My CEO Baby Daddy Keeps Falling for My Tricks-Chapter 825 - 834 Mother’s Best Friend 3

Aunt Zhang steadied herself, but her body still let out a wheeze.

"Aunt Zhang, you really look pale. No matter is more important than your own life. It’s really dangerous for you to go out in this condition. Of course, if you’re in a real hurry, we could drive you there instead!" Lin Xiangwan suggested a compromise.

Aunt Zhang, slightly tipsy, looked at the anxious young face in front of her and couldn’t help feeling a sense of familiarity, and she laughed. "Why do I feel like I’ve seen you somewhere before? You seem very familiar."

Lin Xiangwan laughed, thinking that the auntie must be truly drunk. Otherwise, why would she be smiling at her? "Maybe it’s fate that brought us together? Otherwise, we wouldn’t have met here, right? Aunt Zhang!"

Aunt Zhang nodded. "Hmm, maybe I really am drunk! Forget it, if I’m drunk, I can’t do any more work today!"

Lin Xiangwan smiled. "Auntie, what work do you do now, and where do you live?"

"I’m a piano teacher. Heh, it’s a bit embarrassing to say, but I graduated from the Central Music Academy. Now, I can only make a living by teaching students the piano, and I haven’t really accomplished much in this field!" Aunt Zhang said with a touch of disappointment.

"Not at all, teaching piano can be very lucrative. Especially tutoring students who are preparing to audition for the Central Music Academy, charging thousands per lesson. The income is really high!" Lin Xiangwan still said with envy.

"Hehe, I’m not a teacher at the Central Music Academy, how could I earn that much? I just teach children who like the piano. Of course, I’ve also sent some students to the highest institutions for studying piano, and many of them are now famous internationally!"

Perhaps because she had drunk too much, Aunt Zhang became more talkative, and her face showed a hint of pride. The feeling of having her former students spread far and wide was just like this.

"To have been admitted to the Central Music Academy in Aunt Zhang’s era, one must have come from a rather well-off family!"

Aunt Zhang smiled. "My father once served as the mayor of B City, and at his peak, he even made it into the central government!"

"I see, so Aunt Zhang is the daughter of a high official!" Lin Xiangwan said with evident admiration. "Then... Aunt Zhang, how could you be friends with my aunt? My aunt’s circumstances should be... not that great!"

Qin Muchuan had also provided her with some information about Li Hongge. She came from a village in the south, then went to university, and afterward, rode the wave of studying abroad despite the fact that she couldn’t speak a word of English back then, which was quite progressive for that era.

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"Hmm... She didn’t attend the Central Music Academy; she was from the Business Academy. At that time, there weren’t many girls in college, and there were not many college students in general. Inter-university social events allowed me to meet her; she was the one who came over and struck up a conversation with me!" Aunt Zhang seemed to drift back to the past, her eyes interwoven with various emotions as if holding many tales within.

"She approached you and befriended you?" Lin Xiangwan asked.

"Right!"

An answer formed in Lin Xiangwan’s mind. It seemed that Li Hongge had taken the initiative to get to know her, ingratiating herself with the present Aunt Zhang.

A slightly tipsy Aunt Zhang sarcastically laughed. "Maybe you won’t like hearing this, but I still want to say it. Your aunt is not an ordinary person. She’s very calculating. She approached me deliberately, hehe, and then I trusted her. During that era, material supplies were very limited. We had to use food coupons to eat, and for some reason, maybe because of her poor social standing, she had very few coupons, plus she had no money, so she was always hungry. One weekend, she came over to my place, and I gave her my excess coupons and sometimes a bit of money, even as much as one yuan. Back then, one yuan was a lot and could do many things!"

Although Lin Xiangwan hadn’t experienced that era, she had some understanding through films and TV shows. "Aunt Zhang, thank you!"

"Hehe, you’re quite kind, thanking me even though I spoke ill of her. Are you really not upset?" Aunt Zhang asked, looking at the kind young face with a smile.

Lin Xiangwan shook her head. "I’m not upset. Being objective in what you do is the least I can do as a principle!"

"Hehe..."

"Aunt Zhang, you’re really naive to have not seen through her intentions which were more than just friendship, and you shouldn’t have let her take advantage of you the whole time!"

Aunt Zhang gave a wry smile, speaking with a sense of detachment. "I wasn’t unaware that she befriended me because she had something to gain. I knew this from the start, and I wasn’t clueless about what I was doing every time I gave her coupons and money. But I didn’t care, it didn’t matter to me. Child, you haven’t lived through those times. Some people were truly hungry. Once a person is hungry, they have to figure out how to fill their stomach, and that’s human nature. I didn’t give to her because she duped me; I thought it was right to help someone in need. There’s nothing shameful in her needs, and she had no improper desires."

After hearing all this, Lin Xiangwan felt her previous thoughts were selfish and petty, incomparable to the aunt’s level of generosity. "Auntie, you’re truly a good person!"

"I was born into a really good family. Even though in that era everything was more or less equal, and we all ate the same food, I was at least never very hungry!"

"Yeah!"

"I was born with good fortune, so I should be grateful and help others within my means!" As she spoke, Aunt Zhang revealed sorrow so profound it seemed to tear at her heart. "But she harbored thoughts she shouldn’t have, she stole my man!"

Lin Xiangwan became curious about this man. Could he possibly be her father? "Who is he? How old is he? What does he do? Is he good-looking? Also from a family of officials?"

"He was my childhood sweetheart... using your modern terms, yes, he was the child of a high official, handsome, and a very nice person!"

"Did they... How did they end up together?"

"By that time, we had graduated. Since she was from out of town and wanted to stay for work without any place to live, I let her move in with me. By the way, she became our family’s domestic helper. At my father’s level, we could have a domestic helper! She could earn a salary each month and had a place to live."

"So you created an opportunity for her, didn’t you?"

"Yeah, that’s right, just like that! One day, I came home and heard noises coming from her room. I also heard my boyfriend’s voice. I pushed open the door and, to my horror, saw them together!"

"..." Lin Xiangwan could imagine the pain, the humiliation of betrayal was indeed hard to bear.