She felt that if she said these things, Yun Ningyan would definitely be scared, and then she wouldn't have to squeeze in with them.

Yun Ningyan rolled her eyes, then leaned lazily against the doorframe with her hands folded. "Your family hasn't sucked my blood enough, do you want to keep sucking? You're taking my job, sign me up for the rural assignment."

“You’ve lived in my house for 16 years. I’ve done your laundry, cooked for you, and served your whole family every day. You wear dresses and leather shoes, while I wear patched-up clothes. I don’t even have a decent cotton coat!”

“My parents left me money to raise me when they passed away. Your family is heartless and wastes the money my parents gave me to raise me, abusing and beating me. Whenever you are unhappy, you punch and kick me. I do the most work but eat the least. In the past 16 years, I have never had a full meal.”

"Your family eats with your bowls up and then curses when you put them down. Now that I'm not going to serve you anymore, you're just asking for trouble."

The people at the educated youth settlement were shocked. The amount of information revealed in these words was quite significant. They never expected that Song's family members were so vicious.

The female educated youth couldn't help but tear up. They had to do chores at home too, and even in families that favored sons over daughters, they had never been treated so cruelly.

A figure in the corner overheard the whole story. His fists clenched, his anger burning, veins bulging on his forehead. He wished he could kill all those who had bullied her right then and there.

He felt sorry for his little girl; she had suffered so much! He really wanted to hold her in his arms and cherish her.

Song Pandi didn't expect her to actually dare to speak. Seeing the disgusted and hateful looks in everyone's eyes, she began to panic.

She pointed at Yun Ningyan's nose and cursed, "You bitch, you did it on purpose! It's not like that at all!"

Yun Ningyan stepped forward and kicked her away, sending her flying a great distance, shouting, "Go away!"

Song Pandi got up and wanted to rush over to hit her again, but when she saw that Yun Ningyan had somehow taken out a stick, she immediately remembered that Yun Ningyan had almost killed her that day.

Feeling deflated, he slunk back to his room at the educated youth settlement with his belongings.

Yu Lili couldn't help but laugh, "Don't you know your own limitations? You're just dreaming!"

Yang Laidi chimed in, "That's right. I've never seen anyone so abusive. She spends people's money but doesn't let them eat or dress properly every day. I never thought a young woman could be so vicious. Whoever marries her is doomed."

Zhang Hongmei said, "Yun, the educated youth, was pitiful. She endured 16 years of hunger in her family and never saw such a heartless aunt. Is this something a human would do? She's worse than an animal."

Song Pandi lay on the kang (a heated brick bed), filled with resentment.

She cursed inwardly: Yun Ningyan, I'll make you suffer a terrible death! I'll make you ride on by a thousand men and crushed by ten thousand, I'll make sure you never rise again!

And these educated youth, they're all bad people, they all deserve to die!

Huo Junshan left after Song Pandi returned to her room.

Lin Mengmeng never expected that Yun Ningyan, such a cheerful girl, would suffer so much injustice. Her eyes were red, and she couldn't stop crying after hearing those words.

She set aside a portion of her malted milk powder, sponge cake, and glutinous rice strips and took them to Yun Ningyan's house.

"Ningning, I'll take care of you from now on and I'll never let you go hungry."

Hearing her domineering words, Yun Ningyan reached out and patted Lin Mengmeng's head, accepting the gesture.

She took out a bag of apples and gave it to Lin Mengmeng.

The two looked at each other and smiled.

Huo Junshan returned to the Huo family home, grabbed an axe, and led Dahei out. The oppressive atmosphere emanating from him made Huo Changgen's hands tremble.

What happened this time?

Huo Jianshe excitedly asked, "Is Third Brother chopping people or chopping wood? I want to go too!"

"Shut up!" Li Xiangyun scolded Huo Jianshe, who always had "kill people" on his lips.

"I'm going up the mountain to catch two rabbits."

After saying this, Huo Junshan picked up his axe and left. There were bears and wild boars in the mountains, so he carried the axe just in case.

When Huo Jianshe heard that they were going up the mountain to catch rabbits, he went along too, so that he could have a treat on the mountain first.

Yun Ningyan was unaware that Huo Junshan had overheard everything. On her first day in her own little house, she closed the door, tidied up the room, and then went into her space to wash up.

She didn't rush out after washing up; she hadn't had time to organize the things she took from Yun Xiuhong's room.

She opened Yun Xiuhong's wardrobe, and there was a locked box on the bottom shelf.

She simply took out an awl and smashed it open in one go! Good grief!

A whole box full of small yellow croakers!

She poured out all the small yellow croakers, and there was something else underneath!

At the bottom was a stack of property ownership certificates. She opened them one by one, and they were all in her name. Most of the properties were in Shanghai, and a few were in Beijing. One of the certificates also contained a letter.

The envelope was addressed to: Ningning.

It must have been left by the original owner's parents. She couldn't wait to open the letter.

[Ningning, this is your mother. When you see this letter, it means your aunt has delivered the things your parents left for you as promised...]

The original owner's mother only said that she and her father would come back when the time was right, and told her to take good care of herself.

The letter was a little wrinkled, and some of the ink was smudged and blurred, probably because the mother was crying as she wrote it, causing the ink to smudge.

Yun Ningyan put all these things away, and then took out 1,500 yuan from the pocket of a woman's dress in the wardrobe, along with a lot of bills, mostly Shanghai bills, and some that were valid nationwide.

She had only found 400 yuan in a drawer in their room before, but she never expected that Yun Xiuhong had secretly hidden so much more.

She put all the money and tickets together and counted them. Yun Xiuhong gave her 600, she scraped together 400, plus Song Guofeng's 20, plus this 1500, plus the 700 yuan from selling her job, Aunt Zhang gave her 50, she spent nearly 50 yuan on shopping, and had more than 3200 left in total.

Her eyes lit up, and she instantly became a rich woman.

After calming my mind, I lay down in bed and drifted off to sleep.

The two men had barely reached the foot of the mountain when Dahei disappeared in a flash. Huo Jianshe, holding a flashlight, warily watched his surroundings.

Huo Junshan first went to the trap he had dug in advance and found two rabbits.

Huo Jianshe was about to suggest that they quickly peel the skins and start a fire to roast them, and he even went to the kitchen to bring salt.

"No need, let's go back."

What?

go back?

Not baking anymore?

Huo Junshan had already taken the rabbit and started walking back.

"Third brother, third brother, there are two here. Let's roast one and eat it before we go back."

He jogged to catch up with Huo Junshan, tugging at his third brother's sleeve. "Third brother, I'm so hungry for it, let's grill one first."

"I'll have Mom cook for us tomorrow."

Huo Junshan made the final decision and headed straight down the mountain to go home.

Big Black came back with a howl, carrying a pheasant in its mouth, and nuzzled Huo Junshan's leg as if to show off.

Huo Jianshe swallowed hard as he looked at the pheasants and rabbits, then followed his third brother home.