Tian Cai took a shower and cleaned herself up as if nothing had happened, then sat down to eat dinner. She had simple plain noodles with cucumber dipping sauce. The noodles, made from two-grain flour, were chewy and smooth, and the cucumber was crisp and tender. She ate it with gusto.
Although her current situation is quite dangerous, she can't lose her mind just because there are enemies hiding in the dark. She still has to live her life, right?
When Tian Cai took Mimi back, the little guy opened his eyes wide and howled at her for a long time. No one knew what he was trying to say, and Tian Cai didn't understand a word he said.
But the little guy didn't want to go into the house today and kept sniffing around in the yard.
After washing the clothes, she walked into the house wearing homemade slippers and put the money she earned today into a small money box. She had been here for nearly a year, and her savings were only a little over a hundred yuan. For modern people who are used to seeing tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of yuan, this amount of money was nothing. However, at that time, many rural families could not save even a hundred yuan in ten years.
Even when getting married, the bride price is only a few dozen yuan, and a hundred yuan is already quite high.
The box containing the money had never been opened. Tian Cai called Mimi back, and the man and the cat lay on the kang, their consciousness slowly drifting away.
Under the moonlight, two figures tiptoed away and slowly walked out of the village.
After making sure they were far away, Tian Cai opened his eyes, opened the door, and followed them quietly.
"Do you think she saw the footprints?" a low male voice came.
After a long while, another slightly hoarse female voice said, "I see."
"Then why isn't she worried at all?" the man asked, puzzled. "If a woman living alone sees a man's footprints in her house, shouldn't she immediately check to see if anything is missing?"
"There are two possibilities. One is that she thought the footprints were left by the man who often went to work there. As for the other possibility," the woman's voice paused before continuing, "she is very thoughtful and what we saw was all an act."
"She's just a teenage girl, isn't that serious?"
“Don’t underestimate anyone.”
"The higher-ups are pressing us again, demanding we find out about that woman within this year."
"knew."
Tian Cai followed silently all the way, and not far behind her, there was also a figure following closely.
Fortunately, this figure did not make any sound, otherwise Tian Caifei would have covered its mouth.
The two men left the village and headed northeast. She followed them at a distance of several dozen meters, neither too close nor too far. Taking advantage of the moonlight, she would not lose them.
Judging from the two people's appearance, they were very familiar with the surrounding routes. Tian Cai followed them all the way to a house at the end of Qingshan Village. He stopped after seeing the two people go in one after another. He waited for a long time, but no one came out, so he led Mimi back the same way.
Now that she knew the location, it would be much easier to find out the identities of the two people. However, if she wanted to find out what she wanted to know without alerting them, she had to communicate more with her patients.
After the man and the cat returned home, they went back to bed to rest. Tian Cai finally had some answers to what he had been worrying about, and he felt much more relaxed, and even had a dream.
The dream was like watching a movie, replaying the original owner's life from childhood to adulthood. Cai Ping's motherly voice and smile always appeared in front of her eyes.
It can be said that the happiest days for the original owner were the years he lived with her in the mountains.
After getting up the next day, Tian Cai washed, cooked, and played with the cat as usual. He did not rush to Qingshan Village. Who knows if they had sent anyone over.
After tidying up the house, she took a wooden bucket and went out, wanting to try her luck in the river at the foot of the hill to see if she could catch some fish.
As a result, as soon as he went out, he saw a group of people coming towards him in a noisy manner. Tian Cai looked carefully and found that only Liu Guihua was a familiar face.
She is the only one living in this direction, and I don't know what she is doing here.
"Doctor Tian!" Liu Guihua, who was following behind to listen to the excitement, saw Tian Cai and hurriedly called out. This call also alerted the noisy group of people.
"Let's go. Now that we're at Kaoshan Village, let's ask Doctor Tian to take a look and see if there's something wrong with my daughter!" said a skinny old lady who was small in stature but quite imposing.
"Go ahead. I've never heard of anyone blaming the man for not being able to have children!" another buck-toothed old lady replied fearlessly.
"That's right, how does that saying go? You can't poop and you blame the earth for not having gravity!"
"You can't poop!"
"You are!"
When they were about to reach her door, the bucktoothed old lady suddenly reached out to stop them. She put her hands on her waist and said to the thin old lady, "Mrs. Shi, let's make a deal first. If it's because of your Fulan that she can't have children, you can't stop me from sending her back. You have to return every cent of the betrothal gift we gave you when we got married. Our dung heap has been delayed by your family for several years, and we have to find another girl to carry on the family line!"
"Heh—bah, bullshit!" the petite old lady spat a mouthful of thick phlegm at the bucktoothed old lady. "My innocent daughter has been married for three years, working like a slave to serve your entire family, and you still have the nerve to ask me for a betrothal gift. I'll even return it to you. I'll return your grandmother's leg!"
"You shameless old thing! Who keeps a hen that hasn't laid eggs for three years? It would have been stewed long ago. My family spent thirty-eight to marry such a useless thing. What's wrong with her serving the whole family? That's what she should do! If she can give birth to a son for our Wu family, I will serve her myself," the bucktoothed old lady said, suddenly laughing sarcastically, looking at Shi Fulan who was silent on the side. "The key is, can she give birth to a son?"
Shi Fulan's face turned pale, and he stood aside with his head down, not saying a word.
"You!" The petite old lady was immediately furious. Every time the issue of children came up, she didn't have the face to refute. It was because the daughter she raised didn't give birth to a child after being married for several years, which made her unable to stand up in front of this arrogant in-law.
While they were arguing, Liu Guihua quietly told Tian Cai the whole story.
Both families are from Qingshan Village. The man’s name is Wu Fendui. Yes, don’t be surprised, it’s that Fendui.
It is said that because the old lady of the Wu family gave birth to several children in a row but none of them survived, the elders in the village suggested giving the child a humble name, as humble names would make it easier to raise the child. The old lady happened to see the dung pile in the backyard, so she simply gave the child this name. She has been calling the child by this name for more than 20 years and everyone has gotten used to it.
It was the first time that Tian Cai heard such a "unique" name, and she couldn't help but look at the man a few more times.
Strangely enough, after the old lady named her son Fendui, the child actually stood up and grew up so big in a blink of an eye.
Fendui had reached marriageable age, and his family had arranged for him to be married to a woman from the same village. They hoped that he would get married soon and have more children, so as to expand the Wu family, which was already small in number.
The daughter-in-law is Fulan, a little girl from the Shi family in the same village. Wu Ma was attracted by the girl's broad shoulders and waist, and her big butt that was good for childbearing.
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