Self-cultivation of spare tire

The room was silent.The cream melted and fell drop by drop, leaving a sticky residue.

Chen Zhu was awakened by the sound of ticking water, and the restraints on his hands were gone.What catches the eye is the melted bunny cake and the messy clothes all over the floor.

There is no sign of Xu Lanting.

Chen Zhu stood up and turned his sore wrist.

Sunlight scattered through the glass into fine halos, the curtains fluttered, and the room was filled with wind.

In a trance, the absurdity of last night seemed like a dream.

But the red marks on his wrists and the tingling around his lips all reminded Chen Zhu that that man was possessive and domineering.

He got up, trying to find something to wear.But after looking around the house, he couldn't find the shirt he wore last night.

On the contrary, Xu Lanting's shirt was neatly folded on the pillow.

Chen Zhu picked up the man's clothes, sneered, and put them back.

He opened the closet, randomly found an old dress and wrapped it up.

There were more than a dozen missed calls on the mobile phone. Chen Zhu first called the professor back and explained that he had to return today.

The others, Chen Zhu, really didn't have the energy to deal with it, so he simply turned off his mobile phone and took a taxi back to the hotel.

As soon as he walked into the hotel lobby, Chen Zhu saw Huo Yan waiting at the elevator entrance.

Looking at each other, Chen Zhu didn't know what to say to him for a moment.

Said that he couldn't stop Xu Lanting from going crazy, and was...

Or is it that Xu Lanting has already arranged everything on his own, and he is powerless to stop it?

Words are too feeble, and everything last night was as absurd as a dream.

Huo Yan looked at Chen Zhu in silence for a while, and then took out a stack of things.

"Chen Zhu, this is what Xu Lanting left for you."

Chen Zhu glanced at the thick kraft paper envelope in his hand, and then at the lawyer-looking group behind Huo Yan.

Heh, Chen Zhu smiled wryly, yes, he wants to see how crazy Xu Lanting's so-called "atonement" can go.

"These assets are all clean." Huo Yan said succinctly, "It has nothing to do with the Xu family, it's all about Xu Lanting in the past few years..."

He didn't continue talking, but just put the thick stack of asset transfer contracts on the table.

Chen Zhu just glanced at Huo Yan, "Make up, repent, or feel guilty?"

"No." Huo Yan said, "Or, not all. In this world, the only person he can trust and willingly hand over everything to is you."

Huo Yan sneered, "That bastard, seeing friends all over the world, in the end he only trusts you wholeheartedly."

Chen Zhu pursed his lips and did not speak.

The lawyer asked aloud: "Mr. Chen, if you have any doubts, you can consult us at any time."

A few people saw that Chen Zhu didn't intend to sign, and they were more or less puzzled. If they were other people, seeing such a huge sum of money, they would be curious even if they didn't want it.

But Chen Zhu just glanced at it lightly from beginning to end, and didn't even have the intention to open it.

"It's up to you to sign or not." Huo Yan said, he didn't expect Chen Zhu to accept Xu Lanting's things.

He has finished what Xu Lanting told him, and let the two of them toss about the rest.

After Huo Yan left, Chen Zhu went upstairs.

While packing his luggage, he was wearing a bluetooth headset to communicate and cooperate with Fang Xu.

"Afterwards, I will go to other villages and towns for inspection, so it is best to decide on the cooperation this month."

Chen Zhu analyzed the market and supply and demand in an orderly manner. He remained calm as usual, as if there was no disturbance in his heart.

However, when Chen Zhu saw the thick stack of asset transfer agreements, Chen Zhu accidentally knocked down the glass in his hand.

The cup fell to the ground and shattered.

"Brother Chen?" Fang Xu asked aloud when he heard the movement, "Are you okay?"

It's not that Fang Xu didn't know about Xu Lanting's surrender—it's just that he could feel that Chen Zhu seemed to be deliberately avoiding it, so Fang Xu avoided the topic wisely.

However, Chen Zhu was silent for a long time.

It took a long time for Fang Xu to hear Chen Zhu's depressed voice, he said, "Fang Xu, have you ever hated someone to the bottom of your heart, yet loved him to the bottom of your heart?"

Chen Zhu's voice was very low, and Fang Xu could hear it vaguely.

"what?"

"Nothing." Chen Zhu smiled faintly, "There is nothing left."

Whether it is love or hate, before Chen Zhu figured out all this, the man made a choice for him cruelly and arbitrarily.

The so-called best choice...

It's all over, isn't it?Chen Zhu closed his eyes, he could still hear Xu Lanting's hoarse and low-pitched entanglement in his ears.

"Hate me? Then hate it, it's better than being forgotten by you."

"Xu Lanting loves Chen Zhu, and Chen Zhu also loves Xu Lanting, right?"

"Huh? Isn't that right?" The man coaxed him and lied to him, shamelessly and cunningly.

Xu Lanting...Chen Zhu buried his face in his palm, "I hate you." He whispered.

The construction of poverty-stricken counties is progressing rapidly, just like the pace of development in this era, embracing a new future like flying.

In the first month of Chen Zhu's return, the Panshan Highway was completed, the crop production base was set up, and the first batch of agricultural-supermarket cooperation vegetables got on the truck and left the mountain smoothly.

It was also this month that the trial of Xu's president's illegal detention case was held, and public opinion was boiling.

Chen Zhu planted the first batch of seedlings in the greenhouse, and the court in Beijing began to accept Xu's case; on the day the truck returned triumphantly, Chen Zhu was named and praised at the celebration banquet, and the professor told him that his superiors agreed to give him a promotion.

That is, on the same day, the first trial of Xu Lanting's case took place.

On the day Chen Zhu established his own research team, he invited everyone to dinner.

He thanked everyone who helped him in his life.

Fang Xu, Ye Xi, Shen Qingqu, and the newspaper owner and restaurant manager who helped him in the small town of Carmel back then...

It was only when Chen Zhu sent the thank you letter that he realized that he was not alone along the way.

Maybe he was once confused, maybe he couldn't sleep at night, but step by step to today, Chen Zhu never thought of giving up.

Looking back now, it turns out that we have traveled such a long and splendid way.

"bwi shot stoyou" Chen Zhu attached this blessing at the end of every letter.

"bwi shoots..." Finally, Chen Zhu wrote a short sentence on a blank sheet of paper, "toyou"

This letter has no signature, no address, or even any content.

There is only one simple, short blessing.

It wasn't until Chen Zhu finished writing that he realized that the tip of the pen had stayed on for too long, and thick ink had smudged around the end of the handwriting.

And the phrase "Austin" that I wrote unintentionally was submerged in the pitch black ink.

Chen Zhu was silent for a moment, then put away the letter paper and put it in the corner.

"Zhu'er, come and eat." My aunt cried and laughed when she knew that Chen Zhu had been promoted to be the leader of the scientific research team.

All the people in the village came to congratulate, and there were several tables of people sitting inside and outside the house.

Chen Wenguo also made an exception and "extravagantly" took out the old wine that had been buried for several years, and entertained the villagers.

"Chen Zhu doesn't know how to drink, everyone don't let him drink." Chen Wenguo held down Chen Zhu's wine glass, blatantly defending his shortcomings.

Everyone is a neighbor who has known each other for decades, and they don't talk about those fake polites.

But Chen Zhu raised his wine glass, "Grandpa, I respect you."

Tears flashed in Chen Wenguo's eyes, and he waved his hand, "Don't be brave, just take a small sip."

"Thank you, grandpa." Chen Zhu took a sip, and his throat suddenly felt hot.

"Chen Zhu, I heard that you will go to the capital to do scientific research in the future. The young man is really promising, and he will give us a face in the village!"

"Yes, Chen Zhu has been a good seedling for studying since he was a child. It would be great if my children are half as willing to study as he is."

There were many voices at the table.Chen Zhu didn't drink much, he wasn't too drunk, but his ears were noisy.

"Zhu'er, you have to take good care of yourself when you go to the capital, ah." The aunt was red-eyed and picked up vegetables for him.

Chen Zhu clenched his chopsticks, paused, and said, "I don't have that plan yet."

He said to Chen Wenguo, "Grandpa, I decided to go to the next impoverished county for research first."

Rather than burying his head in the laboratory every day, what Chen Zhu needs more is field investigation.

From the beginning, Chen Wenguo was afraid that Chen Zhu would not be willing to suffer, but now, Chen Wenguo was afraid that Chen Zhu would suffer too much.

For the first time in his life, this old man who had been strict all his life had some weak thoughts.

"Do a good job in scientific research, what to do in the ravine all day long."

"Grandpa," Chen Zhu said, "you can understand me."

Everyone was puzzled, how could they still ask for trouble after spending a good life with good clothes and fine food?

Some people persuaded and some people agreed.

But Chen Zhu just listened in silence, and Chen Wenguo looked at the people he had trained with emotion and helplessness.

In the end, Chen Wenguo pressed Chen Zhu's shoulder.

Grandpa's silent support was a reassurance for Chen Zhu.

He can ignore everyone's misunderstandings and accusations, but he always cares about his grandfather's attitude.

Because, only Chen Wenguo understands Chen Zhu's ambitions and ideals.

"Thank you grandpa."

Chen Wenguo snorted arrogantly, and put a piece of braised pork in Chen Zhu's bowl.

At night, after Chen Zhu helped clean up the dishes, she was pushed out of the kitchen by her aunt.

"Your grandfather eats too much and can't digest it. Let's go for a walk outside with him."

Chen Zhu understood what Auntie meant, he was about to leave home, Chen Wenguo was the one who hated Chen Zhu the most.

The night wind is cool, and groups of barefoot children on the cement road are skipping rope, playing and frolicking.

Chen Zhu supported Chen Wenguo, and walked slowly in the field, watching the twilight and children playing.

"Chen Zhu." Chen Wenguo stopped, looking at the rolling mountains with his hips on his hips, "I have something to ask you."

Chen Zhu thought that Chen Wenguo wanted to ask him about his job, but Chen Wenguo brought up Xu Lanting instead.

"I read his news, did he do it voluntarily, or..."

Chen Zhu didn't speak, maybe he really had nothing to say, maybe even he himself didn't know.

Chen Wenguo sighed, and said, "I guessed it too, that kid is as cunning as a fox, if he hadn't volunteered, who would have touched him."

"Chen Zhu," Chen Wenguo's words captured Chen Zhu's heavy thoughts these days, "A gentleman's conduct is based on his actions, and his heart is not on what other people say."

Chen Wenguo said proudly: "The person I raised was a good boy who stands up to the sky. Back then, he was just with the person he liked. What's wrong?"

In an instant, Chen Zhu's eyes were red.

Gossip, accusations and abuse, even if everyone criticizes them—in fact, Chen Zhu doesn't care at all.

Chen Zhu's backbone will not be bent because of the world's accusations.Not in the past, not now, and not in the future.

He stood between heaven and earth, dignified and upright, and never did a single thing that he was ashamed of, so why should he say anything dirty?

Everyone hoped that Chen Zhu would be a flawless jade, a dignified gentleman.

But he is just with the person he likes, what's wrong?

The author has something to say: there is still a part of the plot that has not been finished, and I will add it tomorrow