Chapter 5 Part 1 - Very Important Matter

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Names mentioned in this chapter (which can also be found in the glossary ):

-俞知乐( yú zhī lè )- Yu Zhi Le, the female protagonist.

-余子涣( yú zǐ huàn )- Yu Zi Huan, the male lead

-小余(xiǎo yú)- Xiao Yu

-王大爷(wáng dà yé)- Wang Da Ye, an elderly living in the same building as the female and male leads

-四中(sì zhòng)- Fourth Middle School, the name of the Middle School in the neighbourhood.

-谢成龙( xiè chéng lóng )- Xie Cheng Long, the ‘boss’ who was the leader of the group of boys that insulted the male lead.

-李姐( lǐ jiě)- Sister Li, a staff of the mini-mart/Yu Zhi Le’s colleague.

Yu Zhi Le quickly realised that Yu Zi Huan would accompany her to and back from work. When she had to work on the weekends, Yu Zi Huan would also help them. Without a doubt, Sister Li agreed happily with this. Besides, with them around, she basically could sit and crack melon seeds with her teeth.

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Yu Zhi Le saw that Yu Zi Huan had laboriously moved a box of drinks out of the warehouse. She hurriedly stepped forward to help him. At the same time, she asked worriedly, “Tomorrow is your final exams. Don’t you need to revise?”

Yu Zi Huan wiped the sweat on his forehead and shook his head calmly. “No, those questions are very simple.”

Yu Zhi Le knew that Yu Zi Huan usually could finish his homework very quickly, but she did not understand his abilities entirely. She was worried that he was exaggerating, but from the looks of it, it didn’t seem like he was bragging. She had no choice but to indirectly mention, “Beside the content in class, you can also read more extracurricular books to study.”

Why is a child doing child labor? There isn’t even any remuneration he could receive, quickly leave and study wouldn’t that be better?

However, Yu Zi Huan showed a hurt expression. He didn’t look at Yu Zhi Le, bent over and began to unpack. Then, he placed the drinks on the shelf. After stocking a row of drinks, he asked, “You think I’m in the way?”

Yu Zhi Le once again felt that Yu Zi Huan’s mentality was fragile, sensitive, and delicate. How did it come about that she dislikes him?

“Why do you think this way?”

“I’ve been following you around. So you find me annoying.”

Yu Zhi Le’s brain was running at full speed. With a flash of inspiration, she sighed heavily. She didn’t look at Yu Zi Huan and tried to make herself sound serious, “How can I find you annoying? Of course, I wished that someone could accompany me, but do you want to be a temporary supermarket staff all your life? If you don’t study hard, you will become like me in the future. You have to worry about losing your job everyday.”

Peh, she has studied hard for 16 years. But in the end, isn’t she still like this? However, she sacrificed herself to become a counterexample. Yu Da Ye, please give me some face and don’t make a fuss, go and study.

Yu Zi Huan didn’t remove the hand that was holding onto the shelf. Yu Zi Huan kept his back to her and said slowly and firmly, “I won’t be a temporary staff for a lifetime. Neither will you.”

That means that you are going to study hard and make progress day by day right?

Yu Zhi Le was very happy to see that he listened to her advice. She went to put the rest of the drinks back in the warehouse. When she came out, Yu Zi Huan had already sat on the small stool beside the cash register and was studying the English vocabularies. Even though the space was very small, his back was straight and his posture wasn’t comical because of the small stool. Instead, it made others think of the small and slim white poplar. Even though he was thin, he had the elegant demeanor of a young man.

Yu Zhi Le was gratified as she felt a sense of achievement in raising a son.

But the next day, Yu Zhi Le couldn’t smile anymore. In the afternoon, the mini-mart received a phone call from Fourth middle school asking if Yu Zi Huan’s parents were working in the mini-mart.

Sister Li, who answered the phone, understood that something happened to Yu Zi Huan in school. She passed Yu Zhi Le the phone and then stood by nervously listening to what the other party had to say.

The teacher on the phone said that Yu Zi Huan cheated in the final exam and asked his parents to come down to school immediately.

Although Yu Zhi Le didn’t want to believe it, her heart couldn’t help but drop.

“Xiao Huan doesn’t seem like a child who cheats. Xiao Yu don’t let others accuse him.” Sister Li was more anxious than Yu Zhi Le. She really liked Yu Zi Huan. She thought since he was good-looking and polite, he must be a good child. So she hurriedly urged Yu Zhi Le to head to school to deal with this matter.

When Yu Zhi Le saw Yu Zi Huan in the office, there were several students standing there, including XIe Cheng Long who was an acquaintance. Now she also believed what Sister Li had said about Yu Zi Huan being wronged. It would really be seeing a ghost if there was nothing fishy when Xie Cheng Long was also involved in this matter.

Yu Zi Huan’s form teacher was about 40 years old. She had on a pair of thin frame glasses. Her demeanor was very serious and strict. Yu Zhi Le subconsciously recalled the same type of teacher she met before, she unconsciously became tense.

“Are you Yu Zi Huan’s aunt?” The form teacher didn’t expect Yu Zi Huan’s guardian that he had spoken to was so young. There was contempt and distrust in her eyes.

“I’m his older sister.” Yu Zhi Le explained with a smile.

The form teacher knew more or less about Yu Zi Huan’s family situation. Hearing Yu Zhi Le’s words, she assumed Yu Zhi Le was Yu Zi Huan’s cousin and frowned, “Why doesn’t his aunt come here?”

“She is busy with her work, so…”

“It’s just because of these irresponsible parents that can cause a good child to go astray. School education is only an aid, and family education is the most important! Yu Zi Huan’s behaviour is totally unacceptable this time. He even openly sells answers in class! I know that he has good grades. He is always first place every year, but don’t think the school will cover this up because of that! No matter how good a student’s performance is, it’s useless!” The form teacher said agitatedly and her saliva spat all over Yu Zhi Le’s face.

Yu Zhi Le knew that she shouldn’t have conflicts with the form teacher who was grabbing onto Yu Zi Huan’s weakness. She held herself back, and couldn’t help but retort, “Our family’s Xiao Huan isn’t such a child. Do you have any evidence for him selling answers?”

“You still demand for evidence? So many students testified. Isn’t that enough to show that he sells test paper’s answers to students?” The form teacher pointed to the students who were being punished by standing in front of the window. Then, she threw the Math test paper that was taken in the afternoon in front of Yu Zhi Le. “Look, if it wasn’t for his answers, would everyone have the same answer? Isn’t this good. Everyone receives a high score. What’s the point of this final exam?”

Yu Zhi Le looked down at the classic test papers. In mathematics, if everyone was right, nothing could be said. But if they were all wrong in the same areas, it would be easy to reveal that the answers originated from one person.

This was the case with these papers. They all made the same mistakes in the middle of a big calculation problem, resulting in the wrong final answer. Yu Zhi Le flipped open Yu Zi Huan’s paper again, and found that he solved those questions correctly, “But Xiao Huan did it right, how can we say that everyone copied his answer?”