Chapter 60: Being a Stepmother 28
The child was indeed adaptable. She thought Han Yue would get used to living in the old house, but after only three days the little guy stopped asking to go back to his own home.
Except for the change in the place where he slept and ate, the friends he played with every day were still there, so Han Yue reluctantly accepted the reality.
Well, the only unacceptable reality is eating. The food at grandpa’s house is not delicious, and grandma’s cooking is not as delicious as Aunt Ye’s.
Forget it, she is old and can’t do things well, so she should be generous and forgive her grandmother.
This is what Aunt Ye said, saying that old people are not as good as young people in doing things, and she has always kept it in mind. Well, the teacher at school also said that we should respect the elderly and love the young, and she remembers it all.
Seeing that she had adapted well, Ye Zhiqiu was relieved. In fact, the food of the Han people was no worse than that of other people in the village. It was because she ate too well that the food of the Han people seemed bad.
Han's father was a hard worker, his stepmother-in-law was not lazy either, and his stepbrother-in-law was also a hardworking young man. Not only could the three of them earn work points, but they also didn't have to support idlers. Han Dalin also subsidized them from time to time, so how bad could they be?
Everything was fine, so Ye Zhiqiu was relieved. It was okay to stay at home alone, so she prepared to go to school early.
I asked the village chief to issue a letter of introduction, bought a train ticket, and packed a few clothes in my bag. I put the other heavy quilts in the space and found a place to take them out when I got to Haicheng.
In the era without express delivery and logistics, space is a must-have for home and travel. All the food and valuables at home are placed in the space, and a lock is hung on the door, so there is no need to worry about someone stealing things.
Except for the heavy furniture and a few worthless farm tools, everything that was somewhat useful was put away by Ye Zhiqiu. If she hadn't been afraid of being suspected, she would have even planned to put the furniture into the space.
She was ready to leave, so the remedial classes had to stop. Fortunately, the policy was very clear, and those who really wanted to take the college entrance examination could pay to attend the college entrance examination classes run by the county middle school.
However, most people in the village were reluctant to pay the money. Only Han Xiaoqin insisted on going to the county for extra classes, and she refused to eat out of spite because her family disagreed.
After knowing this, Ye Zhiqiu smiled and said nothing. However, that night he still dug out a new set of study materials from his space and prepared to take them to the cram school.
Forget about the study materials she had used herself, which had notes and lots of doodles on them, so they were not suitable for lending to others.
The villagers knew that she was going to school, but they didn't expect her to leave so early, before the 15th day of the lunar month.
As the saying goes, the Chinese New Year is not over until after the Lantern Festival. If they leave so early, there will be no time to prepare gifts.
According to the village chief, every family should pool some money to give to Ye Zhiqiu, but she announced that she would not accept any gifts from relatives or friends.
Firstly, we are not short of money, and secondly, everyone’s life is hard, so money should be spent where it is needed most.
The villagers were happy to hear this as they could save some money on social obligations, but the village chief was worried that if he didn't help now, how would he feel comfortable asking for help in the future when he had problems.
He gave a sum of money to the educated youth in the village who were admitted to university in the name of the village, but why did Ye Zhiqiu refuse to listen?
Ye Zhiqiu was not a completely unyielding person, she was just on guard against the Ye family taking the opportunity to come over to ease the relationship.
Ever since she received the admission letter, whenever there was any movement in the Ye family, someone would come to inform her.
As far as she knew, after the Ye family split up, the brothers did not become enemies, but their relationship was not as good as before. Ye Erniu realized that even the closest brothers would become relatives, and he regretted that he had let his children down.
In the past, whenever there was something delicious at home, he would serve his nephews and nieces first and put his own children last. As a result, the children no longer felt close to him.
Not to mention his daughter, even his son thinks he is too honest. He didn't fight for it when the family was divided. After the division, his family was the poorest.
He wanted to make amends, so he not only tried to find a marriage partner for Ye Zhidong, but also wanted to go to Ye Zhiqiu's house and apologize to him.
In his eyes, there are no parents who are not wrong, and there is no overnight hatred between father and daughter.
Ye Zhiqiu would not buy it, so she let Ye Erniu regret it for the rest of his life! She was not the original body, so how could she have the power to forgive on behalf of the original body? The best way was to leave as soon as possible.
In order to leave quietly, she left home before dawn. It took her three hours to get to the train station even if everything went smoothly, from the village to the town and then taking a bus.
Ye Zhiqiu, who was used to taking high-speed trains and airplanes, was not used to the noisy waiting hall. There were so many people that there was no place to sit, let alone find a seat. Fortunately, it was winter. If it was summer, he would have been suffocated by the unpleasant smell.
When she finally squeezed onto the bus, she discovered that not only was it even more crowded than the waiting room, but some people were bringing live chickens and ducks on board, and the smell was even worse than in the waiting room.
The smell was better after the car started, but the windows couldn't be kept open all the time in the winter. Even if she was willing, other people in the car would not agree.
For the first time, she regretted not wearing a mask when going out. If she had known this would happen, she should not have rejected Han Dalin's kindness and should have used her connections to buy a sleeper ticket.
With strong willpower, Ye Zhiqiu persisted for more than twenty hours amid the crying of children, the snoring of middle-aged men, the peculiar smell of poultry and the stinky feet that came from nowhere, and finally arrived in Haicheng.
The first thing she did after getting off the train was to find a place to take a shower. She ruled out all the travel agencies near the train station because the locations were good but there were all kinds of people there. As a young woman, was she just waiting to be robbed if she stayed there?
She is confident that she has the ability to deal with any problems if they really occur, but a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. He would avoid it if possible. Those who drown are those who can swim.
I randomly picked a bus with few people at the bus stop and got on it. After getting on the bus, I found that although it was a bus heading to the suburbs, the terminal was not far from the school.
She had no plans to report to school for the time being, so she got off the bus halfway in a busy area. There was no navigation, no map, and no volunteers to be found anywhere, so she had to ask for directions.
Passersby were quite welcoming, but many elderly aunts and grandmothers gave directions in the local dialect. Even if they switched to Mandarin, it was unstandard Mandarin and one had to guess to understand.
In other words, Ye Zhiqiu could barely understand what was said when he traveled all over the country. If it were someone else, they would probably have to rely on paper and pen to communicate, provided that both parties were not illiterate.
Haicheng is indeed a big city, and the facilities of the travel agency she picked up on the roadside are not bad.
The single room actually had a separate shower room and toilet, and everything else was unexpected except that it was a little small. Of course, the price was also beyond her expectations. In order to live better, Ye Zhiqiu could only accept it with great reluctance.
You get what you pay for, and this is true in every era. Perhaps because they know that people who are willing to pay a high price for accommodation are not ordinary people, the service of the waiters is also good, not as bad as many people say, and there has been no incident of waiters beating customers.