80s: The Rough Villain's Beautiful Wife is Reborn

Chapter 14 Cowardice is the Root
After walking around the market for more than an hour, Du Juan bought everything.

I am very restrained and don’t buy much. I just buy enough to change and wash on a daily basis.

Shang Xiaojun found a guesthouse for her not far from her home.

"Be sure to bolt the door. I'll bring dinner over in a minute."

Du Juan nodded and said, "Please help me find a house as soon as possible. Living here is too expensive."

Six bucks a night.

There was originally a four-person room for two yuan, but Shang Xiaojun didn't want her to stay in that kind, so he wanted to give her a single room, and this was the price.

She was afraid of letting Du Juan live with those strangers, even though the rooms were separated by gender. She had no objection to renting a single room, but the price was too painful.

After careful calculation, she had borrowed more than 70 yuan from Shang Xiaojun just this afternoon.

This is almost as much as her monthly salary...

Why are everyone in a hurry to find a house?

Shang Xiaojun: "Let's talk about it tomorrow after we deal with your family's affairs."

He knew how those people from the Women's Federation would deal with this matter.

Du Juan: "What does it matter? I'm not going back anyway, so I'd better find a place to live as soon as possible."

If I book a room for six dollars tomorrow, I will lose a lot of money.

Shang Xiaojun looked at her painful expression, smiled and said, "You are really stupid."

Du Juan: "What do you mean?"

How does this person talk? She feels like she has become a lot smarter after being reborn.

Shang Xiaojun didn't reply, but pointed to the bag containing clothes on the table.

"There's something in there. My mother gave it to you. Keep it well."

what is this?

Du Juan was a little confused. She walked over and flipped through it, and found a stack of big unity notes.

"Hey, why did you give me money?"

Du Juan looked back, but Shang Xiaojun was no longer at the door. He had already left.

This?
Du Juan chased to the door, looked around, didn't see Shang Xiaojun, and didn't dare to chase him out with the money, so she had to close the door.

I counted them and there were exactly two hundred.

"Forget it, just consider it a loan."

There are still many places where money will be spent later.

Du Juan found a needle and thread and sewed a small pocket on her underwear, leaving twenty yuan in it and stuffing the rest in.

After putting the money away and asking the waiter to get some hot water, Du Juan went to the public bathhouse to take a shower and wash her hair. She also simply washed the clothes she bought today. After that, she borrowed a pair of scissors from someone and stood in front of the mirror on the sink. She began to look at herself carefully.

When she was a ghost, she was only a spirit but not a physical body. Come to think of it, she hasn't looked at herself so seriously for decades.

So unfashionable! Look at the thick bangs, they can be used as a quilt, and she cut them herself.

Du Juan couldn't explain why she had such a gloomy hairstyle.

The main reason is that she is always being stared at, which is very uncomfortable, especially by men.

Du Juan knew that she was attractive.

When she was little, everyone thought she was silly and stupid. But when she grew up, she had two more characteristics: she was like a vixen, had a sexy smell, and could seduce men.

Who would like to be spoken of like that if they are a person who knows etiquette and shame?

In her previous life, Du Juan only knew how to hide and try not to show up in front of those people.

She thought that this would help her avoid those uncomfortable looks.

This way she can clarify for herself that even though she was avoiding them like that, those people still surrounded her. It was not her problem and she did not seduce anyone.

Indeed, this reduces the sense of presence and sometimes has some effect.

But from another perspective, her behavior is showing her cowardice to outsiders, making people think she is easy to bully.

It was because of this that her family did not treat her as a human being, and her sister-in-law who married into the family from outside dared to sell her at a fixed price. Even Du Yanqin, an outsider, could be used recklessly.

Therefore, beauty is not the original sin, cowardice is the root cause!

Thinking of this, Du Juan raised the scissors. Since we want to change, let's start from the beginning.

But before he could make a move, a tall and broad figure of a man suddenly appeared in the mirror.

"be surprised!"

There was no doubt that she was frightened.

The truth was, she was immersed in the past and in her own world that she wanted to change, and was unable to recover when someone broke in.

Fortunately, the person who came was not someone else but Shang Xiaojun who was carrying a lunch box.

Shang Xiaojun: “What are you doing?” Is it necessary to react so strongly when seeing me? It’s as if he saw a ghost.

Shang Xiaojun looked at the scissors she held in her hand and asked, "Want to cut your hair?"

Du Juan nodded, "I'm getting ready."

Looking at her bowl-shaped bangs, Shang Xiaojun frowned, "What good can you get by cutting them yourself? Let's eat first, and then I'll take you to the barber shop."

Well, her hairstyle is ugly enough, and it would be even worse if it was cut badly by accident.

Du Juan returned the scissors and went back to the room with Shang Xiaojun.

Four large lunch boxes and a bowl of soup.

Shang Xiaojun didn't eat either, so he brought it over to keep her company.

The food was on the table, still warm.

I guess it was put on right after it came out of the pot.

The dishes were very rich, including sweet and sour fish, twice-cooked pork, and an egg soup.

Shang Rong’s cooking skills are amazing, this dish is so delicious.

Du Juan ate every bite of rice and every bite of vegetable, feeling extremely satisfied.

Shang Xiaojun put down his chopsticks and watched her eat. When Du Juan finished all the rice without leaving a single grain, he asked, "Is that enough?"

"Enough is enough."

Du Juan took a look at the empty dish and said a little embarrassedly: "It's mainly because the food my aunt cooked is so delicious." She couldn't help herself.

I hope Shang Xiaojun doesn’t think I’m eating too much. I’m almost finishing up his share of the dish.

Shang Xiaojun didn't think too much about it. He poured the remaining soup into the rice and shook it, then quickly cleaned the lunch box.

When Du Juan saw him going to wash the lunch box after eating, Shang Xiaojun didn't let her.

"There are so many people outside, I won't say anything in the afternoon, but you are not allowed to go out at night."

The washbasins in the guesthouse are all public. Although they are divided into male and female ones, the difference is not too big.

Du Juan: “I understand.”

After Shang Xiaojun washed the lunch box, he took Du Juan out to get her hair cut.

He took her to several places on his bicycle and only let her in after seeing that the hairdressers there were women.

The lady who cut her hair asked her what she wanted to do?
Du Juan touched her long braid.

"I want to cut it short, and I don't want these bangs anymore..."

Since you're already at the barber shop, you might as well get a thorough haircut.

Shang Xiaojun sent Du Juan to the door but did not go in. He sat on a small chair outside and smoked a cigarette.

When he felt it was about time, he casually glanced inside from the window and was stunned.

At this time, Du Juan's hair had been cut, and the elder sister was smiling and saying to her: "Your hair is cut, but it's hard to get bangs. If you don't want to keep it, it's best to grow it long, and it won't matter what you do when it grows back."

So, the bangs can’t be moved?

Du Juan thought about it, took a comb and parted her hair to the side, then imitated the young girls of later generations and braided her bangs strand by strand.

She heard people say that this was called something like a fishbone braid.

Although this is also a braided hairstyle, it is undeniable that it is much more fashionable than the pigtails that are everywhere on the streets today.

Du Juan quickly braided her hair and secured it with a black hairpin.

In this way, her entire face was exposed.

(End of this chapter)