Chapter 65 Those Past Events

At 9:40 in the evening, the bell for evening study rang.

Su Jiaojiao packed her bag and left the classroom. Chen Yi and Wu Peng were still working on their homework. Xu Mengyao ran out from under the table, holding an apple and stuffed it into Su Jiaojiao's pocket. "My dad brought back some delicious apples from out of town. Everyone in the dormitory gets one. This is for you."

"Thank you." Su Jiaojiao took it and put it in her pocket. "Go back to the dormitory and get some rest."

"I'll come to your house to play with you when I'm free." Xu Mengyao patted her shoulder and smiled brightly. "I've signed up for a performance at the New Year's Eve party. You guys will be my backup dancers. Rehearsals will start tomorrow at noon. Don't refuse."

"I refuse." Su Jiaojiao didn't want the apple anymore. It would be better to let her set up a stall than to let her dance. Xu Mengyao refused, "No, no, you must participate."

The two of them played around for a while, and Xu Mengyao said mysteriously, "By the way, Qin Xiuming transferred to our school from the three-plus-one school next door. I heard he passed our school's difficult transfer exam to get in."

"How do you know?" Su Jiaojiao was puzzled. They went to the same school, so how could she not know this?

"I saw it!" Xu Mengyao said in disbelief. "I saw him with my own eyes, holding a basketball, and entering Class 1 of Senior 3. He transferred to our school. I've asked around, it's true."

"You really are a know-it-all." Su Jiaojiao sincerely admired Xu Mengyao; she was so energetic. Xu Mengyao remembered something and chuckled, "I'll tell you another funny story. This afternoon, Xue Yuxin approached Qin Xiuming in the restaurant with a math problem, but Qin Xiuming ignored her and said he didn't know the answer. Haha, I laughed my ass off!"

Su Jiaojiao: “…”

She really couldn't understand the emotional world of a little girl.

Fortunately, she doesn't have to go through this again.

After evening self-study, Su Jiaojiao saw Qin Xiuming standing under the street light as soon as she walked out of the teaching building.

Seeing her, Qin Xiuming walked over with his hands in his pockets, his face uncertain: "Su Jiaojiao, can you walk with me?"

"I can only walk with you in the snack street." Su Jiaojiao didn't want to argue with him. He was also a student of this school, and she couldn't avoid him. Qin Xiuming nodded, "Okay, I happen to be going there too."

The weather is a bit gloomy.

The night wind blew towards her. Su Jiaojiao put on the hoodie underneath her school uniform. Her backpack contained only a few books and was not heavy. She moved the bag to her chest and looked ahead: "I know you transferred to another school."

I can just ask him if he paid for her at the Guolv Hotel that night.

If so, she returns it to him.

After crossing the cold asphalt road, Qin Xiuming finally spoke: "Lu Jingyou, President Lu of the Imperial Capital Jiahe Group, is my cousin. I am his second uncle's son, or illegitimate child, if you will. After twenty years, I finally know my origins."

"Congratulations!" Su Jiaojiao looked ahead calmly. In his previous life, he knew the truth after graduating from college. At that time, he locked himself in the house for three days and three nights. It was Qin Shuang who took her to knock on the door. After he accepted his life experience, he broke up with her.

Something must have gone wrong in his life, he knew it in advance and was comforted well.

As for why he asked her out to talk, she didn't know.

"Thank you!" Qin Xiuming answered without any joy or sadness, but Su Jiaojiao was sure that he must be happy in his heart. For so many years, no one cared about him and he was labeled as a fatherless child. Suddenly, he learned that his father was Lu Jiaping, the boss of Didu Jiahe Group. He would wake up laughing in his dreams.

As for the grudge between Qin Shuang and Lu Jiaping, Su Jiaojiao was very clear about it.

In her previous life, she heard Qin Shuang say that they were both educated youth, had worked together, were in love for three years, and secretly got married. Lu Jiaping was seriously injured while setting off blasts in the stone mine and was taken back to the imperial capital by the Lu family for treatment.

Not long after he left, Qin Shuang discovered that she was pregnant. In that era, getting pregnant before marriage was a very shameful thing.

Fortunately, a kind peasant sister-in-law took her in and hid her at home where she gave birth to Qin Xiuming. When Qin Xiuming was two years old, the educated youth returned to their hometowns, and Qin Shuang returned to the city, temporarily entrusting Qin Xiuming to the peasant sister-in-law.

A year later, she went back to take Qin Xiuming to her side and entrust him to the care of her parents.

At that time, there was no Jiahe Group. She only knew that Lu Jiaping was from the imperial capital and had an older brother. But if she went to the imperial capital to look for him, it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack and she would never find him.

In fact, Lu Jiaping didn't know that he had a son. After he recovered from his injury, he went back to Dama Village to look for Qin Shuang. At that time, Qin Shuang had already returned to the city and the farmer's sister-in-law had moved away due to family changes. Lu Jiaping did not hear any news about Qin Shuang.

His search for her was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

There was a vegetable shop in front of them. There was a canvas tent in front of the door. The lights in the tent were bright and the house was full of people. Tian Erzhu and Chen Xiaoqing's dinner was not over yet. There was no light on in the rental house where Su Jiaojiao lived, and there was no stall at the door. It seemed that she was called by Chen Xiaoqing to eat.

The winter nights are long.

At ten o'clock in the evening, the snack street gradually became deserted and few people were walking around.

Only the speakers at the entrance of the music store were still singing at full force: Fold a thousand pairs of paper cranes, and release a thousand wishes. After waking from the dream, love is no longer scattered. My heart has no regrets, all the folds are for you...

Passing by the entrance of the grocery store, Su Jiaojiao turned her head to glance inside. Five or six people were eating at a folding table. Chen Guilan and Chen Xiaoqing were sitting at the door, talking about something. Chen Guilan seemed to be in a good mood. Su Jiaojiao didn't like crowds, so she followed Qin Xiuming a few steps forward silently. "If you don't have anything else, I'll go back."

"My mother is very emotional. She won't let me go back to the capital with the Lu family." Qin Xiuming didn't know why he told Su Jiaojiao all this. No. 1 Middle School had strict requirements for evening self-study, but he was restless. He came to wait for Su Jiaojiao to finish school as soon as the get out of class was over. He wanted to see her and tell her what was in his heart.

"So what do you mean?" Su Jiaojiao asked him expressionlessly.

"I want to go to the imperial capital," Qin Xiuming answered straightforwardly. "My dad said he would arrange for me to go to the imperial capital as soon as possible and let me take the college entrance examination there. He really didn't know anything about my affairs, and I don't blame him. It's just that my mom refused to forgive him and wouldn't let him take me away, so he let me take the transfer exam to No. 1 Middle School, saying that transferring there would be better for me in the future."

Su Jiaojiao listened quietly without saying a word.

She knew that Qin Xiuming would make this choice. People go to high places and water flows to low places. There is no real right or wrong in the world. Of course, this is someone else's family affair, and she doesn't want to say anything.

Seeing that Su Jiaojiao remained silent, Qin Xiuming continued, "My mother has a very good impression of you. She said she'll have some leftover goods for you in a few days. If you have the chance, I hope you can tell her what I think. She's a very stubborn person and won't change her mind easily. I can't communicate with her at all."

"You're mother and son, so if you have anything to say, just say it face to face." Su Jiaojiao didn't want to get involved in their family affairs and said calmly, "I'm an outsider and can't take care of myself, so I won't get involved. You've been dependent on each other for so many years, and your relationship shouldn't be hurt because of these things. Although the college entrance examination is important, the mother-son relationship is more important."

In his previous life, Qin Xiuming returned to his roots after graduating from university and soon joined the family business.

They broke up soon after, but she knew that he did not get along well with Lu Jiaping's wife and daughter. No woman would be so generous as to treat another woman's child as her own, not to mention that Qin Shuang was Lu Jiaping's white moonlight.

Soon we reached the end of the snack street.

The two of them walked back slowly, and Qin Xiuming whispered, "Su Jiaojiao, I hope we can be friends, just ordinary friends. I know your difficulties, and I hope I can help you. You don't have to feel like you owe me a favor. I do all this willingly."

"You paid for my meal at the Guolv Hotel that night?" Su Jiaojiao asked him directly. Qin Xiuming was stunned. "What do you mean? I went downstairs to look for you, but when I got down, you were gone."

Not Qin Xiuming!

Who could that be?

Could it really be Su Houli... No way?

"Qin Xiuming, to me, you are Aunt Qin's son, nothing else." Su Jiaojiao's expression became colder. She could be friends with anyone, including Liang Kun.

Only Qin Xiuming can't do it.