Chapter 36

The next day, Xie Zhenbei reported Tong Dixin’s affairs.

The higher-ups quickly made a disciplinary decision, and Tong Dixin was locked up in a cowshed to receive education.

On the next day, Bai Xiaoou was taken from the town hospital to the First Brigade. She was to receive reform in the First Brigade, perhaps to keep her away from Zheng Yunsheng to avoid suspicion.

With this, Bai Xiaoou finally temporarily escaped from Zheng Yunsheng’s life.

There are white clouds in the blue sky, the sun is shining brightly, the earth is like a steamer, and people working on the land with their backs to the sky facing the loess are sweating profusely from the heat.

Gu Qijiao had rested for several days and came out today carrying a backpack.

She was collecting grass for pigs on the slope with a group of old ladies.

Although the work of harvesting wheat earns a lot of work points, it is hard and tiring. Gu Qijiao has not been to the hospital for a check-up yet and does not dare to overwork herself.

In her previous life, she only stayed in the hospital in the town for a period of time, and the specific illness she had was never diagnosed. Later, when Gu Qijiao recovered, she no longer cared about the illness.

Although it was not a serious illness, Gu Qijiao suffered a lot during that period.

Now that she has a chance to live again, with the experience of her previous life, she will naturally not let herself stay in the hospital again.

Gu Qijiao didn’t dare to do heavy work, but she had no problem cutting grass for pigs.

The work points for harvesting pig grass are calculated by the kilogram after being carried to the commune for weighing. How much you do depends on yourself.

However, this job does not earn many work points. At most you can earn five in a day.

Usually, only little kids who have dropped out of school and old ladies who are too old to move around do this job.

Gu Qijiao just wants to do her job well, but some people just keep gossiping and won’t let her have peace.

There was an old lady nearby. Seeing that Gu Qijiao was so young and yet she was trying to compete with these old ladies for work, she winked and said:

“Gu’s girl, you married an educated youth and your body has become delicate. Now the female comrades are harvesting wheat, but you don’t even go for the eight work points a day.”

This lady is called Zhu Cui, she is Zhang Aniu’s mother, Zhang Aniu is the young man who rescued Bai Xiaoou from the river.

Earlier, Zhang Aniu’s family even asked a matchmaker to talk to Gu Qijiao.

Zhang Aniu’s family is relatively well-off in the village. His ancestors left behind a fish pond and raised many silver carp. He can earn a considerable income every year by selling fish.

When every household in the village was still living in wooden houses, Zhang Aniu’s family had already built a red brick and tile house.

There are many people in the village who want to marry into the Zhang family.

But Zhang Aniu was very proud and looked down upon ordinary girls. She insisted on finding Gu Qijiao because she had been to school, was literate, and was one of the few educated people in the village.

Although Zhang Aniu likes Gu Qijiao, Zhu Cui is not satisfied with her.

The Gu family has a bad reputation in the village, and Gu Qijiao is a spoiled, overbearing and domineering person. How can such a girl be suitable to be married home as a wife?

But no matter how dissatisfied Zhu Cui was, she could not resist Zhang Aniu’s repeated pleas. Finally, Zhu Cui had to give in and asked a matchmaker to go to the Gu family to propose marriage.

Outsiders all thought that given Zhang Aniu’s family conditions, it would be a natural thing for them to succeed in trying to impress Gu Qijiao.

Unexpectedly, Xie Jinxiang directly rejected the matchmaker, saying that Gu Qijiao was young and there was no rush, and she had to stay at home for a few more years.

Originally, the matter would have just passed like this, and the villagers said that they could understand. After all, the Gu family only had one daughter, Gu Qijiao, so it was reasonable for her to want to stay for another two years.

As a result, after Xie Jinxiang rejected the Zhang family, just after the New Year, Gu Qijiao climbed into Zheng Yunsheng’s bed.

Xie Jinxiang, who had previously said that Gu Qijiao was young, immediately arranged the marriage of Gu Qijiao and Zheng Yunsheng.

A few months later, Gu Qijiao married Zheng Yunsheng.

This made Zhu Cui feel aggrieved. Their family was so well-off, and it was a blessing for the Gu family to have the girl look up to Gu Qijiao.

The Gu family would rather let Gu Qijiao marry a poor educated youth than marry her to Zhang Aniu.

In Zhu Cui’s opinion, the Gu family is simply ungrateful.

From the time Gu Qijiao got married until now, Zhu Cui has been saying bad things about Gu Qijiao in the village.

What is going on is that after Zheng Yunsheng married Gu Qijiao, he was unwilling to touch this country girl, and the couple slept separately in bed, and they were a fake couple.

There were also rumors that Gu Qijiao had actually been pregnant for a long time, and that she married Zheng Yunsheng just to make him take over. All kinds of nonsense came out of Zhu Cui’s big mouth.

In fact, when Zhang Aniu first came to Gu’s house to propose marriage, Xie Jinxiang still considered the Zhang family. The conditions and nature did not require much, and Zhang Aniu was a strong, honest and decent man.

But Xie Jinxiang didn’t agree in the end. Why? Because she felt that Zhang Aniu’s mother was a chatterbox and not someone who was easy to get along with.

In addition, Gu Qijiao also looked down on Zhang Aniu, so in the end, this matter did not succeed.

Because of this incident, Zhu Cui hated the entire Gu family.

That’s why when she saw Gu Qijiao, she came up to her and spoke to her in a sarcastic tone.

Gu Qijiao also knew that she had a bad reputation in the village. If she quarreled with Zhu Cui, the villagers would definitely accuse her of being willful and domineering.

So Gu Qijiao didn’t want to pay attention to Zhu Cui. She turned around and prepared to continue working somewhere farther away from Zhu Cui.

If there weren’t a forest blocking this area, the pigs wouldn’t be exposed to the sun while cutting grass here, and Gu Qijiao wouldn’t have squeezed over.

But the old woman Zhu Cui saw that Gu Qijiao didn’t say anything and thought that Gu Qijiao was afraid of her. She actually followed Gu Qijiao and continued to talk endlessly:

“Gu Qijiao, if you don’t have the fate of a lady, then don’t suffer from all the problems of a lady. What’s so delicate about you? You just studied a few more years, it’s nothing great.

With your behavior, if someone doesn’t know you, they would think you are also a delicate educated youth from the city, but I don’t think those educated youth from the city are as delicate as you. “

After being scolded for no reason, Gu Qijiao was a little annoyed. She turned her head and glared at Zhu Cui, then suddenly smiled and said:

“You are right, I am spoiled. Who made me lucky to be reborn? I am the only daughter of my parents. They spoil me more than you spoil your sons. I have received more education than many boys in the village.

Now I am married to a man who is an educated youth from the city. My parents-in-law are the director of a paper mill and an accountant of a state-owned restaurant respectively.

When they heard that Zheng Yunsheng and I were married, they were so happy that they sent us a big package with a lot of money in it. Even if I did nothing, I would have enough food and drink for a year.

Which family in this village can support a grown-up like me who does nothing all year round? I am lucky that I can get married.

If I were unlucky and married into a family where a toad wants to eat swan meat, I would probably be driven out to the fields to harvest wheat by my vicious mother-in-law. “

Isn’t it just a hermaphrodite? How can you say it’s impossible? After saying this, Gu Qijiao looked at Zhu Cui with a smile, her eyes full of ridicule.

When the people around heard what Gu Qijiao said, they were all amazed. They all knew that Zheng Yunsheng’s family was well-off, but they didn’t expect it to be this well-off.

The money and checks they sent were enough for them to have food and drink for a year. What kind of family are they!

Even the chatterbox Zhu Cui lost her sense of superiority in front of Gu Qijiao after hearing about Zheng Yunsheng’s family conditions. However, she thought about what Gu Qijiao said and suddenly jumped up again: