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Chapter 95: The Boss Appears (Thanks to Bullet+Update)

Chapter 95: Chapter 95: The Boss Appears (Thanks to Bullet+Update)

The enthusiasm for picking holly spread from the hamlet to the main village.

Those who could climb the tree were climbing, those who couldn’t were designing tools, a scene filled with hustle and bustle.

Every member of the old lady’s family, including her son-in-law and her sons, would spend days in the mountain.

Except for Yu Jingting’s family who stayed put, the entire village was out on the mountain.

People do tend to follow the crowd, drawn into doing something when they see others doing it, even though nobody was buying the holly they picked, they still swarmed to the mountains.

Witnessing that everyone else was actively pursuing a sideline, Suizi also picked up her own sideline again.

She used a wild rabbit as the main subject, writing a mini-serial novel in the style of Spring and Autumn for the Newspaper Agency.

In this era of literary renaissance, her outstanding writing skills stood out instantly.

The story tells about the disputes caused between two villages over a wild rabbit, which led to the intricate emotions between the two villages.

When the story came to a critical point, the sequel was left hanging.

The first release provoked heated debate.

The chief editor, Sister Li, sent an overnight message, asking Suizi to hurry up with the rest of the installments.

The newspaper sales increased, praised by the chief editor, prompting for more updates.

Suizi exploited the concept that a writer wouldn’t need a knife to kill someone to its fullest, prompting the village chief to take the newspaper to the neighboring village’s chief.

Without saying a word, he slammed the newspaper on the table.

The other party instantly conceded.

Since the story was still ongoing, meaning Suizi could write however she wanted it to be.

If she wanted to depict the incident as wrong, she would. If she wanted to portray it as pure, she would.

The village chief particularly conveyed Yu Jingting’s exaggerated parts, saying that if they didn’t apologize, Suizi would depict the neighboring village’s chief as a home wrecker, scaring him into chicken-hearted silence.

It took him quite a while to recover, then he said, "You guys are ruthless."

Suizi never said such a thing. That was Yu Jingting’s improvisation.

The inspiration came from his exaggerated praise in a primary school student’s composition...

If they didn’t want to be depicted by Suizi as a villain that everyone despised, they had to apologize to Yu Jingting and the village chief.

Suizi knew how to strategize, and Yu Jingting had people who could carry out his plans. Together, they could cause such a stir, "hitting" the neighboring village was as easy as beating a dog.

At this moment, the village chief felt at the pinnacle of his career. How could the joy of seeing the next door eat humble pie compared to eating extra roasted potatoes?

That very day, the neighboring village’s chief brought the people who stole the rabbit from their village to apologize, bringing ten rabbits as compensation, along with a gigantic ham hock.

The ringleader who initiated the troubles arrived bruised and battered, clearly he had been dealt with.

On seeing Yu Jingting and Suizi, they nearly burst into tears— When did the notorious idlers starts using these cunning tricks? Where was the fair fight and compensation they agreed on before?

They would rather be beaten than deal with these sly tactics.

As the main contributors, Yu Jingting and Suizi divided five rabbits and half a ham hock between them. The rest was distributed among the villagers who participated in this "Rabbit Defense War".

Suizi took out two more rabbits for the village chief, and asked Yu Jingting to give one to his grandmother. The rest was stored in their home—there was no other choice, they’ve had so much meat recently, it’s making them sick.

Once again, Jiaojiao felt the power of learned people. Only less than a week had passed!

Her sister-in-law got five wild rabbits, apologized by the neighboring village, from the village chief to the main culprit, none of them got away.

What’s even more exaggerated was that she earned a manuscript fee by incriminating the neighboring village!

The manuscript fee given this time was not based on the previous lowest standard, it was given 4 bucks per thousand words, a large sum.

Jiaojiao’s world view was once again challenged. Knowledge indeed is power, it was right to listen to her sister-in-law. There’s income when you use cunning tricks on people, impressive.

Since the other party had already voluntarily apologized, Suizi gave them a helping hand. The part of the story that was still being serialized took a turn in the plot, silently creating a positive role for Yu Jingting.

She wrote it like this, the two villages reconciled under the persuasion of the fair and righteous socialist successor Yu Jingting, and walked together on the road of socialist prosperity and wealth.

After serialized for five issues of 5000-word short story, not only did she earn a common man’s month salary, but also made the neighboring villagers aggrieved.

Although the ending seemed to be quite fitting with the main theme, people always felt that they were upstaged by the renowned idler of the Yu family?

Suizi directly used Yu Jingting’s real name, just short of adding his ID number into the story. The most shameful part was, at the end of the story, she added a bracket, saying that the story was based on real life events.

The entire neighboring village was used as a tool character into Suizi’s deification, and they were fuming mad with no way to retaliate.

The newspapers were delivered to Beijing a week later.

In a private courtyard house in Beijing, the Chen Family was having breakfast, the bean soup was steaming hot on the table.

The sophisticated woman with glasses elegantly opens the thick parchment envelope, pulling out several newspapers from it.

"Didn’t I told you to cut off contact with Dongbei, why are you still keeping contact?" The man with a head full of silver hair sitting at the head of the table saw the address on the envelope and frowned.

"I went there for business a while ago and asked an old school friend for some information." Chen Lijun adjusted her glasses and pulled out a personal letter from the Professor Wang from the newspaper.

"Just make sure she won’t starve, and don’t let her come to Beijing. How can I face others if they see the illegitimate child you gave birth to in the countryside?"

Chen Lijun glanced at her father, her eyes flashed with killing intent, quickly collected and said carelessly:

"I just don’t want her to make a fuss."

Father Chen was finally pleased, picking up the bowl to take a sip of bean soup.

Mother Chen didn’t agree much.

"Although Lijun was able to return to the city following her husband’s death, Hansui is still Lijun’s daughter. Leaving her in Dongbei with no care at all, isn’t that a bit too much?"

Father Chen put the bowl down with a thump, spreading the bean soup all over the table.

"You saw what kind of person her father was, how could such a scumbag possibly have a good daughter? Letting that wild girl enter the city, are you waiting for others to laugh at our family?"

Mother Chen didn’t say anything. Father Chen, although renowned in academia, seemed to have lost common sense; with a pervasive stubborn, old-school attitude, arguing with him could drive anyone mad.

"Oh? A column written by Chen Hansui. Did Hansui write this?" Mother Chen’s gaze fell on the newspaper.

"She’s a wild village girl, what could she write? It’s hardly literary work!"

"I think the girl writes quite well, she has great literary talent."

"Nonsense, how could a wild village girl have literary talent? Give it here, let me see!"

A ripping paper sound.

The harsh noise interrupted the conversation between the two elders. Chen Lijun couldn’t control herself and stood up, holding a piece of paper in each hand.

"What’s wrong?" Mother Chen saw her daughter’s odd expression and took from her the split papers.

Pasting the two halves together, the last paragraph of the letter read:

Chen Hansui’s work has been arranged accordingly. She plans to bring her husband, Yu Jingting, to the city. Husband?

"Hansui got married?!" Mother Chen gasped in surprise, covering her mouth. She got married at such a young age?

"Who is Yu Jingting?" The name sounds like he’s a cultured person?

"The number one idler of Wang Village." The words squeezed out from between Chen Lijun’s teeth matched the greyish-green of the bean soup on the table.

This was real anger.