Chapter 670: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 670: Seeing Childhood Friend Li Yuncui Again

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Wang Erhai sent Wang Xiaohua back to the entrance of Shanggou Village; after Wang Xiaohua got out of the car, he went straight back to the county town and did not enter the village again.

Seeing Wang Xiaohua return, Wang Zhanggen couldn't help but ask:

"Didn't you say you went to the county town to find a daughter-in-law? How did you come back so fast?"

Wang Xiaohua smiled and casually said:

"They dislike my son for being short and ugly, and don't think highly of him!"

Wang Zhanggen was speechless for a moment.

He just kept smoking.

After staying silent for quite a while, he actually changed his usual behavior and stopped scolding and belittling Wang Xiaohua.

"Women who look down on you are just snobs; it's fine not to want them. You're a university student. Once you graduate and earn money, there will be plenty of girls for you to choose from!"

Wang Zhanggen said this.

"Are you encouraging me?"

Wang Xiaohua laughed.

He really couldn't figure out what this old thing was thinking.

Clearly, before setting out, he had used all sorts of words to suppress him, saying he looked like a ghost and no girl would like him. Now that Wang Xiaohua deliberately lied and it turned out exactly as he wished, he turned around to comfort Wang Xiaohua instead.

It can only be said that although Wang Zhanggen's character wasn't great, he was still a father after all. If his own son truly couldn't find a partner, the one most anxious would definitely be him as a father!

Wang Xiaohua deliberately didn't say that he and Li Jianjia were already dating; he just wanted to make Wang Zhanggen anxious.

He was also afraid Wang Zhanggen might pull some mysterious operation between him and Li Jianjia.

Although this possibility was small, he still had to guard against it.

He didn't want to end up like his eldest brother and eldest sister-in-law, causing endless trouble because of some of Wang Zhanggen's mysterious operations.

"I'm not encouraging you; I'm just telling you the truth. You're different from your eldest brother and second brother. Just study hard!"

Wang Zhanggen said this with a stern face.

Wang Xiaohua didn't want to continue this topic with him, so he asked:

"When are you all going to find Wu Banxian tomorrow?"

He was reminding Wang Zhanggen to remember to find Wu Banxian tomorrow.

If Wang Zhanggen didn't go tomorrow, the trap Wang Xiaohua had set today would be wasted.

"That's none of your business. I'll go with your mother after I finish eating tomorrow!"

In the blink of an eye, it was the next morning.

While eating breakfast, Wang Xiaohua asked Wang Zhanggen again when they would set out to find Wu Banxian.

Wang Zhanggen was annoyed by Wang Xiaohua's reminder:

"We'll go in a moment. Stop nagging me!"

Li Xiulan asked:

"Xiao Hua, do you want to go too?"

"I'm not going. Those are all superstitious things, and I don't believe in them!"

Wang Xiaohua refused decisively.

Wang Zhanggen coldly scolded:

"What does a little brat like you know about feng shui and fate!"

Then he said to Li Xiulan:

"We can just go ourselves. Don't take him. I'm afraid he'll be disrespectful and offend Wu Banxian when we get there!"

Wang Xiaohua smiled:

"Even if you want me to go, I won't!"

After breakfast, Wang Zhanggen rode his old motorcycle that he had used for many years, carrying Li Xiulan, and they set out together to find Wu Banxian.

Wang Xiaohua went out to wander around.

He came to the Shanggou Village Primary School and found that the school had long since become dilapidated beyond recognition.

He still remembered that when he was in primary school, it was very lively.

There were several hundred students at the school, and they came running in in a crowd early in the morning.

When reading aloud in morning class, the sound of reading could be heard all the way in Shanggou Village.

But now, the school had been closed for who knows how many years.

Previously, Zhang Zhongtian had paid out of his own pocket to hire He Dashu to look after it. Later, He Dashu stole while guarding and sold everything in the primary school that could be sold, even the school's big bell was sold, so Zhang Zhongtian no longer had the heart to hire anyone to look after it.

This primary school was just left to fend for itself like that.

Now it was a desolate wasteland.

Just then, a voice came from behind Wang Xiaohua:

"Xiao Hua, is it you?"

Wang Xiaohua was stunned.

He turned back to look.

It turned out to be a woman.

She held out her big belly, looking like a stranger.

But Wang Xiaohua still recognized her at once.

"Li Yuncui?"

Primary school deskmate Li Yuncui, the girl who had once stayed with Wang Xiaohua at the top two of the class, had given Wang Xiaohua a tape recorder; although it no longer worked, Wang Xiaohua had kept it all along.

Wang Xiaohua had not seen her for many years.

The last time they met was still back in high school.

It was a chance encounter, and Li Yuncui had already changed a lot back then.

She was no longer a top student, but a spiritual young girl with dyed yellow hair who could only score over two hundred on final exams.

Now, after several years, they met again.

Li Yuncui was actually pregnant with a big belly!

"Xiao Hua, you're something, a Tsinghua top student!"

Li Yuncua laughed in a superficial way.

Because of the pregnancy, she no longer wore heavy makeup.

But the tattoo below her neck was still faintly visible.

"Li Yuncui, why did you come back to Shanggou Village?"

Li Yuncua's family had moved to the city long ago; she never even came back to Shanggou Village for the Spring Festival before, and no one expected her to return this year.

"I came back to worship the gods, and I'll leave this afternoon."

Li Yuncua answered with a laugh.

"Are you married? Congratulations!"

Wang Xiaohua laughed politely.

"Congratulate what? I'm not married!"

Li Yuncua was still laughing in a superficial way.

"Then this belly..."

Wang Xiaohua was stunned.

"I was deceived by a scumbag and got pregnant by accident; by the time I found out I was pregnant, I was already four months along. The doctor said it wasn't safe to abort, my uterine wall is relatively thin, and after aborting I might never get pregnant again. My dad almost broke my leg over this matter, but later he accepted it."

Li Yuncua lightly described her own experience and took out a pack of cigarettes:

"Smoke?"

"No." Wang Xiaohua quickly refused, and kindly reminded: "You're pregnant, you'd better quit smoking."

Li Yuncua said instead:

"It's fine, I've been smoking for a long time, and my belly hasn't shown anything wrong."

She said with a laugh at this moment:

"You don't know, my dad always mentions you, saying that we used to be deskmates, we were the top two in the class, then I transferred to primary school in the city and my grades plummeted, while you kept getting good grades, and later you even got into Tsinghua. Now he regrets it, always saying that if he hadn't transferred me back then, and let me finish primary school in Shanggou Village, maybe I could have gotten into university like you!"

Hearing this, Wang Xiaohua didn't know what to say for a while.

When he was young, he had envied Li Yuncua's good family background and how her parents spoiled her; she got whatever she wanted, while his own family was poor, and his parents wouldn't even agree to buy him a tape recorder for studying.

Looking back now, he discovered that if his own parents had spoiled him like Li Yuncua's parents did, with food brought to his mouth and clothes to his hands, would he have become like Li Yuncua today, falling into the mire of life under indulgence?

Thinking this way, Wang Xiaohua's resentment toward his parents seemed to lessen somewhat.

"Wang Xiaohua, I really envy you."

Li Yuncua looked at Wang Xiaohua, saying it was false not to envy him.

But life has no turning back.

Just like the child in her belly, once born, there's no way to put it back.

This was a choice that should have been considered very carefully, but Li Yuncua appeared casual and nonchalant.

"What's there to envy? I'm having a hard time, living the days of senior year three every day now."

Wang Xiaohua laughed politely and said:

"Now university students are everywhere; even if I graduate from university, I probably won't find a good job either. Sigh, it's hard, all hard!"

Li Yuncua quickly echoed:

"Right, university students aren't worth anything now; after graduating, don't they still make a monthly salary of three thousand? Don't they still work for bosses with only a junior high education!"

Wang Xiaohua didn't argue, only continued to laugh politely and nod:

"Yes yes, university students are useless; if you have to work, you still have to work."

Wang Xiaohua knew that, given Li Yuncua's cognition, she deserved her current hardships.

Although he sympathized with Li Yuncua, he wouldn't explain anything to her, nor would he argue with her.