"Meng Yang." Vice President Sun walked towards Meng Yang.
Turning his head to look over, Meng Yang patted the residue on his hand before asking, "Vice President Sun, what's the matter?"
"You don’t have anything else to do next week, do you?" Vice President Sun questioned.
The reason for Vice President Sun to ask this was because Meng Yang took a lot of leave from pregnancy to the birth of his child.
"Next week?" Meng Yang thought for a while, "Apart from studying in class, and going home to take care of the child, there should be nothing else."
"Next week, when the foreign psychotherapy team comes to our branch for academic exchanges, President wants you to take part in it as Master Lin's assistant to help him take the minutes of the meeting." Vice President Sun informed.
"Working as a meeting minute record assistant?" Meng Yang froze for a moment, "Isn't this usually done by senior members?"
"There’s no clear stipulation that it must be done by a senior member. You are good enough to do this job. So there’s definitely no problem. Plus, you won’t be the only junior member to participate. By that time, President will arrange for some other outstanding members to attend as well. "
"Okay, I’ll prepare well." Meng Yang nodded.
Vice President Sun was about to turn around and leave, but he turned back again, then hesitated and said: "One more thing, there’s a psychiatrist expert named Korch. He will be the captain of their team. He seems to know you."
After freezing for a moment, Meng Yang replied: "I only met him a few times, so I’m not very familiar with him. A friend of a friend of mine has a serious psychological problem because of a car accident. My friend, through some relationships, spent a lot of money to invite Korch for his friend. Because I was also helping my friend’s friend to perform aromatherapy, I met him a few times."
"It turned out to be like this." Vice President Sun nodded, then turned around to face the Masters. "Masters, we will hold a meeting in an hour. Please come and participate on time. I’ll go prepare first."
After speaking, Vice President Sun left quickly.
"Meng Yang, you are so amazing! You can take part in such an important exchange meeting already!" Wu Feng exclaimed with excitement.
"Yes, Meng Yang, you’ll definitely learn a lot from it. Such an opportunity is really rare."
"It's a pity we are not even full members still, otherwise we might have had the opportunity to attend."
"Meng Yang, you must seize this opportunity and learn more."
"Exactly." Wu Feng added: "Since all the people coming here are very good psychologists, you must learn something from them."
Meng Yang nodded with a smile, thinking this indeed was a rare opportunity.
Raising his head, Wen Yuan glanced toward Meng Yang. Throwing the spices into the bamboo basket vigorously, he then turned to look at Yu Junchen. However, he could not see any emotions on Yu Junchen’s face. Nowadays, Yu Junchen was like a completely different person. He was taciturn and solitary, not saying a word with anyone, including him. This situation made him feel very worried.
When the Masters left for the meeting, Meng Yang and the others finished their work for today, then prepared to go home. On the way out, Wu Feng told Meng Yang about Yu Junchen.
"I think Yu Junchen is acting weird nowadays." Wu Feng related to Meng Yang quietly: "When I was at school, sometimes I ran into him by chance, then saw him standing alone in a daze. He laughed and cried for a while. Sometimes looking very sad and painful, but sometimes his eyes were very scary. I heard he broke up with Luo Sheng. Could it be that it was too much of a blow, or a psychological problem caused by that stimulation?"
Meng Yang thought for a while before answering: "Who cares. Doesn't matter what he does, it has nothing to do with us anyway. Plus, not that he can do much now."
"That being said, be careful to sail the boat for thousand years*. In case he is really mentally disordered and still hates you in his heart, it won’t be good if he does something to hurt you. You should better be prepared." Wu Feng spoke.
"Don't worry, as long as I go out, there are people who follow me all the time. Since I won't do anything to him, he should be thankful. But if he dares to make any moves on me, then he is going to die. Uncle Luo can crush him in the palm of his hand." Meng Yang replied.
Because in his present life, he was in a completely different situation than he was in his previous life, Meng Yang didn't put Yu Junchen in his eyes. Now he had more advantages than Yu Junchen, hence, there was no need to worry about it. And as for Luo Sheng, he will let him go if he keeps up being drunk dreaming of his death. However, if he gets sober all of a sudden, then he would become more guarded in case he plans something.
As soon as he entered Luo Xiu's office, Meng Yang could see Luo Xiu walking back and forth holding the child. With a smile, he walked towards them.
"It seems you got a bit late to come back today." Looking at Meng Yang, Luo Xiu commented.
"Well, there were too many new spices. So it took a while." After explaining, Meng Yang took the mouthwash and warm water to rinse his mouth from the helper. He washed his hands again and wiped them clean before walking to them. When he got to Luo Xiu's side, Meng Yang kissed him, then touched the child's face gently.
"I need to go out for a while. There’s a social gathering in the evening to attend. So you and the child should go back first." Luo Xiu spoke.
"Okay." Taking the child over, Meng Yang inquired, "Is it for the Cheng family's business? That Old man Cheng is really tough. He had heart attacks several times but still survived every time. Even with all that, he can still manage the Cheng Family’s Company."
"He is just consuming his life at an accelerated rate. When he runs out of oil and the lamp dies, he won't be able to hold on anymore." Putting on his outer clothes, Luo Xiu spoke.
"But how do I feel he’s quite full of oil?" Curling his lips, Meng Yang commented.
Luo Xiu couldn’t help smiling. Walking to Meng Yang's side, he kissed him after hugging him. Then added, "Don't worry, when he was so much stronger than me back then, I could still survive. Now I am stronger than him, while he is old and weak. So definitely, he won’t last long."
"We still have to do something to stimulate him. It was a pity last time." When Meng Yang thought about it, he felt it was Xu Minhua's fault, preventing Luo Xiu from making better use of the last opportunity. Old man Cheng and his two sons were so dirty. To deal with dirty people, they also must use unclean methods rather than treating them humanly. Only then they would feel how others felt about their doings.
Hugging Meng Yang downstairs, Luo Xiu brought Meng Yang and their child to the car.
"Goodbye, dad." Meng Yang raised his son's little hand and shook it to say bye.
With a smile, Luo Xiu touched Meng Yang's face, then touched the child's face before closing the car door, then turned to the car next to it.
In the evening, Meng Yang carried the baby into the bathroom, stripped the child off, tied a small swimming ring around his neck, then put him into the small bathtub beside the big bathtub. Both bathtubs were relatively deep so Meng Yang himself stripped naked and went into the big bathtub. Folding his arms on the edge of the bathtub, he watched his child swim with his two little legs.
Looking at his baby who looked like a chubby fish, flicking his two chubby legs back and forth, Meng Yang couldn’t help but laugh. When the child saw him laughing, he also opened his mouth and laughed, making Meng Yang laugh even happier.
When Luo Xiu pushed the door in, he saw Meng Yang smiling while watching their child swim. He couldn't help but smile as well.
"Look, your father’s back." Meng Yang turned the child around.
Taking off his clothes, Luo Xiu went into the shower. After a brief rinse, he walked out into the big bathtub, hugged Meng Yang from behind, then watched their child swim with him.
Luo Xiu kept holding Meng Yang's waist with his arms and lifted him up slightly.
Biting his lip, Meng Yang clenched the edge of the bathtub with his hands.
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After putting the child on the cot in the baby room, Luo Xiu and Meng Yang were also ready to go to bed.
Meng Yang laid down in Luo Xiu's arms before asking, "Under your siege, the Cheng family definitely will try to find a way to save themselves right? Have they done anything recently?"
"Old man Cheng is finally understanding the feeling of losing his way. For so many years, others knew what kind of person he was. Even his old friends are actually guarded against him, worrying he would bite them if they are not guarded enough. So right now, not many people are really willing to help them under the problems and conditions their family is facing now." Luo Xiu said, "I guess they will soon go abroad to find a way out."
"Is it so easy to find a way out abroad?" Meng Yang knew that Luo Xiu's development abroad had taken years of hard work to gain a firm foothold, plus now it's not like it used to be in the past. Can Old Man Cheng last for twenty or thirty years?
"Not necessarily, it depends on how they find it and how they plan to operate." Luo Xiu answered.
Meng Yang placed his face on Luo Xiu's chest. Without getting rid of the Cheng family completely, he could not feel completely at ease. However, he believed Luo Xiu would crush the Cheng family eventually.
A week later, the foreign delegation arrived.
The academic exchange meeting began in the large conference room of the branch. They would broadcast the entire process of the exchange meeting live so the other branches could also watch and learn. Therefore, Wu Feng and others were also watching the live broadcast in the small conference room.
As Meng Yang attended as Lin Songtai's assistant, he sat behind Lin Songtai to enter the minutes of the meeting.
The translators on the conference table had all been turned on, furthermore, they had turned the live broadcaster on. After confirming that everything was alright, the exchange meeting officially began.
The two sides would ask and answer each other's questions, discussing and exchanging opinions on people's psychological problems, such as bipolar disorder, anger, depression, psychological trauma, mental problems caused by physical problems, and physical problems caused by mental problems.
Although Meng Yang did not sit at the conference table, Korch asked him a few questions as well. And Meng Yang's answers made him very satisfied.
The probability of Westerners seeing a psychiatrist was more often than Easterners. As Easterners would generally go see a doctor to take medicines most often because of common colds, Westerners would go see a doctor to take medicines most often because of their psychological problems. As long as they were emotionally unstable, they would go see a psychologist. Even if they didn’t have time to see the psychologist, they would immediately call the psychologist. If their problems were a little more serious, they would start taking medicine. Seeing a psychologist was also covered by their medical insurance. As the saying goes, where there was a need, there would be development, so there were many powerful psychiatrists in western countries.
After the meeting, the President specially arranged a banquet to invite them to dinner.
When Meng Yang was about to leave with Wu Feng and the others, the President’s assistant came to him saying Korch invited him to come over for a chat as he had something to ask from him.