“What? You tutor me?”
Jiang Mingzhi was shocked.
“You didn’t even graduate from junior high!”
Jiang Qianqin’s lips twitched. “I’m starting to suspect you’ve lost your mind, which is why you divorced Qian Youde.”
There was a humorous silence in the air.
Jiang Mingyu crossed her arms, walked closer to Jiang Mingzhi, and looked him straight in the eye: “Don’t forget, although I didn’t go to high school, I took the middle school entrance exam.”
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“No one knows those middle school entrance exam questions better than me.”
She was referring to the original owner.
As for Jiang Mingyu herself…
sorry, she had completed her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees at a prestigious university in her previous life.
The exam questions from the 1980s were genuinely not difficult for her.
“Really?”
Jiang Mingzhi asked suspiciously.
Jiang Mingyu calmly stated, “If you consider me your sister, then trust me. If you trust a stranger like Qian Youde more and don’t believe the grievances I suffered at his hands, then go find him and see if he’ll teach you a lesson.”
“I’m making this clear today: I will absolutely not go back and reconcile with Qian Youde.”
“I hope you, as a mother and brother, won’t make things difficult for your daughter and sister.”
With that, she went into the kitchen, not bothering to argue with the mother and son.
“It’s still early, stay for a meal.” As soon as the kitchen curtain was lifted, a fragrant aroma wafted out!
“This smells like food from a fancy hotel? No, it smells even better than that! Braised fish? It must be braised fish!”
Jiang Qianqin sniffed hard, her eyes lighting up. She quickly tugged at him, “Hey, I remember your sister used to have pretty good grades.
If it weren’t for you studying, she could have gone to a good high school. Since she said she’d tutor you, let’s give it a try! Stay for a meal first.”
People in the countryside don’t get such good food.
Jiang Qianqin hadn’t had any meat in ages!
Jiang Mingzhi was also drooling from the aroma.
He nodded and said, “Alright, alright, then you can tutor me…”
He took out something from a basket behind his back.
“I brought you some cured meat this time, hoping it would help you and your brother-in-law recover…”
He even brought something?
The cured meat was thin and dry, about two pounds, but it was better than nothing.
Jiang Mingyu’s eyes flickered slightly, and she nodded to accept it.
“Sit down, I’ll go get some rice and call Mingfeng and the children to come out and eat.”
The atmosphere finally became harmonious.
Huo Mingfeng and the children also came to the main room. Fortunately, the table was big enough to barely seat them.
Just as he was hesitating whether to tell the children to greet them,
suddenly, a series of hurried footsteps rushed into the courtyard.
It turned out to be a man and a woman.
They were rude, starting with, “Jiang Mingyu! You filthy bitch, you slut who seduces men! Get out here!”
Jiang Mingyu paused in setting the table, glancing at the couple standing in the courtyard. Realizing she didn’t recognize them, she didn’t move.
Jiang Qianqin frowned, placing a piece of fish in her son’s bowl before scolding her, “See? What did I tell you? Marrying Huo Mingfeng means this is what you get! Look at your reputation! People are coming to your door to hurl insults!”
“Mingyu, after this meal, you can come with me!”
Jiang Mingyu smiled as she served food to her three children, her tone indifferent. “I won’t leave. This is my home. Marrying Huo Mingfeng means I’m Huo Mingfeng’s woman.”
“Hey! Why won’t you listen to reason?”
Jiang Qianqin angrily put down her chopsticks.
Jiang Mingzhi also flew into a rage. He abruptly stood up, strode to the door, and angrily pointed at the couple:
“What are you cursing about? Dare to curse my sister again!”
The couple, unfazed by his pointing finger, instead turned to Huo Mingfeng, who had followed them out, and said:
“Brother-in-law! You said you wouldn’t look for another woman after Xiaofang died! How long has it been? And you’re already getting married!”
“Jiang Mingyu is a woman abandoned by Qian Youde, a vixen! You’ve hooked up with her, aren’t you afraid of ruining the Lin family’s reputation?”
The woman, wearing floral cotton-padded trousers and a floral cotton-padded jacket, wiped away tears and pointed at him: “If you really want to marry Jiang Mingyu, fine, but you can’t take my sister’s three children! Otherwise, if their stepmother treats them badly, how can I face Xiaohua in the afterlife?”
It turned out this woman was Lin Xiaohua’s older sister, Lin Xiaofang.
She was also the aunt who had leeched off the three children.
The man next to her was her husband, Mao Penglin. Both of them were fair-skinned and plump, clearly well-fed and well-clothed, but he had a mole on the tip of his nose and his eyes were not upright.
With a painstakingly earnest expression, he stepped forward and put his hand on Huo Mingfeng’s shoulder: “Brother-in-law, your sister was a bit harsh, but listen to your brother-in-law’s advice, a woman like Jiang Mingyu is no good! She abandoned Qian Youde for you just because of your money, right?”
“When she meets a richer man, she’ll definitely abandon you for him too!”
“The three children are doing well in our Lin family. The eldest and second children are old enough to go to school. We were just discussing sending them to school in town after the New Year!”
“Besides, there are countless examples of stepmothers who treat children badly. How many children in our surrounding villages have been tortured to death by their stepmothers? You need to think about this more carefully!”
As he spoke, he glanced at Jiang Mingyu sitting in the main room eating.
The woman’s long eyelashes were slightly drooping, her skin was as white as snow, her dark eyes were bright and clear, and her rosy lips looked like fresh cherries, making one want to take a bite.
The taste…
gulp!
After subconsciously swallowing, Mao Penglin snapped back to reality, quickly suppressing his thoughts, and said to Huo Mingfeng in a serious tone:
“So what if she’s pretty? She can’t eat you! Jiang Mingyu’s character is really terrible!”
“Brother-in-law, how about this! If you really want to find a wife, I’ll help you!”
He tiptoed and whispered, “Don’t underestimate me just because I don’t have a proper job. I knew a lot of people when I was traveling all over the country. You know Brother Long, the boss of the former battlefield, right? I’m very close to him…”
Huo Mingfeng coldly pulled him aside and said to the couple from a distance, “Jiang Mingyu is a good woman. I’ll marry her in this lifetime. As for marrying Lin Xiaohua, it wasn’t me who actively sought her out. You both know how she married me, right?”
After saying that, he glanced at the town and curled his lips, “Could it be that you want everyone to know what happened back then? To let others know what kind of family your Lin family is?”
Lin Xiaofang looked big and burly, with little education, but she was still a cook in the school cafeteria in town.
If the Lin family’s reputation was ruined, how could she work at the school?
At least she could still get a considerable subsidy every month!
Lin Xiaofang’s expression changed.
“Mingfeng! That’s not fair of you! We’re family! You’re actually going to tear apart our Lin family for a woman?”
Mao Penglin also fell silent, gradually retreating, looking at him somewhat guiltily: “Mingfeng, what nonsense are you talking about? Marrying Xiaohua wasn’t your choice, did we force you?”
Inside the house, Jiang Mingyu heard the commotion and couldn’t help but look up, only to see that broad back coldly saying,
“Then I’ll put my words here today,”
his tone leaving no room for doubt:
“I, Huo Mingfeng, am going to tear apart your Lin family!”