Traveling between the 70s and the modern world

Chapter 133 Losing the vest

Gu Yizhou thought he would have to beat around the bush with her, but Lin Qingyan asked directly without giving him a chance to delay speaking.

He sighed and said to Lin Qingyan without hesitation:

"To be honest, one of the people in the cowshed is my elder. I went to the countryside to work as an educated youth partly because of him."

Lin Qingyan was surprised by this. There was an elder of Gu Yizhou in the cowshed? Who was it? Gu Yizhou had been in the countryside for so long and had never heard of such rumors.

But if you think about people's current attitude towards the people in the cowshed, where they all stay away from them, it makes sense that Gu Yizhou must have secretly gone to take care of his relatives.

I don’t know which one of those people last night was his elder.

Gu Yizhou looked at Lin Qingyan without much expression, and said to her:

"And my teacher and his wife were also sent down here recently."

This sentence successfully attracted Lin Qingyan's attention, and she looked at him in surprise, "The couple who were sent here a few days ago?"

"you know?"

Gu Yizhou originally thought that she went to the cowshed last night just to deliver something out of kindness, but he didn't expect that she actually knew about it.

"I heard Wang Lanlan mention it. She said a few days ago that someone came to the cowshed."

“That’s them. They are my teachers.”

"Your teachers? I heard from Wang Lanlan that those two people are university professors. How could they be your teachers?"

Lin Qingyan grasped the problem and asked directly.

When Gu Yizhou heard her question, he thought something was wrong and just wanted to find an excuse to take her to the cowshed so that she wouldn't have to sneak out in the middle of the night. But he didn't expect that he would take off his vest.

Gu Yizhou hesitated. It was difficult to gain the trust of the person in front of him, so he decided to tell the truth.

So he briefly introduced Lin Qingyan: "The teacher is a good friend of my uncle. Since I was a child, I was naughty, so my uncle sent me to study with the teacher for a period of time."

"What about your uncle?" Lin Qingyan was super sensitive now, she felt that he might have found the key point.

"My uncle was also in the cowshed. It was because he was sent down here that my family used their connections to send me here as an educated youth so that I could take care of him more conveniently."

Lin Qingyan took a while to digest today's conversation. After a while, she asked Gu Yizhou:

"Do you only want cotton? Or anything else?"

"What have you got besides cotton?"

"Then what do you need?"

"I want cotton. Their quilts are no longer warm enough. It would be better if they have ready-made clothes. Fabric is also fine.

But they have people checking every day, so we can't wear new fabrics, but old ones are fine. I'll take all the other daily necessities if they're available." Gu Yizhou thought about it and listed a lot of things.

"Then wait a day or two. I have some cotton and I can give you some first."

Lin Qingyan didn't let him wait for a long time, nor did she say that the things would be available immediately.

In this era of material scarcity, if someone wanted something, she could get it immediately. If others knew about this, she would be in danger.

"Okay, I'll get the cotton from you later?" Gu Yizhou looked at the time.

"Wait until it's dark. I'll bring it here then and you can come and take it to them."

Lin Qingyan thought about it and decided to choose this location, which was not far from the educated youth site and could also avoid the eyes of that group of people.

"Okay!" Gu Yizhou wanted to say something when he heard someone shouting in the distance: "Qingyan, Qingyan, I'm back."

Qingyan turned around and smiled. It turned out that Ye Yi and Wang Lanla had returned.

After a while, the two of them arrived beside Lin Qingyan.

"Qingyan, why are you outside? It's so cold outside." Wang Lanlan asked directly.

After saying this, he seemed to have just seen Gu Yizhou. He looked at him expressionlessly, then reached out and pulled Lin Qingyan towards the educated youth point.

"Let's go back quickly. It's freezing outside. Let's talk slowly inside."

He took Lin Qingyan and walked towards the educated youth site. If someone was not familiar with her, they would think she was the one living here.

Ye Yi nodded and greeted Gu Yizhou, whose expression turned cold when he saw them coming, then turned around and chased the two people in front.

In the end, only Gu Yizhou was left grinding his teeth. He had finally found the time and excuses, and even his true colors were exposed. He didn't say much to Lin Qingyan. He was very angry.

Especially Wang Lanlan, she has no tact at all, not at all like her father, the village chief, who seems to have eight tricks.

No matter how angry he was, there was nothing he could do for the time being and he could only follow the educated youths back to the educated youth point and return to his own room.

On the other side, Lin Qingyan and the others,

Back to Lin Qingyan's house, Lin Qingyan's house was the first one she had repaired. The house she chose was a little far from other houses and a little remote.

Lin Qingyan can usually go in and out easily. When she talks in the house, as long as she doesn't speak too loudly and as long as she doesn't have such amazing hearing, her words generally won't be heard.

After they entered the house, Lin Qingyan poured a cup of hot water for each of them.

"It's still warm in the house. It's really cold outside. It looks like it will snow soon." Ye Yi took a sip of hot water and sighed with satisfaction.

"That's right. Even though the room is so warm, some people still can't figure it out and want to stand outside."

Wang Lanlan drank some water while glancing at Lin Qingyan.

Lin Qingyan smiled and ignored her topic, and asked them: "Did you go to the county town today?"

"Yes, yes!" Wang Lanlan immediately became excited when she heard this topic, and said to Lin Qingyan happily.

"We didn't go to the textile factory today, but went directly to the girl's home. We went there early in the morning, and the girl hadn't started work yet. We sold three cotton-padded jackets at her home."

Wang Lanlan introduced excitedly.

Lin Qingyan was quite surprised. What kind of family could buy three sets of cotton-padded jackets at once? So she asked:

"Is her family well off?"

"Her family is well off. Her mother works in a textile factory and is a leader. They bought three sets of houses, one for her and her mother, and another for her future sister-in-law." Ye Yi added.

"Yes, this family is nice, her mother is also very nice, she even bought clothes for her daughter-in-law who has not yet married. There are really few mothers-in-law like this, I also want a mother-in-law like this."

Wang Lanlan said with emotion when she spoke of this.

"Are you ashamed? You don't even have a partner, but you want a mother-in-law like this." Ye Yi asked her directly.

"Why should you be ashamed? What woman doesn't want to get married? You're going to get married anyway, so why not find a better mother-in-law?

A person who cares about his daughter-in-law who has not yet married into the family is not a bad person, and his life will be easier after they get married.

If you want to find a man who expects his daughter-in-law to work like a slave, that won't work. I can't stand the thought. When I look for a partner in the future, I must check what kind of person his mother is.

I would rather live alone for the rest of my life than find someone with an unreasonable mother." Wang Lanlan said, shaking her head.

Her words also touched Lin Qingyan and Ye Yi.

A harmonious family cannot be complete without a sensible mother-in-law.