Chapter 12: Autumn grasshoppers don’t jump far

Sure enough, Zhao Jiayun's loyal dog arrived after a while. He Yueyang stood behind Zhao Jiayun timidly, smiling ingratiatingly: "Jiayun, let's ignore her. It's still raining outside. Let's go back first."

Zhao Jiayun looked at the closed door, her eyes red as if someone had bullied her. "Chu Zhiqing, it's okay if you misunderstood me. I can explain to you. I think as educated youth, we should be united and friendly. If there is anything, just talk it out."

Seeing that no one in the room was talking, Zhao Jiayun lowered his eyes and complained to the people around him: "Yueyang, I don't know why, Chu Zhiqing seems to have something against me, and I don't know where I did wrong."

He Yueyang half-pulled and half-dragged Zhao Jiayun away, shouting, "You are kind, but others don't appreciate it. Let's go."

Wu Guangqian, Zhao Jiayun and several other educated youth were squatting in the kitchen, each holding a bowl in their hands, drinking hot water silently without saying a word. He Yueyang's eyes rolled around, and just as he was about to say something, the door of the educated youth institute rang.

"Is anyone there?"

Everyone looked at each other, no one wanted to open the door, but Wu Guangqian finished the hot water in his bowl in a few gulps and stood up: "I'll go."

When I opened the door, I saw a woman wearing a straw raincoat and holding a basket she had woven at home. She asked, "Is Chu Zhiqing here? I'm looking for Chu Sangning."

Wu Guangqian nodded and said, "I'll go call her."

Chu Sangning smiled when he saw the person at the door, stretched out his hand and pulled the person into the house, "Sister-in-law, it's raining so hard, it won't be too late to talk about it after the rain stops."

Pan Wenlan was afraid that her sandals would dirty Chu Sangning's room, so she refused to go in. Chu Sangning had to force her to go in.

Looking at this small room without even a spot of light, Pan Wenlan pursed her lips and was about to rush out, looking angry and looking for someone to settle a score.

Chu Sangning pulled her back with amusement, "Sister-in-law, where are you going?"

"I'm going to ask them why they let you sleep here alone. There's no light here, and the place is small. Isn't this bullying?"

"Sister-in-law, I like this place very much. It's a little small, but I don't have to live with others. It's so comfortable."

Pan Wenlan glanced at her. She was also a sent-down youth. How could she not know the situation of the sent-down youth? Everyone looked down on each other and each of them was extremely arrogant.

It's Chu Sangning, who is so stupid. I'm afraid he was sold out and is still counting money for others.

"It's raining, isn't it? Your aunt is worried that you won't have enough to eat at the Youth Hostel, so she asked me to bring you some food. Eat it while it's hot."

Pan Wenlan lifted the cloth on the basket, revealing a bowl of egg custard, a bowl of mixed noodle dumplings and a small plate of stir-fried cabbage.

Chu Sangning was flattered and said, "Sister-in-law, I'm not hungry. You can take it back and give it to Pan An."

Pan Wenlan grabbed Chu Sangning's wrist and said softly, "Don't worry about Pan An. He has already eaten. You eat first, or I won't leave."

As he said this, he stuffed a bowl of egg custard into Chu Sangning's hand.

After eating a bowl of egg custard, Chu Sangning was completely full. He shook his head and said he couldn't eat any more.

"Sister-in-law, I don't want to eat anymore. I'm full. I'm really full."

Seeing that Chu Sangning really couldn't eat anymore, Pan Wenlan gave up the idea of ​​feeding him and said, "It's raining now, so you don't have to work in the fields. Just rest well in the house."

"Okay, sister-in-law, go slowly, be careful of the slippery ground."

After Pan Wenlan left, Chu Sangning was about to close the door when a figure rushed in front of her like Niu Yi and asked, "What did you just do?"

"He, the educated youth, you and that guy are really two toads, one is more capable than the other. Why should I report to you for what I did? Who are you?"

"You, how can you talk like that? Try saying it again." He Yueyang's face was darker than the bottom of a pot in the kitchen, and he was so angry that smoke came out of his nostrils.

Zhao Jiayun was just watching the joke at first, but when he heard Chu Sangning mocking him as a toad, he could no longer sit still.

With a pale face, he walked up to Chu Sangning with grievance, "Chu Zhiqing, did you misunderstand something?"

Chu Sangning opened her mouth in surprise and tilted her head in a naive way, "Oh, Zhao Zhiqing is about to cry, what did I say?"

Zhao Jiayun clenched her hands at her side until her knuckles turned white. Chu Sangning had indeed not mentioned her by name, so now that she had jumped out on her own, it was exactly what she had wished for.

She didn't say anything, and her loyal lackey was anxious and angry, "You said Jiayun was a toad, Chu Sangning, why are you so arrogant? We are all educated youth, what's so great about you?"

He Yueyang disliked Chu Sangning from the first moment they met. They were both educated youth, but Chu Sangning was well-dressed and well-fed. He only asked her for a candy, but she was stingy and refused to give it to him.

Chu Sangning said nothing, but glanced at He Yueyang calmly. Seeing the jealousy in his eyes, Chu Sangning chuckled, "It's nothing special. I just live better than you."

He Yueyang was like a cat whose tail was stepped on and its fur stood up. He was panicking and said, "Who knows where you got these things from? You are so pretty, how could you be a prostitute?"

To put it bluntly, the women in the brothel are prostitutes who sell their bodies.

The smile in Chu Sangning's eyes gradually faded, replaced by contempt and ridicule. She didn't rush to explain, and said in a cold voice: "I, Chu Sangning, am upright and honest, but you know so much about it. Is there anyone in your family who does this?"

She managed to change the subject to He Yueyang. Chu Sangning always believed that making up dirty rumors about girls was the most shameful thing, but if someone insisted on doing so, then Chu Sangning would not give them face.

Sure enough, He Yueyang got furious after hearing this. He pointed at Chu Sangning and couldn't say a word. He opened his mouth to defend himself but didn't know what to say, "You...you..."

"What do you mean by 'I'? Don't jump around in front of me." Chu Sangning always scolded people gently, but his words were full of thorns: "The grasshopper won't jump around for long before it's gone."

After much persuasion from Wu Guangqian, Zhao Jiayun helped He Yueyang, who was about to faint from anger, back to the house with a dark face.

He Yueyang lay on the bed and cried, and Zhao Jiayun had no time to pay attention to her. She thought about her performance in front of Aunt Luo in the past few days and that Luo Yiping would become the richest man in the future.

Zhao Jiayun could no longer sit still, fearing that the man she liked would be snatched away by someone else, so she changed into nice clothes, took an oil-paper bag from the cupboard, and hurried out.

He Yueyang watched Zhao Jiayun walk away with tears in her eyes. After the people left, she smelled the fragrance lingering in the air, wiped her tears and walked towards Zhao Jiayun's counter.

After hesitating for a moment, he gently reached out his hand and opened the unlocked cabinet...