Chapter 141 — Old Buffon's Origins
Years of Heartflutter · Page 127 of 214
"You child," Shu Haikuo sighed, then something seemed to occur to him. He raised his head and looked at Shu Ya. "Are you still thinking about that person?"
"So what if I am?" It was the first time Shu Ya had admitted her feelings so unreservedly in front of her father. Yes, the moment she saw Yang Juehuan again aboard the Alice, Shu Ya could no longer contain her emotions. She had to go to Songjiang—she had to find Yang Ce.
"Ah," Shu Haikuo sighed and said with some bitterness. "Just as I thought. You never said it, but I guessed long ago that he's still in your heart. Otherwise, why haven't you taken another boyfriend?"
"I must go find him," Shu Ya said with determination. "I've already missed one chance. I can't miss another. I'm very certain of my feelings now—I love him."
"You love him? Is that love?" Shu Haikuo sighed. "How many years has it been since you last saw him? What is he like now? What is he doing? Does he have a girlfriend? You know none of it."
"I—" Shu Ya wanted to say that she had already seen him, but remembering that she had to keep it secret, the words reached her lips and she swallowed them back down.
Shu Haikuo assumed his daughter had run out of things to say, so he hurried on. "See? You can't answer, can you? Xiaoya, you'd better come to your senses."
"I won't," Shu Ya shook her head. "I've grown up. I know what I'm doing."
That Shu Ya's tour would begin in Songjiang left many media reporters utterly dumbfounded. Songjiang was only a second-tier city—not even a provincial capital, to say nothing of comparing it to the capital or the municipalities. Yet the official letter from Shu Ya's company stated plainly that the first stop of the tour would be Songjiang, and moreover the stop where she would stay the longest.
This left many in the media baffled. Why was Shu Ya so partial to Songjiang? And there was no substantive explanation. Still, the local organizer in Songjiang was confirmed with remarkable smoothness—undoubtedly the Songjiang Mingyang Heavy Industry Group.
Songjiang was a prefecture-level city whose economy was not especially developed. The city's pillar enterprise had originally been Wang Pu's Wang Group Century Majestic Corporation, followed by Hou Lin's Mingyang Entertainment Company and security company. Later, the Wang Group was acquired by Mingyang—through improper means, of course—and after the merger it was renamed the Mingyang Entertainment Group.
As a result, the city's pillar enterprise was left with only Mingyang. And the only entity with the capacity to host a concert was Mingyang. If Mingyang didn't host it, the city really wouldn't know what to do.
"Songjiang Mingyang Heavy Industry Group?" Shu Ya stared strangely at the information on the organizer before her, and asked her assistant manager in confusion.
"Oh, it's a newly established group," Assistant Manager Li said. "Its predecessor was the Songjiang Bus Factory. It was recently reorganized into a heavy industry group. Probably they want to build momentum by riding on the concert's coattails."
"The Songjiang Bus Factory?" Shu Ya was stunned, sinking into an endless stream of memories. Wasn't Yang Juehuan's father an employee of the Songjiang Bus Factory? And her own father had blocked her and Jue from seeing each other precisely because he looked down on Yang Juehuan's father as a mere worker. Who would have thought that in the blink of an eye, after all these years, the Songjiang Bus Factory would have grown so powerful?
Glancing over the introductory materials, it could even manufacture helicopters—that made it one of the few large-scale heavy industry groups in all of Asia.
"Xiaoya, what's wrong?" Assistant Manager Li asked, somewhat puzzled, seeing Shu Ya lost in thought.
"N-nothing," Shu Ya said, shaking her head. She thought to herself: if Yang Juehuan's father still worked here, then on this trip, if she could get in touch with the group's leadership, she absolutely must put in a good word for him.