Chapter 64: Emotional Hurt
"Mom, please don't doubt yourself. It's not that you're not good enough, it's my dad's fault." Su Jiaojiao had also been hurt in love and empathized with Chen Guilan's feelings. "Even if he married another woman instead of you, as long as he went to the city and saw the colorful world, he would look for new excitement. It's human nature to get tired of the old and fall in love with the new. It's not your fault."
In his previous life, Qin Xiu wrote love poems to her, sent her gifts, and made vows to her, showing his deep affection.
But when she learned about his life experience, she immediately changed her attitude, drew a clear line between them, and denied the relationship between them.
At that time, she also suspected that she was not good enough, that she was not as good as that girl, and that she was not worthy of Qin Xiuming.
Later, Qin Xiuming broke up with the girl and turned back to pursue her madly, saying that she was his sweetheart and he could not forget her.
Su Jiaojiao finally realized that the breakup was not her problem, but his needs had changed. She just stood there and did nothing, but he turned around and wanted to start over with her.
Any relationship that requires one party to work hard to maintain will not last long.
True feelings do not need to be managed.
But you are you, and I happen to like you just the way you are.
"I'm fine, really fine." Chen Guilan didn't want Su Jiaojiao to worry about her, so she held back her tears and went forward to greet the customers. She tried her best to smile and introduced the clothes with great effort. She used to be a quiet person, but now she became talkative, which was obviously unnatural. At her age, it was embarrassing to cry for a man.
The vegetable seller came over with a giggle, crunching her apple while saying to Su Jiaojiao, "Xiao Su, your mother is becoming more and more skilled at selling goods. From now on, you can just focus on school and leave this to your mother."
It was Su Jiaojiao's first time meeting this neighbor. She was wearing a dirty cotton-padded jacket and trousers, her hair tied back with a sloppy hairband, disheveled and stained with vegetable scraps. But she looked very young, only in her early thirties. When she smiled, she revealed a missing front tooth: "My name is Chen Xiaoqing, and I'm from your mother's family. Just call me Xiaoqing."
Su Jiaojiao readily called out, "Sister Xiaoqing."
A woman in her thirties doesn't want to be called "Auntie" by girls her age.
She understands.
Chen Xiaoqing chuckled and patted Chen Guilan on the shoulder: "Sister, your daughter is prettier than you."
"As long as she's prettier than me." Chen Guilan smiled reluctantly.
Chen Xiaoqing pointed at the man who was moving baskets of vegetables at the door of the vegetable shop and said to Su Jiaojiao, "That's my man. His surname is Tian. You can just call him Erzhu. You're not at home during the day, so you don't know him. He just has a bad temper, but he doesn't have any bad intentions."
Tian Erzhu happened to look over at them, revealing a simple and honest smile. Compared to Chen Xiaoqing, Tian Erzhu was much more capable. He was wearing a black leather jacket and brown corduroy pants, and at first glance he looked like a well-traveled man, not a vegetable vendor. Su Jiaojiao smiled as a greeting, and Tian Erzhu seemed to be in a good mood. He grinned and said, "You don't have to cook tonight, come to my house for dinner."
"We can't do that," Chen Guilan refused. "You guys get busy!"
"Come on, all of you!" Chen Xiaoqing walked to the street, put his hands on his waist and shouted to his neighbors, "Old Tang, Old Zhao, all of you come to my house for dinner tonight, and we'll have some fun together."
"Okay, okay, I'll go." The plump, bespectacled Mr. Tang, the audio-visual store owner across the street, readily agreed. A middle-aged couple ran the bun shop, and the woman remained silent. Old Zhao, who was called upon, also readily agreed, "I'll go too. I'll take the buns."
"Since they're all coming, you should come even more." Chen Xiaoqing walked up to Chen Guilan and Su Jiaojiao, smiling happily, "I'll prepare it right away. It's not a fancy dish, just a home-cooked meal."
"Come on, come on!" Tian Erzhu was also very enthusiastic. "We are all neighbors, no need to be so polite."
Su Jiaojiao was going to school for evening self-study in the afternoon. She knew Chen Guilan didn't want to join in the fun, but she also thought it would be good to go and relax so that she wouldn't be alone in the corner. "Mom, I don't have anything to do tonight, why don't you go too!"
This batch of cotton jackets and trousers are selling averagely.
It’s not as fast as I imagined. We only sell about a dozen sets a day. It’s not very busy.
"Mom doesn't want to go." Chen Guilan was not in the mood to join in the fun. Su Jiaojiao stopped persuading her. It was a different world outside than in the village. Chen Guilan had lived in the village for more than 30 years. She came here for her. She had to make her own decisions on some things.
When Su Jiaojiao went to school, Chen Guilan kneaded the dough and said she wanted to steam buns. She actually had her own plans in mind. If it was really hard to refuse, she would just take a few buns, eat a few bites of vegetables and come back.
On the way, she took a few steps and saw Chen Yi coming out of another alley. Seeing her, he smiled and greeted her: "What a coincidence?"
"It's quite a coincidence." Su Jiaojiao smiled.
The two went to school side by side and entered the school one after the other.
Wang Qian and another girl looked at them meaningfully. Their gazes were so direct that even Chen Yi's neck turned red. Su Jiaojiao was as calm as ever. What was the big deal about going to school together?
Xue Yuxin and Wang Qian often sit on the playground and watch boys play ball!
Without Xue Yuxin, Wang Qian couldn't cause any trouble. At most, she would whisper a few words and joke with her deskmate to satisfy her curiosity, but that was all. Su Jiaojiao didn't even bother to pay attention to her.
Xu Mengyao took the initiative to ask the teacher to change seats, sitting in front of Su Jiaojiao and Zhang Lili. She turned around and said to them happily, "From now on, we will be the iron triangle. If anyone dares to make trouble, we will destroy them."
Zhang Lili laughed and said, "Brother, this is a school, do you think this is the underworld?"
"I like this name. From now on, I will be your eldest brother, Lily, you will be the second brother, and Jiaojiao will be our third brother." Xu Mengyao patted her chest. "If there is anything in the future, I will let my eldest brother handle it."
"Hurry up and do the homework, big brother," Su Jiaojiao lowered her head to read and reminded her, "The final exam is next week."
She did not do well in her last math test, scoring only 80 points.
Even though the questions were a bit difficult, it didn't stop Chen Yi and Wu Peng from scoring over 130. What's wrong with their brains...
"Oh my god, time flies by so fast." Xu Mengyao wailed, "Winter vacation is coming so soon, I thought I just started high school!"
She and Zhang Lili are not as good as Su Jiaojiao in math.
The two of them have always maintained a stable score of 60 points. They are both in the math group, but the gap between them is huge.
"Jingjiao, did you know that Xu Mengyao and Xue Yuxin have been getting into a fight lately? They often go to the school playground to watch Qin Xiuming, who's in the 3+1 repeat class next door, play basketball." Zhang Lili said mysteriously, "Just now, Xu Mengyao was talking about Xue Yuxin, and her eyes were almost fixed on Qin Xiuming. She said she just admired him, and Xue Yuxin wanted to have a relationship with him."
"Is this really true?" Su Jiaojiao was speechless.
Xu Mengyao is such a free and easy person, but she actually likes Qin Xiuming?
And Xue Yuxin, does she also like Qin Xiuming's style?
It feels so unreal
"It's absolutely true." Zhang Lili whispered, "If you don't believe me, come early next week and take a look at the playground."
"I'm not that free..." Su Jiaojiao looked up at Xu Mengyao and said nothing. When she was in the dormitory before, they had more opportunities to talk. Now that she was a day student, they had fewer opportunities to be together, only for a short while during lunch and nap. However, she felt that Xu Mengyao knew her own limits and would not fall into such a trap.
As for Qin Xiuming, he now knows his own life experience and will definitely not show mercy to the girls here.
Xue Yuxin was afraid that she was going to be heartbroken.
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