Chapter 190: Beautiful Timing
"Oh, I'll calculate the time of the college entrance examination next year, and I will hide away during those days. You swear on the light bulb at home that it will fall and hit me." Xiaoyue opened his eyes and answered his brother's question honestly.
Then, as expected, he was kicked in the ass by Yu Yaoyang.
Yu Yaoyang's face was three parts coldness, four parts sarcasm, and three parts firmness. Just like a color palette, he tried hard to show his backbone as a man.
He just wanted to use this to deceive his wife's beauty. He would not let her lead him by the nose.
"Hey! Gui Ning! How do you say that idiom?" Yu Yaoyue saw Gui Ning come in and hurriedly called her.
"There's an idiom that means someone's mouth is harder than a duck's, but he knows what he's doing. What's it called?"
"He may be speaking lies and making a fuss, or he may be embarrassed and ashamed." The top student Gui Ning replied.
Xiaoyue nodded in agreement, his eyes full of admiration. What a good student! Look at his vocabulary, everything he said was incomprehensible to him.
"I'll give you ten cents to buy a popsicle, and get out of my sight!" Yu Yaoyang took out a coin from his pocket and smashed it on his brother's head. This big fly was buzzing in his ear, delaying his "desire to go".
My wife said, if you can recite this page, let him, hehehe~
"I'll disappear if you give me 50 cents!" Xiaoyue spread out her five fingers and bargained with courage.
Yu Yaoyang searched his pockets for a long time and finally gave him fifty cents.
Although the family is rich now, the financial power is in the hands of his wife. He only receives a fixed amount of pocket money, so money is very tight.
Xiaoyue, who had successfully blackmailed her brother, was satisfied and waved to Guining.
"Come on, I'll treat you to ice cream. Our absence from home will hinder my brother from becoming a good student... Gui Ning, is there any word to describe a man who is blinded by beauty?" Xiaoyue used Gui Ning as a walking dictionary.
"Bewildered." Gui Ning thought of one.
"No, that's too elegant. Is there a more straightforward way?" Xiaoyue didn't want to use such elegant words to describe his brother.
"To put it bluntly, it means indulging in debauchery. Why are you asking this?"
Xiaoyue clapped her hands happily when she heard this: "This is so appropriate, it's a perfect description of my brother!"
Yu Yaoyang grabbed the palm leaf fan and threw it at his brother: "You are a piece of shit, you are a toad wearing glasses, pretending to be a cultured person. If you don't get out of here, give me your money back!"
"It's impossible to pay back the money. I'll come back after eating the ice cream and fart a few times for you to smell!" Xiaoyue was always joking. Before his manic brother got mad, he dragged the smirking Guining away from the scene quickly.
"Oh, childish!" Yu Yaoyang looked down on his brother and continued to study hard. As a man, he should not suffer from his third leg.
In order to get the love and encouragement of his wife, he tried his best!
As for the college entrance examination Xiaoyue mentioned, it is impossible to take it, not in this lifetime!
Ru Tang asked the salesperson in the post office two blocks away from home.
"Comrade, how much is a minute for a long-distance call?"
"Where do you want to call? It's 8 yuan per minute within 800 kilometers, and 40 yuan per minute within 1,500 kilometers beyond 800 kilometers."
This price made Ru Tang feel painful.
At that time, long-distance calls were not as easy as they are in later generations. Ordinary people could not afford to install a telephone. Not only was the installation fee as high as thousands, but the telephone bills were also shocking.
If you need to make a long distance call, you have to go to the post office, which has a special long-distance room, but the charges are shocking.
"I'm going to fight in the capital."
"It's exactly 859 kilometers from Beijing. 40 yuan per minute. 150 yuan deposit. Please fill out a form."
Rutang took the form and started writing quickly.
After filling out the form, the salesperson gave her a piece of paper with a number on it and asked her to go to the lobby and wait in line.
There were already two rows of people sitting in the hall ready to make phone calls. Paying a high price for a long-distance call must mean something important, so anxiety was written on everyone's face.
Rutang seemed out of place among these people. She sat on a chair with a calm expression, holding a piece of paper in her hand. On the paper was a string of numbers, which she had copied down from the little notebook her mother-in-law carried with her when she wasn't paying attention.
The number belongs to Yu Yaoyang’s biological father.
While waiting, Rutang rehearsed what she was going to say in her mind. She didn't expect the phone call to be so expensive, so she had to compress what she wanted to say into one minute. She would feel bad if she said too much, 40 per minute!
In her previous life, she had never met Yu Yaoyang's father. She only heard that his father's family had great influence in Beijing. In this life, if it were not for stimulating the two brothers of the Yu family to return to school, she would not have taken the initiative to contact Yu Yaoyang's father.
To be precise, the person she wanted to contact was Yu Yaoyang's father's new wife, who was Yu Yaoyang's nominal stepmother.
After his father returned to the city, he got married under the arrangement of his family, and the person he chose was a woman of equal social status.
Rutang calculated that today was a workday and Yu's father couldn't be at home.
She used the information advantage from her previous life. The old scumbag married a new wife who liked to play mahjong. Relying on her family background, she got a job at the unit and stayed at home every day playing mahjong and collecting a salary for nothing.
The call was quickly connected, and a female voice in dialect asked, "Yu Gongguan, who are you?"
Rutang spat in his heart, thinking that this family was so pretentious, what era was it in now, and they still called themselves a "mansion"?
"I'm looking for Mrs. Yu." She guessed that the person opposite was Yu's nanny.
"Who are you?"
"I'm her aunt." Rutang lied about her identity and took advantage of the other party.
The nanny didn't suspect anything and quickly called someone over.
"Aunt, aren't you traveling out of town? Why did you think of calling me?" Zhang Li thought the person on the other end was really her aunt, so she called her aunt as soon as she opened her mouth.
"I'm Yu Yaoyang's wife. Don't hang up in a hurry. I have some news that you will definitely be interested in." Rutang introduced himself, but his eyes were fixed on the clock on the wall.
There was a delay of 30 seconds. There were only 30 seconds left, and it was 40 yuan per minute.
There was silence for several seconds on the other end of the phone, as if the person was considering whether to hang up.
But Rutang's words still attracted her.
"What news?"
"Your man, oh, that's my father-in-law, he reserved a place for my brother-in-law Yu Yaoyue at Tsinghua University Affiliated Middle School. Hey, I heard that school is very good, but there is only one spot. If it's given to my brother-in-law, your family can't go, right? I'm showing off to you on purpose. If you don't accept it, go and fight with my father-in-law."
Rutang finished speaking in one breath and without waiting for the other party's response, he quickly hung up the phone, exactly 59 seconds.
She breathed a sigh of relief; the timing was perfect.
Rutang had some understanding of Zhang Li's character. That woman was very cunning and petty. She would never confront the old scumbag. She would only do something to Yu Yaoyue. I believe that the people sent by Zhang Li would arrive within three days.
Rutang smiled. Whether Xiaoyue could go to school depended on the power of this phone call.
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