Watching Lin Yuxi's figure gradually disappear into the distance, Dong Dafang hurriedly ran to Zhang Shufang to question her.
Zhang Shufang was feeding chickens in the yard. These were the source of eggs for her family, and they had been raising them for three years without being able to bear killing them.
"Aunt Zhang, I'd like to ask if there was some misunderstanding between my mother and Comrade Lin Yuxi's family a while ago?" Dong Dafang stood politely outside the muddy courtyard.
Zhang Shufang glanced at him and snorted coldly, "What's wrong? Didn't your mother talk about me to you? With Wang Xiulan's despicable behavior, didn't she say that everyone should gang up on her and bully her?"
Dong Dafang looked slightly embarrassed, raised his hand and touched the back of his head; his mother had indeed said that.
So he explained, "Aunt Zhang, my mother does sometimes say things that are a bit hard to hear, please don't take it to heart."
Pah!
Zhang Shufang spat on the ground, "You mean I'm being unreasonable and making trouble for no reason, right?"
"I...I didn't mean that, Auntie." Dong Dafang's smile became somewhat stiff.
Zhang Shufang disliked him and chased him away, saying, "No wonder you lost your job. You can't even manage your own family affairs and you're always causing trouble."
Dong Dafang was rendered speechless by her retort.
He thought about it for a long time, wondering how he had offended Zhang Shufang. Even if it was his mother who had offended her, she shouldn't have disliked him as well, right?
"Alright, Auntie, I'm sorry to have bothered you. I'll head back now." Feeling embarrassed, Dong Dafang said a few words and then went straight home.
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Lin Yuxi went for a walk in the mountains and dug up some wild sweet potatoes to take back with her. She also dug up some kudzu roots.
Back home, Dong Dafang from next door came out to get some water. For some reason, when he saw Lin Yuxi, he looked unusually guilty.
Unable to get an answer from Zhang Shufang, Wang Xiulan finally returned and forced her to tell the truth.
Seeing Lin Yuxi again now, he naturally remembered when he first came back, after listening to Wang Xiulan's exaggerated words, and went to question Lin Yuxi.
Knowing this, he had no intention of apologizing. Now that things had turned out this way for both families, an apology wouldn't make much difference, so he would try to avoid it as much as possible.
Lin Yuxi ignored him and was currently thinking about grafting the sweet potatoes first.
But Dong Dafang came back, and everyone in the village saw it. Every evening after work, everyone would bring up what had happened some time ago and talk about it.
Wang Xiulan revealed that he had lost his job and his wife had almost miscarried, making the whole village aware of it. She even said it was because of Lin Yuxi's family that he was affected, making it impossible for him to pretend he didn't know anything.
Every day when the gate opens, you can see that mud-brick house.
On this day, Lin Yuxi was riding her bicycle to go out when she bumped into Dong Dafang from next door.
He looked embarrassed as Lin Yuxi rode past him on her bicycle.
Lin Yuxi acted as if she hadn't seen anything, riding her bicycle forward towards Gu Zhixiang's house. After the engagement, Gu Chen became busy, going to work early in the morning and returning late every day.
It turned out that he had called his superior, and the ambiguous reply made him uneasy. The superior only asked him to come to the military base, so he decided to return to Chengzhuang a week later.
The marriage has been arranged, and Gu Chen will definitely take full responsibility for it.
"Your demobilization application hasn't been approved yet. The leader wants me to go back to the army. Take these cloth coupons and buy some clothes. Also, take these grain coupons. Once you run out of cornmeal, go to the supply and marketing cooperative and buy some fine grains."
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