Chapter 136 Return to the City 2

With the resumption of the National College Entrance Examination (Gaokao), 5.7 million students are competing for a slim chance of success.

The last exam of the two-day college entrance examination has ended, and a variety of people are showing up at the exam hall entrance.

They cried and laughed, howled and cheered loudly, and some even shed silent tears.

Many of the educated youth who were caught unprepared wept bitterly. They had abandoned books for years, and picking them up again was not so easy. During the two months of preparation, they hadn't even finished reading a single book.

Not all educated youth were lucky enough to encounter a good mentor who could guide them.

"Let me go! Help! Murder!"

The piercing scream attracted the crowd of examinees coming out of the examination hall, and everyone looked in the direction from which the sound came.

Gu Zuozuo and the other two had just met up and were about to go to the state-run restaurant for a meal when Li Mo had already booked a table there.

Hearing the familiar voice, the three turned around.

Li Yamei, with her hair disheveled, was grabbed and dragged out by Aunt Yang, who was cursing and swearing at her.

"You little slut! You still want to take the exam? Don't even think about abandoning your husband and children! You're destined to be my son and daughter-in-law for life! Want to go back to the city? Only if I'm dead!"

Li Yamei had never hated anyone so much. For a moment, she even wanted to die with this family!

"Let me go! I'm a former educated youth! You have no right to lock me up! Help!"

Aunt Yang's face twisted in pain as she grabbed Li Yamei's hair and dragged her outside. The force was so great that several strands of Li Yamei's scalp were pulled off, causing her to turn pale with pain. The already frail Li Yamei was no match for Aunt Yang, who was skilled at housework, and could only be dragged away.

What are you doing!

Some educated youths who couldn't stand it stepped forward to stop her, trying to take Li Yamei away from Aunt Yang.

To everyone's surprise, Aunt Yang was not intimidated at all and slapped the male educated youth who had stepped forward to stop her, sending him flying.

Gu Zuozuo and the other two grinned, giving the dumbfounded educated youth a sympathetic look.

Before the male educated youth could react, a petite girl jumped up, her long braid flying in the air.

With both hands, he grabbed Aunt Yang's hair forcefully, his small body but great strength, and knocked the burly Aunt Yang to the ground.

"You old hag! You think you're so tough?! Daring to lay a hand on my man? If I don't teach you a lesson, you won't know how ugly you are!"

As she spoke, she raised her little fist and punched Aunt Yang again and again, making her howl in pain. When she had a spare moment, she didn't forget to give Li Yamei a glare of disappointment.

"Aren't you going to run? Are you waiting to be caught and taken back?"

Li Yamei then seemed to wake from a dream, bowed gratefully to her, and hurriedly ran away, her back view showing a disheveled and flustered state.

After the girl got up from Aunt Yang's body, she grabbed the male educated youth and ran away in a flash. Aunt Yang was still lying on the ground groaning. No one around helped her up. Instead, they all watched the spectacle with schadenfreude, pointing and whispering about her.

Gu Zuozuo touched her chin, looking uncertainly at Meng Tian and Qi Meng.

"I remember, that girl was the one who went to the next brigade with us, what was her name again, Zhu something?"

"Zhu Yaoyao, the one whose fiancé is blind."

Meng Tian kindly reminded her, and Gu Zuozuo suddenly realized why she looked so familiar.

"She just said that the male educated youth was her man? What about her fiancé?"

Meng Tian sighed and glanced back in the direction Zhu Yaoyao had left.

"Do you remember those guys we discussed a while ago who abandoned their wives and children, only to have their wives commit suicide by jumping into a river?"

Gu Zuozuo nodded, already having a premonition.

"One of them is Xie Boyan. I heard that he used his connections to go back to the city with his lover, leaving his wife from the countryside behind. He sent her a divorce letter, and the girl couldn't take the blow and jumped into the river, leaving behind a son who was less than three years old."

"Scumbag!"

"Rubbish!"

Qi Meng and the other person directly cursed with disdain.

Meng Tian was amused by the two of them, and her eyebrows and eyes curved into smiles.

"Don't you guys think that the male educated youth Zhu Yaoyao is holding looks familiar?"

Gu Zuozuo and Gu Zuozuo tilted their heads in unison, their expressions identically blank.

"He was one of the male educated youths who went to the countryside in the same batch as us. He was the one who was scolded for trying to help Guo Meiyu onto the tractor. He is now married to Zhu Yaoyao."