After shouting that out, Qi Hongsheng felt as though his heart were churning like a stormy sea. He couldn't calm down for a long while. He had heard absolutely nothing beforehand about his cousin, Tian Xingzhu, coming to their village to settle as an educated youth. Furthermore, he knew that his aunt’s family was extremely well-off. He couldn't fathom why they would be willing to send their daughter down to the countryside.
As far as he knew, although Tian Xingzhu was only a few months older than him, both her personality and her appearance were remarkably similar to his shrewd aunt. He wondered why his aunt would send away a daughter she had always doted on so much. At that moment, what concerned Qi Hongsheng most was whether his aunt didn't trust him and had specifically arranged for her daughter to come here to supervise him. Did this mean the allowances and subsidies from his aunt would soon come to an end?
At the thought of this, he felt a flutter of unease and anxiety. One had to understand that thanks to the subsidies from his aunt and his own parents, he had been living quite comfortably during this time. Even the loss of over 200 yuan when he was robbed by those two thugs last time hadn't been a major blow; it hadn't affected his standard of living at all. Originally, he had planned to just coast along, just as he had told himself when he was being interrogated. Even though he was in the countryside, he had money and food coupons in his pocket, and he would head to…
Chapter 194