Chapter 13: A man's dignity should not be underestimated / When mother-in-law and daughter-in-law work together, their strength is unbreakable.
She was finally a person again and no longer a widow.
"Thank you." She hugged Li Jianye tightly, murmuring over and over again: "Thank you."
Although it wasn't the same kind of happiness, they were both indeed very happy at that moment.
"You've been busy all day, you must be starving, right?" Wang Yulian let go of Li Jianye and said softly, like a true hostess, "I'll go make you something."
Li Jianye also sighed and said, "I'll go to the main hall and wait for you."
Wang Yulian got up and went to the kitchen.
The sound of cooking was heard from the kitchen. The first person to open the door was Li Tianfu. After taking a look, he thought that there would be food tonight, so he closed the door.
The second person to open the door was Li Tianci. He frowned and looked at Wang Yulian for a while, then closed the door.
After a while, Li Jianye invited them both out for dinner.
The two men hesitated for a moment and then followed out.
There will never be a shortage of hostesses in the kitchen. When one leaves, a second one will come. Although it is not the same person as the original one, it does not matter whether it is the same person or not as far as the kitchen utensils, the mouths waiting to eat, and the clothes in the basins to be washed.
Anyway, anyone can cook and anyone can do the work.
You see, after a dramatic and absurd show, smoke is coming out of the chimney of Old Li's house again - no matter how bizarre things are, they cannot stop the sun from rising in the east and setting in the west. Time will dilute everything, and no matter how much you want to remember, you will forget it later.
For them, the most important thing is eating. As long as the family can sit at the same table and eat, life can go on.
Who doesn't have some minor issues? As long as you can bear it, then bear it.
Tomorrow is also a brand new day. As time goes by, even you will forget those humiliating things, and then spend day after day in calm and hopeless days.
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When smoke came out of the Li family's chimney, Lin Xinran was still guarding outside the Li family's courtyard wall.
She didn't know what was inside, so she could only wait there until her mother, wearing an apron, opened the door and said to her with a smile, "Xinran, your uncle wants you to come in for dinner."
Lin Xinran threw the knife in her hand into the grass beside her. She nodded, took a slightly stiff step, and entered the Li family with her mother.
Lin Xinran didn’t know what her life would be like tomorrow, but she kept in mind and listened to her mother.
Listen to your mother.
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When Lin Xinran stepped into the Li family's house and sat down to eat with the Li family, Hu Honghua also sat at the same table with her uncle.
At that time, the sunset had already fallen behind the mountain. The red sun shone in from the window, leaving a layer of sugary glow on the table, illuminating the food on the table.
Hmm - calling them food doesn't seem quite right.
The potatoes that were peeled and boiled in water were just ordinary potatoes. The boiled white flesh mixed with the soup floated in the iron basin and tasted very salty. Too much water was added to the rice, so it tasted very thick.
Never mind, it’s still food, just not very tasty.
Hu Honghua picked up a piece of rice and stuffed it into her mouth, mumbling, "Uncle, I saw Lin Xinran when I came back."
She wanted to say, "Lin Xinran stopped me with a knife," but Lin Xinran didn't hurt her, so it seemed a bit of an exaggeration to say that now. So she changed the subject and said, "Aunt Shi said she would come back to pick me up in a few days and take me to work in the town."
Hu Chengjun hummed and said, "I'll take you there when the time comes."
He knew that Shi Meilan would not harm Hu Honghua, but since she was his own niece, he had to go and see her to feel at ease.
When Hu Honghua was eating, Hu Chengjun looked up at her.
She ate with great difficulty, probably because the food was not tasty. Her cheeks puffed up a little, as if she was struggling with the food - the meat was precious and she had to eat it all.
This child was scared to death in Boss Li's yard just now, but when she turned around and went home, she seemed to have forgotten everything. She is timid but has a big heart.
It’s better to be more open-minded, Hu Chengjun thought, so that you can live a good life.
Things that are forgotten will no longer hurt her.
He inevitably thought of Shi Meilan again.
Shi Meilan is not a person with the same personality as Hu Honghua. Shi Meilan is a smart, bold, narrow-minded, and daring woman. She even has a bit of recklessness in her bones, but she is also shrewd. She knows when to do what and can endure her hatred to dig a hole for Li Jianye first.
She had long discovered Li Jianye's disgusting deeds, but she did not point them out directly. Instead, she suppressed them, as if waiting for an abscess to mature gradually. Then, at the right moment, she would suddenly poke and squeeze it hard, squeezing out the rotten, smelly pus inside, spraying it into Li Jianye and Wang Yulian's mouths, and then forcing them to swallow it.
Shi Meilan had no idea how long she had been planning for this day. Only Shi Meilan could take revenge so decisively and jump to another path before the pus flowed to her feet.
Hu Chengjun couldn't help but be distracted for a moment.
In this absurd drama, he saw the moon, which had never belonged to him, fly away from other people's hands and hang in the night sky again, and he even felt a little fortunate.
Shi Meilan has left the Li family and is no longer Li Jianye's wife. Does that mean he has a chance to get close to her?
He silently enjoyed this secret anticipation. The sunset outside became extremely beautiful at this moment, and the food on the table seemed to be delicious. He was bewitched and picked up a piece of food with chopsticks and put it in his mouth. The moment his tongue touched it, Hu Chengjun came to his senses and realized it still tasted bad.
The uncle and niece sat around the table, ate a difficult meal, and then returned to their respective rooms.
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At the same time, Shi Meilan had been working in the single dormitory of Chunfeng Garment Factory for more than half an hour.
It is now June 20th, and there are still ten days before the garment factory opens. Because it has not opened yet, when Shi Meilan arrived, there was no one in the factory and there were only two security guards guarding the door.
After Shi Meilan identified herself at the door, two security guards informed the inside that Manager Lu had sent someone to pick her up, and then let her in.
The person who came to pick her up was a pretty girl from Chunfeng Town. Her name was Chen Chunxiang. She said she was the daughter of a hotel owner in the town and was arranged to work here under Manager Lu.
Chen Chunxiang was chubby with pink lips. She was wearing a princess dress with big sleeves that looked very expensive and could only be bought in big cities. Shi Meilan had never seen this dress before. At first glance, it looked like a foreign doll. Her eyes were rolling around, and she looked very smart. She was also very friendly and smiled as she picked up Shi Meilan and dropped her off. She said that they were all hired by Manager Lu, and would be colleagues with Shi Meilan in the future, and asked Shi Meilan to take care of her.
What a talkative girl! If Hu Honghua could speak half as well as Chen Chunxiang, she wouldn't have been such a loser in the village.
Shi Meilan understood, this also came from a hundred yuan.
"Are you starting work now?" Shi Meilan began to pry into his workplace connections. "Manager Lu told me that you won't start until early July."
"I'm not really here to work." Chen Chunxiang didn't mind mentioning her background. She raised her chin with a hint of pride and said, "My father ordered a batch of employee clothes from the Chunfeng Garment Factory. I came here to sign the order with Manager Lu. This is the factory's first order."
Oh, it’s not just a hundred yuan, how much would the clothes of a group of employees cost? This is the daughter of a capitalist.
After a pause, Chen Chunxiang continued, "So the factory does have some work to do now. Orders have suddenly come in, and we need clerks to run around to sign contracts, deliver samples, and take customers out for dinner. Originally, there was no one in the factory, and one person couldn't handle it all, so I and the others had to do all this work. But now that Sister Meilan is here, we can hand it over to you. By the way, Manager Lu said you have to report to her at nine tomorrow morning."
Oh, the lady is still a lazy person.
It's as she should be. The lady has spent money to use her connections, so of course she won't work.
Shi Meilan accepted this well. As an adult, she had long known that people were divided into different classes and that everyone was different. Even though they were all working as clerks here, if Chen Chunxiang didn't want to work anymore, she would be a rich lady when she went home. If she didn't want to work anymore, she would have to work like a slave when she went home. She was naturally inferior to others in terms of background.
Looking at her work ability again, it was even worse. As soon as the garment factory opened, Chen Chunxiang got a batch of orders, but she didn't even know what her job was. She became inferior to others, and it was natural for others to order her around.
The village has its own rules, and the town has its own rules. The world isn't black and white; that's how she came to be. Most of the world is a gray area, a mixture of black and white. Shi Meilan is powerless to change this, so she can only conform to these rules and try to protect herself first.
"That's as it should be." Shi Meilan said to Shen Chunxiang, "Don't worry, I'll report to Manager Lu tomorrow. Just leave all the work to me."
As long as people are willing to pay her salary, Shi Meilan can endure it - this is the same principle as living in Lao Li's house, but it is a different way of endurance.
When Chen Chunxiang saw Shi Meilan coming up, she happily took her to Building 3.
The three buildings are all dormitories for female workers, with a total of five floors. From the first floor to the third floor, there are large bunk beds. Ten beds are squeezed into the small room. That is where the female workers live, while the clerks live on the third floor. They are all single dormitories. Every clerk can apply to live here as long as there is space.
Before leaving, Chen Chunxiang gave Shi Meilan a lipstick, and Shi Meilan hurriedly accepted it with a smile. Chen Chunxiang already had a place to live in Chunfeng Town, and she thought the dormitory was too small, so she didn't come to live here. She just registered her name here, took Shi Meilan to the dormitory, and left.
After Shi Meilan found her dormitory, she cleaned it neatly and went to the warehouse to get her mattress, quilt cover and pillow - these basic items were distributed, because there would be many people coming to work in the factory, and they were basically given to her for free, and deducted from her salary in the second month.
Ouch! There's also a small electric fan!
This small electric fan is a rare item. Manager Lu lent it to her. He said that this thing can only be placed in the manager's office. The quantity is fixed and kept in the warehouse. No one else can use it. Now the other managers have not come, so Manager Lu lent her one - of course, if no one finds out, she can keep "borrowing" it.
Look, the two hundred dollars were not wasted.
With the small electric fan, this cramped dormitory looks a little more luxurious.
The dormitory is a narrow single dormitory, about the same size as the kitchen behind the main hall of Li Laoer's house. It can only accommodate a bed, a table, and a wardrobe, but it is very sunny. Standing inside the dormitory, you can see the bright sunshine outside the dormitory.
Shi Meilan was full of energy. After putting away her simple bag, she went to the dormitory manager in the corridor to borrow a broom and a rag, then turned around and went to work in the dormitory. Each dormitory building was equipped with a dormitory manager.
There is no single toilet in the dormitory, and you can only wash in the public toilet, one on each floor.
After Shi Meilan had packed up everything, she took a basin of water from the bathroom, washed her hair, wiped her body, and finally sat down on the bed feeling refreshed.
The bed was covered with a thin layer of quilt, which was a bit hard, but not unbearable. After she sat down, she solemnly counted the clothes she brought with her, the lipstick given by Chen Chunxiang, and the money she brought from the Li family.
One hundred and eighty-two yuan, Li Jianye’s annual salary.
What could I do? I didn't have enough money to buy a house here, or a few sets of clothes—no, I couldn't waste money on anything else.
Let’s put it away first.
Shi Meilan finally packed up the wallet and solemnly placed it under her pillow. Then, with the money as a pillow, she began her first wonderful night since her rebirth.
Every day since her rebirth, she has been wrapped in hatred and unwillingness. She feels like vomiting whenever she thinks of the two people next door. It was not until now that she could breathe a sigh of relief.
She placed the electric fan under the window, shaking its head left and right towards her, blowing the cool breeze. She covered herself with a thin quilt and finally fell into a deep sleep.
This single dormitory is actually not as spacious as the east room in Li Jianye's house, but it is her own place and will not be disturbed or occupied by anyone. As long as she closes the door, all the tedious housework and complicated relationships are locked outside. She escapes to a safe house where she can rest quietly by herself.
At this moment, she was not Li Ersao, not Tianci's mother, not the second daughter-in-law of the old Li family, nor the third daughter of the Shi family. She was just Shi Meilan, just herself.
She turned over, wrapped herself in the thin summer quilt, found a comfortable position, and fell into a deep sleep.
Shi Meilan slept until eight o'clock the next morning.
There was no crowing of cocks, no barking of dogs, no shouting of sons, only soft bedding.
Shi Meilan stretched out in bed, feeling that this kind of life was incredibly wonderful.
She used to be busy with endless work every day, and those things she did every day gradually became her tasks, and she couldn't take a break for a day. Now suddenly she doesn't have to do anything, which makes her feel like "it can be like this", and even the world seems unreal.
She broke free from the cage of the past and ran towards another life, as if she was outside the order, all the previous rules no longer counted, and she could do anything.
It turns out that in places where she can't see, a woman can live like this, just, just, just like a man.
By this calculation, this place is still better than Old Li's house. Any woman can do the housework she does in Old Li's house, but only Shi Meilan can do the things here, which makes Shi Meilan feel useful.
More importantly, she can earn money on her own, and she no longer has to take money from Li Jianye, nor will people say that she is "supported by Li Jianye".
She enjoyed the bliss of this lazy sleep for a while, then got up, tidied herself up, and prepared to go to Building 4 to find Manager Lu.
It's half past eight, almost nine. This is my first time working with a manager, so I can't be late.
When going out to work, of course, you can't wear the clothes you wear when working at home. Shi Meilan referred to the outfits of rural female teachers she had seen before, and solemnly chose an outfit for herself with a white shirt and a dark blue skirt. It didn't look too conspicuous. She wore a pair of white leather shoes, tied her hair up, trimmed her eyebrows, and applied Chen Chunxiang's lipstick, and she looked like a city person.
At 8:45, Shi Meilan, wearing her small leather shoes, walked out of Building 3 of the women's dormitories and headed towards Building 4.
Building 4 is the office area, with a total of three floors. When Shi Meilan arrived, the first floor was said to be the boss's office area, the second floor was the conference room and manager's office area, as well as the employee office area, and the first floor was the reception room and front desk.
There was a bored little girl at the front desk. When Shi Meilan arrived, the girl stood up straight, met Shi Meilan, confirmed her identity, and then let her go up.
When Shi Meilan went up to the second floor, she saw from afar more than a dozen tables placed two by two facing each other, forming a square. There was a chair behind each table. There were sixteen squares in the entire second floor. Walking past these squares, there was a manager's office in the front.
There were already two people sitting in the staff office area on the second floor.
One was a quiet little girl. When she saw Shi Meilan, she nodded without saying anything and looked very quiet.
The other was a woman in her thirties, slightly plump, with short hair. She looked Shi Meilan up and down with a pair of shrewd eyes, then stood up and said with a smile, "You are Shi Meilan, right? Manager Lu told me about you—you used to work as a clerk in another factory, right?"
Shi Meilan hurried over and greeted the other person: "Hello, I'm Shi Meilan, who are you?"
"My last name is Sun." The other person smiled and said, "I'm the head of the secretariat. I used to be at the Baicheng headquarters, and now I'm the head of the branch factory. My name is Sun Yanling. Now that you're here, you'll work under me."
When mentioning the Baicheng headquarters, Manager Sun's face showed a hint of pride and satisfaction.
Shi Meilan quickly flattered him: "I've heard of Baicheng, but I've never been there. Oh, the supervisor is from such a big place!"
Manager Sun smiled happily and led Shi Meilan to find a seat in the staff area. From the conversation with them, Shi Meilan got to know the staff in this office.
There are three groups of people in the office. One is the secretariat, managed by Manager Sun; one is the design department, responsible for designing new clothes; and one is the sales department, responsible for finding channels and selling clothes. All three managers work under Manager Lu.
Most of the people in the sales department don't come to work. They are all out looking for contracts, so the desks in the sales department are always empty. The head of the design department is the girl mentioned above, and there are four employees in the secretarial department.
There is Shi Meilan, Chen Chunxiang, and two others who have not come. Manager Sun said that the other two will not leave for work until early July.
Shi Meilan wondered which department Hu Honghua was assigned to, probably the secretariat, right?
As for Chen Chunxiang——
"She can come or not." Manager Sun mentioned Chen Chunxiang, his face not looking good, with a hint of dissatisfaction of being dominated by others: "Don't worry about her."
Chen Chunxiang has some connections, and even Supervisor Sun can't control her—no one likes such an employee, and there's no way to control her! With the big boss protecting her, Supervisor Sun, stuck in the middle, can only endure the frustration and be treated like a patriarch. The sales department still signed the sales contract, and he didn't know why Chen Chunxiang didn't go to the sales department, but insisted on coming to the secretarial department.
Another important job is purchasing. Logically, someone should be hired to do this, but the purchasing work is in the hands of Manager Lu himself, and Manager Lu rarely assigns it to his subordinates.
Shi Meilan came and did the work of a secretary. Manager Sun pulled Shi Meilan to turn on the computer and told her the scope of her work.
The computer was a pure white, bulky head, and Shi Meilan was even dumber than it. Her palms were sweating from holding the thing called a mouse. She had to pretend that she knew how to use it while learning how to actually use it - yes, Manager Lu fabricated an identity for her that she had been a clerk before, but she actually didn't know anything.
While the two were talking, they suddenly heard laughter coming from the manager's office at the innermost part of the workstation.
This office is separated by a thin layer of wood, not the cement wall that was built at the beginning, so the sound insulation is very poor. Shi Meilan and Manager Sun were sitting in front of the computer and could hear Manager Lu talking on the landline phone.
"What? The new Mr. Yuan? Really? It's really Mr. Yuan?"
"Mr. Yuan actually came to our place? Oh my! This is great news."
"Alright! I got it! I'll go pick it up now! Mr. Yuan's son is my father! I will definitely take good care of him."
Suddenly someone pushed her away. Shi Meilan turned her head and saw Manager Lu walking out with a happy look on his face. She took out the keys from her pocket and swung them back and forth. The crisp collision sound was like Manager Lu's silent celebration.
Shi Meilan had given Manager Lu money to get in before. Now that she saw Manager Lu, she wanted to say hello to him, but Manager Lu didn't even look at her and turned around and walked out.
Manager Lu now looks like he has made thousands of dollars and is grinning from ear to ear.
Seeing that Manager Lu was in a hurry, Shi Meilan certainly did not go to greet him at this time. She also lowered her head to look at the screen like Manager Sun, pretending that the things on the screen were very beautiful - in fact, she could not understand them at all.
"What's wrong with Manager Lu?" Shi Meilan waited until Manager Lu walked away before asking Manager Sun in a low voice.
Manager Sun didn't answer directly, but instead asked Shi Meilan, "Oh, I haven't asked you yet. What is your relationship with Manager Lu?"
This probably determines how Manager Sun will respond to Shi Meilan.
So Shi Meilan whispered back, "My family found a connection for me. I don't know who Manager Lu is—my father runs a farm at home, and he said he spent a lot of money to find me one."
In this sentence, she first said that her family had some money, and then said that she was not familiar with Manager Lu. There was a bit of cleverness in her words - if she said that she was very familiar with Manager Lu, this gossip might not be told to her.
Shi Meilan has the ability to "jump the dial and serve the right dish to the right person". No matter what kind of person he is, as long as he comes under her nose, she will know how to get along with him. When she meets Manager Lu, she knows that Manager Lu is greedy for money, so she has to give him money. When she meets Chen Chunxiang, she knows that she cannot afford to offend Chen Chunxiang, and that she knows that Chen Chunxiang cannot work, so she has to work harder. When she meets Manager Sun, she knows to flatter him more and act stupid more. This person is vain, likes to pretend to be rich, likes to hear good words, and likes to find a few obedient fools as his subordinates.
As long as she keeps pretending to be stupid in front of Manager Sun, her life with Manager Sun will be easy.
As expected, Shi Meilan said "I'm not familiar with her." Only then did Manager Sun agree to talk to her. She said mysteriously, "This is news from my old colleague in Baicheng. I'm telling you because I see you're going to be with me in the future."
Shi Meilan understood, so she started praising him, saying things like "Manager Sun is worthy of being Manager Sun, he really has connections", which made Manager Sun's eyes red, and he proudly told Shi Meilan some inside secrets.
"When Chunfeng Town first opened, it was just a small branch factory, and no one wanted to come and manage it. The sales channels here were limited, and it wasn't as good as in bigger places. No one wanted to come here, fearing they wouldn't get orders and wouldn't make money. So, they sent Manager Lu and a junior manager to manage it."
"Chunfeng Town is a two-and-a-half-hour drive from Baicheng City. It's so remote that few people come here."
Shi Meilan thought about it and remembered that Manager Lu had charged 100 yuan for each person to be brought in. Manager Lu's behavior at that time did seem to indicate that he was "very short of money."
"Then, Boss Yuan suddenly changed his mind and said he was sending his eldest son over to be the general manager. Not only that, he was also sending a lot of orders and resources. As long as his son was here, the factory would have a stable sales volume, and Manager Lu wouldn't have to work so hard to increase sales. With so many orders, is he still worried that the factory won't develop well?"
Shi Meilan couldn't help but ask, "Boss Yuan has such a big business, why did he push his eldest son here?"
From what Manager Sun said, she knew that the garment factory in Baicheng was the largest and most expensive, much larger than the one in Chunfeng Town. Shouldn't the eldest son inherit the garment factory in Baicheng?
When she asked this, Manager Sun moved his lips, but suddenly stopped talking.
"Okay." Manager Sun turned around and said, "Learn the spreadsheet. Organize the data spreadsheet for the Shen's Restaurant employees and hand it over to me later."
Shi Meilan nodded quickly and got to work.
She used to work every day, washing clothes, cooking, washing dishes, farming and harvesting corn. She still works now, clicking this and that with the mouse, but working at the Chunfeng Garment Factory is different from working in the village.
Although they all work, people who work in the village have to be aggressive and fierce, not giving in at all, and showing their teeth to anyone they meet.
For example, some time ago, the Li family had a piece of land that was left there untouched. The neighbors came over to plant crops, saying that the crops would be split equally between them and the Li family. However, Shi Meilan immediately pulled up all the seedlings because she knew that once the land was planted by someone else, it would be hard to explain why. The family would immediately say that the land belonged to them, and no matter how she explained, she would not be able to make it clear. Rural people are good at making unreasonable demands, so you have to make your own edges clear at the beginning to avoid being bullied by others. It is better to fight back with one punch than to get a hundred blows.
But this factory seems much quieter. Everyone here seems very polite and gentle, just like Chen Chunxiang. But if you listen carefully, you can hear the true meaning behind their nice words.
The people in Chunfeng Garment Factory hid those indecent things underneath, disguising it as a small trap. You have to uncover it yourself to find it. If you don’t uncover it, you will step into it!
For example, Manager Sun never directly asked her about her family conditions, but only asked her in a roundabout way, such as "What does your husband do?" and "Where do your children go to school?" You have to ask her in a roundabout way to understand the vague temptations hidden beneath the words.
Shi Meilan said half-truthfully, "I'm a widower, my child is in college, and I'm looking for something to do."
Seeing Shi Meilan's honest face, which didn't look like a thorn in the side, Manager Sun felt relieved - she seemed to be a person who worked honestly.
She needs this kind of person, who is much more pleasing to the eye than Chen Chunxiang.
Shi Meilan was indeed willing to work.
As soon as Manager Sun left, she began to try hard to figure out how to use the computer.
She is a very competitive and strong-willed person. When she was in Lijia Village, she insisted on marrying Li Jianye, who had the best conditions. She argued with everyone just to make her life the best. Now that she is in Chunfeng Garment Factory, she also wants to work the hardest and be the best employee.
As for which boss comes, it has nothing to do with her. What she needs to do is to try her best to get started within these few days, and then bring Hu Honghua over and let her work here and earn money together.
A stable job can allow people to see many things they have never seen before, thus changing a person's life.
As she pressed the keyboard with one finger, Shi Meilan was glad that she had used two hundred yuan to buy her and Hu Honghua's lives.
Wait a little longer for my aunt. Shi Meilan thought that once she had learned it, she could go back and pick up Hu Honghua.
So what was Hu Honghua doing at this time?
Hu Honghua cooks in Lijia Village.
Today, my uncle is going up the mountain to hunt and won't be back for a few days. Hu Honghua baked a lot of pancakes for my uncle to eat on the mountain, and then she sent my uncle up the mountain from a distance.
After her uncle went up the mountain, Hu Honghua went down the mountain by herself, bypassed a small stream, and walked for another ten minutes to return to the vicinity of Lijia Village.
She was walking on a familiar country road and was about to turn a corner when she suddenly heard a loud "bang".
Hu Honghua widened her eyes in shock and turned to look at the black behemoth in front of her.
It was mechanical and smoking, and it crashed into a tree on a country road. There seemed to be a person inside the broken glass.
Hu Honghua exclaimed, "Ah!" and thought, this thing is - a car, right?
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Ten minutes ago.
A Xiali car was driving on the road from Baicheng to Chunfeng Town.
The car window was half open, and a cool breeze came in from the door and window, blowing the driver's hair. Half of a cold face was reflected in the rearview mirror.
This was a young man in his twenties, with a straight face and thin lips. His face looked like the protagonist of the movie Gambler that was shown in the theater before. He wore gold-rimmed glasses on his nose and was wearing a suit.
This suit was not like the ones worn by the gangsters in Hong Kong movies, who wore loose suits with floral shirts inside and wide-leg pants underneath. On the contrary, his suit was a dark gray-black color, with upright corners in every part, and fit tightly on his body. He looked serious and dignified, and out of place in the entire countryside.
There was a mobile phone and a simple account book on the passenger seat. When the wind blew outside the window, a few pages of the account book were flipped open, revealing the name on it: Yuan Yao.
The eldest son of the Yuan family and the successor boss of Chunfeng Garment Factory.
Baicheng is a transportation hub for several nearby towns. It has been connected by train for a long time, and transportation is very convenient. It is the economic and trade development center for several nearby cities. Some time ago, it even started transportation cooperation with Beijing. Baicheng is thriving.
But this is not the case in Chunfeng Town.
It takes nearly three hours to take a bus from Chunfeng Town to Baicheng City. There is no train. In fact, only the city center has cement roads, and the rest of the town is dirt roads.
If the mayor of Chunfeng Town did not have certain connections with local enterprises in Baicheng, Chunfeng Garment Factory would never have invested in such a place.
As the Xiali car drove towards Chunfeng Town, the road under the tires gradually became bumpy and the car became bumpy. It seemed that the wheel had dropped a small part at some point, but Yuan Yao in the car could not see those parts. His eyes scanned the road ahead, as if trying to figure out which one was leading to Chunfeng Town.
The country roads were chaotically and disorderly winding in every direction, making it difficult to distinguish which one was the real one among the countless illusions. The trees on both sides of the road swayed left and right with the wind, and the sound of the wind let in the noise. The dry sand stuck to the wheels, reminding him again and again: Yuan Yao, you are walking on such a road.
Yuan Yao's expression grew increasingly cold.
The remote and backward town seems like a waste abandoned by the times. A group of stupid people live here. Everyone is bravely moving forward at the front of the wave, but they can only survive at the end of the wave. No matter how hard they try, they can only eat a bite of food. They look no different from beggars.
And he was about to fall into the same situation as these beggars.
At this moment, the mobile phone he placed on the passenger seat suddenly rang. Yuan Yao reached out to pick it up and answered it. His friend's voice came from the other end of the line.
"Brother Yuan." The friend on the other end seemed a little nervous, and spoke hesitantly: "My dad doesn't want me to work with you. He said that there's nothing worth investing in Chunfeng Town. Nowadays, everyone who makes clothes is heading south. There really isn't much market in the north."
My friend's words became more and more fluent. "According to my dad, you should just use the channels he gave you. Even if you sell less, the sales volume is stable. You'll have income every month, and there's no risk. Isn't that great? Why do you have to go out and do it on your own?"
"Chunfeng Garment Factory is a little small, but at least it was given to you, right? Besides, your stepmother treated you well, so why do you keep dwelling on the past? Look, I'm doing fine the way I am. Although my father has other women outside, I'm his only son. If you hadn't made a fuss, your father wouldn't have sent you to a place like this."
Through a mobile phone, the friend's voice gradually spread in the car and penetrated into Yuan Yao's ear, buzzing like an annoying fly.
"Idiot." Yuan Yao said.
"What?" The friend seemed not to hear clearly.
The driver suppressed the annoyance in his eyes and said, "I wish you and your father a happy marriage. When your illegitimate child comes into the family, don't come to me for help."
A loud "tsk" came out from the friend on the other end, and he said loudly: "Yuan Yao! You are so arrogant and mean! Don't always think so badly of others! Not everyone is like you! You-"
Yuan Yao didn't listen to the rest of the words. The conversation was interrupted and he threw the mobile phone onto the seat with a "bang".
He's a fool with water in his brain, you don't deserve to talk to him.
The car happened to jolt suddenly - I don't know if it sank into the pit and then suddenly bounced out, causing the whole car to shake violently.
On such a mountain road, the car speed cannot be too fast, otherwise the car will keep rising and falling, and the people in the car will also be shaken up and down.
Yuan Yao became increasingly irritated.
He slowly slowed down and prepared to ask someone for directions.
At this time, the car played a big joke on him and his brake pads failed.
After pressing the brakes several times, the car still didn't respond. He subconsciously tried to grab the cell phone, but there was a bump and the cell phone fell under the passenger seat.
At the same time, the Xiali car lost control due to the mud pit and crashed sideways into the tree stump.
When the Xiali car hit the tree stump, figures seemed to emerge in Yuan Yao's mind, just like the characters in foreign movies shown in the cinema, "whoosh whoosh whoosh" flashed in front of him, giving him some strength.
He would never die in this place - if he died here, these people would laugh in their dreams.
He didn't have time to think and instinctively turned the steering wheel to avoid it.
But it was too late, his car crashed into the tree with a "bang".
The leaves on the branches swayed and fell onto the front window of his car. His eyes were bloodshot, his head was buzzing, the world was spinning, and he felt like he was going to faint at any moment.
Half a minute before he fainted, he seemed to see a dark and thin rural man standing next to the car, looking at him curiously from a distance.
Maybe he has never seen a car in his life.
At the last moment of his life, Yuan Yao could no longer be so arrogant as not to ask for help from anyone. He hurriedly opened the car door and shouted to the outside: "Save me, I will give you money."
As long as he shouts the words "give me money", no matter who it is, they will stop in front of him.
Sure enough, the countryman ran towards him quickly.
Yuan Yao breathed a sigh of relief.
He feels most at ease with people who are willing to pay.
See, any man with any brains would know how to make the most of his money, unlike his foolish friend who was like a frog in warm water, ready to give away what was his.
When the country woman ran over, he fell to her with confidence and grabbed her arm tightly before fainting.
"I took it—"
It's my money, so you have to do something for me.
——
It was not until thick smoke came out of the hood of the Xiali car and the people inside ran out shouting something that Hu Honghua realized what was happening.
Oops! There was a car accident!
She didn't even hear what was said before she hurried forward to answer it.
The other person fell on her with a "bang" and seemed to be muttering something, but he fainted as soon as he turned his head. She could barely hold on.
She was very tall and heavy. The gold-rimmed glasses on her face were broken by the collision, and her face was covered with blood, so her appearance could not be seen clearly. She dragged such a person with difficulty and let out the loudest scream she had ever had since she was born, comparable to the roar of the Li family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.
"Help!"
——
The news that Hu Honghua, the niece of Hu Laoer, had picked up someone on the mountain road spread throughout Lijia Village in just half an hour.
The village chief was alarmed and came to deal with the matter personally. He also sent someone to report the case to the police station in Chunfeng Town and asked someone to call Doctor Qian to save the man. Although some ideas in rural areas are very backward, they are sometimes very simple and honest. If someone is injured on the roadside, every household will come to help and will not turn a blind eye.
Every household came. Some people removed wooden doors to use as bed boards and placed the man on them. Doctor Qian, who was called in at the critical moment, arrived with a small medicine box. He laid the man on the ground and gave a rough examination. After a while, he let out an "ouch" and said, "You're lucky. No bones were broken. It was just a bump on the head. Probably a concussion. He'll be fine after a few days."
As he spoke, Doctor Qian took out some plasters made of herbal paste from his medicine box and without saying a word, applied them all to the injured part - that is, his face, turning the man's entire face black.
This is Doctor Qian's special ointment. It is said that it has been used in their village for more than 20 years. No matter what disease it is, Doctor Qian will apply a plaster. Occasionally, someone will mutter behind his back that Doctor Qian's medicine is useless and far less effective than the medicine in the newly opened clinic in the next village. Doctor Qian will then curse and say that those Western doctors outside are all liars and that his is the quintessence of traditional Chinese medicine.
After applying the ointment, I looked carefully at the man's face and felt that he looked a bit like an old black bear in the mountains that had become a spirit. His face was so dark that you couldn't even see it clearly - this old black bear had specially stolen a suit after becoming a spirit.
Doctor Qian took a breath and said, "Alright, send him to the ancestral hall. He'll probably wake up after a day or two of sleep."
The ancestral hall in their village is large and not cold in summer, so putting a bed there is no problem. In the past, when people from the village passed by and stayed overnight, or when peddlers walked the streets, they would stay directly in the ancestral hall, so of course this person also lived in the ancestral hall.
If this person wakes up in the ancestral hall, it means that Doctor Qian has brought him back to life. If he doesn't wake up, it means that this person is not strong enough and is unlucky. Anyway, everything that can be done has been done, and the rest is up to fate.
The village chief has sent someone to the police station to report the incident, but it will take some time for the police to arrive. During this time, someone needs to look after this person.
"Honghua." The village chief naturally gave this task to Hu Honghua: "You take care of the people you saved. Just deliver a meal every day and don't let anyone starve to death in our village."
After all, it was Hu Honghua who discovered it. Hu Honghua didn't have any land to farm, and she didn't go to school. She just stayed at home doing nothing every day, so it wasn't a big deal for her to go and deliver a meal.
Hu Honghua was told by the village chief, so she nodded stupidly and agreed to the task.
It's just feeding him a meal every day, just like raising a puppy - she doesn't know how to refuse others, let alone the village chief.
But this job was much more difficult than Hu Honghua had imagined.
When other people's puppies were fed, they would come over wagging their tails and barking, but this "puppy" didn't get up. It just lay on the wooden board, unconscious, and looked like it was barely breathing.
Hu Honghua had never taken care of a patient before. Her parents were not around, and she only had an uncle at home. Her uncle was stronger than a wild boar in the forest and had never been sick, so she was helpless with this patient.
She went to the ancestral hall with the patient, and then went to her home to cook a pot of porridge, which she brought to the patient.
When I came back, the patient had just woken up.
——
Yuan Yao was still dizzy after waking up.
He felt like he had just gotten off a cruise ship, feeling that the world was swaying like the waves, so he couldn't stand steadily. His head was dizzy and he wanted to vomit. What was even worse was that there was a pungent bitter smell lingering in his nostrils for a long time - damn, it was coming from his face.
I don't know what was smeared on his face.
Yuan Yao reached out and touched it, and felt a pool of strange sticky liquid.
He took it off and saw that it was a black sticky substance that looked like some kind of ointment.
nausea.
Looking around, he saw a spacious bungalow. Opposite the door was a large altar with many tablets on it. The ground was dirty and dusty. He was placed on a wooden board. There were even small reptiles on the board, crawling across his arm.
For the first time, he resented his eyesight, which was so clear that it made him want to vomit.
He suppressed the acid surging in his chest when he suddenly heard a voice.
"Are you awake?"
He looked up.
The farmer who had taken his money squatted beside him, with a slightly flattering smile on his dark and thin face: "The village chief asked me to take care of you, please have some porridge."
Yuan Yao opened his mouth and asked only one question: "Have you called the police?"
"Call the police." The rural man said hurriedly.
Yuan Yao closed his eyes and didn't intend to say another word to this country man.
This bumpy journey had exhausted him. He was now tormented by everything here and had no mood to greet this country man.
He wanted to look through his wallet, pay the money in cash, and ask the country woman to go away, but then he remembered that his wallet was in the car and he had no money to give her, so he stopped moving.
He didn't say anything, but the country man didn't know what was good for him and came over to talk non-stop.
"But it will take a while for the police to arrive. Do you want me to call the village chief?"
"How are you? Are you feeling better?"
"What's your name? Are you looking for someone in our village?"
"Why aren't you talking?"
The countryman came closer and closer, looking a little worried: "You haven't been poisoned by this medicine, have you?"
"Shall I feed you something?"
"Uncle said that it would be fine if we had something to eat."
Yuan Yao frowned and was about to speak when a spoonful of porridge was suddenly fed into his mouth.
The porridge was ordinary vegetable porridge, with a salty and bitter taste, which was very unpalatable, but what was even more terrible than the unpalatable taste was this spoon.
The spoon handle has been touched by countless people, and the spoon surface has been held by countless tongues. Now it is being stirred in his tongue. Who knows how many viruses have been there!
The iron spoon scraped against the wall of the cavity, and Yuan Yao lost his balance. He turned his head and vomited with a "wow".
With this vomiting, he also vomited out all the acid that had been surging in his chest. He fell on the stretcher with a "bang". This time he was unable to open his eyes again and fainted directly - he didn't even have the energy to curse.
Hu Honghua was startled and reached out to touch it.
As soon as she touched the patient's body, she found that it was burning hot!
The patient has a high fever!
Anyone who has been sick knows that being injured is okay, but if you are injured and have a fever, it is a serious matter and you may even be burned to death!
There was also a fool in their Lijia Village. His brain was damaged by a fever when he was a child.
Hu Honghua jumped up and ran from the ancestral hall to Doctor Qian's house.
As she ran over, she passed by Old Li's house.
She subconsciously turned her head to take a look.
It was near the beginning of July and the weather was getting hot. The trees in Lao Li's yard stretched their branches high up into the clouds, swaying back and forth with the wind. Every household had just finished their meal at this time. Some villagers were enjoying the cool under the trees, while others were taking a nap in the house.
When Hu Honghua glanced at the Li family's yard, she saw rows of clean clothes hanging on the clothesline. When the wind blew, the clothes swayed left and right.
Aunt Shi is gone, but the Li family's life goes on. The new hostess serves the men in the family comfortably and washes their clothes cleanly. When you walk to the door, you can smell the aroma of food coming from inside.
Hu Honghua's pace slowed down for a moment.
It has been about two days since Aunt Shi left, right?
A lot of new things happened in Li Laoer's family in the past two days.
After Aunt Shi left, Widow Wang moved into Li Laoer's yard and lived in Li Laoer's house in full view of everyone. All of Shi Meilan's previous things became Widow Wang's things. Hu Honghua even saw Widow Wang taking Shi Meilan's used bag as her own. Not only men, but all of Shi Meilan's things were inherited by Widow Wang very smoothly.
The legal wife was driven away and the slut came into the house - it is said that Mr. Li was so angry that he cursed loudly and even went to find the village chief, asking him to bring Shi Meilan back and drive Widow Wang out of Lijia Village.
Of course the village chief didn't care! Even an honest judge couldn't settle family disputes. If Li Jianye was willing, who could do anything about it?
At most, others will just laugh at you.
So in the past two days, many people have been secretly looking at Li Laoer's yard, as if they were looking at something new and strange. Occasionally, when Hu Honghua passed by here, she could see Zhao Erjie climbing on the courtyard wall, looking at the opposite side like a monkey.
Speaking of Zhao Erjie, there is one more thing.
Zhao Erjie is not a worry-free person. Others would just watch, but she would take action directly.
She had been beaten by Li Laoer once before and held a grudge against him. She had also cursed at Wang Yulian and was very angry. When she saw Wang Yulian had married Li Laoer, she gathered her two old sisters and went to Li Laoer's house to cause trouble. When they caught an adulterer, two aunts were chopped to death by Lin Xinran with a kitchen knife, and Zhao Erjie took them to collect the debt.
This guy can't be killed for nothing, right? You have to pay for his medical expenses!
Although Hu Honghua was not present, she heard that there was chaos in Li Laoer's family again.
After Zhao Erjie came to the house, Wang Yulian turned around and cried to Li Laoer. Li Laoer was already full of resentment towards Zhao Erjie for exposing his affair and instigating Shi Meilan to divorce. After Zhao Erjie brought people, he drove them out without saying a word, pointed at Zhao Erjie's nose and cursed, saying that they deserved to be hacked to death.
Of course Li Lao Er was angry! These people still had the nerve to come and ask for money. Wang Yulian's facial injuries hadn't healed yet, so why didn't they pay her?
The two groups cursed at each other for a long time across the Li family's gate. Finally, Old Mrs. Li came and pulled Zhao Erjie away, and the joke ended.
But others said that Li Laoer was blinded by greed and scolded his sister-in-law like this for a slut.
Originally, Li Laoer had a good reputation, but since he was caught cheating, his reputation has plummeted. Many people in the village said that Li Laoer would regret it sooner or later.
When Hu Honghua passed the door, her mind was like boiling water, with recent events popping up in her mind.
But in a moment she had no time to think about these things. She hurriedly rushed past Li Laoer's door and ran to Doctor Qian's house to look for someone.
Hurry up and bring Doctor Qian back to save people!
——
After Hu Honghua ran to Doctor Qian's house and told him the situation, Doctor Qian boiled a pot of medicine for Hu Honghua and asked her to drink it.
Hu Honghua brought the pot of medicine back to the ancestral hall and fed it to the people on the ground.
But he refused to cooperate, and the medicine flowed down his lips without him drinking a single sip.
Oh no! How can I not take medicine? I will burn myself to death!
The patient seemed to have been completely delirious due to the fever. When Hu Honghua approached, she heard him mumbling something, but she couldn't make it out clearly. She moved closer little by little until she knelt on the wooden board and put her head next to his face before she could hear clearly.
He was calling "Mom".
Hu Honghua said "Oh".
Of course, she missed her mother when she was sick. When she was very sick before, her uncle couldn't do anything with her, so he touched her head, pretended to be her mother, and said, "Mom is here, open your mouth and take your medicine."
Hu Honghua stared at the person on the ground for a while, then awkwardly reached out a hand, rubbed the patient's head randomly, and said in a low voice: "Mom is here, open your mouth and take the medicine."
The person lying on the ground suddenly fell silent.
Hu Honghua said it again, and he actually opened his mouth. Hu Honghua was overjoyed and poured all the medicine in her hand into him, and also stuffed a few mouthfuls of porridge in him. The patient ate everything as ordered.
Hu Honghua was satisfied - she felt a sense of honor for feeding the patient.
She completed the task given by the village chief!
Hu Honghua stared at him with interest.
After eating, the patient gradually fell asleep.
He must be an extremely insecure person. When he was really asleep, he curled up, holding himself with his left hand, and his right hand grabbed Hu Honghua's arm at some point, holding it tightly, as if he was afraid that Hu Honghua would run away.
Hu Honghua cried out "Ah?" and tried to pull her hand back, but couldn't get it out at all.
What should I do? I can’t break free.
——
It was already afternoon, and scattered sunlight came in from outside the door, illuminating the entire ancestral hall.
The ancestral hall is at the end of the entire village. Usually, not many people come here. It is so quiet that it seems that only the breathing sounds of the two people can be heard.
Hu Honghua was used to this silence. When her uncle went up the mountain, other children would go home with their parents, but she would stay alone, just like this ancestral hall, quietly spending the years there.
Since I can't leave, I'll just sit for a while. It's nice to have someone around.
Hu Honghua simply sat down on the wooden board.
The ancestral hall was too quiet. Hu Honghua had nothing to do, so she lowered her head and played with the insects. Occasionally, she glanced at the patient on the wooden board. The patient was asleep and did not respond to her gaze, so she continued to lower her head and play with the insects.
While playing, she suddenly said, "I wonder when Aunt Shi will come to pick me up."
I don't know whether she was talking to the bugs, the patients, or the wooden board beneath her.
After she said this, there was no movement around. Hu Honghua was probably used to it. She also knew that no one would listen, but she felt uncomfortable holding some words in her heart, so she just wanted to say them.
"Aunt Shi is very kind to me."
She said again.
Still no one responded to her, but that didn't stop her from talking. She kept talking more and more.
"Aunt Shi also gave me a box of vanishing cream."
"Aunt Shi looks a bit like my mother, but my mother passed away a long time ago and I don't remember what she looked like."
"Aunt Shi is divorced from her husband. Her husband's name is Li Jianye, the principal of our village. He is extremely, extremely bad—"
Hu Honghua talked for a long time. During this time, the person next to her seemed to wake up for a moment, but soon fainted again. She didn't notice and continued talking.
No one has heard her speak for a long time, and today she wants to say everything she has never said to others.
——
The bugs under the wooden board gradually ran away. The person holding her hand turned over and no longer held her. Hu Honghua raised her head and looked outside the door of the ancestral hall.
The sky gets dark very late at the end of June, and the days seem infinitely long. The setting sun turns over in the clouds, stubbornly refusing to fall, burning the clouds into orange-red. Time moves forward bit by bit.
Hu Honghua couldn't help but wonder, what is Aunt Shi doing now?
——
Shi Meilan works as a handyman in the factory.
The secretariat is a place where people do odd jobs, and all kinds of miscellaneous tasks may be assigned to them. Shi Meilan was arranged by Manager Sun to go down and serve as a welcome guest, saying that the new boss was coming.
Not only did people from the secretariat go to welcome the guests, but people from the design department and even the sales department came. A group of people gathered together to greet and get to know each other.
But for some reason, they waited and waited, but the boss never showed up.
Manager Lu returned to the company and made several landline calls. The other party kept saying that they had arrived, but he could not get through, so Manager Lu had to give up.
Seeing that it was getting dark, Manager Lu let them go back first and continue to pick them up tomorrow.
After everyone got off work, Shi Meilan took the opportunity to carry Manager Sun's bag and help him, serving him like a younger brother all the way.
Manager Sun felt very comfortable being served by her and seemed very satisfied with Shi Meilan - who could not be satisfied with a subordinate who was so understanding, obedient and good at flattering?
Shi Meilan took the opportunity to ask for leave from Manager Sun, saying that she would pick up a niece named "Hu Honghua" to work tomorrow, and that she had discussed this with Manager Lu beforehand.
"Originally, the child should have reported here in early July, but we've been busy with Boss Shen's clothes these days, so we're short of staff." Shi Meilan smiled brightly, as if she had no ulterior motives at all. "If you're short of staff, let her come earlier and help you out."
Manager Sun thought about it and agreed. We are short of manpower right now.
"You go and answer it." Supervisor Sun said, "It's not the scheduled working hours yet, so there's no need to ask for leave. Besides, you're my subordinate, so everything will be easy."
Shi Meilan slapped Manager Sun's butt wildly again, which made Manager Sun feel so proud that he walked with his chin in the air.
Shi Meilan returned to the dormitory contentedly, slept soundly that night, and the next day she packed herself up and headed straight for Lijia Village.
She chose to go back today on purpose.
Because today, the Li family is going to put on a big show.
——
June 28th, morning.
The early morning sun had not yet jumped out from the clouds, but the crowing of chickens in the cage had already reached her ears. Widow Wang - oh no, Wang Yulian got up from the kang early and prepared to prepare breakfast for her family of five.
We can't call her Widow Wang anymore, she is now Mrs. Li Er.
She glanced at Li Jianye who was sleeping soundly, and a sense of pleasure surged in her heart.
This is her man, the one she snatched from her own arms, demonstrating her victory.
She felt comfortable at first sight.
She got off the kang happily and went to the kitchen to prepare breakfast for the morning. There were five people, three of whom were grown men, so they had to eat a lot.
When she went to the kitchen to busy herself, the two children of the Li family in the back room stood up and saw her. Li Tianfu called out, "Hello, Auntie." Wang Yulian responded and continued to cook.
Li Tianci didn't say anything, but just pursed his lips tightly, pretending that he didn't see it.
But it doesn’t matter, Wang Yulian is not angry.
She can already enter this door, so it doesn't matter whether Li Tianci calls her or not.
This is how they have to get by in life, no matter how unwilling Li Tianci is.
At this time, Li Tianfu asked again: "Auntie, where is Xinran?"
"Xinran hasn't come yet." Wang Yulian was chopping vegetables. Upon hearing this, she turned around and said with a smile, "Wait a minute, she'll be here soon."
Li Tianfu laughed and said, "Auntie, I'll go next door and call her."
Wang Yulian moved to the Li family's place, but Lin Xinran had not moved in yet. She still lived next door, but she ate her meals here every day.
Li Tianfu originally thought it was a bit embarrassing for Wang Yulian to come in, but he got used to it in the past two days. Also, because Lin Xinran came to his house for dinner every day, Li Tianfu was a little happy again.
He went out happily and called Lin Xinran in.
——
Early in the morning, the family of five sat together to eat.
Li Jianye and Wang Yulian were newlyweds and in a very good mood. They sat at the same table and kept chatting, from last year's college entrance examination questions to poetry and songs, and they didn't even notice each other.
Li Tianfu kept flattering Lin Xinran by picking up food for her, but Lin Xinran kept her head down and didn't say anything.
Occasionally, Lin Xinran looked up at Li Tianci opposite her, but Li Tianci immediately turned his head away - in the past, Li Tianci and Lin Xinran had a possibility, but ever since Lin Xinran's mother was caught cheating, stripped naked and beaten, Li Tianci felt that Lin Xinran was not worthy of him.
His father didn't dislike Wang Yulian, but he did. With such a shameful mother, how could Lin Xinran marry him? He didn't want to be stabbed in the back. He would be a college student in the future!
So Li Tianci has been ignoring Lin Xinran.
Lin Xinran saw Li Tianci's escape. She lowered her head, said nothing, and just bit her breakfast hard.
Of course she knew why Li Tianci was unwilling to pay attention to her. She had experienced this situation countless times during this period, and no one was willing to pay attention to her.
She doesn't care, she doesn't care about Li Tianci.
As if in a fit of anger, Lin Xinran picked up a steamed bun and gave it to Li Tianfu, which made Li Tianfu tremble with excitement.
Li Tianfu knew that Lin Xinran's mother and his father had a special relationship, but what did that have to do with him? He just liked Lin Xinran, so it was embarrassing. He was thicker-skinned than Li Tianci, and didn't care about those trivial things, only cared about the real things in his hands.
Li Tianci's expression became even uglier.
He ignored Lin Xinran, so Lin Xinran went to hook up with his brother. She was indeed the daughter of a slut.
The atmosphere at breakfast was very subtle, and it gradually dissipated after the three children left the Li family.
Li Tianci returned to his room to study, Li Tianfu went to farm, and Lin Xinran returned to Wang's house. Only Wang Yulian and Li Jianye were left in the main hall of the Li family.
Li Jianye was too embarrassed to go out recently and had been staying at home on the pretext of "poor health". Li Tianci was even more embarrassed to go out and had been studying at home. Neither of them went to class.
Li Tianci was really studying, but Li Jianye was shamelessly hanging out with Wang Yulian at home all day long.
The two of them got married halfway, but their passion grew stronger and stronger, and they spent every day together. After Wang Yulian had sex with him, she still asked him: "Do you like me or Shi Meilan?"
"Of course I like you." Li Jianye hugged her and said sweet words, "Shi Meilan was arranged for me by my family, and I have never been satisfied with her."
After hearing these words, Wang Yulian happily stood up and went to the yard to collect the clothes that had been hung out to dry yesterday.
——
It was the height of summer in the yard, the sun was scorching overhead, and the door of Old Li's house was wide open. She knew someone was watching her outside, so she moved more vigorously and shook off her clothes more vigorously, trying to let everyone see her.
Look, who is the mistress of the Li family now!
When she turned her head, Wang Yulian saw two heads popping out from the other side of the wall. These two heads were staring at her. As long as there was any movement in Li Laoer's yard, they would immediately run over and stick their heads out to look.
Of course she knew who it was. Apart from Zhao Erjie and Old Lady Li, who else would be so interested in lying on the wall of their house and watching every day?
She now understood Shi Meilan - anyone who had a sister-in-law like Zhao Erjie or a mother-in-law like Old Lady Li would have to fight eight hundred times a day.
After being discovered by Wang Yulian, the person opposite immediately retracted his neck, but it was too late.
Wang Yulian immediately chuckled and raised her voice, "Who's climbing the wall over there? If you're so eager to see, why not come into my house and watch?"
She didn't use to be such a provocative person. There was no man in her family before, so she could only bend over, hunch over, and endure it. But ever since the last time Zhao Erjie brought people to the house to cause trouble and asked her daughter to pay compensation, and Li Jianye supported her, she suddenly became hard, as if she wanted to spit out all the grievances she had suffered before. If someone offended her even a little, she would stab back fiercely.
What is she afraid of? She has a man now! Who can still bully her like before?
Zhao Erjie, who was standing opposite, was stabbed. Perhaps she was a little annoyed. She didn't hide immediately, but poked her head back and shouted at her, "You think you're right to be a slut? I'm telling you, your good days are over!"
As for Old Mrs. Li, she hid under the wall and cheered for Zhao Erjie.
Previously, Old Lady Li and Second Sister Zhao teamed up to beat Wang Yulian, but they were unable to stop Wang Yulian from entering Li Laoer's house. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were extremely angry with each other.
"What?" Wang Yulian raised an eyebrow and looked at her: "What else can you do?"
She has been caught before, what is she afraid of?
"What can I do?" Zhao Erjie snorted and said, "I'm telling you, Shi Meilan is back! She's on the road at the entrance of the village. Just wait. When she comes back, there will be no place for you in this house!"
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