CEO is Picky but Handsome - Chapter 4

A month after a new student enrolls, Phoenix Public School usually organizes an exam, and today is the day of the results.
Huo Jun rarely personally picks up his children from school, unless it is an important day, such as Huo Ming’s birthday. Originally, the test results of this day is not considered in the important days, but since the third grade, plaything Huo Xiaoming students took the first school first, and that day Huo Zhun and just a whim to pick him up after school, Huo Xiaoming students were able to hold up the report card in front of the school in full view of all the people darted to the dad’s limousine, “out of the results of the school to pick up after school.” It has become a customary practice.
Huo Zhun, naturally, is happy to run errands, in exchange for his son doubled learning, back to get a first place back to honor their ancestors.
But today, Huo Xiaoming, the eldest son of Phoenix Group president Huo Zhun, looked very heavy in the setting sun, and it took him ten minutes to get from the school gate to his dad’s limousine.
God yo, it’s only 200 meters!
Huo Zhun thought, bad, there will not be a new school of delinquents, knowing that my son test first angry and beat him to disability.
–He didn’t think about his son from elementary school Taekwondo, that body of the general adults can compare to it?
Concerned, President Huo said it was too late, pushed open the door and jumped out of the car to embrace his son in his arms.
“What’s wrong, Mingming?” He asked.
Huo Xiaoming chills flagging in his dad’s arms for a moment.
Then he pushes his dad’s shoulders away and cautiously looks around again to make sure no one notices that he’s ten years old and still being held by his dad before asking with an unhappy face, “What are you doing here?”
Huo Jun says, “To pick you up from school.”
The anger in Huo Ming’s head is all moist and hot, and when he hears his dad say this, he sneers and says, “No more, no more, this year’s first place is gone, and you won’t even have to come in the future.”
“What’s wrong?” Huo Jun asked.
“Called it off!” Huo Ming is aggrieved like whoever gave him two punches and didn’t call it back, those little lips are pouting, they’re almost touching the tip of his nose.
Huo Jun found it hilarious, but didn’t dare to laugh. He thought, “It’s just a first place, it’s a big deal, I’ll take the test again next time”. But on second thought, Huo Xiaoming had grown up with smooth sailing, and it was rare for him to experience a setback, so wasn’t this a good opportunity to teach him not to be discouraged and to face it head on?
So he cleared his throat and used the standard voice of a loving father to say:
“It’s okay, coming to a new school, it’s normal to meet students who are stronger than you. We can observe more of the first place’s strengths, learn from him well, and strive to do better than him next time, right?” Huo Jun gently strokes his son’s head and then asks, “Who won first place?”
Huo Ming answered in a jarred voice, sniffled, then turned his head and pointed at the school gate, “It’s him.”
Huo Jun looks over.
By the school gate, that bathed in the shimmering light of the setting sun, was none other than Ye Ling Ye Rui’s father and son.
Huo Xiaoming feels that the hand pressing on his head is instantly energized.
“Good son,” said a voice above his head that was even more fiery than he was, “Promise dad that next time you take the exam, take back first place and dump him by three hundred points!”
Ye Ling looked at Ye Rui’s report card three times before he believed it was true.
His son took first place in the whole school.
He squatted down and looked straight into his son’s eyes. Ye Rui’s expression was a bit jittery, the children of other people’s families who got the first place in the exams were all dancing around and claiming the credit with their parents, but this child looked as if he had done something wrong, his head was lowered, and his eyes were raised to secretly look at his father’s face.
Ye Rui has been an overly introverted child since he was a child, he is timid, sensitive and unwilling to tell people. Ye Ling alone with him, just living is very difficult, sometimes inevitably can not take care of the child those small emotions, slowly, Ye Rui even more silent.
The child in front of him was slightly biting his lip, this cautious look, making Ye Ling’s heart surge with a pang of sourness for no reason.
Children all need encouragement, but usually, he seemed to be too negligent in this.
So, he deliberately said in a very exaggerated tone, “Rui Rui, this time you did really great! You gave dad an especially big surprise!”
Ye Rui froze for a moment, and in the next second, the child coyly and timidly hooked up the corners of his lips to reveal a happy smile.
Previously in Country F, Ye Rui’s academic performance had always been in the middle of the pack, except for math, where he led all the way, the other subjects were just that. Ye Ling was originally worried about the advanced teaching in N country, whether her son would not be able to keep up, but now when the report card came out, all the worries became a cloud of smoke.
Math full marks, the rest of the subjects are also very good, the total score dumped the second place far a big cut.
Ye Ling scraped his son’s little nose, smiled at each other, folded the report card again and again, suddenly, Ye Rui grabbed his index finger.
“Dad, in fact, I …… I can still be even better ……” Ye Rui’s voice was eager, the end of the voice trembled, actually very nervous.
Ye Ling raised his head, the child’s dark eyes were full of his projection.
“Hmm?”
“Dad, in the past you said, can not be so good, will be found ……” Ye Rui is not good at words, the more urgent things he said the more stumbling, “Now, now is not good? No need to be afraid in the future? You can not have to intentionally do the wrong questions and write all the answers?”
Ye Ling froze.
He backhanded his son’s tiny palm and asked softly, “In the past, you wrote all the wrong answers on purpose?”
Ye Rui nodded, thought about it, and couldn’t help but add, “This time …… this time, I liked the questions so much that I just …… forgot …… them”
When Ye Rui was in the first grade of elementary school, he had been selected to participate in the National Math Contest, and when Ye Ling knew about it, he had already made it all the way through to the finals.
The finals were so prestigious that they even invited a few of the most well-known contemporary math masters to press the issue, broadcasting live around the world with unprecedented attention.
Ye Ling, however, only felt cold.
The day before the live broadcast, he asked the organizing committee to withdraw from the competition, and used the fastest speed to transfer Ye Rui to another school.
“Rui Rui, dad knows you’re good, but being too good will be noticed.” On the night of the finals, he put his arm around Ye Rui’s shoulders, not knowing whether to say to himself or to the ignorant child in his embrace, “Compared to getting ahead, Dad prefers you to live well.”
Who would have thought that as time passed, even Ye Ling had forgotten the words of that year, but Ye Rui firmly remembered them.
So he learned to suppress himself at a young age, and if he hadn’t come here, maybe he would have ended up with a belly full of talent that he only knew about.
Ye Ling thought that the most incompetent father in this world might be himself.
“There’s no need for that in the future. In the future, you don’t have to worry about what you like or what you want to do. You can fly as high as you want.Dad will hold you up behind your back until the day when dad has no way to help you anymore ……”
“It’ll be me holding dad up instead.” Ye Rui flung himself into his dad’s arms and smiled with bent eyes.
He looks like his father, his lips are red and his teeth are white, and when he smiles his eyebrows are a screaming arc. When he was young, Ye Ling loved to make him laugh, but as he slowly grew up, such a smile was not seen much in return.
Ye Ling patted his head and stood up.
“To reward you, daddy will take you out for a big meal tonight, okay?” He smiled and asked, “What to eat?”
Ye Rui tugged on the book bag on his shoulder, thought for three seconds, and asked tentatively, “Is steak okay? Is it expensive?”
“It’s not expensive, but dad hitched a ride here with an uncle, so I have to say hello to him first.” Ye Ling took his son’s hand and together they walked not far away.
On the other side, under the shade of a tree, Huo’s father and son coincidentally strike a roguish pose with their hands in their pockets, looking at the school entrance.
“Dad, is that man a mocking face?” Huo Xiaoming asks.
“Uh, yes.” Huo Jun said.
“That bad guy who snatched my first place away, called Ye Rui, is his son?” Huo Xiaoming asked again.
“Uh, yes.” Huo Jun said again.
“Dad, what’s the old saying?” Huo Xiaoming continues to ask.
“…… “After a three second pause, Huo Jun storms out, “What are you going to say old man how do I know!”
Huo Xiaoming slowly turned his head back, revealing an expression of “Dad, your cultural level is too low, hurry up and make up for it”, automatically skipping over the so-called “old saying”, and said inscrutably, “Dad, look, they’re coming over. ”
“What do you want.” Huo Zhun is about to call him annoying.
Huo Xiaoming sighed, slowly and methodically, pulling his little meaty hands out of his pockets, “Dad, I’m actually not a person who picks fights. But this man taunted you, and his son taunted your son, put it on me, I can’t stand it.”
Huo Jun didn’t say anything.
Huo Xiaoming coughed, signaling urgency.
Huo Jun still didn’t say anything.
“Dad!” Getting closer and closer, Huo Xiaoming can’t pretend anymore and is so anxious that he’s about to jump up.
“Son, actually, it’s not a matter of enduring or not. That Ye Ling, is your father’s newly recruited assistant.” Huo Jun finally speaks, “You’ll have to call Uncle Ye to him later.”
Uncle Ye?
Huo Ming gives his dad a shocked look, and in the next second, he doesn’t know which of his tendrils has hit the fan, revealing a smile of realization – Dad, I get it, good job!
Huo Zhun straightened his tie – you understand shit, be honest later, don’t cause trouble.
The next second, Ye Ling’s father and son arrived in front of him.