Chapter 28: The Trap of the College Entrance Examination
Li Jianye was still staying in that cramped and dim room, as if he had never left.
When Wang Yulian pushed the door open again, there was still a strong smell of alcohol inside. Li Jianye was still hugging the quilt, sleeping in a daze. The only change from last time was that he smelled even worse, like the leftovers in a pig trough, giving off a sour, sweaty and rotten smell in the high summer temperature.
Li Jianye was still like this, and even getting worse, but Wang Yulian was completely different from the last time she came.
The last time she came, she was apprehensive, and when she left, she felt aggrieved, but this time, she came with full confidence.
She pushed the door open, walked to the bed, and pushed the sleeping Li Jianye hard to wake him up.
Li Jianye was half asleep at the time. When he was woken up, he looked up blankly and saw Wang Yulian sitting on the edge of the bed with her chin raised. She said with a smug look on her face, "Get up. Don't sleep anymore."
Li Jianye also went out and drank quite a bit of wine today. He couldn't really tell whether he went out to drink to ask for help, to find a job, or to make himself forget the unhappy things in his daily life. In short, the more he drank, the less intelligent his brain became.
Once a person becomes addicted to alcohol, he will lose control of real life and gradually turn into a drunkard. Even if he stops drinking, his bones will be rotten and he will still not be able to stand up. He will look cowardly wherever he goes and cannot even get up.
Before, it was just his body that drank alcohol, but now, it was as if his life had also been drunk, and it looked rotten and smelly from a distance.
Now that Li Jianye was pushed awake by her, he was also confused. He looked at Wang Yulian with wide eyes, and it seemed that he needed a while to remember who this person was.
"Wang—" he murmured, "Yulian."
Oh, I remember, Wang Yulian.
His current wife.
Wang Yulian is his current wife, but what about his ex-wife? His ex-wife left him because he had an affair with Wang Yulian. After she left, she took away a lot of money, and his life became increasingly worse and worse.
"Get up." Wang Yulian said, "You want money, don't you? I brought it to you."
When Li Jianye heard the word "money", it was like being poured with cold water, and he finally woke up.
"Yulian." He sat up slowly, a glimmer of hope on his face. He asked, "Did you borrow the money? How much did you borrow?"
Wang Yulian smoothed her hair and said, "I didn't borrow it. I earned it myself from selling a single order."
She earned more than 30 yuan just from this one order.
She saved the more than 30 yuan, returned 5 yuan to Tong Dazhi, kept the remaining 10 yuan to return to Manager Lu, and kept the remaining 20 yuan, which she brought to the hotel.
Originally, this money should have been paid along with her salary in a few days, but she was in a hurry to get the money, so Manager Zhou specially approved it for her in advance - Tong Dazhi said that this was all she deserved.
Their sales department is just like that. As long as you can sell goods, you will get preferential treatment, and getting paid in advance is not a difficult thing at all - it is said that the top salesperson in their sales department doesn't even work.
Although she has not reached that level yet, she is doing pretty well. She was able to place orders in the first month after joining the company!
This made Wang Yulian very proud. She took out more than 20 yuan, put it on the bed, and said proudly, "See? This is what I earn. Those people who work in offices don't earn as much as us in the sales team."
She boasted proudly just to make Li Jianye admit that "Wang Yulian is better than Shi Meilan", but Li Jianye didn't take these things to heart at all.
He seemed to have completely forgotten all the hurtful words he had said and the hurtful things he had done. Now all he cared about was the twenty or so dollars.
He hurriedly gathered the money in his hands, counting them one by one, and said as he did so, "When my son comes, we'll find a place to rent."
The environment of this small hotel is really too bad. His son is the future top student in liberal arts, the incarnation of Wenquxing. After he is admitted to university, he will be assigned a job by the state. His son cannot live in this place.
Wang Yulian made money, which eased her current financial pressure. Li Jianye's attitude towards Wang Yulian suddenly improved. He became much more friendly and said to Wang Yulian, "Yulian, you have worked so hard."
As he spoke, Li Jianye pulled Wang Yulian into his arms.
Seeing Li Jianye's attitude, Wang Yulian felt as if they were back to the beginning, when they had just been together.
When they first got together, they were very affectionate and they really liked each other.
These feelings have deteriorated a lot along the way, just like a rotten apple, with pits and rotten corners, but the rest of the apple is still good. As long as the rotten part is peeled off, the apple will still be a good apple, and it will be sweet and juicy when bitten.
Wang Yulian thought, this is how human emotions are, there are good and bad ones, but if you just bear with it a little, you can cut off the bad ones and only eat the good ones.
When Wang Yulian leaned against Li Jianye, she smelled the strong smell of alcohol on Li Jianye, but she didn't care.
She only eats the good things, and she can pretend that the bad things don't exist.
There are all kinds of people in this world, and their understanding and bottom line of love are also all kinds. Some people are black and white, and cannot accept betrayal by their lover. Once betrayed, they don't want anything and just want to fight to the death with their former lover. Some people cannot accept their lover's money giving to others, as long as there is money. Some people have no love with their lover, it's just a cooperation between two families, so there is another set of judgment criteria. These different kinds of people have derived different kinds of love, and it is difficult for them to understand each other.
But it's also normal. People are inherently incomprehensible, not just love.
Other people's thoughts are a storm of absurdity.
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With Wang Yulian's money, Li Jianye rented a bungalow in front of Chunfeng Town High School for a month.
Perhaps it was because he had arrived at the "high school gate" that Li Jianye regained the feeling of being a teacher, or perhaps it was because "his son was coming soon", so Li Jianye put on a little bit of "fatherly" airs. He didn't drink anymore recently, but started to wash his own clothes diligently and lived in the rented house.
No matter what he looked like before, he looks like a human being now.
Time slipped away little by little, and soon it was July 5th.
The college entrance examination is a big day. Even if you don’t like each other on weekdays, you have to get together at this time and come to the town to take the college entrance examination together.
After much deliberation, the two families of Li Lao Da and Li Lao Er finally decided to send three people: the old lady Li who was good at fighting, the second sister Zhao who was very good at talking, and Li Tianci who needed to take the college entrance examination. Li Tianfu stayed in the countryside, taking care of the family's land and looking after the old man Li in the wheelchair.
After the three people came to the town from the countryside, Li Laoer went to pick them up personally and took them back to the rented bungalow to look after them. In the evening, after Wang Yulian got off work, she rushed back from the garment factory and took everyone out to have dinner at the Shen Family Restaurant in town.
During her time in the garment factory, Wang Yulian learned a lot about the "old-fashioned way of life" of the garment factory, which is to find ways to fleece the garment factory.
The garment factory booked a private room in the Shen Family Hotel and also gave them a special allowance for meals so that the sales team could entertain clients. Usually, these sales team members would secretly bring their families to eat there so that they didn't have to spend any money.
Wang Yulian also learned this trick and brought her relatives with her, pretending that she could do it without spending any money, and showed off in front of Lao Li's family.
As expected, when the people from Old Li's family arrived at the Shen's Hotel, they were all shocked.
The Shen family's hotel is the best in the entire Chunfeng Town. Its decoration style is similar to that of Baicheng City. It is magnificent and looks like one word: expensive.
After Zhao Erjie entered the private room and sat down, she stared with her eyes wide open and couldn't close them. She kept asking Li Jianye, "How much is this table?"
Li Jianye had no idea how much it cost, and he had never eaten it before, so he could only say vaguely: "This was arranged by Yulian, I don't know either."
"Just eat it, it's free." Wang Yulian's face flashed with pride. She said, "This is someone else's treat. Our garment factory has a lot of benefits."
Zhao Erjie was so jealous that she felt like she was having stomach reflux.
She had never heard of Wang Yulian working in the garment factory before!
Old Mrs. Li, standing by, had completely forgotten about her earlier scolding of Wang Yulian. She now kept praising Wang Yulian for her "ability" and her son's "ability to find a wife." After praising her for a long time, she finally added, "Oh, Yulian, you're so much better than before!"
Shi Meilan had never taken Old Lady Li to such a delicious meal before! It would be great if Shi Meilan didn't dig out a few pieces of meat from Old Lady Li's house!
Zhao Erjie became even more unhappy after hearing this. She curled her lips and wanted to ask: When will you pay us back the money you owe us?
They are living a good life now, we can't just hold back their money and not pay it back, right?
But before Zhao Erjie could say anything, Old Lady Li beside her suddenly said, "Yulian, you have such a good job now, can you arrange for your nephew to get in as well?"
The nephew that Old Lady Li was talking about was the son of Zhao Erjie. He was a bastard and had been causing trouble in the village since he was a child. When he grew up, he went out to find a job and still caused trouble. Zhao Erjie had no idea how much money she had spent on him. She dreamed of him getting a good job, getting married early, having children, and having grandchildren, but her son was hanging around outside and refused to come back to the village.
Hearing this, Zhao Erjie suddenly became energetic and no longer cared about "work" or "not". She chased after Wang Yulian and said, "Yulian, please help your sister-in-law. She only has this one son."
As she spoke, Zhao Erjie started crying. She stood up and wanted to kneel down and kowtow to Wang Yulian. She said she would do anything as long as Wang Yulian found a job for her son.
Wang Yulian was at a loss as to what to do. She quickly stood up and was thinking about how to refuse when Li Jianye slammed the table and agreed.
"Sister-in-law, don't worry." Li Jianye had never been begged by Zhao Erjie in his life. Now that Zhao Erjie begged him, he responded with a carefree attitude: "I'll leave it to Yulian."
Wang Yulian: ???
What are you talking about! Aren’t you trying to trick me?
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