"This is my daughter’s classmate, Tang Qing, and this is Xie Wendong’s father, Xie Jun," Wang Sheng introduced simply.
Since Wang Sheng had introduced him, Tang Qing naturally couldn’t pretend not to see. However, he didn’t stand up, but leisurely said, "Good to see you, Director Xie."
He just called out the official title, couldn’t even bother to call him ’uncle’. He had no intention of addressing Xie Jun as ’uncle.’ Although the term ’uncle’ could define both close and distant relationships, it didn’t please him. If it were only Xie Jun, he might have been polite, but with Xie Wendong around, he felt as disgusted as if he had swallowed a fly.
Wang Sheng and Shi Lan were both a bit surprised.
Tang Qing, who had been polite and courteous just now, was suddenly ’improper’ to Xie Jun. However, Wang Yan hadn’t ntioned the seat swap to her parents.
But the couple didn’t think it over much. Although they hadn’t known Tang Qing for long, they didn’t think he was stupid to make this kind of mistake. Even if he were putting on a show, he would also have acted in front of them. Seeing from Wang Yan’s unhappy face, they knew there was definitely so story behind this.
"Heh, nice to et you, student Tang Qing," Xie Jun said insincerely, displeased by Tang Qing’s nonchalant attitude. He was, after all, an elder, but he couldn’t lose his temper with a student - that would be losing face.
"Director Xie, is there sothing you need, coming to our humble abode?" Wang Sheng asked knowingly. Even though he knew that this insinuation of asking him to leave probably wouldn’t work, it was worth trying. He really didn’t want these two mixing into the dinner party, especially after understanding Tang Qing’s ’pull’. He himself was almost falling behind. Compared to this, Xie Jun was nothing. But he didn’t want to turn them away explicitly, hence Wang Sheng felt very upset.
"Nothing in particular, I just thought our families should mingle more. Also, soone gifted a bottle of wine, so I thought I’d share it with the boss Wang," Xie Jun laughed, even though he felt a bit angry at Wang Sheng’s insinuation. Considering his purpose of coming, he feigned ignorance.
"Director Xie is thoughtful. Also, Little Xie, co sit. Wife, quickly bring more chopsticks and wine glasses. We’re already halfway through the al, I hope Director Xie doesn’t mind," Wang Sheng helpless spouted the polite phrases. What else could he do? He couldn’t just chase people away. Who would dare to gift you a bottle of wine anyway? Apparently, they thought of him as easy to exploit.
It’s no problem, I don’t mind. It seems I’ve arrived just in ti, with all this delicious food, I’ve got to have a few drinks with brother Wang," Xie Jun boldly sat down and said, feeling satisfied looking at the businessman forced to put on a face of welco and gratitude. Each such mont made him feel good from head to toe.
The table at Wang Yan’s ho was rectangular, not too big. It could seat four on the longer side and two on the shorter side, a total of six people. Shi Lan, who was sitting next to Wang Sheng, had to move to the shorter side next to her daughter, having Xie Jun take her place. Xie Wendong wanted to sit next to Wang Yan but seeing Shi Lan had taken the seat, he reluctantly sat next to Tang Qing. Just thinking about Tang Qing’s ’aura’ made him uncomfortable.
At the sa ti, Xie Wendong was full of doubts. Why was Tang Qing here? And at such an exclusive family dinner, what was his relationship with them?
He was anxious to know the reasons, to know if Wang Yan and Tang Qing...
Xie Wendong didn’t want to believe it, but what was going on? Was Tang Qing two-timing?
The more he thought, the more likely it seed. He had to find out the truth.
With his father beside him, Xie Wendong felt more confident and asked, "Tang Qing, how co you are here today?"
"It’s none of your business why I am here," Tang Qing retorted irritably.
He felt uncomfortable every ti he saw Xie Wendong. A happy dinner was ruined by Xie Wendong’s unexpected appearance, how could Tang Qing be nice to him? As for Xie Jun sitting beside him, he didn’t even bother. They had clearly invited themselves over without as much as a phone call, and when Wang’s father expressed his dissatisfaction, they pretended to not understand and didn’t leave. They couldn’t have been good people.
Xie Wendong and his father had managed to disgust all four of them. He saw no reason to please them. Whatever happened, he would not be afraid of a deputy director he was not related to.
If this deputy director dared to make it difficult for Wang Sheng or pick on him, then he could only ask soone to deal with Xie Jun. Unlike before, he had a lot of ways now.
"It seems student Tang Qing and Wendong have a bit of a misunderstanding," Xie Jun laughed as he heard Tang Qing’s tone differ.
"Heh, there was a small misunderstanding, but it’s over now. I don’t hold onto it, I just hope it doesn’t happen again," Tang Qing replied with a cold laugh.
"Wendong, aren’t you going to thank Tang Qing?" Xie Jun imdiately turned to Xie Wendong and started lecturing him. Having been an official for years, he didn’t think apologizing was losing face, what was there to lose?
"Thank you," Xie Wendong said reluctantly as his father had spoken.
"You’re welco, just be careful in future, there’s no third ti after the first and second." Tang Qing hinted, the first ti was changing seats, the second ti was getting hooligans to deal with him, as for the New Year’s Day performance before that, he didn’t care.
"It seems like Xie Wendong has a great misunderstanding with Little Tang, Wendong, you should apologize sincerely." Xie Jun spoke again.
"Oh." Xie Wendong really felt embarrassed at this mont, it’s embarrassing enough to apologize in front of Wang Yan, let alone respect Tang Qing with toast, but he had no choice, the adults are all watching.
Seeing Xie Wendong’s attitude, Tang Qing knew this guy was really an inexperienced, albeit slightly smarter, upper-class second generation. He should be composed now, speak sincerely, and pretend to be a gentleman if necessary. Xie Wendong was clearly not this type, hence Tang Qing put him in the "ntally retarded" category.
Beating such people is a real disgrace.
Xie Wendong obviously wouldn’t drink spirits, although he could drink, but he didn’t want to for Tang Qing, so he poured a glass of beer instead, stayed seated, handed it over with one hand, showing reluctance.
"I’m sorry, I hope you won’t bear grudges over this minor issue." Xie Wendong probably hadn’t said this before, so the whole sentence was stamred out.
Tang Qing just smiled, didn’t say anything, and also raised his glass. As soon as he raised it, Xie Wendong’s glass bumped into it and then quickly retracted it, finishing it.
"Um." Tang Qing was really speechless, wondering whether his presence lowered the intelligence of the antagonist. He really wanted to tell Xie Wendong, "Your low performance gives no sense of accomplishnt."
"That’s better. It’s good that the misunderstandings between classmates are cleared up. By the way, Wang’s brother, what’s the occasion today, making so much delicious food, celebrating Yanzi’s good grades?" Xie Jun laughed, didn’t mind his son’s rudeness. Apologize to an ordinary person is good enough, what else do you want? If he had a powerful background, his son wouldn’t be so rude.
"Similar, Little Tang also did well in the exams this ti, and he is Yanzi’s deskmate, so we invited him over for dinner." Wang’s father ambiguously replied, obviously he couldn’t say the true purpose of this al.
"Oh? How much did Little Tang score this ti? I’m sure Yanzi’s tutoring must have helped." Xie Jun asked.
Wang Yan felt resentnt as she heard Xie Jun calling her by her nickna. She continued eating her rice, utterly disgusted with this family. Such an incident occurred on her invitation of Tang Qing to her ho for the first ti. She felt extrely embarrassed and even murderous.
Tang Qing calmly said, "Seven hundred and thirty-three."
"What?" Xie Jun asked, evidently he hadn’t linked this number with the test score, or he didn’t want to. Seven hundred and thirty-three, is it the score a human could achieve?
Tang Qing frowned and said again, "Seven hundred and thirty-three... points."
"You scored seven hundred and thirty-three?" Xie Jun exclaid in shock.
"Yes."
Tang Qing really wanted to say, "Don’t you understand Chinese?"
"Yanzi, is this... true?" Xie Jun looked at Wang Yan and asked incredulously, this news was too...shocking.
"Tang Qing is the top of the grade, with seven hundred and thirty-three points, over fifty points more than the second." Wang Yan spoke with pride.
Xie Wendong on the side, however, lowered his head in sha. There was no way, they were both students, but the gap was really big. He only scored over four hundred and ninety points this ti, lacking more than two hundred compared to Tang Qing. The gap is as if they did two completely different papers, even if he retook two subjects, he might not be able to surpass Tang Qing’s score.
"This is really surprising, Little Tang, you’re... really great." Xie Jun said, sowhat at a loss for words, and envious. Looking at his own son again, he wondered, why is the gap so large?
Tang Qing didn’t answer.
Although Xie Jun was annoyed when he noticed Tang Qing didn’t care about him, he didn’t say anything more. Among ordinary people, the idea that studying is useless might prevail, but those slightly upper class would not hold the sa view. When learning abilities are deed useless, what else would be useful? He was even happy about this prevailing societal viewpoint. The more such incorrect and misleading views spread in society, the greater the potential gains for him or his child. Fewer strong competitors, there is nothing wrong with that. Why should he correct others’ mistakes and increase his own competition? However, his son is really incapable, which annoys him.
Xie Jun didn’t want to offend Tang Qing, so he turned to Wang Sheng and stated his purpose of coming:
"Brother Wang, my son Wendong’s academic performance has always been diocre. How about letting Wendong sit next to Little Wang to help supervise his learning? I wonder how you feel about this. Wendong, you should frequently visit Uncle Wang’s ho in the future for tutoring from Yanzi."
PS: Chapter Two is here. Thanks everyone for the monthly tickets and recomndation tickets as well as rewards, and I hope you continue to support Mouse. Thank you all.
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