Chapter 2077: Mentality

Qiao Zijin felt that she should give Qiao Nan a call now and have a good chat with her. Others might not understand her. However, Qiao Nan suffered from this issue before. She would understand her. In this family, her father ignored her and her mother was only after her money. She was now like Qiao Nan in the past. As a daughter of the Qiao family, she and Qiao Nan were really too pitiful and unlucky.

An enemy’s enemy was a friend. After having Ding Jiayi as a common enemy, Qiao Zijin felt that she should be able to become affectionate with Qiao Nan. Who asked them to have been oppressed by the same person? “Mom, you’re in a bad mood now. I’ll return to my room and not disturb you. When you’re happy, I’ll find you again.”

Ding Jiayi didn’t stop her when Qiao Zijin wanted to return to her room. Ding Jiayi didn’t know how to use the computer. It was good enough that she was occupied by the TV in the living room.

After returning to her room, Qiao Zijin hurriedly took out her mobile and dialed a number that was foreign to her. “h.e.l.lo, is this Nan Nan? It’s me. I’m your sister…”

When she saw a foreign number, Qiao Nan only thought of trying to pick it up. She didn’t expect that Qiao Zijin would actually call her. “Why do you have my number?”

“I…” Qiao Zijin thought for a while. “Do you need me to spell it out? In this family, who did you give your number to? Nan Nan, you don’t have to guard against me. I’m calling you today to tell you that I understand your pain completely. Mom’s really different from other moms. Other moms only want to help their children lead a better life. Apart from reaching out to ask for money, our mom didn’t make any contributions at all. Nan Nan, you don’t know that Mom’s about to go crazy. It wasn’t enough that she asked me for fifty thousand yuan earlier on. Just recently, she even asked me for one hundred thousand yuan. You know that I don’t have a job as well. I didn’t manage to become a civil servant either. I’m spending all the money in my pockets. If I become a civil servant and have a monthly salary, it would be alright for me to give Mom living expenses… h.e.l.lo? h.e.l.lo!”

Before Qiao Zijin could finish her words, Qiao Nan hung up the call and switched off her phone. She was a pregnant woman now. She should stay away from electronic products like mobile phones.

As for Qiao Zijin’s grievances and affirmation, Qiao Nan didn’t care at all. Qiao Zijin had such a good relations.h.i.+p with Ding Jiayi, and Ding Jiayi always helped Qiao Zijin. Would she believe that the two of them had fallen out? Even if that was the case, it didn’t have anything to do with her. Who knew why they were fighting? The word ‘money’ probably triggered a war between them.

No matter what the reason was, it wouldn’t be something good. If she really interfered in this matter, she would be the only one suffering in the end. Who knows? Perhaps this might even be a show that the mother-daughter pair put on to deceive her. It wasn’t that such a similar method wasn’t used before.

Right. Civil servant. It should be because of that.

“What’s wrong?” Seeing that Qiao Nan’s face changed quite a bit, Zhai Sheng sat next to Qiao Nan with a plate of fruits in his hand. “Have an apple.”

Holding Zhai Sheng’s hand, Qiao Nan took a bite. “I just had a call with my dad. I forgot to switch off my phone and received an annoying call. It’s alright. I’ll feel better in a while.”

“Qiao Zijin called?” Zhai Sheng had good listening skills. Coupled with his strong a.n.a.lytical skills, he could guess it correctly. “This should have nothing to do with your dad.” After so long, that father-in-law from the Qiao family did alright.

“I know.” The apple was crisp and delicious. Qiao Nan couldn’t help but finish the apple slices in Zhai Sheng’s hand in two mouthfuls. “I probably misunderstood Qiao Zijin. I haven’t given birth yet, but she thinks that I’ve gone dumb just because of a pregnancy. Oh right, what’s the result for the civil service examination? Qiao Zijin kept mentioning it in the call. I’m guessing she’s trying to get us to help her.”

After Qiao Nan finished a slice, Zhai Sheng subconsciously fed her another one. Feeding subconsciously was something new to Zhai Sheng. However, he wasn’t irritated at all. In fact, he was enjoying it. Zhai Sheng couldn’t help but think that if Qiao Nan were to give birth to a daughter, he would be willing to feed her like this as well. “Qiao Zijin was already rejected in the interview.”

Zhai Sheng had already said it before that they went by the books. They only looked at abilities, not relations.h.i.+ps. Zhai Sheng never really cared about how it was like to recruit civil servants in the past. However, this year was definitely the most impartial, open, and fair in the history of Ping Cheng. They only looked at results and not connections.

The Qiao family’s neighbor’s child had some abilities but wasn’t the best. As such, she pa.s.sed the written test but was rejected during the interview easily. Thankfully, everything was public. After knowing that she was rejected, she went to look at the information of other candidates and was convinced.

Since there wasn’t any small action or inside story in this matter, she had no choice but to be convinced. She knew it clearly in her heart that since this had already happened, it would be useless for her to say anything else. Her family had really missed the chance to have a relations.h.i.+p like what the Zhai family and the Qiao family had.

The only time they missed this chance was also basically the only chance in this lifetime. The neighbor’s family had nothing else to say to this. It was just that ever since then, the Qiao family’s connections in the northern quad seemed to have worsened again.

“It was a failure.” Qiao Nan didn’t care about this matter at all. If not for Qiao Zijin’s call today, she would have forgotten about this. “As long as the results are fair and it’s purely based on abilities, there’s nothing else to be concerned about. Oh right, I don’t plan to use my phone anymore. Thankfully, I’ve left behind my landline when there’s a need to communicate in the past.”

After receiving Qiao Zijin’s call today, Qiao Nan blacklisted her number immediately without a second word. Even if Qiao Zijin called using another number, it would be easy for Qiao Nan to drag the number to the blacklist. Furthermore, it would cost Qiao Zijin money to change her number.

Even if one card cost only a few dozen yuan, based on Qiao Zijin’s stingy character, she wouldn’t persist for something like this. Before Qiao Zijin could do this, Qiao Nan’s first reaction was to blacklist all the numbers.

“You’re worried about the Qiao family’s matters?” Both of them were already married. However, Zhai Sheng was still a little confused about Qiao Nan’s true att.i.tude toward the Qiao family at times. As a family, Qiao Nan’s feelings for the Qiao family must be complicated. Zhai Sheng was only afraid that even Qiao Nan herself couldn’t figure out her mentality toward the Qiao family.