Chen Yang on the other end of the phone was taken aback. She never expected such a response from Qi Tong Wei.
She had been waiting for him to explain himself, but he had hit her with a blunt blow, completely knocking her off her romantic high.
“You, what did you just say? I didn’t hear clearly. Do you mean you don’t want me anymore?”
Qi Tong Wei calmly said: “Chen Yang, this society is not the ivory tower we were in when we were students. Once you leave this society, everyone changes. It’s inevitable.”
“You can say you haven’t changed, but that’s because your parents are sheltering you, allowing you to live like a petty bourgeois and wallow in your love sickness.”
“But I’m different. I’m a child from the countryside, a college student supported by the entire village with ten yuan here and five yuan there. I have responsibilities. I need to give back to the society that has helped me.”
No!
Chen Yang’s voice choked with sobs: “You’re just making excuses. You have someone else! No, you’re trying to get back at me. Have you always been holding a grudge against my father for not speaking up for you?”
Heh.
Qi Tong Wei was unwilling to elaborate: “If you say so, then so be it.”
In fact, when he graduated from Handong University, with his relationship with Chen Yang, he could have influenced Chen Yan Shi.
According to Qi Tong Wei's thoughts, since you Chen Yan Shi were no longer opposed to him and Chen Yang being together,
then in terms of job assignments after graduation, not to mention helping out, at least he should have spoken up, creating some convenience for the two young people in the midst of their romance.
But Chen Yan Shi didn’t.
He not only didn’t.
He remained silent when he knew that Liang Lu’s highly-placed father, Liang Qun Feng, was interfering with Qi Tong Wei’s graduation assignment, throwing this young man to an unnamed township government office in Lin City.
He didn’t even say a word, not even a protest!
This was also why Chief Qi, until his death, never hated Liang Lu, never hated Liang Qun Feng, but only hated him, Chen Yan Shi!
Liang Qun Feng wasn’t worthy of hate, because he was also doing it for his daughter, using his power to be a little self-indulgent.
But for the same reason, for his daughter, why couldn’t Chen Yan Shi be a little self-indulgent too?
He didn’t need to manipulate power.
He didn’t need to sell his principles.
All he needed was for Chen Yan Shi to say a word about this unfair graduation arrangement, and it would have been enough to change Chief Qi’s life!
But Chen Yan Shi remained silent.
He was unwilling to give the justice he always preached to his own.
This made Qi Tong Wei realize in an instant that the thing separating him and Chen Yang wasn’t mountains or rivers, but their backgrounds.
If he, Qi Tong Wei, were the same kind of scion as Hou Liang Ping, would Chen Yan Shi have remained silent?
“Tong Wei.”
On the other end of the phone, Chen Yang’s voice suddenly turned gentle.
Perhaps she was also unwilling to lose this pure love that bloomed in the ivory tower.
“Father has his reasons. He’s doing this to temper you.”
This was worse than not saying anything at all. Qi Tong Wei almost exploded.
Temper me?
Qi Tong Wei sneered: “Then why don’t you see your father temper Chen Hai, temper Hou Liang Ping, and only pick on me, this farmer’s child?”
Chen Yang was stunned. She was almost choked by the words.
But she quickly defended herself: “Are you misunderstanding something? My father isn’t like that. When my brother graduated, Father didn’t arrange a job for him either. He didn’t speak up for him either.”
Sigh.
The reason Qi Tong Wei was still willing to talk to Chen Yang so much was because he understood her nature. This woman was just naive.
Once, she was Chief Qi’s white moonlight. Even later, she was the angel Chief Qi couldn’t forget in his heart.
But the Qi Tong Wei now was not the same as the Chief Qi before.
So now, Chen Yang had become a stumbling block in his path to the ministry.
“Yang Yang, allow me to call you that one last time.”
Qi Tong Wei used the most ordinary voice to say the most decisive words.
“You don’t know that when I got shot three times on Eagle Ridge, I thought I was dead.”
“The reason I’m still alive today, the reason I can still talk to you on the phone, chat about our feelings, is thanks to an old man who saved me. He is my lifesaver.”
“There have been two turning points in my life, Qi Tong Wei’s.”
“One was when I left the countryside and went to Handong University.”
“The other was when I survived the ordeal on Eagle Ridge and came back alive.”
“The ones who helped me, changed me both times, were these kind and simple villagers.”
“So my life, Qi Tong Wei’s, has only one path, and that is to serve the people!”
嘟嘟嘟.
The phone had been hung up for a long time, but Chen Yang still sat there, her hand on the receiver, unwilling to let go.
It wasn’t until a knock came from the room that her brother, Chen Hai, pushed the door open and came in.
“Sister, see, I was right, wasn’t I? The transfer to Yue Dong was a pretense. He just wanted to force you to plead with Father, to get transferred to Beijing or Jingzhou!”
“Yes, he loves you, but do you know that he also has a complicated relationship with Liang Lu, a classic case of wanting more after getting something? ”
“You won’t believe it, if you don’t help him this time, he’ll go straight to Liang Lu!”
“Hey, don’t look at me like that. Liang Ping told me all this. If you don’t believe me, you can’t not believe Liang Ping, right!”
Chen Yang didn’t say anything, she just walked out of the room with tear-stained cheeks and sat down in a chair.
Chen Yan Shi had been waiting for her to come out. He put down the newspaper in his hand, took off his glasses and said: “Did it fall apart?”
Chen Yang nodded listlessly, letting her tears flow freely.
Chen Yan Shi sighed and said: “It’s not too late to see this man clearly now…”
“Dad.”
Chen Yang suddenly looked at her father and asked the question that had been brewing in her heart: “When Tong Wei and I were about to graduate, did you already know that Liang Qun Feng would interfere with his assignment?”
“How can you say interfere?”
Chen Yan Shi explained: “Liang Qun Feng is in charge of this. How he assigns them is his job. He certainly has his considerations.”
Chen Yang felt a chill in her heart and looked up to ask: “So, you just watched him assign such an outstanding graduate to a 司法局 in a township office where no one cares?”
Chen Hai was unhappy: “Sister, why are you talking to Father like that?”
Chen Yang suddenly roared: “Shut up!”
Not only was Chen Hai stunned, but Chen Yan Shi was also taken aback by his daughter.
Chen Yang took a deep breath, wiped away the tears on her face, and looked at her father’s cloudy eyes: “Dad, you always say you’re also a farmer’s child and understand the hardships of farmers the most.”
“But how could you forget how hard it was for Qi Tong Wei to come out of the countryside. And with a little whim of yours in power, you’ve pushed him back to where he was!”
“Are children from rural areas only allowed to go back to the countryside? Isn’t he worthy of striving in the big city?”
“Dad, I think you’ve been sitting in this position for too long, and you’ve become a little detached from the people, from the masses.”
“And one more thing, you’re all wrong.”
“Qi Tong Wei, he really is going to be transferred to Yue Dong, to Dongshan City!”
“Now, are you satisfied?”
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