Chapter 83

Zhu Yanshu is an open-minded person, but at the same time she is also a mother. So she told Zhang Ma and Yang Yucan about the engagement, but she didn’t plan to tell Yang Yuyan.

Yang Yucan heard this shocking news when she returned from seeing her sister off.

Her jaw dropped and she immediately objected.

“We don’t know him at all! Where is his hometown? What do his parents do? We don’t know any of it!” Yang Yu Cicada stood up from the sofa and shrilled.

Zhu Yan Shu pulled her back to sit down, “Keep your voice down, do you want to scream until everyone hears?” She pounded Yang Yucan, “Why are you still against it now? They’ve been talking for months.”

Yang Yucan muttered, “Yan Yan is still young, I thought it was just a casual conversation.”

Zhu Yanshu: “Casual conversation? I’ll let you talk casually? You went to college is much more enlightened than me.” She raised her hand in a gesture to hit, Yang Yucchan shifted her head to avoid it, but Zhu Yanshu lifted it up and lightly slapped her on the back, “You dare to talk to me casually and see how I’ll clean you up! You have to be careful with your feelings! Do you know?”

Of course Yang Yucchan knew. Although nowadays all over the world advocate the freedom of feelings, but she has Yang Xuhe as an example, of course it is impossible to indulge themselves in male and female feelings.

It was just that it was one thing for herself, and another for her sister.

“She’s too young.” Yang Yu Cicada still said so, “Yan Yan is definitely still very ignorant about feelings.”

Zhu Yan Shu crosses her legs and says, “I think Yan Yan is much more emotionally aware than you.”

Yang Yucicang’s mouth is also very sharp, immediately rebutting her own mother, “That’s all just lip service. Yan Yan is naturally smart and clever, her brain is faster than others, and her mouth is also fast, but does she know what a man is? Has she ever hugged a man? Has she ever seen what men are like in private?”

Zhu Yanshu’s hairs stood up straight on her back when she heard this, and she immediately sat up straight and grabbed Yang Yucan: “What’s going on? Did Ma bully you?”

Yang Yucan rolled her eyes and waved her hand away, “Mom! I’m not talking about me!” She paused for a moment and explained in a low voice, “Besides, when I talk to Ma Tianbao, it’s always open and aboveboard! I’ve never gone to the dark side with him, nor have I ever gone out alone.” Until marriage, she would never let a man cross the line.

However, she was in the most open-minded university, surrounded by men and women with hot ideas, they were affected by the impact of Western thinking, do not distinguish between the wise and the foolish, and all accepted.

Yang Yuchan calmly said: “I know a lot of students have tasted the forbidden fruit, I have seen too much.”

Western poetry, literature, painting, music, all kinds of celebrities and great people’s stories, and so on. These things surrounded their minds and guided their behavior. Even if they are wrong, they want to savor them.

And the behavior of straying from the scriptures was the cry and proof of their youth.

Yang Yu Cicada sighed, “Sometimes I feel that it’s fortunate that there’s a Yang Xuhe so that I’m not like them.” Having Yang Xuhe as an example kept her conscious of “free love”. She wouldn’t follow what others did, she wouldn’t believe what others said, and she wouldn’t listen to the saying that “it’s not a waste of life as long as you’ve tried it”.

When she chose Ma Tianbao, she also chose a life partner, a like-minded person. She didn’t want to try free love.

She might also have a naive side in love, but she definitely understood what men expected in love better than Yang Yuyan.

“Yan Yan definitely has no physical desires for Mr. Su.” Yang Yu Cicada said with certainty, “The love in her eyes is the two of them sitting in the living room talking, reading together, writing together, and taking a walk on the boulevard under the balcony together, this is the perfect love in her mind.”

This is true.

Zhu Yanshu sighed and leaned back on the sofa.

Yang Yuchan pressed her, “Do you think Yan Yan is ready to be a wife or a mother now? Does she know what she has to face?”

Zhu Yanshu pushed her away, “Don’t push me, as if I’m trying to harm Yan Yan. Am I not doing this for her own good? Mr. Su is a few years older than her, and has already become a minor official in the Finance Bureau, he is now very sought after, believe it or not? In less than half a year, his bosses and colleagues will surely want to introduce him to someone. You don’t think it’s easy to find such an object! What’s more important is his heart for Yan Yan! Can you find another person who is so good to Yan Yan?”

Yang Yucan was also speechless, she herself knew that it was hard to talk about feelings, but even better objects, it was all for naught if they didn’t have a heart. Yang Yuyan and Su Chunjun were in love with each other, which was simply more rare than winning the lottery!

Missing out on Mr. Su, she didn’t know where to go to find a compatible match for Yang Yuyan.

Zhu Yanshu took advantage of the situation, holding her hand and persuading her, “It’s not like you want her to marry right away. It’s just to get engaged first, and book this person, so we won’t be afraid that he’ll run away?”

Yang Yu Cicada was losing ground and could only talk tough: “Getting married will take a few years.”

Zhu Yan Shu agreed readily, “That’s natural. I also can’t afford to marry Yan Yan ah, she is so careless.”

Alas.

Yang Yucan sighed deeply and could only agree. Counting the time, no way, only one month.

Zhu Yan Shu let Yang Yucan to draw up a list of guests, but also handwritten invitations, but also booked hotels, booked baskets, but also in the newspaper to buy pages known to friends and relatives.

All these trivial matters were thrown to Yang Yucan.

Yang Yucan didn’t even have the time to be sad, and immediately sat down in her bedroom with her laptop abacus to calculate the expenses needed for the engagement.

When Zhang Ma came back from shopping for groceries, she saw Zhu Yanshu sitting under the window sill, painting her nails, while Yang Yucan’s abacus was crackling in her bedroom.

She puts down the dishes and gently goes to take a look at Yang Yucan before going to Zhu Yanshu.

Zhang Ma: “Made it clear? What did big sister say?”

Zhu Yanshu blew on her fishy red fingernails and complained in a small voice, “It took a lot of my breath! As expected, this child did not agree. It was hard to convince her. You don’t see her like that, it’s like she’s the real mom and I’m the stepmom.”

Mrs. Zhang: “Not surprising. Big sister has a heavy heart and an even heavier sense of responsibility. You as a mom don’t think much, but she thinks for you.”

Zhu Yan Shu’s eyes widened, “Are you saying that I don’t usually worry?”

Zhang Ma: “You go out to play cards every day in addition to going home to eat, what do you worry about?”

Zhu Yanshu was furious.

Zhang Ma comforted her, “I’m just saying, don’t be seriously angry. The two children in the family have opposite temperaments. Eldest sister is serious, but Yan Yan is sloppy; Eldest sister is steady, but Yan Yan is impatient; Eldest sister loves to take the bull by the horns, but Yan Yan is flexible. They are good sisters for life. They will support each other in the future and will be fine. Ma’am, your blessings are ahead of you.”

Zhu Yanshu smiled and said, “In the future, you are also going to enjoy the blessings of the sisters together.”

Zhu Yanshu instructed Zhang Ma and Yang Yucan to not tell Yang Yuyan about the engagement.

Zhu Yanshu: “She’s a little kid, she doesn’t know any better, so if she leaks out she’ll make people laugh.”

Both of them agreed.

Zhu Yanshu said, “By the way, our family still needs to make new clothes, and we also need to make them for Mr. Su, so let’s find a reason to go to the tailor store later.”

Yang Yuchan spoke in unison with Zhang Ma this time.

Zhang Ma: “Goodness, how much money will this cost!”

Yang Yucchan: “And for Mr. Su? How much is this going to cost!”

After shouting, all three people froze.

Zhu Yanshu laughed first, pointing at Yang Yucan: “Big sister, you’re full of money now.”

Zhang Ma also laughed: “Big sister, you can’t be like a wife and call for jokes. Look at your mom, she never says the word “money”, she’s written it all down in her notebook.”

Yang Yucan herself is embarrassed, but she has been doing some scary math lately, the family’s expenses and other expenses, plus the recent surge in various expenses, all add up to a frightening figure.

Now there’s the engagement for Yang Yuyan, and the banquet plus new clothes won’t be a small amount. All these have to be paid by the Zhu family, Mr. Su, who lives and eats in the Zhu family, will not pay for it. Even if he were to contribute, his small salary would be used up by the end of the month. If he is asked to find a note from elsewhere to pay, Yang Yuchan will be uncomfortable in his heart. The family to Yang Yu Yan to do engagement, pieces and pieces to be good, that is, the way the money comes, but also to be clear, open and honest. The use of the police to do the engagement is like smearing on the top of this.

So she didn’t mention it, and it was better to see that Zhu Yanshu didn’t mention it either.

Although she was scared when she saw that she had to spend so much money, she wanted more than anything for everything to be fine and perfect for Yang Yuyan.

The three women of the family had discussed the matter, and were waiting for Su Chunjun to come back to probe him.

So on this day, all three women were distracted. Yang Yuyan came back from school and wanted to show her credit, but she was worried that it would touch Yang Yucan’s sad past, which would make her lose face and she didn’t dare to talk about it, and she was so suffocated that she almost suffered from internal injuries.

When she got up from her nap, she was even more surprised to see that Zhu Yanshu hadn’t gone to play cards, but was sitting on the sofa, flipping through the pictorials in boredom.

She turned around left and right, she didn’t see Zhang Ma, there were only the three of them in the house, and Yang Yucan didn’t know what she was doing, sitting in the bedroom and playing the abacus so fast that she seemed to have become uneducated.

Yang Yuyan was a little weak, sat down and asked Zhu Yanshu: “Mom, why don’t you go play cards?”

Zhu Yanshu yawned, “I’ve been playing every day lately, I’m a bit tired, so I’m taking a day off today.”

Yang Yuyan looked at the new nail polish on her fingernails, “It’s so pretty.”

Zhu Yanshu stretched her hand to show her, “Nice, right? I just put it on today, so don’t touch it. You have to go to school now and can’t put it on, so I’ll do it for you some time later.”

Yang Yuyan heard the loophole in the words, “I won’t go to school after a while?”

Zhu Yanshu originally wanted to say that she would definitely need to dress up when she got engaged, and at that time she would definitely be able to paint her nails. It didn’t matter that this little wit had caught the handle. At once, her eyebrows stood up and she put on her strict mother’s posture: “Why don’t you go and read a book?”

Yang Yuyan hurriedly changed the topic, “I’ve only just gotten up, I’m still a bit lazy, wait for me to sit down before going. By the way, where is Mrs. Zhang?”

Zhu Yanshu: “Mrs. Zhang went to worship Erlang Shen to ask for a sign.”

Yang Yuyan: “What do you want? What is Erlang Shen in charge of?”

Zhu Yanshu didn’t know.

“You have to ask Zhang Ma.”

Yang Yuyan shook her head, “It’s better not to ask, if I do, she’ll definitely say that the gods in the sky are so powerful that they can do everything and are in charge of everything.”

The sign that Zhang Ma begged for was solemnly pressed under Yang Yuyan’s pillow.

Of course Yang Yuyan was going to object, she was a young girl in her prime, what was the point of pressing a sign under her pillow?

But her objection was invalid.

Mrs. Zhang said, “You are the youngest in the family, so I asked for this sign to keep the whole family safe, so of course I have to put it under your pillow to bless you.”

Zhu Yanshu said, “Just listen to Mrs. Zhang.”

The strangest thing is that Yang Yucan said the same thing: “Don’t worry about those things, come and memorize the words.”

Yang Yuyan was in a bitter mood as she stood in front of Yang Yucan and was forced to memorize her vocabulary, so she was overjoyed when she heard Ms. Su knocking on the door!

But the others blocked their view.

As soon as Zhang Ma opened the door, she said happily, “Teacher Su, you’re back!” With that, she grabbed Su Chunjun’s purse with both hands and snatched it in her hands.

“Quickly please, quickly please come in.” Zhu Yanshu stood up and said smilingly.

Su Chunjun was flattered and walked in. Zhang Ma was about to take his purse for him when Zhu Yanshu purposely got up to greet him.

He looks away from Yang Yuyan, who is being detained by Yang Yucan to memorize her books, and slightly relieves his love for her before turning his head to talk to Zhang Ma and Zhu Yanshu.

Su Chunjun: ”Is there something you want me to do? You two please be straightforward, I am obliged.”

Zhu Yanshu thought for a moment, but decided to let him eat first, so she glared at Zhang Ma.

Zhang Ma quickly said, “I’ve prepared the food, Mr. Su go sit down, it will be ready in a moment.”

Soon after Su Chunjun sat down, there were three dishes and one soup in front of him!

This level of hospitality made him feel like he was on pins and needles, and he got up and went to speak with Zhu Yanshu, “Ms. Zhu, I’m really uneasy. If you have something, please still tell me directly.”

Zhu Yanshu said, “Actually, it is Zhang Ma who has something to tell you.” She finished and stepped aside.

Zhang Ma said, “It’s me, it’s me, Mr. Su, I have something to tell you.”

Zhu Yanshu said, “You guys go to my house to talk.”

Yang Yuyan was thousands of miles away, stretching her neck to hear the secrets of this party.

Seeing this, Yang Yucan put away her books, took her hand and said, “Come inside with me and memorize.”

Yang Yuyan immediately shouted, “Zhang Ma, I’m a little hungry again!”

She knew that it was useless to call out to Zhu Yanshu at this time, calling out to Zhang Ma could only save her, and to Zhang Ma, calling out to be hungry was a tried and true trick.

However, this time, the tried and true trick didn’t work either.

Zhang Ma said without looking back, “I don’t have time to care about you right now, just eat some cookies.”

Yang Yuchan then went to get the cookies, stuffed them into her arms and pushed her into the house.

Yang Yuyan sat on the bed still a little angry: “Sister …… you hit the lovebirds.

She looked accusingly at Yang Yucan.

Usually, we all unspokenly let her talk to Mr. Su.

Yang Yucan looked at her and sighed, “…… Today mom has something to find Mr. Su, you memorize your books.”

Yang Yuyan had to continue to study hard for ten minutes under Yang Tiemian’s supervision when she suddenly heard Su Chunjun loudly say outside, “I kowtow to you!”

Yang Yuyan and Yang Yucan both froze.

When the two sisters opened the door and went out, they saw Su Chunjun already kneeling squarely in front of Zhu Yanshu.

Kneeling.

Yang Yuyan then felt that the sun might not be rising in the right direction today.