catch the dream

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: "There's so much for breakfast!"

Zhou Sheng: "Just buy 168 per person, eat it, don't be too polite, and be generous to others."

Yu Hao: "You still remember."

Chen Yekai only took a cup of coffee, looked down at the phone quietly, Yu Hao knew he was reading Long Sheng's letter.In the end, Chen Yekai put down his phone, rubbed his face, and finally became more energetic.

"I'm sorry." Chen Yekai said, "It's me who has brought you such a big trouble. It's too dangerous."

Zhou Sheng said casually, "We both made mistakes in our own judgment, so it's not your fault."

This was the most serious and outrageous mistake Zhou Sheng ever made. Neither he nor Yu Hao expected that Lin Xun was so powerful in Chen Yekai's dream, until it covered the sun in his conscious world.In the end, he was almost killed by Lin Xun, but fortunately, the three of them worked together in the end and broke through the siege.But it also adds a very real case for the duo.

"Thinking about it now." Zhou Sheng said to Yu Hao, "My parents' dreams are simply not a big deal."

"That's right!" Yu Hao came back to his senses, compared with Chen Yekai's Chichen Itza, what Shi Ni's lighthouse and the Great Wall have all become a novice teaching mode.

"The future is full of clues." Chen Yekai looked out the floor-to-ceiling windows of the restaurant and said, "but I have been reborn. Even though I am locked in a nutshell, 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 got my qualification for the bicycle race yet."

Chen Yekai cheered up, took out his mobile phone, and said, "Leave it on me, 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 for me. Since the first day we met, you have always been obliged to help us, so please don't be strangers."

"I know." The corners of Chen Yekai's mouth curled up slightly, and he said in a daze, "Okay, don't look outside."

Zhou Sheng motioned to Yu Hao, meaning what do you want to ask, you ask first?

Yu Hao waited for the waiter to collect the plate, took a sip of coffee, thought for a while, and said, "I don't have anything special to ask, but I think Long Sheng has something to tell you."

Chen Yekai raised his eyebrows slightly, and Zhou Sheng said, "I'll see what Long Sheng said, or you can talk in private when you have time."

Chen Yekai said suddenly: "Okay, I also want to explain something to Yu Hao clearly."

"Yes." Zhou Sheng replied with satisfaction.

Yu Hao: "???"

Yu Hao always felt that there seemed to be some cleverness between the two of them, which he didn't understand.He cast a "What do you mean?" look at Zhou Sheng, but Zhou Sheng didn't look at him, he tilted his chair, pressed his fingers on the dining table, knocked casually, and frowned deeply.

"Then, Zhou Sheng, what do you want to ask?" Chen Yekai said.

"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? Apart from being psychologically interfered by Lin Xun."

Yu Hao: "???"

"Yes." Chen Yekai nodded and said, "Lin Xun's psychological intervention on me has indeed affected me to a great extent, which made me... make many wrong decisions. Let's start from the beginning, including what we talked about. Some things... I think, this will make you clearer. Things are going to come... Let me think about it. During the time when I decided to return to China, Mr. Lin... Lin Xun's marriage with Mr. Liang has always been very serious. The problem."

Chen Yekai knew Lin Xun. He was first introduced by a friend of his father when he went to New York to study.Soon, the couple of professors 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 when he was in college. Liang Jinmin was overwhelmed by his talent and self-confidence.After marriage, Lin Xun was funded to go abroad to do research, and he also left his hometown to live in New York together.In the local Chinese circle, Lin Xun and his wife have always presented themselves as a loving couple.

But only Chen Yekai knew that in private, Lin Xun's affair was quite serious, and he had a serious fight with Liang Jinmin.Lin Xun's hobby is very peculiar, he likes to develop relationships with married women very much.

"He harassed female students?" Zhou Sheng asked in disbelief.

"No." Chen Yekai said, "The situation is more serious."

Lin Xun is very smart. If he harassed a student, he would be complained. His affair partners were 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 settling down, they applied to the US authorities for family reunification and took over their wives from China.During the period of applying for a green card or holding a green card, Lin found an opportunity and took advantage of it. After finding a good partner for an affair, he started an extramarital affair.

Yu Hao was completely dumbfounded.

"This..." Yu Hao couldn't believe it, and said, "Won't other couples beat him to death?"

"It depends on his methods." Chen Yekai said helplessly, "Don't forget what he is studying."

Extramarital affairs are originally a matter of willing to fight and suffer. Lin Xun has both connections and means, and he is very precise in finding objects. He only picks the wives of male scholars who are not clean in their families. Some of these male scholars are held in the United States. They have been prostitutes, and some have scandals with students.

And Lin Xun, as a well-maintained and elegant man in his fifties, picked up on their wives and almost took aim at each other.

Those young people themselves either have emotional taints, such as cheating on their legs when they lived 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 reveal it, because if he was in the process of applying for reunion If an extramarital affair occurs, the Immigration Bureau will doubt the true existence of this marriage, and it is likely to leave a deposit certificate in the immigration approval process.

And Liang Jinmin was very angry about this, and once broke out 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 original family, his parents respected each other like guests and never spoke loudly. When he saw the scene of Liang Jinmin being raped by Lin Xun, he was very impressed.

His first thought was to call the police decisively, but Liang Jinmin stopped him. Later, Liang Jinmin talked to him countless times and begged him not to call the police.After all, in the United States, domestic violence is very serious, and Lin Xun will definitely be caught.Later, Lin Xun knelt down to apologize to Liang Jinmin, and got Liang Jinmin's forgiveness.

"Why didn't she get a divorce?" Yu Hao asked in disbelief.

"There will be no divorce." Zhou Sheng took out his cigarette case and lit a cigarette.

Chen Yekai said: "I also asked the same question as you, Mr. 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 Yu Hao's supervision, Zhou Sheng smokes very little now, only two or three cigarettes a day.

"For a long time afterwards." 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 hardly did anything anymore, but Chen Yekai still suspected that Lin Xun would occasionally slap Liang Jinmin across the face, or rape her without leaving a trace, However, Liang Jinmin, the person involved, was unwilling to give up this relationship anyway, and Chen Yekai couldn't help him even if he wanted to.

At that time, Chen Yekai's mood was very complicated. Lin Xun not only supported him, treated him as his own son, but also had a rather dark side of his personality...

"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 is facing you, you can feel that he cares about you."

Chen Yekai said helplessly: "Yes, in addition to this, there is also my personal worship for him. He is very knowledgeable and treats his profession very...seriously, a scholar who has knowledge and professionalism, but abandons morality. , is simply a devil."

Lin Xun taught Chen Yekai too much, not only professionally, but also the principles of life and life.Including feelings, friends, society, family, etc., these are things Chen Yekai never learned from his father who is a lawyer.After all, lawyers only have rules in their eyes, and society is like a ruthless machine.

On the other hand, Lin Xun's human nature always shines extremely brightly. Professionally, Chen Yekai is convinced, but morally, it makes him angry.Fortunately, Chen Yekai didn't get any more news about Lin Xun's extramarital affairs, and after a period of stability, the Long Sheng incident finally broke out.

Lin Xun still tried his best in this incident, even though he tried hard to persuade Chen Yekai to no avail, he still respected his decision in the end.

"I am very grateful to Mr. Lin for this matter." Chen Yekai said, "At that time, I didn't even notice that there was any abnormality in it."

"You graduated later." Yu Hao said.

"Yes." Chen Yekai nodded.

After graduating with a master's degree, Chen Yekai lived a full year of unexamined life. He tried to go to work and use busyness to heal himself, but the pressure almost overwhelmed him. Liang Jinmin persuaded him to go back to Columbia University to help, so Chen Yekai Kay went back occasionally, running back and forth between the company and the university.

Over 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 got a bit big, Liang Jinmin finally couldn't bear it anymore and decided to divorce Lin Xun, the two had a quarrel that turned upside down.The cheating partner began to threaten them, wanting to expose Lin Xun's dirty things and sue him.

Lin Xun begged Liang Jinmin for forgiveness. After the two negotiated, Liang Jinmin hoped that Lin Xun would return to China, bid farewell to this quagmire of life, and start over in a different environment.It just so happened that Liang Jinmin's mother was very old, and she also hoped to visit her mother more when she returned to China, and stay with her before the sick bed. If Lin Xun was unwilling, then she would get a divorce.

In the end, Lin Xun was soft and promised to treat his wife wholeheartedly from now on.

It turned out to be like this... Yu Hao finally understood.

Chen Yekai said: "Ms. Liang asked me if I wanted to come back. It just so happened that Central China has a very generous talent introduction plan. A friend of theirs in the United States introduced Dean Ning to Mr. Lin. My home is very close. I happened to be a transfer student in high school, and I studied in a neighboring city for another year. I thought, okay, I will go through the formalities and report to the college first. I don’t want to make it too complicated. The position of head teacher, relax, prepare the subject, and study Ph.D. with Mr. Lin..."

"No wonder the dean is so polite to you." Zhou Sheng said.

"Because the college relies on the academic giants like Mr. Lin." Chen Yekai pressed the cigarette in the ashtray and said, "I am his most proud student. What is Xue Long? A class teacher has to speak politely."

Yu Hao didn't know whether to laugh or cry, Chen Yekai said, "But the status of my dog ​​depends on the owner. You see, now that Mr. Lin is targeting me at first, the principal will never protect me."

"Next is the climax of the story." Zhou Sheng said.

"Well." Chen Yekai said, "You can probably guess it from the past and the aftermath."

Yu Hao asked: "Did he engage in extramarital affairs again 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, and after dealing with Yu Hao's affairs, Lin Xun and Liang Jinmin also returned to China on New Year's Day, but Lin Xun started to repeat the old tricks again. This time, the person who cheated was the high school he lived in a neighboring city. classmate's wife.They dated twice in private, and they were discovered by Liang Jinmin the second time. The husband and wife quarreled again, and then Lin Xun began to perform martial arts at home. In the past, he dared not perform many tricks in the United States and would be arrested and imprisoned.In China, no one cares about wife beating. Even if the police call the police, it is treated as a private family matter. After the police come and persuade them, they will go back.

Lin Xun has been holding back his anger for nearly ten years in the United States, and now he can play tricks to his heart's content and beat his wife.

"After beating the teacher's wife," Chen Yekai said, "after a while, he slapped himself, cried bitterly, and knelt down to apologize to the teacher's wife..."

Zhou Sheng couldn't believe it: "This person is really evil to the extreme."

Yu Hao didn't quite understand what Zhou Sheng said, but Chen Yekai said, "Yes, you also sensed that he was acting. His kneeling, crying, and begging for forgiveness were all teasing Master."

Yu Hao: "..."

Yu Hao felt that his whole life had been turned upside down for a moment. Chen Yekai said: "Based on my understanding of him, at that time he must have regarded this process as a game, a game of cat and mouse. His wife was being manipulated by him." Then, through his own performance, he got forgiveness from his wife, hit her again, begged her forgiveness again, hit her again... an endless loop. Teacher Lin may think this is very interesting, only the devil... would do this."

Yu Hao suddenly felt fear in his heart.

Chen Yekai said again: "I have tried everything, and the only way is divorce, but I have no evidence. I want to take my wife for an injury test, but my wife refused me. The client is unwilling to cooperate with me. I only hate myself for everything. I couldn't do it, so I turned to Huang Ting for help and made an appointment with my wife, but on the last day, my wife changed her mind again and again and again... I still can't let Lin Xun know about my private actions. Sometimes it's just a few words of dialogue, and he can guess what I'm thinking."

"It's very difficult." Chen Yekai said, "But not long after Yu Hao you took the stage, my teacher asked me out suddenly."

"Me?" Yu Hao asked blankly.

Chen Yekai nodded, and said again: "She said, that song, and you who sang, also reminded her of Longsheng, and even more of her days in the United States. We talked a lot that day, and inevitably Talking about you... She doesn't know why her life is like this, she forgives time and time again, and is hurt again and again, she doesn't believe in the so-called fate, but she no longer has the courage to find the truth for her life. For any reason, in short, she finally decided to divorce."

Getting a divorce would be very cumbersome. Apart from divorce, Liang Jinmin had also decided not to let Lin Xun go on like this. Before meeting Chen Yekai, she tried to collect evidence of Lin Xun's cheating all along.

Inadvertently, through the footprint records on the Apple account, Liang Jinmin discovered that Lin Xun had been to a coffee shop not far from the downstairs of Chen Yekai's house four years ago.

That day, Liang Jinmin presented evidence to Chen Yekai one by one. When this incident was brought up, Chen Yekai suddenly thought of three days before graduation defense for some reason.After Long Sheng was diagnosed with depression, he hardly ever went out, but he went out abnormally that day, and brought Chen Yekai 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 just went 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 afterward, Long Sheng didn’t mention it to me.”