"I'm your man, I understand. I'll be careful in situations like this."
Ji Xia blushed and punched him hard from behind: "You bastard, you did it on purpose."
"Hehe, you're right, I really am your man!"
Chen Jing laughed heartily, his pent-up frustration vanishing. Ji Xia, standing behind him, couldn't help but roll her eyes at him: "So pretentious. You're almost getting married, and you're still trying to take advantage of others all the time."
"I'm innocent! What advantage did I gain?"
Before Chen Jing could protest, Ji Xia pinched him hard on the waist, making Chen Jing gasp in pain.
"Be serious, I'm talking to you about something important. Where did you get robbed today?"
“Let me tell you, more and more educated youth have returned to the city in the past two years. They haven’t found jobs, and they might be thinking of taking risks. Be careful when you go out. If someone steals your belongings, so be it. Protecting yourself is the most important thing.”
Chen Jing's heart softened, and he turned back to her with a gentle smile: "Some things are more important than myself."
"Nonsense! What material possessions are more important than life? Let me tell you, protect yourself. You're my man only if you're safe. If anything happens to you, I'll find someone new in less than three months. Do you believe me?"
"What a heartless woman."
Chen Jing grabbed the fingers around his waist in annoyance, but he didn't think much of it.
Money is certainly not as important as life, but if she were taken away again, he would only be able to marry any woman he could find, just like in his dream. Chen Jingzhen felt that his life would be meaningless.
He had a vague feeling that everything he saw in his dream might be something he had experienced in a past life.
What good is it to make a lot of money or find a woman who is just like you if you don't have the woman you love by your side?
No amount of money can make you feel empty, and no matter how similar a woman may seem, she is still not her.
As he led her back to the newly bought courtyard, he couldn't help but ask in a low voice, "Was the man who came out with you earlier a classmate?"
"Yes, classmate, we're in the same class."
Chen Jing looked somewhat disgusted: "From the same class? That smile is so lewd, and he looks really old. I thought he was a teacher!"
"Your impression of teachers is that their smile is so lewd?"
Ji Xia raised an eyebrow, shook her head and chuckled: "The high school teachers are all ethical. Don't go around talking nonsense and unintentionally ruin other people's lives."
"A single word of gossip can ruin a person."
Chen Jing snorted in dissatisfaction: "Leaving aside the teacher, I think you should stay away from that male classmate. He seems to have ill intentions."
"Honest intentions?"
Ji Xia frowned, looking thoughtful: "Have you heard some bad rumors?"
Thinking back carefully, she realized that she had no connection with Gao Yuanlong in her previous life. However, she had lived in the commune for many years, and Gao Yuanlong was also from the commune. Later, he seemed to have started working in some unit, where he stayed for decades. She had never heard of him having any bad reputation.
"Are you mistaken? That Gao Yuanlong doesn't look like him."
Upon hearing this, Chen Jing exploded: "He doesn't seem like it? Didn't you see the way he looked at you just now? He was leering at you. You can tell at a glance that he's the same kind of scum as Lin Haodong. Ah Xia, I know men's nature better than you do."
Ji Xia looked at him suspiciously: "Why are you so agitated?"
A strange thought suddenly arose in her mind: "Are you jealous?"
"How could that be? You're overthinking it. Of course not."
Upon hearing this, Chen Jing immediately shook his head vigorously: "How could I do such a tasteless thing?"
Ji Xia chuckled softly, and after a while, she explained in a low voice, "Actually, he came to me because I got the highest score in the grade in the midterm exam, and he just wanted to ask me for advice on how to study."
"I think he's just making excuses," Chen Jing muttered to himself. It seemed he had to pick him up and drop him off every day and couldn't let his guard down.
"Let me take a look at the house. Have you prepared all the furniture?"
Ji Xia walked around the front and back yards and all the rooms, nodding in satisfaction.
In particular, Chen Jing had brought back old furniture from the scrap yard, including wardrobes, tables, chairs, stools, rattan chairs, and even the glass on top of the cabinet in the room.
Some of the furniture had an antique feel to it; it was unclear whether it was genuine antique. Ji Xia smiled with satisfaction: "The preparations are quite comprehensive. How much did it cost?"
"It didn't cost much. Most of them were a bit damaged. After bringing them back, I had people repair them all to ensure there wouldn't be any problems."
Chen Jing showed her around and explained everything to her, then said, "Go back to your room and rest. I'll make lunch."
"Okay, I'll try your cooking too."
Ji Xia happily found a quiet room and glanced out the window.
A tall ginkgo tree grows in the corner of the backyard next to the main yard, and golden ginkgo leaves have fallen all over the ground.
Ji Xia looked up at the leaves, their slender stems and wide, skirt-like leaves, which resembled pretty young girls dancing gracefully.
When school let out in the afternoon, Ji Xia was packing up her textbooks when Gao Yuanlong leaned over from her side and asked, "Ji Xia, did you bring your test papers?"
"I brought some, but I don't have time to keep them. You can borrow them to copy!"
She took out three math, physics, and chemistry textbooks and handed them to Gao Yuanlong, then slung her backpack over her shoulder and chased after the homeroom teacher.
Gao Yuanlong had wanted to ask her for help with a difficult problem, but seeing that she was leaving in a hurry, he could only sigh.
Following behind her homeroom teacher, Ms. Liu, Ji Xia pulled out a stack of test papers: "Teacher, I asked someone to get me some test papers, but they don't have answers. Could you help me grade them so I can know where I went wrong?"
"An exam paper from another school?"
Teacher Liu took the papers in surprise and counted them. There were quite a few, at least seven or eight. Upon closer inspection, she noticed that the questions were quite comprehensive: "Where did these come from?"
"They got them through friends. They all got them from schools, from the questions that the college entrance exam teachers gave to the students."
Teacher Liu flipped through the papers for a while before smiling and saying, "These papers are good. Ji Xia, I'd like to borrow your papers and make copies for all of you to study together. How about we go over them after everyone has finished the test?"
"Sure, I have no objection."
Ji Xia nodded generously: "If every student can get a copy of the test paper and we can all work on it together, we'll definitely make great progress."
Teacher Liu praised her highly for her lofty awareness, took all the test papers she handed over, and left satisfied.
The test papers that Ji Xia sent out included not only Chinese, but also math, physics, chemistry, and foreign languages. The students were in luck this time.
Several students in the class have good grades. With some intensive tutoring, a few of them might be able to get into university next year.
More and more vendors were coming to Chen Jing for wholesale in the black market. Chen Jing rented a small courtyard at the end of an alley next to the black market to use as a warehouse, and every few days, he would deliver a batch of goods over.
This afternoon, after dropping Ji Xia off at school, Chen Jing checked the time and returned to the black market warehouse.
This was the wholesale time he had arranged with several familiar vendors.
Chen Jing walked into the alley. Chen Zhang, the eldest brother of the Chen family, had just sold last year's grain. Suddenly, he saw Chen Jing's back and frowned. He carefully followed him.
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