Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 966: Chapter 487: Getting a Marriage Certificate is a Big Deal_1

In the past six months or so, Zhao Hongjuan and Lin Xudong had been thinking about their daughter’s marriage, because they had agreed that she would get married after graduating from college.

Graduation, referring to college graduation.

Now, Zhao Yi and Lin Xiaoqing had both graduated from college, but marriage had not been brought up at all. Zhao Hongjuan would often say, "Xudong, do you think Qingqing and Xiao Yi might be having relationship problems?"

Whenever Lin Xudong heard such remarks, he would always say carelessly, "What problems can there be? Qingqing is still studying."

"One can get married while studying. She’s a graduate student now; how old will she be after she finishes?"

"You do the math!"

Zhao Hongjuan’s anger soared as if Lin Xudong had said something outrageous, before launching into a tirade, "You don’t care about our girl, but I do!"

"She and Xiao Yi are so good together, a match made in heaven, childhood sweethearts, two innocent kids. If such a good marriage opportunity is missed, Qingqing will definitely be heartbroken for life."

"It’s you!"

"You don’t care about your daughter at all! All you think about every day is ’no problem,’ ’no problem.’ What do you know!"

"Nowadays, young people date for a few years and then break up—is that uncommon?"

"Blah blah blah~~~"

After Zhao Hongjuan had gone on for quite a while, Lin Xudong inwardly pondered a question, "What did I actually say? How did it turn into me not caring about our daughter? What did I do wrong to trigger Zhao Hongjuan’s anger?"

In the end, he couldn’t think of anything and could only sigh to himself, "After all these years, I still don’t understand her..."

Whenever Zhao Hongjuan thought about Lin Xiaoqing’s marriage, she would become a bit irritable. She worried that Lin Xiaoqing and Zhao Yi might encounter relationship problems and worried about what changes the future might bring.

Where else could they find such a good son-in-law? If missed, they wouldn’t be able to find another!

Taking advantage of Lin Xudong’s rare moment of leisure, Zhao Hongjuan went directly to his boss, Director Chen, and requested a week off, straightforwardly stating, "We’re going to the capital to discuss Xiaoqing and Zhao Yi’s marriage!"

"Your daughter’s marriage?" Director Chen perked up and waved his hand grandly, saying, "Don’t worry, you can take a few extra days off if needed. Lin Xiaoqing and Academician Zhao are a childhood sweetheart couple. The wedding is important, very important!"

Actually, Director Chen was considering the issue because it involved Zhao Yi.

That was different.

Zhao Yi, Academician Zhao, is Zhengyang’s pride, the world’s foremost mathematician, a national treasure of a scientist.

In his early twenties, he had already reached the pinnacle of the world.

Over the past few years, Zhao Yi had achieved many significant scientific research results, and as a result, he had appeared on television numerous times and given countless interviews, gaining some fame for those around him as well.

Among them, Fan Lei was the most typical; he even helped Zhao Yi collect the Fields Medal.

But the one who received the most attention was Lin Xiaoqing, Zhao Yi’s publicly acknowledged girlfriend. Their love story had been reported by the media. She rarely gave interviews, yet many people knew him.

Naturally.

The people in Zhengyang’s police system also knew Lin Xiaoqing was the daughter of Lin Xudong, who might very well become Zhao Yi’s father-in-law.

Was it about to become reality now?

Director Chen was very much looking forward to it. There were no benefits for him personally, but having ’Zhao Yi’s father-in-law’ as a subordinate was very prestigious when mentioned.

For example, when someone brought up Zhao Yi, he could add, "Academician Zhao Yi, I know him well! He’s the son-in-law of my Criminal Investigation Squad’s Director Lin. When Zhao Yi got married, I even attended the betrothal..."

And so on, and so forth.

Anyway, having such a connection was very face-saving.

Lin Xudong also got a week’s leave, which could be ’extended further’ if necessary. In a few more days, it would be around the Spring Festival, and the police system would be very busy. The fact that he was able to get an ’extendable’ leave speaks volumes about its rarity.

After Zhao Hongjuan successfully requested the leave, she and Lin Xudong found Lin Xiaoqing and were then arranged to stay at Zhao Yi’s place.

They had been waiting for three days.

Lin Xiaoqing didn’t know the purpose of their visit; she thought they were just touring the capital, so she suggested they stay and look around. She also mentioned that Zhao Yi was involved in a confidential project, which made it inconvenient for them to drop by casually.

Zhao Hongjuan grew more anxious as they waited, worrying that they had taken the leave and come to the capital only to not even see Zhao Yi, which made her even more irritable.

Lin Xudong, however, understood the importance of ’confidentiality’ and kept trying to calm Zhao Hongjuan down.

Then, he found himself in trouble.

Zhao Hongjuan, on the edge of transforming into a furious Takahashi, remembered how upset she was at not seeing Zhao Yi and nearly came to blows with Lin Xudong.

This was the scene Zhao Yi walked in on. freewebnøvel.com

Upon seeing Zhao Yi return, Zhao Hongjuan’s mood instantly shifted. She didn’t bother with pleasantries and immediately asked about the purpose of their visit, "You and Xiaoqing, you’re planning to get married, aren’t you?"

"Get married?"

Zhao Yi’s mouth hung open in shock.

Imagine the feeling when you open the door to your own home and see your girlfriend’s mother wielding a rolling pin, asking you such a question.

Anyway, Zhao Yi was a bit scared.

That was a rolling pin!

If it were just any woman holding a rolling pin, he really wouldn’t be too worried, but with Zhao Hongjuan, it was different; he had witnessed Zhao Hongjuan’s violence.

Beneath that gentle, demure smile was an extreme propensity for violence...

He needed to be careful!

Zhao Yi took a slight step back and then said with a stiff smile, "Aunt Zhao, when did you arrive? I just got back. I need to rest a bit first."