?Chapter 28: 28 Dark clouds cannot cover the light Chapter 28: 28 Dark clouds cannot cover the light Qin Suqing looked at her helpless yet indulgent expression and chuckled.
As if she had found a treasure.
She had always felt that Lin Tang was timid and lacked presence in the past.
Seeing her again this time, everything seemed completely different.
Lin Tang was clearly strong and composed, surely this must have been a result of attending university.
But—
At this time, shouldn’t she still be at school?
With curious surprise in her heart, Qin Suqing directly asked, “Tangtang, weren’t you attending university? Why did you suddenly come back—did you take a leave?”
“I didn’t go to university,” Lin Tang’s eyes dimmed for a moment as she said.
Qin Suqing was stunned, her face a picture of disbelief, “What?”
“Weren’t you the top student in the entire county? Why didn’t you go to university? Was there a family emergency that held you back?”
If it were any other rural student, she might suspect their family favored boys over girls.
But Lin Tang’s family valued her—it was something almost everyone with eyes knew.
While last year’s county top student had never been publicly announced.
But she knew, it had to be Lin Tang.
Only Lin Tang, who had always dominated the first place, could have scored so well on the exams.
“County top student?” Lin Tang’s pupils constricted, her heart trembled fiercely.
She had never received that acceptance letter in her past or present life.
Lin Tang remembered clearly, during the college entrance examination, she had not made any mistakes—in fact, she had performed beyond expectations.
Therefore, the fact that she never received that acceptance letter was devastating.
A cold look flashed across Lin Tang’s eyes as she vividly recalled what had happened during the time before the results were announced last year.
The entire village awaited her admission letter with high expectations.
But until the start of the university term, the letter never arrived.
Feeling something was off, Lin Tang and her father planned to visit the county and inquire at the school.
But right after they left the brigade, they were stopped by three bullies.
In front of Lin Tang, the three men beat up Lin Lu.
The first attempt to reach the school failed.
A few days later, Lin Lu had the elder brother Lin Qingshan accompany Lin Tang, but they only made it halfway again.
Along the way, they encountered all sorts of incidents.
Either a big truck was blocking the road,
or an old lady deliberately fell in front of their ox cart to scam them…
After a series of bizarre events, night had already fallen.
On the second attempt, they failed to reach the school again.
…
They tried countless times thereafter, always hindered by some issue, always delayed.
Even on the last attempt, when they made it to the school,
all they found out was that a fellow student had arranged a teacher’s banquet, to which all the teachers and students were invited to celebrate.
This matter was dragged out, and Lin Tang fell gravely ill.
After the start of the university term, she stopped asking altogether.
That young girl who had yet to experience society’s harsh blows simply thought she was not destined for university.
But the returning Lin Tang thought differently.
Too many coincidences, each element revealed a sinister air.
It seemed the person behind it all had no small amount of power.
However,
if anyone dared to snatch her possessions, she would chop off their claws.
Qin Suqing had no idea that Lin Tang had thought through so much in just a few seconds.
Her gaze was full of admiration.
“Yeah, 10 points higher than the second-placer. If not you, then who else could it be?”
Lin Tang smiled without betraying any emotion, “Is that so? I had some issues, so I didn’t go. How is everyone from our class doing?”
“That’s such a pity.” Qin Suqing, sensing her reluctance to discuss the matter further, steered the conversation elsewhere.
“Most of our class have started working now, some became teachers, some returned home, some even got married. I don’t know much.
But… there’s news about someone I bet you would never expect.”
Lin Tang’s heartbeat quickened slightly, inexplicably feeling like the answer she wanted was within reach.
However—
A middle-aged man suddenly entered the room.
The visitor was Qin Minsheng, who, after receiving a call from his good friend Liu Guoan, learned that his daughter had almost been kidnapped and sold.
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That was pretty distressing.
“Qingqing, were you scared?” Qin Minsheng looked at Qin Suqing with a worried expression.
Thinking about the trafficker at the Police Station who he had severely “cared for,” his anger subsided slightly.
After a little while, Qin Suqing’s fears had already lessened significantly.
She smiled and said, “Dad, you’re back! I’m fine now, I was quite scared at first, but I’m not afraid anymore.”
“Right, this is my classmate, Lin Tang. If it weren’t for her today, I wouldn’t have been able to come back.”
When Qin Minsheng heard his daughter say she wouldn’t have been able to come back, he trembled inside.
He felt the urge to return to the Police Station and break another leg of that trafficker.
Clenching his fists tightly, Qin Minsheng temporarily suppressed the anger and looked at Lin Tang with gratitude and admiration.
“Thank you, young classmate.”
He had already started thinking about how to thank this young girl.
Not only did she save Qingqing, she saved their entire family.
If his daughter had been taken away, he could hardly bear to imagine…
“So you’re middle school classmates? How old are you, Lin Tang?” Qin Minsheng asked curiously.
Lin Tang smiled and replied, “I’m sixteen this year, and Qingqing and I were high school classmates.”
Graduated high school at sixteen?
Qin Minsheng’s expression shifted slightly.
It appeared the young girl was quite intelligent.
Qin Suqing, with pride in her tone, said, “Tangtang is really smart; she started school early and I heard she even skipped a grade.
Tangtang was also the top scorer of the entire county in last year’s college entrance exam, incredibly, incredibly amazing.”
Upon hearing this, something crossed Qin Minsheng’s mind, causing his hand lifting the water glass to pause for a moment, a depth appearing in his eyes.
His expression became inexplicably complex.
“…Intelligent people, no matter the circumstances, even in a desert, can still bring forth flowers,” Qin Minsheng said something seemingly irrelevant.
Clearly he knew something, but it seemed inappropriate to tell Lin Tang directly.
So he said it in a roundabout way with this cryptic statement.
Lin Tang’s lips curled slightly, her gaze deepening.
It looked like there was indeed something going on behind the scenes, and there was an issue with her results.
“I agree with what you’re saying; dark clouds will not forever obscure the sunshine, and the future is still ahead of us,” she replied.
The two spoke in riddles that baffled anyone listening.
Qin Suqing blinked her eyes and laughed, “What are you both talking about? I don’t understand a word.”
Deserts blooming with flowers, dark clouds not being able to obscure light, she didn’t understand any of it.
Qin Minsheng suddenly concealed the emotions on his face, looking at his daughter with an indulgent gaze.
“You don’t need to understand, you just need to be well and not scare me,” he said.
A few more times of such incidents, and he feared he might end up in a hospital himself.
Moreover, he didn’t want his daughter to see the dark side of society.
Those shady dealings that couldn’t stand the light, he would keep them away from Qingqing’s doorstep.
Qin Suqing pouted her lips, humming discontentedly, “If you won’t tell, then fine.”
Seeing his daughter act coyly, Qin Minsheng knew she really hadn’t been frightened, and he sighed a huge sigh of relief, growing even more grateful to Lin Tang.
During the conversation, Feng Hui finished cooking and called them for dinner.
“Come and eat.”
“Alright, I’ll take Tangtang to wash her hands,” said Qin Suqing, pulling Lin Tang along to the courtyard.