Chapter 148: Her Secret Crush

Because of her appearance, Wang Caiyun rarely received attention from boys since she was young.

Moreover, she did not like boys her own age, always feeling that those boys were very childish.

She liked those older and more mature than her; to be more specific, someone like Division Commander Jiang.

Unfortunately, Division Commander Jiang was already married.

According to her mother, they had just gotten married last year, and the woman he married came from a very well-off family; her maiden family were capitalists.

She was also beautiful, but in Wang Caiyun's view, Si Rong was somewhat ungrateful for her good fortune.

It was just a pregnancy, yet the family had actually hired two nannies; all the work was done by her mother, while the other nanny spent every day revolving around Si Rong alone.

This was the military Family Quarters, and Wang Caiyun felt that acting this way had a bad influence on Jiang Cheng.

She had overheard Si Rong chatting with a friend before, saying that Division Commander Jiang was about to be promoted soon.

As a wife, Si Rong not only couldn't help, but was also holding Division Commander Jiang back at such a time; it was truly inappropriate.

However, it wasn't entirely her fault; a beauty like Si Rong, who had grown up in a nest of luxury, was nothing but a vase and incapable of any real thought.

If she were Si Rong, she would certainly socialize more with the wives of the officers in the Family Quarters, acting as a qualified, supportive wife just like Jiang Ying during the Republic of China era.

Once, Wang Caiyun saw the wife of Political Commissar Tao from next door come over to visit, and Si Rong's attitude toward her was lukewarm.

Later on, that person rarely came by again.

The first person to notice that something was wrong with Wang Caiyun was Jiang Zhi.

After spending over a week together, she had roughly figured out that Wang Caiyun was a shy girl just like herself.

She was even more introverted than her, often burying her head in a book for an entire day, as if she had completely immersed herself in the stories within the books.

But now, she hadn't turned a single page for half the day; instead, she was seen resting her chin on her hand, smiling foolishly from time to time.

It was exactly like the female classmates in her high school class who were in puppy love.

"Sister Caiyun, do you have a boy you like?"

Jiang Zhi asked curiously.

This question made Wang Caiyun blush instantly, like the rosy clouds on the horizon.

However, because her skin was dark, it wasn't very noticeable.

"No, no,"

She denied it, so Jiang Zhi stopped digging for answers.

The only thing the young girl thought was that Wang Caiyun didn't want to share her maidenly feelings with her; after all, they had only just met.

How could she have guessed that these ordinary maidenly thoughts were actually so startling.

"Do you want to go to the Baihuo Shangchang?" Jiang Zhi called out to her.

"My uncle's birthday is coming up, and I want to go pick out a gift for him."

Originally, Wang Caiyun didn't want to go, but upon hearing Jiang Zhi's second sentence, she nodded in agreement.

Upon learning that her daughter was going to the Baihuo Shangchang with the young lady of the main family, Wu Ma called her daughter into the room and whispered some instructions.

"We are a poor family; we can't compare to these wives and young ladies from wealthy families. They don't even look at the prices when they buy things."

"It's good for you to go along and see the world,"

Wang Ma truly liked a girl as poised and generous as Jiang Zhi.

Although her own daughter had also attended university, she felt her temperament couldn't compare.

"However, don't buy anything useless, and don't spend money recklessly," Wu Ma had raised her daughter alone with great difficulty; she finally hardened her heart, took twenty yuan from her pocket, and handed it to her daughter, "If you don't spend it all, bring it back."

Wang Caiyun clutched the twenty yuan, kept her head down, and followed Jiang Zhi out the door without a word.

This was her first time entering the Baihuo Shangchang; she had always felt that a place like a shopping mall was very high-end and not a place for a child from a poor family like her to come to.

Along the way, Wang Caiyun kept her head down and followed behind Jiang Zhi.

She tried her best to look poised, but the twenty yuan in her pocket was simply not enough to make her feel generous.

The things in the mall were truly expensive; as she passed by, she saw that a bottle of cola cost five yuan.

In the end, Jiang Zhi chose to buy a wind-up music box for her uncle.

It was a red, heart-shaped box.

When the lid was opened, a ballet-dancing girl stood inside, and music played as the girl spun and leaped.

Jiang Zhi knew her uncle would definitely like it.

Because the music box girl looked very, very much like her aunt when she wore her dance costume to dance.

It cost fifty yuan.

After Jiang Zhi paid, she asked the sales clerk to wrap it up for her.

"Jiang Zhi, is all this money your usual pocket money from your uncle?"

Wang Caiyun asked in disbelief; just as her mother had said, she had truly opened her eyes today.

She knew the Jiang Family was wealthy, but she hadn't expected that even a niece living in their house could spend money so lavishly.

Spending fifty yuan without even blinking an eye—it was more casual than her spending five mao.

"It's the lucky money I've saved up, and my uncle also gives me some from time to time."

Jiang Zhi had never lacked pocket money; her grandparents would occasionally give her some, and her mother had given her a bankbook before going abroad, which had over ten thousand yuan in it.

Wang Caiyun gripped the twenty yuan in her hand even tighter.

People really were different; from childhood to adulthood, her lucky money had only ever passed through her hands as a formality.

Her mother said that since others gave her lucky money, their family also had to give lucky money to other children, so every year the lucky money was directly taken away by her mother.

And even if she did have some, it could never be as much as what Jiang Zhi had.

What could she buy for Division Commander Jiang with this twenty yuan?

In the end, Wang Caiyun bought some star-folding paper and went back.

She prepared to fold stars.

To give to Division Commander Jiang Cheng.

A secret crush is a pleasant thing; as long as one keeps that name in one's heart, it is as if a flower could bloom at the very tip of one's heart.

Returning home, Wu Ma found an opportunity to lecture her daughter.

"Didn't I tell you not to spend money recklessly? Can you eat these things, or what are they good for?"

"Our family is poor; you really are too thoughtless!"

Usually, when hearing these words, Wang Caiyun would just endure them and let it pass, but today, after seeing Jiang Zhi's spending, she found it somewhat unbearable.

"I only spent two yuan, while Jiang Zhi spent fifty yuan!"

Wu Ma took the remaining eighteen yuan back into her own pocket, "Can you compare yourself to a young lady like her? You really have the same rotten bones as your father; you can't see money, and no matter how much I give you, you'll spend it all!"

"What kind of young lady is she?" Wang Caiyun felt extremely aggrieved, "She is this family's niece, not this family's child."

Wu Ma glared at her fiercely and peeked cautiously outside the door, "What are you saying, you wretched girl? I'm warning you, don't ruin my job. Never mind that she's the niece of the house; even the housemaid here is not someone the two of us can afford to offend. You just honestly study your books and go back to school early!"

Wang Caiyun cried, crying very sadly, folding stars as she cried.

Using a pen to write lines of her innermost thoughts on the star paper.

Just thinking that she might not be able to see Jiang Cheng after school started made her feel very sad inside.