Chapter 37

Gu Qijiao didn’t respond to Zhu Cui’s words, just turned around and left.

She just wanted to disgust Zhu Cui, but had no intention of quarreling with her.

In order to distance herself from the others, Gu Qijiao climbed up the hillside.

I didn’t expect to meet Tong Di Xin who was chopping wood halfway up the mountain.

Chopping wood was considered a relatively hard job. Generally, the educated youth who were reformed were either sent to the mountains to chop wood, or to dig out manure from the pig, cattle and sheep pens, and then send it to the fields.

These are hard and tiring jobs, and the pay points are not high.

And you can’t just chop as much wood as you want. There are minimum requirements.

Only when the prescribed amount is cut can we have food to eat at night, otherwise we can only eat wild vegetables or simply go hungry.

Although Xie Zhenbei came forward to save Tong Dixin when she was in trouble, that does not mean that she will not be punished.

After all, she was caught doing something like that in the woods, and if she is not dealt with, it will be hard to convince the public.

Tong Dixin also saw Gu Qijiao, and she also knew that the clothes she was wearing that night belonged to Gu Qijiao.

There were not many people in the village who could afford long gowns, and Gu Qijiao stood out in the village when she wore a long gown.

Tong Dixin had seen Gu Qijiao wearing that robe in winter.

Although Tong Dixin didn’t know why Gu Qijiao wanted to help her, when she saw Gu Qijiao, she still forced a smile at her.

Smiling is uglier than crying.

There was no light in her eyes, no life in them, and her face was filled with a heavy sense of death.

Shen Guidong, who was taken away and now has no news, is the only motivation that supports Tong Dixin to survive.

Looking at the few pieces of firewood on the ground, Gu Qijiao couldn’t help but sigh.

It was obvious that this girl didn’t know how to do this job. Although the wood she cut was not thick, most of it was strong and not easy to cut.

If she continued to work like this, she might even take two days to chop wood and still not finish the amount she chopped in a day.

Gu Qijiao kindly reminded her:

“Choose trees that are easy to chop. The smoother the tree, the easier it is to chop it. Don’t chop trees with rough surfaces.”

“Thank you.” Tong Dixin nodded to Gu Qijiao softly.

Her head was covered in sweat. She had only worked for half a day, but her hands were already covered in blisters.

Gu Qijiao looked at this and became a little puzzled. Doesn’t this girl have a good family background? Why didn’t she contact her family after such a big thing happened?

“After this happened to you, have you contacted your parents? Can you ask them to think of a way to help you?” Gu Qijiao asked tentatively.

Unexpectedly, this sentence made Tong Dixin cry. She said with tears in her eyes:

“Before I went to the countryside, my parents had already been labeled as bad people, and they were paraded through the streets every day.

They have a hard enough life, if they knew I did something like this, I’m afraid it would be…….”

Gu Qijiao frowned when she heard Tong Dixin’s words. Why was the information this girl saying different from what she knew in her previous life?

“How long have you not contacted your parents?” Gu Qijiao asked after thinking for a while.

This time, Tong Dixin was obviously hesitant, but she finally looked around and told Gu Qijiao the truth:

“There is no connection. I came to the countryside under the guise of a distant relative’s daughter. That relative’s real daughter died, and my parents gave that relative a large sum of money, took the body back, and buried it in my name.

My parents were afraid that I would be influenced by them, so they sent me to the countryside in this way and did not allow me to contact them. “

Wow! After hearing Tong Dixin’s words, Gu Qijiao opened her mouth in surprise.

I thought to myself, this girl is really brave.

How could such a big thing be told to someone who has nothing to do with her at all?