Transmigration: On the Gossip Front
Chapter 513 - 514 Sister Flowers Educated Youth 31_1

Chapter 513: Chapter 514 Sister Flowers Educated Youth 31_1

Zhao Yu grabbed his stuff and headed back to the farm. He really didn’t hold Gao Jian in high regard.

He guessed that even Shen Jie looked down on Gao Jian, a calculating and repulsive man.

Gao Jian watched Zhao Yu’s back for a long time before turning around and leaving.

On the way back to the village, Gao Jian pondered for a long time whether to continue the business. Though he hadn’t been here long, the income was really good.

It was even better than what he earned back in the city, and he didn’t have to worry about appeasing others.

As long as he could get his hands on goods, he was certain he could trade them for money and send it back home.

Now, he filled with regret. If he had known earlier that such a substantial income was possible in the Northeast, he would never have tried so hard to stay in the city.

He should have come to the Northeast sooner, which would have eased his family’s financial strain much earlier.

Yes, he couldn’t afford to stop the business, absolutely not. What would happen to his income if he did, and what about his family back home?

His family was depending on the money he earned to buy food and drinks, to keep going day by day, so that his younger brothers and sisters could afford their education.

"I have to keep doing business," Gao Jian took a deep breath. There was no way around it; even as newcomers, the educated youth would hardly get much money.

Even the educated youth who had been here for years didn’t have much money to spare.

Gao Jian had asked the older educated youth before. The rationed grain was barely enough to eat, and the distributed money was merely around ten yuan, simply not enough to get by.

The more Gao Jian thought about it, the angrier he became. If only Shen Jie had informed them when she signed up, they definitely would have been allocated to the farm as well.

With a fixed monthly income from the farm, plus the money he earned from selling game, life should have been pretty good.

They wouldn’t have to worry like they did now. Unfortunately, they had signed up just a little too late and missed the opportunity.

Regrets, frustration, and then there was Shen Yuan. What if she couldn’t borrow money? So what?

It’s quite ordinary for people not to lend money, especially when you’ve borrowed so much before and haven’t repaid it. It’s natural for people to be unwilling to lend more.

Gao Jian never really liked Shen Yuan; he just picked her because it’s rare to find someone as foolish as her.

Now, thinking about it, Shen Yuan did buy him some things, but she spent even more money on herself, judging by the clothes she wore and the way she never hesitated to spend money on the black market.

Gao Jian grew more convinced that if Shen Yuan didn’t change her temperament, she really wasn’t suited to be a wife in the Gao Family.

She certainly couldn’t be his, Gao Jian’s, wife. Previously, Gao Jian only thought about how to get food and money from Shen Yuan, how to trade game for money, without giving it proper thought.

Now having some free time, Gao Jian of course had a lot to think about. For instance, Shen Yuan once mentioned that they were having a hard time, so there was no need to care for her younger brothers and sisters.

"How can someone who’s going to be the Gao Family’s daughter-in-law say such a thing?" Gao Jian always remembered how he swore in front of his father’s body.

From the day his father died, as the eldest son of the Gao Family, he took on the duty of a father and brother.

It wasn’t just about raising his younger brothers and sisters, making sure they were clothed and fed and could attend school.

It also meant that their future weddings and funerals would be his responsibility, as well as that of his future daughter-in-law.

"Shen Yuan is a bit too selfish," Gao Jian once again felt dissatisfied with Shen Yuan.

"Not a drop of help to offer," the more Gao Jian thought about it, the angrier he became.

He truly regretted why, when he first arrived in the village, he didn’t take the time to properly understand the situation before allowing Shen Yuan to display all kinds of behavior that suggested they were close.

Because of his various ulterior motives, he didn’t stop her, and now everyone knows they’re a couple.

Now, no matter how much he wants to disassociate himself from her, it’s extremely difficult. What to do?

Gao Jian really regretted everything, but it was too late for regrets now. "Forget it, I can only take things one step at a time."

He was grateful that back then, to avoid the appearance of living off a woman, he had firmly refused Shen Yuan’s suggestion.

If he had agreed to get the marriage certificate after half a year, his life would have been completely ruined by Shen Yuan.

Zhao Yu had also mentioned earlier that Shen Jie had made it clear she wouldn’t lend money to Shen Yuan unless she paid back what she already owed.

He was certain that Shen Yuan never mentioned this. Otherwise, he would have disassociated himself from Shen Yuan right from the start.

Once in the Northeast, Shen Yuan was reluctant to work hard and earned the lowest work points among all the educated youth—five or six points at most.

If he hadn’t counted on support from Shen Jie, he wouldn’t have cared about Shen Yuan’s fate at all.

"I’ve been deceived by Shen Yuan," Gao Jian thought more and more angrily, finding her behavior exceedingly out of line.

At the same time, he was also annoyed at himself for always thinking he had Shen Yuan completely under control, only to realize now that it was he who was under her thumb.

In his fury, Gao Jian failed to notice that his current expression was so terrifying that even a child would be scared to tears.

When the villagers saw Gao Jian’s long face, they were somewhat puzzled, not understanding why the always cheerful Gao Jian was pulling such a face this time.

Without caring about his surroundings, Gao Jian charged towards the educated youth compound, not noticing that several people there saw his sullen expression.

"Could it be he didn’t manage to sell his goods today?"

"Impossible, he never returns empty-handed."

"When will that fool Shen Yuan realize Gao Jian is trading on the side?"

"If she noticed, there would be trouble. Didn’t someone hint at it last time, only to get scolded by Shen Yuan?"

"What do you think about us doing the same thing? Could we pull it off?"

To say they were not jealous would be a lie, but they didn’t dare to follow suit.

"He’s bold, I dare not. What if someone found out?"

If this kind of thing were discovered, the consequences would certainly be severe.

"Exactly, it was originally the local people collaborating with the farm’s educated youth." They were not excluded, but the locals were protective of their own.

Fishing, hunting in the mountains, there’s really nothing hard about that.

Who in the village wouldn’t want to earn that money? Such behavior from Gao Jian, taking food from the locals’ mouths, was bound to come to light eventually. The village would certainly punish him if it went on too long.

Were the villagers unaware of Gao Jian’s behavior? It wasn’t that they hadn’t noticed, but rather they thought he was a new educated youth and some had tried to warn him.

However, the young man had verbally agreed to stop after one last deal, but he kept on making deal after deal, with no end in sight.

This had angered many villagers, and the reason there had been no action taken was that the snow was about to fall, the river would freeze over, and there was no opportunity to act.