Chapter 212
Qiu Wen also felt aggrieved. Why did her father not let her go back to her parents' home for no reason?
"I don't know what kind of drug my sister-in-law gave my father and my eldest brother. My niece-in-law is in confinement after giving birth, and I can't even go to her house to visit her."
Qiu Wen complained to Ronghua.
Ronghua felt contempt in her heart. Her sister-in-law suffered from the fact that she was not raised by her biological father. Such an aunt from such a good family behaved worse than the niece-in-law from a small place she mentioned.
Even though I've only met Zhou Jiani twice, and those encounters weren't pleasant, I can tell at a glance whether a person speaks and behaves in a generous or petty manner.
Of course, this was just her judgment in her mind. She also couldn't like Zhou Jiani, who had ruined her own plans.
But Ronghua was counting on his sister-in-law to help him connect the dots, so he had to agree, "Sister-in-law, don't be angry. Maybe I've gotten you into trouble. I shouldn't have asked you to ask your grandfather that day."
In fact, if it were her, she would also prefer the more promising Qiu Zeming rather than the not-at-all-generous Qiu Zexun.
Qiu Wen and Qiu Zexun, the aunt and niece, were simply delayed by the deceased old lady Qiu.
The aunt and sister-in-law went straight to Hua University while talking.
Fortunately, she accidentally attended Zhou Jiani's graduation banquet. Although she didn't give a red envelope, it did not prevent her from hearing them discuss Zhou Jiani's major at the banquet.
Department of Economics, what is the Department of Economics?
Qiu Wen still didn't figure it out until she stepped into the gate of Hua University.
Qiu Wen, who was used to being noisy outside, shrank like a quail from the moment she stepped into the school gate.
Even though no one would stop her from entering or say anything unpleasant to her at this top university in the country, Qiu Wen still felt inexplicably short of breath.
Ronghua was fine. He stopped a student and asked how to get to the Economics Department. When he got to the dormitory, he found out that the students were all in class. He then asked the dormitory manager about the classrooms and found his way there.
When Zhou Jiani came out of the classroom with her roommates, carrying her schoolbag, she saw Qiu Wen and Ronghua waiting there.
"Xiao Zhou, come quickly." Seeing Zhou Jiani, Qiu Wen finally breathed a sigh of relief, but also a little annoyed, "Why are you taking so long to come out?"
After class, Zhou Jiani chatted with Tian Yuan and others about what the professor had said, and came out a few minutes later than the other students.
"Aunt, why are you here?" Zhou Jiani asked Tian Yuan and the others to go back first, walked over quickly, and nodded to Ronghua.
I have a vague idea in my mind.
Just as Qiu Wen was about to speak, Rong Hua smiled and said, "Comrade Xiao Zhou, I didn't expect we were so destined to meet."
Ronghua had told Qiu Wen about the conflict with Zhou Jiani. Qiu Wen was still very unhappy, thinking that Zhou Jiani was sharp-tongued. Now she said, "It's really like a flood that has washed away the Dragon King Temple. Family members don't recognize each other anymore. This is your aunt Rong. Don't treat her like an elder in the future."
Ronghua quickly glared at Qiu Wen and said to Zhou Jiani with a smile, "Xiao Zhou, your aunt is a straightforward person, please don't mind it."
One played the good cop and the other the bad cop, and the two of them worked together quite well, but Zhou Jiani didn't want to hear any of this at all. She smiled and asked, "Auntie, what do you want to talk to me about? I have classes later..."
While speaking, she raised her wrist to look at her watch to express that she was in a hurry and hoped that they would explain their purpose as soon as possible so that she could refuse and leave.
Ronghua was a little disappointed. She also hoped that Zhou Jiani could take them to visit the campus, talk while walking, and get more information.
I came in a hurry and forgot to calculate the time.
Qiu Wen said, "Xiao Zhou, we will be a family sooner or later, so I won't beat around the bush with you. Do you know..." She forgot the name of Ronghua's teacher and turned to look at her sister-in-law.
Ronghua took over and said with a smile: "Xiao Zhou, we met at Teacher Fu's house before. There is a misunderstanding between Teacher Fu and me. Can you help to mediate it or find a way for me to meet with Teacher Fu?"
Zhou Jiani raised her wrist to check her watch again. Her obvious urging made Qiu Wen feel a little flustered. She spoke in an urgent tone, a little reckless. She grabbed Zhou Jiani's wrist and said, "Xiao Zhou, help your aunt Rong. Ask your aunt Rong to buy you new clothes later. If her teacher doesn't agree, see if you can find a way to bring them out. As long as your aunt Rong and uncle meet them, it will be easy..."
Ronghua disagreed with Qiu Wen's statement. Although she had planned this as well, why did she say it so directly? Oh, by the way, she hadn't asked Zhou Jiani about her relationship with Teacher Fu.
"Xiao Zhou, Teacher Fu is you..."
Zhou Jiani finally managed to force the two of them to speak in one breath, then pulled her hand back and said with an apologetic smile, "To be honest, that was my first time visiting Teacher Fu, and our friendship isn't as deep as you might think, so I'm afraid I can't help you with this. I'm truly sorry, aunts. I have to go back and prepare the materials for class. Bye."
She guessed that this was the case, but she didn't expect it to be true.
After Zhou Jiani finished speaking, she turned around and left without any hesitation, which made Qiu Wen very angry.
Qiu Wen felt that Zhou Jiani was incompetent and did not give Ronghua any face at all. She was simply uncultured.
"This damn girl, does she have any manners?" Qiu Wen waited until Zhou Jiani left before she realized that she had been humiliated by a junior. Her face flushed with shame and anger, and she said angrily.
Before coming, she clearly felt that this was a sure thing, and she never thought that she would be rejected by Zhou Jiani.
Ronghua also felt embarrassed: "Your future niece-in-law..." is really not a good-tempered person.
Qiu Wen gritted her teeth and said, "It would be strange if I let such a shabby girl into the Qiu family."
She can't do anything about her own old father and elder brother, so how can she not control a little girl?
Zhou Jiani returned to the dormitory. Actually, she only had one class this morning, and her roommates were waiting for her to come back and go to the library together. Zhou Jiani put down her things and took her lunch box so that she could go directly to the cafeteria from the library to get food.
She would definitely not get involved in Ronghua's affairs. Since she had made up her mind to make them give up, she couldn't refuse too softly, so as to avoid them coming back to pester her.
But speaking harshly is indeed not pleasing, but fortunately she has no intention of pleasing Qiu Wen.
But this might completely offend Qiu Wen. I wonder if she will ask the Qiu family to intervene.
Zhou Jiani sighed. Even if the elders of the Qiu family really took care of this matter, she would stick to this bottom line and would probably refuse politely.
Not to mention that she is just dating Qiu Zeming now, even if they get married in the future, she will not be without her own subjective consciousness and persistence.
The weekend came again. Zhou Jiani gave Zhai Hong a ten-yuan deposit. Zhai Hong even confirmed with her, "Can you really take that much?"
Zhou Jiani smiled and said, "Why, you're reluctant?"
Zhai Hong rolled her eyes at her and said, "I'll have to ask my mom how many I can bring this time. It would be too conspicuous to leave it to you at school. How about I come over early this weekend afternoon and we meet up at the Summer Palace?"
Zhou Jiani nodded: "Okay, I'll be there around three in the afternoon this weekend."
Zhai Hong returned home, and Zhou Jiani did not go to Qiu's house again. Apart from the fact that she had just been there last weekend, she also took the time to have lunch at Qiu Zexun's son's third birthday ceremony a few days ago. She agreed with Aunt Du that she would not go there this weekend.
It was not easy to throw the clothes into the washing machine, so she took the basin and went to wash clothes with Liu Guixiang and the others. After washing the clothes, she read a book in the dormitory for a while, and then a classmate from the next dormitory called her: "Someone is looking for you downstairs."
Zhou Jiani ran out of the dormitory and took a look, and saw Meng Wen, who was holding a net bag with two oil paper balls in it. She didn't know what was wrapped in it.
"Teacher Meng."
Meng Wen smiled and said, "We are all students now. If I call you teacher on campus, people will easily misunderstand me as a university teacher. I have to explain to them every time. I am a few years older than you. You can call me sister."
Zhou Jiani smiled and said, "You were my serious high school teacher, how could I not acknowledge you? However, to reduce misunderstandings, I shamelessly changed my words. But in my heart, you are still my most beloved teacher, Sister Wen!"
Zhou Jiani was really happy to see Meng Wen. She had originally wanted to go to the Foreign Languages College to find Meng Wen, but this week she was looking at houses and had a banquet at Qiu's house. The dormitory leader was afraid that she would not do her job properly and would delay her studies, so he kept a close eye on her. Every day except for classes, she either studied in the library or read in the dormitory. She didn't feel comfortable riding her bike to the Foreign Languages College again.
Meng Wen was also happy and said with a smile: "Do you have time to take me to visit your school?"
"Of course, Sister Wen, wait for me to go up and put on some more clothes."
It was windy today, so she wore a long-sleeved shirt in the dormitory. She only felt a little cold after showering.
As she turned to go upstairs, Meng Wen stuffed the net bag in her hand into Zhou Jiani's hand and said with a smile, "I went to my aunt's house this morning and brought you some sugar triangles and steamed buns, as well as some snacks. You can usually fill your stomach."
Zhou Jiani didn't act pretentiously: "Thank you, Sister Wen."
After going upstairs and saying goodbye to her roommate, Zhou Jiani put on a coat and came back down to accompany Meng Wen around the campus.
Meng Wen went to her aunt's house early in the morning. Unless there were special circumstances, she would go there every week to help tidy up the house and cook. When she heard her aunt say that Zhou Jiani had been there last week, she also asked her to come to her house to make dumplings this Sunday. She was worried that Zhou Jiani would be embarrassed to go, so she asked her to come over and invite her again.
"Thank you for what you did last week. Otherwise, my aunt wouldn't be able to handle those bugs alone."
Zhou Jiani felt a little embarrassed. Although she didn't want to, that bug was indeed somehow involved with her. She didn't hide it and told her about the relationship between Ronghua and the Qiu family. She also mentioned that they had come to see her and she had rejected them.
Meng Wen was also a little surprised: "This world really is a small one."
I was also a little worried that Zhou Jiani's in-laws would be unhappy.
Zhou Jiani thought for a moment before saying, "I've thought about it carefully. I think other than Aunt Qiu, no one else would be willing to get involved in this kind of thing. As long as I stick to my own attitude, I think Zeming's parents and grandfather will respect my opinion. I don't know about other people, and of course, other people are not important."
Meng Wen was relieved and said, "If you need any help from me, please don't hesitate to ask me."
Zhou Jiani took Meng Wen's arm and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I'm thick-skinned. If I really need your help, I won't be polite at all..."
After skipping over the matter of Ronghua and his wife, the two of them really started chatting. Meng Wen was also grateful to Zhou Jiani for the information she sent her, which was really helpful.
The two of them talked about the review before the college entrance examination, the inner confusion when applying for college, the ups and downs after the exam, and then to what happened after reporting for school. They chatted so happily that time passed quickly and Meng Wen had to hurry back to eat.
Zhou Jiani originally wanted to treat her to a meal in the cafeteria, but Meng Wen waved her hand and said, "My aunt and uncle are waiting for me at home. Don't forget to go over and make dumplings for me tomorrow."
She repeatedly reminded me not to bring anything with me. Meng Wen smiled and said, "My uncle told me to tell you that if you bring anything with you, don't come in."
Zhou Jiani smiled and waved her hand: "Don't worry, I'm just thinking about the dumplings tomorrow."
After watching Meng Wen ride away on her bike, Zhou Jiani returned to the dormitory.
Meng Wen gave her three steamed buns, two sugar triangles and a bag of peach cakes.
Zhou Jiani originally wanted to share some with the others, but no one was willing to accept it, so she said, "Your friend brought it to you, so just eat it yourself. Let's go to the cafeteria to eat."
Everyone's food rations are tight, so they wouldn't be so tactless as to give Zhou Jiani special treatment.
The other people in the dormitory went to the cafeteria to eat, but Zhou Jiani stayed in the dormitory and ate two buns and a sugar triangle, which she kept for two nights.
The next morning, Zhou Jiani rode her bike to Professor Fu's house. She felt embarrassed to go empty-handed, so she thought about taking some eggs from the warehouse so that Professor Fu wouldn't really kick her out.
As a result, she saw an old lady carrying a basket on the road with a few toon shoots sticking out of it. Zhou Jiani went up to her and asked her in a very subtle way if she wanted to sell them.
Of course she was selling them. The old lady was heading towards the alley where she usually shipped goods. Unexpectedly, she had sold those bundles of toon sprouts before she even reached the alley.
Zhou Jiani was happy, and the old lady was also happy. The two of them completed the transaction in a secretive manner.
If you bring eggs to the door, even if you are not kicked out, you will at least be scolded. But the rare and delicious toon sprouts are probably also rare for the two elders, and Zhou Jiani has an excuse.
There were six small bundles in total, all fresh and tender. Zhou Jiani divided them into two, took three bundles to Professor Fu, and sent the remaining three bundles to Aunt Du in the afternoon.
As expected, when Professor Fu opened the door and saw that she was holding something, he was about to glare at her when Zhou Jiani said with a smile, "Professor Fu, this thing is fresh. Wait a year before it expires. I'm not here to give you a gift. I'm just thinking about your eggs. Let's add a dish."
Professor Fu didn't expect that Zhou Jiani brought toon buds. This thing is relatively easy to find in the countryside, but it is really rare in the city. When Zhou Jiani swung it around, he could smell the fragrance of toon. He swallowed his saliva in frustration, and the glare he gave her lost its majesty.
Yao Huizhen came out of the house and wanted to scold her, but when she heard that Zhou Jiani also wanted to eat, she said with a mixture of laughter and tears: "You kid..."
But what Zhou Jiani said was true. The old couple both loved the fresh food like toon sprouts.
Meng Wen was already chopping the stuffing. She leaned over and said with a smile, "You ignored what I said yesterday."
Zhou Jiani rolled up her sleeves and went over to help, saying with a smile, "You might as well say I'm gluttonous."
She was busy making dumplings at Fu's house, but Du Yunxin came to school and found nothing.
After hearing from her roommate that Zhou Jiani went to visit her former teacher's home, Du Yunxin was wondering, Jiani's former teacher is in the capital?
She smiled gently and said, "Then please tell Jiani that I will come over tomorrow at noon."
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