"Mom, I think I'll pass..." Zhou Cailian didn't really want to go to her maternal grandmother's house. After all, she was a divorced woman, and she was afraid that her two aunts would look down on her, and she was also afraid of what others would say.
Yu Qiuying knew exactly what she was thinking. "It's okay, come with me. You didn't do anything wrong. Let others say what they want. Let's just live our own lives and not care about what others think. We have a long life ahead of us. You can't just stay locked up at home forever."
"Well... alright." Zhou Cailian hesitated for a moment, then thought that what her mother said made sense. There was still a long way to go, and she would have to go out eventually.
Yu Qiuying didn't say anything more, prepared the bathwater, and carried it back to her room.
At that time, there was no separate bathroom in the house. People would take a shower in their own room. They would close the window, lock the door, fill a wooden basin with water, squat down, and then pour the water out after showering.
It's so inconvenient everywhere!
After emptying the bathwater, Yu Qiuying returned with the wooden basin. Looking at the muddy, uneven floor behind the door, wet from the bathwater, and then at the dark, spiderweb-covered beams, she became even more determined to go to Dongguan Province after the New Year.
The next morning, Yu Qiuying had barely woken up when she heard Zhou Cailian calling her from outside the door, "Mom, are you up yet? There's no rice in the rice jar, and the flour in the cupboard is gone too. Did you put all the rice and flour away?"
"Yes, I took the rice and flour to my room. Cailian, don't make breakfast today, we'll eat out later. Go feed the chickens in the backyard first, I'll get up right away." Yu Qiuying sat up with a yawn.
Although her maternal village is in the same town as their village, it is far away. You have to pass through the town and then walk a long mountain road.
These days, the first bus doesn't go to the countryside, and since we don't have bicycles at home, it takes at least three hours to walk there. If we don't go early, we won't make it in time for lunch.
On this day in her past life, she returned to her parents' home alone, to borrow money for her eldest son's dowry and wedding. She was short of money and didn't buy much, so she just grabbed a chicken from the house and some eggs. Then her younger brother's wife gave her a long, sarcastic scolding. She felt bitter, but she knew she was in the wrong, so she could only endure it.
She will no longer borrow money from her family to pay for her eldest son's wedding, so she won't be so strapped for cash. She also doesn't want to be stingy anymore, so she will buy pork, fruit, canned goods, and biscuits in a little while.
As Yu Qiuying thought about these things, she got up, dressed, and after washing up, she locked the door and went out with Zhou Cailian.
Today happened to be market day, but the mother and daughter didn't have time to stroll around slowly. When they arrived in town, they went to the pork shop first.
Neither of them expected that they would run into Zhou Cailian's ex-husband, Zhang Yuanqiang, here.
"Mom, Cailian, you've come to the market too?"
"Don't call me that, who's your mother?" Yu Qiuying looked at the seemingly honest and kind man in front of her, and felt disgusted when she remembered that he was gay.
She doesn't discriminate against homosexuals, but it's truly hateful that this man concealed his sexual orientation and tricked Cailian into becoming his wife. What's even more hateful is that after three years of marriage, Cailian couldn't get pregnant, and he knew it was his own problem, yet he let his mother torment Cailian. There's not a single good person in his whole family!
“I… Cailian, I want to take you back…” Zhang Yuanqiang shrank back when he saw that Yu Qiuying didn’t give him a good look, and looked at Zhou Cailian hesitantly.
Yu Qiuying wanted to kick him to death as soon as she heard his words. Before Zhou Cailian could speak, she cursed, "I think you want to eat shit. Get out of here! Cailian has nothing to do with you anymore. Don't come here to disgust us!"
Zhou Cailian pursed her lips and remained silent, feeling somewhat uneasy.
After all, they were husband and wife, and lived together for three years. It's impossible to say that there were no feelings between them.
If it weren't for my inability to conceive...
Zhou Cailian lowered her head, her eyes dim. The fact that she couldn't conceive was like a thorn in her heart, causing her pain every time she thought about it.
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