Chapter 25

Near the end of the year, everywhere the banquet will be more, adults are busy with banquets, no time for business, and the Financial Services Bureau of the official business is more, a lot of confused accounts come out of a brain, want to take advantage of the confusion before this time are confused past.

In order to check the old accounts, but also political clarity! The size of the Finance Bureau’s accountants have been all day and night dialing abacus beads, Su Chunjun can not be idle, he did not have to dial beads, but to hold the account book to go to various places to find people to turn over the old accounts.

Because of the real old accounts, not from many eyes, eat many scolding, even the soles of the shoes are running thin layer.

He complained about this, Ms. Yang was very shrewd and asked, “Do you want to borrow money?” She took out two dollars of her pocket money and pushed it to him, “It’s probably enough for you to buy a pair of cloth shoes.”

Su Chunjun was touched by his student’s filial piety, so he took the money and swore, “I’ll be paid in ten days, and I’ll pay you back!”

Ms. Yang laughed coldly and did not believe him, but also said: “That is to pay me back, and then you do not borrow? In and out, I have become a money changer of Tong Cai. It’s true that a man’s mouth is a deceitful ghost.”

Su Chunjun immediately asked her what books she had been reading. This kind of aphorisms must be learned from new books.

Ms. Yang: “I don’t read books, but I read a lot of newspapers. The short stories in the newspaper are also very interestingly written.”

Su Chunjun knew that this was for the sake of not falling behind when he went to meet Yang Xuhe. Recently, Ms. Yang was taking remedial classes. Originally, the Zhu family had subscribed to a lot of newspapers and magazines because of Yang Xuehe’s great writings published in the newspapers. After Mr. Yang moved away, the Zhu family did not have this expense.

Ms. Yang has not seen her father for two or three years, so she wants to read his writings in the newspaper so that she can satirize him.

Mr. Su Chunjun was quite knowledgeable about this and was willing to help her: “If there are any good articles, you can stay here and read them with me when I’m free.”

After leaving her homework, Teacher Su hurriedly rushed out the door.

Yang Yucan was no longer as keen to go to school these days, and still hadn’t left the house by now, sitting on the sofa and flipping through the pictorials.

Zhu Yanshu finished breakfast and went back to her room to change her clothes before going to the poker game. When she came out and saw her, she asked, “Why don’t you go to school?”

Yang Yucicang: “Teachers have gone back home for the New Year, so there’s nothing to do at school.”

Zhu Yanshu was afraid that she would run away to the Golden Mansion, and wanted to find something for her to do to pester her. She had a brainwave, called Yang Yucan to the house, covered the door, and solemnly said to her, “I told Yan Yan to let her go with you on the first day of the Lunar New Year to pay New Year’s greetings to the person surnamed Yang, but judging from her appearance, she is still not happy to go.”

Yang Yu Cicada didn’t want to force her sister and said, “If she doesn’t go, then she doesn’t go, there’s no point in going. This year it’s better for me to go over, kowtow there, pay my respects, and don’t eat, I’ll be back in less than an hour.”

Zhu Yanshu said, “You can’t spoil her like this! In the past, when she was weak, I didn’t care about her. This year she must go! We can’t let her keep playing with her childish temper like this. Otherwise, when she leaves the house in the future, she’ll be at a disadvantage if outsiders don’t act like family members. It’s okay to suffer a little now, but she’ll suffer a lot later.”

Yang Yuchan: “Yan Yan doesn’t want to go, who cares? When she pretends to be sick, you’ll feel sorry for her!”

Yang Yuyan’s illness is one part real, the remaining nine parts are all pretend, everyone in the family knows.

Zhu Yan Shu gently said, “So, I want you to persuade her. She was young back then, and she doesn’t remember much about the surname Yang, so you talk about that surname Yang, so that she can remember the love between father and daughter.”

Yang Yu Cicada was dumbfounded and stammered, “This, this …… I can’t say it!”

She looked at Zhu Yanshu, thinking that she had a brain problem!

Zhu Yanshu had a motherly heart and endured the humiliation, “Alas, what can I do? She hates that Yang so much, in the future if she goes out and says something off the top of her head, it’s not a problem for others to scold me, but to say something about her, so how can I bear to see her being criticized?”

Yang Yucchan was both touched and sad: “Mom! Why are you so bitter?”

Zhu Yan Shu said sorrowfully, “Alas, you don’t understand how harsh the world is on women! Whenever it’s a man’s fault, they’ll blame it on the woman. I’d rather they come and scold me than have them say one bad word about you and Yan Yan! You listen to me, first persuade Yan Yan to do theater for a few years, and when she’s older and knows better, and that surnamed Yang is dead, our family’s life will be better.”

She sighed long and hard about the hard work of being a woman, a mother and a wife for half a day, and looked at her watch, the time for playing cards had arrived! Then she patted Yang Yucan’s shoulder, “Good girl, mom is counting on you!”

Then he pulled Yang Yucan out, pushed her toward Yang Yuyan, and tiptoed out the door with small steps.

Yang Yucan was stuffed with such a bowl of rancid chicken soup by her own mother, choking on indigestion and retching. Looking at Yang Yuyan sitting on the sofa, her head was as big as a bucket.

Yang Yuyan’s temperament is called a yin and yang uncertainty, especially when the father’s affair came to light, she even managed to commit suicide! Yang Yucan also felt that the sky was falling, the sun and the moon were turning upside down, and her face was disgraceful at that time after she knew about the big news that Mr. Yang had made. But before she had a chance to comment she was so shocked by her own sister’s hand that she lost all temper. Recalling it now, she surprisingly couldn’t recall anything at all other than the shock and shame she felt when she first found out, because their whole family revolved around Yang Yuyan next.

Since then, Yang Yucan couldn’t help but treat Yang Yuyan as a porcelain doll, and idly didn’t want to mess with her. Luckily, she had to go to school, and Yang Yuyan had her own home teacher, so the two of them didn’t have much to talk about.

Now Zhu Yanshu gave her such a task, that is, let her go to touch Yang Yuyan’s tiger’s whiskers!

Yang Yucan thought hard for a moment without any good ideas, and felt even more impressed that Ms. Su could get along well with Yang Yuyan! Moreover, Ms. Su didn’t make a scene in front of Zhu Yanshu, she always went to talk to Yang Yuyan behind her back and didn’t force her actions.

What she, her own sister, couldn’t do, Ms. Su did! How could she not admire this?

She even felt that it might be better to leave this matter to Ms. Su.

Unfortunately, she didn’t know Mr. Su well, and hadn’t even spoken a few words, so she couldn’t say anything to confess her family’s shame, and even say “bad things” about Yang Yuyan.

Yang Yuyan saw Yang Yucan sat down and kept looking at her without saying anything, couldn’t help but ask: “Do you want to borrow money too? But I’ve already lent it out.”

Yang Yucan was stunned and shook her head, “I’m not borrowing your money.” Reacting again, “Who did you lend it to?”

Yang Yuyan: “Mr. Su said the soles of his shoes were worn thin, so I lent him two dollars to buy shoes.”

Yang Yuchan didn’t believe me: “Mr. Su works in the Finance Bureau, how could he not have money to buy shoes? You spent it elsewhere.”

Yang Yuyan bristled, “He is so poor! He only gets paid at the beginning of the month and spends it all in less than ten days. I even lent him money for lunch last week.”

Yang Yuchan immediately became alert: “Does Mr. Su also like to play cards and gamble? Don’t you ever lend him money again!”

Yang Yuyan didn’t believe it and immediately retorted, “Mr. Su doesn’t play cards and gamble!”

Zhang Ma was in the kitchen and heard the voices rising, she hurriedly came out and blew Yang Yucan away, “If you don’t want to go to school, forget it, don’t disturb Yan Yan, let her do her homework, Mr. Su has to ask her about it every morning. Yan Yan, do your homework carefully, don’t let your sister disturb you.”

Yang Yu Cicada was pulled away by Zhang Ma, half unconvinced, half fuming, she followed to the kitchen.

While cleaning up, Zhang Ma said, “Don’t go recruiting her, she’s younger than you and has a bad temper, you’ll still lose out in a fight!”

Yang Yucchan: “Where do I want to argue with her?”

Zhang Ma: “In my opinion, Mr. Su is not a card player or gambler.”

Yang Yuchan: “Then where does he spend his salary? A small section officer in the Finance Bureau gets twenty to thirty dollars a month. It’s not like he has to pay rent, he eats breakfast at home, he hasn’t changed a set of clothes on his body for two weeks, and he’s cheating money from Yan Yan.”

Zhang Ma hitched up her rag and said, “Teacher Su is a big spender. I see that most of the money was spent on Yan Yan.”

Yang Yucan was startled, “What?”

Zhang Ma whispered, “Mr. Su has only been working for two months and has only received his salary for one month, but he gave Yan Yan a Montblanc fountain pen in his first month! Your mom said the pen was worth several hundred dollars! It’s only the 18th today, and he’s already brought candy home twice, and I think it’s all imported milk candies and chocolates, so it’s expensive!”

Yang Yucan stuttered retort: “That …… is he came home to eat embarrassed, only to mention things! Yan Yan even stole the family’s snacks for him!”

Zhang Ma bristled, “Then look at what he’s carrying! Apart from Yan Yan, who in the family eats that milk candy and chocolate? Isn’t she the only one who eats them? It’s not true that Mr. Su buys gifts, but do you think he buys them for the whole family or for Yan Yan?”

Yang Yucan was so flustered that she blushed and her ears burned, somehow she felt weak, but she still insisted, “They are teachers and students, it’s okay for Mr. Su to treat Yanyan a little bit better!”

Zhang Ma was very cunning and simply refused to admit it, “I didn’t say that they had anything! I’m just saying that Mr. Su treats our Yan Yan quite well, so don’t worry about Yan Yan being at a disadvantage.”

Yang Yucan didn’t solve one problem, but added one more, out of the kitchen standing outside the living room, she saw Yang Yanyan writing, the pen in her hand was exactly a gift from Mr. Su. She had heard Zhu Yanshu say that this fountain pen was a gift from Mr. Su, but Zhu Yanshu also said that she wouldn’t even charge Mr. Su’s rent in the future, so she assumed that this fountain pen was a substitute for rent. Mr. Su comes to the house for breakfast every day, it’s normal for him to bring something up, he knows how to return the favor.

But Zhang Ma said this, as if Mr. Su took advantage of the Zhu family, repayment to Yan Yan to go!

This …… is the best way to repay your kindness.

Yang Yucan did not dare to enter the living room, back to their own room to think about the problem. Ma Tianbao’s problem, the attitude of schoolmates problem, Yang Yuyan to the Yang family to pay New Year’s visit to the problem, Yang Yuyan and Mr. Su’s problem.

So many problems, telling her what to do!

Zhu Yanshu went home for lunch at noon and heard Zhang Ma say that Yang Yucan stayed in the house by herself for the whole morning without coming out or going out.

Zhu Yanshu felt that her skills were excellent, and she praised Zhang Ma: “Look at my hand, I solved two problems at once!”

Zhang Ma laughed: “Mrs. Zhu is wiser than Zhu Ge, and she can do everything!”

Yang Yuchan stayed at home for a day, and when she came out for dinner, she saw Yang Yuyan quietly take the box of snacks back to her house, and in a short while, she took out the empty box and placed it on an inconspicuous cabinet, and then quietly slipped out of the door.

Yang Yuchan went to weigh the cookie box, and it was really empty.

She followed Yang Yuyan up the stairs and stood in front of Mr. Su’s door, and saw Yang Yuyan push the door in, with a skillful and outrageous manner!

Yang Yuchan’s heart was like a drum, looking around for fear that someone would come out and see it!

Fortunately, in less than a minute, Yang Yuyan came out.

Yang Yuchan hurriedly ran down the stairs and returned home before Yang Yuyan, and hid all the way back to her room.

Zhu Yanshu and Zhang Ma saw it in the dining room and were quite puzzled.

After that, another Yang Yuyan, who was also tiptoeing around, came in.

Zhang Ma realized, as if she did not see into the kitchen to serve food.

Zhu Yanshu: “It’s time to eat, where have you been?”

Yang Yuyan opened her mouth and said, “I sat at home all day and went out to look at the streets.”

Zhu Yanshu gently let go and said, “Quickly go wash your hands, it’s time to eat.”

Yang Yuyan then frankly went to wash her hands.

Yang Yu Cicada is like the one who is a thief, hiding in the room for a while longer before coming out to eat, after sitting down, she has been looking uncertain, sitting across from Yang Yu Yan while eating, a pair of eyes as if they were searchlights, looking up and down, sneaking around and checking out Yang Yu Yan.

Yang Yuyan was tired of being looked at by her, raised her head and asked seriously, “Sister, do you have something to say to me?” Is it that you want to borrow money but it’s hard to ask?

Yang Yucan shook her head vaguely, her eyes dodging, “No, nothing much.”

Yang Yuyan secretly sighed, it seems that she really wants to borrow money, but her job has not been found yet, she needs to find a job and make money quickly, otherwise it will affect her plans. She didn’t want to see Yang Yucan end up doing something stupid.

Yang Yuyan made up her mind to have a good chat with Ms. Su about her job, and has been sitting under the window at night, waiting for Ms. Su to come back.

Yang Yuchan came out of her room a few times and saw her sticking her head out by the window, below her was the Zhu family building gate, what was she waiting for?

Is she waiting for someone?

Yang Yucan’s mind is electric, as if a thunderstorm! No longer able to endure it, she quietly went to find Zhu Yanshu: “Mom, I have something to tell you!”

Zhu Yanshu was frightened by her, holding her hand back to the room: “I also happen to have something to tell you, our family this year is not bad, and there is no more debt, the New Year’s share of the money sent from all over the send all the money will be able to end up with more than two hundred dollars! Do you think we should make you and Yan Yan a new dress for the New Year? Buy a coat?”

Zhu Yanshu was saying that she was rich, but she was actually saying that she was poor.

Yang Yucan, anxious, interrupted her, “Mom, I think Yan Yan is in love with Mr. Su! Mr. Su is trying to seduce Yan Yan!”

Zhu Yanshu was stunned for a second before picking up the line, making a surprised face: “Oh? Is that so? No way!”