The nanny came to cook dinner. A few days ago, Grace Tang got off work early and bought the ingredients on the way home. When the nanny came to cook at the usual time, Grace Tang had already prepared the ingredients and was ready to cook.
Because he felt bad for the nanny to make such a wasted trip, Grace Tang asked her to do some unimportant cleaning work. The nanny felt bad and came half an hour earlier today to cook.
Grace Tang also worked as a nanny for a while, but she changed her job after a short time when Liam Tang was three years old. The hostess who employed her at that time always suspected that she had an affair with the old man in his 50s. She couldn't stand the humiliation, so she quit the job in a fit of anger and turned to help others sell clothes in the mall.
Perhaps because she was used to living a hard life, she seemed a little at a loss when a nanny suddenly appeared in the house.
When Liam Tang got home, he saw his mother Grace Tang sitting on the sofa, staring at the air, not knowing what she was thinking.
"You're back?" Grace Tang turned around as soon as he heard the door open. Seeing that it was Liam Tang who had returned from school, he quickly got up from the sofa, took his schoolbag and asked, "Are you adapting to the new environment?"
"Not bad." Liam Tang said perfunctorily while changing his slippers.
"You don't look happy," Grace Tang noticed the unclear water stains left on his shoulders after they dried, and asked sensitively, "Did Ethan Yang and the others bully you in class?"
"No," Liam Tang picked up his schoolbag and walked towards his room, "I'm not a primary school student, why would I be bullied so much?"
"Then what's with the water on your shoulder?" Grace Tang followed and asked.
"My deskmate accidentally spilled water from his cup and it splashed onto my shoulder." Liam Tang tried his best to explain patiently.
"Your deskmate?" Grace Tang changed the subject. "Male or female? Are you getting along well?"
"Female," Liam Tang put his schoolbag on the desk, "Mom, are you going to let me do my homework?"
"It only takes a few words." Grace Tang's tone was obviously full of dissatisfaction, but he still turned around and closed the door for him.
Liam Tang pulled the chair away, sat down, sighed, and scratched his hair in annoyance. He didn't know when he began to feel a little impatient with Grace Tang's endless concern. Although he knew it was not good, he still couldn't control this emotion.
Alexander Yang came back later than usual. After he came back, Liam Tang was called to the living room to eat.
Alexander Yang's face looked very bad, and it seemed to be related to Ethan Yang.
"XiaoEthan Yang is not coming back?" Grace Tang put a bowl of rice in front of him, looked at him and asked.
"He said he wanted accommodation and even asked the class teacher to call me to lobby for me," Alexander Yang frowned and said, "Let him do it."
Grace Tang looked at him again with some surprise, said nothing, sat down and started eating.
No one spoke, and there was another period of relative silence. After a while, Alexander Yang suddenly said, "You didn't say anything to Ethan Yang this morning, did you?"
Grace Tang stopped picking up the food, looked up at him and asked, "What do you mean?"
Alexander Yang knew he had said something wrong, so he quickly tried to calm things down by saying, "It was just a casual question, don't think too much about it."
Grace Tang slammed his chopsticks on the table, stopped eating, and asked him, "What do you mean I'm overthinking? Alexander Yang, are you saying that I kicked your eldest son out?"
Here it comes again. Liam Tang felt a sharp pain in his temples. Maybe he should apply for accommodation with Ethan Yang.
"No, I didn't mean that," Alexander Yang admitted his mistake, swallowing his anger, "I shouldn't have asked that question just now." Seeing that Grace Tang was still glaring at him, he could only pat the back of her hand and persuade her to reconcile, "Don't make trouble in front of the child, Grace Tang."
"My mother didn't say anything to Ethan Yang." Liam Tang said with his eyes downcast.
Alexander Yang was stunned for a moment, and heard the estrangement in these words. He forced a smile and said, "I know, I know." Then he changed the subject at the right time, "By the way, Liam Tang, I heard from your uncle Chen that do you think someone followed you after school today?"
Hearing this, Grace Tang didn't bother to get angry with Alexander Yang. He looked at Liam Tang nervously and asked, "Who is following you again?"
"No, it was a classmate who was watching me," Liam Tang said, "not stalking."
Grace Tang breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I was just saying, it's been so many years."
Seeing Grace Tang's expression ease up, Alexander Yang quickly seized the opportunity to turn around and show his courtesy to her, asking: "Has anyone followed Jun He before?"
Grace Tang ignored him at first and ate a few mouthfuls of food. After a while, he said, "It's a teacher."
After all, he was his youngest son, so Alexander Yang couldn't say he didn't care at all. He asked with concern, "Teacher, why are you still following me?"
"That teacher is a pervert," Grace Tang said unhappily, "He didn't have any good intentions. When Jun He skipped a grade, he said he wanted to help with his lessons. I thought he was kind, but I didn't expect---"
"Mom!" Liam Tang suddenly interrupted her, "Nothing happened, don't mention it."
"Why can't we mention it?" Grace Tang asked excitedly, "What if something happened at that time?"
Alexander Yang guessed what Grace Tang was interrupted for and asked, "A male teacher or a female teacher?"
Grace Tang said: "Male teacher."
"What's your name? Which school are you from?" Alexander Yang's expression became a little serious, and he continued to ask.
"A math teacher, who was in the elementary school that Jun He attended at that time, Zeding Elementary School. His name was... Zhou Lin, right?" Grace Tang looked at Liam Tang, trying to confirm with him.
Liam Tang didn't say anything. He realized that Alexander Yang might not just ask casually, but really wanted to do something - this would be easy for Alexander Yang now, and it might be the best way for him to bribe himself and Grace Tang, he thought maliciously.
However, he did not want to be bribed, nor did he want to take anything that belonged to Ethan Yang.
***
The next morning, when Liam Tang sat down, Yin Cong held his water cup and apologized to him: "I'm sorry, I will definitely cover the water cup next time..."
"It's none of your business." Liam Tang said as he lowered his head and flipped through the textbook.
There was nothing special about this statement, it was just to tell Yin Chong that he didn't need to take on these irrelevant responsibilities, but because it was said too directly, it had a kind of "don't mind your own business" meaning. After saying this, Liam Tang immediately realized this, but he pursed his lips slightly and didn't explain much.
Fortunately, Yin Cong was also a carefree girl. She didn't pay attention to his tone and came over to ask in a low voice: "But how did you offend them?"
"Who?" Liam Tang asked knowingly.
"Ethan Yang and Lucas Feng and the others."
"Are they in the same group?" Liam Tang asked again.
"How should I put it? I don't know if they are in the same group or not," Yin Cong scratched his head and said with some embarrassment, "It seems that Lucas Feng and the others want to be in the same group with Ethan Yang, but Ethan Yang doesn't really want to be in the same group with them..."
"It's so complicated." Liam Tang said casually while underlining the textbook.
"Isn't it?" Yin Cong saw that her iceberg beauty classmate was finally willing to talk to her, and she gossiped with him in a low voice with great interest, "Lucas Feng is a bluffing young man, relying on his family's wealth to bully people in school. Chen Hao's head is full of dirty thoughts, and sometimes his words are disgusting. I'll tell you secretly, he seems to have a crush on Ying Hui..."
Liam Tang said: "Yeah."
Seeing his cold reaction, Yin Chong felt a little disappointed, so he turned around and started to recite. Before he finished, he casually said, "But how could Ying Hui care about him? Everyone in the school knows that Ying Hui likes Ethan Yang."
Unexpectedly, when she was about to end the story, Liam Tang asked for the first time: "Who is Ying Hui?"
"It's the one in front of you." Yin Cong pointed it out to him enthusiastically.
Liam Tang just nodded without looking up. He just wanted to confirm it, although he himself didn't know why he wanted to confirm it.
Yin Chong thought he was interested in Ying Hui, and immediately introduced her to him: "Ying Hui is my friend, the most recognized school beauty in our No. 1 Middle School, with good grades and a good personality, and the people chasing after her can line up from the front door to the back hill... Do you want to meet her?"
Liam Tang said bluntly: "No."
It seems that she is not interested in Ying Hui either. Yin Cong felt a little disappointed. She simply couldn't figure out what her mysterious deskmate was interested in.
She was about to give up, and casually said what she had already said: "But Ying Hui only likes Ethan Yang."
Unexpectedly, Liam Tang asked another question: "What do you like about him?"
"Uh..." Yin Cong was caught off guard by this straightforward question, "What else can I like? He's handsome, good at fighting, and doesn't like to talk to people?"
Liam Tang said: "I see."
Yin Cong felt that she had an inexplicable illusion that her deskmate seemed to be only slightly interested in Ethan Yang. She bit the tip of her pen and thought, could it be that the rumor about the illegitimate child was true?
***
After the last self-study class, Ethan Yang went downstairs to the playground for training.
There is less than a month left before the city basketball league. As soon as the semester started, the school team stepped up its training. As the main player of the basketball team, Ethan Yang is naturally the focus of training. He has to train for more than half an hour on the playground after evening self-study every day.
The school bell rang, and after more than ten minutes, everyone in the class had left one after another. Perhaps because Ethan Yang didn't give them face yesterday, Lucas Feng and Chen Hao didn't continue to pick on Liam Tang and left the classroom as soon as school was over.
Liam Tang did not move. He took out his English test paper and planned to finish it before leaving.
Although he had told Alexander Yang during dinner yesterday that he didn't need a driver to pick him up, Uncle Chen would definitely be waiting at the school gate today. He planned to go out half an hour later to create the illusion that he had already returned home.
Halfway through the test, Liam Tang looked at the sky getting darker, stood up, packed his bag and walked out of the classroom.
Most of the day students in the school have already left. Apart from the basketball team training on the playground, there are only a few students with backpacks on their backs in the huge campus.
The basketball court was facing the school gate. Walking out of the teaching building, Liam Tang recognized Ethan Yang at a glance. He seemed to have just finished training. He raised his arm and threw a finishing shot into the basket. The ball went in easily. Then Ethan Yang lowered his head slightly and walked towards the basket, talking to the people around him.
Liam Tang stood at the entrance of the teaching building for a while, watching him throw the ball in. He felt that Ethan Yang seemed to glance in his direction, so he didn't stay any longer, lowered his head and walked over quickly.
When he was about to walk out of the school gate, he instinctively became alert, wondering if the person who followed him yesterday would still be there today.
He looked around alertly, but when he turned around, he saw that person - Zhou Lin. He didn't hide today, but stood by the flower bed some distance away from the school gate, apparently waiting for him to come out.
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