Rebirth in the 1970s: Bringing the village tyrant’s family back to the city and winning easily

In 1977, the college entrance examination was reinstated. Educated youth who had been sent to the countryside, Su Jinyan, passed the exam and was admitted to Peking University in one go. The origin...

Chapter 26 Being monitored?

Su Jinyan's praise did not make Zhao Yuanyi happy.

He understands the principle, but his connections are not there, so he can't get the goods.

"Hubby, I have a classmate whose mother is the director of a textile factory. I'm going to ask around tomorrow to see if I can get some fabric and some red woolen coats."

Nowadays, the gauze silk scarf is a little out of fashion. Gauze scarves with gold thread are in fashion. They cost five to seven or eight yuan each. If anyone wears one on the street, he or she will attract envious looks from other girls.

It was a money-making project, but unfortunately, she couldn't get the stuff from this era.

There are quite a few woolen coats and black leather shoes for men and women.

Zhao Yuanyi raised his eyebrows and said, "That's fine. As long as it's fine cotton, it doesn't matter what color it is."

"Okay, by the way, can mom use a sewing machine to make clothes?"

Zhao Yuanyi shook his head. "No, I don't have that thing at home. I've never used it."

"Oh, I was thinking about making the cloth into clothes and selling them."

The two chatted for a long time before turning off the lights and resting. Now that they had common topics to talk about, Zhao Yuanyi pestered Su Jinyan for several hours, which directly led to her waking up at after nine o'clock the next day.

After getting up, Su Jinyan had a bite of food and asked Zhao Yuanyi to look around the two train stations and the bus station.

Look anywhere, just don't stare at her.

If Zhao Yuanyi wanted to sell goods secretly without being caught, he had to know the streets and alleys of the capital city, so he obediently rode his bicycle out.

The original owner had little popularity in junior high and high school. There were a few boys who admired her, but none of them really wanted to date her. They just liked her for her appearance.

Life is so frustrating.

Maybe this is the cannon fodder physique?

After leaving home, she found a guesthouse nearby and planned to book a room for two hours. However, she actually forgot that in this day and age, she needed a letter of introduction to go anywhere.

She left the guesthouse dejectedly, planning to find an alley to enter the space, but at a turn, she found that someone seemed to be following her?

Thinking of this possibility, Su Jinyan was so scared that his legs went weak and he almost fell down, and his face changed.

She pretended to be calm and turned her head to look. A man covered tightly leaned against the telephone pole and pretended to look away.

Now it was confirmed that she was being monitored!

Why on earth is that?

Did you follow her yesterday? She entered an alley and dragged out a large sack a short while later. Was she seen?

Su Jinyan only dared to pause for a moment before he stepped on the wall, calmly untied his shoelaces and tied them again.

After tying his shoelaces, he walked leisurely towards the supply and marketing cooperative.

Today might be some purchasing day, as there was a long line at the door of the supply and marketing cooperative. She asked an aunt and learned that there was fresh pork and mutton available today without tickets, and purchases could be made based on household registration, with each household getting two kilograms of pork and one kilogram of mutton.

No hope!

She and Zhao Yuanyi must wait until school starts before they can register their household registration. As for Zhao's father and mother, they can register their household registration once they have money and buy an apartment. In this day and age, it is relatively easy to register in Beijing.

And there's plenty of space for storage, so why spend money?

For the time being, let the ancestors of the Nara family help her, a poor descendant.

After entering the supply and marketing cooperative, she bought a Daqianmen cigarette for her father-in-law Zhao Zhengjun and two bottles of Maotai. Seeing crayons, she bought a set of crayons and white paper for drawing for Zhao Qi. Finally, she visited the valuables area on the second floor, looked at the radio, sewing machines and watches for a while, and then left the supply and marketing cooperative with cigarettes and alcohol.

During this period, the man had been following her not too far away, but at this time, Su Jinyan seemed indifferent.

Even though my legs were still weak and I was still very scared, I didn't dare show it at all.

She thought, it should be just simple surveillance, perhaps because of what Xin Huimin is experiencing now, or perhaps because she went to Xin's house yesterday?

I don’t know if Zhao Yuanyi was also under surveillance.

After returning home, she said nothing, gave the cigarette to Zhao Zhengjun, and took Zhao Qi back to the house.

He took out paper and crayons from the cloth bag and taught Zhao Qi how to draw and recognize numbers from 1 to 5.

Sun prepared lunch.

Two-grain steamed buns and pork stew.

Maybe she realized that Su Jinyan's family was well-off? Or for some other reason, Sun was very generous today and put a lot of lard and meat slices in the dishes, which tasted pretty good.

Just as we were about to eat, Zhao Yuanyi came back.

Su Jinyan couldn’t see anything on that calm face.

After dinner, Su Jinyan took Zhao Yuanyi back to the house. Sun was so happy to see them that she stopped the children from looking for their parents.

"Yuan Yi, have you been..."

For a moment, she didn't know what to say. If she said it, would Zhao Yuanyi have any opinion about the Su family?

"Yanyan, are you okay?"

Su Jinyan felt his legs still a little weak after hearing what he said, and shook his head slightly, "You were followed too? Did you find out yesterday?"

"Not yesterday."

Seeing Su Jinyan's depressed mood, Zhao Yuanyi thought she was frightened, so he took her hand and touched it gently, "Are you frightened? It's okay, don't go out these two days."

Although he didn't know why he was being followed, he was puzzled about what Xin Huimin was experiencing now.

Su Jinyan nodded, and then said, "I have already made an appointment with my grandparents to give them something at around nine o'clock the day after tomorrow."

"My grandparents used to be rich, but now they don't even have enough to eat..."

"I'll go."

Su Jinyan pursed her lips, "Yuan Yi——"

Zhao Yuan pulled her into his arms and patted her gently, "Be good, don't think too much, your father and mother will be fine."

Three days of anxiety lasted for a while.

On the third day, Xiao Li came to pick her up early in the morning. Seeing Xiao Li, Su Jinyan breathed a sigh of relief.

During these three days, she was worried that someone would find out, so she dragged Zhao Yuanyi out for most of the day every day to play in the park, Tiananmen Square, and the Forbidden City. She walked around until her legs were almost broken.

Worried that something might happen, she left the child with Zhao Yuanyi and Sun and returned to the Su family alone.