Chapter 37: Love Rises and Falls (5)

An open class on archaeology benefited He Tianran a lot.

After class, Cao Fengyao was surrounded by archaeology students to answer questions, and He Tianran and Cao Aiqing waited patiently in their original seats.

While waiting, He Tianran asked curiously when he had nothing to do: "Ai Qing, why didn't you follow your father to study archaeology?" Or history, literature, or whatever, it feels like it's quite suitable for you. ”

"Your father is also a businessman, so why did you learn directing and not ......?"

Cao Aiqing supported her delicate jaw with one hand, and just wanted to subconsciously refute, but she reacted halfway through her words, and now He Tianran is already a student of the Department of Finance.

She put her hand down, knowing that the man next to her was actually looking for something just now, she said with a straight face:

"He Tianran, what do you think of my dad's class?"

"Very good, a student like me from a foreign department can listen to this kind of boring history with relish, and in terms of conversation and cultivation, Uncle Cao is a very typical intellectual, I have a good impression of this kind of gentle and humble elder, not to mention looking at my uncle's appearance, he must have been very charming when he was young, right?"

He Tianran was joking seriously, and this was not deliberately to pat Cao's father's ass, because after this class, his impression of Cao Fengyao was like this.

The girl looked at her father on the podium and asked softly, "How do you compare to you?" ”

"Uh, what does that mean?"

"Because during this time, you were in a certain state of composure when you worked in the library, which reminded me of my father."

Hearing this answer, He Tianran smiled and said, "This is definitely not comparable, what level is my uncle, what level am I?" It may be that you are usually a little younger, which gives you the illusion of déjà vu, because when it comes to connotation and demeanor, my little Taoism is undoubtedly a typical example of painting a tiger and not becoming an anti-dog. ”

The man's self-deprecating remarks didn't make Cao Aiqing care too much, and the girl just said slowly:

"My dad was a good teacher, a good husband, and a good father, but after all, no one is perfect, isn't he?"

He Tianran heard what she said, and asked carefully: "Ai Qing, ...... you?"

Cao Aiqing turned his head to look at him at this time, and said in a deep voice: "He Tianran, I think my father is gray ......"

“……”

The man was dumbfounded.

He looked at Cao Fengyao, who was talking to his classmates on the podium with a kind face, he knew too well how much Cao Aiqing loved his family, and the girl had said more than once that her family was a role model in her life.

"Uncle Cao ...... in the future Is there anything I'm sorry for you? ”

Cao Aiqing shook his head: "No, my father has always cherished me, I said, he is a good father." ”

"Then why are you ......?"

Cao Aiqing hesitated for a while, lowered his head and said:

"I've always listened to my father's words, but maybe that's the case, after my father helped Guo Huai say a few good things, I made up my mind to accept Guo Huai's confession...... I know I can't blame him, he's doing it for my good, and Guo Huai is indeed a good person, it's just ......"

The girl sighed faintly, "It's just...... I may still be a little depressed. ”

He Tianran was stunned.

There is no right or wrong in this kind of thing, and if it is not a crossing, who can say what will happen in the future?

"When you call me over today, it shouldn't be as simple as your uncle asking me to see me by name, right? If that's all there is to it, you can prevaricate and say that I can't come to something or something. ”

He Tianran quickly understood the other purpose of this visit.

Cao Aiqing stated one fact: "In this timeline, you obviously replaced Guo Huai's place in my father's heart. ”

"Understood, now what do you want me to do? Let Uncle Cao hate me and not give him a chance to match us? Or should I just make my position clear and tell him that we are just friends, and there is no other ambiguity? ”

Cao Aiqing frowned: "Is there any difference?" ”

The man said solemnly: "Of course there is, the former is equivalent to a fierce drug, and I completely cut off my thoughts, and my uncle shouldn't bother you with anything good for me; The latter, is to simmer slowly, after all, we have other things to solve later, and let my uncle know when we meet in the future, at least I won't feel abrupt, anyway, the advantages of the two are each other's shortcomings. ”

Cao Aiqing thought for a while and muttered:

"You decide for yourself, I just want my father to regain color in my eyes......"

He Tianran paused, then nodded, and said solemnly:

"Absolutely, don't worry."

As soon as his words fell, Cao Fengyao's hearty voice came.

"Natural, what are you reassuring Qingqing?"

A pair of young people who were still sitting in their seats suddenly stood up.

"Dad......"

"Uncle!"

Unlike He Tianran's unfazed appearance, he was suddenly called by his elders, Cao Aiqing's expression became a little embarrassed, and his answer was heavier, as if he was complaining that he was such a big person, so he didn't call himself that he was in front of outsiders.

He Tianran secretly thought to himself, Cao Aiqing was at home, his father usually called her Qingqing, and her mother would call her Xiao Ai.

Qingqing Zijin, young Mu Ai.

This is from the "Book of Songs" and love letters, each of which found a word of the name, after the girl told him, He Tianran has always remembered it.

Cao Fengyao smiled, touched his daughter's head, didn't care about her willfulness, and after withdrawing his hand, he asked He Tianran:

"How's it natural, can you understand? Not boring, right? ”

"It's not boring uncle, history is originally from elementary school to adulthood, and it is impossible not to understand it, but now from the perspective of archaeology, it is another experience, which is very interesting."

Before answering this sentence, He Tianran already had the decision of the two choices just now in his heart, if he doesn't understand the answer now, Uncle Cao, you are too boring in class, and pretending to be superficial and low EQ can certainly weaken Cao Fengyao's good impression of him, but he is also a top student of Hong Kong University who has scored more than 600 points in the college entrance examination, if his IQ is suddenly not online, it will be too fake.

It's better to be natural and take it step by step, even if it's annoying, it's not something that can be done overnight.

Cao Fengyao nodded, "You two come with me, let's find a place to drink some tea, and I'll ask you two something casually." ”

……

……

Cao Fengyao said lightly that the place to drink tea was in the office of the director of the Institute of Archaeology and Cultural Museums.

"Ouch, Professor Cao, is the class over?"

When a few people pushed the door in, an old man who looked to be more than ten or twenty years older than Cao Fengyao was packing his things, and when he saw Cao Fengyao leading the two children in, he glanced at it and asked with a smile.

"It's over, borrow your old place to talk to the children and drink some tea."

Cao Fengyao casually put down the courseware, walked to the wooden tea table in the office, took off the tunic coat on his body, hung it on the back of the chair, and continued: "By the way, Mr. Qian, there was a Song porcelain lecture in the museum recently, you remember to come." ”

"Got it, you remind me every day, can I not remember? I'm going to a meeting, don't be in a hurry to leave after you finish speaking, remember to eat at night, I can catch you once. ”

"Okay, okay, if you remember, I'll remember."

Cao Fengyao joked, sat down and began to boil water, and the dean of Wenbo, who was known as Qian Lao, walked up to Cao Aiqing, joked, and said kindly:

"Xiao Qingqing, remember to leave your dad after chatting, although your mother's cooking is delicious, you can't forget to have dinner with us old people."

Cao Aiqing replied sweetly: "Got it, Grandpa Qian." ”

The old dean looked at the girl and He Tianran with a smile again, and then shouted at Cao Fengyao:

"Xiao Cao, you have to talk about young people's affairs, don't get involved blindly."

Cao Fengyao said helplessly: "Yes, you go and get busy with yours first, okay?" ”

The old dean walked out of the office with a smile.

"Come and sit." Cao Fengyao beckoned to the two.

The young man and woman then sat opposite the middle-aged man.

After Cao Fengyao took off his coat, he wore a white shirt without pleats, he first folded the sleeves meticulously upward, revealing two arms, and then took out three sets of equipment, put them on the tea table in turn, and finally bowed down to find the tea leaves under the table, and dialed them into the tea lotus.

While making tea, he raised his eyes, looked at his silent daughter, and asked, "Why did you suddenly become introverted at school?" ”

It seems that every elder has the same bad taste of poking at people's sensitive places when they make fun of their juniors......

"Oops...... Daddy......"

Cao Aiqing don't look too much, since she woke up the memory of the future, she has always been a black swan to He Tianran, and He Tianran has rarely seen her so cowardly.

Cao Fengyao stopped at the end of the day, no longer continued to tease, but changed the conversation and asked He Tianran: "Natural, I heard that you recently became a student administrator in the library?" ”

"Ah...... yes, Uncle Cao. ”

Cao Fengyao suddenly sighed: "Yes, I used to be a student administrator of the HKU Library, I remember that at that time, students borrowed and returned books with handwritten library cards, although it was a little cumbersome, but everyone's reading preferences were instantly clear at a glance, and Ai Qing's mother liked to read some ...... at the beginning."

"Dad!"

Cao Aiqing shouted, her cheeks flushed, and interrupted her father's speech.

Cao Fengyao smiled dotingly, "Okay, okay, don't talk about this, naturally, when you interviewed, how did you ask you?" Let's talk about ......"

He Tianran was still reflecting on the amount of information in the conversation just now......

Having worked as an administrator in a library, this is not ...... What a coincidence?

However, he didn't dare to ask anything, and recalled the interview in his mind, saying, "Just ask me why I want to work in the library, and I will answer ......."

The young man 1510 finished explaining the interview experience, and the water was boiling.

Pour boiling water into the bowl, shake and wash it, pour out the first tea after brewing, and then pour the second tea into a fair cup to prepare the tea soup.

Although these are just ordinary steps in making tea, they don't seem to be as pleasing to the eye as those tea artists, but after this whole set of processes, the kind of peace and nature revealed is really just like Cao Fengyao's person, which makes people feel inexplicably comfortable.

"Do you usually drink tea naturally?"

"My dad likes tea, I'm ...... It's not good for young people to take this sip either, so they drink less. ”

He Tianran put his five fingers together and clenched them into a fist, and gently tapped the table three times with the center of his fist facing down, just as Cao Fengyao poured him tea.

"Well, try this."

Cao Fengyao moved his hand and poured tea for his daughter, He Tianran picked up the cup, and saw that the tea soup was red, the smell was mellow, with a hint of sweetness, he took a sip, muttered in his mouth for a long time, and in the end he still didn't know how to jump out of two words:

"Black tea?"

"Hahaha...... It's good to know that it's black tea. Cao Fengyao smiled at the glass.

Here, Cao Aiqing also took a bite and smacked his mouth, "Jin Junmei again?" But the taste is a little different from home. ”

"Of course, this was originally the tea I gave you Grandpa Qian, the quality of 1,500 catties."

"Then you drink three thousand pounds at home."

"Silly girl, of course you have to keep it for yourself, you don't know how much money your dad gets a month? And this old man likes to be vassal, in fact, he doesn't know how to drink tea, it's good if he didn't give him six hundred, and he picks these. ”

Cao Fengyao took a sip of tea.

Yes, it seems that Cao Aiqing's character in "thrift" is purely genetic.

After the tea soup is served, let's get to the point.

After joking with his daughter, Cao Fengyao asked seemingly casually: "Naturally, some recent rumors haven't affected your study and library work, right?" ”

He Tianran glanced at Cao Aiqing, listening to the meaning of the words, Cao Fengyao knew what was happening to Cao Aiqing now.

He shook his head: "Uncle, what did you say, of course not." ”

Cao Fengyao said earnestly: "I'm outside, and it's very troublesome to go to your school's forum, but there have been some rumors recently, as if to say that Qingqing is deliberately hanging you with feelings, don't go to your heart, she is not this kind of child." ”

He Tianran promised: "Uncle, you can rest assured, I know Ai Qing's personality very well, I won't think about it in any way." ”

The middle-aged man looked at the child's sincere expression, nodded with satisfaction, and then asked another embarrassing question:

"Well, when Ai Qing was bullied, naturally you stood up bravely, and your uncle knew that you were a good boy who knew good and evil and had a sense of justice, but you and Ai Qing got acquainted because of this, from high school to college, and they have known each other for several years.

Cao Fengyao said that there is no wind and no waves, it is not unreasonable, among the few friends of the opposite sex that his daughter knows, only He Tianran is the most eye-catching one, no way, the rich second generation of the family itself does not say, and the hero has saved the beauty, this kind of bridge is something that everyone can guess, and the relationship between these two children will definitely develop naturally in the future.

Therefore, Cao Fengyao thinks very simply, if the two children are really like-minded, Lang Qing concubine, he will add fuel to the fire, anyway, his daughter is twenty years old, He Tianran is not bad, the family background is good, and the appearance of the two is also right, the important thing is that this child is not public, introverted, and does not have the bad habits of the second generation of other rich families.

Cao Fengyao thinks that he is quite accurate in seeing people, and he is an open-minded matchmaker, which is better than a girl sneaking in a relationship and breaking up after several years, he may not know anything about it, not to mention that if the two establish a relationship, some rumors will naturally be self-defeating.

The young man and woman on the opposite side were silent at the same time when they heard this, Cao Fengyao thought that they were just thin-skinned and did not urge, but just smiled and picked up the fair cup again and filled the cup with tea for them.

"Uncle, I'm ...... with Ai Qing"

"Dad, it's impossible for me and He Tianran to become boyfriend and girlfriend."

Before the words "are friends" in He Tianran's mouth were spoken, Cao Aiqing, who was beside him, had already faced his father with a resolute expression, and resolutely said such a sentence.

(End of chapter)