After Feng Xiuying delivered the things, she did not bother Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie for long, mainly because it was too embarrassing to stay still.
After she left with a smile on her face, Ruan Qiuyue picked up the food on the table and looked at it. "She must be regretting it now."
Ruan Xi still said the same thing: "I don't need her to regret. I worked so hard to get into college and get into a good university, not to save face and make Feng Xiuying look up to me. She is not that important in my heart. Whether she regrets it or not has nothing to do with me."
Ruan Qiuyue put down the things in her hands, took a deep breath, and said nothing more about Feng Xiuying. She only looked at Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie and said, "Sister and cousin, you are now officially my role models. I have to start working hard too. Work hard seriously."
Ruan Jie looked at her and smiled, "Come on!"
Ruan Qiuyue encouraged herself, "Try hard!"
She stood there and talked to Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie for a few more words before going back to the house, where she tidied up a bit and washed up.
After Ruan Qiuyue left, Ruan Xi stood up from the desk and said to Ruan Jie, "Let's clean up."
Ruan Jie immediately understood what Ruan Xi meant, "Are you going home tomorrow?"
Ruan Xi nodded, "Well, we'll leave tomorrow."
The college entrance examination results are out and the admission letter has been received. Why are you still staying here? If they were not waiting for the college entrance examination results and the admission letters, they would have gone home directly after the exams and would not have stayed here to play.
Ruan Jie naturally wanted to go home too. She was completely dependent on others here. If Ruan Xi hadn't been with her wherever she went every day and if Ruan Xi hadn't been standing in front of her, she would have been afraid that she wouldn't have felt comfortable for half a day.
A nest of gold or silver is not as good as your own thatched nest.
There's no place better than home.
It just so happens that there are only ten days left before the Chinese New Year. They can rush back to Fengming Mountain and spend a few days at home peacefully. After the Chinese New Year, they can just go to the school to report with their admission letters.
Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie were eager to tell Ruan Zhigao and Liu Xinghua about such a happy event as being admitted to university. After all, the happiest and most exciting things are usually shared with the most important people, so that the happiness can be doubled.
Besides, it’s meaningless to say this kind of thing in a letter. You have to say it in person so that they can be happy together with you.
So they started packing their luggage, and Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie had slightly excited smiles on their faces.
This time, packing was different from the previous two years. They did not simply pack a few sets of clothes, but packed everything they could, and put all the things that had to be taken away into the bag.
The luggage couldn't hold so many things, and the journey was long and troublesome, so they threw some clothes and shoes here.
After washing up, they returned to the room, turned on the light and lay on the bed. Ruan Jie breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Sister, after we go back to Fengming Mountain tomorrow, will you come back here in the future?"
Ruan Xi breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I don't really want to go back, but I'll see how the situation goes."
Ruan Jie thought for a while and said, "I've thought about it. I'll come back to see my uncle and aunt when I'm successful. After all, if it weren't for my uncle and aunt, I wouldn't have a place to go to school properly, let alone books and materials to study properly, and I might not be able to take the college entrance examination. I've been eating, drinking and living here for more than two years. If I don't come back in the future, wouldn't that be ungrateful?"
Ruan Xi smiled and said, "When you have something to show for yourself in the future, buy some things and come back to visit them."
Ruan Jie nodded, "Yeah, that's what I think."
After she finished speaking, she lay down and took a long breath, then continued after a moment: "Sister, I still feel like I'm dreaming. When I was in the countryside, I thought that this would be my life. Unexpectedly, it suddenly changed."
Ruan Xi looked at her with a smile, "Don't you think the resumption of the college entrance examination is a sign? The world will definitely change in the future, and it may be even more unpredictable what it will become. But we only need to remember one thing, and work hard to keep up with the times."
Ruan Jie had actually been very self-deprecating in the past two years in the city. She was careful with her words and actions and didn't stand out or cause trouble. This day was the day when she had the highest confidence. She nodded and said, "Yes! We will definitely get better and better!"
After a night of settling down, the atmosphere at home became completely better the next morning.
Of course, Ye Qiuwen would never get better after failing the college entrance examination and getting beaten. Her life once again fell into a deeper valley. If there wasn't another college entrance examination, she would have fallen directly into the abyss.
Feng Xiuying asked Ruan Qiuyang to call her downstairs to eat, but she didn't come down.
It’s better not to come down, after all, the atmosphere will be much better.
Ruan Changfu was in high spirits. He said to Ruan Xi, Ruan Jie and Ye Fan, "Today, I will ask your mother, Xiao Jie, your aunt, to take you out for a walk. See what you want. As long as conditions allow, I will buy it for you."
Ruan Xi didn't hesitate and said directly: "No need, we will leave soon."
There were nine people in the family at the dinner table. Except for Ruan Qiuyang who was standing aside with embarrassment and looked indifferent, everyone else was immersed in joy. Ruan Qiuyang had always looked down on Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie, and now he felt embarrassed after being severely slapped in the face.
She was still quite proud and didn't want to be targeted by Ruan Xi, Ruan Jie and Ruan Qiuyue like she was last night.
So she acted as if it was none of her business.
She didn't react. Everyone else was stunned and looked at Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie.
Ruan Changfu looked at Ruan Xi and asked knowingly: "Where are you going?"
Ruan Xi looked at him and simply replied: "Go home."
Ruan Changfu naturally knew that the home she was talking about was Fengming Mountain, but he still said, "Isn't this your home too?"
Ruan Xi looked at him and smiled without saying anything. All the words were expressed in that smile, which had a very clear meaning.
Ruan Changjun became excited again, and said with bright eyes: "Sister, I will go too."
Ruan Xi put away the smile on his face, then turned to look at Ruan Hongjun again, and after a moment of thinking, he said, "We won't be coming back this time. After the New Year, Xiao Jie and I will go directly from Fengming Mountain to register at school, so..."
She looked at Ruan Hongjun for a long moment, feeling somewhat reluctant, but still said, "I won't take you with me."
Ruan Hongjun's face was full of excitement and a bright smile, but after hearing what Ruan Xi said, the smile on his face could no longer be maintained and slowly fell. He looked at Ruan Xi and blinked, but couldn't utter a word.
Ruan Xi looked at him and smiled again, "When you grow up, you can go visit your grandparents again."
Ruan Hongjun was no longer happy. He lowered his eyes and still said nothing.
Ruan Changfu cleared his throat and said, "How about... just stay here this year? You and Xiaojie have been here for three years and have never celebrated the New Year here. This year, just stay here and have some fun."
Ruan Xi shook her head without hesitation, "No, we have to go back to spend the New Year with grandpa and grandma."
The atmosphere at the dinner table became tense again.
Two hours later, the jeep stopped outside the gate.
Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie went out with their luggage bags, and everyone in the family followed behind except Ye Qiuwen.
Ruan Hongjun's eyes were red and wet. When Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie stepped out of the door, he sniffed and asked, "Sister and cousin, you guys won't come back in the future, right?"
Ruan Xi turned around with Ruan Jie. She looked at Ruan Hongjun and felt sorry for him. So she took a deep breath and said, "I will definitely come back to see you when I have time. You all have to be obedient at home, especially you, Hongjun. Sixty points is still too low. When I come back next time, you have to get ninety points."
Ruan Hongjun said: "Then I will try to get a perfect score."
Ruan Xi smiled at him and said, "Come on!"
Ruan Hongjun suddenly clenched his fist and shouted loudly: "Come on!!"
This time, Ruan Changfu didn't raise his hand to hit his head, and Ruan Qiuyue and Ye Fan didn't roll their eyes at him.
Ruan Xi did not stand and chat with them for more. She looked at Ruan Changfu and Feng Xiuying and said, "Thank you. Thank you for taking care of Xiaojie and me during this period. You have allowed us to study peacefully for more than two years."
Feng Xiuying only now realized what Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie were doing staying in their rooms all day except for eating and going to the toilet. She looked at Ruan Xi with tears in her eyes again and said, "Xiao Xi...why...just stay..."
It's been almost three years, and she hasn't compensated her properly.
Ruan Xi didn't respond to her and pretended not to hear her. She turned around and went to the car.
Ruan Jie said goodbye to Ruan Changfu and Feng Xiuying again, "Uncle and aunt, thank you for taking care of me over the past two years. I will always remember it in my heart and will come back to see you often in the future."
After saying that, she waved to Ruan Hongjun and a few others, then followed Ruan Xi into the car.
Nguyen Changfu, Feng Xiuying, Nguyen Hongjun, Nguyen Qiuyue, Ye Fan, Nguyen Hongbing and others stood outside the gate and watched the jeep go away. Everyone looked unhappy. Ruan Hongjun burst into tears first, and after crying twice, he raised his hand to wipe away his tears.
Ye Fan patted his shoulder and his eyes became wet because of his noise.
After the jeep disappeared from their sight, they were still standing there, especially Feng Xiuying, who was following it from a distance. She stood there without moving, as if her heart was filled with tons of cotton and she could hardly breathe.
Ruan Changfu seemed to know what she was thinking. He stood beside her and said, "She gave you almost three years, and you didn't even try for a minute to get to know her well. What did you do?"
After saying that, he turned and went back into the house.
Feng Xiuying felt even more upset.
Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie carried their luggage onto the train. After putting their luggage away, they sat down at their seats and breathed a sigh of relief.
The train was still noisy, crowded and smelly, but the two were in a good mood.
Ruan Jie relaxed her muscles and leaned back in her chair, looking at Ruan Xi and saying, "I'll be able to see my grandparents, my third aunt, my fifth uncle, and my fifth aunt soon... Oh, and my new little brother!"
Ruan Xi raised an eyebrow at her, "Right away?"
Ruan Jie chuckled, "About five or six days."
It took five or six days to take the train to Tianfeng Commune, and then walk back to Fengyan Brigade from Tianfeng Commune.
This time when I got home it was dinner time and smoke was rising from the small mountain village.
Ruan Xi liked this scene full of life. Although her feet were tired, she and Ruan Jie walked faster and faster because they could see their house and the smoke rising from the house.
When I reached the door and looked inside, I saw Liu Xinghua sitting behind the stove cooking dinner, Qian Chuan was busy at the stove, and Ruan Changsheng was holding his almost eight-month-old fat son and playing with him.
Seeing Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie, the three of them said together: "Xiao Xi and Xiao Jie are back!"
Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie walked into the house with a smile, "Come back to celebrate the New Year."
As soon as they finished speaking, Ruan Zhigao came out of the house again. He even walked towards the door, stuck his head out to look, then turned his head back to look at Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie and asked, "The Red Army didn't come?"
Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie went into the house to put down their luggage, and came out and said, "We are not going back after the Chinese New Year. It is not very convenient, so we did not bring them back."
Liu Xinghua was stunned after hearing this, "Why don't you go?"
She had asked Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie to go to the city because she wanted the two girls to stay in the city and not come back to Fengming Mountain. If you get a job and find a husband in the city, you will never have to worry about your life.
Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie went to see the little brother next to Ruan Changsheng. Ruan Xi smiled and teased the little brother while saying, "Because we got into college. We will go directly to college after the Chinese New Year and don't have to go back to their place."
"Go to college?" Qian Chuan was curious. "How did you get in?"
Not only was she curious, but Ruan Zhigao, Liu Xinghua and Ruan Changsheng were all curious and they all looked at Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie.
Ruan Jie looked at Qian Chuan and said, "Fifth Aunt, this year the country has issued a policy to resume the college entrance examination. The exam has been completed and the admissions have been completed. My sister and I have both been admitted to university. School will start soon after the Chinese New Year. My sister and I will go to the capital to attend university together!"
"The capital?" Ruan Changsheng's eyes widened. "So powerful?"
Ruan Xi smiled and said, "The mountain didn't receive the notice, right?"
Ruan Changsheng shook his head and said, "I haven't heard of this. There is no school in the mountains. Who would send a notice here?"
Ruan Xi said: "The world has changed now. Going to school is no longer based on recommendations. It all depends on test scores. No matter what your background is, everyone is treated equally. Whoever has good grades will get a place in school."
Ruan Zhigao then asked: "If you pass the university entrance exam, will the government arrange a job for you?"
Ruan Xi looked at him and nodded, "Grandpa, I'll be assigned a job when I go to university, and I'll have a stable job after graduation."
Liu Xinghua burst into laughter when she heard this. Ruan Zhigao, Qian Chuan, and Ruan Changsheng also smiled. Ruan Zhigao said, "Not bad, not bad! You are more promising than your father was! Xiaojie is also promising!"
Liu Xinghua was so happy. "My two precious granddaughters really make me proud! Others always laugh at me for spoiling the girls at home, but now let's see what they can say! They don't understand the benefits of girls!"
Because Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie were admitted to university, the whole family was happy and the house was bustling all night.
Liu Xinghua was smiling in her dreams at night, and she couldn't hide the joy on her face when she went out the next day.
The old ladies saw that she looked like she had something very happy to see, so they all asked her what was wrong.
She naturally did not hide it, and said to the old ladies with a smile on her face: "If I didn't tell you, you wouldn't know. People in the mountains don't understand. Now studying is useful. The country has restored the college entrance examination. As long as you do well in the exam, you can go to university. It's guaranteed to be assigned a job, a stable job. My two granddaughters, Xiaoxi and Xiaojie, have both been admitted to university and are studying in the capital!"
The eyes of several old ladies widened when they heard this. "Going to the capital? That's really great, huh?"
Liu Xinghua said without any modesty: "It's certainly very impressive to go to the capital!"
The old ladies were quick to talk, and the news of Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie being admitted to university spread throughout the village in just one day. Sun Xiaohui, the biological mother, found out about it from other people.
At dinner, she said to Ruan Changgui, "Do you know that Xiaoxi and Xiaojie were admitted to university?"
Ruan Changgui didn't know yet, so he looked at her and asked, "When did it happen?"
Sun Xiaohui said: "They just came back yesterday, and the whole village has heard about it today. It's not just an ordinary university, but a university in the capital, which is very impressive! Don't you think these two girls are too lucky?"
There is not even a school in their mountain area, so they don’t know which university is good or bad. When they heard that they were going to the capital to go to university, they thought it was the most impressive, because the capital has a different status in their hearts.
Ruan Changgui took a deep breath, "Is this true or false?"
Sun Xiaohui did not doubt the truth of this matter, and only said: "They have been trained in the city for nearly three years, and they have been trained! I said long ago that we should have been allowed to leap in at that time. If we had leaped in, our Yuejin would be a college student now! I heard that college graduates are guaranteed to be assigned jobs, all of which are good jobs, stable jobs!"
There's no point in saying these things now. Do they want Ruan Changfu to take whoever he wants? It was Ruan Xi and Liu Xinghua who came up with the idea together, and then they set traps and threatened Ruan Jie to go with them.
After a while he said, "Instead of talking nonsense like that, you might as well think about how to win over Xiao Jie. After all, we are her parents. Now that she has become successful, does she really not care about our lives?"
Sun Xiaohui poked the rice with her chopsticks and said, "I think this girl can do it."
After eating a mouthful of rice, she continued, "It's mainly because of your parents' protection, otherwise I can't deal with a little girl like her. It's because she relies on her grandparents' protection that she dares not take us seriously and ignore us."
Ruan Changgui said, "Don't you fight and kill every day? Don't girls need to be coaxed? You should also learn how my mother coaxes girls. Third sister, fourth sister, Xiaoxi, and Xiaojie, each of them is extremely kind to her."
Sun Xiaohui muttered: "Who has the time to coax a girl? Only your parents..."
But now she does envy Liu Xinghua. Ruan Cuizhi earns a lot of money with her tailoring skills, Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie have been admitted to university, and the girls are all nice to her. Won't she live a paradise-like life in the future?
But after thinking for a while, she felt something was not right. What's the use of this girl no matter how good she is? In the end, she will belong to someone else's family. Since ancient times, only good boys are truly good and can bring honor to the family.
So she felt that Liu Xinghua had a mental problem. She would rather spend time and energy on her daughter and granddaughter than on her son and grandson, and just watched their family live a hard life.
It was obvious that Ruan Changfu could help Ruan Yuejin, but he refused to let him.
So she added quietly: "There's something wrong with your brain..."
After the news of their admission to university spread in the village, whenever Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie went out, other people's eyes were on them. Everyone wanted to talk to them and go to their homes to get delicious food for them. They were extremely enthusiastic.
Because the villagers were so welcoming and they would be stuffed with things if they went out, Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie refused to go out.
Stay at home, warm yourself by the fire, cook, and prepare things for the New Year with Liu Xing and Hua Qianchuan.
In the past two days, Sun Xiaohui has come to Ruan Jie to show her courtesy and took out all the delicious food she bought last year. But Ruan Jie ignored her with a stern attitude, so she just asked for trouble. She took the things and left, then went back to curse a few more times.
These days Ruan Cuizhi was busy outside making new clothes for the people in the mountains to wear during the New Year. She didn't return home until the day before New Year's Eve.
When I got home, it was almost time for lunch.
Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie went to the toilet together, and when they came back they happened to meet Ruan Cuizhi who had also returned.
The two men did not go into the house, but stood in front of the house in the sun and greeted Ruan Cuizhi.
Ruan Cuizhi was also very happy to see them and waved at them with a smile.
Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie didn't notice at first that there was a man following Ruan Cuizhi. When Ruan Cuizhi came closer, they realized that the man was with Ruan Cuizhi. He didn't seem to be from their village and they had never seen him before.
The man was quite tall, almost a head taller than Ruan Cuizhi when he walked next to her. He looked to be in his early thirties. He had a lot of things in his hands, and it seemed that they were all given by Ruan Cuizhi.
Ruan Cuizhi greeted them with a smile: "Xiaoxi and Xiaojie are back."
Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie called each other "Third Aunt". Ruan Xi glanced at the man next to her and said, "Are you accepting a disciple?"
Ruan Cuizhi smiled and licked her lips. She turned to look at the man next to her, looking a little embarrassed. She cleared her throat when she looked at Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie. After a long while, she smiled and said, "Your... Third Uncle..."
Ruan Xi and Ruan Jie were both stunned for a moment, then their expressions and tones were synchronized, their jaws almost dropping to the ground, "Huh???"
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