Huo Jinzhi exchanged a few words of greetings on the grass, then made an excuse to talk to others. He stayed away from Lin Liming, and Tang Xiaonan's uncomfortable feeling immediately disappeared and she breathed a sigh of relief.

"Don't be afraid."

Huo Jinzhi clenched her hand, and he felt the girl's nervous just now.

"I'm not afraid, I'm just disgusted."

Tang Xiaonan sighed again. She was not afraid, but she just simply disgusted with Lin Liming and Shen Yuzhu.

If she had known that these two would attend the cocktail party, she would not have come.

Zhou Xinqun and his wife came to talk to them. After interrupting, Tang Xiaonan's attention was diverted.

After the cocktail party ended, Shen Yuzhu followed Lin Liming back to the hotel.

"You and Tang Xiaonan grew up together?" Lin Liming asked suddenly.

Shen Yuzhu's heart tightened, nodded, and clenched her fists.

"Who did Tang Xiaonan learn English from?" Lin Liming was very interested and showed great interest in Tang Xiaonan.

"It's a traitor who is in our village. He used to be a university professor." Shen Yuzhu didn't dare to lie, and her fists tightened even more.

"You didn't learn it?"

Lin Liming asked casually, but it hurt Shen Yuzhu's heart like a knife. She bit her lip and replied in a low voice, "I first learned English with the old professor, but later I was seen by Tang Xiaonan. She also wanted to learn, so she asked the adults at home to tell the old professor that the old professor was not allowed to teach others, so I... didn't learn anymore."

After thinking about it, she added: "Tang Xiaonan's family is very powerful in the village, and the village chief and her grandfather are brothers."

Lin Liming's eyes were even more interesting, "So, was Tang Xiaonan taking away your learning opportunities?"

"That's right, maybe it's because I and that old professor are too short-lived." Shen Yuzhu carefully used the words.

Lin Liming was very suspicious. In front of him, Shen Yuzhu rarely said long sentences. When answering questions, he would think about it again and again, for fear that he would accidentally anger him.

"Do you hate Tang Xiaonan?"

"I am jealous of her. Everyone around her will do everything possible to get her whatever she wants. Even if she does something wrong, she can be easily forgiven." Shen Yuzhu said gritting her teeth.

Lin Liming's eyes became more powerful, and he stared at Shen Yuzhu for a long time, which made her sweat flow on her back. In just a few seconds, it seemed like a century had passed.

"Do you know why I left you alone?" Lin Liming asked suddenly.

"Because the merciful father."

"Compassion? Hehe..."

Lin Liming smiled sarcastically, "There is no need to hide your little thoughts in front of me. The reason why you are left is that you have something familiar to me."

The first fifteen years of his life were in a poor mountain valley where he had been eating potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn for many years. He could not read a big word, and he didn't know that the world outside the mountain would be so wonderful.

When his grandparents were alive, his life was still easy, but as soon as his grandparents died, he lived like a dog, unable to eat enough, not wearing warm clothes, and had to endure oppression from the villagers.

Just because he doesn't have a father.

His mother was sick and unable to protect him, and he had to protect his mother, but in the end he couldn't protect him. It might be that he didn't want to protect him, and in the end he was bullied by the man in the village, but the man left a small bag of corn flour.

After that, the man would come every now and then, sometimes bringing things, sometimes holding hands empty-handed, and even hitting him when he was in a bad mood, but this man was in a good mood too little.
Chapter completed!