The dean of studies once again used the break time to announce the disciplinary action. When he announced Xu Lichen's punishment through the radio and then said "Let's start the radio gymnastics next", the students in Class 2 looked at Zhang Zhiyuan who was standing at the back with surprise and made faces and gestures at him.
Zhang Zhiyuan couldn't help but look at Zhang Yansheng.
Zhang Yansheng didn't look back, but just tucked the hair behind his ears.
When the students in Class 8 heard the results, they all turned around and tried to wink at Xu Lichen, "congratulating" him on achieving another disciplinary achievement. They all knew that Xu Lichen didn't care at all about whether he was punished or not.
But today Xu Lichen was acting out of character and didn't have that smug and arrogant smile. His eyes were fixed on the ground in front of him, as if they were not focused at all, and no one knew what he was thinking.
Those people winked at him for a long time and called him "hiss" and "shush", but he didn't respond to them. This made their boss turn his head back in boredom.
After lunch, Zhang Yansheng strolled around the school for a while. She doesn't like to sit down in the classroom right after eating, especially now it's winter, the windows are closed tightly, and the classroom is rather stuffy.
But the other girls felt cold and went back to the classroom first.
Zhang Zhiyuan took advantage of the opportunity when no one was around to catch up with her and apologize to her.
Zhang Yansheng raised his eyelids: "What are you apologizing for?"
"The night before yesterday," Zhang Zhiyuan said, "my mother's attitude was not very good..."
Zhang Yansheng didn't care: "All parents are like that."
She had seen worse attitudes in her past life. She was just a stranger I met on the street. After I walked past her, I heard her say to her child behind me: If you dare to dress like that, I will beat you to death.
"I'm glad you don't mind." Zhang Zhiyuan breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's not a big deal." Zhang Yansheng was speechless.
Zhang Zhiyuan pursed his lips and said, "Actually... I come from a single-parent family."
Zhang Yansheng slowed down and looked up at him.
"My dad died when I was in fifth grade. My mom raised me alone, and she never remarried. She just... took me very seriously."
"That's for sure. She is your mother." Zhang Yansheng said.
She had never taken this matter to heart, but now that she knew about his family situation, her heart softened, and even her voice became a little gentler than usual: "You are the most important person to her. She must have very high expectations of you."
Therefore, they control a lot and strictly, and treat them like the apple of their eye.
"Yeah!" Zhang Zhiyuan admitted, "She dreams of me going to Q University."
You can do it, Zhang Yansheng said silently in his heart.
There is an indescribable envy. I remember that when she didn't actually understand what the college entrance examination was like, she once made a bold statement to her mother, "I want to take the college entrance examinations when I grow up."
This is the ambition that almost every city kid makes when they are young. My mother definitely didn’t take it seriously at that time, but she still smiled happily.
Unfortunately, she cannot be like Zhang Zhiyuan, who can truly make her mother's wish come true and make her proud of her children.
Zhang Zhiyuan is definitely the "other people's child" that everyone envies.
She smiled: “You will definitely pass the exam.
Zhang Zhiyuan laughed: "I noticed that you always have so much confidence in me."
He scratched his forehead and said, "Actually, I'm really stupid. When I was in the first grade of junior high school, I wanted to take the entrance exam for a vocational high school or a technical secondary school." Zhang Yansheng was puzzled: "Huh?"
Zhang Zhiyuan was a little embarrassed and told her: "Because my mother raised me alone, and the family has to pay off the mortgage for many years, I think my mother is very hard-working. I just want to go to work and earn money early."
Zhang Yansheng could accept other people’s thoughts, but what about Zhang Zhiyuan? e on, you are the top scorer!
Her thoughts were clearly revealed through her expression. Zhang Zhiyuan was a little embarrassed and said, "Later, my class teacher found out and called my mother, and she knew what I was thinking. She was so sad that she cried. But she told me that I shouldn't be so short-sighted. Working hard for a few years and working hard for a lifetime are completely different in nature."
Zhang Yansheng breathed a sigh of relief: "Auntie is right." His mind was clear.
"Yeah," Zhang Zhiyuan said. "It's actually quite funny now when I think about it, but at that age, it's really easy to get stuck in a rut or think in the wrong direction. Fortunately, the adults enlightened me and I didn't go the wrong way."
These words touched Zhang Yansheng and made her silent.
After a while, she looked up: "Have you thought it through now? What do you think about your future?"
"My mom really wants me to go abroad. When my dad was still alive, he wanted me to study abroad when I grew up," Zhang Zhiyuan said. "But I consulted with my mom before and found out that the cost is too high. It's basically impossible to apply for a scholarship for undergraduate studies. Given our family's current situation, we can't afford it. My mom wants to sell our house and borrow some money from relatives and friends..."
"I stopped her. I didn't think it was necessary. There are also very good universities in China, 211 and 985, so getting an undergraduate degree is definitely no problem."
"It's easier to apply for scholarships abroad for graduate school, provided you have good grades. I've done a lot of research, and I think I should be able to do it by the time I finish my undergraduate studies."
"Of course, the prerequisite is that I have to study in a good enough university in the country first."
"Then the premise is that these three years of high school are critical and we cannot relax."
"So you know exactly what you want and what you should do, and..." Zhang Yansheng said, "You are always on the right path and doing the right thing."
Zhang Zhiyuan didn't understand why there were so many emotions in Zhang Yansheng's eyes. He smiled and said, "Isn't everyone like this?"
not really.
Even in an excellent class like Class 2, there are students who only care about the exercises in front of them but have no idea where their future lies. So even if their academic performance is the same, there are still differences in maturity between people.
So on Saturday night, his eyes were filled with the affection of a young man, but what he said was to study hard.
Beneath Zhang Zhiyuan's youthfulness and gentleness, he is more rational and mature than Zhang Yansheng expected.
Losing one’s father at a young age is one of the three sorrows in life.
He lost his father at about the same age she lost her mother. His family may not have the bloody story of a stepmother, stepfather and illegitimate child, but there is financial pressure that he must bear.
But he chose a completely different path from her in her previous life. He chose to work hard for himself and his mother.
This is the right way.
Ah…I really want some asshole to come along and listen and see. Compare yourself with others and accept this kind of beating like her.
The teachers often keep the class going longer, so that different classes have different finishing times.
However, the teachers are very tacitly in agreement and generally do not keep Class 8 after class. So when Zhang Yansheng arrived behind the subway station, Xu Lichen was already there.
He was chatting with his driver and Zhang Yansheng's driver, Xiao Zhou - after a long time, Xiao Zhou actually became familiar with the two men.
Seeing her coming, Xu Lichen opened the car door and said, "It's cold outside, let's talk in the car."
Zhang Yansheng greeted Xiao Zhou: "Wait for me for a moment." and got in the car.
Xu Lichen closed the door for her, walked around to the other side, got in the car, sat down, closed the door, and turned to ask Zhang Yansheng: "Where is the evidence you mentioned?"
Zhang Yansheng took it out of his coat pocket and gave it to him.
The lights in the car were on and the view was clear. A piece of paper folded neatly with a horizontal line, one side is neat and the other side is a little rough. It's obvious at first glance that it's paper torn from a homework notebook.
"That's it?" Xu Lichen muttered in dissatisfaction and unfolded the origami.
Zhang Yansheng asked, "You didn't question your parents on Sunday, did you?"
"What the hell!" Xu Lichen said, "I can't even see them!"
What is poison to others may be honey to me.
Zhang Zhiyuan's words revealed his helplessness and pressure about his mother thinking too highly of him.
Zhang Yansheng was envious.
Moreover, Zhang Yansheng felt that if Xu Lichen knew about this, he would also be envious.
"Ye Qingwen? Xu Mulin? Sakura Experimental Middle School?" There were only three lines of words on the paper, two names and a school name. After Xu Lichen finished reading, he looked up at Zhang Yansheng, waiting for her to explain.
Zhang Yansheng did not disappoint him and said clearly: "Ye Qingwen is your father's white moonlight."
Xu Lichen stared, "Why is it that the term 'white moonlight' is so offensive to my dad?"
Zhang Yansheng was speechless: "Then I can't find any other more appropriate words. She was your father's first love, probably a goddess. She married a man who was much older than her. At that time, the man's financial conditions were much better than your father's."
"My father told me countless times that he started from scratch," said Xu Lichen.
"Well, anyway, her husband was richer than your father at the time. She lived a good life as a full-time housewife and had a child, who seemed to be a son?" Zhang Yansheng didn't remember the last point very clearly.
"Didn't you say that the one who gave birth to him is called my brother?"
"That was later. She had a child with her ex-husband, but I can't remember whether it was a boy or a girl," Zhang Yansheng said. "Anyway, her husband went bankrupt and wanted to take her with him. As a result, her husband, her parents who helped her take care of the child, and the child all died, leaving her alone. Her parents-in-law said she was a jinx and kicked her out of the house. It was meaningless for her to fight for the house because the garage and property were later sealed and liquidated and auctioned off to pay off the debts."
"She was living a miserable life, and your father heard about it and came to her rescue."
Xu Lichen looked up at the roof of the car for a long time before gritting his teeth and nodding with a smile: "My dad is really awesome. He picked up a second-hand car and became the buyer?"
"That's why I said white moonlight. Maybe this is true love." Zhang Yansheng didn't understand either.
Zhang Huan doesn't have any true love. He just likes young bodies.
If he was asked about his true love, he might even bring up Zhang Yansheng's mother to disgust Zhang Yansheng. Based on Zhang Yansheng's understanding of him, the probability is quite high.
I can't even think about it. I'll vomit if I do.
"Later, she followed your father. When she was pregnant, your mother was pregnant with you first, and your brother was a few months younger than you." Zhang Yansheng said, "But this woman was over-stimulated and very neurotic. Her own sons all disliked her. I heard that only your father didn't dislike her."
If this isn't true love, what else could it be?
"What do you mean?" Xu Lichen was furious, "My dad took over and raised him as a baby, but his mother is a psychopath?
Zhang Yansheng tried to recall: "She's not a mental patient, but she's very neurotic. She wants to be with your dad all day long, wants to see your dad, and wants to stick to your dad. If your dad gets busy and doesn't visit her for a few days, she'll get upset or something. I don't know the specific details."
In fact, Zhang Yansheng knew a lot of details, which were told to her by Xu Lichen later. And that woman, Ye Qingwen, also influenced Zhang Yansheng at that time.
Her son failed the college entrance examination, and Xu Lichen's father wanted to send him abroad. Ye Qingwen refused to do so.
Because she can't live without her son, and she will become hysterical if he leaves her. But she also couldn't leave Xu Lichen's father and go with her son to study. If she left Xu Lichen's father, she would become hysterical.
In the end, because of her, Xu Lichen's father forced his illegitimate son to study at a university not only in China but also in K City.
In his heart, he loved this illegitimate son more than Xu Lichen, but he loved the illegitimate son's mother more than the illegitimate son. He would rather let the illegitimate child resent both of them than to satisfy Bai Yueguang's wish.
We really should let Zhang Huan come and see what the real lover is.
At that time, Zhang Huan also wanted to send Zhang Yansheng abroad.
Zhang Yansheng was unwilling to leave the entire home to Liang Yingying, letting her act tyrannically and live a happy and carefree life in the country. Ye Qingwen's choice inspired her.
She was also determined not to go abroad and was determined to stay in City K to disgust Zhang Huan and Liang Yingying.
On the contrary, Xu Lichen was forcefully sent abroad by his mother.
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