"Ha, insatiable greed!" Lu Ziyin sneered and laughed.
Ding Kemeng looked at Liu Cui with a complicated expression. It is only right to pay back debts. In this situation, it is too much to care about such a small amount of money!
"Since you're unwilling to pay compensation, then just wait for the court summons. Don't come back saying I didn't give you a chance!" Ding Kemeng was too lazy to show any more kindness. Sometimes, being ruthless is a good thing when dealing with someone like Liu Cui!
The court summons—would she still be sued if she didn't pay compensation? Liu Cui panicked. But 20,000 yuan was too much! What would happen if her husband found out?
Liu Cui refused to budge no matter what, and finally, Grandma Ding couldn't stand it anymore and asked some villagers to help drive Liu Cui out.
The noisy sounds finally stopped, and the courtyard returned to its usual tranquility.
Grandma Ding had been disturbed for most of the day and was exhausted. She waved her hand, not wanting to eat lunch, and went back to her bedroom to sleep.
Ding Kemeng knew she was tired, so she didn't bother her. She took the money and prepared to go to town to find a doctor to check Tang Zhizhou's face.
It's quite frightening to see a face so swollen like this!
Two days passed like this. During that time, Ye Nai also came to see Ding Kemeng. Although her apology was awkward, she apologized nonetheless, and Ding Kemeng forgave her.
Tang Zhizhou didn't put on airs. Ye Nai apologized, and he accepted it. It was that Ye Rong. Tang Zhizhou had privately asked Ding Kemeng, and Ye Rong wasn't Ye Nai's biological brother, not even a cousin!
But Ye Nai's closeness to Ye Rong, and Ye Rong's inexplicable hostility towards him, made Tang Zhizhou sit in the courtyard and fall into deep thought.
Lu Ziyin didn't interrupt their girlish conversation. When she came out, she saw Tang Zhizhou sitting in the courtyard. She walked over and sat down next to him.
Tang Zhizhou didn't even look at Lu Ziyin, and asked, "Brother Lu, do you know that Ye Rongdao?"
"I don't know him." Lu Ziyin had a good memory; he had indeed never seen this person named Ye Rong before. However, "You know what the Ye family does, right?"
"I know," Tang Zhizhou nodded.
“I heard before that a ruthless character from the Ye family has returned from abroad, named something like Master Rong. He’s ruthless, you know…” Lu Ziyin didn’t finish her sentence, but Tang Zhizhou couldn’t possibly not understand what she meant.
"Is there a rumor that this Master Rong is Old Master Ye's illegitimate son...?" Tang Zhizhou frowned. If Ye Rong next to Ye Nai was indeed Master Rong, then wasn't he a bit too young? He remembered Ding Kemeng saying that Ye Rong was only 23 years old!
"Who knows? The various branches of the Ye family are all vying for power. Only Ye Nai's branch seems relatively stable. As for whether Ye Rong is... what does it have to do with us!" Lu Ziyin smiled dismissively, not really concerned about the Ye family's affairs.
However, Tang Zhizhou was not as relaxed as Lu Ziyin. If the Ye family branches really broke off relations, what would Ye Nai do then?
That evening, Ye Nai didn't have dinner at the Ding family's house. Ye Rong drove over early to pick her up and take her home.
Tang Zhizhou and Lu Ziyin also took the opportunity of dinner to talk to Grandma Ding about their plans to go back. They had only planned to stay in City C for two days before returning, but now almost a week had passed, and they couldn't delay any longer; it was time to go back.
Although Grandma Ding was reluctant, she kept the two boys at home. Although the villagers didn't say anything to her face, they couldn't help but gossip behind her back.
So when Lu Ziyin and the others said they wanted to leave, Grandma Ding smiled and agreed.
The next day, Ding Kemeng got up early, prepared local specialties and packed them into the two's suitcases. Despite Lu Ziyin's repeated refusals, she still took them to the airport before returning home.
Once the two left, the Ding family's courtyard truly became deserted. When Ding Kemeng returned and saw her grandmother lying in the courtyard enjoying the breeze, she felt lonely for the first time.
"They've all left?" Grandma Ding asked, squinting her eyes.
"Okay, I'm leaving," Ding Kemeng replied as she sat down next to her grandmother.
Grandma Ding didn't need to look to know the expression on her granddaughter's face. She smiled and said, "Alright, my dear granddaughter, don't be sad. Grandma will make you something delicious tonight!"
"Thank you, Grandma."
No one knows how Lu Ziyin resolved the Gao family matter in the end, but Liu Cui did behave herself for a long time after that day. Without any annoying things, time always flies.
Summer vacation passed in the blink of an eye, and Ding Kemeng returned to City B from her summer retreat in City C.
In September, the second-year high school students in Xiushui came to school to register as usual.
The class assignment list had been sent to the parents' phones in advance. Ding Kemeng saw Lu Ziyin's name early on; he was still in Class 10, and Tang Zhizhou's name was next to his.
Ding Kemeng smiled and successfully submitted her application to the school to change classes, thus going to Class 10.
Class 20 of Senior High School.
Ding Kemeng had heard the noise in the classroom long ago, and occasionally she could hear Li Meilin and Lin Changmao playing around. The nervousness of coming to the new class disappeared a lot. Ding Kemeng smiled and pushed open the door of Class 20 of Senior High School.
The students in Class 20 of Senior High School and Class 10 of Senior High School were almost unchanged. When they saw Ding Kemeng come in, their expressions were happy but not surprised: "Sister Meng, you're here!"
When someone saw Ding Kemeng, they immediately greeted her.
Ding Kemeng was startled when a paper airplane flew towards her, almost poking her in the eye. Ding Kemeng instinctively reached out and grabbed the paper airplane, and with a forceful pull, the airplane instantly fell apart.
"No way, Sister Meng, your aim is that good!" Lin Changmao looked at the paper airplane in Ding Kemeng's hand, exclaiming helplessly. That was the only one he had ever folded that could fly that far!
Ding Kemeng held the paper airplane, somewhat embarrassed: "How about I buy you a new one?"
"Mengbao, ignore him, he's so annoying!" Li Meilin was also holding several paper airplanes, but they were all broken.
It seems they were playing a paper airplane game in the classroom just now?
"Da Mao is so childish, he insisted on dragging us to play. Now look what's happened, the classroom is full of scrap paper. When the teacher comes in and sees this, he'll probably be furious!" There were also quite a few 'corpses' of paper airplanes on Bai Yushen's desk.
It seems he was also forced to play this "childish" game.
"Hehe..." Lin Changmao scratched his head, bent down and started picking up the scraps of paper on the ground, saying as he did so, "Sister Meng, your seat is still the same as in the first year of high school, you don't mind, do you?"
Upon hearing this, Ding Kemeng looked towards the last row, which was indeed empty. Ding Kemeng smiled, put her schoolbag on the table, and bent down to pick up the waste paper with Lin Changmao.
"There's so much paper, let me help you pick it up!"
"Thank you, Sister Meng, you're so kind!" Lin Changmao smiled so much his eyes narrowed.
The others felt embarrassed to do nothing, so they immediately bent down and started tidying up the classroom.
"By the way, Sister Meng, where's Brother Lu?" Isn't Brother Lu always clinging to his girlfriend? Why did I only see Sister Meng today?
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