1978: Female educated youth, don’t want an illiterate husband

Chapter 75 The Female Reader Who Ran Away from Home (asking for monthly ticket)
"Hello there!"

Zhu Lin greeted Cheng Xuemin politely, and at Feng Jiayou's strong invitation, sat down next to her.

Feng's mother was also quick, serving Zhu Lin a bowl of rice and said, "Linzi, don't be polite, just treat this like the way you did when you were little, and be the master of the house!"

"Thank you, auntie. When I think back to when I was little, you treated me better than my own mother!" Zhu Lin was very sweet-mouthed. She had often eaten at the Feng family's house in her early years, so she was not so distant with the Feng family.

"Then why are you being so formal with your aunt? You just happened to meet them today. Jiayou and his wife brought back some dishes, including a big roast duck!" While speaking, Feng's mother also brought another big roast duck that was hot in the pot to the table while serving the rice.

This afternoon, the mother and daughter bought too much, so Feng Jiayou and his wife bought one. Feng's mother was so happy that she took a detour to Quanjude to buy one and came back to celebrate for her son-in-law.

Who would have thought that the mother and daughter wanted to go together, so they bought more!

Originally, they were planning to eat one tonight and save one for tomorrow night. Most of them have formal jobs or are still in school, and they usually have lunch at work or school.

Now Zhu Lin suddenly came over, and Feng's mother did not hesitate to bring the other one to the table.

At the same time, she thought that since Zhu Lin treated her better than her mother, the roast duck was not served in vain. The proud mother Feng liked to hear others compliment her.

"Hehe, is that so, Jiayou? Did something good happen to you today? You brought back so many dishes, are you here to celebrate together?"

After hearing what Feng's mother said, Zhu Lin's eyes lit up and she looked at Feng Jiayou beside her and asked curiously.

"Eat slowly, no one is going to snatch it from you!"

Seeing that Feng Jiamo secretly took a duck leg from the newly served roast duck, Feng's mother hit her chopsticks, gave her a seductive look and cursed.

There are guests here, could you please pay attention to your table manners?
On the contrary, the two younger ones, Feng Liqin and Feng Liwen, had their bellies bulging already and had already left the table to play.

"There's nothing to celebrate, it's just that he wrote an article and it's about to be published!" Feng Jiayou pointed at Cheng Xuemin and tried his best to restrain himself and not show off in front of others, but what he said was really too pretentious!

"Uh? Really?! Xuemin, you're so amazing? I can't tell!"

Zhu Lin was indeed shocked when she heard this. No matter how she looked at it, she didn't think that Feng Jia's young lover was actually an educated man. Wasn't it said that he was just a man from northern Shaanxi, an illiterate peasant?
"I just wrote this to follow the crowd!"

Seeing Zhu Lin looking at him, Cheng Xuemin could only smile awkwardly and cooperate with Feng Jiayou's pretense.

"How can it be published if it's just random writing? Xuemin, you should be following the trend of the recently popular "The Shepherd", right?" When it comes to manuscripts, Zhu Lin was instantly brought up to the topic and said with a smile, "In fact, when I just came back, I read "The Shepherd" in "Yenching Literature" on the train. It's really well written!"

"As soon as I came back, I wrote a review and submitted it to the Yenching Daily, but unfortunately they didn't accept it!"

"So, Xuemin, it's really amazing that the manuscript you wrote was approved for publication!"

This woman...did she think that Cheng Xuemin was a son-in-law who came to live with his family out of wedlock and was illiterate and was not welcome in Feng Jiayou's family? She thought that Cheng Xuemin was introverted, quiet, and inferior, so she comforted herself like this?

It must be this mentality!
After all, the rumor out there is still that the Feng family has hired a son-in-law who is a country bumpkin, illiterate, honest and useless.

Zhu Lin had just returned to the city, so she must have eaten a lot of gossip from Old Feng's family.

So when Feng Jiayou introduced her just now, she naturally asked with a surprised look and tone, "Jiayou, is this your lover?"

That is... these two words are well used, enough to show that she has heard of her great name for a long time and is well-known!

"That's really amazing! Isn't it that our whole family is gathered here to celebrate for him!?"

Feng Jiayou glanced at Cheng Xuemin, helped him take over the topic, and praised him narcissistically.

"Eat your food, Linzi, stop talking naked. Eat your food quickly and try this roast duck while it's hot!"

Feng's mother was also very happy and wanted to tell Zhu Lin that Lao Xu, the author of "The Shepherd", whom she admired for his excellent writing, was sitting next to her.

But she thought she should be more restrained. If she said that, it would seem too cocky and complacent, making people think that the Feng family was showing off.

Besides, the honor of being their son-in-law is there, and no one can grab it if they don’t say anything.

"Yes, thank you, Auntie! When I was in Yunnan, I was thinking about this roast duck from Yanjing!"

"Then eat more and don't be polite with Auntie!" said Feng's mother with a smile.

Just think about this bite of roast duck in Yanjing. Wasn’t she the same before?
She is the only one who is happy today because her daughter and son-in-law are pregnant. Otherwise, which family would be so generous as to serve roast duck to the neighbors?

"Yeah! Thank you, auntie!" Zhu Lin nodded repeatedly to express her gratitude, her mouth already full of oil.

"By the way, Sister Linzi, you seemed to have something to do when you came in just now?"

Feng Jiayou had almost finished eating, put down his bowl and chopsticks and said something!
"Oh my god, I forgot about Shanshan!"

Zhu Lin was awakened by this. What happened to Feng's family tonight? She quickly asked Feng Jiamo next to her, "Jiamo, Shanshan didn't come to play with you?"

Zhu Lin came out to look for her sister. She came home from school and left after just a short while. Her family didn’t pay much attention to it at the time!

But it was already time for dinner, but Zhu Shan hadn’t come home to eat. Her family might have come to play with Feng Jiamo!
So she asked Zhu Lin to come over and take a look. Unexpectedly, she was so tempted by the delicious food on the Feng family's table that she forgot about her sister Zhu Shan!

"Sister Linzi, no! Shanshan didn't come!"

Feng Jiamo was picking his teeth and shaking his head heartlessly. He had eaten too much tonight and felt very bloated.

"Then where would she go?" Zhu Lin was confused!

"Feng Jiamo, you haven't told Shanshan about the love...letter, have you?"

Just when Zhu Lin couldn't sit still anymore and was about to get up and go find her sister, Feng Jiayou suddenly reacted and asked Feng Jiamo.

"Sister...I...don't have...right?!"

At this moment, Feng Jiamo also became uneasy. He thought to himself, maybe Zhu Shan was afraid of confronting her family and ran away from home out of fear?
When she confronted Zhu Shan on the rooftop this morning, she mentioned that her mother and sister would bring the love letter Zhu Shan wrote to her old Zhu family for a confrontation tonight!
Zhu Shan was so scared that she seemed to be in a state of worry and out of focus the whole day.

After school, Feng Jiamo didn't pay any attention to Zhu Shan, nor did he tell her that it was just a scare and that her mother and sister would not go to her house to confront her.

But now, that sister wouldn’t be afraid of confrontation, and would be beaten by her parents and sister, so she ran away from home and hid, right?
If he really runs away from home, then things will get serious!

"Feng Jiamo, have you told Shanshan everything!?"

Mother Feng also looked at Feng Jiamo and asked.

"Jiayou, auntie, what letter is this!?"

Zhu Lin realized it later and seemed to understand something. There seemed to be a letter involved, which was the main reason why Zhu Shan disappeared tonight?

What letter? Why didn't Zhu Shan tell her family about it?

"It was Shanshan who was ignorant and wrote a love letter to Xuemin..." Feng's mother said it directly, but she realized it before she finished speaking. Is she confessing it herself?
"Ah?! Shanshan wrote a love letter to Xuemin?! When did this happen?! They...they..."

Zhu Lin covered her surprised little mouth, her whole world view was overturned by Feng's mother's words!

She needs to sort it out carefully!
Was it her sister Zhu Shan who wrote a love letter to Feng Jiayou’s lover Cheng Xuemin?
How is this possible?
How did Zhu Shan hook up with Feng's young lover Cheng Xuemin?

How could Zhu Shan, such a well-behaved, quiet and introverted girl, hook up with Feng Jiayou's lover and even write love letters to him?

Zhu Lin went crazy, even more devastated and dumbfounded!
But soon, Zhu Lin realized that this was not right!
Isn’t the attitude and reaction of Aunt’s family and the Feng family a little bit wrong?

Her sister Zhu Shan, wrote a love letter to her young lover! She wrote a love letter to your son-in-law of the Feng family! Is this your attitude?

There was a wry smile in that indifferent tone?

"Sister Lin...it wasn't written for me, I didn't read it, don't look at me like that!"

Cheng Xuemin was in a dilemma. Zhu Lin looked at him as if he had seen a ghost. He quickly stood up and tried to pass the blame. The love letter written by his sister was addressed to Lao Xu, the author of The Shepherd. What did it have to do with him, Cheng Xuemin?
"It's not written to you, Xuemin?! Then... Auntie, what's going on? Who did that damn girl Shanshan write the love letter to?"

Zhu Lin was anxious and confused. How come she didn't understand a word of what her family was saying?
"Feng Jiamo, tell your sister Linzi that this is all your fault!"

Feng's mother knew that it was time to expose the truth, so she ordered Feng Jiamo, the younger daughter, to honestly tell her everything she had done!
"Mom, you asked me to say this, and I really said it!" Feng Jiamo suddenly became excited. She had been feeling itchy in her heart for a long time!

It was obvious that the person that the girls in her class secretly admired was her brother-in-law, Da Lao Cheng, but Feng Jiamo's parents were too strict. Her mother did not allow her to show off at school and disturb her brother-in-law from studying and preparing for the exams.

So Feng Jiamo never dared to say anything and kept it in his heart. It was so uncomfortable!
it's good now!

Her mother has spoken. Is this a showdown?

Doesn't that mean that tomorrow morning, she can go to school and show off loudly, and proudly tell all the female classmates in the school who are thinking about love: Don't be narcissistic and forget about it, Lao Xu, the author of The Shepherd, is my Feng family's... brother-in-law!
You guys take it one by one, no one can snatch it away, no one can take it away, her sister is watching her closely!
"Sister, I'm really telling you, let's not pretend anymore, right?!"

Seeing that her mother was too lazy to pay attention to her, Feng Jiamo looked at her sister pretentiously and asked eagerly.

"No, Jiamo, Auntie asked you to speak quickly! What happened between you and Shanshan? Where is she now?"

Zhu Lin was really confused by this family!

What on earth is going on? !

"Sister Linzi, let me tell you!" Feng Jiayou glared at Feng Jiamo, you are the only one who can pretend, right?
Taking over the topic and continuing to talk to Zhu Lin, "Actually, this is what happened. Shanshan wrote a reader's letter to Lao Xu, the author of The Wrangler. It was a love letter!"

Feng Jiayou said it concisely.

"Shanshan wrote a love letter to Lao Xu, the author of The Wrangler, again!" Zhu Lin was dumbfounded again. Why did she write a love letter to Lao Xu, the author of The Wrangler, again? And not to her lover Cheng Xuemin?
"Xuemin is Lao Xu, the author of The Wrangler!"

"The Horse Herder is a manuscript published by Xuemin in Yenching Literature, under the pen name Lao Xu!"

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(End of this chapter)