After the frail beauty went to the countryside, she went crazy with scientific research.

Chapter 301, Episode 0320: Time Flies By

Research knows no years, experiments know no time.

Time waits for no one; it seems like only a turn of the head has passed, and two years have already gone by.

Although it has only been two years, which seems like a short time, a lot has happened in our country.

Let's start with the issue of educated youth going to the countryside, which is most familiar to everyone today. In June of this year, the higher authorities officially issued a document, and educated youth began to return to the city in batches.

If Lin Yuexi knew about this, she would definitely sigh and say that the two worlds are developing in increasingly different ways.

In her original world, the college entrance examination was reinstated first, followed by the return of educated youth to the cities; here, there is still no news of the college entrance examination being reinstated, but the educated youth have already begun returning to the cities.

Leng Xingran and her group from the Northwest also received notices to return to the city and were packing their luggage in preparation for their departure a few days later.

There were still three figures inside the cave, but one of them had changed his face.

Liu Jie plopped down on the bed, glanced at Leng Xingran on the left and Zhang Ze on the right, and said, "Um, I heard that Xu Zhichuan seems to be getting a divorce."

The two stopped moving at the same time and looked at Liu Jie in shock.

Zhang Ze: "What the hell?"

Leng Xingran: "How is that possible?"

After shouting, the two looked at each other and fell silent.

It had been a long time since they had seen Xu Zhichuan. To be precise, their relationship with Xu Zhichuan had been strained since Lin Yuexi left with Ren Yan. In addition, Xu Zhichuan moved to his wife's family home, and later, he received preferential treatment at his workplace and was no longer with them, so their contact became less and less frequent.

The last time we met was when we went to celebrate Xu Zhichuan's son Dongdong's one-month birthday. It's been more than half a year since then.

“You all know that educated youth returning to the city must be single. If they are already married, unless both are educated youth, as long as one of them is a local, they are considered to have settled in the local area.”

Although the educated youth were all registered in the local area, they were all in a unified household registration system separated from the brigade. Once an educated youth married a local, their household registration was moved out of the unified household registration system and truly settled in the local area.

When sent to the countryside, the unified household registration system for educated youth was a disadvantage, as it meant they were considered to be "attached" to local households. Many of the benefits that local residents enjoyed were not available to the educated youth.

In some places, even the per capita rations for educated youth were much less.

Therefore, life was not easy for the educated youth after they went to the countryside. Many of them couldn't bear it and married into the village or married a girl from the village, just to change their household registration to the village and have enough to eat.

But things are different now. Educated youth under the unified household registration system can all return to the city; the only difference is the batch.

For many, the choice is simply to eat their fill in the countryside and then return to the city to live like a city dweller.

There's been a lot of divorce news lately.

Liu Jie, who loves gossip, went around to see what was going on.

He grinned slyly and gestured for the two men to come closer.

"Xu Zhichuan told his wife that they would pretend to get a divorce, and he would go back to the city first to settle things there, and then come back to pick up his wife and child."

Zhang Ze couldn't hide his thoughts, his face full of disdain. "His wife didn't believe it, did she?" "She did. Originally, his name wasn't on this batch of people returning to the city. It must have been his family who pulled some strings. When I went to see the brigade leader yesterday, he quietly told me that Xu Zhichuan's name had been added."

"This morning I went to say goodbye to a few friends. When I passed by his house, I saw his wife packing his luggage. She was so happy that her mouth was stretched to her ears."

Liu Jie's sharp tongue once again unleashed a barrage of venomous words at them: "I used to think you two were pretty stupid. Xu Zhichuan practically had the word 'scheming' written all over his face, but you two just stood there like you were blind and didn't see a thing, and you were still treating him so well."

"Doesn't he even remember how he treated his mother in Beijing? He didn't openly oppose her, but every time he suffered some so-called injustice, Grandpa Xu would immediately step in to stand up for him?"

The more Liu Jie looked at Leng Xingran, the more he suspected that his genes had mutated. Everyone in the Leng family was smarter than the last, and the adopted one was even more brainless. How could he be so stupid?
What, he said it was because a woman didn't like him?
Women my foot! He's the kind of person who'd give up the whole forest for one tree.

He just couldn't stand how stupid this guy was!
"His mother couldn't fight him in Beijing, but now that he's been sent to the countryside, which is thousands of miles away, his mother's reach can't extend that far. Do you really think his mother can still control him?"

"Do you know what a self-inflicted injury strategy is?"

Speaking of this, Liu Jie couldn't help but admire Xu Zhichuan. "But he really can endure it. For more than a year, he suffered from hunger and cold, and he also had to put up with a madwoman like Liu Bingyan by his side."

Leng Xingran and Zhang Ze continued packing their luggage with expressionless faces, ignoring his incessant nagging and criticism of them.

It's not that they don't have a temper, but rather that they've experienced so many similar scenes over the past year that they've become so used to them that they can ignore them.

However, their former friends had changed beyond recognition, and it would be a lie to say that they weren't sad.

Putting aside the past, whether it was true or false, for the sake of their long-standing friendship, they no longer want to dwell on it, nor can they afford to.

Their inherent patriotism prevents them from intentionally harming others, and besides, Xu Zhichuan has never done anything to harm them.

After what happened with Ren Yan, they were no longer surprised by Xu Zhichuan's current actions.

Leng Xingran and the others didn't actually know how Xu Zhichuan and Ren Yan were together back then, even though the three of them were almost always seen together by outsiders.

Xu Zhichuan has always been considered one of the more shrewd people among them. When they were young, they thought he was smart, but as they grew up, they found that he was more thorough in his work than they had imagined.

They were sent to the countryside at the same time, but while Leng Xingran and Zhang Ze were still getting used to rural life, Xu Zhichuan already had a network of connections in the brigade.

Xu Zhichuan and Ren Yan had become very close. Ren Yan, a foodie, was even willing to share her food with Xu Zhichuan. It was then that they realized something was off about their relationship.

So they tried to coerce and entice Xu Zhichuan, who only said that he didn't know when he had started to take a liking to Ren Yan.

In their view, friends don't need to know everything about each other, especially private matters like dating. They're just joking around, so they naturally don't expect Xu Zhichuan to tell them everything.

People nowadays are more reserved in their expressions, and they don't pay attention to their friends' interests in dating. Most couples are just living together for convenience, so they didn't think there was anything wrong between Xu Zhichuan and Ren Yan before. Sometimes they even felt that they were a bit too affectionate.

Until Xu Zhichuan easily gave up on his relationship with Ren Yan, even humiliatingly keeping her hanging on while he was already married to someone else, putting on a show of being infatuated, he was actually trampling on Ren Yan's dignity.

At this moment, Leng Xingran and Zhang Ze suddenly felt as if they didn't recognize Xu Zhichuan.

Although neither of them were the most valued members of their families, Leng Xingran, being in that circle, and Zhang Ze, who followed Leng Xingran's lead, weren't truly blind in many ways.

They hadn't seen through Xu Zhichuan's character before because they were brothers, so they never thought about it that way.