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Chapter 80 - Chapter 80: Even a Stubborn Donkey has to Admit Defeat

  Zhang Shuixiu, who was about to put on a show and ask Jiang Youtao to help her raise the child, was stunned for a moment.

  The alley was empty. Old Mrs. Zhang had originally intended to come out to sweep the snow, but when she saw Zhang Shuixiu and her three children, she turned around and went back.

  Sweeping snow? Why sweep the snow? No need to sweep it. Auspicious snow means a good harvest! It's a good sign. Everything will go smoothly for his family next year.

  Zhang Shuixiu felt extremely embarrassed. She kicked Yu Daya and said, "Useless thing."

  She took her two sons and walked away again. Yu Dachuan looked back at Yu Daya as he walked.

  Yu Daya waited until they reached the entrance of the alley before she stood up and walked back. She knew that if she didn't bring back the delicious food when she got home, she would be beaten and scolded again.

  She was used to being beaten, and she was also used to being blackmailed by her parents in various ways every time someone reached out to help her.

  She had hidden it well when Teacher Jiang gave her the candy, but it was no use because her mother had already discovered it when Teacher Jiang gave her the candy.

  She couldn't bear to eat any of the candies, and her mother gave them all to her father.

  Her father drank and ate candy, and when he drank too much he beat her mother.

  Yu Daya didn't understand why her parents were different from other people's parents.

  More than an hour later, people began to walk around in Xingfu Lane.

  Another layer of snow fell, and Jiang Youtao came out to sweep the snow again. When Zhang Yubing's wife saw them come out, she also hurried out with a broom. The two sides gathered together like criminals meeting, finishing the gossip that they had not finished in the morning.

  "That soldier was so unlucky. He just passed by and saw her lying on the ground and kindly sent her to the hospital, but he ended up being blamed for it."

  This man is somewhat related to Zhang Yubing's wife: "He is a nephew from my mother's village. When I went back before the winter solstice, I heard from my mother and others that he was dating a girl from our village. This time he comes back, they are almost settled."

  "As a result, Tang Wan intervened. Her parents were of such a bad temper. The family of the soldier was afraid that this matter would spread and affect their son's future. So they accepted it reluctantly."

  "What a sin! The girl started dating him when she was sixteen, and she's already nineteen this year. Although it's not too late to get married at nineteen or twenty, who would be willing to wait for so many years in vain?"

  Zhang Yubing's wife shook her head and hurried back home. It was New Year's Day, and meat was still stewing on her stove. Some relatives would come to visit soon, so she didn't have time to talk much.

  Jiang Youtao and Zhong Qianxi made some comments on this matter.

  In the past, Zhong Qianxi had many heroic generals under her command. Some women who wanted to take shortcuts would make the same choice as Tang Wan.

  They believe in polyandry. If the generals like a girl, they can take her home as a mistress. If not, it doesn't matter to them. As for what kind of rumors will be spread about the men who fail to commit fraud, it is not their business.

  After all, they are all adults. Before making any decision, they should consider the consequences of failure. This will only give them a half chance of success.

  Zhong Qianxi never discriminated against such people, but that was in their society. In this society, monogamy is the norm in the contemporary context. The soldier had a partner before, and Tang Wan's actions undoubtedly hurt the woman.

  Zhong Qianxi didn't say much. After all, she didn't know the woman named Tang Wan.

  After they finished sweeping the snow and went back, Jiang Youtao lay on the kang and drank tea. She also pulled out the melon-eating system to ask questions: [ You said before that this small world allowed Tang Wan to be reborn three times. If you add the first life she traveled through, she has been reborn five times? ]

  The gossip system has already figured out Tang Wan's background thoroughly: [ Yes, including the time she didn't travel through time, she has already lived for the seventh time. ]

  [ Let's not talk about the first episode. In the second episode, she married Shen Tao and ended up being a surrogate mother. In the third episode, after she was reborn, she avoided Shen Tao's trap and married Zhang Yuanfei, the son of the Zhang family. In order to raise the five children she gave birth to, Zhang Yuanfei was overworked and died of exhaustion. ]

  [ Because of what happened to Shen Tao in that life, she was determined not to pick up an embroidery needle again. She felt that men would become bad when they had money. If they had no money, she would stay at home and wait for her husband to support her like other women, and her husband would not cheat on her. ]

  [ When Zhang Yuanfei died of overwork, she was already in her thirties. Her hands were no longer able to embroider due to lack of maintenance and years of housework. ]

  [ She found another husband. She was almost 40 when she remarried. She continued to have children. Finally, the man she married for the second time couldn't stand it anymore and divorced her. She lived alone with her seven children. Any man would be scared when he saw her string of children. Her life in old age was also a mess. ]

  [ After her third rebirth, she felt that Zhang Yuanfei was in poor health and was a pitfall. If she had found someone with good health and a long life, her previous life would not have been so bad. ]

  [ After she was reborn this time, she found a man named Niu Junlin in the commune. The man was married into the Tang family. He was responsible and kind. However, his family had too many children to raise. After he and Tang Wan had two children, he was unwilling to have any more. ]

  [ Because of this, Tang Wan quarreled with him every other day. Later, she secretly became pregnant, and Niu Junlin divorced her and took the two children with him. She had the experience of a second life and was ready to abort the child and start over. However, she was poor, so she went to a black clinic and died on the operating table. ]

  [ This time she was reborn, the soldier she directly relied on was Niu Junlin's cousin in her previous life. He lived in harmony with his wife Xiao Se all his life and doted on his wife very much... ]

  Okay, Jiang Youtao understood what was going to happen next without the melon-eating system saying anything.

  Jiang Youtao has seen thousands of reborn people and time travelers, but this is the first time she has seen someone who has been reborn so many times and lived a worse life each time.

  Now Tang Wan might have even lost her embroidery skills, right?

  [ I am really curious about what Tang Wan's life was like in her native world? ] Looking at the history of ancient development, although having many children is a great blessing, it cannot be generalized. Most women do not give birth when they reach a certain age.

  For someone like Tang Wan, who is in her forties or fifties and is trying her best to have children, isn't that a bit too much?

  As a woman, having children is her right. If she likes, she can have them. If she doesn't like them, she can also decide not to have them. There is nothing wrong with that. But everything has a limit, and it also depends on one's own financial situation.

  Jiang Youtao had never seen a girl like Tang Wan who was determined to have children regardless of her family conditions, age or physical condition.

  Jiang Youtao was really curious about her past.

  To be honest, the melon-eating system was also curious. It said: [ Tang Wan's family is a well-known and prominent family in the local area. The women in her family are the most fertile. Her elders all got good marriages because of their good fertility. When her mother was alive, she instilled in her the concept of having many children means more blessings. ]

  [ Her mother even attributed her lack of love from her husband to her not having many children. Later, her mother died, and her father remarried, and children were born one after another. Her stepmother's love never faded, so she took her mother's words as her golden rule and never forgot them. ]

  Jiang Youtao was confused: [ The monogamy and fewer and better births in modern society didn't changed her thinking at all? ]

  Melon-eating system: [ No, she has even begun to miss the life she had with Shen Tao. ]

  Jiang Youtao didn't know what to say. In her first life, Tang Wan was quite ambitious and lived a good life with her craft. Apart from having children, she had no worries about food and clothing.

  What are the next two lives like?

  But in these three lives, she never looked for the reasons in herself, but always thought it was the man's fault as she haven't chose the right one.

  Jiang Youtao felt that Tang Wan was so stubborn that she had nothing to say.

  She had never seen such a stubborn person. Even the most stubborn donkey in the production team had to kneel down in front of her and call her "big sister".

  Jiang Youtao would definitely stay away from this stubborn person. Really, just like what No. 7's small world consciousness said, if she helped her, she's afraid that she would be implicated when there was thunder. No wonder No. 7 didn't want her anymore.

  If it were her, she would really carry it on the train overnight.

  Jiang Youtao finished a cup of tea when Fu Shaohua came.

  Jiang Youtao didn't let him into the house and called him outside to talk.

  She stuffed the small cloth bag containing the jewelry into Fu Shaohua's military coat pocket: "Take this jewelry back and return it to your mother. I discussed it with Weiwei and we feel that we can't keep it."

  "It was originally just a quarrel between young people. It is inappropriate for the elders to intervene."

  Fu Shaohua looked at the jewelry in his pocket for a while and said, "Okay, I will return the jewelry to her."

  After a pause, Fu Shaohua said, "Guo Kaian is my best friend. He lives on the upper and lower floors of my home. After he went back, in order to prevent Shao Hongnian from talking nonsense in front of my mother, he chose to tell my mother about this matter first."

  "After hearing the whole story, my mother went to Shao Hongnian to ask him in person. After knowing the truth, she sent me this gift."

  "She said that if you think deeper into what Shao Hongnian did, you will find that he was very disrespectful to women. He helped a woman and wanted to get something from her, so he asked for Comrade Gu's address."

  "As a woman, she felt sorry for what Shao Hongnian had done."

  "I found out about this when I called home on the morning of New Year's Eve. The clip arrived at the same time. I thought the New Year's gift I prepared for you had also arrived, so I brought it to you at the same time without thinking much about anything else."

  "If this incident has given you some bad thoughts, I would like to apologize to you first. I am sorry for my poor expression."

  After Fu Shaohua went back home last night, he had been thinking about this matter. When he came here today, he was thinking about explaining it in detail to Jiang Youtao, but before he could open his mouth, he was pulled out by Jiang Youtao.

  Fu Shaohua realized the seriousness of the matter and immediately explained it.

  His apology was very sincere. Jiang Youtao sighed, took him to the kitchen, and asked him to tell Gu Nianwei about the matter in person.

  After all, it wasn't herself that Shao Hongnian disrespected.

  After listening to Fu Shaohua's words, Gu Nianwei accepted the hairpin.

  At the same time, she also became interested in Fu Shaohua's mother.

  She asked Fu Shaohua: "Comrade Fu, may I ask what your mother does?"

  Fu Shaohua said: "My mother is the chairman of the Women's Federation of the Capital Jewelry Factory. She once published many articles in the China Capital Youth Daily to liberate and promote women. That is why she was so angry about what Shao Hongnian did."

  "She wasn't just only speaking up for me."

  Jiang Youtao and Gu Nianwei looked at each other and immediately showed great respect for Fu Shaohua's mother, Ms. Shao Qing.

  The reason why women have such a high status in modern society is because there are women like Ms. Shao Qing who have been fighting for them.

  Gu Nianwei said: "Thank your mother for me."

  Fu Shaohua nodded at her and looked at Jiang Youtao again. Jiang Youtao smiled at him and Fu Shaohua also smiled.

  He felt relieved.

  He thought that he had safely overcome the first conflict between him and Jiang Youtao since they met.

  But Jiang Youtao still had some questions. While Gu Nianwei wasn't paying attention, she asked Fu Shaohua in a low voice, "How did you mention me to your parents?"