Chapter 03 Target

The arrival of this person was quite sudden. The words that were about to come out of Master Ji's mouth paused, and his face darkened slightly.

Lin Qiao also looked towards the door and found that there was indeed a young girl following Ye Minshu.

The girl looked to be in her early twenties, with curly hair, light makeup, and a pair of low-heeled leather shoes. She smiled sweetly as she entered the door and politely greeted Mr. Ji and his wife and Ji Duo.

Curling hair became popular only after the reform and opening up. Not to mention that she was already pretty, this outfit alone completely outshined Lin Qiao, a country girl.

Ye Minshu glanced at Lin Qiao casually, pausing especially at the patches on her elbows and knees.

Lin Qiao's expression did not change at all.

Don't even think about whether she, a soul that traveled back forty years later, could feel admiration and envy for such a modern dress. One reason for dressing is to please oneself and to be polite. She was already wearing the most appropriate clothes for her original self, and she was polite enough to be polite to others.

Ye Minshu's punch was like hitting cotton, and she felt uncomfortable as if she had no place to put her strength.

She simply ignored Lin Qiao and pulled the young girl forward affectionately, "Dad, Mom, let me introduce you. This is Song Jing, the girl Xiaoze is dating. You guys know her dad, Song Yongkun, and he has a very good relationship with Ji Jun. She used to work for Dad. When she was little, she often came to our house with her parents. At that time, I joked that since she and Xiaoze got along so well, why not let her become my daughter-in-law in the future. I didn't expect that the two of them were really destined to be together. They were classmates in junior high school and high school, and even in the same class in high school."

Ji Jun is the eldest son of Grandpa Ji, the elder brother of Ji Duo, and the husband of Ye Minshu. Originally, Grandpa Ji was ill, and he should have come to see him, but he was busy with work and had already planned to go on a business trip today, so he couldn't leave.

Song Jing was pulled by Ye Minshu, with a just right amount of shyness on her face. Ye Minshu was even more satisfied when she saw him, "I remember that after Xiaoze was recommended to the military academy, you also took the college entrance examination and passed it on the first try. You took the exam for a normal school..."

"Yandu Normal College."

"Yes, Yandu Normal College. Didn't you say a few days ago that the country is in great need of teachers? Xiaojing's major is a good match for you."

Xu Li just smiled and said, "I retired a long time ago, how could I know so much."

"You are retired now. You were also an excellent teacher in Yandu back then." Ye Minshu didn't care and continued to ask Song Jing: "You should graduate next year, right?"

"I will graduate next year and will go to school for internship in the second half of this year."

"We have to find a good place. I think Ozawa's military high school is a good one. It's close by."

As Ye Minshu spoke, she glanced at Lin Qiao again.

After doing this several times, it was hard for Lin Qiao not to pay attention, and his eyes finally fell on Ye Minshu.

She had sensed this person's inexplicable aversion when she was at the doorstep of Ji's house. He simply looked down on her and was afraid that she was here to gain connections and get something for free. So when he introduced that Xiaoze person to her, did he always implicitly target her?

Could it be that bringing up a person whose background and education seemed better than hers, and who was more popular with the Ji family than she was, would make her feel unworthy of associating with the Ji family? Or was it because of her engagement with the Ji family?

As a sister-in-law, isn't this person's reaction too extreme?

Unless she is not the sister-in-law but the mother, the man Lin Qiao is looking for is not the one in the ward, but the Xiaoze she mentioned. She brought people here not to show off, but to assert her sovereignty.

This is not impossible. After all, the other party is Song Jing's classmate, and is obviously of marriageable age, and is more suitable in terms of seniority.

But when her friend mentioned the book to her and warned her to be careful about time travel, she never mentioned that the hero had a girlfriend before.

The man has a partner, so why should he compromise? He should just hurry up and get married. Even if Mr. Ji wanted to fulfill his promise to his old comrade, he couldn't break up his grandson's marriage and force him to marry Lin Qiao.

Lin Qiao was a little confused. Over there, Master Ji's expression had changed from surprise and confusion to an unpleasant one.

He is sick, not stupid or blind. How could he not see the little thoughts of his eldest daughter-in-law?

When the second son came before, he only said that he met Lin Qiao at the door of his house, and did not mention the eldest son's wife. But if the eldest son's wife had not seen anyone and did not know that Lin Qiao was here, why did she keep looking at Lin Qiao openly and secretly when she said these things?

This made the old man very angry and a little embarrassed. He just looked at Ye Minshu without saying a word.

He didn't say anything, and Ye Minshu gradually became unable to continue speaking. Only depression and solidification were left slowly floating in the air.

Finally, Xu Li broke the stagnation and looked up at the water bottle. "Is the treatment almost over?"

In fact, there was still some medicine left in the bottle, enough to last for about ten minutes. She mainly wanted to remind Mr. Ji that he was still sick, and to control his emotions and not let himself get angry again.

It was really embarrassing to talk about the previous topic again. After all, Lin Qiao came to her house just to discuss the marriage. As a result, Ye Minshu might not only have rejected her, but also made a scene in front of her.

Xu Li was embarrassed and apologetic. She didn't expect Lin Qiao to stand up and say, "I'll go get the nurse to remove the needle."

Is this really so real, or are you so angry that you don’t want to stay in the ward anymore?

Xu Li didn't know what to say for a moment, and Master Ji just remembered that she was still in the ward, and his anger subsided a little.

However, since the matter involved the reputation of the eldest daughter-in-law and the Ji family, some things were difficult to say in front of her. The words of keeping her company circled around in circles, but in the end, they were not spoken.

"I'll go and ask if there's anything else I should pay attention to." Ji Duo, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke.

This matter had nothing to do with him, so if he went along, it wouldn't be considered as being too disrespectful to Lin Qiao.

Old Master Ji didn't object. After the two of them left, his face darkened. "When did Xiaoze find a date? How come his family didn't know?"

"We just talked about this. I just heard about this from Ozawa as well."

Ye Minshu's eyes flickered, and she pushed Song Jing to the seat where Lin Qiao had sat before. "When the two children were still young, I never thought about it. Now that they are older, once I met them, I found that they are quite suitable in all aspects."

This move of snatching a position was quite obvious, and the old man's face became even uglier. Outside the ward, Lin Qiao did not seem to be in a hurry to go back.

She walked to the nurses' station and said, "Excuse me, comrade. The needle for the patient in bed 33 will be removed in ten minutes." Then she turned and went to the stairwell.

This reaction was clearly an attempt to find an excuse to avoid the issue.

Ji Duo was right behind her, watching her push open the window of the stairwell and look out at the treetops that were just sprouting new buds. It was unknown what she was thinking. Her expression was as calm as ever, not at all like someone who had just learned that her child marriage partner already had a partner.

Was she too calm to show her emotions, or did she not care about anything else as long as the Ji family was willing to fulfill the engagement?

Ji Duo looked at her with a deep look in his eyes. He walked to the other side of the window and asked her, "What is the specific situation at home?"

Lin Qiao didn't expect that he would suddenly ask her a question, especially about her family affairs. A hint of surprise flashed in her eyes.

She avoided them on purpose. After all, she was an outsider and it would be inconvenient for the Ji family to talk with her around.

But she obviously had something to ask when she came to him, but the man didn't even ask a single question along the way...

Without hearing Lin Qiao's words, Ji Duo glanced over and asked, "It's hard to say?"

He was not a person who liked to meddle in other people's business, but since it involved his nephew Ji Ze, he still asked a few more questions. If Ji Ze really had a partner, from the perspective of an uncle, he naturally hoped that his nephew could marry someone he liked, rather than being forced to separate.

“It’s not hard to say.”

Lin Qiao shook his head and smiled calmly, "Actually, my uncle and aunt found a date for me, and his conditions are pretty good. His father is the director of the county water pump factory, and his family has a lot of connections."

As long as you open your mouth, you can arrange jobs for people, so the conditions will naturally not be bad.

After all, after the large number of educated youth returned, there were not that many jobs available in the city. Apart from the best national workers, large and small collectives still recruited many people with urban hukou who could not find jobs, not to mention rural hukou.

If a rural hukou holder wants to work in a city, he or she must first change his or her hukou to that of an urban hukou holder.

Since the family conditions are not bad, there must be problems in other aspects. Ji Duo has a sharp eye and does not think that a girl like Lin Qiao, who has her own ideas and sense of propriety, would run away from home just to marry a family with better conditions.

Sure enough, Lin Qiao continued, "But that person is married for the second time."

A good young girl married for the second time...

Ji Duo frowned, but there was no anger in Lin Qiao's eyes, only displeasure, "If it was just a second marriage, it would be fine. He was still in my

The educated youth from our village who went to the countryside married a girl from our village the second year after he went there and had two children. Two years ago, when the educated youth returned to the city, he divorced the girl from our village in order to go back home, saying that he would divorce but not leave home, and that he would take his wife and children with him when he got a foothold in the city and got a job. As a result, he immediately turned hostile when he returned, complaining about the family planning policy in the city. The girl only gave birth to two daughters, and did not even give a penny of child support.

When the educated youth went to the countryside, they stayed there for seven or eight years. It was not certain when they would return to the city, and many of them got married there.

Unexpectedly, the policy changed again, allowing people to return, but those who were married in the local area could not return, and educated youth had to divorce each other first. Therefore, there were a lot of divorces in those two years, and there were indeed some people who divorced but did not leave their homes, and later they really brought their wives and children to the city.

But the one that Lin Shouyi and his wife found for her was obviously not the one.

"The girl from our village went to the city many times to look for him, but his family refused to recognize him. There was quite a big fuss at the time. Later, she couldn't wait any longer, so she took her child and married a man who was more than ten years older than her. Just two months after she left, the wife of the village party secretary came to introduce me to a man."

"He's already back in the city, why don't you look for him in the city?"

"It's not easy to find him. Zhao Jiaren has gone to his home and his family's workplace so many times. Many people know that he abandoned his wife and daughter."

At this point, Lin Qiao finally revealed a hint of sarcasm at the corner of his lips, "Anyway, I didn't even know that the two families had even arranged the marriage."

The original body had no parents and grew up with her grandmother. Even if she knew, she didn't dare to tell her uncle and aunt. But she was really reluctant. She hid in the quilt and cried all night. She cried so hard that her heart disease came back. The next day, Lin Qiao came back.

Lin Qiao didn't know how the original person in the book married the male protagonist, and she wasn't the type to sit and wait for death. At night, she found the letters from Mrs. Lin's belongings, spent two days recuperating, paralyzed the black-hearted couple, and fled at night.

If that man could abandon his wife and daughter once, he can do it a second time. She doesn't have any lucky mentality that the scumbag will come back to her.

What's more, the other party likes the original body because the original body is good-looking, not like the male protagonist, and can still be Liu Xiahui for a few more years.

Lin Qiaocai didn't want to marry such a scumbag, and she couldn't understand why Lin Shouye and his wife would leave the ready-made high branch of the Ji family and fall in love with the son of the director of the water pump factory. Did they not know about the child marriage at all, or was there some other reason?

Thinking about this, Lin Qiao glanced at the silent man again.

He didn't ask when he knew she had something to do, but he asked her even though he knew she had an engagement with the Ji family. It was obvious that this man didn't want to acknowledge this engagement.

From this point of view, he still looks very much like the male protagonist. Lin Qiao was wondering whether to confirm it, when footsteps approached from below, and a young man in military uniform walked up in two steps.

She subconsciously stopped talking and was about to wait until the other person left before continuing. The other person looked up and suddenly stopped, "Uncle?"

Ji Duo said "hmm" lightly, and glanced at his open collar, "Why are you back?"

The visitor noticed his look and hurriedly buttoned his shirt. "I came back to do something. I heard that Grandpa was sick, so I came to see him. Is Grandpa okay now?"

Old Master Ji lived in a military hospital, and all the doctors who came and went wore military uniforms under their white coats. But no one wore the uniform as casually as he did, with the top button unbuttoned and the bottom two buttons open, just hanging loosely on his body, revealing a small part of his chest.

If this was the Ozawa they just mentioned, Lin Qiao felt that he might... not be the male protagonist in the book.

He already had a partner, but their temperaments were so different. He looked very different from the young boy with frowned brows in the photo. They were completely different people.

She was sizing him up, and he obviously noticed her, looking back and forth between her and Ji Duo, and suddenly became probing and ambiguous, "Uncle, you're not in the ward with grandpa, but talking to someone here. This can't be your partner, right?"