Yang Heng’s mother, who was listening in on the extension phone, realized it was a phone call from a girl, and she immediately notified her husband in secret; she’s afraid a girl calling a boy so late at night… must mean it’s the sign of puppy love.
The moment Bureau Chief Yang heard that he started playfully scolding: “Smelly brat, if you know she’s impressive then you should study harder, I’ve heard from your aunt that when she entered school, she took the national university entrance exam, and her marks were dozens of points higher than the admittance score.”
Good students can hang around other good students, and even if they were of the opposite sex, the parents would still feel assured!
“That impressive, huh, Heng Heng, isn’t your birthday next week? Your dad and I were thinking you’re going to be an 18-year-old adult soon, why don’t we celebrate it, what do you think? We’re not going to make it a huge event, and we’re just going to host the birthday party at your grandmother’s place, just your relatives and good friends and your classmates.” When Mother Yang knew how impressive the girl who had just called him was, she was naturally more at ease and was encouraging her own son to invite the girl over.
With that said, Yang Heng also believed it to be a good idea, loosening his shoulders, he started walking back towards his room, “This arrangement sounds good, I’ll talk to her about it tomorrow. Also, Ma, stop listening in when I receive phone calls, if I really wanted to get into a relationship, I would’ve done so ages ago.”
Bureau Chief Yang’s home was an apartment unit provided by the Transportation Bureau, and its area was around 102 square meters, three rooms and two halls were enough for a household of three to live in. Yang Heng, who had reached his bedroom door with just a few steps, turned around and smiled at Mother Yang who wore an awkward expression, revealing his rows of white teeth, “I, your son, am a famous person in school. From the moment I entered school, the number of love letters I had received is at least 50 if there wasn’t a hundred of them, so, if Heng really had a girl he liked, he would’ve fallen in love, even if Mother tried to stop it, it would not work regardless.”
“You smelly brat, hurry up and go to bed, you only know how to talk glibly with your mother all day long.” In the north, they call this acting flippant, and they call this talking glibly in the south, Bureau Chief Yang was faithful to the bone Southern man, he playfully scolded.
After Yang Heng had returned to his room, he softly told his wife: “Our son is all grown up, there is the stuff that he doesn’t want us to know, you ah, should stop listening in on his calls.”
“Last time my colleagues, who were on patrol, told me they saw our son going into a cybercafe, and he was also involved in fights, but he hadn’t told us anything when he got home. That could only mean our child knows what to do in his heart, as long as his grades remain good, and knows what to do, you shouldn’t manage him too much.”
“There’s an elasticity to a person’s temper, the harder you press on it, the greater the rebound. If you don’t manage him, and only give him advice from time to time, you give him enough buffering room for his stress, and then it’ll be half the work with twice the effect.”
There were also differences in household education; some were effective, like how Bureau Chief Yang was educating his own child. He allows Yang Heng to do whatever he wants outside, as long as he knows what he has to do.
Some were ineffective like Luo Ran, an education that was built up by wealth; their focus on whether or not money could solve a problem, but they had never considered whether or not Luo Ran himself needed education.
There was also the type of households that were so strict, the parents in their family are like the heavens, and the role of their children was to follow and obey, if they don’t, it’s either be beaten or be scolded, if this goes on for a long time, their children will become like compressed springs, the moment they get loose, the outcome will be severe.
No matter which type of parental love it was, Ye Jian would never taste it anymore, after hanging up the phone, she sat in her lounge chair and maintained the same posture for at least half an hour without moving.
When she felt that the rainstorm outside the window had grown considerably smaller, Ye Jian moved her body, a moment later, she stood up with a focused gaze, she walked over to the window and scanned outside, then she glanced at the time, if the flight wasn’t delayed, Xia Jinyuan should’ve gotten on the plane some time ago.
When they need to carry out an urgent mission, they’ll only rush for the schedules that take the least amount of time, which are also the most optimum route.
