nycdaug Chapter 148 A Negative Neighbor
Chapter 148 A Negative Neighbor
Shu Yun glanced at him sideways and laughed, "I knew you couldn't hold it in from the start, but I really don't know the senior Qin she mentioned. I have no recollection of him at all. Maybe he was someone who pursued me before?"
And it's highly likely that he's someone Ding Hongmei secretly admires, which is why he's so hostile towards her.
"But then again, there was a group project before, and there was a guy in our group named Qin who confessed his feelings to me. I rejected him right away. Maybe Ding Hongmei was talking about that guy."
Gu Jun said sourly, "Your suitor, Senior Qin."
Shu Yun pinched him, "You're being sarcastic."
She cupped her face in her hands and sighed, "Back in school, I had so many suitors that they could circle the entire school. If you were really jealous, you could be jealous for a whole year."
Gu Jun stubbornly insisted, "I'm not jealous."
Shu Yun glanced at him, clearly disbelieving.
Gu Jun smiled and said, "Alright, that's true to some extent, but I'm mostly grateful that I was able to seize the opportunity to marry you and become your husband. It's my blessing."
Shu Yun snorted. She wondered when Gu Jun had become so sweet-talking. She really wanted to show Wang Xiuwen what her supposedly tongue-tied son was saying.
When Shu Yun got home, she heard Gou Dan howling like a banshee next door. What was going on now?
She opened the courtyard gate and saw Gou Dan squatting at the entrance, his little face still wet with tears, looking extremely pitiful. "What happened?"
Gou Dan shook his head, looked at Gu Jun, and pouted as if about to howl again, but Tian Xiufen quickly pinched his mouth shut. Gou Dan: "Waaah!"
Tian Xiufen: "Don't mind him, he's just a kid throwing a tantrum, he'll be fine in a bit."
Shu Yun nodded, noticing that Gou Dan's eyes were fixed on Gu Jun, looking rather resentful.
Shu Yun asked, "Did you upset the child?"
"What?" Gu Jun shrugged. Ever since his smile scared people last time, he rarely saw children when he went out.
However, Shu Yun soon learned about Gou Dan's situation when Tian Xiufen came over for a casual chat.
It turns out it's still related to the copper mine behind the mountain.
The back mountain is close to the family compound. Recently, the military has imposed martial law on the back mountain, and large numbers of people are going in and out of the back mountain. Large machinery and equipment are also being transported in. Soon, everyone in the family compound knew that a copper mine had been discovered on the back mountain, which was accidentally discovered by Regiment Commander Gu when he went up the mountain.
They even discovered several boxes of gold that had been hidden by bandits in the copper mine, which was hard for Gou Dan, who had been determined to find the treasure left by the bandits and wanted to make a name for himself, to accept.
Already heartbroken, Tian Xiufen didn't notice her son's thoughts. When he returned, she said, "Don't go digging in the mountains anymore. You've been digging for half a month and haven't found anything. Uncle Gu has already discovered the copper mine."
Dog Egg, who was already holding back his emotions, burst into tears upon hearing his mother's words.
After hearing this, Shu Yun said, "Is that so?" She said that Gou Dan's gaze towards Gu Jun was strange at the time, as if he were looking at a heartless man with resentment.
Human joys and sorrows are not shared. Tian Xiufen showed no empathy for Gou Dan's grief; instead, she gloated, a smile on her face. "Gou Dan said the place where they dug the pit wasn't far from where your Xiao Gu discovered the copper mine. As long as they dug again..."
"We could have dug the right spot in a month or two, but then Xiao Gu interfered. Now our Gou Dan's glorious dream is ruined!"
As Tian Xiufen got carried away with her story, she didn't notice that her son, Gou Dan, was standing by the door in a daze, having heard everything his mother said. Instantly, tears welled up in his eyes. "Waaah, Mom, I hate you."
He ran outside crying, like a little calf.
"Hey, be careful."
Gou Dan rushed straight into the arms of the worker carrying furniture. The worker stood firm and was unharmed, but Gou Dan was knocked off balance and fell to the ground with a thud.
Tian Xiufen quickly helped the man up. "I've told you so many times, watch where you're going. Excuse me, are you alright, comrade?"
The worker waved his hand, "It's alright, just be more careful next time."
As he spoke, he carried the wardrobe into the house next to Shu Yun's. Tian Xiufen glanced around, and Gou Dan, who was being led by the hand, twisted his hand away and ran away.
Shu Yun stepped forward, "Is Gou Dan alright?"
Tian Xiufen didn't take it seriously. "That's just his temper, like his father's. But his temper is short-lived. You just wait, he'll be back by dinner time tonight."
The two then talked about their neighbor's house, saying, "They've been renovating inside and out for almost half a month now. They're really meticulous."
Shu Yun: "Does your sister-in-law know whose family is moving in?"
Tian Xiufen, who was well-informed, said, "It's Yang Fan, who was recently transferred here. He's the wife of Battalion Commander Yang. I heard that his wife is a college graduate and has strong family connections. His father-in-law must have put in a lot of effort to get Yang Fan promoted and transferred here."
Shu Yun's heart skipped a beat. Could it be such a coincidence? One bad neighbor just left, and another one immediately appears?
Hoping for the best, she asked, "What's his wife's name?"
Tian Xiufen: "Ding, Ding Hong something, I don't remember."
*Thud*, Shu Yun's heart sank completely. It must be Ding Hongmei. What a mess.
The commotion next door had finally subsided after several days. Shu Yun heard a knock at the door, and it was her new neighbor, Ding Hongmei. "I never expected we would be so destined to be together. We were classmates before, and now we're neighbors."
"Stop," Shu Yun interrupted. "We weren't even that close as classmates, so don't pull this stunt. Back in freshman year, I got high grades on my major final exams, and you spread rumors that I cheated because my parents were teachers. I'd be grateful if you didn't become a bad neighbor."
Ding Hongmei said aggrievedly, "Why are you so petty? I apologized to you in front of the whole class, and I don't mind anymore. Why are you still holding a grudge?"
Shu Yun found it even more amusing. "What do you care about? It was your fault to begin with. Do you think a simple 'forgive me' can erase everything? Otherwise, all the prisoners in jail could be released."
Ding Hongmei: "I sincerely want to repair our relationship. Can you please not be so sharp and harsh? It's fate that we met here, and we're classmates, so we should help each other."
Shu Yun felt a bit nauseous from morning sickness. "Ugh. What you said makes me sick. We're not meant to be. You should go find your senior Qin. He's more compatible with you."
After Shu Yun finished speaking, she slammed the door shut, then let out a breath and patted her belly. "Baby, be good, forget about Auntie from earlier. We should look at more pretty people so that we can grow up to be cute. Come on, look at Mommy more."
As Shu Yun spoke, she took out a small mirror from her pocket, looked at her pretty face reflected in it, and thought, "Hmm, I'm still the most pleasing to the eye!"
Ever since she heard that pregnant women should look at beautiful people so that their babies will resemble those people, Shu Yun, clinging to the idea that "what if," began to look at her own pretty face in a small mirror every day.