Chapter 22 What exactly is going on?
Gu Yin's hair stood on end! She quickly raised her head and saw a man in his thirties with matted hair lying on the wall next to the sink. When Gu Yin looked up, he let out a lewd chuckle!
Gu Yin frowned and shouted sternly, "Get out!"
When the man saw Gu Yin speak up, he became even more excited: "Hehe, little classmate, going to the toilet in the middle of the night? Do you need Uncle's help? Uncle's coming right up!" After saying that, he went downstairs. Gu Yin heard the sound of bricks being moved from the other side of the wall. She turned around, grabbed the wooden stick that the aunt used to poke the toilet, and stared intently at the wall!
Gu Hua started trembling when she heard the man's voice inside. Thinking that Gu Yin was alone outside, she quickly finished what she needed to do and came out.
"Are there bad guys around?!"
Gu Yin remained silent, staring at the wall.
After throwing a few bricks, the man climbed back up. As soon as his head popped out of the wall, Gu Yin immediately stepped into the pool, picked up a stick, and struck the man's neck hard.
The man fell down with a lewd smile on his face.
"001, could you scan that area for danger? Is anyone else there?"
001 took flight and shook its head: "No."
Gu Hua covered her mouth tightly, afraid of causing trouble for Gu Yin.
Seeing the person collapse, Gu Hua quickly stepped forward: "Is he dead?!"
Gu Yin shook her head: "No, I know what I'm doing. You wait here for me, I'll go over and take a look."
Gu Hua shook her head: "I'll go with you! There's strength in numbers!"
Seeing her like this, Gu Yin didn't stop her. She stepped over the wall from the pool and saw that the stone bricks below were piled up very high. She carefully stepped down the stone bricks and waited for Gu Hua to come down before observing the surroundings.
Not far away, to the left was a large river, and to the right were mountains. Below the mountains were graves. However, there was a main road leading to the village on the other side. Gu Yin looked at Gu Hua and said, "Let's carry him to the graves. Otherwise, it won't be good if someone sees him when they pass by tomorrow morning."
Even though Gu Hua's teeth were chattering, she didn't mind. The two of them busied themselves for a while and then left the man in front of a new grave. Anyway, it wasn't cold now, and he wouldn't freeze to death overnight. After they finished, the two of them walked back.
Upon reaching the wall, Gu Yin told Gu Hua to go up first. She then threw the bricks onto the ridge of the field, took a quick run-up, and tumbled over the wall. Afterward, the two returned to their dormitory as if nothing had happened.
Gu Hua didn't fall asleep until dawn. Gu Yin looked at the dark circles under her eyes and smiled helplessly: "Didn't you sleep well?"
Gu Hua was still shaken: "No, I was just really scared. Do you think he might come to the school?"
Gu Yin patted her shoulder: "No, don't worry. Our school doesn't have surveillance cameras, no one will know that we knocked him unconscious. Besides, he's the one who did the wrong thing. If he's not afraid of going to jail, then come. Look at your dark circles, why don't you ask for leave? Go after the second period?"
She wouldn't dare leave her alone in the dorm, even during the day. Gu Hua immediately waved her hand: "No, no, no, I won't ask for leave!"
Seeing that she really could do it, Gu Yin stopped caring.
The two went to the cafeteria to buy breakfast, and while queuing, they overheard the girls around them discussing something.
"Has anyone heard a man howling in the middle of the night? Right near the bathroom!"
"I heard it! My dorm is right next to the toilet, and the whole dorm heard it! It was so loud, but we're too scared to go outside! So, does that mean I'm a pervert?"
"I don't understand, but he's definitely not a good person!"
"Oh my god, I went to the toilet alone, and when I got back to the dorm and climbed onto the top bunk, I heard that man howling. I was so scared that I didn't dare to sleep all night!"
"This is terrifying! I wonder if the school will do anything about it!"
"What do we care? They're all hooligans from outside! We can't control them even if we wanted to! I've been living in the dorms for two years now, and I'm still terrified when I go to the toilet. I don't understand why the school puts the girls' dorms here, while the boys' dorms are over there with the teachers' dorms!"
This problem remained unresolved until Gu Yin graduated in her previous life; the only solution was for security guards to patrol a few more times at night. With such poor conditions, it's no wonder the school was shut down after the next few graduating classes.
Several days passed, and the man didn't come to the school to cause trouble, so Gu Hua was relieved. But that's another story.
During the morning self-study session, Gu Yin stood on the podium and clapped her hands: "Everyone, please stop for a moment. I have something to tell you."
Seeing that all the students were looking at her, Gu Yin wrote the words "Essay Contest" on the blackboard, and then looked down at the class: "The annual National Day essay contest is about to begin. I received a notice from the teacher yesterday that the essay topic is 'The Future,' and it should revolve around the central theme of the development of our motherland. Anyone who is interested can sign up. There are no requirements. Just write well. The deadline is next Friday morning before school ends. Does anyone have any questions?"
Student A: "Is there a certificate?"
Student B: "First you have to win the award! Then ask if there's a certificate!"
Wang Yanni: "If I win an award, will I get extra points on the high school entrance exam?"
Student C: "Is there a word count requirement?"
Gu Yin nodded: "Does anyone else have a question?" Seeing that none of them raised their hands, she then answered the questions of the students in front of her.
"There are certificates. There are four awards: first, second, and third prizes, and an excellence award. We don't know how many people will be awarded in each category yet. This is a city-level certificate; it doesn't add points to the high school entrance exam, but it can be one of the keys to getting into a top school. As long as you have the ability, the word count should be between 1500 and 2000 words, preferably not exceeding 3000 words. Plagiarism is strictly prohibited. If you have any further questions, come to me. Class monitor, please lead the reading." Gu Yin finished speaking and stepped down from the podium. Zhao Xiaomin then led the reading, and the self-study period began.
After self-study, Song Pengfei patted Gu Yin on the shoulder. When she turned around, he smiled and asked, "Are you participating?"
Gu Yin nodded: "I'll participate."
"I'll participate too, good luck!"
Gu Yin replied with a "good luck," then went back to memorizing English vocabulary.
Seeing this, Zhao Xiaomin took out her textbook as well. Song Pengfei, who was behind her, saw the two of them doing this and silently opened his math textbook again. Only Qin Xueming had already run to the convenience store.
When Gu Yin returned home from school at noon, she saw workers already laying cables in the village; clearly, the pace was quite good.
It was midday, and to everyone's surprise, the whole family was there. Gu Yin and the others parked the car, washed their hands, and sat down at the table.
Seeing that the children had all returned, Gu Jianguo finally spoke: "Your father and I are planning to go to the city to find odd jobs to get through the winter and earn some money for the New Year. There's not much work to do in the fields anymore. You all need to listen to your grandma and mom at home. Even though Li Genzi has been quiet lately, don't let your guard down. After dinner, close the door and go to sleep. Make sure to bolt the front door and don't open it for anyone. Especially Ashu, don't run out to play as soon as you're full. With us not around, you're the pillar of the family! A real man! Grandpa is entrusting the family to you. Can you do that?"
Upon hearing this, Gu Shu sat up straight and nodded seriously: "I understand, Grandpa. I will take care of the family! Please be careful when you are out and about!"
Gu Yin was a little worried. She lowered her head to eat, but was actually asking 001, "Is it safe for my dad and the others to go out? Will they cause trouble for them once they get to the city?"
001 shook his head: "Don't worry, your dad and the others are not in any danger. Your dad is almost fifty years old and is no threat to the people over there. After all, he is past the age of studying. They are mainly worried about your younger brother. Your younger brother is still young, and anything is possible. Who knows if your younger brother will walk up to them one day when they are not paying attention."
Gu Yin: "...Although asking this might seem a bit silly, I still want to ask, so what, am I really that unworthy of their attention?"
001 laughed: "Actually, I'm also very surprised. You look a lot like the people over there, but because you're a girl and you'll get married, you're less of a threat to them than your father. I was shocked when I learned about this kind of thinking here! My master is also a woman, and she's more powerful than 99% of the men in this world. The remaining 1% is the God of War. Of course, it might not be long before she kills the God of War too!"
"So the reason I was fired and even hit by a car in my past life is because the person I found through the information provided by my friend was actually my younger brother!"
001 nodded: "Yes, because you found your brother. Even though your brother is no longer a threat, he should still be under their surveillance."
Gu Yin gritted her teeth. So, they kept letting Gu Le suffer under their noses. Because once she found a clue, they would get rid of her and then continue to watch her brother suffer, even enjoying watching her brother suffer!
"I won't let them get away with this!" Gu Yin's eyes suddenly turned red.
“We’re just going to work, we’ll come back when we have time. It’s not like we’re going to a place that’s too far away. Ayin, why are you crying!” Gu Qinglang, who was sitting across from Gu Yin, looked up after finishing his meal and saw that his daughter’s eyes were red and she was crying.
Upon hearing this, everyone looked at Gu Yin and then smiled kindly.
Gu Yin: ...No, I'm burning from the chili peppers, not crying!
Upon hearing this, Gu Le, who was standing nearby, got up, poured a glass of cold water, and placed it in front of Gu Yin: "Sister, have some water."
Looking at her chubby little brother beside her, Gu Yin felt a pang of heartache. In her past life, she had truly found him, she was so close! She reached out and patted Gu Le's head, smiling, "Thank you, Lele!"
Gu Le looked at her carefully, and seeing that she was alright, he smiled.
After finishing her meal, Gu Yin rested for a while, told her family that she had something to take care of at work, and then rode her bike away early.
At the fork in the road leading to the school and to the town, Gu Yin turned onto the town road and continued until she reached the post office before stopping.
After buying envelopes and stamps and filling in the address, Gu Yin mailed out her completed novel. She should receive news in about a week.
On her way back, she passed an internet cafe, and after thinking about it, Gu Yin stopped.
"Do you have an ID card?" The cashier stood up and asked when Gu Yin came in.
Gu Yin shook her head.
The man pointed to the innermost room: "Let's go to that one. How long will you stay?"
Gu Yin glanced at the room, which contained several elementary school students, and sighed helplessly, "One hour."
"Five cents."
After paying, Gu Yin went inside, found an empty computer, and asked the owner to turn it on. She then browsed the web. She knew that a certain shopping website would become wildly popular in the next three years, and she also knew that the stock price of a certain Internet of Things company had soared, increasing several hundred times by the time she died in her previous life. People online often said that if they could go back to this time, they would definitely buy stocks and hold them permanently, so they wouldn't have to do anything but count their money and live a life of luxury.
Gu Yin looked at the various rudimentary web pages. She wanted to buy too, but the problem was she didn't have the money. Buying a new property now would cost over ten thousand yuan. Not to mention her, even her whole family combined didn't have that much money! She couldn't think about that for the time being, but she could consider it in the future. There was also the real estate sector. Standing on the shoulders of giants, she could surely get a share of the profits!
Gu Yin registered several accounts on various forums, websites, and chat software, planning to sell them later at the right time to make a profit!
About half an hour later, Gu Yin left the internet cafe.
On Sunday, after seeing off the men from the Gu family, Li Xiang looked at Gu Shu and asked, "Starting tonight, we have evening self-study sessions. Are you sure you want to go home tonight?"
Gu Shu nodded: "Don't worry, the boys from our village and several nearby villages will come back. School ends at 10:30 pm, and they get home around 11 pm. It's always been like this. Besides, there's no late-night snack at school. I'm so tired of eating instant noodles every night!"
Seeing his insistence, Li Xiang didn't say anything. The boys in the village did come back together every night, and there was nothing to be afraid of in a large group.
After Gu Yin and Gu Hua got the rice, the three of them rode their bikes to school.
After arriving at school, Gu Shu went to play ball, while Gu Yin and Gu Hua went to exchange their meal tickets. Seeing that there were hot water tickets, Gu Yin exchanged two more. Actually, they exchanged their meal tickets just so they could eat breakfast at school. They would go home for lunch and dinner, and only eat at school on rainy days or when they had an emergency and couldn't go home, since the school's communal meals were generally not very tasty.
On their first evening self-study session, many students were very curious, and the classroom was noisy until the teacher arrived and they quieted down.
Wang Shumei looked at the students below and said with a smile, "Is it all so new and exciting that you can't concentrate?"
"Yes!" the whole class shouted.
Wang Shumei smiled and nodded: "I understand, that's how it's always been in previous years. Okay, let me first talk about the rules for boarding students. We start evening study at 7:20, followed by two classes. Each class in the evening is quite long, and school ends at 10:30. I know some of you will go home after school, but I advise you to stay at school. Otherwise, if something happens on the way, the school will not be responsible. If you really don't want to stay at school, take a guarantee back tomorrow and have your parents sign it. For those who stay at school, the dormitory lights will be turned off at 11:40. Try to finish anything within that time. After the lights are off, don't linger on campus. Although this is a school, it's not necessarily safe. If you need anything, go to the teachers' dormitory to find me, or go to the security guard at the school gate! I know some of you have cell phones, so write down my number later. Okay, let's start class now, we can talk about any problems after class!"
After class, Gu Yin got up and handed the essay she had prepared to Wang Shumei.
Wang Shumei raised her eyebrows: "So fast? Are you sure you can do it? Don't you want to write it a few more times?"
Gu Yin shook her head: "This is already the best version I've written. Please take a look and see if there are any problems."
Seeing her so certain, Wang Shumei put it away: "Then I'll take a look first. If I'm sure there are no problems, you can come to my place later to get the paper needed for the essay contest, copy it down, and I'll submit it. If it's well-written, it might even be submitted to the provincial level."
Gu Yin smiled and said, "Then wish me good luck!"
As soon as he sat down, Song Pengfei asked, "You wrote your essay so quickly? I saw you were either reading or reading. When did you write it?"
"It's the weekend."
Song Pengfei frowned: "I've been looking for dance videos all weekend, and I have to train after school in the evenings, so I don't have any time at all. What should I do? I regret it now and don't want to continue participating in the National Day performance!"
Zhao Xiaomin rolled her eyes: "Then just write it during the hour after evening self-study!"
Song Pengfei nodded: "You're right!"
Qin Xueming: "Didn't we agree to go for a late-night snack after school?"
Zhao Xiaomin looked at her: "Have you memorized your Chinese and Politics lessons from today? Have you written your English essay? Have you done your math exercises?"
Qin Xueming: "...Not yet."
Song Pengfei chimed in, "You still dare to eat without me! Study!"
"Are you all this cruel? I don't care, I'll eat it myself!" What if he doesn't grow tall if he doesn't eat it!
Song Pengfei smiled and said, "Go ahead. The class placement exam will be next semester. You probably won't be with us anymore then. Eat more so you won't be sad later."
After evening self-study, Qin Xueming went to buy a loaf of bread and came back, eating it while silently reciting.
Gu Yin couldn't help but laugh when she saw his pitiful look.
Gu Yin waited until she officially took the stage for the flag-raising ceremony, and until National Day arrived, but still received no reply to her submitted novel. Gu Yin was a little helpless. Was it because the subject matter didn't suit the tastes of the editors these days? Did they only accept stories like angst-filled youth dramas? In the end, she sent the two stories she had written during this period to other magazines. She refused to believe it! Such positive stories, there was no reason why no one would dislike them!
Just after dancing on stage, Wang Weiwei ran back to her dormitory to get a few magazines. After distributing them to the people next to her, she looked at the political science book in Gu Yin's hand and said helplessly, "Vice Class Monitor, how can you concentrate on reading in such a noisy setting?"
Gu Yin raised her eyebrows: "I'm just familiarizing myself with the rest of the content; I'll still watch the performance."
Wang Weiwei herself couldn't stand it anymore. When she saw the magazine cover, her eyes lit up: "After the 'Most Beautiful Girl' competition ended, they've started releasing new songs. I'll go buy their merchandise this weekend and put it on my dorm wall. Class monitor, this should be okay, right?"
Gu Yin thought of the famous champion surnamed Li from her previous life and nodded: "As long as the other people in the dormitory don't have any objections, it's fine."
Wang Weiwei hugged Gu Yin and said happily, "Thank you, class monitor! You go ahead and read your book, I'll check out the latest serialized novel first!"
The sun was a bit too strong, so Gu Yin glanced at her textbook and put it away. The chorus had already ended, and now it was the third-year junior high students' street dance performance that was going on stage.
Looking at the chaotic formation and the exaggerated hairstyles and clothing, Gu Yin covered her face. She was so embarrassed and wanted to escape from Earth.
001, on the other hand, seemed to be thoroughly enjoying the show, occasionally offering his own commentary and bursting into laughter.
Those offensive words left Gu Yin speechless for a time.
"Wow, class monitor, this novel is so good! It's so sweet, I love it!" Wang Weiwei tugged at Gu Yin's arm and shook it.
Gu Yin closed her eyes and casually hummed in agreement.
"The male lead secretly liked the female lead all along, and even managed to get into the top class from the worst class, and then followed in her footsteps to get into a top university! Most importantly, in university, he exercised every day, lost weight, and became incredibly handsome! He became the campus heartthrob! Even though many girls liked him, he never reciprocated their feelings; he still secretly loved the female lead! The female lead studied hard and went abroad as an exchange student, and the male lead went with her. Later, they both worked in the diplomatic service. At the end, the female lead hugged the male lead and asked him when he would confess his feelings to her! She always knew he liked her, and the book even says that she had reciprocated his feelings, but the male lead didn't know. Oh, how beautiful!"
Gu Yin opened her eyes, took the magazine from Wang Weiwei's hand, and saw the article she had written: "Unrequited Love," and also saw that the author's name was one she had chosen herself: Start Over.
So, what exactly happened?
She jotted down the editor's phone number, planning to call and ask when she got back.
Their school doesn't have a place to receive newspapers or mail. The security guards are only responsible for opening and closing the gates, patrolling, and watching over bicycles. Nothing else is within their scope of duties. In addition, the security guard is a relative of the principal.
Therefore, most letters were sent back to the village committee, which then received them and distributed them to the villagers.
The novel has been published, but I haven't received any notification...
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