Rebirth in the 80s: The Scholar Wife is Cute
Chapter 526 Meeting Zhou Gu 1

Chapter 526: Chapter 526 Meeting Zhou Gu 1

After using up so much for their baths, the bar of soap was still sizeable; not much had been used. Sharing one with Zhou Siyu shouldn’t be a problem, right?

If push comes to shove, when she saves up enough money, she’ll buy soap for Zhou Siyu to use as well.

Seemingly perceiving her thoughts, Zhou Siyu curled her lip and said, "You should also ask your family for money to buy one, or else Tian Caiyan will look down on you. Haven’t you seen the way Tian Caiyan despises others? She doesn’t like poor people."

"My mom won’t give me money for that." Did she not want to buy it? If she hadn’t gotten into Second High, she wouldn’t even be able to attend school. In her parents’ eyes, all these things were useless.

"Are you dumb?" Zhou Siyu looked at her disdainfully, "Who told you to say it’s for buying soap? Just tell them the school is charging for some textbooks, or make up any excuse, really. Remember to ask for a bit more, so you can buy other things too."

"I’ll try," Zhao Xinlan said, uncertain if she could get the money. After all, it wasn’t that her parents were unwilling to give it to her; it’s that their financial situation really was that bad.

As they chatted, they quickly finished dressing. Zhou Siyu, carrying her dirty clothes, said, "You head back to the dorm first! Take the soap back for Tian Caiyan, she’s going to bathe later. I’ll return after I finish washing these outdoors."

She didn’t bring her older clothes to school and currently had only one set to change into. If she didn’t wash them, she would have nothing to wear the next evening.

"Hurry up! The school turns off the lights at ten," reminded Zhao Xinlan, carrying the soap and sniffing it as she walked; it smelled so good, she had never experienced such delightful fragrance before.

The boys’ shower room was right across from the girls’, and outside, there was a row of faucets for students to wash their clothes, an area used by both boys and girls alike.

Since boys were generally less fastidious about cleanliness than girls, and they washed their clothes more quickly, most of those washing clothes were girls.

Zhou Siyu washed her clothes while surreptitiously watching the boys’ side, hoping for a chance encounter with Gu Jianbin.

Before, she had always found Gu Jianbin handsome. After arriving at the school and seeing the boys in her class, she thought even more highly of Gu Jianbin’s sunny and handsome demeanour. Knowing that Gu Jianbin’s family was in business, her interest in him deepened considerably.

Throughout high school, Zhou Siyu set two goals for herself: to win over Gu Jianbin and to get into the same university as him. Once they graduated from college, she would marry Gu Jianbin, shedding her country bumpkin status once and for all to live a proper urban life.

Lost in her dreams of a beautiful future, Zhou Siyu’s lips curved into a smile. Then, suddenly, someone plonked a basin down heavily beside her. Startled, she was about to lose her temper when she heard a boy nearby call out, "Jianbin, over here."

Zhou Siyu quickly swallowed the words on the tip of her tongue and turned around, just in time to see Gu Jianbin coming from the men’s shower room entrance, carrying dirty clothes.

He seemed not to notice her and went straight to the other side of the boys’ area with his basin.

"Jianbin, where did you go during the break? I went to your place several times and couldn’t find you," asked a boy washing clothes as he chatted with Gu Jianbin.

He was Gu Jianbin’s classmate, named Zhuo Feng, and they had a good relationship. They lived in the same dorm room and were accustomed to being seen together often.

Gu Jianbin’s gaze flickered, and he replied indifferently, "I went to a relative’s house."

Zhuo Feng was puzzled, "Why do you always go to a relative’s house during the holidays? I visited you during the winter break too and couldn’t find you."