Zhao Lingling had been squatting in the toilet for a long time and hadn't come out. The people at the educated youth site were worried that she had fallen into the pit, so they ran to the backyard to call for help.

Lu Jiaojiao was so ungrateful that Zhao Lingling felt that she had saved her in vain.

From the way he spoke, it seemed as if he was blaming her for meddling in other people's business.

Zhao Lingling now felt like she had fallen into a toilet and was covered in shit.

"Okay, I'm being nosy, Comrade Lu Jiaojiao, you should take care of your own family affairs from now on."

Zhao Lingling left her behind: "They called me, I went back to make dumplings..."

Zhao Lingling left Lu Jiaojiao and walked away without looking back.

It was not worth it to save Lu Jiaojiao and get her new clothes covered with mud and firewood residue during the New Year.

Seeing Zhao Lingling turning her head and walking away without paying any attention to her, Lu Jiaojiao felt aggrieved.

After being locked up in the woodshed by Shen Guixiang and Yin Zhihe for a whole day, she almost froze to death. She was so hungry!

She didn't even have the strength to light a fire.

She wanted to eat hot dumplings, she wanted to eat white rice and braised pork.

There is no harm without comparison.

Compared to the lonely New Year celebrations at the Yin family, she now misses the days at her mother's house.

At least there was a bowl of meat on the Lu family’s New Year’s table. Even if her mother favored Lu Wenhua, she would still give her a few pieces of meat. Eating white rice with the fragrant, juicy meat was a delicious experience.

Lu Jiaojiao's feet seemed to be out of control. She walked out of the Yin family's gate, put on a tattered cotton coat, and staggered towards her parents' home.

Passing by the brigade clinic, she smelled the aroma of braised pork and the stewed chicken soup.

The chicken soup smelled particularly fresh. I guess it was made by Lu Baiwei and contained the big abalone that He Yan said was very nutritious.

Even though she was a person who had been reborn once, she had never eaten abalone stewed with chicken.

What kind of magical feeling is it that could make He Yan, an educated youth from Haicheng, never forget him?

Passing by the door of He Ting and Lu Baiwei's house, Lu Jiaojiao was attracted by the fragrance. She couldn't help but stop and look inside. She saw a group of people sitting around a fire and eating inside the half-open door of the red brick house, and laughter could be heard from inside.

Although she couldn't see it clearly, Lu Jiaojiao could imagine that those people must be roasting fire while eating peanuts, melon seeds, and other fruits from the south.

She always felt that life in the house should belong to her.

This shouldn't be the life Lu Baiwei should live.

She was watching furtively on the small path in front of the red brick house until He Yunqi came out with a few little Tang people to set off firecrackers and ran into Lu Jiaojiao who was wearing a tattered cotton jacket.

She stared at them with a frightening look in her eyes.

He Yunqi screamed, "Uncle, come quickly, there's a beggar outside."

"Ahh, it's a crazy woman who arrests people..."

He Yunran and Xiao Tang's people also shouted.

The people in the room heard the noise and seemed to want to get up to see what was going on.

Before being discovered, Lu Jiaojiao ran away as fast as she could, bypassing the bamboo bushes and running towards the Lu family's home.

Finally, she ran away before He Ting walked out the door.

In a place where no one could see, Lu Jiaojiao, who was cold, hungry and with messy hair, was extremely depressed.

yes!

She was locked up in the woodshed by Shen Guixiang and Yin Zhihe in the middle of winter. Her hair was messy and her clothes were dirty and torn.

But at any rate, she doesn't look like a beggar or a crazy woman, right?

It would be bad if He Ting saw her like this.

Lu Jiaojiao subconsciously felt that He Ting was the person she wanted to abandon in this life, and she couldn't let He Ting see her most miserable and embarrassed side.

It was also because she had a bad brain and thought too much. In fact, she was a completely irrelevant person to He Ting.

Even if I saw her, I would just treat her as air.

So, people shouldn’t take themselves too seriously.

It was indeed no wonder that the little Tang people and He Yunqi and He Yunran did not recognize her and mistook her for a crazy woman begging for food. It was because Lu Jiaojiao had been beaten and locked up in a dark room, her face was frighteningly pale, and she had a pair of pitch-black panda eyes.

Because she was beaten to the ground by Shen Guixiang, her tattered cotton jacket was covered with dust, and her hair was a mess like a chicken coop, with dry leaves from the firewood pile on top.

If you don't get closer and take a closer look, you really can't recognize her at first glance.

The blow he suffered from Xiao Tangren and He Yunqi at the door of Lu Baiwei's house was just the beginning. When Lu Jiaojiao knocked on her parents' door, Lu Wenhua, who had just recovered from a few days of illness, came to open the door. He was also shocked when he saw Lu Jiaojiao.

"Who are you?"

"Mom, there's a beggar outside."

Lu Jiaojiao: “…”

She smelled the aroma of Shen Guixiang's fried meat and her stomach growled with hunger.

Afraid of being chased out as a crazy beggar, Lu Jiaojiao quickly pulled the dry leaves off her hair and pulled out the hair that was blocking her front.

"Wenhua, I am your second sister."

"Ah? Second sister?"

Lu Wenhua screamed into the house: "Mom, my second sister has turned into a crazy woman."

"Dad, come quickly, my second sister is so scary."

Lu Jianguo was very dissatisfied that Lu Jiaojiao came empty-handed.

Not only did she come empty-handed, but she also made herself look like a horrible state, and it was obvious that she had been beaten up by Shen Guixiang and her son again.

Liu Chunhua brushed the dust off Lu Jiaojiao's body, gave her some hot water to wash her face, and asked her to tidy up her messy hair. Finally, she could have the New Year's Eve dinner.

Looking at the bowl of steamed pork with dried chili peppers on the table, Lu Jiaojiao didn't even bother to cry about how Shen Guixiang and her son had beaten her. She picked up her chopsticks and started to eat the meat in the bowl.

"cough!"

Lu Jianguo coughed violently.

Liu Chunhua had to speak up: "Jiaojiao, your brother just got well, you should eat less meat."

"Mom, I'm hungry!"

While Lu Jiaojiao was talking, she put two more pieces into the bowl.

In total, only one pound of meat was weighed, and half of it was fried with lard.

Seeing Lu Jiaojiao pick up half of the food with a few chopsticks, Lu Wenhua got angry and slammed the chopsticks heavily on the table.

Lu Jianguo was also very dissatisfied with Lu Jiaojiao's behavior. Seeing her look like a starving ghost, he couldn't help but frown.

He was so disappointed with his daughter!

I originally thought that by raising her I could at least get some money for the bride price, but it turned out that I raised this daughter in vain. She is a real money-loser.

Not only did they not get a penny of the betrothal gift, but because of her, they were either injured and unable to go to the fields to earn work points, or their family had to pay compensation.

Thinking about the half-tractor of things that Lu Baiwei and He Ting pulled back from the county town, and the seafood that Tang Jinghe and Tang Jingshan had from the south, Lu Jianguo felt that he could not eat this New Year's Eve dinner.

He slammed the chopsticks in his hand and said, "You don't understand. You came back empty-handed on New Year's Day and you're trying to grab meat from your brother."

The man had a gloomy face, and his beloved son was also in a bad mood.

Liu Chunhua also began to dislike Lu Jiaojiao.

She simply brought the bowl of meat to Lu Jianguo and Lu Wenhua: "Jianguo, you have worked hard for a year, so eat a piece of meat."

"Son, you should eat some meat too. You got sick from freezing in the water last time. You need to eat more meat to nourish your body."

Not only did the daughter come to the door empty-handed, she also had to go back to her parents' home to beg for money all year round.

Liu Chunhua also became impatient with Lu Jiaojiao and put her chopsticks into her bowl.

"You've already eaten several pieces. Eat less. I'll help you eat this piece of meat."