Chapter 113
Chu Jiujiu covered the camera with her hands, looking like a thief. Her head was buzzing. Her hand shook and she pressed the shutter button. She didn't even see what she had photographed, but she knew that she must have taken the photo of Chu Shao and Wen Xiuwei.
Damn it, when did these two get together?
Damn it, no one thought to tell her!
It’s okay for Weiwei, she didn’t know anything about it, but Chu Shao, Chu Shao didn’t even say anything!
Chu Jiujiu's eyes kept rolling, and it was obvious that she was very emotional. Han Shengyi saw that she ignored him and had such a strange expression, so he frowned and looked in the direction Chu Jiujiu had just looked.
Wen Xiuwei and Chu Shao were no longer standing together. Wen Xiuwei was walking towards them, while Chu Shao was still standing under the big tree with his back to them, motionless, and no one knew what he was doing.
Chu Shao: Actually, I didn’t do anything, I was just reminiscing.
…
With only this little information, Han Shengyi should not be able to guess what happened, but Chu Jiujiu's expression was so easy to understand, so after only thinking for a second, Han Shengyi understood.
"You finally found out?"
Chu Jiujiu was still brainstorming. Upon hearing this, she raised her head and said, "You...you know this too?!"
Han Shengyi shrugged and said, "I knew it a long time ago."
Chu Jiujiu: “…”
"When did you find out?"
Han Shengyi thought for a moment and said, "It should be the time when Sister Xiuwei just went to film a movie."
Chu Jiujiu: “…”
Isn’t that more than half a year?!
So everyone knows it except her!
Chu Jiujiu was immediately furious. Just as she was about to explode at Han Shengyi, she saw Han Shengyi casually glance ahead, then lowered his voice and quickly said to her, "I'll tell you the rest later. They don't want others to discover their relationship. Even if you know now, you have to pretend you don't know."
Wen Xiuwei was about to come over, and Chu Jiujiu also saw it. She didn't understand, but could only lower her voice and said, "Why? Isn't this a good thing?"
Han Shengyi: "I'll explain it to you later."
After he finished speaking, he looked at Wen Xiuwei who had already walked in front of them, and smiled as usual: "Sister Xiuwei, we are ready to go back."
Wen Xiuwei was a little surprised: "Didn't you just get here a while ago?"
Han Shengyi continued to laugh. From head to toe, every body language and expression was so impeccable. "Jiujiu said she was cold. Look at her, she's frozen. Her face is stiff."
Chu Jiujiu: “…”
Am I cold? I'm angry!
It was a well-known fact that Chu Jiujiu was spoiled. Wen Xiuwei did not doubt it. She turned around and called out to Chu Shao, who was still standing on the shore, to come over and go back with them.
After returning home, Wen Xiuwei and Chu Shao went straight back to the Chu family. Chu Jiujiu pursed her lips and watched them walk into the gate one after another. Then, she grabbed Han Shengyi's arm and ran quickly to the Han family.
Grandma Han was sitting in the living room on the first floor watching TV. She was a little surprised to find that the two had returned so quickly: "You're back so early. By the way, Jiujiu, did you get the camera back?"
It was originally said that she would lend it to her for a day or two, and it has been several days now. Chu Jiujiu always asked Grandma Han to give her a few more days. Grandma Han just asked casually and didn't want to take the camera back immediately, but when she heard this, Chu Jiujiu took a long step, grabbed Han Shengyi, and ran upstairs frantically as if she was hiding from debt.
Then, there was the sound of a door closing with a bang.
Grandma Han: “…”
You are floating.
You never treated grandma like this before.
…
Sitting in Han Shengyi's room, Chu Jiujiu pressed his hand and asked him to tell her everything that had happened.
Han Shengyi fell silent. How could he know what happened? He just noticed that something was wrong with the two people. He still had to ask the parties involved to know what exactly happened.
"Didn't Chu Shao often go to pick up Sister Xiuwei before? Maybe that was when they were together... Well, I don't know how they got together. I'm with you every day, so how could I have seen what they did in private? They never said anything, probably because they were afraid of us asking questions."
Chu Jiujiu thought for a moment after hearing this, and then asked uncertainly, "Could it be that Chu Shao just wants to take advantage without taking any responsibility?"
Han Shengyi immediately denied it, "Impossible, Chu Shao would not do such a thing."
Chu Jiujiu was stunned for a moment, and then her expression turned horrified: "Could it be that Weiwei is the one who just wants to take advantage and not take responsibility?!"
Han Shengyi: “…”
He told Chu Jiujiu very sincerely, "You're overthinking it. This kind of thing... is always hard to talk about. Chu Shao hasn't graduated yet, and you know Sister Xiuwei's personality. She's quite conservative. The situation you're describing definitely doesn't exist. As for what they're thinking, let's not worry about it. Being a couple is their business, and the rest of us can just wait and see what happens."
Chu Jiujiu opened her mouth, apparently still disagreeing with his idea. Han Shengyi knew this, and he quickly interrupted her before she could say anything. "Your father thinks the same way, and he's known it for a long time. So has my grandfather. The rest of us have noticed it, but we didn't point it out. We don't want them to feel pressured, so you shouldn't say anything either. Let them develop on their own, understand?"
Chu Jiujiu may not listen to what Han Shengyi says, but she will definitely listen to what Chu Liqiang says. Since even he is pretending to be ignorant, Chu Jiujiu can't be the bad guy who points the finger at them.
He nodded silently. After two seconds, Chu Jiujiu started to make a fuss again, "How come you all knew about this, but I was the only one who didn't notice it!"
Han Shengyi comforted her, "No, my grandma has poor eyesight, and she didn't notice it either, just like you."
Chu Jiujiu: “…”
I didn't feel comforted at all.
The shock slowly faded, the anger gradually disappeared, and then Chu Jiujiu laughed excitedly. No matter what, Chu Shao and Weiwei finally made progress, and she no longer had to worry about her grandparents being replaced.
With a chuckle, Chu Jiujiu took out the camera from her bag. At that time, the camera did not have a display screen. If she wanted to see what she had just taken, she could only pull out the film and identify the pattern from the dark film.
Chu Jiujiu carefully took out the film. She didn't dare touch it, so she carefully pinched the edge, tore it off, and put it in Han Shengyi's notebook. She showed it to Han Shengyi: "I just took a picture of it casually. Hahahaha, this is the ironclad evidence. If they want to lie to us in the future and say that they have recovered in a few days, I will develop this photo and stick it on their door."
Han Shengyi took a look. The film was so blurry that he could only see two figures, and couldn't make out their expressions at all. After trying to identify them for a while, Han Shengyi finally laughed and said, "Okay, put it away. If it gets old, where will you go to take a second picture?"
Hearing this, Chu Jiujiu put the film away.
In the following days, Chu Jiujiu kept waiting for the two of them to make their relationship public. Who knew that instead of waiting for the public announcement, she got the news that Wen Xiuwei would be going on a business trip for almost a year.
At the dinner table, she explained that she had met with the director and that not only had she passed, but Guan Jinqiao had as well. Guan Jinqiao was overjoyed; she had paid for her job, and now she had to find someone to sell it. Wen Xiuwei didn't have to deal with so many complications; she only had to inform her teacher and her family members, and she was ready to go.
This news was so sudden that no one could accept it.
"Eight months? That's the minimum. It's too far for you to go alone." Grandma Han was a little worried.
Grandpa Han had a different opinion: "Okay, young people should go out more often. But Xiuwei, you're a girl. You have to protect yourself well when you go out. What's the name of the director you mentioned? I'll check and give him a call. Ask him to pay attention to the affairs of young actresses like you."
Han Shengyi asked, "If I leave this month, will I be able to come back during the Chinese New Year?"
Wen Xiuwei answered uncertainly: "It should be possible. I'm not sure either. I need to ask the director."
Everyone had spoken, but Chu Jiujiu didn't say anything. Not only did she not say anything, she also kept staring at Chu Shao who was eating.
Chu Shao picked up a piece of braised pork with chopsticks and was about to put it in his mouth when he saw Chu Jiujiu's sharp eyes.
“…Why are you looking at me?”
Chu Jiujiu shifted her body, pursed her lips, and asked him, "Chu Shao, don't you have anything you want to say to Weiwei?"
Chu Shao was puzzled. He turned his head and glanced at Wen Xiuwei beside him. They had already said everything they needed to say in private. However, since Chu Jiujiu brought it up, Chu Shao said symbolically, "Be careful and go home early."
Wen Xiuwei nodded, "Okay."
Chu Jiujiu: “…”
In her heart, Chu Jiujiu thought pessimistically that it was impossible to expect the two of them to tell the truth this year.
Of course, there are only about ten days left this year.
…
At the end of December, Wen Xiuwei got a letter of introduction, and the studio reimbursed their train tickets to Luoyang, but only seat tickets. Chu Liqiang felt that this was too much suffering, so he bought two sleeper berths for her and her good sister Guan Jinqiao. The Guan family actually wanted to buy sleeper berths as well, but they couldn't find a channel to buy them. After this incident, the Guan family's impression of the Chu family improved a lot.
On the day of farewell, the entire Han and Chu families went out, and they left reluctantly until the train left.
After Wen Xiuwei left, they haven't seen each other for almost a year. Chu Jiujiu was particularly reluctant to let her go, and Chu Shao also became much more taciturn. Seeing him like this, Chu Jiujiu didn't even care about the fact that he had hidden it from her for so long, and once again became Chu Shao's close-fitting little cotton-padded jacket. Chu Jiujiu has been with Chu Shao these days, and even when he plays basketball, she sits beside him and cheers him on.
Chu Jiujiu is now a celebrity in the school. She published a paper and was praised by the People's Daily. Even the principal specially found her, shook hands with her, and asked her to keep up the good work.
She was beautiful, her father was the head of a military region, and her brother was the secretly charming Chu Shao. Almost the entire high school knew about her. Chu Yue was walking by with her classmates when someone who had a bad relationship with her and had always wanted to steal her position as class monitor saw Chu Jiujiu and immediately spoke to her in a sarcastic tone, "Isn't that Chu Jiujiu? She's the talented girl in our school. She's younger than us, better at studying than us, and she's a first-level assistant at the National Institute of History. Tsk tsk tsk, we both have the surname Chu. Chu Yue, why are you not as good as her?"
Chu Yue looked at Chu Jiujiu's back. After a while, she looked at the person who mocked her: "Just because you've been in the newspaper, you're considered a talented woman? It's the same as anyone who hasn't been in the newspaper."
"You're in a local newspaper, but they're in the People's Daily."
Chu Yue snorted coldly, "So what? What's the point of studying history? Everything in history has happened. If we want to study, we should study the future."
The person opposite: "..."
Wow, you are not a big guy, but you speak so arrogantly. If you have the ability, you should write a paper and let the People's Daily praise you!
Chu Yue ignored the sarcasm of others, looked at Chu Jiujiu again, and left quickly.
She heard about Chu Jiujiu being in the newspaper from the school radio. After hearing this, she immediately went to look for the paper written by Chu Jiujiu. Because it had just been published, the library had not collected it. Chu Yue asked many people for help before she got a copy. She read it word by word, analyzed it like peeling off silk threads, and finally, Chu Yue came to a conclusion.
Chu Jiujiu is really a child.
The difference between the tone of an adult and a child is enormous. Even if a child's writing is brilliant, some details and style still reveal their age. Furthermore, this paper contains absolutely nothing useful. It's half about the past, half about her own opinions, some of which are right, some wrong. Just like what she said about national hatred and family feuds affecting national development, she lived into the 21st century, so how come she's never seen them affected?
It was so embarrassing for her to ask this question. She had never seen it, and that was because she was stupid!
She only cared about gossip every day, and the fact that the price of eggs in the vegetable market had increased by a few cents. Even if she saw the news, she would not think about why such news appeared. Now she was reborn, and the advantage she was proud of was that she knew the direction of the future, but she knew nothing about why this direction would happen, who was fanning the flames, and what factors led to this situation.
Chu Yue is a tightrope walker. She is complacent and thinks she is walking well. In fact, she is reckless. She is still alive and well now because she has not exposed too much. Once she touches the interests of others and appears in the vision of certain people, it is hard to say whether she can see the sun tomorrow.
Chu Yue didn’t care about these things, nor did she know them. She just needed to know that Chu Jiujiu, who was beginning to shine, was indeed not reborn. That was enough.
She was relieved, but only half relieved. Chu Jiujiu was safe, but Nie Bai was still her potential competitor.
Chu Yue was absent-minded the whole afternoon. After school, she went to the Revolutionary Committee again and waited at the door. When Ding Boyun and others came out, he still had a smile on his face. When he saw Chu Yue, the smile on his face gradually disappeared.
Taking Chu Yue to a deserted place, Ding Boyun frowned and looked at the little girl, "Why are you here again?"
Chu Yue asked him: "Have you gone to the Guan family to ask if what I said has come true?"
Ding Boyun looked at her silently.
The last time this little girl found him, she said a bunch of weird things, saying that she could help him as long as he went to Guan's house to verify what she said.
Ding Boyun thought she was sick, but he didn't intend to verify it. However, when he ran into Guan Jinqiao that day, he suddenly had an idea and asked her about it. He found out that just as Chu Yue said, Guan Jinqiao's father really had a stroke.
Ding Boyun: "What you said, you can find out by just asking around."
Hearing this, Chu Yue nodded, "That's right, I just wanted to see your attitude. If you ask, it means you believe me. To prove that what I said is true, I can tell you one more thing."
Ding Boyun looked at her strangely, "What's the matter?"
Looking around, he found that there was no one around. Chu Yue approached Ding Boyun. She was too close, and Ding Boyun felt uncomfortable. He wanted to step back, but then he heard what Chu Yue said.
Ding Boyun's expression changed immediately, "Are you crazy?"
Chu Yue swore, "Am I crazy or not? I told you the date. On that day, he will die. The newspapers will be full of reports. If you think you need to wait for several months, it's too late. I can also tell you that there will be an earthquake soon. It will be a magnitude 7 earthquake in the northeast. Many people will die."
Ding Boyun understood that this man was indeed a madman.
He turned around and was about to leave. Chu Yue saw that he wanted to leave, she became anxious, gritted her teeth, and said again: "Wait a minute! I know what kind of person you are!"
Ding Boyun paused as he was leaving, turned around and looked at her with an unfathomable expression.
Finding it useful, Chu Yue calmed down and picked and chose, not telling everyone: "The Ding family used to be glorious, but in recent years, it has been on the decline, right?"
"You are the eldest son and grandson of your family. Your family has placed high hopes on you since you were young. You look down on ordinary people and fools. You think you are the smartest person in the world. But God is jealous of talented people. The Ding family has brought themselves to ruin. You feel sad for their misfortune and angry at their lack of fighting spirit. So, you want to stand out and fight to bring the Ding family back to its former status."
Ding Boyun stood there, gave an ambiguous laugh, and said, "Continue."
Chu Yue felt a little uneasy at his attitude, but since she had already started, she couldn't regret it anymore and could only continue: "These are your past, and I also know your future. You graduated from the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University and came to the Revolutionary Committee. A year later, the Revolutionary Committee was disbanded, and you were transferred to Hebei, where you continued to be promoted. When you were already a provincial cadre, you were transferred back. However, you had been away from the capital for too long, and your foundation was unstable. You also chose the wrong faction. In order to protect yourself and avoid complete failure, you tried many methods. You even used your wife to commit suicide. In the end, you still failed."
"Your mortal enemy is Guan Yuelong. You hated him as a child, and when you grew up you wanted to kill him. He got you over, but not long after, he was also taken over by someone else. You two have been fighting for half your lives, but in the end, neither of you won."
Chu Yue spoke quickly and without any bias. In her words, Ding Boyun was a complete loser. He should have been angry, but looking at Chu Yue's face, he actually curled his lips.
The smile makes people feel cold.
Stretching out his hands and clapping slowly, Ding Boyun said, "That's a good story, but I want to know, what role do you play in this story?"
Chu Yue pursed her lips.
she?
She was Guan Yuelong's wife. Guan Yuelong needed help at the time and married her when she was just an adult. However, the Chu family was not strong enough to help Guan Yuelong at all. Guan Yuelong and Ding Boyun were in a life-and-death relationship because Ding Boyun seduced Guan Yuelong's sister Guan Jinqiao into willingly giving up acting to work for his career. Guan Jinqiao had starred in well-known movies and was a household name throughout the country. Many people had dirty thoughts about her, but Ding Boyun not only did not stop them, but also let her endure it. Later, Guan Jinqiao committed suicide. Ding Boyun and Guan Yuelong were originally in a competitive and hostile relationship, and this made them even more complete enemies.
But Chu Yue couldn't tell anyone about this. She frowned and said, "I didn't make this up. This is true. I saw it. I can see the future. I saw that you are a capable person, but you are still living such a miserable life. So, I want to help you."
lie.
Ding Boyun said these two words in his heart with a smile on his face.
He still didn't believe Chu Yue's statement of "seeing the future", which was obviously a crazy statement, but he was very curious about how she knew his past and his thoughts.
He is a person who will never let go of what he wants, so he actually started chatting with Chu Yue.
"Are you just trying to help me? Sorry, you don't look like such a kind person."
Of all the ambitious individuals who had been suppressed, Chu Yue singled out Ding Boyun. Firstly, as she had said, he was truly capable. If Guan Jinqiao hadn't died and Guan Yuelong hadn't gone on a rampage to retaliate against him, perhaps the two of them could have fought for decades more. Secondly, because of Guan Yuelong, she knew Ding Boyun too well. She knew that his sole focus was reviving the Ding family. He was unemotional and unwavering. A simple partnership would allow them to go further.
"If you think I have ulterior motives, then I do." Chu Yue was silent for a moment, then raised her head again. "I'm not only helping you, but also myself. I will never be able to reach that level in my lifetime, but you can. I will help you. In return, you have to protect me and my family so that we can never be bullied by others again."
Ding Boyun raised his eyebrows but didn't say anything. Chu Yue seemed to know what he wanted to ask. She stood there with a smile that was not suitable for her age.
"A verbal agreement is not binding. If you are sincere, wait three years, until I am eighteen, and marry me."
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