NOVEL NEXT Chapter 460 The heartbroken old father
Chapter 460 The heartbroken old father
Chapter 460 The heartbroken old father
"When will your book go on sale?" Ever since he signed a publishing contract with the magazine, Lin Zhe has asked him every once in a while. The closer to the end of the year, the more frequent the question becomes. Now he asks it almost every day.
Lin Yue sat cross-legged on the sofa, eating potato chips, staring at the TV. The popular idol drama was playing on the TV, "Come on, the editor said to send me fifty copies when the first batch of books comes out." .”
"How can fifty copies be enough?" Lin Zhe waved his hand and said, "Ask her to send a thousand copies! I'll pay for it!" As if he was supporting his daughter.
Lin Yue was almost frightened by her father's "lofty ambitions" and said, "Dad~"
Shen Xiaojun came out of the bedroom with a shawl on his shoulders, "A thousand copies, you can't think of it. Do you still want to give them to people?"
Then he said to Lin Yue: "Don't listen to your father."
Lin Yue wrinkled her nose and nodded.
Lin Zhe looked at this and that. One thousand seemed a bit too much, "Then let her send five hundred."
Lin Yue kept shaking his head, "Dad, please let me go. We can just know it ourselves. Don't tell anyone else."
"Your uncles and uncles all know it. I said before that I would give them books. I have already said this, and I cannot go back on it."
Maybe they are being polite!
Lin Yue was about to cry but could only blame herself for not letting her father keep it secret at the beginning. "It wouldn't take five hundred copies. Fifty copies would be enough."
"Where can I find enough?" Lin Zhe counted them to her item by item. "If I can send them over during the Chinese New Year, I should take a hundred copies home, right? Your grandparents, grandparents, relatives on both sides, cousins, etc. Do you have to give one copy to each person?"
There are also the folks in the village. In their hometown, the village has probably not produced a writer in the past hundred years. There is a promising person in his old Lin family. If he doesn't mention it after he returns and let them know, it will be like Walking in brocade at night.
Of course, you don’t need to say this yet.
"Friends on your father's side, friends on your mother's side, and your classmates..."
Lin Yue quickly made a pause gesture and said, "Dad, there's no need. Really, no one among my classmates knows that I'm writing novels. I don't plan to blow myself up. There are only fifty books, not one more."
Afraid of her father nagging her again, Lin Yue put on her shoes and ran away.
Lin Zhe clicked his tongue, pointed at her back and said to Shen Xiaojun: "Are you afraid that people will know about such a good thing, and you don't know who you look like?"
Shen Xiaojun glanced at him sideways, "Like me."
Lin Zhe raised his eyebrows, "That's not necessarily true. Xiaoyue's literary skills are obviously inherited from me. Back then, I was in charge of the blackboard newspaper in our class! When you were studying, you only secretly knitted sweaters under the desk, right? ?”
Shen Xiaojun's forehead was throbbing with veins. She shouldn't have told him about what happened when she was studying.
"A good man, not to mention his bravery in the past, I am now more educated than you! How can you say that your blackboard newspaper has writing skills? It would make people laugh to death." After reacting, he asked: "You don't brag like this to others when you go out, do you? ?”
"I'm not stupid!"
Shen Xiaojun chuckled, "Then you think I'm stupid?"
Lin Zhe stopped talking and changed the topic, "Why hasn't Xiaowei come back yet? Haven't you had enough fun outside?"
After the holiday, Lin Wei called back and said that she and her classmates would go to Northern Europe to see the aurora and would come back later.
"We'll arrive in the afternoon the day after tomorrow. You can pick her up at the airport then. I have a meeting."
Lin Zhe nodded, "Okay, I'll go."
Lin Zhe was very happy that his eldest daughter was back, but when he saw the person accompanying his daughter, he immediately became unhappy!
The corners of his raised mouth drooped, no matter how enthusiastic the person opposite smiled, it was of no use to him.
"Uncle Lin."
Lin Zhe put his hands behind his back and nodded with a smile, "Yang Rui is here too! How did you meet?"
He still wanted to struggle a little longer, but the facts told him that one was in the United States and the other was in the United Kingdom. No matter how he went, it was impossible to take the same flight back home.
Lin Wei knew from the look on her father's face that he was overthinking, "We met in Sweden, and he also went to see the Aurora."
"Really?" Lin Zhe didn't believe it. The more he explained, the more he didn't believe it. "That's quite a coincidence." Didn't they make an appointment to go together?
The old father is evil and evil, and Xiao thinks that his daughter's man is not a good person, even if this man can do everything.
Lin Wei and Yang Rui looked at each other with helpless eyes and said silently: Don't worry!
Yang Rui raised his eyelids.
"Dad, let's go home quickly. I miss Aunt Su's cooking." He took Lin Zhe's hand and walked out.
Lin Zhe was led by his daughter for two steps, then turned around and asked Yang Rui, "Is there a driver to pick you up?" He finally looked like an elder.
Yang Rui smiled and said, "I'll take a taxi back myself."
Lin Zhe waved his hand, "Don't take a taxi. It's a ride anyway. I'll take you back."
"Thank you, Uncle Lin!" Yang Rui responded along the pole. When he arrived at the parking lot, he put his and Lin Wei's suitcases into the trunk. When he got in the car, he glanced at Lin Wei in the back seat and sat down knowingly. In the front passenger seat.
"Yang Rui, how old are you this year?" Lin Zhe asked while driving. Lin Wei in the back seat lowered her head and played with her mobile phone.
"Senior year."
"I'll graduate next year!"
"Yes, Uncle Lin."
"It's pretty fast. American universities last four years, right?"
"Yes, four years of undergraduate study."
"Xiao Wei only needs to study for three years in the UK."
"Yes, in the UK only Scotland requires four years of undergraduate study, while other areas require three years of study."
"Then what are your plans in the future? Will you continue to study in the United States, or return to China to help in the company?"
"I plan to continue studying for a master's degree and will not consider joining a company in the future."
"Are you planning to start your own business?"
Yang Rui nodded, "Yes."
"It's good. Young people nowadays like to start their own businesses. By the way, what is your undergraduate major?"
"ComputerScienceComputer Science..."
The two chatted all the way, and Lin Wei fell asleep while listening in the back row.
After sending Yang Rui to the door, Lin Zhe took his daughter home.
Lin Wei even said about his father in the car, "You just need to check your household registration. You asked too carefully."
"What's wrong with me asking more? Besides, do I still need to check his household registration? It's already clear to me. I need to see this kid's plans for the future."
Lin Wei tilted her head and hugged her arms and smiled, "What are your plans for the future? What's wrong with you, old man?"
Lin Zhe glanced at his eldest daughter in the rearview mirror, "He's not the only classmate you're talking about, right?"
Lin Wei blinked, "No, there are quite a few."
Lin Zhe was dubious, "You two made an appointment to see the aurora together, right?"
Lin Wei looked out the window, "Don't worry about these details..."
Lin Zhe hummed twice, the truth is often hidden in the details.
"Anyway, it's not what you think. I didn't plan to fall in love during college."
Haven't talked about it yet?
After a moment, Lin Zhe whispered: "Actually, we can also talk..."
Lin Wei didn't hear clearly, "Dad, what did you say?"
"Nothing..."
Forget it if you didn't hear it, the old father was heartbroken when he thought of his daughter getting married.