On her way home, Zhou Sui quickened her pace, her mind filled with Wang Laizi's words.
He said one leaves and another comes.
Before myself, who else was there?
Zhou Sui suddenly remembered Zhao Xiaoqing, whom she had met on the road. She looked flustered and pointed out a place to her.
But I have no grudge against her, so why should I do this?
Completely baffled, Zhou Sui had just reached the intersection when she noticed someone pacing back and forth in front of her house.
“Sui Sui”.
Upon hearing this jubilant voice, Zhou Sui's face immediately turned cold.
Chen Zongyue!
If Zhou Sui hated herself the most in her past life, then Chen Zongyue was the next most hated person.
This man who manipulates himself.
"Sui Sui, you~" Chen Zongyue jogged over and was startled by Zhou Sui's pale face. "What's wrong? Why are you so pale?"
As he spoke, he reached out and touched Zhou Sui's face. This was one of Chen Zongyue's usual tricks, occasionally making intimate gestures as if the two had a close relationship.
But so far, the two are just high school classmates.
Zhou Sui stepped aside, dodging Chen Zongyue's hand. "It's alright."
Chen Zongyue paused for a moment before withdrawing his hand, which was hanging in mid-air. He looked at Zhou Sui with concern and asked, "Going to gather pig feed again?"
"It must be so heavy to carry on your back. Your thin shoulders are going to break."
They said words of concern, but made no move to lend a helping hand.
"Didn't I tell you? Don't stay in the countryside anymore. Come to the city with me. My mom has been promoted to workshop director now. She can find us both some easy jobs. We can earn a hundred or two a month."
"It's hundreds of times better than you staying in this village."
Chen Zongyue was still chattering on about how great life was in the city, but Zhou Sui found his voice nauseating.
She said coldly, "Chen Zongyue."
"ah?"
"Don't come looking for me again." Zhou Sui said this after calming down. If it were before, she would definitely beat up Chen Zongyue to vent her anger, but that was in her past life, and she was also immature in the process.
In this life, all she needs to do is keep Chen Zongyue away from her.
As she spoke, Zhou Sui walked past Chen Zongyue and left. After a moment of stunned silence, Chen Zongyue finally came to his senses.
When he caught up, Zhou Sui hurriedly closed the courtyard gate. Chen Zongyue pounded on the door in confusion and called out, "Sui Sui, what's wrong?"
"Did I do or say something wrong?"
"Just tell me, and I'll change, okay?"
But then came the sound of chopping pig feed from inside the door. The knife seemed to be chopping very heavily, making Chen Zongyue's ears go numb.
Passersby kept glancing this way. Chen Zongyue was a proud man and couldn't stand being stared at.
He gritted his teeth and said inside, "Sui Sui, I'll be going now. I'll come see you another day."
The people inside still didn't react, so Chen Zongyue left, looking back every few steps.
He couldn't understand what was wrong with Zhou Sui, who had always been so obedient to him, and why her attitude had changed so drastically.
Zhou Sui, who was inside the door, had no intention of paying attention to Chen Zongyue at all, because while she was vigorously swinging the kitchen knife, a scene suddenly appeared in her mind.
Amidst the scattered green grass, a gold ring was found.
Zhou Sui's raised knife stopped in mid-air. She frowned. What was going on?
She looked at the pig feed chopped into pieces in front of her, and it looked somewhat similar to what she had just imagined.
"Are you obsessed?" Zhou Sui chuckled self-deprecatingly. She had indeed been thinking about making money all day, to the point that she was now daydreaming.
The cleaver was about to fall, but Zhou Sui hesitated when it was still a few centimeters away from the pig feed.
She put the cleaver aside, reached into the pig feed and started rummaging through it, laughing at herself as she did so.
But when the glittering gold ring appeared, Zhou Sui was dumbfounded.
A daydream come true?
She carefully picked out the gold ring, peeled off the green grass, and oh, it was quite heavy.
Is this real or fake?
With that thought in mind, Zhou Sui lifted the corner of her clothes to wipe the ring, then put it in her mouth and bit it.
Ouch, it's so hard, it's hard to chew.
real!
Zhou Sui jumped up excitedly and examined the ring closely.
Strangely enough, even though the pig feed had been chopped into several pieces, there wasn't a single mark on the ring that had been cut by the knife. It was a stroke of luck amidst misfortune.
What's even stranger is the image that suddenly appeared in her mind just now, as if it were a prompt, otherwise she would have just cooked the pig feed and fed it directly to the pigs.
She probably won't even know about this ring until the pig pulls it out.
Although Zhou Sui was also puzzled about where the scene she had just witnessed came from, she didn't dwell on it too much. She had already lived a second life; what could be more miraculous than this?
She carefully put the ring into the inside pocket of her clothes.
It was the early 1990s, and people's living conditions had improved considerably. Zhou Sui planned to sell the gold ring and buy some small items from developed cities to resell.
The town they live in has many factories and a large flow of people, but the products sold are relatively limited. People haven't realized yet that the street vendor economy is a good way to go. After all, she has lived an extra lifetime, so she should seize these opportunities.
As evening approached, Zhou Dayong and Li Qiuju returned. Zhou Sui observed their conversation and it seemed they had made up.
There was nothing Zhou Sui could do; Li Qiuju was soft-hearted, and Zhou Dayong was sincere when he admitted his mistakes and eager to do the work, so Zhou Sui had anticipated this situation.
"What's all this noise outside?" Zhou Dayong had only sat down for a minute when he heard a commotion coming from the doorway.
Zhou Sui also heard it; it sounded like someone was crying and wailing.
"Let me go take a look." Zhou Dayong got up to put on his shoes, and suddenly the courtyard gate was pushed open, and an old woman rushed in.
Her eyes scanned the courtyard, finally landing on Zhou Sui's ear. "You wretched girl from the Zhou family, how dare you harm my son!"
As she spoke, she tiptoed towards Zhou Sui, and the people behind her didn't have time to stop her.
Zhou Dayong, ignoring that his shoes weren't on properly, strode forward and shielded his daughter behind him, shouting, "Old Wang, what are you doing!"
The shout made Granny Wang stop raising her hand, but her face was full of hostility.
“Dayong, your daughter hit my son. My son lay on the hillside all afternoon. If someone hadn’t passed by and seen him, he would have been gone.”
"My poor son, how can I face his dead father?"
"Isn't this bullying us, an orphan and a widow?"
Granny Wang started wailing at the top of her lungs, but not a single tear came out of her eyes.
"You're talking nonsense." Zhou Dayong spat at her. "Your son is in his thirties or forties, and my daughter is still a child."
"Who will hit whom is still uncertain. You just keep talking nonsense all day long."
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