Transmigration: On the Gossip Front
Chapter 537 - 538: Sister Flowers Educated Youth 55_1

Chapter 537: Chapter 538: Sister Flowers Educated Youth 55_1

Onlookers immediately began pointing at Gao Jian, which infuriated him.

"No, I didn’t," Gao Jian yelled, indicating that he wasn’t that kind of person.

"Whether you did or not, you know in your heart. Do you dare let me go through your room to see how much money you’ve actually sent back home?"

Shen Yuan knew that Gao Jian was always very organized in his actions; he would place things neatly and would never just throw them around carelessly.

Let Shen Yuan into his room to see those remittance slips? Gao Jian would never agree to that.

Once Shen Yuan saw those things, Gao Jian knew that he and Shen Yuan would absolutely have no future.

Actually, Shen Yuan’s thought had just occurred to her spontaneously, and she hadn’t really intended to go through with it.

But seeing Gao Jian’s expression, her intuition told her she absolutely had to take a look, or she would surely regret it.

"You really have a guilty conscience for not letting me see," Shen Yuan suddenly pushed Gao Jian with all her might.

Gao Jian was blocking the way, not wanting Shen Yuan to enter his room, and he hadn’t expected her to suddenly strike out at him.

Unprepared, he was pushed squarely, about to scold her and let her know she should not think she could take advantage of the situation.

But to his surprise, Shen Yuan really intended to go to his room.

How could Gao Jian let Shen Yuan get her way? He now really regretted that ever since he returned from the reservoir, he had become a farm laborer, handling manure daily and smelling of it all over.

Even the male educated youths didn’t want to share a room with him; the village had arranged for him to sleep in a small room beside the cowshed.

Although the smell was truly unpleasant, at least it was a separate room, which made it easier for him to hide things.

Gao Jian kept his valuables locked up, and other items weren’t hidden very well, which, he thought, must be the reason Shen Yuan had suddenly turned against him.

If she found more stuff, Gao Jian didn’t even want to think about how Shen Yuan, this brainless person, would blow things out of proportion.

Shen Yuan quickened her pace toward Gao Jian’s house, with him naturally chasing after her.

The only thought in his mind was that he absolutely couldn’t let her find those things.

But he had already run quite a distance and was feeling a stabbing pain in his waist; he really couldn’t run fast now.

He wanted to run, but his body was telling him he couldn’t speed up, and eventually, he was reduced to walking.

Everyone shook their heads at his anxious appearance, saying, look, the inexperience of youth, not knowing the importance of taking care of one’s body.

At such a young age, just a short run and he couldn’t keep going — what good would he be in the future? Wasn’t he just like a cripple?

Gao Jian had no idea how the others viewed him; his focus was to run faster and catch up with Shen Yuan.

But Shen Yuan was much faster than Gao Jian, with quite a few people following behind her.

She could rush directly into Gao Jian’s room, but the others did not dare — what if Gao Jian pinned the blame on them?

Shen Yuan quickly rummaged through the room and found a locked wooden box. After breaking it open with a tool, she saw a thick stack of remittance slips inside.

From a few yuan to tens, to hundreds of yuan, the amounts varied, and the dates started from a month after their arrival here.

Shen Yuan carefully examined the dates and amounts on the remittance slips and burst into tears.

She never expected Gao Jian to have sent so much money back home, and what chilled her heart even more was the fact that at the time, when they had little to eat and he had money, he could have bought something from the villagers.

Yet he preferred to send it back home, urging her to borrow money from Shen Jie, urging her to go up the mountain. When she couldn’t borrow any money, he was particularly dissatisfied, showing utter disdain for her.

Shen Yuan burst into tears and, seeing that Gao Jian had already reached the doorway, she threw the promissory note out.

"You’ve really outdone yourself. Ever since we got here, a month ago, you’ve been sending money back home."

"Even if we have nothing to eat or drink, you don’t care, you just tell me to find a way, while all the money you earn is sent back."

Gao Jian had not anticipated Shen Yuan’s actions, that she would find the box so quickly and even smash it.

"Shen Yuan, you actually destroyed my belongings without my consent."

Gao Jian accused Shen Yuan of excessive behavior, and she sharply replied, "I’ll compensate you for a wooden box."

"But what about the money you owe me?" After their last fallout, Shen Yuan was furious and forced Gao Jian to write an IOU.

Looking at him, "What about the money you owe me?"

"If you don’t pay the money, fine, I’ll have my parents go to your house to demand it."

"What kind of family is this that, in just over a year, demands so much money?"

Shen Yuan had once been in charge of grocery shopping at home and was aware of the cost of living in the city.

Normal purchases without going to the black market, that amount of money should last a long time, not to mention his mother has a job.

"You wouldn’t dare." Gao Jian thought about the IOU Shen Yuan had forced him to write and he regretted why he had cared about saving face and written the debt note in the first place.

Originally, he thought he would be able to coax the IOU out of Shen Yuan somehow in the future.

Shen Yuan was not at all scared of Gao Jian, looking at the hand he placed on his waist, "You, a good-for-nothing, if you let your mother find out that you’re now disabled, what do you think they would do?"

"Gao Jian, if you dare to lay a hand on me, I definitely won’t be lenient."

"One sentence, if you don’t pay the money this month, I’ll send the IOU back to my parents, let them go to your house to demand the money, or else I’ll spread the word about your bad back."

"You’re scheming against me, thinking you could coerce me into marrying you." Shen Yuan knew this was the only thing Gao Jian could threaten her with.

"Even if I fell into the river and you saved me, when it comes down to it, you didn’t really do anything."

Shen Yuan had been worried about what would happen if Gao Jian threatened her. Her reputation could be destroyed, but now she was not at all fearful.

If this really blew up, it would be a loss of face for both, but a man with a bad back would leave plenty to the imagination for everyone.

At first, Gao Jian was quite anxious, thinking about what would happen if Shen Yuan’s parents made trouble at his home.

But then he thought, why worry? The fact that he saved Shen Yuan was something he could use to his advantage.

Unexpectedly, Shen Yuan was not concerned at all and even planned to divulge the matter publicly.

As Shen Yuan said, she simply fell into the river and was pulled out; it didn’t amount to much – maybe her reputation would take a hit, and her prospects of marriage might not be as good.

But he was a man, and knowing he had a bad back, who would want to marry him?

Gao Jian was the person involved, even if he hadn’t spoken a word about it, everyone knew his health was bad, he was no catch.

Even the rural girls he had never considered before would not think of marrying him; even if he tried to find a wife back in the city, his reputation was already damaged.

After weighing the pros and cons, a resigned Gao Jian could only say, "I know, I will pay back the money."

Gao Jian was worried about the trouble that suddenly writing home for money would cause, not knowing how they would cope, but he had no choice but to deal with the matter before it escalated.

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