Chapter 127 Mom, I raised you by picking up trash 29

Jiang Fanyue walked up to the awarding stage amid applause.

She took the trophy and acceptance letter from Mei Xiuming, with a faint smile on her face. She was neither arrogant nor impatient, and was not surprised by the insults. She was full of the demeanor of a great general.

Afterwards, the judges walked up to the podium and took photos with the contestants.

When all the procedures were over, the parents who were sitting and watching the ceremony came up to the stage one after another to meet with their children.

Mei Xiuming was chatting with Jiang Fanyue and asked her what books she usually read.

He caught a glimpse of Yao Rong coming out of the corner of his eye. Just as Mei Xiuming was about to say goodbye, he heard Yao Rong call him.

"Teacher Mei, I have something to discuss with you."

"It's about the travel expenses for the semi-finals."

The fifty contestants come from different places across the country and have different family backgrounds.

Some live in the capital, have no worries about food and clothing, and can easily rush to University A.

Some live in remote rural areas, have a poor family situation, and may not even have the money to go to the city, let alone go to University A, which is thousands of miles away.

The semi-finals must be held offline, so that the contestants can gather in the capital, which is understandable.

However, should the organizers reimburse the travel expenses of all the contestants?

Even more generous, they can reimburse the travel expenses and two days of accommodation and food expenses.

After hearing what Yao Rong said, Mei Xiuming was stunned: "We really didn't consider this."

He didn't evade, and said bluntly: "It was the organizer's negligence. I will communicate with others about this matter later."

Yao Rong smiled slightly: "Thank you for the trouble."

Not long after, Song Zhizhi's family came over and invited Yao Rong and Jiang Fanyue to have a meal together to celebrate.

Mother Song said: "I wanted to invite you to have a meal yesterday, but the two children just finished the competition and probably wanted to go back to rest early, so I didn't bring it up."

Yao Rong looked at Jiang Fanyue.

Jiang Fanyue nodded.

Yao Rong smiled and said: "Then we mother and daughter will not be polite."

Mother Song waved her hand: "You're welcome, you're welcome."

The place for dinner is not far from A University, and it is only about 20 minutes' walk away.

Song Zhizhi walked up to Jiang Fanyue and asked her about her writing ideas for the semi-finals.

Jiang Fanyue told her everything.

Song Zhizhi also told her her writing ideas.

Both of them were far ahead of their peers in the field of writing, and they both gained a lot from the conversation.

During the meal, Song's mother also invited Jiang Fanyue to visit the Capital Publishing House in two days on behalf of the People's Daily, and to accept a personal interview.

Yao Rong raised her eyebrows slightly: Go to the Capital Publishing House?

At the same time, in the venue.

A group of judges were discussing travel expenses.

Mei Xiuming was the first to express his opinion: "I think this proposal is very good. The contestants have finally passed the preliminary round, and we can't let them not be able to participate in the semi-finals because of this practical reason."

Yun Yingguang also nodded: "The contestants are all minors. In addition to providing the travel expenses of the contestants themselves, we can also provide the travel expenses of one parent."

If there are two parents accompanying...

then the travel expenses of the other parent will have to be paid by themselves.

Another judge asked: "Then do you want to supplement the travel expenses and accommodation expenses of these first-time contestants?"

"Yes." Mei Xiuming made the final decision.

The competition is hosted by the National Writers Association, so they really don't need this little money.

To be honest, they also neglected it. They didn't notice it until the parents reminded them.

Fortunately, the first batch of contestants all had good family backgrounds and all of them were able to enter University A. Otherwise, wouldn't they be ruining their future?

That night, Yao Rong and Jiang Fanyue had just returned to the hotel when they heard from the front desk that someone had called the hotel to contact them.

When signing in for the competition, in order to facilitate contacting the contestants, the organizer also registered the address and phone number of the contestants' hotels.

Yao Rong said hello to the front desk and called back directly.

The person on the other end turned out to be Mei Xiuming himself.

Mei Xiuming told Yao Rong the result of their discussion: "The toll will be based on the standard of the Railway Bureau, and the accommodation and food expenses will be based on the standard of fifty yuan a day. Tomorrow, the Finance Department will transfer the twenty thousand yuan bonus and this money to your account."

Yao Rong said sincerely: "Thank you."

After hanging up the phone, Yao Rong told Jiang Fanyue about this.

Jiang Fanyue breathed a sigh of relief: "This decision is good."

Yao Rong smiled, and when she returned to the room, she said seriously: "Yueyue, I want to communicate something with you."

"It's about Jiang You."

Jiang Fanyue couldn't remember who Jiang You was for a moment.

After a long while, she slowly said, "Mom, do you have any news about Jiang You?"

Yao Rong said casually, "He remarried and has a son who is only one year younger than you."

Jiang Fanyue was not surprised at all.

She didn't know what other children's attitudes were towards their fathers.

But she never had any expectations for her biological father.

Yao Rong then handed Jiang Fanyue a stack of investigation materials.

Jiang Fanyue quickly read through them and suddenly said, "So, mom, you brought a team of lawyers here to sue Jiang You?"

Yao Rong held Jiang Fanyue's hand and said, "Do you mind having a father who commits bigamy?"

She was not in a hurry to sue Jiang You, but wanted to wait until Jiang Fanyue finished the competition and ask Jiang Fanyue this question in person.

- Although she could roughly guess Jiang Fanyue's choice.

Jiang Fanyue smiled and shook Yao Rong's hand: "Mom, do whatever you want."

Her biological father relied on his father-in-law to help him find a job in his first marriage. In

his second marriage, he also relied on his father-in-law to help him find a job.

He had been living off others for too long, and it was time for him to be hit hard.

***

Monday, Capital Publishing House.

As soon as Mother Song entered the office, she heard her colleagues congratulating her.

"Your daughter is amazing. It will be very difficult for her to achieve success in the future." "

Zhizhi is really amazing. I read the article she wrote in the semi-final. It has improved a lot compared to six months ago."

Mother Song smiled and greeted her colleagues.

At this time, a middle-aged man in his forties walked in from behind.

The middle-aged man was holding a black briefcase and dressed very smartly: "Editor Song, what are you talking about?"

Hearing this voice, the smile on Song's mother's face faded a lot: "We are talking about my daughter's participation in the competition."

Jiang You said with regret: "What a pity, I heard that your daughter almost won the first place."

Song's mother said lightly: "What a pity, the child is too proud, losing one or two times will temper her temper. Anyway, she still has a long way to go in the future."

Jiang You's face was a little ugly, and I don't know what he was thinking of.

The two have been colleagues for many years and are jointly responsible for the People's Daily.

Last year, Jiang You wanted Song Zhizhi to tutor his son in Chinese, but Song Zhizhi directly refused.

Later, Jiang You made a big mistake and wanted to use his father-in-law's connections to let Mother Song take the blame, but Mother Song took the opportunity and kicked Jiang You out of People's Daily.

Since then, the relationship between the two has taken a sharp turn for the worse, and they can no longer maintain a semblance of peace.

When Jiang You walked into his office, another colleague comforted Mother Song: "Don't bother with that kind of person."

Mother Song looked down at her watch and smiled: "I don't care. I invited a guest to visit the publishing house, and she will be here soon."

"What guest?"

"The first place winner of the competition, Jiang Fanyue."

The colleague was happy: "It's her. My daughter has always liked her. She will have to ask her to sign an autograph later."

Mother Song chatted with her colleague for a few words, and seeing that the time was almost up, she turned around and went downstairs.

When she arrived at the door of the publishing house, Yao Rong and her daughter were registering visitors at the security guard.

Mother Song came forward happily: "Come on, come in, I'll take you around first."

The capital is very expensive, and Capital Publishing House is not as big as Changjin Publishing House, but in terms of industry reputation, the former is definitely far superior to the latter.

The three of them walked around in the yard for a while before Mother Song took Yao Rong and her daughter upstairs.

As soon as they arrived at the office, they saw Yun Yingguang.

Yun Yingguang held a thermos cup and smiled and greeted Jiang Fanyue, and even said to Jiang Fanyue: "You have a very wide range of knowledge and reading. Are you interested in contributing to the People's Daily in the future?"

Jiang Fanyue said politely: "If there is a chance, I will definitely."

Mother Song took Jiang Fanyue to her workstation and began the interview.

This interview lasted until noon.

Mother Song put away her notebook and planned to take Yao Rong and Jiang Fanyue to the staff cafeteria for dinner.

There were not many employees in the publishing house, only a few dozen people, so there was no need to queue.

When Mother Song arrived at the food window, she had not had time to order before she heard a "clang". Someone not far away could not hold the plate in his hand and knocked the hot food to the ground.

Jiang You stared at Yao Rong with a look of as if he had seen a ghost.

How is it possible!

How could Yao Rong appear here! ?

In the past few years, Yao Rong worked day and night and became old and haggard, but after her living conditions improved, she also took care of her body and appearance.

Now she is only slightly different from when she was in her twenties.

At least, Jiang You, who had slept with her for many years, finally recognized her after looking at her carefully for a long time.

Everyone looked at Jiang You, and then followed Jiang You's gaze to look at Yao Rong, full of curiosity.

Mother Song realized that something was wrong and asked Yao Rong in a low voice: "Do you know each other?"

Yao Rong spoke without deliberately lowering her voice, so everyone around heard her words.

"He is my ex-husband."

Not only Mother Song was stunned, but also Yun Yingguang and others who had worked with Jiang You for more than ten years were stunned.

I haven't heard that Jiang You was married before.

Jiang You came back to his senses and subconsciously retorted: "What nonsense are you talking about, we didn't get a marriage certificate at all."

Yao Rong said: "It's true that we didn't get a marriage certificate, but the law recognizes de facto marriages."

Yao Rong looked at Mother Song again and sighed: "Jiang You and I are just like you and Zhizhi's father. One is a farmer and the other is an educated youth who went to the countryside. It's just that Zhizhi's father is very responsible and didn't abandon you and your daughter, while Jiang You ran away after the college entrance examination."

"He left me his hometown address, but I asked someone to look for it, and it was a fake address."

While Jiang You was still in shock, Yao Rong didn't give Jiang You a chance to speak, and explained the situation in a few words: "Later, my father was angered to death by Jiang You, and I raised my daughter alone."

"Oh, right..."

Yao Rong took Jiang Fanyue's hand and said to Jiang You, "You don't even know our daughter's name."

Everyone's eyes were focused on Jiang You.

Shocked, confused, and contemptuous.

Jiang You felt very uncomfortable being looked at by them.

He had never thought that one day, he would meet Yao Rong again.

And in such a scene.

"There's no need to talk about what happened between us in public."

"I know there's a delicious restaurant nearby. We haven't seen each other for a long time, so why don't I invite you to have something to eat there and reminisce about the past."

Yao Rong said calmly, "I've just said what I wanted to say. There's nothing to reminisce about."

Jiang You turned to look at Jiang Fanyue, pretending to be kind, as if he didn't hear what Yao Rong said. "This child has grown up so much, and he looks so much like you."

Jiang Fanyue smiled slightly.

Jiang You saw the smile on her face and immediately said, "Don't scare the child and leave a psychological shadow on the child."

Jiang Fanyue said, "It's okay. My biggest psychological shadow was formed when you abandoned your wife and daughter."

"I came here this time, in addition to accepting interviews, I also wanted to see you. After all, I have never seen my biological father since I was born."

"Now that I have seen him, I can only say that it is as disappointing as I imagined."

Jiang Fanyue didn't want to cause any trouble to Mother Song, so he said to Mother Song, "Auntie, you treated us to a meal last time, why don't you give me a chance to treat you to a meal at noon today?"

Jiang You didn't know how he left the cafeteria.

He could feel the needle-like eyes behind him.

When he arrived at the door of the publishing house, Jiang You just wanted to light a cigarette to calm down and think about how to save his reputation and how to comfort his wife and father-in-law at home.

"Editor Jiang, there is a letter for you." The guard shouted to Jiang You.

Jiang You smoked a cigarette and walked to the guard. He took the letter with an impatient look on his face, opened it casually, and saw the court summons inside.

In the restaurant, Song's mother was still in shock.

She wanted to ask clearly, but was afraid of accidentally poking Yao Rong and Jiang Fanyue's pain, so she hesitated to speak.

Yao Rong smiled and said, "It doesn't matter, ask whatever you want to ask."

Song's mother said, "I don't have anything to ask, I'm just too shocked."

Although the two families were not very familiar with each other, Song's mother was very united in this matter.

"If there's anything I can help you with, just ask."

Yao Rong smiled and said, "If you don't mind, you can help me publicize Jiang You's good deeds in the future."

"No problem." Mother Song said decisively. Many people from

***

Publishing House live in the same community as Jiang You.

These days, good news doesn't come out of the door, but bad news spreads a thousand miles, not to mention that the publishing house is very well-informed.

By that afternoon, Jiang You's story had reached the ears of many people.

Jiang You's current wife took their son and returned to her parents' home crying and shouting. Jiang

You returned home and looked at the empty house, becoming more and more anxious.

But he still wanted his father-in-law to help him settle the lawsuit, so he had to run to his father-in-law's house in the middle of winter, coaxing his wife while apologizing to his father-in-law.

The father-in-law was so angry that he hit him several times with his cane and made him kneel at the door.

However, no matter what, Jiang You is his daughter's husband and his grandson's biological father. Can he just watch Jiang You bear the lawsuit?

The father-in-law beat him, scolded him, and asked Jiang You to write a letter of guarantee. In the end, he could only shamelessly call some friends and ask them to check Yao Rong's whereabouts.

It is easy to find out a person's situation with a specific name and address.

But looking at the information he found, the father-in-law wanted to beat Jiang You again.

"Didn't you say that your ex-wife was just an ordinary village woman?"

"Have you seen such a village woman! Ah!"

This is a conscientious entrepreneur who is directly under the leadership of Changjin City, or even a nominal leader of the province.

The other party not only has money, but also has the support of the entire city leadership team and the provincial leadership team.

After all, since the opening of the Fairy Tale World Factory, the other party has made countless contributions to the economic development of the city and the province.

If he were a city leader or a provincial leader, he would definitely protect the other party to the death unless he encountered a major disaster.

Oh, I heard that the provincial party secretary was transferred to the central government last year.

The other party has a backer in the central government!

How dare he manipulate him casually?

If he makes a move, it is still unclear who will manipulate whom.

Jiang You was stunned after hearing what his father-in-law said.

"This, this, this... this is impossible!"

"Yao Rong is just an illiterate country girl, how could she own such a big factory? Is it possible that they checked it wrong?"

Even his father-in-law only has a small factory.

It was because he had served in the army and knew some old comrades that he could help Jiang Youmu.

As for the city leaders, or even the people in the central government...

the threshold is too high. Even if his father-in-law wants to give them gifts, they will not look down on them.

And that daughter whom he has never even hugged is actually the famous author Jiang Fanyue?

And the first place in the Youth Literature Creation Competition! ?

His son's Chinese performance is so poor that he wants to ask Song Zhizhi to help with his tutoring.

Just when Jiang You was so shocked that he doubted his life, the phone at his father-in-law's house rang again.

It was a comrade-in-arms who called.

Jiang You's father-in-law had been shot for this comrade-in-arms on the battlefield, so the relationship between the two families has always been very close.

But at this moment, the comrade-in-arms' tone was very serious.

"Don't interfere in your son-in-law's affairs."

"He's in jail, and with you and me taking care of him, Ah He and Le Le will not have a bad life in the future."

"The other party clearly only wants to settle accounts with your son-in-law, but if you interfere, you will probably get into trouble, and even I can't help you."

It must be because of their many years of friendship, otherwise the comrade-in-arms would not have called to remind him.

But the comrade-in-arms' words were obviously very useful.

After hanging up the phone, the father-in-law didn't even look at Jiang You, but waved to his daughter and grandson and said, "Go back to the house and rest."

Jiang You knew his father-in-law too well.

This attitude...

was clearly giving up on him.

Jiang You rolled and crawled, trying to hug his father-in-law's thigh, but was hit by his father-in-law's cane.

Jiang You felt pain and dared not get closer. He could only pretend to be pitiful and said, "Dad, you can't help me. Lele is still young, he can't live without a father. Also, Ah He and I are not divorced, you don't want her to have a husband who has been in prison."

Hearing the threat in Jiang You's words, the father-in-law glared at Jiang You fiercely, wishing to kill him: "You are now committing bigamy. According to the law, your marriage with Ah He is not valid at all!"

"My temple is small and can't accommodate a son-in-law like you. Get out of here immediately!"

He has a son and a daughter. At that time, in order to let his son stay in the city, he and his wife made up their minds to send their little daughter to be an educated youth.

When the little daughter returned to the city, she had already wasted her time and became a big girl in her twenties.

He, his wife and his son all felt guilty towards their daughter, so they tried their best to help her choose a husband. But she fell in love with her classmate Jiang You. He

could not persuade his daughter, and she said she was pregnant with Jiang You's child, so he reluctantly agreed to the marriage.

Who knew this would happen...

Alas, even if his daughter was pregnant, he should have sent someone to investigate Jiang You's past, instead of listening to Jiang You's one-sided words and marrying his daughter to such a worthless person.

The court's verdict came down quickly.

Jiang You was sentenced to two years in prison for bigamy, and he had to pay Jiang Fanyue's 18 years of alimony in one lump sum.

After receiving the money, Jiang Fanyue donated it.

She stood in the cold wind and said to Yao Rong, "Mom, when we return to Changjin City, come with me to change my last name."

Yao Rong smiled and said, "Yao Fanyue?"

Jiang Fanyue nodded vigorously.

She and Jiang You had no connection at all.

On the other side, Song Zhizhi also listened to everything that Mother Song said.

She hugged Mother Song's arm and said with emotion, "Why do I feel like I'm the control group of Jiang Fanyue?"

With similar family backgrounds, similar ages, and the same profession, they have different destinies.

Mother Song could understand the meaning of the control group, tapped Song Zhizhi's forehead, and said softly, "Don't talk nonsense, you are the protagonists of your own destiny."