inexhaustible

Chapter 61

"Brother Bei, big news!" Yu Xixi rushed into my office with inexplicable excitement on his face, "I just came down from the Academic Affairs Office upstairs, guess who I saw?"

After typing the last paragraph, I pulled the document to the front and checked the formatting and typos again.

"Who? Is Habermas here?" It would be great news if the most influential contemporary philosopher could come to Tsingwan University.

Yu Xixi calmed down instantly: "That's not true." She glanced outside the door, bowed her body and said, "Shang Lu is here."

"Shang Lu?" I was stunned for a moment, and quickly figured out why he came——Shang Muxiao was about to drop out of school, so why should he come to school as a father.

Yu Xixi's face was full of intoxication: "Looking up close, he is tough and handsome. He doesn't look like Mao Fifty at all, but he still has the same demeanor. Sure enough, time has never defeated a beauty..." She woke up suddenly in the middle of speaking, and patted her mouth. Watching my face carefully, he said, "Bei, Brother Bei... Shouldn't I mention him in front of you?"

"Why?" Although I feel a little bit like PTSD when I hear his name now, I don't deliberately ask others not to talk about his name.

She thought for a while, and said, "Why is it Shang Muxiao's father, too embarrassing to say?"

"Fortunately, I'm not embarrassed."

She observed my expression, and seemed to be carefully discerning whether I was really not embarrassed.

At this moment, there was a light knock on the door. Yu Xixi and I raised our heads and looked back at the same time. When we saw Shang Lu appearing at the office door, we both froze.It was said that Cao Cao Cao Cao had arrived, and when he was mentioned, he appeared.

"Is it convenient?" Shang Lu asked.

Yu Xixi looked at me nervously as if facing a formidable enemy in an instant, and silently said with his mouth: "What should I do?"

I am much calmer than her.It's all here, what else can I do?It is not always necessary to drive people out.Immediately signaled her to leave first, leaving me and Shang Lu to talk.

Yu Xixi looked worried, but said nothing in the end, nodded, and walked out of the office with Shang Lu.Until the door slowly closed, she could still be seen looking in.

"Please sit down." I stood up and asked Shang Lu to sit on the sofa, "Tea or coffee?"

He walked to the sofa: "Coffee, thank you."

I don't drink much coffee, and there is only the most common instant coffee in the tea cabinet, which probably won't suit his taste.But he came to me, thinking on his knees, he knew that he was not here to drink coffee, so why should I care if he likes it or not?He might not drink at all.

"During the Chinese New Year, I haven't formally apologized to you." Shang Lu's voice sounded slowly behind him, "I'm a light sleeper, and sometimes I would sleep in the guest room when I came back late. No one told me that there was a guest that day. I thought you were Niannian, so I offended you so much, I'm really sorry."

The water temperature rises little by little, and the switch automatically jumps after boiling.

"I suddenly appeared at Mr. Shang's house, I was the one to offend." Pour hot water into the coffee cup, stir well, put two sugar cubes on the tray, I turned around and walked towards the sofa with the coffee.

Shang Lu got up to take it, and said: "Thank you." Afterwards, as I thought, he didn't touch the cup of coffee until the end of the conversation.

"Mr. Shang came to me today just to apologize to me?" I sat down opposite him and asked.

"It's not on purpose." Shang Lu leaned back and said with a bit of dignity, "You should know that my incompetent son plans to drop out of school."

I wasn't too surprised. I nodded slightly and said, "I know. He said he wants to do something he really likes."

Shang Lu snorted coldly: "The things I really like..."

That tone didn't seem to be objecting to Shang Muxiao dropping out of school to pursue his dream, but more like wondering how Shang Muxiao would have "something he really likes".Even, he may not think that Shang Muxiao really understands what "true liking" is.

He was looking down on his young child with the arrogance of an adult.They neither give enough patience to teach, nor are they stingy with reasonable care.

"Once there is no need to worry about food and clothing, the child starts to do all kinds of nonsense. When I was his age, I was busy all day long for food and clothing, raising a wife and children, getting up in the morning for four years, and not finishing work until midnight. So good He’s so good, he won’t study if he doesn’t want to.” Shang Lu looked tired, “I told Yun Rou that she spoiled her brother because she spoiled him too much. Do not believe."

As a teacher, I certainly don't want students to drop out, but I also cannot agree with Shang Lu's attitude.

Even though... Shang Muxiao is indeed suspected of being spoiled.

"It's never too late to study, but it's not always possible to do what you want to do." Holding my crutches, I said bluntly, "Just like Mr. Shang, we are welcome to come to our school to study at this age. But if you go to participate in professional motorcycle competitions, it should not be very good.”

Hearing this, he raised his eyebrows slightly, with a look of surprise: "You speak for him? I thought you broke up."

"Breaking up doesn't mean I'm going to stand against him."

"No wonder I say you are very interesting every year."

"Mr. Fang is also very interesting."

"He blocked his sister."

"What?" The topic was a bit jumpy, I didn't keep up with his rhythm, and subconsciously understood that Fang Qinian blocked his sister, but when I thought about Fang Qinian himself, he was an orphan, where did his sister come from?

Therefore, the "he" in Shang Lu's words can only be Shang Muxiao.

"Shang Muxiao blocked his sister?" I guessed.

Shang Lu nodded: "Reject all possibilities of communication, and threaten not to use a penny from the family. Do you know what this means?"

I looked at him and said nothing.

He went on to say: "In this house before, no matter how much he quarreled with me or how he left after the quarrel, as long as Yunrou was around, he would come back obediently. Yunrou raised him and protected him. His mother. Yun Rou can do whatever she wants. He refused to study finance, Yun Rou persuaded him, and he agreed immediately. He refused to work in the company, Yun Rou persuaded him, and he immediately agreed. Yun Rou used to be very useful , but now, he no longer listens to her."

No one is born to obey anyone.In the past, Shang Muxiao listened to Shang Yunrou like that because there was only Shang Yunrou in his life, and she was the only warmth in his frozen life.He tried his best to please her, in order to get more attention from her and draw more warmth from her.That's why when he realized that Shang Yunrou might be robbed of others' attention, his reaction was so intense.

"I used to think that your emotions were outside the family and not on your children." To be more precise, you were crazy and self-conscious, "But you actually know everything, knowing that I broke up with Shang Muxiao, Knowing that Shang Muxiao blocked Shang Yunrou... You know everything, and you also know what your son desires, but you never satisfy it. You just let Shang Yunrou act as a "remote control", like a remote control. You can remotely control Shang Muxiao’s life like a TV. You don’t hate him, you are afraid of him and afraid of taking on the responsibility of being a father.”

Shang Lu watched me quietly and didn't answer for a while.His eyes were dark, and the corners of his mouth were pressed down, looking unhappy.

"You just asked me if I knew what it meant? I know." A smile appeared on the corner of my lips, "Congratulations, your son has grown up, Mr. Shang."

"boom!"

The door of the office was knocked open recklessly, Shang Muxiao rushed in hastily, glanced at the situation in the room, and stood in front of me panting.

"What do you want him for?" He was like a wild beast with fur, every pore on his body was full of guard.

Shang Lu probably didn't like the angle of looking up. He stood up, straightened his clothes that weren't messy, and said, "I don't need your permission to find anyone. I've already signed the withdrawal application, and you can do whatever you want in the future. I don't even care about you. But you hear me clearly," he approached Shang Muxiao, stared into his eyes, and said word by word, "failure, even if you cry and beg me, don't even think about coming back .”

Shang Muxiao didn't even hesitate for a second, and retorted reflexively.

"Don't worry, no one will beg you."

Shang Lu refused to comment, lowered his eyes, nodded at me, and strode away expressionlessly.

The door closed again, and Shang Muxiao stared at the door panel, as if he wanted to burn it through.

"Why are you here?" I got up and picked up the cup of coffee that Shang Lu hadn't touched, and put it aside, planning to wash it up later.

"Your teaching assistant informed me." Shang Muxiao said behind him, "What did he tell you?"

"He apologized to me." I walked back to the desk and sat down, "I said that I admitted the wrong person during the Chinese New Year, and I felt offended, so I was very sorry."

He followed: "How did you answer?"

How did you answer?

I don't know why: "Of course I forgive him." Is it possible that I will remember this matter for the rest of my life?

Shang Muxiao couldn't believe it: "I apologized so many times for that incident and you didn't forgive me, but he apologized to you once and you forgive him?"

After finishing the handouts, I looked up at him: "Do you think I'm too lenient with him and too strict with you?"

He pursed his lips and didn't speak, but his expression was bright and that's what he thought.

"Because you didn't have the heart to apologize." Although I don't think Shang Lu's apology is intentional, but... who cares.

I sent a message to Yu Xixi, telling her to go directly to the classroom without waiting for me.Holding up the crutches, I gave Shang Muxiao all the things I used in class and asked him to hold them for me.

"I still have 15 minutes to go to class, please send me to the classroom."

Angry at all, he obediently followed me out of the office.

Ever since I learned of his identity as Representative Xiao, I seemed to have opened up the key points of my whole body, and I gradually mastered the trick to control him—a tiger made of paper, which looks fierce on the surface, but in fact, just scratch his chin, and he will Turn over and expose your belly for you to touch.

Walking one after the other, Shang Muxiao's low voice suddenly sounded in the quiet corridor: "Give me another chance, even if you kill me, I won't take you back."

It's a pity that many things didn't have another chance.

I just pretended I didn't hear it, didn't look back, and kept walking forward.Walked to the door of the classroom, took the handouts from him, thanked him, and went in.

After the class bell rang, I looked up and saw him again in the back row of the classroom.

I ignored him and went to class as usual.

In the evening, Representative Xiao came with a message.

[Why doesn't the apology work? 】

[Apologize to whom? 】

【the person I like. 】

【Do you have someone you like? 】

【Um.What better way to apologize than to do something wrong? 】

It’s not okay to take shortcuts, you have to think about it yourself.

【That's a pity...】

【? 】

[I quite like you, Mr. Xiao. 】

【? ? ? ? 】