On the day of the winter solstice, the flour mill’s social gathering was a hot topic in the streets and alleys!
Li Guifang’s Guifangzhai has also become famous!
The winter solstice in Ji City was prosperous, but in Jing City, Lin Yaqin was having a hard time!
Gao Zhiqiang is not a wealthy boss at all, but a swindler who made some money by cheating and deceiving people. Then he ran to Ji City to pretend to be a rich man.
In Beijing, everyone is smart and on guard against pig-killing scams and fraudsters. His tricks won't work at all.
But it was different in Ji City. The people there were simpler and less knowledgeable. Plus, he acted like a decent person - wearing famous brands and spending lavishly, which really fooled a lot of people.
Lin Yaqin, a young woman with some beauty and vanity, is Gao Zhiqiang's number one prey!
After being coaxed by Gao Zhiqiang's sweet words and a few fake brand-name items, she believed his lies and was taken back to Beijing by him.
Gao Zhiqiang brought her back just to ask her to give birth to a son for him. At the very least, he wanted her to go out and "earn money."
On the third day after they arrived in Beijing, Lin Yaqin begged and pleaded to go home to visit his mother.
Gao Zhiqiang couldn't refuse, so he had to take her back to his "home".
Lin Yaqin followed Gao Zhiqiang through many twists and turns, passing through the most dilapidated old city area in Beijing, and finally stopped in front of a crowded slum.
The mottled brick walls, the musty corridors, and the broken furniture piled everywhere - this was completely different from the "mansion" she had imagined.
Her heart skipped a beat and she hesitated.
Gao Zhiqiang, however, grabbed her wrist with such force that it hurt, and pulled her inside!
With a fake smile on his face, he said, "What? Are you disgusted? You didn't ask for it by begging for it. Don't waste time, just go in!"
When I opened the door, a turbid damp smell hit me in the face.
The room was dimly lit, and the few pieces of furniture were crooked, as if they had been picked up from a garbage dump.
There were unwashed dishes piled up in the corner, and the bed sheets were so dirty that the color couldn't be seen.
Before she could recover from the shock, a skinny, hunchbacked old lady rushed in from outside!
The old lady had high cheekbones and cloudy, yellow eyes, looking like a spirit-like old monkey.
The old lady squinted her triangular eyes and looked Lin Yaqin up and down, her eyes scraping across her body like a knife.
"Hey, this is the 'teacher's wife' my son brought back?"
She pouted, her face wrinkled with a hint of sarcasm. "You're as thin as a bamboo pole, and your butt isn't even as big as my son's palm. How can you give birth to a son?"
As she spoke, she reached out and pinched Lin Yaqin's lower back hard, with such force that Lin Yaqin almost cried out.
"Look at your body," the old lady turned to Gao Zhiqiang and said, "You can't even hold a dustpan steady, how can you do any work?"
The old lady snorted and turned to walk back into the house, muttering, "Bringing back such a money-losing thing, eating and drinking for free, and still having to serve her?"
She suddenly turned around and glared at Lin Yaqin fiercely, "What are you standing there for? Come in and work! Do you really think you're the young lady?"
Gao Zhiqiang pushed her and said, "Come in, and wait for the sedan chair to come and pick you up."
The room was filled with a musty smell mixed with the scent of cheap tobacco.
The old lady pushed Lin Yaqin onto the creaking wooden bench. The legs of the bench were a little short, so it kept shaking when she sat on it.
"Today I'll show you around," the old lady said condescendingly, standing before her with her hands on her hips. "This will be your home from now on, so you must understand the rules!"
Lin Yaqin forced a smile and was about to say hello when the old lady's expression suddenly changed. She picked up the broom by the door and hit her with it: "You unlucky thing! You can't even say mom after you walk in? My son raised you for free?!"
The broom handle hit her back hard, and Lin Yaqin staggered back in pain.
Gao Zhiqiang watched coldly and even sneered: "Mom, don't hit me in the face. I still have to rely on her to make money in the future."
Upon hearing this, the old lady put down her broom and picked up a rag and threw it at him: "Wash the dishes first! Look at you dressed so fancy, you're obviously not a decent person!"
Lin Yaqin stood there, trembling all over, and only then did she finally wake up - she had fallen into a wolf's den.
But when I regretted and wanted to run away, it was too late!
Gao Zhiqiang had already taken away her household registration certificate, letter of introduction, and other things. Run away? Where to run?
What made her most upset was that there was only one room, and at night, the three of them had to sleep on the same kang.
Gao Zhiqiang has no shame and does whatever he wants.
Sometimes she would wake up the old woman, and she would scold her for trampling on others' hooves, not sleeping at night, and seducing her son!
The old woman was still a talkative person. The next day, just after dawn, she took her enamel basin to the public tap to wash up.
I heard the old woman gossiping with a few gossipers next door in the slum.
"Oh, you didn't see it, that body looks as thin as a straw!"
The old woman squatted on the threshold, a handful of melon seeds in her hand, spitting the shells onto the ground as she cracked them. "I didn't expect there would be so much flesh where it should be! It's so white, it's blinding even at night!"
Several old women from the opposite door came over immediately, their eyes gleaming, whispering to each other, full of obscene garbage!
It was even said that she was naked and fasting, wagging her tail at her son!
"Isn't she a teacher? Why is she so precious? Why is she following your Zhiqiang?"
"Bah! What's so precious!" The old lady slapped her thigh, "My son said, she's just a vain vixen!
My son was so coaxed into submission by two new pieces of clothing that he begged me to come to Beijing with him!
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