Wu Jinfeng followed her aunt to Daxing City to work as a nanny and met Zhou Chunping.
Zhou Chunping's family consists of only two people: a grandfather and a grandson. Zhou Chunping's grandfather is an old revolutionary who is in poor health and needs a nanny to take care of him.
Wu Jinfeng happened to be working as a nanny in the Zhou family. When she was young, Wu Jinfeng was quite pretty. She lived with Zhou Chunping under the same roof for a while and successfully made Zhou Chunping fall in love with her.
Grandpa Zhou Chunping saw that his grandson liked the baby and Wu Jinfeng was pregnant. Although he was not happy, he had to help them get married.
Whenever Wu Jinfeng thought of the envious looks of the girls in the village before she got married, she felt very proud. She had finally escaped from the peasant family, but now she was back in the countryside. Wu Jinfeng was unhappy.
At the beginning, Zhou Chunping planned to move his family to Xiaofenggang to live with his brother-in-law, but Wu Jinfeng rejected the idea outright.
Xiao Fenggang is so poor. She has several sons. Will she let them remain single in the future?
Zhou Chunping then decided to move his family to Sanhe Town. There were acquaintances of Zhou Chunping's grandfather in Sanhe Town. Although Zhou Chunping's grandfather was dead, he still had some connections.
In this way, Zhou Chunping and his family settled in Zhoujia Village.
Zhou Chunping is eloquent and the Zhou surname is a big surname in Zhoujia Village. Although the Zhou in Zhou Chunping's name has nothing to do with the Zhou surname in Zhoujia Village, Zhou Chunping's family quickly integrated into Zhoujia Village.
More than 20 years have passed, and Zhou Chunping's family is no different from the local villagers.
Zhoujia Village was a large village within Sanhe Town, with over a hundred households. Besides Sanhe Town, Zhoujia Village had the largest population and the most fertile farmland. Girls from Sanhe Town and surrounding towns were proud to marry into Zhoujia Village.
In that era of material scarcity, fertile fields meant high per-acre crop yields, and high per-acre crop yields meant more food for the villagers every year, and more food meant they would not go hungry.
A few years ago, there was a famine and several people starved to death in some villages in Sanhe Town due to lack of food. Only Zhoujia Village did not experience any starvation.
Before his retirement, Zhou Chunping worked at the town's grain management office, which was responsible for the annual grain quotas of farmers in the surrounding villages of Sanhe Town.
Every autumn when the villagers of Zhoujia Village went to the town to hand in their required grain, they often benefited from Zhou Chunping's help.
Zhou Chunping was a smooth-talking man. In Zhoujia Village, he would never offend anyone in person. Whenever Zhou Chunping saw villagers going to the grain management office to deliver grain, he would always smile and invite them to sit in his office.
Of course! Once the people were let in, the carts laden with grain naturally followed them through the main gate of the grain administration office. Who among the grain administration office staff didn't have some kindred spirit or connection? They'd definitely come up and busily weigh the grain, collecting it.
The villagers in Zhoujia Village who came to pay grain saw Zhou Chunping's bright office, drank green tea brewed in white porcelain cups, and successfully joined the queue to pay grain. They must have felt very happy in their hearts.
This kind of beauty is a feeling deep in the soul. Admittedly, nothing you see or drink can compare to the exhilaration of cutting in line. Cutting in line for grain deliveries signifies both competence and privilege! Besides, while the autumn sun isn't particularly strong, it's hard to resist during those harvest days. Those who deliver grain form long lines, sometimes stretching from morning to mid-afternoon.
Zhou Chunping secretly cared for several households in Zhoujia Village, which ensured his good reputation in the village. Two years ago, Zhou Chunping retired from the grain management office. After the villagers lined up in long lines to pay their grain several times, they became even more grateful for his kindness.
As Zhou Chunping walked along, people kept greeting him.
Zhou Chunping was all smiles, chatting with everyone. Of course, the main point was that he was rushing to town to visit his granddaughter, Zhou Yuanyuan.
During this period, several people jokingly asked about Zhou Yuanyuan's fall into the water, but Zhou Chunping changed the subject by saying it was just a joke between children.
In the countryside in winter, there is little work and no entertainment. The young women and wives in the village gossip about the neighbors and the neighbors, and the days pass quickly.
At the end of the village, Zhou Chunping ignored the voices calling out to him from the creek. He waved his hand and headed for Sanhe Town. Sometimes, there are things you can't explain too clearly. Just revealing a little and letting others imagine what's going on is the way to speak.
Didn't you see how the village head's mother's eyes lit up with envy when she heard he was going to pay for her granddaughter's medical expenses? In the countryside, minor illnesses are usually cured by a good night's sleep. Who would rush to the hospital for such a trivial matter? How much more pampering would that require?
Zhou Chunping successfully discredited Zhao Yunxiang's mother and his brother-in-law Zhao Guohui, and slowly set foot on the main road to Sanhe Town.
Zhoujia Village has a clear, transparent stream. Young women and young wives often wash clothes by the stream, sharing village gossip as they wash. Afterward, some women take a small stool and sit under the ancient locust tree by the stream, sewing shoe soles while gossiping about family matters.
If Zhou Chunping hadn't been such a good person, the women would have been gossiping about the Zhou family for days and nights. From the unreasonableness of Wu Jinfeng, the old lady of the Zhou family, to the good fortune of Zhou Zhimei, the youngest daughter of the Zhou family, to the cowardice of the third daughter-in-law of the Zhou family, any one of them could be brought up and discussed for a long time...
In the eyes of the people in Zhoujia Village, Zhao Yunxiang is worthy of sympathy. No other mother-in-law is as difficult to serve as the old lady Wu Jinfeng in the Zhou family, and no other young daughter-in-law is as weak and easy to bully as Zhao Yunxiang.
In rural areas, if a daughter-in-law is upset by her mother-in-law, she will usually go to her parents' home to cry and complain. If her parents' family is more powerful, they will directly come to the door to beat her up. Unless the in-laws do not want to continue the marriage, they will definitely bow their heads and apologize.
Zhao Yunxiang's family had never come to her house to make trouble. If Zhao Yunxiang's family wasn't supportive, the young wives wouldn't have said anything. The problem was that Zhao Yunxiang's father, Zhao Qingshan, and her brother, Zhao Guohui, were both well-known figures in Sanhe Town.
Tsk tsk tsk... It must be because Zhao Yunxiang didn't complain that the Zhou family bullied her like this. The young wives have discovered the truth.
Zhou Zhimei, the youngest daughter of the Zhou family, is a formal employee of the textile factory in Yuyuan County.
What did being a regular textile factory employee mean in those days? Even the most uninformed women in Zhoujia Village knew that being a regular textile factory employee was a life of luxury for Zhou Zhimei. Aside from the 18 yuan monthly salary, the most enviable benefit was the urban hukou that embodied her status.
In those days, a child's household registration followed their mother's. This meant that if you married a rural woman, you would have a long line of rural grandchildren, while if you married a woman with an urban household registration, all your grandchildren would be urban residents with state-assigned jobs and a food supply.
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