Zhen Yu went over recent events around her in her mind and felt that there was nothing that warranted such a serious and grand approach from her mother!
Confused, she decided to listen to what her mother had to say first! Zhen Yu took a polite kneeling pose, respectfully waiting for her mother to speak.
"Xiao Yu, has your school recently caught a pervert?"
Oh, it’s about that! Zhen Yu suddenly smiled in realization, "Yes."
"Why didn’t you tell about it when you ca ho?" Mrs. Zhen said, lightly patting her daughter’s arm.
Zhen Yu wore an innocent expression.
"What does it have to do with ? Why bother ntioning it?"
After hearing this, Mrs. Zhen suddenly made an expression akin to constipation, hesitated for a long while, and then tentatively asked, "Xiao Yu, do you still rember what happened when you were five or six years old?"
Zhen Yu didn’t quite understand her mother’s aning at first and responded casually: "I shouldn’t rember sothing that happened so long ago. Just tell what it is!"
Mrs. Zhen cleared her throat before beginning to explain the situation.
"In the earlier years, your grandpa and them were still in touch with your aunt’s family. You weren’t even in elentary school yet! I rember it very clearly. But it was close, you were going to start school in September, and in July, I took you and your brother to visit your aunt’s family with your grandma and grandpa! Your aunt’s youngest son was already in middle school that year. I don’t rember exactly which grade, but he was attending Siying School for sure."
"Your aunt on your grandpa’s side, she’s a really close relative! I thought since you and your brother never caused trouble with stuff, especially when visiting others’ hos, you never touched other people’s belonging. So, I didn’t keep too close an eye on you and let you go play! I stayed in the living room chatting with the elders. At first, I didn’t pay much attention to where you and your brother went, but after seeing your brother co in and out several tis under my watch without a glimpse of you, I got up to look for you. That’s when I found out your aunt’s youngest son was no good at all! He..."
There was no need for Mrs. Zhen to continue; Zhen Yu softly interrupted her, "Mom, I rember now."
In fact, as soon as her mother had brought up ’the youngest son,’ Zhen Yu had her suspicions. As Mrs. Zhen’s narration reached halfway, Zhen Yu had completely recalled the whole incident.
Mrs. Zhen was referring to the incident when she was ’examined’ as a child.
But why bring up this incident now? Could it be... that things were really such a coincidence?
"Mom, the pervert the school caught, could it be that cheap uncle from back then?" Zhen Yu took a guess and casually asked.
"That’s exactly who it is!" Mrs. Zhen clapped her hands together, sowhat vindictively adding, "Back then he tricked you into taking off your clothes, thinking you were young and ignorant! If I hadn’t arrived in ti, who knows what chaos could have ensued! I was so angry I wanted to slap him then and there, but your grandma stopped , saying that making a scene would harm your reputation, so I held back my anger!"
"He was a molester in junior high, no surprise if he didn’t turn out well when he grew up! I heard after he graduated from middle school he just loafed around at ho, always skulking around trying to take advantage of other familes’ daughters and wives, and his reputation stank up the whole street! Now that he’s been arrested, who knows how many people are clapping at ho in relief!" Mrs. Zhen finally vented the resentnt that had been pent up for many years and shared her heartfelt words with her daughter, her eyebrows finally relaxing.
Zhen Yu: "..."
How despicable does one have to be to beco so universally hated?
Upon further reflection, soone who could sink so low as to indulge voyeuristically in a cesspool indeed had their desires ’smoked’ by lust!
But the ’color’ (lust) on top of this character is not a pleasurable experience once you’ve indulged and ended up behind bars...
Seeing her mother at ease, Zhen Yu urged, "Mom, let’s not worry about his business anymore! Let’s cook, I’m hungry."
"Okay! Let’s cook!" Mrs. Zhen pulled her daughter toward the kitchen, muttering as they walked, "As soon as I heard he got caught, I was so happy inside! But I couldn’t show it outwardly, considering the little family connection we have, and there are no few who know of us! Now it’s just the two of us left in this family, I really need to talk to you! You see, you can know soone’s face but not their heart, even real relatives can do such harm. Who knows what other terrible things he’s done outside? And there are many n like him out there! You haven’t forgotten what mom has taught you since you were little..."
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"Girls must be reserved! You must learn to protect yourself!" Zhen Yu was bombarded repeatedly with her mother’s reminders, continuing all the way until dinner ended, after which she could finally retreat to her room.
She opened the system to check, and currently, she had 88 ability points, not far from her goal of a hundred, which she should reach by New Year’s.
From early September to the end of October, she spent every weekend bustling about at Shoe City. These 88 points she had accumulated from her dedication to school and extra efforts after November.
The ’Study Table’ was a thod Zhen Yu had co up with to supervise several academically weak students, as she had once heard in her previous life that ’it takes 42 days to form a habit’. Whether that phrase was true or false, she believed the spirit of persistence was undoubtedly correct. Thus, Zhen Yu led the group to study for the entire sumr break, utilizing nearly three months.
If this didn’t help them form good study habits, then there was nothing more she could do.
At least Zhen Yu believed she had done all she could in good conscience.
She couldn’t pour all her ti into others; she wasn’t reborn to make the wedding dress for soone else!
Zhen Yu was always very clear about what she wanted, what she should do, and she would not confuse her priorities.
So, even though Zhen Yu stopped going to Shoe City from November and didn’t gather anyone to study at the Zhen Family ho, she maintained the habit of doing howork together from Monday to Friday.
On the weekends, when she was alone at ho, she would lock the door, read books, and solve problems at ho.
Yet within this tranquility, there were disharmonious elents.
First, there was Han Mingyue, who would occasionally visit but sit silently all day, and then there was Fu Yu, who would holler and shout, refusing to leave when Zhen Yu didn’t open the door, even trying to jump over the wall into the Zhen Family’s yard.
Sotis, when Zhen Yu lay awake unable to sleep, her thoughts would wander, wondering if this year she is fated to attract romance, or if it was just a bad year! Everything seed fine in October; all the calamity started on that weekend in early November.
Zhen Yu had been running back and forth between the school and Shoe City for over a month, turning the wheel non-stop, and she really just wanted to rest alone and quietly at ho for two days!
Therefore, when Han Mingyue ca over, she simply said through the closed gate, "I’m a bit tired, if it’s nothing important I won’t invite you in today, we can talk so other ti if you have sothing to discuss."
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