Chapter 61: The sharp-tongued Wen Leyu

At 5:30 on a winter afternoon, the sky was already completely dark.

The few streetlights stretched the shadows of Wen Leyu and Lu Jingyao very long.

The two had been wandering on the street for a long time, neither of them taking the initiative to speak, as if they were competing in a "breath-holding" skill.

Finally, it was the younger Wen Leyu who spoke first.

"You actually shouldn't have come to find Li Ye. Mailing money to the County Second Middle School has already caused him a lot of trouble.

Now you've come to see him again. Do you want that joke that shocked the whole school to spread forever?"

"........."

Lu Jingyao stopped abruptly, looking at the calm and indifferent Wen Leyu, feeling that the last dam in her heart was slowly collapsing.

Since Lu Jingyao came out of the Second Grain Store, her mood had not been able to calm down.

The resistance of Hu Man, Han Xia, and others toward her made her unable to understand, and she felt sad.

They were once classmates who studied together and fought together, encouraging each other to strive for freedom and change their fate. But when Lu Jingyao successfully landed, why couldn't she get the congratulations she deserved?

But this was nothing. The strong Lu Jingyao could ignore the attitudes of Hu Man and the others. After all, both sides were no longer people of the same world, and there wouldn't be any intersection in the future.

But Wen Leyu was different. She was the "little sister" Lu Jingyao truly cared about!

But now, it was this little sister who, in this cold winter, uttered such cold and heartless words of questioning.

"Xiao Yu... I thought you could understand me... We were both abandoned by fate... We must be self-reliant and change our fate..."

Lu Jingyao sniffed hard, raised her head, and stiffened her neck: "Is it wrong to strive to change your fate?"

Wen Leyu looked at the strong Lu Jingyao with a blank face and said coldly: "Changing fate is your freedom, but hurting others is your fault.

Don't use some bullshit freedom to cover up the fact of your betrayal, and don't use it as a weapon to hurt others again and again."

Hearing Wen Leyu's words, Lu Jingyao couldn't help but panic, but she immediately said loudly: "I didn't intentionally hurt anyone. It's Li Ye who is not striving.

Everything I did was legal. The Guo Jia law stipulates freedom of marriage, and I have returned everything I owed him..."

"No~!"

Wen Leyu shouted decisively, interrupting Lu Jingyao, and then raised her arm, pointing directly at Lu Jingyao's chest.

"You betrayed him, betrayed pure, sacred love."

"........."

Lu Jingyao seemed to have been hit by a void acupoint, staggering back several steps in a panic.

"Love" was such a lofty word in literature, but for more than half a year, Lu Jingyao had been deliberately avoiding these two words every moment.

The two were silent again. After a long while, Lu Jingyao said with a bitter smile: "Xiao Yu, you've only been in contact with Li Ye for a few days, how did he hook your soul away?"

"A few days? Heh..."

Wen Leyu smiled sarcastically and said in a low voice: "Actually, people aren't that complicated. To see through a person, maybe a few minutes is enough."

".........."

Lu Jingyao felt the girl in front of her was possessed, but immediately after, Wen Leyu told an old story.

"Do you still remember last year, when you took me to steal someone's corn?"

"Uh~~"

Lu Jingyao was stunned because what Wen Leyu said made her feel very embarrassed.

At that time, Wen Leyu and Teacher Ke had just arrived in Liu Qiao Township. Because Lu's father and Teacher Ke were both substitute teachers at school, they knew each other.

That year, at the end of summer, Lu Jingyao and Lu Zixue invited Wen Leyu to eat "green corn."

In an era of severe food supply shortages, green corn with a slight sweetness was one of the few delicacies in the countryside.

Wen Leyu couldn't resist the "enthusiasm" of the Lu siblings and followed them to the cornfield north of the township government. Only when she arrived did she know that the Lu siblings' so-called "invitation" was actually "stealing."

In fact, in that era, stealing corn wasn't strange. Many educated youth who went to the countryside had done this.

But Wen Leyu hadn't done it! What if...

What you fear comes. Perhaps that piece of cornfield had been harmed too severely by others, and someone happened to be "watching the slope" that day.

The person watching the slope was an old man with inconvenient legs and feet, but he had a big dog.

The little mute, who had no stealing experience at all, was chased by that big dog all the way. In a panic, she didn't jump over the small ditch and fell into it.

Lu Jingyao, who was in front, wanted to go back to pull Wen Leyu, but the old man in the distance had already chased over. Her younger brother Lu Zixue pulled her desperately, and they fled in a sorry state, even losing their shoes.

However, Wen Leyu wasn't caught that day. Lu Jingyao only remembered that she escaped back covered in mud, like a mud monkey, and couldn't even see her face.

Instead, Li Ye, who came to Liu Qiao Township to find Lu Jingyao, was caught red-handed and became the "thief who stole corn."

At that time, Lu Jingyao couldn't figure it out no matter how hard she tried. She asked Li Ye, but Li Ye didn't say anything. Anyway, it wasn't a good thing, and everyone soon chose to forget it.

But now that Wen Leyu suddenly brought it up, Lu Jingyao instinctively felt that Li Ye and Wen Leyu had an intersection at that time.

Sure enough, Wen Leyu, who was extremely cold just a moment ago, had moist eyes.

"Do you know what the situation was at that time? My foot was sprained, and I stepped into the sludge at the bottom of the water, unable to even stand, and that big dog was barking wildly above my head."

"Do you know what kind of trouble it would cause my mother if someone caught me stealing?"

"But you didn't come back to pull me... you just told me to run... Am I a fool? Don't I know how to run?"

Large, large tears surged from Wen Leyu's big eyes, sliding down her small face and falling onto the collar of her cotton-padded jacket, forming ice flowers.

She would never forget the scene at that time.

That big dog was afraid of water and didn't immediately jump into the ditch to tear her apart, but it kept barking around Wen Leyu, which had already attracted the old man.

Wen Leyu struggled hard, but it was to no avail. Instead, she fell repeatedly, drank a lot of dirty water, and her face was covered in smelly sludge.

At that time, Wen Leyu was desperate. Tears fell drop by drop, but she didn't dare to make a sound of crying.

She wanted to use this ostrich tactic to delay the time of being caught, praying that the Lu siblings could come back to save her.

But the Lu siblings didn't appear. Instead, a boy with a straight waist ran over like a fly, and with one kick, he kicked the dog's courage out.

It was truly kicking the dog's courage out; that dog died.

Wen Leyu wiped her tears with the sleeve of her cotton-padded jacket and actually smiled.

Mockery.

"Do you remember the scene at that time? Li Ye was caught. Not only did he admit to that dog, but he also admitted to the corn cobs we dropped by the ditch."

"And you, Lu Jingyao, Li Ye's fiancée, not only didn't care about him, but also mocked him for being stupid and complained about him for being silly, causing your father to lose face."

Lu Jingyao was silent.

She just selectively forgot the scene at the time. In fact, how could she forget it?

Li Ye was dragged to Liu Qiao Township. Not only did he push and shove with the old man arrogantly, but he also shouted arrogantly: "Isn't it just kicking your dog to death? Isn't it just stealing a few cobs from you? Isn't it enough to pay you money?"

The villagers of Liu Qiao Township were very united and surrounded Li Ye, shouting to beat and kill him.

But even if Li Ye had two black eyes, he didn't reduce his arrogance at all.

In the end, it was Lu Jingyao's father who came forward to let Li Ye pay the money and settle the matter.

At that time, Lu Jingyao did complain about Li Ye.

"You aren't very good at fighting? Why didn't you run? Isn't your grandfather a bureau director? Why didn't you report his name?"

Li Ye didn't say anything, just chuckled honestly.

Unexpectedly, Li Ye was actually saving Wen Leyu at the time.

Lu Jingyao bit her lip and defended: "I wasn't mocking him for being stupid at the time, I just felt he could have used a better method to avoid that embarrassing scene."

Li Ye's grandfather had already resumed work at that time. As long as he said he didn't steal, he didn't steal.

But Wen Leyu said contemptuously: "If Li Ye didn't steal, then who stole? Do you think you're the only smart one?"

Don't look at Wen Leyu being younger than Lu Jingyao, but the things she had experienced were much more complicated than Lu Jingyao's.

Being local, who could you hide from? Lu Jingyao was a local, so that was fine, but Wen Leyu was a girl from outside. Could she run away?

It could be said that if Li Ye hadn't blocked everything for her at the time, Wen Leyu might have been in big trouble.

(The author has done this before. I ran away at the time, but damn, why was I found at the door? I was returning to my hometown for summer vacation, and a stranger was too eye-catching. People asked three questions, and they determined it was you.)

"Hoo~ hoo~"

Lu Jingyao took deep breaths continuously, using the cold air to cool the anxiety and heat in her heart.

"So, that's when you and Li Ye..."

"No, Li Ye didn't know me at all. I was covered in mud at the time... After he kicked that dog to death, he didn't even look at me."

Wen Leyu was very sure of this point, because in the later contact, Li Ye almost didn't look at her straight.

It wasn't until this year when she arrived at the County Second Middle School that everything suddenly became different.

Lu Jingyao was choked again. After half a minute, she said to Wen Leyu in an adult's tone: "Xiao Yu, you are still young, and there are many things you don't understand.

There is no love without reason in this world. Any benefit has a price. If someone treats you well, it must have a purpose, and it must be to get something..."

Lu Jingyao only realized this truth after being humiliated by Qian Shun.

But as soon as she finished speaking, Wen Leyu retorted: "Then Li Ye treated you so well in the past, what did he get?"

"........."

Lu Jingyao was speechless, not understanding when Wen Leyu, who was like a mute, became so sharp-tongued?

【Li Ye wanted to marry me? Isn't this clear?】

But Lu Jingyao had taken the benefits but destroyed the engagement. At this moment, she couldn't say this reason with confidence.

Too embarrassing.

But what made her even more embarrassed was still to come.

Wen Leyu asked Lu Jingyao directly: "You keep talking about self-improvement, self-reliance, and changing your fate, so how did you get into university?"

Lu Jingyao was stunned, and said frankly and confidently: "I got into university by relying on hard study and Teacher Ke's help. I will never forget Teacher Ke's kindness to me."

"No, that's not it."

Wen Leyu shook her head slowly, staring into Lu Jingyao's eyes and said: "You were able to get into university because I ate a piece of candy."

".........."

Lu Jingyao was completely stunned. She didn't understand why Wen Leyu would say such unreasonable words.

But in an instant, a memory flashed through her mind, splitting her soul into chaos like lightning.

At that time, Lu's father, Li Ye, and Lu Jingyao brought gifts to beg Teacher Ke to tutor Lu Jingyao in English.

Teacher Ke refused very indifferently, refusing in a way that made it impossible to find any reason to continue begging.

But just when they were about to leave, Wen Leyu unwrapped the milk candy Li Ye had brought and ate one.

Teacher Ke immediately agreed and did her best to help Lu Jingyao get into university.

【The change of fate was actually because of a piece of candy?】

Lu Jingyao looked up at the sky in a daze and helplessness. All her self-improvement, self-esteem, and self-confidence seemed to have become a joke.

Without Teacher Ke's help, she couldn't have gotten into university, at least not a university like the Beijing Foreign Studies University.

And that piece of candy was Li Ye's.

After a long, long time, Lu Jingyao asked Wen Leyu with a bitter smile: "Then, do you regret eating that piece of candy at the time?"

Wen Leyu smiled and didn't pay attention to Lu Jingyao anymore, turning and walking away.

【Do I regret it? Of course not!】 ===== CHAPTER 62 =====