Chapter 31 Chapter 31 Chapter 31 At Home...
Chapter 31
Before her family was killed, Jin Menglan had many complaints and dislikes towards them. But after the closest people in the world died because of her, Jin Menglan's heart was filled with regret and fear.
Before the police arrived, the village secretary refused to let anyone into the Jin family's home. He assigned a few villagers to watch over the family and asked the women's director and others to help Jin Menglan get to the village committee compound.
Everyone who saw Jin Menglan, who was sobbing so hard and exhausted, felt a sense of pity. However, this emotion did not last long, as the villagers' eyes turned to Jin Menglan with extremely complicated expressions.
Comrades from the police station came to Kaoshan Village on a tractor. Some of them investigated the scene, and some went to record Jin Menglan's statement.
Jin Menglan was asked about everything and confessed everything she should and shouldn't have said.
After the villagers learned the details of the Jin family's annihilation, they felt both that their deaths were unjust and that they deserved it. Regardless, from that point on, Jin Menglan became a local celebrity.
Just when Li Wenxuan heard what had happened and was worried that Ma Junming would make a surprise attack after knowing him, Ma Junming was finally caught.
The reason why he was caught was closely related to the time and geographical environment of his crime.
If he were in the south, Ma Junming could hide in the deep mountains and forests where he wouldn't freeze to death and eat some wild vegetables and fruits to fill his stomach.
If he were in a coastal city, Ma Junming could steal a boat and hide on the sea, or even smuggle himself across to Hong Kong.
If he were in Inner Mongolia, he could take advantage of the fact that there are no neighbors on the vast grassland and stay in a yurt for a while.
Even in the north, it is easier to escape in summer than in winter when water freezes into ice.
In northern China, winter temperatures can drop to -20 degrees Celsius during the day and as low as -35 or -36 degrees Celsius at night. Even in an unheated room, people can easily freeze into ice sculptures, let alone staying outside for extended periods.
I can't stay in the village, and I can't stay in the town either. I want to leave but I don't have a letter of introduction and I can't buy a ticket.
The mountain path was covered in snow, leaving footprints everywhere. Even if someone could hide in the mountains, there were still man-eating bears, foraging wolves... these large carnivores waiting in the wings.
So Ma Junming, who was desperate, ran to the town middle school.
The school had been closed for the holidays, but there was still a stove and firewood in the classroom. I carefully hid them there for two or three days, then decided to try my luck at the train station.
Killing one is killing, killing ten or eight is also killing. He now wants to go to the train station and kill an educated youth who has a letter of introduction and is preparing to buy a ticket to return to the city to visit his relatives.
The city police had already made deployments everywhere, and as soon as Ma Junming appeared, he was caught red-handed.
Ma Junming had known for a while that Jin Menglan was close to the newly arrived female educated youth, and many in the village also knew that Jin Menglan frequently visited Zhang Xiaoyu. However, it wasn't until this moment that Ma Junming and the villagers realized that Jin Menglan's visits to Zhang Xiaoyu were a cover; her real target was Li Wenxuan.
After hearing this, Ma Junming looked even more ferocious and wanted to kill Jin Menglan again, but unfortunately he no longer had that chance.
Ma Junming was sentenced to death, but the Ma family didn't even cry or make a scene. Under the village chief's organization, Jin Menglan gathered the bodies of the entire family. Although they felt bad for Jin Menglan for torturing her entire family to death, each household contributed a share to help her afford a coffin.
At this point, no one cared about whether a funeral banquet was held or not. The entire village helped bury the ten or so members of the Jin family in the back mountain. It was already the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, so everyone's attention was focused on slaughtering the New Year pig.
Except for the first few days, Weisheng acted as a special car driver to and from the town and village, and stayed at home honestly for the rest of the time.
However, on the day when the comrades from the Municipal Bureau withdrew from Nanqiao Town, Director Song of the Grain Station found Weisheng and asked him if he had ever repaired a machine at the bearing factory. Weisheng knew that there was no bearing factory in Nanqiao Town, and he had some vague guesses in his mind but did not ask. He just said with certainty, "It should be possible."
Upon hearing this, Stationmaster Song told a story about a foreign-imported machine that had broken down in a bearing factory. The factory had provided round-trip travel and accommodations for Weisheng to go to the city. Regardless of whether the machine could be repaired or not, they wanted Weisheng to make sure the trip wasn't in vain.
Weisheng had no objections, and she returned to the village at the agreed departure time. Arriving home, she simply packed two sets of clothes and reorganized her toolbox. Later, she visited the village chief's home in the front yard, explained the situation, and obtained two letters of introduction for future use.
The next day, he took the village donkey cart to the town grain station. Taking the letter of introduction and ticket handed over by Stationmaster Song, Weisheng took a long-distance bus to Ming City.
In winter, it gets dark early. Even at three or four in the afternoon, it's already pitch black. Although it's not time to get off work yet, Weisheng still decides to go to the bearing factory tomorrow.
He went to the state-owned hotel where he had stayed last time and, from the hotel front desk, called the grain depot and the bearing factory. After agreeing on a time to return to the factory the next morning, Weisheng returned to his room.
It was cold, and there wasn't much to do, so Weisheng returned to his room and entered the space. He made himself a bowl of chicken soup, following the recipe he saw online: using a single Wuji Baifeng pill to steam a chicken drumstick. He then tore up a chicken drumstick and mixed it into a side dish.
The chicken soup was not very tasty, but the cold chicken legs were pretty good.
After dinner, I took a shower, had fun, and went to bed, but I still had no dreams all night long.
I didn't eat in the space after getting up early. Instead, after checking out, I took the money and food coupons to the state-owned restaurant and bought freshly fried dough sticks and a small bowl of wontons.
Perhaps because he rarely eats out these days, this breakfast actually whetted Weisheng's appetite. Before leaving, he even filled a thermos with hot soy milk.
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Ming City was not without professional repairmen, but the prices they quoted for repair solutions were too high, which put the leaders of the bearing factory in a difficult position. After hearing about Weisheng, they wanted to give him a try.
Weisheng did not let him down and actually used the existing spare parts to refer to the normally functioning machines in another production chain to "deal with" a set of equipment for the bearing factory.
The bearing factory was even more generous than the grain station. Not only did they give Weisheng some repair money, they also gave him a supply ticket for a whole month.
The compensation offered by the bearing factory was indeed generous, but the boss of the bearing factory was a pessimistic person. He even said insinuations that he would get Weisheng a permanent position and let him stay in the bearing factory.
For someone like Weisheng who won't show his hand until he sees the rabbit, this kind of pie is really not attractive.
So every time the leader from the bearing factory said this, Weisheng would just look at him and smile, neither saying good nor bad, just smiling. After the second time, the leader stopped saying it.
Before returning to the village, he had a special meal in the canteen of the bearing factory. Someone asked Weisheng about his age and whether he had a partner. Weisheng saw that the leader was also there, so he took the opportunity to mention the leader in his words.
'I will give you a thousand words, but it is better to take one.'
Because it was not easy to come to the city, Weisheng used up all the supply tickets for that month before leaving Ming City, and then ran to the scrap yard to pick up bargains just like what was written in movies, TV shows and novels.
She didn't find any leaks, and even if there were any, she wouldn't recognize them. In the end, she just picked up a few bottles and jars that looked a bit old, with a sense of belonging.
When leaving the scrap yard, Weisheng had another idea of learning how to identify antiques.
After all, the profit from antiques is no less than that from real estate speculation.
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Last time, Weisheng asked Gao Shengli and Zhao Yufeng to help him get some medical books. This time, when he came to Ming City, he bought some things and visited them. Now that his business in the city was almost done, Weisheng took a bus back to Nanqiao Town. Coincidentally, he took Gao Shengli's car again.
Without anyone's help, Gao Shengli left the passenger seat to Weisheng as soon as he saw her. After chatting all the way, Gao Shengli said that he would take Weisheng back to Kaoshan Village in a while. Weisheng then said that she would treat Gao Shengli to lunch at the state-owned restaurant in town.
After lunch, Gao Shengli sent Weisheng back to the village. Before he left, he was stopped by the village chief.
Chen Zhao was seriously ill and needed to go to the city for medical treatment. Since the long-distance buses back to the city had already arrived in the village, it would be a good opportunity to take Chen Zhao with them.
After watching Gao Shengli and Shen Zhao leave, Weisheng exchanged a few simple greetings with the village chief. When she returned to the courtyard where she and Yu Tao lived, Weisheng realized how many things had happened in the village during the ten days she was away.
Just the day before yesterday, the village held a meeting to select one villager to go to the town hospital for a two-month medical training course. Upon graduation, the village health worker will be appointed.
Jin Menglan didn't remember having studied in her previous life, but she was also very capable. She actually stood up and said that she wanted to become a village health worker. She also talked about her family's tragedy and her loneliness and helplessness. Finally, she said that if she became a village health worker, her old house could be turned into a village clinic, and the village would not need to build any more houses.
In many talent shows in later generations, a group of contestants stand on the stage and instead of showing off their talents, they describe themselves as extremely miserable. They want to achieve their goal by playing the victim.
Jin Menglan, who cried and said she wanted to become a village health worker, had that flavor.
None of the villagers were as miserable as she was, and after she jumped out, none of the educated youth stood up again. Then, the training for the village health workers came to a halt amidst a choking feeling that was hard to swallow.
Jin Menglan had planned to become a village health worker long ago. Apart from that, Jin Menglan no longer concealed her relationship with Li Wenxuan.
Because Li Wenxuan did receive a lot of benefits from Jin Menglan, even eating eight of those damn dumplings. So even if he wanted to deny that he had no relationship with Jin Menglan, no one would believe him.
The most important thing is that if he really denies that he is not with Jin Menglan, then why did he eat and take so many things from Jin Menglan? What kind of character does he have?
In the end, the two of them both announced that they only got together after the fight between the Jin and Ma families. And the reason why Jin Menglan accepted Ma Junming's things was not because she was greedy and wanted to take advantage of him, but because she was afraid of Ma Junming's threats...
By the way, the reason why Jin Menglan wanted to use her old house as a village clinic was, firstly, she didn't dare live there, secondly, Li Wenxuan was afraid to pass by. Thirdly, Jin Menglan also remembered that Yu Tao was going to join the army.
Yu Tao joined the army, so the east room where Yu Tao lived was empty. As for Wei Sheng who lived in the west room, Jin Menglan had not yet figured out how to get along with Wei Sheng.
The main thing is that when the knife didn't fall on her, Jin Menglan still had illusions about life...
On the other side, when Weisheng heard Yu Tao happily tell him that she would be joining the army next year, he said without thinking: "I'll take you there!"
Yu Tao: “…”
Is she so enthusiastic?
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