Tian Meixue has been having a hard time recently. Ever since Chen Yong died, her parents-in-law's attitude towards her and her children has become increasingly worse. They find opportunities to scold her from time to time, and now they even say they want to take back the house they currently live in and ask her to find a new place as soon as possible.
She didn't expect that the two old people could be so cruel and not give them and their mother a chance to live. Although Chen Yong was dead, Chen Yi was their grandson. Could they just ignore him?
This year, during the autumn harvest, she and Chen Yi earned some work points. Together with what she had earned from her previous work, after paying off the family's debts from the famine, they still had twenty yuan left. With the food for the children and the mountain products she had hidden in the autumn, it would not be difficult for them to survive this winter.
Unexpectedly, the parents-in-law were so stupid that they suddenly wanted to take back the mother and daughter's last refuge. Tian Meixue asked the village party secretary to mediate, but they still insisted and even told them to move out immediately. The party secretary had no choice because this was the house built by Chen Yong's parents after all.
Tian Meixue even went to ask Gu Tinghua for help, asking her father-in-law, the commune leader, to help mediate, but it was useless because the house was built by someone else.
Because of this, Tian Meixue was heartbroken. Why was her life so miserable?
It was hard but she had to endure it. Fortunately, Chen Yi was a sensible child and knew how hard she worked. He followed her around to help her every day. Tian Meixue silently swore in her heart that she must live like a human being and show them.
Tian Meixue, desperate, heard from the village elders that ginseng pickers used to go deep into the mountains to collect ginseng, which was very valuable. As mountain dwellers, everyone knew that ginseng was valuable, but the nearby mountains were no longer home to old ginseng, as they had been picked up by everyone. To collect valuable ginseng, one had to go deep into the mountains and forests.
She also had an idea in her mind. She wanted to go into the mountains to pick ginseng.
Chen Yi had no one to entrust her to, so she had no choice but to take him with her. Well, if something happened to her in the mountains, it would be pitiful for the child to become an orphan. It would be better for them to die together. With this idea of facing death with indifference, Tian Meixue did her homework and took the child, dry food and other items into the mountains.
The trip lasted five days. Chen Yi was worthy of being called the son of luck in the book. The mother and son walked in the mountains for a long time and did not encounter any dangerous wild beasts, but they also encountered some thrilling things, but they all got through safely in the end.
Traveling in the deep mountains and forests was not so comfortable. When they were hungry, they ate dry biscuits, and when they were thirsty, they drank dew. At night, the mother and son found a big tree to climb up, curled up on it, and used one of Chen Yong's old cotton jackets as a quilt. The mother and son wrapped themselves in it and shivered.
On the third day after they entered the mountains, they got lost and wandered around for a long time without being able to find their way out. They had been using red ribbons to mark the way, fearing they might not be able to return.
Just when the two felt tired and thirsty and could not hold on any longer, Chen Yi said he wanted to urinate. After satisfying his physiological needs, he lowered his head and saw that the plant under his butt was ginseng.
Along the way, the mother and son also found some ginseng, but they were all a few years old and not worth much. However, the one under Chen Yi's butt looked very unusual, with some scales growing on the top of the rhizome.
Chen Yi quickly called his mother. Tian Meixue was already on the verge of collapse. They had been in the mountains for several days but had not found any ginseng that was more than ten years old. The mother and son were exhausted both physically and mentally, and now they were lost.
She looked at the plant her son pointed to, and her eyes widened the next second. It turned out to be an old ginseng, which looked to be decades old. The mother and son hugged each other and cried with joy.
Finally found ginseng, this trip was not in vain.
Tian Meixue carefully dug out the whole ginseng, wrapped it in cloth and put it in the basket behind her.
With this ginseng, she was no longer planning to stay in the mountains. As people were in high spirits due to good news, the two of them quickly found the previous marks and spent two days walking out of the mountains.
Chen Yi's feet were blistered from walking, so Tian Meixue carried him on her back. Both of them were ragged and pale, looking no different from beggars.
It was already evening when she returned home. After a night's rest, Tian Meixue got up before dawn and asked Chen Yi to wait for her at home. She couldn't wait to go to the county town with the still fresh ginseng.
She originally wanted to find a recycling station in the county town to see if she could get a higher price. The commune definitely didn't have the same starting price as the county town.
Unexpectedly, she was approached by a middle-aged man, and the two went to the black market to trade. The man seemed to be an expert. After taking a look at it, he said that it was wild ginseng that was more than 40 years old and a good thing. He offered 400 yuan.
Tian Meixue bargained hard, explaining how difficult her family was and how she needed the money from selling the ginseng to save her life. Finally, the man really wanted it, so he gave him five hundred yuan and took the ginseng away.
In fact, this person is a well-known middleman in the black market. He saw at a glance that Tian Meixue had something good on her and approached her deliberately. Sure enough, this wild ginseng could make him at least more than two hundred yuan. If he met a customer with urgent needs, he might make more. However, it was much better for this woman to sell it to him than to sell it to the recycling station.
Tian Meixue walked happily on the street, but she held her purse tightly with some discomfort. She was very nervous because she had a huge amount of money on her.
Just now at the black market, she was afraid of being robbed, but luckily she escaped with no harm. However, she was not a rookie and this was not her first time at the black market. When she came here, she had considered that if the price at the recycling station was not good, she would sell it on the black market. The hard-earned ginseng must be sold at a satisfactory price, so she put a kitchen knife in the basket, and if anyone dared to rob her, she would fight him.
She had finally made it to the county town and had some money. She had just exchanged some bills on the black market and wanted to go to the county supply and marketing cooperative to buy some things her family urgently needed.
Unexpectedly, I met Gu Tingzhou with his wife and children. The three of them were coming out of the photo studio talking and laughing.
Whenever she saw Gu Tingzhou now, she always had the illusion that her happiness was taken away by others, and she wanted to tear their smiling faces apart.
After thinking for a while, she walked up to him and said, "Brother Gu, what a coincidence."
Gu Tingzhou was leaving in a few days. He thought that the next time they would meet after he returned to the army would be after the Chinese New Year, and he didn't even know if he could return during the Chinese New Year, so he brought his family to the county town to take photos as a souvenir.
They took a family photo, a photo of him and his wife, a photo of his two children, and a solo photo of his wife, which he wanted to keep for himself.
The family was about to go out to a restaurant after taking photos, but unexpectedly they ran into someone they didn't want to see.
Gu Tingzhou is not a fool. He has long realized that he was deceived by this woman in his previous life. He knew nothing about that life. After she was reborn, she chose to marry him in order to marry a rich and powerful man and live a good life. He was deceived by her like a fool.
So how can I have a good face when I see her? It’s good that she doesn’t curse at people.
He was reborn before her in this life, and he wanted to see what tricks she could play this time.
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