Chapter 42: A Thunderbolt from the Clear
Through the base test that night, Chengliu won the true respect of Liu Nan's friends, including Zeng Jia. Chengliu feels that Zeng Jia is not as sinister as his father Zeng Confession, or maybe Zeng Jia, who is playing life, does not need those cities to protect himself. Zeng Jia once asked Cheng Liu about his father's presence in Nanyue Mountain, and learned from the conversation that Zeng confessed to Zeng Jia and Liu Nan as he did to Liu Nan, separating Zeng Jia from the fog of Nanyue.
In the days to come, Hu Pang and others invited Cheng Liu. Accompanied by everyone, Cheng Liu traveled through the streets and alleys of Beijing and the ancient buildings of the new buildings, appreciated the historical scenery of Beijing, and felt the humanistic enthusiasm of Beijing, but all this was so far away for him. New China has built a new splendor on the once glorious ancient capital, allowing people in the new era to look back with a sense of pride, rather than nostalgia. Nariyu watched all this, neither nostalgia nor pride, the dividends of history just passed by his family, and happiness took his grandmother's life before he met him. Fortunately, after his grandmother left, God still gave him a new motivation for life, that is, Liu Nan. But today, it seems that this source of motivation is about to dry up again.
It is Liu Nan's seventeenth birthday just half a month after arriving in Beijing today, and Liu Nan's parents chartered a hotel for him to celebrate. Before she was a minor, she regretted that she had used the general thinking of adults to celebrate Liu Nan, so she invited many high-ranking officials and business elites in Beijing to a banquet for Liu Nan, and the most important factor was that these people had a son who was about to reach marriageable age. Zeng regretted that she wanted to show her adult daughter in front of those sons early, cast a wide net, so that she could choose slowly, she didn't want her daughter to repeat her mistakes. Parents who have suffered a loss in a certain matter will try their best to avoid it for the next generation in the name of love, but do not admit that this love may become a lifelong pain for the next generation.
After the banquet, everyone dispersed, Liu Nan left a few good friends and continued a dance party. Only Wen Wei did not participate. Zeng regretted pushing the cake and came over, interrupting the carnival of the young people, she took the microphone and waited for everyone to be quiet and said, "Today, I have a gift for my baby daughter Liu Nan." As he spoke, he beckoned to Liu Nan.
Liu Nan walked on the stage, and Zeng regretted and continued: "This gift is that you have been admitted to Stanford University in advance, and you can go to the United States next semester!" Hearing this news, Hu Pang, Zhang Zhenzhe, Wang Zhuoan, Feng Yueyao, Qin Qingqing and others were surprised, in fact, they will also study abroad under the arrangement of their families, but they are basically third-rate universities that are bought with money and forcibly gilded, but how can they compete with first-class universities? For this reason, they were jealous when they saw that the Zeng family was so capable of promoting Liu Nan's studies, but after thinking that the more important reason was Liu Nan's grades, they could only be envious.
This was originally good news for Liu Nan, it used to be her dream, but now that she has Chengliu, she is a little hesitant. She glanced at Cheng Liu, who was silent, her eyes were full of approval, and her heart was reluctant. Mom once said that she had a chance to be admitted to Stanford only after graduating from high school, why did she advance it by a year? She originally wanted to use the third year of high school to help Chengliu improve his grades, especially English, and when she graduated, she would ask her grandfather to send Chengliu to the United States to study, although she could not go to Stanford, but as long as she could go to the United States to study, they could meet, and they could fall in love without family surveillance, escape the worldliness of China, and then start a family in the United States. Mom's gift disrupted all her plans. He was worried that without himself, Chengliu would definitely be decadent, how could he come to the United States in the future? If you can't come to the United States, how can you endure that kind of torment from one side of the world? She asked suspiciously, "Mom, didn't you say that you can only pass after graduating from high school?" ”
Zeng regretted: "You passed ahead of schedule, so it's good news." It happens that you need to go through a year of language adaptation. ”
Liu Nan said: "This can be done in China, I want to go to Nanyue to accompany my grandfather." ”
Zeng regretted glancing at Cheng Liu, and said, "Grandpa may not be in Nanyue in the future." ”
Liu Nan said: "I like the life in Nanyue Huangting Guanzhong and want to live for another year. ”
Zeng Cheng shook his head and said, "Aunt Mei won't be in the past." ”
Liu Nan said: "In short, I want to finish my senior year of high school in Nanyue. She was already a little anxious, all the reasons for staying were for Cheng Liu, but in front of her mother, how could she say it?
Zeng regret shook his head and said, "No, we have to pass." I've already submitted your information, and if I miss this one, I won't have a chance to go to Stanford. ”
Liu Nan said: "Then don't go!" In the face of Zeng Wrong's persecution, Liu Nan was a little angry.
Zeng regretted as if he saw the desperate self back then. In fact, Zeng regret had already heard his brother Zeng confess that his daughter's eyes were not ordinary, and he was more sure of his brother's statement in his observation during this time. If the daughter is born in a civilian family, Chengliu can also be regarded as an excellent and responsible boy, but the responsibility and the excellence obtained through a lifetime of hard work cannot stand up to the right sentence after all. Like herself, Liu Nan is also the daughter of the Zeng family, and she doesn't want to hand over her daughter's life to someone whose future is still unclear early. Even if Chengliu can achieve great things in the future, at least she can't see it now. She thought of Liu Nan's father, who also had the excellent ability to sensational on campus at that time, but that was only excellent among his peers, and entering the society was another rule, without the protection of the school, he became a pus. She thought that now Chengliu was only acting smart, but being smart and being wise were two different things. She thinks that an excellent person should be like her father, although he has no education, he is full of wisdom in life, even if he is full of wisdom, the old man is still so wise and foolish. At this moment, Chengliu is only smart, especially after Zeng Jia went home and told about Chengliu's breeze at the base, she felt that Chengliu was a sharp-edged boy, and she thought that this kind of person was often difficult to achieve great things. As a result, it has become inevitable to beat the mandarin ducks. The arrangement of today's banquet is also so that Liu Nan, who is just starting to fall in love, can have a few more choices, at least let Liu Nan feel that Cheng Liu is not so good in comparison.
For Cheng Liu, this is naturally a bolt from the blue, but after a short period of sadness, he will be relieved immediately, because that is the dream that Liu Nan once said, in Cheng Liu's heart, Liu Nan is a phoenix that should soar, he doesn't want to delay Liu Nan's future because of himself, he should be sincerely happy for Liu Nan.
Seeing that Liu Nan was angry, he said: "Don't miss such a good opportunity, I will help you take care of the old man when I go back." Cheng Liu has never said his relationship with the old man of the Zeng family, he doesn't say it, Zeng regrets it is inconvenient to say, she is also worried that there will be gossip that "Cheng Liu is the illegitimate son of the Zeng family" will affect the Zeng family's business. Therefore, this relationship has been kept secret in Liu Nan's circle of friends.