Chapter 177 Being Played Like a Monkey (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
Time flies, and before we knew it, it was time to go back to our family home.
Shen Jiang had already bought a train ticket in advance.
When the family of four left the village, almost the entire village, led by the village chief, came to see them off.
This scene was very heartwarming; Xu Qingmo had never seen anything like it before.
I remember when she left Xujia Village, those people couldn't wait for her to leave.
However, many people knew that she was someone they couldn't afford to offend, so they deliberately kept their doors and windows closed, fearing that Xu Qingmo might park her car and barge in if she passed by their house.
I took the train back to the county town, and the journey took two days and three nights.
Returning to the family compound and seeing familiar faces, Xu Qingmo felt calm.
Zhou Tianyu stood at Xu Qingmo's door with a box in his hand. Hearing footsteps, he immediately looked up.
"Xu Qingmo, I've finally waited for you to come back." Zhou Tianyu walked up to her as if no one else was there and deliberately handed the box in his hand to Xu Qingmo. "This is a gift for you. I hope you like it."
Xu Qingmo didn't take the box, but asked curiously, "What's inside?"
"You'll know once you take it home and open it."
Xu Qingmo didn't want it, but Lu Ting took it. Getting something good from Zhou Tianyu was like the sun rising in the west; why not take it?
Even if it's something bad, you can just throw it away later.
"Alright, I've already accepted the things you sent for Qingmo. You can leave now." Lu Ting waved his hand, urging her to leave.
Zhou Tianyu looked shocked. "This is the first time we've met since the New Year, and I even gave you a gift. Aren't you going to let me have a meal here?"
"So you came here begging for food? Are you a beggar?" Lu Ting asked back.
Zhou Tianyu was taken aback by the question, and then complained to Shen Jiang and Wang Jing.
Wang Jing and Shen Jiang did not interfere in their children's affairs, letting them develop on their own.
“I’m not a beggar. I came here to give gifts, so I should be a guest here.” Zhou Tianyu denied being a beggar.
Lu Ting scoffed, "You thought you could gain favor by bringing Qingmo a gift, but now it turns out you have ulterior motives. No wonder Qingmo didn't want to accept the gift; she saw through your true colors from the very beginning."
Zhou Tianyu, thick-skinned as ever, didn't realize that these were sarcastic remarks.
He chuckled, "Because I consider you all my best friends, Xu Qingmo should also acknowledge me as a good friend in her heart."
Xu Qingmo shook her head. "No."
Lu Ting said, "You heard it too, Qingmo doesn't consider you a good friend."
"Then I should stay here longer and try to make my presence felt in front of Xu Qingmo. Once she accepts me as a friend, then I'll leave."
"Is it because Qingmo has never acknowledged you as a friend that you've been staying here all this time?" Lu Ting asked irritably.
Zhou Tianyu nodded in satisfaction, "Congratulations on learning how to answer first."
"Zhou Tianyu, you actually came here first to curry favor with Xu Qingmo, you're quite cunning." Song Wei jogged over, a box appearing in his arms.
Zhou Tianyu pouted, "Didn't you say you weren't coming today? You broke your promise."
"You said you weren't coming today, but I didn't expect you to lie to me."
Song Wei, too lazy to continue arguing with Zhou Tianyu, took the initiative to hand over the box, but this time neither Xu Qingmo nor Lu Ting accepted it.
Zhou Tianyu shrugged and reminded her, "Xu Qingmo doesn't like your gift. She only wants to be friends with me now. After all, we've been through thick and thin together. You should go home first. This place isn't suitable for you."
"You must have said bad things about me to Xu Qingmo. You're a really bad person."
"I didn't say that, don't wrong an innocent person."
Seeing that the two were about to start arguing again, Xu Qingmo picked at her ear in disgust.
"If you two want to argue, you can do it at home. Don't start it here. It's only the first day back after the New Year, and I don't want to get angry," Xu Qingmo reminded her.
Zhou Tianyu immediately stepped forward, smiling broadly, "I'm not here to argue, I'm here to make friends."
Song Wei followed suit, saying, "I'm here to make friends too."
Xu Qingmo ignored them and turned to go inside.
Lu Ting wanted to stop the remaining two people outside the door, but he had something in his hands and couldn't keep an eye on them at all.
For the next period of time, Zhou Tianyu and Song Wei would go to Xu Qingmo's house whenever they had free time.
At first, Xu Qingmo tried to shoo them away, but after a while she realized she couldn't get rid of them, so she simply ignored them.
Zhou Tianyu and Song Wei are also looking for work.
They're all even more diligent than they are at home.
After a while, the two of them followed Xu Qingmo to the classroom to start learning horse stance.
Every time the two of them went home, when asked what they had learned, they would always answer that they had practiced horse stance.
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it's March.
The day that Zhang Cui and Zhou Qiang had agreed upon for their divorce arrived.
Early in the morning, Zhang Cui didn't stay in bed. She got up and put on the red coat she wore at her wedding, applied lipstick, and dusted her face with powder.
She turned to Zhou Qiang and said, "Has the divorce application been approved? Let's go to the Civil Affairs Bureau today and get the divorce certificate."
Zhou Qiang looked at her silently. "Do you really want a divorce?"
"Didn't we already agree on this? What's the point of asking these questions now?" Zhang Cui retorted stubbornly; she didn't want a divorce.
But she couldn't bring herself to say that she didn't want a divorce now, because Zhou Qiang would laugh at her for the rest of her life.
"Actually, after thinking about it carefully for a while, I think that apart from being a bit unreasonable and troublemaking, you're a good person in every other way." Zhou Qiang seriously considered Zhang Cui's good points, but couldn't think of any after thinking about it for a long time.
In the end, I can only use the word "good" to express it generally.
Zhang Cui countered, "Is it that you don't want a divorce anymore?"
Zhou Qiang gave a soft "hmm".
Wang Xiaohu's story is still vivid in my mind. Although Cai Qinqin was not friendly to the other people in the family compound, Wang Xiaohu was well-fed and warmly dressed when she was around.
If she had stayed by Wang Xiaohu's side, perhaps he wouldn't have lost his life.
Zhou Qiang didn't want Zhou Tianyu to follow the same path as Wang Xiaohu.
"You were the one who agreed to the divorce, but now you don't want it anymore. Are you trying to make a fool of me?" Zhang Cui snapped, her words tough but her heart secretly smug.
“I didn’t treat you like a fool. I thought this through carefully, and I didn’t apply to my superiors for divorce approval,” Zhou Qiang said, explaining his current situation.
Zhang Cui sensed something was wrong. She had clearly asked Zhou Qiang about the divorce approval process before, and he had repeatedly admitted that it had been submitted to his superiors for approval.
Why are you saying no now?
"Zhou Qiang, you still say you didn't treat me like a fool? Do you think you can just get a divorce if you don't want to? What kind of person do you take me for?"
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