Received A Wife From The Civil Affairs Bureau Ch.8

Since Mingxing High School was so close to her restaurant, Jiang Ziquan was quite familiar with the streets in the area. She walked around aimlessly for a while, and because she only had one cup of coffee from morning till now, she was extremely hungry. 

Although it has been seven or eight years, she still knew where the shop with the best Chinese food was located and decided to stop by there.

“Hello, what can I get you?”

When the boss saw someone walk in, he quickly stood up and said with a smile. 

Jiang Ziquan glanced at him. This boss is the same from her high school days, although he had a beer belly now, his genial smile remained the same.  

“Give me a bowl of stir fry noodles, extra spicy and some beer please.” 

Although Jiang Ziquan was familiar with the boss, with how long it has been, it was normal for the boss not to remember her.

“Alright, coming right up.” The boss replied. 

Before school let out, usually there were no other customers at this time, but there was a young couple in uniform, presumably skipping class. She smiled as she remembered her own high school days when she would skip class with a few of her friends, but that’s all behind her now. Why? Because she’s married now. 

Every time she thought about Shen Yumo, her heart slowed. Although the two of them had just met, she felt that they were close friends who had known each other for a long time. Speaking of, since Shen Yumo teaches at Mingxing High School now, maybe she was a Mingxing student herself. 

Jiang Ziquan shook her head. Shen Yumo is the same age as her, so that meant they would’ve been in the same year. Shen Yumo’s face would’ve definitely made her a goddess-like figure at Mingxing, so Jiang Ziquan would’ve definitely have heard of her. Plus, Jiang Ziquan knew all the beautiful and good-looking women at Mingxing, it would’ve been impossible for her not to have heard of Shen Yumo. 

“Here you go.” The boss set a bowl of noodles in front of her and then looked down at her. For some reason, this girl looked familiar to him, but he just couldn’t remember from where.

“Thank you, Brother Li.” Jiang Ziquan blinked at him mischievously and smiled. Every student from Mingxing knew Brother Li, so even after so many years she still called out his name with ease. 

When Li Zhangda heard this, he knew that this person was probably from Mingxing. Looking closer at the woman’s pretty face, he frowned and then asked in shock: “Plain water.” 

Jiang Ziquan opened up the bottle of beer and looked at him in surprise: “All these years and you still remember me.” 

“Of course! I see you’ve become even more beautiful now.” Li Zhangda looked her up and down, the image of the youthful girl from years ago overlapped with the woman in front of him. In the blink of an eye, she had grown so big.

Back then, Jiang Ziquan was very popular and would always bring a big group of friends with her to his little noodle shop. Not to mention, she was very beautiful compared to her peers, so of course, the boss remembered her. He had just assumed something had happened to her because she stopped coming some time ago.

Li Zhangda pulled up a chair and sat beside her. The girl from years ago had become so mature, of course he was curious and couldn’t help but ask, “So, why did you come here today?”

Jiang Ziquan poured a glass for the boss and took out her cigarette case, but then looked at the fair-skinned girl sitting not too far away and put it back: “There are other guests here today, so I won’t be offering you a smoke, sorry.”

Li Zhangda nodded, his little friend had become quite a considerate person.

“I’m here to meet a friend today, do you know them?” Jiang Ziquan gently clinked her glass with his, “She teaches literature at Mingxing and is named Shen Yumo.”

Li Zhangda’s eyes brightened for a moment, “Shen Yumo, considered Mingxing’s number one beauty among the teachers. Of course, I know her.” 

“Really?” Jiang Ziquan said with a smile. Well, with Shen Yumo’s looks it’s natural for Brother Li to know of her: “Tell me more.”

Li Zhangda gave her a puzzled look and asked: “Why do you want to know? Do you need something from her?”

“It’s nothing. It’s just that I’ve only made friends with her very recently so I wanted to know her a bit better. That way I can communicate with her better.”

Jiang Ziquan nervously scratched her head, she was too embarrassed to say that she wanted to know more about her wife. 

“Alright then. From what I know, Shen Yumo started teaching here about three years ago. Other than her good looks, she’s also very good at her students. Several of her students have come to brag to me about her. They make it seem like she’s a celestial goddess or something, I’ve heard the same thing every time.” Then Li Zhangda suddenly smiled: “However, this teacher doesn’t like to eat out. I’ve seen her bring students over to eat before, but she would only buy a glass of water every time.” 

Jiang Ziquan’s eyes were widened, obviously, she was listening very seriously to his words. She could almost imagine the gentle Shen Yumo being annoyed till frustration by a group of wild children. 

Li Zhangda waved his hand, “Why are you smiling?”

Seeing Jiang Ziquan’s foolish face, he suddenly thought of something. Haaah, but this teacher is married now. It’s too late for this silly girl now. 

“It’s nothing, don’t worry about it.” Jiang Ziquan smiled awkwardly. If she let slip what happened the other day, Shen Yumo most likely will be angry with her.

“Ms. Shen indeed is very beautiful, but her husband is hmmm….”

The female student next to her naturally felt happy that others were praising her teacher Shen but felt a bit sorry. 

After all, in the minds of high school girls, someone like Shen Yumo should find an ultra handsome and rich husband. Otherwise, they would feel disappointed in their future for if even Shen Yumo couldn’t get a good man, what about them? 

“You are one of Shen Yumo’s students?” Jiang Ziquan was curious. It seems that this girl has seen that scumbag Chen Ruoguang before, so she wanted to know how much Shen Yumo actually liked that guy. 

“En, she taught me for a year when I was a freshman.” The girl nodded her head: “Anyways, her husband came once with a bouquet of flowers and Teacher Shen looked shy when he gave it to her.”

“I-Is that so?” Jiang Ziquan imagined such a scene.

Seeing this, Li Zhangda felt that this was confirmation of his guess. He helplessly patted Jiang Ziquan’s shoulder. No matter what, he’ll be rooting for this young one.

Jiang Ziquan gave him a puzzled look and then finished eating her noodles. Looking at her watch it was 11:20, and then she asked, “Does class still get out at 11:35?” 

“Yes.”

“Alright, then I have to go now. Let’s properly catch up next time, Brother Li.” Jiang Ziquan packed up her things and said goodbye to Li Zhangda. 

“Ok, but don’t drive after drinking.” Li Zhangda advised her after seeing the car keys in Jiang Ziquan’s hands. 

“Ok.” Jiang Ziquan waved her hand as she left.

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“Ok, class let’s end here for today. Remember to do your homework. Class dismissed.” Hearing the bell ring, Shen Yumo reminded the misbehaving brats and let them out on time. 

“We will, goodbye teacher!”

Shen Yumo packed up her lesson plans and returned to her office. At this time, the students rushed out in a hurry, but she didn’t like crowds, so she usually left at twelve, a little later so she could let the traffic die out. Anyways, she had plenty of time this afternoon to spare. 

On the other hand, Jiang Ziquan felt helpless as she watched the crowd of students. She was afraid that Shen Yumo would slip away without her noticing. Although she didn’t see Shen Yumo, there were a lot of guys who asked her for her number. 

“Sorry, I don’t like kids and I’m into women.”

The boys: “Wow, so bold and cool!”

By the time most people had left, Shen Yumo still hadn’t appeared and if it wasn’t for the uncle guarding the gate, she would’ve already rushed in to search for her.

After a while, she saw the beautiful Shen Yumo slowly walking out of the school gate and she even stopped to smile and talk with the guard. 

“She really is beautiful.”

Quickly taking out a mirror, Jiang Ziquan fixed her makeup before walking up.

“Teacher Shen.” Calling Shen Yumo like this, for some reason she felt excited and ashamed at the same time.

Shen Yumo turned to look, only to find it was Jiang Ziquan: “Miss Jiang, you, why are you here?”

The guard beside her: “Teacher Shen, is there any trouble?”

“Huh?” Shen Yumo froze and then saw that the guard was glaring at Jiang Ziquan: “No, she’s a friend of mine.”

“Is that so.” The guard continued to glare at Jiang Ziquan. So Teacher Shen actually has a friend who’s not a six-year-old nor a forty-year-old.

After hearing the conversation between the two, Jiang Ziquan immediately understood and then pointed at herself, saying in an aggrieved tone, “Do I look like a bad person?”

Seeing her expression, Shen Yumo broke out into a smile. The look of grievance on Miss Jiang’s face was too cute, “It seems so.”

Seeing her smile, Jiang Ziquan froze. Her mind stopped functioning and her heart rate accelerated. 

“Teacher Shen, are you going home for dinner?” After a while, Jiang Ziquan finally returned to her senses.

“En.”

“Then, should I drive you back?” Jiang Ziquan asked excitedly as she held up her car keys.

Shen Yumo frowned. Although it wasn’t too heavy, the stench of alcohol on Miss Jiang told her that Miss Jiang was drinking earlier. 

Jiang Ziquan didn’t know this and only thought that Shen Yumo was unwilling and felt saddened. 

“Let me drive. You drank earlier, right?” Shen Yumo continued and didn’t notice the sudden change in Jiang Ziquan’s expression. 

“Ok.” Jiang Ziquan carefully put the keys into Shen Yumo’s outstretched hand. Such a simple thing to offer, but she knew that Shen Yumo would do it.

Originally, she drank just for this very purpose. If Shen Yumo was unwilling, she only had to say she was drinking. According to Shen Yumo’s character, she would not let Jiang Ziquan drive home. However, she almost forgot about it after seeing Shen Yumo. What can she say, she was just too nervous in front of Shen Yumo. Good thing Shen Yumo brought it up first. 

“I’m telling you now, but my driving skills aren’t that good.” Shen Yumo rarely drove, so naturally, she was inferior to Jiang Ziquan when it came to driving. 

“It’s okay, you can drive slowly.” Jiang Ziquan didn’t care, she just wanted to spend more time together and proceeded to fasten their seatbelts. 

“Ms. Shen, did you graduate from Beijin high school No. 1?” 

“Yes, how do you know?” Shen Yumo blinked. Had Miss Jiang already investigated her background? This isn’t a tv show, so how did she do it so fast? However, thinking about it, after yesterday’s craziness, it wouldn’t be weird if Jiang Ziquan at least did some investigation.

“I graduated from Mingxing and since we’re the same age, I would’ve met you before. Seeing how Ms. Shen is teaching at Mingxing, you must’ve been a good student to be able to teach there. Naturally, you must have gotten into a good high school as well.” Jiang Ziquan sounded a little proud as she explained her analysis.

“Ah, so Miss Jiang is from Mingxing, no wonder you’re so familiar with it.” Shen Yumo bluntly nodded. In Beijin there were only three high schools: Beijin high school No. 1, Beijin high school No. 2, and Mingxing. However, Beijin high school No. 2 is actually an art school.

“You can just call me Ziquan.” Thinking that perhaps Shen Yumo was mad that she had appeared all of a sudden. Jiang Ziquan replied in a worried tone.

“Well, another thing, the events from yesterday were posted online.” Shen Yumo frowned. Although she believed only a few students knew for now, soon the whole school would’ve heard about it. It really did cause her a bit of worry.

“Sorry about that, did it cause you any trouble? I had it deleted as soon as I could.” Jiang Ziquan was also reminded of this matter and turned on her phone. Other than a few comments, the video itself was nowhere to be seen.

“No trouble so far and this isn’t your fault. You don’t need to take responsibility for this.” Shen Yumo shook her head. In her mind, the most innocent person in this matter was Jiang Ziquan, “Did this cause you any trouble?”

Jiang Ziquan placed her head in both hands and said in a wronged tone “Of course it has.”

Shen Yumo’s heart twisted in pain. Sure enough, she had brought trouble down on Miss Jiang. Frowning, she apologized, “I’m sorry, if you need to I can…”

Jiang Ziquan interrupted her, looked up and said with a straight face, “The troubling thing is that my friends are asking to see my beautiful wife in person.”

Shen Yumo was speechless, she realized she was being teased. She couldn’t maintain her poker face and glanced sideways. Apart from the helplessness on her face, there was some shyness on it too. 

“Hahahaha!” Jiang Ziquan laughed loudly after seeing that slightly sullen face. The originally clear eyes now had a shy look! Coughing a few times, she stopped laughing. It was not good to continue teasing this old-fashioned teacher and she curiously asked, “There is one question I have though. Can Teacher Shen answer it?”

“What is it?”

Shen Yumo let down her guard.

“Speaking of yesterday, when that matter happened,” Jiang Ziquan glanced at Shen Yumo but she had no expression and so Jiang Ziquan continued, “it was understandable that you got married to me, a little absurd, but understandable. After all, I think I look pretty good. But why did your parents agree to it?”

That’s right, thinking about it, her parents had agreed to it a little too fast. Someone like Shen Yumo with a stable and calm temperament, her parents must be the normal and calm type. If her parents didn’t scold her, they would at least treat Jiang Ziquan coldly. But instead, they seemed quite satisfied with Jiang Ziquan, which made her feel puzzled. 

Shen Yumo unconsciously clenched the steering wheel and her body stiffened a bit. She didn’t intentionally try to hide it, but there weren’t many who would believe her if she told them that absurd prophecy.

“If it’s inconvenient, you don’t have to tell me.”  

Jiang Ziquan couldn’t bear to see her troubled and smiled at her.

“Miss Jiang, please wait for me a little longer. Once I sort everything out, I will tell you the entire story in detail. This is something I can’t explain without a proper talk with you.” Shen Yumo felt nervous, and she continued to call Jiang Ziquan in a formal manner. “There’s a document in my bag, take a look at it.”

Jiang Ziquan grabbed the bag, “I’m opening it.”

“En.” 

After getting a reply, Jiang Ziquan carefully opened the bag and found there were only a few lipsticks and a document. 

In a big font, the words “Marriage contract” appeared at the top. Thinking that this was one of those prenuptial agreements that couples did before they got married, naturally, Jiang Ziquan was very happy and smiled at Shen Yumo. 

“What’s wrong?” Shen Yumo asked after seeing Jiang Ziquan’s suspicious smile, “Is there a clause you don’t like?”

This was no longer small talk anymore.

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