Regarding the old things about the Zhou family and his wife, few people know about it now. Even Zhou Bing doesn't know much about his parents' past, and the reason why Guo Yang is so insightful is that he later read Xue Chunlan's autobiographical memoirs.

Years after Zhou Bing's death, he had several work encounters with Professor Xue Chunlan, who was also a cultural celebrity in the province, and by that time he had already made a name for himself in the media field throughout the northern province. He didn't have any grudges because he was emotionally dead from Zhou Bing's Lao Yan, but only pain and remorse. Compared with Xue Chunlan's embarrassment in facing him, he always maintained due respect for her.

In any case, she is Zhou Bing's mother.

The more generous he was, the more heartbroken Xue Chunlan became. Later, in her personal memoirs, she blamed her daughter's accident on her own "sin", which became her "emotional sin that weighed on her heart and gradually suffocated her after a lifetime of inability to atone and change". This made Guo Yang see a certain weakness behind Xue Chunlan's toughness, which was the most critical factor for him to have the confidence to change Xue Chunlan.

In fact, Guo Yang knows very well in his heart that although Xue Chunlan is a realistic and rational woman, she is also an intellectual with an aristocratic temperament and cultivated demeanor, and has deep attainments in the field of humanities. In stark contrast to her peers, who are busy making money, Xue Chunlan has always insisted on teaching undergraduates, even if she has taken up the leadership position of vice president of the university in the future.

Xue Chunlan was born in a high-ranking family in this province. His father, Xue Lao, used to be an official at the level of deputy minister and was prominent in the province. And Zhou Dingnan is the glorious worker's child in this city, you can imagine what kind of hard work Zhou Xue and Zhou Xue made in order to come together in the past years.

With the passage of time, Zhou Dingnan himself has grown into a well-known private entrepreneur, leaping into the dragon gate in the spring breeze of reform and opening up. After so many years, the past has long been extremely faint, Xue Chunlan has not only forgotten the pain of being troubled by the concept of the door back then, but also does not realize that there is anything wrong with being obsessed with the concept of the door now.

These scars that have been hidden in the bottom of her heart for many years were lightly lifted out by Guo Yang and exposed in broad daylight, Xue Chunlan was ashamed and angry, her face turned blue, and the corners of her mouth trembled, but she was speechless for a while.

Guo Yang didn't expect Xue Chunlan's reaction to be so big, which made him feel a little weak in his heart. After all, his purpose was to persuade Xue Chunlan, not to plant the impression that Xue Chunlan was arrogant and rude, making the relationship between the two worse.

However, he knew that this should be Xue Chunlan's biggest weakness, and if he didn't start from this place, he would still not be able to pry open Professor Xue's arrogant heart after all.

Guo Yang stood there, looking back at Xue Chunlan.

Xue Chunlan slowly calmed down, and when she realized that she had lost her posture in front of Guo Yang, her ashamed eyes gradually became sharp: "What nonsense are you talking about? What do you know?

Xue Chunlan questioned repeatedly, her voice excited and shrill .

Guo Yang took a deep breath and smiled: "Aunt Xue, I don't mean to offend, I just want to say that the ancients said that the prince and the prince will have a kind of Xiangning, do you must conclude that I will not have any development in the future?

Xue Chunlan was stunned.

As a university professor and a senior intellectual, she didn't know that it was too unfair for her to stoning a young man with excellent academics to death with a hammer, and she would definitely not have the mentality of beating mandarin ducks with a stick if it was someone else, but it was a matter of her daughter's lifelong happiness, and as a mother, she was unwilling to take the slightest risk.

"Don't bully young people into poverty. When you are young, the possibilities for the future are endless. Guo Yang took a step forward and said seriously and gently: "You know your daughter better than me, and you actually know better that it is Xiaoice who hurts the most to beat the mandarin duck." So I still say that, please give us a chance, I will work hard to improve, and use my life to repay Xiaoice's affection for me. ”

Xue Chunlan was silent.

She said in her heart: There are infinite possibilities for young people in the future, and there is nothing wrong with that. But the future of most young people from poor backgrounds is just like that, they are ambitious and talented, they like to dream, and they are nothing when they dream; even if they have some ability and talent, how difficult it is to get ahead, and they will soon disappear under the pressure of reality. As for you...... I can't entrust my daughter to you just because you say two nice words, that's ridiculous, isn't it?

But Guo Yang's sincerity still moved her slightly. Over the past year, she has empathized with her daughter's pain deep into her bone marrow. Guo Yang is really not enough to worry about in her heart, but her daughter's feelings can't be ignored.

Long.

Xue Chunlan looked up at Guo Yang, still indifferent, but her eyes softened: "Okay, I can give you a chance, lest you say that we hate the poor and love the rich." We will take it for one year, and during this year, if you can meet my standards, I will agree to your marriage with Xiaoice. Otherwise, it is estimated that you will not have the face to enter the door of our Zhou family again. ”

Guo Yang sighed, secretly happy in his heart, but his face was silent: "I don't know what Aunt Xue's standard is, so that I can have a reference and comparison, and know what direction I should work towards." ”

Xue Chunlan Huo Ran got up and said with a cold smile: "I have a student who gave up entering the government to go into business after graduating from college and founded his own cultural company, which is already worth millions in just two years. I don't demand much from you, if you can make a million in a year, you will meet my standards. ”

A million?! Guo Yang was sure that he had heard correctly. Sure enough, it is a family of giant businessmen, shrewd and calculating, and the criteria for choosing a son-in-law can be quantified into a specific amount of wealth.

After Xue Chunlan finished speaking, she brushed her sleeves away, and didn't bother to pay attention to Guo Yang anymore. She felt that she had made a huge concession today, at least opening an opening, giving Guo Yang a chance to look up. Of course, she doesn't think that Guo Yang can meet her conditions, not so much that this is her condition, but that it is just her strategy of refusing to "save the country in a curve" in a different way.

Zhou Dingnan stood at the staircase on the second floor, hearing the conversation between his wife and Guo Yang, and secretly frowned. One million is nothing for the Zhou family, but for ordinary people, it is definitely an astronomical amount.

Nowadays, a young man who has just graduated from college, a young reporter at the newspaper, and the total salary and bonus of a year is estimated to be less than 10,000 yuan.

Looking at Xue Chunlan's plump back, Guo Yang couldn't help but smile.

He is not a fledgling reporter Guo Yang who has just stepped into the society, he is a person who has been mixed in the big dye vat of the media for 20 years and is in a high position, standing tall and far-sighted, traveling widely, having sufficient contacts, starting from scratch, mastering a large number of information forward-looking resources, and knowing the pulse of the times, not to mention a million, it is not difficult for Guo Yang to be 10 million.

Zhou Bing cautiously walked downstairs, and when he saw that Guo Yang's smile was so bright, he was relieved. She walked up to Guo Yang and asked softly, "Yangyang, how are you talking to my mother?"

"Very good. Your mother gave me a condition, but it's nothing, you can rest assured. Guo Yang didn't go any further, some things are useless to talk about, it is better to look directly at the final result. Zhou Bing has a quiet personality, and now he is immersed in some kind of relieved joy, so he didn't continue to ask.

This is based on a certain unreserved trust in Guo Yang. In her subconscious, no matter what conditions her mother proposes, with Guo Yang's ability and talent, it is not difficult to do it. In fact, what she is afraid of is not that her mother will make conditions, but that she is afraid that her mother will not make conditions. To have conditions is to give opportunities.

"By the way, Xiaoice, I am about to rush back to the pre-editorial meeting of the company, and when I finish reporting today's manuscript-" Guo Yang suddenly remembered that he should rush back to the meeting at this time, after all, it was still working hours, he originally wanted to say that he would ask Zhou Bing to have dinner with him after work, but realized that because of the nature of his work, he didn't leave work until midnight every day, so he shut his mouth in a huff.

He is still a low-level reporter in the domestic news department of the Northern Morning Post, and he has repeated the monotonous and boring work and life trajectory for the past year: get up at nine o'clock in the morning, go to the newspaper office to receive tasks or choose topics, then go out for interviews, report back to the agency in the afternoon to write, and hold a pre-editorial meeting after half past three in the afternoon, report the manuscript and wait for the three-level review process to be completed. Generally speaking, it is not until late at night that the final version is made, and Guo Yang has to wait until the sample comes out and enters the printing process.

The profession of a front-line journalist seems to be beautiful, but it is actually hard and boring. To put it bluntly, a journalist is similar to an operator on an assembly line in a factory or a salesperson in a shopping mall or supermarket, who does more than a cow and takes less than a person, and is tired like a dog every day.

Therefore, low-level reporters can't work for too long, but the media industry is a promising one. All three religions and nine streams have to deal with each other, and mastering the right to speak public opinion can build a huge social network, which is obviously an intangible social resource.

Zhou Bing didn't mind too much. She smiled: "Yangyang, go get busy, I forgot that you are still at work, which will drag you out - I also have to fall jet lag, don't worry, I don't plan to go back anyway......"

The second half of Zhou Bing's words suddenly pressed extremely low.

Because out of the corner of her eye, she found her parents standing side by side at the staircase on the second floor, casting scrutinizing glances at the two. Going to the United States to study was originally some kind of healing way to relieve pain, and since the wounds were healed, she naturally lost interest in American life on the other side of the ocean, but she didn't dare to let her parents hear this for the time being, otherwise the Zhou family and his wife would definitely go berserk.