Seventies Sweetheart: From Breakup to Billionaire-Chapter 268: Jumping Off a Building

Chapter 268: Chapter 268: Jumping Off a Building
On the stone steps not far from the Lin Family home, Mrs. Lin was chatting with several older ladies.
Seeing Cheng Jinyun come out from the yard, one of the ladies winked at Mrs. Lin.
"Sis, have you found a good match for your son yet?"
The moment Cheng Jinyun’s potential partner was mentioned, Mrs. Lin’s first thought was Jiang Chaoxin.
Perhaps due to first impressions, Mrs. Lin really disliked Jiang Chaoxin, and she feared that Cheng Jinyun might actually find her such a daughter-in-law in the future.
Therefore, Mrs. Lin was very reluctant to look for a partner for Cheng Jinyun now.
"He’s still young, let him train in the army for another two years before considering it."
"Twenty-one is not that young. The son of my brother is only three years older than your son, and now he already has a five-year-old child."
"Although he’s of a young age, finding a partner doesn’t mean immediate marriage; surely some time will be wasted in between. By the time he actually gets married, it would certainly be one or two years later. After marriage, then comes children, by the time you get to hold your grandson, your son would be twenty-five or twenty-six!"
Mrs. Lin gave a shiver.
Lin Yun is getting married?
Lin Yun is having children?
She would have to take care of Lin Yun’s children in the future?
Wouldn’t her leisurely and wonderful life only have less than five years remaining?
No, Lin Yun had already changed his name to Cheng Jinyun.
He was no longer bearing the Lin surname, his registration was moved out of the Lin Family’s household. Legally speaking, Lin Yun was no longer her son.
Why should she bother looking after his children?
"What you said makes sense, indeed we can’t delay anymore. Ladies, if any of you have a suitable girl, please introduce her to my Jinyun."
"That sounds good, we’ll definitely pick the best one for you!"
Early the next morning, Lin Xiang got up and found that Mrs. Lin was up even earlier and had already prepared breakfast.
Mrs. Lin’s breakfast was quite simple, just a few flatbreads, two boiled eggs, and two bowls of corn porridge.
"Mom, I’m heading to school today. Probably won’t be back until Friday afternoon."
"You usually can’t leave the school?" Mrs. Lin immediately grasped the key point, "If students can’t leave school from Monday to Friday, then our little restaurant can’t be up and running!"
"Mom, I didn’t express clearly. From Sunday afternoon to Thursday night, there’s mandatory dorm stay. But except for sleep and class times, we can leave the campus normally."
Mrs. Lin secretly sighed with relief, "You scared me, I thought you couldn’t leave the campus."
"Hey, hold on, since you can leave campus, why not come home once a day? Why make it sound like you won’t see me for days?"
Lin Xiang said, "You’re right, I didn’t express clearly. Mom, I’m off then!"
She waved and took six buns with her.
It’s not that she didn’t want to take more, it’s just that there were only these six buns left at home.
The West Gate is quite close to the girls’ dormitory building, only a three to five-minute walk.
When Lin Xiang hurried back to the dorm, several roommates had just woken up, two were freshening up, and the other two were yawning as they waited in line.
Lin Xiang put the stuffed buns on the table, "These buns are steamed by my mom, she specifically asked me to bring them."
"Thank you, Auntie, Auntie is so kind!"
Several roommates expressed their gratitude to Mrs. Lin.
A total of six buns, Lin Xiang not eating them, left how to distribute them equally to each roommate a difficult problem.
Until Zheng Miaoyue came back and solved the problem they faced.
"I had breakfast at home before coming to school, you guys go ahead without considering me."
Six buns, shared equally among four roommates, each could have one and a half buns.
And they were buns stuffed with plenty of vegetables.
After the other two roommates also finished washing up, the six girls from the dormitory, hand in hand, shoulder to shoulder, headed to the classroom together.
English teaching methods in the seventies were quite different from later generations.
But Huaqing University’s teachers had solid professional skills, their spoken English accent compared to foreign merchants was already eighty percent similar.
It’s just that what the teachers taught were all very basic things, which Lin Xiang already knew herself.
At lunch, Lin Xiang and several roommates went to the first dining hall to eat.
"I’ll have this, and this, this one too, oh, and a bottle of Arctic Ocean soda." Zheng Miaoyue spared no expense, ordering three meat dishes and one vegetarian dish.
Lin Xiang wanted noodles, so she ordered a bowl of sour noodles with shredded meat, with two poached eggs at the bottom.
The other four roommates each chose the dishes they wanted.
Among them, two ordered one meat and one vegetarian dish, Qian Miaomiao opted for a bowl of plain noodles, and Wu Yan took two big buns.
"Didn’t we just have buns this morning? Yanzi, you’re having buns again?" Qian Miaomiao asked quietly.
It wasn’t just buns for Wu Yan, she also got a bowl of free seaweed and egg soup. With the spoon at the bottom of the pot, she stirred vigorously, causing the seaweed to snag onto it, "I was just trying to get a bowl of soup, how come the seaweed is diving into my bowl automatically?"
Wu Yan returned to the table with a bowl full of seaweed.
Although it’s called seaweed and egg soup, apart from soup and seaweed, you wouldn’t see any egg.
However, having this seaweed was already sufficient for Wu Yan.
After Wu Yan finished her two big buns with seaweed soup, everyone returned to the dorm.
There was a two-and-a-half-hour break at noon, and since there wasn’t much else to do, everyone lay down for a nap.
Lin Xiang had just started dreaming when she heard someone yelling downstairs.
"Someone’s jumping, someone’s going to jump off the building!"
Lin Xiang abruptly woke up, but there wasn’t much noise outside anymore. Just as Lin Xiang was beginning to think she had imagined it, she heard Wu Yan say, "Did anyone hear someone yelling about jumping off the building just now?"
"So it wasn’t my hallucination? Is someone really going to jump?"
"Shall we go have a look?"
Lin Xiang: "..."
Spectating chaos truly seems to be in the genes of Hua Country’s people.
"Better not." Lin Xiang yawned, "If someone is at the point of jumping, they must have encountered something they couldn’t solve. Us going to watch would be somewhat inappropriate."
"Lin Xiang has a point, let’s not join in the commotion, let’s sleep."
Lin Xiang lay back in bed, pulling her quilt up and just about to close her eyes when the dormitory door was furiously knocked from outside.
"Is Lin Xiang here? Is Lin Xiang in the dormitory?"
Closest to the door, Zheng Miaoyue asked Lin Xiang while yawning, "Shall I open the door?"
Lin Xiang had already climbed down from the top bunk, "I’ll go see what’s going on first; what if it’s something serious?"
Once Lin Xiang opened the door, she hadn’t even had a chance to ask before the person knocking grabbed her wrist and started running.