It's no wonder Fang Qiao reacted so strongly; Lin Youcai's actions were truly disgusting.
In her past life, Lin Youcai was Wang Yun's ex-husband.
Since he was her ex-husband, the two of them naturally didn't end up together.
If it were a divorce due to incompatibility, Fang Qiao wouldn't dislike Lin Youcai so much, but the key is that this guy isn't.
He's a scumbag who seduces and abandons people and even hits them!
In his previous life, he married Wang Yun in 1973. Because his parents had never met their daughter-in-law, they did not register their marriage. They planned to meet his parents-in-law when they visited the city the following year and then register their marriage. However, they held a banquet, which in the countryside was considered a de facto marriage.
But the good times didn't last long. The year after the marriage, this scumbag went back to the city and learned that the policy for educated youth to return to the city had been relaxed. As long as they were unmarried and could find a job in the city, even if they were not formal employees, they could go through the procedures to return to the city.
So, Lin Youcai abandoned the plan to get the marriage certificate and quickly completed the formalities before returning to the city.
When he left, he told Wang Yun that he would wait for her in Beijing and they would get their marriage certificate then. However, the policy was only relaxed for six months before it was tightened again, leaving Wang Yun with too little time. She missed this opportunity to return to the city.
To make matters worse, two months after Lin Youcai returned to the city, Wang Yun discovered she was pregnant.
She telegraphed Lin Youcai to tell him she was pregnant, but the reply she received was that Lin Youcai had already successfully gone on a blind date with the daughter of his boss, and they had even set a wedding date.
Wang Yun has a strong personality; she's not the kind of girl who would swallow her pride and suffer in silence if she was bullied.
She went directly to the brigade headquarters to get a letter of introduction, bought a train ticket to Beijing, and, with her slightly protruding belly, went straight to Lin Youcai's house, disrupting his marriage to the leader's daughter.
Lin Youcai, that bastard, lost his marriage to the leader's family. In his anger and shame, he actually hit Wang Yun and personally aborted their child, making Wang Yun unable to get pregnant for the rest of her life!
Lin Youcai did such a terrible thing that Fang Qiao wanted to smash his ugly face whenever she saw him!
Fang Qiao gritted her teeth to suppress the hatred in her heart.
When Wang Yun saw Fang Qiao, he quickly walked over and said with concern, "It's cold outside, Xiao Qiao, why are you standing at the door?"
"I heard voices outside, guessing they'd finished work, so I came out to meet you." Fang Qiao took Wang Yun's hand.
Wang Yun subconsciously followed her inside. After taking a couple of steps, she suddenly remembered Lin Youcai, stopped, turned around, and said to him, "I'm having dinner at Fang Qiao's house today, so I won't be going back. Lin Zhiqing, when you go back, don't forget to tell the people cooking in the kitchen."
"Don't worry, I won't forget," Lin Youcai replied with a smile, then waved to her.
Fang Qiao frowned and glanced at his back, then tentatively asked Wang Yun, "Xiao Yun, why did you take the same route as him today? This route takes a rather long detour back to the educated youth settlement."
“I met him on the way back. He heard that I had a copy of ‘Song Collection’ and wanted to borrow it to read for a few days.”
"He asked to borrow your poetry collection? Really?" Fang Qiao was so skeptical.
“Really, we were just talking about it,” Wang Yun said. “He seemed quite sincere when he borrowed the book; he must be a young intellectual who loves literature.”
"..."
A lover of literature?
Someone who only graduated from junior high school but can't even read the classical Chinese texts in elementary school textbooks fluently, says they love literature? Isn't that ridiculous?
Fang Qiao was speechless.
"Xiaoyun, don't be fooled by Lin Youcai. He was a good-for-nothing when he was in school, not an educated youth. Maybe he's just trying to get close to you under the guise of borrowing books."
Wang Yun wavered slightly: "Huh? But he seemed to have a lot to say."
"He's faking it. If you don't believe me, try talking to him for a few days about the poems and classical Chinese texts he read when he was in school. He might be able to pretend for a day or two if he's not well-read, but if you let him pretend for ten days or half a month, he'll definitely be exposed," Fang Qiao suggested.
"Really? But how do you know all this?"
Of course it's true! You told me all of this yourself in my past life!
It's just that this is something I can't say out loud; if I did, Wang Yun would probably just think I was joking.
Fang Qiao shrugged and told a white lie: "Because he used the same excuse to approach me a few years ago, but I saw through it."
Upon hearing this, Wang Yun, thinking he had overheard some gossip, immediately perked up and asked curiously, "How did you figure it out? Tell me."
"It's nothing, it's just that a kid in the village was learning classical Chinese for the first time, and he didn't recognize a few characters. He came to me asking how to read them, so I gave the book to Lin Youcai to teach him. But he didn't recognize the characters either. He didn't recognize the rare characters, and he even pronounced '曰' as '日'. He's completely misleading the children."
This actually happened in my past life, except that the person wasn't Fang Qiao, but Wang Yun himself.
However, Wang Yun and Lin Youcai were already married at that time.
A few years later, when Wang Yun decided to stay in the countryside to get married, the burdens of life had worn away the young girl's fantasies and longings for love. Her marriage to Lin Youcai had nothing to do with love, nor was it out of admiration for his 'talent'. It was purely because she was getting older and wanted to settle down. She didn't take the matter to heart, but instead told Fang Qiao about it as a joke.
Fang Qiao felt sorry for her.
The once vibrant and radiant young girl eventually became mediocre.
"Oh, he's so bad." Wang Yun curled her lip in disdain. "Then I'll have to have a good chat with him next time I see him. If he really doesn't know anything about literature, I won't lend him my books to waste."
After finishing her speech, Fang Qiao led Wang Yun to the kitchen for dinner.
Wang Yun had a sweet tongue and easily made the old lady smile with just a few words.
The old lady genuinely liked this straightforward girl; she had a good personality and was well-educated. If this were a local girl, she would definitely try to set her up with someone. After all, she had quite a few grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and any of them who ended up together would be a huge success.
It's a pity. She was an educated youth sent to the countryside from a big city, and she would have to leave sooner or later. In this poor and remote place, not everyone is as capable as Bai Dong. How could a farmer who only knows how to farm keep such a good wife?
After eating, Wang Yun went home.
When she left, Fang Qiao packed half a basket of pickled salted eggs and two packets of honey-glazed sesame seeds for her to take back to the educated youth camp and share with the others, as a way of thanking them for standing up for her that night.
Cheng Baidong first coaxed Tian Tian to sleep and put her on the bed in the west room. Then he brought Fang Qiao hot water to soak her feet and thoughtfully made her a cup of honey water with boiled spiritual spring water to soothe her throat.
Fang Qiao felt incredibly comfortable, being served so meticulously by Cheng Baidong.
The two chatted while soaking their feet, and Cheng Baidong asked, "What happened to Lin Youcai?"
"Weren't you making pancakes in the kitchen when I was talking to Wang Yun? You heard all that?" Fang Qiao exclaimed in surprise, "Your hearing is pretty sharp."
Cheng Baidong admitted, "After absorbing the spiritual energy in the space these past two days, my five senses have indeed become more sensitive."
Fang Qiao's eyes lit up: "You can cultivate immortality?"
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