Chapter 1812
A Different Era
In those days, you couldn't learn much from school.
Liu Tong could only learn on her own, and incidentally taught her nephews and nieces.
He calculated the time when the college entrance examination would be reinstated and skipped grades with his nephews and nieces.
When the college entrance examination was reinstated, he and his nephews and nieces had just graduated from high school and were taking the exam.
In rural areas, people can get married at the age of eighteen.
Auntie is very interested in this and has already started looking for a wife for Liu Dong.
Upon learning this, Liu Tong quickly stopped her aunt: "Aunt, I'm still young, there's no rush to get married."
Aunt: "He's eighteen already, how can he still be a child?"
Liu Tong: "But people in the city don't get married until they're in their twenties."
"Huh?" Auntie realized what she meant. "You want to marry a city girl?"
Liu Tong nodded: "That's right!"
Aunt frowned: "A city girl... could it be that you've taken a fancy to an educated youth?"
Liu Qiu: "No! I want to go to university in the future, then settle down in the city and marry a city girl."
Aunt: "Going to university? Settling down in the city? Ah, not bad, not bad."
Auntie slapped her thigh with joy, completely forgetting about whether Liu Tong could go to university.
Although the college entrance examination has not been reinstated, there are still university recommendation quotas. His father is the village party secretary, so he can definitely recommend Liu Tong to go to university.
You're saying the others aren't convinced?
This specifically refers to educated youth. The villagers all watched Liu Dong grow up and wouldn't make things difficult for an orphan like him.
If the educated youth have something to say, then let them compare their achievements with Liu Tong's!
My aunt stopped causing trouble, but that didn't stop the female educated youth from causing trouble.
Some female educated youths couldn't endure the hardships of rural life and thought about getting married.
Several female educated youths set their sights on Liu Tong.
After all, Liu Dong was the one they thought was most worthy of them.
Liu Tong was good-looking, fair-skinned and tender, even more beautiful than the male educated youth. Moreover, she was a high school student, and her level of education was better than many of the educated youth.
Although he was an orphan, his uncle and aunt treated him like their own son.
Most importantly, Liu Tong's uncle is the village party secretary, the highest-ranking official in the village.
They wanted to return to the city to visit their relatives, and they received permission from Liu Tong's uncle.
Therefore, there are quite a few people who run to Liu Dong's side to show off their beauty.
Unfortunately, Liu Qiu ignored this and offended the young women in the village.
If the female educated youth took a liking to Liu Dong, wouldn't the other girls in the village also be interested?
How could they allow female educated youth to steal the village girls' shared Prince Charming?
Liu Tong didn't want to become the object of their struggle, so she chose to live at school and only came back once a week on weekends.
Auntie spread the word that Liu Tong is still young and won't get married for the next few years, telling the girls not to waste their youth.
The girls in the village understood that the Liu family didn't fancy them, and while they were upset, they readily gave up.
Those female educated youths, unable to find Liu Tongren and facing heavy farm work, could not bear it any longer and had to change their targets.
Liu Yan, the captain's son, became a hot commodity.
After graduating from junior high school, Liu Yan became the village accountant. Although she was not as good-looking as Liu Dong, she still had a refined appearance.
Liu Yan originally had a good relationship with her neighbor Er Ya, and both families thought they would become husband and wife.
But after a female educated youth appeared, Liu Yan fell in love with someone else, abandoning the plain-looking Er Ya and marrying the female educated youth.
In Liu Qiu's opinion, the daughter's features were not as good as Er Ya's. It was just that she came from the city and had not been exposed to the sun and rain, so she looked fairer and more delicate than Er Ya.
Er Ya was also a tough one, and went straight to Liu Tong.
Don't misunderstand, she didn't want to marry Liu Tong, but asked him to help her find jobs in the city.
Er Ya graduated from junior high school, which is considered a fairly high level of education these days. It's just that she didn't stay in the city to work because she lacked connections there.
Liu Tong had a good impression of such straightforward women and readily agreed.
"Perfect timing. I know someone who gave me some information. I'll look into it and tell you next time I go home."
The person Liu Dong knew wasn't a human, but a ghost.
Nowadays, there are far fewer ghosts.
After a person dies, there's no need for Ox-Head and Horse-Face to appear; the soul goes directly into the underworld.
Only souls with exceptionally strong attachments can remain in the human world.
Over the years, Liu Dong had only seen fewer than ten ghosts.
Liu Dong helps these ghosts fulfill their obsessions, allowing their souls to return to the underworld.
Recently, he encountered a ghost.
A Piao is a middle-aged woman who has a hard life.
She was a girl raised in a large mansion in the old society, and married a husband who claimed to be a modern youth, according to her parents' wishes.
After she became pregnant and gave birth to their son, her husband felt that he had done right by his parents and ancestors, so he left home, lived a comfortable life outside, and married a new wife.
However, his new wife gave birth to two daughters and then had no more children.
This husband, who considers himself a modern young man, has now started to prioritize the continuation of the family line, wanting a son to inherit his business.
Her husband returned to his hometown and forcibly took her son away.
The ghost could only sit at the village entrance every day, hoping for her son's return.
Unfortunately, she didn't live to see it.
When Liu Dong found her, her soul was almost completely dissipated.
She waited for decades, but her son never returned.
Liu Dong did some calculations for her and discovered that her son had died, but her grandson would be returning to his hometown soon.
Liu Dong will arrange for them to meet.
A few days later, the ghost's grandson returned.
He was sending his father's remains back to his hometown for burial.
His father left a will stating that he wished to be buried next to his mother.
It turns out that shortly after the ghost's son left, he lost his memory due to a fever and forgot his biological mother.
He always regarded his stepmother as his biological mother, and was saddened by her lack of affection towards him.
It wasn't until his death that the ghost's son regained his memories.
He felt he had wronged his biological mother, and his dying wish was to return to her side.
Liu Tong saw another ghost floating beside the ghost's son; that was the ghost's son.
He longed for his mother and returned to his hometown with his own remains.
The mother and son finally met, their obsessions were put aside, and it was time for them to part.
Before leaving, however, they used Liu Dong's power to send a dream to Cheng Xing, the grandson of the ghost, letting Cheng Xing know that he and his mother had been reunited.
A ghost: "Grandson, we were able to meet this time thanks to Master Liu. Please thank him properly for me."
Chengxing: "Master Liu? Who is that?"
The ghost's son said, "His name is Liu Dong. He's a high school student, but he's a hidden master. Son, although your upbringing taught you to believe in science, there are indeed many mysterious things in this world. Son, having more connections means having more options. You never know when you might need someone's help."
Chengxing wrote down Liu Dong's name.
He was originally a skeptical believer in ghosts, but the existence of his grandmother and father forced him to believe. (End of Chapter)