Rebirth in the 80s: The Scholar Wife is Cute
Chapter 524 The Country Bumpkin

Chapter 524: Chapter 524 The Country Bumpkin

But at this moment, vanity got the best of her, and she didn’t want to admit in front of everyone that she had never used soap. She sighed deeply and complained in frustration.

"We’re almost out of soap at home, and I was planning to buy a new bar at school, but I forgot once I got there and now I can’t go out, so I’ll have to wait until Sunday to get some."

Tian Caiyan didn’t doubt her words and took out a new, yet-unused bar of soap from her washbasin and handed it to her, "Use mine for now! Without soap, you can’t wash off the sweat stains, and you’ll smell awful. What kind of girl doesn’t use soap?"

The other girls in the dormitory turned red upon hearing this. They were rural students, and the fact that their families could afford to send them to school was already quite remarkable. How could they have money to buy all those miscellaneous things?

This soap, they had only seen on television; they had never actually used it. They heard that buying a bar of soap was more expensive than eating a meal with meat—who would be willing to buy it!

They had always been envious of Tian Caiyan’s well-off family, but now that she spoke with such a disdainful tone, it was clear she looked down on them, and the girls inevitably started to dislike her.

Unseen to them, the dormitory had already split into two factions.

"Thank you, I’ll just use yours for now, and I’ll go buy a new one on Sunday," Zhou Siyu suppressed the excitement in her heart, took Tian Caiyan’s soap, and headed to the shower room.

Zhao Xinlan made the excuse of needing the toilet to follow her out. She glanced back to see no one else coming from the dormitory, then whispered to Zhou Siyu, "Siyu, take out the soap Tian Caiyan gave you so I can have a look. I’ve never seen real soap before, I don’t know if it’s fragrant or not."

Zhou Siyu wasn’t stingy with things that weren’t hers, so she took the soap out of the basin and handed it over, "Don’t drop it on the floor and break it; this is Tian Caiyan’s and we need to give it back to her later."

"I know, I just want to look at it."

Zhao Xinlan excitedly opened the paper box, and a fragrance immediately wafted out; her eyes lit up as she brought it to her nose and sniffed, "It smells so good! Siyu, this stuff is really fragrant, smell it."

Zhou Siyu was excited too, but she acted very nonchalant, as if it was something she used regularly. She curled her lip mockingly, "Don’t act like a country bumpkin; isn’t it just a bar of soap? I’ll ask my aunt for money to buy my own next week."

After a brief period of getting to know her, she had realized that Tian Caiyan, while wealthy, was not stingy. If she hung around her long enough, taking advantage of small benefits was easy.

However, this was only the case for people with relatively good family conditions. Tian Caiyan was somewhat prejudiced, hardly giving the time of day to those from poorer backgrounds, not bothering to socialize with them.

If one wanted to hang out with Tian Caiyan, one had to present themselves better.

She and Zhao Xinlan were in the same boat; if one prospered, both would prosper, and if one were disgraced, both would be disgraced. If Zhao Xinlan continued this way, it would be easy to slip up.

"Didn’t Shen Mianmian steal all the money from your home? Where would your aunt get the money to give you?" The fact that Shen Mianmian had stolen money and run away had long been spread by Zhou Lanfang and Zhou Siyu, to the extent that everyone knew. Zhou Siyu had even boasted in front of her that when the money was recovered, she’d buy a lot of new clothes, and that she’d have whatever she wanted; yet Shen Mianmian had vanished as if off the face of the earth.

Speaking of Shen Mianmian made Zhou Siyu’s face darken, "My aunt has quite a bit of pin money. The money my sister stole, who knows where it came from, wasn’t earned by my uncle."