Rebirth begins with an arranged marriage

Chapter 59 I'll Fight Him to the Death

As soon as Guan Xiaolin finished speaking, Song Siyuan, who was not far away, started laughing and talking to his classmates about what had just happened, vividly describing how He Genbao was so arrogant and thought he was something special...

Some of the classmates laughed along, and for a moment it was quite lively.

Guan Xiaolin frowned slightly: "Song Siyuan, stop making things worse."

"It was a misunderstanding, and it's all cleared up now. There's no need to keep making fun of your classmate."

Song Siyuan was in high spirits when he heard this, and responded with a displeased "Oh."

He added, "Class monitor, it's really infuriating that he keeps tattling on others... If he stops tattling on others, I won't laugh at him anymore. But if he doesn't change, I'll laugh at him every day and embarrass him."

Listening to this, Guan Xiaolin felt slightly troubled: what Song Siyuan said wasn't entirely unreasonable, and she couldn't let He Genbao continue to complain, but she also couldn't respond with Song Siyuan's ostracizing and mocking approach.

Are relationships between classmates really that difficult to manage?

Being the class monitor this year has truly been a tough test of my skills.

"Song Siyuan, classmates shouldn't make fun of each other right now. Let's resolve any problems amicably..."

"Alright, class monitor, you're right." Song Siyuan quickly raised his hand. "As long as He Genbao doesn't cause trouble anymore, I definitely won't say anything to him, okay?"

"However, this isn't just something I'm saying. He offended people unnecessarily, and there are definitely others who will laugh at him."

At this point, Guan Xiaolin was speechless.

He walked around the classroom, sat down at the desk in front of Tang Huaiyi, and sighed while resting his chin on his hand.

"Everything was planned perfectly, how did it turn out like this?"

Tang Huaiyi picked up his chopsticks and continued eating, gesturing for Li Xiujuan to eat some as well, but Li Xiujuan shook her head again.

Tang Huaiyi raised his hand to flick her forehead, and Li Xiujuan covered her head and dodged, but still refused to come over to eat.

"Don't do that again. If you do it again, I won't eat with you. I'll ask the class monitor to save some food for me."

After Tang Huaiyi finished speaking to Li Xiujuan, Li Xiujuan nodded repeatedly, though it was unclear how much she had actually taken in.

At this moment, Tang Huaiyi answered Guan Xiaolin's question while eating: "You don't need to get annoyed. Some people just overreact to people and things."

"You're not embarrassed today because you talked to him, but you'll embarrass yourself for other reasons someday. You just happened to be there, which is why you couldn't muster any energy and were completely stunned."

"If it were any other normal student, there wouldn't be so many problems."

"Really?" Guan Xiaolin said.

"Yes, don't doubt your abilities because of other people's strange reactions," Tang Huaiyi said. "People are all different, and you can't communicate normally with everyone."

Guan Xiaolin nodded, glanced at Tang Huaiyi again, and suddenly laughed: "I already felt that you didn't talk like a student, and now you talk even less like one."

"Children from poor families mature early and learn more," Tang Huaiyi changed the subject. "How's Crow doing?"

When this was mentioned, Guan Xiaolin's eyes lit up and she perked up: "It's incredibly smart!"

"You don't know, I gave it some corn kernels yesterday..."

She spoke excitedly, swaying her ponytail, while Tang Huaiyi listened and nodded. Before long, they finished their meal.

Li Xiujuan reached out and took the chopsticks and rice bowl from him, then went to wash them clean.

Seeing this, Guan Xiaolin smiled and said, "Li Xiujuan is very virtuous."

"Squad Leader Guan, are you implying something?" Tang Huaiyi said.

After hearing this, Guan Xiaolin felt a little embarrassed to bring it up and ask them if they were dating—she felt that asking would be meddling in other people's business, so she decided to just observe and figure it out herself.

"By the way, why didn't you eat lunch at the school cafeteria today?"

"Something came up," Tang Huaiyi said, then looked up and saw his third uncle, Tang Zhengcai, standing at the classroom door. He stood up and said, "Here comes my third uncle."

After saying something to Guan Xiaolin, Tang Huaiyi walked to the door.

"Third Uncle, how did the talks go?"

Tang Zhengcai, beaming with joy, exclaimed, "Huaiyi, I have to thank you so much! If it weren't for you, I would never have met such a wonderful wife as Teacher Xu in my entire life!"

"Teacher Xu saw that I was honest and had no ulterior motives, so she agreed!"

Upon hearing this, Tang Huaiyi couldn't help but feel pleased: "That's good!"

Then she put on a serious face and said, "Third Uncle, I have to remind you that marriage is not a joke. I'm the one who introduced you two. If you ever tell me that you don't like Teacher Xu or that you've wronged her, I'll be the first to disagree."

"Everything has been made clear today. If you have even the slightest doubt, you cannot get married."

"No ambiguity, absolutely no ambiguity!" Tang Zhengcai said firmly. "I've been a bachelor for half my life, and to meet such a wonderful wife as Teacher Xu, and to be able to live in the city, is the greatest blessing I can have."

"If I ever dare to wrong Teacher Xu in the future, Huaiyi, you can beat me up and break my legs. I'd definitely deserve it!"

Seeing how determined he was and how genuinely overjoyed he was, Tang Huaiyi nodded and said, "Okay, Third Uncle, remember what you said today. Be good to Teacher Xu, be the pillar of the family, and don't waste money outside anymore."

Tang Zhengcai said somewhat embarrassedly, "Back then, I wasn't on the outside side. I thought that Ma Xiangju could be your third aunt, which is why I spent money on her family."

"If I had known she was that kind of person, I would never have spent money on her."

"Now that I have Teacher Xu, I definitely won't do that anymore."

He then told Tang Huaiyi, "I'll go back this afternoon and ask Jia Laoyi for a letter of introduction. I'll come to the city tomorrow to marry Teacher Xu—"

"Um, Third Uncle, wait a minute."

Tang Huaiyi stopped the overjoyed Tang Zhengcai: "Is this letter of introduction absolutely necessary?"

Tang Zhengcai nodded: "We need to get married, otherwise it's hard to prove it."

"Especially for someone like me who's moving from the village to the city, I definitely need a letter of introduction."

Tang Huaiyi shook his head: "But that Jia Laoyi is no good. This letter of introduction won't be easy for you to get."

"When the production team distributed land, his family had good land and a lot of land. His family's one mu of land was more than other people's one mu and three fen of land. Our family only got bad land."

"He's been bullying our family ever since then, and he's always been the one to act like a tyrant in the village; and that widow Ma, she's had an affair with him too."

"If when you go to get the letter of introduction, he has bad intentions and refuses to give it to you, and even tells Widow Ma, and Widow Ma keeps pestering you, Third Uncle, do you think you can still come to the city to get married? If Teacher Xu finds out about this, do you think she'll still be willing to marry you?"

Tang Zhengcai's joy was immediately met with a bucket of cold water.

"Huh? He... dares to do this?"

"What wouldn't he dare to do? Dividing the land, getting involved with Widow Ma—aren't those things even bigger than this? He did them all, and he's still living a comfortable life." Tang Huaiyi reminded him, "I think if someone like Jia Laoyi saw that you were coming to the city to get married, he wouldn't even bother to issue a letter of introduction, let alone have Widow Ma as his lover."

"Even without Widow Ma, if he saw that you wanted to live a good life, he would definitely make excuses and refuse to give you a letter of introduction."

Tang Zhengcai listened and thought carefully about Jia Laoyi's character, and felt that it was indeed the case.

With a determined look in his eyes, he gritted his teeth and said, "Just this one step away, and I can finally live the good life of marrying Teacher Xu in the city!"

"If Old Jia really dares to deliberately obstruct me, I'll fight him to the death!"