Chapter 74
Something terrible had happened to Huang Liju's family, and her mother had kept it a secret from her, fearing it would affect her studies. But after she'd been constantly asking for money and had recently suffered a tragedy, she finally revealed everything in a letter.
Huang Liju was crying her heart out, and several girls gathered around her to comfort her. The last details we knew were that her family's business had suffered heavy losses due to the war. While they had been able to make ends meet, her father, in an attempt to recover the losses, made unsuccessful investments and ended up owing a large sum of money. He had actually committed suicide by jumping off a building a few days ago.
The other girls surrounded Huang Liju to comfort her, but Wang Jiazhi and Xiaoshuang didn't know what to say and couldn't find any words to comfort her.
When Xiao Shuang returned, she said, "You said her boyfriend..."
Wang Jiazhi sighed and said, "What can we do about this?"
Wang Jiazhi thought Huang Liju must be very sad, not only because her family went bankrupt, but also because her doting father was gone, and died in such a tragic way.
She thought that if she received a letter now saying that her father had died, she would not be sad no matter how tragically he died.
Huang Liju's original roommate dropped out of school, and the school arranged for someone else to live in her dormitory, so she could no longer live alone in a double room as before.
She is very sad now. She couldn't sleep all night and couldn't help crying. Her roommate's sleep and rest were inevitably affected, but because such a big thing happened in her family, it was difficult for her to say anything.
As if things didn't go so smoothly, one day Huang Liju came to find them and asked them for help.
Wang Jiazhi and Xiaoshuang looked at each other in surprise after hearing this.
This kind of thing could be very troublesome if not handled properly, and Zhou Minlin was not in a position to help. Huang Liju's boyfriend didn't care, so in the end, she had to find the place on her own, somehow or other.
The cost of an abortion was extremely high, and Huang Liju had to sell some clothes and jewelry to barely scrape together enough money.
On that day, Wang Jiazhi said to Xiaoshuang, "I'm not going. You stay with her."
Xiao Shuang said: "You know I'm most afraid of going to the hospital. It would be better if you accompany me."
Wang Jiazhi said in embarrassment: "No matter what, I really can't go."
Seeing her like this, Xiaoshuang no longer wanted her to go with them. That day, Xiaoshuang went alone with Huangli Ju.
At that time, Xiao Shuang said: “He won’t accompany you for such a big thing.”
Huang Liju said, "He said he couldn't come, but actually he wanted to come."
Xiao Shuang said, "I hope he doesn't let you down."
Xiao Shuang was a little girl, and she had never thought about accompanying someone to do such a thing. After Huang Liju went in, she waited outside. She had heard that some people died after having an abortion, and the thought frightened her. What would she do if Huang Liju died in there? She didn't want to be implicated as well.
Fortunately, Huangliju survived, and everything went smoothly. The two of them took a tricycle back to school.
Zhou Minlin came over and gave her some money, saying that he wanted to buy her some food.
To recuperate after the postpartum period, they had to ask Huang Liju to share Xiaoshuang's bed, leaving her to sleep with Wang Jiazhi. They went out to buy her some chicken soup and porridge. After three days, Huang Liju finally recovered and moved back to her own dorm.
Xiao Shuang said, "It's because her family is broke, otherwise her boyfriend would be eager to use this as an excuse to get her family to agree to their marriage."
Huang Liju had just had a miscarriage when her boyfriend broke up with her.
Her excuse was that her parents back home had learned she was pregnant out of wedlock and had an abortion, and they felt she was immoral and frivolous. They absolutely couldn't have a daughter-in-law who brought disgrace upon the family.
Huang Liju said: "You were the one who said that you would be responsible for me. I have only ever had this with you, you know."
Her boyfriend said, "I can't go against my parents' wishes. Marriage is a matter of course, and it must be decided by my parents. And you volunteered at the time. I didn't expect you to be so casual, willing to sleep with a man at such a young age."
Huang Li Ju was so angry that she was shaking all over. She first quarreled with the man, and then knelt down and begged him not to abandon her, saying that she really loved him and could not live without him.
When the man heard that her family was bankrupt and she owed a lot of money, he refused to leave. When he saw that she refused to leave and stayed in his dormitory, he beat Huang Liju severely.
Huang Liju would cry and howl in the dormitory day and night, and the whole building could hear it. Or she would go to the other person's dormitory to ask for reconciliation, but the other person would not let her in, so she would wait downstairs.
Once, the man became so annoyed that he beat her up until her face was bruised.
Huang Liju's roommate finally couldn't stand her anymore and asked the teacher to change dormitories.
Originally, only a handful of people knew about her abortion, and everyone tried hard to keep it a secret. As a result, the entire school knew about it. The teacher confronted her and the man, who swore that Huang Liju had damaged his reputation. He claimed they had dated before, but nothing out of the ordinary had ever happened. Huang Liju had been fickle, having had a child with someone unknown, and she had blamed him for it, leading him to break up in anger.
Huangli Ju had been making a fuss for many days and was already very weak. After hearing what he said, she was so angry that she fainted on the spot.
The school wrote a letter to her family explaining her situation. I heard that her mother fainted from grief after reading the letter.
She received a letter from home asking her to go home, but she refused, saying she would never leave that man. The Huang family asked a relative to look for her, but she was determined not to go back to her hometown.
The school said that if she stopped making trouble, she could continue her studies, but if she continued like this and disturbed everyone, she would have to drop out.
Huang Liju vowed never to cause trouble again and begged the school not to expel her. But she remained the same as before, without any change.
One day, Huang Liju dressed up very beautifully, cooked a meal and brought it to the man. The man angrily said, "I told you to stop bothering me!"
She was beaten so badly that her face was bruised and swollen, her mouth and nose were bleeding, and the food she cooked was spilled all over the floor.
She had stopped attending classes a long time ago, and her roommate had moved out, so she was the only one in the dorm for the time being.
Wang Jiazhi and Xiaoshuang were curious because there had been no sound from next door all day. They knocked on the door in the morning but no one answered. They called the dorm manager to open the door, and when they did, they saw her hanging there, completely numb.
The dormitory manager screamed "Ah" and almost fainted.
Huang's friends here helped with the funeral arrangements, with money also provided by her family. I heard her mother was devastated and wondered if she might also take her own life.
This incident caused quite a stir at school. The man didn't care at all and told everyone that he had been deceived by Huang Liju, that she had had an affair with another man and had a child with him and that he was responsible. He was wrongly accused and died.
The girls did not sympathize with Huang Liju either. They felt that she had brought it upon herself and that now that she was dead, everyone could finally rest in peace and no longer have to listen to her howling.
Soon after, no one mentioned the matter anymore.
Once, when the drama club was packing up, a bunch of white artificial flowers fell out. Meihui said, "When did this come from? It's still new."
Someone said, "That was bought by Huangliju, but it has never been used."
Everyone fell silent.
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