Chapter 59
After waking up early and drinking a cup of water, drinking a bowl of congee at home, and coming here to drink a cup of tea served by Ms. Su’s hands, Miss Yang had an internal emergency.
After a few moments of patience, she realized that Mr. Su and Prof. Dai had not returned, so she decided to get up and go out to look for a toilet.
Fortunately, the building pattern of the Little Red Mansion was somewhat similar to that of the Zhu Family, and she managed to find a restroom near the kitchen. After solving the problem, she used the fresh water in the bucket in the restroom to flush out the filth, and when she came out clean, she met a semi-familiar person in front of her.
It was Big Head Shi, whom she had met last time.
He was classmates with Mr. Su, so Yang Yuyan took the initiative to greet him, “Mr. Shi, how are you.”
Shi Wuwei had originally rushed over to see who had used up the water in the bucket and teach him a good lesson, but now that he found out that it was actually his friend’s wife, it was not a good idea to open his mouth. He could only say with a dry smile, “Haha,hello.”
There were a lot of people who wouldn’t use the toilets here, so it happened almost every few days. There were those who simply wouldn’t clean it up, letting the filth stay behind; and there were those who were probably used to something fancier, or had underlings serving at home, and would flush the toilet with the fresh water that was kept in it.
In fact, that water is spare, really flush the toilet just need to tilt your head, looking for a rope, gently pull, the water tank in the water will naturally pour down, the filth flushed clean!
Shi Wuwei loved this design, it made him feel the magic of new technology for the first time, and once he had the idea of learning architecture.
Yang Yuyan saw him coming out of the kitchen and asked, “Was Mr. Shi in the kitchen just now? I saw you bringing firewood over earlier.”
Shi Wuwei said, “Yes. Several of us agreed to deliver firewood to Prof. Dai every day.”
Yang Yuyan asked curiously, “Is there not enough coal?”
Shi Wuwei laughed, “Coal is too expensive, but firewood is cheap! Although the professor doesn’t seem to be short of money, a little bit of saving is a little bit of saving. Coal is less smoky in the classroom, but firewood is better for cooking.”
Shi Wuwei sent Yang Yuyan to the tea room and went back, he didn’t have a class today, he just came to help Prof. Dai work.
Yang Yu Cicada was relieved to see Yang Yu Yan return, “Why did you go for so long? Who was that man just now?”
Yang Yuyan closed the door and said, “It’s Professor Dai’s student, and he’s classmates with Mr. Su. Sister, they also deliver firewood to Prof. Dai every day and help Prof. Dai with his work.”
Yang Yuchan said, “This is nothing, respect for teachers should be so, you also need to help Professor Dai and older students to do what they can in the future, can not be lazy.”
Yang Yuyan was startled: “I also want to ……”
Yang Yuchan pulled her back to sit down properly and said, “I knew you couldn’t remember. This isn’t at home, there’s no Zhang Ma to help you, you need to grow up before you can do that.”
Yang Yuyan then asked, “Then sis, did you do odd jobs at school too?”
Yang Yuchan nodded, “Yes, how could I not? Like organizing the desktop, organizing the bookcase, wiping the table and sweeping the floor, these are all very common things. Also, if the professor wants you to boil water, pour tea, or copy things, you can’t refuse any of them either, you have to actively work hard to fulfill them.”
Yang Yuyan relaxed after hearing this, “So it’s just these jobs, then I’m okay. If I’m asked to carry firewood and burn stoves for cooking, then I really won’t be able to do it.”
Yang Yuchan: “There aren’t that many professors like Prof. Dai who live alone in a building in the school, most of them either use their three meals at home or have their meals delivered by their family members, or else they can also eat at the school’s cafeteria.” She looked around left and right and said, “Actually, this is both Professor Dai’s home and a classroom.”
At this moment, Su Chunjun and Professor Dai came in. Yang Yuyan could see that Su Chunjun’s face did not look right, so questions came through in her gaze.
Su Chunjun gave her a reassuring smile and said to Yang Yucan, “Missy, I just had a phone call with Ms. Zhu, she is still on the line, please go over and speak with her.”
Yang Yucan thought it was Zhu Yanshu who had something else to deliver, so she got up and went over with Su Chunjun.
Yang Yuyan naturally followed.
On the phone, Zhu Yanshu didn’t say anything else, but only asked Yang Yucan where she had put the receipts and letters from when she bought books for the book club. She asked Zhang Ma to find them and send them to the school later.
Yang Yucan told her straight while wondering, “Why send them to the school?”
Zhu Yanshu was furious since she heard Su Chunjun’s transmission just now, and now her anger has not yet subsided, so she said in a bad mood, “I don’t have the time to talk to you right now! After those receipts are sent over, you go and donate all those books to the school!”
Yang Yu Cicada was even more puzzled, “Those books were originally donated to the book club.” Donating to the book club is the same as donating to the school ah.
Zhu Yanshu: “You silly girl! You’re being targeted now, someone is trying to trap you! Hmph, in that case, let’s give it away without giving others an advantage!”
Yang Yucan’s heart was pounding, and when she hung up the phone, she asked Su Chunjun, “Mr. Su, what’s going on?”
When she called just now, Yang Yuyan had already heard Su Chunjun’s generalization, and was instantly furious: “Villain! What a villain! Too vicious!”
Throwing sewage on people, or starting with the most difficult to defend private morals. Should Yang Yucchan now go and confess to everyone that she didn’t dislike the poor and love the rich?
But one can’t really marry Ma Tianbao just for this matter!
Yang Yuyan usually has more time to point the finger, but today this matter does not know how to deal with it.
Su Chunjun led Yang Yucan back to the tea room and advised Yang Yucan not to come to school recently, and to come back after the rumors had subsided.
Yang Yucan had already suffered a lot mentally because of Ma Tianbao’s matter, and when she heard that there were such rumors outside, her hands and feet went cold, and she couldn’t say half a word, it was all blocked in her chest.
“They originally did not say wrong ……” she said.
Yang Yuyan high voice: “Nonsense! In ancient times, there are seven out of it, the imperial concubine can rest the emperor it, you just split a hand, guilty of heavenly law?”
Dai Yushu in the side originally did not want to speak, listening to Yang Yuyan high voice this, actually caused him to laugh.
When he laughed, everyone in the room looked over.
Dai Yushu laughed and said, “Yan Yan is right. Eldest Miss Yang, please don’t make any mistakes.”
He looked at Yang Yucan’s miserable expression, secretly sighed, and said with a straight face, “It’s not true that morality is a guideline for the human heart, but it shouldn’t become a shackle. Ask yourself now, for what reason are you struggling? Is it because love is still there? Or is it because of moral pressure? If it’s the former, then I hope you don’t break up; but if it’s the latter, then you should have broken up a long time ago!”
Yang Yu Cicada was instantly stunned.
Was love still alive?
She didn’t know. She didn’t even know if her relationship with Ma Tianbao was love anymore. What should love look like? She watched from the sidelines as Yang Yuyan and Su Chunjun spent time together, sweet and sour, every move of the lovers tugging at the heart of the other. She and Ma Tianbao, on the other hand, had fewer such moments; they were more likely to think about the future together, or discuss ideas.
But the answer to the second question was clear.
The reason she couldn’t simply break up was because she couldn’t face the pressure of morality. It goes against her sense of morality.
“Why do you say that if it’s because of moral pressure, I should break up?” Yang Yuchan was puzzled. She didn’t think that Professor Dai was the same person as Yang Xuhe, but in her opinion, Yang Xuhe’s abandonment of his family at that time was exactly his morally corrupt choice.
Dai Yushu smiled and said, “Because it means that your love started in the wrong place. If you loved him, then you should lament love even more now that you are leaving your love.” He thought for a moment and said in a single voice, “Take your father, Mr. Yang, for example, I guess when he chose Ms. Zhu back then, it would not have been because of love, or at least love was never the main reason. That’s why when he abandoned his family, he also didn’t have the slightest intention of staying in love, because it wasn’t something he loved in the first place.”
Yang Xuhe never loved family?
Yang Yu Cicada looked like she had been knocked silly with a stick in the head.
She had never thought of it that way! She had always thought that her father had betrayed his love for her mother and betrayed his family. But now Professor Dai said that father didn’t love mother at all.
At this time, she heard Yang Yuyan beside her whispering with Teacher Su, “I’ve always felt this way, back then, the surname Yang must have been interested in the Zhu family’s money and power.”
Yang Yuchan looked at her sister and asked with difficulty, “How can you think that? At least when he was with us in the past, he still had feelings.”
How could Yang Yuyan also think that Yang Xuhe had no feelings for them? They used to be happy when they were together as a family ah.
Yang Yu Cicada felt the betrayal, she almost didn’t even recognize her own sister anymore.
Su Chunjun held Yang Yuyan’s hand.
Yang Yuyan, however, was not angry, she could understand Yang Yucan’s feelings, she said calmly, “Sister, some couples just don’t bond out of love, and some parents don’t naturally love their children. We can have this happy family now because we are all lucky to have a good mom. Mom loves us, and that’s why we have the good life we have now. Compare that to mom, and you’ll see how much Yang Xuhe loves us. If he had any love for us, he wouldn’t have done what he did in the first place. It’s because he doesn’t love us that he was able to hurt us without a care in the world.”
Yang Yu Cicada couldn’t even say half a sentence in retort, her heart became empty for the first time.
Yang Xuhe didn’t love them.
She also didn’t love Ma Tianbao as much as she thought she did.
Even her own feelings would lie to her.
At this moment, for the first time, Yang Yucan saw herself more clearly.