Chapter 349: Campus Academic System (21)

Three days later, Jiang Nainai's surgery was a success; she was transferred to a general ward for another week, and on the day of her discharge, she moved directly to Jianglan Mingzhu.

Jiang Yinian brought out the grandmother and grandson's daily necessities and clothing, locked the rest in the storage room on the overhead floor, and then entrusted the house to an agency to rent out.

Jiang Diwu's family knew that Jiang Nainai had suffered heart failure and was hospitalized, but fearing they would be asked to pay for medical expenses, they played dead and did not show up.

But after more than half a month passed, Jiang Diwu thought his grandmother should be discharged by now, so he chose a day when First High School was holding remedial classes to visit and ask his grandmother for some pocket money.

The over one thousand yuan he had paid out was still unaccounted for! His mother hadn't been able to get any money when she visited last time.

After arriving, he found the door locked tight; he knocked, but no one answered, and in his anger, he raised his foot and kicked it.

"Hey! Who are you? Why are you kicking my door randomly?"

A middle-aged woman with a thick waist and broad shoulders stood behind him, carrying a vegetable basket, glaring at him with fury.

Jiang Diwu was stunned: "What do you mean your door? This is clearly where my grandmother lives."

"Fart! I've lived here for over half a month, do you think I could get the wrong door?"

At this moment, the door next door opened, and Wu Ayi poked her head out:

"Oh, isn't this Awu? Here to see your grandmother? You've really grown up! But don't you know your grandmother moved away? She was angered into the hospital by your mother last time, later had a surgery, and after being discharged, she moved to live somewhere else. This place is now rented to Feng Dajie's family."

Jiang Diwu was incredulous: "Moved away? Moved where?"

Did Grandmother have any other relatives in Jiangcheng? She didn't, right?

Wu Ayi shook her head: "That I don't know, Yinian didn't tell me, only saying that once your grandmother's health is better, she will come back to see us neighbors."

Jiang Diwu had made a wasted trip, and his plan to get some pocket money from his grandmother fell through, leaving him extremely frustrated.

When he got home and told them, Jiang Laoer was the first not to believe it: "What? That little beast moved house with your grandma? Our family has no other relatives in Jiangcheng, where could they move to? Could it be that your grandma's surgery failed and she... you know?"

His wife Liu Cuiping's eyes rolled: "Husband, do you think our mother might have been treated to death by the hospital? The hospital paid a sum of money, and that little beast wanted to swallow it all alone, which is why they moved away without a sound?"

"He dares!"

The family of three thought they had found the truth and, filled with rage, headed straight for Shiyi Yiyuan...

When Xie Yang received the news, she was at the Buke Jidi, beautifully enjoying the afternoon tea Jiang Nainai had made for them: oyster omelet with four-fruit soup.

Jiang Nainai actually knew how to make authentic Minnan snacks.

As long as they came to the Buke Jidi, Jiang Nainai would make them something different every time.

Salty, sweet, pan-fried, deep-fried...

Even the fruits they brought for Jiang Nainai were turned into four-fruit soup and fed back to them.

When she made too much and couldn't finish it, she would even let them pack it up to take home for their parents to try.

The current Buke Jidi had become the place the group loved to visit most in their spare time.

Don't look at how Cheng Zixin and the other five complained that the English homework Jiang Yinian assigned them was too much; they were still very enthusiastic every time they came.

It's just that after arriving, they often didn't attend to their proper duties, running to the kitchen every little while to mooch a piece of food Jiang Nainai had just fried.

Boys at this age had good appetites and fast digestion, and since Jiang Nainai's craftsmanship was so good, they couldn't stop eating.

"Jiang Nainai, this four-fruit soup you boiled is so authentic! It's exactly the same as what I ate when I followed my parents to play in the Minnan area when I was little."

"The oyster omelet Jiang Nainai made is also delicious, not fishy at all!"

"Speaking of which, buddy, do you want to invest in a Minnan snack shop?" Cheng Zixin asked, turning his head to Jiang Yinian while eating the oyster omelet with satisfaction, "Jiang Nainai provides the technique, I provide the money, and we split the profits fifty-fifty."

Xie Yang wanted to give him a like after hearing that.

As expected of someone whose family runs chain hotels and clubs, his brain for making money moved fast.

The other lackeys chimed in one after another:

"Axin, can I buy a share?"

"Brother Xin, add me in!"

"Don't leave me out, Brother Xin!"

Cheng Zixin patted his chest: "Fine, fine, fine, let's all make money together! I'll go find my family's lawyer to draft a partnership contract right now."

Jiang Yinian, who was fast at learning everything, couldn't keep up with their rhythm at this moment.

Jiang Nainai was quite happy; whether they could make money or not was one thing, but at least these children genuinely liked the food she made, otherwise they wouldn't have thought of opening a snack shop to sell these, and that alone was enough to make her happy.

The old lady absolutely could not have imagined at this moment that the Minnan eatery that Cheng Zixin and the others invested in would soon become popular all over Jiangcheng, becoming a must-order specialty delicacy for out-of-town tourists visiting Jiangcheng.

Many years later, the chain stores blossomed in every major city across the country, and whenever oyster omelet, fried pork, rice cakes, gold ingot pastries, four-fruit soup, ginger duck, etc., were mentioned, the first thing the new generation of young people thought of was the "Minnan Eatery" that had already grown big and strong by then.

This made countless Minnan people feel puzzled: these snacks were clearly the specialty snacks of their area, so how did they become the golden signboard and top-tier leader of the Jiangcheng food scene?

Of course, that is a story for another time.

At this very moment, everyone was eating afternoon tea and chatting enthusiastically about where to choose the shop location and what to name the shop, while Xie Yang learned about a "farce medical disturbance" that had just happened at Shiyi Yiyuan.

It wasn't good to talk about this in front of Jiang Nainai, so she gave Jiang Yinian a wink, and the two left the living room one after another, going to the leisure activity room next door.

After he finished watching the medical disturbance video on her phone, Xie Yang couldn't help but complain: "Is there something wrong with the brains of your uncle's whole family?"

Jiang Yinian chuckled: "Who's to say otherwise?"

Xie Yang looked at him with sympathy.

In the planes she had traveled through in the past, she had also encountered such annoying relatives; honestly, they were worse than having no family at all.

"How do you plan to handle it?" She looked at him, "Do you need me to help you crush them?"

Jiang Yinian was amused by her tone, which was filled with the style of a big sister: "Thanks! I'll do it myself."

Originally, he was considerate of his grandmother, and with the College Entrance Examination coming up next year, he really didn't want to waste time bickering with them.

But now—it was time to make them fulfill their obligations as children.

"I want to sue them, to pay the alimony that should have been given to Grandmother all these years, and to share the cost of Grandmother's medical expenses."

"Good! I'll have Lawyer Zheng help you."

With a professional gold-medal lawyer taking action, there was no need for Jiang Yinian to step forward, nor did it let Jiang Nainai know and feel troubled, and the matter was settled.

Jiang Laoer's family tried to steal a chicken only to lose the rice; not wanting to bear criminal responsibility, they had to honestly make up for the alimony that should have been borne over the past ten years, as well as half of the medical expenses spent on Jiang Nainai's hospitalization, treatment, and long-term medication.

Don't look at the alimony as being low; since it was a one-time payment for ten years, it was still quite a lot.

Added to a cumulative medical bill of over a hundred thousand, it made Jiang Laoer truly lose a fortune for once.

He had the heart to find his nephew to reconcile and strive for a deferred payment or an installment plan, but his nephew wouldn't show his face at all; he didn't even know where he and his old mother had moved to.

He was ashamed and angry, venting his resentment on his wife and son: "It's all your fault! You troublemaking woman and spendthrift son! If you hadn't always gone to provoke that little beast, would he have pulled this stunt?"

His wife took a slap and sat on the ground howling and crying: "Can you blame me for this? It's all because your biased old mother won't help our family."

Jiang Diwu hit him back: "Let you hit me! Let you hit me!"

That same night, the family of three went into the Police Station together again.

The next day, Xie Yang heard about this from Jiang Yinian and twitched the corners of her mouth speechlessly: "Birds of a feather flock together!"

Principal Feng, who happened to be passing by the window of the Experimental Class: "..."

These words sounded so familiar; it seemed like they had been heard somewhere before?