Chapter 113: See You Later

  Jiang Youtao's dissatisfaction with Teacher Zhao accumulated little by little, and reached its peak after hearing these words today.

  Jiang Youtao felt that if she didn't confront Teacher Zhao today, she would be driven crazy: "Teacher Zhao, what does other people's business have to do with you? Do you live by the sea? Why do you mind so much?"

  As soon as Jiang Youtao finished speaking, someone laughed. Teacher Zhao couldn't help but say, "Teacher Jiang, I'm just talking about the matter and expressing my own opinion. What do you mean by saying this?"

  Jiang Youtao leaned against the door frame: "Whatever you heard, that's what it meant. Whatever you understand, that's what it means. If you insist on understanding it that way, I can't do anything about it."

  According to research, most people will feel very upset when they hear the phrase "I can't do anything about it". The effect is doubled when the person saying this is a partner or husband.

  It's so annoying. Jiang Youtao has always been professional, but now Teacher Zhao is almost as angry as a puffer fish.

  Teacher Zheng also came out, holding a boiled sweet potato in her hand. She ate it while supporting Jiang Youtao: "I think Xiao Jiang is right. What does it have to do with you? Why do you care so much? You are so broad-minded, why don't you forgive your brother-in-law and sister-in-law? Weren't they also children when they stole your things?"

  Teacher Zhao's husband Liu Shiyong is not an only child. He has a younger brother and a younger sister who are three or four years younger than Liu Shiyong. When Teacher Zhao just got married, she was too embarrassed to do so, so her brother-in-law and sister-in-law all moved into the family compound. At that time, the family compound was not as big as it is now, and she had to support four adults with her salary alone.

  Her sister-in-law and brother-in-law were not clean. She saved some money with great difficulty, but they stole it all. Teacher Zhao was upset at that time and they almost got divorced. In the end, of course, the divorce did not go through. Her mother-in-law took her brother-in-law and sister-in-law back. Later, her brother-in-law and sister-in-law got married, and then her mother-in-law moved to the staff quarters.

  For so many years, they haven't seen her interact with her brother-in-law and sister-in-law. Why is it that she is allowed to drive away the brother-in-law and sister-in-law who stole her money, but not others?

  What is the reason for this?

  Teacher Zheng is a native of the county. She was still a student when Teacher Zhao made a fuss. She saw everything at that time.

  Teacher Zheng and Teacher Zhao have a grudge against each other. Her boyfriend is a soldier. Before he was discharged from the army, he was not at home all year round. Whenever she said a few more words to any man, Teacher Zhao would ridicule her for being unfaithful to her husband.

  If she hadn't been so upright, she would have been driven crazy by Mrs. Zhao's overt and covert sarcasm.

  That is why Teacher Zheng is willing to do anything that may bring bad luck to Teacher Zhao.

  Her biggest wish is to see Teacher Zhao in trouble.

  Teacher Zhao was even more angry when the old things from many years ago were dug up: "I just said something casually, what's wrong with you? Can't you even speak a fair word?"

  Teacher Zhao left angrily.

  Jiang Youtao looked at her from behind and said, "Teacher Zhao, why don't you take the three brothers back home to raise them? You don't have any sons, so you already have an older son and a younger son, and you can also get a daughter for free."

  Teacher Zheng was delighted: "Teacher Jiang's suggestion is good. I think it is feasible. Isn't our teacher Zhao the one who cares most about the weak? We can kill two birds with one stone."

  Teacher Zhao turned around and glared at Jiang Youtao and Teacher Zheng fiercely, then pushed her husband and mother-in-law away and went back to the house.

  Her mother-in-law looked at her son, stopped watching the fun, and followed him back.

  As soon as he entered the room, Teacher Zhao blocked him and started to attack him: "Liu Shiyong, are you still a man? You still have no guts? Your wife was bullied by those two people outside, why didn't you say anything?"

  Liu Shiyong thought of his younger brothers and sisters who were driven home by Teacher Zhao and were plagued by rumors and gossip. He was in a bad mood and retorted: "I have no guts. I don't even have a son. What guts do I have?"

  "How can I speak? It's clearly none of your business, but you insist on being mean and asking for trouble. What can I say? I don't have the face to say anything."

  Teacher Zhao was so angry that she cried in the yard. She felt that this life was really unbearable. She suffered from bullying outside and at home.

  After Teacher Zhao left, Teacher Yu didn't dare to say anything. She had always been a little follower following behind Teacher Zhao. It was Teacher Zhao who did all the fighting and all she had to do was to encourage things from behind.

  As soon as Teacher Zhao left, she lost interest. She didn't even dare to watch the fun and walked away dejectedly, for fear that if she walked too slowly, Jiang Youtao and Teacher Zheng would pull her aside and argue with her.

  Jiang Heng's gloomy gaze fell on Jiang Youtao's face again. He remembered Jiang Youtao. After all, Jiang Youtao's face would attract people to look at her more. Good-looking people always easily gain other people's favor.

  But Jiang Heng had no good feelings towards Jiang Youtao. This morning, he had almost convinced Zhou Yuying, but as soon as Jiang Youtao spoke, Zhou Yuying became unwilling to give in.

  At this moment, every household has no extra housing. The few houses in the Water Conservancy Bureau are not enough for the old employees. He has no savings. The street office helped them solve the housing problem once. Can they continue to help solve it?

  Besides, Jiang Min was kicked out this time because she stole something. Who would be willing to take a thief back home?

  Jiang Heng thought about it and decided that returning to the Zhou family would be the best option.

  During the time he was in the Zhou family, he lived a very comfortable life. He didn't have to worry about anything, didn't have to pay for household expenses, and someone washed his clothes and cooked his meals. It was a life that many people could not ask for.

  Jiang Min had been beaten by him once, and this time he was not lying at all. He had already gone to Zhou's house, and Old Mrs. Wang said that Zhou Yuying had moved out and rented out the house.

  Jiang Heng panicked and wanted to make a scene, but the person who rented the Zhou family's house was from the Public Security Bureau, so he didn't dare to. After finding out where Zhou Yuying lived, he rushed over without stopping.

  Jiang Min didn't dare to make a fuss. This was beyond her memory. She remembered that Zhou Yuying didn't live in the dormitory in her previous life. She had always lived in her home.

  Jiang Youtao noticed Jiang Heng's unfriendly gaze and looked over: "What are you looking at?"

  Jiang Heng clenched his hands tightly, resisting the urge to hit someone.

  He reminded himself three times in his heart that a little impatience would ruin a big plan, then he took a deep breath and continued shouting towards Zhou Yuying's yard.

  There was no movement in the yard.

  Principal He finally came out. He looked at the crowd of people watching the excitement and frowned tightly: "What are you all doing here?"

  Everyone automatically made way for them, and Principal He walked into the middle of the crowd. He first glanced at Zhou Yuying's closed door, and then his gaze fell on Jiang Heng.

  Jiang Heng called Principal He with great respect. Principal He looked at Jiang Heng and said, "Jiang Heng?"

  Principal He has been a teacher in Yangping County for many years. Jiang Heng is 21 years old this year. Six or seven years ago, he was taught by Teacher He when he was in junior high school.

  Yangping County is relatively remote, and there are only a few HXBs in the county, but Jiang Heng is one of them. He heard about the glorious deeds of HXBs outside from somewhere at the time, and he also wanted to fight against teachers and capitalists.

  As a result, he was beaten by his father before he was even arrested. He also knelt in the school for a day. Since then, Jiang Heng has never come to school again. Not long after, it was heard that Jiang Heng's father had passed away. He took over his father's job. Not long after, his mother was said to have remarried.

  Principal He's memory of Jiang Heng was profound. After all, he was almost defeated by him.

  When Jiang Heng saw Principal He, he remembered the beating his father gave him and his legs began to tremble.

  Principal He had no expression on his face: "What are you doing here?"

  "I'm here to find my partner." Jiang Heng had thought it through. He had to prove that he was Zhou Yuying's partner. In a couple of days, he would spread some false news that Zhou Yuying had slept with him. In this way, no one in the county who had any shame would marry Zhou Yuying.

  If he showed more affection, many people would attract Zhou Yuying to him, and Zhou Yuying would have no choice but to marry him. His mother was not willing to marry his father at the beginning, and his father used this trick to marry his mother. Didn't his mother also give birth to three children for his father?

  Teacher Zheng interrupted: "Teacher Zhou didn't admit that she is your girlfriend."

  At this moment, Jiang Heng wished he could use a needle to sew up the mouths of these teachers.

  Principal He didn't know whether he believed it or not. He nodded and said, "Whether you are here to meet your partner or someone else, this is the school's family quarters. If you come here and make a lot of noise, it will have a bad influence on the students. If they don't know, they will think something happened in our school."

  "Okay, go back quickly."

  Jiang Heng looked embarrassed: "Principal, my house collapsed, and the street office arranged for us to live in Zhou Yuying's house. She has rented out the house now, and we have nowhere to go."

  If you didn't know, you would think it was Zhou Yuying's fault if you cut out the beginning and the end of Jiang Heng's words.

  Zhou Yuying's move into the family building was approved by Principal He. He already knew the whole story and naturally would not believe Jiang Heng's one-sided statement.

  "That's your business. You can go to the street office or your unit but you don't have to come to our school, you can go back now. Don't let the children kneel for too long. It's bad for their health." Principal He ordered them to leave again.

  No matter how unwilling Jiang Heng was, he had to leave temporarily.

  As soon as he left, the onlookers dispersed. When they returned to Gu Nianwei's dormitory, Director Li asked about the situation.

  Jiang Youtao said simply, and Director Li frowned: "I think these three siblings are relying on Teacher Zhou, right?"

  "Of course he does. He lives in Teacher Zhou's house. He doesn't have to pay for household expenses, he doesn't have to take care of the children, his clothes are washed and his meals are cooked. He just needs to lie down and eat. Where else can he find such a good thing? By marrying Teacher Zhou, he can also get a two-story house for free."

  This house, if he live in it for a while, it might change it's owner from Zhou to Jiang. Gu Nianwei sneered at men like Jiang Heng.

  This kind of person is just like Shen Mingyuan before, who lives off his wife.

  Men like this who are too chauvinistic and live off their wives deserve to be beaten to death.

  Director Li said, "I'll go to the street office when the time comes."

  The Women's Federation is not an important unit, but it has more say than grassroots units like the street office.

  Director Li went back, and Jiang Youtao also returned to her room. Zhou Yuying was probably not at home, as the lights in her room were not on.

  Jiang Heng brought Jiang Min and Jiang Yuan to his unit. The leader of his unit looked unhappy when he saw him coming with his younger brother and sister carrying a lot of bags.

  But he didn't say anything. The dormitory he lived in was a double room. He hadn't been to this dormitory for a long time since he moved to Zhou's house. His bed was covered with his colleagues' clothes.

  When his colleague saw him come back, his face turned black. He moved the things without saying a word. The next morning, he went to see his leader, who talked to Jiang Heng. From then on, Jiang Heng would give two-thirds of his monthly salary to Zhou Yuying as the living expenses he owed for more than a year.

  Yesterday, when Jiang Heng went to the staff quarters, Zhou Yuying also came to the Water Conservancy Bureau. When Jiang Heng came back from the staff quarters, Zhou Yuying had already gone back through another path.

  At the same time, his younger brothers and sisters were not allowed to live in the staff dormitory, which was only for men. Jiang Min was ten years old, so it was not appropriate for her to live there. His boss also found her a small house for rent.

  The house was shabby and the landlord was an old widower who was particularly difficult to talk to.

  Jiang Min returned to her past life. The time she had the salted fish system seemed like a dream.

  Jiang Min continued to lie on the shabby kang that was like a childhood nightmare. When she looked up, she saw the spider webs on the roof. It was too hard for Jiang Min to bear.

  Her brother Jiang Yuan called her from the side: "Sister, I'm scared."

  Jiang Min ignored him. Her brother was not a good person either. In her previous life, he joined a pyramid scheme and boasted every day about how much money his boss made in order to trick her into investing. She couldn't resist and invested her only 500 yuan salary in him, but ended up losing everything.

  The guy who followed her later was almost penniless and had to help Jiang Yuan from time to time. Jiang Yuan was not a good learner and was caught stealing things every other day and was put in jail.

  Jiang Min already had enough of him.

  "Go to bed quickly, or get out of here if you don't want to." Jiang Min yelled at Jiang Yuan. Jiang Yuan felt so aggrieved that he burst into tears and fell asleep sobbing.

  Since she lost the golden finger, she has been calling for it all the time like before, but unfortunately, the salted fish system did not reply to her until Jiang Min fell asleep due to exhaustion.

  The next day, she didn't eat. She didn't want to stay in this room. She was going to school because she didn't know what else she could do besides going to school.

  Jiang Yuan had already left, Jiang Min ignored him and wished him a safe journey, thinking about making money all the way. She wanted to make money by relying on her knowledge of the past life, but when she thought about it carefully, she was confused.

  She had no education and no experience. The money-making jobs she knew were either too tiring, which Jiang Min didn't want to do because she couldn't stand the hardship. Or they required skills, which Jiang Min knew nothing about.

  As she walked, she passed by a post office and suddenly remembered that in her previous life she had heard someone say that people made money by stamps. She walked in. The post office was very busy in the morning, with a constant stream of people sorting letters, picking up letters and newspapers.

  Jiang Min seemed very out of place among them.

  A young post office worker stopped and asked her, "Little girl, what are you doing here?"

  Jiang Min pinched the strap of her schoolbag and said, "I want to buy stamps with the image of the motherland in red. Do you have any?"

  Jiang Min was not familiar with it. The reason she knew about this stamp was because she heard from her co-workers who worked in the hotel that this stamp was sold for a lot of money later.

  The staff at the post office laughed and said, "Those stamps were from seven or eight years ago. They are long gone now. And those stamps are very precious. There is only one stamp in each edition, and only 120,000 were issued nationwide. Even if there were any, it would not be our remote county's turn. They have long been divided up by higher authorities."

  Jiang Min was struck by lightning and walked out of the post office in a daze.

  The day before yesterday, she was full of energy and high spirits, having the salted fish system in her hands, looking down on everyone, thinking that she would definitely become a leader. But just one day later, the system disappeared, taking away all her money and supplies.

  She was kicked out of the Zhou family and had nothing left.

  Jiang Heng also had a hard time at work. Wherever he went, people pointed fingers at him.

  After finally getting off work, he immediately went to the school to block Zhou Yuying. However, at this time, Zhou Yuying had already been found by her grandparents in advance under the control of the big world consciousness, and Jiang Heng was disappointed again.

  It was almost time to go to work, and he had no choice but to go to work, otherwise he would really have no money to spend.

  Whenever Teacher Zhao went to class and Liu Jing went to school, it was the time for her old lady, Mrs. Li, to plot with Liu Shiyong.

  Liu Shiyong returned home two days ago and slept with his cousin's sister-in-law at his brother's house.

  Mrs. Li was very anxious and kept asking Liu Shiyong how he felt.

  Liu Shiyong touched his beer belly and said to his mother, "His sister-in-law is very good. She said that she has already adjusted her body and taken medicine in advance. The chances of getting pregnant are very high."

  "Mom, didn't you ask Yaqing for money to buy groceries the day before yesterday? Did you save some? Give me the money and I'll arrange for her to live in the city. Don't let her go back to sleep with her man and make me a loser."

  Liu Shiyong is also very smart.

  Mrs. Li smiled and said, "My son is really thoughtful. I'll give you the money in a moment. We can do it quietly. Take some money from Zhao Yaqing during this period. Once the baby is born, there will be many places to spend money."

  Liu Shiyong nodded repeatedly. Perhaps it was the youthful beauty of his cousin's sister-in-law that nourished his soul, or perhaps it was because he had something to look forward to, he seemed more lively than before.

  When Zhou Yuying met her grandparents and uncle, the consciousness of the big world finally removed the fate poison from Zhou Yuying's body.

  The moment the poison was removed, Zhou Yuying felt unprecedented relief, as if the shackles that had imprisoned her had disappeared at that moment.

  Her grandparents were already very old, having been sent down for many years, and their bodies were covered with frost. During those ten years, only one of her three uncles survived, and her eldest and second uncles died because they could not endure the torture.

  They all hoped that Zhou Yuying would go with them.

  Jiang Youtao naturally couldn't miss the grand scene of the family reunion. While the students were studying, she opened the small window belonging to Zhou Yuying.

  In response to her grandparents' request, Zhou Yuying only asked one question: "Why didn't my mother contact you at the beginning?"

  Zhou Yuying's mother's surname is Zhang, and her name is Zhang Lihui. After marrying her father Zhou Liming, she never mentioned anything about her mother's family.

  Grandpa Zhang sighed and said, "You can blame me. Your father and your mother were classmates, and I didn't agree when they wanted to get married. Our Zhang family has been a family of teachers since the Qing Dynasty, and we are considered to be a clean family. Your father is the son of a merchant. It's not that I look down on merchants, but under the general environment at that time, it was too difficult for merchants to protect themselves."

  At this point, Grandma Zhang continued, "Who would have thought that your father's family was not affected, but our family was knocked down first. Maybe you don't remember it."

  Grandma Zhang looked at Zhou Yuying with a very gentle gaze: "Perhaps you don't remember, but I came to see you on your tenth birthday. I slept with you all night before I left. Every year on your birthday, your uncle would use his own pocket money to buy you nice new clothes."

  After a pause, Grandma Zhang continued, "Your eldest uncle and second uncle also always send you picture books and toys."

  Zhou Yuying already understood a lot of things when she was ten years old, but she didn't remember everything. However, she knew that she would get new toys and new clothes on her birthday every year.

  She always thought it was prepared by her parents, but she didn't expect it was prepared by her grandmother's family.

  "Later, we had a premonition that something was going to happen at home, so we severed our parent-child relationship with your mother because she didn't listen to our family," said Uncle Zhang.

  Zhou Yuying suddenly remembered the sadness in her mother's eyes when she asked her mother why she didn't have a grandparents' house.

  Looking at the two elderly people with gray hair and old faces, and Uncle Zhang who was less than 30 years old but already had gray hair on his temples, Zhou Yuying said, "I'll go with you."

  The Zhang family was extremely happy, and Uncle Zhang even said, "I'm injured, and I won't be able to have children in this lifetime. Don't worry, everything in our Zhang family will be given to you in the future."

  Zhou Yuying sold her house to the comrade-in-arms of Teacher Zheng's boyfriend. Before leaving, she came to thank Jiang Youtao and others who had helped her that day.

  Jiang Youtao accepted the fruit Zhou Yuying gave her and said to her seriously, "Teacher Zhou, I hope you will be happy and healthy in the future and have a bright future."

  Zhou Yuying was stunned. She didn't expect Jiang Youtao to say such auspicious words to her, but everyone likes to hear good words.

  She smiled, her round almond-shaped eyes curved into crescents at this moment, and she said, "Thank you, Teacher Jiang, we'll see you later."

  "See you later."