Chapter 6 Love Yourself Before Loving Others
The original owner's brother and sister-in-law are unaware that she has undergone a drastic personality change. They will definitely treat the money she gave them as their own savings and save it carefully!
If they knew they might ask for it, who knows what they would do!
And then there are the houses in the provincial capital; who knows what kind of vandalism they might cause!
Although it's possible to get him to pay compensation, it will still take some effort.
If you can get it back safely, then it's best to get it back safely.
Thinking this way, Xie Zhizhi felt as if her heart was being fried in oil every day that was delayed.
How can I let a big idiot ruin my things?
So I'll pack up and take a bus to the military base first thing tomorrow morning. Once I'm settled, I'll head to the provincial capital to have a shopping spree with the original owner's brother and sister-in-law.
The Eastern Theater Command, where Zhou Lin was stationed, had a military base in Jiangcheng, the provincial capital where they lived, which is why Zhou Lin was allocated a house in the provincial capital.
Thinking about going to mess with that big idiot, Xie Zhizhi happily started humming a tune.
What made her even happier was that at noon she heard a child crying in the neighboring yard.
As Xie Zhizhi craned her neck to look, she could hear a woman wailing from the next room.
The woman's voice was so easy to recognize; it was immediately recognizable as Zhang Fenfen, the original owner's sister-in-law.
When Zhou Lin's older brother returned from working outside and heard about what had happened that morning, he immediately took off his shoe and slapped his son Zhou Bing on the buttocks.
Zhang Fenfen went to stop him, but Zhou Hai shoved her away. She went forward and was shoved away again.
After several such beatings, seeing her son's buttocks become red and swollen, Zhang Fenfen cried and cursed, "Zhou Hai, do you want to beat him to death?"
"Go ahead and kill him! Kill him, and your Zhou family will be wiped out!"
Zhou Hai remained silent, only continuing to slap Zhou Bing's buttocks relentlessly.
Zhang Fenfen had no choice but to cry and shout, "Do you really want to beat him to death?"
"Are you eyeing that hen that doesn't lay eggs?"
"You want her to have your child, don't you?"
Annoyed by these words, Zhou Hai stopped his violent slapping and cursed with a dark face, "It's all because you spoiled him."
"Keep spoiling him, you'll ruin him sooner or later."
After cursing, Zhou Hai threw the wailing Zhou Bing to the ground, then angrily turned and left the main room.
As soon as he stepped out of the main room, he met the gaze of Xie Zhizhi, who was peeking out from behind the fence, eating melon seeds.
Discovered while watching the commotion, Xie Zhizhi nodded awkwardly to her brother-in-law, then quickly turned and went back into the house.
Zhou Hai opened his mouth and then closed it again.
He originally wanted to apologize to Xie Zhizhi, but Xie Zhizhi dodged quickly, and he also felt embarrassed about the matter, so he simply kept quiet.
However, he turned back into the house and kicked Zhou Bing, who had just gotten up from the ground, back down to lie on the ground.
Zhou Bing burst into tears again!
Zhang Fenfen rushed over and hugged her son, then started crying and cursing at the same time.
This time, Zhou Hai ignored her, turned around and went out to draw water from the well. He washed his hands and face, went to the kitchen, grabbed two cold steamed buns, and ate them with plain water.
After finishing his meal, he turned around and left home to go back to work.
Zhou Hai is a skilled bricklayer, and people from all around the area who need to build a new house will ask him to do it.
When building houses for people, some families provide meals, while others do not.
Those who are provided with meals don't need to come back for lunch; those who aren't are required to come back for lunch.
As Zhou Hai finished eating and left the hospital, he ran into his mother, who was on her way to deliver fare to her sister-in-law.
Upon seeing Wu Caifeng, Zhou Hai said to her, "Mom, about what happened with Xiaobing this morning... could you apologize to my sister-in-law for me? I promise I'll discipline Xiaobing properly from now on."
“If he dares to do that again, I’ll chop off his hand,” Zhou Hai said, his tone clearly angry.
Wu Caifeng sighed upon hearing this, "Xiaobing really needs to be disciplined. He's not a little kid anymore. We must teach him what he should and shouldn't do, so he doesn't go astray in the future."
Zhou Hai nodded, indicating that he understood.
Wu Caifeng said no more.
Instead, she asked him, "Are you going out?"
Zhou Hai nodded, "Okay, go get to work."
Wu Caifeng glanced into his yard and asked, "Have you had lunch?"
Zhou Hai nodded.
Wu Caifeng was not very convinced, but Zhou Hai was unwilling to say more. "I'm not talking to you anymore. I have urgent work this afternoon, so I'm leaving first."
After saying that, he left.
Wu Caifeng could only sigh silently.
She didn't know what was wrong with the old graves, why neither of her two sons was living a peaceful life.
When Wu Caifeng arrived, Xie Zhizhi was painfully swallowing a bowl of white flour dumplings.
She knew the original owner was poor when she checked the original owner's bank account that morning.
But I never expected the original owner to be so ruthless to herself!
Not only did they not leave any money, but they didn't even leave any food...
Besides a small bag of rice, there was only half a bag of flour and a small jar of coarse salt left in the kitchen.
There was no lard, soy sauce, ginger, or scallions at all.
Xie Zhizhi drank her noodle soup and looked at the original owner's wrists, which were skin and bones. She finally understood why the original owner was so thin—she was just starving.
While it's true that being thinner looks better, but...
He's not skin and bones!
Look at these individual pieces, they look like spare ribs.
Touch your ribs and wrist bones, then hold the braided hair in front of your eyes and look at it.
The dry, brittle ends are a clear sign of severe malnutrition.
"Slap!" Xie Zhizhi couldn't help but slap herself again.
What kind of brain-dead person could be so ruthless to themselves?
"Love yourself before loving others, don't you understand this principle?" Xie Zhizhi scolded!
Although, in the original owner's case, that wasn't really a lover, it was purely a simp. (Only, the object of that simping was family.)
Thinking this way, Xie Zhizhi felt somewhat discouraged.
As soon as Wu Caifeng reached the kitchen door, she saw her younger daughter-in-law sitting by the stove, slapping herself in the face.
In the middle of the day, Wu Caifeng felt a chill down her back.
"The second son's family..." Wu Caifeng began hesitantly.
Xie Zhizhi raised her head with a mournful expression.
Wu Caifeng shuddered, "Second brother..."
"Mom, what brings you here?" Xie Zhizhi quickly composed herself, stood up, and greeted Wu Caifeng.
Wu Caifeng looked closely at her second daughter-in-law, whose lips were upturned, and her anxiety lessened a bit. "You just now..." Wu Caifeng pointed to her face.
Xie Zhizhi raised her hand to touch her face, realizing that her mother-in-law must have seen her slap herself, and immediately said with a look of regret, "I just hate myself for being so foolish before!"
As Xie Zhizhi spoke, she showed her mother-in-law the bowl of plain white flour soup without any oil or salt, saying, "Look at the kind of life I'm living."
“Zhou Lin sends me so much allowance every month, and in the end…” Xie Zhizhi said, wanting to slap herself a few times.
Wu Caifeng noticed this and quickly stepped forward to stop her hand, comforting her, "Who hasn't done a few foolish things when they were young? You've figured it out, so don't be too hard on yourself."
"You and your second son are still young. There will be plenty of days to make money in the future. What's lost is lost. Just live well from now on. Why are you afraid that things won't get better?"
As Wu Caifeng spoke, she took out fifty yuan from her pocket and said, "Here, this is fifty yuan. Take it and use it to buy a train ticket. Go find Lao Er and live a good life."
"Don't make things difficult for yourself," Wu Caifeng said, pressing her hand.
I was afraid she would raise her hand again and slap herself.
Xie Zhizhi looked at the thick wad of banknotes stuffed into her hand and said, "Mom, you've given me too much."
Wu Caifeng felt even more relieved when she heard her say that. "It's not much. You've bought a train ticket. When you get there, you'll still have to live with your second son. Living together isn't like living alone. You'll always need to buy some things, and you'll need money then."
"Bring more, so you won't be short of money."
Xie Zhizhi shook her head, put down the bowl in her hand, took twenty yuan from the fifty yuan Wu Caifeng had given her, and stuffed it into Wu Caifeng's hand.
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