Lin Qingping and Gu Juncheng

Chapter 97 Unruly women

To take the exam, you need to pick up your admission ticket.

However, when Lin Qingping and her sister went to collect their exam admission tickets, they discovered that her sister's had already been taken.

When asked, the person in charge simply said, "Your mother collected it for you; she collected it with your household registration book."

This news was a complete shock to Lin Qingping and her second sister.

But you can't blame the staff, because it's not uncommon for parents to come together or for parents to pick up their children on their behalf. What's rare is that her mother is someone like that.

Lin Qingping had no choice but to go back to her mother and ask for it.

Moreover, he didn't let his second sister come along.

He only allowed Gu Juncheng to use his ID to book a room at a hotel in the county, so that his second sister could rest and recuperate. He told her not to open the door to anyone who knocked, and then he and Gu Juncheng rented a horse-drawn carriage to go to the village.

Her mother was indeed at home.

Upon seeing her, he said in a sarcastic tone, "Oh, so our family's government employee is back? Be careful not to dirty your poor home!"

Ever since Lin Qingping redeemed her second sister for 500 yuan, her mother has been lukewarm towards her. After the incident where her mother came to the factory to snatch her second sister and was beaten away by Gu Juncheng, the relationship between her and her mother has completely broken down.

Lin Qingping got straight to the point and asked her mother for her second sister's exam admission ticket.

"What exam admission ticket?" Her mother flatly denied it, "I don't know."

"So, the people in the county are just talking nonsense?" Lin Qingping turned and left. "Then I'm going to settle accounts with those people in the county right now! If they lost the admission tickets, I'm going to sue them and have the police arrest them!"

Her mother's eyes widened in panic, "Just... such a small matter, and they're arresting us?"

Lin Qingping sneered, "Whether they arrest you or not is up to you to see!"

Lin Qingping was about to leave with Gu Juncheng when her mother called her back, "Wait!"

Turning back, her mother looked guilty. "So what if I took it? Can't a mother take it for her child? Are you going to arrest me?"

"Then take it out!" Lin Qingping said without ceremony, reaching out her hand.

"It's gone!" her mother retorted, resorting to shamelessness.

Lin Qingping truly couldn't understand why her mother was completely indifferent to her and her sister's fate, and why a mother wouldn't want her children to be well.

"Mother!" she couldn't help but ask, "Wouldn't it be good if my second sister could get into university? Wouldn't it be good if her children were successful?"

Her mother retorted, “Girl, what’s the point of studying so much? Getting married is the most important thing! As your mother, finding you good husbands is the best thing I can do for you! Isn’t it good that I married you off to the Gu family? Would I have arranged a bad marriage for you? Who knew that I would raise such a heartless child like you, who doesn’t even recognize me as her mother after getting married? I’ve raised you for nothing…”

As she spoke, her mother began to cry.

If she hadn't experienced her past life, if her mother hadn't planned to marry her second sister to the cripple, she would have been truly moved by her mother's heartfelt tears.

That's how she was in her previous life. Her mother would constantly nag about how difficult it was for her to raise the three of them. Back then, she was soft-hearted, and whenever her mother said something or cried, she would immediately agree to anything, which led to her miserable end.

“Chengzi, it’s not that I’m saying my daughter is bad! This daughter I raised is such an ingrate! I raised her with so much effort, and this is how she treats me… Chengzi, you should keep this in mind. How can someone who is not good to her parents be good to her in-laws? How can she be good to her husband? Don’t be fooled by her…” Her mother cried with tears in her eyes.

Lin Qingping: ?

Her mother actually tried to sow discord between her and Gu Juncheng?

Ever since she entered the house, she had been dealing with her mother all by herself. Several times when Gu Juncheng tried to speak, she stopped him.

This time, Gu Juncheng was mentioned by name.

Her mother continued to cry, "Chengzi! My daughter is so ambitious! She wants to go to university? She's from the countryside, she's only been to school for a few days! How can she possibly get into university? She's restless and unchaste!"

Lin Qingping chuckled inwardly. How could someone even say something like her own daughter was unfaithful?

Lin Qingping suddenly didn't want to argue with her mother anymore. She also wanted to hear how Gu Juncheng would react to others slandering her, since the person slandering her was her own mother.

She glanced at Gu Juncheng discreetly, only to see that he had his usual stern face, devoid of any expression.

"We can't let her take the exam!" Lin Qingping's grandmother came in from outside, rolling her eyes. "What's the point of a perfectly good girl going to school? What's the point of going to another place? She should find someone to marry as soon as possible!"

Seeing that a helper had arrived, her mother put on a painstakingly earnest expression and advised Gu Juncheng, "Chengzi, you need to keep a close eye on your wife. If she gets lucky and actually passes the exam, she won't want you anymore and will kick you to the curb!"

Gu Juncheng finally spoke, saying only one sentence: "Give me your second sister's exam admission ticket!"

Concise and powerful.

Her mother's crying stopped abruptly, and her expression changed as if by magic: "No, I tore it up."

Gu Juncheng nodded and took a step forward.

Lin Qingping's mother had been frightened by Gu Juncheng's fists and feet before. Seeing him move, she panicked and jumped back, shouting, "If you dare to hit someone, be careful you don't get struck by lightning! I'm your mother!"

Gu Juncheng should indeed call her "Mother".

But Gu Juncheng didn't intend to beat her up. He just told Lin Qingping to go and call the village secretary.

“Okay!” Lin Qingping went out immediately.

Lin Qingping's mother became wary and tentatively asked him, "Why did you call the Party Secretary here?"

Gu Juncheng didn't answer, but sat down on the stool by the door, adopting a posture of one man guarding the pass against ten thousand.

He remained silent, which made Lin Qingping's mother very uneasy, until Lin Qingping called the village secretary.

Gu Juncheng stood up, shook hands with the Party Secretary, explained the purpose of inviting him, and then turned to ask Lin Qingping's mother, "Mother-in-law, you just said that you tore up the admission ticket, right?"

Lin Qingping's mother had no idea what he was up to, and stammered, insisting on her answer, "Yes, I... I didn't mean to, it was an accident."

Gu Juncheng nodded. "Secretary, you've heard it with your own ears now. Tearing up someone else's college entrance exam admission ticket is illegal. Even though she's my mother-in-law, I won't cover it up. Please send her to the relevant authorities, and let them handle it as they see fit."

"Wh...what?" Lin Qingping's mother's mouth gaped open, wide enough to fit an egg. "This...this is illegal?"

The village secretary got angry when he heard this, "How could you do such a thing? We should support the child who wants to go to university. The country is currently focusing on cultivating talent, and you're just doing things that are hindering it. Come with me!"

Lin Qingping's mother was truly crying now, "I won't leave... Where's the head of the household? Mother, I won't leave, please save me... I... I didn't tear it, I didn't tear it, it's not illegal, right?"

This time I'm really scared.