Chapter 430

Li Ye was led by the hand by Wen Leyu as they quietly followed Mu Yunning, who was not far ahead; surprisingly, they made almost no sound on the snowy road along the lakeside.

Li Ye observed carefully and discovered that Wen Leyu stepped exactly into the footprints left by the person ahead with every step, and from time to time, she would turn her head back to make an extremely soft "shh" sound.

Only at this moment did Li Ye deeply realize that the year Wen Leyu spent practicing bayonet drills with him had not been in vain; previously, she had been like a thin, weak bean sprout that required Li Ye's constant infusion of care to become lush and full again.

But at this moment, as she moved stealthily, Wen Leyu's two long legs were already very resilient, both agile and light, having unearthed a hidden talent for agility.

Two minutes later, Mu Yunning, who was in front, suddenly stopped under a streetlamp, forming a stance of "vague confrontation" with the man following her.

Wen Leyu also stopped, and after poking her head out to observe for a few seconds, she suddenly turned her head and leaned toward Li Ye's ear.

She had a secret to tell Li Ye.

"Teacher Mu has a problem with this man; that man has been trying to get close to her just now, but she has been resisting him the whole time."

Li Ye nodded slowly, indicating his agreement.

He had also realized this situation; all the way here, that man had been trying to hold Mu Yunning's hand, but Mu Yunning had always refused, and in the end, she simply tucked her hands into the pockets of her overcoat.

Then the man tried to take her arm, which was why Mu Yunning walked a few steps faster and stopped under the streetlamp.

In a bright and open place, upright and honest, any filthy thoughts would have nowhere to hide.

Teacher Mu began to speak, but because the distance was a bit far, Wen Leyu could not hear clearly.

Her little head immediately began to sway flexibly, looking left and right, and she pulled Li Ye to take an arc, using a cluster of withered trees on the side and the night as cover, successfully approaching within a distance of twenty-some meters.

Teacher Mu's voice was finally clear.

"The last time I went to the Lighthouse, I already made it very clear to you: we are finished, we are no longer friends, so please do not pull and tug at me, and even more so, do not have any filthy thoughts."

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Mu Yunning's words made the three people around stunned, especially the man who had been trying to hold her hand, who revealed an expression of disbelief.

"When I confessed to you by this lakeside six years ago... why didn't you say I had filthy thoughts? I just want to go back to how it was six years ago now... how is that filthy?"

"Heh~, six years ago?" Mu Yunning laughed coldly and said sarcastically: "The person who confessed to me six years ago was Yu Lichen; who are you now? Jacken Yu?"

"Yunning, you are too extreme. I took an English name to make it easier to get along with friends around me, just like our colleagues in the mainland usually call each other Old Wang, Old Zhang..."

Yu Lichen explained anxiously: "Besides, no matter whether I am called Jacken or Lichen now, I am still that same me. I came back from the Lighthouse this time just to find you."

"You are looking for me?"

The sneer on Mu Yunning's face grew even stronger: "Then what have you been busy with all these days? If Xiaojuan hadn't exposed you today, I wouldn't even know you had been back for half a month."

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Yu Lichen was silent for a few seconds, then suddenly said deeply: "I have been running around for our future all these days! The treatment offered by several units was not ideal, and I have been fighting for it with them...

If there is no good material foundation and a bright future, how could your family agree to us being together? When I left four years ago, your family didn't think highly of us..."

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Li Ye and Wen Leyu hid behind the dark trees, listening to Yu Lichen's painful confession under the streetlamp, feeling as if they were watching a play.

That's right, it was a play.

Yu Lichen under the streetlamp was almost reciting poetry as he narrated his past with Mu Yunning, saying how he and Mu Yunning had loved each other deeply but were torn apart by Mu Yunning's family, then he went abroad to study and work hard, and returned to his hometown for love, and so on and so forth.

With this acting ability, it would be a pity not to act in a play.

At this time, Wen Leyu beside Li Ye leaned her little head over, pressed her little mouth to Li Ye's ear, and whispered: "Do you think this Yu Lichen is lying?"

Li Ye thought for a moment, turned his head, pressed it against Wen Leyu's ear, and said: "If we were separated for a few years without seeing each other, and I suddenly returned to the country, do you think I could endure fifteen days without going to find you?"

Wen Leyu looked at Li Ye, and only after two seconds did she purse her lips and smile lightly: "I don't know."

Li Ye smiled and asked again: "Then what if it were you? After you went abroad for a few years and came back, could you endure a few days without coming to see me? Tell the truth!!!"

Li Ye questioned her while pressing against Wen Leyu's ear, making Wen Leyu's ear itch and her face turn somewhat red, but she still answered honestly: "I couldn't wait even one day."

Li Ye spread his hands, meaning "Doesn't that settle it? That guy Yu Lichen is lying."

Yu Lichen didn't contact Mu Yunning for half a month after returning to the country, just busy running around for work, and now he says it's for the future of the two of them? Are you kidding?

Let's not even mention that Teacher Mu has already clearly stated that the two of them have no relationship anymore.

Even if there were a relationship, shouldn't any normal man, after being separated from his girlfriend for several years, be full of hugs, surprises, and pouring out his longing upon returning?

You can endure half a month without wanting to see her? Could it be that something is wrong with your mind?

Of course, there was nothing wrong with Yu Lichen; the conversation he had with Mu Yunning next opened the eyes of Li Ye and Wen Leyu.

Mu Yunning waited silently for Yu Lichen to finish acting out his play, then asked coldly: "Do you think you are worthy of Heselin by saying these things to me?"

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Yu Lichen was stunned for a moment before saying: "I broke up with Heselin. Eastern and Western cultures are still somewhat different, and she and I always had differences in some concepts, so it is most appropriate for us to be together."

Mu Yunning said in shock: "You were already living with Heselin, and you broke up just like that? Is it that casual?"

"This..."

Yu Lichen twisted his face in struggle for a moment before saying: "This is a very normal thing at the Lighthouse. Love is free; when you no longer love, ending the love is the best choice for both people..."

"Alright, alright, I don't want to play guessing games with you anymore."

Mu Yunning coldly interrupted Yu Lichen's explanation and said straightforwardly: "You stayed abroad past the deadline for your government-sponsored study, and you will definitely have some trouble after returning, so you feel wronged while looking for a unit, right?"

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Yu Lichen was only stunned for a second this time before saying with sound arguments: "But I still came back, didn't I?

When we first started sending students abroad, so many people questioned that many would not come back, but didn't the Big Boss express it in the end?"

"He believes that the talents cultivated by the great Chinese nation are all patriotic people with flesh and blood. When the motherland encounters danger, they will never stand by and watch. Even if some people choose to stay abroad, we also express full understanding and respect for this."

"And I didn't stay overseas; I came back. Why should I still be suspected because of some trivial matters?"

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After Yu Lichen said these words, Mu Yunning was actually speechless for a moment.

Because when the decision was made to send government-sponsored students abroad, it indeed encountered resistance, and in the end, it was the enlightened Big Boss who made the final decision.

And the intention of many enlightened older Big Bosses was that even if only 20% of those who went abroad came back, it was a profit. After all, sending students abroad at this time was the best way to quickly understand the world.

Therefore, the fact that so many people did not come back later, and even the result that only 63% of the 1422 government-sponsored students sent by a certain university in Shanghai since 1979 returned, was actually something the Big Bosses above had anticipated.

But anticipation is anticipation; you stayed past the deadline, so you stayed past the deadline. You have already been labeled during the screening process, so it is definitely not easy to get the same treatment as those who returned normally.

Li Ye didn't quite understand why Yu Lichen would come back. Logically speaking, a person like him should have gone all the way and fought hard at the Lighthouse country.

And with the "involution" of mainlanders, plus the four-year professional education foundation at Jingda, it would not be difficult for Yu Lichen to find a job after graduating with a master's degree at the Lighthouse, so why would he come back with a thick face?

Mu Yunning looked at Yu Lichen, who was full of grievances, and asked lightly: "Since you are dissatisfied with the work treatment in the mainland, are you planning to go back to the Lighthouse? The plane this week? Or the plane next month?"

"No, I am more willing to serve my motherland, I just can't accept unfair treatment..."

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After Yu Lichen finished speaking, he looked at Mu Yunning, wanting to say something but stopping.

And Mu Yunning also looked at Yu Lichen coldly, as if waiting for something.

After a long time, Yu Lichen finally couldn't help but say: "Actually, I was deliberately made difficult by others. As long as someone says a word, this little matter is not a matter at all."

Mu Yunning said indifferently: "Who do you want to help you say a word? My uncle?"

Yu Lichen opened his mouth and said with a bitter smile: "Yunning, it's not that I must trouble your uncle, I just want us to have a better future. If you are not willing... I can endure all kinds of difficulties for you, I can endure..."

"No, you don't need to endure for me, and you don't need to suffer any grievances for me, because I have no relationship with you, and I feel sick when I see you now!"

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After Mu Yunning finished speaking to Yu Lichen, she turned and left.

But Yu Lichen quickly blocked Mu Yunning's side.

"Yunning, you wronged me, you really wronged me, I really love you..."

"Get out of the way!"

Mu Yunning shouted angrily and turned to walk backward, but Yu Lichen ran in front of her again, opened his arms like an eagle catching a chicken, and hugged toward Teacher Mu.

Li Ye frowned, feeling that he should take action.

But how to stop Yu Lichen from acting like a hooligan while not making Teacher Mu feel embarrassed?

Li Ye quickly squatted down and began to scrape on the ground, and in two or three strokes, he rubbed out a solid snowball, while Wen Leyu followed suit, also squatting down and sticking out her little butt to start picking up snow.

"Whoosh~"

Li Ye's accuracy was quite good; after the snowball drew an arc, it hit Yu Lichen squarely on the back of the head.

"Who? Who is there? Come out for me!"

Yu Lichen was just at the height of his anger, and after being hit solidly on the back of the head, he immediately roared angrily at the woods in the darkness.

But just as his voice fell, Wen Leyu's snowball arrived.

"Whoosh~"

"Clang~"

Wen Leyu's accuracy was a bit off; it grazed Yu Lichen's shoulder and hit the streetlamp pole next to it, emitting a "sound of metal and stone."

The streetlamp pole was metal, and there was a stone inside the snowball; wasn't it the sound of metal and stone after the collision?

(End of chapter)