Chapter 11: This Yu Manman is Truly a Viper

It was a little past ten o’clock, and most of the people in the courtyard were not home, they were at work or school. However, there were still seven or eight people at home, all of them were housewives who didn’t have jobs and stayed home to manage the household.

Within a minute, they all came running out of their houses, following Mrs. Chang to the front yard, surrounding Wu Xiuxiu.

“Xiuxiu, what’s in your head? How could you think of such a stupid idea?”

“Xiuxiu, you’re such a silly girl! Your head is too dumb, too stupid!”

“Xiuxiu, you must be a fool!”

Seeing a group of aunts and grandmothers surrounding her, shaking their heads at her and reprimanding her, Wu Xiuxiu was completely bewildered and confused.

She looked at her mother and sister-in-law, wanting to see if they knew what was going on, why these people were saying these things, but she saw that they were also confused and bewildered.

Clearly, they didn’t know either.

Wu Xiuxiu frowned, feeling full of doubts, her head full of question marks, when someone gave her the answer…

“Xiuxiu, you child, even if you want to escape going to the countryside, even if you don’t want to go to the countryside, you can’t get yourself sick by getting wet in the rain. Look at you, you’ve made yourself sick with a fever and ended up in the hospital. Did you burn your brain out?”

Aunt Xue, who lived in the second courtyard, came up to Wu Xiuxiu, staring at her closely, trying to see if her brain was normal now, if she had become a fool from the fever.

From Aunt Xue’s words, Wu Xiuxiu immediately understood why a group of aunts and grandmothers were shaking their heads at her and reprimanding her.

They all knew that she had deliberately gotten wet in the rain to get sick in order to avoid going to the countryside.

“If she burns her brain out and becomes a fool, it would be tragic… But then she wouldn’t have to go to the countryside, which would fulfill Xiuxiu’s wishes, hehe…”

Aunt Shen, who lived in the fourth courtyard, just like Wu’s family, also looked at Wu Xiuxiu, her eyes filled with malice, and she laughed.

Wu Xiuxiu’s eyes immediately flashed with a cold light, she glared at Aunt Shen and sneered coldly: “Aunt Shen, don’t worry, I’ve been lucky since I was a child, I won’t burn my brain out from a fever…

I’m lucky, I won’t be as unlucky as your son, who got a minor illness and developed a seizure, leaving his left hand paralyzed and disabled.”

Aunt Shen and Wu’s family both lived in the fourth courtyard, Shen’s family lived next door to Wu’s family. Shen’s family had one main room and one west wing room, and the west wing room was connected to the room where Wu Xiuxiu lived.

Shen’s family had eight people, and they always felt that one main room and one west wing room were not enough, they wanted two more rooms, so they set their sights on Wu’s family’s house.

Shen’s family hoped that Wu’s family would move to the dormitory of the fertilizer factory, leaving the two west wing rooms empty so that Shen’s family could live there.

Wu’s family was unwilling, they refused the dormitory allocated by the fertilizer factory several times, which made Shen’s family very unhappy, especially Aunt Shen was particularly dissatisfied, she often made excuses to argue with Wu’s family, and always hoped that Wu’s family would be unlucky.

But as the saying goes, “evil begets evil,” people should not have bad intentions, be bad people. Wu’s family didn’t suffer any misfortune, but Shen’s family suffered first.

Last year, Shen’s second son got sick, it wasn’t a serious illness, just a minor illness, but unexpectedly it triggered a seizure, leaving his left hand numb.

Originally, if they had gone to the hospital for treatment in time, there was hope of a cure, but Aunt Shen was a miser, she was unwilling to spend money, she let her second son endure it, thinking that it would get better on its own over time.

Unexpectedly, this delay made the condition of Shen’s second son’s left hand worse and worse, until later it completely lost sensation and could no longer move.

Only then did Aunt Shen panic, she hurriedly took Shen’s second son to the hospital for treatment, but the doctor said it was too late, it couldn’t be cured, Shen’s second son’s left hand had been paralyzed by the seizure and would forever lose sensation and could never move.

This became a permanent pain in the hearts of everyone in Shen’s family, the Shen family hated it most when anyone mentioned Shen’s second son’s hand, especially Aunt Shen, because she knew that her second son’s hand was paralyzed because of her, she felt very guilty.

Now Wu Xiuxiu mentioned Shen’s second son’s hand, which greatly stimulated Aunt Shen, Aunt Shen was so angry that she trembled all over.

Aunt Shen pointed at Wu Xiuxiu angrily and wanted to scold her, but she was so angry that she couldn’t think of any words to scold her, she could only say, “You, you, you…”

“You what? You want to say I’m right, you want to agree with my words, you want to praise me?” Wu Xiuxiu pulled down Aunt Shen’s hand pointing at her, smiling and saying.

Aunt Shen was so angry that she wanted to spit blood, the people around her couldn’t help but want to laugh, Mrs. Chang couldn’t hold back her laughter.

Wu Xiuxiu heard Mrs. Chang’s laughter, she immediately glared at her, “Mrs. Chang, I heard it was you who spread rumors, saying that I deliberately got wet in the rain to get sick in order to avoid going to the countryside, and that’s why I got a high fever and ended up in the hospital.”

Her voice was as cold as her gaze, cold enough to freeze people.

She now seriously suspected that it was she who told Zhou Lin that she had deliberately gotten wet in the rain to get sick in order to avoid going to the countryside, which made her get a high fever and end up in the hospital, and she deliberately told Zhou Lin with malicious intent.

Look at her deliberately calling out the people in the courtyard, her intentions… tsk tsk, she could only describe them with one word, “poisonous.”

“Where did I spread rumors? Clearly, you deliberately got wet in the rain to get sick in order to avoid going to the countryside, and that’s why you got a high fever and ended up in the hospital.”

Mrs. Chang was so scared by her stare that her back felt cold, and her voice trembled a little.

This little girl, how come she suddenly became so scary, she never used this kind of gaze to stare at people before, she never spoke with this kind of voice.

And she never confronted Aunt Shen like this before, she was always so obedient, obediently almost foolish, so she was always used and tricked by Yu Manman, but she didn’t know it at all.

“What evidence do you have to prove that I deliberately got wet in the rain to get sick in order to avoid going to the countryside, and that’s why I got a high fever and ended up in the hospital?

I clearly got sick from accidentally getting wet in the rain, don’t spread rumors and slander me, I tell you, spreading rumors is a crime, I’ll report you, you’ll go to jail.” Wu Xiuxiu pointed at Aunt Shen’s nose and scolded, her expression fierce and terrifying.

Mrs. Chang swallowed a mouthful of saliva, then showed an expression as if she had remembered something, she straightened her back, stretched her head towards Wu Xiuxiu, and pointed at her, scolding: “Oh, you little brat, who are you trying to scare?

Yes, spreading rumors is a crime, you’ll go to jail, but I didn’t spread rumors at all, what I said is all true, it’s the truth…

You want evidence, the evidence is your good friend Yu Manman, it was Yu Manman who said that you asked her for advice, you wanted to get wet in the rain and get seriously ill so you couldn’t get up, that way you could temporarily avoid going to the countryside, and Director Zhou wouldn’t be able to urge you to sign up for going to the countryside.”

Who is Yu Manman? Did the original body have such a good friend?

Wu Xiuxiu narrowed her eyes, she quickly searched her memory, she had not received any memories of Yu Manman before, and there was no such character in the novel.

Fortunately, after carefully searching her mind, Wu Xiuxiu finally obtained the memory of Yu Manman.

Yu Manman lived in the third courtyard, she was the same age as the original body, the two grew up together, they were classmates, they were in the same class from kindergarten to elementary school to junior high school, in modern terms, they were best friends.

The original body treated Yu Manman as a close sister, she would share anything good with Yu Manman, she would share her money with Yu Manman, and she would tell Yu Manman about anything.

Yu Manman also acted very nice to the original body, she was very fond of the original body, she would help the original body with any troubles she had.

But from what she saw in these memories, Yu Manman only seemed nice to the original body on the surface, but in reality, she was always using and harming her.

Like this time, the original body got sick from getting caught in a rainstorm while trying to avoid going to the countryside. It was actually Yu Manman’s idea.

But she cleverly didn’t tell the original body directly, instead, she guided her to think that way, making the original body believe it was her own idea.

Yu Manman had done a lot of such wicked things before, harming the original body many times. Each time, she made things very difficult for the original body. The original body was quite naive, so naive that she was even foolish, and she didn’t see through it at all.

This Yu Manman was truly evil, she led the original body to get caught in the rainstorm and get sick, and she even told Mrs. Chang that the original body deliberately got wet and sick to avoid going to the countryside.

What kind of person was Mrs. Chang? She clearly wanted to spread the word to everyone, especially Zhou Lin.

I really want to beat this Yu Manman up.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck Wu Xiuxiu, and she glared at her even harder.

“You said it was Yu Manman who said it? How is that possible! Yu Manman is my good friend, she’s as close to me as a sister, she would never spread such rumors! It must be you who made up this lie, you want to drive a wedge between us sisters.

Come on, let’s go find Manman, I want to ask her personally if she told you!” She grabbed Mrs. Chang’s hand, which was pointing at her, and dragged Mrs. Chang to find Yu Manman.

Yu Manman would definitely not dare to admit it in front of me. If she admits to our “sisterhood,” it’s over, she won’t be able to continue taking advantage of me, using me, and harming me.

So Yu Manman will definitely deny it. Mrs. Chang is what kind of person? If Yu Manman denies it, how can Mrs. Chang let her off?

I’ll just keep scolding Mrs. Chang, and pushing her buttons. She will definitely be so angry, she will hate Yu Manman so much, and beat her up.

“Okay, let’s go find Yu Manman and get to the bottom of this. Everyone, come with us to find Yu Manman, let her tell everyone in public that it was Wu Xiuxiu who told her to get wet and sick to avoid going to the countryside. Then let’s see what Wu Xiuxiu has to say. Hmph—”

At first, seeing Mrs. Chang pull her hand away and grab her hand back, Wu Xiuxiu still wanted to resist, but after hearing Mrs. Chang’s words, she immediately decided to let her grab her hand and let her take her to see Yu Manman.

Looking at her expression, she must think that Yu Manman will definitely repeat what she said to her, and publicly accuse me, so she called everyone to come along, wanting to see what I’ll do then. Hehe…

The more people, the better! The more spectators, the more fun.

“Let’s go, everyone come with us.” Shen Dama, who now hated Wu Xiuxiu intensely, immediately agreed loudly, calling out to everyone.

She thought that after they found Yu Manman and Yu Manman publicly accused Wu Xiuxiu, she would take Yu Manman and drag Wu Xiuxiu to the street office to find Zhou Lin and report Wu Xiuxiu, so that Zhou Lin could punish her properly.

Shen Dama didn’t know that Mrs. Chang had already told Zhou Lin about Wu Xiuxiu deliberately getting wet and sick to avoid going to the countryside, and Zhou Lin had already found Wu Xiuxiu.

“What are you doing? Let go of Xiuxiu.”

Just like others discovered that Wu Xiuxiu had changed, they were shocked that Wu Xiuxiu dared to confront Shen Dama first, and then fight against Mrs. Chang. Ding Hongjuan and Dong Xiaoye finally came to their senses and quickly stepped in to stop them.

Ding Hongjuan hurried to pull Mrs. Chang’s hand away from Wu Xiuxiu, and Dong Xiaoye also blocked Shen Dama’s hand that was about to grab Wu Xiuxiu.

“Mom, sister-in-law, let them take me to find Manman, let Manman make it clear, otherwise they will say I’m guilty.” Wu Xiuxiu said, giving her mother and sister-in-law a wink.

Ding Hongjuan and Dong Xiaoye hesitated for a moment, looked at each other, and exchanged glances before nodding in agreement.

They thought that Wu Xiuxiu dared to go find Yu Manman, so she must be confident that Yu Manman wouldn’t accuse her.

Seeing Ding Hongjuan and Dong Xiaoye nod, and that Lin Guafu, who had a good relationship with the Wu family, originally wanted to help stop them, she didn’t say anything to stop them.

“Yu Manman must still be at work now, let’s go find her at her workplace…

I remember she works at the steel mill, I’ve been to the steel mill, I’ll take you there.” Aunt Xue said, a mischievous smile flashing in her eyes.

Wu Xiuxiu caught the fleeting smile in her eyes and thought that this old woman was also a bad-hearted person who loved to stir up trouble.

But it was just what she wanted!

So many people went to Yu Manman’s workplace to make a scene, and Yu Manman was beaten up by Mrs. Chang in front of her colleagues, tsk tsk… Yu Manman would probably be too embarrassed to show her face at the steel mill in the future.

But how could Yu Manman, a girl, work in such a hard place as the steel mill?

The steel mill was a very hard place to work, usually women were not willing to work there, most of the employees at the steel mill were men.

Wu Xiuxiu was a little puzzled, and a piece of memory about Yu Manman emerged in her mind, allowing her to understand why Yu Manman was working at the steel mill.

Yu Manman’s parents were both workers, her father worked at the steel mill, and her mother worked at the blanket factory. Their conditions were considered pretty good.

But the Yu family had too many children, Yu Manman had three younger brothers.

Originally, because Yu Manman’s parents were both working, even though they had many children, their lives were still manageable. But when Yu Manman just graduated from junior high school, Yu Manman’s father died of illness.

Yu Manman’s mother wanted to raise four children by herself, which was too hard, so she asked Yu Manman, her eldest daughter who had just graduated from junior high school, to take her father’s job at the steel mill, becoming an apprentice worker at the steel mill.

She didn’t care at all that the steel mill was too hard for a girl, especially a junior high school graduate.

Yu Manman resented her mother, but she didn’t dare to resist her. Her mother was very fierce, and she would hit her whenever she got angry.

Yu Manman worked very hard at the steel mill, doing dirty and messy jobs, operating rolling mills, inspecting quality, cleaning equipment, loading and unloading raw materials, etc.

Fortunately, the salary was good, she got thirty-one yuan and two cents every month, but all this money was taken by her mother to support the family, she didn’t get a penny.

The original body felt sorry for Yu Manman, and every month, when she received five yuan in pocket money from her mother, she would share some with Yu Manman.

Thinking about this, Wu Xiuxiu felt even more disgusted with Yu Manman.

This Yu Manman is truly a viper, the original body was so good to her, and she actually harmed her like this. Once I find her at the steel mill, I must deal with her properly and avenge the original body.

The aunts and grandmothers called by Mrs. Chang were all those who loved to watch the excitement, and they all wanted to follow them to the steel mill.

A large group of people walked out of the courtyard, just about to go to the entrance of the alley, when they saw a girl wearing the uniform of a steel mill worker walking towards them.

“It’s Yu Manman!” Aunt Xue’s eyes lit up, a flash of joy crossed her face, and she pointed at the girl excitedly. “Yu Manman is back!”