the longest dream

Chapter 48
After returning from Jiefang Village, Zhang Qing didn't go back to Bayi Village, but took a shuttle bus back to the county seat.

Sitting on the leather sofa at home, Zhang Qing began to recall the gains and losses of today.

Should Zhou Yanyan be saved?
Zhang Qing asked himself, this is not a question of whether it should be done at all, but a question of how to save it, which has nothing to do with being ugly or beautiful.

If she is not rescued, if she is really made to drink medicine and die, both conscience and humanity will be tortured.

But the preparations for facing Huozi were obviously not sufficient.

If Huozi was on his head after drinking, or brought too many people, he would be caught in the fire, and he might suffer a disadvantage today.

Of course, he couldn't suffer a big loss. With Tiezhu's family around, he just pretended to agree to his conditions first, and then thought of something later.

But what can I do?

I'm afraid I can only go to the public for help in my current capacity.

The problem should be solved, after all, it is just a small bully in the tens of thousands of villages in the Republic.

However, it is too embarrassing and not decent.

but……

After thinking about it, Zhang Qing decided to reconcile with himself.

Only half a year ago, he was still a peasant boy who was as tiny as the dirt on the ground, and he had never thought about being decent.

Now relying on the hole cards in his hand, he can already achieve this step. Even if it is not perfect, there is no need to be too harsh, just grow slowly.

I hope that next time, he can think of a better way and face it more calmly.

After calming down, Zhang Qing picked up the phone and dialed it.

"Hey?"

Hearing the voice on the other end of the phone, Zhang Qingxin raised it again, and said in a respectful tone, "Auntie, Happy New Year, I'm Zhang Qing."

Li Suzhi laughed on the other end of the phone and said, "I heard it. Zhang Qing, happy new year to you too."

Zhang Qing explained: "Auntie, since I have been in the village from my thirties to today, I don't have a phone, so the New Year's greetings are a bit late."

Li Suzhi said: "It's okay, it's your heart, not sooner or later."

After Zhang Qing nodded, he said again: "Auntie, is Qi Juan there?"

Li Suzhi said: "Unfortunately, she was left in Shanghai by her grandparents today, and she might not come back until after the Chinese New Year."

Zhang Qing hesitated for a moment, then smiled and said, "It's all right, just wishing you a new year."

What kind of character Li Suzhi is, Zhang Qing hesitated, she guessed what, said: "Zhang Qing, are you seeing Auntie? Tell me something quickly."

Zhang Qing scratched his head and said, "Auntie, it's some... small things, I don't want to cause trouble for you and Uncle Qi."

Li Suzhi laughed and said, "What's the difference between causing trouble for Qi Juan and causing trouble for us? Besides, how do you know it's trouble for us?"

Zhang Qing still wanted to say something, but Li Suzhi said solemnly: "You are a very sensible child and relatively mature. Auntie believes in you and will not do anything unreasonable."

This……

Zhang Qing could only truthfully say: "I just want to ask Qi Juan to go to the train station to help pick someone up."

Maybe Li Suzhi didn't think the matter was trivial, and asked the bottom line: "Who is it?"

Zhang Qing couldn't bear it any longer, so he recounted today's events. Of course, he skipped the most important part, which is Zhou Yanyan's appearance, and finally said: "Auntie, it's really not that I try to be strong and show off. It's really... If I can't do it If I do what I can to help a girl jump out of the fire pit, my conscience will not be at ease, she is still my elementary school classmate."

Li Suzhi laughed and said, "You have really become a knight-errant after you wrote "Legend of the Condor Heroes"?"

Zhang Qing knew that this was a kind of reproach, so he sincerely asked for advice: "Auntie, I have introspected for a while just now, and I always feel that something is wrong, but I can't figure out what is wrong."

Li Suzhi admired his attitude very much, and said with a smile: "It's very good if you know what's wrong and know how to introspect yourself. As for what's wrong...Obviously, after you sent that girl away, you shouldn't have stayed In the village, put yourself and your parents in danger. Now everyone knows that you have made a fortune. If you use this incident as an excuse to forcefully detain you, extort a large amount of money, and refuse to let you go if you don’t give the money, or even beat you. , will you give it? You have to know that such a dispute is difficult even for the public. How can you be so arrogant?"

Zhang Qing broke out in a cold sweat and said, "Auntie, I was thinking at the time that I gave my classmate some money to let her go, and I didn't want to get involved in this matter, making people think that I was robbing my wife... I especially don't want me My parents got involved. It was easy for me to leave, because I was afraid that Huozi would hold a grudge against my parents in the future, so I stayed and waited for him to come to find us and make it clear in person, so as to prove my parents' innocence. Unexpectedly There could be such a dangerous situation..."

Li Suzhi said with an "oh" and smiled: "Since you are not just trying to be brave, you think you can be arrogant when you call the roll call. In fact, today's matter is not difficult to solve. Since you are willing to show your reputation and do things, why should you only show your petty attitude in the village? Let your editor, Xiao Zhao, contact the Provincial Writers Association directly in the name of the publishing house. After confirming your identity, based on your current achievements, the Xijiang Provincial Writers Association will not watch you being bullied by a village bully. At that time, You will also become the pride of your county, and even your city. In a place like Xijiang, a man of Chinese culture like you will be bullied by a bully?"

Zhang Qing was ashamed, and said: "Auntie, you can still make such a big commotion... I just want to help my classmate get out, I never thought of mobilizing teachers and people like this..."

Li Suzhi smiled and said: "All means are just tools, it doesn't matter how big or small. What's more, for the sake of self-protection and the safety of your parents, you can't use any means too much. Zhang Qing, although you came from a poor background, you don't have any problems. If you are not petty, you should be more generous in doing things in the future."

Zhang Qing replied thoughtfully: "Thank you for your teaching, Auntie, I seem to understand."

Li Suzhi smiled and said: "It's good to understand, is there anything else?"

Zhang Qing said: "No more, don't bother Auntie, goodbye."

Li Suzhi smiled and hung up the phone.

But just as Zhang Qing was about to hang up the phone, he got up again and forgot to mention Zhou Yanyan.

Who should I turn to for help?I can't find Teacher Yang...

It's just that he didn't expect that as soon as he put the receiver on the phone, the phone rang. He didn't know who would call him at this moment, so he picked up the phone and asked, "Hello, who is it?"

The person on the other end of the phone smiled and said, "Student Zhang Qing, happy new year. I'm Zhao Fen from tomorrow's bar."

Zhang Qing hurriedly said: "Hello, Sister Fen, happy new year."

Zhao Fen smiled and said, "That's right, I'm staying at the bar during the Chinese New Year this year. Just now the proprietress called me and said that a classmate of yours is coming to Jiangjing City and needs to be picked up?"

Zhang Qing was touched, nodded and said: "Yes, please trouble sister Zhao. But now people haven't gone to the capital train station to buy tickets, and we will find out tomorrow."

Zhao Fen said: "Then I'll call you again tomorrow, or you can just hang up at the bar."

After thanking Zhang Qing, he hung up the phone and sat for a long time before returning to the study, opened the textbook and began to review.

After two o'clock in the morning, still not feeling sleepy, I unfolded the stationery again and started writing the second part of the "The Condor Heroes" trilogy of "The Condor Heroes".

He has finished the first part of "Shooting the Condors".

That's why he promised Fusheng them, and Dongzi, to borrow money after the year.

Because after the new year, he should still have a large amount of manuscript fees.

……

Magic City, Puxi.

Songjiang Garden.

As the earliest villa area in Shanghai, the residents here are truly rich or noble.

The eight villas in Tiandixuanhuang plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum are also villas within villas, complete with pavilions, terraces and pavilions, small bridges and flowing water blending into nature, which are completely private gardens.

Among them, in the "Tianzijian" villa, Qi Juan's brows and eyes were full of smiles, chatting with the old couple.

The old man is Qi Tianhai, the chairman of Tianhong Group, and his wife.

Qi Tianhai really liked her granddaughter's generous, confident and unrestrained appearance from the bottom of her heart.

At his current status, few people dare to be so casual in front of him, not even Qi Ping.

But this granddaughter is like him from the bottom of her heart!
It's a pity, why is it a granddaughter...

"Juanzi, I heard that you changed your deskmate last semester. It was a male classmate from Xijiang, and you brought it home?"

Qi Tianhai asked suddenly.

Qi Juan didn't panic at all when she heard the words, and said with a wink and a smile to Qi Tianhai: "Old comrade, have you been patient for a long time? Haha, I knew it, you must have hidden eyeliner by my side!"

Qi Tianhai coughed dryly, and reminded: "Grandpa is not old fashioned, and he doesn't know how to adapt. If so, there would be no Tianhong Group today. When a girl is old, it's okay to fall in love, and Grandpa doesn't object. But you should Clearly, in the future, the [-] people of Tianhong Heavy Industry will be handed over to you. They and their families will survive every decision you make. Therefore, you must calmly remember from the bottom of your heart that what you need He is a person who can give you a lot of help from the family! Not a scholar who only knows about romance and earns some money by playing word games."

Qi Juan laughed and ate grapes.

Seeing that she didn't respond, grandma sang badly: "You old man, you only know about career and family background. Juanzi is a girl, so she can't have love?"

Qi Tianhai sneered and said with a sneer: "Juanzi can do a survey, choose a hundred, no, a thousand or ten thousand families of ordinary people, and see if there is a family that lives by love. And, from ancient times So far, such a scholar is the most unreliable! Those literati, which one is not a sanctimonious scum?"

Grandma continued to sing bad faces: "But our family is not an ordinary family, is it?"

Qi Tianhai said solemnly: "Why isn't our family a common people's family? In my old Qi family, my great-grandfather, grandfather, and father, which one of them is not a poor people? When it comes to your grandfather and my generation, the Qi family is no longer a common people. But it's not that I, Qi Tianhai, are capable. It's the hard work and ability of those tens of thousands of employees. It's them who have turned the Qi family into an extraordinary one with their blood and sweat. That's why your dad, a wimp, is at ease, and you can have a good life when you were young. Draft If you don’t forget the well digger, don’t the children of the Qi family remember to eat but forget their roots?”

Grandma shook her head and said: "You don't need to explain these things, Juanzi must understand. She is smart since she was a child, don't you always praise her, if she is a boy, she will be ten times better than you?"

Qi Juan sat on the sofa, took a bite of a grape, and watched these two "old treasures" sing. After a while, when the two mouths were dry, Fang happily said, "Relax! Tianhong, I know. Grandpa is only sixty this year, so he can live for at least another sixty years, right? After I graduate and play happily for thirty or forty years, I will take over your class. It will not be too late for you to teach me then!" said Then, he yawned a lot, said goodnight to the second elder, and went to bed.

After she left, Grandma Qi looked at Qi Tianhai who was dumbfounded just now, but now she was sullen, and said: "You have been strong and aggressive all your life, and everyone after the age of forty is afraid of you, even your own son won't live with you A city, I didn’t expect it to fall into the hands of my granddaughter when I was about to be old, and there was nothing I could do about it. If you want me to say, why don’t you go directly to deal with that young man from Xijiang?”

Qi Tianhai laughed angrily at the old wife, and said: "How to solve it? Give him a check and tell him to leave? His income from writing a book is more than that of a worker who works for a hundred years."

Grandma Qi hesitated, and said, "That young man also looks good."

Qi Tianhai sighed and said: "What I'm afraid of is that he is not bad. If he is really a down-to-earth person, he will be poorer if he is poorer. My Qi family is also from a poor background. But do you think he is a down-to-earth person? Why are these people called literati and poets? Because they are naturally fantasizing and restless in their hearts. When doing heavy work, the most important thing is to be down-to-earth, and he is the most taboo.

Not only I can see this, but Jiang Jing and the other two can also see it.Their means are good, and it is better to show grace than pressure.It's useless to pressurize to speak, but to be kind, to speak when it's time to use, one opening is accurate. "

Grandma Qi wondered: "Isn't this good?"

Qi Tianhai shook his head and said, "I still hope that Juanzi can make up her own mind. How can flowers growing in a greenhouse withstand the wind and rain? Tianhong's heavy burden cannot be carried by relying on intelligence. There is no rock Such a cold heart will sooner or later break down."

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PS: It is difficult for children nowadays to understand how blocked children are from farming families in the 80s and [-]s.What the parents at home can teach is to study hard, and even better, to be a good person.Others are really hard.It is no exaggeration to say that some forward-looking and experienced good words and advice can change a person's destiny.Of course, today's children's parents are basically highly educated, and their ears are tired of listening. Preaching is basically useless and annoying~~
(End of this chapter)