She sighed slightly: "Tang Qingyuan is actually a good opponent. ”

"Maybe this is the only way to be qualified to be your opponent," Uncle Cheng said quietly, this middle-aged man who has walked on this road for so many years knows what Lin Ran's words mean, "But you have to understand that a truly competent opponent will not be defeated before you succeed." ”

Lin Ran suddenly remembered the conversation with Mo Zhi before.

"If it's possible, I'd really like to sit down and talk to him calmly." The corners of Lin Ran's mouth twitched, "Maybe it's going to be a very interesting conversation." ”

Uncle Cheng nodded, and then put the topic aside: "Wu Ziping...... I think you've heard about a few of their infighting, right? ”

It's not just something I've heard, almost everything I've seen with my own eyes.

But Lin Ran would not say this to Uncle Cheng.

"Yes, Wu Ziping's bunch of former brothers...... It also involves Mo Zhi," Lin Ran finally just said, "All of them are characters who are about to shake three times when they stomp their feet, and these three people will not come to Yancheng for a pure and peaceful life." ”

"If they don't provoke our side, we'll wait and see." The smile on Uncle Cheng's face retracted, even these people couldn't move easily, "They didn't take the initiative to trouble you, did they?" ”

Lin Ran thought about it, it goes without saying what Mo Zhi's relationship with her is, and Wu Ziping just met her once like a psychopath, and said a bunch of nonsense, these are really not troublesome for her, thinking of this, Lin Ran smiled and shook her head: "No, maybe I am a small role in their opinion." ”

Speaking of this, Lin Ran couldn't help but think of the conversation between the two of them before Mr. Lin went abroad.

It was still winter, and the heavy curtains of the floor-to-ceiling windows in the study were pulled together and overlapped, closing out the sound of the wind howling outside the windows. The evergreens in the courtyard were still growing luxuriantly, and the branches were whipped by the wind against the huge special glass, but because of the curtains, when the sound came into the study, there was only a faint, almost inaudible, intermittent crackling sound. The light source for the entire room comes from a large log desk, a dim reading light.

Old Man Lin sat expressionlessly on the comfortable wide back chair, without saying a word, with a deep and unpredictable gaze, looking at Lin Ran, who was sitting honestly across the desk.

No matter how powerful Lin Ran's brain is, after all, he hasn't experienced much, but in the end, he still lifted his eyelids and cautiously peeked at his grandfather, and quickly looked away the moment he looked at the other party.

What remained in my brain, back and forth, was Old Man Lin's face half-hidden behind the shadows behind the clear yellow light.

After a long time, the old man Lin finally spoke, and the old man seemed to tap lightly on the table as if to attract Lin Ran's attention, and his deep voice sounded as elusive as the smoke emitted by a cigarette at night: "After the last incident, they can't die so easily, you already have a rough charter in your heart?" ”

This time, it's an assessment.

Assessing whether she has the ability to get help, even if she wants to hand over her family to her, but the secrets of the Lin family belong to her own people can only know, and it is impossible to hand them over to her without any defense, which Lin Ran knows better than anyone else.

She steadied herself and tried to look her grandfather in the eye without looking away, doing everything in her power to make her voice sound calm: "Yes, grandpa. ”

Because of Lin Ran's neat answer, Old Man Lin couldn't help but look at his granddaughter, who looked very similar to her father, again, and couldn't help but have a hint of playfulness in his voice: "I believe you should give me a reason to be satisfied, after all, these are things that you didn't show any interest in at all." ”

Although Lin Ran acted casually on his face, cold sweat was already oozing from his back little by little, the reason for this kind of thing can be said to be a casual grasp, but the key is that the reason in front of him, who has been in many fields for many years, can be convinced, that is not something that can be passed casually.

In order to have a reason to live a life without being influenced by anyone, she didn't want her grandfather to know, because it would seem that she was too emotional.

Calm down.

Lin Ran said to herself in her heart, even if a clumsy lie can't hide from his grandfather's eyes that don't know how many hypocritical things he has seen, he must calm down and answer, otherwise everyone will be suspicious.

"I ......," she said, as she pondered, "I had a dream. ”

Old Man Lin's tone made it difficult to hear whether he was dissatisfied when he heard Lin Ran's answer: "A dream? ”

Lin Ran nodded, little by little, he told his grandfather what he had experienced, especially the bad influence of Zhou Huai'an, as a nightmare, the art of lying is to make what he said seven points true and three points false, and now, the words in Lin Ran's mouth can be said to be nine points true and one point false.

But she hid the influence that Mo Zhi gave her, and the relationship between the two of them was already somewhat different from before, and Lin Ran didn't want her grandfather to know too much about the two of them.

When Lin Ran's narration finally came to an end, Old Man Lin didn't speak, and when he spoke again, his voice was still as calm as the deep sea: "So what? ”

But Lin Ran, there are many storms and dangers hidden under the deep sea that you can't explore.

Lin Ran lowered his eyes, as if he was thinking about something, and Old Man Lin, this old man who has never been very patient and has always been straightforward, actually sat there and waited quietly, and did not show any tendency to urge his granddaughter.

The whole study was silent.

And this silence seemed to take shape, and they spontaneously gathered together, thicker and heavier, and weighed down the atmosphere of the whole large study more and more low and dangerous, as if someone was slowly approaching a pile of leaking gasoline cans with a match.

I don't know how long it took, the girl's unique clear voice broke the silence of the room, Lin Ran raised her head, and her voice carried her unique strength and stubbornness in this period: "So one day, standing in a place where everyone must look up to me, no one can treat me like that, and I will pay back the damage to me tenfold and hundredfold." ”

"And it's all going to be on my own, with my own hands."

Word by word, loud and clear.

Returning to the silent study, the oppressive atmosphere suddenly swept away, and the orange light seemed to become softer.

Old Man Lin suddenly laughed.

"I can't tell you how many years ago," he said slowly, looking at the girl across from him with extremely bright eyes, "your father sat down where you sat and said the same thing to me. ”

Lin Ran breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, knowing that she had passed the test this time.

Old Man Lin's voice was full of nostalgia: "But I didn't expect that you would say these words again today." Well, tonight is just a reminder to you. Pleasantly surprised, you gave me some other reassuring information. It's too late today, so you might as well go to bed early. ”

didn't have time to think about the meaning of grandpa's words at this time, Lin Ran got up from the uncomfortable chair as if he had been amnesty, said good night to Old Man Lin and turned to leave.

At the moment when he opened the heavy wooden door of the study and was about to leave this room, Lin Ran heard the man's calm voice coming from behind him-

"Many years ago, when your father had an accident, I used to think that I could only break the jade and not make it whole, and if the Lin family was to be handed over to some unreliable person, it would be better for me to disintegrate it with my own hands. This time, I hope you won't let me down. ”

"Your brother used to be the person I had high hopes for, but those things happened later......"

"I also feel very sad about your brother's affairs. But you, with what he didn't have back then, so I'm sure you can go far on this path. When you earn what you deserve from me, then I will be proud of you. ”