After being reborn, my sister insisted on marrying me.

Chapter 313: Growing Pains

Wei Yi is a person.

You could say he grew up in a privileged environment.

When he was just born.

His biological parents are a nurse at the county's maternal and child health hospital and a civil servant father who works at the land bureau after being demobilized from the military.

In those days, these conditions were by no means bad.

Although his parents had an accident, he only endured six months of hardship before being adopted by the Chen family.

During that time, he was treated like a ball and pushed around.

He was so young that he has no memory of anything.

When he has his memories.

Beside him are his adoptive father, who treats him like his own son and cries secretly when he sees his face after drinking; his adoptive mother, who is fierce but reasonable and has no son; and his sister, who has cherished him since childhood.

Furthermore, Chen Xinyi is fierce, her adoptive mother is tough, and her adoptive father has a righteous stance.

In addition, he was good-looking and had been well-behaved and sweet-talking since childhood.

He would be welcomed among the elders of the Chen family.

Therefore, among the younger generation, they can do whatever they want.

Needless to say, it's even more so when they grow up.

The powerful Chen Xinyi could be said to have raised him like a son.

He developed a personality that, to put it nicely, is Buddhist-like, but to put it bluntly, is just inherently lazy.

After graduation, I took the civil service exam and ended up working in a neighborhood office in Beijing.

All day long, he deals with a bunch of trivial matters from local Beijingers or visiting elites.

He had never experienced the hardships and suffering of ordinary people.

You could even say you've never seen it with your own eyes.

For him, the People's Republic of China has been established for over fifty years.

Both are 2015.

Where is there any real poverty left?

Until this rare experience of truly going to the countryside for him.

It's still about the rural experiences of impoverished counties within Chongqing, a city that appears to be economically strong on the surface.

That's when he truly understood.

The country is too big, the people are too many, and suffering still exists.

This had a certain impact on him, who had grown up in a privileged environment.

Even after he came back, he couldn't stop thinking about it.

And in the blink of an eye...

It was already the end of August.

School will start in a few days.

Wei Yi was in the library of Renmin University.

He's been coming here to read books for the past few days because his values have been challenged.

But this kind of problem.

He felt that his sisters couldn't answer his questions.

I was too embarrassed to ask anyone else, so I just read books.

I'm still reading Marxist philosophy books and Mao Zedong's Selected Works.

Moreover, it wasn't just for one day.

After he returned from his rural assignment in Chongqing, he has been coming here to read books whenever he has free time.

I've been reading books from this series.

This day was August 25th.

He was engrossed in reading Mao Zedong's Selected Works.

Suddenly, a mocking voice rang out:

"Little monkey, you can actually read books? Even Sun Wukong can read books, that's really amazing."

Wei Yi looked up.

Gao Mingyuan.

The victim whose car he stole last time.

Unlike last time, Wei Yi didn't run away immediately.

Unlike the previous times I visited the National People's Congress, I didn't deliberately avoid the old man.

He smiled and gestured for Gao Mingyuan to sit down.

"Teacher Gao, come, come, have a seat."

Gao Mingyuan didn't stand on ceremony and plopped down opposite him, squinting as he looked him up and down.

"Tsk tsk, this... still reading Mao's Selected Works?" The old man flipped through the book in front of him. "Tsk, still Volume Six. Can you even understand it?"

"I don't quite understand it," Wei Yi said honestly, "so I'd like to ask you a few questions."

Gao Mingyuan chuckled: "You're asking me for advice? You, a history major, come to Renmin University to study Marxist philosophy and Mao Zedong Thought, and you're asking me, a law professor, for advice?"

"Professor Gao, please don't be modest."

Wei Yi laughed, "Even my father-in-law said that you've taught all your life and are one of the most outstanding teachers he's ever met. If I hadn't asked you, I would have been truly ignorant."

Gao Mingyuan was quite pleased with the flattery and nodded, "Although Li Daiyuan is despicable, he does have some insight."

"It's not Li Laodeng."

Wei Yi suddenly said.

Gao Mingyuan was stunned, puzzled. "Isn't Li Daiyuan your father-in-law? You just said your father-in-law said..."

"Li Laodeng is my father-in-law, but, Teacher Gao, I have more than just Dean Li as my father-in-law."

Gao Mingyuan: "..."

Depend on!

The old man thought to himself, "I almost forgot that this little rascal in front of me is a modern-day 'Marquis Changxin'."

Speaking of which...

Gao Mingyuan began to dislike the little rascal.

That bastard.

The relationships between men and women are too chaotic!

The old man suddenly became sarcastic, "Oh, more than one father-in-law? You even mentioned me as your father-in-law? Who is he? Do I even know him? Don't tell me he's just some Tom, Dick, or Harry!"

"..."

Wei Yi looked at Lao Lao Deng with some speechlessness, wondering why Lao Lao Deng had suddenly become sarcastic.

He simply gave his name.

The name is so catchy.

It's practically the same as incantation.

The sarcastic expression on Lao Lao Deng's face was instantly shattered.

Those old, dim eyes widened instantly.

"You, you..."

"Tell me, tell me..."

"Who...who did you just say?"

Wei Yi read the name aloud again.

The effect is outstanding!

"Hmm... Alright. Forget about that. Ask away."

The old man hissed as if he had a toothache, leaned back, and said, "But I'm telling you, I'm not answering any random questions."

Wei Yi thought for a moment and then spoke.

"Teacher Gao, I went to Yuqing a few days ago and spent a few days in the countryside. I saw some things that I still can't figure out."

Tell me about it.

"First, Marx said that the essence of man is the sum total of his social relations. So tell me, for a farmer in a poor county, is his essence the barren land or the era itself?"

Gao Mingyuan was stunned.

"Secondly," Wei Yi continued, "Mao Zedong said that without investigation, there is no right to speak. This trip of mine could barely be considered a few days of investigation. But I found that the more I saw, the less I dared to speak. Professor Gao, wouldn't this be another form of 'no right to speak'?"

This time, Gao Mingyuan was truly stunned.

He never expected that this mischievous little monkey would suddenly ask him such a question.

However, he is a true people's teacher.

Although the main subject taught is law, advanced legal research is essentially about politics and philosophy.

For Gao Mingyuan, Wei Yi's two questions were as simple as a first-grade student asking a university math teacher, "Why does one plus one equal two?"

Gao Mingyuan would be surprised.

He simply hadn't expected that this guy, with his chaotic love life, would ask such a question.

After all, after stealing the car, he already had other sources besides Li Daiyuan.

I now know that this young man, despite his youth, is already a big capitalist.

Gao Mingyuan was slightly surprised, but it was this young capitalist who suddenly asked such a Marxist question.

Before answering, Gao Mingyuan asked Wei Yi a question first:

"Tell me first, why do you think about these things?"

Wei Yi hesitated for a moment.

Then, he briefly recounted how he had personally witnessed the hardships of people's lives during his trip to Chongqing and Qingyuan to help farmers.

Some farmers work hard all year, but their income is not even equivalent to a city dweller's monthly salary.

Having children means crossing three mountains to get to school; their shoes have worn out several times, but they've been patched and still continue wearing them.

Some elderly people are so sick that they dare not go to the hospital because they are afraid of spending money.

Wei Yi spoke calmly.

But Gao Mingyuan could tell that something was weighing down beneath the calm.

Gao Mingyuan laughed after hearing this.

Then, instead of answering Wei Yi's question, he said:

"It seems I misjudged you. You... are actually still a good kid."

I will not answer your two questions now.

Wei Yi: "Huh?"

"You can think about it yourself, or you can ask others," Gao Mingyuan said. "When you find the answer, come and ask me again. I will answer you then."

Wei Yi: "..."

He was internally ranting and raving.

This old man.

Why don't you just answer the questions directly?

And what's with this whole "Bodhi Patriarch giving Sun Wukong pointers" thing?

However, Old Deng's interruption...

His sentimentality had been interrupted during this period.

He was just about to ask Old Deng.

Do you still ride that bicycle without brakes lately?

If you ride it.

He might continue stealing.

Then, we saw Li Daiyuan arrive at the library entrance.