Chapter 13: Hitting the Jackpot

Xia Keqing curled her lips and smiled, “Why don’t I have to pay you back?”

Shen Jichuan stared at her for a while, he saw a hint of amusement in the corner of this little girl’s lips.

Her smile was so sweet, but it looked like she was teasing him.

He felt it was necessary to explain to her.

So he said seriously, “Comrade Xia Keqing, we are engaged, we are fiancé and fiancée, when we get married, we will be family.”

He paused, “I’m usually busy with work, I may not be able to accompany you all the time. I may also not be able to take care of things at home.”

“I hope our relationship model is the husband working outside and the wife staying at home.”

“Of course, after I come home, I will also take on some housework, we will work together and run our family together.”

Xia Keqing propped her chin and looked at him, he was so serious when he spoke.

This man was so charming, from head to toe.

Even in the future, many men liked to use the phrase “husband working outside and wife staying at home” to bind women.

In reality, they might not earn much money outside, and they would sit at home with their feet up, doing nothing, waiting for their wives to serve them.

Shen Jichuan was a man of this era, it was not easy for him to have this kind of awareness.

Xia Keqing looked at him deeply, “Okay, then we will each do our part.”

“But Shen Jichuan, you know I like to read, I like to learn new knowledge, after we get married after I graduate, I won’t stay at home all the time.”

Shen Jichuan was stunned, “What do you want?”

Xia Keqing directly made her request, “Arrange a job for me.”

Shen Jichuan was a regiment-level cadre, after they got married, she would be a cadre’s family member, arranging a job for a cadre’s family member was a small matter.

After all, properly arranging family members was also part of the military region’s work.

Shen Jichuan thought for a moment, then nodded, “Okay.”

He had already known that she was different from ordinary rural women.

In Shen Jichuan’s impression, his mother was the most typical rural woman, she took care of housework and children every day, her back was bent, she never stopped working all day long.

But when Xia Keqing wrote to him, saying she wanted to study, he knew she was different.

After studying, she definitely wouldn’t be content to be a housewife at home and take care of the family.

But he had known from the beginning that she was different.

So he accepted it quickly.

Xia Keqing looked at him, couldn’t help but laugh, “Then I have to work, who will do the housework?”

Shen Jichuan thought about it seriously, “We’ll do it together after you get off work.”

Good.

Xia Keqing gave the man another high score.

Mainly, Shen Jichuan had a very reliable face, when he said these words with that cold face, she knew he would be able to do it.

She really hit the jackpot.

…

After dinner, Shen Jichuan insisted on sending Xia Keqing back to school, then he went back to the hotel.

He told her that he had come on leave to see her this time.

He didn’t come back when the engagement was arranged last time, he felt sorry for her.

He had seen her now, he had to go back tomorrow.

Xia Keqing was naturally reluctant.

With Shen Jichuan around, Chen the Scumbag didn’t dare to bother her.

But although things in this era weren’t fully developed, as long as she didn’t want to, Chen the Scumbag wouldn’t dare to openly do anything to her.

Xia Keqing and her roommate He Xiaolan went shopping for clothes in the market together.

Actually, the clothes were all similar, fashion is a cycle, Xia Keqing carefully selected, and she could actually find some good clothes.

She also matched several outfits for He Xiaolan.

He Xiaolan was overjoyed, “Keqing, you have such good taste, I look taller wearing this.”

Besides Zhao Juan, who was tall, the other three in their dorm were about the same height.

But He Xiaolan was the shortest.

She always felt that being too short was not good, it wasn’t imposing at all.

Xia Keqing couldn’t help but laugh, the outfit she had matched for He Xiaolan could lengthen her leg line, so it looked taller visually.

“Of course, you’re a three-meter giant now.”

He Xiaolan was stunned, she couldn’t help but spit, “When did you learn to talk like that? It doesn’t sound right at all?”

“Did your fiancé teach you?”

Before Xia Keqing could speak, He Xiaolan denied herself, “Impossible, your fiancé looks like a very proper person.”

Xia Keqing: ?

I’m not proper?

He Xiaolan looked at her and “pfft” burst into laughter.

“Okay, okay, I know you’re saying I’m tall, hehe.”

As they were talking, Xia Keqing suddenly had an idea.

In the early 1980s, conditions were actually very relaxed, as long as you dared to think and dared to do, there was gold everywhere.

But before this idea could fully take shape, it was interrupted.

“Are you Xia Keqing?”

Two unfamiliar girls stood in front of Xia Keqing and He Xiaolan, their faces arrogant as they stared at her and asked.

Xia Keqing was a little puzzled.

But she also felt that one of the girls was familiar.

But she couldn’t remember for a moment.

He Xiaolan immediately stood up, “Who are you? Why are you pointing at our Keqing? Do you have any manners?”

This was a direct admission of Xia Keqing’s identity.

But Xia Keqing was not afraid of these two.

“I’m Xia Keqing, who are you?”

The girl with shoulder-length hair among the two girls immediately glared at her when she admitted it, “You’re not that pretty either, you’re just a little whiter, nothing special.”

“I thought college students were something else.”

He Xiaolan was immediately unhappy when she heard this.

“Hey, who are you? Why are you talking like that?”

Xia Keqing felt even more familiar with this girl.

Until the other girl asked directly, “Did you ask Chen Zhou for money?”

Xia Keqing finally realized why she felt familiar with this girl.

Wasn’t this Chen Zhou’s sister, Chen Lili?

Chen Zhou had five siblings, he was the eldest, and he was also the only college student, he was the most successful person in the family.

So his four younger siblings earned money with their parents to support him.

But Chen Zhou was willing to ask his parents for money, but he wasn’t willing to ask his younger siblings for money.

So the five siblings had a good relationship.

The elder brother was a college student, he was successful, and he didn’t ask them for money, Chen Zhou’s two younger brothers and two younger sisters all respected him very much.

Before, Xia Keqing was the sucker, he lied to his family, saying that he contributed articles to magazines and could earn a living, but in reality, that money was all tricked from the original owner.

Now he had to pay back the money, where could he get so much money?

He couldn’t ask his parents, so he could only trick his younger siblings.

He told his younger siblings that a classmate had borrowed money from him.

This classmate was Xia Keqing.

He even made up a story, in his story, Xia Keqing was a poor girl from the countryside, her family was poor, her parents didn’t care about her, and she often couldn’t afford to eat.

Because they were classmates, out of pity, she asked him, and he had to lend it to her.

But Chen Lili felt something was wrong, she thought Xia Keqing was shameless.

How could she dare ask a classmate for so much money?

Although Chen Zhou made up many excuses, Chen Lili was still reluctant.

So she brought her best friend to find her.

She went to the school first, and heard that Xia Keqing and her roommate had gone out, they went in the direction of the market, so she came to try her luck, and she happened to run into them.