Chapter 58
"You decide for yourself. If it were me, I wouldn't be able to apologize. It's just a few extra dollars. He's also wrong to look down on his own wife, but your family is unreliable, and your in-laws are no match for Song Xing either. If you want to make a living in the city, you still have to rely on Song Xing to help you. It's only right that you give in."
"I never realized you were so adaptable." Wang Yingying sighed.
"Circumstances are stronger than people. If I have to rely on Pei Ze to have a way out, I will coax him. He will get a well-behaved wife, and I will get future development. After a few years, when I have established myself, I will kick him out. This is called taking what we need and owing nothing to each other. But my family's situation is different from yours, so there is no need for this."
In fact, Zhong Miao had really thought so before, but her in-laws were so nice, and she treated them with all her heart, so she was completely unreserved.
"You say it's easy, but how can it be so easy to do it?"
"How can I not do that? When love encounters reality, it's like an egg hitting a stone. Love and ideals will be shattered to pieces. It's better to be practical and maximize your benefits."
Wang Yingying smiled bitterly and said, "If you had dared to tell me this before today, I would have suspected that you wanted to destroy my family. But now, I actually think what you said makes sense. Tell me how you and Pei Ze live, and I'll learn from you."
"Don't hide your thoughts, speak your mind, respect each other, and treat each other as equals."
"Pfft, why don't you go put up a sign at the village entrance?" Wang Yingying nearly spit out her water after taking a sip. "That's not right. You're not even trying to hide your intentions, so why are you asking me to hide my intentions to appease my husband?"
"I can rely on my father to have enough food and clothing and get into college without worrying about it. Can you? This is the benefit of having confidence. You can say whatever you want without worrying about offending others. If you don't have your mother's family to back you up, you have to rely on yourself and use more tricks, otherwise how can you achieve your goals?"
"Okay, whatever you say makes sense. I'll go back to the city this afternoon and stay at home to get angry."
"It doesn't matter whether you go back to your family or not. Just live your own life first."
"Well, I will never go back to the village alone again." Wang Yingying was really hurt by her family this time. They raised their daughter for twenty years, but they didn't get as much as ten yuan a month. If they told others about it, people would laugh at them.
After Wang Yingying left, Zhong Miao pondered the plot. What if Wang Yingying changed from a good wife and mother to a black lotus who controlled men? If she really developed by stepping on Song Xing, would the plot collapse completely?
What exactly should we do to completely escape the course of events in this terrible plot?
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When she returned to her small home in the city, the admission letter arrived as she wished. Zhong Miao took the envelope from the postman. The postman congratulated her and she also said a few polite words.
When she returned to the room and sat down, she rested her head on her arms, thinking about something. Her feelings at this moment were complicated.
She had guessed the result long ago and was not very happy, but she felt the shackles of the plot broken with the arrival of the acceptance letter.
Since she entered the book, there has never been a moment that made her feel so relaxed. From this moment on, she is no longer bound by the plot and has completely changed the fate of her identity. She no longer needs to use the identity of the female supporting role in the control group to advance the plot points.
It turns out that only a major event like the college entrance examination, which completely changed the fate of the female supporting role, could break this shackle. She was admitted to university, completely breaking away from the positioning of the female supporting role in the original text and surpassing the heroine who failed the exam. This is the most important thing.
It doesn't matter that Pei Ze can make money, he can make it by himself, and earning more will not affect the development of the plot. But the rise of her as a female supporting role has completely overturned the development of the main plot of the control group. From a village girl to a college student, she and Wang Yingying, the control group character who failed to get into college, have begun to oppose the filming, which completely collapsed the plot.
From this moment on, she completely and truly controlled her own destiny.
It took her more than half an hour to walk from her home in the city to Qingmei. The moment she saw Li Qiumo, she couldn't express the complicated emotions in her heart. She handed him the admission letter.
"Haha, not bad, first place in both academic and professional courses. Congratulations to our class's top scorer, Zhong Miao."
Li Qiumo was overjoyed. This good seedling was not wasted at all. He scored more than 400 points in the academic subjects, not counting mathematics. In previous years, there were only a few students in the school who scored above 300 points in the academic subjects. How could he not be excited?
With Zhong Miao's grades, even if he applies to other universities, he will have many choices. Li Qiumo was filled with enthusiasm. He was so happy. He must teach this young man well. If he couldn't teach him, he would let his teacher give him some advice.
"Teacher Li, thank you." Zhong Miao was also very excited. When Pei Ze was not at home, she had no one to share her emotions with. She had been holding them back until now and now she saw Li Qiumo. Finally, there was someone she could talk to. She couldn't help but want to cry.
Of course, her tears were not for her grades, but for her independent life. She suddenly wanted to meet her mother-in-law and Pei Ze to see if they had completely broken free from the constraints of the plot and truly taken control of their own destiny.
"I didn't do anything to help you, so why should I thank you? Don't cry, this is a great thing."
"Well, Teacher Li, can I borrow your phone? My family doesn't know yet." She was so emotionally unstable just now that she came to Qingmei in a daze and forgot to call to announce the good news.
"Of course, call right away."
Li Qiumo is not usually an enthusiastic person. It is just that Zhong Miao's starting point was high, so her upper limit is infinite possibilities, a height that no one can foresee.
Erwa called Pei Ze over as soon as he received the call. Pei Ze was immediately excited and could not sit still. He simply came to Qingmei to pick up his wife and asked Zhong Miao to wait for him obediently.
At this time, Zhong Ming was still working at the textile factory to seek fabric cooperation and could not be contacted for the time being. Zhong Miao called the village store and asked someone to help pass the message to her mother-in-law and express her gratitude.
When the owner of the convenience store heard that Zhong Miao had been admitted to university and had even ranked first in the entire school, he immediately became excited and hurried to Old Pei's house. He talked to everyone he met on the way and was very enthusiastic.
The villagers are very lively, so the shop would of course help inform anyone who has any problems, big or small. After all, theirs is the only public phone in the village, and calls are charged by the hour. As for answering the phone, they can just think of it as informing the neighbors in the village, and that's free.
Li Qiumo gave the key to the student studio to Zhong Miao, and Zhong Miao also greeted her. She would come over in the next two days to buy painting materials, make picture frames, and apply primer. There were a lot of preparations before painting.
At this time, the phone in Li Qiumo's office rang again.
"Hello, Li Qiumo."
"Hello, is Zhong Miao there?" It was Zhang Weilan's voice. The number could be looked up on a public phone. Zhang Weilan ran out excitedly after hearing the news and called back. She wanted to say a few words to her daughter-in-law in person.
"Yes, yes, please wait a moment."
Li Qiumo handed the phone to Zhong Miao.
"Hello."
"Miaomiao, good girl, tell mom, did you really get first place in the exam?"
"Yeah, really."
"Oh my god, our family has finally produced a literary star this time, hahaha."
"Haha, mother-in-law, I miss you." Zhong Miao thought about her mother-in-law and children as soon as she returned to the city. She now had no one to share her emotions with. It would be great if her mother-in-law was here.
"Ah, Mom misses you too, dear boy. Have you told the second child?"
"I told him. I'm at school. He'll pick me up later."
"Okay, okay, come back when you have time, mom will be waiting for you at home."
"Um."
Pei Ze arrived quickly, exchanged greetings and thanks with Li Qiumo, then left with his wife.
Zhong Miao sat in the passenger seat, holding Pei Ze's big hand with one hand, feeling the energy of the plot on him, but she felt nothing. She took a long breath and laughed out loud.
"Silly wife, are you happy?"
"Of course." You are stupid, huh, baby is happy today and won't bother with you.
"Then where do you want to go for a walk this afternoon, or what do you want to do? Your husband will accompany you."
"I want to find my father and tell him that I want to go home, go back to the village, and be with my family."
"Okay, then let's go to the garment factory and wait for Dad to come back." The soy sauce factory has been registered as a garment factory. Although it hasn't started production yet, it will be soon.
"Well, let's go."
It is already July and the weather is getting hot. Zhong Ming is busy and sweating. As soon as he returned to the factory, he saw his daughter and son-in-law waiting for him.
Zhong Ming was very excited to hear this good news. He packed up and went back to the village to reunite with his children.
That afternoon, Zhang Weilan's old friends came to her house to inquire about the situation. Zhang Weilan smiled and talked about her daughter-in-law's college entrance examination scores and ranking.
People came and went, one after another. Zhang Weilan couldn't help feeling melancholy after talking so much. There was only more than a month left before her daughter-in-law and An An started school. Her in-laws and son were all busy. Who would take care of these two students, one big and one small, when the time came?
Zhang Weilan was also conflicted. On one side was the old nest that Pei Laogui had built for her with his own hands, and she was really reluctant to leave it. It was the only thought Pei Laogui had left behind. On the other side were the children who needed care. She couldn't bear to leave either side.
Just as I was struggling with this, my children and in-laws came back.
"Why are you back so soon?" Zhang Weilan hurriedly opened the yard door.
"Your daughter-in-law misses you. She will go back early tomorrow morning." Pei Ze rolled down the car window and stuck his head out to greet his old mother.
"Mother-in-law." Zhong Miao got out of the car and hugged her mother-in-law.
"Good girl, you really make your mother proud." Zhang Weilan patted her daughter-in-law on the back, feeling very happy.
Zhong Miao no longer felt the influence of the plot on her mother-in-law, and she finally felt relieved. Without the constraints of the plot, she no longer had to worry about her mother-in-law's safety.
The time spent with family members is always short. The next day, after returning to the city, Zhong Miao went to school and walked into the art supply store at the school gate to buy some necessary painting materials.
This was a really strenuous job. She carried four wooden inner frames in one hand and a roll of canvas on her other shoulder. The bag in her hand contained a nail gun, primer and sandpaper. These things were not light.
When she arrived at the second studio of the Oil Painting Department, her hands were shaking, not because she was too excited, but simply because the things were too heavy and she was tired. She opened the door with the key, and the huge space was empty. There was some dust and smell.
However, there are still people in the first studio next door. They must be students who are painting instead of going home during the holidays.
She put her things down, opened the window and let in some fresh air.
Today is her first day of work. All she has to do is stretch the canvas on the inner frame, apply the primer, and then sand it after the primer dries tomorrow.
Fortunately, there were ready-made picture frames of certain sizes, otherwise she would have to buy wooden strips and nail the frames herself.
She moved a little slowly. After all, in her previous life she could buy ready-made materials and choose the base materials according to her needs. She hadn't done this kind of work for a long time.
It took more than two hours to stretch the four canvases.
"Oh, I'm getting dumber and dumber." Zhong Miao sighed.
She wanted to create a series of four paintings as a whole, with each painting measuring one meter by one meter and two, so she simply did the foundation work in one go.
After resting for a while, she poured the prepared base material onto the canvas. She didn't buy a scraper, so she could only use a scraper to scrape it as evenly as possible.
After finishing all this, she was already sweating profusely.
When I got home, Pei Ze was already cooking.
"My wife is back. How was your day? What did you draw?"
"I'm still painting. I haven't even finished the foundation yet."
"What foundation?"
Pei Ze, a layman, doesn't understand these things. In his impression, all he needs to do is buy a piece of canvas.
"Stretch the canvas on the frame and apply primer. I'll check it out tomorrow. If it's dry, I'll sand it down a bit and then apply another layer of primer. I'd be lucky if I can finish it in three or four days."
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