funbook-pk Chapter 46 I'm an alumnus of your school
Chapter 46 I'm an alumnus of your school
"What a coincidence! I never expected to run into someone from my hometown in Beijing." Lin Shuyao quickly composed herself, her face showing just the right amount of surprise.
But I was on edge.
I thought I wouldn't run into anyone from my hometown in the capital, but I never imagined the world was so small.
Su Wan smiled and said, "I didn't expect that either. But you should be a few years younger than me. Who was your homeroom teacher? Maybe you taught me too."
Lin Shuyao: "Teacher Zhou, Zhou Xuemei, do you know her?"
Zhou Xuemei was indeed Shen Qing's homeroom teacher. Lin Shuyao and Shen Qing were from the same hometown and were also classmates in middle school. However, before going to the countryside, the two were not very close; they only knew of each other's existence. They truly became close friends after going to the countryside.
Su Wan: "Oh, it's Teacher Zhou! I know her. She used to be our Chinese teacher, and she taught the class next to ours. If we go back to our hometown for holidays, we can travel together and keep each other company. By the way, are you going back for Chinese New Year this year? I heard train tickets are quite hard to come by, and you have to buy them two months in advance. Judging by the time, I should probably go buy them by the end of this month."
Lin Shuyao certainly wouldn't go back; going back would expose her secret. She didn't want to go back to the original owner's home either. The original owner had an older brother and a younger brother, and was sandwiched in the middle, unloved by her parents. She was just a blood bag at home; otherwise, she wouldn't have become one of the first batch of educated youth sent to the countryside for support, and she wouldn't have gone to such a remote place as northern Guizhou.
"I'll see when the time comes. Train tickets are quite expensive, and I've only been working for a few months. I want to save some money first."
Su Wan nodded: "That's true, going home does cost money. I'm going back for Chinese New Year this year. If you have anything you'd like to bring back for your family, I can help you take it back."
"Okay, thank you, Comrade Su." Lin Shuyao replied casually, but in her heart she was thinking that if she didn't contact her family or go back to her hometown, people would inevitably become suspicious. But if she went back to Yuncheng, she couldn't avoid Su Wan.
What should we do?
Just as he was thinking of a perfect excuse, Su Wan asked, "You came to Beijing from Yuncheng alone. Do your parents support you?"
Before Lin Shuyao could answer, Su Wan sighed and said to herself, "Actually, my parents don't agree with me coming to work in Jinghua."
"My husband died in the line of duty, leaving me and my child as orphans in our hometown. My parents keep urging me to remarry and are arranging blind dates for me everywhere. I'm afraid my child will suffer, so I don't want to remarry. That's why I insisted on bringing my child to Beijing to make a living."
"However, thanks to Representative Cheng's help in arranging a job, he used to be in the same unit as my wife, otherwise I would not have been able to settle down in the capital so smoothly."
"And you, Comrade Shen? You're so young, you're probably not married yet, right? Aren't your parents worried about you coming to the capital alone?"
Lin Yao peeled an orange in her hand and said slowly, "My parents don't know I'm here yet."
Shen Qing ran away from home after a falling out with her adoptive parents. Her adoptive parents were unaware of her situation after leaving home, including her going to the countryside.
Su Wan asked in surprise, "So you're not planning to tell your parents?"
Lin Shuyao gave half of the peeled orange to Su Wan, then popped a segment into her own mouth, thinking that she might as well take this opportunity to let Su Wan know that she had no contact with her family, so that Su Wan would stop mentioning her family.
After swallowing the orange segment, she said, "I don't plan on doing that for now. I don't get along with them very well."
"Why?" Perhaps realizing she had asked too many questions, Su Wan smiled sheepishly. "You don't have to tell me if you don't want to."
"There's nothing I can't say," Lin Shuyao said frankly. "Actually, I'm not my biological parents. They are my adoptive parents. They adopted me not long after I was born. Later, they probably wanted a son, so when I was 7 years old, they adopted a nephew from the countryside. My nephew is a few years older than me. Since he is related to them by blood, they have been more biased towards him since then, and my relationship with them has become distant."
"I see," Su Wan said with sympathy and curiosity. "What about your own biological parents? Do you know where they are? Haven't you thought about going to find them?"
Lin Shuyao's eyes reddened, and she lowered her gaze, her voice filled with sadness: "Knowing doesn't change the fact that they abandoned me. I have a job now, I can rely on myself. Whether they are my adoptive parents or my biological parents, I don't need them anymore."
Lin Shuyao wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, perfectly portraying the resilience and stubbornness of the tragic innocent girl.
Su Wan was about to say something more comforting when Lin Shuyao sniffed and said first, "I'm fine, Comrade Su. You go and take care of the child."
Just then, Tiger across the street finished eating his oranges and started clamoring to go downstairs to play. Su Wan stood up and said, "Comrade Shen, if you need any help in the future, just let me know. I'll take the kids downstairs now."
"Okay." Lin Shuyao nodded gratefully, closed the dormitory door, slumped her shoulders, and let out a heavy sigh.
Su Wan is from the same hometown as Shen Qing, and she is also related to Cheng Zheng. Cheng Zheng happens to be investigating her, and these connections make her feel inexplicably uneasy.
In short, she needs to keep her distance from Su Wan from now on and not get too close.
Putting the matter out of her mind, Lin Shuyao took out a handbag from the cabinet and put the prize money she won today into the handbag's inner compartment. With this money, the next few days should be much easier.
However, there are still some favors to repay.
Lying in bed that night, Lin Shuyao pondered this matter.
I'm treating Tingting to dinner and a movie tomorrow.
Uncle Cheng should have heard about her competition. The job was arranged by Uncle Cheng, so she should maintain her relationship with him. As for Shen Qing's biological father, she doesn't need to. She's afraid that if she acts too sensible, he might want to take her back.
Therefore, you can't be too polite to your own father, and you can't win his favor...
Lin Shuyao wrapped herself tightly in the quilt, her mind racing with calculations. Her cheeks unconsciously rubbed against the quilt. The new quilt was so fluffy and warm, and she could even smell the scent of sunshine. No wonder Cheng Zheng spent thirty-five yuan plus a lot of cotton and cloth coupons to buy it.
Should we give him some kind of gift too?
As Lin Shuyao thought about it, her eyelids grew heavier and heavier, and she soon drifted off to sleep.
the next day.
The alarm clock rang on time. Yesterday, Cheng Zheng had repeatedly told her that she had to participate in military training. Lin Shuyao was afraid of being late, so she set the alarm clock more than half an hour earlier.
Although she could still doze off for a while, the scene of being scolded the first time she was late was still vivid in her mind. Lin Shuyao could only resignedly get out of bed, start getting dressed, folding the quilt, and washing up.
After finishing everything, we rushed to the playground where we were to assemble.
The early morning light of late autumn was still hazy and chilly, and only a few people could be seen on the vast playground.
There were still twenty minutes until the designated assembly time, so it's normal that there weren't many people.
Lin Shuyao found a place to stand, and when she appeared, the comrades who had arrived earlier immediately went up to greet her warmly.
"Comrade Shen! Good morning! We've all heard about what happened in the cafeteria yesterday. You really put our technical section chief on a pedestal!"
"Yeah, Comrade Shen, you're amazing! I heard you even beat Liu Dazhu, the chef who makes state banquets, and the cake you made could even sing by itself? Is that true?"
Lin Shuyao was amused and nodded: "I put a music box mechanism inside the cake, so it will play music."
"Oh, I see..."
Lin Shuyao was chatting with a few people when she suddenly caught sight of a tall figure walking towards her from the other end of the playground.
It's Cheng Zheng.