That year the flowers bloomed 1981

Chapter 755 Ungrateful
"The reason why Lu Jingyao was able to get a place to study abroad was thanks to your help, Li Ye!"

With just one sentence, Zhang Rui raised the brows of everyone around him. Even Li Kaijian looked at Li Ye with some unfriendly eyes.

"Li Ye, what's going on?"

At the beginning, Lu Jingyao's family proposed to cancel the engagement, but it was a slap in the face to Li Kaijian. If it weren't for the Lu family's promise that "we can get back together if Li Ye is admitted to university", Li Ye would have worked harder to study and make progress. Li Kaijian even wanted to demolish his house.

Later, Li Ye was admitted to Peking University and became intimate with Wen Leyu. Li Kaijian no longer cared about the Lu family's dishonesty. The situation had changed, and his mentality had also changed.

But if you say that Li Ye still helps Lu Jingyao foolishly like he did in high school after entering college, Li Kaijian will never forgive Li Ye.

You rushed to repair Lu Jingyao's broken house, and helped her mother with her medical treatment when she was sick, but in the end you kicked her out. She wanted to go abroad, and you still helped her? Is she a vixen or something?

Even a vixen is not okay!
Li Ye's face was gloomy, and a hoarse sound came out of his throat: "I don't remember helping Lu Jingyao with her study abroad, so I hope you can explain it to avoid misunderstandings. Sometimes misunderstandings can be fatal."

Zhang Rui looked at Li Ye strangely, then at Lu Jingyao, and finally at Liu Muhan.

"What? Don't you know? That's impossible?"

Zhang Rui looked at Li Ye with amusement and said, "When my father moved, Section Chief Liu and Lu Jingyao, as well as you and your fellow villagers were all present. At that time, my father called you into the house and talked to you alone for a while. You don't deny this, right?"

Li Ye's expression froze. He looked at Zhang Rui intently for a moment, then nodded slowly.

"Yes, at that time, someone maliciously slandered Lu Jingyao for the opportunity to study abroad. I am not a generous person, and I even hold grudges, but I never wrongly accuse others, so I clarified some things with Professor Zhang. Doesn't this count as helping?"

"Isn't this considered helping?"

Zhang Rui shook his head and said sarcastically, "In that year, there were at least hundreds of students who wanted to ask my father for help in finding places to study abroad, and my father might not be able to remember all of them.
But after the famous Seven-Inch Blade's clarification, Lu Jingyao's name was firmly remembered by my father.
And Lu Jingyao’s case was so special that my father later felt that not recommending Lu Jingyao was a bit disrespectful of marriage freedom, so.”

Zhang Rui stretched out his words and said with a smile: "If this is not help, then what is help?
Li Ye, you should also know how precious undergraduate places are. Lu Jingyao's overall performance is just average, how could she stand out?"

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Zhang Rui's words were offensive to many people around him, but they had to accept them.

Because the number of places for undergraduates to study abroad is limited, less than that for graduate students and visiting scholars, those who can obtain the qualification to study abroad in their sophomore or junior years must be outstanding students such as "class leaders".

But Lu Jingyao was not among the “several people”. She gritted her teeth and insisted: “I respect Professor Zhang very much and I am very grateful to him, but my overall score that year was third, so I am fully qualified to study abroad.”

"You didn't even get selected as the top overall candidate that year. Why do you think you are qualified to be selected?"

Zhang Rui seemed to have expected this and responded to Lu Jingyao in seconds, causing silence at the scene.

Li Ye was convinced. Zhang Rui's words seemed wishful thinking, but they were impeccable.

If Zhang Rui directly produced "evidence" and said to Li Ye that you asked my father to help Lu Jingyao study abroad, Li Ye would spit in his face.

Zhang Rui is now making things up, using his own reasoning to "reasonably and well-foundedly" prove that Lu Jingyao's qualification to study abroad was due to Li Ye.

This sentence can easily lead everyone to think in that direction, and as they think about it, they begin to think that "it is really the case."

Li Ye had seen this many times in his previous life.

At work, he worked 996 all the way and trampled on countless file kings. He finally got some benefits, and then a group of people who didn't even say hello to him on weekdays showed up.

"If I hadn't mentioned you when I was talking to XX, you wouldn't have gotten this precious promotion opportunity, so you have to thank me."

I thank you MLGB! Who knows if you mentioned my name in a conversation with XX N years ago?

You come here now and ask for benefits, how can I verify it?

However, the unscrupulous colleagues around him would add fuel to the fire, give this guy face, and make the fake things become real.

Lu Jingyao was also obviously shaken, because she didn't know what Li Ye had said to Professor Zhang alone in the room.
Moreover, Lu Jingyao was very panicked at the time, fearing that Li Ye would exaggerate the fact that she had broken off the engagement and make Professor Zhang dislike her.

Later, when he got the quota to study abroad, he was still a little bit unbelieving. Such a precious quota fell on his head? Now listening to Zhang Rui's narration, it is not unreasonable. After all, Qicundaofeng was in the limelight at that time, and the title of an outstanding young writer still had some effect. It is not impossible that Professor Zhang gave Li Ye a face.

"No."

Lu Jingyao murmured, but her words were incoherent.

She was strongly reluctant to accept Li Ye's benefits again, but she seemed to be trapped in Moore's Law. The more she wanted to deny it, the more panicked she became and the more she lost confidence.

The most precious thing that has brought her all the way to where she is today is her self-confidence.

Zhang Rui suddenly smiled and said, "Of course, Lu Jingyao is indeed very outstanding. Look at her now. She is undoubtedly the best among our group of international students.
She is in charge of an investment company with an annual income of more than 50,000 pounds and shares in the company. It is worth the pressure my father is bearing for her now."

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Li Ye's mind raced, vaguely catching something, and asked Zhang Rui like a supporting actor: "What kind of pressure is Professor Zhang under?"

"Hey, that's all nonsense,"

Zhang Rui said angrily, "My father was the recommender of Lu Jingyao's government-sponsored study abroad. Because Lu Jingyao did not come back as expected, my father and another guarantor were under great pressure. But my father does not hate Lu Jingyao. After all, she is indeed better than others in some aspects."

[Are you here to lick Liu Muhan today? Or are you here to disgust Lu Jingyao? ]

At this point, Li Ye finally understood a little bit of the clue.

This Zhang Rui has a grudge against Lu Jingyao.

Originally, Li Ye thought that Zhang Rui was using Lu Jingyao, a successful person, to disgust him, but now Li Ye felt that Zhang Rui was indirectly accusing Lu Jingyao of being ungrateful.

In the early 1980s, students sent abroad on government scholarships could not just leave. They had to go through a series of procedures, including recommendations and guarantees. If they overstayed their visas after going abroad, the consequences would be huge.

In his previous life, Li Ye heard his parents talk about an example where a female student went abroad and never came back. The organization found her family and asked them to do something to get her back.

The family members took turns writing letters, but in the end the girl didn't come back. The family had no choice but to issue a statement to sever the father-daughter relationship.

Just like that, that woman never came back, she didn’t come back even when her parents died.

Lu Jingyao used Jonina's investment company to establish a handicraft company in Qingshui County.
He brought in foreign investment to the county and opened up channels for export and foreign exchange earnings through Liu Muhan, which solved the family problems. Otherwise, his father's job as an elementary school principal would have been over.

But what about the recommenders and guarantors in the school? Later, there were too many overdue students, and the matter was gradually abandoned.

Seeing Lu Jingyao's rapid breathing, red eyes and pale face, her best friend Liu Muhan had no choice but to take action.

She did not argue that Lu Jingyao's going abroad was all due to her own efforts, because that was nonsense. It was she who brought Lu Jingyao to Professor Zhang's house in the first place, hoping to make her familiar face there, and she couldn't turn her back on her now.

She was diverting the attention of Zhang Rui and Lu Jingyao.

"Okay, nephew, this matter has been a great success for you. Lu Jingyao owes you this favor, and you must ask her to pay you back double in the future."

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Zhang Rui was confused and asked softly, "Mu Han, what nephew are you talking about? He's closer than a biological parent?"

Liu Muhan pointed at Li Ye and said, "Look, this is my nephew, he's closer than a biological father."

Li Ye sighed and said, "Aunt, you'd better stop asking for favors on my behalf. It's not necessary."

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Zhang Rui looked at Li Ye strangely, not knowing what to say.

Today he wanted to expose Lu Jingyao's "ingratitude" by making indirect accusations, but he ended up using Li Ye as a supporting role, and how did he end up dragging it into Liu Muhan's relatives' home?
(End of this chapter)