Transmigration: On the Gossip Front

Chapter 2254: Chapter 2255: My Cousin Is a Capitalist Lady 73

Zhao Yadong stared at the slip of paper on the ground. On it was written: Take action today.

He looked up at Zhang Yu in confusion. "This?"

Qian Hao craned his neck to take a look. "That’s Zhao Juan’s handwriting."

Huh??? Zhao Yadong knew well how tangled the relationships were among the three Zhang Family sisters. On the surface, Zhang Yu didn’t have much contact with Zhang Hui and the others, and Zhang Hui and Zhang Juan, those two sisters, still got along fairly well.

But now Zhang Juan had actually written such a note—what was that supposed to mean? Zhao Yadong stared at Zhang Yu in surprise. Since when had Zhang Yu and Zhang Juan gotten so close behind his back?

"I’m not that close to her, she just came to see me a few days ago." Zhang Yu lowered her voice and briefly mentioned how Zhang Juan had come to her beforehand.

"She was just thanking me."

"After all, I did come up with the idea, and I also promised to leave her some stuff." She really felt she’d done her part—not only did she give her pointers, she even left her review materials.

"I really am such a good older sister." Zhang Yu directly handed herself a "good person" card.

Watching Zhang Yu shamelessly praising herself, Zhao Yadong couldn’t help but burst out laughing. He’d wanted to say something, but under the pressure of her gaze, he helplessly changed tack. "Yes, yes, you really are great."

"But aren’t you worried that once that young lady finds out, she’ll take everything away?" Everyone knew that if that young lady found out Zhang Yu had left review materials, they’d definitely end up in her hands.

On this issue, Zhang Yu could only say helplessly, "All I’m responsible for is leaving part of the materials. Whether Zhang Juan can hang on to them or not, that’s not my concern."

"But if she can’t even keep hold of her review materials, do you think she’ll be able to keep her admission notice?" Zhang Yu posed a question straight to the soul.

On this point, Zhao Yadong felt she was absolutely right. "Exactly. If she can’t even keep her review materials, chances are she won’t be able to keep her admission notice either."

Watching them chat, Qian Hao finally seized a gap in the conversation. "So, have you decided what to do?"

Zhang Yu nodded. "I’ve thought it through. If they don’t make a move, we can just leave it. But if they really go after me, then it means they never saw me as a sister in the first place."

"Since that’s the case, I don’t need to treat them like brothers and sisters either." Zhang Yu said fiercely, "If they want to ruin me..."

"Then let them stay in the same room as the thugs."

"Isn’t that great? Two men and one woman, sharing one room. As for what happens inside..." Zhang Yu spread her hands. "Some things, if they’re meant to happen, will happen."

"And it just so happens that not all the city intellectual youth have returned yet." Although some urban intellectual youth from the same city had gone back for various reasons, there were still three or four from the same city staying here.

Hearing this, Zhao Yadong was delighted too. "Yes, yes, in our commune there are still several intellectual youth from our city."

Having been doing business outside all this time, Zhao Yadong not only knew everyone in their own commune, he also knew the county and the city like the back of his hand.

"Something this big has to be spread around."

"This is a huge scoop." Zhang Yu grinned from ear to ear.

"By the way, if the brigade leader finds out about this, he might faint on the spot, right?" Zhang Yu didn’t regret doing this; the only person she felt sorry for was the brigade leader.

He really was pretty decent. You couldn’t say he took special care of the intellectual youth, but at least he never thought of squeezing them. As long as they didn’t cause trouble, he played the good guy as brigade leader.

Something this big happening, Zhang Yu really was worried that once the commune leaders heard about it, they’d be very displeased with the brigade leader.

"That..." Zhao Yadong actually hadn’t thought that far. After thinking for a moment, he said, "There’s nothing to be done about that. Girl, think about it."

"If their scheme had worked and you’d been mixed up with those thugs, don’t you think that would’ve been explosive news too?"

"Wouldn’t that also have reached the ears of the commune leaders?"

"You think the commune leaders wouldn’t have opinions about the brigade leader then?"

"Besides, don’t worry. Our brigade leader does things aboveboard. The commune leaders won’t hold such a small incident against him." Remembering the news he’d heard recently, Zhao Yadong actually found it all quite amusing.

"And there are already married intellectual youth who’ve abandoned their wives and children and gone back to the city." Zhao Yadong thought of some of the recent gossip he’d heard.

"Did they get a marriage certificate?" was Qian Hao’s first reaction—chasing them down wouldn’t be easy.

"No, wait, without certification from the brigade, how did they leave?" Zhang Yu knew that people still needed documents to travel. If they just ran, how did they buy tickets?

"That, I don’t know. I’m not them, am I?" Zhao Yadong was also curious how they managed to buy train tickets.

"Anyway, they haven’t been found, so they must’ve gotten tickets somehow." Even as a man himself, Zhao Yadong really looked down on those types.

"Back then, they willingly agreed to marry those women. No one forced them."

"Those intellectual youth who married locals enjoyed some perks, more or less." No matter how open-minded the village head, the treatment of locals and intellectual youth was never quite the same.

"I’ve also heard that in some places, female intellectual youth just up and left their husbands and children behind and ran off. Sigh." Lowering his voice, Zhao Yadong added, "And I heard that Zhan Min is making a scene at home too."

"When has she ever not made a scene?" Zhang Yu really did admire Zhan Min in a way. Back then she’d had several irons in the fire at once, and the whole mess had caused quite a stir.

Because of that, for a long time all of them intellectual youth had to keep their heads down. And in the end, she turned around and married a capable male villager. Even though she still went out to do farm work, her in-laws didn’t care in the slightest about those measly work points of hers.

She’d gone back to the intellectual youth quarters to show off more than a few times over that. Then, as soon as the news about the reinstatement of the college entrance exam spread, she immediately fell out with her husband’s family, crying and screaming that she wanted to take the exam.

"I remember her grades weren’t that great. She was never as good as Zhang Hui. What’s she making a fuss about?" Zhang Yu really had to hand it to Zhan Min’s man—how did he end up marrying such a high-maintenance wife?

If he’d just casually picked some village girl back then, he wouldn’t be under so much pressure now, and he wouldn’t have to coax his wife all the time.

"She thinks she did really well in school back then, and that the only reason she hasn’t gotten good marks this time is because her family didn’t support her. She wants a divorce so she can focus on studying."

"And she says the child should stay with his family, since he’s a Lin Family descendant anyway, while she wants to take all the money at home."

What? Zhang Yu froze. "She doesn’t want the child, but wants to take all the money at home?"

"Where does she get the nerve?"

"Just relying on those pathetic work points of hers, she would’ve starved to death long ago. Not to mention she’s always sending things back to her parents’ house—how can she still have the face to make that kind of demand?"

Zhang Yu couldn’t stand it anymore either. "That Lin Family lad isn’t going to be stupid again, is he?"

Even though they were all intellectual youth and in theory should be on Zhan Min’s side, any intellectual youth with half a brain had advised the Lin Family boy not to treat Zhan Min too well. But there was no getting through to him.

"That, I don’t know either." Zhao Yadong said that how things turned out would depend on how the Lin Family discussed it among themselves. "But I think this time they can’t keep putting up with it, right?"

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