Chapter 501

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

"I'm a single man, why would I care about these rumors?"

Wang Erhai laughed it off.

He indeed didn't care.

He devoted all his energy to work; this bit of village gossip wouldn't have any influence on him whatsoever.

He was afraid it would affect Liu Mei Qi, which was why he asked Liu Mei Qi out for a meal to apologize.

After all, Liu Mei Qi is a woman, and a woman's reputation is far more important than a man's.

"As long as you don't care. This small matter had best not affect the wager between us."

Liu Mei Qi smiled and raised a glass to Wang Erhai.

In the following period, Shanhai Real Estate was busily making all kinds of preparation work for the Chuncheng Garden opening sales, and the wager competition between Wang Erhai and Liu Mei Qi was also busily doing preliminary preparations.

Time flew, and it arrived at late August, nearly September.

Tomorrow is the day Wang Xiaohua goes to Tsinghua University to report.

Today is the last day Wang Xiaohua tutors Niu Linxin.

In the afternoon, Wang Xiaohua took time to assess Niu Linxin and Wang Xiaoqian's learning results.

The result was unsurprising: Niu Linxin hadn't improved much.

She spent almost every day thinking of ways to slack off; her time playing on her phone was much longer than her study time, so it was normal she didn't improve under these circumstances.

Wang Xiaoqian, on the other hand, had actually improved quite a lot.

Originally her math scores were only around sixty points.

Sixty points isn't passing, because the junior high math exam is out of 120; she originally could only get half the points, equivalent to scoring fifty on a hundred-point exam.

But now, Wang Xiaoqian could actually score around ninety points; if she performed well, she could even reach around a hundred points.

It can be said her progress was extremely rapid.

However, this was also to be expected.

Over the entire summer vacation, Wang Xiaohua was practically tutoring Wang Xiaoqian one-on-one, and Wang Xiaoqian herself was very motivated, devoting all her energy to studying; under such circumstances, it would be hard for her not to improve.

Besides that, Wang Xiaoqian's physics scores also improved significantly, and she even previewed some chemistry knowledge.

Chemistry originally starts in the third year of junior high; now that she previewed it, when the third year starts she'll be able to seize the initiative and at least build confidence.

"Xiaohua, thank you for tutoring Lin Xin these days!"

Niu Chunsheng took out ten thousand yuan and settled the tutoring fee with Wang Xiaohua.

Wang Xiaohua felt a bit embarrassed to accept it, because over this month-plus he had barely taught Niu Linxin any studying.

He really wanted to refuse this money and tell Niu Chunsheng the truth.

But as soon as he thought that if this matter were exposed, it would affect the father-daughter relationship between Niu Chunsheng and Niu Linxin, and moreover the Niu family study originally had surveillance cameras installed; logically speaking, Niu Linxin's study condition — without him, Wang Xiaohua, needing to remind them — Niu Chunsheng and Lin Xiaofang, as parents, should have already understood long ago.

Thinking like this, the guilt in Wang Xiaohua's heart wasn't so heavy anymore.

And Niu Linxin at the side was busy urging him to take the money:

"Brother Xiaohua, just hurry up and take the money. My dad isn't short of this bit of money; you tutored me this long, my dad giving you money is only right!"

The reason Niu Linxin urged Wang Xiaohua to hurry and take the money wasn't because she was that kind, but because she had long seen through that Wang Xiaohua's reluctance to accept the money was hesitation over whether to expose her real situation of slacking off and not studying.

If this truth were exposed, she'd probably get a severe scolding from her parents; although her parents wouldn't beat her — she'd never been beaten by her parents since childhood — being scolded still feels awful.

So she had to round out this lie, had to seal Wang Xiaohua's mouth!

Niu Linxin even snatched the money from her dad's hand and forcibly stuffed it into Wang Xiaohua's hand:

"Just take it, don't be all womanish and fussy!"

Wang Xiaohua could only wryly smile and accept the money:

"Alright then, thank you guys!"

Niu Chunsheng then said with a smile:

"Xiaohua, call your Second Brother over; tonight we'll eat a meal together!"

Wang Xiaohua nodded:

"Okay, Uncle Chunsheng!"

Wang Xiaohua also said:

"I'll go back to the rental house to pack up first, then come over with my Second Brother in the evening."

Niu Chunsheng replied with a smile:

"Good good, then you go back; come over at six o'clock!"

After Wang Xiaohua left, Niu Linxin and Wang Xiaoqian also went out shopping together.

Only Niu Chunsheng and Lin Xiaofang, the couple, remained at home.

Lin Xiaofang was washing vegetables in the kitchen, preparing tonight's food ingredients.

Her complexion wasn't good; displeased emotion hung on her face.

Niu Chunsheng noticed she had emotion, came over to help wash vegetables, and asked:

"What's wrong with you?"

Lin Xiaofang said coldly:

"Still asking what's wrong? Don't you know yourself? Wang Xiaohua basically didn't tutor our daughter's homework at all, yet you still gave him ten thousand yuan — what for? In my opinion, giving him five thousand would already be giving too much!"

Lin Xiaofang only went to check the study's surveillance video last night; not checking she wouldn't know, one check and she was shocked — she didn't expect that Wang Xiaohua, who looks simple and honest on the outside, would actually cooperate with Niu Linxin to hide things from them, letting Niu Linxin keep slacking off and not studying!

This made Lin Xiaofang furious.

Niu Chunsheng was also extremely depressed about this.

The tutor he spent money to hire, in the end didn't teach his own daughter anything, but instead let Wang Xiaoqian, who came along to study together, improve by leaps and bounds — isn't this equivalent to all the money he spent going entirely to Wang Xiaoqian?

However depressed he was, Niu Chunsheng still gave the money he should give, and he didn't blame Wang Xiaohua either.

Because the surveillance video clearly recorded that it was Niu Linxin who threatened and intimidated Wang Xiaohua not to interfere with her; Wang Xiaohua reminded her repeatedly, but she still insisted on having her own way, so Wang Xiaohua was also helpless.

"Don't think like that; our daughter, she's just not cut out for studying, some things can't be forced."

Niu Chunsheng comforted Lin Xiaofang.

Lin Xiaofang, however, was still seething with resentment:

"Wang Xiaohua should have at least told us; he helped Lin Xin conceal the truth, what kind of thing is that!"

Niu Chunsheng gave a bitter laugh, and continued to patiently comfort her:

"Our daughter has too many ghost ideas; Xiao Hua simply can't compete with her, so he could only submit to her."

Then he added:

"Don't always think the worst; actually this has benefits too — Xiao Hua may not have made Lin Xin improve in her studies, but at least he prevented Lin Xin from going outside this summer vacation to hang out with those delinquent teenagers; based on this point alone, I feel this money was worth spending."

Lin Xiaofang rolled her eyes:

"You, Niu Chunsheng, have lots of money, you're not short of money, that's why you think it's worth it; before you donated five hundred thousand, then later spent one hundred fifty thousand on endorsement fees — is the money you've spent on Wang Xiaohua not enough?"

Niu Chunsheng was at a loss whether to laugh or cry:

"Aren't there reasons for all of this? I don't want to spend this much money either, but circumstances are stronger than people; some money has to be spent. But you can rest assured — this money spent, just wait until National Day when Spring City Garden opens for sales, and it'll be earned back immediately!"