Chapter 49 That scoundrel has a high opinion of himself.
At this moment, Tong Decheng seemed to finally understand.
Why did Gu Yanxiao hand over the task of escorting Xie Manman in the first place?
Clearly, they were afraid of being extorted by Xie Manman, this oddball.
He nodded immediately and readily: "Thank you for your hard work, Gu Zhiqing."
Tong Decheng knew very well that Xie Zhiqing was the best choice, given her pride and arrogance, and the fact that he, in his thirties, wasn't worried about being taken advantage of by her.
Xie Manman looked at Gu Yanxiao with a wronged and hurt expression, as if she wanted to say something.
Tong Aiguo then stepped aside, blocking her view, and took the rope tied around her waist, saying, "Xie Zhiqing, come down with my Uncle Decheng!"
At this point, no matter how much thought Xie Manman had, she couldn't use it.
They had no choice but to obediently climb down the cliff under Tong Decheng's protection.
With Tong Aiguo and Gu Yanxiao on top, they slowly lowered the rope, which allowed her to use it for leverage without worrying about her falling.
Before long, Xie Manman reached the bottom of the cliff safely.
After seeing her land, Tong Aiguo raised his hand to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead.
Turning to Gu Yanxiao beside him, he said, "Brother Gu, let's go too!"
Gu Yanxiao nodded: "You can go down first."
"Okay!" Tong Aiguo nodded.
However, he did not notice that after he went down, Gu Yanxiao, standing beside him, raised his head and carefully examined the situation above in the moonlight and torchlight.
His gaze lingered on that protruding cliff face for a long time.
Only then did he descend the cliff with a grim expression.
With everyone gathered together, Xie Manman finally stopped causing trouble and obediently allowed herself to be sent back to the educated youth settlement.
"Manman".
Xu Yirou hadn't gone to sleep, waiting for news from everyone.
Upon seeing Xie Manman safely brought back, he rushed forward and asked, "Manman, how are you? Are you hurt? What were you doing?"
Xie Manman did not answer her question, but looked at her with a complicated expression for a long time.
She turned and walked straight into the room, saying coldly, "I'm tired, I'm going to sleep."
Xie Manman was so jealous she was almost going crazy.
Why was it that in her past life, when Xu Yirou went to collect Ganoderma lucidum, everything went smoothly, and she didn't even miss her work the next day?
She went to pick Ganoderma lucidum, but not only did she fail to pick any, she almost lost her life.
What makes Xu Yirou so special?
Especially Gu Yanxiao...
Why is it that when Xu Yirou approaches him, she gets his kind attitude?
She had already put aside her pride as a girl and taken the initiative to show her affection, but all she got in return was his cold indifference.
This series of setbacks has caused Xie Manman, who considered herself superior after her rebirth, to begin to doubt her life.
At this point, he naturally had no mood to deal with Xu Yirou's questions.
Without even a word of greeting, he abandoned the villagers behind him, went into the room, and slammed the door shut.
Late at night, after a long day of work and being disturbed for most of the night, the people were treated like this, and their faces were extremely unpleasant.
But I was just too tired. Even though I had a lot of dissatisfaction and anger in my heart, I didn't say anything. I just waited to go home and get some sleep before I talked about it.
Sure enough, the next day, after everyone arrived, Tong Liqun did not immediately arrange for them to start working in the fields.
His gaze swept around, and when he didn't see the person he wanted to call out, his face instantly turned cold: "Where's Xie Manman?"
Seeing Tong Liqun's unpleasant expression, Xu Yirou forced herself to say, "Manman... she said she's not feeling well and wants to take a day off."
"Feeling unwell? Ha..." Tong Liqun was genuinely amused and started speaking bluntly: "She said she wasn't feeling well yesterday, but she went up the mountain to pick Ganoderma lucidum and stole the collective property of our Bakushu Village! She's saying she's not feeling well again today, is she planning to steal something from our village again?"
Xu Yirou panicked and quickly explained for Xie Manman, "Secretary, Manman isn't..."
"Stop talking..." Tong Liqun waved his hand to interrupt her, and said to the two female villagers beside him, "You two, go and bring Xie Manman over."
"Okay!"
The families of those two female villagers were involved in going into the mountains to look for Xie Manman yesterday.
One of them was Zhu Jinmei, Tong Decheng's wife.
Last night, when she saw Tong Decheng return, he looked very unpleasant and wouldn't say a word no matter what she asked.
So I got up very early this morning to ask around.
She only found out that her husband, Tong Decheng, had almost fallen off a cliff yesterday because of Xie Manman.
Zhu Jinmei was seething with anger and was determined to settle accounts with Xie Manman today!
Now that Tong Liqun has asked her to bring Xie Manman over, it suits her just what she wanted.
He led his two best friends and marched proudly into the educated youth settlement.
He kicked open Xie Manman's room door, pulled off her blanket, and dragged her off the bed.
Xie Manman had been living in fear all day yesterday, and being hung from the tree had exhausted her. Now that she had taken the day off, she naturally wanted to get a good night's sleep.
While she was fast asleep, she dreamt that she had successfully married Gu Yanxiao and become the envy of everyone as the wife of a military commander.
He was sitting in his car, preparing to attend a high-society party.
Just as she was enjoying the comfort of the car's leather seats, a sharp pain suddenly shot through her scalp.
The moment he opened his eyes, he saw Zhu Jinmei's magnified, ferocious face, staring at him with fierce eyes.
"ah!"
She screamed in horror, almost thinking she had seen a ghost.
"What are you doing? Ouch! That hurts! Let go of me!"
Seeing her struggle, Zhu Jinmei slapped her hard across the face.
"You wretched little bastard, you caused trouble for the whole village yesterday. After working all day, we had to go to the back mountain to look for you in the middle of the night. Today, we got up early and couldn't work, so we all waited for you in the threshing ground. How dare you be so shameless? If I don't teach you a lesson today, I'll change my surname to yours!"
"You keep saying you're not feeling well. I think you're just itching for a fling, or maybe your crotch is just waiting for a man to touch it. You're just making this up to try and seduce a guy!"
"I'll teach you a lesson for being such a spineless wretch! So you won't be a nuisance to the men in our village!"
As she spoke, she raised her hand and slapped Xie Manman hard across the face again.
Beside her, Zhu Jinmei's good friend Li Chunlan stepped forward and pinched Xie Manman's breasts, saying, "That slut has such a high opinion of herself! I heard she was hanging on the cliff yesterday, and she insisted that Gu, the educated youth, come up and carry her down. That shameless hussy, knowing full well that Gu has a wife who's pregnant, still deliberately tries to get into his arms. In the old days, a hussy like that would have been drowned in a pig cage!"
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