Chapter 289: Rejected Qin Huairu

Qin Huairu thought for a moment again and asked:

"Do you still have hope regarding Teacher Ran?"

Shazhu said irritably, "So what if I have hope?"

"Both of us are single."

Qin Huairu: "Seems you don't like me anymore?"

Shazhu said nothing.

Qin Huairu, unwillingly, said, "Shazhu, say something—do you really not like me?"

Shazhu: "Not exactly."

"It's just that I need time to think properly."

Qin Huairu: "Before you always let me get the marriage certificate; I was only held back by Bang Geng, wanting Bang Geng to gladly approve of us and bless us."

"Now I'm being reckless, yet you refuse?"

"I want to know why?"

"Is it because of Teacher Ran?"

Shazhu: "I don't know."

"You'd just say it's because, right?"

Hearing that, Qin Huairu, angry, stood up and left.

One month later.

Shazhu, carrying a net bag containing a lunchbox, walked with a square step along the narrow alley and met Yan Bu Gui face‑to‑face.

Yan Bu Gui, smiling broadly, greeted:

"Yo, Shazhu, you're back."

Shazhu, expressionless, said:

"Third Elder, hello."

Then.

He kept walking without stopping, passing through Yan Bu Gui's frown.

Yan Bu Gui looked at his back, sighed deeply, and shook his head.

Shazhu, over the past month, has been expressionless toward everyone and speaks very little.

Yan Bu Gui also felt sympathy.

However.

He soon couldn't hold back and cursed:

"You damn dog, you meet and say just that one line."

Shazhu entered the Siheyuan, where San Da Ma was picking vegetables at the doorway.

San Da Ma looked at him and asked, "Shazhu, what's the tasty food inside the lunchbox?"

Shazhu said nothing, kept his expressionless face, approached San Da Ma, bowed slightly, and said:

"Hello, San Da Ma."

Then.

He turned and walked toward the Zhongyuan.

After a brief daze, San Da Ma shouted at his back:

"Crazy!"

Entering the Zhongyuan, he met Bang Geng.

Bang Geng stopped, trying to speak to Shazhu, but Shazhu only gave him a glance and kept walking.

Bang Geng, angry, pointed at his back and shouted silently:

"From now on, when I speak to you, I'm your grandson!"

At the doorway, Huaihua ran out of the house, blocked him, and asked:

"Sha Shu, what tasty thing did you bring?"

Shazhu glanced at her, handed her the lunchbox, and said:

"It's empty."

Huaihua didn't believe it, opened it, and indeed it was empty.

She hummed and shouted at Shazhu irritably:

"Why did you give me an empty one?"

Shazhu ignored her and headed toward his own house.

Huaihua stamped her foot, turned, and walked into her own house.

Qin Huairu was knitting a sweater for Shazhu.

During this month, Shazhu hadn't really paid attention to her.

He also rarely helped her.

Moreover, he no longer brought leftover food from the cafeteria.

This made her feel a deep sense of crisis.

She felt her gut turn green with regret.

Had she known Teacher Ran would appear suddenly, she would have gotten the marriage certificate with Shazhu earlier.

So now she is trying to make up for it.

She thinks that knitting a sweater for Shazhu will surely move him.

Huaihua walked into the room, holding an empty lunch box, came to Qin Huairu to complain:

"Mom, look, it's an empty lunch box again."

"Sha Shu is getting more and more outrageous."

Qin Huairu let out a long sigh, saying nothing.

Huaihua: "Sha Shu really doesn't know what's wrong with him; he hasn't brought back leftovers for a long time."

Jia Zhangshi let out a sigh and said:

"What else could it be? She's got that fox spirit surnamed Ran on her mind."

"He, his heart has already flown to Gangdao."

Qin Huairu: "Mom, don't say that; it's bad if people hear it."

Jia Zhangshi, indignant: "How could it be? This is the fact."

"Aren't we allowed to speak the fact?"

Qin Huairu snorted coldly, saying nothing.

She herself is also extremely annoyed now.

She has no mood to say more.

Huaihua: "But before, Sha Shu would be happy and even smile when he saw me; just now he had a black face the whole time."

"No, it's not just just now; it seems like when I came back last night, he was also indifferent toward me."

Qin Huairu: "Oh, if you go to the Houyuan and look, you'll know."

"He has the world in his heart, so he's got lots of things to do."

Jia Zhangshi echoed: "Exactly, this kind of person is the most useless."

"Others building a small house, what's it to him?"

"If he wants to go with that person surnamed Ran, then let him go quickly."

"Just leave the house to our family's Bang Geng."

Huaihua: "Grandma, you're thinking too well."

"My mom doesn't even want to marry Sha Shu; why should Sha Shu leave the house to my brother?"

Qin Huairu became unhappy: "Hey, how are you speaking?"

"Who said your mom doesn't want to marry?"

"It's because Sha Shu has Teacher Ran in his heart and looks down on your mom."

Huaihua: "Then who made you not marry before?"

Qin Huairu: "What a brat, coming to blame your mom at this time?"

"What she's doing is all for you guys."

Huaihua: "Okay, okay, okay, for us, fine, I'll first go to the Houyuan to look."

After Huaihua said that, she was about to walk out.

Just then, Xiao Dang walked in.

"Huaihua, where are you going?"

Huaihua: "Oh, I said Sha Shu has been unhappy these past two days."

"Mom told me to go to the Houyuan to look."

Xiao Dang said angrily: "Don't bother going."

"I just came back from the Houyuan."

Huaihua asked: "What's going on then?"

Xiao Dang poured himself a cup of water, took a sip, and said:

"What else could it be? Sha Shu's unhappiness is definitely because Second Elder's family built that small house again."

"Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu have both come back."

"Quite the household, they even have a maid."

Huaihua exclaimed: "Really?"

Xiao Dang: "Of course it's true."

"And Xu Damao's family is even more well-off."

"Fully modernized."

"At home they have a refrigerator, color TV, household appliances—everything."

Jia Zhangshi, face full of envy and jealousy: "They have all that?"

Xiao Dang: "Right, they have all that."

"This is the reason Sha Shu is unhappy."

"He's always thought he's better than Xu Damao."

"But Xu Damao has now left him far behind, by more than a street."

Huaihua: "No way, I just came back from a business trip a month ago."

"These changes are really big."

Xiao Dang: "Xu Damao, and the Liu grandfather's family, have made a fortune."

"In the past, they lived in the bustling city, no one cared about them."

"Now, even if they moved to the deep mountains and old forests, their doorstep would still be trampled."

Huaihua asked: "Then, has Yu Haitang come back?"

Qin Huairu let out a long sigh and said:

What's with you coming back? Yu Haitang is doing alright too.

She's opened a big restaurant.

Now it's just us and your Sha Shu, and we're doing terribly.

Huaihua: "Really? Then Yu Haitang and Xu Damao divorced?"