Chapter 57 Chapter 57 He didn’t even dare to look back at that time…
After waking up from a nap, Zhao Ruyue got up without having breakfast. She washed and dressed herself and the child, then immediately picked up a big broom and went out to sweep the floor.
They are not allowed to sweep the floor from New Year's Eve to the second day of the New Year.
But on the morning of the third day of the Lunar New Year, the cleaning must be done early in the morning to sweep away all the ashes from firecrackers and incense burning in the past few days, as well as the ashes accumulated from burning paper money.
In previous years, Wang Haiyan was the most active in cleaning. She and many people in the town believed that by sweeping away these things, they could also sweep away the bad luck on their bodies.
This year, Wang Haiyan got up at the same time as in previous years, but she was not as fast as Zhao Ruyue.
Wang Haiyan also went back to her parents' home yesterday, the second day of the Chinese New Year. The four members of her family all wore new clothes and new gloves. She also had a beautiful silk scarf around her neck, and she stole the show at her parents' home for a while.
Originally she was still thinking about the kindness Zhao Ruyue had shown her by sending her family gifts, but this morning her job of sweeping the floor was taken away from her, and she felt unhappy again.
When she went out and saw Zhao Ruyue sweeping the floor at the door, she felt strange: "Oh my, you are quite diligent this year."
Zhao Ruyue pretended not to hear the hidden meaning in her words: "It's okay. After the separation, we have to clean our own house during the New Year. I'm adapting in advance. By the way, sister-in-law, did you hear the sirens last night? Did my brother tell you what happened when he came back last night?"
Ning Shaoming returned to his room and told Zhao Ruyue that Ning Shaoxian had told him that the police were going to arrest gamblers.
But Zhao Ruyue feels that the same thing may be told differently when told to different people. Perhaps the couple talked for a long time and included more details.
Zhao Ruyue then thought about asking Wang Haiyan to learn more.
She ran out early in the morning to sweep the floor, and wanted to talk to other neighbors who were also sweeping the floor at the door about the two things that happened last night.
The two did not deliberately lower their voices when speaking, and Zhao Hongli's sister-in-law across the street, Huang Xinyang's mother, the neighbor on the left, and the neighbor on the right all heard it.
As they were sweeping, a few people gathered around Zhao Ruyue and Wang Haiyan and started whispering together.
"Were there sirens last night?" Wang Haiyan really didn't know. "I slept so soundly last night that I didn't even know when my husband came back."
"Is this true?" Others expressed disbelief.
"What's the benefit of lying to you?" Wang Haiyan herself regretted sleeping too deeply and missing the excitement.
She heard from other people that the police arrested Liang Guobing and many people who played cards at his house last night.
Zhao Hongli's sister-in-law next door said: "My brother-in-law also went last night and has not returned this morning. His wife said she wanted to stay at her parents' home for two more days. I am helping to take care of the two children now."
Wang Haiyan was still frightened after hearing what they said: "My man went there last night too. Fortunately, he was not arrested."
She was still worried after she finished speaking, so she went back to the room to take a look, and confirmed that Ning Shaoxian was indeed asleep in bed before she came out with peace of mind and asked Zhao Hongli's sister-in-law: "Zhao Hongli has been arrested, why don't you quickly ask his wife to come back and think of a solution?"
"How can I call her? Her parents don't have a phone, and there's not even a small store in the village. I can only see who is visiting relatives and ask them to help pass on a message."
Zhao Hongli's sister-in-law felt upset when she thought about the incident when Zhao Hongli beat her wife on New Year's Day.
He didn't know how to explain the matter to his wife's family. On the day his wife went back to her parents' home, Zhao Hongli didn't give her anything to take back home.
Her husband originally thought that he would force Zhao Hongli to apologize with gifts in two days and then take him back, but Zhao Hongli was arrested instead.
Zhao Hongli's sister-in-law sighed and said, "My husband went to the town police station early this morning with the family whose family members were arrested last night. Let's wait for them to come back and see what happens."
Such a thing has never happened in the town, and most people don’t understand the law, so no one knows how serious the matter is.
They are chatting animatedly here.
Then one of the other men who were also mumbling together raised his voice and shouted in a certain direction, "Hey, Lao Qian finally came out of the cave?"
The others immediately looked in the direction of Lao Qian.
Lao Qian is one of the protagonists of the two major events last night that attracted the dispatch of police cars. He is the man who married the silly girl. His surname is Zhou, but his nickname is Lao Qian.
Old Qian had a droopy face, and his inverted triangle eyes looked at people with a hint of unpleasant disdain: "Of course I have to come out on the third day of the New Year to sweep away the bad luck in my family."
The men teased, "I think you've been swept away after all. Your family is enjoying good fortune, please don't sweep it away."
"How much money did Lao Qian make last night? Tell us so we can be envious!"
Lao Qian is not stupid either: "No matter how much money it is, it's enough for me to marry a normal new wife. You can't envy me!"
Zhao Ruyue felt complicated when she heard this. Maybe this was the best outcome for the girl, but it was really infuriating that Lao Qian, who bought a wife, was not punished.
She didn't want to listen anymore. She had almost finished sweeping the floor in front of her house, so she packed up the garbage and carried it to the garbage dump on the street.
Unfortunately, when she was about to come back after throwing away the garbage, she met her elder sister.
As expected, Zhao Ruyan complained to her about Ning Shaoming not helping her last night.
Zhao Ruyue tried to reason with her, but it was totally unacceptable. She kept harping on about this matter and insisted that Zhao Ruyue go back and scold Ning Shaoming, and also wanted Ning Shaoming to apologize to her.
"Impossible!" When Zhao Ruyue heard the latter request, she no longer had the patience to talk to her and directly refused it.
Zhao Ruyan looked at her sister in disbelief, not believing that she would refuse her request: "What did you say? I asked you to go back and talk to him, and ask him to apologize to me, but you can't? Do you still remember that I am your sister?"
"You are my sister and you cannot be unreasonable. No matter what, the people who trafficked in human beings were at fault. My Shaoming was right not to help. If he had helped, he would have been aiding and abetting the evil!"
Zhao Ruyan pointed at her and said, "You, you, you are really like water spilled after a daughter is married off. I am your biological sister, and you don't even stand by my side. If you are wronged in your husband's family in the future, don't expect me to speak up for you!"
"I don't need your help!" Zhao Ruyue thought to herself. With her sister's current state of mind, it would be good enough if she didn't make things worse.
Why didn't she realize in her previous life that her sister was like this?
But the two things that happened last night didn’t happen in her previous life. Maybe her sister was like this in other things, but she didn’t conflict with her.
After Zhao Ruyue firmly rejected Zhao Ruyan's request, she turned around and left, which made Zhao Ruyan very angry.
That day, no matter which relative came to ask her what happened last night, she would first blame her sister and brother-in-law in front of them, and then start talking about what happened last night.
During the entire New Year period, these two events occupied the town's "news headlines". Unless something else big happened to overshadow them, people in the town would continue to discuss them.
Most of the people who were caught playing cards were released after being detained for a few days. Only Liang Guobing and a few others who provided the venue and led the gambling are still in custody.
In his previous life, Liang Guobing was like a guerrilla fighter in the town. When the police came, they would run away and move everywhere. They had never failed for more than ten years.
Many people in the town go out to work and earn money every year, and at the end of the year, all the money is put into his casino.
Especially those bachelors, one by one, they think that if one man is full, the whole family will not be hungry, and they don’t care about their parents. In the end, they become bachelors and cannot even get married.
Single people like this only hurt themselves, while married people only hurt others and themselves.
Many couples divorced because the husband went gambling, and their children went from being clean babies to dirty little beggars.
Zhao Ruyue vaguely felt that Liang Guobing's arrest might have something to do with the police who came last night to rescue the girl who was sold by her biological parents.
However, she had no evidence, so she discussed the matter with Ning Shaoming in private and put it behind her.
Although there was no work to do during the Chinese New Year, she couldn't really do nothing. She had to build a house after the New Year, so she had to think about how to build her own house first.
Also, once the house is built, we have to open the store. We can’t wait until the moment comes to think about what to sell in the store.
All of these need to be considered in advance, and you also need to spend more time walking around the streets.
Many shops and stalls are closed during the Spring Festival, but there are still some people who want to make money from children's New Year's money and from those who need to sell gifts to visit relatives during the New Year.
In the past, when I went shopping on the street, I only needed to focus on what I wanted to buy and then compare prices from different stores.
Now when you go shopping with a different purpose, you have to carefully observe what the shops and stalls in the town are selling, how their business is, and how others do business.
The perspective of looking at things also changes from customer to store owner.
From the third to the sixth day of the Chinese New Year, sometimes Zhao Ruyue and Ning Shaoming would take Ning Shiqiu and Ning Shixia shopping together, and sometimes they would take turns taking them shopping, making the two children so happy that they would laugh out loud in their sweet dreams at night.
After all, when shopping, you can't just shop without buying anything. Sometimes if you want to ask the store owner some questions, it's best to buy something from them first.
If the adults don’t want to buy something, it must be bought for the children, especially if they want to open a restaurant. Most of the stores they visit sell food.
As the New Year atmosphere became less and less, more and more businesses opened on the street, and the two children had more and more food to eat.
In just a few days, they tried almost all the food that they had not been able to eat in several years since they were born, and they ate three meals a day normally. After a year, their little faces were chubby from eating so much, and they became even more adorable.
The market opens on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, and there is a custom in Pengcheng of giving out red envelopes to mark the start of work.
So on the fifth day of the New Year, some workers who wanted to receive red envelopes for the start of work packed their bags and boarded the bus for a long journey again.
Wu Li and Huang Wenfa, a married couple, also chose to set out on this day. This time, they went from being the people who were taken out to work by their fellow villagers to being the "fellow villagers" who took others out to work.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Ning Shaoming called the manager of the hotel where he used to work to wish him a happy new year and asked him if the hotel was short of staff. The manager responded in the affirmative and asked Ning Shaoming to just introduce someone to the hotel.
He and Huang Wenfa left a good impression on the manager, so the manager was more willing to recruit people from their side.
However, the manager also asked Ning Shaoming to explain the hotel's situation and requirements clearly.
Although Ning Shaoming had already told those who wanted to go, after he made the phone calls, he still went to the homes of those who were interested, counted the number of people who were going, and gave the list to Huang Wenfa.
Huang Wenfa didn't mind the trouble of bringing people along. After all, if the person he brought successfully got the job, the introducer would also receive an introduction fee, one hundred for an ordinary position, and even three hundred for those with skills and techniques.
Ning Shaoming did not go, so the person who introduced him was Huang Wenfa.
There are quite a lot of people going this time, and they can even charter a long-distance bus if they get together.
If this group of people can stay, Huang Wenfa can get a lot of money.
However, Huang Wenfa still felt very sorry that his good brother chose to stay in his hometown and no longer go out to explore the world together.
Before leaving, he asked several times, which annoyed Ning Shaoming. The sadness of parting disappeared, and he urged Huang Wenfa to leave quickly: "Get in the car, get in the car, stop talking nonsense!"
Just wait for their car to drive away and look at their children who are standing there, crying and watching the car leave.
The melancholy rose in my heart again, and at the same time I became more determined in my choice.
Last year, his children watched them leave in the same way, and he didn't dare to look back.
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