Chapter 131 Complete Break
"Oh my God, the notice was torn into pieces of paper, and there was something stuck on it. Could it be that Ji Laoer did it on purpose?" The person who spoke looked at Ji Yushu and guessed.
"You're lying! How could I possibly do such a thing?" Ji Yushu said, looking at Ji Wenwu who was eating voraciously over there. "Wenwu, was it you who did this? You're the only one in the house who eats bubble gum."
"Second uncle, please don't accuse me. I can't even enter the door of your house. Besides, Sister Lili and I have no grudges against each other. Why would I do this? Although my parents are not at home, I won't allow you to accuse me like this." After saying this, Ji Wenwu lowered his eyes with a look of grievance.
Because of Ji Wenwu's last two words, everyone remembered that the happy family of Ji Lao San and his wife had become like this. Wasn't it all because of Ji Lao Er? So everyone spoke up for Ji Wenwu: "Ji Lao Er, don't go too far. Your family was originally harmonious and happy. If you hadn't married that evildoer into the family, would their family have become like this? You're still trying to wrongly accuse Wenwu. Aren't you afraid that your family's family will fight you to the death after you get out?"
Seeing everyone blaming Ji Yushu, Jiang Lili curled her lips. It was hard to tell that Ji Wenwu was also a good actor. She quickly raised her head and continued her performance, "Dad, this entire year of senior year, I've been up at six and going to bed at twelve. I've toiled all year just for this moment. You have a senior in your family too, and you know how important the college entrance exam is. Just because I don't want to listen to you, are you going to ruin me?"
"I've already told you it wasn't me. Don't believe everything you hear. I'm your father. How could I harm you?" Being pointed at by so many people, Ji Yushu's face flashed with impatience.
"No matter who did it, if you hadn't taken the notice without my consent, this wouldn't have happened. I took leave specifically to fulfill your request for a wedding, but I didn't expect you to want to destroy me. So, let it be, just consider it as me repaying your kindness for giving birth to me. From now on, I will have nothing to do with your Ji family." After saying this, Jiang Lili covered her mouth and ran out. She was too lazy to continue acting.
"What a sin! This is the admission letter from Tsinghua University. Even if Lili follows the Jiang family, she is your daughter after all. Ji Lao Er, you are confused!" Looking at Jiang Lili running away, the older person next to him shook his head.
"Is Lili still willing to give us notes now?" someone asked with concern.
"Who knows? Ji Laoer is worse than a beast. This is the admission letter from Tsinghua University, and he just ruined it. What good will it do him if Lili can't go to university?" someone shouted.
"We didn't touch the notice after we brought it back. That girl must have done it on purpose. She made such a fuss to embarrass us." Chen Guilan frowned. She wondered why the girl suddenly changed her mind and agreed to hold the wedding. It turned out that she was waiting for them here.
"Aunt Chen, what you said is too much. Lili never received the notice from the beginning to the end. Your second son was unwilling to give it to her just now. You took it back in advance. Who knows what your intentions were." The person who spoke was full of sarcasm in his tone.
"God is watching what you do. You really are not afraid of retribution. I'm leaving. I'm going to the cotton mill to see if I can borrow Lili's notes. My son Congcong will be a sophomore in high school soon. If I can borrow Lili's notes, it would be great even if it helps improve his score by one or two points." The person who spoke usually had friction with the Ji family. When she spoke, everyone left.
Ji Yushu knew that today's incident was completely pinned on him. He stared at the people who were leaving. Seeing Chen Guilan trying to chase them, he grabbed her arm and said, "Mom, what are you doing?"
"Let them give gifts, otherwise you will let them eat for free?" Chen Guilan said as if it was a matter of course.
"Mom, don't forget, I can move away with Mingyue and the others, but you and Dad can't. Wenwu will still be talking about wives in the future." Ji Yushu reminded her through gritted teeth.
"Just let it go like that?" Chen Guilan looked unwilling. This was money.
"Otherwise, let me ask you, did you tamper with Lili's notice?" Ji Yushu thought about it and felt that she was the most suspicious. After all, she had never liked Lili, and she had changed her surname now.
"No, Ji Yushu, you bastard, I'll do whatever you tell me to do. Now you suspect that I did this on purpose?" Chen Guilan's tone was full of anger, and she was heartbroken. He actually doubted her.
Noticing her anger, he quickly soothed her, "I'm just asking casually. There are only a few of us in the family."
"I don't know which short-lived thing did this." Chen Guilan looked at the empty yard and the table full of leftovers. She was even more furious. That damn girl did it on purpose.
Jiang Lili covered her mouth and left the iron factory yard. She quickly ran to Jiang Jianyi and his son who were waiting for her outside. Jiang Aiguo hurriedly asked, "Are you okay? Did they do anything?"
"The things inside have been torn. Let's go and go back first." She probably let the Ji family members sort it out among themselves after leaving that sentence, so she suppressed her smile and urged them to go home first.
"This son of a bitch, his whole family is not good people. If it weren't for us," Jiang Aiguo paused here. If they hadn't made preparations, what would have been torn up would have been the real notice.
"Let's go back first. There's been some shouting going on in there, and we can hear it outside." Jiang Jianyi asked curiously.
"I told everyone to just eat and drink well today and not accept any red envelopes," Jiang Lili explained.
Jiang Aiguo burst out laughing: "Then you've hit them right in the groin, haven't you? They value money more than anything else."
"Anyway, I said I won't accept red envelopes. It has nothing to do with me whether they continue to ask for them in the future. I don't want to owe them a favor." This was also what Jiang Lili strongly refused. This wedding was held in her name. No matter who accepted the red envelope, she would also have a share of the debt of favor.
"You did the right thing. The Ji family really lost all their dignity for that little bit of money. They accepted the red envelope, and now these debts of favor fall on your head. Aiguo, ride faster." Jiang Jianyi urged. Today they came here to ride bicycles. Jiang Jianyi rode one himself, and Jiang Aiguo took Jiang Lili with him.
"It's probably a mess in there right now. A neighbor wants to borrow my notes. I'll go back and get them and leave them with you. If they come looking for me, I'll give them to them." Jiang Lili said to them.
"Are you planning to return to Beijing?" Jiang Aiguo understood the meaning of her words.
"The show's over, why not go back? There's still so much to do in Beijing." Jiang Lili said, staring at the envelope of her acceptance letter. The outside of the envelope was intact, probably scraped open with a razor blade, but the copy inside was shredded. Perhaps the person who tore it up didn't even bother to read it, and it was even stained with disgusting bubble gum. Jiang Lili didn't know who did it, but she wasn't getting something for nothing today. Ji Mingyue was clearly involved in this drama. And the letter she sent back last time about Ye Qiuju's news, judging by the Ji family's attitude, seemed unaware of it. So there was only one possibility: the letter was intercepted by Ji Mingyue. She also reached some kind of consensus with Ye Qiuju, so it seemed that Chen Guilan and the others should be informed of this matter.
When they returned to the cotton mill, they saw that the three of them all looked dejected. Everyone couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong? Didn't Ji Yushu prepare a wedding banquet for Lili?"
"Stop talking. That bastard Ji Yushu's plan to hold a wedding was fake, and his real intention was to accept gifts. What's even worse is that he doesn't want Lili to go to college at all. He tore up Lili's admission letter into pieces and even covered it with bubble gum. My sister didn't plan to ask him for Lili's tuition. How could he be so selfish?" Jiang Aiguo looked indignant.
"Oh my God, what was Ji Yushu thinking?" Everyone was shocked. Obviously, they didn't expect Ji Yushu to do such a thing.
"Who knows what he was thinking? We just realized how a person could be so bad. It's all my fault. I blame myself for marrying Yulan to him." Jiang Jianyi looked remorseful.
"What should we do now?" someone asked with concern.
"Lili, take these and go to the school to ask first. I hope it won't affect her reporting to school." Jiang Aiguo said and sighed again. Seeing this, others didn't dare to ask any more questions.
"Uncle, you guys go back first. I'll go to our side to get my notes. The aunts at the iron factory want to make a copy of them." Ji Mingyue said and turned around.
"I'll go with you." Seeing this, Jiang Aiguo followed her back to the home of mother and daughter.
"Lili, Ji Yushu treated you like this, and you still gave your notes to those people at the iron factory!" The person who spoke also had his own selfish motives. These college entrance examination candidates were all competitors. If she gave her notes to those people at the iron factory, wouldn't her child have more competitors?
"Uncle, he is him, and the uncle and aunt at the iron factory are another matter. I have already promised them and cannot go back on my word." Jiang Lili explained to them in a gentle tone.
"Hey, you are too kind-hearted. In my opinion, you shouldn't give it to them. Let them blame Ji Yushu." Someone gave her advice.
Jiang Lili smiled without saying anything, and went upstairs with Jiang Aiguo. Their figures soon disappeared at the turning of the stairs.
About an hour later, the people from the iron factory who had come after them to ask for the notes arrived at the cotton mill's family compound and heard everyone discussing how Jiang Lili was too kind and shouldn't have given them the notes. Someone couldn't help but retort, "Come on, Old Fang, you have a family member taking the college entrance examination. Are you afraid that Lili will give the notes to someone else and that someone else will surpass your child?"
Lao Fang didn't feel uncomfortable having his thoughts exposed. He nodded and said, "So what? People should be a little selfish. Ji Yushu did such a ruthless thing. Lili should have taken this opportunity to deny them the favor and let them go to Ji Yushu to make trouble. Unfortunately, that kid was soft-hearted and said it was hard to go back on his word."
"Don't get involved in this matter. If Lili is willing to give it, then just give it. It's good that she is honest."
The conversation over there was still going on. The two people who came over from the iron factory couldn't help but look at each other. They both breathed a sigh of relief. They stepped forward and asked, "Brother, can you tell me which floor Jiang Lili lives on?"
"What do you want to do?" Lao Fang looked at the two of them while speaking, as if guessing their identities.
"To be honest, we are from the iron factory and we are here to get Lili's notes." The person who spoke looked at Lao Fang with a smile.
The person next to Lao Fang didn't expect that someone else had heard what they had just said. He stepped forward with a smile and said, "So you're here to get Lili's notes. Lili is a sensible child. She suffered such an injustice today. I wonder what Ji Yushu thinks."
"That's right. Not only do you not understand, we also don't understand what he's thinking. If something like this happened in my house, we would celebrate with drums and gongs. I think Ji Yushu has been blinded by greed." Someone stood up for Jiang Lili.
"That's right. Who wouldn't be happy to have their child admitted to Tsinghua University? Come on, I'll take you to Uncle Lili's house. We just saw her there."
When Lao Fang saw him leading people up, he shouted with some dissatisfaction: "Don't lead some messy people who forget that they love the country."
"Okay, Lili has already agreed to this, why are you fussing over it?" The person who spoke glanced at him and took people to knock on the door.
"Who else would come at this time?" Zhou Qingfen was a little curious when she heard the knock on the door.
"I'll go open the door." Jiang Aiguo was afraid that the Ji family was coming to cause trouble, so he gestured for Zhou Qingfen to step back. He went to open the door. When he saw the person outside, Jiang Aiguo was a little puzzled: "Brother Yang, what are you doing?"
"These two comrades from the iron factory said they came to borrow Lili's notes. They couldn't find the place, so I brought them up." The man called Brother Yang explained.
Jiang Lili, who was in the room, heard their conversation and quickly stood up, took the notebook and walked to the door. "Aunt Qin, I said I'd send it to you tomorrow. Here, the notes are all here. Please make copies and send them over here. I have to rush to the Beijing school tomorrow to inquire about the admission notice."
"Lili, don't worry. We will send it to you immediately after we have used it." Aunt Qin took the notebook she handed over with a satisfied look on her face. Fortunately, this child missed the Jiang family and was generous. If he was like Ji Yushu, they would not be able to get this notebook today.
"Of course I feel at ease leaving it to you, my aunt. I'm just worried that it will be accidentally destroyed in their hands." Jiang Lili expressed her concerns.
"Lili, don't worry. We won't let anyone in their family touch this notebook." Aunt Qin assured her.
"I believe Aunt Qin." Jiang Lili nodded with a smile.
After seeing them off, Jiang Aiguo turned back to look at Jiang Lili: "What time is the flight tomorrow?"
"Let me sleep in this afternoon before we go." Jiang Lili stood up and stretched her limbs. She had been so busy lately that she had to get up early every day. She had to sleep in tomorrow. Thinking of Ye Qiuju, she looked up at Jiang Aiguo and said, "Uncle, don't forget what I told you to give to Chen Guilan."
"Don't worry, you won't forget it. Go take a shower and have some rest." Jiang Aiguo urged.
"Don't I still have to pack my things?" Jiang Lili yawned while speaking. She was really sleepy.
"If you have something to pack, isn't it the real notice? Don't worry, I've put it in your bag." Jiang Aiguo urged her to go to rest again.
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At the iron factory, Chen Guilan kept cursing after the people who came to the banquet left. She had thought that she could use Jiang Lili to make some gift money today, but she didn't expect that not only did she not make any money, but she also made them lose the money for the wedding banquet.
"If you had known this would happen, you shouldn't have thought about it." In the current situation, they have lost both the wife and the army. Chen Guilan looked at Ji Yushu with some resentment.
"How would I know that someone tore up the notice?" Ji Yushu was also in a bad mood. He wanted to make this money more than anyone else, okay?
"It's all Mingyue's fault for coming up with such a bad idea." She then shouted, "Mingyue, Mingyue, hurry up and clean up. We have to return these tables and chairs to someone else. Don't stay in this room and act like a rich lady."
Ji Mingyue slowly pulled Ji Xingyue out and explained in a gentle voice, "Grandma, I'm taking care of Xingyue, so I can't do any work." After saying that, she glanced at Ji Yushu, who quickly understood what she meant. Thinking that she was about to go to Nanshi to attend university with the boy from the Lu family, he took the initiative to say, "Mom, we just need to clean up here and let her take care of Xingyue."
"You believed her words before we even started dating. Is that kid from the Lu family so easy to fool?" Chen Guilan couldn't help but snort coldly.
"Isn't school about to start?" Ji Yushu reminded her. She had been pretending for so long, she couldn't just give up all her efforts, right?
"Okay, okay, okay, you've been the good guy, so I'll do it. There's not much money left at home, and we spent so much on the wedding. How are we supposed to make it back? That girl is so heartless. She always says she doesn't accept red envelopes. And you too. I said I wanted to come back, but you refused." Chen Guilan mentioned Jiang Lili with a tone full of hatred.
"I didn't expect that she would become like this now, Mom. We have completely broken up with her now. The only one we can count on is Mingyue. After all, she is the only college student in our family now." Ji Yushu reminded.
Chen Guilan clutched the rag in her hand without saying a word, but looked at him coldly: "So let's just forget about today's?"
"I don't want to let it go either, but now the one who's responsible for the notice is that girl. She's always unreasonable. What else can we do?" After Ji Yushu finished speaking, he kept observing Chen Guilan's expression. He wanted to find out who tore up the notice, but there was no other expression on Chen Guilan's face.
"She deserves it. It would be better if she couldn't go to college. Who the hell tore up that notification letter?" Chen Guilan said viciously. Although she also hated Jiang Lili, she hated the person who tore up the notification letter even more. If he hadn't done it, the situation today wouldn't be like this. She glanced at the two sisters over there. She still felt that Ji Mingyue was the biggest suspect.
Seeing that she had been staring at Ji Mingyue, Ji Yushu smiled and explained, "Mom, it can't be Mingyue. She reminded me to be careful before. I didn't expect that someone would find it even though I locked it up."
Chen Guilan lowered her head and said nothing. Now she couldn't say anything to anyone in the family, and she couldn't scold anyone. It was not like before, when no matter what she said about Yao Yan, the third brother would not refute her. Unlike the second brother, for every word she said, he would have ten words waiting for her.
"Let's clean up first. Some of the dishes are still edible, so leave them in a bowl and save them for us to eat tomorrow. The rest can be cleaned up together." Chen Guilan said as she instructed Ji Yushu to clean up the table.
This day was a nightmare for the Ji family. It was completely different from what they had imagined. That night, everyone in the Ji family was holding their breath, but Ji Mingyue was the only one who slept well. Unfortunately, her good mood didn't last too long. The next morning, she came back from the vegetable market and twisted Ji Mingyue's ear: "You are so good, Ji Mingyue. We provide you with food and drink all day, but you secretly contacted Ye Qiuju. You really are an ungrateful person who can never be tamed."
"Grandma, let go first." Ji Mingyue thought that she would just take action, and her ears were twisted by her so hard that they hurt.
"Mom, what are you doing? Can't you just talk it over nicely?" Seeing this, Ji Yushu hurried over.
"Ask your good daughter what she has done. She has known where Ye Qiuju is for a long time and has been secretly contacting her without telling us." After saying this, Chen Guilan glared at Ji Mingyue unhappily. If she were to say it, Ye Qiuju, the jinx, should have taken her away with her.
"Mingyue, is what your grandma said true?" Ji Yushu said and looked at Ji Mingyue.
"Dad, I don't know where grandma got the news. I don't even know where my mom is. If I knew, I would definitely ask her to come back quickly. It must be so tiring to take care of Xingyue." Ji Mingyue defended herself.
"That's right, Mom. Don't believe everything you hear." Ji Yushu still believed Ji Mingyue.
"I believe everything I hear. I went to inquire about it. She went to a phone booth to make a phone call a few days ago and also went to the bank to apply for a savings card. Ji Mingyue, let me tell you, I am not your father. Don't try to fool me with the same tricks you used to fool your father. In such a long time, has that kid from the Lu family come to see you alone?" Ye Qiuju said as she rushed into the room where Ji Mingyue slept and rummaged through the drawers. Unexpectedly, she actually found the photo of Ye Qiuju in the envelope.
Ji Mingyue couldn't help but clench her palms, regretting not destroying the photos back then. She also blamed herself for underestimating them. She thought she'd used Lu Jiaze to steady them, and they'd listen to her. Despite all her precautions, she'd forgotten that Chen Guilan never played by the rules. But she quickly calmed down. "Those photos were taken by someone I asked to find her for me. Knowing Song Zhenzhen was in Beijing, I guessed she was there too. I made a pen pal there and asked her to help me find her. I'd sent her photos of my mom before, and these two were sent to me for confirmation. Because we didn't have a specific address yet, I didn't tell you. I didn't want you to be so disappointed."
"Is that so?" Ji Yushu looked at Ji Mingyue with some suspicion.
"I have no need to lie to you." Ji Mingyue pretended to be calm.
"Just keep making up stories for me. Here's the phone number. Second brother, grab her and let's go to the phone booth to make a call." Chen Guilan sneered. She didn't believe a word Ji Mingyue said.
"Phone number? Mom, where did you get the phone number?" Ji Yushu was a little surprised.
"Don't worry about where I got the number from. Why don't we just call this number together?" Chen Guilan said, looking at Ji Mingyue and cursing, "You're a traitor." Ji Yushu hesitated, but still grabbed Ji Mingyue's wrist and followed her to the phone booth. Along the way, he kept asking, "Mingyue, you won't lie to me, right?"
"Dad, I didn't lie to you, really." Ji Mingyue guessed that this number must have been given to the old man by Jiang Lili. She closed her eyes and regretted giving them the notice.
At this time, Chen Guilan had already dialed the number and said softly to the person on the other end, "I'm looking for Ye Qiuju. Excuse me."
At this time, the elderly people liked to press the hands-free button when making phone calls. After a while, Ye Qiuju's voice came from the phone: "Mingyue?"
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