Abnormal survival in the end times

Chapter 297 Jiang Qi's Troubles

Lin Zhe told Director Xiao frankly that Xu You suffered from autism for a long time after that experience. Later, she finally recovered, but forgot some people and things.

"She doesn't remember having a biological mother, which we thought was fine, and we didn't want this Mrs. Zhou to come and bother her. But who would have thought that not only did she come, but she also brought her current husband. So are you trying to remind Xu You, to tell her how loving your family of three was at home back then, while you left her alone outside to fend for herself?"

Lin Zhe didn't give Chen Ju a chance to interrupt while he was speaking, and of course, with Director Xiao, a college leader, present, she wouldn't be allowed to interrupt either.

Now that he had finished speaking, he asked another question, and everyone's eyes turned to her.

When she wasn't allowed to speak, she tried her best to speak, but now that she's allowed to speak, she just opens her mouth and can't utter a single word.

She...she didn't know that Youyou had autism, she didn't know.
Director Xiao was speechless when he saw that Chen Ju not only didn't speak, but also looked at Xu You with a wronged expression.

You abandoned the person, so what are you complaining about?
Instructor Zhou felt ashamed; he never imagined his cousin and his wife would do such a thing to Xu You at the beginning of the apocalypse. So what if they did it? They could just avoid seeing each other and pretend the other was dead, right?

Why do you still righteously say that you want to find your daughter and reunite with her?
If someone beats you up and then brings up your past embarrassing moments in person, do you even have any shame?

Teacher Zhou really wanted to leave and stop caring about his cousin and his wife's messy affairs.

The problem is that he can't leave at all. He was the one who gave Xu You her basic information, and he was the one who brought her into the school. No matter how you look at it, he is responsible for how things have developed to this point.

Since we can't escape the connection, let's try to handle it properly.

Instructor Zhou's eyes darted around as he looked at his sister-in-law, who remained silent, and said, "Second sister-in-law, don't you need to explain what happened back then to Xu You? At the beginning of the apocalypse, were you too late or was there some other reason why you didn't go to pick her up?"

This is tantamount to reminding Chen Ju to quickly defend herself.

When the apocalypse first came, chaos reigned throughout the country, coinciding with the time when office workers were at work and students were in school.

Why were there so few children after things stabilized later?
This is all because too many children, especially elementary school students, were bitten during the zombie virus outbreak.

There aren't even many zombies needed. Just a few teachers and students will turn into zombies first, and then they'll be bitten in droves.

After thinking about this, Instructor Zhou realized that Lin Zhe's words were wrong and that he was misleading Director Xiao.

"Second sister-in-law, Xu You was in school when the apocalypse broke out, wasn't she?"

Before Chen Ju could speak, Instructor Zhou gave her a timely reminder, which drew a meaningful glance from Director Xiao.

But Instructor Zhou didn't take it seriously and said, "Director, you should also know how chaotic it was at the beginning of the apocalypse. If Xu You was at school at that time, with so many zombies outside, how could you expect a woman like her to go to the school to find her? She simply couldn't do it, so how can you call it abandonment?"

After he finished speaking, he looked at Chen Ju, wanting her to continue his story or nod affirmatively.

However, to everyone's surprise, Chen Ju remained silent.

She felt incredibly flustered under Xu You's indifferent, unfamiliar, and distant gaze, and couldn't utter a single word of defense.

Because Zhou Ziang, who is two years younger than Xu You, also went to school that day, but she went to the kindergarten with Zhou Huai'an, who went out and then came back, and rescued him.

Zhou Huai'an was a bold man; unlike others who were completely disoriented, he dared to fight zombies from the very beginning. He was the one who defeated several zombie teachers at Zhou Zi'ang's kindergarten.

But after saving Zhou Ziang, she didn't have the courage to ask Zhou Huai'an to help her save Youyou at the elementary school.

She was afraid that Zhou Huai'an would refuse, and she was also afraid that if he agreed, they would encounter danger again, and then what would happen to their family?
I was so conflicted that I agonized over it for several days.

If she doesn't speak up herself, Zhou Huai'an, as her stepfather, will certainly not take the initiative to handle the matter, after all, Youyou is not his daughter.

So the family of three tacitly avoided mentioning Youyou at home, until Xu Bo came to their door to ask for his daughter back.
Chen Ju thought of how she had been so scared that she was trembling all over before going to the kindergarten to find Zhou Ziang, and then she thought of the vicious kick he had given her when she was pregnant eight years ago.

It's retribution, isn't it?

Chen Ju lowered her head, covered her face, and wept uncontrollably, her whole body trembling.

Xu You simply watched, her heart as calm as her face, without the slightest ripple.

Time is a wonderful thing. Now, when she thinks back to those people and events from eleven years ago, it feels so distant and unreal, as if she had never experienced them herself.

Finally, Jiang Qi confessed to Director Xiao that the reason he and Lin Zhe took action was because Zhou Huai'an claimed to be Xu You's father, and that the couple had even considered keeping Xu You.

Isn't this tantamount to insulting Uncle Xu and plotting to murder Xu You?

Zeng Tong, standing nearby, said angrily, "It's outrageous! I wasn't there at the time, but if I had, I definitely would have attacked too. Xu You was invited from Pengcheng, so we should send her back safely after her studies are over. Who is Zhou Huai'an? What gives him the right to decide to keep her here? Who gave him that authority? The Zhou family? I'm definitely going to ask my dad tonight, has the Zhou family's influence grown this far? They can even interfere with our military academy now?"

These words made Teacher Zhou's eyelids twitch. This was originally just a family matter between Zhou Huai'an and Chen Ju, but now, thanks to the little tyrant of the Zeng family, it has immediately risen to the level of the entire family.

How can this be done?
This has nothing to do with the Zhou family.

Before he could even speak in his defense, Director Xiao glared at Zeng Tong and said, "Alright, stop causing trouble. Let's leave it at that. Instructor Zhou, take your cousin home later, and I'll pretend they were never at our school today. What do you think?"

In other words, he got beaten up for nothing.

But Teacher Zhou had no choice but to agree, because Director Xiao's words were clearly a warning to him to stop while he was ahead and not to hold on any longer. Otherwise, if Zeng Xi got involved, not only would he be punished, but the Zhou family would also be in trouble.

Even though Zhou Huai'an was the one who got beaten, he was indeed in the wrong.

Teacher Zhou glanced at Chen Ju, who was no longer covering her face and sobbing, but was still keeping her head down and remaining silent.

He was furious inside, but he had no choice but to agree.

Afterwards, he took Chen Ju out of Director Xiao's office, then went to the school clinic with a dark face to pick up Zhou Huai'an, dropped him off at home, and left.

He didn't say a word the whole time.

On the other side, Director Xiao gave Jiang Qi and Lin Zhe a few words of verbal instruction, and then reminded them that Zhou Huai'an had suffered a great loss this time and was very likely not to let it go, but he dared not do anything openly.

Therefore, unless the school has a mission requiring a collective deployment, it is best to stay at school and not go anywhere else during this period.

Jiang Qi and Lin Zhe both agreed, and their attitudes were incredibly good.

Anyway, I've already vented my anger. If Zhou Huai'an wants to retaliate in secret, that's fine too.

As for his son Zhou Ziang, he has already asked Zhu Shen to help him find out where he lives.

We'll deal with him after this period passes. After leaving Director Xiao's office, Xu You didn't want to go back to her dorm for the time being, so Lin Zhe accompanied her for a walk on campus.

Watching the two walk away, Jiang Qi turned to look at Song Xiaoxiao, only to find that the brat rolled her eyes at him and snorted before quickly leaving with Yueyue's arm in hers.

Jiang Qi couldn't help but click his tongue. This brat really has no sense of romance.

He once asked his father when he started pursuing his mother. His father said that he fell in love with his mother the first time he saw her when she was a freshman in high school, back when he was a sophomore.

However, due to family reasons (heard that his father's biological mother made a scene at the school to make him drop out of school and work to earn money, which made him feel very ashamed), he once felt very inferior and felt that he was not good enough for his mother, not even worthy of thinking about her.

Even so, he still staged several chance encounters during his senior year of high school, just so his mother could see him.

Later, after passing the college entrance examination and being admitted to a military academy, he secretly slipped a letter into his mother's schoolbag.

Jiang Qi was eager to know what was written in the letter, mainly because he found it hard to believe that his burly father would write a love letter.
At the time, his father glared at him and said that when he was in school, he was always the top student in his grade, and his grades were so good that the school even waived his tuition.

He wasn't exaggerating about this, because his second grandfather, a physics teacher, could vouch for it.

My second grandfather also said that because my father excelled in science subjects, he had once suggested that he apply to a university of science and technology, but due to family reasons, he chose military academy as his first choice.

Going back to my parents' story, during my father's second year of leave after graduating from military academy, he went to Suzhou for tourism—actually, he found out that my mother was in Suzhou, so he went there specifically to find her and waited for her on her way home from get off work several times.

The mother said with a smile that she recognized the father the first time she saw him, but she pretended not to know him and wanted to see how long he could keep up the act before taking the initiative to talk to her.

Sure enough, on the third day of his father's feigned pitifulness, when his mother calmly walked past him as if she didn't recognize him, he finally couldn't keep up the act anymore.

He stopped her and asked pitifully, "Bai Li, you...don't you remember me? I'm Jiang Minglang!"

Mom said that Dad's opening remarks when they met again after four years were incredibly corny.

However, considering that he was relatively trustworthy and actually came to find her at the five-year agreement, she forgave him.

She said that she had always remembered the promise her father made to her in his letter, and she had high expectations for this boy who had been abandoned by his family but never gave up on himself.

My mother is a practical person at heart. Even in the prime of her youth, she didn't want any unforgettable romance.

She saw the longing in her father's eyes. She didn't want him to wander around like an unwanted puppy, so she took him back to her rented room.

Five years after they separated in their second year of high school, in the year she had just graduated and started working, the two reunited in just half an hour and then confirmed their relationship.

After a year of dating with little time together, they got married.

And then, very soon, he came along.

With this speed, who can match it?
Therefore, Jiang Minglang now looks down on his son's dawdling. Look at Lin Zhe, who knew how to treat Youyou well from the age of nine. After spending ten years together, their relationship naturally became established.

Not to mention himself, he created the conditions even when they weren't there, giving himself and the other person five years to work hard and finally win the heart of the girl in his heart.

But what did he do?

Even though you're so close to the water, you don't know to take the initiative. You like someone but don't know to confess directly. What are you trying to do by just leaving it like this?

No prospects!
Jiang Qi wiped his face helplessly, thinking to himself, "Am I really so useless?"

It's clearly that brat who doesn't understand romance, isn't it?

Countless times he openly told her, "I need to talk to you. Come out. It'll just be the two of us, no one else."

But she wouldn't listen; she'd either pull Yueyue along, or Youyou along, or both of them. In Yunxi Village, she'd even pull Jiang Xiaobai along.

It's as if she can't be with him without him by pulling someone along.

She's not as cute as she was when she was little.

Of course, you can't say that; saying it would make things even worse.

Jiang Qi sensed that the girl seemed to be running away.

She was not unaware of her feelings for him, and she took it for granted that she would order him around. The two of them also had a tacit understanding when doing things.

Even though everything was so obvious, the two of them could naturally develop into lovers like Lin Zhe and Xu You. You know, Lin Zhe never confessed when they were together. They relied on their daily interactions and maintenance to hold hands, hug, and kiss. Well, whether they actually did that last one is unknown, but they never kissed in front of him.

However, we did all the other intimate things we were supposed to do, and we always managed to give him a good look.

It's so annoying just thinking about it.

But Song Xiaoxiao, that brat, just kept avoiding him and wouldn't let him hold her hand. In Jiang Qi's mind, the first step for the two of them to become lovers was holding hands.

He had once held Yueyue and Youyou's hands, but that was when they were little. Since they were thirteen, they had never had such close contact with each other again.

There was only one person he wanted to contact.

After a difficult afternoon, on the way back to the dormitory after dinner, Jiang Qi quietly approached Song Xiaoxiao and then reached out and tugged at her arm.

Song Xiaoxiao turned her head and looked over, her beautiful eyes filled with questions, indicating that he should say what he had to say and spit it out.

Jiang Qi sighed inwardly, then grabbed her wrist and said to Yueyue, who was standing next to her and looking over, "You guys come back first. I'll take Song Xiaoxiao to buy some things. Hmm, let her help me pick some out."

Yueyue raised an eyebrow, a half-smile on her face, and said, "What do you want to buy? I can help you pick one out."

Song Xiaoxiao nodded vigorously, "Yes, Sister Yue has a good eye. You can ask her to help you choose what you want to buy. I can't do that, I have trouble making decisions."

Do you also have trouble making choices with me?
Jiang Qi glanced down at her, tightened his grip on her wrist slightly, and said, "No need, you're enough. Bao Shuyue, your period is coming soon, right? Go back to your dorm and rest, I don't need you here."

Without saying another word, he grabbed Song Xiaoxiao and left, choosing a different path from the main group.

Bao Shuyue laughed angrily as she watched the two leave. That bastard, he always uses this trick to get rid of them. Who's about to get their period? My period just ended.

good night!