In the end, Lu Nong couldn't bear to tell Pei Zheng the cruel truth, so Pei Zheng brought his son to school almost every day afterwards.

When Zaizai was only two years old, he had already started auditing university courses and became the darling of the law department, earning the title of the youngest auditor.

Later, Pei Zheng's classmates and professors learned about Zaizai's ability to remember everything he saw. They tried to observe him in class and found that the boy learned very well. The university courses actually became an enlightenment course for the boy.

Time flies, and it's the end of the semester in a blink of an eye.

Lu Nong finished all the final exams for his junior and senior years in one go and achieved top marks in both grades. He successfully completed his undergraduate studies in one year and will graduate with this year's seniors.

Cheng Duoduo was happier than she was when she got first place in the grade. She said to Lu Nong excitedly, "You didn't see how those people reacted when they saw that you were the top two students in the grade. Their eyes almost popped out of their heads."

After the exam, the results will be posted publicly on the bulletin board, so you can see at a glance who got how many points.

"These people should be properly disciplined, so that they know that there are always people better than you, and stop gossiping about others every day."

Cheng Duoduo did well in the exam this time, ranking third in the grade. Studying hard with Lu Nong this year made her understand a truth: if you don’t have talent, you can make up for it with hard work, but never laugh at people who work hard. What if they are both hardworking and talented, wouldn’t you be the one who will be embarrassed in the end?

The other three people in the dormitory also got good grades in the exam this time, but they would avoid Lu Nong if they could, and since they couldn't avoid her, they behaved like little chicks in front of her.

——They were really scared of Lu Nong, especially Jiang Zhenzhen. She was assigned the heaviest workload and had endless studying, but she did not dare to resist Lu Nong's tyranny.

She had no choice but to study every day and every night. She had no time to dress up, no time to socialize, and even no time to eat properly. She became pale and thin. The originally pretty, decent and tender girl was turned into a crazy woman with messy hair and unkempt appearance.

There was no chance to slack off. Every day, the devil Lu Nong would randomly pick a few questions to ask Jiang Zhenzhen during mealtimes. If she couldn't answer them, it would be terrible. Lu Nong would sigh and shake his head, "It seems that you are not apologizing sincerely."

What will be the consequences of not making a sincere apology... Lu Nong will mention her husband who holds a high position.

Jiang Zhenzhen: “…” Died.

After learning for a few days, Zhang Shuying and Wang Zhu realized that the progress and intensity were not at the level of a normal person, so they just ignored it.

Only Jiang Zhenzhen had no way to go to heaven or to the earth. She broke down and cried, begging Lu Nong for forgiveness.

She only now realized that Lu Nong had no good intentions in arranging her schedule; it was a punishment!

Seeing that Jiang Zhenzhen had been in dire straits in the past few months and had indeed had a hard time, and that she knew she was wrong, Lu Nong generously forgave her and blamed her for not telling him earlier, telling her to take care of her health in the future.

Since Lu Nong said this in front of everyone, everyone found out that Lu Nong not only studied hard himself, but also took the trouble to arrange the course progress for three roommates from different majors, supervise their studies, and lead them to make progress together.

Everyone was deeply moved by Lu Nong's generous spirit.

Jiang Zhenzhen: “…”

Lu Nong's good reputation spread throughout the school in a few days, and even the principal knew about it. After knowing this, the principal handled the Zhao Shucheng incident with greater caution and severity.

He heard that Pei Zheng and Lu Nong were both good students who focused on their studies and didn't care about anything else outside, but such students were envied and slandered.

If no explanation is given and justice is not served, it will have a negative impact on the school and other students and cause students to have wrong perceptions, which is a result that the principal does not want to see.

This triggered a series of chain reactions. The principal issued instructions again, requiring that the Zhao Shucheng incident be dealt with seriously. After hearing the instructions, the teachers who handled Zhao Shucheng became more meticulous.

This investigation was not a big deal. He found that Zhao Shucheng did not quite match the photo in the Education Bureau's files. The person in the photo had a mole on his face, but Zhao Shucheng did not have it.

When the teacher saw Zhao Shucheng's elder brother, who was accompanying Zhao Shucheng, when they met Zhao Shucheng's father, he was stunned. How come this man looked exactly like the photo in the file? He had a mole on his face.

After asking, I found out that his real name was Zhao Shucheng, and the "Zhao Shucheng" in the school was actually named Zhao Shuxiu, who was the younger brother of the real Zhao Shucheng.

Zhen Zhao Shucheng and Zhao Shuxiu are three years apart in age and are half brothers. In order to save money and allow the older brother to take care of the younger brother, their biological father and stepmother delayed the older brother for three years. Only when the younger brother was old enough to go to school did they send the two brothers to school together. As a result, brothers of different ages went to school together and took college entrance exams together.

After the two brothers went to school, the elder brother studied very well, while the younger brother studied poorly. Unexpectedly, when the college entrance examination results came out, the elder brother failed, while the younger brother was admitted to Peking University. Although the whole family felt sorry for the elder brother, they were more proud of the younger brother for being admitted to the best school in the country.

The elder brother failed to get into college, and went to work as an apprentice in a factory with his biological father. The fate of the two men was about to diverge. One of them would have a bright future, while the other would live a mediocre life like his fathers.

It was an accident that my brother was able to come to school this time. When the letter from the school came, my stepmother happened to go back to her parents' home to visit her sick mother. The school also gave two train tickets in the letter, saying that the matter was extremely urgent. In order not to waste the money for the tickets, my father gritted his teeth and brought my brother to Beijing.

Before I could even ask my second son what happened at school, I was stunned by what the teacher said.

What? The second son Shu Xiu impersonated the eldest son Shu Cheng to go to college?

“Impossible!” Mr. Zhao’s first reaction was that it was impossible. How could his second son be so capable?

But then he thought about his second son's poor grades in the past, and that his wife was a teacher and her family had some connections in the Education Bureau, and he suddenly became uncertain.

After hearing what the teacher said, Zhen Zhao Shucheng's eyes quickly turned red, and even the look he gave his father was filled with hatred.

The teacher looked sympathetic and said to the real Zhao Shucheng, "Don't worry, what's yours is yours, and no one can take it away from you!"

Turning his head and frowning at Zhao's father, he said, "You said that the person in school was called Zhao Shuli, not Zhao Shucheng. Look, it's clearly written on the admission letter that the person who was admitted to the university is Zhao Shucheng."

Father Zhao did not dare to look at his eldest son, and stammered, "I was wrong. My son's name is Zhao Shucheng. I was wrong."

He knew that if he protected his second son, he would be doing an injustice to his eldest son. But things had come to this point. If he did not protect his second son, his second son's life would be ruined. He was a man of flesh and blood. How could he bear to do that? At worst, he could do his best to compensate his eldest son in the future.

The teacher felt even more sympathetic towards the real Zhao Shucheng. How could there be such a father? He slammed the table and said, "You can call him whatever you want? Is this school owned by your family? You can let whichever son you want to study come to school?"

"Just wait, this matter is no longer your own problem. It involves your local education bureau and high school. The school must find out who is behind this and who replaced whom!"

Mr. Zhao was so frightened by the teacher that he shrank his head and trembled. The 1.80-meter-tall man looked cowardly and incompetent, and his eldest son turned his eyes away.

The fake Zhao Shucheng's slander of others was put aside for the time being. The teacher quickly replaced the fake Zhao Shucheng and reported the appearance of the real Zhao Shucheng to the principal.

The principal was furious after hearing this and reported it to the General Administration of Education overnight. The General Administration of Education sent a telegram to the local education bureau where Zhao Shucheng lived, ordering it to investigate the incident involving student Zhao Shucheng.

It is easy to cover up some things, but it is also easy to mobilize the state machinery to investigate.

The truth was discovered in less than three days.

The truth is very simple. Zhao Shucheng's stepmother is a teacher, and there is an elder in her family who works in the Education Bureau. The two of them teamed up to intercept Zhao Shucheng's admission letter, and falsely announced to the outside world that it was Zhao Shuxiu who was admitted to Peking University. They asked Zhao Shu to change his name to Zhao Shucheng and go to college in Beijing with the admission letter.

During this process, the admission letter never passed through Zhao Shucheng's hands. When Zhao's father wanted to see it, his stepmother rejected it with various reasons, not to mention letting Zhao Shucheng take a look at it.

After the truth was revealed, the fake Zhao Shucheng was expelled from the school and returned to his hometown in disgrace with his father. The real Zhao Shucheng had a complete falling out with his father and stayed in Beijing to study. The school arranged accommodation for him and allowed him to attend classes with the freshmen next year. Everything was considered a happy ending.

Lu Nong heard the whole process of the twists and turns from Pei Zheng, and also heard the sequel: after the fake Zhao Shucheng, that is, Zhao Shuxiu, was exposed, he refused to leave the dormitory and was finally dragged out of the dormitory by Zhao's father who was completely humiliated.

Pei Zheng said with relish: "Zhao Shucheng, ah, Zhao Shuxiu has grown tall and strong. Zhao Shuxiu's father is taller than him. He dragged him out of the school like a chicken, and Zhao Shuxiu didn't even dare to fart. That scene, wow, it seems that all the sons in the country are afraid of me."

Lu Nong didn't take it seriously. If the father had really educated his son well, how could his son be like that? He dared to do such a thing as taking away his brother's good life. He must have been conditioned at home and not taught well.

"The most pitiful one is the real Zhao Shucheng. Zhao Shuxiu used Zhao Shucheng's name to pick up girls everywhere and did all kinds of bad things. Now that he is gone, the name Zhao Shucheng has become a bad name."

Pei Zheng sighed for Zhao Shucheng. If Zhao Shuxiu had not gotten into trouble this time, four years later, Zhao Shuxiu would have become the real Zhao Shucheng, and the real Zhao Shucheng would never know that he had been admitted to the best university and had the opportunity to experience a different life.

All I can say is that good deeds will be rewarded and evil deeds will be punished. It’s not that there is no retribution, it’s just that the time has not come yet. You will have to pay back what you owe to others eventually.

After the Zhao Shucheng incident came to an end, the Shen family's affairs were also settled.

Shen Congnian was expelled from the party, but considering that he had made great military contributions during the War of Resistance against Japan at the risk of his life, his merits and demerits could not offset each other, so he was spared and sent to the most difficult farm for life-long labor reform.

All his subordinates whom he had protected were investigated one by one, and dealt with impartially. According to the severity of their mistakes, those who deserved to be shot were shot, those who deserved to be suspended were suspended, and those who deserved to be expelled were expelled.

Shen's mother divorced her father, and she took her daughter Shen Yimei back to their hometown in Yazhou. Shen Yimei didn't want to leave, so Shen Yiming hired someone to force her onto the train.

Just as Pei Ji'an had expected, Shen Yiming requested a transfer to the south. Due to the hasty transfer, the couple left before the Chinese New Year was over.

The only member of the Shen family left in Beijing is Shen Jiming, who is still studying at university.

Pei Zheng finally found out about the Shen family. After the final exams, he completed two years of courses. Although his grades were not as amazing as Lu Nong's, they were still dazzling enough. He was showing off to Grandma Wu when Pei Jinan called him into the study.

After talking for a few hours, Pei Zheng knew everything. When he came out, his eyes were red and he was confused. His grandfather was reported by his grandmother and his father was involved. But his father would do this, and it was also related to the evil deeds done by his mother and uncle more than ten years ago. His grandfather protected and threatened his father...

Pei Zheng didn't know who to blame, as if he had no right to blame anyone.

No wonder his father had been distant from him since he was a child, even... indifferent to him. It turned out that he had been a symbol of shame to his father from the very beginning. That was how it was.

Pei Zheng was listless for several days until the day when his grandmother and mother left for their hometown. He then got up from bed, threw on some clothes, and went to the train station.

On the train, Shen Yimei was being watched and unable to move. When she saw Pei Zheng coming, she struggled to shout out of the window as if she had seen a savior: "Pei Zheng, please come and save me. Go and beg grandma to let me go. I don't want to go back to Yazhou. If I leave, you will never see mom again."

"Pei Zheng, can you bear to watch them tie up my mother? You are a college student, you should know that this is an infringement of my personal freedom, tell them quickly!"

Pei Zheng looked at her sadly. Until now she still didn't understand that her grandmother wanted to take her back to her hometown to protect her. The Shen family fell, but their enemies did not. In addition, her grandfather had many grievances from shielding his subordinates over the years, and these people were eyeing the Shen family covetously.

Her grandmother and uncle have both left, and if Pei Jinan doesn't protect her, if Shen Yimei is the only one left in Beijing, these people will not spare any effort to retaliate against her.

Seeing that Pei Zheng was unmoved, Pei Zheng's grandmother sighed with relief, touched Pei Zheng's head, and said with tears in her eyes, "You are very good. These years, grandma blamed you for not being close to your mother and the Shen family, and was always cold and indifferent to you. Only now do I realize that I was wrong. I am glad that you are not close to the Shen family and us."

"Your father taught you very well. Don't blame him. He did more than enough."

"Let's go, let's go back, the train is about to leave, listen to your father and go to Yazhou to see grandma when you have the chance."

Pei Zheng's grandmother waved with tears in her eyes, and the train headed south, leaving Pei Zheng alone there.

After returning home, Pei Zheng buried himself in the pillow, tears streaming down his face. He was only sixteen years old, and even if he was mentally mature, he was still an underage boy.

Almost overnight, the world turned upside down, the Shen family went bankrupt, his grandmother, uncle and mother left him. What he was most proud of was being Pei Ji'an's son, but his birth was accompanied by dirtiness. Pei Zheng began to doubt life and himself.

He didn't dare go out, didn't dare see his biological father, and didn't dare see Lu Nong, for fear that she would laugh at him and look down on him.

Lu Nong ignored him at first. It was too much of a blow and the child needed some time to accept it. But Pei Zheng stayed in bed for several days without going out. He must have gotten sick.

After using both the cub attack and the white attack to no avail, Lu Nong became impatient and kicked open Pei Zheng's door, "Pei Zheng, get up quickly and accompany me to inspect the work unit."

After Lu Nong graduated, some of her teachers and professors at school suggested that she continue to prepare for the postgraduate entrance examination, and some recommended jobs to her. In addition, because Lu Nong had very good grades, several state-owned enterprises extended olive branches to her.

It was impossible to continue going to school. 1965 had already arrived, and 1966 was not far away. Lu Nong wanted to leave this place of trouble as soon as possible, and he also urged Pei Zheng to study hard. How could he continue to prepare for the postgraduate entrance examination?

Lu Nong really wanted to tell the professors everything that was going to happen in the future, but she couldn't. She could only hint at it in private as a way of repaying the professors for their unremitting efforts in cultivating her.

Fortunately, there were a few professors who were quite sensitive and, having experienced the labor movement in the countryside over the past 50 years, they all became interested.

As for the others, they can only take it one step at a time and see what happens when the time comes.

Back to work, after receiving Olive's call, Lu Nong decided to make a field investigation before making a decision. He arrested Pei Zhengzhuang Ding with a clear conscience, under the pretext of taking him to relax.

Pei Zheng: "..." Thank you!

Although he looked reluctant, for some reason, Pei Zheng felt relieved in his heart and was willing to accompany Lu Nong out for the first time.

The author has something to say:

Pei Zheng: Another day when I was moved by my stepmother.

Lu Nong: No need to thank me. Hehe, it’s another day to catch Pei Zhengzhuangding.