Chapter 42
Yang Yuyan finally realized that Yang Yucan hadn’t come out all morning.
“Is sis not feeling well?” She asked Zhang Ma. It was already past ten, and the guests would be here in a little while. Yang Yucchan never stays in bed.
Zhang Ma didn’t go into too much detail and said, “Your sister is thinking about something, don’t bother her.”
Although she didn’t know the reason, Yang Yuyan guessed that something else had happened. She thought about it and took two oranges to knock on Yang Yucan’s door.
After knocking twice, the person inside said, “Come in.”
Yang Yuyan gently pushed open the door and probed in, “Sister, are you eating oranges?”
In the room, Yang Yucan was sitting at the table reading a book titled Capitalism, she put a bookmark, closed the book and said, “Come in, I’m fine.”
Yang Yuyan closed the door, put the oranges on the table, sat down on the bed, crossed her legs and said, “Sister, are you thinking about what happened with Ma Tianbao?” She still couldn’t help it.
Yang Yucan didn’t say anything.
Yang Yuyan approached her and asked curiously, “Sister, what do you like about Ma Tianbao?”
What do you like about him?
He was serious in his studies, firm in his character, aggressive, and full of justice.
She still didn’t say anything, lowered her head and slowly peeled the orange, the aroma of the orange burst out.
These merits did not impress her family. Her mother, sister, and even Zhang Ma didn’t like Ma Tianbao because he was poor.
But life wasn’t that simple. She used to think that being poor would be a problem, but in the meantime, she realized that she wouldn’t be able to solve it.
All problems have a solution, but the solution to being poor is to become rich. But neither she nor Ma Tianbao had the means to turn stones into gold.
Money had never been their pursuit either.
Did they have to pursue money first in order to fulfill their ideals?
She had wanted to look to the book for answers, but rereading the book had revealed even more naked truths. The world flows on money, from the biggest country to the smallest individual, all their lives will be trapped by money, and can not escape the domination of money. One should not be addicted to money, but one can never get rid of it. Ideals are in the sky and money is the foundation that supports them.
So, yes, her difficulty with Ma Tianbao was money, and she and Ma Tianbao couldn’t escape the problem; they had to solve it. Otherwise, they would have to break up.
After this conclusion was laid out in front of her, Yang Yuchan suddenly came to her senses, including many things that she couldn’t think or understand before, all of which were clear now. She used to wonder why Yang Xuhe would leave home, which in addition to the youthful and beautiful lover, another reason is that Yang Xuhe’s articles began to make money. Yang Xuhe’s articles didn’t make money right from the start. When she was a child, Yang Xuhe’s articles were often returned to him, and he often printed poems at his own expense to give to his friends and relatives, and at that time he couldn’t earn a penny, but he never thought of leaving home and Zhu Yanshu.
But precisely after he found the knack of publishing articles in the newspaper, he found a lover and decided to elope with her and register a divorce.
When one has capital, he also has the courage to change at the same time.
Although no one chimed in, it wasn’t a problem for Yang Yuyan, who took the initiative to bring up the topic herself and hit the nail on the head, “Do you want to know when I started to hate Ma Tianbao?”
Yang Yucan is a block of wood, and now she also raised her head, she didn’t have the good sense to say, “Wasn’t it the fact that he even got you arrested by the Jin family in the past?”
She had guessed that her mom and Yang Yuyan’s opposition to Ma Tianbao was precisely because of this matter, but she was also scared after hearing what happened at that time, and although the Ma family was also a victim in this matter, she was not in a good position to speak for the Ma family.
Unexpectedly, Yang Yuyan unexpectedly retorted.
“Not at all, what do you take me for? Don’t even know who really dragged me into this? It’s all the Jin family’s fault for taking me to this, it has nothing to do with the Ma family at all.” There might be a little relationship, but it’s basically negligible compared to the Jin family.
Yang Yu Cicada can really surprised, followed by is puzzled: “Then you because what began to hate him ah? You haven’t seen him a few times, right?”
Yang Yuyan seriously said: “From the time he borrowed money to invite us to eat hotel, I think he can’t.”
Yang Yuchan never thought it was for this reason and quickly asked, “Mom is also because of this?”
Yang Yuyan shook her head, “I don’t know if it’s because of this on mom’s side, but it’s because of this myself.”
Yang Yu Cicada got a little angry when she heard this, “Why do you hate him because of this? He even invited the wrong people to treat him?”
Yang Yuyan’s jaw dropped and asked back, “He borrowed money to treat himself!”
Yang Yuchan vaguely seemed to have grasped something, but her mouth went straight to the top, “What’s wrong with borrowing money? Mr. Su also borrowed your money.”
Yang Yuyan might as well own sister will also attack people, also like her which pain stab where, immediately position a little unstable, but quarrel, about a momentum, momentum can not lose!
She immediately said: “Mr. Su borrowed my money! And he has something to bet on me here, besides, I borrowed his money, and will not wait for him to settle the score later ah. Is it the same thing as him borrowing money from the Jin family’s young master? Is the relationship between the young master of the Jin family and Ma Tianbao equal?”
Yang Yuchan: “Everyone is equal.”
Yang Yuyan: “Don’t coax people with things from books. Equality for all is a beautiful expectation, has it been realized now? Equality has been realized between the young master of the Jin family and Ma Tianbao? There is equality between Mr. Su and I. Are young master Jin and Ma Tianbao me and Mr. Su?”
Yang Yuchan couldn’t talk past Yang Yuyan anymore.
But she still wanted to reverse the image of Ma Tianbao in Yang Yuyan’s mind and defended him, “It’s not good for him to borrow money, but his heart is good, he was trying to entertain us at that time.”
Yang Yuyan was as angry as a rainbow: “Good intentions do bad things. He didn’t have the ability to invite us to Hyatt, but our family didn’t expect him to have this ability either, right? Sister, are you telling the truth, or did you just tell him that mom is a person who dislikes the poor and loves the rich, and that you would be kicked out if you brought a poorer classmate to our house?”
This was a heartbreaking statement.
Yang Yucan immediately said, “I didn’t tell him that!”
Yang Yuyan: “Then what is he trying to do with his swollen face?”
Yang Yucchan opened her mouth, but couldn’t keep up with Yang Yuyan’s speed.
Yang Yuyan continued, “Because he’s vain!”
Yang Yucchan wanted to say that Ma Tianbao was not vain, he never said he was a son of a big family. But another thought surfaced: he had also never told anyone that his parents were underlings. At that time, she understood why he didn’t say anything, because everyone had a pair of snobbish eyes. Now, she realized that Ma Tianbao actually cared about that very much.
It wasn’t just the onlookers who were snobbish, Ma Tianbao was also a snob.
Yang Yuyan was still saying, ”And he’s still brainless, doesn’t he realize that this is going to be torn apart? What was he originally like, treating a guest once and not being found out? The first time he borrowed money for a treat to save face, what about the future? Does he have to borrow money every time? If you and he really get married, will he change his habit of borrowing money to support his face? What if he doesn’t just want to save face in front of you, but still wants to save face in front of his colleagues and classmates?”
Yang Yu Cicada was dumbfounded and jaw-dropped. Not only were these words mentioning possibilities that she hadn’t thought of until now, but also because these words were surprisingly spoken by her little sister.
What she, a college student, could not even think of, her younger sister who stayed at home every day could actually think of.
Yang Yu Cicada suddenly said seriously, “Yan Yan, you are very smart, I think you should go back to school.”
Yang Yuyan was immediately alert, “We are talking about you and Ma Tianbao, don’t change the subject!” Are you trying to get back at me?
Yang Yu Cicada was not joking, much less harboring revenge, but she truly felt that it would be a great pity for Yang Yu Yan to continue wasting her intelligence.
“I’m already thinking about Ma Tianbao’s matter. Don’t worry, I won’t be reckless, much less elope.” When she said this, Yang Yuyan glared, you still thought about eloping?
Yang Yu Cicada: “The differences and contradictions between Ma Tianbao and I, I’ve already seen quite a bit in these days. I just need to think a little more clearly before making a decision.” She blossomed into a smile and said gently, “I won’t do anything to make you and mom worry, don’t worry. Although I like Ma Tianbao, you and mom are my most important relatives.”
Judging that she was speaking from the heart, Yang Yuyan immediately breathed a sigh of relief and immediately said, “I was really afraid before that you would want to go down one road and single-mindedly go to live with Ma Tianbao.”
Yang Yu Cicada smiled bitterly, a little lost: “I also didn’t expect that no one in my family would be in favor of ……” This really hit her too hard.
Before she brought up Ma Tianbao, she did consider that there would be some obstacles in the family, but she thought that it was just a little bit of opposition and dissatisfaction, and that as long as Zhu Yanshu got to know Ma Tianbao, and knew that he was a good person, a person with a good conscience, she would definitely not oppose them anymore, and would still give them her blessing.
But things were completely different from what she had envisioned. Not only did Zhu Yanshu disagree, even Yang Yuyan was against it, and Zhang Ma also vaguely revealed her disapproval. And the reason was exactly the one she feared, that the Ma family was too poor and their social status was too low.
But the things that had unfolded before her eyes over this period of time had told her very clearly that the social status gap and poverty was not just a written flirtatious spice, it was real life.
If poverty is only a problem, her suspicion of Ma Tianbao is the beginning of this love will be broken.
Yang Yuyan comforted her sister, “If he was a good person, we wouldn’t have objected so hard.”
Yang Yuchan is amused and asks, “How do you know he’s not a good person? Just because he borrowed money for a treat?”
Yang Yuyan felt that she didn’t need to be concerned about anything anymore since she had reached this point, so she said, “I think his heart is not sincere in his relationship with you.”
Yang Yuchan’s heart crashed heavily. She just suspected Ma Tianbao not long, there is no evidence in the hands, just a catch-22 of the past, and time has passed, she has to wonder if she is too suspicious. She hadn’t told anyone about these things.
Associated with Yang Yuyan’s many statements just now, she was afraid that it was her sister who had discovered something she had not realized.
Yang Yu Cicada asked dryly, “Why would you think that?”
Yang Yuyan paraphrased a quote she had read on the internet before, “Because if one wants to change class in life, school is his only chance. Only in school can love that transcends class happen. After several years of going to the same school, one must have gotten to know the lives of his classmates very well, and one can surmise roughly what is going on at home. Though sometimes you don’t ask directly, it’s still easy to tell if someone has money or not.” The latter was her own experience when she lived in the school, who among her classmates was really rich and who was fake rich could not be hidden after a few years, sooner or later, they would take off their painted skins.
If it was in the past, Yang Yucan would have said that she was never extravagant at school, and no one would think she was rich. But after going to the food market with Zhang Ma, she had understood the meaning of Yang Yuyan’s words. Some of the things she spent on her life were things she wouldn’t even care about, and it showed what kind of life she really led.
She had discussed coffee and foreign snacks with her classmates; she went home from school every time by bus or by yellow bus; when it was her turn to run the book club, in addition to writing letters to various newspapers and publishers asking them to donate a portion of the books, newspapers and magazines, she would also buy books, magazines and newspapers that she considered valuable out of her own pocket, even if she had to be entrusted with the purchase from abroad and was never soft, although this portion of the cost of the book club is a donation, but donations are difficult to collect, and it is difficult to collect. Although this part of the cost of the book club is a donation, but the donation is difficult to collect, she rarely apply, most of the money out of their own pockets, of course, this way, she organized the book club can always attract more people to come, every time is very successful.
At that time, she was only excited to be able to sprinkle so many new ideas into everyone’s mind, and her family never restricted her spending on books, and she would give as much money as she wanted to Zhu Yanshu, because Zhu Yanshu considered the money spent on books to be legitimate spending.
And her relationship with Ma Tianbao is also from he helped her to run the book club began only gradually familiar with, and eventually become closer friends, and even lovers.
Now remembering these sweetness in the past, but let her begin to doubt his intentions at that time. So the sweetness ceased and turned into torture.
Yang Yu Cicada fell silent.
Yang Yuyan came to talk about it, her mouth couldn’t stop: “Look, there won’t be too many girls in the university, but as long as they can be sent to the university by their parents to study, none of them are parents who have a small amount of assets in their home, and love their daughters even more, and are also more enlightened in their thinking.” Otherwise would those big feudal parents who believe that a woman’s lack of talent is a virtue send a girl to college to attend classes with a bunch of boys?
Parents who had money and were more enlightened in their thinking would be more receptive to Ma Tianbao’s family if their daughter was very committed to him.
“Leaving the school, he returned to the Golden Mansion and probably had to go find a maid to be his wife.” Guessing according to the bonding pattern of the Ma family’s parents, Ma Tianbao would most likely have the same future.
“Moreover, if the Golden Public House is willing to pay for him to go to college, they definitely want him to continue to come back as a servant.”
Yang Yucan had little strength to retort, “He doesn’t want to be an underling ……”
Yang Yuyan: “What about being a secretary instead of being an ordinary servant? What about being Master Jin’s beloved like Sun Zhao’s father? The Jin family has many stores and many businesses that need to be taken care of, he can go to work in the Jin family’s company, the same as an underling of the Jin family, but his status is different from the ordinary underling who works in the Jin Mansion, and he will be more heavily utilized.”
Yang Yu Cicada was dumbfounded. She wanted to say that Ma Tianbao wanted to break away from the Jin family, but she understood better that Ma Tianbao’s dream was to take his parents out of the Jin public house and stop them from serving people. If the Jin family provided him with a decent job and then allowed him to pick up his parents for filial piety, then surely he wouldn’t be so adamant about breaking away from the Jin family.
But for Yang Yucan, marrying an underling, even one who was a secretary and deeply important, was unacceptable to her. What she wanted from Ma Tianbao was to cut all ties with the Jin family and be an ordinary person. In this way, even if the work was hard and the life was difficult, she was willing to accept it.
She finally understood.
Ma Tianbao’s naivety and the Jin family’s cultivation of him were inseparable. If everything hadn’t happened, Ma Tianbao wouldn’t have been able to break away from the Jin family in the future, and he would have followed the path that the Jin family had paved for him.
But now that the Jin family was giving up on Ma Tianbao, she was also beginning to lose faith in this love, was this considered a misadventure?
She sighed a long sigh, feeling that her love affair is really bad, just like the book said, like a gorgeous dress crawling with lice.
Seeing her so depressed, Yang Yuyan held her hand and shook it and said, “Don’t be like this, the next man will be better behaved.”
Even though Yang Yu Cicada was full of frustration, she was laughed at, “Where did you learn all these words? If I tell mom, you’ll have a good time!”
Yang Yuyan: “I’m just trying to comfort you, you don’t know what’s good for you!”
Seeing that the two sisters have been talking in the house for long enough, Zhang Ma worriedly comes over and knocks on the door, “Why don’t you come out? The guests have all arrived.”
The two sisters then got up, and Yang Yu Cicada even changed her clothes before coming out.
The two walked out the door, the sound of people in the living room came over, there are men and women, extraordinarily lively.
Today is the second day of the Lunar New Year, compared to the first day of the Lunar New Year, there are more guests, there are quite a few people who came yesterday and came back to play today.
Yang Yuyan saw several familiar faces that she had seen on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and went over to greet them with Yang Yuchan.
After a series of greetings from this aunt and that wife, one of the aunts smiled and pushed them away, “You kids go over there to play, Little Cicada, come and sit down.”
Only then did Yang Yuyan see that there were three young boys sitting there in a slightly restrained manner, all wearing neat and well-fitting suits, holding either an orange or a handful of melon seeds in their hands, as soon as they saw Yang Yuyan and Yang Yuyan two sisters, they immediately sat up straight, and one of them even quietly stood up.
Oh, so that’s how it is.
This was definitely not invited by Zhu Yanshu, because Ms. Zhu had been looking at Yang Yucan with a somewhat tense expression since a while ago, afraid that her eldest daughter would get angry.
Yang Yuyan, however, was glad that it just so happened that she had just had a heart-to-heart talk with Yang Yucan and had already determined that Ma Tianbao was about to get cold! Yang Yuchan will not take the bull by the horns anymore, so she should not be angry when she sees these three boys, at most she will be cold and her face will be pulled a little longer.
She once again surveyed these three boys, suddenly discovered something, so quietly pulled the side of the standing, has not been willing to sit down Yang Yucan, whispered to her, “I found Ma Tianbao’s one advantage.”
Yang Yucchan was a bit enraged by this blind date situation, sniffing and sneering, “He still has an advantage?”
Yang Yuyan nodded, “Yes.” She raised her chin and pointed at the three boys, “He’s a bit more handsome than all of them.”
Not overwhelmingly handsome, otherwise she would have discovered this advantage of Ma Tianbao long ago.
But compared to these three boys, Ma Tianbao’s features were straight, his eyebrows were clear, his height was just right, his body was moderate, and there was nothing to pick on in his speech and demeanor.
Don’t think it’s a big deal, because the three boys in front of you all have a little problem.
Boy #1 had a square jaw, and his eyebrows weren’t quite square enough, and his eyes weren’t quite big enough.
Boy #2 is a little long in the middle and has a short nose, so to describe it: it’s kind of ape-like.
The third boy is a bit narrow and small, like Yang Xuhe. However, Yang Xuhe’s family may have been a bit poor before he worshipped under the Zhu family, so he didn’t have enough oil and water, and he didn’t eat well enough during his development period, so he grew up to be like that. This boy could be before the family did not have enough to eat before also did not grow?
But these people were definitely not ugly, they were just passers-by.
Compared to these passersby, Ma Tianbao’s image was suddenly distinct.
Before this, Yang Yuyan had always thought that Yang Yucan would like Ma Tianbao because her brain was in the water, but now she realized that her sister actually still has some vision, or else how could she see Ma Tianbao among so many classmates?
She asked in a low voice: “Sister, among your male classmates, is it that Ma Tianbao looks the most suitable for your eyes?” In fact, you chose him based on his face, right? Look, doesn’t this solve the case?
Speaking of which, the Golden Mansion must have quite a few underlings who have had children, and for Ma Tianbao to be selected by the Golden Mansion for key cultivation, that’s a privilege that only came about after five passes. Looking at it this way, it’s actually a double certification.
Yang Yu Cicada softly spat out a word: “Scram.”