Chapter 48

Zhu Yanshu claimed to be sick, naturally many friends came to visit her. Zhang Ma, Yang Yuyan, and Yang Yucan were even busier than the other day, busy with Zhu Yanshu’s guests.

Zhu Yanshu was pretending to be sick, and every time the guests left, she would appear in the living room in high spirits, her face getting more and more moist and colorful.

Zhang Ma couldn’t stand it and said sarcastically, “Mrs. Zhu, have you been out of practice for the past three years?”

Zhu Yanshu was clad in a bright red wool cardigan, sitting on the sofa in her pajama bottoms, with a wool blanket covering her legs. She smiled as she held hot tea and ate a snack, saying to Zhang Ma, “It’s really true.”

Zhang Ma deliberately rolled her eyes at her and stood in front of her frowning disapprovingly.

Zhu Yan Shu said: “At that time, I had no choice, surnamed Yang’s divorce newspaper, people also ran away, I just want to beat him can not find people! I lost all my face, not to mention that Yan Yan had an accident, I was a candle burning at both ends, there is no way, so I had to hide for a few years, and when the family has settled down, the outside world is almost forgotten, I dared to meet with my friends.”

Hearing this, Zhang Ma also began to sympathize with her. Yes, Zhu Yanshu had never been so aggrieved! After three years of being bored at home, she was only able to stretch her legs today, and that was because both of her daughters were older and she could breathe a sigh of relief.

Mrs. Zhang sighed: “Forget it, I won’t talk about you anymore. But Mrs. Ma’s kind of person, it’s better not to offend hard.”

Zhu Yan Shu sneered: “If I don’t offend her, she won’t come to me? Not this time I still don’t know it, actually there are some people have already put the idea to my head! Is she hitting on Big Sister? She’s after me! I’m all alone with two daughters, and everyone sees me as a bully, so they all come to bully me!” Her eyes reddened and she was about to shed tears.

Zhang Ma hurriedly stepped forward to persuade her, “Mistress, such people exist everywhere! Even in my hometown, there are people who bully widows and orphans. People are weak and will be bullied, this is something that can’t be escaped anywhere. It’s not worth it if you get angry and sad over this kind of thing. Didn’t you knock Mrs. Ma back? You can continue to do whatever you want, I won’t say any more!”

Zhu Yanshu wiped the tears that didn’t fall at all: “Where am I bullying her, clearly she is bullying me, and you still don’t allow me to fight back! I didn’t do anything to her, I was just telling my friends about my suffering.”

Zhang Ma nodded her head, “Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.”

So Zhu Yanshu continued to recount her sufferings in front of her hospital bed, or else she would sit by the telephone and recount her sufferings until the fifteenth day of the first month of the Lunar New Year.

Yang Yuyan already knew what her mom did when she sat by the telephone every day, and she really didn’t know what expression to use to face it. Because in the past, her own mother also used to hold the phone to tell her relatives and friends about her suffering, but at that time, she felt ashamed and angry, but now she is only full of helplessness and laughter.

She had always thought that she was fair and just, but she never thought that the first time she experienced the taste of partiality would be here.

“People, indeed, are all eccentric.” Not only did she write this famous saying that she had realized in her diary and excerpt book, she also said it to Teacher Su.

Teacher Su, who was holding a bowl to eat her Yuanxiao while still having to deal with Second Miss Yang’s occasional poetic outbursts, nodded her head pleadingly at the words and vigorously agreed: “Exactly. Those who like do everything right, those who don’t like do everything wrong. The same thing is evaluated differently in two people.” For example, he, in the past when he was at home there was no lack of uneducated, good-for-nothing people among his cousins, and he never looked down on them. But looking at Second Miss Yang today, he felt that she was good at everything, see, this is partiality.

After the fifteenth, most of the street vendors have come out, and the stores are open, only the schools and the government are not open yet.

Yang Yucan said that the university will not open until the tenth day of February, and Su Chunjun said that the government will not start its official business until February.

Su Chunjun said, “I’ll be free for the rest of the day, I don’t have to go to the banquet every day.” He is still very important: he is the one who pays the bills. Some banquets don’t even start without him.

He asked Zhu Yanshu if she wanted him to go to the Ma family to take a look at the situation.

Zhu Yanshu shook his head, holding the bird’s nest and sipping the sweet water, saying, “No need. I heard someone say that the Ma family seems to be targeted, and recently many families have approached him to ask for donations.”

This was really the fault of Mrs. Ma’s carelessness, as well as her nephew named Gao Wei Nan, the two of them boasted about their wealth together, and as a result, they were watched by people who had an interest in them.

Originally, the Ma family has always been very low-key, no matter how much money the family has, it looks like an honest small businessman. After Mrs. Ma squeezed into the mahjong group, she liked to brag about her wealth. However, because there were many rich people among them, they would not look at her in the eye.

This time, Mrs. Ma introduced her nephew, Gao Wei Nan, to Yang Yucan, and Gao Wei Nan opened his mouth and said that he could let Zhu Yanshu set the price for the dowry, which not only exasperated Zhu Yanshu, but also made people start to wonder how much money the Ma family actually had.

Even if the Zhu family has been defeated, but Zhu Yan Shu’s daughter is not the average two ordinary people can think of, dare to boast this mouth, must be some bottom.

Mrs. Ma later feared that her mother-in-law and husband blamed hiding in the hospital, but she still refused to be convinced, a good person to inquire, she will continue to brag about their own money, bragging about the high family has money, the implication is that very look down on Zhu Yanshu, that she is the fall of the Phoenix is not as good as the chicken, said Zhu Yanshu a year is also difficult to do a new dress, out of the jewelry are old goods, her gold ring is still buying new every year, see Zhu family has money is all a lie!

Another person saw Gao Wei Nan every day to go to the Paramount, a night always pack two or three dance lady to accompany him to play music, although it is a student, but it is not good to learn. However, he is still more cautious than Mrs. Ma, although in the dance on the Miss spent more, but refused to gamble, no matter how the dance Miss coaxed refused to go to the gambling table, only to say that it is the family training, dip gambling to cut off the hand.

Miss Dance was entrusted with coaxing him to tell the matter of Yang Yucan’s marriage proposal, he said that his family hoped that he would marry a young lady back, in order to do so, his father was willing to pay 200,000 dowry money!

Two hundred thousand dollars!

This figure was immediately spread by the dancing lady.

But the Gao family is far away in Shanxi, these people can only first to the Ma family to make efforts, today the gendarmerie went to the Ma family to ask them to pledge a batch of military coats, tomorrow the gendarmerie went to the Ma family to ask them to pledge a batch of cloth shoes, the day after tomorrow the gendarmerie went to the Ma family to ask them to pledge 5,000 pounds of grain.

The gendarmes came to the door every day, and the Ma family suffered a lot, but they didn’t dare to close the store, for fear that if they did, these soldiers would come to the house to look for people.

Now the Ma family has long since lost the energy to come back to Zhu Yanshu’s trouble, and that Gao family member who is going to propose marriage won’t come back either.

Zhu Yanshu sighed: “Being stuck by these people, you can’t run away without shedding a few layers of skin.” She back then with the old face, up and down the clear, even the firefighting team such as a small Yamen, she is also paid by the month, never dare to delay.

These decades down the line, the money thrown into the yamen was enough for two hundred thousand dollars.

Without this money, how could mother and daughter live so comfortably in such a good place in the earth?

She knew all her friends and relatives when things went wrong, was it just to get angry? No, that’s called crying poverty. She was divorced by Yang Xuhe, she cried once, Yang Yuyan was hospitalized for half a year, she cried once, Mrs. Ma introduced a son-in-law who was not suitable, she cried again. If she cries a lot, people will know that she is a weak woman, and will not think that she is very rich.

That’s what her father taught her. At that time, she remembers that her father would invite all his friends to the house on New Year’s holidays, as well as Ching Ming, Mid-Autumn Festival, and other family festivals, and then hold her on his lap, and reminisce about her grandpa and grandma, who died long ago, as well as her uncles and uncles who had long ago left home without any news, and reminisce about them, and later, her father would quietly shed tears.

When dad died, he took her hand and taught her word by word, when he went, how she should cry, to whom she should cry, not only to cry at the funeral ceremony, but also to cry until forty-nine, and every year in the future, on his birthday, the day of the sacrifice, the Spring Festival, Ching Ming, she had to cry to her friends and relatives.

Dad said that from then on, she could only make four new dresses, buy four new pieces of jewelry and have one dance a year.

Dad said she had to hang on to saving money, having no money, and having a poor family.

Daddy said that three years after he went, she was to rent out all the houses, and in the future, she was to make people think that she lived on the rent, and that she couldn’t get the money in the bank until she really needed it, and that she couldn’t talk to anyone about the gold and jewelry that she hid in the house.

Father told her to be a smart child.

Zhu Yanshu blinked her damp eyes and lowered her head to drink the bird’s nest.

Su Chunjun said, “Even though it’s like this, I’ll keep an extra eye on it, lest they jump over the wall in a hurry.” However, now everyone outside thinks that Zhu family has long been empty, Zhu Yanshu is swollen face, so it is good to save those flies on the Zhu family.

Zhu Yanshu smiled and said, “Thanks to Mr. Su, Yan Yan, still not quick to thank Mr. Su?”

Yang Yuyan had long since stopped eating, but just didn’t get off the table, still sitting next to Teacher Su and listening to them. She couldn’t help but start paying attention to her figure now, and was only willing to eat two Yuanxiao in the morning.

Upon hearing this, she slanted a glance at Su Chunjun, grabbed the tassel under the tablecloth and said, “Still using thanks for him?”

This is a sweet thing to say, Su Chunjun stares at her with a smile, “Second Miss is right, of course you don’t need to.”

Zhu Yanshu resented Yang Yuyan’s lack of reserve, but she couldn’t speak about her in front of Su Chunjun, so she could only give her a dark glare.

She threw down the bowl and stood up, “Forget it, I don’t care about you anymore. Zhang Ma, I’ll go back and lie down, I’m tired from the New Year, I’ll rest for a few days, I won’t see any guests these days.” The Ma family’s affairs have developed to this point today has been a bit hot, she wanted to avoid, so as not to be stirred into a fishy.

Su Chunjun hurriedly got up, “Ms. Zhu, I would like to visit my university professor Mr. Dai today, I wonder if I can invite second miss to go with me?”

As soon as he winked, Zhu Yanshu remembered that she had agreed with him to send Yang Yuyan to university, and hurriedly turned back and positively said, “Of course! I’ll also ask Yang Yuyan to go and be educated. I don’t know if Prof. Dai has any preferences? What kind of gift should we prepare?”

Su Chunjun: “That’s not necessary, Prof. Dai is very kind to students and doesn’t like to accept gifts from students. I think it would be a good reason to bring a few of the characters written by Yan Yan over to ask Prof. Dai for some pointers.”

Zhu Yan Shu immediately said joyfully, “Good.” She said excitedly to Yang Yuyan, “Didn’t you copy a book of poems? It’s just the thing to bring over!”

Yang Yuyan’s hairs stood straight up, embarrassed from the moment she heard it! Standing upright with her hands propped up, she refused, “No way!”

Zhu Yan Shu was stunned, immediately thought that may be Yang Yu Yan in the excerpt wrote something inappropriate, this age of the little girl sinus, copy some pornographic poems pornographic words is also possible, now the newspaper there are also many modern poems popped up, write a woman’s neck sweat hair arms thighs, quite revealing unsightly, but it is very much sought after by young people, in case Yang Yu Yan in the book copied these, that is really not suitable for people to see.

She turned her mouth and said, “If you don’t want to, you don’t want to, what are you yelling about? No rules!”

Yang Yuyan’s little face was red to the point of frightening, not daring to glare at Zhu Yanshu, but now that her relationship with Mr. Su was different, she could take it out on him, so a pair of eyes were tigerishly alive as she glared over, her murderous aura overflowing.

Su Chunjun was glared at heart is a jump, followed by fluttering jump up, even if it is to receive the second miss this glare, he felt comfortable. He looked at Second Miss’s face, which was as red as the evening sun, and revealed a timid smile that begged for forgiveness and admitted his mistake.

Yang Yuyan suffered a shock for no reason, until she was sent out by Zhu Yanshu and Zhang Ma, she had a cold face, without a smile.

Zhu Yanshu looked at her like this, couldn’t help but look at her again, wrinkled her face and said: “You are going to be a guest, can’t you even smile?”

Yang Yuyan had to listen to her own mother’s smile before being led downstairs by Ms. Su.

When the two of them got on the yellow bus, Su Chunjun asked in her ear, “What poems did you copy? Shakespeare or Pushkin?”

Yang Yuyan glared at him fiercely, her face starting to burn again.

Su Chunjun whispered, “Pushkin?”

Then he was stomped hard on his foot by Second Miss Yang.

It seems the guess was right.

When he took Second Miss Yang to read poems, naturally he couldn’t help but choose some famous masterpieces, love poems accounted for a very large percentage of poems, and apart from poems that recited nature, love was also a subject that would inspire resonance. If Ms. Yang wanted to read about the taste of love, Pushkin was more to her liking.

Su Chunjun quietly held her hand in the car, and the soft little hand struggled for a moment, but didn’t break away from him, so it obediently stayed in his hand.

“We’ll read together in the future, I still have many poems I haven’t taught you yet.” He said with a smile.