Five Hundred and Ninety-Three. What Reason Can You Find?
"Oh? Zhao Ying?" Yang Dahai thought for a moment and asked, "Is it the teacher who gave you voluntary tutoring every day in high school?"
"Well, dad, that's her." Yang Ming nodded quickly.
"It turns out it's her, then you really need to go and see her. Without her, you wouldn't be able to get into Songjiang Engineering University!" Yang Dahai nodded.
"Dad, Mengyan also helped me a lot back then!" Yang Ming reminded.
"You can't say that. What's your relationship with Meng Yan? It's normal for you two to study together, but it's obligatory for the teacher to help you!" Chen Fei said: "Since he is your teacher, then he should go and take a look. !”
"Mengyan and I thought the same way, and we were about to discuss it with you." Yang Ming didn't expect things to go so smoothly, and looked at Chen Mengyan gratefully.
"But it's too late today, so let's do this. I'll book a flight for you early tomorrow morning, and you and Meng Yan can go over and have a look!" Chen Fei said, "There happened to be a classmate of mine from the police academy in L City, and I asked him to receive him. Take a moment."
"Okay, then I'll bother Uncle Chen." Yang Ming said happily and nodded in agreement.
There is nothing Yang Ming can do. It is unrealistic to go to Zhao Ying now. We can only talk about it tomorrow. So he sat with Chen Mengyan, and the two families continued to watch the Spring Festival Gala, but Yang Ming's mind was not on TV at the moment.
Zhao Ying, Chen Mengyan only cared about her as a friend, but Yang Ming was different. His feelings for her were better than those of a friend, with some elements of love.
Therefore, something happened to Zhao Ying, which immediately made Yang Ming a little upset.
The phone rang again. Yang Ming shook his head. He usually didn't have many phone calls. Why are there so many more on New Year’s Eve?
Yang Ming took out his phone, but what he saw was Zhao Ying's phone! Yang Ming took it as a matter of course that the call was from Zhao Ying's mother. He walked to Chen Mengyan's room with the phone and picked it up: "Hello? Auntie?"
"Yang Ming, it's me, I'm Zhao Ying!" It was Zhao Ying's voice that came from the phone.
"What? Sister Ying. It's you. How are you? Are you in the hospital now?" Yang Ming asked quickly with concern.
"What hospital am I in? I'm watching the Spring Festival Gala at home. It's fine. Why am I in the hospital?" Zhao Ying said helplessly: "It's all my mother who talked nonsense to you!"
"Huh? Talking nonsense? So,
You weren't injured by the neighbor's kid's firecrackers? Yang Ming asked.
"What? At this time, everyone is watching the Spring Festival Gala at home, who goes out to set off firecrackers!" Zhao Ying said: "Besides, I am such an adult, how can I not pay attention to safety? How can I still get in front of the firecrackers?"
"Sweat..." Yang Ming breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It really scared me to death. Mengyan and I are going to buy air tickets to see you!"
"I'm sorry... I've caused you trouble..." Zhao Ying said softly.
"Forget it, as long as you're fine!" Yang Ming said, "But isn't Auntie's joke a bit too big? ... Today is not April Fool's Day..."
"Hey...my mother called you behind my back. She just wanted you to come over and meet you...In fact, she also wanted to test the authenticity of our relationship...seeing you so worried. She felt relieved. ." Zhao Ying said a little embarrassed.
"So that's it, then should I still use it?" Yang Ming asked.
"Of course there is no need to come over. When my dad found out, he scolded my mom, saying that she didn't understand the seriousness of the matter. How could you just joke about this kind of thing?" Zhao Ying refused.
"Well, the most important thing is that you have nothing to do. This is better than anything else." Yang Ming said: "Happy New Year, take care of my aunt for me!"
"Well...Happy New Year to you too, and give it to Chen Mengyan. I'm hanging up. I'll go back in two days," Zhao Ying said.
Hang up the phone. Yang Ming felt helpless for a while, what was going on. I was so scared that my whole family was worried. Hey, it seems that the explanation is too difficult this time.
"Mengyan..." Yang Ming looked at Chen Mengyan next to him with some depression...
"The phone receiver was very loud, I heard it..." Chen Mengyan also smiled bitterly and said, "This matter is really complicated!"
However, Chen Mengyan obviously also heard Zhao Ying's last words of advice to Chen Mengyan, so she simply had no suspicion about Zhao Ying. What she was thinking about now was how to tell her parents.
"Yang Ming, aren't you the best at telling lies?" Chen Mengyan said, "Think about it quickly, how can we explain it!"
"When did I make up a lie?" Yang Ming was ashamed.
"In high school, you skipped classes all day long and came up with lies to fool me." Chen Mengyan rolled her eyes at Yang Ming and said.
"Hey, you said that at that time, wasn't that an irrelevant lie? Now that I'm talking to your parents, I can't make it too outrageous, right? Besides, I don't want to lie to them." Yang Ming sighed.
"Really, who would have thought that something like this could happen?" Chen Mengyan was also very troubled.
"How about you say that you made the wrong call and the other party was joking with you?" Yang Ming held it in for a long time and finally came up with such an idea.
"This is the only way." Chen Mengyan nodded in agreement.
So, the two of them tried their best to pretend to be happy and a little angry and left the room. Seeing the strange expressions of the two of them, Chen Fei asked, "What's wrong with you?"
"It's so irritating!" Chen Mengyan said as she sat on the sofa angrily.
"What's wrong? Mengyan?" Mother Yang asked quickly: "Did that boy Daming bully you? Can I help you beat him up?"
"No, Auntie, it has nothing to do with Yang Ming!" Chen Mengyan shook her head and said, "It was the phone call just now!"
"What's wrong with the phone?" Mother Yang wondered.
"Just now, Yang Ming and I paid New Year's greetings to Teacher Zhao Ying. It turned out that her mother answered the phone, and that person was not her mother at all!" Chen Mengyan said angrily.
"Not her mother? Who is she?" Chen Fei was also a little surprised.
"He's a liar. He has nothing to do." Chen Mengyan said: "When I called Teacher Zhao Ying just now, I accidentally dialed the wrong number. It turned out that a middle-aged woman answered the phone. I said I was looking for Zhao Ying. Teacher Ying, this woman told me that she was Zhao Ying’s mother, and that Zhao Ying was injured by a firecracker...it was all nonsense!"
"Oh? Then how did you know she was a liar later?" Chen Fei continued to ask.
"Later, this woman's son called Yang Ming back. Just now, he apologized to Yang Ming and said that his mother was old and like a child, she liked to make random jokes and told us not to mind... "Chen Mengyan said.
"So that's it, it's a false alarm!" Yang Dahai said, "It'll be fine..."
"Dad, do you think it was a crime for that woman to act like that before?" Chen Mengyan naturally wanted to act realistically.
"It's illegal... It's hard to say... If you find it, the most it can do is criticize and educate. Forget it, Mengyan, they all say old children, old children. Since there is such a saying, it means that old people are almost the same as children." Chen Fei laughed. Said: "Besides, you are missing one person, and she must be from L City. How can I find her? Could it be that because of this little thing, why don't I ask my classmate to arrest an old lady?"
"Haha, that's true!" Yang Ming also smiled: "Forget Meng Yan, the most important thing is that Teacher Zhao Ying is fine, this is better than anything else!"
Because the two people spoke so convincingly, no one doubted the authenticity of this matter. In the eyes of Chen Fei and Yang Dahai, there was no need to lie about this kind of thing!
Yang Ming felt relieved and felt at ease watching TV, especially after seeing Zhao Benshan and Xiao Shenyang's sketch, both families laughed happily...
At twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, the New Year's bell rang. Mother Chen stood up and said: "Brothers and sisters, let's go and make dumplings! Eat dumplings at midnight..."
The dumplings were made in the morning, so six people couldn't eat much, just enough.
After eating dumplings, Chen Fei suggested going out to set off firecrackers. This has become a custom for many people. At twelve o'clock, they would make dumplings and then go out to set off firecrackers after eating the dumplings. At this time, the sound of firecrackers was heard outside the window. The new year is here!
After putting on their down jackets, the six people went downstairs with a set of prepared "earth red" firecrackers. In the courtyard of the community, many neighbors were already setting off firecrackers.
Most people in this community knew each other. When Chen Fei and his family came out, they greeted them warmly. Chen Fei also took the initiative to introduce Yang Ming's family to others.
This is also an affirmation of Yang Ming's identity. However, Chen Mengyan is also a college student, so it is not surprising that she has a boyfriend. Everyone expressed their blessing.