Chapter 83 The Principal Has Changed! (Two Chapters Combined)
Li Tai didn't expect Li Mingfang to be so blunt. Looking around at the people around her, she chuckled and said, "Look at you, still so hot-tempered. I don't know how Gu Jianguo has put up with you all these years! We're all happy for you making money, how could we possibly take your shop? What you're saying will make everyone talk behind my back! What I mean is, if you have a way to make money, can you help us out? After all, in a village, it's not a big deal if one family is rich, but it's a real skill if the whole village is rich!"
Gu Yin thought this old lady was really amazing. She didn't say what she wanted, but what the village wanted, thus binding everyone's interests together. She wouldn't fail to get what she wanted. She was really good at playing the moral blackmail game!
Grandma Gu didn't want to say much to them. Her grandchildren must be hungry by now, and talking to these people would be a waste of her emotions.
"I'm just incompetent. My family can't even get rich, let alone lead you guys. I'm practically wading through water myself. I'm not capable of leading anyone. Gentlemen, it's getting dark, and we haven't eaten yet. The kids are still growing and can't stand being hungry. If you want to ask for advice, go ahead and ask my two sons when they get back. But if you just want to come and share the money? Then I can only say don't be so shameless. Sitting here and taking money? Sorry, I'd like to too! When you find the way, remember to let us know, and I'll pick up the money with you! Alright, alright, everyone disperse!"
After saying that, Grandma Gu ignored them and went straight to the vegetable garden to pick vegetables.
Seeing her like this, the group became dissatisfied and spoke sarcastically. Old Mrs. Gu ignored them, as did the rest of the Gu family, and they continued doing what they were doing.
When Li Sen arrived and saw this scene, he said helplessly, "What are you doing? How can you be so shameless? No matter how much money someone makes, that's their own ability! What does it have to do with you? I remember you have more land than the Gu family. According to your plan, should we take out your land and divide it up? Mrs. Li, I remember your family has the most land. How about we start dividing it up from your family?"
Before Mrs. Li could even speak, her daughter-in-law exploded: "Why! That's our land! Why should it be given to someone else!"
Li Sen retorted angrily, "Then why should they share money with you? Because you're arrogant? Because you're shameless? Because you're jealous?!"
After saying that, he ignored her flushed face and turned to the people in the courtyard, scolding them: "Put your hands on your consciences and ask yourselves, why should they give it to you? Why? Are you relatives? Are you close to them? You're nothing, how dare you be so shameless! Go back now!"
After saying that, he looked at one of the men and said unhappily, "Ah Shui's father, when your Ah Shui fell into the water, it was Ah Yin who saved him. I think it's shameless for others to come here, but for you to come here, I think you've lost your conscience!"
Ah Shui's father's mouth moved, but seeing Gu Yin's clear eyes quietly looking at him, his old face turned red, and he stood up with his head down: "I just came to take a look, well, I'll be going now!" After saying that, he quickly left the Gu family.
Gradually, the other families also left, until only Mrs. Li's family remained.
Li Sen was thoroughly fed up with these greedy people. Seeing that they wouldn't leave, he ignored them, said goodbye to Old Madam Gu, and left first. Some people become more arrogant the more you pay attention to them, but they can't stand it if you ignore them.
Gu Yin took the test paper and sat down next to the door to do the questions, just in case the family did something bad.
Seeing that Li Mingfang was really ignoring her, and that she hadn't achieved her goal and everyone had left, Mrs. Li was feeling annoyed when she saw the little girl from the Gu family doing her homework.
She turned her anger towards Gu Yin: "What's the point of a little girl studying so much? You can get married after junior high school. No matter how well you study, you'll still belong to someone else. It's a waste of money! Gu girl, have you made an appointment with any family yet? If not, how about I act as a matchmaker for you?"
Gu Yin laughed angrily: "Auntie, I'm only 13 years old, I'm not an adult yet!"
"You can take a look first. You can get married after graduation. Since you're going to get married anyway, let's settle on the good ones first. The rest are just leftovers from other people!"
Gu Yin laughed: "Everyone has to die anyway, why don't you die first? If you die first, you can find a good burial plot first. The ones after that are just leftovers by others! Hurry up and die, or it will be too late."
Originally, when Mrs. Li talked about her granddaughter, Grandma Gu was almost ready to fight her, but when Gu Yin said that, she couldn't help but laugh.
Mrs. Li was over seventy years old and was most afraid of death and the like. When Gu Yin said that, she got furious and started cursing.
While cursing and crying, Old Mrs. Gu went directly to the pigsty and scooped up a large basin of pig manure.
"Swear again! If you utter another word, I'll stuff this whole bucket of pig manure into your mouth! I, Li Mingfang, keep my word!"
The rest of the Gu family also came out. The Li family members, who had originally wanted to cause a scene, suddenly became subdued when they saw that the Gu family, young and old, all had tools in their hands and looked very aggressive.
Li Tai's daughter-in-law dragged her towards the door, while Li Tai shouted angrily, "You just wait! Just you wait!"
After everyone left, Grandma Gu looked at Gu Yin and said, "You can't say that in the future. What if you make someone faint from anger? Take it easy!"
Gu Yin touched her nose and nodded: "I know. I was mainly just angry."
When Gu Qingming and the others returned home that evening, they learned what had happened at home that evening. After dinner, the two of them went to the village chief's house. They didn't return until late at night, and no one knew what they talked about.
The next day, Gu Yin and Li Xiaohua went up the mountain to look for mushrooms, and the village children all came over to ask Gu Yin about the shop.
"Ayin, my mom told me your family owns a shop in town. What do you sell?" one of the girls asked.
Seeing that everyone looked over as soon as she spoke, Gu Yin smiled and said, "I just sell some small items, like notebooks, correction fluid, pens, pencil cases, hair ties, hair clips, and the like."
"They're all two yuan?!"
Gu Yin nodded: "Yes, if you're interested, you can go and take a look on market days."
Girls really like these little things, and they got excited when they heard Gu Yin say that.
Li Xiaohua pulled Gu Yin aside: "I heard from my mom that some people in the village are jealous and are causing trouble for your family? How is it going now?"
Gu Yin shook her head: "I don't know. Anyway, we live in a society governed by law. If someone really wants to do something, we won't hold back. By the way, stop by my house later. I brought some name tags and hair ties from the store. I'll give you some later, but they're all single, not in pairs. Don't mind, I use them too."
Li Xiaohua rolled her eyes, then hugged Gu Yin's arm excitedly and said, "How could I possibly mind! I'm overjoyed! You're so kind, A-Yin! I love you the most!"
May is the rainy season, and the abundant rainfall causes mushrooms to sprout one after another on the back hill.
Once they entered the woods, they dispersed. Ever since Li Genzi's incident, Li Xiaohua hadn't dared to act alone, and this time was no different. She stayed by Gu Yin's side so that the two of them could take care of each other.
Gu Yin remembered that around this time in her previous life, someone in the village found four kinds of termite mushrooms in a forest halfway up the mountain. Gu Yin and Li Xiaohua searched the mountainside but couldn't find them.
Hasn't it grown yet? That can't be right. She remembered it was around this time. Back then, that person carried it back with a hoe, and many people in the village envied him! He then recounted where he found it and what had happened.
"Ayin, what are you looking for?" Li Xiaohua asked Gu Yin with a puzzled look as she turned over the rotten leaves with a stick.
Gu Yin looked at Li Xiaohua: "Do you know where there are lots of tree roots around here?" She remembered that the person had come to the mountains to dig up some tree roots to take back for firewood, and that's when he saw them.
Li Xiaohua pointed in a direction: "There's more over there. My brother and I came here to dig some before. Do you not have enough firewood?"
Gu Yin looked at that place, her feet trembling slightly, making it difficult to walk. She had passed by there before, but hadn't gone in to take a look.
"No, that's enough. I just heard from my family that there are more fungi in places with lots of tree roots. We burned some trees once in the fall. Let's go take a look."
The two walked through the thick grass and saw tree roots everywhere ahead. Gu Yin reminded them, "Be careful, the parts of those tree roots that were cut before are very sharp, and you can easily get hurt if you're not careful!"
Li Xiaohua nodded and followed behind Gu Yin.
After walking for a while, Li Xiaohua bumped into Gu Yin from behind. Seeing her stop, she asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"
Gu Yin moved aside and pointed to a large white area in front of her: "Look!"
Li Xiaohua looked in the direction Gu Yin was pointing, her eyes widened immediately, she covered her mouth with one hand and grabbed Gu Yin's arm with the other and shook it violently.
"Oh my god, oh my god, we're rich! Ah Yin, hurry, hurry, let's go! There are so many termite mushrooms! Let's keep our voices down! Let's dig them up quickly!" After her initial excitement, Li Xiaohua let go of Gu Yin and rushed forward. Looking at the white mushrooms that hadn't fully bloomed yet, she didn't know where to begin!
Gu Yin found two sticks with pointed ends and handed one to her: "Go ahead and dig. If you really can't manage, just remove the roots and pick it directly!"
So the two of them started fighting without saying a word.
It took the two of them more than an hour to dig up all four large pieces of termite mushrooms. They found some dry grass, lined the basket, and then arranged the termite mushrooms one by one.
Looking at the two baskets full of mushrooms, Li Xiaohua said with satisfaction, "Wow, so many! We can have several meals with them when we get back!"
At this moment, Gu Yin's mind was filled with thoughts of chicken stewed with matsutake mushrooms, stir-fried meat with matsutake mushrooms, and noodles mixed with matsutake mushroom oil! The more she thought about it, the hungrier she became.
The two women carried baskets down the mountain. Before leaving, they called out to the people in the mountains to let them know that they were going first.
On the way home, I didn't run into anyone. When I entered the yard, I saw the old lady washing her water shoes. She was so happy to see that they had brought back so many matsutake mushrooms that she stopped washing her shoes!
"Oh my god, there are so many!! These things are hard to find!"
Gu Yin took out the hair tie and gave it to Li Xiaohua. The old lady took a handful of straw and helped Li Xiaohua cover the matsutake mushrooms: "Cover them up, cover them up, otherwise if you take them back like this, they'll be all gone before you even get home! If anyone asks you what's in there on the way, just say it's sweet potato from my house!"
Li Xiaohua nodded, picked up her basket, and left. She needed to hurry back so her dad could go to the market and buy some meat to stir-fry! It would definitely smell delicious!
The old lady brought out a basin of water, picked some wild loofah leaves from the wall, and called Gu Hua out so that the two of them could wash themselves. Gu Shu was working hard on her exam papers in the room, while she took a knife to the chicken coop and killed an old hen.
"Ah Le, go boil some water, we'll stew chicken later! Ah Shu is preparing for his high school entrance exam, this will help boost his brainpower! I'll make the rest into chicken oil, we can use it for dinner or noodles, it'll smell amazing! Just thinking about it makes my mouth water!"
The family got busy, and when the others came back in the evening and found out that it was a chicken and mushroom feast, their eyes lit up!
Usually, there are always some leftovers from dinner for the men in the family to have as a late-night snack, but today we're doing a clean plate campaign!
After finishing the last sip of soup, Gu Shu patted his bulging belly and sighed contentedly, "This is divine food! It's so fresh! I almost want to swallow my tongue! This is real gourmet food! What do I usually eat? If I could eat like this every day, I'd do ten more practice papers!"
The old lady kicked him: "Dream on! Even if you do a hundred practice papers, you still won't have enough!"
Li Xiang snorted coldly, "You're already complaining about ordinary food after just one meal? From now on, let's not cook! Let this picky person cook for herself!"
Gu Shu immediately got up to clear the dishes: "No, no, no, I was just saying! I'm the worst cook in our family! Even A-Le cooks better than me! I was wrong! I'll wash the dishes!"
Gu Le, who only knows how to start a fire: "...I don't know how."
Gu Shu: "...You can!" He was just using an analogy! After saying that, he ignored Gu Le and took the bowl to wash.
When Gu Shu went to evening self-study, she brought some chicken oil with her to eat with her rice noodles. Gu Yin and Gu Hua didn't bring any, finding it too troublesome.
During evening self-study, the classroom suddenly became lively. Gu Yin was reading a book when Zhao Xiaomin tugged at her clothes. Gu Yin looked up at her.
"I just heard them say that our school principal has been transferred! They say a new principal has been appointed! Did you know about this?"
Gu Yin was surprised; this had never happened in her past life. She shook her head: "I don't know, are you sure?"
Zhao Xiaomin was also unsure: "I just overheard what the students in my class were saying. We should know by the flag-raising ceremony tomorrow morning. I hope they have a more responsible principal!"
Gu Yin also looked forward to it.
The next day, after the flag-raising ceremony, a middle-aged woman wearing a black fitted suit, glasses, and with her hair neatly combed, went onto the stage.
Her identity was later revealed to everyone in her self-introduction.
The new principal—Huang Ting.
If she didn't say she was the principal, Gu Yin felt that no one would doubt her if she said she was the dean of students.
Gu Yin didn't know what changes her arrival would bring to the school, and she thought she wouldn't have any interaction with her. However, in the first English class, she saw the new principal enter their class.
"Hello everyone, I believe you all already know my identity. My other identity is that of your new English teacher for Experimental Class 1-2! Teacher Cai Yu is an intern teacher and has already returned to the city. I will be in charge of you from now on. Now, I would like to get to know the class committee."
Each class committee member, including Gu Yin, stood up and gave a brief introduction of their roles.
After they finished their introductions, Huang Ting gestured for everyone to sit down. "By the way, I have high standards for my own subjects, so the English class representative will be Gu Yin, the vice class monitor. She will work with me to help you with English! Now, open your textbooks to the vocabulary list at the back, and let's review the words we need to master in the last lesson."
As soon as she finished speaking, all the students looked at the former English class representative. Her face turned pale, then flushed red, and finally tears streamed down her face.
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