After Rebirth, My Fiancé Helps Me Avenge the Wicked Scum

Chapter 144: Huaiyu Goes Back to School
Thus, after discussing, the siblings decided to invest five hundred thousand yuan in the stock market in R Country, and split fifty thousand yuan in cash equally between them.
Considering that five hundred thousand might be a little insufficient for stock trading, Mengyu picked a few of her favorite Ming Dynasty items that had absorbed Essence Value, and gave the rest to Cheng Jiuhe.
“Sell these. Whatever they fetch, just take it and use it for stock trading in R Country.”
Though these items would be worth a lot in the future, Xiao Tao was right—would she ever be short of money?
Cheng Jiuhe was puzzled: “Don’t you like to collect these things a lot?”
How could she part with them?
In her heart, Mengyu thought that it wasn’t the items she fancied, but the Essence Value they provided.
She couldn’t possibly tell her brother that, so she said: “I only like to study them. I’ve studied these already and don’t need them anymore. Brother, keep them if you like, or dispose of them if you don’t. But, brother, please don’t take any risks, we’re not short on money anyway.”
Cheng Jiuhe secretly praised her, his sister truly trusted him.
However, it was good that his sister trusted him. He needed to find a day to get disguised and sell these items.
Mengyu also thought about the two courtyards. The Jade Garden in Houhai didn’t need much fixing, but the courtyard at Yang’an Alley was in such disrepair that it needed some work before anyone could live there.
“Brother, I’ll give you five thousand yuan to help me fix up the house at Yang’an Alley.”
This time, it was Cheng Jiuhe’s turn to be upset: “I’m your brother, fixing up a house for you, and you want to pay me? How does that make any sense?”
Mengyu shrank her neck: “Alright then, brother, please fix it up. Next year, when I get into university, I’ll come to live here.”
After Cheng Jiuhe left, Mengyu started a shopping spree, transferring everything she bought to a secluded spot, then into her space.
Though both places were opened up due to reforms, her small hometown couldn’t compare with here; thus, she felt that everything she needed, as well as gifts for others, should be purchased in large quantities.
There were no ready-made clothes back in her place, but here they were available, and while Mengyu found the styles not quite to her taste, she eventually bought some cloth and planned to cut and sew it herself.
Even at a suburban free market, she bought quite a lot of meat.
In one afternoon, she spent over two hundred yuan.
The feeling of spending money was exhilarating; after all, back then a worker’s wage was only tens of yuan.
When she returned to Yang’an Alley, she carried only a bundle in her hand.
However, as soon as she arrived at Yang’an Alley, she found Cheng Jiuhe waiting at the door.
She found it strange: Brother left at noon, why has he come back in the afternoon?
As soon as Cheng Jiuhe saw Mengyu, he said: “Boss Gu called, asking you to go back immediately. I’ve bought you a train ticket for seven o’clock this evening.”
Mengyu’s heart skipped a beat: “What happened at home?”
“Get on the train first, I’ll tell you on the way.”
Mengyu was confused but was sent onto the train by Cheng Jiuhe.
As the train started moving, Cheng Jiuhe chased after it, shouting: “Sister, don’t forget to write to me!”
Mengyu poked her head out: “I will, brother, go back now!”
Though it was only a few days, the bond between Mengyu and her brother had quickly warmed up, to the point that it was difficult to part with each other.
Despite their closeness, Mengyu was very aware that their relationship was just one of brother and sister, and for some reason, she was certain of it.
However, thinking about the phone call from Gu Dongxing, she felt a bit depressed: Jiang Huaiyu had actually gone back to study Grade 12 again.
Wasn’t she banned from university for three years because she had impersonated someone else’s identity to attend university? What was the use of her going back to Grade 12?
No, the issue wasn’t about usefulness. Shouldn’t she have been expelled for drugging herself and participating in her own kidnapping?
What depressed her even more was that Madam Jiang and Father Jiang, the two people who sold her to the Zhou Brothers to be a Shared Wife, had been released due to insufficient evidence of human trafficking!