jdhmnovel Chapter 402 She wants to change this situation!
Chapter 402 She wants to change this situation!
The day after Huang Lanying and Li Guoqiang received the betrothal gift, they married Li Xiangyun.
No relatives were notified, no dowry was given, and she was only allowed to take her old clothes.
After Li Xiangyun got married, she found out that her husband had three daughters and was extremely patriarchal. He would torment her every night just to give birth to a son to continue the family line. If she dared to refuse, he would beat her.
Only then did Li Xiangyun realize what kind of person she had married, and she also realized that she had been sold out by her parents.
She tried to resist, but ended up being beaten and scolded even more severely.
Li Xiangyun was afraid of pain and death, so she had to silently endure her fate...
Huang Jiaojiao had heard about the "tragic love story" of Li Xiangyun and Liu Jun from several well-informed aunts and sisters in Zhoujiawan.
Huang Jiaojiao would never believe that Li Xiangyun would fall for a country boy, but everyone was spreading the story. Even if it was not true, her friend's reputation was ruined.
When Huang Jiaojiao was feeling sorry for her friend, she received a letter from her father, asking her to stop throwing tantrums, not to make enemies with the villagers, to stay in Zhoujiawan honestly, and to cut off all contact with Li Xiangyun.
In the letter, Huang's father told him that Li Guoqiang had been dismissed from his post and that his entire family had been sent to a remote mountainous area as punishment.
Huang's father hinted to Huang Jiaojiao that there were many hidden talents in Zhoujiawan, and they were well-connected, and Li Guoqiang's demotion was most likely their doing.
Huang's father asked Huang Jiaojiao to secretly find out which families with backgrounds were currently living in Zhoujiawan, and then to establish good relationships with those people. He didn't ask them to help him, but asked them not to do bad things behind his back.
Huang Jiaojiao broke out in a cold sweat after reading her father's letter.
There was no need to investigate the events in Zhoujiawan. She already knew most of the details by listening to the aunties and sisters chatting while she was working.
The legendary figure in the village is actually just one family, Zhou Xue's family, who were looked down upon and ridiculed by her and Li Xiangyun at the beginning.
After Zhou Xue's mother divorced her husband, she worked hard to get into university, settled down in the provincial capital, and made Zhoujiawan rich. Now she has become a high-ranking official, and the county party secretary has to be courteous to her whenever he sees her.
Zhou Xue's second and third aunts are also cadres in the provincial capital. The third aunt's husband's family is an officer. The aunts did not say what rank of officer he was, but only said that the governor was always polite to him, so he must be of a high rank.
Zhou Xue's two older brothers are both college students. The second brother graduated from a well-known military academy and has an immeasurable future.
What made people even more depressed and angry was that Zhou Xue actually called the team leader and the captain "uncle"? !
When Huang Jiaojiao was shoveling pig manure, she heard Zhou Xue, who was playing at the farm, calling Zhou Chuanjing "uncle" with a smile. She was so frightened that she almost fell into the pigpen.
She was wondering why the team leader assigned her the sole task of cleaning the pigpen, and punished her by making her pick up manure when she disobeyed the order. It turned out that he was venting his anger on Zhou Xue!
Huang Jiaojiao really wanted to find Zhou Xue and Zhou Chuanjing to argue with them and ask them if they were deliberately targeting her.
Fearing that he would not be able to refute the case and would bring about even more brutal "retaliation", he gave up the idea of going to the two men to judge the case.
Thinking about it now, Huang Jiaojiao is extremely glad that she was "cowardly" at the time, otherwise the pig manure and toilets of the entire brigade would probably have been contracted by her...
After receiving instructions from Huang's father, Huang Jiaojiao didn't want to be targeted anymore. After all, she still had to stay in Zhoujiawan for another one or two years, and she didn't want to clean the pigsty anymore.
Every time she came out of the pigsty, she had an indelible stench on her body. The naughty kids in the village often surrounded her and called her "Zhu Jiaojiao" and "Zhu Commander".
Huang Jiaojiao feels "heartbroken" whenever she thinks of these two nicknames.
She wants to change this situation!
Huang Jiaojiao took the initiative to find Nini to apologize, saying that when she first went to the countryside, she felt very disappointed and a little irritable, which led to her speaking without thinking. She hoped that Nini would not hold it against her.
Seeing that Huang Jiaojiao's attitude was quite sincere and she had not caused any trouble to the village during this period, especially during the party, Nini decided not to bother with her.
"I received your apology, and I forgive you."
Huang Jiaojiao asked tentatively: "I can't do that pigsty job. Can you talk to the captain and ask him to give me a different job?"
Nini: "You and I are both educated youth. We have no right to interfere in village affairs. If you want to change jobs, go talk to the team leader. He is very easy to talk to."
Huang Jiaojiao muttered softly, "He was so nice to you because he was nice to you. I talked to him about it and he almost scolded me and I cried."
Nini: "What did you say? I didn't hear you clearly, speak louder."
Huang Jiaojiao: "Nothing, I'll talk to the captain later. I'm alone in the room I live in. I'm a little scared. Can I move in with you guys?"
Nini: "You are pushing it too far."
Huang Jiaojiao: "...If you don't want to, forget it. Don't be angry. I was just saying it casually. There will be new educated youth coming to the village soon. Then I will have company and won't be afraid anymore."
Nini did not respond to Huang Jiaojiao's words. After making sure there was nothing else, she went to help Dafen and Xiaofen cook.
My mom said that not everyone is suitable for making friends. She and Huang Jiaojiao are obviously not the same kind of people. Keep a distance and be nice to everyone...
Life after going to the countryside was very different from what they had imagined. Working day after day made Qian Feihu, Diao Sishun and the other three feel that they were no different from the farmers.
Sometimes even worse than farmers!
Because their household registration was registered with the collective household of the commune, they had no right to participate in any dividends from the Zhoujiawan base. All the work points they earned could only be exchanged for food rations and the money from selling patriotic grain at the end of the year.
Considering that they could only do 5-6 work points a day, the money from selling patriotic grain had little to do with them.
When I lived in the city, I could eat meat at least once a month. But when I arrived in Zhoujiawan, I didn’t know how to hunt and I had no money, so I could only eat by smelling the aroma of meat from other people’s homes.
Not only did they not have enough to eat, but they also had to endure the hardship of working. In less than a month, Qian Feihu and his three companions couldn't take it anymore.
When the four went to work in the fields for the first time, they were deliberately targeted by the villagers.
The team leader assigned them the task of "hoeing wheat". They didn't know how to do it and wanted to ask the villagers for help.
The villagers of Zhoujiawan were angry at Li Xiangyun's disruption of the meeting format and her attempt to destroy the wall of honor, so they deliberately refused to teach them and mocked them for reading so much that they couldn't even hoe wheat.
Qian Feihu and his three companions did not want to be looked down upon, so they had to understand the meaning literally and hoe the wheat. As expected, they were scolded and punished to carry manure.
Later, they learned that hoeing wheat is to weed and loosen the soil in the wheat field to increase the yield. For the sake of simplicity, the villagers summarized it with two words "hoeing wheat"...
After this incident, Qian Feihu and his three companions discovered that Zhoujiawan had its own rules of conduct, and that if they went against them, there would definitely be no good ending.
After the four people realized this, they learned their lesson. They no longer expressed their opinions on anything happening in the village and just focused on their work.
But this kind of life is not what they want. They want to go back to the city, to be workers or cadres, and to use their knowledge to make the country stronger!
But they didn't have a transfer order to return to the city, so they could only find another way.
Qian Feihu and his three companions heard about Nini's family background from the villagers while they were working.
They were certain that Nini would stay in Zhoujiawan for a year at most and then return to the city.
If I can get Nini, the Zhou family will love her and she and my family will be loved by her. Then I will have hope of returning to the city and maybe even get a good job.
The more the four of them thought about it, the more they felt that this was feasible. Without discussing it with each other, they "had a tacit understanding" and went to pursue Nini together...