On the minibus going home, Chu Yaoyao started crying as soon as she got on the bus. She was not crying for the lost university place, but for the shattered city dream and the shattered face.
When she was kicked out of Shanghai University, she was the most embarrassed and humiliated with so many people watching.
Li A'mei kept comforting her, "Don't be afraid, Yaoyao. It's just a university. If we don't want to study, then we can go to a technical secondary school. After you graduate from the technical secondary school, you can take your father's job and work in the steel mill. You will still have a stable job."
"I don't want to work in a steel mill. I don't want to be a boilerman! It's dirty and smelly every day and I don't make much money! I don't want to! Wuuwuwu!"
"You silly child, the steel mill is a stable job. When you become a formal employee, you can get a house. Don't you want the house? Your name can be written on the property title, and your household registration can be transferred here..."
Although Li A'mei is married to Chu Nanshan, the house they live in now was allocated to them by Chu Yue's mother. Although Chu Nanshan's name was later added, with the addition of Chu Yue and Chu Jianshe, there are four people under one house certificate.
Li A'mei racked her brains to transfer her and Chu Yaoyao's household registration here, but the street office refused to let her do it, saying that there were too many people and the policy did not allow any more to be added.
Later, Chu Yue was driven away, but the girl made a surprise comeback at the last moment and specifically instructed Chu Nanshan not to add her to the household registration.
After Chu Yue left, Li A'mei tried to sound out Chu Nanshan's attitude, but the old man actually did what Chu Yue said and refused to give in, which made her very angry.
After some comfort, Chu Yaoyao gradually calmed down and stopped crying when she heard about the house and household registration.
But her embarrassing experience had just begun.
When they returned to the steel plant's family quarters, the neighbors were more surprised than each other when they saw them. They kept asking, "Li A'mei, didn't you say Yaoyao was going to Shanghai to attend university? Why are you back again?" "You said you were going to hold some graduation banquet and asked each of us to give a one-dollar red envelope. Now you don't want to study anymore?" "You left early in the morning. Why are you back now? Yaoyao is back too? What's wrong? Were you expelled from school..."
These questions will not only be asked today, but will be asked every day in the future. They will also poke Chu Yaoyao in the back and say, "Look at that Chu Yaoyao, she said she was going to Shanghai to study in college, but it was all a lie, she was kicked out of school."
From then on, there were endless jokes.
Not only the neighbors, but also Chu Yaoyao's classmates. She had boasted about going to Shanghai to go to university, and now she came back in disgrace. She had completely given up on her life.
So, after returning home, Chu Yaoyao started smashing things, crying loudly, and locked herself in her room and refused to come out.
Until now.
Chu Yaoyao, who finally walked out of the door, kept shouting, "It's fine that I embarrassed myself in school! I embarrassed myself in this alley too. Every one of them is laughing at me! They are all laughing at me! They are laughing at me for not being from a prestigious university! They are laughing at me for being embarrassed! How can I go out from now on!!!"
"No, no! Yaoyao, if anyone dares to laugh at you, I will tear his mouth apart! You are fine, stop crying, didn't we agree before that I would send you to a technical secondary school, work at the steel factory, and even get a house and a hukou, what a good thing."
Chu Yaoyao was not happy at all when she heard these words for the second time. She muttered, "I don't want to be a worker for the rest of my life!"
While the mother and daughter were talking, the door of Chu Jianshe's room next door was open, and he clearly heard Li A-mei say that she wanted Chu Yaoyao to take over.
Whose class is it? Of course it’s Chu Nanshan’s.
In this family, Chu Nanshan is the only formal employee of the steel plant, and he can let his children take his place.
Li A-mei never dared to say these words before, because Chu Jianshe was the only son in the family, and Chu Nanshan's job would definitely be reserved for Chu Jianshe.
But ever since Chu Yue was kicked out, Li A-mei has become more and more arrogant at home, and now even Dingban has been targeted.
At the same time, when Chu Yaoyao was making a big fuss, Chu Nanshan was sitting in the corner of the room. Chu Nanshan clearly heard the "taking over the shift" remarks, but he didn't say a word, as if he silently agreed.
Chu Jianshe suddenly remembered what Chu Yue said to him the night she left.
[Society has changed very quickly these years. In a few years, when you graduate from technical school, the steel mill will no longer accept technical school students, only college students. Even if you want to take your father's job, the factory will not want you. If you are still a little ambitious, you can repeat a year, pass the entrance exam to a regular high school, and then take the entrance exam to college.]
Chu Jianshe suddenly realized that the person who really cared about him in this family was not his silent father, nor his hypocritical stepmother, but Chu Yue, his only sister who had been driven away.
Just as Li A-mei designed Chu Yue's college entrance examination results at that time, she would design him the same way in the future.
Chu Jianshe suddenly woke up, walked out of the room, went straight to Chu Nanshan, and said to him, "Dad, I don't want to go to technical school. I want to repeat my senior year, take the entrance exam for a regular high school, and then take the entrance exam for university."
Chu Nanshan looked up upon hearing this and looked at his son in surprise.
When Li A'mei heard this, her reaction was much more intense than Chu Nanshan's. She hurriedly left Chu Yaoyao behind and rushed over, pulling Chu Jianshe and speaking in a serious tone.
"Jianshe, why do you want to take the entrance exam for a regular high school and go to university? There is nothing good about university. It is not as good as a technical school. After graduating from a technical school, you can work and earn money. How great is that."
Chu Jianshe glanced at Li A-mei coldly and asked, "Since you said there's nothing wrong with college, why did you snatch my sister's college entrance examination scores and send your own daughter to college?"
"Jianshe...Yaoyao is a girl and you are a boy. Boys and girls are different. Besides, you still have your father. Your father's house will be yours in the future. What do you have to worry about?" Li A'mei was still trying to make her own twisted arguments, but she actually had her own plans.
If Chu Jianshe goes to a regular high school or university, he will have to study for another seven or eight years. Studying costs money, a lot of money. These seven or eight years are when Chu Yaoyao will be able to get married.
All the family’s money was used to support Chu Jianshe’s studies. How could she prepare a dowry for Chu Yaoyao?
Drive Chu Yue away, and then make Chu Jianshe a technical school student. The technical school has dormitories, so he can make money and move out early, and still vacate the house. That would be the best!
Originally, Chu Jianshe was a person with no ambition, but suddenly he said he wanted to go to college, which completely disrupted Li A-mei's plans.
Chu Jianshe was too lazy to even look at the hypocritical Li A-mei, so he looked at Chu Jianshe.
He asked, "Dad, my sister is your biological daughter. She has been kicked out of the house. Do you want to watch me get kicked out too?"
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