Chapter 137: Fighting, police officer, quickly arrest these two, he...
"Since Dong Hongfu and Dai Ying like to keep it, then keep it. I'll give it to them as a souvenir."
Xu Heye shrugged, somewhat helplessly. After a pause, she continued, "Lian Yushu, tell me, why do some people always like to do things that offend others and don't benefit them at all?"
Lian Yushu shook his head. "Who knows?" A normal person's logic would be to see their younger siblings and niece getting along well, and then quickly find a way to smooth things over. That way, if they run into trouble in the future, they'll have someone to turn to.
But - there are always a few people whose thinking logic is different from that of normal people. If you meet them, you can only blame yourself for your bad luck.
"Xu Heye, we must respect human diversity!"
"What do you mean?" Xu Heye asked subconsciously, and quickly realized, "You are so mean." The insult was quite roundabout.
As the two were talking, a little boy of about seven or eight years old ran into the yard in a hurry, "Hoohoo, He, Sister Heye, you, you——"
"Slow down. Take a deep breath first. Exhale. Inhale. Exhale. Now speak."
"Okay—" The little boy took a few deep breaths as Xu Heye instructed, and after recovering, he said swiftly, "Sister Heye, Uncle Fuyun and your eldest uncle are fighting."
"A fight broke out?"
"Yes," the little boy said. "These past few days, we went to the staff quarters with Brother Xiaohua to play—" Actually, we went to look for Sister Heye's admission letter. "Then today, Uncle Fuyun went to the staff quarters and asked Uncle Bad to return your letter. Uncle Bad denied it, insisting it wasn't in his possession. Then they started arguing, and then they started fighting."
"Now they have both been arrested by the police and taken to the police station."
"The bad aunt is also there. Brother Xiaohua said that there are two bad uncles and bad aunts, and Uncle Fuyun is at a disadvantage facing them alone. He asked me to come to the house to see if you have returned. If you have returned, I will ask you to go to the police station as well."
Xu Heye: “…”
She didn't tell her uncle about the admission letter. He didn't know where he got the news from, so he ran to Dong Hongfu and fought with him.
Xu Heye quickly ran to the entrance of the alley. Seeing this, Lian Yushu turned back into the house, took out his bicycle, and rode it to catch up with her.
Soon he arrived in front of Xu Heye. He stopped his bike and turned to look at Xu Heye. "Get on. I'll take you there."
"Okay." Xu Heye didn't refuse and climbed onto the back seat of the bicycle swiftly. "I'm ready to sit."
"Okay." Lian Yushu pedaled, and the bike sped forward. He passed two bus stops, turned into an alley, and walked a short distance to the police station.
Almost as soon as Lian Yushu stopped the car, Xu Heye jumped out of the back seat. She rushed into the police station and saw Dong Fuyun sitting in a chair with a bruised face.
"Uncle, are you okay?" Xu Heye rushed over.
"It's just a minor injury, nothing serious." Dong Fuyun shook his head.
Xu Heye stared at Dong Fuyun's face from left to right, and only breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that there were only some bruises and swelling.
"Oh, the culprit is here." Dai Ying said sarcastically.
Only then did Xu Heye see Dong Hongfu and Dai Ying sitting on the other side of the bench. She ignored Dai Ying and glanced at Dong Hongfu. After confirming that he only had some minor injuries and no missing limbs, she withdrew her gaze.
Xu Heye sat down next to her uncle and asked him, "Uncle, what did the police say?"
Dong Fuyun was a little depressed: "He Ye, my uncle is sorry for you."
"Uncle, why do you want to say sorry to me?"
"I couldn't find your acceptance letter."
Xu Heye: "You didn't lose the notice, why are you apologizing?"
"Also, I've already applied for a certificate of loss from the Education Bureau, and my admission notice is now invalid. I can use this certificate of loss to go through the procedures for starting school. It doesn't matter whether I have the notice or not, or whether I can find it or not."
Dong Fuyun sat up straighter: "Really?"
Dong Hongfu and Dai Ying on the other side of the bench also pricked up their ears.
"Really." Xu Heye continued to explain: "I haven't come to look for my admission letter these past two days because I went to apply for a lost certificate. So no matter what the purpose of the person who took my admission letter was, she will not succeed."
"That's good. As long as you can enroll in school smoothly." Dong Fuyun was finally relieved.
Dong Hongfu and Dai Ying's expressions turned ugly. The couple looked at each other, their eyes full of suspicion.
Doesn’t it mean that if you lose the admission letter, you won’t be able to enroll?
Dai Ying's neighbor's sister, a former educated youth sent to the countryside, took the college entrance examination when it was reinstated in 1977. Luckily, she was accepted into a junior college. Although not a university, as long as she could graduate, she could still be assigned a job and earn a living from the government.
But she had already married in the countryside at that time. Her in-laws were afraid that she would abandon her husband and children after graduating from college and getting a job, so they refused to agree to let her go to school. Even though she repeatedly assured them that she would be assigned to work in the county town in the countryside after graduating, she still could not impress her in-laws.
The admission letter that could change her destiny was eventually stuffed into the stove and burned by her mother-in-law.
After the admission letter was burned, she still refused to give up. She escaped from her husband's house with great difficulty and found the college that accepted her, but was still rejected because she did not have the admission letter.
Disheartened, she divorced her husband and returned to the city to marry a second-married worker. Unemployed, she spent her days at home sweeping the floor, cooking, and taking care of her husband and stepchildren. Her life was far from smooth.
So Dai Ying knew very well what an admission letter meant to a student.
That day, when Dai Ying came back, she saw Liu Wen fiddling with something in the kitchen.
That kid is so lazy that he doesn't even pick up the fallen oil bottle at home. He never goes into the kitchen, but he suddenly runs into the kitchen to tinker with the coal stove. What good can he do?
While he ran out of the kitchen to look for matches, Dai Ying hurried in and took away the documents he had left on the stove.
When I returned to the room and opened the letter, I realized it was Xu Heye's admission letter.
She immediately knew what that thief Liu Wen was trying to do.
Dai Ying's first reaction was to destroy the admission letter. That damn girl Xu Heye didn't respect her aunt at all, so she wanted to destroy the letter and prevent her from studying.
But she soon thought of something else.
In the past, someone sold their admission quota to the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University to others, so she might be able to resell this admission letter as well.
I asked two people, but we couldn't agree on a price.
A high school admission letter is neither high nor low, and is not as good as a technical secondary school admission letter. At least you can be assigned a job after three years of study.
Even if I fail to get into college after three years of high school, it will all be in vain.
Dai Ying gave up the idea of selling the admission letter. She thought that if she held the admission letter in her hands, the little girl Xu Heye would have to come back to beg her if she wanted to enroll in school smoothly.
Then she can make any request she wants.
She had already made up her mind that unless Xu Heye gave her 500 yuan and let her work as a small leader in her factory, she would reluctantly return the notice to her.
That's why she has been trying hard these days to deny that she knows where the notice is.
Dai Ying firmly believed that the longer the stalemate lasted, the more anxious Xu Heye would become, and the more benefits she could gain.
But now, could it be that she really got the certificate of loss, and the admission letter in her hand became a piece of waste paper?
Dai Ying's hands began to tremble. She stood up and screamed, "Impossible, impossible."
"How can I register without an acceptance letter?"
"Nothing is impossible." Xu Heye looked at her calmly.
"It wasn't possible before. On my mother's side, there was a neighbor's sister who couldn't go to university because her acceptance letter was burned."
"That was in the past," Xu Heye said. "Times are changing, and the system is improving. Just because it didn't work before doesn't mean it won't work now."
"Then the admission document in my hand—woooo—" Dai Ying was covered by Dong Hongfu's hand before she could finish her words. Dong Hongfu frowned and whispered through gritted teeth, "You're crazy."
"You said in the police station that you had the admission letter. Were you afraid that you would not be arrested?" The police came to his home repeatedly to ask questions in the past few days. Dong Hongfu already knew the consequences of secretly keeping someone else's admission letter.
Dai Ying came back to her senses and asked in a low voice, "What should we do now?"
"Hasn't the admission letter we worked so hard to hide become a piece of waste paper?"
Dong Hongfu was impatient: "How should I know what to do?"
"When I first received my acceptance letter, I said I'd return it to He Ye and use this opportunity to smooth things over with my niece. My younger brothers and sisters all love my niece, and with her mediating, our relationship with them will improve sooner or later. That way, if my younger brother's factory thrives in the future, we can also benefit from it."
"You're the one who doesn't want to. You insist on being so humble, it's shameful. You say that as long as we have the admission letter, Xu Heye will come to us for help sooner or later. What about now?"
"Now they don't want it anymore. They go directly to the Education Bureau to apply for a certificate of loss, turning the admission letter in our hands into a piece of waste paper."
Dai Ying was a little bit incredulous and yelled at Dong Hongfu, "Can this be blamed entirely on me?"
"Dong Hongfu, you have no conscience. If you didn't think this way deep down, why would you agree with what I said?"
"At the end of the day, you're just too proud, jealous that your younger siblings, who weren't as good as you before, are now doing better than you. So, you'll grab the slightest opportunity to make them bow down. Otherwise, when the police were questioning you these past few days, why didn't you just tell them the whereabouts of the notice?"
"You're just hiding Xu Heye's admission letter, hoping to get more benefits!"
The two of them talked louder and louder, and finally couldn't help but quarrel, completely ignoring the fact that this was a police station, and there were other people and police officers.
Xu Heye became increasingly speechless as she listened. She raised her hand and said, "Uncle Police, quickly arrest these two. They've already admitted that they hid my admission letter."
Dong Hongfu and Dai Ying: "..."
Their eyes met, and they finally realized what they had said.
They spilled all their secrets right there at the police station, in front of the police.
As expected, quarreling ruins the family. They quarrel every day and every night. They are used to quarreling. Every time they quarrel, they just want to suppress the other person. The louder they yell, they forget that this is not their home, but the police station.
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