Huang Weihong's mind was on Huang Weidong. Huang Weihong knew that her younger brother was not a heartless person. His attitude today showed that Huang Weidong's life in the town was not as glorious as she said.
In order not to embarrass Huang Weidong, Huang Weihong pulled Cao Guifang, turned around and prepared to return to the village.
Zhou Yuanyuan no longer had to choose, as Huang Weihong and Cao Guifang were already walking towards the hiding place of her and Zhou Jiasheng.
Huang Weihong turned around and glanced suspiciously at Zhou Yuanyuan and her brother. Somehow, she felt that the two children squatting on the ground playing with pebbles a few meters ahead looked familiar.
"Mother Chunhua, thank you so much for this time. Otherwise, I wouldn't have gotten the advantage." Cao Guifang's words brought Huang Weihong back to her senses. Of course, they were just two little kids, not even old enough to go to elementary school. It was perfectly normal for them to be squatting on the ground playing with pebbles!
Cao Guifang said these words with a careful thought. Huang Weidong had just handed the cloth to Huang Weihong instead of Cao Guifang. Cao Guifang was still a little worried until the cloth reached her hands.
Three yuan for such a large piece of cloth is a sure win! I just wonder if Huang Weihong is willing to give her the whole piece of cloth? Or should she take it home and measure it out to 5 feet 5 inches?
"Guifang, I'll give you this cloth first. Pay me when you get back to the village!" Huang Weihong took the cloth from the basket and stuffed it into Cao Guifang's hand. Since she had brought Cao Guifang here to buy cloth, Huang Weihong didn't want to be resented by her. Although the cloth my younger brother gave her looked a bit longer than five feet and five centimeters, Huang Weihong wasn't so stingy as to cut off the excess.
"Oh my! This cloth is more than five feet and a half!" Cao Guifang smiled, but still said, "Mother Chunhua, I will cut off the extra cloth and send it to your house to make a shoe upper for Chunhua."
"Guifang, who are we talking to? Why are we being so polite? My little brother said, this is your five feet five." Huang Weihong smiled and pushed Cao Guifang. Although it was a pity to lose a pair of shoe uppers, it was nothing compared to Cao Guifang's gratitude.
Huang Weihong couldn't help with Huang Weidong's affairs, so she couldn't waste her brother's kindness. She had to use the favor of this piece of cloth to have a good time with Cao Guifang.
When Huang Weihong was taking the cloth, he happened to pass by Zhou Yuanyuan. The sudden fishy smell in the air made Zhou Yuanyuan stunned.
The fishy smell was faint, and if Zhou Yuanyuan wasn't "lucky" and her sense of smell was several times more sensitive than that of an average person, she wouldn't be able to smell it at all.
Fishy? Why would it smell fishy?
Zhou Yuanyuan followed Huang Weihong and the others for the entire morning. Zhou Yuanyuan remembered very clearly that Huang Weihong and Cao Guifang did not buy any fish or fish balls.
Cloth... smell of fish...? Zhou Yuanyuan felt something flash through her mind, but when she thought about it carefully, there was nothing.
In the yard, Zhou Jiaxing and Huang Weidong quarreled for a few words, and were frightened by a smelly shoe thrown by Ma Shengli.
Ma Shengli was very annoyed. He had been lucky the previous night, winning all the way through the morning. Seeing Ma Shengli's high spirits, his younger brothers didn't dare to ask for a break, and the seven or eight of them played until dawn.
Several gangsters who lived in the town returned home. Zhou Jiaxing and Huang Weidong stayed at Ma Shengli's house these days and went back to their rooms to rest.
Huang Weidong didn't fall asleep for long before he was awakened by a nightmare. In the dream, Huang Weidong saw that all the thugs were handcuffed.
After Huang Weidong woke up, he was no longer sleepy. Seeing his roommate Zhou Jiaxing snoring loudly, he ran to the yard to get some fresh air in frustration, only then he heard Huang Weihong knocking on the door.
Ma Shengli felt that he had only slept for a short while when he was woken up by the sound of Zhou Jiaxing and Huang Weidong arguing.
When Ma Shengli was in a bad mood, he would not listen to anything. Without saying a word, he took off his stinky shoes and smashed them on Zhou Jiaxing and Huang Weidong respectively. Seeing the frightened faces of Zhou and Huang, Ma Shengli's anger subsided a little.
Ignoring Zhou Jiaxing who was approaching him, Ma Shengli directly drove the quarreling duo out of the yard. Zhou Jiaxing and Huang Weidong's homes were not in Sanhe Town. Ma Shengli's house was spacious and he gave them a room to live in, but that didn't mean the two of them could quarrel while he was sleeping.
Since they were so energetic, Ma Shengli didn't mind letting Zhou Jiaxing and Huang Weidong try their luck at the market. After all, there were many people at the market, and maybe they could make a little fortune.
The moment her "sight" caught sight of Ma Shengli, Zhou Yuanyuan was stunned. She barely managed to control her anger and not interrupt her peek.
The two empty rooms in the east wing were filled with large sacks. Before Zhou Yuanyuan could see clearly what was inside, Zhou Jiaxing and Huang Weidong came out, shoving and shouting.
Zhou Yuanyuan didn't bother to look anymore, and quickly grabbed Zhou Jiasheng's hand and slipped away quickly.
Zhou Yuanyuan didn't want to meet Zhou Jiaxing. Regardless of whether Zhou Jiaxing knew about what happened to Zhou Zhixin that night, Zhou Yuanyuan didn't like any of the Zhou family members.
The owner of this house, Ma Shengli, also made Zhou Yuanyuan feel uneasy. Zhou Yuanyuan remembered that in her previous life, Ma Shengli was a bully in Sanhe Town, leading a group of minions to bully people and bully others, and he would draw his sword at the slightest disagreement. When the people of Sanhe Town spoke of Ma Shengli, they all hated and feared him.
It just so happened that Ma Shengli seemed to have a backer. The Sanhe Town Police Station arrested him several times, and several times the superiors called to ask for his release. Later, the police station saw that Ma Shengli was doing evil and didn't want to intervene, lest they fail to get rid of the evildoer and lose their jobs.
More than ten years later, it was not known whether Ma Shengli's backer had fallen or the policy had become stricter, but Ma Shengli was arrested as a typical example, thrown into prison, and then sentenced to death.
Zhou Yuanyuan went to see Ma Shengli's public trial. Ma Shengli didn't care at all that he was about to die, and still had a nonchalant smile on his face.
Zhou Yuanyuan certainly didn't want to confront such a ruthless man. If possible, Zhou Yuanyuan hoped that her family members would not confront Ma Shengli either.
However, Zhou Yuanyuan felt very strange that there were so many good things in Ma Shengli's dilapidated house.
How could a bunch of small-time thugs have such a great ability to obtain these scarce supplies? Zhou Yuanyuan expressed her utter disbelief. Could it be that... the rumors about Ma Shengli having a backer in his previous life were true?
After Zhou Jiaxing left the house, he ignored Huang Weidong and did not hang around in the market. He went straight to Zhoujia Village.
Zhou Jiaxing hadn't been home for over two weeks. Brother Ma had been keeping a close eye on him, and he'd been stopped several times when he tried to go home. However, Zhou Jiaxing wasn't worried at all. His family held a high position in Zhoujia Village, so even if he didn't go home for a few years, he probably wouldn't be in any trouble.
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