Chapter 94: Struck by Lightning

　　Ji Youshang, who was wearing a suit, put down the suitcase in his hand, took out a handkerchief from his arms and wiped his face, then wiped his hair, and took out his glasses and wiped them again and again.

　　His behavior made everyone present frown.

　　They rarely come across such fastidious men in their lives.

　　Ji Youshang folded his handkerchief carefully and put it in his pocket before looking at Meng Linyi. After seeing him, his already bad complexion became even worse.

　　"Meng Linyi, look at what you have become now. Why are you wearing such clothes?" Ji Youshang said this with great sorrow.

　　Everyone present looked at Meng Linyi.

　　She was wearing a goose yellow short-sleeved shirt, which was neither tight nor loose, but just right. Nowadays, women on the street are all wearing this.

　　There were three women present, and none of them understood why they couldn't dress like that.

　　The smile on Meng Linyi's face was already very faint, and now it was completely gone.

　　Meng Linyi originally had very few clothes, and these clothes fell into two extremes: either they were too small and stretched too tight when worn on the body, or they were too big and felt like a sack when worn on the body.

　　Meng Linyi knew from the original Meng Linyi's memory that these were her mother's and her eldest sister's clothes. The small one was her mother's, and the big one was her eldest sister's. The original Meng Linyi had never had new clothes since she was a child.

　　The first thing Meng Linyi did after arriving was to ask a tailor to make clothes for her. She did not pick and choose the styles of clothes, but only the popular ones that all the girls on the street wore.

　　Meng Linyi's face darkened. "Ji Youshang, are we familiar with each other? What I wear is my freedom. What does it have to do with you? Just like you came to my place in the middle of summer wearing a suit to pretend. Did I say anything to you? Did I point it out to you?"

　　"Besides, if there is anything wrong with the way I dress, tell me everything today."

　　As for refuting greasy men, Meng Linyi had done a lot of this in her previous life. Next door to them was the Sports College, and there were a few boys who were particularly greasy, comparable to Ji Youshang in front of them. The only difference was that those boys were younger than Ji Youshang.

　　Ji Youshang couldn't point it out, because the three women in the room were all dressed like this. If he insisted on finding fault, he would offend more than one person. Ji Youshang considered himself a gentleman and a cultured person, and he would not do such a thing.

　　His face suddenly turned purple. The rain was still pouring down outside. Jiang Youtao and Fu Shaohua were in no hurry to leave. They sat on the wooden benches outside and looked at Ji Youshang, who was so angry that his face was red and his neck was thick.

　　Jiang Youtao took out a handful of melon seeds and gave some to Fu Shaohua. Fu Shaohua was very considerate and peeled the seeds for Jiang Youtao.

　　Ji Youshang was soaked like a drowned chicken. He frowned and said, "Okay, let's put this matter aside for now. What did you mean when you wrote that letter back? Do you want to cancel the engagement? Do your parents agree?"

　　The original Meng Linyi's life in the Meng family was not easy. Although she was engaged to the Ji family, the Ji family did not value her. Having her as a fiancée was the same as not having one. Compared with her, the Meng family preferred the original owner's sister Meng Linjiang.

　　Meng Linjiang has been a chubby child since she was young, and she became fatter and fatter as she grew older. In this era of hunger, a fat person is proof of family wealth and a symbol of a good life.

　　Meng Linjiang has brought honor to her parents since she was young, but Meng Linyi has been thin since she was young. She is already seven years old, but as thin as a five-year-old child. Meng's parents think they are ashamed of them. If the street office had not paid great attention to the basic education of children, Meng Linyi would not even have been able to go to school.

　　Originally, Meng Linyi lived like a little maid at home. She did all the housework after school every day. On the other hand, Meng Linjiang played during school and after school. She was treated like a rich lady.

　　Everything changed when Meng Linyi was fifteen years old. Someone from the Ji family suddenly came and sent Meng Linyi to a nursing school, but after that, the people from the Ji family disappeared again.

　　This year, Meng Linyi graduated from the Nursing College and was assigned to work as a nurse at Zaoxiang Health Center.

　　She came from Shanghai, but she couldn't adapt to the climate here and had vomiting and diarrhea. Medicine and injections were of no use. Not long after, she died. Meng Linyi crossed over.

　　After finding out Meng Linyi's original life experience, the first thing Meng Linyi did was to break off the engagement with the Ji family.

　　According to the speed of logistics at that time, Meng Linyi estimated that the Ji family asked Ji Youshang to come over after receiving the letter of cancellation of engagement.

　　After all, the Ji family is in Shencheng, not close to here. Then the question arises again. The Ji family did not take the original Meng Linyi seriously, and even rarely appeared in front of her. Why did they take her so seriously when she wanted to break off the engagement?

　　"Since you have received the letter, you should know that I have made it very clear in the letter that our engagement was just a verbal agreement between our elders and it was not even formally confirmed. I am sending you a letter of cancellation of the engagement because your family sent me to the medical school."

　　The marriage of the Ji family did not bring much benefit to Meng Linyi. Instead, it made her life at home difficult.

　　Meng Linjiang was particularly jealous of her good marriage and had been targeting her since she was old enough to understand. The Ji family had never cared about her, and as time went on, everyone felt that the Ji family no longer recognized this marriage.

　　It turned out that when Meng Linyi went to the medical school, Ji Youshang was studying at the medical school next door. However, in the entire three years, the two met only a few times, and they all met in public. They had never met alone in private.

　　Even the classmate who had the best relationship with Meng Linyi didn't know that she was engaged to Ji Youshang from the next college.

　　Originally, Meng Linyi also wanted to cancel the engagement. With the attitude of the Ji family, she knew with her toes what she would experience after marrying them.

　　Ji Youshang looked at Meng Linyi in front of him and felt very disgusted.

　　The year Meng Linyi entered the medical school, he had already studied in the medical school for a year. When Meng Linyi entered the medical school, he went to see her specially. She was wearing a very ill-fitting dress and followed his second uncle timidly. She was thin, small, and a little dark, completely different from the women he usually came into contact with.

　　Ji Youshang didn't like her since he knew he would have such a marriage when he was a child.

　　But Ji Youshang had to marry her because she was the wife his grandfather had chosen for him. The Ji family was also a prominent family in Shanghai. Before liberation, his family owned three hospitals and five pharmacies in Shanghai.

　　During the war, his great grandfather took prompt action to provide the Party with most of his wealth in medical drugs.

　　After liberation, his great-grandfather saw that something was not right and decisively closed two hospitals and three pharmacies. The remaining two pharmacies and one hospital were also nationalized.

　　But a lean camel is still bigger than a horse. Although the Ji family seems to be in decline now, it still has a certain influence in the medical community of Shencheng.

　　All of Ji Youshang's uncles and brothers are doctors.

　　Ji Youshang's talent is not outstanding among the people in the Ji family, but because of his engagement with Meng Linyi, he has become more respectable in front of Old Master Ji.

　　When Meng Linyi's letter of breaking off the engagement arrived at his home, he had just finished a party with friends and had been drinking all night. He had just gone home to sleep when he was called in front of his grandfather.

　　His grandfather threw a cup at him, and the glass splashed on his hand, leaving a long cut.

　　He gave him a death order that if he failed to get Meng Linyi back, all his privileges in the Ji family would be revoked.

　　Ji Youshang bought a ticket to Zaoxiang that night. On the way, he felt more and more suffocated the more he thought about it, especially after he changed several buses before arriving to Zaoxiang.

　　The bad weather made him extremely upset with Meng Linyi. When he saw Meng Linyi, he saw that she was no different from before. Seeing that she did not come out to greet him like other women, he was furious and directly vented the anger that he had been holding back for several days.

　　"Don't make a fuss. This marriage was arranged by our elders since childhood. If you have any dissatisfaction, just tell me. I will try my best to satisfy you." Ji Youshang changed the subject and stopped dwelling on Meng Linyi's dressing.

　　Ji Youshang had discussed this with his parents before leaving home.

　　They all agreed that the reason Meng Linyi wanted to cancel the engagement at this juncture was simply because he had graduated from nursing school, had a decent job, and was strong enough to challenge the Ji family. She wanted to use this to control their family.

　　They never thought that Meng Linyi really wanted to cancel the engagement, nor did they think that Meng Linyi would return the goods.

　　After all, the Meng family is just an ordinary family in Shencheng. They live in an alley. Their living room is so small that it is not even as big as the Ji family's toilet. A whole family lives in a small house of 40 square meters.

　　The Ji family was much better off, living in the former British Concession in a small western-style building with a garden. For Meng Linyi to marry into their family was no different from ascending to heaven overnight.

　　If it weren't for the fact that the Ji family had opened a pharmacy near the Meng family's alley twelve years ago, and if it weren't for the fact that Old Man Ji got along very well with Meng Linyi who was playing in the alley with his younger brother at that time, he would not have gone so far as to come to the Meng family to arrange a marriage between Ji Youshang and Meng Linyi.

　　When Meng Linyi was fifteen years old, a nursing school was found for her. She was afraid that she would never be able to enter this class in her entire life.

　　Who would be willing to give up such a good marriage?

　　Ji Youshang was really upset, especially when he thought about how his cousins were able to marry wives of equal status, or at least fashionable women, but he was going to marry a country bumpkin, and he felt unwilling to accept it.

　　Ji Youshang had an expression that said "don't push your luck" on his face, which made Jiang Youtao want to do something. She really couldn't understand it.

　　How stupid is this No. 9 Little World to say that Ji Youshang is Meng Linyi's first love. A boy in his twenties, who is a top student and can be admitted to the top university, even if he is a male chauvinist, he can't be so greasy, right?

　　How can such a person be a substitute for first love? What is the purpose? Because he is a male chauvinist and looks down on women, or because he is greasy enough to cook?

　　Jiang Youtao really couldn't figure it out. Why was No. 9 so partial to Ji Youshang? Could it be that Ji Youshang was the illegitimate child of No. 9's little world that was left behind?

　　Although the melon-eating system thought Jiang Youtao's idea was a bit far-fetched, it surprisingly made sense. Are all the men in this world dead? Let Ji Youshang, a fat king, be the male protagonist of this world.

　　In the eight small worlds mentioned above, there is no male protagonist who is so oily.

　　Small World No. 9 has opened up a brand new image of the male protagonist.

　　The melon-eating system had just sent out all the melon coins in red envelopes, and it hadn't received any blood back. It was in a bad mood, and after realizing that the big world consciousness and the main brain didn't care about it, it pulled out the small world consciousness No. 9 and beat it up.

　　The consciousness of the small world No. 9 was crying. It didn't understand why it was being beaten again. The consciousness of the small world No. 9 had been reincarnated many times in the copies created by the melon-eating system. It was really scared. Now its body was pale. After the melon-eating system was satisfied after beating it, it stuffed it into the copy again regardless of its pleas for mercy.

　　After hearing what Ji Youshang said, Meng Linyi snorted, "What do you think I want? What is there in your family that is worth my desire? From childhood to adulthood, has your family ever given me any benefit? Is this engagement any different to you and me than nothing?"

　　"You don't want to marry me, and I don't want to marry you. Wouldn't it be better for us to just part ways?" It turned out that Meng Linyi had good grades since childhood. After finishing junior high school, she was admitted to a nursing school in Shencheng.

　　But Meng's parents wouldn't let her go. They firmly believed that it was useless for girls to read too much. Letting her finish junior high school was already the greatest grace they could give her as parents. How could she continue to study in nursing school? No way.

　　The appearance of the Ji family only made it easier for Meng Linyi to go to nursing school. Even if there was no Ji family, she could still read this book.

　　So after Meng Linyi traveled through time, she didn't feel that she owed the Ji family anything, and the Ji family really couldn't act superior in front of her.

　　It's not that Ji Youshang has never been without a girlfriend. He has had a girlfriend since high school. Ji Youshang knows how greedy women are. He once had a girlfriend he liked very much. She wanted to blackmail him by retreating to advance. When he saw through her, they broke up on the spot. Later, no matter how much she begged, Ji Youshang never turned back.

　　What Meng Linyi said and did now was no different from what Ji Youshang saw from his ex-girlfriend. In fact, Meng Linyi was not as good as her. After all, she was born in a working-class family, which was very different from a child from a slum family like Meng Linyi.

　　Ji Youshang believed that a person's poverty was engraved in their bones for a lifetime and could not be erased. Even if she really became his wife, she would still have the air of poverty.

　　After hearing what Meng Linyi said, he sneered. He really couldn't understand why his grandfather had to arrange such a wife for him. It was of no significance to his future.

　　"Okay, you said this, don't regret it." After Ji Youshang made the harsh words, he turned and left. Not long after he left, a huge thunder sounded in the sky and purple lightning streaked across the sky.

　　Jiang Youtao came close to Meng Linyi and said, "Xiao Meng, is there something wrong with your fiancé? It's raining so hard and there's so much thunder, doesn't he know how to hide?"

　　Before Meng Linyi could speak, shouts were heard outside.

　　"Oh, someone was struck by lightning, someone was struck by lightning."

　　Jiang Youtao and Fu Shaohua looked at each other, then immediately stood up and ran towards the door. Meng Linyi and her colleagues, as medical staff, also rushed out immediately.

　　Then they saw Ji Youshang, who had just been uttering harsh words in the house, lying on the ground with a peaceful look on his face. Above him was a big banyan tree.

　　Seeing this scene, Jiang Youtao sighed, "I really can't hide under a tree on a rainy day. My teacher was right!"