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Qin Yi furrowed her brows and said, "I'm not Jiang Yizhou. He is my roommate, a guy. What do you need him for?"
"Oh, hello. Our company has some interest in Mr. Jiang Yizhou's Plan, so we wanted to confirm if we could meet!"
Qin Yi replied helplessly, "I'm sorry, Jiang Yizhou just left the capital, and I can't reach him."
She wondered if the pager would work where Jiang Yizhou was; it should support roaming, right?
Not being very familiar with pagers, Qin Yi could only think this way.
"Alright then. If Mr. Jiang comes back, please let him know..." The person on the other end, clearly a newcomer in the workplace, earnestly relayed all the information over the phone to Qin Yi, doing his job diligently.
Holding a pen, she quickly noted it down in her notebook. Qin Yi had no idea when Jiang Yizhou would return, so she simply taped that page of paper to Jiang Yizhou's door and then took some time to lie down and sleep.
School had just started, and there were countless things to deal with. Moreover, in two days, she had to accompany the freshmen to the training base in the suburbs for military training. The school had planned everything meticulously; there wasn't even space for an extra soccer field.
...
"Dad, what are you planning to do?" As evening approached, Jiang Yizhou watched his father pull out a pile of familiar items from a cluttered room—tools used for catching lobsters and loaches.
Although the area was located in Central China, it was near mountains and rivers, providing plenty of aquatic products. At least for the next decade or so, making some extra money during summer would be quite easy; however, if overfishing continued, there wouldn't be much left to catch.
"What? You want to go too? This will take all night, and you'll have to get up early tomorrow to collect the traps. Can you wake up?" Jiang Maoqiang joked since Jiang Yizhou had only been woken up at eight in the morning that day.
The reason for going out at night was that lobsters were active during the night. As for getting up early to collect things, it was to prevent someone from stealing them away after all their hard work; overall, it was quite exhausting.
"I can wake up! Just call me when it's time!" Jiang Yizhou had gone out with his grandfather a few times in his past life and found it quite interesting.
His mother finished tidying up the kitchen and suddenly asked, "My son, aren't you working at the company? How many days off did they give you? You come home looking like a mess and still want to go catch Mantis Shrimp?"
Jiang Yizhou thought to himself that this was bad. Although he had been busy these past two months, he hadn't told his parents about it to ease their worries.
"I'm just adjusting my schedule; I didn't take any extra leave. It's not a problem. Mom, are you trying to chase me away?"
"Go on then! Hurry up and leave! You've taken so much money from home already; you're still doing business..."
Jiang Yizhou felt that things were really bad now, but what had to come would still come.
Gao Qingzhen seemed to have discovered something, "By the way, what are you doing in the capital? At first, I believed you when you said you were working with your Uncle, but then you wanted to do business and started teaching at a Training Class. Are you really cut out for teaching? And then you found a job at a big company?"
She raised her hand and pointed at Jiang Yizhou's forehead, "Is any of what you said true? I've realized now that not a single word is trustworthy! With your level of education that you didn't even complete..."
Jiang Yizhou couldn't say much; all of this was indeed true, but he was no longer the person he used to be, with reasons he absolutely wouldn't disclose.
"Mom, can I still deceive you? Do I look like someone who has been fooled?" Jiang Yizhou explained weakly. He wasn't good with words, and the impact of the truth was indeed too great; he felt it deeply.
"No way, I have to go see for myself!" Unable to believe her son's words were just to "fob her off," Gao Qingzhen was determined to follow her son and see for herself. If her son really had an office job and was doing well, she wouldn't interfere anymore. But if...
Ultimately, with a heavy heart, Jiang Yizhou picked up a simple basket and followed his father's footsteps out of the house. He started working in the dark; the train ticket he bought was for tomorrow night, so experiencing it today wouldn't hurt.
...
"Are you thirsty? Mom brought mung bean soup to cool off!"
"Do you want something to eat? I bought some braised chicken feet?"
Standing next to his mother, Jiang Yizhou pretended to be deaf and mute, merely nodding or shaking his head to express his thoughts. At other times, he stared blankly out the window Outside, as the rumbling sound of the train couldn't drown out the bustling voices inside the carriage. The half-open train window blew in cool air, bringing relief to the lively carriage.
From Xichuan to the capital, it was quite difficult to get a seat on such a mid-route train. Jiang Yizhou had bought his return ticket in advance in the capital; his mother could only buy standing tickets or sleeper tickets at the last minute.
Of course, given his mother's character, she would never spend that extra money. For someone who lacked the ability or knowledge to convert their labor into money, saving was an unavoidable choice.
For Jiang Yizhou, who was used to living paycheck to paycheck, there was no situation where he couldn't buy labor in exchange for money.
He had drifted off topic; Jiang Yizhou was thinking about how to deal with his mother. If it were someone else, he would adopt an attitude of "What I do is none of your business," refusing them entry and not giving them a chance to speak.
But with his mother, unless he wanted to live like a fugitive—hiding his identity and cutting off contact with his family—he could only endure patiently and think of ways to keep her from being suspicious.
After all, his experiences over the past few months combined with his unsatisfactory education made everything seem strange and unbelievable.
As night deepened, the lights in the carriage dimmed.
"I'm using the restroom, you sit here!" This time, Jiang Yizhou gladly sat down and soon fell asleep.
...
After taking his mother out of the train station, Jiang Yizhou thought that Qin Yi might still be in the rental apartment. He put down his backpack and said to his mother, "Mom, I really need to go to the restroom. Can you watch the luggage here?"
His mother didn't suspect anything, and Jiang Yizhou quickly turned out of her sight, then started looking for a phone booth.
"Beep... beep... beep..."
Jiang Yizhou irritably hit the wall of the phone booth. Why isn't anyone answering? Aren't you supposed to be a counselor? You shouldn't be busy or anything, right?
After trying to call several times, Jiang Yizhou gave up and decided to leave it to fate.
Turning left and right, he found his mother watching their luggage in the crowd and they took a bus together to the area near the rental apartment.
"The capital is really big!" Gao Qingzhen said for the first time after leaving her hometown and coming to such a distant place. Previously, she had only gone to the city with her mother for medical visits. Now she could only express her feelings with this one remark.
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