Chapter 146: Clearing
Wang Dalun came out of the kitchen with the brewed tea, saw that Lao Fan was still standing, and then looked at Rose, who was looking at him pitifully under the table, and smiled secretly in his heart. Hurriedly said, "Uncle Fan, don't sit inside!"
When Lao Fan heard that it was exactly what he wanted, he glanced at Wang Dalun, nodded expressionlessly, and walked into the room in the south with his legs raised. As soon as he entered the room, his eyes first fell on the bed placed against the wall, the bed was covered with a mattress, and the towels were neatly folded, the key was that there was only one pillow on the folded towel quilt, which made him slightly relieved.
Then I looked around the room, like a small living room outside, the twenty square rooms were cleaned. There is a desk against the balcony window, and next to it is a bookcase, in which there are a lot of books, all of which are quite old, and at first glance you know that they are not the kind of hardcover books that decorate the faΓ§ade. Lao Fan couldn't help but think highly of Wang Dalun again, and added a studious comment to his impression.
"Uncle Fan, please be seated. There was a two-person sofa next to the bed, and Wang Dalun put the teacup on the coffee table in front of the sofa.
Lao Fan looked around the room and paced two steps before he walked to the sofa and sat down.
Wang Dalun pulled out the chair on the side of the desk, sat opposite him across the coffee table from Lao Fan, and said with a smile: "Uncle Fan, this is my hometown's own tea, please drink tea." β
Min people are so good tea, Lao Fan is no exception, at the same time I do feel a little thirsty, coughed lightly, picked up the teacup, uncovered the lid of the cup, a hot breath with Longjing tea is unique to the fragrance came to the nose, he sniffed and smelled, the fragrance is quite authentic, blowing the tea leaves floating on it, tasting a sip, although the taste is not as authentic as the taste of Secretary Huang's special special Longjing, but it is also a good tea.
"Your hometown is from Hangzhou?" Lao Fan took two sips, put down the cup and asked.
Wang Dalun hurriedly said: "Tonglu, Hangzhou, my hometown is in the countryside, my parents are farmers, and I have contracted a small forest farm, mainly to grow some tea. β
"Well, it's good to grow tea!" Lao Fan nodded subconsciously.
He has worked for a long time in several counties in the mountainous areas of northern Fujian, bordering Zhejiang Province, both of which are the main tea producing areas, and he has vigorously advocated farmers to grow tea to get rich.
However, he immediately realized that he was a little off-topic, and then asked, "I heard that you are also an actor?"
"Yes, I graduated from the Beijing Film Academy, but I am only a junior college, and I will stay in the capital to film after graduation. β
"You and Ziyi met while filming?"
"Well, sort of. β
"What do you mean, right?" Old Fan straightened his face, quite a little not angry and arrogant.
Wang Dalun hurriedly said: "Ziyi and I met when we were filming "Huanzhu Gege", when she was filming, I went to visit a friend, and we met like this. So it can be regarded as filming. β
Lao Fan felt uncomfortable when he heard it, his daughter's filming of "Huanzhu Gege" was still the year before last, when she had just turned sixteen years old, how could she ......
Wang Dalun saw that Lao Fan's face became more and more gloomy, and knew what he was thinking. To be honest, Fan Ziyi is indeed a little precocious, and if she falls in love at this age, no matter which father she puts it on, she will not be happy.
He hurriedly explained with the manuscript prepared in the past few days: "That meeting can only be said to be acquaintance, and then it happened that Ziyi borrowed the house just downstairs from me, and I saw that it was not easy for her to come to the capital as a little girl, so if you can help, you can take a hand, and this will naturally be fine." β
Lao Fan turned out to be very annoyed, and was about to question Wang Dalun for deceiving his daughter's youth and ignorance. But when he heard Wang Dalun say that it was not easy for his daughter to wander alone in the capital, he suddenly poked at his long-standing guilt for his daughter, and he remembered what his daughter said on the phone: Just let him take care of me! Lao Fan moved his lips, and he suddenly couldn't say anything to question.
Wang Dalun glanced at Lao Fan, knowing that the rhetoric he had prepared in advance had worked, so he hurriedly hit the railroad while it was hot: "Uncle Fan, you may not know that Ziyi was really not easy at that time, she was not famous at that time, the salary was not high, the brokerage company she signed was unreliable, and filming was very hard. And you know that she doesn't know how to cook, eats out all day, or just doesn't have a meal. When she moved in, we just knew each other, not even friends, but it was really hard for me to look at her, so I wanted to reach out and help her. Later, everyone had a good impression, and it got better. Uncle Fan, if you are not satisfied, don't blame Ziyi, she is really not easy, if you want to blame me!"
Lao Fan was silent, although Wang Dalun's words poked at the guilt he felt for his daughter deep in his heart at first, but later these words that sounded very sensational, he had already realized that Wang Dalun was prepared and deliberately said it to himself. If it is officialdom, this kind of little trick is hardly worth mentioning in his opinion. But although Wang Dalun's words were very sensational, he felt that his daughter's situation was true, and perhaps his daughter's life at that time might be even more unbearable. It is precisely because of this that he can't use officialdom to deal with Wang Dalun, otherwise he would not be worthy of being this father.
Lao Fan stood up suddenly, solemnly stretched out his hand to Wang Dalun and said, "Xiao Wang, thank you for taking care of our family Ziyi." β
The old man's sudden change startled him, and he quickly got up from the chair, flattered to hold Lao Fan's hand with both hands, and said, "Uncle Fan, look, I shouldn't do this!"
"Alas!" Lao Fan let out a long sigh, raised his hand and pressed it, motioned for him to sit down, and said, "Ziyi's situation must also be known to you, this girl has been stubborn since she was a child. As for me, I am usually busy with work, so I inevitably ignore her, and I don't do enough in some aspects, and I am not a competent father. So she has a friend like you in the capital to help her, and I am really grateful!"
"Uncle Fan, you must be said like this, I ......" Wang Dalun smiled.
Lao Fan waved his hand, interrupted him, and then asked, "Xiao Wang, how old are you this year?"
"I'm a tiger in '74, and I'm twenty-five years old this year. β
"Oh!" Lao Fan nodded, at first he thought that Wang Dalun was almost thirty years old, and it seemed that he was an old man.
"Then she must have helped her in the lawsuit with the agency in Tai Wan, right?"
Wang Dalun had already learned from Fan Ziyi that Lao Fan had an attitude of opposing and agreeing to her signing with Aunt Qiong Yao's company for a while, and said in a deep voice: "Uncle Fan, Ziyi and I don't understand this political matter. It's just that Ziyi's signing a contract with a brokerage company in Taiwan Bay is very unfavorable to her future development, after all, the company is in Taiwan, and Ziyi's development is mainly in the mainland, and it is very inconvenient to contact her in all aspects. In addition, of course, there are economic factors, the commission ratio on their side is too high, which is very unfair to Ziyi......"
As for the termination fee, he felt that there was no need to hide it from Lao Fan, so he said honestly: "In fact, Ziyi was still a minor when she signed this contract, and the contract itself is invalid according to the law. But considering that Aunt Qiong Yao gave Ziyi the opportunity to become popular after all, and the longer the lawsuit dragged on, it would be unfavorable to Ziyi in all aspects, so after consulting a lawyer, we still decided to give the other party a termination fee of 150,000 yuan. β
"Well, you're right. Lao Fan still agrees with this, if the lawsuit drags on for a long time, it will not only be detrimental to his daughter's development, but may also affect him.
"Has Ziyi signed the company again now?"
"Signed, oh, but for the time being, it is a verbal agreement, and after two months, Ziyi will officially sign the contract after turning eighteen. Saying that, Wang Dalun smiled again: "Uncle Fan, don't worry, Ziyi's agent this time is called Wang Jinhua, who is very well-known in the Beijing entertainment industry and has a good reputation. β
For a bureaucrat like Lao Fan, Wang Jinhua's name is unheard of, but when he heard Chen Zhiming's name, he had to be a little moved, and he was a little proud in his heart and relieved at the same time.
Lao Fan nodded, looked around the house again, and said with a smile: "Xiao Wang, your house is your own, right?"
"No, like Ziyi, I also rented, and I have lived here for several years. As he spoke, he remembered that he had seen Lao Fan downstairs before and seemed to dislike the environment around the community, so he hurriedly said, "Uncle Fan, there is something I don't know if Ziyi told you that there is no ......."
"What's the matter?" Lao Fan's heart sank slightly, and he asked knowingly.
"That's ......" Wang Dalun looked at Lao Fan, if the previous conversation was to let Lao Fan understand himself, then now it's time for a showdown, maybe when Lao Fan asked about the house, that's what it meant.
He simply turned around and took out a room book from the drawer of the desk, gritted his teeth and said: "It's that I bought a suite with Ziyi, and it was already renovated last month, and when Ziyi comes back from filming, we plan to buy furniture and move over." β
"You ......" Lao Fan stood up suddenly, his face suddenly became ugly, and he said sharply: "You were still talking just now, Ziyi is not yet an adult, how can you do such a thing!"
Although Wang Dalun had been mentally prepared, he was still taken aback by Lao Fan's fierce reaction, and was stunned for a moment, then reacted and hurriedly defended: "Uncle Fan, you misunderstood, I didn't mean that." It's not ......" In a panic, he didn't know how to explain it, but seeing that Lao Fan's face was getting darker and darker, he simply said bluntly: "Ziyi and I are in love now, there is nothing like that, what! And I know that she is not yet an adult, how can I do such a thing?"
As he spoke, he picked up the house book again and flipped through it: "Uncle Fan, look, we bought a two-bedroom house with two rooms. β
Lao Fan didn't look at the house book, but stared into his eyes and said, "Really?"
"Really. Wang Dalun did not avoid his stern gaze, and said very calmly. It's something he hasn't done before, and he even has some grievances.
Lao Fan stared at him for five seconds, and then he felt that the big stone that had been pressed on his heart these days had disappeared, and his heart was relieved. But his expression remained the same, he took the house book from Wang Dalun's hand, glanced at it, and found that the house book was still the names of Wang Dalun and his daughter. couldn't help frowning: "You bought the house, right?"
"No, the two of us bought it together, and Ziyi also paid for it. Wang Dalun said.
"Does she have any money?"
"Yes, that's it...... That's the hundred and fifty thousand that I took from you. β
"Isn't this what she used to pay the termination fee?" said Lao Fan, frowning more and more. He can tolerate his daughter's arrogance, but he never wants to see her lie.
"After the lawsuit was over a year ago, I and Ziyi had already paid off the money. β
Don't look at Lao Fan's stinky shelf in front of him, in fact, he is quite sympathetic to Lao Fan, his relationship with his daughter is very stiff, he doesn't know anything about his daughter, and he still asks himself in a different way. So he simply told Lao Fan about some of the girl's recent situation, including the girl's upcoming partnership with Ren Quan and Li Bingbing to open a hotel.
In the end, he said quite sincerely: "Uncle Fan, don't worry, Ziyi is really promising now." β
Lao Fan looked at Wang Dalun with complicated eyes, although he had a bad relationship with his daughter, this did not affect his understanding of his daughter at all. Although Wang Dalun's words just now are due to his daughter's own efforts, he can still feel that there are many things in this where Wang Dalun's shadow is located, and Wang Dalun is guiding his daughter on the right path.
Bureaucrats like him, in particular, have a particularly profound understanding of the correct choice of path. In general, his impression of Wang Dalun has completely changed, or he didn't understand it before, but now he finally has a certain degree of understanding, and his opposition to them being together has gradually faded.
In fact, the purpose of his coming to Wang Dalun today is, on the one hand, to see who this person who abducted his daughter is, and at the same time, he wants to see if he can use his brains on him and let him take the initiative to give up his daughter. Because the possibility of convincing your daughter by yourself is almost zero, and with her daughter's rebellious psychology towards herself, things can only get worse and worse.
But now it seems that his original plan is no longer necessary, and he feels that his daughter is with Wang Dalun, and he is very relieved.
Lao Fan raised his wrist and looked at the time, there was still a little bit before the scheduled time to go back, and when he told Wang Dalun to this extent, he found that he had nothing to say, so he simply stood up again and said, "Xiao Wang, do you have the key to Ziyi's room?"
"Yes. Wang Dalun subconsciously took out a key from his pocket, but when he looked up, he suddenly found that Lao Fan's face was a little unkind, and he quickly explained: "Uncle Fan, don't misunderstand. Ziyi often goes out to film, and I stay in the capital for a longer time than her, so I take the key to her room, mainly to help her clean up, wash and dry, ventilate or something. β
Lao Fan glanced at him deeply, with a strong sense of warning in his eyes, and said, "Let's go, take me down to see Ziyi's room." β
"Hey!" Wang Dalun hurriedly answered, walked to the front and opened the door to lead the way.
When he got downstairs, Wang Dalun opened the door of 501 and made a gesture of please. Lao Fan walked into the house, and the small living room was empty, and there was nothing even in the kitchen to the north. Because this was his daughter's room, he didn't need to ask Wang Dalun's opinion, and walked into the south room with his legs.
There weren't many things in the room, two simple wardrobes, a small dresser by the window, and a single bed in the middle. Although no one lives in the room, it is very clean, there is no dust on the floor and dresser, and there is no musty smell in the air.
But looking at this very simple house, Lao Fan's heart felt sour, and at the same time he felt deep self-blame. It is indeed not easy for her daughter to wander alone in the capital over the years, and in the final analysis, he is very unqualified as a father. Thinking of his daughter's rejection of him, he looked back at Wang Dalun who was smiling behind him, he might really be grateful to this young man. (To be continued.) )