CHAPTER 37: CHAPTER 37: NEW AND VETERAN EDUCATED YOUTHS

Xu Qinghuan did it on purpose!

She wanted to plant a thorn between Song Wanlin and her beloved foster daughter.

Song Wanlin abandoned her and left when she was three years old, but she didn’t mind. Not all parents love their children. Hadn’t she experienced "Daddy has one family, Mommy has another, only I’m expendable" in her past life?

Song Wanlin remarried to serve her new husband less than three months after her father’s sacrifice, and she thought nothing of it. Loving couples are few in this world. In a beleaguered city, those who appear united but are divided, those who share beds yet dream different dreams, are the majority.

But Song Wanlin shouldn’t have thrown the child support at her, attempting to seize the moral high ground after abandoning her, portraying herself as a benevolent mother, making the world feel she fulfilled her responsibilities by providing twenty-five yuan a month as living expenses.

Xu Qinghuan didn’t care about this since she had no expectations, but what she shouldn’t have done, she did—without a word, arranged her marriage with the Jiang Family.

Originally, the marriage was called off. Xu Qinghuan hoped from then on, they would be worlds apart, strangers to each other. Unexpectedly, she encountered members of the Lu Family disgusted her during her countryside stint.

Simply haunting her like a ghost.

Even if Xu Qinghuan had the best of tempers, she couldn’t endure it!

Lu Nianying didn’t expect her arrival would cause people to whisper and point fingers, making her cry in anger, "Dai Yifeng, you don’t keep your promises! You promised my mom would take good care of me, yet she bullies me time and again, and none of you help me. I’m going to tell my mom!"

Dai Yifeng didn’t even lift an eyelid, took his luggage, paused as he passed her, and said, "Who bullied you? We only saw you bullying others, never anyone bullying you!"

Now, with the new educated youth included, there were seventeen people at the educated youth spot, seven females and ten males.

Previously, Duan Qingmei did not accept Xu Qinghuan and Yu Xiaomin sleeping on the northern kang, but now that two new female educated youths arrived, she had no choice but to squeeze in with them. She felt bad about it, ready to burst, but seeing Lu Nianying carrying her imported suitcase in, gulped her words and sycophantically said, "Need help?"

Lu Nianying forced a smile, "Thanks!"

After saying that, she handed the suitcase to Duan Qingmei.

Duan Qingmei was caught off guard, twitched the corners of her mouth but still helped her lift the suitcase onto the kang, "There, you folks can sleep!"

Kong Lijuan assessed the entire room, about twenty pings in size, stuffed to the brim with northern and southern kangs, with a new kang cabinet, two rolls of kang mats, and a wooden basin by the southern side.

She dragged the kang table a bit this way and said to Lu Nianying, "Nianying, we’ll temporarily share a kang cabinet, is that okay?"

The kang cabinet was something Aunt Zao’s son delivered to Xu Qinghuan. Kong Lijuan didn’t know and assumed it was a resource given to the educated youth spot by the brigade center, so whoever takes it first gets it.

"Fine! Is there just one? No extras?" Lu Nianying wasn’t used to sharing resources with others.

Xu Qinghuan entered and saw a kang cabinet missing. Seeing it placed in the northern kang, Kong Lijuan was fiddling with the clasp on it, "Nianying, we’ll get a lock later. One key each, how about it?"

Lu Nianying frowned, glanced, "Hmm, I’ll get the money to you, you go buy it!"

She saw through it, Kong Lijuan was a miser, hoping to take advantage over something as small as a lock, but considering everyone had been hit by Xu Qinghuan before, she was willing to form a temporary alliance with Kong Lijuan.

Qiao Xinyu and Yu Xiaomin came in and saw this scene. They were puzzled, wondering if Huanhuan gave her new kang cabinet to them?

Xu Qinghuan was seething with anger, and she increasingly didn’t want to live there. So much frustrating stuff had happened in such a short time!

Xu Qinghuan walked over, pressing the kang cabinet, "Who moved this?"

Kong Lijuan was displeased too, "It was me, so what? You’re the only one allowed to use it, not me?"

Duan Qingmei, who saw Kong Lijuan snatch the cabinet, only cast a glance this way without saying a word. She knew the kang cabinet was Xu Qinghuan’s purchase and knew Kong Lijuan was definitely misunderstanding, but she simply didn’t speak up.

Seeing the new educated youth fighting made her very excited!

Hoping for mutual destruction.

"You tell me!" Xu Qinghuan smiled, "I bought this with my own money, I’m going to use it. You want to use it as if I’m your mom?"

Kong Lijuan’s peripheral vision caught Duan Qingmei’s smile, knowing she made a fool of herself, but she dared not offend the old educated youth hoping for care from others, venting her frustration on Xu Qinghuan, "How would I know you bought it, having money is awesome, right? If it’s yours it’s yours, take it then!"

After saying so, she suddenly pushed the kang cabinet. The cabinet fell off the kang, crashing straight toward Xu Qinghuan.

Xu Qinghuan winced in pain, her brows tightening, quickly raising both hands to hold it but only grabbed the cabinet’s edge, making the kang table fall to the ground.

Anger surged within Xu Qinghuan. She clutched Kong Lijuan, forcefully shoving her to the ground, and slapped her across the face.

Although Xu Qinghuan hadn’t eaten much these past few days, she kept taking the Qi Replenishing Pill powder from her space, despite scraping just a fingernail’s worth each time. Consumed for three meals a day across seven or eight days, her body underwent a metamorphic change, gaining astonishing strength.

Kong Lijuan’s face instantly swelled like a pig’s head, her wails alarming those on the male educated youth side.

Duan Qingmei witnessed the gruesome scene, terrified while retreating onto the kang, her back plastered against the wall, her expression panicked.

She hadn’t expected the new educated youth to be so fierce.

Xu Qinghuan didn’t care what others thought of her. She was going to live here for three or four years. Having to deal with flies and mosquitoes daily would drive her insane.

Rolling up her sleeves, Xu Qinghuan’s eyes scanned everyone. Her clear doe eyes were stunning, carrying a hint of moisture yet chilling, "Don’t always offend me. I truly have no father nor mother, could you bully me because of this?

Even if your parents are alive, aren’t they thousands of miles away at this moment? Even if you die right now, it’d take at least a day or two for news to reach your family. Could they fly over to save your life?"

Qu Qiongfang sucked in a cold breath, stepped forward to soothe, "Educated Youth Xu, is there some misunderstanding?"

"Misunderstanding?" Xu Qinghuan pointed to the kang cabinet beside her, "I bought this kang cabinet. These two came without a word intending to use it themselves. It’s not like there’s only these two in the room, there’s a living person here!

Newcomers might not know, but don’t you as an old educated youth know? Or are you blind, or purposely instigating them to snatch my cabinet?"

Duan Qingmei hadn’t expected watching the commotion would backfire on her, "What do these new educated youths have to do with me? I knew it was yours, didn’t say anything, what can you do?"

Xu Qinghuan cursed "idiot" in her heart but ultimately disinclined to tangle further.

"You shouldn’t have hit me!" Kong Lijuan crawled off the ground and headed out, "I’m going to tell the team leader you’re violent and love to hit people for no reason!"