After being back for a few days, Xiao Jiu realized that Tao Qing, a high school teacher, was not at home.
"Didn't Third Brother get a holiday?"
She didn't correspond with Tao Qing very often. Her brothers were all rather reserved, and even when they wrote letters, they were very brief, not as long as she talked with Zhou Yue.
"He's on holiday, but he didn't come back. Some students are taking extra classes at school and can earn extra money, which is allowed by the school. He only came back for a few days."
I was only home for a few days in total, and Xiao Jiu was always trying different ways to improve the meals for my family.
After observing for several days, I felt that the older sister was overly anxious, almost like she had depression. She would burst into tears at the slightest thing that happened to the child.
Zhai Sanhe had never seen her so sensitive before. When he got home, he ran to Xiao Jiu for advice on how to ease the tension.
"Logically, if there is no mother-in-law/daughter-in-law relationship, the whole postpartum period should be comfortable and the body and mind should be fine. It shouldn't be like this, but everyone's situation is different and it's not absolute."
I suggest my brother-in-law spend as much time with her as possible. What did her workplace say? When does she start work? What will happen to the children after she starts working?
“Once the baby is over 100 days old, the health center requires us to go back to work. Your sister is planning to take a year off, and after that, she can send the baby to the health center’s daycare.”
“I think in my sister’s case, it would be best to let her go back to work after the baby is 100 days old. With less attention on the baby, she won’t be so anxious.”
But the prerequisite is that you need to arrange who will take care of the child. If this issue cannot be resolved, then we cannot proceed further.
There's a saying, isn't there?
When people have free time, they start looking for things to do.
Therefore, distracting the older sister's attention can help alleviate her postpartum depression.
Neither of them has parents, so they can't trust anyone to take care of them, and they can't just ask anyone to take care of them, because it could easily become a weapon against them.
This is different from Fourth Sister and the others. Fourth Sister had the military come forward to find her, so it was done through official channels.
"Didn't I tell you last time that Tang Youjin was sentenced to five years? Li Qingqing somehow managed to get a letter of introduction and ran away."
She ran away with Tang Cuicui, but your mother wasn't so lucky. She was found by the Cao family, knocked unconscious, and then sold.
However, I didn't let her family off the hook either. After they sold her, my men arrested them all on charges of human trafficking.
Zhai Sanhe has been leaving early and returning late these days, busy with these matters.
"Li Qingqing won't be able to run away for long; the letter of introduction will restrict their movements."
To get a letter of introduction, this mother and daughter will definitely do something immoral.
When the Tang sisters heard that Cao Amei had been sold again, they were speechless.
"After being sold out so many times, how come you still have no sense of vigilance?"
For some reason, Tang Cuihua felt that this time, she might not be able to escape as successfully as she had the previous two times.
Not to mention her age, whether she can even have more children is a question. Once she's no longer of reproductive value, then...
He shook his head slightly. Well, all the debts of gratitude had been repaid in the past life. It was best not to have any entanglements in this life.
As for Li Qingqing and her daughter, Cuihua wouldn't care, since the Tang family was already torn apart.
"Don't let Tang Youjin's two remaining sons get away with it either. Why should they take over my two houses?"
Find a way to get them both in there, and their wives too. Nobody will get away with this.
Zhai Sanhe had long known about the grudges and grievances of the Tang family. She remembered how she and her sister were almost sold off because of Tang Youjin's family.
They were furious. Now they were even occupying their house in Taoyuan Village. Cuihua said that cleaning up the place was definitely going to be done.
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However, Cuihua didn't know that some people are like cockroaches that can't be killed. Even when you're about to kill them, well...
But they always manage to turn misfortune into good fortune.
Especially in this era when transportation was inconvenient and communication was underdeveloped.
If a person wants to survive, they will stop at nothing.
Even at his advanced age, there are still plenty of old bachelors in remote mountainous areas who can't afford to get married.
No matter how old Cao Amei is, she's still a woman, and as long as she's a woman, there will be men who want her.
When she woke up and found herself sold again, the hatred in her heart was beyond words.
Because she had been sold so many times, she became wary.
Who would have thought she would hide a razor blade in her shoe?
The man pulling the oxcart never imagined that the sacks behind him would be cut open, and that someone would jump off and run away under the cover of darkness.
Fortunately, Cao Amei had eaten a full meal beforehand, which gave her the strength to escape.
This time, she made up her mind and wandered in the mountains for two days, eating wild vegetables when she was hungry and drinking mountain spring water when she was thirsty.
After finally reaching the town, he knocked out a woman, robbed her of her money and grain, and then ran to the township to take a bus to the county seat.
Using the loot they had stolen, they stayed at the bus station for two days and finally heard that someone had arrived in Los Angeles.
She was an old woman who took advantage of the woman's greedy nature and tricked her into going behind the bus station toilet.
After knocking her unconscious, they robbed her of her money and letter of introduction, and then got into the car without any trouble.
She huddled in a corner the whole way, covering herself up completely in the sweltering heat, and deliberately walked with a hunched back, looking like an old lady.
After two or three hours of bumpy travel, we finally arrived at the Los Angeles bus station.
Having not returned for many years, the moment I stepped off the train, tears involuntarily streamed down my face.
Unfortunately, she no longer had a letter of introduction and could not travel from Luoshi to Yanxian, so she had to walk.
She walked from dawn till dusk, and when she ran out of her dry rations, she used her money and food coupons to buy steamed buns. It wasn't that she didn't want to eat a bowl of noodles, but because she was dressed so filthyly, they wouldn't let her into the state-run restaurant and waved her away. She could only pay to take the food with her.
Tired and exhausted, they lay down in the earthen hut for a night's sleep, and continued their journey the next day. They didn't know how long they had traveled, but they finally arrived in the county town.
Having learned her lesson, she dared not contact the Cao family again, and instead, with a determined will, she made her way to Taoyuan Village.
Unfortunately, it was already dark when she returned to the village. She found her old home and took many pictures.
Tang Jiabei opened the door and, seeing the smelly Cao Amei, asked, "Who are you? Why are you knocking on my door?"
"Your home? Tang Jiabei, are you blind? This is clearly my home, when did it become your home?"
Upon hearing the voice, Tang Jiabei felt it was somewhat familiar, but couldn't quite place it for a moment. The other person's assertive tone made him feel a little guilty.
But the thought of how many years he had lived in this house gave him confidence again.
"Who are you? Where did this homeless beggar come from? I said this is my home, so it is my home!"
Cao Amei angrily ripped open her tangled, smelly hair, revealing the face that terrified Tang Jiabei.
"Open your eyes and look carefully. I am your third aunt. This is Tang Youtian's house. When did it become Tang Jiabei's?"
"Cao, Cao sister? Weren't you sold? You, oh right, you and Cuicui escaped, right? Where's Cuicui!"
As he spoke, he opened the door and looked behind her, but in the pitch-black night, there was no one there.
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