Noodle soup
On the playground of No. 1 Middle School, students were free to play. Jiang Zhizhi sat on the lawn, listening to the phone while watching her classmates playing games not far away.
She waited until Shen Li on the other side finished speaking before she spoke, “I see, thank you.”
"You're welcome. Let's help each other. Please verify the reaction formula I sent you via email. If you have any questions, please contact me."
Jiang Zhizhi hung up the phone, put the phone in her pocket, quietly picked up a novel beside her and started reading.
Although now she can easily know all the contents of a book just by touching it, Jiang Zhizhi still prefers this way of savoring it slowly, which can calm her mind in this chaotic world.
"Jiang Zhizhi, I'm reporting you for playing with your phone and reading extracurricular books in class!"
Lu Xiye appeared behind her at some point and spoke seriously.
Jiang Zhizhi rolled her eyes at him and said, "You can report it to the teacher."
All the teachers in No. 1 Middle School knew that the current curriculum in school was not suitable for Jiang Zhizhi at all. As long as she could maintain her grades, the teachers would turn a blind eye to whatever she did.
She has a quiet personality and has never done anything out of the ordinary except reading extracurricular books.
What's more, it's physical education class now, all the students are free to move around, and some students even sneak out of school to play.
"Jiang Zhizhi, are you still going to make up lessons after school today?" Lu Xiye stood in front of her, his tall and thin figure blocking the sunlight.
"Make up class, physics today."
Ever since the physics class started, Lu Xiye's grades have not been very good, and his math scores have also reached a bottleneck and can hardly be improved.
My current overall score is around the top 50 in the grade, with physics and mathematics pulling down a lot of points.
When Lu Xiye heard about the physics tutoring, he felt overwhelmed. He looked complaining, "Your mother was beaten yesterday, didn't you go see her?"
"No." Jiang Zhizhi said indifferently.
Lu Xiye felt that Jiang Zhizhi seemed like a different person. Usually, she cared most about her mother, but now, when Chen Yuping was beaten, she didn't even go to see her.
"You are so cold-blooded." He couldn't help but complain.
Jiang Zhizhi didn't want to pay any more attention to him, so she turned around and continued reading.
It’s not that she doesn’t want to see Chen Yuping, but now things haven’t been settled yet and she can’t go back.
Wang Cuihua and the others should move out in these few days.
*
Ever since Jiang Guozhong disappeared, Feng Mei had opened a mahjong parlor at home to make money. Although she was known for her aggressive demeanor, she was known for her fashion sense. While she wore heavy makeup on a daily basis, she was known for her casual playdates with many men. Gradually, her mahjong parlor flourished.
When Zhao Guodong brought Wang Cuihua to Feng Mei's house, a mahjong table had just been set up. The living room was filled with smoke and the sound of mahjong being rubbed was particularly loud.
Feng Mei held a cigarette between her red lips, wore a bright red halter dress, had her long wavy hair loose, and had an exquisite makeup that made her look particularly charming.
She took a drag on her cigarette and slowly exhaled a cloud of smoke. Standing under the eaves, she looked at Wang Cuihua behind Zhao Guodong. After examining her for a long time, she spoke, "Tianci and Xinrui are both at school. You wait."
After saying that, she asked Zhao Guodong to follow her into the house and explained the situation.
Zhao Guodong took the opportunity to say, "Sister Feng, you're really lucky. The village is about to be demolished, and right when we were short of people to be registered, someone came along. Other families in the village can't find anyone even if they want to."
"You're talking nonsense! This house belongs to our Feng family. What does it have to do with the Jiang family? That heartless Jiang Guozhong must have died outside long ago. You want me to bring these two old guys home? What? Am I a masochist?" Feng Mei was filled with anger when she thought of Jiang Guozhong.
Originally, she thought Jiang Guozhong was honest and hardworking, and could make a lot of money as a contractor in a year, so she could have a backer. But she didn't expect that within a year, he disappeared. She had been struggling to raise two children for the whole year. It was so difficult for her!
"Oh, Sister Feng, you're so stupid! Isn't Jiang Guozhong registered in your household registration? Then it wouldn't be difficult to get his parents in if we just find someone to help. Just let them live in the iron shed on the east side of the yard. How much can those two old guys spend? When the house is demolished, you can get 300,000 yuan for free! Besides, after the demolition, you get the money and you don't have to worry about them anymore. They are Jiang Guozhong's parents, and legally you have no obligation to support them, right? This is a good thing for you with no harm at all!"
Feng Mei frowned and thought about it, as if she was persuaded by Zhao Guodong.
"Think about it, those two old guys are moving in, and they don't need you to take care of them. Jiang Guozhong's mother seems to be able to do her job well, so she can take care of the old man herself, right?"
Feng Mei nodded, "What you said seems to make some sense."
"The demolition policy is about to be released. It's better to deal with the household registration sooner rather than later. If the household registration is frozen one day, losing one person will result in a loss of hundreds of thousands of yuan."
"That's true, but why are you so attentive to my affairs? Do you want to owe me money and not pay it back?" Feng Mei looked at Zhao Guodong warily.
The last time Zhao Guodong played mahjong, he owed two thousand yuan and hasn’t received the money yet.
Zhao Guodong said quickly, "Sister Feng, how dare I owe you money? It's just that I've lost so much in the past two months that I can't explain myself when I get home. We're old acquaintances. Can you think of a way for me to share in your wealth?"
He remembered what the young man said on the phone and secretly tried to test Feng Mei's attitude to see if she was really plotting something in secret.
Feng Mei chuckled, "Okay, since you really care about me, I'll definitely look for you if there's an opportunity to make money. Don't worry, with Second Master Guan's blessing, I can't let you lose money all the time..."
Although she didn't say it explicitly, her implication was that she admitted that she had been secretly setting up a scheme to defraud people of money.
Zhao Guodong was so angry that his teeth were itching. He and Feng Mei had known each other for seven or eight years. He had helped Feng Mei a lot over the years, but he didn't expect that she would actually treat him like this!
But on the surface, he still pretended to be flattering and grateful...
*
Two days later, Feng Mei asked someone to drive a car and took Wang Cuihua and Jiang Dajun to Lujiang Village. She could still show some respect to Wang Cuihua, but she didn't even look at Jiang Dajun, who was paralyzed in bed, with disgust.
Before leaving, Wang Cuihua held Chen Yuping's hand and apologized cryingly.
"It was all my fault. I shouldn't have hit you that day. I was really confused that day and my heart was blinded by greed. After you left that day, I couldn't sleep all night. Please don't blame me."
Chen Yuping's face was a little stiff. Ever since she accidentally learned from Lu Xiye the origin of the one million, she felt like she had lost her soul. The bruises on her body were still painful. She found Wang Cuihua's acting very boring.
"Mom, please go."
Chen Yuping calmly saw Wang Cuihua and Jiang Dajun off.
She almost spent all her savings on Jiang Dajun's treatment, and her family became like this.
Now, Wang Cuihua and Jiang Dajun were taken away by Feng Mei, her current daughter-in-law. For a moment, she suddenly felt as if everything was over and she felt relieved.
Perhaps from this moment on, her relationship with the Jiang family is completely over.
Chen Yuping suddenly didn't want to have any contact with these people anymore.
She missed Jiang Zhizhi and her daughter very much.
I feel like I haven't seen her for a long time...
*
In the evening, the setting sun was as red as blood, and the entire Jinhai Lanting seemed to be dyed with a deep red glow.
After Chen Yuping followed Lu Xiye to register with the security guard, they came to Villa 12 in the South District. The small building on the third floor had a small garden of nearly 400 square meters, which left her dumbfounded.
She never imagined that Jiang Zhizhi would live in such a place after leaving home.
Lu Xiye went over and pressed the doorbell. After a while, the door opened and Jiang Zhizhi appeared behind it.
"mom."
The moment she saw Chen Yuping, her expression was very calm.
But Chen Yuping's eyes were red. She walked forward and hugged Jiang Zhizhi in her arms, "Zhizhi, Mom is sorry for you."
Jiang Zhizhi let her hold her for a while before she said, "Mom, come in first and talk."
After entering the house, she explained, "This is Mr. Shen's house. He used to be my teacher's attending physician and a friend of my senior. He said that this house was empty anyway, so he let me move in."
lie……
Lu Xiye, who was standing by, couldn't help but curl his lips when he saw Jiang Zhizhi speaking so seriously.
This guy doesn't even blush when he tells a lie. I guess we've lied to him countless times.
"Oh, so that's how it is..."
Chen Yuping knew that Jiang Zhizhi's teacher was a very powerful university professor, and the people they knew were different from hers. After Jiang Zhizhi pulled Zong Qinghai out, she no longer suspected anything.
"Mom, don't go back home for now. They'll definitely come looking for you again in the next period of time. Just stay here with me and go to work normally during the day. They don't know where you work, right?"
"I don't know. They never asked."
She and Wang Cuihua took turns serving Jiang Dajun every day. Almost as soon as she arrived, Wang Cuihua would leave in a hurry, not wanting to stay for even a minute, and naturally never asked about her work.
"That's good."
Things aren't that bad after all.
In the evening, Lu Xiye returned home after finishing his tutoring, leaving only Jiang Zhizhi and Chen Yuping in the villa.
It was the first time for Chen Yuping to live in such a big house. The bedroom had a dressing room and bathroom, as well as a beautiful balcony.
She felt that Jiang Zhizhi was promising, but also felt that she was a burden to her.
At night, she tossed and turned in the soft big bed, unable to sleep. She sighed and finally got up.
The lights upstairs were still on. Chen Yuping walked upstairs and saw that the light was on in Jiang Zhizhi's study. She had not gone to bed yet.
Chen Yuping pushed open the door and saw Jiang Zhizhi writing something at the desk. Her thin face still retained the childishness of a girl, but her focused and relaxed expression seemed very mature.
Under the dim light, she vaguely felt that the girl in the room seemed to be from a different world from her.
Everything about her is so familiar, yet so far away from me.
"Mom? Why haven't you slept yet?" Jiang Zhizhi's voice brought her back from her trance.
Chen Yuping said quickly, "Nothing, Mom came to see you. It's so late, why are you still studying?"
"It will be over soon." She said lightly.
"Are you hungry? How about mom make you something to eat?"
Jiang Zhizhi thought for a moment, then suddenly smiled softly, her eyes softening. "Mom, I want to eat the eggplant noodle soup you made."
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