Chapter 50: Being a Stepmother 17
Who else could it be? The person who complained was of course Ye Zhiqiu. She didn't even need to show up herself. She only needed to let the neighbors of Ye Rong's in-laws know about the Ye family's affairs. There would be people who would gossip about it, and it would eventually reach the ears of her parents-in-law.
It was because she did not show up in person that the system did not stop her. It was a timid system that was afraid of trouble from the Heavenly Dao.
Ye Zhiqiu didn't think there was anything to be afraid of. If anyone dared to cause trouble for her, she would take revenge on Ye Rong and drag someone down with her before she died. She didn't mean to drag Ye Rong over. If she had to blame someone, she could only blame the Ye family for being too troublesome. As long as the Ye family was well behaved, there was no need for her to do anything unnecessary.
It is not impossible to ask the Ye family to be obedient. As long as they are given enough money, they will definitely be honest and obedient. But how can Ye Zhiqiu agree? The system can only look forward to the arrival of the college entrance examination every day, and leave after the exam. It does not need to worry about it every day.
Ye Zhiqiu was also looking forward to the college entrance examination. She had learned almost all the knowledge she needed to learn and was just waiting to register. In order to prepare for the exam, after the wheat harvest this year, she did not plan to plant winter wheat or vegetables, and directly gave her private plot to her father Han to plant.
However, Han's father thought that she wanted to be lazy, so he wrote a private letter to Han Dalin, asking him to take care of his wife.
Han Dalin was not stupid, so how could he write a letter to teach Ye Zhiqiu a lesson? He only paid a quarter of his salary every month to let Ye Zhiqiu help take care of the baby, and seeing the chaos in the family compound, he was already very happy.
Not only did he not listen to Han's father, he was also worried that Ye Zhiqiu was not feeling well, so he sent her a separate sum of money and told her to go to the hospital for a full body check-up.
Ye Zhiqiu was not that touched by the money, but he definitely liked the man more. This man was not that good, but at least he was not bad and had good taste.
But I thought Han's father was a good person. Who would have thought that he would be unhappy just because she did less work? Could it be that their family was not looking for a wife, but a free laborer?
Ye Zhiqiu was also petty. In the past, whenever her family made something delicious, she would ask Han Yue to send a portion to Han's father. But after Han's father complained, she was unwilling to send even a blade of grass to Han's father.
Even Han Yue noticed something was wrong, so how could Han's father not know that he had offended his daughter-in-law? Unfortunately, he couldn't bring himself to apologize, so he had to ask Ye Zhiqiu through Han Yue if he wanted help.
What could Ye Zhiqiu need help with? She could only help others now. The news of the college entrance examination had been officially released, and everyone was looking for textbooks. No one knew who leaked that she had the books, and everyone came to her for help.
When she was looking for books, she prepared an extra set, but the problem was that there were too many people asking for books, and one set was far from enough. She didn't want to offend anyone, and didn't know who to lend it to, so she simply handed the books to the village, and everyone who wanted to borrow the books had to go to the village head's house to copy them.
The village chief didn't want his house to be crowded with people, but he also had candidates in his family, so he couldn't refuse Ye Zhiqiu's request. However, if the books were collected, it would not be a good idea to have a noisy house every day, so it would be better to leave the books in the village primary school.
Anyone who wanted to borrow a book had to go to school and copy it. They could not take it away, but only copy it at school. At night, the book would be collected and kept by him. All candidates, including the educated youth, had no objection to this decision. There were many books in a set, and everyone took turns to copy it, which was better than having the book borrowed by one person.
Ye Zhiqiu thought that giving away the book would bring her peace of mind, but it turned out that she was overthinking it. After only a few days of peace and quiet, someone came to her house with paper and pen to ask for advice, hoping to study with her and make progress together.
Ye Zhiqiu refused. Wouldn't it be nice to study alone at home? She would have no worries about food and drink, tea and fruit, and more importantly, the room would not be cold. Whoever wanted to go to the classroom and suffer the cold could go. She didn't have that hobby.
She thought that if she rejected one, the others would know better and stop bothering her. But the village chief learned from the principal of the town's middle school that she had good grades and had scored high marks in the graduation exam, with full marks in two subjects.
The principal didn't say which two subjects had perfect scores, but for the village chief, it was enough to know that Ye Zhiqiu had good grades. His little girl was worried about where to ask for advice. She didn't know what the point of her stupid brain was to learn from the educated youth to go to college.
Having said this, the village chief still went out of his way to find Ye Zhiqiu for his little girl, hoping that she could talk about how she studied and what to do if she didn't know how to solve the problems.
Ye Zhiqiu wanted to refuse, but he still had to go through a political review after the exam. Anything could happen before he got the admission notice. For the sake of his own future, he couldn't offend the village chief at this time.
“Village chief, I have never sat in a classroom for a day, so how dare I teach others. If you have any questions, you can let me do them, and you can memorize the answers after I finish them. The steps for solving the same type of questions are the same, and the only difference is the numbers.” Ye Zhiqiu didn’t want to be a teacher, lest he be annoyed to death by his students one day.
We are all adults. If we let her teach us, she may offend others if she speaks too harshly, and it will be ineffective if she speaks too lightly. We should just wish for the best and let everyone do their best.
The village chief had never thought of asking Ye Zhiqiu to teach like a teacher. In his eyes, it was enough to be able to do the exercises. If the little girl couldn't learn, she was destined to be unlucky. Didn't you see that Ye Zhiqiu could get good grades by studying at home alone? If she wasn't smart, she could just find a hardworking and strong guy in a nearby village to marry. Why did she have to marry an educated youth from the city? What's so good about the city?
The village chief was not being sarcastic, he really felt that there was nothing good about the city. A family of five or six people squeezed into a small room, there was no kitchen, and they had to go a long way to go to the toilet, and even had to buy a scallion, which was not as comfortable as living in the countryside.
Unfortunately, his daughter was disobedient when she grew up, and she insisted on going to the city, saying that she didn't want to work hard all her life. As a father, he was incompetent, so he couldn't help her, but he couldn't hinder her at all.
Ye Zhiqiu had met the village chief's daughter Han Xiaoqin before, but this was the first time they had spoken to each other. Fortunately, the other party was not introverted and sensitive, otherwise she really didn't know how to communicate.
Han Xiaoqin wanted to study with Ye Zhiqiu not because she really thought she was so good, but because she had a full set of textbooks, which was more convenient than competing with others for books. Although her grades were not good, she was also a person who had attended high school. How could she be inferior to someone who had never been to school?
She simply ignored the words that the village chief praised Ye Zhiqiu for. Who knows if what the principal said is true or not? Maybe he was just drunk and said that. Her father often said drunken words at home, so he couldn't be trusted.
At first Ye Zhiqiu was worried that Han Xiaoqin would have many questions to ask, but she became very quiet after she came to his house. It wasn't the kind of quietness that was introverted, but she basically had no questions to ask. Instead, she would chat with him when she was tired of studying.
She was not stupid, and she soon realized that Han Xiaoqin came to her for the textbooks in her hand. She could not read several books at the same time, so she accepted her cleverness. As long as it did not affect her review, there was nothing wrong with having more study partners.