"Daughter-in-law...Daughter-in-law?"
The woman leading the way was shocked.
It has been five years since the Shen family was relocated to the village, and I have never heard that they still have a daughter-in-law.
Moreover, she was such a good-looking girl. She dared to say that there was no one as good-looking as her in the ten-mile village.
Isn't this demotion related to the whole family? Why is there still a daughter-in-law outside?
The people coming and going in this village are all familiar villagers and neighbors. When they see unfamiliar faces in the village, they can't help but feel curious.
Those who were carrying hoes or shoulder poles stopped to chat with the woman, but they couldn't help but glance at Jiang Qi.
Jiang Xi now just wanted to meet Shen Mo's family as soon as possible. Listening to the greetings of the people coming and going, his eyebrows slightly wrinkled, "If you need help, tell me the location. You can go by yourself. No need to trouble you to lead the way."
Jiang Xi's words made the woman feel humiliated, and she curled her lips.
Jiang Xi didn't miss her rolling eyes.
The woman rolled her eyes and continued to lead the way, but she met her friend on the way, and the two stopped and chatted among themselves.
Jiang Qing saw that Dui did not seem to want to continue leading the way. Just then, a villager passed by. She looked at the villager and asked, "Excuse me, where do the relocated Shen family live?"
The man looked a little confused, but he still pointed to a place and said, "Over there, do you see the shed across two fields?"
Jiang Qi glanced to the side and saw a small, dilapidated shed not far away. She said politely, "I saw it. Thank you."
After asking for directions from someone in the village, she left without looking back. The middle-aged woman pouted after Jiang Xi left, "Why are you pretending? You look like a fox."
She turned to her friend and said, "See? Just a few words have made me lose my mind."
The iron pillar in her words was the villager that Jiang Qing was questioning.
Jiang Xi walked over several ridges and finally arrived at the dilapidated cowshed. The outside of the shed was indeed very dilapidated, with rusty walls and a roof that seemed to be leaking air.
You can smell a bad odor from outside. Next to it is a trough for livestock, and next to the trough stands a row of wooden stakes, with oxen and donkeys tied to the stakes.
It's winter now, and the smell is so strong, not to mention summer. Not only will it be extremely hot and stuffy, but we will also have to sleep with mosquitoes and flies. Just thinking about it makes Jiang Qi a little unacceptable.
She walked over and saw that the wooden door was locked.
No one?
The captain said that the man was in the cowshed.
At this time, footsteps were heard behind me, accompanied by a woman's voice, "Who are you? Why are you knocking on my door?"
Jiang Xi turned around and saw a woman wearing slightly washed bleached clothes walking towards him. Judging from her age, she should be in her teens, but her face was yellow and haggard.
Living in the cowshed and being this young, Jiang Xi roughly guessed the other party's identity.
When Shen Mo was on the train, he told her about his family. His parents were Shen Bingting and Yang Lan, he had an older brother and a younger sister. His brother was Shen Ziming and his sister was Shen Qianqian.
The eldest brother is married, and his wife is called Jin Yuyan.
The only woman in front of him who matches his age is Shen Mo's wife, Jin Yuyan.
When Jin Yuyan saw Jiang Xing, there was a flash of surprise and jealousy in her eyes.
Jiang Xi looked at Shen Mo and greeted him politely, "Hello, my name is Jiang Xi, and I'm Shen Mo's wife."
"Shen Mo's wife? Are you... my second brother's wife?" Jin Yuyan was very surprised and asked again.
Jiang Xing nodded, "Yes."
Jin Yuyan didn't know Jiang Liu, but knew his name. "You said you are Jiang Liu, can you prove your identity?"
Jiang Xi took out his own household registration page. Jin Yuyan scanned the name and address on the page. She remembered that Shen Mo's wife was from Yanghe County.
How can a country woman have such good skin?
Look at her again, her face is pale and sallow, not as pretty as before, it's all because of the Shen family!
She knew that Shen Ziming's younger brother was a soldier, and Shen Mo escaped the disaster because of his service in the army, so Shen Mo's wife did not need to be sent down to the countryside with him.
Looking at Jiang Qi's delicate face, I felt a lump in my heart.
Jin Yuyan asked in an unclear tone, "What are you doing here?"
Jiang Xi heard a hint of unkindness in her tone, but she could understand it. Those who were sent down were all high-level intellectuals. They had spent so much time in this simple cowshed, enduring mental and physical torture for years. No one could bear it.
"놖 applied for visitation permission to come and see my parents." Jiang Qi raised his eyes and glanced inside. "You won't let 놖 in?"
Visiting permission?
In the eyes of these uneducated villagers, those of us who were sent down to such rural areas were bad elements who needed to be criticized and reformed through thought and labor, doing the heaviest work every day and getting the highest marks.
From time to time, I would be bullied by some rude villagers.
She's had enough of this kind of life!
The people above sent us to the countryside to be criticized, so how could they allow people to visit us?
Did Shen Mo have some military achievements to deserve such great power?
If that's the case, then she might have to change her mind and rethink her divorce from Shen Ziming.
Jin Yuyan took out a key and unlocked the door. "Come in,"
Jiang Xing walked into the house. Although there was still a strange smell in the house, it was much better than outside.
Inside was a mud house, not as shabby as the outside, and seemed to have been built bit by bit in recent years. It was very empty inside, with only a few beds and a stove in the corner where one could burn firewood to cook.
This should have gradually improved after the Shen family was transferred here for several years.
After being relegated to the village for several years, the Shen family worked hard and gradually built a mud house that could barely shelter them from the wind and rain.
Jiang Xi put the things in his hand on the ground, pulled a shabby stool and sat down.
She wanted to sit on the bed, but she didn't know whose bed it was, and it would be impolite to sit on someone else's bed suddenly.
It is called a bed, but in fact it is just a few bricks stuffed underneath, and then a few wooden boards spliced together and placed on the bricks.
For the first time, Jiang Xing felt the real difference between the developed world and the modern world in this era.
As soon as Jin Yuyan entered the room, she went back to her bed and lay down, looking like she was going to take another nap.
Jiang Xing didn't want to disturb others' sleep, so she just asked when Mr. and Mrs. Shen would get off work. Jin Yuyan gave an approximate time and went to sleep with her back to Jiang Xing.
She couldn't fall asleep at all when she looked at Jiang Xi's face.
Jiang Xi didn't feel that her attitude towards her was neglectful. In name, they were a family, but if she was asked to treat a stranger who suddenly appeared warmly, she couldn't do it.
Jiang Liu took out a medical book that Mr. Huang had stuffed into her hand when she left and began to read it carefully. Time passed by unknowingly.