DF Chapter 46

Chapter 46: The words sound humble, but in reality, they are arrogant

Chapter 46 The words sound humble, but in reality, they are arrogant.

With the mid-term exams over, half of the semester is over, and now it’s mid-November, and Jingjiang has a chill in the air.

Sheng Jia put on a slightly thicker sweatshirt when she went out. Sheng Huaiying has been in a good mood recently, probably because the factory affairs are no longer so busy. She also got a raise, so she specially bought clothes and a new schoolbag for Sheng Jia in large and small packages.

The schoolbag Sheng Jia originally carried was bought for her by Sheng Huaiying when she first found a job in the factory in her first year of high school. After that, Sheng Huaiying’s plan to repair her relationship with her was shelved, and she only gave money and didn’t worry about her affairs.

After the relationship between the two had a subtle improvement some time ago, Sheng Huaiying’s maternal love that had been suppressed for so many years had nowhere to spread. As long as Sheng Jia went to school, she had to be stuffed with two fried eggs every day.

Now, the maternal love value has exploded, and she insisted that Sheng Jia carry her new schoolbag and wear new clothes out, looking very proud.

Sheng Jia didn’t resist much. Who would want to wear old clothes when they can wear new ones?

The leaves of the birch trees in the school fell all over the ground. Although the senior year of high school no longer assigns class cleaning of public areas to affect students’ studies, at this special moment, senior high school students are occasionally arranged to come and lend a hand.

There are many birch trees in the school, especially after returning after the last weekend, it seems that the autumn has completely spread out in front of everyone, and all that is underfoot are withered yellow and dense fallen leaves, covering all the roads completely.

When Sheng Jia arrived in the class, Zhou Yin was already organizing people to take the brooms and dustpans to go downstairs. Song Ji’an was holding a rattan broom that was extremely inconsistent with her temperament, almost as tall as she was. Seeing Sheng Jia, she smiled and said to her, “Our class is going to sweep the playground during the morning study session. Teacher Liu said let’s all go, shall we go together, Sheng Jia?”

Sheng Jia put down her schoolbag on her seat and nodded, “Okay.”

As she spoke, she looked around. The cleaning equipment had basically been divided up, and not even a dustpan was left. Seeing this, Song Ji’an tugged at her shoulder, “Everyone has already divided up the things.”

As she spoke, she lowered her voice and explained softly, “Teacher Liu is afraid that we’re under too much pressure, so she specially allowed us to go down to play for a while during the morning study session.”

When she said this, her eyes were shining, and her lips had a sly smile.

Sheng Jia then remembered that it seemed that the school had always had this tradition, sending senior high school students to sweep the fallen leaves was actually giving them some time to play and relax.

The two went downstairs side by side. There were people scattered all over the playground. The academic pressure in the third year of high school was great, and even such ordinary hygiene cleaning could become an opportunity to breathe.

And before they came down, other classmates had already come to the playground to clean, and piles of birch leaves were piled up everywhere. The school’s little dogs see such scenes several times every year. They skillfully ran over and darted into the piles of leaves like small firecrackers, scattering the leaves everywhere.

But no one was angry, just laughing and teasing, “Why are the senior girls so naughty every year?”

The little dogs couldn’t understand the words, but they could understand the pampering in the words. They tilted their heads and rolled around in the piles of leaves.

A little dog also ran to the pile of leaves beside Song Ji’an and Sheng Jia, but it looked a bit unfamiliar. Most of the little dogs inside Jingjiang No. 1 High School are registered and have names, and are well protected by the students of each grade. As soon as they reach a certain age, they will be dragged to sterilization. At first, there were only three or four female dogs who protected each other on the street. After entering the school, they were raised by the students, bit by bit, until they were fat and strong. Later, this matter was reported to Lu Jing. She waved her hand and gave the students a little popular science, and paid for them all to be sterilized. The money for vaccinations every year was also paid by her. These little dogs can even be regarded as the principal’s little dogs.

Later, the school successively received many little dogs who were bullied and couldn’t grab territory or were abandoned by their owners. Now there are six or seven registered. The first three or four have already sent away three graduating classes.

When she first came to school, Song Ji’an had been given popular science about this matter. During this period, she would meet them from time to time in the school. She knew each one like the back of her hand, and even remembered their personalities. The one in front of her was obviously not a registered little dog.

“Eh? Did our school get a new little freshman?” Song Ji’an asked in surprise.

The little dog had a very good personality. It wagged its tail and came over to lick her hand, as if politely asking her if it could enter the pile of leaves.

But Song Ji’an hadn’t replied yet, and the little dog had already been picked up in a hug. She looked up along the hand and realized that it was Sheng Jia who squatted down and hugged the other party into the pile of leaves.

“This one is called 7-Up. Luan Luan brought her into the school last week. She had some minor injuries when she came in. The principal sent her to the hospital for three days. She only came back the day before yesterday.” Sheng Jia explained to her: “Last week when I went to the experimental building, I happened to run into Principal Lu and asked about it.”

“7-Up, you can play with leaves, it’s okay.”

Luan Luan is a standard rural yellow dog. Although she is not very tall, she is the well-deserved dog king in the school’s dog society. Moreover, she is very smart and brave, and the students have taught her many instructions. Several pitiful little dogs behind her were all led into the school by her.

Song Ji’an didn’t feel wrong just now. 7-Up is an understanding little dog. After getting Sheng Jia’s approval, she frolicked in the pile of leaves. After frolicking, she went to the side to rub against Luan Luan, who was lying lazily in the sun, and then kissed the other party’s kiss, and then jumped back and continued to play.

“So cute,” Song Ji’an was filled with smiles, and even Sheng Jia couldn’t resist the cuteness of the little dog, and her voice became much gentler.

I have to say that Lu Jing’s decision to keep the little dogs was absolutely correct. There is no difference between this and many people playing with dogs for free in a dog cafe to relax. Even labor makes people feel happy.

Since coming back, Sheng Jia hasn’t thought about anything else. Nothing is more important than her grades and life. Such leisure time is really rare. After all, in another week, she will have the last monthly exam of this semester, and then there will be the final exam. She squatted on the ground, watching 7-Up roll around while calculating the money she had saved, and found that it was completely enough to give up her part-time job next semester, and she was secretly satisfied.

Sure enough, only money can make people happy in this world.

“Sheng Jia, what are you thinking about?” Seeing her in a daze, Song Ji’an couldn’t help but raise her hand and wave it in front of her eyes.

Sheng Jia came back to her senses, “Nothing.”

She took the broom from Song Ji’an’s hand and swept the leaves that 7-Up had stirred up back. 7-Up showed a small head in the pile of leaves. Seeing that they started working, she obediently jumped out and stopped making trouble. Song Ji’an bent down to help 7-Up remove the small leaf stuck to her head, and praised, “7-Up baby is so sensible.”

7-Up proudly raised her chin.

Song Ji’an was amused and squatted on the ground to pat Sheng Jia’s thigh, signaling her to come and see. Sheng Jia lowered her head and could see not only 7-Up’s upright sitting posture, but also the hair whorl on the top of Song Ji’an’s head and her pretty nose.

Sheng Jia couldn’t help but raise her hand to brush away a small leaf that had stuck to the top of her head. The movement was very light. Song Ji’an, who was taking pictures of 7-Up with her mobile phone, didn’t notice. When she finished and was about to get up, Sheng Jia quickly retracted her hand. Only the fingertips that had just touched her hair couldn’t help but curl up.

“Let me try it too,” Song Ji’an reached out to ask her for the broom. Sheng Jia gave it to her smoothly, and then watched the other party gradually learn the knack of sweeping the floor from not knowing how to hold the broom. The weather was cool, and this little labor was not enough to make her sweat. Song Ji’an looked at the piles of leaves she had swept out and showed off to Sheng Jia, imitating 7-Up, “These are all swept out by me, aren’t I awesome?”

Sheng Jia has also learned to give compliments now, clapping her hands and nodding, “Awesome.”

Probably when life becomes peaceful, it passes quickly. Fu Minglang hasn’t made any other moves since Sheng Jia blacklisted her. Sheng Jia is not in a hurry, and lives her life as she should every day. She is still the top student in the school in the last monthly exam. This time, probably because she has a better mentality, she has widened the gap between her and the second place, and has returned to being the top student with a large lead.

Fu Minglang’s message was delivered in December, almost a month after Sheng Jia and Ru Ping’s last conversation.

This time, Fu Minglang didn’t do anything fake, and didn’t even say hello in advance. She directly picked the day when Song Ji’an didn’t accompany Sheng Jia to work part-time, and came to Greenery Cafe on time.

The low-key black Maybach stopped in front of the cafe for a long time. The weather is getting colder now, and business is much quieter. Sheng Jia saw it, but she pretended not to see it and continued to sit in the backstage memorizing words.

It wasn’t until the closing time that she changed her clothes and went out as usual. Ru Ping was already waiting at the door and said to her politely, “Miss Sheng Jia, I’m sorry to bother you.”

Sheng Jia looked at her expressionlessly, without replying. The car window behind her gradually lowered, revealing Fu Minglang’s smiling face.

“Sheng Jia, hello,” she nodded gently to Sheng Jia, “We were abrupt last time. This time, we sincerely want to invite you to talk.”

Sheng Jia glanced at Fu Minglang over Ru Ping and nodded, “Okay.”

Ru Ping looked at her in surprise, seemingly not expecting that she would agree so easily, but there was no surprise in Fu Minglang’s deep eyes. She even personally opened the back door to show her importance.

Sheng Jia got into the car without hesitation.

Fu Minglang probably didn’t think that she wouldn’t be able to invite Sheng Jia this time. Ru Ping drove all the way to the main urban area and finally came to a tea house with very good privacy.

When Sheng Jia was working part-time in the hotel, she heard the supervisor mention this tea house. The room fee was ridiculously high, and even recruiting waiters required a postgraduate degree, and it was by appointment only, requiring a half-day advance booking.

Fu Minglang handed the menu to Sheng Jia. Sheng Jia looked at the dishes on it and finally ordered only a glass of the cheapest lemonade, worth 2,399 yuan.

Ru Ping stood at the door to wait after sending the two in. Sheng Jia didn’t have any intention of competing with Fu Minglang to see who could hold their breath better. After the lemonade was served, she got straight to the point, “Why do you want to talk to me?”

Her words were very straightforward, “What do you want from me?”

Fu Minglang smiled, “Are you so sure that I want to get something from you?”

“Otherwise?” Sheng Jia replied, “Otherwise, what makes you so interested in me that you urgently investigated my information overnight and sent me an invitation to talk?”

“Although my family is ordinary and a bit poor, and I am also very ordinary, but you are willing to go to so much trouble, so in your eyes, there should always be some merits.”

“The words sound very humble, but in reality, they are arrogant,” Fu Minglang commented, “You are not ordinary, not only not ordinary, but also very powerful.”

Sheng Jia took a sip of lemonade. It was sour and sweet, and the taste was indeed much better than the lemonade in their store. She bit the straw and then let go, “Why don’t you just be direct and say what you want to say clearly? I don’t like words with hidden meanings.”

As Fu Minglang predicted, Sheng Jia always likes to grab the right to speak first in her own hands, no matter how different the other party’s status and position are from her. But Fu Minglang likes this energy in her. Whether the other party is really like this or acting for her, she appreciates it.

So, as Sheng Jia wished, she took out a stack of information and put it in front of her.

“I don’t deny that I investigated you and your family. At first, it was because I was very curious about you, but after seeing your experience, I was not only curious about you.” Fu Minglang said slowly, “At the age of fourteen, you encouraged your mother to divorce your father, who had a tendency to domestic violence. During the divorce lawsuit, Wang Jian was sentenced to three years and one month in prison for robbery. Your mother smoothly obtained all the property and custody of you. The next day, you took your mother to the Civil Affairs Bureau to change your surname.”

“Seventeen years old, which is two months ago, your two uncles who often came to cause trouble for your mother and daughter were sentenced to life imprisonment, one for gambling and intentional injury, and the other was caught in one fell swoop for inducing gambling along with his den.”

“These are not coincidences, are they?” Fu Minglang looked at her directly, her tone certain with a hint of pleasure, “From the age of fourteen to seventeen, from taking a long time to plan how to induce a person to commit a crime and how to maximize your own interests, to being able to come up with a way to solve people who might harm you and damage your interests in less than a month, the progress can be said to be rapid.”

There was no speech in the private room for a long time, only the rustling sound of Sheng Jia sucking on her lemon tea. Fu Minglang did not urge her, waiting patiently.

It wasn’t until the lemon tea was at the bottom and the straw made a rustling sound that Sheng Jia lifted her eyelids and met Fu Minglang’s gaze. At this moment, she finally revealed a bit of her true colors, no longer indifferent, and even less expressionless. If Fu Minglang had to say it, it was like a cold and cunning snake, spitting out its forked tongue and grinning at her.

It’s just that this little snake is too young for her and doesn’t have much deterrence. Instead, it makes people feel extremely close.

Song Yumei was also such a person when she was young.

It’s really alike.

At this moment, Fu Minglang even felt a rare urge to hold her breath, for fear of startling away this sense of familiarity in Sheng Jia.

“If you say so, where’s the evidence?”

Sheng Jia only made eye contact with her for that one second. Soon, she picked up the menu again and checked off several hard dishes, her tone a little casual, “They are inherently evil, and it was only a matter of time before they went down these paths. How can you blame me?”

“I haven’t done anything. It seems that a glass of lemonade is not enough. I’m a little tired from going to class during the day and working part-time at night. You shouldn’t mind treating me to a few more dishes, right?”

As she spoke, she handed the menu to Fu Minglang. The slightly protruding blood vessels on the back of her hand indicated that she was not as calm as she appeared to be, but Fu Minglang pretended not to see it.

She was testing her bottom line. She knew very well what Sheng Jia was thinking.

But when she picked up the menu and saw that she had checked off five dishes in one go, and the most expensive dishes in the tea house, she couldn’t help but raise her eyebrows.

The Sheng Jia opposite her had already sat upright and looked at her with wide eyes, even revealing a bit of innocence.

This look was also very familiar, but it didn’t come from Song Yumei.

Fu Minglang suddenly laughed and pressed the bell next to her. After the waiter took the menu out, she turned her gaze back to Sheng Jia.

That innocent look was the look that Song Ji’an most often showed when she was guilty and acting cute with her elders. Fu Minglang was close to the Song family, and she had watched Song Ji’an grow up since she was a child. Sheng Jia had learned everything from her.

“I don’t blame you, but if you are willing to tell me how you sent Wang Jian and Wang Ba to prison in the first place, I would be very happy.”

“Of course, if you don’t want to say it, we can also skip this topic and go directly to today’s topic – I am very willing to sponsor you, but the condition is that after you graduate in the future, you will join my company and become my employee.”

Her eyes were deep, and she finally said the real purpose of her visit.

She has no daughters or sons in her life and needs an heir very much. Excluding blood relationships, this kind of selection only needs to look at her preferences, her eye for talent, and the other party’s talent.

Sheng Jia’s talent can almost be said to be top-notch. She is smart, ruthless, knows how to endure, and is extremely bold at critical moments. Almost no one would refuse such talent.

Regardless of whether the other party can inherit her industry in the future, she has indeed had the intention of cherishing talent and wants to first win her over.

Of course, Fu Minglang has always been confident. She has already had enough guesses about how Sheng Jia sent Wang Jian and the three Wang Ba into prison, but she really wanted to hear Sheng Jia say it herself. Now it is normal for Sheng Jia to be wary, but she believes that one day in the future Sheng Jia will trust her enough to be willing to bring it up on her own initiative. After all, she has sponsored countless girls in her life, and there is no lack of children who are as vigilant as Sheng Jia. Most of them will eventually confide in her, and there are very few failures.

But Sheng Jia might just be that exception.

After Fu Minglang’s voice fell, she was silent for a long time before opening her mouth firmly, “I’m sorry, I refuse.”