What David says goes, and just the night before the trip with Nada, Adolf calls him.
David saw it was Adolf's call and his first reaction was to hang up .
When Adolf saw that the phone was hung up, he looked like "????". He called again, and was still hung up, and was speechless.
He called Mr. Lee's housekeeper, knew that David was at home, and called David again, and when he was hung up, he kept on dialing, he didn't believe that David could keep hanging up on him.
On the eleventh call, David finally answered, "... Dad, what's up?"
Adolf gasped and laughed, "Why did you hang up on me?"
David backtracked, "Then why are you calling me now at this hour? The exams are over, and you're just calling me, you don't care about me at all!"
Adolf: "..."
Adolf explained sheepishly, "I was too busy a while ago... How was it, did you do well on the exam?"
David accused, "It's too late for you to ask me now, you just don't love me, do you have another son out there?"
Adolf: "... What are you babbling about?"
He cleared his throat, "Anyway, it's good that you've finished your exams, you should come back after that, right? It's been so long since you've been out there, dad still misses you."
No sooner had he finished speaking than Adolf heard the beep of the phone hanging up.
Adolf: "..."
What is it?
He goes to dial David's number again, followed by an infinite busy signal--David has blacklisted him!
Adolf: "..."
He hung up the phone with a grimace, thinking, "Don't have to have this son.
David hung up the phone and turned his head to smile at Nada, "Stars ignore the phone, let's keep learning, I think this high math is pretty interesting."
Nada looked at him and before she could say anything, she heard David continue, "Can we still sleep together at night? I can't even sleep without you, so you can keep supervising me getting up."
"No, the exams are over, there's no need for you to get up that early." Nada lowered her eyes and changed the subject, "Your dad called to ask you to come back?"
David said, "My dad is asking me about my grades."
The words just fell, his cell phone caller ringing again, he picked up the phone to see, is Alex, he answered, Alex a mouth is: "exams finished, when you come back? How long has it been since we got together? Everyone misses you."
David said, "No more no more, don't call me for a while, I've got high math to study."
Alex: "... You're not, you're studying on vacation?"
David said, "I'm afraid I won't be able to keep up with my studies at Tsinghua."
Alex: "..."
Someone next to him grabbed Alex's phone and blurted out, "David, no you don't, you really think you're going to get into Harvard, don't you?"
David heard, the boss is not happy, he worked hard these two months, put these people on a day is estimated to be unable to stand, but he is day by day, insisted on the whole two months!
How is it that all the hard work and tears he put in are so worthless in their mouths?
David collapsed into a batch face and said in a less than gentle tone, "So want to make a bet? Bet on whether or not I pass the test."
As soon as these words came out, Jack over there sounded excited, "Bet on it! I'll definitely bet! How about a cruise ship? It happens to be my birthday next month, consider it a birthday present from you!"
Alex frowned, "Are you kidding me, even a small cruise ship costs millions, you're betting too much."
Jack said, "What are you afraid of, which one of us is short of money, David won't be short of money, even if he doesn't have it, doesn't he still have his dad's black card? He can definitely afford to gamble!"
Since David was on external playback, Nada heard what the man said as well, and he couldn't help but frown.
David was not provoked, and when he was stimulated by Jack, he immediately agreed, "Just bet, I'm afraid of you."
Alex saw David agree and looked at Jack less approvingly, "What's the betting on that?"
Jack had too much faith in David's abilities, and when he heard Alex say that , he immediately said, "I'll make the same bet, just a cruise ship."
David said, "OK, don't regret it when the time comes."
Jack said, "Jiang Sheng and the others are all around me, they all heard it, don't regret it, I've already looked at the style, just waiting for you to pay me hahahaha."
David was annoyed, "I'm not sure I'm going to lose yet, you're looking at style too soon!"
Jack just really don't believe David can get anything out of the test, he said in a dangling manner, "There are still ten days to go before the results come out, let's see then, if you can pass the test, I will not only give you a cruise ship, I will also wash my hair upside down! No, I'll wash my hair upside down!"
At that comment, there were sounds of disgust from the girls next to him, and David let out a "Vomit", "Jack you're disgusting!!!"
Jack grinned and said, "We'll see who wins in a dozen days, and you're cursing early."
Alex grabbed the phone, walked to a secluded place and said to David, "What are you betting with him, even if you didn't pass the exam, your six hundred points are much better than him, it should be worth to be happy, so betting, the good thing has turned into a bad thing."
David said in an exasperated tone, "He's throwing as much water on me as he can, so I'll take the test and show him."
Alex said, "It's too late for you to say anything now that the test is over, just wait for the results to come in."
And then he said, "Our side of the test is kinda hard, what about your side? If it was easy, it didn't go wrong."
David said, "I'm done anyway!"
"..." Alex was a little speechless hearing all the pride in his tone, feelings of being done is a victory? "... Your dad's not going to beat you, is he?"
David: "Why did you hit me?"
Alex: "..."
All right.
Hanging up the phone, David said to Nada, "Wait for the stars, I'll win you over a cruise ship."
Nada: "... Is this how you all get along?"
David: "Anon?"
Nada said, "Moving to bet on some cruise ship or luxury car?"
David said, "Oh, that's not moving, it's just occasional, it's usually a bet on who buys the drinks bill."
Nada said, "Isn't it usually you."
David was pleasantly surprised, "How did you know that, Star? You're too smart for that!?"
He said and gave Nada a thumbs up.
Nada: "..."
No, he's really questioning his intelligence ah.
But the fact that he's progressing so fast academically means there's nothing wrong with his IQ.
Nada was deep in thought.
David looked at him without saying anything and suddenly got something and said carefully, "Don't worry, I think I should be able to pass."
Nada looked up at him and said, "Our province's exam questions are indeed going to be easier this year, simpler than in previous years, and probably the admission score is going to go up."
David listened and said, "Oh, no wonder, I said how I could do it all."
Nada said, "But the big questions are hard, we bet on most of them, you should be able to pass ..." it.
Despite saying that, Nada's eyelids popped under the pressure of the cruise ship bet.
Why is David such a loser? Doesn't his dad care about him?
It's a rare occasion when Nada feels pressured.
David is heartless, he said, "I also think that, volunteering my first two filled in Harvard, if neither of them on the ..." scratched his head, showing a bright smile, "should be able to get in. "
Nada's heart just jumped at the possibility, and it was hard to contain her disappointment.
He was suddenly a little afraid to imagine the possibility that David hadn't passed the test.
In fact, it was only normal that he didn't get in, as far as outsiders were concerned, even if he had a famous teacher and the number one in his grade to tutor his homework, progressing from a three-book to a Harvard kind of degree in just two months was a pie in the sky, a completely impossible goal.
It's only normal that you didn't get in.
But Nada has always believed that David can, because he is not stupid, he is in the learning aspect of the head can actually turn very quickly, and a little bit, born to learn a good seedling, also do not know whether the rich life corroded his fighting spirit, or is not the desire to learn, he grades will be so poor, but seriously, his talent is actually not even lose him.
Nada believes in miracles, but is also afraid of having her hopes dashed.
His gaze fell to David's carefree, bright smile, nervous and heart-stopping.
A few days later, when they returned from a trip to Lijiang, David was rushed home by dozens of phone calls from Adolf.
David repeatedly asked Nada to just stay at his place and not go anywhere, and Nada didn't leave.
He continued to work as a summer tutor at the previous family's house, and his hourly rate was increased to 100 an hour, with the hostess saying to him with a smile, "You're getting such good grades, in case you get into Harvard, and then I'll pay you less for this time!"
Such words also forced back Nada's excuses, calling out some faint blush.
Though he hadn't had the love and care of a family in eighteen years, both Ekin, Mignon, David, and all these people who had unabashedly unleashed their kindness on him had given him a sense of warmth that was unparalleled.
He splurged once, bought a smartphone, asked the clerk at the cell phone store very rudimentarily, learned to download px dating apps, and entered David's phone number.
He bought a calling card and called David first thing.
David answered right away, "Hello?"
Nada said, "It's me."
David said in surprise, "Star you finally got a cell phone!"
Nada stood on the street with a gift box in her hand, "I'm still on my way, it's going to be a little loud."
David said, "It's noisy on my end too, my dad's organized a dinner party, my uncles and uncles are here, climbing over my son."
Nada glanced at the stoplight and opted to turn around and head back toward the secluded area, "They crowding you?"
David said, "That's true, all my uncles and uncles depend on my dad for their livelihood, so if you can't beat my dad in that area, you can only beat your son."
Nada said, "You can squeeze back."
David graciously said, "I won't bother with them, but my dad will squeeze back in and bring you to see my dad group warring sometime."
Nada: "... is tongue-in-cheek."
David: "..."
David laughed hahahahahahahaha, "It's all the same all the same, it's all a group fight."
Nada: "..."
So silly, but, so cute.The corners of Nada's lips unconsciously curled up into a smile.
David hangs up, returns to his seat.
The exchange of words between the relatives had just begun when David's eldest uncle, Qin Dejiang, saw him come back and started another conversation, "Who is Zhong Yue talking to on the phone? It's not his girlfriend, is it?"
David is most annoyed with Qin Dejiang, before he married Nada as his wife, Qin Dejiang squeeze the most ruthless, but also very lowly Nada, in the company vigorously to Nada shoes, these he knows, to Adolf complained, Adolf also did not care, said he let him take a good look at his wife's ability.
Then there was no more, Nada was much more powerful than him, and made Qin Dejiang suffer a lot of dumb losses.
Because of this, his son Mat is still trying to spread rumors to his side, to provoke the relationship between the couple.
If it were a normal man, he'd be tempted, but David is not at all. He trusts Adolf's vision, and therefore trusts Nada as well.
You have to be loyal and trustworthy to your wife.
David knew the difference between what was right and what was wrong, and if he couldn't help Nada, he had to at least try not to drag his feet.
It's that he controls him too much, and his attitude is cold, cold, cold, and there's very little heart-to-heart, or David can't really say what's wrong with him.
But now that David thinks about it seriously, none of the things that Nada is minding him about are out of a desire to control him, are they, or are just for his own good.
If they didn't care about him, they wouldn't care about him, and they wouldn't even look at him while he was out spending his time.
Although there is no way to ask for proof now, David attempts to speculate on Nada's thoughts from these behaviors.
When Qin Dejiang saw that he didn't answer his words, his face became a bit unbearable, "Zhong Yue doesn't even answer uncle's words now, right? Being so high and mighty at such a young age, you won't have to suffer some pain in the future."
Adolf sipped his tea in a relaxed manner and said, "He's not high and mighty, he's just like that, he doesn't really like to talk to people, I'm his father, he still pulls my phone number."
Qin Dejiang said, "You are also too spoiled son, he is not properly disciplined at this age, in the future will know filial piety to you as a father?"
Adolf said, "Discipline what, I think he's fine just the way he is, I like it."
Qin Dejiang saw that he did not enter the oil and salt, immediately changed the topic, "Zhong Yue exams how ah? If the score is enough, you can go to Wenxuan's school ah, brothers can also have a care."
Mat sat aside and said coolly, "Dad, you're thinking too much, Brother Zhong Yue's grades are only good enough to be accepted abroad, which university in this country can accept him."
Qin Dejiang patted his palm and said with a fake smile, "How did I forget, Zhong Yue this score want to go to a good university is difficult ah, to the two brothers in a piece of high school, I can still let Wenxuan tutor him tutoring."
David gave them a look that was mushy as hell; Mat was a few months younger than him, but was particularly fond of the f*cking school bully persona, skipping grades since elementary school, and now, at seventeen, he was a sophomore at a major university.
And don't get too cocky Mat, your dad will have three illegitimate children popping up later and you'll be a two-timer by then.
He muttered in his heart, his father smiled and answered: "Where can this be ah, our family is not a lack of tutors, some time ago, he found himself a teacher who taught a number of students of Tsinghua University senior teacher, do not say, the effect is quite good, he exams before the three models can be examined a ... eh? How many points?"
David looked up and picked up, "It's just over six hundred."
Adolf said, "Less, your mom has a PhD from Oxford, and you, as her son, should at least get a Harvard."
David's face was frustrated, "Hey, I was given too little time, only two months, if I had been given three more months, not to mention Harvard, Oxford would have had to fly cross-country to deliver my acceptance letter downstairs in our house."
A crowd of uncles and uncles were stunned, "Adolf, don't brag, the exam results will come out in a few days, there's no point in bragging."
Qin Dejiang laughed more powerful, "Adolf you apart from here we brag about what cattle ah, Zhong Yue what achievements everyone can see ah, are family members, and why show off their mouths here?"
Mat also sneered and said, "If Brother Zhong Yue can get into the first book, the sows are afraid that they will get on the trees."
David was a little angry to hear that, but Adolf said without haste, "Yeah, there's still another ten days or so out, what can I brag about."
Adolf said in a joking tone: "I don't have high requirements for him, just get a book, and don't go abroad if you can, the family is not far away."
Can do the second grandfather is basically the smallest child in the family, because the top of the big brother on top, even if the inheritance of the family business is not the turn of the small, can do well is a minority, do too well also can not, the top of the big brother staring, and therefore most of the state has become the second grandfather of the eating, drinking and playing.
Adolf only has one son like David, but he doesn't cultivate him very carefully. The side line naturally tries to raise their children in any way they can, so excluding David, all of his cousins are very good.
As soon as that happens, David gets compared to scum.
In the past, he did not care, heard more like a fart, but also think that his dad high ideological awareness, so he spoiled him, do not force him to inherit the family business.
But how could he listen to Adolf say these things now, and think that he had some pressed bragging rights?
It's true that there is no family that doesn't expect their children to not excel.
David is a little emotional and moved by the forced smiles Adolf has been putting on in front of his relatives over the years, and he can't help but look at Adolf with a little bit of admiration.
Adolf noticed his gaze and twisted his head to look at him, startled by the tearful look in his eyes, his hair nearly standing on end, he barely managed to keep his composure as he continued to talk and laugh with the uncles and uncles.
When everyone had gone, Adolf reconfirmed, "You're sure you didn't fail the test, right?"
David said slowly, "Maybe."
Adolf said, "Don't be unreliable at a critical time like this, can you stand up to that little student?"
David immediately said cheerfully, "I can't apologize to anyone but him! No matter what, Tsinghua will deliver the acceptance letter directly to our house in 10 days!"
Adolf: "..."
He changed the subject and said, "How come you didn't have that little classmate of yours over for summer vacation? He's been tutoring you day and night, so you have to invite people over, right?"
David was a little bitter when he heard this, "He doesn't want to come."
Adolf thought for a moment, "Forget it then, there's no rush, that little classmate of yours is kind of devoted to you, and with your temperament, he'll be able to grind it out for you."
Once David heard it, Adolf seemed to have a crush on Nada ...
It's normal, the old comrade Qin appreciated Nada especially in the previous generation, and to be honest David even did the thing of secretly going to test the paternity of the two of them.
After all, if Adolf really has an illegitimate child, it does not have the guts to bring to the stage, after all, he still has to chase his mother, if this matter is exposed, it will certainly not work, his mother's eyes can not tolerate sand.
That would give him a motive to marry Nada, too. It's better to have a brotherly relationship than a sisterly one. It's better to have a brother than a sister.
Smoothly brought to the front of the stage to have a legitimate reason to manage the company not to mention his marriage.
David thought so at the time, and thought that was the rationale, but now he thinks about it, and it's kind of silly.
How could he doubt the noble qualities of old Comrade Qin?
There's no way a guy like him would have betrayed him and his mom by having an illegitimate child!
David apologizes for his last life's unwarranted speculations about Adolf, and treats Adolf extraordinarily dutifully, peeling oranges for him with his own hands, not to mention bringing a tub of hot water to wash Adolf's feet that night.
It freaked Adolf out, "What's going on with your brain?"
Feeling a little too melodramatic to be honest, and embarrassed to say something too melodramatic when he and Adolf were so used to being straight, David blurted out, "I'm doing an advance drill."
Adolf: "... What maneuver?"
David said, "An exercise in washing his future wife's feet."
Adolf: "..."
*
David couldn't stay in the house for more than a few days, all he could think about was Nada.
At night, when he went to bed, his hand would unconsciously reach aside, empty, and then inexplicable irritation would sweep over him.
At night he called Nada, lowered his voice and said quietly, "Star I miss you so much."
There was a moment of silence on Nada's end, her voice soft, "I miss you too."
David was thrilled to hear it, "Really? Did you miss me too?"
Nada was a little amused to hear his excited voice, "What, I can't miss you?"
David kicked under the covers a few times in excitement and said, "I don't think I've ever even heard you say you miss me, it seems like it's always me who misses you."
Nada paused for a moment, pressing the phone firmly to her ear as if that would bring her closer to David, "Just because I don't say anything doesn't mean I don't want to."
David said, "I want to see you."
Nada said, "I want to ... see you too," his voice was a few shades lighter, as if he had contained it in his mouth before spitting it out, "... want to see you. "
David boldly said, "Then I still want to kiss you."
"I also-" Nada paused.
David huffed a masked hahahahahaha and said, "I'm kidding!"
Nada laughed too, he laughed so softly that a little of the tail end of it dispersed like the wind, "And you just thought about it."
David's ears tickled a little at the chuckle, and more so his heart, and he was a little confused as to what he meant by this, asking stupidly, "... I can't think?"
Nada says, "You can not only think it, you can do it."
David: "????"
David: "!!!"
This is probably the innocent high school boy who gets hard when he hears the word "do".
Shy and excited, he asked, "Doing what?"
Nada laughed, lowering her voice to a soft tone, "Dream on."
David: "..."