sinovels Chapter 8 The reason for choosing him
Chapter 8 The reason for choosing him
My heart was beating fast, my head was buzzing, and there was even tinnitus.
Lin Zhen almost thought that Li Zhenbai had seen something. He moved his mouth a few times, his mind spinning rapidly, but he couldn't say a word at all.
"Xiaozhen, I hope you understand," Li Zhenbai said suddenly again, "I am your family first, and your boss second, and you should never forget this."
After finishing speaking, Li Zhenbai turned around and entered the house without giving Lin Zhen a chance to speak again.
Lin Zhen stood there for a while, until Li Zhengxiao patted him, and then he regained his senses.
He thought that Li Zhengxiao would take the opportunity to ridicule him, but he didn't expect that he not only didn't say anything bad, but also comforted him: "My elder brother looks very difficult to get close to, but he is actually a very nice person. He has let me do everything since he was young." , never rob me, he has to worry about all the members of the Li family," he cocked his mouth towards the house, "he is typically cold-faced and warm-hearted, and it is easiest to get along with him. If you want to take care of you, you can let him take care of it, and if you do something wrong, you can take the initiative to admit it, and he won't care about it."
Lin Zhenxin felt exhausted after relaxing, and said in a low voice, "Go into the room and say hello, let's go."
After walking halfway on the road, Lin Zhen finally understood why Li Zhengxiao suddenly became easy to talk.
He leaned lazily on the co-pilot, and said casually: "Brother is watching closely, I haven't seen Xiaoli for several days, can we leave your house early today, I want to take time to see him."
Lin Zhen turned his head and glanced at him: "Yes, we will leave after dinner."
There was silence between the two for a while, Li Zhengxiao took a peek at Lin Zhen who was sitting in the driver's seat, and coughed: "Can you..."
"what?"
"After leaving your house, can you go around outside more, and don't go back first."
Li Zhengxiao was afraid that Lin Zhen would go back to Li's house first, and he would be found out about running around.
Lin Zhen didn't hesitate: "Okay, call me when you're almost ready, and I'll pick you up."
Li Zhengxiao got the answer he wanted, and became satisfied. He took the time to connect his mobile phone to the car via Bluetooth and listen to music.
As he listened, he suddenly felt something was wrong, he turned his head and looked at Lin Zhen who was driving several times.
Lin Zhen didn't notice his gaze, and was focusing on the road ahead. His body was very thin, and when he was sitting in the driver's seat with a seat belt on, it would make people feel fragile and fragile.
His hair was a bit long, and the hair on his forehead hung in pieces on his eyelashes. The sunlight that slanted in from the car window gave his figure a golden edge.
There was a red light at the intersection, Lin Zhen stepped on the brakes, and the car stopped. He didn't turn his head to look over, but just looked ahead quietly, his beautiful face was expressionless, and his eyes were empty, like a beautifully crafted statue. dolls.
Looking at it, Li Zhengxiao realized that Lin Zhen was in a daze.
He felt more and more wrong in his heart, and a strong sense of being ignored made him very uncomfortable.
"Ahem," Li Zhengxiao fake coughed twice, trying to attract Lin Zhen's attention.
Ninety seconds of red light passed, and the green light turned on. When Lin Zhen stepped on the accelerator, he turned to look at him: "Have you caught a cold?"
"No, it's just a sore throat." Li Zhengxiao replied.
"The weather is dry in spring, you should drink more water." Lin Zhen said softly.
Hearing this, Li Zhengxiao felt a little better. He hesitated and peeked at Lin Zhen: "You...why aren't you angry?"
"What?" Lin Zhen didn't understand.
Li Zhengxiao still felt ashamed, he was a little embarrassed and said: "I'm going to see Xiaoli, won't you be unhappy?"
Lin Zhen glanced at him quickly during the driving break, as if he wanted to confirm his expression when he said this, so as to judge how he should answer.
"I'm angry," Lin Zhen said, he was really angry, angry that Li Zhengxiao's disappointment might bring him trouble, Li Zhenbai obviously meant to let him control his younger brother on his behalf, "But, I hope you Happy." If you are happy, you won't trouble yourself.
It's a pity that Li Zhengxiao doesn't have clairvoyant eyes, he can't see Lin Zhen's true inner thoughts.
Looking at Lin Zhen like this, Li Zhengxiao suddenly felt a little bit sorry, he turned his head and looked out the window, and didn't say anything for a long time.
.......
When Lin Zhen took the key to open the door, he saw Wang Dexing and Wang Zheng waiting in the living room. Lin Sui also ran down the stairs when he heard the movement, hugged his arm intimately and called him second brother.
Wang Dexing smiled like a Maitreya Buddha, and greeted Li Zhengxiao enthusiastically. Wang Zheng also laughed beside him, rubbing his hands awkwardly. All gone.
Li Zhengxiao seemed to be in a good mood, and his response was not very positive, but it did not lose face to the two of them.
Before eating, Wang Dexing took Li Zhengxiao downstairs to drink tea and chat. Lin Zhen went upstairs to watch his younger brother's homework. Lin Shui's grades were very good, even better than his previous ones. Lin Zhen flipped through his recent exam papers , and the exercises I have done, I am relieved after finding that everything is as usual.
Lin Shu looked at his brother cautiously, and asked him: "How are you doing in the Li family, did Li Zhengxiao bully you?"
Lin Zhen looked at him: "He can't beat me."
Lin Shui was delighted when he heard it, "I said he is a strong outsider but not good at work."
Lin Zhen asked him: "How are you doing recently, dad and elder brother didn't make things difficult for you, did they?"
Lin Shu shook his head: "They don't talk to me very much, and I don't talk to them, but..." His brows frowned slightly.
"What?" Lin Zhenxin sank for a moment.
Lin Shu was a little embarrassed and said, "Dad didn't care about my studies before. Recently, he always came to see me doing my homework at night. He said that he should accompany me to study, and he kept talking."
"say what?"
"Always ask me if I miss you, and let me call you. The meaning is beyond the meaning, just say that the [-] million hasn't arrived yet, and I want me to rush you."
Lin Shui peeked at his brother, and whispered, "I just pretended I didn't understand, and I didn't blame him."
Lin Zhen lowered his eyelids, raised them again, and touched his younger brother's forehead: "It's none of your business, and don't talk to him in the future, I will solve this matter."
The atmosphere at the dinner table was quite homely. If outsiders came to see it, they might think that the family was happy and happy.
But after dinner, Wang Zheng asked Li Zhengxiao to go to the living room to play chess, and Lin Zhen knew the point of this trip was coming.
Sure enough, Wang Dexing immediately called him to the study.
The two sat at both ends of the desk, and Wang Dexing was full of displeasure: "What on earth does Li Zhengxiao mean? I passed him a few times just now, but he avoided it. He didn't even mention that one hundred million," he said heavily. Put the teacup on the desk, made a bang, pointed at Lin Zhen and scolded, "You eat everything, are you ganging up with the brothers from the Li family to deceive me, that [-] million won't go into your own pocket Bar?"
Lin Zhen's eyelids drooped, his face was expressionless, and he said indifferently: "Xiao Shu's custody is still with you, I won't do that."
Wang Dexing's chest heaved violently with anger, "Then what do they mean, they are not going to renege on their debts, are they? After this marriage is over, they are going to turn their backs and deny anyone? If the company has no more money in the account, it will not be able to support it. Employees' wages have been delayed for several months, and if they don't pay them, there will be big troubles!"
Lin Zhen was not affected by his father's anger. He said calmly, "Dad, you should know that even for a group company like ENERGY, it is not so easy to mobilize a cash flow of 1 million yuan... .”
Wang Dexing gave a rude "bah": "The condition Li Zhenbai proposed before your blind date, you and his brother are married, and more than a month has passed, I don't believe that [-] million can be settled for so long!"
This time, Lin Zhen didn't say a word, just lowered his head quietly, looking at the gentleness, but it was helpless.
Wang Dexing hurriedly paced back and forth in the study, his eyes glanced at Lin Zhen's back, he didn't know what he thought of, his eyes were filled with joy, he walked to the door of the study and opened the door, seeing no one in the corridor, he closed the door tightly again He walked up to his second son and said excitedly: "I thought of a way. This Li Zhengxiao is a trash who is just waiting to die. It doesn't count at all. I have to go to his brother Li Zhenbai for company and family matters."
Lin Zhen didn't understand where his father's excitement came from, and raised his head to look at him.
Wang Dexing looked back and forth on his face, and there was an evil spirit in his expression, which made people feel disgusted. He rubbed his hands and softly comforted him: "Xiaozhen, if you want, no man will reject you. As long as you make up your mind, don't Let’s say one hundred million, even one billion can be obtained for Dad!”
Lin Zhen stood up and faced his father, who was half a head taller than Wang Dexing.
Wang Dexing looked up at his son, and gave what he thought was the best advice: "Men have the softest ears on the bed, as long as you take down Li Zhenbai and take care of both of them, we won't get anything we want! "
Lin Zhen's expression at this time must be very scary, because Wang Dexing suddenly showed a look of guard, and took two steps back.
"Dad," Lin Zhen's voice was as cold as ice, "I will talk to Li Zhenbai about the money."
Wang Dexing nodded hesitantly with a stiff expression: "...OK."
Lin Zhen said, "Dad, I'm from the Li family now, you know that?"
Wang Dexing nodded again: "Yes."
Lin Zhen sneered: "In the future, I will advise Dad not to say such things in the future. I am afraid that if I accidentally slip up at Li's house, your life will be difficult."
Wang Dexing's complexion changed, his eyes narrowed slightly, he wanted to get angry, but suppressed it, and said with a smirk: "No, no, no."
Lin Zhen stared at him for a while, then turned around, opened the door and left the study.
Wang Dexing's face sank completely, staring at Lin Zhen's back, his old eyes were full of haze.
......
After leaving Wang's house, Lin Zhen sent Li Zhengxiao to an apartment building. Li Zhengxiao sat in the co-pilot and scratched his nose: "Why don't I go?"
Lin Zhen is not in the mood to deal with him now, and just wants to be alone quietly. He turned his head and said to his husband with a pleasant face: "It was only a few days ago that Xiaoli got burned last time, and it was the time when she needed someone to take care of her. You don't want to go , he will have lumps in his heart, anyway, it will only be half a day, you go to accompany him, and I will come here to pick you up later."
Hearing this, Li Zhengxiao hesitated, perhaps thinking of Xiaoli's lovely and pitiful appearance, and Lin Zhen persuaded again in a timely manner: "Didn't you say you were looking for a house last time? You should discuss it with him and ask him what he likes." , so that this matter can be settled as soon as possible, I should drag Xiaoli to think more."
Li Zhengxiao just got out of the car, and before leaving, he sincerely said "Thank you for your hard work" to Lin Zhen.
Lin Zhen didn't feel hard, he just felt irritable.
He parked his car in the underground garage of a nearby shopping mall, went upstairs to the game hall and bought a lot of coins, stacked up several large boxes, found the "Crazy Cowboy" game machine, and put coins into it one by one, using all his strength. Pai, in the afternoon, Pai's fingers were so painful that he couldn't bend them back, only then did he realize that his palms were swollen.
There were two boxes of coins left, and he played all of them in Dragon Ball, won several big prizes, and issued a lot of lottery tickets, attracting a crowd of people to watch.
After playing, he picked up all the lottery tickets and handed them to a kid who watched the fun next to him: "I'll give it to you!"
The child was stunned for a moment, then cheered, said thank you, and ran to the counter to exchange gifts.
Lin Zhen smiled, packed his things, went downstairs and drove to pick up Li Zhengxiao.
But one afternoon, Li Zhengxiao didn't know what happened, and his nose was not a nose, and his eyes were not eyes.
For a while, he said that the air conditioner was turned on too high, and Lin Zhen wanted to heat him to death, and for a while, he complained that Lin Zhen came too early, and then he stared at him suspiciously and asked: "You won't behave like you are talking well now, and you will go to me later. Brother, should you report it?"
Seeing that he was about to reach the Li family's mansion in one kilometer, Lin Zhen endured him all the way, turned the steering wheel, and parked the car on the side of the road.
Li Zhengxiao glanced outside, and said anxiously: "What are you doing?"
Lin Zhen turned to stare at him: "Can you shut up?"
"What are you talking about? How dare you talk to me with such an attitude!" Li Zhengxiao stared at him with wide eyes in disbelief.
A storm was brewing in Lin Zhen's beautiful eyes, "Okay, then I'll have a better attitude." He loosened his seat belt, put one hand on the back of the co-pilot, and approached Li Zhengxiao, "Please shut up, if you continue Nagging, I'll throw you out of the car, and you can walk home by yourself, okay?"
"You...you...," Li Zhengxiao pressed the back of his head tightly against the back of the chair, "I want to tell my brother...!"
Lin Zhen narrowed his eyes slightly: "Go and sue, and tell him your whereabouts this afternoon by the way."
Li Zhengxiao shut his mouth all of a sudden and remained silent.
Lin Zhen sat back in the driver's seat, started the car, stepped on the accelerator almost to the bottom, and drove all the way to Li's house at a fast speed. Li Zhengxiao grabbed the handle above the door and stared at the boss in shock.
He breathed a sigh of relief when the car entered the underground garage, and asked Lin Zhen tentatively, "Are you in a bad mood?"
Lin Zhen let out a "huh" while turning off the engine and unfastening his seat belt.
Li Zhengxiao hesitated for a moment, and apologized inexplicably: "Xiaoli said that you are all fake kindness, you are advancing in retreat, and you want to impress me so that you can change your mind. Is what he said true?"
Lin Zhen got out of the car: "He said yes."
Lin Zhen walked to the door of the elevator. Li Zhengxiao hadn't come yet. He turned his head to look, and saw Li Zhengxiao moving slowly and hesitantly. He rolled his eyes in his heart, reluctantly Suppressing his irritability, he said, "If you don't want to, I will force you. Hurry up. It's dinner time. Don't get me scolded if you're late."
Only then did Li Zhengxiao quickly catch up, and the two entered the elevator together.
Lin Zhen noticed that he was holding on to his neckline and standing far away, and finally couldn't help laughing: "You are just a fool."
Li Zhengxiao blushed with anger, and was about to curse back, when there was a ding, and the elevator had reached the first floor.
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At dinner, unexpectedly, Li Zhenbai was not there, Mrs. Li was still eating upstairs by herself, everyone relaxed a lot.
After a woman has a child, the topic cannot be separated from this aspect. Li Fangbing is no exception. She said that Wu Xing's grades have improved recently, the tutor he hired is good, and he is about to participate in the piano competition. It is so tiring to practice the piano. Lin Zhen is perfunctory After a few words of comfort, he returned to his room as soon as the meal was finished.
At around nine o'clock in the evening, there was a voice from the living room, it was Li Zhenbai who had returned.
He seemed to have drunk a lot of alcohol, and he smelled heavily of alcohol, and he was supported by the driver. Li Fangbing greeted him with a "Oh, yo", and asked people to bring him a hot towel, and ordered the kitchen to make hangover soup. Li Zhengxiao and The driver helped his brother back to the room together. Lin Zhen couldn't get too close, so he went to the kitchen to help.
When a person came back, the whole family even brought the servants into a commotion.
The hangover soup was ready, Lin Zhen brought it to Li Fangbing who was waiting at the door, and heard Li Zhengxiao chattering to his brother inside: "Old Chen is not a real person, how can he give me a drink for a junior when we meet for the first time?" Drinker, it makes you uncomfortable."
Li Zhenbai's voice was hoarse, but he sounded sober: "I'm fine."
Li Zhengxiao complained again: "Chen Jiayi is the same, and I don't say stop it."
Lin Zhen paused for a while before leaving, and then continued to walk as if nothing had happened, the words behind him could not be heard clearly from the distance.
It turned out that tonight, Li Zhenbai met with the parents of the Chen family. This must be a good thing, Lin Zhen thought.
Back in the room, Lin Zhen sat on the sofa in a daze. After a long time, he lay down, raised his arms on his forehead, and covered his eyes.
I don't know how long it took, someone knocked on the door outside: "Young Madam, the Young Master called you over."
Lin Zhenxin trembled for a moment before sitting up and agreeing: "Okay, I'll be right there."
After finishing his expression in the mirror, Lin Zhen went to Li Zhenbai's room.
When he knocked on the door, it was Li Zhengxiao who opened it.
Li Zhenbai was wearing a beige sweetheart-neck sweater on his upper body, and white linen slacks on his lower body. He must have taken a shower, his hair was still wet, and his forehead hair was a bit long, hanging in front of his eyes. He looked younger by several years. That majesty has also faded a lot.
He was sitting on the sofa in the living room of the bedroom suite at this moment, and when he saw Lin Zhen coming in, he motioned for him to sit opposite.
Lin Zhen looked at Li Zhengxiao inquiringly, and Li Zhengxiao made a face at him.
Li Zhenbai looked at his younger brother and sister-in-law who were sitting opposite, and said, "Since you don't want to go on honeymoon for the time being, just move your vacation to the back and go to work in the company tomorrow."
Li Zhengxiao's body moved, obviously he didn't want to go, but he didn't dare to refute.
Li Zhenbai saw it, frowned slightly, and stared at his younger brother with a serious expression: "You are already 28 years old and have a family, so you can't continue to mess around like you used to."
Li Zhengxiao complained: "Brother, how many relatives in our family are raised by you, they don't do anything and you don't say anything, why can't they come to me, I don't like going to work, I just want to be free Play, it's not like the family can't afford me, why should I suffer that!"
Li Zhenbai's expression was tense, his chest was heaving, and he was obviously pissed off by his younger brother: "It's worthless, what does your wife think of you saying this, do you want people to gossip about Lin Zhen marrying a piece of trash!"
Li Zhengxiao's face turned red all of a sudden, and he glanced at Lin Zhen beside him, his mouth moved, but he didn't say a word.
The topic suddenly turned to himself, and it was impossible for Lin Zhen to remain silent. He said, "Brother, Zheng Xiao will go to work, don't worry."
Li Zhengxiao turned his head to look at him, and Lin Zhen met his gaze: "After all, we are newlyweds," he said softly, "I think Zhengxiao is the same as me, hoping to see each other every day in the company. "
Li Zhengxiao's face turned even redder. He suddenly moved his eyes away, took a sneak peek at the elder brother opposite, and looked away to the corner of the room, coughing hard.
Li Zhenbai also seemed to be a little embarrassed by Lin Zhen's straightforwardness. He changed his sitting position and said to his younger brother, "Okay, Zheng Xiao, you go out first."
Li Zhengxiao hurriedly stood up and went out almost in a panic. Before leaving, he wanted to turn around and close the door, but Li Zhenbai ordered: "The door is open."
Li Zhengxiao withdrew his hand and ran out quickly.
Lin Zhen understood that the reason for opening the door was to avoid suspicion.
Seeing that his younger brother had left, Li Zhenbai said in a low voice: "You have to find a way to get him to go to work. Even if he doesn't do anything, he has to sit for eight hours a day. Can you do it?"
Lin Zhen nodded: "Yes."
Li Zhenbai's face softened a little, he rubbed his forehead, the alcohol should not go down, it seemed to make him a little uncomfortable: "I met your younger brother Lin Shu."
Lin Zhen was stunned for a moment, and then heard the other party continue: "Energy has set up a scholarship in Huilian Middle School. Your brother is a scholarship winner every year. I have awarded him the award."
Lin Zhen didn't know what he meant by mentioning this suddenly, he hesitated and said, "Xiao Sui is a very hardworking and motivated child."
Li Zhenbai suddenly sighed, showing a somewhat lonely expression, which was an expression he had never seen before, his brows were tightly wrinkled, as if something had caused him a headache, a person who has always been strong, showed a slight Vulnerability is hard to ignore. At this moment, Lin Zhen almost wanted to step forward to help him smooth the wrinkles between his brows.
Until, Li Zhenbai said: "I am not a qualified brother. In this respect, you have done a lot better than me."
Booming, the city in Lin Zhen's mind was overturned, the clouds fell and shattered into sand all over the ground.
He thought, he finally understood the doubt that he had kept silent all this time, and that was the reason why Li Zhenbai chose him to be his sister-in-law.
It turned out that it was nothing more than that, and the reason was so simple that it made people want to laugh.
The person he was thinking of was because he had educated a successful example, and he was willing to spend [-] million to marry him in, just to discipline his useless younger brother for him.
Lin Zhen remembered what Li Zhengxiao said in the morning, and it turned out to be true. Li Zhenbai is indeed a doting parent who loves his family. For so many years, he indulged his younger brother to eat, drink and have fun every day regardless of family responsibilities. His younger brother got together with the family helper. He didn't use strong means to separate the two, but instead married his younger brother to someone he thought was more suitable to induce his younger brother to change his mind.
I am afraid that when he chose Lin Zhen, his outstanding appearance was also one of the conditions he considered.
Lin Zhen raised his head and took a deep breath.
The truth hurts, but it allows a person to truly see themselves.
It turned out that Lin Zhen was just a vassal of Li Zhenbai's doting on his younger brother.
That being the case, there is nothing to continue to struggle with.
Lin Zhen thought, in this world, the only one who can treat him kindly unconditionally is himself.
He wants to be nice to himself.
"Brother, you promised to give my father the [-] million, when can you arrange the transfer?" Lin Zhenping asked, it was very easy to say what he couldn't say just now.
Li Zhenbai seemed to be still immersed in feelings of powerlessness towards his younger brother. After hearing this, he was silent for a moment, and then said: "The [-] million lent to your father is already being arranged, and it will be credited in three batches within two weeks."
Lin Zhen didn't miss the word "borrow", and smiled self-deprecatingly: "Okay, then thank you, big brother."
"If there's nothing wrong..." Li Zhenbai didn't notice the change in his attitude, rubbed his forehead again, and was about to issue an order to evict the guest.
Lin Zhen didn't get up, he said: "Mr. Li, I still have something to ask for your permission."
Li Zhenbai noticed that he had changed his address, and stood up impatiently: "We'll talk about work tomorrow."
Lin Zhen then stood up and said quickly: "I heard that ENERGY's latest move is to acquire Yunzhi Automobile Company. I want to participate in this project."
Li Zhenbai stopped, looked down at his sister-in-law, narrowed his eyes, and said after a few seconds: "If you want, you can."
Stared at by such gazes, Lin Zhen was so tense that he stopped breathing, and he was relieved when he heard an affirmative answer: "Thank you, brother, take a good rest."
Lin Zhen left Li Zhenbai's room. He stood in the corridor for a few seconds before closing his eyes and returning to the room.
Yunzhi's acquisition project has caused great shock in the industry, and the person in charge of the project has not yet been determined. Lin Zhen just joined ENERGY, and his qualifications and positions are much worse. He knows that he has no chance to be the main person in charge, but he participated in the project as a A member of the team who is primarily in charge, he is qualified.
The completion of this project is of great benefit to the improvement of career and experience.
Lin Zhen thought that he had no expectations emotionally, and he didn't want to fail in his career.
However, he still thought too simply. After a while, Lin Zhen realized what Li Zhenbai looked at him when he made this request. He was too naive, so Li Zhenbai slapped him hard .