Like the New and Dislike the Old - Chapter 32
To talk about Mu Yi’s past, we have to say how she and Mu Yi met. To talk about how they met, you have to talk about the high school.
The two of them met in the second year of high school, when Mu Yi and Liang You were both prominent figures in the school. Although they are both influential figures, the reasons for the situation are different. The two officially met after being alumni for almost two years.
At that time Liang You was still a bad girl, skipping classes and fighting all day long without wearing school uniforms, and messing with idlers outside of school. The color of her hair changed in various ways and there was no black. And Mu Yi is a well-known good student, and his grades have never fallen out of the top ten since entering high school.
However, the reason why Mu is easy to be famous is not because of her good grades, nor because of her good-looking appearance, but because she is a ruthless money-making machine.
Mu Yi makes money by helping others to write homework. An assignment is fifty yuan. She writes at least three points of homework every day. For students, fifty dollars an assignment may be a bit expensive, but the assignments written by Mu Yi are worth the price. Because she can not only imitate handwriting, but she can also write out the problem-solving ideas to prevent teachers from asking questions.
Every school has so many wealthy students with poor grades. What’s more, Mu Yi not only takes the sophomore list, she also takes the first year list, and also accepts both liberal arts and sciences. In this way, her client base is large enough. If it were not for her limited energy, it would be fine to receive dozens of homework orders every day.
Over time, the reputation of Mu Yi has been established. Many students in the first high school know that there is a beautiful female school bull in the second and first class of high school. She is a ruthless money-making machine. Every day, she does homework in all the spare time. Once there was a boy who liked her and confessed to her in public, but was rejected by her for wasting time in falling in love.
From then on, Mu Yi became famous in the first battle. The students gave Mu Yi the nickname ATM because she only had money in her heart like ATM machines.
Originally, such two people would not be able to communicate, but during the second semester of high school, Liang You’s grandmother fell ill. Cancer is very unlikely to be cured.
Speaking of this, Liang You laughed self-deprecatingly, “My dad died when I was very young, and I couldn’t speak at that time. Then my mother ran away and never came back for so many years. My grandmother worked hard. I pulled it up, but I was rebellious and didn’t learn well. It was too late when my grandmother was seriously ill.”
Grandma Liang You had only one wish after she fell ill, that is, she hopes that Liang You can grow up, learn well, and get good grades in the exams and have a future.
But Liang You had never studied hard when she was so old, and good grades are the rewards of long-term hard work. She just wanted to study hard but it was too late. So she prepared to cheat on the exam, in short, she got a good grade in the exam to make her grandma happy and happy.
Liang You’s class is the class with the worst grades in the school, and none of the class has good academic performance. If she wants to cheat, she must find a student with good grades to help, but she doesn’t know any good students, so she locks in the ruthless money-making machine, Mu Yi.
Since she is willing to collect money to do homework on behalf of her, she must be able to collect money to help cheating on the exam.
Unexpectedly, after Liang You used the money to find Mu Yi, Mu Yi refused her. Liang You asked her why, Mu Yi said that writing homework on behalf of others would not have any effect on others, but cheating on exams would affect the ranking of scores, which would be unfair to other students.
Is Liang You the kind of person who cares about fairness? She was not, so she threatened Mu Yi. If Mu Yi quit, she would block Mu Yi in the toilet every day.
Is Mu Yi the kind of person who can be threatened? She was not, so from that day on, Mu Yi only went to the toilet in the building where the principal’s office was located in the school.
The hard thing is not good, but the soft one. Liang You told Grandma Mu Yi’s condition, and said that her only wish was to hope that she could study hard. After listening, Mu Yi felt relieved, and then she said that cheating is impossible, but she can help Liang You study for free.
Liang You collapsed completely and decided to secretly follow Mu Yi to go home, throwing animal carcasses in front of her house. Even if Mu could bear it easily, her family would not be able to bear it, and eventually she would succumb.
However, when she quietly followed Mu Yi home, she saw an unexpected scene.
She always thought that a good student like Mu Yi must have a good family. But she looked up from the stairs on the fifth floor, and saw a woman who was easy to slap and fight in the aisle on the sixth floor, and she couldn’t even listen to her unscrupulous girl with insults in her mouth.
The resident on the fifth floor heard the sound opening the door and shook his head when he saw this scene: “Here it comes again. It’s not the real person just hit it like that. Sooner or later there will be retribution.”
Liang You asked, “Isn’t it her own life? That’s her stepmother.”
“Yes.” The neighbor’s aunt said pityingly: “This girl’s mother died when she was seven years old, and she had a stepmother in less than a year. She has been bullied for so many years.”
Liang You couldn’t believe it, “Does her father leave it alone?”
“Her father?” The neighbor’s aunt was full of disgust. “If you have a stepmother, you will have a stepdad. It’s good if her father doesn’t fight with him.”
After Mu Yi was beaten, he was not allowed to enter the house and was locked outside. She seemed to be used to it, quietly tidying up her torn hair. Just when she was about to go to the park to do homework, a person appeared in front of her.
Liang You stood in front of her and stretched out a hand.
“I only knew it then.” Liang You turned his head and said to Lin Qianshan: “It turns out that my dead father is much happier than some people who are still alive.”
Lin Qianshan looked at Liang You, and he could see deep distress in Liang You’s red eyes. Mu Yi had a life that he could not imagine. How did the girl in such a desperate place struggle to get out of the quagmire, and finally became a graduate of a prestigious university. Liang You returned to his home with Mu Yi and his benevolent grandmother gave it to him. Mu Yi made a delicious bowl of braised pork ribs.
During the meal, grandma used needles and threads to help Mu easily patch up the torn school uniform, and said distressedly: “What a good girl, if my mother knows it, she won’t be distressed…”
Mu Yi, who was already numb, couldn’t cry as he ate the ribs.
In Liang You’s room after the meal, Mu Yi said that he was willing to cheat for her, but he could only help her once.
Liang You sat on her bed and didn’t talk about this topic. She said, “Why are you so desperate to make money?”
Mu Yi said she wants to study hard and earn money, and she will leave this place forever in the future. Liang You thought about it and said to Mu Yi: “I won’t cheat anymore. You help me. I want to get a good result on my own ability.”
Then the well-known bad girl got well all night. She dyed her black hair and stopped skipping classes. In addition to reading books, she read books every day. At the end of the final exam in the second year of high school, her grades rose by leaps and bounds to more than one hundred.
However, grandma’s condition worsened at this time, and soon the family’s money was about to run out. The seriously ill grandma insisted on leaving the hospital. The little savings she had saved for so many years was left to Liang You and could not be wasted on her.
Just when Liang You was desperate, Mu Yi found her in the corridor of the hospital with more than 10,000 yuan.
Liang You knows that this money is because Mu Yi has written countless homework on his behalf, so he can save the money that he can save to the extreme to go to university in the future.
At that moment, the two girls were hugging each other in the corridor of the hospital and wept bitterly.
“From that day on, I decided that I must take good care of Mu Yi. She is my only family member. I will never let her be bullied again.” The tears in the eyes of Liang You said this. Out of my eyes.
“But I still can’t do it.” Liang You covered her face and trembled. “I couldn’t do anything when she was bullied by you. Now she is bullied again, and I still can’t…”
After Mu Yi walked out of the place where she had lived for more than ten years, she did not immediately go back to the hotel.
She walked slowly on the familiar street, where there are her memories from childhood. This road leads to the elementary school, that road leads to the middle school, and the side road leads to Liang You’s house.
She still remembers the first time she went to Liang You’s house, her grandmother cooked braised pork ribs for her. The taste was so delicious, she would never forget it.
She missed Liang You a little bit, so let’s go back tomorrow morning. She believes that Mu Chengcai should not dare to go to city A to find her, because she did not tell lies at that home, she really said those things with the feeling of dying together.
I walked to Liang You’s house. Liang You’s house is a dilapidated, self-built house. This kind of house is not available in a big city. But there are fond memories of her in this dilapidated house, where she and Liang You ate and learned to laugh.
In the year the college entrance examination ended, the two of them worked hard for two months. The day before he was about to report to school, Liang You spread the money they had earned one by one on the bed.
“These are your tuition fees, these are your accommodation and food expenses, these are our travel expenses, these are my money for renting a house in City A…”
Liang You, who was happily distributing the money, couldn’t help frowning, “No, what should I do? I still want to save some money for you to buy new clothes.”
“Then no new clothes.” Mu Yi said indifferently.
“No!” Liang You said firmly, “You will be looked down upon by your classmates when you go to school in shabby clothes. You don’t know how bad some people are, they will bully you.”
“I’m not afraid of being bullied.” 17-year-old Mu Yi said with a smile: “I’m used to it.”
“I don’t allow it!” Seventeen-year-old Liang You hugged Mu Yi tightly, “With me, I don’t allow you to be bullied!”