The commendation meeting was held at the Municipal Grand Theater. The leaders of the Municipal Party Committee, Municipal Government, Municipal Communist Youth League Committee, Education Bureau, Federation of Trade Unions, Industrial and Commercial Bureau, Municipal Industrial and Commercial Association, municipal middle schools, and relevant district committees all attended. This commendation meeting is a summary meeting of Qingzhou's vigorous promotion of spiritual civilization construction since last year. Specifically, seven awards were given, including the city's top ten entrepreneurs, the city's top ten youths, the city's top ten community workers, and the city's top ten Communist Youth League members.
Wen Liang and Xu Yao sat in the third row on the right, with other award-winning teenagers on their left and right. Xu Yao seemed a little excited from the moment she sat down. After all, for a child, being able to attend such an event was a great thing. Wen Liang kept his head down and looked listless. Although it was boring to participate in such an event, he would not have a sullen face since he was here, mainly because he saw Gu Wenyuan.
Some people can be spotted at a glance no matter what the occasion or how many people are around them. Gu Wenyuan's outstanding appearance and proud background always put him in the spotlight and in the spotlight. Wen Liang even saw Zhou Yuanting coming over and greeting him with a smile regardless of his identity. This kind of treatment is shocking if it is told to others.
Wen Liang huddled in his chair with a calm expression on his face. The girl next to him obviously sensed something was wrong. She turned her head to look at Wen Liang and asked in confusion, "What's wrong? Are you unhappy sitting next to me? Or do you want to move over there?" She pointed at another pretty girl three seats away with an unfriendly look on her face.
"Ahem..." Wen Liang coughed lightly and said with a smile, "What you said is so unkind. Look at that girl, her skin is not as white as yours, her eyes are not as big as yours, and her nose is so big that you can hang a soy sauce bottle on the wall. Why do you still want to humiliate her like this? If you have the guts, can you find someone prettier than you?"
It must be said that this flattery was extremely shameless. Xu Yao squinted her eyes and smiled, complaining hypocritically: "It's not as bad as you say. My hooked nose is very beautiful, right?"
Wen Liang looked at the other person and thought: I am at a high level to be able to speak so badly of such a beautiful girl. Amitabha, in order to appease the tigress, you have to suffer a little loss...
After a set of procedures, it was Wen Liang's turn to go on stage. The meeting had already reached the eleventh item. Ten boys and girls went up to the rostrum and lined up in turn, and the leaders issued certificates. Xu Yao and Gu Wenyuan stood in the middle, Wen Liang was on the far left, and next to him was the beautiful girl who had just been slandered. Wen Liang felt a little guilty, and he lowered his head obediently, not moving an inch.
The host of the conference began to invite leaders to the stage. The first one was Xu Fuyan, the municipal party secretary, who presented the award to Xu Yao, followed by Zhou Yuanting, who presented the award to Gu Wenyuan. The other leaders came on stage one by one and stood in front of the ten children. Wen Liang suddenly smelled a refreshing fragrance, and a pair of beautiful legs in black stockings appeared in front of him. Following the slender legs upwards, a light black dress, a slender waist, and finally Zuo Yuxi's pretty face with a smile on her face.
Zuo Yuxi had been looking for Wen Liang since that night. She arranged for many people to search around Dongjie Hutong, and she had been there several times herself, but Wen Liang had seldom gone out in the past month, so she naturally had no results. But she had never expected to run into him in an occasion like today, and she had never expected that the little hero who had been making the rounds recently was actually him.
Actually, there is nothing strange about it. Wasn’t he the one who pulled me back from despair
Zuo Yuxi reached out and held Wen Liang's hand, exerting a little force, as if she had grasped something extremely important to her. Her charming big eyes moved, telling of her various amorous feelings.
"Congratulations, Wenliang, our little hero!"
He is also my little hero, Zuo Yuxi added in his heart.
"Thanks!"
He replied warmly and respectfully, and when he pulled his hand away, he suddenly felt an itch in his palm. Zuo Yuxi's soft and tender fingers gently drew an "=" symbol in his palm.
She didn't have to do this. If she wanted to contact Wen Liang, she could talk to him openly after the meeting. As the deputy director of the Education Bureau, this was within her authority and she had a legitimate right. No one would suspect anything. But the strange thing was that when Zuo Yuxi saw Wen Liang pretending not to know her and looking calm, as if what happened that night had never happened or was insignificant to him, she felt angry for no reason and said, "Since you pretend not to know me, let's use a secret code to contact each other."
If Wen Liang didn't react to being harassed by a beautiful woman like this, he would have lived in vain for decades. He immediately bent his index finger and wrote "OK" on Zuo Yuxi's palm as if he had been injected with chicken blood.
To outsiders, the two of them just shook hands and parted ways. Who would have known that there would be so much trickery in between? Almost all the men in the stands followed the most famous cold and arrogant beauty in Qingzhou, but they could never have imagined that this beauty who could only be admired from afar would flirt with a boy in public.
When all the ceremonies were over and he was about to leave the stage, the girl who was walking by Wen Liang suddenly said coldly: "Classmate, I can't hang a soy sauce bottle on my nose. I've tried!"
Wen Liang staggered and almost rolled down the stairs.
When the show was over, Xu Yao was not seen. This girl was elusive all day long, and Wen Liang didn't care. Wen Huaiming came over to tell him and then went about his own business. When he was about to look for Zuo Yuxi, he saw Gu Wenyuan walking towards him with a smile on his face.
Wen Liang stopped and looked at him quietly.
Sarcasm? Contempt? Or is he looking down at me with that handsome face and extremely arrogant eyes
Wen Liang sneered in his heart. Such a childish trick could only strengthen his determination to climb up, but could not hurt him in the slightest.
Gu Wenyuan stopped three steps away. Before he opened his mouth, a smile that Wen Liang hated the most appeared on his lips. "Isn't this Wen Liang? I'm really curious, how did you get into this circle? By ability or by connections? You can only be a punching bag for Mu Shanshan, and your father's connections can't even get beyond the Political Research Office. Personally, I think there must be a problem here."
The surrounding area was filled with people leaving the venue, making a chaotic noise. No one cared about the content of the conversation between the two children. Perhaps no one would have thought that Gu Wenyuan, who looked gentle and refined, was using his usual harshness to whip a boy's self-esteem.
Wen Liang looked at Gu Wenyuan coldly, and suddenly remembered the classic movie line in his mind: When you can’t bear it anymore, you don’t have to bear it anymore!
"Hey, classmate Gu, I just heard about your deeds. You bravely rescued a child who fell into the water. You jumped into the water three times and saved him three times. You are so wise and brave. But I personally think that how can you swim when you stood far away during the spring outing in the third year of junior high school and didn't even dare to fish by the reservoir? Your father's relationship is really touching..."
Xu Yao was the one who was so sharp-tongued. She came over to find Wen Liang and happened to hear Gu Wenyuan's sarcastic words. She couldn't help but sarcastically responded. Wen Liang smiled slightly. He didn't know how Xu Yao knew that this guy couldn't swim, but he didn't want her to get into trouble. Gu Wenyuan was a vindictive person. He was spoiled by Gu Shitong since he was a child. He was vicious and unscrupulous at a young age. Although he was not afraid, he didn't want Xu Yao to anger him. He shook his head at her and signaled her not to speak.
Gu Wenyuan was not angry when he saw Xu Yao. He nodded politely to her, glanced at Wen Liang with a sneer, and said, "Oh, now I know how you got in. Boy, you look so honest on weekdays, but you are really good at living off others! But you look so stupid, didn't someone in your family teach you that?"
These words were extremely vicious. Not only did they insult Wen Liang, they also implied that Wen Huaiming wanted to climb up the social ladder by relying on connections.
"Freeloader? What does that mean?" Xu Yao looked at Wen Liang and asked puzzledly.
"It's nothing, someone's just itching for trouble!"
Wen Liang answered with a smile, and suddenly raised his hand to slap Gu Wenyuan. This time there was no sign, and a crisp sound rang out in the empty theater.
“Bang!”
Gu Wenyuan covered his cheek, stunned for a moment.
Two lives, so many days and nights, every time I see Gu Wenyuan's unreachable back, there is always an inexplicable sadness trembling in my heart. One is falling lower and lower, and the other is rising higher and higher. Do you know what it feels like to look up at heaven from hell? Three parts despair, three parts pain, three parts inferiority, and one part of self-abuse cruelty.
At this moment, in this period, Wen Liang finally made a choice that would have been impossible in his previous life: a slap in the face was not only a complete farewell to his cowardly self, but also forced himself into a desperate situation with no way out. Only in this way could he move forward, only in this way could he be fearless!
Although Xu Yao didn't understand what "soft rice" meant, as a beauty, it was their privilege to not ask right or wrong but only consider the closeness of the relationship. She stood behind Wen Liang without hesitation, her eyes flashing with excitement, ready to rush forward and take action at any time.
"You dare to hit me?" Gu Wenyuan never thought that this Wen family kid who looked weak and could be laughed at by everyone in the class would dare to hit him? This strong contrast made his thinking pause for a few seconds, until he felt the burning pain on his face, and then he suddenly woke up and became furious.
Without thinking, Gu Wenyuan raised his right hand and slapped back. This slap used up all his strength. At this moment, he even thought about what tone he would use to humiliate the boy when he knelt down and begged for mercy. Even if Xu Yao was standing next to him, her status could not prevent Wen Liang from the tragic situation that was about to come.
In Gu Wenyuan's mind, ten Wen Liangs would not be his match. He was just careless. He firmly believed that in just one second, Wen Liang would be beaten to his knees and kowtow for mercy, just like that night. The winner would always be him - Gu Wenyuan!
He understood even more clearly that even if Xu Yao stepped forward, it would be of no use, as her father would never intervene in these children's trivial matters for the sake of an insignificant deputy director of the Political Research Office.
Wen Liang smiled coldly, raised his hand, easily grabbed Gu Wenyuan's wrist, pressed his thumb on the pulse point and exerted force, Gu Wenyuan screamed and his arm was turned over. There was a bit of arrogance and cruelty on his handsome face one moment, and the next moment he was a little distorted by the shock of this sudden change.
Regardless, he didn't expect that his full-strength attack would be so easily broken, and the situation was reversed in an instant. Since the relationship was broken, Wen Liang no longer held back, and took advantage of the situation to pull him forward, bumping his shoulder into his falling body, and punching down hard with his left hand. Gu Wenyuan only felt a sharp pain in his chest, and at the same time, he was hit hard in the abdomen. It seemed that all the strength in his body was drained away in an instant. His body limply collapsed to the ground, curled up into a ball, and began to cough loudly.
Wen Liang squatted down, his smiling face no longer showing any expression, his eyes flashed with an intimidating cold light, and he said softly: "Mr. Gu, you always think you are very powerful, your classmates are afraid of you, your teachers are in awe of you, and the whole world revolves around you. In fact, you see, without your father, you are not even as good as a finger of mine."
Gu Wenyuan was quite tough, and he panted and said word by word: "You... you wait!"
Wen Liang stood up. From Gu Wenyuan's perspective, his tall stature, resolute face, and clear, deep eyes seemed to reveal some kind of mystery without words. For a moment, Gu Wenyuan was a little dazed.
"I'm waiting for you! Gu Wenyuan, from today on, you are no longer you, and I am no longer me!" After saying this, without looking at Gu Wenyuan's resentful expression, he pulled Xu Yao away.
"Hey, silly boy, Gu Wenyuan's family seems to have some power, you are like this..."
"It's okay. His father is rich. Could he retaliate against me for a fight between two kids? At most, Gu Wenyuan asked Mu Shanshan to bring people to beat me up. But if we want to fight, don't we still have you, the heroine?"
"Haha, that's true!"
The poor, tough girl was smiling happily, completely unaware that she was being dragged down by a wretched old man.
"By the way, how did you know about Gu Wenyuan's embarrassing incident during the spring outing? We didn't go to the same junior high school?"
"I have a close friend who is an old friend of Gu Wenyuan's family. I know all the bad deeds of that guy! I forgot to tell you that my close friend is a beautiful woman!"
After Xu Yao finished speaking, she looked malicious. Wen Liang was so smart that he acted as if he didn't hear the word "beautiful girl" and said calmly, "Gu Wenyuan and your best friend are old friends. Why are you so rude to him? Be careful that your best friend will blame you if he finds out..."
"Humph, I just can't stand Gu Wenyuan's arrogance! Besides, he's prettier than a woman, so disgusting!"
Wen Liang smiled bitterly and looked up at the white clouds in the sky. He said quietly: "He has the capital to be arrogant, but it doesn't matter..."
Soon, I will have it too! And I will be able to trample everything of yours under my feet!
After breaking up with Xu Yao, Wen Liang saw Zuo Yuxi's car go out and turn right. After a moment of hesitation, he followed.
Perhaps, it wouldn't be a bad thing to get closer to this young director of education.
The last time the incident happened suddenly, Wen Liang had to consider whether Zuo Yuxi had offended some powerful person, so he was unwilling to have too much contact with her. But after so long, she is still the director, and nothing else has changed, which shows that the other party is still very wary of her. This shows that Zuo Yuxi herself has a strong background that is not inferior to others.
In that case, it’s always good to meet each other.
4000 words, please collect and recommend (to be continued)