"Then I'll just sleep outside!"
Zhou Jiuzhen's breath hitched, and he turned to leave the house.
Ling Huanwu then suddenly realized how unreasonable her request was.
She timidly held up the mercurochrome in her hand and said apologetically, "How about... I put some medicine on it for you?"
Zhou Jiuzhen's lips twitched, and his entire bronze face turned completely red.
"No need, I can do it myself!"
He took the red medicine from Ling Huanwu's hand and went behind the mosquito net bed.
Ling Huanwu watched helplessly as the man's broad shoulders and narrow waist disappeared into the shadows, and couldn't help but sigh. Tonight would be another sleepless night.
*
5:30 the next day.
Ling Huanwu originally wanted to get up early, but she still overslept.
Zhou Jiuzhen had already gotten up by this time, and his side was ice-cold.
She worried that the man's work on the roof beams at the commune might slow down the healing of his wound, so she quickly got up.
As they left, they saw that Ling's parents had already carried their own small bundles, and Song Yaoyao followed behind them, carrying an empty snakeskin bag on her back, looking just like she was going to the city to go shopping.
The mother-in-law tried to force a red-crested rooster with a red string tied around its leg onto the two of them, but they insisted on refusing it.
Upon seeing Ling Huanwu emerge, Ling's parents began to speak in a sarcastic and unsettling manner, as if they were performing a duet.
"That ungrateful daughter of hers is useless. Other in-laws would at least send a chicken as a gift, but she comes empty-handed and is not even as good as a stranger."
"What can you expect from her? She's cut ties with us anyway, and she has nothing to do with the Ling family's money. I would rather not have had such a vicious daughter in the first place!"
Song Yaoyao even provocatively glanced back at Ling Huanwu, then turned around and took Ling's parents' arms on either side to go to the south room to greet Zhou Shuyao, who was still sleeping in, saying that she was going back to the city.
Zhou Jiuzhen helped his mother-in-law bring out breakfast. He originally wanted to call people to eat, but he saw that Ling's father and mother didn't even look at their eldest son-in-law, Zhou Jiuzhen, and the three of them left the dirty and messy countryside.
Ling Huanwu tugged at Zhou Jiuzhen, who was somewhat dazed, feeling indignant on his behalf.
In their previous life, Ling's parents looked down on their son-in-law Zhou Shuyao, but they still managed to maintain appearances and would say goodbye when he left.
But Zhou Jiuzhen is different.
She was furious that a dignified regimental commander who was supposed to be protecting his country had to put up with the rudeness of these two despised capitalists.
Ling Huanwu sat down at the table to eat and comforted him, saying, "I've cut ties with them, so you don't need to pay any attention to them."
Zhou Jiuzhen did not refute, but simply put the egg from his own bowl into hers, saying, "Your parents are really going too far. I respect your decision."
The mother-in-law also cut the red string on the rooster's leg with scissors. After a long sigh, she sat down next to Ling Huanwu, hugged her gently, and comforted her, "I'm so old, I still don't understand your parents. Why do they not love their own daughter but love a daughter who is not related to them by blood?"
"But daughter, we're not afraid. Don't think that just because you don't have a family of your own, your in-laws will look down on you. From now on, I'll be your mother, and we'll all be your family!"
Ling Huanwu felt the warmth of her mother-in-law's withered hands gently caressing her body. Then, she glanced at Zhou Jiuzhen sitting opposite her, whose expression was indifferent but whose eyes were full of worry. She could no longer hold back her tears and they streamed down her face.
In her previous life, until her death, Zhou Shuyao was still trying to persuade her to reconcile with Ling's parents and to forgive them.
She had absolutely no idea how she had endured those devastating years of childhood.
This is also why she couldn't get close to Zhou Shuyao in her previous life.
After breakfast, Ling Huanwu deliberately told Zhou Jiuzhen that she was not feeling well and would not go to work at the commune.
Zhou Jiuzhen hesitated for a moment, but ultimately left without saying anything.
Seeing Zhou Jiuzhen leave, Ling Huanwu explained to her mother-in-law her idea of returning to the city to retrieve her property.
“My grandfather left a will saying that these properties were left to me, and I want to go back to the city to get them back.”
"How are you going to get it back? Besides, carrying too much money around these days isn't a good thing. I think you should just forget about it."
Her mother-in-law advised her, genuinely fearing something might happen to her.
In those days, poor peasants who went out to work were praised by everyone, while the rich were condemned by everyone.
Taking the money is just asking for trouble.
Enough is enough for a comfortable life.
But Ling Huanwu knew that her mother-in-law wouldn't understand the changes to come, so she still made up her mind to return to the city.
She packed some dry food and set off lightly.
They crossed several mountains before finally returning to the city. By then, Ling's parents had already taken Song Yaoyao back to their small villa in the city in a jeep that had been arranged in advance.
Ling Huanwu took a train for a whole day to return to the home she had lived in for twenty years. Although she had only been away for a short time in this life, it felt like an eternity to her, who had returned from her previous life.
The housekeeper opened the door.
This nanny and Song Yaoyao's biological mother are best friends.
In her previous life, she repeatedly gave false testimony, slandering her for how she bullied Song Yaoyao.
Later, Song Yaoyao somehow offended the Qin family's daughter from Hong Kong, and pushed her, leaving her crippled and in a vegetative state.
Even if this nanny stirs up trouble and tries to push her out to take the blame, given her maternal grandparents' family's scholarly background, the Qin family won't do anything to her.
That day, Ling Huanwu went out to sketch as usual, carrying her easel. When she returned, she was escorted to the Qin family by a group of people.
During the two weeks she was imprisoned in the Qin family, she suffered needle torture, water torture, and was locked in a dark room for three whole days, almost starving to death.
It was only then that she realized her parents had gone to such lengths for their adopted daughter, actually using her, their biological daughter, to impersonate their adopted daughter's criminal activities and subject her to torture by others.
Fortunately, something happened to the Qin family at the time, and she was rescued.
At that time, she was already utterly disappointed in Ling's parents and decided to leave them, voluntarily applying to go to the countryside for reform.
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