After the villain was reborn, he found out that he had a childhood sweetheart.

After what happened over the weekend, Lin Xiangling seemed to have gained confidence.

It's not only the confidence to be friends with Lin Yun, but also something that is more out of reach but as hard to let go as poison.

At that time, Lin Yun told her that there was no need to consider whether she was indebted or equal, just like how Lin Yun got along with his two childhood sweethearts.

Where does my affection for her come from?

Of course, Lin Xiangling was not so conceited as to think that Lin Yun would like her. Sometimes, it is easier for two people to get to know each other than other strangers. This is a mysterious mutual attraction.

Maybe... there is no need for maybe. After all, youth is fleeting and time cannot be reversed. Lin Xiangling can never be Lin Yun's childhood sweetheart, so how can she become an existence that is equally important as the two childhood sweethearts?

The answer is simple. Become excellent, and then... strive to become Lin Yun’s lover.

Of course, it is still a long way off now, but it may not be impossible in the future.

The friendship between the two childhood sweethearts and Lin Yun was very pure, and Lin Xiangling saw it clearly.

At first, they often treated Lin Xiangling badly. Lin Xiangling wondered if they had feelings for Lin Yun that went beyond friendship. But later, as they got to know each other better, she found that it was not the case at all.

Jiang Qianxi can have very intimate physical contact with Lin Yun without hesitation; when Yu Sheng and Lin Yun discuss serious issues, they are more like confidants.

The air between the three of them was tranquil and fresh, without any sticky smell of love.

And they actually live together.

Only childhood sweethearts can do this.

Therefore, the position of "lover" is still vacant. Their harshness towards Lin Xiangling is only based on the standpoint of childhood sweethearts, just like a sister would be picky about her sister-in-law on behalf of her brother. It's the same principle.

After thinking it through, Lin Xiangling suddenly felt enlightened. She felt that she had found the right direction that was worth devoting her life to.

She secretly clenched her fists.

Tomorrow, archery, I must do my best!

……

The road down the mountain from Yangxin Pavilion is a bit steep. If someone with poor driving skills comes here, it is easy for the car to stall when driving a manual transmission. Of course, people nowadays don’t like to drive manual transmission anymore.

Mrs. Lin’s car is still a manual transmission. It is a relic left by Mr. Lin, a slightly old luxury car.

If the driver's driving ability is strong enough, he can take advantage of the manual transmission, which is even smoother than many automatic transmissions.

The driver for Old Lady Lin was a heroic woman, and another woman who looked almost the same as her was serving her in the back seat.

Both of them were wearing conservative cheongsams and flannel jackets.

They are twins, and both have the dual duties of bodyguard and nanny, responsible for taking care of Mrs. Lin when she is out.

The car moved steadily along the mountain road.

I made a rare trip to Yangxin Pavilion to watch the archery competition at the Delin Middle School Sports Meet.

The Kyudo Club is a tradition of De Lin. There are different opinions about this tradition. Some say it is a unique extracurricular activity for students, while others say it is just a pretense of elegance.

The truth is, Mr. Lin likes it, that's all.

When Mr. Lin was young, he served in the army and was trapped in an old forest blocked by snow, with enemies surrounding him outside.

He made his own bow and arrow with the materials at hand, and was lucky enough to shoot a dozing hare and a young roe deer, which allowed him to hold on until reinforcements arrived.

People always care about important experiences in their youth, such as the girls they wanted to date but didn't get when they were young... Compared to this, Mr. Lin's hobby is obviously much more advanced.

Old Mrs. Lin has no interest in archery, but Old Mr. Lin used to go to watch the archery competition at Delin Middle School every year. If she suddenly stopped going, wouldn’t that be going against her late partner?

This is not appropriate.

"Madam, Lin Yun participated in the 3,000-meter race in the school sports meet yesterday and won the championship. The result... is the best in the past seven years." The woman in the back seat reported.

"Oh? That's really strange. This kid Lin Yun... does have some brute force."

"This seems a little unusual, after all, he never showed any athletic ability in school..."

"But he often goes to military summer camps during his holidays. Oh, they imitate soldiers and do those trainings... Boys, if they have a hobby in this area, their physical fitness cannot be bad. It's not surprising that they show off at school occasionally."

Old Mrs. Lin took a sip of tea and commented weakly.

How rare it is that a member of the Lin family can run... In the eyes of Old Lady Lin, this is not something worth being surprised about.

The Lin family has good genes.

But Lin Yun only had slightly developed limbs and a good-looking appearance. He spent the whole day hanging out with the two pretty girls and enjoyed it.

Old Mrs. Lin chose to skip this topic and continued to have the woman read other information, focusing on the children's progress in their respective fields.

It is precisely because of her pride in her family bloodline that Mrs. Lin creates an atmosphere of fierce competition.

The Lin family's business must be inherited by a member of the Lin family, but it must be the most outstanding member of the Lin family.

76. The Little Pig unexpectedly won the championship (8000 words)

The archery competition was held at the Kyudo Club's venue, which is the old gymnasium of Delin Middle School.

The minister Xu Jingyi showed up in the locker room on time, looking a little tired, but excited at the same time. It seemed that Yu Sheng's documentary was almost finished being edited.

"Keep calm and play normally. Those people from the Provincial Experimental School have been too active in the group chat recently. Arrogance leads to defeat... They also use normal class time for training. Ha, they can't win in the subject competition this year, so they can only find excuses in this kind of thing. How sad..."

Xu Jingyi's pre-fight encouragement session is quite personal, with more than 80% of his time spent discrediting his opponent.

Miraculously, Lin Xiangling was in a much calmer mood than she had expected. She leaned outside and looked out. The rows of old-fashioned plastic chairs were filled, and the dim ceiling light gave the venue an unreal sense of age.

Not long after Xu Jing finished speaking, Lin Yun came into the locker room with a mysterious look on his face and said he wanted to give Lin Xiangling a relaxing massage.

Of course Lin Xiangling didn't dare to do this in front of her classmates in the Archery Club, it was too embarrassing, so the two of them moved to the stairwell of the fire emergency escape.

This was a secluded and deserted place, but it gave rise to an ambiguous mood. Despite this, Lin Xiangling suppressed the itchy feeling in her heart and obediently accepted Lin Yun's kindness.

His fingers stroked the soft and sensitive part of the girl's neck. Lin Xiangling felt her throat tighten and she kept swallowing.

Um...not good!

She racked her brains and decided to talk about something to divert her attention, otherwise she would probably faint in Lin Yun's arms.

"Brother Lin Yun, the archery competition...was it organized by your grandfather?"

"That's not the case. He just likes to watch."

"Eh... so the Kyudo Club of our school is sponsored by grandpa?"

"Grandpa has never contributed a penny. He is already a shareholder of Delin. How could he contribute extra money? It is better to say that the school leaders put effort into the archery club just to cater to Grandpa's preferences."

"……Amazing."

Lin Xiangling sighed from the bottom of her heart.

Lin Yun’s grandfather also has the surname Lin, but he is a big shot. He founded the Lin Group from scratch, and the Lin family has made a lot of contributions to the development of Beicang City.

This reminded Lin Xiangling of an incident from her childhood: her father was drinking and playing cards outside, and one time he got into an argument with someone else. The other person joked with him about the Lin family, saying that if he lost money playing cards, he could go to his family for financial support, since they all had the surname Lin... Her father seemed to be disgusted by this joke and actually started a fight.

It is not necessary to compare the achievements of the Lin family with those of my parents, because there is no need to compare with the Lin family. The children of families with similar circumstances among my father's colleagues at work are much happier than Lin Xiangling.

Of course, Lin Xiangling feels very happy now, but that is because of Lin Yun and has basically nothing to do with her parents.

After the massage, Lin Yun returned to the audience to find his two childhood sweethearts, and Lin Xiangling also returned to the locker room.

Several other girls who were about to go on stage lined up to shake hands with Lin Xiangling, saying that getting some of the boss's aura would help them perform better.

After practicing these days, they all admired Lin Xiangling's strength.

Lin Xiangling's archery movements were a bit crooked, a typical sign of not having received proper training, but her hit rate was amazing. According to national regulations for indoor competitions, she was already close to the standard of a first-class athlete... Of course, this was the result during practice. During a competition, a person's reaction and mentality would be very different. For any sports activity related to "shooting", there is a big difference between competition and practice.

After shaking hands, Lin Xiangling was a little terrified: "Well, you guys are also very good! I may not be able to perform as well as you..."

"Don't worry, you are at least much more stable than us."

"Xiang Ling is so cute when she shoots arrows. No one will blame you even if you make a mistake."

"Hey, the old lady of the Lin family is here today, Xiangling, you have to perform well~"

This immediately sparked a burst of teasing laughter.

Since Lin Yun has been coming to the Kyudo Club frequently recently, the members have seen him more often and feel that this guy is not as bad as the legend says. Coupled with his performance in the 3,000-meter race yesterday... Lin Yun has transformed into a gentle and handsome hunk. In the eyes of the members, Lin Yun's concern for Lin Xiangling is somewhat intriguing.

Lin Xiangling blushed and said in a small voice: "It's not... performance, or anything like that, wuwu..."

Obviously her classmates were teasing her about meeting her parents. How could she have such an idea?

It was because of this little incident that when Lin Xiangling appeared on stage, she couldn't help but look towards the VIP seats curiously.

She didn't know what Lin Yun's grandmother looked like in advance, but she instantly recognized Old Lady Lin among those graceful guests.

Lin Xiangling had never seen such a fierce old lady. She was not as rude as a country shrew, but rather had a shrewdness and danger hidden beneath the appearance of aging.

You can tell at first glance that you are not to be trifled with! ~

Suddenly, Mrs. Lin, who was originally talking to the principal next to her, seemed to realize something. She suddenly moved her hawk-like sharp eyes and locked onto Lin Xiangling's position among the contestants.

Lin Xiangling quickly looked aside, adjusted the bow in her hand, and pretended nothing had happened.

"Ma'am, is there something wrong over there?"

"Just take a look, don't take it seriously."

Mrs. Lin’s current position is the acting chairman of the Lin Group, but when she interacts with the outside world, she prefers people to call her “Old Lady.”

It can be seen that the unfortunately deceased Mr. Lin occupies a very important place in her heart.

The principal sighed silently and began to think about what reasons he could use to convince Old Mrs. Lin to accept the current plan.

In addition to the rapidly growing Internet industry in the past two years, there is another obvious business trend regarding the education sector.

Powerful private schools use financial leverage to acquire poorly managed disadvantaged schools and then establish education groups.

Then they began to formulate a plan to expand enrollment on a large scale, and relying on the reputation built up by the main campus over the years, they recruited a good number of students in the branch campuses.

It can be predicted that the performance of new campuses that are acquired and renovated in the future will not be bad. After all, the quality of students can determine a lot.

If you make money, you can open more new campuses...

This is a very cool snowball mechanism. Seeing that famous private schools in other places were starting up one after another, the directors of Delin Middle School also began to get excited. After several small informal meetings, they initially worked out a financing plan.

The basic idea is to sell a small portion of equity, get a large sum of money from financial institutions, use the money to acquire two poorly managed private schools in Beicang City, transform them into branches of Delin Middle School, and plan to start enrolling students within two to three years.

But the problem now facing all the school directors is... the biggest school director, Mrs. Lin herself, doesn't seem to be very enthusiastic about the upgrade of "Delin Middle School" to "Delin Education Group".

I took the opportunity of Mrs. Lin coming to watch archery to persuade her.

Continuing with what he had just said, the principal continued, "Madam, you may not have known about this, but in the neighboring province, the high school with a nationally renowned college entrance examination model started cooperating with others last year to open a new school in the west, and it is expected to make considerable profits..."

"Oh, so?"

"I think Delin Middle School also has the potential to go further..."

"A further step? Do you think that's progress, Principal Feng?"

"..."

The principal was at a loss as to what to do with this problem.

When the school directors were negotiating, the principal was basically present and listened to many of their discussions. This was something he had to do. He had to fully understand the school directors' demands so that he could calmly deal with the various questions that Mrs. Lin might raise when persuading her.

Speaking of which, the principal is also a small shareholder, and he can be said to be very concerned about this matter.

Before speaking today, I had made sufficient mental preparations.

But he never expected that even the definition of "progress" would be questioned by Mrs. Lin.

This……

Isn’t expanding scale and increasing profits considered progress?

I really want to complain, but this is Old Lady Lin, the principal dare not neglect her, and hurriedly said respectfully: "Junior doesn't understand, please give me some advice, old lady."

Old Lady Lin sighed softly and said leisurely, "The Delin model should be promoted to other places... Not to mention other places, even in Beicang City, is there any acquisition target that can guarantee that both soft power and hard conditions will not decline?"

"It is normal for the conditions of a branch school to be lowered during the initial period of time..."

"Then, can you guarantee that the quality of the branch school will be on par with that of the current Delin Middle School in, say, a few years?" Old Mrs. Lin glanced at the principal. "That's not easy. The resources that Delin can provide to students are not comparable to those so-called super middle schools you mentioned."

"Well, actually, since it's all for profit, the branch campus doesn't have to be comparable to the main campus, as long as it doesn't damage the brand..."

"Not damaging the brand? Principal Feng, look at what you said, how disrespectful... The old man didn't create Delin to maintain the reputation of 'not damaging the brand' and make a lot of money, do you understand?"

"Yes, I understand..."

"I think you don't understand at all, otherwise why would you waste so much time talking to an old lady like me who has one foot in the coffin?" Old Mrs. Lin shook her head slightly, "Let's stop here with the proposal for the expansion plan. The old man opened this school to practice his ideal education model and cultivate talents needed by the Lin Group, not to make money.

The Lin family is far from being so poor that they need to rely on a middle school to make money!"