Hearing this, the uninformed people widened their eyes again: "Qiu Wen?? How is it possible?! Among the girls in his family, anyone could be the one, except Qiu Wen. You don't know what she is like in normal times. She is the most worry-free, sensible, and thoughtful girl in our compound. Who wouldn't envy Feng Xiuying for having such a sensible and good daughter?"
People said, "It's because she behaved too well in normal times, so she really surprised everyone! Feng Xiuying always said how bad her daughter and niece from her hometown were, and she was afraid that they were ignorant and confused. But who would have thought that it would be Qiu Wen who did such a shameful thing! I'm afraid she won't dare to come out again!"
"Who wouldn't be embarrassed if this happened to them? Think about how Feng Xiuying used to show off Qiuwen. All the girls in the compound were no match for her Qiuwen. Oh? Now everything is fine!"
"That is to say, Qiu Wen is the face and pride of her and Ruan Changfu!"
Who knew that with such face and pride, one could secretly do such a thing!
Disregarding parents' trust and disregarding parents' reputation!
Isn't this just trying to kill your parents and making them lose face?
"So this person should not show off too much. If he shows off too much, he will fall sooner or later!"
"And if you fall, you'll fall flat on your face!"
Feng Xiuying had indeed fallen into a huge setback from which she could not get up. She did not want to live as a human being anymore and even wanted to die. Her world collapsed even more severely than Ruan Qiuyang's, so severely that she dared not go out of the door, and could not even straighten her back or raise her head at home.
She cried in the bathroom all night. After washing up, she went back to the bedroom and lay down. She lay on her side and cried all night long. Her eyes were swollen from crying.
Ruan Changfu didn't scold her anymore, nor was he in the mood to talk to her. He turned his back to her all night.
The next morning, he didn't stay home for dinner. He went straight to work after washing up.
Feng Xiuying actually got up and made breakfast, after all, the children still had to eat before going to school.
The atmosphere among all the children in the Ruan family was very bad that day, and Ruan Hongjun did not fight on the way to school. It was also the first time that Ruan Qiuyang took the initiative to distance himself from Ye Qiuwen. After dinner, he went out directly to find Su Mengmeng and went to school with Su Mengmeng.
As Ye Qiuwen's sisters, Ruan Xi, Ruan Jie and Ruan Qiuyue naturally have to endure some attention. However, because they don't have much contact with Ye Qiuwen, Ruan Xi, Ruan Jie and Ruan Qiuyue are not as ashamed as Ruan Qiuyang, and they don't care.
Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie, like usual, carried their schoolbags to school for morning reading, and then went to class after the reading.
During breaks, I read books and study by myself, and make good use of every opportunity to memorize the text and practice exercises.
The first two classes in the morning were relatively normal, with little discussion. But when the second class was over, the school suddenly became noisy and bustling. Many students ran out of the classroom and rushed to the bulletin board to read the announcement, then talked to each other.
Ruan Jie was attracted by the sudden noise outside and subconsciously turned to look outside. Seeing the bulletin board in the distance crowded with people, she turned back to look at Ruan Xi and whispered, "Is it... about Ye Qiuwen?"
Upon hearing this, Ruan Xi turned around and looked outside. When she looked back, she suddenly saw a few boys entering the classroom. After they came in, they sat down at the two tables in front of Ruan Qiuyang and asked Ruan Qiuyang with a smile: "What are your elder sister and Lu Yuanzheng doing in the park?"
Ruan Qiuyang glared at them, "It's none of your business!"
The boys laughed and said, "Your elder sister is really open-minded!"
Ruan Qiuyang's face turned red because of their laughter. He felt angry and suffocated. Just when he was about to speak again, he heard a knock on the back door. She turned around and looked over with a few boys, and saw Xu Zhuo and Chen Weidong.
Xu Zhuo came to find Ruan Xi, but the boys were scared away and stopped harassing Ruan Qiuyang.
Seeing Xu Zhuo, Ruan Xi stood up from the stool and went out through the back door.
Standing outside the door, Xu Zhuo glanced into the classroom and asked, "No one is laughing at you or bullying you, right?"
Ruan Xi shook her head at him, "No."
Xu Zhuo said: "If you have any questions, tell me and I will make them pay for it."
Ruan Xi didn't want to say anything else, so she nodded at him again, "Yeah."
The atmosphere was not suitable for chatting about anything else, so after a few words Xu Zhuo took Chen Weidong away. But because he had come once, the others restrained themselves a lot, even Ruan Qiuyang didn't dare to make fun of him anymore, at most they just leaned their heads against each other and whispered.
Su Mengmeng came back from outside the classroom, sat down, dragged the stool, and came to Ruan Qiuyang and whispered, "I will directly post it on the bulletin board to announce the criticism to the whole school. I will record a serious demerit, but I will not be expelled. I heard that there will be a self-criticism meeting in the afternoon, and I will review it in public."
Ruan Qiuyang's face turned red as liver, and he buried his face deeply in his arms.
When school was over at noon, there were still people gathered around the school bulletin board.
Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie went home with their schoolbags and did not join in the fun to read the announcement.
Ruan Changfu and Ye Qiuwen were not seen at the lunch table, and no one spoke.
From last night till now, everyone in the family seems to have lost their voice and not a single word can be heard.
Ruan Xi, Ruan Jie and Ruan Qiuyue would only speak a few words after they went upstairs to their rooms and closed the door.
Ruan Qiuyue didn't sympathize with Ye Qiuwen at all. She just said, "Dad made it very clear at the dinner table that we are not allowed to have a romantic relationship. On the day of the business trip, he emphasized before getting in the car that we should never do things that we shouldn't do. Ye Qiuwen and Lu Yuanzheng are role models in the school. She knows better than anyone what she should and shouldn't do. Otherwise, how can she perform well? Since she did it without thinking, she should bear any consequences now. Ye Qiuwen has the courage to do such a thing, which is inseparable from her parents' "cultivation" for so many years. They have supported her, protected her, and trusted her blindly. It is only right for them to bear such consequences with her."
There were no classes in the afternoon, and all teachers and students gathered together to hold a review meeting.
Students from all classes in junior and senior high schools brought their stools and lined up to go to the playground, where they sat down and listened to instructions.
In the past, Ye Qiuwen and Lu Yuanzheng would go on stage to speak to everyone’s applause during meetings. This time, they were the same two who went on stage to speak, but there was no applause or cheers, only looks of contempt from others.
Especially those who have fallen from the altar can arouse the deepest and strongest disgust in others' hearts.
Because we once admired them, regarded them as role models and learned from them, the contrast after the incident was too great, and everyone felt sickening as if they had been cheated, so the hatred and contempt in their hearts were magnified infinitely.
Ye Qiuwen was making a self-criticism on the stage. She had just read two lines when suddenly several small stones flew up from the audience and hit her in the face. One of the bullets hit her hard enough to turn her forehead purple.
Not only were there pebbles, but there were also harsh words, “Shame on you!”
Lu Yuanzheng was standing at the back and was about to go on stage when someone pulled him back.
And when Lu Yuanzheng came on stage to make a self-criticism, he was not much better than Ye Qiuwen.
There were still people throwing things at him in the audience, and people still calling him a hypocritical hooligan.
After the review meeting, Lu Yuanzheng and Ye Qiuwen went from being role models that everyone in the school wanted to emulate to being rats crossing the street and flies. His once perfect image was completely shattered, his reputation was gone, and he hit rock bottom.
Ye Qiuwen took a week off and didn't go to school because half of her face was swollen from being beaten by Ruan Changfu and her forehead was injured by a small stone. She didn't know how to go out and meet people.
She hardly ever left her room at home. She would wait for her family to finish their meal, then go downstairs to eat a few bites before returning to her room. She tried her best not to meet anyone, especially Feng Xiuying, who once trusted her the most.
Although she made a public self-criticism at school, she never said sorry to anyone at home.
She stayed in the room, leaning on the bed and staring out the window in a daze, most of the time without even blinking.
After a few days, the swelling on her face subsided and the wound on her forehead scabbed over, and she seemed to come back to life.
She took out her schoolbag, sorted it out, and took out a brand new piece of red grid letter paper from it.
She opened the red grid letter paper and saw only six words written on it - no regrets, no giving up.
She could recognize the handwriting at a glance; it was Lu Yuanzheng's.
She couldn't help it, she covered her mouth and her eyes were wet again, tears fell one by one and wet the handwriting.
After a long while, she sniffed and said in a trembling voice, "No regrets, no giving up."
The incident caused by Ye Qiuwen did have an impact on Ruan Xi, Ruan Jie, Ruan Qiuyue, Ruan Hongjun and Ruan Hongbing, but the impact was not very big. The main reason was that their relationship with Ye Qiuwen was just average to begin with, so they soon stopped taking it seriously.
As Ye Qiuwen's younger brother, Ye Fan was more affected, but he did not express any attitude towards this matter.
The three people who were most affected were Ruan Changfu, Feng Xiuying and Ruan Qiuyang. Ruan Changfu was inevitably dragged down by Ye Qiuwen and had to endure strange looks and pressure at work, as well as some other invisible or long-term impacts.
Feng Xiuying was naturally the one who was slapped the hardest in the face by Ye Qiuwen. After the incident, she dared not go out to see people again, let alone talk to anyone. Even when she went to buy vegetables, she would choose a time when there were fewer people. She would go out in a hurry and come back in a hurry, for fear that others would glare at her.
Ruan Qiuyang took the initiative to distance himself from Ye Qiuwen, his mood was seriously affected, and he kept his head down at school.
However, Ye Qiuwen's psychological quality was much better than Ruan Xi and the others had imagined, even better than Feng Xiuying. After the swelling on her face subsided and the wound on her forehead scabbed over, she returned to school, but she became a loner from then on.
Naturally, Lu Yuanzheng was in the same situation as her.
This way they don't seem to be alone, and they probably feel full of strength in their hearts.
Love that goes against the whole world naturally has its own grandeur.
No matter how big the storm is, there will always be a day when it calms down.
Ever since Ye Qiuwen went back to school, Ruan Xi and the others gradually stopped paying attention to this matter. They still live in their own little world, in a corner without much spotlight, doing repetitive things.
Their lives didn't change much, but the family structure of the Ruan family did change a lot.
Ye Qiuwen was naturally no longer the favored girl of heaven. She even became the person with the lowest status and the least influence in the family.
Because of this incident, Feng Xiuying kept her head down and hunched over every day. Apart from cooking and doing housework, she kept the house clean and took good care of the children. She didn't say much, as if she had lost her voice.
The person who is closest to her in the family and talks to her more often is Ruan Qiuyang. When Ruan Qiuyang was outside, she stayed with Su Mengmeng, and when she was home, she stayed with Feng Xiuying. The mother and daughter were closer than others.
The two women who were hurt by Ye Qiuwen huddled together at home for warmth and were silent most of the time.
Ye Qiuwen used to be their support, but now she is a thorn in their faces.
The relationship between Ye Qiuwen and Ruan Changfu reached its freezing point. Ruan Changfu's slap was so hard that it swelled Ye Qiuwen's face and also hurt her heart. Of course, Ye Qiuwen also made Ruan Changfu extremely disappointed.
The higher the expectations, the greater the disappointment. This is absolutely true.
When you are extremely disappointed in someone, you will probably just turn a blind eye to him/her.
In his heart, Ye Qiuwen and Ruan Qiuyang are different. Ruan Qiuyang and others made mistakes because they were young or spoke too quickly, and they needed to be educated. But Ye Qiuwen knew everything, and this was the thing that Ruan Changfu could not forgive the most.
Even if Feng Xiuying was useless and had a muddled brain and failed to identify her problem and stop her, he had clearly stated that she was not allowed to have a romantic relationship or violate school rules and regulations. Ruan Qiuyang and the others could understand it, but Ye Qiuwen didn’t understand?
She knew everything, and she could even easily control Feng Xiuying, but she just didn't take him as her father seriously.
He treated her even closer than his own daughter. Everyone in the family had suffered injustice except Ye Qiuwen. Since she was a child, they were afraid that she would be too sensitive and miss her biological parents, and that she would suffer grievances with her younger brother Ye Fan, so they tried their best to be good to her.
For her, he sacrificed all his children, and made Ruan Qiuyang and Ruan Qiuyue never compete with her in everything. He even abandoned Ruan Xi in the countryside to be raised by her grandparents. But in the end, this was how she repaid him as a father!
In this family, Ruan Changfu owed something to everyone, but he had a clear conscience towards Ye Qiuwen!
If her family did not give her enough sense of security and love, and she went out to seek embrace and warmth from others, Ruan Changfu would be slapping himself in the face. But in their family, Ye Qiuwen is the one who gets the most, both materially and spiritually. Among the eight children in the family, she is the one who should least do this!
Sometimes he thought that maybe this was retribution.
He had abandoned Ruan Xi, the same age as him, in the countryside for Ye Qiuwen, and delayed going back to pick her up year after year, which lasted for more than ten years. From the moment Ruan Xi came to the city last year, his retribution had already begun.
Today, he has become an extremely failed father. He took good care of his eldest daughter and did his best but failed to raise her well. He left his second daughter in the countryside to suffer for more than ten years, and she still doesn't recognize him as her father.
He is a complete failure as a father!
The sycamore and ginkgo trees on the street have lost their branches.
It's already winter.
On the last day before the winter vacation, there were only a few students left in the classroom.
Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie came to school to get their final exam papers. After getting them, they didn't leave in a hurry but sat in the classroom for a while. When school was over, the two packed up their bags and went home.
The setting sun in the evening is very red, stretching people's shadows on both sides of the street.
Ruan Jie asked Ruan Xi: "Are you going back to celebrate the New Year this year?"
Ruan Xi said without thinking, "Of course we will go back. Let's go back tonight and tell Ruan Changfu to get our travel permits tomorrow and make some other arrangements. We will go back the day after tomorrow morning."
Ruan Jie smiled and said, "I can go back to see my grandparents again."
I haven't seen each other for a whole year. It's difficult for us to communicate with each other. We can only send one letter every few months. There's not much to say in the letters. Every time I write, I just write some words to report that I'm safe. It doesn't help me feel homesick.
The two of them walked home talking about going home for the New Year. When they were about to enter the house, Ruan Xi suddenly turned back and went to the mailbox to see if there was a letter for her. She doesn't receive many letters normally and only checks them once in a while.
But she was lucky today. When she opened the mailbox, she saw a letter addressed to her.
After reading the envelope, she smiled and said to Ruan Jie, "It's from Ling Yao."
When she received the letter, she did not tear it open to read it immediately. Instead, she held it in her hand and went upstairs. She sat down in her room before tearing it open.
Since it was not written to Ruan Jie, Ruan Jie was certainly not curious about what was written in the letter.
If it is a letter from family, she will read it along with the letter.
Ruan Xi sat at the table and carefully unfolded the letter, slowly reading it. Halfway through, her eyes suddenly lit up, and then a smile appeared on her face. After finishing reading, she looked at Ruan Jie and said, "The Ling Yao family has been vindicated!"
Ruan Jie was stunned when she heard this, and looked up at Ruan Xi, "Rehabilitated?"
Ruan Xi nodded, "Since the fall of the four people, many people have been rehabilitated."
Ruan Jie thought silently for a while, then a smile spread across her lips, "Then can he and his parents go back to the city?"
Ruan Xi smiled and nodded again, "I may not see him when I go back this time."
There is not a bit of sadness in saying this now, only full of happiness and joy.
Their family had been exiled for so many years, and had been suffocating under the weight of Ling Zhiyuan's mistakes. Now that Ling Zhiyuan has been rehabilitated, his family can finally breathe a sigh of relief and return to the city to live a normal life.
Especially Ling Yao, he should no longer feel as depressed as he did in the countryside.
Ruan Jie said: "It's such a pity that I didn't even have the chance to see them off. I probably won't see them again in the future."
After all, we have lived together in the countryside for two years, so we have some feelings for each other. If Ling Yao was still in the countryside, they would be able to see him when they returned home. But if he goes back to the city, there's a high chance that he'll never see her again.
Ruan Xi said happily, "There is nothing to regret. As long as we can go back, it is a great thing to be happy about. Zizi should have a bigger world. He does not belong to the small village on Fengming Mountain. It is a great fate for him to be our friend. We just need to wish him well and be happy for him."
In one’s lifetime, one will go to many places and meet many people, and among these people, most of them are just passing through. Separation is the biggest norm in life. Although it is sad, it is more important to move forward.
Ruan Jie nodded, "The city is where he should stay."
Ruan Xi folded the letter, stuffed it back into the envelope, and then put the letter in the drawer of the desk. This drawer contains all the letters she has received in the past two years. There are not many letters, but each one is well preserved.
Because of the content of the letter, she was particularly relaxed and happy tonight. Even the tone of her voice when speaking to Ruan Changfu during dinner was much lighter than usual, and there was a smile in her eyes.
Ruan Changfu saw that she was in a good mood today and thought that she was happy because she was going home, so he naturally did not spoil her fun and directly agreed and said, "Okay, I'll go to the office to arrange it tomorrow."
Before Ruan Xi could say thank you, Ruan Hongjun suddenly said, "I want to go too."
Ruan Changfu looked at him, then at Ruan Qiuyue and Ye Fan, and asked, "Do you still want to go?"
With such a spooky atmosphere at home, who would want to celebrate the New Year at home? So Ruan Qiuyue and Ye Fan nodded together.
Ruan Changfu originally didn't want to let them go, because if they all left, only he, Feng Xiuying, Ruan Qiuyang, Ye Qiuwen, and the little kid Ruan Hongbing would be left at home. It is easy to imagine what this annual meeting would be like.
Last year was already very quiet, not to mention what happened at home this year.
But when he looked at Ruan Hongjun, Ye Fan and Ruan Qiuyue's faces, he didn't say anything to stop them from going. Think about it, if they stay, how lively it will be and no one will be happy. It is better to let them go to the countryside to celebrate the New Year.
So he hesitated for a while and said, "Go if you want to."
It doesn't matter if they don't celebrate the New Year at home, it won't be lively anyway.
Ruan Hongjun was very happy to see that Ruan Changfu agreed, and grinned, "Thank you, Dad."
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