Chapter 124 So That's How It Is
Rutang parked the car on the side of the road, saw someone selling popsicles on the side of the road, bought two, and sat on the side of the road with Guining to eat them.
"Don't cry, your face is all red from crying." Rutang comforted the little girl. The little girl was crying breathlessly, but she was unwilling to say bad things about her own sister. She just said that she had no money to return to the village.
Rutang frowned when he saw that her exposed arms were covered with wounds.
"Did your sister bully you?"
Gui Ning lowered her head and didn't even eat the popsicle.
Seeing her like this, Rutang knew that he had guessed right, and he could only curse Chen Guilan in his heart for being such a sinner.
Chen Guilan also cruelly bullied Guining, such a lovely sister.
"Sister will pay for your travel expenses, don't worry."
"Thank you, sister! I will pay you back when you return to the village!" Gui Ning raised her little face, her face shining.
The little girl was quite easy to satisfy, Rutang smiled at her.
"What else? You're still being polite to me."
The relationship between the two had always been good in their previous life. Gui Ning was a cute little foodie. The kind-hearted Gui Ning was different from the other people in the Chen family. After Ru Tang was abducted, she never looked at Ru Tang with strange eyes, nor did she take advantage of her misfortune like the other people in the Chen family. She even stood up and spoke for Ru Tang when others slandered her.
So Rutang also took special care of this lovely little sister. Since she was an only child, she treated her as her own sister.
Gui Ning finished eating the popsicle, and her little heart that was hurt by her sister was healed by Rutang. She jumped up and down and wanted to take the bus back.
Rutang noticed that her clothes were unraveling under the armpit and hurriedly pulled her back.
"Don't wear this. I have some new clothes in my car. Go to the public toilet in front and change into them." There were a few leftover clothes in Rutang's car, which were just right for his sister.
"New clothes? I'd better not want them. How about I go to my sister's house to borrow needle and thread..." Gui Ning's voice became smaller and smaller. When she mentioned her sister who was as vicious as a witch, her eyes were empty.
The little girl was scared of being beaten. Her sister had always been emotionally unstable, and after she fell from a tree and hit her head, she became even more moody. No one knew when she would be unhappy, and when she was unhappy she would beat Gui Ning.
"Haven't she pinched you enough? This dress is what I had left over from selling. No one wants it anyway, so it's just right for you to wear it. Otherwise, it would be a waste." In order to coax Gui Ning to accept the clothes, Ru Tang deliberately told a white lie.
In fact, her clothes sell very well. After she has mastered the aesthetic taste of the local people, it is easy for her to sell the same goods.
Gui Ning believed it and took her clothes to change into a place where no one was around. She came out a pretty and energetic girl. Ru Tang nodded repeatedly at her.
"Our Guining is beautiful. If she grows up a few more years, she will be a beautiful girl that everyone loves."
"Sister Rutang, stop joking with me." Gui Ning tugged at her new clothes, her face flushed, but she was happy in her heart.
Gui Ning had forgotten the last time she wore new clothes. From childhood to adulthood, she could only wear her sister's old clothes. Her parents were partial to each other, and she didn't have anything that her sister had. The first time she wore new clothes after she became an adult, it was actually given to her by her cousin Rutang.
"Clothes make the man, and saddles make the horse. I feel different when I put on new clothes. Wait, it seems like something is missing." Rutang looked up and down and his eyes fell on Guining's feet.
The little girl was wearing a pair of handmade cloth shoes with patches on the uppers.
Moreover, the color of these shoes is brown, and they are obviously old lady's shoes. Who knows, someone might have given them to Gui Ning after discarding them.
Rutang's face darkened. She knew that Guining had a hard life in Second Uncle's house. Second Uncle and his wife were so biased that they gave all the good things to Chen Guilan and treated Guining as if she were picked up from the trash can.
"Don't wear these shoes. I'll take you to buy new shoes."
"No need, Sister Rutang. The pair I have now is fine and still wearable." When Gui Ning heard that she still needed to buy shoes for her, she shook her head like a rattle, afraid of causing trouble for Rutang.
"Let's go. You dress up beautifully and attend my wedding. It will also make me proud." Ru Tangsheng dragged Gui Ning to the department store.
Gui Ning couldn't persuade her, so she pointed at the cheapest pair of plastic sandals. This pair also cost several dollars. Gui Ning couldn't help but calculate in her mind how many medicinal herbs she had to dig in the mountains to pay back Sister Rutang.
"This won't do. It will burn your feet and doesn't look good. Take this pair." Rutang pointed at a pair of small leather sandals. Gui Ning saw that they cost more than 20 yuan and her face turned pale with fright.
"No, Sister Rutang, this is too expensive, I don't like it."
"You'll like it when you put them on, comrade. Get a pair for thirty-five." Rutang made a decision immediately. He pushed Guining down on the chair and took out a new pair of shoes to put on her feet.
The cowhide sandals are very comfortable to wear and much cooler than cloth shoes. Paired with Guining’s new dress, she looks like a different person with a different temperament.
The waiter beside him kept praising him, saying that Guining looked like the child of a cadre and looked very energetic.
Rutang thought so too and paid the bill happily.
Guining is thin and small, and her clothes and shoes cannot be worn by others, so she is not afraid that those weirdos in Old Chen's family will snatch them away.
"Sister Rutang, I made you spend so much money... I will go back to dig medicinal herbs and pay you back when I sell them!" Gui Ning followed Rutang nervously. Seeing her pay the bill, she felt very guilty.
"Don't you still have to sell the herbs you dug to my family? Okay, don't be polite to me. You are still young now. You will have plenty of opportunities to make money when you grow up. Now you should hurry up and review and do well for the exam. I'm thinking, don't apply to technical secondary school, apply to high school instead."
Although the admission score for technical secondary schools is higher now, everyone is proud to have attended a technical secondary school, and only goes to high school if they fail to get into a technical secondary school.
Because graduates from technical secondary schools can be assigned jobs and obtain urban household registration, in the eyes of rural people, passing technical secondary school entrance exams is the best way out for their schooling children.
But Rutang has the perspective of rebirth. He knows that technical secondary schools will not guarantee job placement in the future, so it is better for him to take the high school entrance exam and then go to university in the future.
When Guining heard Rutang talking about studying, tears started to fall.
"Sister Rutang, I, I, I don't want to read it anymore."
"Are you kidding? You are the best student in our Chen family. Why did you drop out of school? You will be the first in our Chen family..."
Rutang almost said the first doctor.
In her previous life, Gui Ning studied all the way to get a doctorate, worked as a scientist in a confidential department, and researched missiles. Although her judgment of men is a little poor, this girl is really good at studying.
As a family member, Rutang is also proud of it. It is such a great thing that the family can produce such an outstanding talent to contribute to the country.
As a result, Guining said that she didn’t want to study anymore? ! Rutang couldn't agree to this.
"My sister said that there was no money at home and I had to help work to earn money. Besides, I was a girl and it was useless for me to read so many books." Gui Ning's voice became smaller and smaller.
Rutang was furious. She said that why Guining suddenly didn't want to study anymore, and it turned out that it was all because of that stinky piece of meat Chen Guilan!
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