After carrying manure all day, Qiao Xifeng dragged her tired body towards the farm staff dormitory.
It was time for the workers to get off work, and everyone was working outside their dormitories. Some were busy chopping wood and making fire, some were cooking with their doors open, and groups of children were throwing sandbags and kicking bags in the open space in front of the dormitories.
When the children saw Qiao Xifeng coming back, they covered their noses and ran around her, screaming.
"Get up early in the morning to pick up manure, pick up manure, and after picking up manure, the manure rolls all over the ground..."
Qiao Xifeng was already in a bad mood, and being surrounded and teased by a few little brats made her even angrier.
He picked up a big rock from the roadside and threatened the children with it: "Get out of here! I will smash anyone who sings again to death."
The children were so frightened when they saw Qiao Xifeng was angry that they ran away, screaming, "The dung collector is crazy! The dung collector is crazy!"
Qiao Xifeng had been pampered for half her life, and had never suffered such a great injustice. She was so angry that she almost died after being made such a fuss by the children.
"Damn Qiao Baozhu, it's all her fault, it's all her fault!"
Qiao Xifeng blamed Qiao Baozhu for everything that happened to her. Until now, she still couldn't understand why Zhao Haiyang was different from in his previous life.
"Why do you buy a house for Qiao Baozhu but not for me? Why am I inferior to her?"
Qiao Xifeng pushed open the door angrily. The stove in the house was cold and the icy breath she exhaled was a puff of white smoke.
Zhao Haiyang wrapped himself in a quilt and lay on the kang, holding a picture book in his hand and a kerosene lamp next to him. Seeing Qiao Xifeng coming back, Zhao Haiyang muttered impatiently: "Close the door quickly, you let the heat in the room escape."
Seeing her husband so indifferent and lazy, Qiao Xifeng's anger flared up again.
"If you feel cold, why don't you heat up the kang? You come home so early every day, but you don't cook or heat up the kang. You wait for me to come home and do everything! You'd rather freeze to death than work. How did you become like this?"
Hearing his wife's complaints, Zhao Haiyang sneered expressionlessly: "I would like to heat the kang, but you have used up all the firewood in the house. What should I use to burn it?"
Qiao Xifeng was so angry that her breath was choked. She gritted her teeth and roared angrily: "Are you dead? There is no firewood in the house, don't you know to go out and pick some?"
"I pick it up? Why should I pick it up? When people outside see me, they will laugh at me for finding a fool! You have embarrassed me so much that you should go out and pick it up if anyone wants to!"
Zhao Haiyang looked gloomy and regretted it.
If I had known Qiao Xifeng was so stupid, I should not have married her.
Qiao Xifeng was speechless. She had only spread a few rumors and was targeted by the people in the committee.
"Ocean, I'm sorry. I never thought I would be so unlucky. Someone took my words and made a fuss out of them. I almost got you into trouble. It's my fault."
"Can you please stop being angry with me?"
Qiao Xifeng felt very aggrieved, but she knew that this was not the time to be angry. Zhao Haiyang now despised her for digging manure, and if it weren't for her uncle's promise to send him to the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University, they would probably have divorced by now.
She doesn't want to get divorced. She hasn't even moved into the provincial party committee compound yet and doesn't have the status of an official's wife. Why should she get divorced?
Qiao Xifeng slowly moved towards her husband and looked at Zhao Haiyang's face carefully.
"I promise that I will never talk nonsense again and cause you trouble. Can you just forgive me this time?"
Zhao Haiyang stared absentmindedly at the book in his hand and didn't listen carefully to what Qiao Xifeng said at all.
He only smelled a faint stench, and he covered his nose and vomited.
"vomit……"
He raised his head and angrily scolded Qiao Xifeng: "Stay away from me!"
Qiao Xifeng was so scared that she took two steps back, feeling extremely aggrieved.
“I, I…”
Zhao Haiyang retched and ordered Qiao Xifeng: "Hurry up and throw the urea bag out of your body."
Qiao Xifeng was both angry and embarrassed, and quickly took off the clothes that were made from urea bags.
After changing her clothes, Qiao Xifeng went out and borrowed a bundle of corn stalks from her neighbor next door.
The kang heated up quickly, and when half a bundle of corn stalks burned, the temperature of the entire room rose.
Zhao Haiyang put down the picture book in his hand and looked gloomily at his wife who was cooking in front of the stove.
"I remember that the women's director of your village lives next door to your house?"
Qiao Xifeng paused as she was lighting the fire, and nodded as if she didn't care about her work: "Yes, so what? She is the women's director of a village, and she can't get close to those people in the committee."
When Zhao Haiyang heard Qiao Xifeng's disdainful tone, he felt a surge of anger in his heart.
"Who said you wanted to climb the committee? I haven't even finished my sentence, why are you talking so much?"
Qiao Changfu was just the director of a branch farm, and he was not her biological father, but just her uncle.
Zhao Haiyang still can't figure out who gave her the confidence to be so arrogant.
Qiao Xifeng was feeling very guilty now. After being yelled at by Zhao Haiyang, she was so scared that she shrank her neck and looked at him pitifully.
Zhao Haiyang was too lazy to watch Qiao Xifeng pretending to be innocent and pitiful, so he turned his face away from her and told her the news he had heard.
"The army and the farm jointly set up a department called New Hope Mutual Aid Society, which is dedicated to providing manual labor for women who have nothing to do. It provides jobs, and it is said that the monthly salary is 32 yuan, and 48 kilograms of food rations."
A salary of 32 yuan makes one a first-class worker or peasant.
Qiao Xifeng stood up excitedly: "Is the news true?"
Zhao Haiyang nodded: "Baozhen, I heard that the people in the family compound have been selected. There must be at least two places on the farm, but I heard that they haven't been decided yet."
Qiao Xifeng was extremely happy. In her previous life, Qiao Baozhu relied on her crappy job to always suppress her.
In this life, she has to find a job where she can earn more than 30 yuan a month without doing anything.
"You just said the director of women's affairs? You mean, this matter is under the jurisdiction of Liu Meilan?"
Qiao Xifeng mentioned Liu Meilan with a sarcastic tone in her voice: "How can she, a lowly official, have such great power? Are you sure? It's better to go to my uncle than to her!"
When Zhao Haiyang saw Qiao Xifeng's smug face, he felt extremely annoyed.
Although he was disgusted, Zhao Haiyang still hoped that Qiao Xifeng could get the job. It was better for two people to earn money than spending his salary alone.
Zhao Haiyang suppressed his annoyance and patiently told Qiao Xifeng the whole story.
"With your uncle's ability, it's not difficult for him to help you get this position. However, he was suspended from work for half a month to reflect on his mistakes because of you and your daughter. When he returns to work, it will be too late to help you."
Qiao Xifeng's face was empty, and she was anxious and annoyed: "What should I do then?"
"Then find the head of this mutual aid society."
Zhao Haiyang felt proud, and secretly delighted that he had bypassed Qiao Changfu and used his own connections.
"The new deputy director of the field office is responsible for all the work of this new department. She used to be the director of the Women's Federation of the field office. Since they are both from the Women's Federation, they must know each other."
Qiao Xifeng smiled happily and nodded very carefully.
"The people in the Women's Federation are easy to deal with. They can be bribed with small favors. Don't worry, I will have a job soon."
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