Miles in the Depths of Affection Chapter 8

Ethan Qiao had no idea about the changes in his adopted son, he just felt that he had been spending more time in front of the computer recently.

He reminded indirectly: "Study is the most important thing, playing with things will ruin your ambition."

Julian Qiao didn't take his eyes off the computer at all, and replied vaguely: "Oh, I made it."

A CG popped up on the screen, showing a boy without a face K!ssing a cute girl. Ethan Qiao bent over and stared at his screen. Julian Qiao blushed and quickly hugged the monitor in his arms to prevent his adoptive father from seeing it. He turned around and shouted angrily: "What are you looking at! What's so good about it! Why don't you go and do your evil plan!"

Ethan Qiao sighed. He couldn't understand these young people's things. Was he really getting old?

The next day, he asked his subordinates to bring the list of famous foreign universities to consider which university he should let his adopted son apply for. According to the current situation, Julian Qiao probably won't be able to get into any good domestic school, so he has to spend money to send him abroad.

The result surprised him greatly - although he seemed to be not focused on studying, his college entrance examination scores were actually quite good. Although he could not get into the top 2, he could still get into a top university in the country.

When Julian Qiao saw the results, he was surprised: "Is this possible? I didn't study much and I can get this score. Am I really the legendary genius?"

Ethan Qiao had already made careful plans for his adopted son's future. He had originally planned to send Julian Qiao abroad, but now he changed his mind. He was reluctant to let his beloved son go thousands of Miles He away from home, and he was even more worried about Julian Qiao living alone in a foreign country. If his adopted son was interested in studying abroad, it would not be too late to send him to study for a master's or doctoral degree in the future.

He hopes that Julian Qiao will apply to a famous university in the imperial capital. If Julian Qiao is prepared to inherit the family business in the future, his professional background will give him an added advantage. Even if Julian Qiao is not interested in underworld affairs, he can just be an ordinary person, find a good job, and live a life without worries about food and clothing.

More importantly, Julian Qiao must be taken care of when he is away from home, otherwise Ethan Qiao will have trouble sleeping and eating. The power of the gang in the imperial capital cannot be underestimated, and they can completely put him under the umbrella of protection.

Julian Qiao's idea was completely different from his father's. You know, he was now a complete otaku. After playing too many beautiful girl development games, he had a naive dream - I also want to make such a game in the future! This is not only for my personal wish, but also for the benefit of all male compatriots in the world! So he insisted on applying for the software engineering major at a university in Xihong City.

On the surface, he agreed to Ethan Qiao's request, but secretly filled in the application form without telling his father. When the admission letter came, Ethan Qiao realized that he had been tricked.

Julian Qiao originally thought that his father would be furious, but unexpectedly his father's reaction was surprisingly calm.

"The son has grown up and cannot be kept at home." Ethan Qiao was helpless.

This self-willed character is somewhat similar to Yu Xincheng. Never mind, think positively, isn't it a good thing for a child to have his own field of interest? It's not a bad idea to let him develop freely.

He made a phone call to his subordinates in the imperial capital, informing them that they didn't need to go to great lengths to welcome the young master.

After thinking for a few minutes, he said to the bodyguard beside him: "Ask Dylan Zheng to come over."

Dylan Zheng is a few years older than Julian Qiao and is the direct descendant trained by Ethan Qiao.

Ethan Qiao firmly believed in the saying: "Ruffians are not to be feared, what is to be feared is educated gangsters." He had high hopes for this young man. Not only did he send him to receive higher education, he also recalled him upon graduation and entrusted him with important tasks, implicitly intending to promote him to be his deputy.

Dylan Zheng lived up to expectations, doing things neatly and efficiently, with a calm and steady personality. Unlike those young people who would kill at any time, he would first convince others with reason, and then he would cut people with a knife if reason failed, and he was ruthless. Ethan Qiao saw him sitting on a concrete block covered in blood, talking to the leader of another gang about who should get the land under their feet, why it was divided in this way, and what historical and realistic basis it had. The other party trembled and peed his pants.

Ethan Qiao often thought that if he had a daughter, he would definitely invite Dylan Zheng to be his son-in-law without hesitation. However, he only had an incompetent son, and marrying him to Dylan Zheng would be a disgrace to the young man, so he had to regretfully give up the idea of   marriage.

Julian Qiao and Dylan Zheng have had a good relationship since childhood. In the eyes of the former, the latter is a handsome, dignified, and chivalrous young man like the chivalrous knights in TV dramas; in the eyes of the latter, the former is the son of his beloved boss, who should be held in the palm of his hand and protected well.

In Ethan Qiao's eyes, the two were a pair of happy friends. Whenever the two children played together, he would look at Dylan Zheng and think: What a talented person! Then he would look at his own son and think: Oh...

He still remembers that when Julian Qiao was a child, he went to his room to play and found a box filled with whips, handcuffs, clamps and strange-shaped sticks. The young boy, who was naive, didn't know what these things were used for, so he naively asked Dylan Zheng about them.

The young man, who was also inexperienced, pondered for a while, snapped his fingers, and said seriously: "It's a torture device!"

In his pure imagination, this must be the tool that the big boss used to punish gang traitors. First, handcuff people, then use a small whip to whip them, and then use a clamp to clamp their fingers. As for what those sticks are for, he couldn't figure it out for a while, but they must have a special purpose! How can ordinary people guess the big boss's thinking!

Julian Qiao's thinking was more open. He picked up a stick with sharp protrusions on the surface, hit his arm with it, and said with a pout: "It hurts so much, it must be a stick used to beat people."

So the two of them became more convinced that "this is a torture device."

There happened to be a martial arts drama on TV, with two knights in flowing robes, as light as a swallow, holding sharp swords and fighting each other. The two boys imitated the plot in the TV series and picked up the "sticks used for beating people" to fight.

When Ethan Qiao returned home that night, he saw the following scene: Julian Qiao and Dylan Zheng were chasing and playing in the living room, waving buzzing vibrators.

Dylan Zheng jumped onto the sofa: "Take my move! Dugu Nine Swords!"

Julian Qiao was even more exaggerated, holding a massage stick in each hand to block the opponent's attack: "Look at me, I have the Heavenly Sword in my left hand and the Dragon Saber in my right hand!"

...That night the two children were punished by not being allowed to eat and were locked in their room to reflect on their mistakes.

At night, Julian Qiao rolled over with hunger and cried in grievance, when he suddenly heard a knock on the window. He turned on the desk lamp and reached for the window, only to see Dylan Zheng clinging to the windowsill with a plastic bag in his mouth. Julian Qiao secretly sighed "good kung fu" and opened the window to welcome him in.

Dylan Zheng opened the plastic bag and the aroma of food hit him, making Julian Qiao drool.

"I stole it from the kitchen. Eat it."

Julian Qiao grabbed a chicken leg and stuffed it into his mouth. He put his greasy hands around Dylan Zheng's neck and almost jumped on him. "Ayi is the best to me!"

"Don't tell the big boss that I got it, or I'll be fined again."

"Yeah, I promise!" Julian Qiao's mouth was full of food, his voice unclear, and he complained to Ethan Qiao indignantly, "My dad is really something, isn't it just playing with his things? Why is he so angry?"

Dylan Zheng's heart was with the big boss, and he immediately said seriously: "It is wrong to take other people's things casually."

"Don't you just take food from the kitchen?"

... Dylan Zheng didn't expect that Ming Shao's thinking was so quick, he is worthy of being the son of a big boss!

They didn't know that Ethan Qiao was standing outside the door at this moment, holding a tray piled high with Julian Qiao's favorite snacks.

Hearing the voices of the two children, he smiled and shook his head, muttering to himself: "There's really nothing I can do about you." Then he turned and left.

Many years later, Julian Qiao finally understood what those strange-shaped sticks were used for.

Back then, Ethan Qiao only punished them by making them reflect on their mistakes behind closed doors instead of slapping them to death. They should really thank their father for not killing them!

On this day, Dylan Zheng received a call from his boss, and he did not dare to delay and rushed to the Qiao family mansion without stopping. It was dinner time when he arrived, and Ethan Qiao invited him to have dinner. There were only the master and his servant at the dinner table, and there was no sign of Julian Qiao.

Dylan Zheng asked: "Where is Mr. Ming?"

"He went out to play with his classmates." Ethan Qiao shook his head. "He has a childish nature."

Dylan Zheng laughed: "It was like this right after liberation. I also had a lot of fun at that time."

After dinner, the two went for a walk in the garden. Ethan Qiao sent away the bodyguards, leaving only Dylan Zheng by his side. There were only a handful of people in the gang who were so trusted by the big boss, and Dylan Zheng couldn't help but feel flattered.

Dylan Zheng was very tall, but his gait was very light, and he looked like a martial artist. He casually wore a silver-gray suit jacket, one hand in his trouser pocket, and his shirt sleeves were rolled up to his elbows. His muscles from elbow to wrist were strong and muscular. He had several buttons of his shirt unbuttoned, and a faint scar could be seen across his chest. It was left when he blocked a knife for Ethan Qiao. Dylan Zheng was only sixteen years old at that time.

He had a handsome appearance, but with a solemn look between his brows. However, there was a teardrop mole at the corner of his eye, which balanced out his overly cold temperament and made him look a little gentler.

When he was young, Dylan Zheng hated this teardrop mole, thinking it was a sign of effeminacy. People say that people with teardrop moles are prone to crying, but how could he, a man of seven feet tall, give people that impression? Now that medical technology has advanced, he is thinking about removing this teardrop mole one day to get rid of his worries.

Ethan Qiao advised him, "Your body and hair are given by your parents, why do you need to get a knife for no reason? Your face is a combination of hardness and softness, which is a lucky sign. If you remove the tear mole, you will have too much hostility. Not good. Not good."

Then she tapped his teardrop mole and joked, "People say people with teardrop moles love to cry, but our Ayi always sheds blood but not tears. It seems that his tears are only shed for love. Ayi is a man who values   love and friendship."

The two walked around the garden, Ethan Qiao showed Dylan Zheng some newly planted flowers and taught him some gardening knowledge. Dylan Zheng knew that the boss was not interested in wine, so he bowed his head and listened respectfully.

After Ethan Qiao finished his words, he changed the subject: "Get ready and go to Xihong City."

When it comes to giving orders, Ethan Qiao is always concise and to the point.

"The big boss is interested in Xihong City?"

Dylan Zheng was quick-witted and understood that the boss wanted him to stay there to expand his power. The Qiao family and the underground gangs in Xihong City had always kept to themselves. The boss had been focusing on running the money laundering business for many years, so why did he suddenly want to go to Xihong City to show his ambitions?

Ethan Qiao understood his doubts and said only one sentence: "Julian Qiao wants to go to Xihong City to study, and you can take care of him there."

Dylan Zheng suddenly realized that the boss was worried that Ming Shao would be isolated and bullied in a foreign country. The father's love was really touching!

He nodded and said, "Don't worry, with me here, no one dares to touch Master Ming."

The more Ethan Qiao looked at the young man, the more he liked him. He also regretted why he didn't have a daughter. He only had one son, and his personality was so... so... strange. He really didn't know at what stage of his growth he had grown up in an awkward position.

But even though he had a strange personality, he was still his beloved son. When Ethan Qiao thought about him going to a distant city that he couldn't reach, he felt very reluctant to let him go.

If I think about it more carefully, it doesn't seem so worth celebrating if I have to marry my son to another young man.

If only I could stay with him forever.

But sooner or later the baby birds will leave the nest and fly away.