Zhuang Feifei saw Li Hongying standing in the Liu family's courtyard with a towel wrapped around her head. When she looked inside, her eyes met Li Hongying's. It must have been after she learned that Li Hongying was going to take away her space that she developed a natural fear of Li Hongying, which made her instinctively shrink back and then quickly walk away.

When Li Hongying saw her, greed took over. She saw her as a lamb to the slaughter and walking money. She didn't care whether she was in postpartum confinement or not. There was only one thought in her mind: catch up with Zhuang Feifei, get her last drop of blood, and take over her space!

However, she was spotted by Liu Aiguo as soon as she stepped out of the house. Liu Aiguo caught up with her and pulled her back: "You can't even be quiet during your postpartum confinement period, what do you want to do?"

Li Hongying was dragged back into the house by Liu Aiguo. If she chased after Zhuang Feifei now, she wouldn't be able to find her. She clenched her fist secretly, hoping that her postpartum period would end soon.

Grandpa Zhang had just finished hauling Luo Jingyan's things in his oxcart and returned home when Zhuang Feifei came knocking on his door, asking him to help her move.

Grandpa Zhang was quite old and really tired. "Young lady, I just finished helping Luo Zhiqing move today, and I'm exhausted. Can you move yours tomorrow?"

Grandpa Zhang was telling the truth, but in Zhuang Feifei's eyes, it seemed as if Grandpa Zhang was deliberately not wanting to help her. Grandpa Zhang had just driven the carriage for Luo Jingyan and even offered to help Luo Jingyan carry her things, but when it came to her, he made excuses.

"Grandpa, I really want to move out today. I'm not used to living in the educated youth settlement. Some people snore, and some sleepwalk. I can't sleep well every day. I finally finished building the house so I could move out as soon as possible. Grandpa, you must help me move out today, otherwise I will have to suffer from their torment. I really can't stand it anymore."

Upon hearing this, Grandpa Zhang, who had just sat down on the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed) and hadn't even warmed up yet, had to stand up again.

Seeing how tired he looked, and that he was about to go out to work with others, his wife, Aunt Zhang, couldn't bear it and went to persuade Zhuang Feifei to leave.

“Young educated youth, your Uncle Zhang is really tired today. Let him rest and go tomorrow.”

But Zhuang Feifei remained unmoved: "Auntie, you don't need to persuade me anymore. You didn't sleep at the educated youth settlement, so you don't understand my predicament. I'm moving out today no matter what. If you don't let Uncle Zhang come with me, I'll go talk to the village chief."

Aunt Zhang was getting a little anxious. "I'm telling you, you silly girl."

"Alright, alright." Grandpa Zhang waved his hand at Grandma Zhang: "I'll go, it won't be long."

So, Grandpa Zhang had no choice but to follow Zhuang Feifei out again in the oxcart, returning to the educated youth settlement to help Zhuang Feifei haul things.

Zhuang Feifei didn't have as many things as Luo Jingyan. She only had a large wooden box containing a few pieces of clothing, a washbasin stand, a shelf for other items, and some shoes, washbasins, and other toiletries.

But she just saw several people helping Luo Jingyan move her things. When she was moving her things, those people just watched from the side and didn't offer to lend a hand.

She was angry, bit her lip, and secretly glared at Jiang Manyue and Sun Tiantian, cursing them as Luo Jingyan's lackeys who were eager to please her.

These people helped Luo Jingyan but not her, and the other educated youths didn't help her either, which made her lose face. She didn't want to lose face in front of so many people, and she wanted to prove that she was no less than Luo Jingyan.

She took out some chocolates from the box and deliberately bypassed Jiang Manyue, Sun Tiantian, and Ning Peipei to give them to Chen Yuling: "Chen Zhiqing, we came here together, and now I'm moving out. Here, have these."

Chen Yuling was a little confused; why was Zhuang Feifei being so nice to her?

But chocolate is a good thing. Her family wasn't well-off, and she had never eaten chocolate before. So she accepted it, put the chocolate in a box, and locked it up.

She's also perceptive; as the saying goes, "He who takes a man's gift is bound to do so," so since she'd accepted his gift and he was moving things, she felt obligated to help him.

"Zhuang Zhiqing, let me help you move your things."

"Thank you then, Chen Zhiqing."

She simply wouldn't use Jiang Manyue, Sun Tiantian, or Ning Peipei. These three had helped Luo Jingyan before, and she felt resentful towards them; she wouldn't let them eat her chocolate.

Then, she took the chocolates to the male educated youths and gave them to Meng Bin and Tong Jianxin.

Meng Bin took it and said politely to her, "Zhuang Zhiqing, are you moving? I was just saying I was going to help you."

Zhuang Feifei smiled and said, "I'm moving, and it's so kind of you, Meng Zhiqing, to help me move my things. Thank you in advance."

"No need to thank me. We're all educated youth. It's only right for us men to help the women."

Tong Jianxin didn't help her because of the chocolate. As the person in charge of the educated youth settlement, he had to treat everyone equally. Although he didn't have a good impression of Zhuang Feifei, there was no need to show his dislike for her on his face, lest he give others grounds for gossip and cause rumors that he favored Luo Jingyan, which would be bad.

So he went to help Zhuang Feifei move her things.

Zhuang Feifei finally felt some comfort.

And so, she and Luo Jingyan built a house together and moved into the new house on the same day.

Luo Jingyan was cleaning the yard when she heard Zhuang Feifei's commotion over the wall.

Zhuang Feifei was really determined to stick with her to the end. She built a house, and the other party built a house too. She had just moved in when the other party immediately started building one.

If she gets married now, will her fiancé immediately find someone else to marry?

As she thought about it, she felt both bored and somewhat ridiculous.

If a person cannot live authentically and is always comparing themselves to others, even if they win the comparison, they are still living in the shadow of others.

In her new home's yard, besides two poplar trees, there was also a Chinese toon tree. At this time, the tender buds on the Chinese toon tree had just sprouted and were at their best for eating.

After she finished tidying up and had some free time, she wanted to pick some toon leaves to eat. She could make scrambled eggs with toon leaves, cold toon leaf salad, or stir-fried toon leaves with cured meat.

This Chinese toon tree is probably over ten years old, with many branches on its crown and a lot of newly sprouted Chinese toon buds.

Luo Jingyan found a thin bamboo pole in the yard, twisted an iron bar into a hook shape with pliers, tied it to the bamboo pole, then held the bottom of the bamboo pole and used the hook end to hook the branch of the Chinese toon tree. After the branch fell to the ground, she picked off the tender buds of the Chinese toon tree.

She picked a little first, enough for the two siblings to have one meal, and they could pick more whenever they wanted to eat in the following days.