Chapter 64: The ups and downs of the red envelope ending
The next day, New Year's Day, Zhao Sheng got up early, cut a few pieces of red paper, wrapped a few one-cent red envelopes, and gave them to his nephew at home.
Lin Yiyi was awakened by the noise of the children outside. When she regained consciousness, she remembered what Zhao Sheng had promised yesterday. She stayed in bed for a few minutes and then immediately turned over and got up.
After washing up, she greeted Zhao Sheng and said a few auspicious words. When she received a thin red envelope from the man, Lin Yiyi's smile froze on the spot. Could this really contain only a dime?
It turns out that we can't count on this stingy, monkey-like guy.
We kept watch last night. Except for the younger ones who went to bed early, the adults all got up late. For breakfast, we had the dumplings that we had made last night.
Compared to the peaceful life of the Zhao family, Lin Yiyi, who was eating white dumplings on a cold winter morning, and Wang Rulan looked so pitiful and miserable, like a dog that had lost its home.
On the night of New Year's Eve, Wang Rulan took advantage of her parents and brother who had drunk a little wine and fell into a deep sleep, and used the broken porcelain pieces she had hidden from the bowls she had deliberately broken two days ago to cut the hemp rope. She then took a twisted bed sheet and passed it through the door handles of her parents' door and her brother's room opposite, and tied the two ends together to form a flat character "口", so that no one in the house could pull the rope open no matter how hard they tried to get out.
If both parties open the door at the same time, it would be like a tug-of-war to test strength. The bed sheet twisted into strips in the middle is not so easy to tear apart, and the person inside the house will definitely not be able to get out of the house without help from outsiders.
This bought more time for the Wang family to find the escaped Wang Rulan the next day.
Wang Rulan tied the door, picked up her luggage, and quietly escaped from the Wang family in the late night.
It was New Year's Eve, the day when families reunited. Wang Rulan was walking alone on the street in the cold wind and snow. Without a letter of introduction, she had nowhere to go except to return to the countryside where she was sent to work.
It's really funny. It was the place she wanted to escape from before, but now it has become her place of residence.
Wang Rulan arrived at the train station and took the earliest train at 6 a.m. She was on the train for a day and a night. After buying the ticket, she had nothing left and was starving.
Finally, she returned to Zhaojiatun on the second day of the Chinese New Year. On the way from the town to the village, she almost fainted from hunger, but she managed to make it.
It was icy and snowy during the New Year season. If she really couldn't hold on and fell on the road, her life would be in danger.
Wang Rulan suddenly returned to the educated youth point, looking disheveled and haggard, as if she had fled. Everyone was shocked. After all, she had said before the New Year that her family had arranged a job for her to return to the city, but she suddenly came back at this time, and looked so miserable. There was something strange about it.
Wang Rulan's heart, which had been hanging in the balance for a long time, finally settled down when she returned to the educated youth point. Fortunately, she did not have time to sell her food rations when she left, otherwise she would really have nothing to eat now.
After eating and drinking, Wang Rulan went back to her room to lie down and rest. She didn't dare to doze off on the train for fear of encountering some bad people. She was extremely nervous throughout the journey.
She escaped from the home that wanted to sell her to her brother in exchange for his future, and from now on she really had no home.
Wang Rulan sobbed a few times while hugging the quilt. She was afraid that people would hear and laugh at her, so she didn't dare to say anything. After a while, she couldn't resist the sleepiness and fell into a deep sleep.
The Wang family in Beijing was really in an uproar.
The Wang family was trapped in the house for a whole morning. It was only when Wang Er used brute force to kick a hole in the door that he was able to get out of the house, untie the sheets tied to the door, and rescue Wang's father and mother. After this incident at home, they discovered that Wang Rulan had run away.
The family didn't dare to say anything and ran around looking for the person. By the time they remembered to go to the train station to inquire, the person had already fled to the countryside.
When the Wang family found out that their plan to exchange their youngest daughter for their son's job had failed, Wang's father and mother were so angry that they cursed them for having given birth to an evil creature and an unfilial daughter, hoping that she would be better off dying in the countryside and never coming back.
The family did not have a good New Year, and thinking about having to explain to the factory director's family after the New Year, the whole family was worried.
He took the initiative to come to the Wang family's house to marry their daughter, and now he said that the person was gone. The plan was off. The factory director felt that he was being made fun of and was ashamed. However, he could not let everyone know about it, so he could only suppress his anger and trip up the Wang family behind their backs to vent his anger.
After that, the Wang family suffered a series of bad luck.
First, Wang's father broke his leg and was arranged to retire by the factory. Then Wang Er got into a fight with someone after drinking outside and was imprisoned. He had to pay the other party a sum of money to settle the matter, which made the already poor family even worse off.
The family of three depended entirely on the Queen Mother's salary to make a living, and their life was extremely miserable.
I don’t have the energy to think about Wang Rulan in the rural north anymore, so I just pretend that I never gave birth to her.
At Zhao Tiezhu's house, after breakfast, the whole family gathered in the main room. Zhao Tiezhu and Wang Caihong sat on the kang, wearing brand new cotton-padded jackets, dressed neatly, waiting for each family to greet them during the New Year.
Zhao Xing and Liu Meifeng took Dabao and Xiaobao to pay New Year's greetings to their parents and received red envelopes. Wang Caihong smiled with wrinkles all over her face and called them "darling" all the time.
When it was the turn of the second wife, Zhao Sheng and Lin Yiyi stood side by side to wish Zhao's father and mother a happy new year. Wang Caihong glanced at Lin Yiyi with a half-smile for a long time, and then reluctantly took out a red paper bag and gave it to Lin Yiyi.
But when Lin Yiyi was about to reach out to take it, Wang Caihong let go of her hand in advance and watched the red envelope fall to the ground.
That’s right, Wang Caihong did it on purpose.
If it wasn't for the New Year holidays, she wouldn't have wanted to give it at all.
How can this slut Lin Yiyi be her daughter-in-law now? She is simply her enemy!
This caused her to become increasingly distant from her son.
She remembered the quarrel a few days ago very clearly. She felt heartache from time to time when she went to bed these few nights. It was all because of this troublemaker.
unlucky!
Lin Yiyi was unhappy when she met Wang Caihong's unfriendly gaze, but she still had a smile on her face.
When Wang Caihong deliberately threw away the red envelope to tease her, Lin Yiyi's face darkened completely and she was about to lose her temper on the spot.
Everyone present noticed that the atmosphere was not right. Ma Dongmei strode forward, picked up the red envelope on the ground and gave it to her second sister-in-law, fearing that she would quarrel with her mother again, so she tried to smooth things over.
"It's too cold. My hands are frozen and I can't move them properly. It really delays my work."
Ma Dongmei knew very well that her mother-in-law had bad intentions. She was just trying to cause trouble and disgust people.
Zhao Lili and Liu Meifeng watched the show closely and with ill intentions, hoping that Lin Yiyi would make a scene.
Seeing that his third brother's wife had been rescued, Zhao Sheng thought that it was better to have less trouble than more, as long as he didn't suffer any loss.
Just when he was about to reach out and hold the woman's hand to comfort her, Lin Yiyi held back her temper, rolled her eyes at the man, and turned away.
His hair swung in an arc and his back looked angry.
This action directly ignited the gunpowder that had been stored in someone's heart for a long time!
"This is outrageous. She's so disrespectful. She gets angry and walks away before the elder has even finished speaking. Which daughter-in-law is like her? Second son, you don't even take good care of her. You treat such an unfilial woman like this as a treasure?" Mother Zhao screamed with her eyes wide open in anger.
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