Chapter 29 Wang Yuqing awaits the Cao family's retribution.
the next day.
Wang Yuqing woke up naturally. The sun shone through the window onto her bottom. She lazily turned over and habitually reached under her pillow for her phone, but couldn't find it after searching for a long time.
She quickly got up to look for it, but the next second she realized that she had traveled to the 1970s. She couldn't help but laugh and stretched before getting out of bed.
Grandma Ji was sitting at the door peeling corn. Hearing the noise, she smiled and said, "I've warmed your breakfast in the pot."
Wang Yuqing looked around the doorway. At this time, Ji Xuening had gone to work, and Ji Daming and Ji Xiaoming had gone to school.
Ji Meimei was squatting next to Grandma Ji, also peeling corn.
Wang Yuqing didn't rush to eat breakfast. Instead, she remembered that the snails needed their water changed. As a result, Ji Meimei said sweetly, "Mom, Dad has already changed the water."
She smiled and patted her head, then went to the kitchen and brought out some corn porridge. She sat down by the door and ate it, asking, "Meimei, what did you have for breakfast?"
Ji Meimei said, "Corn grits."
Wang Yuqing handed the remaining corn porridge to Ji Meimei. Although Ji Meimei was only four years old, she was very sensible and well-behaved. She shook her head and said, "No, I don't want to drink it. Mom, you drink it."
Wang Yuqing insisted on giving Ji Meimei the porridge, and then said to Grandma Ji, "Grandma, from now on I'll eat whatever you eat. You don't need to give me corn porridge. If you keep doing this, I won't drink it anymore."
After she finished speaking, she combed and braided Ji Meimei's hair, taught her to count, taught her to write on the ground, and taught her to sing. Ji Meimei's favorite thing was listening to Wang Yuqing sing.
Grandma Ji's face was beaming with joy, she was genuinely happy. As she smiled, tears welled up in her left eye, and she took out a handkerchief to wipe them away.
She was thinking, how wonderful it would be if she could see! She really wanted to see this scene, and also to see Wang Yuqing and Ji Xuening standing together.
Wang Yuqing helped peel corn from the back. After she finished peeling, her hands were a little sore, so she stood next to the pigpen and stared at the plump, white piglets.
The thought of relying on this little piglet to get by in the future comforted her. She thought, "It's okay to do bad things now, but there will be good days later." With that thought, she laughed like a pig.
To her surprise, the little piglet seemed to have found its own kind and looked up at her with a grin. And sure enough, its smile really did resemble hers.
She asked Grandma Ji, "Grandma, is this pig male or female?"
Grandma Ji said, "The male pig in my family is the best-raised pig in the whole brigade, even better than the pigs in our brigade's pig farm."
Wang Yuqing learned from Grandma Ji that in the twelfth lunar month, people who raise pigs would sell their pigs to the food station. The pigs had to weigh more than 130 jin (65 catties). If they didn't meet the requirement, they had to be taken home and fed again.
Once the standards are met, cash will be paid based on the grade and weight of the pigs, along with meat purchase coupons for 4 to 6 jin (2.5 to 3 catties) and feed coupons.
In this era, naturally every household wants to raise pigs, but some can't afford to raise pigs, some don't know how to raise pigs, and most don't meet the standards.
Many people who didn't meet the standards didn't want to continue raising pigs, so they resorted to underhanded methods, such as breaking the pigs' legs or pushing them to their deaths. This way, they could report to the brigade and commune to apply for slaughter and sale of the meat. However, they sold the meat to the brigade or the surrounding neighbors, and the price was not as high as that of the food station.
Wang Yuqing thought about it more and more and felt that Ji Xuening was a real talent! A pig farming tycoon! But, it would be great if he could get another sow for him.
She remembered that the snails she had collected would be very nutritious for the pigs. With that in mind, to thank Ji Xuening for buying her the foot basin, she started selecting some slightly inferior snails and taking them to the kitchen to boil in hot water.
After boiling it in water, she crushed it with a stone. She didn't take it upon herself to feed it to the pigs, but waited for Ji Xuening to come home and ask him if he agreed.
Around five or six o'clock in the afternoon, Ji Xiaoming ran back crying instead of cutting pig feed, followed by Ji Daming.
Wang Yuqing asked, "What's wrong? Were you bullied?"
Ji Xiaoming wanted to say something, but Ji Daming grabbed his hand and pulled him into the house: "Xiaoming, go back to your room. I'll teach you how to do your homework. Mom, it's okay."
Ji Xiaoming cried uncontrollably and was sobbing.
Wang Yuqing said seriously, "A real man should speak up if something is wrong. Don't beat around the bush. We're family, why are we hiding it from each other?"
She learned from Ji Xiaoming that his classmates at school ostracized him and Ji Daming, and even pointed fingers at them, saying that Wang Yuqing was immoral and immoral, and that she had gone home with a man without getting a marriage certificate.
Ji Xiaoming said angrily, "It was Cao Hao who started it, everyone sided with him, and he even said..."
Ji Xiaoming stammered, somewhat hesitant to speak.
Ji Daming said, "Cao Hao said he's not afraid of you. Today, his older brother, who works in the city, came home, and his whole family is coming to settle accounts with you after work."
Grandma Ji said worriedly, "No wonder they haven't come to settle accounts these past two days. It turns out they're waiting for Cao Tian to come back. Today is Grandma Cao Hao's birthday."
In Wang Yuqing's memory, Cao Tian was Lin Meili's eldest son. He went to high school with the help of the original owner's grandparents. After graduating from high school, because he was an intellectual, the state allocated one or two recruitment quotas to the brigade every year. In the end, Cao Tian was selected to work in the agricultural machinery factory in the county town.
With the Wang family, who were relatives in the county town, the Cao family members all acted arrogantly and looked down on the people in the brigade. Of course, some people in the brigade also fawned over the Cao family, since they sometimes relied on Cao Tian to exchange for some receipts.
Ji Xiaoming said fearfully, "Mom, what should we do? That Cao Tian is very fierce. He hit me before. I'm afraid of him."
Even the mature and steady Ji Daming said worriedly, "Mom, when the time comes, just stay in your room and don't come out. Don't worry, they won't dare to do anything to you."
Grandma Ji slapped her thigh anxiously, then grabbed Wang Yuqing's hand: "Child, Daming is right. You stay inside and don't come out. This old woman will go and apologize to them. They should be lenient with me because of my age. At most, I'll let those two, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, have their say..."
Wang Yuqing wasn't afraid at all: "What's there to be afraid of? If they dare to mess with me, I dare to mess with them too."
What a joke! In her previous life, she had no parents and was often bullied and beaten up at school. During junior and senior high school, she learned many martial arts skills from the old men in the park, such as Toad Style, Gecko Style, Flying Axe Style, and the Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms...
I learned martial arts in the school's fighting club during college, and after graduation, I also signed up to learn mixed martial arts. Unfortunately, all my skills were compromised by the cost of my salary.
For the next hour or so, Grandma Ji and the three children were all anxious and uneasy, glancing cautiously at a small path across the street from the doorway every now and then.
Wang Yuqing was not flustered at all. She even made herself a big bowl of corn porridge while cooking dinner. After eating and drinking her fill, she went to the doorway to warm up her voice and stretch her limbs.
Afterwards, she sat under the crooked locust tree, fanning herself with a palm-leaf fan, humming a little tune.
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