Transmigration: On the Gossip Front
Chapter 485 - 486 Sister Flowers Educated Youth 3_1

Chapter 485: Chapter 486 Sister Flowers Educated Youth 3_1

"Every time Sister Xiao Yuan talks about how pitiable she is at home and how her uncles are just so-so towards her, I just think to myself, I have the means, so I might as well help," Xiao Jian said.

"But now that I think about it, I’m really worried. What if I get to the Northeast and she takes all my stuff? What am I going to do?"

"This time she’s even signing up with a boy she’s close with," Shen Jie said, her face full of fear and concern.

What? A boy she’s close with? Lady Shen Li couldn’t help but frown. Back when she met her old man and got married, she was about the same age as Shen Yuan.

But at least they had been openly acknowledged by their parents. However, the last time Shen Jiansheng and his wife visited, they even mentioned that if possible, they could keep an eye out for a suitable boy for Shen Yuan.

"How does your Sister Xiao Yuan introduce this person?" Lady Shen Li patiently asked Shen Jie.

"She says he’s a classmate." Though the young girl was naive and sugary sweet, she was actually quite perceptive and had already sensed that something was off between them.

It’s just that she’s too introverted, she didn’t know how to bring it up, "I’ve been introduced to him."

The boy’s name was, of course, something the original host remembered very well, but now she definitely couldn’t just blurt it out. After thinking for a while, "It was something... Jian..."

"I forgot. I just always hear Sister Xiao Yuan calling him Xiao Jian, Xiao Jian." After all, that’s how Shen Yuan called Gao Jian; she didn’t wrong her at all.

Even though her granddaughter couldn’t remember his last name, it was enough to infuriate Lady Shen Li.

"Just calling him by name without a surname, is that a casual relationship?"

"Do classmates, especially boys and girls, call each other like that?"

"There’s a problem, definitely a problem."

Lady Shen Li was furious, "What else is there?"

Shen Jie looked up cautiously at Lady Shen Li, "I don’t think his circumstances are very good."

"Every time they go out, I’ve never seen him buy anything for Sister Xiao Yuan. It’s always Sister Xiao Yuan buying things for him."

"Of course, maybe he gave her gifts when I wasn’t aware, we’re not from the same school."

"But that boy’s family, I think, probably might not be well off. It seems his father has passed away, and his mother hasn’t remarried, raising him and several siblings by herself."

"At least, at least four children, because I’ve heard about an older brother, a younger brother, and a sister; he should be the eldest."

By this point, Lady Shen Li didn’t even want to listen further, she could guess that the family’s circumstances were definitely not good. A widow raising four children, with the eldest son only a high school graduate, could the financial burden be light?

No, that can’t be right. If the family really is not well off, it wouldn’t make sense for them to let the eldest son complete high school.

In the past, going to college could change the family’s social standing. Now college admissions are recommendatory, and many people start working straight after middle school.

"If the family’s conditions are poor, shouldn’t a sensible child graduate early to work and relieve the family’s burden?"

"Why insist on finishing high school?"

"What is this?" Lady Shen Li wasn’t able to decide for the moment, whether the other party really had no money or was pretending to be poor to scam the young girl.

Of course, Shen Jie knew why the Gao Family let Gao Jian stay in school until high school. It was something his father had instructed before he passed away, and they also hoped that he could meet a well-off girl in high school who might support the Gao Family.

The idea was good, and Gao Jian was fairly good-looking and quite adept at sweet-talking girls.

But unfortunately, there were few girls from well-off families in his classes throughout his school years; even if there were, there were boys more outstanding than him.

It was only after he started high school that a few girls started admiring him, a pity that all of them came from families that weren’t well off, and Gao Jian didn’t take any interest in them.

Initially, Gao Jian didn’t like Shen Yuan either, with three brothers in her family and their own poor circumstances, how much could her family possibly help a daughter?

But Shen Yuan used to give him gifts, and when he had no money for textbooks, she would find a way to buy and give them to him.

Occasionally there would be some food given, and though Gao Jian found it quite distasteful, thinking the stuff was rather ordinary, it was still a lot better compared to what others had.

"Granny, should I go register?" Shen Jie woke up from a state of confusion and asked Lady Shen Li if it was possible.

"Go," Lady Shen Li took out the household registration booklet. "Don’t tell your dad you’ve already registered to become a youth sent to the countryside."

"I’ll tell him." They would wait a couple of days before telling Shen Jianshe that the list had already been submitted and there was no way to retract it.

"Okay." Shen Jie had the same idea, the earlier she registered, the sooner her name would be on the list.

She knew that Feng Dan also registered at the neighborhood office these past two days and was assigned to the Northeast Construction Farm as a youth sent to the countryside.

This time, since they brought up registering the same day, they should be even more likely to be assigned to the Northeast Construction Farm.

By then, even if Shen Jiansheng suggested that Shen Jianshe should pull some strings to have Shen Yuan and her become youths sent to the countryside together, it would be impossible.

Shen Jie, having obtained the household registration booklet, ran quickly to Feng Dan’s house, "Feng Dan, let’s go register."

Shen Dan was doing chores at home and saw Shen Jie with the booklet. "Are we going today?"

"Yes, there’s no other way. You don’t know about my uncle by marriage..." Entering Feng’s house, Shen Jie began to chatter away about the conversation she just had with Lady Shen Li to her friend.

Upon hearing this, Feng Dan tapped Shen Jie’s forehead, "You, you’re not a dummy, so why are the things you do indistinguishable from a dummy’s actions?"

"She asked you to give a thank-you gift, and you just did it."

"Why couldn’t you say that if not for her, you would have to share a set of books with your desk mate for several days?"

"And I don’t know about that guy, but he doesn’t seem like good news to me. Doing nothing but looking pitiful and people are giving things to him."

"This won’t do." As Feng Dan spoke more, she felt more strongly that she couldn’t let Shen Jie and her cousin become youths sent to the countryside together.

She took out her household registration booklet and went with Shen Jie to the neighborhood office. They had just finished registering when they saw the staff member issue their notices.

"Take this subsidy carefully, and there are some coupons too. Once you arrive there, you can use them to make purchases."

"Of course, you can also buy things here." Because some local supplies couldn’t keep up, where the youths sent to the countryside choose to shop was up to them.

Feng Dan looked at Shen Jie, "What do we do?"

"Shall we wait until we know where we’re going and then buy?" Although she knew that, if nothing unexpected happened, they should be going to the farm, since it hadn’t been announced yet, she naturally couldn’t know for sure.

"Agreed." If possible, it would be best to travel light. Neither her own family nor the Shen family would take these money and coupons away.

Just then, the head of the neighborhood office came out of his office, "Get the list of youths sent to the countryside who have registered sorted out."

"Now?" The staff member was stunned and looked at the chief, not understanding.

The chief hummed a confirmation, "Yes, the Northeast farm suddenly needs people. Isn’t it rare for them to recruit from the South?"

The chief himself didn’t know what the situation was, but since the orders had come from above, they just needed to follow them.

"Northeast Construction Farm?" Shen Dan actually had a rough idea about it, like the fact that this time they were all going to the Northeast.

It was far from home, but there was no choice. It was either the Northeast or the Northwest this time, and going directly to the Northeast was obviously better.

To her surprise, there was also a big unexpected bonus: the chance to go to the farm.

The chief hummed again, "Yes, but the other party is in urgent need, and we must depart in three to five days."

Ah, the two of them hadn’t expected the time to be so pressing, "That’s so rushed."

"It’s because they are short-staffed, otherwise, do you think they would be recruiting?" the chief said irritably.