Bringing Along a Ball and Hiding from Foreign Devils Chapter 16.2

Translated by Amaryllideae, edited by Ahzinal~

“h.e.l.lo, Teacher Xie.” Ren Zhouyuan nodded to him.

Ren Zhouyuan acquiesced that he was An An's parent. Teacher Xie's eyes suddenly lit up. He took a step forward to hold his hand and said: “h.e.l.lo, I am very sorry. This incident is due to our negligence. We should not have put such high-risk content in the compet.i.tion. During the compet.i.tion, we thought that, with the accompanying parents, we should have little problem. It seems that our decisions were ill-considered. After we go back, our team will meet again to review this matter. All medical expenses for An An will be covered by us.”

Ren Zhouyuan nodded. Right now, he wasn't in much of a mood to be concerned with these people. He saw that, while the injury on An An's hand was not big, An An's wound had  burned until it bled. Although the follow-up treatment was timely and appropriate, Ren Zhouyuan was still a bit afraid.

Teacher Xie gave a look to the other three people. The rest then immediately returned with a look of enlightenment. Similarly, Teacher Xie also made a look at the doctors and nurses. All this was done without words, so that Ren Zhouyuan, Fan Wenfeng, and An An were completely ignorant of this event.

The compet.i.tion of the young division could not be continued due to the accident. Fortunately, the compet.i.tion had reached the last stage of drawing with the 3D pen. An An's performance in the first two segments was outstanding. His ranking in the earlier events was always in the forefront. After the discussion by the organizing committee, they decided to combine the scores of the first two segments to organize the rankings of the compet.i.tion. An An's score total got him in first!

The compet.i.tion for the young division was very simple. It was not much different from the training that An An did at home, and the performance of An An was recognized by all. The other partic.i.p.ants in the compet.i.tion did not disagree with the results. At the time of the awards ceremony, the most enthusiastic applause was given to An An.

Although the accident happened suddenly, An An was very brave in the whole process and did not even drop a single tear. So the organizers especially set up a “Brave Scientist Award” for An An, which was awarded by the course director Antonio. He personally presented the certificate to An An, and, at the same time, gave a set of 30 course tickets worth more than 10,000 yuan to An An to praise his bravery.

An An's injured arm hung on a small sling, while he was holding a certificate in the other hand and smiling happily on the stage. It seemed that he was not affected by the injury. Ren Zhouyuan, seeing him so happy on the stage, finally put the worries in his heart down and clapped his hands hard for An An.

    Ren Zhouyuan took An An home. On the way back, An An didn't stop chattering. He talked all the way while moving his little sling. He only occasionally brushed against the injured place and hissed. However, it didn't take long before he continued to smile and laugh and talk nonstop.

Ren Zhouyuan found it both distressing and funny. After returning home, he did not dare let An An take a bath. Instead, he took a hot towel to help him wipe his body from head to toes. He also changed his bandages and medicine before going to bed. Seeing the shocking, although small injury, his heart hurt viciously again.

    After An An fell asleep, Ren Zhouyuan dialed his phone to call Fan Wenfeng. On the phone, the other party asked a lot about how An An was and apologized again, letting Ren Zhouyuan feel helpless for half a day.

After talking about An An, Ren Zhouyuan had a chance to ask him about the issue with the article.

    According to Fan Wenfeng, the company is currently planning to formally use legal channels to sue "Sikong" for defamation. According to the results of their preliminary discussions, the information provided by Ren Zhouyuan is sufficient enough to prove that the paper was completed independently by him.

“The company's top management will also ask experts to testify for you. Although ‘Sikong' is very eloquent, there are still many loopholes in his statement. The boss has already set up a lot of relationships outside, and he is ready to ask for some help from someone with high reputation. The scholars can come forward to help prove that the paper itself is no problem.”

    After Ren Zhouyuan listened to Fan Wenfeng's words, the worries he struggled with for a half the day could finally be calmed down. After thanking Fan Wenfeng, he listened to him apologize again for a long time and then finally hanged up.

Ren Zhouyuan returned to the bedroom, tucked in the quilt for An An, and adjusted his posture to prevent him from pressing on his arm. After finishing this, he turned off the light and lay down.

    Looking back at what happened all day today, let Ren Zhouyuan feel that this day has been particularly long.

For the first time, he walked from the back of the pen name “An Yi” to the crowd. This feeling is fresh and weird, just like peeling off his coat and presenting himself unreservedly in front of others. From now on, there will be more and more people who know about him, which makes him feel a little uneasy.

But today's results are gratifying. For the first time, he appeared in front of people outside of Fan Wenfeng. Although those people's eyes looked on questioningly and almost like they couldn't believe it, they also accepted him at once without questioning him with doubts and scorn due to his age. Besides, he has struggled for himself through his own efforts instead of relying on others.

He looked at his hands in the dark and clenched his fists. He seemed to feel an invisible force spreading from his fist.

    Ren Zhouyuan closed his eyes for a while, but his brain was still so excited that he couldn't sleep, and he couldn't help but think of another thing today.

He turned to his side, carefully took An An into his arms. and looked at the bandage wrapped around his little arm. The power just seemed to fade away in an instant, and a sense of powerlessness arose.

He never seemed to be able to balance his work and An An.

When he was just pregnant with An An, he was forced to interrupt his studies. Later, he entered the archaeological team. However, he left An An with a lot of psychological shadows. It was not without great effort that he finally had a little improvement in his career, and then various kinds of things happened.

As a man, he wants to have a career worthy of being proud of to his son, but if he has to choose between them, he will not hesitate to abandon his career just to provide better for An An.

Ren Zhouyuan thought a lot that evening, but he did not expect that when he went to work on Monday, his “career” would have a huge change as he wished.

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*This chapter was too serious and the author can't think of a small skit, will take a break.

Chapter 16: You were being lazy and you blame me?