Chapter 60
Yang Yucan’s receipts for the books she bought for the book club over the years were six books, all bound, and some of the letters she wrote to the publishers and authors were also in the box.
Zhu Yanshu sat on a chair while flipping while sneering: “I was born really like me, are all wrongdoers.”
Zhang Ma stood by the side, tsked and sighed: “Who’s to blame? You’re okay with this temper, when others bully you, you’ll bully them back. Eldest sister only resembles your innocence and less temper, and as a result, she is bullied even more. In my opinion, this family is only as good as the second young lady, and in the future, both of you will have to rely on the second young lady to get by.”
Zhu Yan Shu picked up the last thick leather notebook in the box and slammed it on the table, humming: “But come on. She’s such a fool, she’ll believe anything Mr. Su says, I think she’s the one who’ll be cheated out of her life.”
Zhang Ma shook her head and asked her, “You want me to bring them all?”
The bound receipts are so thick, six of them would be too much for her old back to bear.
Zhu Yan Shu: “Where do I need to bring them all? You only need to bring one, and then take this.” She patted the thick leather notebook, opened it and said: “This is the big sister’s account. I taught her to write down everything she spends, so she knows where the money goes.”
Zhang Ma took a receipt, an account book, Zhu Yanshu then picked up a few letters from the reply letters also let her bring.
Zhu Yanshu: “We didn’t start out to fight, we’re going to donate books, so let’s have a good time. If someone comes out and says nonsense, we will bring out the evidence, this is only appropriate.”
Zhang Ma nodded: “Then I’ll write it down and give it to them.”
Zhu Yanshu: “No need, Mr. Su is here, he will be promoted in less than half a year in the Finance Bureau, this matter is a piece of cake for him. You go to deliver the things, and then bring the big sister back on the line. During this period of time, it’s better for her not to go to school.”
Even if they could get rid of the book club matter, they would only be solving a villain, the rumors wouldn’t go away because of that.
Zhang Ma got on the yellow bus and hurried to the school.
In the Little Red Building, Yang Yuyan accompanied Yang Yucan for a walk on the lawn outside the building so that she could be a little more calm.
The sisters stood together and were already almost as tall.
Yang Yucan held Yang Yuyan’s hand, “Just now ……”
She wanted to apologize, she didn’t mean to glare at her sister.
Yang Yuyan didn’t wait for her to finish before shaking back, “It’s okay, sis, I know your feelings for dad are deeper than mine.”
Yang Yu Cicada’s heart clenched hard again, her brows tightened.
It was too hard to make her believe that Yang Xuhe had never loved them as mother and daughter. But she was also more sober, she was sober enough to know that she didn’t want to believe it now more than Yang Yuyan’s words didn’t make sense.
Because from the time Yang Xuhe quietly moved out, to the time he published the divorce notice in the newspaper, he also created a very unfavorable wind for Zhu Yanshu, during that period of time, there were a lot of articles in the newspaper in solidarity with Yang Xuhe, and there were also some literature clubs in the university to use this “famous” social incident as an example to discuss.
Most of them described Zhu Yanshu and her marriage to Yang Xuhe as a feudal mistake.
They didn’t know Zhu Yanshu or Yang Xuhe, didn’t understand what they were like in their marriage, and didn’t care what they were like.
They only regarded Yang Xuhe as the hero who broke up the old feudal family, and Zhu Yanshu as a part of the old feudal family.
She must be ignorant, she must be foolish, she must be narrow-minded, she must be ugly. She must not be progressive, she must have small feet, she must reject new ideas, and she must be repulsive.
Many images were put on Zhu Yanshu’s head.
If Yang Yuyan was not lying in the hospital at that time, Yang Yucan must rush to the hospital every day with Zhu Yanshu, in the hospital, school, home, running around, have no time to worry about, she also do not know whether she will go crazy in this kind of environment.
Even if she didn’t have the energy to pay attention to these onlookers’ gazes and comments at that time, she wouldn’t forget this past event.
So she hated Yang Xuhe to the bone.
But if Yang Xuhe did not wear a painted skin, he is not in a sudden one day only to become bad, not after meeting a new lover from the bottom of the heart to rise the evil idea ……
But if he hadn’t suddenly become bad one day, not after meeting a new lover, then the evil thoughts from the bottom of his heart would have risen, then all the hatred in her heart would have been empty.
She hated the man who had once loved them, the man who had once been a loving father, and hated him for turning bad, for leaving them.
But if he hadn’t been the kind father she thought he was, he would have just been a stranger.
The opposite of hate is love, it is love without love.
This is how her hatred for Yang Xuhe arose.
Compared to the knot in her heart for her father, the knot in her heart for Ma Tianbao was much smaller. Today she figured out a problem that has been bothering her for many years, solved a disease, the sudden rise of ease makes her feel empty, and then think of Ma Tianbao, as if it can be more relaxed to face.
She likes Ma Tianbao, as a classmate, as a young man and woman, between them sprouted feelings. But that affection didn’t have time to grow up, it was she who was longing to grow up, both she and Ma Tianbao longed to grow up as soon as possible and shoulder the burden of the family. That was why they were so quick to start discussing the various aspects of family life. She thought it showed that they were happy, but in retrospect, when they discussed family, it was the same as when they discussed other issues.
Holding hands, hugging, kissing, these had made her heart flutter. But was it like Yang Yuyan and Mr. Su who wanted to hold hands all the time, whose eyes were always tied to each other and couldn’t leave, who wanted to be together every moment and didn’t want to part?
No, none of these.
Now, she still sympathizes with Ma Tianbao’s suffering and is willing to do her best to help him.
But this is no longer out of love, or moral pressure, but out of friendship.
They had been in the same school for several years, and had always been like-minded, even if she now realized that she didn’t love him so much that she loved him enough to want to marry him, she wasn’t unaffectionate towards him.
Yang Yu Cicada let out a long sigh and raised her eyes to the sky, the sky in early spring was a light blue color, the white clouds were like a smoke trailing a long tail, hanging diagonally in the sky.
Her sister stood beside her with her arms around her, her mouth still talking about marginal words, her mouth was always idle.
Yang Yuyan: “I’ve always felt that both of our names can be interpreted this way. Your name is Cicada, that’s Cicada Juan. At that time, Yang’s relationship with mom should be quite good, and Grandpa is still around, so he wouldn’t dare to make any crooked moves. When I was a Yan, I think he had a heart of gold at that time.”
Yang Yu Cicada couldn’t help but scold her, “Nonsense. Both my name and your name were chosen by grandpa, Jade Cicada refers to the covenant, at that time, the Paris Peace Conference was being held, grandpa hoped that there would be no more wars, and hoped that our country would be friendly with others for a hundred generations, and that there would be peace forever before he gave me this name.”
Yang Yuyan was so shocked that she lost her voice: “What? Jade Cicada means this? Grandpa, his old man is thinking too complicatedly! What about me then? What does my Jade Swallow mean?”
Yang Yu Cicada: “I hope you are as light and dexterous as a swallow.”
Yang Yuyan carefully savored these two names and always felt that ……
“Wasn’t Grandpa’s naming me quite perfunctory at the time?” She asked unwillingly.
Why was her sister’s name so meaningful, and she was just a common name! Unfair!
Yang Yu Cicada lectured her, “What’s wrong with being light and dexterous? That’s how a girl should be ah, look at how pretty you’ve grown now, it’s all because of this name, you have to remember to thank grandpa do you know?”
Yang Yuyan was lectured and nodded frequently, not daring to complain about the name. She used to think that “Yu Yan” was too rustic, but didn’t she get used to it later? Anyway, she can’t change her name, so she’ll make do with what she has.
Su Chunjun had been looking out the window worriedly until she saw the two sisters laughing and joking as usual.
Professor Dai was sitting on the sofa, writing a lesson plan for Yang Yuyan, and said, “Don’t worry about them, I think Ms. Zhu and these two children are both broad-minded people, and they won’t be trapped by petty details. Even if they get confused for a while, they will slowly come to their senses, and one is never short of opportunities to change.”
Su Chunjun turned his head and said, “Professor, how do you want to teach Yan Yan?”
Professor Dai looked up and said, “This …… is unknown for the time being. I always have to try her bottom line first, in short, whatever I know, as long as she wants to learn, I can teach her!”
Seeing Professor Dai’s eyes light up, Su Chunjun had a bit of a headache, in the past, he had also been caught by Professor Dai, and then it was only when the professor realized that he did not aspire to do so that he let him go. Professor Dai’s credo has always been that as long as a student wants to learn, he can’t help but use a funnel to pour knowledge into the student’s stomach.
Su Chunjun made a bow with both hands, “Professor, please be more lenient with Yan Yan.”
Professor Dai put down his pen and laughed, “Chunjun, it’s not that I don’t spare Second Miss, but only people like her who don’t worry about food and clothing, who are simple minded, and who don’t have an abundance of materialistic desires, can devote their entire life’s energy to learning knowledge. For example, you, you are very intelligent, but you are bent on building a career, no matter for what purpose and to what end, you are not suited to rule the world of learning. Like Big Head, even though I’ve kept him in school now, I can’t keep him here forever.” He sighed, “The principal has spoken to me many times about the need to hurry up and release some of the students who should have graduated a long time ago. Although I have the intention to keep Big Head here, his current level is not good enough to get a position in the school, and once he gets out of the school, he will inevitably have to run for his life, and work for the food that he imports every day… Do you think that such a person can still keep his energy to study?” He shook his head.
Su Chunjun fell into deep thought.
“It is true that you are learning enough now, enough to get a decent job, to seek a high position in the government or other parts of the country, and to be reused. I also admit that there is indeed an urgent need for talents in society nowadays, that’s why the university should send high-quality talents to society as soon as possible.” Dai Yushu said, “But I always think that knowledge is needed to go after the peak, and we can’t just ask for enough. If we stop pursuing the peak of knowledge, then we will still lag behind! While foreign scholars are constantly climbing the peak of knowledge, we are satisfied, so when will we catch up with foreign countries and surpass them? We can’t stop!”
Su Chunjun: “Professor.”
Dai Yushu patted his thighs and smiled, “Teaching and educating people is a hundred-year plan. I have the confidence to work in the school for a hundred years, let’s see how many trees I can eventually plant.”
At this time, Yang Yuyan knocked on the door and came in, smilingly saying, “Professor, Mr. Su, Zhang Ma is here. Let’s go to the library!”
Donating books is a proper thing to do, and the school has always encouraged people from all walks of life to donate books, really because books nowadays, it’s not cheap.
Accompanied by Prof. Dai, with Su Chunjun, the head of human essence, as the lobbyist, and with the old story of Master Zhu in place, the library’s director immediately came out to receive Yang Yucan.
He shook Yang Yucan’s hand and said enthusiastically, “Mr. Yang, thank you very much for your support to the school!”
Yang Yucan’s reason for donating books was that she would be graduating soon, although she wouldn’t officially graduate until next year, but it was normal for her to come and donate books now, female students usually seldom read until the end, and the ones who ran out and married halfway through the course were not a few.
The receipts and ledgers she’d brought with her proved how much money she’d donated in total for the books, and the letters back from the authors and publishers proved where they’d all come from. Some of the books, newspapers and magazines were out of print, others were published in very small quantities at the time, and she wrote letter after letter to publishers and authors, begging them for them.
She bought these books out of her own pocket.
Now they are in the book club.
The book club, on the other hand, is a student organization. It hasn’t been established for very long, and many of the rules and regulations are vague. Before Yang Yuchan joined the organization, although the book club would also buy books and magazines from outside, it was rare to buy large quantities of them, and at that time, they all relied on donations from the public to pay for the purchase of books and magazines, and the books and magazines they purchased were only stored in the book club’s meeting room.
The book club was a meeting for students to discuss and reflect on new ideas and new waves.
It was like any other literary meeting in the school, nothing special.
It also supported the exchange of books and the lending of purchased books and periodicals, and apart from a deposit, there was no need to pay rent for books, just like the school library.
After joining the club, Yang Yuchan took to it like a fish to water. She proposed organizing regular book club activities, with students taking turns to act as officers and preside over this activity.
The idea was well received, and many people brought their own books to the club for reading and discussion.
Of course, Yang Yuchan also brought her own books. However, this was only the first year, and from the second year onwards, she began to use her own money to buy books, and later on, she also motivated other people to buy books and newspapers at their own expense and bring them here for everyone to read.
Later on, the activities of the book club became bigger and bigger, and gradually more and more people in the school were willing to participate, even if they did not join the club, they would also participate in the book discussions.
Professor Dai participated in the book discussions.
More students came to read the books.
There is no explicit provision in the rules of the book club about the ownership of the books that Yang Yuchan bought at his own expense.
There was no rule in the rules of any student assembly that defined all the things that people sent over as unpaid donations.
It was just that Yang Yuchan herself used to tacitly agree that these books would be reserved for the book club, to be used to continue the activities in the future.
But after this rumor, she also realized that her idea was too naive.
She does not care how much money she spent on these books, in her opinion, the books are more important, the money has been spent, spent, spent, the books can not be equated with money ah.
But in the eyes of those who have a heart, books are equal to money. These books are not just books, they are capital. If he wanted to possess the books, he had to get rid of the original owner of the books.
Yang Yuchan showed enough proof that the curator accepted the books she donated.
She also wrote down a certificate of voluntary book donation in her own handwriting, and the curator then wrote her a certificate of award for her righteous act of book donation.
The certificate was ready-made, with the principal’s stamp and signature.
The curator seems to be afraid of book donation regret, will fill in the blank certificate of award, the ink is not yet dry, the pen cheeky hands solemnly handed over to Yang Yucan, repeatedly praised her: “Yang students, you understand the righteousness of the contemporary students, is a model ah!”
Yang Yuyan in the background, has always felt that this curator teacher’s attitude is not quite right, a little too enthusiastic, are not like a teacher.
She quietly asked Mr. Su what was going on.
Su Chunjun answered her in a low voice: “Because I’m afraid that people who come to donate things will run away again.”
Yang Yuyan: “Why?”
Su Chunjun: “The school is poor.”
The school is really poor.
The curator asked the books, newspapers and magazines in the reading club’s meeting room, and made an immediate decision, not waiting for a moment, immediately called the staff in the museum, and then went to the reading club to move the books over!
Yang Yuyan was dumbfounded.
This is also too urgent, this is not like robbing things from the students?
Su Chunjun, however, knew very well that the librarian of the library was like a miser, afraid that the books placed outside would be lost, and couldn’t wait for them all to be hurriedly placed under the watchful eye.
The librarian also explained to Yang Yucan: “In the future, if the book club needs to hold seminars, they can come to the library to borrow books, and I’ll give them a note!” Ordinary students could only borrow one book at a time, but the book club could borrow fifty!
Of course, this borrowing will all have to be registered.
The staff came and went like the wind, and in a moment they were like tigers descending from the mountain, bandits entering the village, riding their tricycles and “snatching” all the books back.
Really robbed, because followed by some students, are the people of the book club.
They were so angry that they followed the librarian to ask why they had to rob the books of the book club. As a result, as soon as they came in, they saw Yang Yu Cicada.
One of these male students, wearing round glasses, immediately crossed the crowd and said to Yang Yucan with a smile, “Yang, it’s you, where’s Ma? Is he with you?”
The book club in the back immediately buzzed in whispers.
Yang Yuchan looked at him icily, “Classmate Qian, may I ask how did Classmate Ma end up with me?”
Qian student seemed as if he didn’t understand, “Isn’t Ma with you ……”
Yang Yuchan interrupted him loudly, “Classmate Ma and I are classmates! Just as I am with you, with everyone, we are all classmates. Aren’t we?”
Classmate Qian laughed, “Is that so? Then it’s my misunderstanding.”
Yang Yu Cicada sneered, “The lecherous see the lecherous.”
Qian classmate immediately blushed, he turned serious and asked, “Yang classmate, then I would like to ask you, why did you donate the book club’s books to the library?”
Yang Yuchan: “I donated them to the school library of course because I wanted to make the books available to the entire school. This is also the reason why I joined the book club at that time. Student Qian, why are you questioning me? Don’t you want me to donate the books to the library?”
Mr. Qian immediately said in a loud voice, “These books are the books of the book club, don’t you think so?” He turned his head to the people behind him.
At this time other people from the book club behind him also came up to persuade Yang Yucan to change his mind.
“Fellow student Yang, think about it again.”
“Right, student Yang, if you make this donation, how will the book club’s next event be organized?”
“Right.”
Everyone was also all surprised, not realizing that Yang Yucan had bought so many books, almost taking up 80% of the books that the entire book club now owned!
This was because when other people organized book clubs, no matter if it was their own books or newly bought books, they all took them back afterwards. Only Yang Yuchan left the books in the book club and didn’t take them away. Over time, everyone got used to Yang Yuchan’s selfless behavior and thought that these books were the books of the book club.
As a result, it was only today that everyone realized that this was not the case.
The curator was afraid that things would change, and when he heard this, he rushed over to persuade everyone: “Don’t be in a hurry, don’t be in a hurry. If your book club wants to organize activities in the future, you can come to the library to borrow books. I’ve already spoken to Mr. Yang and given you special treatment! You guys can borrow fifty books as long as you come to borrow books for your activities!”
The librarian’s generous offer immediately caused the rest of the book club to “rebel”, as long as the book club’s activities can continue to be organized, and there are more books ah!
Only Qian, who looked uncertain and furious, stared at Yang Yucan: “Yang, you can’t be so selfish! Selling out the book club for a little bit of honor!”
He pointed at the award certificate rolled up in Yang Yucan’s hand and said.
The crowd moved their eyes back again, their eyes flickering, but they didn’t help out like they did last time.
The librarian frowned, disliking this male student as he said, “This student, you’re wrong to say that. Ms. Yang donated books for free, can’t the school even give her an award? Do we have to let people give freely, and we even have to be stingy with a word of thanks? If this goes on, who will be willing to do good? Don’t extort people’s kindness, it’s very vicious, your thinking is very problematic and you need to reflect on it.”
The curator’s words caused the rest of the book club to twist back around, and Qian student, alone, had no choice but to call it a day and leave for the time being.
The angry and hateful look in his eyes before he left indicated that he still didn’t feel he was at fault.
Yang Yu Cicada was furious and wanted to scold him bitterly. But Zhang Ma tightly grabbed her arm, and Yang Yuyan listened to Su Chunjun and advised her from the side.
“You can’t argue with him here, when he gets mad, he might attack you with the Ma Tianbao matter.” Yang Yuyan said, “Don’t get entangled with the villain. Let’s go first.”