Wild School Boy Was Picked Up And Brought Home By His Professor Chapter 44

Chapter 44 Chapter 44 Elegance, really elegance

Inside the restaurant.

Shen Beidao is sitting on the upper floor near the railing. The viewing angle is excellent and he can have a panoramic view of a certain area on the lower floor.

“Xiao Bei, why are you so anxious?” A cheerful voice came from behind.

Shen Beidao turned his head and saw a muscular man wearing a black motorcycle suit striding towards him.

The man took off his helmet, revealing a face that had been polished by time but still had sharp edges.

“Today is the Christmas Eve that you young people loved so much. It was as crowded as a parking lot outside, so I had no choice but to ride my motorcycle out.”

He rubbed his hands, looked around at the exquisitely decorated restaurant, and raised his eyebrows, “Why did you choose this place? I remember that you can’t get used to the sweet and greasy taste of Jiangzhou cuisine.”

The visitor’s name is Li Zijia, 45 years old. He is a former colleague of his father and one of the few elders in Jiangzhou who takes good care of him.

Li Zijia put his helmet on the empty seat next to him, pulled out a chair and sat down, “What? I heard from your dad that you plan to open your own company for the domestic market?”

Shen Beidao pushed the menu over with a faint smile on his face: “Let’s order first and chat while eating.”

His gaze casually swept downstairs again, and the curve of his lips gradually deepened.

Li Zijia took the menu, but did not look at it in a hurry. Instead, he looked down along Shen Beidao’s line of sight, and he did not forget to tease: “Hey? I told you, nephew, when will you find a partner? People spend this kind of festival with their girlfriends. How about you, spend it with me, an old uncle?”

“Today, I came with my boyfriend.” Shen Beidao answered naturally.

“Boyfriend?” Li Zijia’s eyes lit up and he immediately looked around, “Where is it? Come and show me to my uncle! Your dad called me last time and said that you were alone in Jiangzhou and there was no one around you who knew how to be warm and cold…”

“My father has never asked me about my relationship status. He has advocated non-marriageism with me since I was a child, saying that it was too uncomfortable to be controlled by my mother.” Shen Beidao joked.

“You kid, yes…I admit, this is what I want to ask myself, uncle.”

Li Zijia was a colleague of Shen Beidao’s father when he was young. The two had worked together in a top medical research institution for many years.

Later, Shen Beidao’s father chose to stay abroad and currently works in a hospital. Li Zijia, tired of the high-intensity work pace, “retired” early and went to Jiangzhou, a livable city, to live a retirement life.

Because they had watched Shen Beidao grow up and lived in a foreign country, the two of them often got together and had a relationship that was both a teacher and a friend.

Shen Beidao raised his chin and motioned downstairs: “My boyfriend is over there.”

Li Zijia immediately leaned forward with interest and glanced downstairs.

He saw two young boys sitting at a table in the semi-open dining area, one slightly fat and the other lean, chatting and laughing together.

Li Zijia frowned and lowered his voice, a little uncertain: “Is your boyfriend…that pig or that monkey?”

Shen Beidao followed his gaze and replied helplessly: “Uncle Li, shouldn’t you take a look?”

He pointed in another direction, “It’s the table in the back by the window.”

From Li Zijia’s perspective, part of his view was indeed blocked by the pillars.

He didn’t give up and simply stood up, holding his hands on the railing, craning his neck to look down.

From this angle, he happened to see an elegant lady wearing an off-white cashmere suit walking in from the door. Lin Yi immediately stood up from his seat, stepped forward to greet her, and took the bag and a thin coat from her hand.

Li Zijia’s eyes instantly straightened: “Elegance, really elegant… This temperament is not inferior to that of celebrities…”

He sat down again and looked at Shen Beidao with a look of regret on his face: “It’s a pity that the famous beauty has an owner. Do you think these mature and charming ladies now like this kind of little fresh meat?”

Shen Beidao:…………

He didn’t know how to react for a moment. He was silent for two seconds before speaking, with a weak tone: “Uncle Li, do you think the two people you just saw… are lovers?”

“That’s right!” Li Zijia sighed and shook his head, “Today, what are you going to come to a restaurant like this if you’re not a couple?”

A trace of amusement and helplessness flashed across Shen Beidao’s eyes, “One of the couples you saw is my boyfriend.”

“Ah? Are you so playful?” Li Zijia was shocked.

Shen Beidao:……….

“Forget it.” He picked up the teapot and refilled the hot tea for Li Zijia. “Let’s talk about business. I plan to resign from school and officially take over my father’s business in the domestic company.”

Li Zijia’s attention was diverted as expected, and he looked more serious: “Oh? Finally figured it out? Your job as a university teacher is leisurely, but it is really not that interesting. It should have been released long ago.”

“Yes.” Shen Beidao nodded and took out a piece of information from his bag, “The drug developed by my father’s laboratory is mainly for type 2 diabetes. You should have an impression.”

“Semaglutide?” Li Zijia, after all, is from the industry and knows everything. “I remember the clinical data are very good. Why, has it been approved in China?”

“The third phase of clinical trials is over, and the marketing application process is already going through the process. What my dad means is that the domestic market has huge potential, and…”

Shen Beidao paused, “I have been doing market research for a while and found an interesting phenomenon.

In addition to traditional medical needs, the potential demand for such drugs may be underestimated among people who pay attention to body management, have medical beauty or health spending power.

This may become a differentiated angle for us to enter the market.”

Li Zijia listened carefully and rubbed his chin with his fingers: “It makes sense. Nowadays, people’s pursuit of ‘thinness’ has formed a huge consumer market. If we can accurately target this group of people under the premise of compliance…”

He looked at Shen Beidao with admiration in his eyes, “You kid, your mind works very fast. It seems you are well prepared!”

“If you need any help, uncle, just ask. I know a lot of people in the medical circle here in Jiangzhou.”

“Then I’ll thank Uncle Li in advance.”

…

Downstairs by the window.

When Xie Chun arrived, the dishes had been ordered and the cold dishes had been served.

He saw Lin Jingzhi already sitting there, looking down at her phone, her profile looking a little alienated under the light.

Lin Yi sat next to Lin Jingzhi, with a little distance between them.

“Sorry, the company has something urgent to do, so I’m late.” Xie Chun took off his coat and put it on the back of the chair next to him.

Lin Jingzhi raised her head and nodded slightly to him as a greeting. Her eyes quickly returned to the phone screen, as if she was replying to some important message.

The air between them was a polite, brittle calm that had been frozen for years.

Lin Yi watched his father sit down, but his keen eyes caught a small, less obvious red mark on the side of his neck near his collar.

The color and location of the trace… Lin Yi was so familiar!

Not long ago, something similar appeared on his own neck.

An unknown fire burst up.

What day is today?

It was a rare day when his mother came back and the family reunited.

Xie Chun actually showed up with such traces?

Who is it?So ignorant?!

The more Lin Yi thought about it, the angrier he became, and his chest became stuffy.

He glanced at his mother, who hadn’t noticed yet.

“Dad!” Lin Yi suddenly stood up with a very bad attitude, “Come here, I have something to tell you.”

Xie Chun just picked up the wet towel to wipe his hands. Hearing this, he raised his head and looked into his son’s eyes, which were obviously suppressing his anger. He was stunned for a moment.

He glanced at Lin Jingzhi again. She was still focused on her phone, as if everything around her had nothing to do with her.

“Okay.” Xie Chun put down the towel, stood up, and followed Lin Yi towards the bathroom.

After closing the bathroom door, Lin Yi turned around and stared at his father: “Xie Chun, do you know how rare this gathering is today?”

Xie Chun was a little confused by the name and question, but he immediately realized that he had done something wrong and offended his son.

He tried to explain, although he didn’t know where he went wrong: “Xiaoyi, I know it’s important. It’s just that I did go to the company to deal with urgent matters just now, so I was a little late.”

He looked at his watch, “Isn’t it just ten minutes late? It’s not a heinous crime, right?”

Somehow, since that night with Zhang Zexuan, when facing Lin Yi, the long-standing guilt in his heart seemed to be amplified.

He suddenly felt that as a father, he was a complete failure, and it was no wonder that Lin Yi had a bad attitude towards him.

Lin Yi ignored his explanation and took out a large skin-colored band-aid from his trouser pocket. He then stuffed the band-aid into Xie Chun’s hand and said in a cold tone: “Take care of your neck. Don’t let my mother see it.”

Xie Chun subconsciously raised his hand to touch the side of his neck.

“You know she hasn’t fully recovered from her illness.” Lin Yi’s voice was even lower, but his heart felt a sharp sting. “Even if you don’t love her and don’t care about her, you wouldn’t use this method to stimulate her, right?”

After saying that, Lin Yi opened the door and walked out without looking back.

Xie Chun was the only one left in the bathroom. Looking in the mirror, he finally saw clearly the clear red mark with tooth marks on the side of his neck.

It was left by Zhang Zexuan last night.

That kid, like a puppy claiming its territory, nibbled on his neck.

He didn’t pay much attention at the time and ignored it when he washed up in the morning…

“Bang!” Xie Chun’s fist hit the cold stone countertop hard, and he felt a burst of strong anger, both for himself and for that ignorant little bastard.

He tore off the band-aid, looked in the mirror, and carefully covered the mark.

The dark band-aid is attached to the side of the neck, which looks a bit awkward, but it’s better than the original look…

“Mom, Dad just took a work call and will come over later.” Lin Yi said to Lin Jingzhi.

Lin Jingzhi then put down her phone, gently took Lin Yi’s hand and placed it in her palm.

Her hands were cool, her skin was delicate, and traces of careful care could be seen.

“Xiao Yi.” She looked at her son with gentle eyes, but there was a hint of unspeakable worry deep inside. “Mom has been busy with the final preparations for the company’s listing this year. She has paid less attention to you. You don’t blame mom, right?”

“No.” Lin Yi immediately shook his head and shook his mother’s hand with his backhand, “I know you are busy. When I finish my graduation project, I will go over there to see you.”

Lin Jingzhi’s company is headquartered in a first-tier city, more than a thousand kilometers away from Jiangzhou.

Lin Jingzhi is still in the slow recovery period. In order not to irritate her or affect her recuperation, Lin Yi has deliberately maintained infrequent contact during this period.

Their daily communication is limited to simple greetings:

“Have you eaten?”

“How are you doing?”

“Is the money enough?”

Polite and distant, as if they were just relatives with a fair relationship.

Lin Yi didn’t know that some time ago, when his mother’s condition was at its most unstable and her mood was at its lowest, that late-night call with a choked question was answered by Shen Beidao.

Lin Jingzhi raised her hand, touched Lin Yi’s hair gently, and then said, “Xiao Yi, have you… dated a girlfriend recently?”

she asked softly, in a tone that sounded like a casual remark.

Lin Yi’s heart skipped a beat, “No, no.”

“I have to do an internship recently and I am busy with my graduation project. Where can I find the time?”

Lin Jingzhi looked at him quietly, with too many complicated emotions in her eyes that were very similar to Lin Yi.

She was silent for a few seconds before speaking again: “I heard… Zhinan has returned to China. Has he contacted you?”

This name was like a thin needle, pricking into Lin Yi’s nerves unexpectedly in their delicate atmosphere.

He replied hastily, almost subconsciously, as if he was deliberately trying to prove something: “No! Mom, don’t worry, I have no contact with him for a long time! That is all in the past, it has passed long ago.”

He spoke very quickly, with the excitement of being eager to clear things up. Only after he finished speaking did he realize that his reaction might have been excessive, and quickly promised: “I…if I have a girlfriend in the future, I will definitely tell you.”

When Lin Jingzhi heard this, a trace of faint pain flashed deep in her eyes, but it was quickly covered by tenderness.

She patted the back of Lin Yi’s hand gently: “Well, okay. Mom believes in you.”

She paused and changed the subject: “After you graduate, have you considered coming to Mom’s company? Although the art major you studied is not suitable, Mom can teach you slowly.”

“Besides, everything mom has will be yours from now on.”

“Your father’s business is mainly abroad, and mother doesn’t want you to go so far away. Stay in the country and be close to mother, okay?”

Lin Yi heard the expectations in his mother’s words, and also felt the heavy plan in the name of love.

He pursed his lips and said: “Mom, I… I have more than a year to graduate. It’s a bit early to talk about this now. And…”

He hesitated for a moment, then said it: “Your company also holds shares with partners. If I go, I have to get approval from other shareholders. I am completely cross-industry and don’t understand anything. If I go, it will only cause trouble for you and make people gossip.”

“I want to… try it on my own first.”

Lin Jingzhi looked at him quietly for a long time before sighing softly: “Okay. Mom respects your idea.”

But she suddenly said again, with a bit of deliberate warning: “But, Xiaoyi, remember, stay away from the people around your father. You know, the people around him are all the same kind of people as him.”

“Xiaoyi, mom knows you’re not like that.” She held Lin Yi’s hand so hard that her fingertips turned white, “You just…you were just influenced by your father when you were a child, but you’re not like that, right?”

Lin Yi felt his mother’s hands trembling slightly.

He looked at the complicated emotions in his mother’s eyes, including love, fear, worry, and a hint of painful memories that he didn’t want to face.

My throat felt like it was blocked by something.

He opened his mouth, but in the end nothing came out. He just held his mother’s cold hand back hard.

He once changed his “boyfriends” one after another in front of his mother, trying to use this extreme method to force her to leave the constrained marriage.

But now he was shocked to realize that those self-righteous struggles were in vain to disintegrate the last hope of a “normal family” in his mother’s heart, but instead made her sink deeper and deeper into the broken ruins.

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The author has something to say: This is the last hurdle, Teacher Shen’s evil idea is taking shape…

Guess what he’s going to do!

In fact, Lin Yi’s family relationship is a bit complicated. They all have their own reasons. From their respective perspectives, there is nothing they can do. Don’t be angry. It will be explained later.

Shen Beidao + Zhang Zexuan can make all the troublesome relationships more and more interesting (if you criticize the characters, you can’t criticize the author)

In Chapter 30, the call Shen Beidao answered was from Uncle Li.