Fifteen minutes later, Chen Yekai, Zhou Sheng, and Yu Hao were in the garden lobby of the five-star hotel, with food in front of them.
Yu Hao: "I eat so much for breakfast!"
Zhou Sheng: "Buy 168 for one, eat it, you're welcome, and be generous to others."
Yu Hao: "Do you still remember?"
Chen Yekai only took a cup of coffee and looked down at his phone quietly. Yu Hao knew that he was reading Long Sheng's letter. At the end, Chen Yekai put down his phone, rubbed his face, and finally recovered.
"I'm sorry." Chen Yekai said, "It's all me for causing you so much trouble. It's too dangerous."
Zhou Sheng said casually: "We both judged wrong ourselves, so I don't blame you."
This was the worst and most outrageous mistake Zhou Sheng had ever made. Neither he nor Yu Hao had expected that Lin Xun, in Chen Yekai's dream, would be so powerful that it blocked the sun in the world of his consciousness. In the end, he was almost killed by Lin Xun, but fortunately, the three of them worked together in the end to break through the layers of siege. But it also adds a very real case to the pair.
"I think about it now." Zhou Sheng said to Yu Hao, "My parents and my mother's dreams are nothing at all."
"That's right!" Yu Hao came back to his senses, and compared with Chen Yekai and Chichen Itza, Shi Ni's lighthouse and the Great Wall have all turned into a novice teaching model.
"There are so many things in the future." Chen Yekai looked out of the restaurant's floor-to-ceiling windows and the hotel garden full of sunlight, and said, "But I have been reborn. Even if I am locked in a nut shell, I still think I am the king of the infinite universe. ."
Yu Hao laughed, and Zhou Sheng said, "Think about what to do next? I haven't qualified for the cycling competition yet."
Chen Yekai was refreshed, took out his mobile phone, and said, "Wrap it on me, you... what do you need me to do, just tell me?"
"You don't need to do anything." Zhou Sheng said, "Just answer a few questions from me. From the first day we met, you have always been obliged to help us, so don't let everyone else see you."
"I know." The corner of Chen Yekai's mouth was slightly hooked, and he said in a trance, "Okay, don't look outside."
Zhou Sheng motioned to Yu Hao, meaning what do you want to ask, do you ask first
Yu Hao and the other waiters took the plate, took a sip of coffee, thought about it, and said, "I don't have anything special to ask, but I think Long Sheng has something to tell you."
Chen Yekai's eyebrows raised slightly, Zhou Sheng said, "Long Sheng's words, I think, either you guys can talk about it in private."
Chen Yekai suddenly said, "Okay, I also want to explain some things to Yu Hao."
"Yeah." Zhou Sheng replied with satisfaction.
Yu Hao: "???"
Yu Hao always felt that there was some kind of cleverness between the two of them that he didn't understand. He cast a "what do you mean?" look at Zhou Sheng, but Zhou Sheng didn't look at him, leaned his chair, put his fingers on the dining table, knocked casually, and frowned deeply.
"Then, Zhou Sheng, what do you want to ask?" Chen Yekai asked.
"I'm thinking about how to express my doubts." Zhou Sheng said, "A lot of things have been sorted out before, but Kaikai, do you have anything else to apologize for? Except for the psychological intervention of Lin Xun."
Yu Hao: "???"
"Yes." Chen Yekai nodded and said, "Lin Xun's psychological intervention on me really affected me to a great extent, which made me... make many wrong decisions. Let's start from the beginning, including the ones we talked about. Some things... I think, this will make you more clear, things are coming... I think about it, when I decided to return to China, Mr. Lin... Lin Xun's marriage with Mr. Liang has always had serious problems."
Chen Yekai first met Lin Xun through a friend of his father's when he went to school in New York, to the effect of taking care of him a little. Soon, the professor and his wife had a good impression of Chen Yekai. After all, among the younger generations, Chen Yekai was quite outstanding.
Chen Yekai also gradually got to know their family through contact with Lin Xun and his wife. Lin Xun was born in a relatively poor family in China. He fell in love with Liang Jinmin in college. Liang Jinmin was fascinated by his talent and self-confidence. After marriage, Lin Xun invested money to go abroad to do research, and he also left his hometown and went to live in New York together. In the local Chinese circle, Mr. and Mrs. Lin Xun have always shown people as a loving couple.
But only Chen Yekai knew that Lin Xun's derailment in private was quite serious, and he had a lot of trouble with Liang Jinmin. Lin Xun's hobby is very peculiar, and he likes to develop relationships with married women very much.
"He harassed female students?" Zhou Sheng said in disbelief.
"No." Chen Yekai said, "the situation is more serious."
Lin Xun is very smart, and harassing students will be sued. The targets of his affair are the wives of young teaching assistants, lecturers or graduate students in the academic circle. These young people traveled across the ocean and came to New York. After they settled down, they applied to the U.S. authorities for family reunion and took over their wives in China. During the period of applying for a green card or holding a green card, Lin took advantage of it when he found an opportunity. After finding a good partner, he started an extramarital affair.
Yu Hao was completely dumbfounded.
"This..." Yu Hao couldn't believe it, he said, "Wouldn't other couples beat him to death?"
"It depends on his methods." Chen Yekai said helplessly, "Don't forget what he learned."
An extramarital affair is a person who is willing to fight and be willing to suffer. Lin Xun has both connections and means, and the target he looks for is very precise. He only picks the wives of male scholars who are not very clean in their families. Some of these male scholars are summoned in the United States. Some have been prostitutes, and some have had scandals with students.
And Lin Xun, as a well-maintained elegant man in his fifties, took their wives and took aim almost immediately.
Those young people either have emotional stains themselves, such as cheating while living alone in the United States, or they dare not offend Lin Xun... Finally, after Lin Xun had an extramarital affair, the other party did not dare to stab it, because if during the application for reunion, If there is an extramarital affair, the Immigration Bureau will doubt the true existence of the marriage, and it is likely to leave a deposit certificate in the approval of immigration procedures.
Liang Jinmin was very angry about this, and had several very serious conflicts with Lin Xun. It was at that time that Chen Yekai discovered Lin Xun's domestic violence against Liang Jinmin.
Chen Yekai was a little confused. After all, in his family of origin, his parents treated each other like guests and never spoke loudly. When he saw the scene of Liang Jinmin being raped by Lin Xun, it left a very deep impression on him.
His first thought was to go to the police decisively, but was stopped by Liang Jinmin. Later, Liang Jinmin talked to him countless times and begged him not to call the police. After all, domestic violence is very serious in the United States, and Lin Xun will definitely be arrested. Later, Lin Xun knelt down to apologize to Liang Jinmin, and was forgiven by Liang Jinmin.
"Why didn't she get a divorce?" Yu Hao asked in disbelief.
"I won't get a divorce." Zhou Sheng took out his cigarette case and lit a cigarette.
Chen Yekai said, "I have asked the same question as you. Teacher Liang has always loved him."
Zhou Sheng sneered, and Chen Yekai said, "Give me one."
Zhou Sheng lit a cigarette for Chen Yekai, and Chen Yekai said to Yu Hao, "I rarely smoke, let me smoke one."
Under the supervision of Yu Hao, Zhou Sheng now draws very little, only two or three a day.
"For a long time," Chen Yekai said, "it never happened again..."
In the next few years, Chen Yekai was always vigilant about Liang Jinmin's situation, and Lin Xun almost didn't do anything anymore, but Chen Yekai still suspected that Lin Xun would occasionally slap Liang Jinmin or abuse her without leaving any traces. However, Liang Jinmin, the party involved, was reluctant to give up this relationship no matter what, and Chen Yekai couldn't help even if he wanted to.
At that time, Chen Yekai's mood was very complicated. Lin Xun not only supported him and treated him as his own son, but also had a rather dark side of his character...
"You don't understand that feeling." Chen Yekai said.
"I understand." Zhou Sheng replied, "It's like your father beats your mother all day long, but when he faces you, you can feel that he cares about you very much."
Chen Yekai said helplessly: "Yes, in addition to this, there is also my personal adoration for him. He is very knowledgeable and treats his majors very seriously... A scholar who has knowledge and professionalism, but abandons morality. Just the devil."
Lin Xun taught Chen Yekai a lot, not only professionally, but also the principles of life and life. Including feelings, friends, society, family, etc., these are all things Chen Yekai has never learned from his father who is a lawyer. After all, there are only rules in the eyes of lawyers, and society is like a ruthless big machine.
On the other hand, Lin Xun's humanity on the other side always shines brightly. Professionally, it convinces Chen Yekai, but morally it makes him angry. Fortunately, Chen Yekai didn't get the news of Lin Xun's extramarital affair later, and after a period of stability, the Longsheng incident finally broke out.
Lin Xun still tried his best in this incident. Even if he tried to persuade Chen Yekai to no avail, he still respected his decision in the end.
"I am very grateful to Mr. Lin in this matter." Chen Yekai said, "I didn't even notice at the time that there was any abnormality."
"Later you graduated." Yu Hao said.
"Yes." Chen Yekai nodded.
After graduating with a master's degree, Chen Yekai lived a full and undisturbed life for a full year. He tried to work and used his busyness to treat himself, but the pressure almost overwhelmed him. Liang Jinmin persuaded him to go back to Columbia to help, so Chen Ye Kay went back occasionally, running back and forth between the company and the university.
In the past few years, the conflict between Liang Jinmin and Lin Xun escalated again, but there was no domestic violence, and Lin Xun cheated on the wife of a young lecturer. This time the incident was a bit big, and Liang Jinmin finally couldn't bear it anymore and decided to divorce Lin Xun. The derailed object began to threaten them, to expose Lin Xun's dirty things and sue him.
Lin Xun prayed for Liang Jinmin's forgiveness. After the two negotiated, Liang Jinmin hoped that Lin Xun would return to China, bid farewell to this quagmire life, change the environment and start over. It happened that Liang Jinmin's mother was very old, and she also hoped to return to China to visit her mother more and accompany her before the sickbed. If Lin Xun is not willing, then divorce.
In the end, Lin Xun softened and promised to treat his wife wholeheartedly from now on.
It turned out to be like this... Yu Hao finally understood.
Chen Yekai said: "Mr. Liang asked me if I wanted to come back. It just so happened that there is a very generous talent introduction plan in Central China. A friend of theirs in the United States introduced Dean Ning to Mr. Lin. My home is very close, and it happened that I was a transfer student in high school and studied in a neighboring city for a year. I thought, okay, I will go through the formalities and report to the college first. I thought that it would be too complicated to apply for a The position of the head teacher, relax, prepare for the topic, and read a Ph.D. with Teacher Lin…”
"No wonder the dean is so polite to you." Zhou Sheng said.
"Because the academy relies on an academic giant like Teacher Lin." Chen Yekai pressed the cigarette into the ashtray and said, "I am his most proud student, so what is Xue Long? A head teacher has to be polite when he speaks."
Yu Hao didn't know whether to laugh or cry, Chen Yekai said, "But the status of my dog depends on the owner. Look, now that Teacher Lin is targeting me, the dean will never protect me."
"Next is the climax of the story." Zhou Sheng said.
"Yeah." Chen Yekai said, "You can probably guess it from the cause and effect."
Yu Hao asked, "Did he have an extramarital affair after returning to China?"
"The country is easy to change, but the nature is hard to change." Chen Yekai said, "Yes."
Chen Yekai came to report first. After dealing with Yu Hao's affairs, Lin Xun and Liang Jinmin also returned to China on New Year's Day. classmate's wife. They dated in private twice, and they were discovered by Liang Jinmin the second time. The couple quarreled again, and then Lin Xun began to perform full martial arts at home. In the past, many tricks in the United States did not dare to be used, and they would be arrested and imprisoned. No one cares about beating your wife in China. Even if you call the police, it will be handled as a private family matter. After the police come, they will persuade them to go back.
Lin Xun has been holding his anger for nearly ten years in the United States, and now he can change his mind and beat his wife.
"After hitting his wife," Chen Yekai said, "after a while, he slapped himself, cried bitterly, and knelt down to apologize to his wife..."
Zhou Sheng said in disbelief: "This person is really evil to the extreme."
Yu Hao didn't quite understand what Zhou Sheng said, but Chen Yekai said, "Yes, you can also sense that he is acting. His kneeling, tears, and begging for forgiveness are all teasing his wife."
Yu Hao: "..."
Yu Hao suddenly felt that his whole life had been turned upside down, Chen Yekai said, "From what I understand him, at that time he must have regarded this process as a game, a game of cat and mouse. His wife was manipulated by him. Now, through his own performance, he got his wife's forgiveness, beat her again, begged for her forgiveness, beat her again... Infinite loop. Teacher Lin may think this is funny, only the devil... would do this."
Yu Hao suddenly felt a burst of fear in his heart.
Chen Yekai added: "I have tried every possible way, but the only way is to divorce, but I have no evidence. I wanted to take my wife for a checkup, but she refused me. The client is unwilling to cooperate with me, and I just hate myself for not doing anything. I couldn't do it, I turned to Huang Ting and made an appointment with my wife, but on the last day, my wife changed her mind again and again and again... I can't let Lin Xun know about my private actions, he knows me too well, sometimes With just a few conversations, he can guess what I'm thinking."
"It's very difficult." Chen Yekai said, "But not long after you, Yu Hao, came on stage, my wife suddenly invited me."
"Me?" Yu Hao asked blankly.
Chen Yekai nodded and added: "She said, that song, and you who sang it, also reminded her of Long Sheng and her days in America. We talked a lot that day, and inevitably Talking about you... She doesn't know why her life is like this, she forgives again and again and gets hurt again and again, she doesn't believe in the so-called fate, but she no longer has the courage to find anything for her life. The reason, in short, she finally decided to divorce."
Divorce would be very tedious. In addition to divorce, Liang Jinmin had also decided not to let Lin Xun go on like this. Before meeting Chen Yekai, she tried to collect evidence that Lin Xun had been cheating all along.
As a result, Liang Jinmin discovered that Lin Xun had been to a coffee shop not far downstairs from Chen Yekai's house four years ago.
On that day, Liang Jinmin showed Chen Yekai the evidence one by one. When bringing this up, Chen Yekai suddenly thought of the three days before his graduation defense. After being diagnosed with depression, Long Sheng hardly stayed at home, but he went out abnormally that day, and when he came back, he brought a...
"Napoleon cake." Yu Hao said.
"Yes." Chen Yekai said calmly, "I asked him where he went and who he met, and he said he was just going to Central Park to bask in the sun. Teacher Liang asked me if Lin Xun went downstairs to my house that day. Me? Or someone else? I may not remember other days, but I remember that day very deeply. Lin Xun was not in the laboratory. He must have made an appointment with Long Sheng. But after the incident, Long Sheng didn't mention it to me. "