Zhou Qiming was severely beaten and never left the house again. Yu Qiuying didn't bother him either. The money had already been paid back, and Zhou Qiming had also been severely beaten by Zhou Jianbin. There was no need for him to provoke that crazy woman, Lü Sanmei, anymore.
Anyway, her son got into trouble, and making him pay compensation is more painful than cutting off her own flesh. If she's not afraid of paying compensation, then she can just continue to spoil her son!
After the fish were divided, each household began to prepare food.
They fry dough cakes, fried rice cakes, fried rice balls, rice cakes with iron spoons, make rice cakes, and make tofu. After that, every household starts cleaning and preparing for the New Year. On the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, several families slaughtered pigs. However, they don't have the custom of eating "pig-killing feast" here. Generally, on the day a family slaughters a pig, they invite their close relatives to eat together.
Yu Qiuying's family has been busy for several days, cooking and cleaning. None of the three—Zhou Jiadong, Zhou Caixiang, and Zhou Jiahong—dared to slack off this year.
On the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, Yu Qiuying and her family of five all went out to the county town.
Yu Qiuying originally wanted to go with Zhou Cailian, but Zhou Jiahong and Zhou Caixiang insisted on going as well.
Zhou Jiahong was thinking of asking his mother to buy him some snacks when he got to the county, while Zhou Caixiang wanted to buy herself new clothes and shoes for the New Year. Last time, her mother only bought clothes and shoes for her older sister and not for her. Today, she was determined to get her mother to buy her clothes and shoes.
When Zhou Jiadong saw that they were all going, he didn't want to stay at home alone, so he went along too. Anyway, his mother hadn't said he couldn't go, but he didn't dare to ask his mother to buy him anything.
The county town was exceptionally lively today, decorated with lanterns and colorful streamers. The department store was packed with people, and festive New Year songs were playing on the loudspeaker. People who had been busy all year only dared to visit the department store and buy some New Year's goods at this time.
Yu Qiuying and her group of five squeezed in with the crowd. There were just too many people on the first floor. Yu Qiuying thought she should go upstairs to the clothing section first. She hadn't bought clothes for her youngest son last time, and he had been behaving the best lately. She thought she should buy him a new outfit for the New Year.
As a result, the stairwell was crowded with people, some going up and some going down, and the stairs were filled with shouts of "Make way, make way!"
The five of them finally made it upstairs, but by sheer coincidence, they ran into Zhong Xiaolan. Yu Qiuying was pushed by someone and bumped into Zhong Xiaolan, even stepping on her foot.
This is truly a case of enemies meeting and their eyes turning extremely red.
"It's you?!" Zhong Xiaolan's face turned extremely ugly when she saw that the person who bumped into her and stepped on her was Yu Qiuying.
She opened her mouth to yell, but then suddenly realized that Guo Jiabao was still beside her, and immediately swallowed the words she was about to say.
"I didn't do it on purpose, someone pushed me." Yu Qiuying felt bad when she saw Zhong Xiaolan, but she knew she was in the wrong for bumping into her and stepping on her. Besides, there were too many people around, and she didn't want to argue with her, so she gave a perfunctory explanation.
Zhong Xiaolan's gaze had already shifted to Zhou Jiadong.
But now, when Zhong Xiaolan sees this man again, she feels nothing. She even unconsciously looks at Zhou Jiadong with a hint of disdain.
She used to think Zhou Jiadong was shy, easily influenced, and easy to manipulate. She thought that he was the best man in the world because he was willing to listen to her. But after being with Guo Jiabao, she realized what a truly good man is.
That's right, she's with Guo Jiabao now, the guy who lent her a thousand yuan before.
After Zhou Jiadong refused to go to Dongguan with her and broke up with her, telling her not to contact him again, Zhong Xiaolan was very sad for several days. Later, Guo Jiabao invited her out and, noticing her bad mood, tried to cheer her up.
After getting to know him, she felt really happy and relaxed with Guo Jiabao. Guo Jiabao was much sweeter than Zhou Jiadong. He spoke frankly but not in an offensive way, and always made her feel sweet inside.
Guo Jiabao's family is well-off, and he is always willing to spend money on her whenever he asks her out. In the past, when she was with Zhou Jiadong, apart from going to the movies twice and having a few meals together, Zhou Jiadong never spent any money on her. They were together for more than half a year, and he never even gave her a gift.
Zhou Jiadong is bad with words and doesn't know how to make her happy. When they meet, he only asks her if she has eaten and how she has been doing lately, and then he looks at her with a hesitant expression, as if he wants to look at her but doesn't dare to.
Yes, he was being coy and hesitant. Zhong Xiaolan used to think that Zhou Jiadong's shyness in wanting to look at her but not daring to was cute, but now, looking back, she thinks that he was just being coy and hesitant, and very pretentious.
“Xiao Lan…” Zhou Jiadong naturally had no idea what Zhong Xiaolan was thinking. It had been a while since they had last met, and now that they were seeing each other again, he felt a little uneasy.
"Xiao Lan, who is this? Is he your friend?" Guo Jiabao noticed the way Zhong Xiaolan looked at Zhou Jiadong and immediately stepped forward, a little jealous, to block their gazes from meeting.
Zhong Xiaolan could tell he was jealous, and she felt a sweet warmth in her heart.
She affectionately took Guo Jiabao's arm and deliberately raised her voice, saying, "He's not a friend, he's a spineless coward who listens to his mother in everything. He's really unlucky. Let's go."
Zhou Jiadong: "..."
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