Transmigration: On the Gossip Front

Chapter 2245: Chapter 2246: The Cousin Is a Capitalist Heiress 64

The two days of the college entrance exam were cold, but for Zhang Yu, it was all within an acceptable range. The content on the test papers really wasn’t hard—she honestly felt she could do it with her eyes closed.

She had thought before about what kind of score she should aim for. After thinking for a long time, of course it had to be the top scorer. If not the provincial top scorer, then at least the city’s top scorer. That way she wouldn’t just get a reward, she could at least count as a minor celebrity.

Then she thought again—would being the city’s top scorer be safe? It wouldn’t. Once she went to the Capital City for university, who would even remember a city-level top scorer.

The safest method was to directly become the provincial top scorer. Then, if the Zhang Family still wanted to copy the path from her last life, they would really have to think, and think again.

So during those two days of exams, Zhang Yu truly dropped her guard and went all out. When she walked out of the exam hall, her face was completely relaxed.

Qian Hao and Zhao Yadong had long since come out. When they saw Zhang Yu, they waved at her non-stop.

When Zhang Yu saw them, she walked over.

Zhang Hui knew she hadn’t done well in this college entrance exam. After all, the two sets of books were arranged by the village committee, and of course those people took care of the villagers sitting the exam.

They could borrow the books too, but there were so many people at the educated youth spot who needed them that they really couldn’t go around. Plus she had been away from school for many years, and had forgotten quite a lot.

It wasn’t that she hadn’t thought about going to Zhang Yu, wanting to review together. But Zhang Yu was holed up in her room every day; seeing her was the same as not seeing her.

Even when she thickened her skin to ask to review together, Zhang Yu rejected her, saying her grades were too poor and she couldn’t mislead others.

Zhang Hui was furious. Did she really want Zhang Yu’s guidance? Wasn’t it just to get a look at the books in her hands? But there was nothing she could do. If Zhang Yu wouldn’t agree, nobody could force it.

Never mind that the exam was fast approaching—even if she wrote home and had Zhang Fu and the others scold Zhang Yu, the latter wouldn’t care.

Thinking of the exam that had just ended, her mood turned foul. She had originally thought that if she didn’t get into a regular university it was fine—there were still junior colleges, and if not, at least technical schools. But now she was doubting whether she could even get into a technical school; there were just too many things on the paper she didn’t know.

Seeing Zhang Yu’s radiant smile, she knew she must have done well. She was still thinking about how to start speaking, when she saw Zhang Yu walk right past her—just like that, walk past. Zhang Hui’s face immediately darkened.

All the words she’d been about to say were swallowed back down. Since Zhang Yu had so blatantly skipped over her, why should she run up to flatter her?

Besides, thinking she did well didn’t mean she really did well. They’d only know once the scores came out.

Yes, that was it. Thinking this, Zhang Hui turned around and left.

Of course Zhang Yu saw Zhang Hui, and also noticed she wanted to greet her. She deliberately avoided her; she had no intention of saying hello. It wasn’t like she didn’t know what that person had been doing in private these days.

"How’d you do?" Seeing the smile on Zhang Yu’s face, Qian Hao knew she must have done well, but he still wanted to hear how she’d put it.

"We’ll see when the scores come out." Zhang Yu was confident, but the exact outcome still depended on the results.

"You’ll definitely get in." Qian Hao knew Zhang Yu wasn’t someone who bragged. "Come on, let’s go back."

Zhang Yu gave a small "mm." "Two days away, I really missed it."

After signing up, they’d directly booked two rooms at the guesthouse—Qian Hao and the other two plus Xiao Lei in one, and Zhang Yu with another female from the educated youth spot in the other.

Fortunately they moved fast. By the time Zhang Juan and the others reacted and wanted to book rooms, there weren’t any left. In weather this cold, they could only go back and forth to the village every day.

"Once you get the admission notice, are you going back?" Zhao Yadong knew Zhang Yu might not, but he still had to ask.

"No. What would I go back for? Who knows, the moment I go back, the notice ends up in someone else’s hands." If they dared to make a move in the Northeast, let alone on the Zhang Family’s home turf—it was absolutely impossible.

"Once I get the admission notice, I’ll head to the Capital City right away." Zhang Yu had it planned out. She had to be quick, so that even if Zhang Tao came, he’d have no way to scheme against her.

Qian Hao had always known Zhang Yu was extremely guarded against the people of the Zhang Family. He hadn’t expected her to still be like this at a time like this. "They probably wouldn’t swap it, right?"

"Why not? She and I both have the surname Zhang. If they insist Zhang Hui is Zhang Yu, then what?"

"To shut me up, they could lock me up, or stage some scandal, mix me up with some thug." That was exactly what Zhang Tao had done in her last life.

Just let Zhang Tao off like that? Zhang Yu felt unwilling. Forget it—she’d see if he came. If he did, she’d find a way to deal with him. The Zhang Tao from the previous life wasn’t the same as in this one, but once he made a move again, he couldn’t blame her.

"Huh?" Zhao Yadong’s face was full of horror. "They—they wouldn’t do that, would they? You’re their child too."

Zhang Yu smiled. "When I was little, I also wondered if I’d been picked up, otherwise why, with so many kids in the family and two other girls, Zhang Hui and Zhang Juan, was I the one who had it the hardest? But I’ve observed carefully—I definitely look just like my dad. I’m absolutely a Zhang Family daughter."

"All I can say is, not every parent likes their own child. I’m that child with a father who doesn’t dote and a mother who doesn’t love."

"Maybe they don’t have such intentions, but I can’t not guard against them. If I get hit once, my whole life will be ruined." She had to remember the original Zhang Yu’s mistake and raise her level of vigilance toward the Zhang Family.

After the exam, the Educated Youth Courtyard quieted down. Although there were still people going crazy in all sorts of ways, saying they never should have gotten married in the first place, that they should’ve stayed in the courtyard, and that they wanted a divorce.

With the exam over and no need to go out to work, life was truly comfortable for Zhang Yu—except that Zhan Min’s nonstop ruckus in the courtyard really kept her from resting.

Quite a few people came out of their rooms to see what Zhan Min was up to this time. Before, to take the exam, she had made a scene from her husband’s family to the village committee and then to the Educated Youth Courtyard, nearly driving everyone mad with anger.

Back then this woman had her feet on several boats at once and kept capsizing them. The villagers’ dissatisfaction with their group of intellectual youth hit its peak at that time.

During that period, the intellectual youth all kept their heads down, doing everything they could to avoid appearing in front of the villagers, afraid they’d get a beating from villagers driven to fury.

It had taken a lot of effort for things to calm down. After Zhan Min married, she did become a lot more honest, which finally let everyone breathe again. But once the news of the college entrance exam being reinstated came out, she started making a scene about taking the exam, and of course her husband’s family disagreed.

After all that noise, her husband’s family finally agreed to let her sit the exam. She really had worked hard in all sorts of ways, just wanting to take the test properly, leave this place, leave this suffocating husband’s family. She clearly believed she should be living in the city, not married to a farmer, not stuck as a farm wife.

Zhang Yu hadn’t spoken with her and didn’t know how her studies were. Not just Zhan Min, she hadn’t asked about the others either.

It had only come up once when she heard Xiao Lei mention that Zhan Min had done poorly this time, and had cried her eyes out after walking out of the exam room.

Nobody took it seriously. After all, people sobbing their hearts out after leaving the exam room were hardly limited to just Zhan Min.

What no one expected was that in the days after, she’d make a scene every single day, crying from her husband’s family all the way to the Educated Youth Courtyard.

Zhang Yu really admired her. So she hadn’t done well—how did that justify crying non-stop? It wasn’t like all the intellectual youth in the courtyard had done well; some of them had blown it too.

Just one look at Zhang Hui, who’d been walking around with a drooping face all day long, and you could tell she’d bombed the exam.

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