Quick Transmigration: The Mad Beauty Refuses to Be the Scapegoat!-Chapter 75: Cannon Fodder Sister of the Female Lead (27)

The entire kitchen was filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

After all, compared to before, Jiang Lai was much more open and lively. She used to be sensitive and fragile, a mere glance from someone could send her into a spiral of overthinking for half the day. But now, Jiang Qiuhe could joke around with her without any reservations, as Jiang Lai would always give as good as she got, never holding anything back.

"Cough cough, math, how many points in math, a hundred... a hundred and eighteen?!"

Jiang Qiuhe widened his eyes and looked carefully at the test paper in his hand again, making sure there was indeed a one in front of the eighteen. Then he saw that the scores on the back were all strikingly red, with almost every question being full marks. The entire paper was clear and neat, pleasing to the eye.

Jiang Qiuhe not having good grades didn’t mean he hadn’t attended school; he knew perfectly well what these scores meant.

"Little sister, you didn’t secretly bring someone else’s test paper back, did you?"

"Open your eyes wide and see whose name is on top!"

Jiang Sheng took it and looked at it too, and stopped smoking his cigarette, urging Jiang Qiuhe to continue reading.

"Come on, keep going, Chinese, ninety-seven points, wow, that’s great. English, English ninety-nine points! Physics, physics ninety-four, chemistry ninety-six..."

After reading through the entire stack of test papers, Jiang Qiuhe was numb. There were so many subjects, and except for humanities, the science papers were almost full marks. Even if you said Jiang Lai copied it, he wouldn’t dare to believe it.

Moreover, the red award certificate in front of him indeed stated it was rewarding Jiang Lai for achieving first place in her grade.

"Little sister, is this for real?"

"If you don’t believe me, you can come to school with me when it starts to see for yourself. Anyway, I’m the top student in the class now. Mom, top students deserve poached eggs, I want three! With sugar!"

Liu Shuping was in a daze for a long time and couldn’t snap out of it. Even though she hadn’t gone to school, she knew how well Jiang Lai had done and was now unable to extricate herself from the shock of her daughter suddenly ranking first in the grade.

Jiang Sheng looked through the papers again, one by one. His previously furrowed brows relaxed as he tapped the ash from his cigarette pipe, looking at Jiang Lai with a serious expression, as usual.

"The scores are okay, about the same as your sister when she was in freshman year. Keep it up and don’t get arrogant. Sophomore is just the beginning, the real test comes in the third year."

Jiang Sheng had always been strict in educating his children. Jiang Lai didn’t care and nodded, while Liu Shuping turned to get two eggs from the locked cupboard and, while the soup was still hot, cracked them directly into the pot for Jiang Lai.

"If both you sisters succeed, then this lifetime won’t have been in vain for Mom."

Jiang Lai ate the eggs and said with a smile, "You didn’t use to say that. I thought you had already given up on me."

Liu Shuping’s smile froze upon hearing that.

"How can you say that, girl? You’re my daughter, how could I abandon you?"

"Yes, mom, you’re good to me. When I get into a university in Beijing, I’ll take you there to see Tiananmen."

This sentence made Liu Shuping very happy.

Jiang Lai was good at sweet-talking, so she continued, "And then I’ll buy you a house in Beijing and have you live there."

"I can’t dare to expect Beijing, but it’s enough that you have the thought, it makes mom happy."

During dinner, the whole family was in good spirits, except for Jiang Qu.

Because she had been staying at the hospital all these days, and the next day after having her meal, she had to go back there again. She came and went in the cold winds every day, taking care of the bedridden elderly, visibly getting much more haggard.

Liu Shuping, feeling sorry, kept putting food into her bowl.

"Eat more, you’ve gotten thin." 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

"After eating, rest at home for two days. I’ll go take care of it for two days tomorrow."

At this moment, Jiang Sheng suddenly said,

"What about the household if you leave? Who’s going to feed the chickens, ducks, and geese?"

His tone was filled with discontent.

As the head of the family and the team leader, Jiang Sheng had absolute say in the household. Once he spoke, even if Liu Shuping felt sorry, she could only lower her head silently.

Jiang Qu forced back her tears, choking back her voice.

"Mom, you don’t need to take care of it, I can manage by myself. Grandma He will be discharged and come home after a while."

No one spoke at the dinner table. After a long while, Jiang Sheng finally said,

"You need to take responsibility for your own actions. I heard the old lady fell while bringing you food. Since you’ll be a part of their family in the future, take good care of her and fulfill the duties of a future granddaughter-in-law."

"I haven’t even married yet, Dad, are you disappointed in me?"

Jiang Sheng put down his chopsticks and stopped eating.

"I told you to study well, and you’re off dating. Now that you’re engaged, don’t talk about such things, eat."

As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Qu put down her chopsticks, got up, and went back to her room, leaving Liu Shuping sighing alone, with a table full of rich dishes almost overwhelming Jiang Lai.

Soon enough, news came that Grandma He had been brought home.

After such a serious illness, people coming and going in the village would have to bring something to visit.

With He Xing not around, Jiang Qu had no choice but to play the role of a granddaughter-in-law, and take care of things, unable to smile in front of so many people, because she could always hear those people whispering as if they knew everything.

The content was nothing but about her trying to get close to someone else’s family.

A girl from the team leader’s family, a future university student, was now being held back by the He Family.

The hospital had also said, Grandma He had broken her leg and had heart issues. She couldn’t do without medicine and needed someone to take care of her.

So that He Xing could do his business with peace of mind, Jiang Qu kept it together and brought meals there every day.

This winter was particularly cold, He Xing sent Jiang Qu over three hundred yuan, asking her to get a thick quilt for Grandma He and make sure the home was warm with coal, to make nourishing soups for Grandma He.

Looking at the contents of the letter, Jiang Qu felt even more anxious and restless inside.

She was about to take the college entrance exam, hoping to use this winter vacation to catch up on her weak subjects, but now she was enduring the ordeal of taking care of an octogenarian every day.

The atmosphere in that home wasn’t good, stuffy and damp, and even with the stove lit, the smell of musk couldn’t be dispelled.

The smell came from Grandma He.

She couldn’t get out of bed, so she couldn’t bathe, and her eating, drinking, and everything else was all on the bed, handled with a basin, taken out at night, and tossed into a small gap along the edge of the house before dawn the next day.

No choice but to do it this way, the room’s smell was imaginable.

Upon awakening, Jiang Qu felt there was no hope today.

Her entire being took on a more gloomy and dull tone.