HCB Chapter 198 A loving father and a filial son
Chapter 198 A loving father and a filial son
Seeing Lan Yi gritting her teeth and looking determined to fight, Yang Zhengxin patted her shoulder with some amusement.
"You make it sound like we're looking for trouble. We're asking for help. Please relax."
Lan Yi quickly adjusted herself after hearing the advice, and finally looked at Lan Xin, "Sister, have you found the student who was drawing the picture you were looking for?"
"Found it. It's a girl named Li Jia..." Lan Xin told her everything that happened in the afternoon. Lan Yi and the others nodded. "It sounds like this girl is pretty good."
"Well, let's wait and see how good she is. It just so happens that we can accompany you to visit the professor's home tomorrow."
It was not easy for them to leave leftovers outside, so the leftovers all went into Yang Zhengxin's stomach. Fortunately, he had a big appetite, so these things were just a piece of cake for him.
After washing the lunch boxes, Lan Xin and a few others took the letters of introduction and went to the guesthouse outside Nanjing University to book two rooms. Lan Yi and her husband stayed in one room, and Lan Xin and her daughter stayed in another room.
As the night deepened, Lan Xin and the others fell asleep. However, Zhou Sheng, who was far away in Shanghai, gritted his teeth, kept a dim light on, and waited in the living room for Zhou Rongxin to come home.
Zhou Sheng's hungry stomach was rumbling. He had only eaten one rotten steamed bun all day and was already too hungry to bear it. He was also so tired from doing housework all day that he wanted to fall asleep, but he couldn't sleep yet.
He wants to wait for Zhou Rongxin to come home.
After a while, footsteps were heard on the stairs outside the house. Zhou Sheng looked up at the clock hanging on the wall. It was already half past ten.
With a 'bang', Zhou Rongxin opened and closed the door violently, which attracted shouts and curses from the nearby neighbors. However, Zhou Rongxin, who was in a good mood, ignored them and did not shout and curse as usual. He looked at Zhou Sheng in front of him with disgust in his eyes.
"Dad." Zhou Sheng stood up and went to greet him, only to be greeted by Zhou Rongxin's dark face.
"It's so late and you're still not asleep? What are you waiting for me for?" Zhou Rongxin asked as he sat down on the sofa, crossing his legs.
Zhou Sheng gritted his teeth, handed over a glass of water, and finally looked at Zhou Rongxin, hesitantly saying: "Dad, school has already started, but I haven't registered yet."
"Oh." Zhou Rongxin responded, and there was no follow-up, so Zhou Sheng had to continue.
"Dad, you said you would let me go to school. Now my household registration has been transferred. All the kids my age in the alley have gone to school, except me."
Zhou Rongxin looked up at Zhou Sheng, "Are you threatening me?"
"Dad, I didn't."
"Heh." Zhou Rongxin sneered, "I taught you all your tricks and skills. Do you think you can deceive me? Do I still care about the opinions of these neighbors? These people come to suppress me. Zhou Sheng, you are too naive."
Because of Tuo Lanxin's mischief, he hasn't had a good day at work. First, he was humiliated in public, then Lanxin cheated him out of a large sum of money, and finally his girlfriend broke up with him. Zhou Rongxin thought that was the end of it, but that bastard actually asked him to write a self-criticism.
After a week of reading his self-criticism in the radio room every day, he had lost all his dignity.
Now Zhou Rongxin couldn't stand the sight of his son Zhou Sheng. It was because of him that Lan Xin rushed to the Shanghai Stock Exchange, causing him to lose his chance of promotion and his partner. If he hadn't owed the company a huge sum of money, he would probably have lost his job.
Now he hated Zhou Sheng so much that his teeth itched.
Zhou Rongxin's parents didn't like their grandson Zhou Sheng very much. After all, Zhou Rongxin had older brothers and younger brothers, so he wasn't favored. He had been away from home for so many years, unlike his older brothers and younger brothers who stayed with their parents and arranged for them to have children. Zhou's father and mother treated their grandsons like their precious eyes.
As for Zhou Rongxin and Zhou Sheng, they just felt guilty at first. They had lived in the countryside for so many years, and they only loved Zhou Sheng because he was a college student. But after such a scene, they lost so much money, and made the neighbors and even the whole Shanghai market laugh at them. They had long seen the father and son as eyes and noses.
Zhou Rongxin was better off, after all, he still had two-thirds of the salary to rely on, but Zhou Shengke was miserable, and he became a little male slave in the family. Originally in Lanjia Village, he had never done housework, but now in Zhou's family, he had to do all the dirty work, and even because there was no toilet in this building, he had to empty the stinking dirt into the public toilet.
But Zhou Sheng endured all of this, because he was now a Shanghai resident, a city dweller.
Zhou Sheng took to heart what Lan Xin whispered to him in the Tobacco and Alcohol Company. So when the Zhou family really wanted to register him as a relative, he followed Lan Xin's example and went to the Tobacco and Alcohol Company to make a scene, forcing Zhou Rongxin to register him as his own. At the same time, Zhou Rongxin hated Zhou Sheng as his son from that time on.
The most obvious sanction and retaliation was that in September, all major universities across the country started registering students, but he refused to allow Zhou Sheng to register and refused to give him money, leaving him with no way to go to school.
This is completely different from the original book that Lan Xin had read before, where the father was kind and the son was filial.
Of course Zhou Sheng would not agree to not be allowed to go to school, and now he directly blocked Zhou Rongxin. Hearing Zhou Rongxin scolding him, Zhou Sheng's expression did not change. He looked up at the man and said.
"I know you are dating someone new. That woman is from outside and doesn't know anything about you yet. If you don't want me to go and talk nonsense with her, you'd better let me study."
"Besides, I will live in the dormitory when I go to school. I won't come back to bother you even during holidays."
After hearing Zhou Sheng's words, Zhou Rongxin looked up at him and sneered, "You're threatening your own father?"
Seeing Zhou Rongxin's angry smile, Zhou Sheng twitched his body reflexively. There were still red marks on his back from Zhou Rongxin's beating with a belt, but he still gritted his teeth and said, "I promise not to disturb your new family. If I meet them, I will avoid them. After I finish my studies, I will definitely repay you."
"Dad, please, let me go to school." Zhou Sheng said.
Seeing Zhou Rongxin still indifferent, Zhou Sheng gritted his teeth and had to use his trump card: "Dad, you don't want the people in the company to know that you secretly stole the company's tobacco and sold it, right? If the company leaders knew that you made a big mistake, they would definitely fire you!"
Zhou Sheng also knew that if he annoyed Zhou Rongxin like this, he would definitely not get any good results, but he couldn't help it. He wanted to study. If he couldn't study, what was the point of having this city resident's identity with a Shanghai hukou? Would he be a servant of the Zhou family for the rest of his life? Then he might as well go back to Lanjia Village. At least at home, his mother and two sisters would serve him.
"Zhou Sheng!!!" Zhou Rongxin shouted angrily.