As soon as Sun Hongying entered the house, she saw her husband, Gao Dazhuang, waiting there with an unfriendly expression, which startled her.
When Gao Dazhuang noticed that Sun Hongying's basket was gone when she left, he asked with a dark face, "Where are your things? Did you give them to your family again?"
Sun Hongying quickly defended herself: "There's nothing in that basket, just three sweet potatoes, really, you have to believe me, it really is just three sweet potatoes."
She originally intended to take three sweet potatoes to appease those three good-for-nothing girls, hoping they would remember their cousins back home when they went to Kyoto. However, that brat Xiaochun was completely unyielding, which angered her so much that she took the basket back. When she went to her parents' house earlier, her second sister-in-law left the basket behind.
Gao Dazhuang grabbed Sun Hongying's hair and slapped her hard across the face. "What's wrong with three sweet potatoes? Are three sweet potatoes worthless? I told you long ago not to take my things to your family. Did you just ignore me?"
"I didn't... Ah... Stop hitting me, I'll never do it again, this is the last time, really the last time, ah... It hurts... Have mercy... Stop hitting me... Stop hitting me... Help me..."
Gao Dazhuang became more and more excited as he beat Sun Hongying, his eyes turning red with excitement. He didn't know how to control the force in his hands until he beat Sun Hongying until she was covered in bruises and on the verge of death, lying motionless on the ground. His mother, fearing that something bad might happen and someone might die, stepped forward and pulled him away.
Looking at Sun Hongying curled up on the ground, Old Lady Gao spat, "You shameless little slut, if you dare to take another grain of rice from our Gao family to give to your family, I'll chop off your paws!"
Not satisfied with her words, Old Lady Gao spat at the person on the ground a few more times, then said disdainfully, "Stop lying on the ground pretending to be dead, get up and boil water and cook! Don't think you can avoid work just because you're lying on the ground! If you dare to slack off, I'll have Dazhuang break your legs!"
Sun Hongying shakily got up from the ground and then slowly began to boil water, cook, and do housework.
Old Mrs. Gao, however, was still not satisfied. She discussed with her son whether to tie her up with a chain so that she could not leave the house and would not run back to her parents' home every few days.
Gao Dazhuang naturally obeyed whatever his mother said, and he felt only disgust when he saw Sun Hongying's swollen and deformed face.
He spent so much on a dowry to marry a secondhand woman, who turned out to be a thief. What bad luck!
Time quickly came to the day when the Huo family had to leave.
Liu Guilan and her two daughters-in-law from her eldest and second sons' families got up early to make breakfast.
Dumplings before boarding, noodles upon arrival; their family's breakfast today was dumplings with cabbage and pork filling, two large pots of which were cooked.
Fang Ming and Li Hao borrowed a large truck from the Armed Forces Department to pick up the person and take them to the station. When the person arrived, the dumplings had just come out of the pot.
Seeing that Fang Ming and Li Hao had arrived so early, Liu Guilan hurriedly invited them into the house for dinner. Before she could even give any instructions, her eldest daughter-in-law ladled out two large bowls of dumplings for Fang Ming and Li Hao.
Fang Ming and Li Hao didn't stand on ceremony, thanked them with smiles, and accepted the dumplings, praising Liu Guilan's dumplings as they ate.
The two arrived early and hadn't had breakfast yet.
After they finished eating, Liu Guilan added another bowl for them, and only stopped when they were full.
The villagers knew they were leaving today, so many people came out to see them off, especially several families who were on good terms with them, as well as their friends from the educated youth settlement. They had come early to help carry their luggage onto the vehicle.
Ye Weiwei sat in the driver's seat with the children in her arms. As they were leaving, she noticed a pair of eyes staring intently at their luggage in the car. It was Lu Mingcai, who had been loitering around their house for the past few days without finding anything.
Seeing the resentment and anxiety on Lu Mingcai's face, she subtly curled her lips into a smile.
After asking the village chief, Lu Mingfa, to help take care of her house, Ye Weiwei bid farewell to everyone at the educated youth settlement.
Xu Meijun's eyes were red, clearly indicating that she had been crying for a while.
Looking at her swollen eyes, Ye Weiwei couldn't help but tease, "I didn't expect Xu Meijun to be so reluctant to part with me, crying like this."
Xu Meijun was both ashamed and angry, grinding her teeth in frustration, "Ye Weiwei, do you have any conscience at all! I really misjudged you!"
Ye Weiwei winked mischievously: "You see, there's nothing you can do about it. I'm a married woman now, so don't get any ideas. But you can take a good look at our Comrade Hou Zheng."
Xu Meijun rolled her eyes in anger, "I shouldn't have come today!"
The thought of parting with Ye Weiwei and not knowing when they would see each other again made her so sad that she couldn't sleep all night!
As a result, all her deep affection was wasted!
Seeing that her face was red with anger, Ye Weiwei stopped her, "Alright, I was just joking with you! It's not like we won't see each other again! Hou Zheng's family lives very close to ours. Once you get married, you can see each other whenever you want, it'll be very convenient."
Xu Meijun's face turned bright red, this time from embarrassment. She glared angrily at Ye Weiwei: "Who wants to see you? Who do you think you are, everyone dotes on you! I'm just reluctant to part with your three little darlings. As for you, hehe! Out of sight, out of mind!"
Ye Weiwei looked at Xu Meijun, who was speaking insincerely, with a half-smile. Xu Meijun couldn't hold back any longer and urged Ye Weiwei impatiently, "Alright, alright, hurry up and get in the car and get out of here!"
Chen Jiali and Zhao Dabao stood together and looked at Xu Meijun's frantic appearance with a smile. They said, "Weiwei, don't tease her. She's been like this ever since she found out you're going back to Kyoto. She keeps saying that she's the only one left at the educated youth settlement and it's boring. I don't know how she can see that Hou Zheng is such a big person."
Hou Zheng was teased by Ye Weiwei and Chen Jiali one after another. He looked at Xu Meijun with a smile, which made Xu Meijun glare at him from time to time, disgusted that he was smiling like an idiot.
Xie Ning, standing to the side, sighed deeply, "I'm the loneliest one here! You all treat me like I'm invisible. Sigh! I made a bad choice in making friends!"
Hou Zheng looked at Xie Ning with annoyance, "Don't give me that. I eat and sleep with you every day. When have you ever been lonely?"
Xie Ning hugged himself tightly and rubbed the goosebumps off his body: "Speak properly! What do you mean by eating and sleeping together? It makes it sound like we have some kind of improper relationship! I'm an innocent and upright young man, don't ruin my good reputation."
Hou Zheng: ...
Xu Meijun's beautiful eyes darted between Hou Zheng and Xie Ning, then she smiled and said, "I think it would be nice if the two of you were together."
"I'm not good!"
"Absolutely impossible!"
Hou Zheng and Xie Ning spoke at the same time.
After saying that, the two looked at each other, then took a step back with disgust, creating distance between themselves. They then snorted in unison and ignored each other.
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