Cheng Yaoyao rushed towards Xu Nanfang like an angry bird and pushed him hard.
Xie Zhao strode over to stop her and said, "Sister, don't get excited."
The pair of slender hands pushed forward, but actually they had no strength at all. Xu Nanfang staggered back, his face flushed: "I, I, I..."
Cheng Yaoyao was stopped by Xie Zhao, who yelled at him, "What are you saying? Are you guys going to beat him up by outnumbering him?!"
Others hurriedly said, "Comrade Cheng Yaoyao, please be reasonable! Nan Fang didn't even touch him!"
Xu Nanfang rubbed his nose, feeling very aggrieved. Why did he hit Xie Zhao? Xie Zhao was holding Wei Qiang like a puppy. Was it necessary for Cheng Yaoyao to protect him so much?
Wei Qiang said, "Comrade Cheng Yaoyao, we are all civilized people. If you don't believe me, ask your... friend. I just compensated him 30 yuan out of kindness, but he still wanted to fight with me! Is that right, brothers?"
Cheng Yaoyao was so angry that he jumped up and down, but was held down by Xie Zhao. Xie Zhao looked at him calmly with narrow eyes: "Did you earn a penny of this thirty yuan by yourself? You are not young anymore, do something that an old man should do."
After Xie Zhao said this, he turned around and left with Cheng Yaoyao.
Cheng Yaoyao pulled Xie Zhao to the faucet outside the cafeteria, rinsed his wrist with cold water, and secretly got some spiritual spring water to wipe the wound clean.
The scratch on Xie Zhao's wrist was very light, and the bleeding had stopped long ago. He had suffered many more serious injuries in the past, and when he saw Cheng Yaoyao carefully blowing on the wound, his heart melted: "Sister, I'm fine."
"Such a big wound, what should I do if it leaves a scar?" Cheng Yaoyao carefully wrapped the wound, pulled down his sleeves, and said, "Don't let the wound touch water before it scabs over, it will hurt. What do you see me doing?"
A hint of smile flashed across Xie Zhao's eyes: "It's beautiful, I can't see enough."
"...sweet talk." Cheng Yaoyao's cheeks flushed red, and he said angrily, "Those guys just now are famous Shanghai dandies, a bunch of second-rate people who don't have jobs and are unwilling to go to the countryside. They only know how to pick fights all day long. Don't pay attention to them."
Xie Zhao straightened his sleeves and said calmly, "They can't beat me."
Seeing Xie Zhao's nonchalant look, Cheng Yaoyao said, "Their fighting is different from that of the countryside. If they can't beat you, you can just call in your lackeys. They have many dirty tricks."
Seeing Xie Zhao thinking, Cheng Yaoyao said again: "Don't worry too much. I know Xu Nanfang. If he dares to cause trouble, I will go find his father!"
Xie Zhao frowned and asked nonchalantly, "Are you familiar with him?"
Cheng Yaoyao recalled that the original owner had been so focused on Shen Yan that he could only greet people like Xu Nanfang when they met. "Not familiar with him. My father knows his father."
Xie Zhao's frown finally relaxed. Just then, a student came to wash his lunch box, so Cheng Yaoyao took Xie Zhao away. The two of them walked slowly around the campus, looking forward to their college life.
After visiting the university, the two went to the Bund. In this era, if you want to date someone in Shanghai, you don't have to go to the Bund at least once. Is that acceptable? Xie Zhao got a Phoenix bicycle from somewhere, and Cheng Yaoyao sat on the back seat, holding Xie Zhao's waist. Xie Zhao was cool and tall, and Cheng Yaoyao was beautiful and stylish. The two of them together were like a luminous body moving forward.
The unit's car broke down again. Cheng Zheng looked outside in boredom. He saw the young man riding the bike, who was as handsome and tall as a pine or cypress. He cheered inwardly. The next second, he saw the smiling girl in the back seat. Wasn't that his daughter? !
Just as the wheels rolled over a pothole, Cheng Yaoyao put his hands around Xie Zhao's waist. Xie Zhao stretched out one hand and patted the back of Cheng Yaoyao's hand.
"Rogues!" Cheng Zheng's blood pressure rose high, he pushed open the car door and rushed out, "Stop! Stop right there!"
The bicycle sped downhill, with great pleasure. Cheng Yaoyao's ears were filled with the sound of the wind. Xie Zhao suddenly stepped on the brakes, and she bumped into Xie Zhao's thick back: "Um! What's wrong?"
Xie Zhao propped his long legs on the ground and turned around and said, "Someone is calling your name."
The car had already reached the bottom of the slope. Cheng Yaoyao panted and laughed: "Where is the person? Did you hear wrongly?"
She turned around and saw a middle-aged man rushing towards her in a rage, without any trace of politeness: "Stop right there!"
Cheng Yaoyao grabbed Xie Zhao's hand and said, "That's my father! Run!"
Xie Zhao: “…”
Cheng Yaoyao pushed him hard: "My dad was so fierce when he beat Shen Yan that day, run away! I'm not afraid of him, don't worry about me!"
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Xie Zhao and Cheng Zheng sat facing each other in the window seats of the cafe, while Cheng Yaoyao sat between them with his head drooped. She stirred the coffee in the cup, and the white cream and boiling black coffee mixed into a dark brown liquid, which gradually lost its heat. The two of them had not spoken yet.
To be precise, it was Cheng Zheng who didn't speak.
As soon as Xie Zhao sat down, he politely stated his identity, but Cheng Zheng just kept silent and looked at Xie Zhao. Xie Zhao straightened his back and allowed Cheng Zheng to look at him without moving. Only Cheng Yaoyao knew that Xie Zhao's palms were wet with sweat.
Cheng Yaoyao secretly held Xie Zhao's hand under the table and gave him a comforting look. Xie Zhao's eyes moved, and Cheng Zheng coughed twice: "Yaoyao, come closer!"
Cheng Yaoyao pouted: "Go sunbathe over there."
Xie Zhao whispered, "Sister."
Cheng Yaoyao had no choice but to move closer to Cheng Zheng, "Is this okay?"
Seeing that his daughter, who had always been spoiled and lawless, was moved by this boy's casual words, Cheng Zheng was so angry that he blew his beard and glared, and said directly: "I don't agree with your relationship with Yaoyao!"
"Dad!" Cheng Yaoyao was anxious.
Cheng Zheng ignored her and said to Xie Zhao: "Xie Zhao, although we have known each other for a short time, I can see that you are a very ambitious and sensible young man. But Yaoyao is my daughter, and I must consider her."
Xie Zhao frowned and looked at Cheng Zheng frankly: "Uncle, if you are offended by my background..."
Cheng Zheng raised his hand to interrupt Xie Zhao and said, "I am definitely not a person who only cares about class background. Of course, your class background is also one of the reasons why I oppose it. Can you understand the heart of a father?"
A hint of disgrace flashed across Xie Zhao's eyes, but he still nodded.
Cheng Zheng continued, "Yaoyao has been spoiled by me. She still has a very naive view of the world. I should say that you all have a very naive view of the world."
Cheng Zheng spoke in the style of an engineer: "If Yaoyao marries you, her household registration will be kept in the countryside forever. When we were young, love and romance were everything. What happens when the passion fades?"
Cheng Zheng said a lot, leaving time for Xie Zhao to think on his own, and drank the cold coffee in one gulp. Seeing this, Xie Zhao asked the waiter to bring another cup of hot coffee and orange juice, and casually replaced the cold coffee in front of Cheng Yaoyao.
Seeing that Cheng Yaoyao was still flirting with him and didn't listen to him, Cheng Zheng said unhappily, "Yaoyao doesn't like orange juice. Daddy should order you a piece of cake, okay?"
Cheng Yaoyao picked up the orange juice and took a sip: "I don't want to eat cake."
Cheng Zheng: “…”
Seeing this, Xie Zhao explained, "Yaoyao just ate a sandwich and is not hungry."
Cheng Zheng immediately asked him, "Sandwich? You let my daughter eat this for lunch?"
Cheng Yaoyao was unhappy and said, "Dad, why are you so mean to him? I made that sandwich myself. I went to visit the university with Xie Zhao today and had a picnic on the grass."
Cheng Zheng was a little surprised to hear the word "university": "It's rare for you to come here from the countryside. There are so many places in Shanghai, why do you want to visit a university?"
Xie Zhao said: "I heard that Shanghai University is a first-class university, so Yaoyao and I went to take a look."
Xie Zhao changed the subject and said seriously, "Uncle, you were just worried that Yaoyao and I would be registered as rural residents after we get married. In fact, we have already agreed to take the entrance exam for Shanghai University together."
Cheng Zheng sat up straight immediately. He was born into an intellectual family and had been spared from the influence in the past ten years because of his research direction. He was particularly fond of young people who studied hard and made progress. When he heard that Xie Zhao was going to take the college entrance examination with Cheng Yaoyao, he looked at Xie Zhao seriously for the first time.
Cheng Zheng looked at Xie Zhao carefully. Xie Zhao was the same age as Cheng Yaoyao, but he had a steady temperament and spoke in a calm and appropriate manner. He didn't look like a twenty-year-old at all, which was in sharp contrast to the coquettish Cheng Yaoyao.
Cheng Zheng pushed his glasses and said, "Now the college entrance examination has been cancelled. The only way to go to university is to be recommended by workers, peasants and soldiers. I also know your background. It is impossible for you to go to university."
Xie Zhao said calmly: "National construction needs talents. I think it is too early to restore the college entrance examination."
There have been constant calls to reinstate the college entrance examination, and Cheng Zheng has heard some of the rumors. Many far-sighted families let their children continue to study so that they can win at the starting line one day.
Cheng Zheng's eyes probed Xie Zhao's face: "Yaoyao asked me to find a lot of review materials for her in the summer. I guess it was for you? Excuse me, considering your background, you probably didn't even go to elementary school, right? Can you understand those study materials? Yaoyao only has a high school diploma, how can you two study together?"
Cheng Yaoyao rushed to speak: "I..."
Cheng Zheng said: "I didn't ask you, let him answer it himself."
Xie Zhao looked Cheng Zheng straight in the eye and said in a neither humble nor arrogant manner: "It is true that I have never attended a formal school, but my father taught me to read and count when I was young. Yaoyao also taught me a lot, and I have already completed high school courses. If you don't believe me, you can test me."
Cheng Zheng really took out his pen and notebook. Cheng Yaoyao was anxious: "Dad! What are you doing?!"
Xie Zhao gently held Cheng Yaoyao under the table and shook his head at her. Cheng Yaoyao refused: "Dad is so disrespectful!"
Cheng Zheng pushed the pen and notebook towards Xie Zhao and said, "Write a few words for me to see."
Cheng Yaoyao was stunned, and Xie Zhao's eyes flashed with surprise. He took off the pen cap, wrote a few words stroke by stroke, and pushed it back in front of Cheng Zheng.
Yaoyao, Xie Zhao. The two names were placed side by side, Cheng Zheng was stunned, but it was because of the character. Although the character was not very beautiful, the strokes were strong and clear, and it didn't look like it was written by a country boy.
Seeing Cheng Zheng's eyes gazing back and forth between the words and his face, Xie Zhao said respectfully: "Uncle, can you give me a few questions to test me?"
"No need." Cheng Zheng snapped his notebook shut and said, "I believe you can do it."
Before Cheng Yaoyao could show any joy, Cheng Zheng said decisively: "However, I still don't approve of your relationship with Yaoyao."
Cheng Yaoyao asked anxiously: "Why?"
Before Cheng Zheng could answer, there was a commotion at the door. The waiter stopped a few people wearing red armbands and said, "What are you doing? You can't come in!"
"Get out of the way! The inspection team is arresting people!" Several inspection team members rushed towards Xie Zhao.
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