Volume 1 Hello, Lu Mingfei Chapter 5: Darkness of the Rainfall (V)
"How can you drive slower? This is just like your life, there is only forward movement, no backward movement, and you should run forward with all your might every second!" The man laughed and turned on the stereo on his own initiative.
Father, dear father, you've done me great wrong.
You have married me to a boy who is too young.
I am twice twelve and he is but fourteen.
He's young but he's growing daily.
This song sounded familiar. Lu Mingfei's English is good. I slowly pondered the lyrics for a while and remembered that it was "Daily Growing" by the Irish band Altan.
With her attainments in music, she only listened to Chinese-speaking music and should not have known this song. However, the beautiful piano girl Liu Miaomiao knew it. She was in the same class as Lu Mingfei. Before the evening self-study class, Liu Miaomiao often sang a song and told stories to liven up the atmosphere. Lu Mingfei always listened carefully and remembered every song Liu Miaomiao sang and every story she told. She hoped that one day she would be able to stand in front of so many people and talk freely like her.
Liu Miaomiao had just sung this song "Daily Growing" last month. Lu Mingfei remembered that it was about a father who wanted to marry his 24-year-old daughter to a 14-year-old rich boy. The age difference was too big and the daughter was unwilling, but the father said that this was a good idea and that his money would be your support in the future. However, it did not go smoothly as the father thought. The boy's life forever stopped at the age of 16. The girl was very sad and knitted a shroud for him with flannel on the green grass grave.
"Not bad, right? They all said it was a good disc, so I bought it. It's about fatherly love!" The man was complacent and boastful in his tone.
Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment and thought to herself, it’s not bad, but this is a conversation between a girl and her father. Isn’t it inappropriate to play it for my senior brother?
Chu Zihang was indeed a little amused: "What does this talk about a daughter and a father have to do with me?"
"Sons and daughters are the same, isn't it all fatherly love?" the man said carelessly.
But you are just a driver for your senior brother, uncle, Lu Mingfei complained in her heart. When she saw the man's distant look towards Chu Zihang in the rearview mirror, her eyes suddenly lit up.
Of course, a driver is not qualified to talk about fatherly love to the son of his employer, but is this uncle really just a driver? She thinks it is not that simple.
"Come to think of it, you haven't shown me your last report card yet." The man continued chatting.
"There's nothing good to see. It's still the same. The science score is two points short of the full mark, and the liberal arts score is neither good nor bad." Chu Zihang's attitude turned cold again.
Senior, when you say mediocre, do you mean that there will be no deductions except for the composition? The leisure of the top student really hit this idiot girl who worked very hard to get to the upper middle level. Lu Mingfei didn't do well in any subject except English.
"Great job, my son is awesome. What are his plans for college in the future?"
Lu Mingfei's heart moved, thinking that it was indeed this taste. Her aunt watched a lot of family ethics dramas on weekdays, and she had no choice but to watch them with her. The biological father and son in the dramas were all in the same tone. The biological father carefully held his heart and handed it to his son to see him smile, while the son still resented the man for abandoning his family and son and ignoring him.
This man is indeed Mr. Chu, but he is Chu Zihang’s biological father. The first Mr. Chu, the business tycoon Mr. Chu, is Chu Zihang’s stepfather.
She began to feel a little proud. Many girls in Shilan Middle School secretly drooled over Chu Zihang and tried every means to find out the news about his family, but to no avail. It seemed that Chu's second father was playing a role. Everyone got nothing except knowing that Chu Zihang had a very powerful father. Now, by chance, Lu Mingfei appeared at the most critical place and witnessed the confrontation between her biological father and Chu Zihang. When she returned to school, if she sold this information to the girls in Chu's fan club, she would have cramps in her hands just counting the money! I didn't notice it just now, what is the license plate number of this Maybach?
"My dad said he plans to send me to study abroad and asked me to prepare and take the TOEFL." Chu Zihang was very annoyed and spoke in a heavier tone.
"What's so good about going abroad? You're unfamiliar with the place and it's hard to eat Chinese food! I'm not belittling them, but they fry the noodles and stir-fry them with dumplings and call it hot-dried noodles, and they sprinkle some vegetables on the flatbread and dare to call it oriental pancakes. Are they for Chinese people to eat?" The man spitted and spoke as if he had been to many places and knew everything about oriental cuisine in foreigners' minds.
He looked at Lu Mingfei in the rearview mirror. The girl was calculating how to earn information fees from Young Master Chu. Her mouth was as bright as a flower. He thought Lu Mingfei agreed with what he said, and he couldn't help but feel more satisfied with this future daughter-in-law. Although she looked a little rustic now, he could tell that she just lacked dressing up. If she changed her hairstyle to a natural one, put on makeup, and wore a long skirt and high heels, she would be a girl who could go to a party with her arm in arm.
The man nodded, praising his son for his good vision. He told his son that he knew how to pick potential stocks. A girl who was charming in the hands of others would certainly not be as charming as one who became charming under his own training. This was called the cultivation method. The girl would surely be grateful to him and devoted to him in the future, probably because she had learned from his experience of the bad relationship with his mother.
"I won't have a Chinese girlfriend when I go abroad." The man began to ask indirectly, meaning what will happen to the girlfriend around you.
"There are Chinese girls abroad, too. Many students from Shilan Middle School are planning to study abroad." Chu Zihang could tell that the man didn't want him to travel far. In fact, he didn't want to go abroad either, but since the man also had this idea, he should confront him. "My mother said she wouldn't mind if I brought a foreign girl back in the future."
"We men can't abandon our lovers after having sex!" The man slapped the steering wheel, "What about the classmate next to you? Are you just going to give up like that?"
Lu Mingfei was just calculating how much money to charge the fan club, but she almost choked to death when Mr. Chu called her by name. "Ahem! What do you mean you don't want me anymore? My senior brother and I don't have that kind of relationship at all! We just met today!"
No wonder Mr. Chu was so eager to give me a ride. I was probably thinking of a 100,000-word novel in his mind as soon as he saw me standing with Chu Zihang and holding his umbrella!
Chu Zihang also frowned fiercely: "We are just classmates!"
The man asked for trouble, and continued to fiddle with his steering wheel with a light "oh". He thought, "Good fellow, the young couple is now united against the outside world, right? It doesn't matter. Can you two stand by the playground on a rainy night? Don't I know what kind of personality my son has? This is the first time in so many years that I have seen Chu Zihang and a girl alone without telling anyone. The two children must have privately considered how to lie when they meet their parents. They are in sync and know how to fool them as soon as they look at each other.
