Yes, she has a sharp tongue but a soft heart.
[It's absolutely true, unlike Old Lady Li, who has a sharp tongue but a cruel heart.]
The environment she found herself in was different from what she had imagined. Li Yiyi wondered what she should do. The farthest she had ever been was the county town.
Judging from this family and their surroundings, they were even poorer than their production team.
So, she may have been sent to some backward place by unknown people. Luckily, she did not feel any malice from this family; on the contrary, she felt some kindness.
Unbeknownst to Li Yiyi, while she was unconscious, Zhou Wenhua took her to many homes, but each time he saw her little face, he was met with rejection.
There is a consensus that sickly children are difficult to raise.
Finally, having no other choice, Zhou Wenhua abandoned Li Yiyi in the most remote production team. Old Lady Lang, who happened to be out, saw her there. After a struggle ensued, Zhou Wenhua left Li Yiyi and ran away.
Calling her a granddaughter-in-law is less accurate than saying that Old Lady Lang was too kind-hearted to bear seeing Li Yiyi freeze to death outside.
In the kitchen, Grandma Lang hesitated for a moment, but finally made up her mind, took out the flour from the house, and made a bowl of noodles separately.
In the production team, Li Laoda and Jiang Yuting were going crazy.
Not only had they slept in all morning, but upon entering Li Yiyi's room, they still hadn't heard a sound from her. After a careful inspection, the two small holes in the window gave Li Laoda and Jiang Yuting a clue.
Last night, after they fell asleep, someone drugged them and kidnapped Li Yiyi.
Knowing that Li Yiyi possessed extraordinary abilities, Boss Li and Jiang Yuting still panicked. Without even eating a bite of food, they went to town to report the case and cooperated with relevant personnel in launching a large-scale search.
In an instant, everyone in the production team knew that Li Yiyi had been taken away last night.
Zhou Wenzhu, carrying a load of manure, couldn't stop smiling; her eyes were so wide they were practically slits.
Seeing the pitiful and anxious looks on Li Laoda and Jiang Yuting's faces,
He felt extremely pleased; those who offended him deserved such an end. The separation of wives and children was the fate he had arranged for Boss Li.
Lost in his joyful reverie, Zhou Wenzhu didn't notice the clods of mud under her feet. She twisted her ankle and fell headfirst into the ditch ahead. Before she could get up, the two large buckets of manure she was carrying on her shoulders were poured directly over her head.
In the narrow ditch, Zhou Wenzhu took a fecal bath.
"Ugh~"
Two large buckets of feces, several times the size of the small bucket, made Zhou Wenzhu unable to hold back her vomiting.
The excrement on his head seemed to have a mind of its own, falling off as Zhou Wenzhu opened her mouth to spit it out, hitting her right in the bullseye. The icy sensation entering her mouth made Zhou Wenzhu wish she could faint.
Having finally managed to stand up, Zhou Wenzhu wanted to say she should go back and change her clothes, but Aunt Hua, the guard, immediately said...
"Get up and carry manure! Twenty buckets a day, and it's almost dark. Look how little you've earned."
She was holding a whip, the kind used for herding cattle, which Aunt Hua had specially borrowed from Uncle Yang.
"hurry up."
The whip struck the roadside, stirring up weeds and mud that fell into Zhou Wenzhu's eyes, but he dared not linger. He knew that if he disobeyed, the whip would fall on him.
With a slight twist and turn, Zhou Wenzhu picked up the manure bucket again, returned to the starting point, and began shoveling manure once more.
He thought to himself, "If he scatters all the manure on the road, and the production team's latrine runs out of manure, then what will happen to him...?"
He hadn't even thought about playing yet, but Aunt Hua seemed to have read his mind.
"Don't try anything funny. If the production team runs out of manure, just go get some from the next brigade."
Putting aside his petty thoughts, he felt ashamed enough of carrying manure in the production team; he didn't want to embarrass himself further by going to the neighboring brigade.
Just wait and see. Fortune changes every thirty years. Sooner or later, Zhou Wenzhu will be someone they have to look up to.
Busy searching for their daughter, Li Laoda and Jiang Yuting forgot about their planned meeting with Jiang Cheng. Jiang Cheng waited and waited at the state-run restaurant.
He hadn't seen Li Laoda and Li Yiyi from morning till afternoon. He had been deceived. Fortunately, he hadn't told Jiang's father and mother about it yet, otherwise he would have been disappointed again.
While Li Laoda and Jiang Yuting were busy, Li Yiyi was enjoying a peaceful life.
As expected, Old Lady Lang wasn't a heartless person. After cooking the noodles, she directed the frail woman to call Li Yiyi.
Li Yiyi appeared at the Lang family's dining table, where noodles were laid out in front of her; only she had noodles at her table.
"You little money-loser, do you even know where you're from?"
Grandma Lang suddenly spoke up, and Li Yiyi was stunned.
Is she the one who loses money easily?
Perhaps Li Yiyi's expression was too obvious, so Grandma Lang repeated herself.
"No need to look, you're the little money-loser. Tell me clearly, whose child are you? Tomorrow the team has an oxcart going to town, you'll come along. Don't you dare freeload at our house. Look at your sickly appearance, it would be bad luck if you died in our house."
Li Yiyi didn't care about the money-losing goods anymore.
She received important news: she could leave tomorrow for town. Although she wouldn't see her beloved parents, she felt a pang of sadness, yet her little face beamed with a smile.
"Grandma, my name is Li Yiyi. I live in Lijia Village under Wuxing Commune, in the first production team."
"Cold on the outside but warm on the inside" perfectly describes Old Lady Lang. Li Yiyi could clearly sense that Old Lady Lang breathed a sigh of relief after she finished speaking.
"Okay, okay, why are you laughing so happily? You look like a morning glory, so ugly."
Li Yiyi's smile froze, her large eyes filled with confusion.
Is she ugly? I almost started to doubt myself.
"Eat your food, then stay in the room. I'll send you away first thing tomorrow morning."
Looking at her short legs, Li Yiyi gave up struggling.
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