Chapter 128 Receiving the Package
Datun Village
"Father, Mother, Cuifen and I are back. Look what my daughter Nini mailed back!" Father Shen shouted loudly.
Upon hearing that it was Nini, Grandma Chen rushed out and anxiously asked, "Nini, what's wrong? Is something the matter?"
Father Shen explained, "No, it's something nice that Nini mailed back to us from Beijing. It's such a big package, and there's a letter too. We'll look at it together in a bit."
Grandma Chen was overjoyed when she heard this and quickly said, "Then hurry up, what are you dawdling for?"
Everyone went inside. Auntie had just come out to pour water when she heard the noise. She waited outside for a while and, upon hearing that it was something Jinran had mailed from the capital, felt incredibly envious.
But she still wouldn't let it go, saying, "What's there to brag about? I'll have it too someday. Once my kids all get into college, I'll see who dares to gossip about my family. They'll all have to shut up. Those guys are just jealous of my family."
Shen Yanhong shouted loudly from inside the room, "Mom, can you please stop talking? I just got my train of thought all of a sudden, and now you've completely interrupted me. Do you even want me to go to college?"
Auntie immediately shut up. Now Meng Fan and his wife are also eating and living here, and Auntie is taking care of the whole family by herself. She has visibly aged several years. Whenever she doesn't want to work, she thinks about how she will be a college student's mother in the future, and she is filled with energy.
She originally didn't want Huang Yuanyuan to continue taking the exam, so she could help share the housework, but she didn't know how that bitch managed to persuade Shen Qing, and Shen Qing just wouldn't agree. It made her angry for a long time.
But when I think about the good days to come, I feel that all the suffering I'm going through now is worth it.
Since severing ties, Uncle Shen has been taciturn and indifferent to everything. He goes out to work during the day and comes back to eat and sleep at night. He doesn't respond to anything his aunt says, doesn't speak, and doesn't care about anything.
After returning to the house with Grandma Shen, Shen's father first read the letter Jinran had written. The gist of it was that everything was fine, and she had even visited Tuantuan's house. Her classmates were all very easy to get along with, and they had even taken her shopping for clothes. She thought her grandparents and parents would look great in them, so she bought one for herself as well, hoping her family would like it.
Grandma Shen's eyes were red as she kept touching the clothes, saying, "How could I not like it? It's such a nice thing. I've never worn anything like it in my life. What kind of wool is this? It's so soft."
Grandpa Shen said impatiently, "Give it to me, let me try it on. My granddaughter bought this for me, I have to wear it all the time."
Grandma Shen gave him a reproachful look, but still helped Grandpa Shen put it on.
Mr. Shen laughed and said, "Don't say that, my dad looks so much more energetic and dashing in this. I'll change into one too."
Finally, the whole family changed into new clothes.
But they missed Jinran even more. Grandpa Shen and Father Shen couldn't resist showing off. Later, the whole village knew that the young lady from the Shen family had sent things back home not long after arriving in the capital. She was truly remarkable.
Upon hearing this, Shen Yanhong curled her lip and said disdainfully, "All you do is try to attract attention. What's the use? You were bought off by these people with just a few clothes. You're so shallow."
Meng Fan snapped impatiently, "Are you ever going to stop? If you don't want to learn, don't bother me."
Shen Yanhong dared not speak anymore. She had no hope for her retake of the exam. She was counting on Meng Fan to turn things around. In fact, if you asked her, she would have been happy if she could have gone back to the capital last time, but Meng Fan just wouldn't have wanted to.
It wasn't a particularly good school. People would laugh if they heard that, and his family wouldn't be happy either. The key issue was that Meng Fan's two older brothers had both been admitted to Tsinghua and Peking Universities. Meng Fan was determined to get into a good school too.
If you ask her, she'll still be self-employed and make money in the future. Who cares what prestigious school you went to? But that's not so easy to say. Her brother and sister-in-law are studying like crazy. Don't they even know what they're capable of? Going to university? It's hilarious.
Jinran was diligently passing her days, but Professor Gu wouldn't let her off the hook, so she started her grueling nights studying in her spatial dimension again.
Then a vicious cycle began: Professor Gu would pose difficult questions, Jinran would think and learn, Professor Gu would ask questions, Jinran would answer, then more difficult questions would be posed, and so on, with more thinking and learning.
Jinran felt that her once-proud hair was almost completely gone.
Lately, she's been trying to avoid Gu Siyan, and perhaps he's noticed something, so he hasn't tried to run into her either. They live on the same campus, and unless they've arranged to meet, they really wouldn't bump into each other.
Jinran thought sadly, "Such a good man, in the end, he just became a passerby in my life."
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