Seeing Lin Yun leave, the old man wanted to stop him, but for the moment, he didn't know what to say, so he could only watch Lin Yun leave.
Lin Yun was very fast, and by the time he thought of something to say, Lin Yun had already gone far away.
'Yan Yan, what's wrong with you, why did you speak like that?' The old man turned around and looked at Li Yan with a face full of anger and said.
'Grandpa, you don't know, the boy I went on a blind date with yesterday afternoon was him...' Li Yan hurriedly said.
'Yan Yan, he's right, the thing he went on a blind date with you happened after I met him, yesterday morning...' The old man shook his head and said in great disappointment.
Then, he told Li Yan what had happened yesterday morning.
Yesterday morning, in order to save his tricycle, he knelt down before the law enforcement officers. Many people were watching, and although many people blamed the law enforcement officers, none of them actually came to help him. Lin Yun's help for him was not only financial, but also spiritual.
However, he did not tell Li Yan about the time he had knelt before the law enforcement officers.
'Grandpa, you said he gave you 3,000 yuan yesterday?' Li Yan said incredulously.
He just happened to be passing by and saw something like that, so he casually gave 3,000 yuan to a stranger. She believed that such a thing would happen, but she didn't believe that it would happen in their Xianyuan County, let alone that it would happen to her grandfather, and that the owner would be a young man selling vegetables from a cart.
'Grandpa, it seems that I underestimated him. He probably investigated our family's situation long ago. Before he and I met, he deliberately followed Grandpa to see if there was anything he could do to make a good impression, and just happened to run into Grandpa in that kind of situation...' Li Yan paused for a moment, as if trying to figure out the reason for the whole thing.
'Impossible. Yesterday morning, after he gave me the 3,000 yuan, he didn't even leave his name. If I hadn't been waiting for him at the entrance to the wholesale market, I wouldn't even remember what he looked like,' the old man shook his head.
'Grandpa, you have not been in contact with things outside, and you don't know the complexity of many people. In this matter, if he did it on purpose, what if he didn't leave his name? With his contact with me, you will meet again sooner or later. At that time, an unintentional discovery may even more change a person's impression.' Li Yan shook her head and said very affirmatively.
'Grandpa, think about it. He's willing to pull a cart to sell vegetables, so he must not earn much. He casually gave you 3,000 yuan, and he spent another 2,000 to 3,000 yuan when he treated me to dinner at the restaurant. How rich does someone have to be to do something like that?'
'By the way, when he went to pay the bill, the cashier at Wangxian Restaurant happened to say that he didn't have to pay because he was eating at Wangxian. You may not know what Wangxian is, but it's one of the top restaurants in our Xianyuan County. My best friend's boyfriend's family is not lowly in Xianyuan County, and they only got a 10% discount card. I haven't heard of anyone in Xianyuan County getting a free card. Maybe it was him who told the County has a low status, and he only got a 10% discount card. No one has ever heard of anyone in Xianyuan County getting a free card. Maybe he had already agreed with the cashier of Wangxian Restaurant beforehand. These things might all be his plan...' Seeing that her grandfather was about to say something else, Li Yan continued.
Without realising it, as she told these things, she also noticed that there were a lot of coincidences in this matter.
In her heart, she was even more certain of her suspicions.
It also made her more certain that Lin Yun was a calculating boy.
'You don't understand...' The old man just shook his head.
He had chatted with Lin Yun the whole way, and his decades of life experience told him that Lin Yun was not that kind of person.
'Grandpa, you actually believe an outsider and don't believe me, but I'm your granddaughter!' Seeing her grandfather being so stubborn, Li Yan also angrily said,
'Grandpa, yesterday, your tricycle was taken away, why didn't you tell me? My friend's boyfriend knows some officials, I'll call and ask for you, I think I can get your tricycle back!' Seeing that her grandfather was also showing signs of anger, Li Yan quickly changed the subject.
While talking, Li Yan had already started to make the call.
'Huihui...' The phone connected, and Li Yan began to describe the matter.
In less than a minute, Li Yan hung up the phone, looked at her grandfather, and smiled, "Grandpa, my friend said that her boyfriend knows someone in this area, and she'll ask around for us...'
The old man frowned and didn't say anything.
Just two or three minutes later, Li Yan's phone rang.
'Mm-hmm, okay, Huihui, thank you very much." After answering the phone, Li Yan kept nodding as she listened to the sound on the other end of the line.
After hanging up the phone, Li Yan looked at her grandfather again and smiled, 'Okay, my friend told us to go to the parking lot to pick up the tricycle. When we get there, we just need to say my name.'
There was a hint of self-satisfaction in her tone.
The large-scale ban on three-wheeled vehicles in Xianyuan County had caused a big stir, and she was also aware of it. She had also seen some law enforcement officers on the street catching three-wheeled vehicles very seriously.
This matter should be very serious in the eyes of the general public.
However, she had settled it with just one phone call, which made her very pleased.
At the same time, it also made her even more envious of her best friend Zhang Hui for finding such a capable partner.
It also made her more determined that she absolutely could not find an average partner.
Like...that Lin Yun who uses a frame to pull the cart?
Hmph, that Lin Yun is not very capable, but he is quite calculating, definitely not her type.
'No need. Since the authorities have decided to regulate tricycles, and since they are regulating tricycles selflessly, I will definitely not go through the back door to get my tricycle back. The authorities have made a mistake in this matter, and I will wait for them to release my tricycle. If they don't, I would rather my tricycle rot there!' The old man said with a pale face.
After that, he turned his head and walked away.
Li Yan's phone call made him even more disappointed with the authorities.
'This is our job. If you have something to say, go talk to the county leaders. We didn't make this policy!'
Yesterday morning, the words of those law enforcement officers still sounded in his ears, etched in his mind!
He knelt down to those people, but they were unwilling to let go of his tricycle!
Now, his granddaughter's one phone call has made those people let go?
What irony!
This also makes him feel even more ashamed of kneeling yesterday!
He actually knelt to such people!
He will not take such a backdoor!
Although he knew that it was unlikely that the authorities would take the initiative to release their tricycle,
he would rather let the tricycle rot there than take the initiative to ask for it again!
'Hey, Grandpa...' Seeing her grandfather's attitude, Li Yan was very anxious and said:
She quickly parked her electric bicycle and went to stop her grandfather.
'Even if you don't say it, Grandpa knows it. You just don't like Lin Yun's family because they grow vegetables and sell them. You just don't like the fact that he drags a cart to the county town to sell vegetables and it's embarrassing. But he doesn't mind being embarrassed,' the old man said with a heavy heart as he looked at Li Yan in front of him.
He was no fool. His decades of life experience had given him a sense far keener than that of a young person.
How could he not see the smugness in Li Yan's words and expression just now?
He just didn't expect that, without him knowing, his granddaughter had grown up to be such a snob and a vain person.
'You don't understand... You really don't understand...' The old man shook his head and kept saying.
'He's not the kind of person you think he is. He just got back from somewhere else yesterday morning, so he couldn't have done any of the things you said he did. You despise the fact that the other person is poor and has no power, and you despise the fact that the other person sells vegetables from a cart, but you don't know that the clothes on his back are worth tens of thousands of dollars...' The old man's tone was a little despondent.
After finishing, the old man turned around and walked away. This time, he walked very quickly.
Lin Yun's clothing price was actually a lie Lin Yun told on purpose, for fear that the old man would think about giving him back the 3,000 yuan. However, the old man didn't care at that time, and even doubted that Lin Yun was telling a kind of lie on purpose, for fear that he would give back the 3,000 yuan.
But at this moment, the old man believed it.
The conversation along the way made the old man feel very confident about Lin Yun.
Furthermore, his granddaughter had just said that Lin Yun had treated her to a meal that had cost two or three thousand yuan. So, Lin Yun must really be very rich to be able to do that, and it wasn't just some kind of scheme, as her granddaughter had said.
He knew about the Wangxian Restaurant, and his granddaughter had said that ordinary people couldn't get a free card there, but Wangxian Restaurant had given Lin Yun one for free, which further showed that Lin Yun was no ordinary person.
In contrast, his granddaughter's character was not very good.
At this moment, he no longer had the slightest thought about Lin Yun being with his granddaughter.
He knew that his granddaughter was not worthy of that boy.
'Grandpa...grandpa...' Li Yan stamped her feet in anger from behind.
The electric bicycle was right next to her, but she couldn't just leave it behind and go after her grandfather.
Why was her grandfather so stubborn?
She was annoyed in her heart.
This made her hate Lin Yun even more.
The clothes on his back are worth tens of thousands of dollars? What a big liar, deceiving her grandfather like that!
Only an ignorant old man or a five-year-old child would believe such a thing!
Zhang Hui's house.
'What? He said the clothes on his back are worth tens of thousands of dollars?' Zhang Hui couldn't believe it when she heard her best friend's angry account.
'Yes! He really dared to brag! Yesterday, when we were having dinner together, he looked so honest, I really didn't expect that he was actually like this!' Li Yan nodded emphatically.
'I really don't know what kind of magic potion he poured into my grandfather's ears, making him believe him so much!' After a pause, Li Yan angrily said.
When she thought about the words that penetrated her soul when her grandfather was leaving, and the disappointed tone of voice, she was so angry that her lungs were about to explode.
'Don't blame your grandfather. He's old, and it's easy for him to be fooled by people's sweet talk. You have to be more understanding. Your grandfather's tricycle wasn't taken away? Wait, you can drive it home, and it will make your grandfather feel better. Old people shouldn't get too angry!' Zhang Hui laughed, covering her mouth.
'Anyway, his target is you. Now that you can see his true face, it's good that you're not being fooled by him, isn't it?' After a pause, Zhang Hui blinked and said.
'That's all there is to it!' Li Yan nodded helplessly.