Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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When Chi Yiming came back in the evening, Chi Yan was plucking a chicken in the yard.
Chicken feathers fell around him. Chi Yiming, carrying his schoolbag, asked in confusion: “Brother, why did you come back after school without waiting for me?”
Chi Yan was tired of the blood on his hands. He stared at the half-closed eyes of the dead rooster and said calmly: “Starting tomorrow, I won’t go to school. You go to school by yourself in the morning. I have other things to do.”
Chi Yiming’s expression gradually stiffened, and after a while his face turned red: “Why won’t you study? Mom said that only by studying hard will you have a good future!”
Chi Yan said nothing.
Chi Yiming’s eyes turned red, and he gritted his teeth and rushed into the main room: “Aunt! Aunt!”
Deng Yulian said: “Why are you shouting? It’s a soul!”
The little boy said in an angry voice: “Why don’t you let brother study? We all earned the tuition fees ourselves, why don’t you let him study?”
Even though he was young, he had a sharp mind. When he went out in the morning, Chi Yan, who had been busy for the entire holiday, had a relaxed light in his eyes. It was absolutely impossible for Chi Yan to drop out of school on his own. After so long, there was only one possibility – Deng Yulian wouldn’t let him study.
Deng Yulian pushed Chi Yiming and said, “What’s the matter, you want to kill your aunt because of that little bastard? Is it possible that I’d still be afraid of a brat like you? Do you think it’s easy to raise so many children?”
Chi Yiming staggered and gritted his teeth: “You let me study, I won’t study anymore! I’ll go make money, I’ll go make money!”
Deng Yulian was also angry. She picked up the feather duster and said, “You all have backbone, right? Then stop reading.”
Zhao Nan came back late and was watching the fun with great interest.
Chi Yan in the yard finally got up, put down the chicken he had just killed, and walked into the main room.
“Deng Yulian.” The young man said coldly.
Deng Yulian was stunned. Two years ago, eleven-year-old Chi Yan brought Chi Yiming to Zhao’s house. He followed Xiao Ming and called her aunt. This was the first time he called her name.
Deng Yulian was about to get angry, but the next moment she saw Chi Yan clearly and she stopped talking.
Chi Yan tilted his head, his hands covered with blood.
There was a cold light in his eyes.
Deng Yulian felt timid for the first time seeing his cold eyes. Even rabbits would bite when they were anxious, not to mention that this was not a rabbit.
He was very tall and had seemingly endless strength.
Deng Yulian took a step back: “I’m just talking. I don’t really want to let Chi Yiming stop studying. The tuition has been paid. It would be a waste if he didn’t go back.”
Chi Yan then glanced at Chi Yiming and said, “Chi Yiming, wipe your tears and come out.”
Chi Yiming followed him, lowering his head while crying.
Chi Yan picked up the boning knife and skillfully cut open the chicken breast. When he did all this, he was always calm, as if not being able to study was not a big deal.
Instead, it was Chi Yiming, who was gritting his teeth, with tears on his face.
“She is too much, too vicious…”
Chi Yan neither responded nor objected.
When the moon climbed up the sky, Chi Yiming whispered in Chi Yan’s ear: “Brother, let’s sue aunt. There is now nine years of compulsory education, if a family does not allow children to study, they will be arrested.”
Chi Yan snorted lightly and closed his eyes: “Sleep, don’t disturb me, I have to find a job tomorrow.”
Chi Yiming said: “Isn’t this method possible?”
Chi Yan said: “You can sue her for being in charge for half a year, but during that half year, she wouldn’t give you anything to eat. If we were both in school and no one made any money, we would starve to death together.” Chi Yan’s voice was calm and indifferent, “Even if you sued her for half a year, she could say she forgot to register and be released again. What about the second half of the year? What about next year? What about after the nine-year compulsory education is completed?”
When you are no longer in high school? Don’t want to go to college?
The September moon had become a waning moon.
Chi Yiming suddenly became quiet.
Life was like a ball of cotton soaked in water, suffocating his chest and making it increasingly difficult to breathe. He looked out the window at the moon and the watery night, and tears gradually filled his eyes.
Chi Yan said: “Chi Yiming, living is the most important thing.”
No matter what life looked like, no matter how hard it was, you must live.
Only those who survived could welcome the rising sun of tomorrow.
Jiang Sui only found out after school on Friday that Chi Yan had dropped out of school, and the news was widely circulated in the courtyard.
After all, the Zhao family was the only one in the compound who blatantly prevented their children from studying these days. Zhao Songshi felt like he was being pointed at when he walked on the road these days, but Deng Yulian felt no psychological burden.
Chen Caiqiong was chatting with several women.
Someone said: “Oh, the Zhao family is too crazy. They said they would not let their children study and then drove them to find a job. When my family Fang Du was this old, he was still fooling around all day long.”
Chen Caiqiong said unconcernedly: “It’s useless to let him study. That Chi Yan is not a Zhao. I would say that Deng Yulian did the right thing. There is no way that Chi Yan will support Deng Yulian and his wife in their old age.”
Jiang Sui, wearing light purple long-sleeved trousers, felt inexplicably angry when she heard these words.
There was a faint fire in her heart, and now it was getting stronger and stronger.
More than ten years later, Mr. Chi Yan has donated and sponsored many schools in impoverished mountainous areas. Even though this person was cold and disgusted with her, there was no doubt that he was a person worthy of respect.
Such a person should not have such a sad childhood.
But screw it! She could no longer remain indifferent and turn a blind eye.
After Jiang Shuisheng came home in the evening, Jiang Sui looked serious and said in a sweet voice, “Dad, I heard that Zhao family’s Chi Yan is no longer allowed to study.”
Jiang Shuisheng sighed: “That child has no parents, it’s quite hard.”
Jiang Sui nodded and complained: “Aunt Chen said that his surname is not Zhao, so it is useless for him to read, since he will not be filial.”
Jiang Shuisheng’s face suddenly turned ugly.
When he came back this evening, several people who saw him collecting medicinal materials teased him: “That Chen Caiqiong is interested in you. She gives you endless buns and takes care of your daughter. She is not married yet, and she has no children. If you two are married, wouldn’t your daughter have someone to take care of her? If she has no children, she will treat your daughter as her biological daughter.”
At that time Jiang Shuisheng felt so ashamed, but on the way back, he couldn’t help but think about it.
Sui Sui was getting older every year. Girls didn’t mind when they were young, but what if she got injured and had scars on her face when she grew up? And as a father, he often didn’t take good care of her. He had always felt guilty for not being able to give her a complete family. If Chen Caiqiong and her could really get along well, then… getting married again seemed to be a good idea.
But now that Sui Sui innocently repeated Chen Caiqiong’s words, the idea that had just sprouted in Jiang Shuisheng’s heart was instantly killed.
How could a woman who didn’t even have sympathy really be kind to other people’s children?
Jiang Sui breathed a sigh of relief. She was really afraid that her father would marry Chen Caiqiong in this life, and the family would be uneasy again.
Jiang Sui thought for a long time that night, what could she do for the respected Mr. Chi? But just as Jiang Shuisheng said, raising a child was not like raising a kitten or puppy. If he was not his relative, there would be too little that could be done for him.
It was almost dawn when Jiang Sui fell asleep.
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