Chapter 86: Tit for Tat
The extremely familiar voice made Lin Yan stunned for a moment. She looked up suddenly. When she saw Song Yuanchao standing in front of her with a smile on his face and a tea egg in his hand, Lin Yan was completely stunned.
"Is this a dream?" Lin Yan thought to herself. Could it be that the weather was too hot and she had a heat stroke? Was she hallucinating?
But this illusion was too real, a familiar face, a clear voice, and the unique aroma of tea eggs in the air. Was I not dreaming? Was all this real?
"My mother made tea eggs. You can't eat them anywhere else. I left two for you on the way." Looking at Lin Yan who was so close, Song Yuanchao was also very excited. He peeled the eggshell with a smile, picked it up with two fingers and fed it to Lin Yan's mouth: "It's delicious."
Lin Yan subconsciously opened her mouth and took a bite. The aroma of tea mixed with seasoning and egg instantly filled her mouth. Lin Yan couldn't help but nodded vigorously with tears in her eyes: "Delicious..."
"It tastes good, right? Eat more if it tastes good." Song Yuanchao fed Lin Yan a tea egg and saw Lin Yan laughing while eating. He took out a handkerchief and gently wiped the egg marks from the corners of her mouth.
"How did you come?"
"Have you forgotten? I must do what I promised you. Although I am a little late, I am here anyway." Song Yuanchao looked deeply at Lin Yan, the girl whom he had been worried about all his life. At this moment, there was only Lin Yan in Song Yuanchao's world.
He couldn't control his emotions, and even wanted to hug Lin Yan tightly regardless of everything, feel her soft body, and breathe in the fragrance of her scent.
Song Yuanchao had waited for this moment his entire life. He didn't know how many times he had dreamed of similar scenes in his previous life. But often after waking up, there was no figure of the person he expected except for a few tear marks left on the pillow. He closed his eyes alone, trying to recall every detail of his dream... This feeling accompanied Song Yuanchao throughout his life, until the end of his life.
"You... passed the exam?" Lin Yan looked at Song Yuanchao with an inquiring look, and Song Yuanchao nodded to indicate that her guess was correct.
"Now, should I call you senior sister? Or should I call you Xiaoyanzi?" Song Yuanchao asked Lin Yan with a smile, which contained a hint of playfulness and teasing.
"Did you really pass the exam?" Lin Yan asked in disbelief.
"Can this prove it?" Song Yuanchao took out his admission notice. Lin Yan took it and couldn't wait to open it. When she saw Song Yuanchao's name clearly written on it and a red seal, Lin Yan couldn't control her tears and fell.
"Don't cry, don't cry! There are so many people watching you."
"I'm going to cry! I'm going to cry! So what if someone's watching me!" Lin Yan, who always looked cold in school, at this moment acted like an ordinary girl and acted like a spoiled child to a strange man. The classmates and teachers around her were stunned, especially Zhao Minglei, who was even more stunned by this scene. He didn't even notice that the popsicle in his hand had fallen to the ground long ago. His eyes were moving back and forth between Lin Yan and the young man who suddenly appeared, with an expression on his face that changed from cloudy to bright.
"Senior Lin, won't you help me with the admission procedures?" Wiping away Lin Yan's tears, Song Yuanchao asked with a smile.
"You bad guy, why didn't you tell me in advance? You are so bad!" Lin Yan burst into laughter, clenched her fist and punched Song Yuanchao's chest twice: "You deliberately called me senior sister?"
"So, Xiaoyanzi?" Song Yuanchao asked with a smile, tilting his head.
Lin Yan's face was full of smiles, as if the spring that had just passed had come back in an instant.
"Ahem..." At this time, Zhao Minglei couldn't help but interrupt them: "Yanzi, who is this classmate...?"
"This is my boyfriend, Song Yuanchao!" Facing Zhao Minglei's pretentious question, Lin Yan said this without hesitation. When she said this, Lin Yan's face was filled with happiness that he had never seen before. The muscles at the corners of Zhao Minglei's mouth couldn't help but twitch slightly.
Song Yuanchao had been here for a few minutes. He had already seen Zhao Minglei being courteous to Lin Yan. Now seeing Zhao Minglei's expression, how could Song Yuanchao not know what was going on?
"Hello, hello. I'm Song Yuanchao, Lin Yan's boyfriend." Song Yuanchao took a step forward to separate Lin Yan and Zhao Minglei. With a sincere smile, he stretched out his hands to the other party and asked Lin Yan with a slight tilt of his head: "Xiaoyanzi, this is your classmate, right?"
Without waiting for Lin Yan to answer, Song Yuanchao smiled at Zhao Minglei and said, "Thanks to everyone's care for our little Yanzi at school. Thank you, this classmate, and thank you to all the classmates."
Zhao Minglei was somewhat surprised that Song Yuanchao suddenly took the initiative. Faced with Song Yuanchao's enthusiastic attitude and the hands extended to him, Zhao Minglei felt a little embarrassed for a moment, but he quickly recovered and reached out to shake hands with Song Yuanchao.
"Song Yuanchao? Are you a freshman this year? Yan Zi and I grew up together, and I often go to their house. How come I didn't know that you and Yan Zi were in a relationship? By the way, I ran into Aunt Chen yesterday, but she didn't mention this to me. Did Aunt Chen agree with your relationship?"
As Zhao Minglei spoke, an expression of surprise and confusion appeared on his face. He frowned slightly, as if he was doubting the truthfulness of what Song Yuanchao said.
"Haha, actually, Xiaoyanzi and I have been together for several years, and we confirmed our relationship a long time ago. Yanzi passed the exam and came back first at the beginning of last year, so it's normal that outsiders don't know about this. As for Aunt Chen you mentioned, you are talking about Yanzi's mother, right? Yanzi has always told me that her parents are very reasonable elders and never interfere in the personal problems of the younger generation. Besides, we are both young people of the new era. After all, love is our own business, and there is no need to make a big fuss about it, right? My classmate, you are also a college student, but why do you think so... Do you agree with the old custom of arranged marriages?"
As he spoke, Song Yuanchao looked Zhao Minglei up and down with a puzzled expression, as if he felt that Zhao Minglei in front of him was an antique who had crawled out of a pile of old papers.
His answer was neither arrogant nor humble. He directly refuted Zhao Minglei's so-called "childhood sweetheart" and said that Zhao Minglei was just an "outsider" who didn't know the situation. At the same time, he also praised Lin Yan's parents from their own perspective for being reasonable, not interfering in their children's personal problems, and supporting their free love. Finally, he subtly satirized Zhao Minglei for his backward thinking, saying that as a college student in the new era, he still had the backward idea of arranged marriage.
As the emperor's favorite, Zhao Minglei has always been smooth sailing. Where has he encountered such an opponent? Although Song Yuanchao did not point his nose at him to refute his words, in fact, it was even worse than doing so.
When Zhao Minglei saw his classmates looking at him with strange eyes and felt his classmates' different attitude towards him, he didn't know how to answer for a moment.
Compared with Song Yuanchao, although Zhao Minglei has been studying in college for a year and is also a cadre of the Student Union and has a good family background, he is still an ordinary young man after all.
And who is Song Yuanchao? He worked in a state-owned enterprise for decades in his previous life, and he is now 70 years old. It is a piece of cake for him to deal with such a small scene.
If it was just an ordinary classmate, Song Yuanchao would definitely not come up and slap him in the face, but for someone like Zhao Minglei who has ulterior motives towards Lin Yan, he must be made to retreat. This toad still wants to eat my swan meat? It's just a daydream!
"Sister Yan Zi! Sister Yan Zi!"
Just when Zhao Minglei was feeling extremely embarrassed, with his breath stuck in his chest and his mind full of rebuttals, a crisp voice rang out, and then Li Xiaoyun came in from nowhere, stood in front of Zhao Minglei, and greeted Lin Yan enthusiastically.
"Who are you……?"
"Hehe, I'm Li Xiaoyun, I'm Brother Yuanchao's sister, and I'm also a new student this year ." Li Xiaoyun was very enthusiastic towards Lin Yan. She grabbed Lin Yan's hand and looked her up and down: "Brother Yuanchao protects you so well. If I hadn't come to school, I wouldn't have known it. Today I finally see you in person. Sister Yanzi, you are so beautiful, like a fairy walking out of a painting..."
"You are Xiaoyun, the sister of Yuanchao's good friend Daqi?" Lin Yan was also surprised. Song Yuanchao had mentioned the matters of Li Daqi and Li Xiaoyun many times, both in his previous stay in the northwest and in his later letters. Lin Yan was naturally familiar with Li Xiaoyun, but this was the first time they met.
"Yes, I am Li Xiaoyun. Sister Yan Zi, you actually know me?" Li Xiaoyun nodded happily and showed a delighted expression.
"Of course I know. Yuan Chao mentioned you to me when we were in the northwest. He said that you always played with him and your brother when you were little. I didn't expect that you would be admitted to university and become my junior schoolmate. Xiaoyun, you are amazing. I am proud of you."
"Hehe, Sister Yan Zi, you are already a college student. If that counts, don't you mean more capable and more proud than me? Even Brother Yuan Chao, I think he is not as good as you." Li Xiaoyun's flattery was so loud that Lin Yan instantly fell in love with this cheerful little sister. The two of them, like good girlfriends of many years, held hands and chattered non-stop.
