenly think of asking me about this dream and Wang Qian?"
Xu Lichen knew too much in his dream, and Zhang Yansheng didn’t want him to know more.
She said: "I saw her on Christmas Eve, and suddenly I remembered the dream you mentioned. You were so scared at that time that you were scared as hell."
Xu Lichen was indeed frightened at that time. He was so panicked and incoherent that it took Zhang Yansheng slapping him in the face to calm him down.
Xu Lichen stiffened his neck: "Nonsense! That's not happening!!"
Zhang Yansheng paid for a private detective who specialized in tracking and investigating extramarital affairs and helping to catch adulterers.
It doesn't sound very presentable, but it works very efficiently.
"Wang Qian and Huang Zhe, their mothers are cousins, and they are cousins one level apart. The two families have a good relationship and often visit each other. You can find traces of each other's existence in their friend circles and QQ spaces." He said earnestly, "Miss Zhang, you misunderstood the relationship between your boyfriend and his cousin. However, according to my follow-up observation, your boyfriend is indeed not very honest. He has contacts with many girls and often goes to nightclubs. I took pictures here..."
Zhang Yansheng packaged herself as Huang Zhe's girlfriend, and under the guise of investigating whether her boyfriend was cheating, she asked a private detective to find out the relationship between Wang Qian and Huang Zhe. It turns out that they are really relatives.
She was not interested in Huang Zhe's relationships with men and women, and said to the private detective: "I recently found that my 'boyfriend' is a little bit strange. He met some messy people, and I suspect that those people may have led him to take drugs. Can you check this matter?"
The private investigator agreed.
He continued tracking for a while and told Zhang Yansheng: "Your suspicion is correct. He is indeed taking drugs, but he is probably still in the initial stage. There is still time to save him."
But Zhang Yansheng checked all this not to save that rubbish Huang Zhe. She just wanted to confirm her guess.
Just as she thought, Huang Zhe was not deeply involved at this time. She also remembered that when they first met, Huang Zhe was just a funny and playful person. Later on, things gradually became different.
Once a person falls into the trap of drugs, there is always a process from taking drugs to selling them.
Zhang Yansheng did all this without hiding it from Yue Song. Because Yue Song even wanted to take over and do this thing at the beginning. But this is Zhang Yansheng's business. Not to mention that it is not convenient for Yue Song to know the many causes and consequences involved. Just to end this feud, Zhang Yansheng must do it personally to put an end to it.
Zhang Yansheng said, "He will get deeper and deeper into trouble. If I say I don't plan to take action now and want to leave it for later, will you think I'm too vicious?"
She stared at Yue Song.
Yue Song, however, smoothed her hair and told her: "If you are willing to let me do this, I promise to do it more viciously than you. Some things cannot be forgiven or tolerated. Tolerating evil is equivalent to suppressing good, and tolerance for such people will only harm more other people."
Zhang Yansheng held his hand and smiled slightly.
Nothing makes you feel more comfortable than having someone who agrees with your values and principles.
"What about the other person?" Yue Song will never forget Wang Qian.
He remembered very clearly that on Christmas Eve, Zhang Yansheng stood on the street with an unusually pale face.
She is a bold girl with a bad temper. She doesn't get scared easily. When she mentioned that someone had tried to drug her, her tone was very calm.
She was struck by an unexpected malice.
He asked, "What are you going to do with the other person?"
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