Zhou Jingyun, who was busy building a house for Ruan Miaomiao, was unaware that Shen Qingming had written a letter to his parents-in-law in Haicheng to badmouth him.

Under his guidance, Ruan Miaomiao's courtyard was built in just over a month.

Of course, the fact that it was built so quickly was the result of the whole village working together.

The villagers all wanted to earn some money while they weren't busy with farm work. After the house was built for Ruan Miaomiao, the highest wage they received was more than 20 yuan, and the lowest was one or two yuan.

Looking at the money in their hands, everyone felt that they could have a good New Year this year.

However, the construction of the house delayed the planting of winter wheat.

After the houses were built, the whole village worked hard and managed to plant all the winter wheat before the twelfth lunar month.

Turning the soil, sowing seeds, covering the ground—the work left everyone with aching backs and sore waists.

After finally finishing their busy work, the weather started to get cold, giving everyone a legitimate reason to take a couple of days off.

Several major events also occurred in the village during this period.

First, the elderly Zheng couple, who had been sent down to the countryside and lived in the cowshed, were picked up by a car with a Haicheng license plate.

The news of the Zheng couple's departure spread like wildfire through the surrounding production teams. Everyone knew that the organization was beginning to redress those wrongful convictions.

Because of this incident, everyone in the production team became much more polite to the people who had been sent down to live in the cowshed.

After all, the other party might be innocent.

Who knows, the other party might be exonerated and reinstated at any time.

The second thing is that Zhou Shuhua and Shen Qingming, the accountant's wives, got their marriage certificate and set the date for their wedding banquet in December.

The third thing, of course, was that Zhou Jingyun helped the villagers find more than ten jobs, and suddenly there were more than ten people in the village working in the provincial capital and the county town.

When the Zhou family learned that Zhou Jingyun had led the villagers to report to the provincial and county capitals, the whole family was furious.

This happy event was clearly something they had some connection with before.

However, they ruined it themselves!

Ever since Zhou Jingyun returned the money and refused to help Zhou's two sons find jobs, the way Zhou's two sons and two daughters-in-law looked at Zhou Shuhua has become increasingly strange.

At first, I was able to tolerate it, but I would occasionally make sarcastic remarks.

Later, after seeing that the villagers had actually gone to work, they started openly cursing Zhou Shuhua.

The verbal abuse escalated to the point where they started fighting.

Zhou Shuhua was spoiled at home from a young age, which made her somewhat arrogant. When her sister-in-law hit her, she would instinctively fight back.

Originally, if she hadn't fought back, her two sisters-in-law would have calmed down after a bit of fighting.

However, when she fought back, her two sisters-in-law became increasingly angry, beating Zhou Shuhua until she was covered in scars.

Now, Zhou Shuhua, who is paralyzed in bed and unable to move, endures the anger of her older brother and sister-in-law every day, and only hopes that she can marry Qingming as soon as possible.

After all, even her parents, though they didn't say as harsh things as her two older brothers and sisters-in-law, no longer cared for her or protected her as they had before.

Only Qingming, even after hearing that she had lost feeling in her legs and would be bedridden from now on, never abandoned her and took the initiative to come to her door to say that he wanted to marry her!

Seeing how Zhou Jingyun and Ruan Miaomiao had ruined their family, Accountant Zhou felt a deep hatred for the two of them.

Suddenly, a thought struck him: Zhou Jingyun was a country bumpkin, and he had never heard of Zhou Jingyun having any relatives in the provincial capital or county town.

Yet they were able to help people in the village find jobs in the provincial and county capitals, probably through connections in the black market.

snort!

What time is it now?

This is the time to crack down hard!

What good stuff could be going to the black market?

They must be bad actors who engage in speculation and profiteering!

Zhou Jingyun is able to handle such a big matter, so he must be very familiar with the people involved. Perhaps he has done a lot of speculative and profiteering before.

If I were to report the other party to the town, wouldn't I be digging out a worm for the organization and the Party?

When Zhou Jingyun is arrested on charges of speculation and profiteering, let's see how arrogant he can be then.

Those who found jobs through his connections will definitely be sent home, and they'll lose both their money and their lives!

Thinking of this scene, Accountant Zhou felt his blood boiling: Why is it that he doesn't have a job while those other people do?

Just because they're willing to fawn over Zhou Jingyun?

Since that's the case, we might as well all stay poor together!

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The north wind had already started blowing in the twelfth lunar month in Jianshan Brigade, and a few days ago, there was even frost and snow.

Without warm clothes, Zhao Xiuyun could only add firewood to the fire all day long to warm the air in the house.

Ever since learning that Shen Qingming and Zhou Shuhua had encountered something similar to what happened to her and Zhou Weijie, Zhao Xiuyun had keenly realized:

Ruan Miaomiao is a woman with a somewhat wicked side.

It seems that those who wanted to harm her all ended up suffering terrible misfortune!

She is one!

Zhou Shuhua is one!

Shen Qingming is one of them!

Could it be that Ruan Miaomiao is one of those women with extraordinary destiny from novels?

Only by praising and indulging her can one live a good life?

The thought of this possibility filled Zhao Xiuyun with regret: If she had known life would be this hard, why did she have to be so foolish in the first place!

No matter how good a man is, is he more important than having enough to eat and wear?

That's right, the biting wind from Jianshan Brigade brought Zhao Xiuyun's lovestruck mind back to reality.

In fact, the most important thing is that without Ruan Miaomiao's help, Shen Qingming, who had been relying on himself, had long been worn down by life and lost his former spirit.

In particular, after the incident with the insemination drug, Shen Qingming seemed to have lost all his energy and spirit. He became listless and unkempt, gradually becoming no different from the men in the village.

They are even worse than the men in the village.

The men in the village at least have a house, a comfortable bed, and some strength, so they won't go hungry.

"You slut, cook a lot of potatoes tonight, and steal some chili powder from next door."

Inside the house, Zhou Weijie, who had just woken up, got up, slipped on his shoes, walked to the door, opened it, and a cold wind rushed in, causing him to shiver. He immediately closed the door and started searching the house again.

He found a broken pottery jar, unbuckled his belt, and started urinating inside.

This weather is so cold, it takes courage even to pee!

Immediately, a strong smell of urine filled the room.

However, Zhao Xiuyun dared not show the slightest disgust.

Even though she knew in her heart that she would be the one to empty the urinator later, she didn't dare to show disgust on her face.

She raised her eyes, looking cautiously at Zhou Weijie, and tentatively asked, "Er Laizi, is he... is he coming again?"

His voice trembled slightly, as if he was afraid of something.

Seeing Zhao Xiuyun's fear, Zhou Weijie, who had already finished urinating, shuddered twice and burst into laughter: "What are you afraid of? Isn't it better for the three of us to live a good life than anything else?"