Meng Tao bought a ticket back to Yanchong Commune at the Xingyang County Bus Station. Seeing that there was still some time and the county post and telecommunications office was not far away, she walked over quickly and wanted to call Grandpa Liu Yongsheng to tell him about the engagement.
When I walked to the door of the post office, I saw Wang Shuifeng and Tian Yalan.
The mother and daughter were standing at the steps of the post office, facing the corner with their backs to the street, chattering about something. They didn't deliberately lower their voices, probably because they thought no one in the county town would know them, and they had country accents, and if they spoke quickly, city people wouldn't be able to understand them at all, so they had no scruples.
Meng Tao originally wanted to treat them as transparent, but when she heard them actually mentioned her name, she had to pay attention.
Meng Tao walked up the steps. There was a large blackboard with propaganda posters posted on the side of the post office gate. She stood behind the blackboard, put Xiao Wangcai out of the cloth bag and let it move freely, but signaled it not to make any sound and listened carefully to what the black-hearted mother and daughter said.
Tian Yalan said impatiently: "Mom, my third brother's head must have been damaged by those thieves. How could this happen? Not only did he not allow us to settle the score with Meng Taohua, but he also hurriedly divorced my third sister-in-law and resigned voluntarily!
He has no future after the divorce. If he quits his job, how will he live in the future? Will he live on the wind and the northwest wind? Will he go back to Linshui Village to farm the land? This... You don't feel ashamed, but I feel ashamed too!
Mom, you must persuade the third brother. If you can't persuade him, scold him and don't allow him to do that! If he loses his job, he won't have any salary. How will he support you in the future? You are his mother, he must listen to you! "
Wang Shuifeng: "Your third brother has a strong idea, and I can't do anything about it."
"Then let him do it?"
"What else can we do? Your third brother instructed your fourth brother to run around and get the hospital's disability certificate and the village's certificate, and then went to the commune and the police station to get them stamped. Your third brother also taught your fourth brother to write a letter of authorization, which he signed personally. There were so many documents, all put in a schoolbag, and let your fourth brother and the seventh brother take them to the provincial capital for three days. I'm afraid everything has been done."
"Oh! It's all the fault of the sixth brother. If he had returned to the village earlier, I could have come to the county town two days earlier. I would have stopped the fourth brother and the seventh brother from going to the provincial capital - wouldn't this ruin the third brother's future?"
"Oh, it's useless. Your third brother has made up his mind. I don't think he has lost his mind. I asked the doctor about it, and he said it's okay. I think it's okay too. Your third brother is very organized in what he says and does. He is such a successful person. Although he is lying on the hospital bed and can't move, I feel at ease just by looking at and listening to his words. It's much better than your fourth brother and the sixth and seventh brothers who get flustered when something happens."
"What a bullshit! I think Third Brother just got scared and became a coward. Meng Taohua bullied our family like that. She beat me and my elder sister before the New Year, beat the sixth child for no reason on New Year's Day, and hit my elder sister with a stick by the river on the fourth day... Third Brother didn't even allow us to seek revenge on Meng Taohua, leaving us to suffer in silence. How can this be called success?"
"On the third day of the junior high school, Lao Liu came to the county town and told him that your third brother scolded him on the spot and said that he deserved it and would be beaten for not listening. The current Meng Taohua is not the same Meng Taohua as before!
Think about it carefully, is what your third brother said right? Taohua was not so heartless before. She was kind and soft-hearted, and she could be coaxed into doing good. She was a little strong, but she never dared to hit anyone. She was still a passionate person, and she didn't want to stop loving anyone except your third brother. But what about now?
If she doesn't agree with you, she will hit you to death. She just divorced your third brother, and now she is dating another man. Also, Taohua didn't know how to dress up before, but now she has new clothes one after another. Her face is covered with lotion, right? It's as tender as a freshly peeled egg! How can someone's personality change so suddenly? She is definitely not Taohua. Your third brother said that she is a reborn spirit!"
"Mom, Mom! Don't talk nonsense! It's scary. If someone hears you, I'll arrest you and punish you for having feudal superstitions!"
"It's okay, no one comes here."
"Humph! I don't believe that Meng Taohua could be so evil. Didn't she become like that because she heard that we were going to kill her to Shi Datou? That's why she became desperate and mad!"
Meng Tao behind the blackboard on the steps: "..."
Leaning over, he touched the quiet and well-behaved little Wangcai, and cursed inwardly: Damn Tian Yalan, you are the desperate one, you are so cruel! Wang Shuifeng said: "Anyway, I think what your third brother said makes sense, and the more I think about it, the more it makes sense! What did your third brother say? Oh, yes, we must avoid the sharp edge! A gentleman's revenge is never too late, so let's not fight at this moment. Meng Taohua used to be silly and would hide when she saw a stranger, but now she knows how to climb up the social ladder. Your brother knows her boyfriend, and he is the son of the big boss of your brother's factory!
If Meng Taohua asked her boyfriend to bully your third brother, how could he resist? That's why your third brother hurriedly quit the job on his own initiative, so that he can get some money. Otherwise, he will be fired and have nothing?"
Tian Yalan was furious: "That factory is not his, it belongs to the country! He dares to abuse his power for personal gain and take revenge. Let's sue him!"
"You don't understand. He's a big boss in the factory. It's easy to accuse him of a crime! Your third brother has been in the factory for so long, what doesn't he understand?"
"Then there's no need to get a divorce. Isn't Third Sister-in-law's uncle also a leader in the factory? How can he not help Third Brother?"
"Your third brother said that this marriage must be divorced. First, the woman surnamed Xian is not a good person. If we divorce her, we can get some money from her. Second, her uncle is not safe! Just wait and see. Xian Fangfang's uncle and aunt will die soon!"
"Your third brother said, don't be fooled by Taohua's boyfriend's appearance, he is a ruthless person, scarier than the bandits in the movies, killing people is like playing! He wants to kill Xian Fangfang's uncle and aunt, if your third brother doesn't leave now, he will be unlucky too!"
"Then, what if he helps Meng Taohua to mess with our family..."
"So your third brother told you to be patient and hide, even if you have to behave yourself, don't mess with Meng Taohua! Just let her marry that man. She won't be proud for long. Your third brother met an expert who can read faces. He saw that Taohua's partner will be short-lived and won't live past the age of 40! She can just wait to be a widow!
Your third brother will get some money from quitting his job and getting a divorce. He won't go back to the village. He has ways to make money. Let's buy a house in the city and live in the city! In three to five years at most, the world will get better and our family will become prosperous again! By then, will you brothers and sisters still worry about not having a good job? Your third brother said that he can guarantee that you will have endless money!"
"Mom, are you serious?"
"It was your third brother who said that. I believe him, and you should believe him too!"
"Brother San wants me to buy a house in the city first, so that I can move in and never go back to the village again. I will believe him!"
"You know what? Your third brother has this plan. When he gets the divorce money and the money from quitting his job, which should be at least a thousand yuan, he will spend a few hundred yuan to buy a courtyard house in Mengzhou and settle us down. Your third brother said that the feng shui of the old house in the village has been ruined by Meng Taohua, so he will leave it to your eldest brother and sister-in-law, and your eldest sister. They are disobedient and hurt my heart. Let them suffer for a few years first!"
"Mom! I want to live in Mengzhou!"
"Let's go, let's all go! When your third brother becomes rich, we can live in the provincial capital, the capital, and not just Mengzhou!"
"Great! Mom, mom, let's go back to the hospital to look after our third brother!"
"Okay, let's go!"
Wang Shuifeng and Tian Yalan left, and Meng Tao came out from behind the blackboard, cursing the mother and daughter and Tian Zhigao in her heart: What do you mean Meng Taohua ruined the feng shui of their old house? It was clearly their own moral corruption, destroying their own family, but they were blaming others!
What a disgusting and weird family!
Time had passed and the bus to Yanchong Commune was about to leave. I couldn't make the call, so I had to rush back to the station to catch the bus.
坐在班车里，孟桃眼望着窗外后退的景物，脑子里想的却刚才听到的那番对话，她可以确定：王水凤口中的那个田志高，也已经不是原来的田志高，很有可能春节前刘建业和徐玉霖他们的那一顿揍，竟是把这渣男给揍得重生了！ 所以他知道三五年后，“世道”会变好起来，他很聪明地主动辞职，不仅是要避开沈誉的锋芒，按照他多活一世的经验，怕是已经成竹在心，有很多条闷声发大财的路子了吧？ 而他赶紧和冼芳芳离婚，是因为清楚前世袁副厂长夫妻会死于非命，这一世沈誉对冼芳芳丝毫不留情面，冼芳芳没有什么用处了，而且冼芳芳不管他伤重，直接抛下他自己回了省城，可以看得出来其实并没有多爱，田志高自然也毫不犹豫，离婚保命还能讹冼芳芳一笔钱，何乐而不为！ Tian Zhigao is quite good at making up stories. He said that he met a master who taught him how to read faces and saw that Shen Yu would not live past the age of 40. If this is true, then Meng Tao has to be careful. She has to think of a way to get more information out of Tian Zhigao. At least she needs to know why Shen Yu died early in his previous life. Was it due to illness or an accident?
I remember that there was no explanation about Shen Yu's death in the novel. It seems that this is another hidden pit.
As for Tian Zhigao's guess that Meng Tao was resurrected through a corpse, he didn't have to worry about that. He himself was also reborn, which was equivalent to being replaced by the soul of the previous life after death. It was not much different from resurrecting through a corpse.
And how many people would believe such a weird thing? Especially in this era when we firmly resist feudal superstition.
Even Tian Yalan didn't believe it.
Apart from Wang Shuifeng who might be a gossip for a few days, it is impossible for Tian Zhigao to create any trouble with this topic.
Meng Tao will also pretend that she doesn't know that Tian Zhigao is a reborn person, but from now on she must be on guard against the Tian family and monitor Tian Zhigao's whereabouts to see how this cunning old man plans his rebirth path. She must dig more traps for him, otherwise she will be sorry for Meng Taohua! To be able to get the opportunity to be reborn, he must have done great good deeds in his previous life. What does Tian Zhigao rely on to do good deeds? It's because he stepped on Meng Taohua to rise step by step, control power and collect money, and enjoy enough, so he began to give money and accumulate virtue to seek the opportunity to be reborn.
He relied on power and money to cleanse himself and even gained great benefits. Meng Tao was reincarnated as Meng Taohua, but she had accumulated a lot of grievances and would not be let off so easily!
(End of this chapter)