Su Mian had in fact been inspired by the moment and this topic fit her situation aptly. Hence, her words were filled with real feelings. It was deeply appealing and resonated easily as Su Mian took advantage of her rebirth.
“Su Mian, did you really write this? You are the same age as us, how do you have so many ideas?”
“It’s written so well, so empathetic!”
“Su Mian, you really are impressive this semester!”
The students rushed to ask questions and standing at the podium after reading her essay, Su Mian did not know what to say!
Su Mian had surprised them so many times this month. From being ranked tenth from the bottom up in the class, she had accomplished this in just one month.
Wu Yu Mei also could not help but look at Su Mian with admiration. Su Mian had changed a lot in the last two semesters.
Su Mian who used to be timid and cowardly had now become mature and generous. Her performance across all subjects had greatly improved from being on the worse end, especially in physics where she had taken the first rank in the whole grade.
This was a good seed and it was possible that she could be admitted into a good university.
Looking at Su Mian, Wu Yu Mei liked her more and more.
She thought, how could such a good girl have seduced Li De Hua? Someone must have deliberately spread rumours to slander her!
With Li De Hua’s shameful moral conduct, he should have suffered judgement long ago to prevent further harm to the female students.
Wu Yu Mei had long found Li De Hua to be unpleasant and a rotten apple. However, he still had a slight connection to the education office and the school could not easily remove him without real evidence.
For someone to have broken his legs this time, the heavens were just.
In a blink of the eye, it was Sunday afternoon and Su Mian rode to her youngest aunt’s place. It took 20 minutes by car from her youngest aunt’s place to school. Su Mian got out of the car and bought some apples and oranges at the vegetable market. In the northeast of this era, these were the only fruits available during winter. Other than that, there were sugar canes and persimmon pastries.
After paying, Su Mian was about to leave when she saw a man walking with a woman in front. The woman was holding onto a child who was about three or four years old.
Su Mian’s heart sank. That man was her youngest uncle.
In her previous life, her youngest uncle had indeed found another woman and later divorced her youngest aunt.
It turned out that at this time, he was already getting with another woman. Moreover, that woman was holding onto a child and it was unknown if it was her youngest uncle’s.
Su Mian did not dare to follow them. It was already inconvenient for her as she was carrying a bunch of things. Watching the two of them lead the child out of the market, she then went in the opposite direction.
When Su Mian entered the house, her youngest aunt was cleaning the kitchen and her two younger cousins were doing homework on the heatable brick bed.
Seeing Su Mian enter, her youngest aunt hurriedly wiped her hands with her apron, “Xiao Mian, how do you have the time to come over? And you bought so many things!” Youngest aunt smiled and took the fruits, then pulled Su Mian to sit on the sofa.
Youngest aunt’s house had two bedrooms. The two parents stayed in one room and the children in the other. Since the house was old, the bright light from outside did not reach inside.
Su Mian turned on the lights, “Younger cousins’ eyes will go blind!”
There were no televisions or mobile phones and there were very few short-sighted people. People with myopia were ridiculed as “blind with open eyes”.
Of her two younger cousins, one looked like her youngest aunt and was pale with single eyelids. The other was like her youngest uncle, slightly darker skinned with double eyelids.
Su Mian took out the medicine she had prepared earlier and told her youngest aunt how to take it. Then she examined her youngest aunt’s body and saw that she was recovering well. She also told her to do as little physical work as possible for the next two months.
Hearing this, her youngest aunt took Su Mian to the inner room. When they got there, her eyes were red, “If I don’t work, who will? Your uncle cannot be depended on for any of the work at home. Every morning, he will leave after putting down his chopsticks and will be gone for most of the day. I don’t even know what he does. He is even more punctual than those who go to work.” Youngest aunt was aggrieved. She had not even told her two sisters this.
