Ning Yuan looked at Rong Gongzi's strange expression with satisfaction.
He's always been aloof and composed, even when he's being naughty, he manages to look cool and aloof. It's rare to see him looking so uncomfortable.
"I heard that many weddings abroad are decorated with white balloons. Look at your room, doesn't it look like a wedding room abroad?" Ning Yuan asked with her big, smiling eyes.
Rong Zhaonan's smile was somewhat gloomy: "...I still prefer the red of a traditional Chinese wedding."
If his wedding smelled of lubricant and was filled with fluttering latex balloons, he would rather burn it down.
Ning Yuan sipped her water and sighed, "But I love white flower wedding dresses and white balloons from abroad. There are too many people in my dorm to hang balloons. Would you mind hanging them here? I'll come and visit whenever I have time."
Having tricked someone, Ning Yuan returned to her dormitory in a good mood.
Yes, Rong Zhaonan's guess was correct. Ning Yuan's textbooks in this life didn't contain English, and she hadn't learned English in her previous life either.
But if Tang Lao doesn't teach in this lifetime, then MISS Xia will!
When the two were living in the countryside, Miss Xia didn't know they were just marriage partners.
The old lady was afraid that Ning Yuan would get pregnant after her marriage and delay her taking the college entrance examination, so she secretly taught Ning Yuan a lot of knowledge about "contraception" and "physiology".
This naturally includes the existence of the condom, its full usage, and its English and even Russian expressions.
Rong Zhaonan looked at the condom balloons floating around with a gloomy expression.
At that moment, I suddenly felt that he had dug a hole and buried himself in it.
With a blank expression, he reached back and was about to dump the remaining hundred-plus pieces into the trash can.
But in the end, looking at the colorful bags of "imported balloons," he paused, but didn't fall over.
...
About a week after the "reconciliation" with the Yu family, Director Chu brought good news—the school agreed to rent the shop to Mr. Tang.
At Ning Yuan's suggestion, Mr. Tang chose a shop of about 120 square meters.
The area is larger than Director Chu originally expected, so it will cost thirty yuan a month, or three hundred and sixty yuan a year.
Ning Yuan opted to rent for five years and also requested a priority renewal right, meaning she would have priority to continue renting the property after five years.
That would cost 1,800 yuan over five years!
Director Chu was very suspicious that Old Tang couldn't come up with the money and was planning to delay payment when Ning Yuan brought Chu Hongyu to her office.
She said she didn't have enough money, so she borrowed some from her good friend Chu Hongyu!
When Director Chu saw Chu Hongyu, he chuckled dryly, and without saying a word, he told the accountant to collect the money and quickly stamped the school's seal on the contract.
Although he and Chu Hongyu both share the surname Chu, they can be considered to have been from the same family eight hundred years ago.
But I'm just a university office director, while this girl's father is a bank president, and she herself used to work in a bank.
It wouldn't be surprising if they could lend out a thousand or eight hundred!
And it seems she might have been involved in this shop; otherwise, why would Old Master Tang want a space as large as 120 square meters?!
That's why we try our best to get into good universities!
Those who can get into good universities are either capable themselves or have powerful families; in any case, your classmates are all part of your network!
The better your university education, the better your network will be in the future. To put it bluntly, navigating the real world is about building connections; everyone helps each other.
Director Chu remarked with admiration, "It's rare to have such a good network of connections as Ning Yuan, and to find such a generous roommate so soon after enrolling in school."
Teacher Tang did a good deed, and the little girl from the mountain area who was rescued is truly blessed!
Director Chu is always good at filling in the blanks with his imagination, and he has already quickly deduced the whole process.
Ning Yuan found his sentimental expression amusing.
Outside the school office, Chu Hongyu poked Ning Yuan's round face with a half-smile—
"Tsk tsk, what a low-key rich woman. She's quite wealthy, and she even has to borrow my name."
Her parents could easily take 1,800 yuan, but she herself couldn't come up with that much money all at once!
Ning Yuan, her big eyes crinkling, hooked her arm around Chu Hongyu's: "Sister Hongyu taught me not to flaunt my wealth. Besides, I need to leverage connections when I do business. If I don't leverage my sisters' connections, whose will I leverage?"
She trusted Chu Hongyu's character; the girl came from a well-off cadre family in Shanghai.
She may appear proud and spoiled, but she is actually quite sensible and has strong principles and boundaries.
Chu Hongyu not only didn't object, but also looked at Ning Yuan with admiration: "You've got quite a large shop, are you planning to sell sparkling water?"
She admires anyone with real talent, and the youngest in their dorm is a real troublemaker!
Ning Yuan smiled and said, "It would be a waste to just sell food and drinks. I have other plans."
Seeing that she didn't elaborate, Chu Hongyu smiled and didn't press for details. She was eager to see how far her little roommate could go.
Ning Yuan lowered her bright and beautiful eyes and secretly touched the jade pendant around her neck.
They helped Tang reconcile with the neighbors in the courtyard, and by taking advantage of cleaning up the Yu family's house, they got the shop she wanted.
She should take advantage of this good momentum and go to the tailor shop to see Uncle Fang.
Let him know that she also has "connections," and that he won't "lose out" by cooperating with her.
It's been so long, I wonder how he's doing with his inquiries about Jade Chili and the Ning family in Hong Kong.
And she also wanted access to the edible flavorings...
...
Ningnan City
"What did you say? That little bitch Ning Yuan took Jade Chili to Shanghai to study at university?!"
Ning Jinyun looked at her husband in disbelief.
Ning Zhuliu poured himself a small glass of wine, expressionless, and placed the newspaper he was holding on the table.
"A newspaper from more than two months ago featured interviews with the top scorers from various cities in the province this year, one of whom was named Ning Yuan."
Ning Zhuliu glared at her angrily: "The age and location match up. If it weren't for Old Li from our workshop using this to mock my family for having a college graduate but not having a wedding banquet, I wouldn't have known. If it weren't for you, my little sister wouldn't have run away!"
Ning Jinyun immediately picked up the newspaper and looked at a small section of the report—
"...The county's No. 2 High School produced the city's top scorer in the college entrance examination..."
Ning Jinyun's face instantly turned extremely gloomy.
Her voice grew increasingly shrill: "That little brat actually dared to take the college entrance exam without our permission!"
She paced around like an angry hen: "I had already spoken with Director Ge. Her son's marriage to Ning Yuan was settled, and Weibing would become a formal cadre in the factory!"
They couldn't find Ning Yuan in the village; she and her son were both seriously injured and had only just been discharged from the hospital.
Even that arrogant woman from Beijing named Qin Hongxing, for some reason, was beaten up by several women on the way, who mistook her for a vixen.
Her nice clothes were torn to shreds, and then the women realized they had attacked the wrong people halfway through the beating and ran away.
The police couldn't do anything, so Qin Hongxing returned to Beijing crying with a bruised and swollen face.
Without Qin Hongxing's help, Director Ge's plans naturally fell through.
Ning Zhuliu looked at her coldly: "Director Ge's son likes to drink and beat people. He crippled two of his wives, one of whom miscarried from being beaten so badly. Do you think my little sister would marry that kind of person?!"
Ning Jinyun's face was ugly: "Isn't it normal for men to drink and beat their wives? She's just a poor girl who was picked up from the street. It's a blessing she's accumulated over several lifetimes to be able to marry into a cadre family!"
She scoffed, "Once the baby is born and the child grows up, her good fortune is yet to come. I'm her mother, would I harm her?!"
Looking at his wife's mean face, Ning Zhuliu said angrily, "You've lied so much that you've started to believe it yourself. What did I tell you before? Don't treat my little sister like a fool!"
If it weren't for Ning Jinyun, our family could have produced the first student from the factory to be admitted to Fudan University!
Ning Zhuliu's gaze made Ning Jinyun pause for a moment, and she said in a muffled voice, "Then what do we do now?"
"What should we do? Of course, we should all take leave and go to Shanghai together, and you can go and apologize to your younger sister in person!" Ning Zhuliu said coldly.
Ning Jinyun felt a pang of heartache at the thought of having her salary deducted for taking leave, but then she thought of the jade chili pepper on Ning Yuan's body.
A greedy glint flashed in her eyes; that thing was hers, and she had to get it back.
Ning Jinyun's eyes darted around. "Okay, I'll ask someone to buy train tickets right away."
"Do you think Fudan University would expel her if they knew she was the kind of disobedient child who messed around with men and women during her time in the countryside, and was a shameless slut?"
Why is it that that bitch gets to go to university, and the prestigious Fudan University at that?
If even her own children, Weibing and Meimei, couldn't get into school, what right does Ning Yuan have to surpass Weibing and Meimei in this family?
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