Chapter 1203
Beware of Fire, Theft, and House Thieves
Chapter 1203 Beware of Fire, Theft, and House Thieves
Tan Deming scoffed, "Knowing that things are better at home now, what else could she possibly do if she came back? She just wants to squeeze some benefits out of us. Xiaoqin still runs a cake shop, and I haven't seen her bring anything back all these years."
Tan You understood: "I don't care about your daughter."
“She’s none of my business,” Tan Deming said, unusually coldly. “I told her not to marry him when she got married, but she didn’t listen to me. She found a man twelve years older than her… Never mind, let’s not talk about this, lest it corrupt you.”
Tan You raised an eyebrow, thinking to herself, "What haven't I seen?" But since the old man didn't want her to know, she would just pretend she didn't know.
Tan You had a feeling that Tan Zhen had come back today specifically for her.
Sure enough, Tan Zhen's loud voice came from outside the door: "I heard Tan You won an award! And a prize?"
Tan Deming and Tan You exchanged a glance, both revealing the same smile, and walked out of the storage room one after the other.
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Tan You was relaxing at home, but since she left school on Friday, news about her has spread rapidly throughout the school and the surrounding area.
After all, the scholarships from the school were real, and Tan You didn't hide the scholarships from the city either; soon everyone in the neighborhood knew about them.
Yin Xiu stared wide-eyed: "So much money?"
Gu Qiuxia was roasting cereal bars in Tan You's dorm room when she heard this and laughed, "She's so talented, it's no wonder she gets so many scholarships."
“I’m not saying she shouldn’t,” Yin Xiu said, regaining her composure. “I just think, how is she so amazing? My parents don’t even earn that much money in a year.”
Cao Haiyan helped Gu Qiuxia pack the roasted grain bars: "It's just one Tan You, think about how valuable it is that it's the only one in the whole province."
The three of them admire Tan You, and there was no jealousy about it when they talked about it, which shows that the three girls are all of good character.
Gu Qiuxia pushed the cereal bars into the oven: "It feels so good to have someone to cling to. Someone feeds me, someone helps me with my homework, and I have no worries at all."
Cao Haiyan chuckled: "How do you think Tan Ying would feel if she knew?"
As time went on, the three of them learned more about Tan You and Tan Ying's past. They were childhood friends, yet their relationship wasn't as close as that of the three friends they'd only known for a few months.
Yin Xiu laughed out loud: "She's definitely going to be so jealous."
Cao Haiyan pursed her lips and couldn't help but chuckle: "I think so too!"
Gu Qiuxia: "What do you think she's thinking? If Tan You and I were childhood friends, we would definitely be half-sisters!"
Yin Xiu thought about it for a while and said, "I think it's jealousy, right? Jealous of Tan You's good grades, jealous of her fair skin, jealous of her being liked by the teachers, and wishing he could keep Tan You in the mud forever."
“Tsk tsk,” Gu Qiuxia shook her head: “Jealousy is truly terrifying.”
"I bet he's going to be furious this time."
Yin Xiu lowered her voice: "Not only that, yesterday when we had a meeting on the playground, I specifically looked in the direction of Class 1, and I saw her with a stern face, looking particularly unpleasant..."
Tan Ying's dormitory room. Tan Ying usually lives alone in the teachers' dormitory area. Because her maternal grandmother has a relative who is a teacher at the school, Tan Ying is taken care of by that teacher and has her own space here.
In the past, Tan Ying had seen Tan You live at school for all three years of junior high, sharing a dormitory room with eight or nine other girls, and Tan Ying was secretly proud of it.
After scoring 20 points higher than Tan You in the high school entrance exam, Tan Ying's smugness reached its peak. However, Tan You changed after the start of the first year of high school. Tan You had also done well before, but the gap between them wasn't insurmountable.
In junior high, Tan You was bad at math and relied solely on her Chinese and English scores to pull up her grades. Tan Ying, on the other hand, prided herself on being good at math, believing that she was no worse than Tan You in that respect.
However, Tan You's near-perfect score on the initial placement test at the start of high school left Tan Ying speechless. It was a fact she was extremely reluctant to admit: after making up for her weakness in science, Tan You was so strong that it filled her with despair.
Not to mention that she also participated in the math competition. Seeing that the banners at the school gate were changed every now and then, and the main character was always Tan You, Tan Ying was so jealous that her eyes were practically bleeding.
How come she's so lucky?
Tan Ying's pen slashed across the paper, feeling utterly agitated. Clearly... clearly she didn't like Tan You, and Tan You's former roommates had ostracized her because of her, so why did Tan You seem to care about none of that now?
She completely abandoned her childhood friend and made new friends in her new class...
"Qiuxia, I feel there's still a big difference between your cereal bars and Tanyou's." A sweet voice rang out. Tan Ying looked up and saw three girls walking past the window. The one speaking was the petite one on the far right.
"The ones made with Tanyou are more fragrant and crispier."
“How can I compare to her?” Gu Qiuxia said, holding a large bag of cereal bars. “When Tan You comes back, I’ll ask her to teach me a few more times. My mom said she’s planning to get a big oven at home so she can make them for me and bring them over, saving Tan You from having to bother her every time.”
Yin Xiu: "That's fine too, but does your mother know how to make it?"
“Then let my dad make it,” Gu Qiuxia tossed her hair. “He’s also been getting his hands on the cereal bars that Tan You makes for me quite often.”
The three walked away chatting and laughing. Tan Ying watched their retreating figures, then snapped the pen in her hand in two. Tan You used to be someone she could talk to about anything, telling her everything, and she could freely enter and leave Tan You's private space.
But now, even though Tan You also lives in the teachers' dormitory, it has been almost three months since the start of the semester, and I only went to Tan You's dormitory under the pretext of delivering watermelons. At other times, she can't even step into it.
Even when they bumped into each other, Tan You would never invite him to her dorm room, as if she had unilaterally severed all ties with him.
But why? Weren't they childhood friends? How did they all suddenly change? She suddenly reached a height that I could never reach, while I could only look up at her from below.
Thinking about Tan You's honors, the scholarships she received, and then thinking about her parents' reaction when they learned about her grades...
Despite Tan Ying's turbulent thoughts, Tan You's Saturday was far from peaceful. It began with the return of Tan Zhen, whom she rarely sees, along with her grandson, Chen Chen.
Tan You was too lazy to listen to her insincere praise, and annoyed by Chen Chen running around the house, so she simply called Tan Lin and Tan Yue back.
Upon hearing that Tan Zhen had returned, Tan Lin grabbed Tan Yue and rushed back to his hometown. In less than half an hour, the whole family was there.
Apart from Cheng Wenhui, who works in the factory.
As soon as Tan Yue returned, she snuggled up to Tan You. Tan You played with a Rubik's Cube with her, and Chen Chen reached out to snatch it. Tan Yue slapped it against his hand, glaring at him like a little tiger: "This was given to me by my sister! This is my sister!"
"Don't stand next to my sister!"
Tan Yue is a typical sister-obsessed person; no one can take Tan You away from her.
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