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Chapter 143 Dad, guess who I met today?
To be fair, Yang Jianlong's worries are not unreasonable.
The antique market is not without people selling fake goods, even if they are unintentional people. Anyone who knows what is fake and sells fake goods is not a good thing.
It is simply unreasonable to expect them to keep their word!
Yang Jianlong expressed his worries, and the car immediately left the train station square.
Lin Ran looked outside the car. There were many people who looked like migrant workers, walking on the roadside with small bags on their shoulders.
This is an era that has just opened up. Many people in backward areas have lost their farming jobs in their hometowns and are moving to big cities to find their dreams and want to take root outside.
Once upon a time, I was one of them.
He said with emotion: "People with his temper are very conceited and don't like to owe others any favors. If you help him, he will definitely repay you a hundredfold."
"Is that so?" Yang Jianlong still didn't quite understand. For him, resolving the matter of forced land acquisition was just a phone call away, and he didn't think he had helped much.
"My godfather has such a good character, but I still think liars are not trustworthy." Yang Jianlong muttered.
"Actually, he is not a liar. If you think about it carefully, when he was selling goods in Panjiayuan, he had room for detours when other people asked about the price. Only when he faced Cai Yan and learned his identity, he insisted on paying 900 yuan and refused. The counter-offer was not just for profit, but he didn’t want to sell anything to the Palace Museum.”
Lin Ran told Yang Jianlong his analysis.
Yang Jianlong thought about it carefully, but he suddenly understood this matter.
"He still has a bottom line. At least he admitted his mistake in public and finally smashed the three-color camel figurine. This is proof that he keeps his heart!"
If he hadn't taken the initiative to throw down the three-color figurine, Lin Ran wouldn't have been able to see the internal structure and conclude that his was a fake.
After Lin Ran's analysis, Yang Jianlong suddenly realized: "It turns out that his godfather has seen through this man's character a long time ago. No wonder he dares to trust him."
Yang Jianlong, who thought he was good at reading people, couldn't help but admire Lin Ran's grasp of details.
The two of them talked about some topics related to cultural relics on the way. Lin Ran did not tell Yang Jianlong about his future plans. He was too talkative. If he leaked the secret, it might have an impact on his plan to defraud foreign cultural relics back.
Yang Jianlong also knew what was going on and did not ask Lin Ran what he wanted to do.
He only knew that what Lin Ran wanted to do must be something earth-shattering, not something vulgar like selling fake goods to make money.
On the way, Yang Jianlong also joked: "Godfather, just now you told Mr. Wei not to mess up the seniority, so you asked him to call you Brother Lin. Why didn't you say that to me?"
Lin Ran rolled his eyes at him: "What? Are you regretting it now? You don't want me as your godfather, but it's still too late."
"Don't you dare, godfather, I'm not kidding you." Yang Jianlong explained quickly, even a little confused.
Then, laughter erupted in the car.
In a blink of an eye, the sun was almost setting, and Yang Jianlong also sent Lin Ran to the entrance of the village.
Just as he was about to send it in, Lin Ran refused.
"Just send it here. It's getting late. You should go back early. Don't let Brother Zheng worry."
Lin Ran got off the car at the entrance of the village and turned around to wave goodbye to Yang Jianlong.
He felt more and more that the godson in front of him was more pleasing to the eye.
Lin Ran was walking home and had to pass by his family's vegetable field. Now was an important period for farming. Due to his father's injury, the family's land had been abandoned for some time.
But when I passed by today, I saw that there were a lot less weeds in the ground.
Just when he was surprised, he saw his father's crutches placed next to the vegetable patch.
The figure working in the fields, doesn’t he recognize his father?
"Dad! What are you doing!" Lin Ran came up to him angrily. His father's foot injury was not completely healed yet. If he didn't take good care of it, it would be the root of the disease and he would be in pain during the rainy season.
Father Lin was pulling weeds in the field. When he saw his son coming over, he wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with a smile: "Xiao Ran, you are back. There are too many weeds in the field at home. I came here today when I have nothing to do. Clean it up.”
"Dad, can't you just leave this kind of thing to me and my sister?" Lin Ran quickly supported his father and glanced at his thigh with a worried expression.
There was still gauze on the wound, but luckily it wasn't dirty.
At this moment, another female voice came from the field.
"It's easy to say, why don't you just say you can do it and drag me along?" Lin Wanjun's body flashed out of the haystack next to her, startling Lin Ran.
It turns out that my sister is also helping.
Lin Ran couldn't help but smile: "Sister, isn't this what we should do as children?"
"You, you should do your own thing. You are such a busy person, how can you have time to take care of our farm work?" Lin Wanjun glared at him.
Then, both Father Lin and her laughed.
"Xiao Ran, you have been working hard to make money at home during this period. Dad is still young and can still work, so don't worry."
Then he looked up at the sky and said, "It's getting late, let's go home together."
Not far away, at Lin Ran's house, green smoke was rising from the chimney, and in the sky, the figure of his mother busy in the kitchen was intertwined.
Lin Ran's heart palpitated.
He helped his father out of the field.
Father Lin said unhappily: "I'm just injured, don't treat me like a patient!"
Lin Ran ignored her objection and warned, "Dad, if your wound becomes infected, you will really become a patient!"
Then, Lin Ran told his father exactly what the doctor told him.
The injury on Father Lin's thigh was so deep that the bone was visible. Even if the operation went smoothly, the piece of flesh would still take a long time to heal.
Before that, the wound must be cleaned with iodophor every day. Sweat cannot enter the wound, let alone dirty water, which can cause infection, otherwise it will aggravate the injury.
"Okay, okay, I understand." Lin's father still thought it was just a trivial matter, but because of Lin Ran's filial piety, he couldn't continue to argue.
With the support of Lin Ran and Lin Wanjun, the three of them walked slowly towards home.
The setting sun stretched their backs.
After leaving Xialin Village, Yang Jianlong also drove directly home.
Yang Jianlong hummed a song and walked into the living room.
Zheng Xueming also finished her day's work and was carefully enjoying the Tang Sancai in her hand at home. She couldn't put it down.
The person sitting next to him was Chen Cheng. What did the two of them seem to be talking about?
Seeing Yang Jianlong's proud look, Zheng Xueming couldn't help but find it funny and called out to him: "Jianlong, you seem to be in a good mood. Did something good happen to you?"
I remember that in the morning, Yang Jianlong said that he had to go out to do something. It seemed that things were going very smoothly.
Yang Jianlong smiled mysteriously: "Dad, guess who I saw today?"