Chapter 8

The woman was the landlord. She had always been very nice to Jiang Yiyi since she rented the house to the original owner. This was the first time she spoke so impolitely, but since Jiang Yiyi was not the original owner, she didn’t care.

“Okay, just return the remaining rent to me.”

The rent is paid every three months, and there is a five-dollar deposit. Only one month has passed, and twenty-one dollars can be refunded.

“Think of Mei. If you don’t want me to spread your ugly deeds, you’d better move out quickly!”

Jiang Yiyi raised her eyebrows. From what she said, she seemed to know something and wanted to use it to threaten her, but she was afraid of everything except threats.

“If you don’t return it to me, I will stand in front of your house every day and tell people that you are taking advantage of your tenants, so that you can no longer rent out your house.”

“You dare?”

“You can try.”

“Don’t think I don’t know you’re a military wife.”

After saying this, the landlord looked at her smugly. With such a big handle on her, she didn’t believe that Jiang Yiyi would dare to challenge her.

Jiang Yiyi didn’t even raise her eyelids. “Since you know I’m a military wife, you should know what the consequences of bullying a military wife will be.”

Unexpectedly, she was not afraid of threats. The landlord was stunned for a moment. This was different from what she imagined. She imagined that Jiang Yiyi was in a panic after hearing her words. Not to mention the rent, she didn’t even dare to ask for the things in the house. She had already made plans. These things were still new. Even if she didn’t take them home, she could let the next tenant use them, and she could charge at least two dollars more a month.

Bai Jun came back from school and saw black smoke coming out of the rented house from afar. He quickened his pace. Jiang Yiyi should have come to give him money two days ago, but she never came. He has been borrowing meal tickets from his classmates these two days, but it is already the end of the month and his classmates don’t have many meal tickets left. If Jiang Yiyi doesn’t come today, he will starve. As he walked, he was thinking about asking Jiang Yiyi to give him three more dollars in the future to prevent this situation from happening again.

“Hey, the pretty boy is back!”

Hearing the landlord’s sarcastic words, Bai Jun’s face turned pale and he stopped in his tracks, but anger instantly rose in his heart. He had agreed with Jiang Yiyi at the beginning that she would never let anyone know about their affairs. Jiang Yiyi clearly agreed, so why did she tell the landlord?

“He’s still a cultured person, ugh!”

Bai Jun became more and more convinced that it was Jiang Yiyi who told the landlord, in order to force him to admit their relationship. However, from the beginning to the end, he never wanted to be good to Jiang Yiyi. He said he liked her at the beginning, but he just wanted to contact her brother Jiang Jinzhong through her and let Jiang Jinzhong help him with his studies. Later, he even coveted Jiang Yiyi’s money.

“I can’t rent my house to bastards like you anymore. Move out now! If you don’t, I’ll go to your school and make trouble.”

Bai Jun’s face turned even paler. The college entrance examination was just over a month away. If the school found out, he would be expelled, and all his years of hard work would be wasted.

Without bothering to blame Jiang Yiyi, he hurriedly said, “We’ll move right away.”

The landlord looked at Jiang Yiyi proudly.

Jiang Yiyi ignored her and looked at Bai Jun, “Let’s settle the accounts.”

Hearing her words, Bai Jun had a bad feeling in his heart. Sure enough, he heard Jiang Yiyi say, “Everything in the house was bought by me. You have used it for two years, so I will give you fifty yuan for depreciation, as well as the clothes you wear, and the money to buy you food at the state-owned restaurant. The rent and the five yuan I give you every month add up to five hundred yuan.”

The landlord’s eyes widened instantly. Five hundred yuan! This is enough for their family to spend for several years.

“I don’t want the interest, you just need to pay me 571 yuan in total. I know you don’t have money right now, so you should write me an IOU first.”

Bai Jun’s mind was buzzing. He had many brothers and sisters, and he was the oldest. His parents didn’t agree to let him go to high school. They agreed to let him go only after he promised not to spend a penny from the family. If he didn’t have Jiang Yiyi’s money, how could he go to college? How could he be a successful person?

Without caring about the landlord’s presence, he strode into the room, gritted his teeth and reached out to hug Jiang Yiyi, trying to coax her while suppressing his nausea.

Jiang Yiyi directly pushed the fire tongs in front of him. Bai Jun was frightened and stepped back hastily. Seeing that the love in her eyes was gone, Bai Jun became even more panicked. He couldn’t write the IOU. It was only more than 500 yuan. Even if he sold himself, he would not be worth that much.

“Yiyi, what happened? Tell me, and we can slowly solve it, okay?”

This unexpected development stunned the landlord who was standing aside, but then she became excited and quickly took two steps back to occupy the best position. This was a once-in-a-lifetime show and she had to watch it carefully.

“If you still want to take the college entrance examination, write the IOU quickly, and we will go our separate ways from now on. If you don’t write it, I will go to the school to make a scene. You know the consequences of ruining a military marriage.”

Bai Jun certainly knew the consequences of destroying a military marriage. He had worked so hard for so many years just to take the college entrance examination, and his fate could not be ruined. But without Jiang Yiyi’s money, he could not survive the last month or so.

He gritted his teeth and said, “I can write the IOU, but you have to lend me another twenty-nine dollars to make up six hundred.”

I’ve seen shameless people, but I’ve never seen someone so shameless. Jiang Yiyi threw down the fire tongs and walked out.

Bai Jun subconsciously stopped her, “What are you going to do?”

“Go to No. 1 Middle School.”

Bai Jun was so frightened that he was at a loss for words. “I’ll write it right away!”

Jiang Yiyi stopped walking, Bai Jun hurriedly went to the room where he lived to get paper and pen, closed his eyes when he saw the things packed up in the room, and calmed himself down. These plus the things in the kitchen could be sold for twenty or thirty, enough to support him until he finished the college entrance examination. He did not write the repayment date on the IOU, and when he passed the college entrance examination and left here, Jiang Yiyi could ask whoever she wanted for it. Thinking of this, he took the paper and pen and hurried back to the kitchen, “I have used all the things, and you will throw them away if you take them away. Why don’t I keep them and give them to you at the price I bought them for.”

Anyway, it’s just a pie in the sky, and Bai Jun doesn’t feel bad at all at this moment.

“Can.”

The White Army wrote an IOU for a total of six hundred and twenty-one dollars.

When he was almost done, Jiang Yiyi said, “Write the repayment date before August 20th.”

According to Bai Jun’s personality, it is impossible for him to be so straightforward. Jiang Yiyi expected that he would play tricks and did not give Bai Jun any chance at all. Universities start before September 1st, so she wants to get it from Bai Jun before the start of the school.

Bai Jun’s hands trembled as he wrote the IOU. Without Jiang Yiyi, even if he was admitted to university, the tuition would be a huge problem for him, not to mention paying back the money.

“Please hurry up, I have something else to do.”

Bai Jun clenched his left hand into a fist and slowly wrote down the date.

Jiang Yiyi took the IOU and walked out of the house without looking back.

The White Army collapsed on the ground.

The landlord looked at Jiang Yiyi who was riding away on her bicycle, then looked at Bai Jun, curled her lips, but did not say anything about chasing him away. She wanted to leave him a way out so that they could meet again in the future. She had heard from Jiang Yiyi that Bai Jun had good grades and might even be able to get into university. By then, the value of her house would increase, and she would also benefit from it.

Thinking of this, the landlord started to walk out. Bai Jun got up and called her, “I want to check out!”