1979: My fiancée is a goddess

Chapter 17 Debt

When I got home, it was already dark.

Cheng Kaiyan pushed her bicycle into the yard. The yard was brightly lit. Lights were on in every household, and some people were drawing water from the well in the yard to wash clothes.

As soon as you enter the room, there is an "iron pot" in the middle, with red charcoal burning inside.

My mother and Aunt Wang Qiang were sitting around the fire and chatting. I don’t know where this custom came from, but it made the house quite warm.

Seeing Cheng Kaiyan coming back, Aunt Wang Qiang left.
The mother and son chatted behind closed doors.

"Where have you been, you little brat! You didn't even leave a note when you went out, and made me so worried!"

When Xu Yuxiu saw Cheng Kaiyan, her eyebrows immediately raised.

She seemed a little angry that he came back so late.

"I'm already this old, do you still treat me like a child?"

As Cheng Kaiyan spoke, she pushed the bicycle against the wall.

"Mom, have you eaten? I brought you some food."

Seeing his mother Xu Yuxiu glaring at him, he quickly showed his hospitality and took out an aluminum lunch box from the arms of his military coat.

Seeing this, Xu Yuxiu said sarcastically, "Aren't we waiting for you, Young Master Niu, to come back? How dare I eat?"

"Hi... Aunt Jiang Ting came by and said she was moving. I went over to help her out. Aunt Jiang saw that I had done some hard work and took me to a restaurant."

Cheng Kaiyan explained with a smile, then leaned the car against the wall.

"So that's it."

Xu Yuxiu nodded in understanding. Jiang Ting had said this last time.

Seeing the bicycle again, he asked, "Is this one hers too?"

"It also belongs to Aunt Jiang. I will return it to her in a few days. I will go get you a pair of chopsticks. Look, this is the best braised pork and braised beef in soy sauce. I left it especially for you."

Cheng Kaiyan touched the lunch box, which he had been holding in his arms all the way. Although the weather outside was cold and the temperature was low, it still felt warm to the touch. He then diligently opened the lunch box and handed it to Xu Yuxiu to see.

"Virtue~"

Xu Yuxiu cursed with a smile. She had been waiting since she got off work and was now hungry.

Cheng Kaiyan went to the kitchen to get her a pair of chopsticks, and then she ate slowly and methodically, with the manners of a lady from a scholarly family.

Seeing her mother enjoying her meal, Cheng Kaiyan couldn't help but think of what she saw this afternoon, and asked curiously, "Mom, who do you think Aunt Jiang is? When I went to help her move this afternoon, a security guard came, wow! He was driving a jeep!"

"Background? Not much, just married a man of good family background."

Xu Yuxiu smiled, swallowed the food in her mouth and then spoke.

Of good origin?

"How red?"

"The elders in that family climbed snow-capped mountains and crossed grasslands... What do you think? It's better for you to know less. You just need to be filial and treat your aunt Jiang Ting the same way you treat your mother-in-law in the future."

Xu Yuxiu glanced with her almond-shaped eyes and said slowly.

So awesome?
Cheng Kaiyan's mind focused and he didn't ask any more questions.

He thought of himself as a little Camilla who just wanted to make some money and live a good life with a wife and children.

After dinner, Cheng Kaiyan returned to her room and sat at her desk again, recalling her memories of educated youth literature from her previous life.

There are quite a few famous works of educated youth literature.

The "scar" novels about educated youth from the late 70s to the early 80s describe the painful journey and are characterized by bloody and tearful accusations. Major works include Ye Xin's "Wasted Years", Zhu Lin's "The Road of Life", and Li Ping's "When the Sunset Disappears".

Ye Xin?

When mentioning him, Cheng Kaiyan couldn't help but think of a very famous TV series - "The Debt of Sin". The play was first broadcast on Shanghai TV on January 1995, 1, setting a record of 9% of the ratings. After the show was broadcast, it won the third prize of the 42.62 "Flying Apsaras Award" and the "Five Ones" Project Award.

In 2008, when Cheng Kaiyan was still in junior high school, he watched a few episodes with the aunt who collected money at the school canteen.

In that year, the drama was rebroadcast after thirteen years and still won the first place in ratings and the first place in annual ratings, which shows how classic it is.

The play tells the story of a group of children of educated youth who returned to their hometowns from the distant southern Xinjiang to Shanghai to find their relatives. When the educated youth left the frontier, they left behind their youthful feelings and the fruit of their love - their children.

Later, the children grew up and some of them vaguely knew the secret of their birth. So the brave ones among them gathered together and secretly boarded the train to Shanghai without telling their adoptive parents, in order to find their biological parents.

After recalling the story, Cheng Kaiyan decided to use it as the basis for his creation.

Well, he didn’t intend to plagiarize this novel, because just plagiarizing wouldn’t work.

Although he had foreshadowed the loss of his talent in his first novel, "In a Submarine at Night," saying that he once possessed talent, but his talent was too strong...but his flame was extinguished at the age of sixteen, and his so-called career was nothing more than a few wisps of smoke rising after the flame was extinguished.

But he also wanted to write something. He thought that although Nie Zhai was well written,...

There is inevitably some beautification in it.

If Cheng Kaiyan were to write it, he would be like a man with a sloppy puppy hairdo, describing the suffering to the extreme, peeling off the shiny skin on the surface to reveal the bloodiest and most real things inside.

After thinking it through, Cheng Kaiyan was not in a hurry to put pen to paper. She prepared some paper and pen and the documents she would need to go to Beijing Normal University to handle the formalities the next two days.

After finishing her tidying up, Cheng Kaiyan quickly washed up and fell into a deep sleep.

The next day.

Cheng Kaiyan rode her bike to the home of Shang Cui and her daughter and began a written interview.

Shang Cui started from the beginning of their acquaintance, talking about how they met, how they got together, the various reasons in between, the excitement of first meeting, the night they confirmed their relationship, and the happiness of getting married and having children...

What followed was the pain of separation, looking forward to letters, looking forward to seeing each other again, and in the end there was no news.

"Okay, the record is finished." Cheng Kaiyan stopped writing.

"Ok?"

Shang Cui stroked the hair beside her ears, her tone still a little dazed. For her, recalling the past was a kind of poison mixed with the name of happiness.

Cheng Kaiyan nodded and looked at the sun outside the window. It had only been less than two hours.

"Can you let me take a look?"

"of course can."

There seemed to be anticipation in Shang Cui's eyes. She wanted to see how the happiest time of her life would be described by the writer.

"In just over a thousand words, I wrote down the most brilliant and most worth-talking time in my life... Although it is not great or magnificent, it is only a little over a thousand words..."

A few minutes passed, and Shang Cui said with an inexplicably sad look on her face.

"Yes, one thousand words. But the next one will not be one thousand words. It will be one hundred thousand... two hundred thousand."

Cheng Kaiyan put away the manuscript and said with a smile.

After leaving, Cheng Kaiyan went to Jiang Ting's house with his ID.

Jiang Ting took him around the school and the Education Bureau, and finally completed the employment procedures before he officially took office.

At noon, standing in front of the statue in the library square of Beijing Normal University, Cheng Kaiyan looked at the photo of himself on the teaching assistant ID in his hand, showing himself in his prime and full of vigor.

He suddenly thought of a sentence:

I was 20 years old that year, in the golden age of my life, and I had many extravagant hopes.

I want to love, to eat, and to turn into a half-bright, half-dark cloud in the sky in an instant...

Chapter 16 was blocked. There was nothing much to write about it. It just talked about the return of educated youth to the city. The editor is not working on weekends. It will be released in a few days.

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