Reborn 99 Days Later, Becoming a Landlady and Getting into Tsinghua and Peking Universities

"I heard you're looking for that senior's house?"

Pei Yi'an stood under the lamp, his body upright like a young and resilient pine tree.

His wheat-colored skin glowed with a healthy sheen under the light, as if you could feel his youthful vitality and the traces of exercise.

Pei Yi'an saw Hua Antao stop walking, and his slender fingers unconsciously rubbed the strap of his schoolbag:

“I…I know where she lives, I…I can take you there.”

Hua Lichu's suspicious gaze lingered on Pei Yi'an's flushed cheeks for a few seconds.

Is it her imagination?

Why does she feel like this guy is shy?

Hua Antao took two steps forward in surprise: "Really?"

"Really...really..."

The suspicious blush had grown even larger.

Hua Lichu narrowed her eyes: "How did you know we were asking about this?"

He only asked a few questions during the day, and Pei Yi'an found out by evening?

It must be Xu Yaozu, that big mouth!

"Yaozu told me this during lunch this afternoon."

Sure enough, it was Xu Yaozu, that big-mouthed monster!

Pei Yi'an glanced cautiously at Hua Antao: "Actually, even if Xu Yaozu hadn't said anything, I could have guessed it."

You've had a direct confrontation with Gao Juan; she won't let it go easily.

You won't just sit here and get beaten up; the only way out is...

Hua Li noticed that Pei Yi'an kept glancing at her sister, so she quietly stepped between the two of them and asked, "You're willing to help us? Why?"

Because of your sister.

It's obvious that you can't say it like that.

Pei Yi'an: "I also can't stand Gao Juan, and besides, the senior's mother is very pitiful, and I want to help her."

Hua Lichu looked Pei Yi'an up and down with a suspicious gaze: "You know your senior's mother?"

"Yes. You'll know when you see her. Tomorrow is Saturday, I'll take you there in the afternoon."

After saying that, Pei Yi'an turned and left.

Hua Lichu frowned as she looked at Pei Yi'an.

"Pear, are you unhappy? We'll be able to find your senior's house tomorrow. Let's find out what happened and see if we can..."

Do you have any dealings with that guy?

Hua Antao didn't react: "What?"

Hua Lichu repeated, "Pei Yi'an. Did you have any interaction with Pei Yi'an at school?"

Hua Antao scratched her head, wondering why the topic had suddenly jumped to this point.

He thought hard for a moment, then shook his head seriously: "No."

"Think about it again, are you sure you don't have it?"

Hua Lichu was worried.

She felt that Pei Yi'an's gaze just now was strange.

Hua Antao thought for a few more seconds: "I'm on duty with him, does that mean we have any interaction?"

"what?"

"We were assigned to clean the designated area on the same day. But there were two other classmates with us, and I didn't talk to him at all. So that doesn't count as interaction, right?" Hua Antao hesitated.

Looking at her increasingly refined older sister, Hua Lichu felt a sudden surge of crisis.

Sigh, my sister has grown up to be so beautiful, no wonder others have their eyes on her.

But if Pei Yi'an really dares to pluck the tiger's mantle right in front of her, she'll let him know why the flowers are so red!

……

"Auntie, are you home?"

The sudden knocking startled Jiang Shuiying.

She glanced at the paper package in her hand with a strange expression, then quickly hid it under her pillow.

Once inside the courtyard, he called out, "Who is it?"

“It’s me, Pei Yi’an.”

The tension on Jiang Shuiying's face instantly disappeared, replaced by a relaxed expression.

He walked quickly to the door, opened it, and sure enough, there was Pei Yi'an's familiar face.

But the next second, Jiang Shuiying looked warily behind Pei Yi'an: "Who are you?"

Pei Yi'an smiled and said, "Auntie, these are my two classmates."

Jiang Shuiying stood in the doorway, asking warily, "What are you doing here?"

Pei Yi'an sighed inwardly, "It's nothing. They just heard that your oranges are plentiful, big, and sweet, and they wanted to buy some to try. Do you still have any oranges left, Auntie?"

Jiang Shuiying slumped her shoulders, gently turned her body to the side, and let him leave.

"And how many do you want?"

Hua Lichu and Hua Antao glanced at Pei Yi'an: "Auntie, how much are the oranges per pound? Can we see the oranges before deciding how many we want?"

Jiang Shuiying looked the two sisters up and down and then invited them into the house.

He turned and closed the door, his expression unreadable, and asked, "You didn't come here to buy oranges, did you? What are you here for?"

"At once……"

"Yi'an, don't speak yet."

Hua Li glanced around the courtyard on the fourth day of the lunar month, looking at the dilapidated house, and felt puzzled.

It's said that Gao Juan's family gave a large sum of money to her senior's family to keep quiet. How come her family is so poor?

Hua Antao said softly, "Auntie, we wanted to ask you about my senior."

Jiang Shuiying's face darkened, and she opened the door: "You all leave."

"Auntie, Gao Juan has our eyes on us."

Jiang Shuiying paused, no longer trying to shoo them away, but instead stubbornly said, "What does that have to do with me?"

Hua Lichu noticed Jiang Shuiying's white fingers gripping the door frame.

"We didn't mean anything by it, we just wanted to know more about what happened to our senior."

Chopping the grass does not remove the roots, but the spring breeze blows and regenerates.

I think there's probably no one in this world who hates her more than you, right?

"Just you two little girls?"

"Of course it's not just the two of us!"

"Auntie, can you bear to hear about yet another tragedy? Don't you want to clear my name? She never dated anyone back then; she was wronged, wasn't she?"

"Of course my daughter wouldn't be in a relationship so early! You know nothing! You know nothing!"

Jiang Shuiying squatted on the ground, covering her ears and repeating the same thing over and over.

Hua Lichu, Hua Antao, and Hua Lichu looked at each other.

Oops, too much excitement.

After a while, Jiang Shuiying seemed to have recovered. Her face was pale as she stood up from the ground.

"I……"

"mom!"

A little girl, about seven or eight years old, so thin she was practically skin and bones, and wearing clothes covered in patches, rushed in from outside.

Standing in front of Jiang Shuiying, he looked at Hua Lichu and the other two with suspicion: "Mom, who are they?"

Jiang Shuiying's shoulders trembled slightly, and her fists, hanging at her sides, clenched and unclenched.

She gently patted her daughter's head.

"Auntie, what were you about to say to us?"

Jiang Shuiying ignored Hua Lichu and looked at Pei Yi'an instead: "Take them away."

After saying that, he left Hua Lichu and the other two still standing in the courtyard and went straight back into the house.

Before entering the house, the little girl turned around and glanced at Hua Lichu and the other two.

Although she was only seven or eight years old, the age when children should be happiest and most carefree, Hua Lichu felt that she saw endless pain and vicissitudes in those eyes.

Knowing they probably wouldn't get anything out of her today, Hua Lichu and the other two had no choice but to leave.

Hearing the door close, Jiang Shuiying took out the paper package from under her pillow.

"Mom, are we giving them some today?"

Jiang Shuiying hesitated for a moment, looked at her youngest daughter's bright eyes, and then squeezed her eyes shut.

It took me a while to find my voice again.

"Tomorrow."

The little girl raised her head, wondering why her mother had changed her mind again.