Chapter 9 A visit from an ungrateful friend?
After Zheng Yunsheng left, Gu Qijiao returned to her bedroom and pulled the colorful sheets that had been spread on the bed last night off the bed.
She held the sheet in her hands and looked at it, and found a small red bloodstain in the middle of the sheet.
This is the virgin's blood.
It represents a woman's transformation from a girl to a woman.
At the beginning of the year, when Gu Qijiao climbed into bed, Zheng Yunsheng was drunk and had never done anything to Gu Qijiao.
Last night was the first time they had sex.
Gu Qijiao took out a small piece of soap from the bedside, carried the bed sheet and soap out, and came to the well in the backyard.
There is a well more than three meters deep in the backyard. A wooden bucket is tied with a rope on a crank and lowered into the well. Water can be pumped up from the well by shaking the crank.
After throwing the bed sheet into a new wooden basin next to the well, Gu Qijiao threw the bucket into the water and started drawing water.
She drew a bucket of water and emptied it into the basin. She then placed the bucket in the well and drew a second bucket and placed it next to it. Then she squatted down and began to wash the sheets.
The sheets were new and there was nothing else to wash or dry, so the main point was to clean that small mark.
Gu Qijiao found the spot directly, put some soap on her hands and started rubbing them.
After rubbing for a few minutes, Gu Qijiao heard a young woman calling her name outside the yard.
Upon hearing the voice, Gu Qijiao frowned.
Because as soon as she heard this name, a name immediately emerged in Gu Qijiao's mind: Wang Sufen.
This girl named Wang Sufen is Gu Qijiao's best friend in Yue Village.
Of course, the identity of good friends is only Gu Qijiao's unilateral opinion.
In Wang Sufen's eyes, Gu Qijiao is just an uneducated and shameless idiot.
In her previous life, Gu Qijiao could be said to have been very open with Wang Sufen.
But Wang Sufen is a real ungrateful person.
Wang Sufen never went to school. Her family had a serious patriarchal ideology and only sent her to a free literacy class at the entrance of the village for a few months.
Wang Sufen is not the only one. There are not many children in the village who have the opportunity to go to school. Most of the boys do not have the opportunity to go to school, let alone girls.
Gu Qijiao is one of the few children in the village who has the opportunity to go to school.
Because of this, Wang Sufen particularly liked to interact with Gu Qijiao, and often praised Gu Qijiao for her good looks, good temperament, and bright future.
At that time, Gu Qijiao was very vain and often felt flattered by Wang Sufen's praise, so she wishfully regarded Wang Sufen as her best friend.
After Gu Qijiao followed Zheng Yunsheng into the city, she accidentally heard on her way back to her parents' home that Wang Sufen's mother wanted to marry her to a bachelor in his 50s in exchange for a betrothal gift.
In order to save Wang Sufen, Gu Qijiao contacted the director of the steel plant immediately after returning to the city and asked the director's son Zhang Zhe to go to Yuewan to propose marriage.
Before the Wang family married Wang Sufen to the old bachelor, Zhang Zhe married Wang Sufen and brought her to the city.
Why would the son of a steel plant director be willing to marry an illiterate country woman? Of course there is no reason for this.
The main reason is that Zhang Zhe is physically disabled.
When he was young, Zhang Zhe also worked in a steel mill. A few years ago, he had an accident and his hand was caught in a machine in the steel mill when he was young, and his entire right palm was lost.
After Zhang Zhe became disabled, his former fiancée broke up with him, and he has been single ever since. Now he is almost 30 years old, and his mother has been trying her best but still hasn't been able to find him a wife.
In Gu Qijiao's opinion, although Zhang Zhe is disabled, his family is well-off, his parents are factory workers, and a woman will suffer after marrying into the family.
Besides, Zhang Zhe was literate. It was said that after losing his hands, he could still earn some royalties from writing poems and publishing them in magazines every month, but it was not a problem for him to support his family.
Moreover, Gu Qijiao had met Zhang Zhe, a young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes. No matter how you looked at him, he could be considered a good man that a woman could entrust her life to.
Let’s look at the old bachelor that Wang Sufen’s family found for her. I heard that the old bachelor is a wife-beater. Two of his previous three wives were beaten to death by him.
Wang Sufen's family decided to sell their daughter because they were attracted by the dowry that the old bachelor could offer, which was several times more than that of ordinary families.
In contrast, marrying an old bachelor or marrying the slightly disabled Zhang Zhe, anyone with a little bit of brains would know which choice to make.
Of course, Gu Qijiao did not make a decision for Wang Sufen on her own. She asked Wang Sufen and got Wang Sufang's consent before returning to the city to let Zhang Zhe go to Yueli Village to propose marriage.
Later, with the help of Gu Qijiao, Wang Sufen married into the city and got rid of the fire pit arranged by her family. Logically, she should be grateful to Gu Qijiao.
But in fact, Wang Sufen didn't. She felt that Gu Qijiao could find her a healthy man to marry in the city, but Gu Qijiao introduced her to a disabled man.
Little did he know that even Zhang Zhe, a disabled man, hesitated for a long time after hearing that he was going to marry a blind and illiterate woman.
If Gu Qijiao had praised Wang Sufen for her ability, hard work and perseverance, and said a lot of good things about her, a family like the Zhang family would have married Wang Sufen.
When Wang Sufen came to the city, she was arranged by the director of the steel factory to work in the canteen to wash dishes.
Originally, Gu Qijiao was happy to go to work with Wang Sufen, but when Wang Sufen saw Gu Qijiao, she avoided her as if she knew her.
A few days after entering the steel mill, Wang Sufen told everyone in the steel mill that Gu Qijiao had married Zheng Yunsheng by climbing into his bed.
For a long time, people at the steel mill were pointing fingers at Gu Qijiao, and she almost lost her job at the steel mill because of her work style.
If Zheng Yunsheng had written a letter of guarantee to Gu Qijiao, proving that they were married out of free love, Gu Qijiao would most likely have left the steel plant.
In her previous life, Gu Qijiao was the one who invited the wolf into the house. She personally brought the evil wolf Wang Sufen into the city.
Now Gu Qijiao already knew the situation of helping Wang Sufen in advance, so of course she would not do the hard and pleasing task again.
The main reason why Wang Sufen hated Gu Qijiao was that she felt that Gu Qijiao had introduced her to a disabled husband.
Well then, in this life, she will watch Wang Sufen marry that fifty-something old bachelor.
We have to see if she can live a better life after marrying Zhang Zhe than in her previous life.
Thinking of this, Gu Qijiao secretly concealed the emotions in her eyes. She stood up, shook off the water droplets on her hands, and walked towards the front yard.
Wang Sufen has already walked into the Gu family’s courtyard.
"It's Sufen, why are you here? Come and sit down!"
As she spoke, Gu Qijiao walked towards the wooden table in the yard.
Because so many years have passed, Gu Qijiao has already recalled that Wang Sufen came to see her on the first day of her marriage.
Naturally, she also knew what Wang Sufen came to see her for.
Seeing Gu Qijiao sitting down, Wang Sufen also walked over and sat on the stool next to Gu Qijiao.
She immediately saw Gu Qijiao's slender white hands that had just been soaked in water, and then looked at her own hands that had become rough due to long-term farm work. A hint of jealousy flashed across Wang Sufen's eyes.
They are all country girls, why does Gu Qijiao have the right to study? Why does Gu Qijiao, who is unruly and domineering, still receive endless love from her mother?
And she fought hard and lived half as comfortably as Gu Qijiao.
Wang Sufen felt that fate was extremely fair.
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