Chapter 233

After sending Yamamoto off, the festival’s Tensenkyo was sung until 2:00 a.m. before the play was dismissed.

–It couldn’t be helped! Many of the villagers heard that the students were singing a free opera, so they went home and ate dinner and slept before rushing to listen to the free opera with their children and elders in tow.

Yang Yuyan side to send away the Japanese is also finished with the intention of closing the stalls, the villagers are not happy, standing under the stage to stop the singing students do not let go, they said they came to listen to the Tianxian match.

Yang Yuyan wiped his face, to the singing students a person added a chicken leg as a midnight snack, so that they sing the Tianxian match and then close the stall.

After the singing students ate the chicken leg had to powder again, Yang adulterer went home to sleep.

Getting up the next morning, she first went to find Principal Tang,intending to continue with today’s square.

“The festival is all set for three days.” Ms. Yang said.

Principal Tang was sitting at the breakfast table eating fried eggs with soybean milk and fries, hearing this, he brushed his chest and went back to the house to lie in bed.

“Mr. Yang, you worked hard yesterday, so take a break today, everyone needs to take a break too.”

Principal Tang pretended to be sick, and asked Yang to leave.

It’s enough to organize the festival for one day!

Ms. Yang was so addicted to making money that she couldn’t extricate herself and wanted to gather the students of the Charity Foundation together again to present her case upwards.

Unexpectedly, she found the foundation, empty.

To find the dormitory, all the students are bedridden.

With the exception of Yang, who was in high spirits from earning money, most of the mortals were a bit weak today after yesterday’s hard work.

Yang encouraged them, “We are here to help everyone, for the foundation! As long as we have two more days of festivals, we’ll be able to make more money!”

Unfortunately, the spiritual encouragement was no match for the physical hard work, and none of the students continued to respond to her message, “If we make money, we can help others, and if we make more money, we can help more people.

Yang traitors can not pull the strong, can only helplessly go back to class.

After class, he went to the foundation to do some math to see how much money he had made yesterday.

All the money collected was gathered on a table, four female students plus a male student whose family is a bookkeeper were counting while dialing the abacus.

After deducting the cost of the materials we had to pay for, and omitting the cost of labor – all volunteers – the rest was all profit.

Yesterday, all the stalls combined earned a total of six hundred and ninety-two dollars!

Yang Yuyan put this figure in bold and capital letters on the Foundation’s blackboard, excitedly mobilizing everyone, “One day is 692 yuan, two days is 1,500 yuan! Three days is two thousand! Students! We have to work hard to earn money!”

The students at the bottom muttered in whispers.

“It’s in the family.”

“That’s genetic.”

“I heard that Mr. Yang wants to change his last name to Zhu.”

“What I’ve heard is that Ms. Yang should have been surnamed Zhu, when her parents got married they said that the second son would be surnamed Zhu.”

Yang Yuyan didn’t understand, how come after two days many people called her “Zhu”, and her wanting to change her surname was known by everyone so quickly? She agreed with a smile and wrote “Zhu Yuyan” instead of “Yang Yuyan” in her homework book.

Although everyone had changed their name to Zhu, they were reluctant to organize another festival. In the past, people thought it was not good to let Mr. Su donate money alone, but now they all think it is not bad, and the foundation needs such passionate people to survive!

Although everyone was not happy to continue doing business to make money, the fact that everyone was good at a variety of skills was still seen by the folks in the neighborhood, and finally! Someone came to them to learn the skills!

The students who ran the learning class were in tears.

They all thought it was impossible to run a learning class, but they did not expect to run a festival, but it became an advertisement for enrollment by mistake.

It turned out that no one used to believe that the students really knew these things, they all thought they were bluffing.

The study class finally welcomed its first batch of students, and although there were only a few, a good start trumped everything.

The Foundation’s students are all swarming to get the study class again, no one with Yang traitors to make money together.

Yang traitors can not cheat people, so they have to lay down the flag, the next time to say.

As it happens, she also has a big thing to consider.

What Yamamoto said last time scared her, and she realized that being too flashy wasn’t a good thing, and no, the big coyote had his eye on her.

But luckily the world still had a silver lining for her.

Even in Japan, married women don’t have to work by default. In Japan and China, where husband’s rights were sometimes greater than father’s rights, it was a well-established social truism that married women were owned by their husbands.

The best way to completely reject Yamamoto and avoid being tied down to study in Japan was to get married in a hurry.

Yang Yuyan thought of this idea almost immediately, but when it came to saying it out loud, she hesitated.

She was worried that it would break Mr. Su’s heart.

The two of them should be united out of love, not to avoid the Japanese.

So, she agonized over it for days without saying anything.

It just so happened that her own mother also had something she planned to say to scare her child.

Last time, Zhu Yanshu saw Yang Yuyan’s great potential in inviting trouble and deeply realized her own lack of ability.

She was not an arrogant woman. Back at Yang Yuyan’s age, perhaps she was arrogant. But after losing the support of her parents and living alone with her two daughters for so long, she had long since learned to compromise with a male-dominated society.

The world does not recognize a woman’s right to walk alone.

Last night, Su Chunjun was the fiancé, so he could follow, and Principal Tang was the head teacher. She was a mother, but a woman, so she couldn’t follow up.

She could only watch her child ignorantly walk forward.

She didn’t want to strangle Yang Yuyan. Had she been a simple and rough mother, she could have locked her up at home and beaten her over and over again until she broke her legs and beat her so much that she would never dare to flaunt her cleverness outside and indulge her.

–Sometimes she had felt that she really ought to lock the boy up.

She hesitated many times.

But every time she wanted to question herself: Zhu Yan Shu, is this the only thing you can come up with? Do you have no other ideas besides locking her up? Then what difference is there between you and those women who have never read a book?

But how is she going to help her child?

Is it enough to find her a husband who loves her and can protect her?

She found Su Chunjun, who could provide her daughter with a rich life, and most importantly, he loved her; a loving environment is superior, and love will be like a lubricant (car lubricant, don’t think wrongly.) Author’s words.) Wrapping up the poky corner-filled areas of the marriage and allowing her to live in comfort and peace.

But it’s still not enough.

How can a mother think she’s giving her daughter enough? Whether it was love, protection, or a privileged life, it was never enough.

She wants to find more and more things that will protect her.

Being limited by male power can also be used in turn to utilize male power.

By male power, I mean the power that men can exercise, in that in comparison to women, men have superiority and convenience that women do not have.

Then women can also utilize men to gain the same amount of male power.

Before this, Zhu Yanshu had a not-so-romantic conversation with Professor Dai.

Between her and him, there was that little bit of ambiguity in.

But both of them were not teenagers anymore.

He had his career and ideals, his students, his school.

And she had her daughter, a new life, new aspirations and career.

So neither he nor she said it out loud, just letting that little heart-to-heart melt into every eye contact, every conversation, every smile.

She paid more attention to her makeup than when she was at home.

In the past, she always wore bright red lipstick, dressed up exquisitely, with every curl in her hair meticulously applied.

Now she would always spray perfume on before bed, letting the residual scent surround her the next day, so that when he was with her, he could only smell the plausible scent, like her thoughts about him, as if they were there and as if they weren’t.

And she was arrogant enough to think that he smiled more when he turned to her, his voice was more magnetic, and his tone was gentler.

Yang Yu Cicada said, “Wufei said that Prof. Dai now loves to stay in the living room, before he used to read books in the study.”

She was secretly happy in her heart, but on her lips she said, “Prof. Dai knows how to be polite, even though we people are living on loan, we are still similar to guests, Prof. Dai is afraid of us being embarrassed, that’s why he is often outside with us.”

And so she too often lingered in the living room.

She wanted to be kind to him, and did not know how to be kind. She had the intention to give him a gift, but she was worried that he would think she was covered in copper. She could only tell Zhang Ma to make more of Professor Dai’s favorite meals.

She said, “Guests follow the host, the meals on the table now are what our own family loves to eat, and I don’t know what Prof. Dai loves to eat, so at least make two dishes that people love to eat.”

Mrs. Zhang said, “Where am I doing it now? It’s all Wuwei’s doing. Prof. Dai used to be able to eat Wuwei’s dishes, but now that we’re here, he can’t? I rather think that the dishes on the dining table now are much more refined than what Professor Dai used to eat.”

She didn’t have the good sense to say, “Aigoo, just make two more dishes.”

Zhang Ma casually responded, “Okay, okay.” After a while, Zhang Ma came back with two cups of coffee and handed them to her, “Here, send it to Professor Dai to drink. I just made it.”

She took the two cups and said, “Where can people drink two cups? What time is it, you don’t have to sleep at night if you drink it.”

Zhang Ma looked at her, clasped her hands and pointed at the cups, saying, “This cup is for you, you go up and drink with him.”

Her face burned slightly, she stood up and said, “Still let me send it up yo.”

Zhang Ma just stood still and watched her go up the stairs, smilingly said, “You serve it, I’m still busy in the kitchen, I have to make two more dishes tonight.”

She stomped her foot on the stairs, but still carried the coffee upstairs.

Zhang Ma made the coffee very well.

She carries the coffee inside, he smiles and invites her in, and the two of them drink coffee and read together.

He praised the Zhu family’s collection of books, which were piled up everywhere in the bedroom, on the bed, on the table, on the chairs, everywhere.

She kicked at the floor covering in the corner and smiled, “This is the bed where Mr. Su sleeps at night, isn’t it?”

He smiled back and said, “Junjun is really sincere to Yanyan.”

She knew it in her heart, but was willing to listen to others say it again: “Does a teacher have to canvass for his students? He spends all his time in the bureaucracy, how much sincerity can he give to people?”

He said, “Because he hasn’t seen any sincerity, he can only pull out his own sincerity and give it to others.”

Her heart moved and she lamented, “In the end, he is a pro-teacher and student, you make him sound so pitiful, are you trying to ask me to pity him a few more points? I also know that he is a poor child.”

She still remembers when Su Chunjun first came back to rent an apartment, wearing a cleanly washed school uniform, so thin that his cheeks had no meat left, a pair of eyes dark and bright, but his smile was sweet, he was extremely shrewd to look at the empty rooms upstairs and downstairs, and picked out the upstairs that was one floor away from her house.

He said, “Boss Zhu, I’d like to rent this one for fifteen dollars a month, not a dollar less for you.”

She smiled and said, “How many years ago was fifteen dollars? Seeing that you’re young, I’ll count you eighteen dollars a month.”

He didn’t bargain, nodded easily and said, “Eighteen is eighteen, I’ll move in today.”

She could see that he was a poor man-so poor that he didn’t even have a coat, so poor that he couldn’t even eat, where would he get the money to pay the rent?

As it happened, he rented the house, moved in the furniture, and then he told her, “Rent is owed for three months first; I have a business, and in three months’ time I will see the money back, and then I will give it to you for every dime.”

She laughed and said, “I have a telephone set in my room downstairs, so dial a number to the police station now, and you can immediately call out for someone to throw you in jail for a meal. I have to send money to the police station every month, you are underestimating people if you want to be a crook in my Zhu Jia Lou.”

Only then did he tell the truth. At that time, winter had just passed, and he was planning to send his winter clothes, winter quilt, and warm water bottle to the pawn store, so that he would have money. The reason why he hadn’t sent them over yet, and had to wait for three months, was because he had rented them all out to his classmates.

And his winter coat, winter quilt, and warm water bottle were, of course, bought cheaply from the pawnshop.

Buying them from the pawnshop at a very low price before it gets cold, and then selling them back to the pawnshop after they’ve been used for the winter, that’s how Su’s classmates spend their winters.

Not to mention that he would rent it to his classmates and collect a few more rents. Not to mention spending money, but also earn a little more.

Zhu Yan Shu sighed in admiration and rented the house to him without saying a word.

This is a talented person, it is impossible not to make a name for yourself in the future.

Really rent the house to him, but found that he is an extremely clean and disciplined boy. It was not as unscrupulous as when he started renting winter coats and deducting money from his teeth.

The tenants were all turning tricks to take advantage of the main house, and she had seen more than her share of tenants trying to sneak in ways to rip wires to their homes, sneak in electric fans, and sneak in prying open the door of the downstairs storehouse to steal the coal that Zhang Ma had bought.

She told Mrs. Zhang not to worry about it, and only when it was too much did she ask the police to come to the building to walk around and play a game to scare the tenants.

This poor student, however, never took advantage of the situation.

He told her openly and honestly, to pull a wire into the house, lighting at night, blowing fans in the summer – of course, the fan must be from the pawnshop.

She said it was okay to pull the wire, but the electrician had to hire his own, and no matter how much electricity he used each month, he had to pay a flat extra dollar and fifty cents.

He owed three months’ unpaid rent, and agreed readily, as if he were an old-time scoundrel who had long been accustomed to borrowing money to buy clothes – all in debt.

He did not open fire, got a stove only boil water, inquired about the first floor of the warehouse used to store coal for the tenants, each family’s coal for each family, there are people who will steal coal, he did not buy their own coal, to use the coal, now out of 10 cents to find the tenants to buy, tenants of five pieces of coal for 10 cents, together with two cents a piece of money. The tenants are happy to do business with this “rich and generous” student.

Zhu Yan Shu sneer, this rich and generous students still owe her three months of rent, utilities and sanitation fees, this penny is out of the generous.

Not only buy coal generous. He came back to eat every day, are carrying a small pot to go outside the stall to buy noodles, clear soup, an egg are not added, only add two drops of sesame oil, a few green onions for flavor.

Eat the little face more and more thin.

But still refused to open fire and cook by themselves.

People don’t look stupid, cooking is not difficult, what is difficult is to cook in the corridor, or in the bedroom, I’m afraid it does not meet the young master’s standards. So he would rather eat noodles in broth from the food stalls than boil them in a pot of water on his own.

She sometimes looked at him with pity and asked Zhang Ma to bring him the leftover salted vegetables from home, and he also thanked her seriously and returned the bowl cleanly – when he later fell in love with Yan Yan, he confessed that the salted vegetables sent over by Zhang Ma were told to drink the salted vegetable soup with boiled water in the middle of the night when he was hungry, which was very good at quenching his hunger.

Yan Yan was so distressed that she wrapped her own cookies in the past.

This loser daughter.

Three months passed, and he really got the money back.

She wanted him to delay a few more days, but did not want him to immediately send the money, the little face ate red, rarely seen so energetic.

A few days later, Mrs. Zhang said, “The student upstairs, eat noodles with two eggs.

Visible is really rich.

She said, “See how many days he can eat like this.”

She was right, this child is not a person who can save money.

Two eggs of noodles did not eat for a long time to change back to the noodles without eggs, only to eat out of the human color of the little face once again slowly starved thin.

But he still does not steal, do not rob, do not take advantage of people, although still thinking of ways to dig the corner of the pawnshop, but to the tenants to pay for the coal, a penny is still shelling out very generous.

No money in the eyes.

Poor, but still can not see the money in the eyes of the feet.

Which family raised this young master, raised so high-minded, no dust in his eyes.

He didn’t care to do things that violated his principles, because violating his principles was something he couldn’t stand more than being poor. He could go hungry and smile at people, but he could not lower his head and do wrong.

So when she wanted to find another suitable governess for Yan Yan, she asked him tentatively, and he agreed readily.

In his case, he probably just wanted to find a decent job to make ends meet.

But in her, but can rest assured that the minor daughter and he stayed at home.

Also save that fine white face is always hungry and green.

The little bit of goodwill, in return for Su Chunjun’s unreserved cherish and love for the Zhu family.

She also used to think that he was like this to others, but in school, in addition to Shi Wuwei, Su Chunjun actually did not make a good friend, and his relationship with Shi Wuwei, only after the Zhu family sisters with Shi Wuwei deep friendship.

When he entered the officialdom, he was like a fish in water. Only then did she realize that the kindness and warmth, trust and love he gave to the Zhu family was only his most generous gift.

Today, after hearing Professor Dai describe it this way, she captured the clarity and understanding she once had in her heart for Su Chunjun. She had thought that Su Chunjun had lost his family just like her, and her empathetic sympathy had made her take more care of the then-poor student. But she hadn’t realized that his family was still alive but dead in his heart, and that was a more painful experience than actually dying.

She still had her daughter, she still had her family, so she stuck to her body and just closed the doors and windows to the world. But the doors and windows will be opened one day.

Su Chunjun doesn’t have a family, but he doesn’t want to become a cold and mean person, so he treats Zhu’s family as his family, a place where he can love as much as possible.

His hungry choice makes Zhu Yanshu glad that he chose the Zhu family, that the Zhu family won’t fail him and will give him back the same love.

Zhu Yanshu: “Luckily he met the Zhu family. If he had gone to someone else’s house to rent an apartment at that time, our family would have had one less door-to-door son-in-law.”

Prof. Dai understood her words and said with a smile, “I’m also glad for him that he met you. With another person, I’m afraid I wouldn’t be able to see the current Su Chunjun.”

At that time, Su Chunjun had just come out of his home and met the Zhu family, and was just an abandoned dog. If he had turned into a wild dog, or even a wolf, it would have been too late.

They talked about the philosophy of life from poems and songs-this was something Yan Yan had said, that is, this dead child said it in a not at all immodest manner, as if she meant it.

But when they talked in the study, they were talking with integrity.

Professor Dai – Dai Yushu He is over the age, but still has a youthful spirit, when talking about all the injustices in this world, always spirited, so that she is dazzled, as if she has returned to the downstairs of the Zhu family when she was a young girl, young teenage girls are full of fighting spirit and ideals, and always can not wait to declare their own claims, and does not care about it In the end will not be realized, tomorrow’s things to tomorrow to decide.

She likes this still with the teenage temperament of Dai Yushu, she also likes to love the students more than to love their own Professor Dai, she likes this ideal man.

How she wanted to defy reality, defy everything, and be with him.

But when she said the words of courtship to him, it was so cold and full of calculation, as if she was just asking him to help protect her daughter, begging him to fulfill her loving mother’s heart, and her feelings for him were just a bargaining chip used to lure him.

She didn’t know why she was acting so badly.

The old her was so willing to enthusiastically tell everyone where her love was, she was proud of her love, and she wanted her lover to be proud of her love.

Yang Xuhe made her less confident in her love.

So this time, she wanted this man, but she didn’t know if she could impress him by showing her love. She so she used a different approach, utilizing his kindness and love to get him to nod to her.

He smiled so happily that his eyes narrowed into curved crescents.

He took her hand in a firm grip and shook it several times before he finally found his tongue and said, “Good, good.”

She said, “I mean, I think we can, we can ……”

She began to speak incoherently as well.

He nodded his head one by one, “Good, good.”

She wanted to be a little more organized, like the request seemed more planned, more actionable, more necessary.

“Yan Yan is too young, if there is a father who can help her, in the Japanese ……”

He said, “Yes, yes, I promise, I can be a father, I’m very experienced, I mean, I can be a father, Yan Yan’s father, and Cicada, Wuwei and Purejun too ……”

She was so nervous that she didn’t even know if she said it clearly, did she? He understood everything, right?

“Okay, that’s good, then I ……” she said.

“Good, good.” He nodded and jerked forward, hugging her.

Her mind went blank; after all these years, she couldn’t remember what it was like to be embraced by a man, and this embrace was wider, taller, and more powerful than the one she’d had before.

— Didn’t he used to work as a book boy? Did being a book boy also require work? Maybe the oil mill needed work too.

He still whispers, “Okay, okay.”

It seemed like that was all he could say.

She leaned into this man’s arms with peace of mind, and the intuition belonging to women finally came into play, allowing her to feel this man’s heart incomparably clearly.

He cared for her very much.

He loved her.

This was too wonderful.

Zhu Yanshu called his two daughters into the bedroom and asked them, “If I were to find you another father, just like Professor Dai, would you like it?”

Yang Yuyan was dazed by the news that flew in from the sky, but even if she was dazed, she knew what to say at this time.

“I like it!” She grabbed Yang Yu Cicada’s hand, and the two sisters said together with a heart-to-heart, “We both like it.”

Zhu Yan Shu was satisfied, but still had to confirm again and again, “Really like it? You’re not just saying pretty words. Don’t let me lead someone to you in the future, and then you give them a look. I know that young people nowadays are all about progress, but it’s still not as easy to make progress in your own home as it is to shout slogans on the street.”

Yang Yuyan’s mouth was as sweet as honey, and she climbed up the pole: “How could that be? Mom, I can swear. Is it really Professor Dai? When did you guys get together?”

She hadn’t noticed! There are five or six pairs of eyes in this house every day, how come not a single word has gotten out? How did these two progress so quickly?

Is this adult love?

Yang Yuyan couldn’t help but feel admiration.

Yang Yuchan thought more and said, “Mom, is Professor Dai sincere?”

Zhu Yanshu: “I haven’t said if it’s him or not.”

Yang Yuyan didn’t hold back and rolled her eyes.

Zhang Ma, who had been sitting next to her and listening since a while ago, also couldn’t hold back and pushed Zhu Yanshu: “Don’t tease the kids, if it’s not him, who else is it? Is there another man without a master in this house?”

But Zhu Yanshu’s remaining shyness recently sprouted again under the nourishment of love, she just refused to say that name, as if her lover’s name is some kind of secret, just can’t be spit out from her mouth.

Seeing that both of her daughters were both dutiful and obedient, she rose with satisfaction and said, “All right, I know your opinions, now get out.”

She shooed her daughters out before collapsing on the bed and covering her face as she laughed softly.

Zhang Ma is outside the door coaxing the two sisters to go back first.

Zhang Ma: “Alright, don’t bother your mom today, all go back.”

Yang Yucchan still wants to know who it is, it really isn’t Prof. Acting?

Zhang Ma said, “Who else could it be?” This child is really a bit stupid and has a one-track mind.

Yang Yuyan also has a big thing to tell her mom, she wants her mom to help her to find out if it’s okay for her and Mr. Su to hurry up and get married now.

When Zhang Ma heard her say she had a “big event”, she didn’t ask what her big event was, and pulled her back and said: “Little ancestor, you’ve forgotten the pain after a few days of not being beaten. Even if it’s a big deal, let’s wait until your mom is done with this big deal.”

Yang Yuyan thought for a moment and thought that after Zhu Yanshu and Prof. Dai get married, if she wants to be beaten again, at least Prof. Dai can help pull a little bit, so she agreed to wait and talk about it.