if you are still there

While muttering about what Fu Er did to him, Fu Dongli took Ding Xu forward and asked him to choose a restaurant for dinner, "I heard that these restaurants are pretty good, what do you want to eat?"

Ding Xu said: "It's okay, you can choose."

Fu Dongli thought for a while, and took him to a seafood shop.After the two went in, they found a quiet place by the window to sit down and chatted about the current situation.Fu Dongli smiled and said: "Recently, I have started a small business with my second brother, and I may be able to make some money. Don't rob me of this meal. I'll treat you."

Ding Xu took a sip of tea and said, "No need, we'll talk about it when you get the money. This time I'll treat you."

Fu Dongli beckoned someone to come to refill the tea, and joked with him: "Why are you so unfamiliar with me? You're not asking me to do something..."

Ding Xu paused, and said, "Maybe I really ask you for a favor."

Fu Dongli also got up seriously, sat up straight and looked at him and said, "What's wrong? What happened?"

Ding Xu said: "A little personal matter, I want my second brother to help introduce a familiar law firm, I want to find someone."

"Who are you looking for?"

"A little lawyer named Fang Chuan."

Fu Dongli wrote it down and said, "Okay, I'll call my brother and ask..."

"No need, you eat first, just go back and ask for me." Ding Xu quickly stopped him, a little apologetic: "I'm so sorry that I asked you to do business as soon as I came back."

His words just happened to hit Fu Dongli's weakness, but hearing Fu San's ears was very helpful, and he smiled and said, "I'm not going to feel good if you don't come to me. For dinner, the fish here is very delicious. Try it." Ding Xu had a meal with him on the pier once, and he prefers to eat fish, so he specially ordered a similar steamed fish this time after seeing it.

The two chatted for a while, and Fu Dongli told him about the school, saying: "Last time you participated in the Mathematical Olympiad and the school gave you a scholarship, but you didn't receive it and just left. The transfer is so sudden, no Few people know... Hey, what happened to you? Why did you leave suddenly?"

"There is something wrong at home." Ding Xu was silent for a while, and then said: "Actually, I didn't expect to transfer schools so suddenly. If I knew, I would definitely tell you."

Only then did Fu Dongli feel relieved, and said with a smile, "That's good, I couldn't contact you for the first few days, and you didn't come to school. I thought it was because I took you to the pier to play, and your parents Got it, I won't let you go out with me to mess around."

Fu Dongli's guess is almost the same, Zhong Jie's attitude was not very friendly at the beginning, it was a fuse for him to leave here, but in the final analysis, this matter has nothing to do with Fu San.It's all in the past, Ding Xu smiled at him and said, "How could that be?"

Fu Dongli was simple-minded, so he believed what Ding Xu said, and talked to him about some things in school during this period of time. After graduation, he chose a key high school in the city. When he said it, he was a little emotional, "Hey , Ding Xu, our homeroom teacher asked me about you. At first, he planned to recommend you for direct promotion, and all the places were submitted, but you suddenly transferred to another school, and the old class was not prepared to be shocked."

Ding Xu still has some impressions of this teacher who has taken him for three years. He is a very responsible teacher and has always been nice to him. "I'll go and see him when I have time."

"Then you have to go back to school to find him. He stayed at school recently to make up lessons for students! Oh, by the way, and your scholarship for the Mathematical Olympiad came down, and the old class asked me to bring it to you. This time it's alright, you Go and get it by yourself." Fu Dongli said with great interest, his eyes brightened, "Why don't I go with you! Take a photo of your trophy first, haha!"

Ding Xu coaxed him like a child, "Okay, I can give it to you."

Fu Dongli rubbed the tip of his nose, and said a little embarrassedly: "Your name is written on it, send it to me..." After thinking for a while, he changed his words, "You can also send it to me!"

The two of them agreed on a time, and they waited to go back to their alma mater together. After dinner, Fu Dongli's second brother also called over as if he was pinching the meal. .

Fu Er's voice became anxious on the phone, and he raised it by an octave: "Why did you disobey me after taking my money? Fu Dongli, let me tell you, you don't know when you go out this time. Think about it." The score you got in the test is 5 points in English! I bullied you even if I closed my eyes, and even dragging a fool on the side of the road to the test room will score more than you in the test!"

Fu Dongli was a little unhappy, and argued with his second brother with his neck blushing, "Why didn't you say that I got a perfect score in math!"

"... Hey~ It's reasonable for you to be biased? Although it's wrong for my elder brother to find seven tutors for you, but what's wrong with one tutor for each subject?! You come back to me immediately, my elder brother doesn't know about your going out yet. My son, I'll last two hours at most, let me tell you! The tutors are here, come back to make up lessons!" Fu Er issued the red notice, and hung up the phone regardless of whether the younger brother liked it or not.

Fu Dongli sat there with an aggrieved expression on his face. Ding Xu treated him like a child and persuaded him a few words. Fu Dongli listened to Ding Xu's words and went home awkwardly. Before he left, he said stubbornly: "I'll go back to see my second brother. He is most afraid of my elder brother's disgrace. He let me out. I have to protect him."

Ding Xu sent him away, but he was not in a hurry to go back. After thinking about it, he went to find Ding Chenghua.

He wanted to talk to his dad anyway.Whether it's a woman or something he's been hiding in his heart for a long time, he wants to talk to his dad in person.

Surprisingly, Ding Chenghua was at home today.Zhong Jie tried so hard to get him to go home more, but he never came back. Now that Zhong Jie left, he came home instead.

Ding Chenghua hesitated when he received Ding Xu's call, but let him in anyway.

The two of them sat there without much conversation, Ding Xu's face was cold, Ding Chenghua was also tense, he was smoking one cigarette after another, obviously he didn't know what to say at this time.However, in just a day or two, he also became haggard a lot, with rough clothes and obvious stubble on his face, making him look several years older.

He took a drag on his cigarette and said, "You heard what your mother said?"

"I've said a lot, and there are some things I want to verify with you personally." Ding Xu pursed his lips and said, "Why on earth did you become like this?"

Ding Chenghua said a little annoyed: "Why and why!" He was fed up with these trivial matters of the family, and he wanted a lover who pursued him more than his wife's benefactor attitude. "I've had enough. I can't stand a day like this. Your mother will only impose what she imagined on me..."

Ding Xu interrupted him in a cold voice: "Is that why you hit someone! Is that why you can do it to women!"

"Your mother told you this? She said I beat her, so did she say why I beat her?!" Ding Chenghua looked up at him, his chest heaving with anger: "She ripped off his clothes I locked her in the room for a day, and then called her husband to come and fetch her, but I just slapped her, and she was hospitalized with broken bones, did she say all that!"

"You also know that the other party has a husband, and you still do these things! Don't you feel ashamed!"

"I'm ashamed?!" Ding Chenghua looked at him, and said with a ferocious expression: "I'm ashamed and it's all because of her. If I had known this day would come, I would rather not have married her 20 years ago!"

Ding Xu was also trembling with anger, gritted his teeth and said, "You don't feel that you have done anything wrong at all?"

Ding Chenghua sat there silently, his face was ashen.

Ding Xu was silent for a while, then suddenly asked: "Dad, aren't you afraid of doing those things?"

Ding Chenghua frowned and looked at him, "What?"

"Grandpa persuaded you last time, right? You also know that it's wrong to do those things, why don't you cut off contact with those people as soon as possible? Not only grandpa knows about the red oil on the pier, but also other people, so you don't have to be afraid Is it?" Ding Xu took a deep breath and said, "Aren't you afraid that your family members will be implicated and that they will suffer? You have done these things with a clear heart, and you don't have any regrets..."

Ding Chenghua couldn't bear it anymore and smashed the ashtray under Ding Xu's feet, yelling, "Shut up!"

"Dad, can you stop being so selfish! Once this kind of thing is reported and investigated, have you ever thought about what will happen to your family?" Ding Xu was also angry for the first time, and he might even be alienated from his father. , but this is his home and his parents after all, he wants to help him no matter what.

"What about you? Can you stop being so selfish?! Ding Xu, who do you think you are talking to now!" Ding Chenghua was trembling with anger, pointing at Ding Xu and cursing: "I have raised you for so many years, raised you A dog has feelings too, I've never seen you eat my dog ​​and live in my dog ​​like this, and turn your head and bite your master as soon as you wipe your mouth!"

Ding Xu looked straight at him, with sarcasm in his eyes, "I know you have always looked down on me, and I look down on you now... I have lived so selfishly all my life, I really regret having a father like you."

Hearing what he said, Ding Chenghua's expression turned ugly, his forehead twitched a few times and he said, "What you said is also what I want to say to you! Get out of here! Get out now!"

Ding Xu stood up and walked out with a very gloomy face.

When he got out of the courtyard, he heard Ding Chenghua slam the door shut with a loud "boom", as if shut him out completely.Ding Xu felt cold in his heart, and walked for a long distance on the street outside, until he turned the corner, he couldn't help but slammed his fist on the wall a few times.Zhong Jie thought that he could soften Ding Chenghua's heart, but he was nothing in Ding Chenghua's heart, that person even said that he was not as good as a dog...

If he was a young man, he might not be able to understand so many meanings in the words of adults, but now he is just a shell of a young man, he can understand what those people say, and see more things than before.

The phone rang, and Ding Xu leaned against the corner to answer the phone. Xiao Liangwen called, and the low voice came over as always: "Hey, Ding Xu, I may have to go back later, and now I'm back in X province. Major Pan has something to tell me to handle..."

Ding Xu's voice was hoarse, and he asked, "Where are you?"

Xiao Liangwen was stunned for a moment, and said a place name, which was the place Pan Feng had arranged for him.

Ding Xu nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go find you later."