After Jiang Youtao and others met Yu Daya, He Shuli also met Yu Daya.
Seeing the person who had destroyed her family, He Shuli couldn't control her urge to go up and stab her to death.
He Shuli pinched her thigh and forced herself to calm down.
It's not worth it. She was reborn with great difficulty and should live a good life. It's really not worth it, really not worth it, to give up the reborn life she had worked so hard to get just for Yu Daya.
Yu Daya was just rubble, not worth confronting head-on.
He Shuli stopped looking at her and quickly walked past the three siblings of the Yu family. However, Yu Daya's eyes lit up when she saw her.
There are new people in the commune. What does this mean? It means they don't have to starve anymore! Yu Daya believes that not everyone is as cold-blooded as the people in the commune! They are so pitiful, but they are still indifferent!
Yu Daya began to move towards Xingfu Lane, and she heard what she wished about the new family that had moved in.
Her family moved here from the county town. The couple are almost thirty years old. The woman is injured and cannot have children. Yu Daya holds the skinny hand of her younger brother Yu Dahe, with a lot of thoughts in her mind.
Yu Daya returned home with her two younger brothers. Her house had been occupied by her uncle's family. All the usable things of her family were used by her uncle's family, and the unusable junk was piled up in the west wing where they lived.
The room was extremely small, with no windows for ventilation, the kang could never be heated up, and there was an indescribable smell in the room.
Yu Daya didn't like living there. She wanted to live in Xingfu Lane.
The houses there are all brick and tile houses, and it is said that they are very comfortable to live in. Unlike her home, they still live in mud and tile houses. When the rainy season comes, it rains outside and inside the house too, which is so annoying.
It is said that houses in Xingfu Lane does not leak, and the people living in Xingfu Lane are very well-off, so the food they eat there is always better than that in other places.
Especially the two teachers' families, the food was so good that on New Year's Eve they stood outside the door and smelled the aroma of meat coming from inside, at least four or five kinds!
It was a smell that Yu Daya had never smelled before. It was so fragrant that sometimes she would dream about that smell.
Mr. Du is an electrician, a formal employee. If she lives in his house, her life will definitely be better than those two teachers, right?
Before she even moved in, Yu Daya started dreaming.
"Daya, Daya, what are you doing? It's so late and why haven't you come out to cook? You eat and live in my house and you have no tact at all. I should really sell you out earlier like your mother said." Yu Daya's aunt was a mean person. She occupied Yu Daya's house and felt justified.
A few days ago, they even tried to drive the three siblings away. People from the street office came twice, but it was of no use. They promised them everything in front of them, but they returned to their old ways in the blink of an eye.
Yu Daya hurried out to cook, and was beaten twice here. Yu Daya became more determined to leave here.
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After evening self-study at night, Jiang Youtao and Gu Nianwei came back together and saw the three siblings again on the street corner. The gate of their family's yard was closed tightly.
Apparently they were kicked out by their aunt again.
Even though she knew how bad Yu Daya would be when she grew up, she still couldn't bear to see her like that now.
Jiang Youtao pulled Gu Nianwei forward, and the two pretended not to see them.
She said, "There are so many poor people in this world. We are strangers. If we help these three now, maybe we won't be able to get rid of them. If they are kind and have good character, like Manqiu, I don't mind raising a few more of them."
"But they are obviously not." Jiang Youtao said as she thought about what she saw when she turned around and looked back after they passed by Yu Daya this afternoon.
At that time, Yu Daya looked at them with hatred in her eyes. If you are good to these type of people, you would not get much gratitude, but if you're bad to them, you would become the target of their revenge.
Jiang Youtao is not afraid of Yu Daya's revenge. She can only take revenge on them in a few ways. She just continue acting the way she wants. If she shows any fear, she is not Jiang Youtao!
Gu Nianwei didn't intend to care: "I didn't want to care, but I think it's quite pitiful for them to stay here like this in the middle of the night and it's quite cold."
"Yes, they are indeed pitiful, but they were born and raised in Zaoxiang Commune. No one in Zaoxiang Commune will help them. What are we going to do to help them?" Jiang Youtao and the others walked away.
Yu Dachuan and Yu Dahe wiped their tears and asked Yu Daya, "Sister, what should we do? They just pretend they can't see us."
Among the three siblings of the Yu family, the two younger brothers always obey Yu Daya's command.
"It's okay, let's hold on a little longer." Yu Daya looked at the intersection. She had found out everything. Electrician Du had gone to the countryside today and had not come back yet. It was already so dark, so he should be here soon.
Not long after Jiang Youtao and the others returned to the house, He Shuli went out with a flashlight. Not long after she reached the entrance of the alley, she saw Du Yuanzhou returning.
Du Yuanzhou was very surprised when he saw his wife: "Why did you come out?"
He Shuli let him hold the flashlight and whispered, "I just moved here and I always couldn't sleep at night. I thought you would be back soon, so I came here to wait for you."
The couple walked home while talking.
Du Yuanzhou's flashlight immediately illuminated the three siblings huddled in the corner. He was about to walk over but was stopped by He Shuli.
"Go home."
Du Yuanzhou wanted to go over and ask, but he felt the strength of his wife's pulling on his hand. Between several children he didn't know and his wife, Du Yuanzhou chose his wife.
But on the way back, the couple continued to talk in low voices.
When they got home, He Shuli hugged Du Yuanzhou and said, "Yuanzhou, I had a dream. I dreamed of our child who died."
Du Yuanzhou's heart trembled. He reached out and hugged his wife's slightly trembling body, and his heart began to ache.
It's been eight years since the child passed away, but neither the couple has gotten over it.
After standing in the yard for a long time, the couple walked into the house hand in hand.
He Shuli was making the bed: "I know what you're thinking. You feel sorry for me for not having a child, so you want to adopt one from outside?"
"I'm going to tell you this today. I only have one child, and there will only be one in this life. Don't bring back someone to annoy me." After what happened with Yu Daya, He Shuli figured it out. Instead of taking the trouble to adopt a child, it would be better to sponsor a few poor children. At least those children don't need her to worry about it, and she doesn't expect them to take care of her in her old age.
No hope, no disappointment.
Du Yuanzhou sat aside and sighed. He wanted to explain, but He Shuli had already made the kang and went to the kitchen to serve the meal.
He Shuli couldn't get enough of watching Du Yuanzhou wolfing down his meal.
Tonight is the first time Du Yuanzhou brings the three siblings home, and she has finally avoided this matter.
But He Shuli still felt uneasy: "Yuanzhou, I know you have a kind heart, but we can't have anything to do with those three children just now."
"It's not our turn to take care of them. There are so many people on the street, and they are all closer to them than us. If they don't care, why should we rush to take care of them?"
Du Yuanzhou ate quietly, humming from time to time. He Shuli knew that Du Yuanzhou listened to what she said, but it was not enough, far from enough.
The three siblings are like cockleburs on the roadside. Even if you are very careful when passing by them, you still cannot escape the fate of being contaminated by them.
He Shuli actually wanted to divorce Du Yuanzhou, but she couldn't, at least not within four years. Du Yuanzhou's job couldn't be transferred anytime soon, and most of their savings were spent on this house, so she couldn't divorce him in a short time.
Jiang Youtao did not pay too much attention to Small World No. 8 under the reminder of the melon-eating system. It said that since in the novel with He Shuli as the protagonist, she and Du Yuanzhou had a good ending, it proved that the self-salvation of Small World No. 8 was successful.
At this time, Jiang Youtao's rash intervention might lead to irreversible consequences for the self-salvation of Small World No. 8, so the best way is to stay put.
The melon-eating system will pay close attention to this matter, so in the past few days, the melon-eating system has no time to chat or gossip with Jiang Youtao.
In the blink of an eye, it was the weekend. Jiang Youtao got up before dawn, while Gu Nianwei and Xu Manqiu were still asleep.
Jiang Youtao pushed the bike into the alley, then got on the bike and rode away, grunting. When she passed Yard No. 1, she saw Yu Daya and her two siblings huddled outside Yard No. 1.
Jiang Youtao passed by the three of them and they didn't notice her.
[ Tongzi, what's the situation over there now? ]
The melon-eating system had been paying attention to that place for fifteen hours in the past day, so it was very familiar with the situation there: [ Through Yu Daya's persistent self-torture and pretending to be pitiful, Du Yuanzhou now sympathizes with them. Yu Daya is already teaching her second brother how to please Du Yuanzhou and let Du Yuanzhou adopt him. ]
Jiang Youtao knew the plot described by the melon-eating system. In the book about the adoptive father's youth with Yu Daya as the protagonist, Du Yuanzhou first adopt the youngest Yu Dahe. But later Yu Daya and Yu Dachuan became too pitiful, and he could not bear it, so he persuaded He Shuli.
Before she was reborn, He Shuli was a good person. She felt sorry for Yu Daya, who was living such a hard life but still remembered to protect her brother. Du Yuanzhou said he would take her in to raise her, and He Shuli did not object.
At that time, Yu Daya was already ten years old and had never read a book. He Shuli said that this was not a good idea, so she sent her to school. She did not study well, so He Shuli gave her after-school tutoring. Her hair was always messy and she had lice, so He Shuli braided her hair every day and picked the lice for her regularly.
Yu Daya wanted to learn dance, so after the reform and opening up, He Shuli enrolled her in a dance class.
Jiang Youtao asked herself, for a foster mother who adopted her at such an old age, it was impeccable for her to do this.
When she raised Yu Daya, she had no intention of asking her to repay her. Her idea was the same as that of the poor children she sponsored after her rebirth. She just helped those in need to the best of her ability when she had spare energy.
But whether she wants anything in return or not, Yu Daya shouldn't repay kindness with hatred, right?
[ Tongzi, what do you think He Shuli would do? ]
In the copy with He Shuli as the heroine, there are only a few sentences of content summary that Jiang Youtao had read before. How to get rid of Yu Daya's entanglement is not mentioned in the summary, and the specific content has not been included in the book yet.
Jiang Youtao was particularly curious.
The melon-eating system is not bound to He Shuli, and cannot guess what He Shuli is thinking: [ I don't know either. ]
Therefore, the idea of unifying the country under one master was highly valued.
Jiang Youtao changed the subject and began to listen to the melon-eating system's narration of what had happened to the Du family during this period, and they soon arrived at the county town.
She had tied the melon seeds to the back seat of her bicycle outside the city. She went around to the back door of Zhang Dezhun's house and knocked. After a while, Zhang Dezhun's mother came out.
The two of them didn't exchange a word. After Jiang Youtao handed over the money and the goods, she left quickly.
By the time she changed her clothes and pushed the bicycle she bought from the system to the main road of the county town, it was already dawn. Jiang Youtao remembered that Zhao Yonglan had told her last time that the dumplings at the state-owned restaurant near the cannery were delicious, so she rode her bicycle over there.
The state-owned restaurant near the cannery was crowded at that time, most of whom were people wearing indigo work clothes, and there was a whole row of bicycles locked in front of the restaurant.
Jiang Youtao locked her bicycle and walked inside, queuing at the window with the most people.
In front of her were a few girls chatting loudly.
Jiang Youtao didn't look at it carefully, but started chatting with the melon-eating system, listening to it talk about all kinds of gossip happening on the system forum.
Just as she was absorbed in thought, Jiang Youtao was patted on the shoulder, and then Zhang Huihui's voice reached her ears.
"It's really you, Youtao. Why are you here?" Zhang Huihui was very happy to see an old friend.
Jiang Youtao was also a little surprised to see her: "I went out to do something today, and I thought about Yonglan saying that this restaurant's dumplings were delicious last time, so I came to try it. Are you not at work yet?"
Zhang Huihui took Jiang Youtao's arm and said, "It was my turn to work the night shift last night. I just got off work. I was too lazy to go to the cafeteria to eat, so I came here to have a bite. I haven't seen you for a long time. I'll treat you to a meal today."
Zhang Huihui was very generous. It was not easy for her to meet Jiang Youtao once, so how could she not be happy?
The last time they got together was in the winter, but since then they have been busy and haven't seen each other since.
Jiang Youtao refused, and the two of them started arguing. Then it was their turn. In the end, Jiang Youtao was stronger and got the chance to treat her, but Zhang Huihui bought two bowls of mutton soup in a blink of an eye, so no one took advantage of the other.
They found an empty seat and sat down, chatting while eating.
The first person to speak up was Zhang Huihui: "When we first went to the countryside, I knew that with her father's ability, he would definitely bring her back sooner or later. Look, she went back before she had even completed her six-month term as an educated youth."
Zhang Huihui originally went to the countryside to work on a farm. She was paid for her work there. But after her two parents secretly changed her work location, Zhang Huihui was still very unhappy and her resentment towards Zhao Yonglan reached its peak.
Looking back now, Zhang Huihui feels that going to the farm to join the team is just like that.
The salary for working on a farm is about the same as that for working in a cannery, but working on a farm is very tiring. It is said that the area is vast and the mission fields of a company start at several hundred acres. It is not as easy as being a worker.
This may be the legendary light at the end of the tunnel.
"Of course. When she left before the New Year, she came to see us and said she would come back after the New Year to get together again. But she didn't come back, instead we received a farewell letter." Jiang Youtao shook her head, but was also happy for her.
Zhao Yonglan has a simple personality and is more like a little girl at heart. She will be shaken if a man coaxes her casually. It would be good for her to return to her parents. With them watching over her, nothing serious will happen to Zhao Yonglan.
As someone who knows about her past two lives, Jiang Youtao hopes that Zhao Yonglan will remain innocent and simple for the rest of her life. Even though she may be a little silly at times, doesn't this also reflect from the side that her family protects her very well?
"It's good to go back." Zhang Huihui said, "You don't know how rubbish Zhao Rongguang is. I really didn't realize he was that kind of person when I was at the educated youth camp before."
Zhang Huihui showed disdain on her face. Under Jiang Youtao's urging, she told her about Zhao Rongguang: "When he was in the educated youth camp, he was very low-key. I thought his family was very powerful. They could make him absent from work often without deducting work points."
"Before he started working, he shamelessly flirted with Yonglan. But when he got to the factory, he forgot about Yonglan and became intimate with the director's daughter."
"It's nothing. Yonglan and him haven't reached the stage of confirming their relationship yet. There's nothing wrong with getting to know his true face earlier."
"Later, a young girl came to the factory and said she was his fiancée. What a coincidence, when his fiancée went to see him, she saw him having dinner with the director's daughter. Didn't that make her furious?"
"When the two of them were arguing, she exposed Zhao Rongguang's past."
"His original surname was not Zhao. He took the surname Zhao only after his mother remarried and brought him to the Zhao family. Before he went to the countryside, he took the initiative to contact his fiancée for his future, but her family did not agree. Now that the girl has grown up, she signed up to go to the countryside to find him."
Jiang Youtao frowned tightly: "I have seen his fiancée, she was only 18 at most. He has been in the countryside for four or five years. His fiancée was only 13 or 14 at that time, right?"
Thirteen or fourteen years old, even in the seventies, was just a half-grown child.
Zhao Rongguang must have been at least sixteen or seventeen at that time, right?
"His fiancée said that she was only twelve at that time." Zhang Huihui rolled her eyes to the sky.
Jiang Youtao was shocked: "I really didn't realize he was such a person."
Jiang Youtao didn't have a deep impression of Zhao Rongguang until he and Zhao Yonglan started to have some closeness that she noticed this person.
This is the result? Seducing a minor. If the situation was more serious, it would be enough to put him in jail in 20 or 30 years.
Jiang Youtao reflected on herself.
It seems that since she traveled to this era, there are few good men she has met. Most of them have their own problems.
Is this the fault of the times, or is it just her personal bad luck?
In a short period of time, Jiang Youtao couldn't figure out the reason.
She asked Zhang Huihui: "How are you and Liu Yingjun doing?"
It was no secret that Liu Yingjun liked Zhang Huihui when they were at the educated youth training center.
"We're dating now. I guess we'll get married when I turn 18." Zhang Huihui is one year older than Jiang Youtao. She's 17 this year, so she'll be 18 next year.
Jiang Youtao just said congratulations and didn't say anything else.
After dinner, Zhang Huihui went back to the dormitory to sleep, and Jiang Youtao also walked back.
She packed two servings of dumplings, which were cold when she got home. Gu Nianwei heated them up and ate them with millet porridge.
As soon as she put down the bowl, Fu Shaohua came.
It was obvious that he had dressed up specially, with his hair combed neatly, revealing his beautiful widow's peak hairline. He was wearing a white long-sleeved shirt and a green military uniform, which made him look clean and fresh.
Jiang Youtao put on a sky blue long-sleeved knee-length dress and sat diagonally on the back seat of his bicycle.
Fu Shaohua looked back several times, but didn't see Gu Nianwei and Xu Manqiu coming out. He could hardly stop smiling: "Taotao, aren't Comrade Gu and Manqiu going?"
When he said this, his anticipation was clearly written on his face.
"Weiwei said she was tired after a few days. She finally had a day off and wanted to sleep. Manqiu is studying very hard now. She will take a midterm exam this year. If she passes, she will be a junior high school student. If she fails, she will continue to be in the fourth grade."
"She's quite old now, and she doesn't want to be called sister by her classmates anymore."
Before Jiang Youtao could finish her words, Fu Shaohua rode away on his bike.
Fu Shaohua had obviously done his homework in advance. He took Jiang Youtao and walked along the river until they came to a meadow. There was a river in front and a mountain behind. He spread a bed sheet on the grass and put out the food he had prepared.
They also caught two fish from the river and grilled them.
Both Jiang Youtao and Fu Shaohua felt very satisfied with today's outing.
In the afternoon, the two went back home. Before they reached Xingfu Lane, they were forced to get off from the bicycle and walk in.
Jiang Youtao found someone she knew and asked, "What's going on?"
"Yu Daya wanted to send her little brother to the Du family for upbringing, but the Du family didn't want to, so she knelt down and begged, and the Du family went to the street office for help."
"The street office has sent someone to look for Yu's family, but they haven't arrived yet."
Before the man could finish his words, Jiang Youtao pushed through the crowd and walked in.
She found that her great strength was not put to good use and was all used in eating melons.
She squeezed to the front of the crowd effortlessly. Yu Daya's eyes were swollen from crying. Her two younger brothers hugged her, one on each side, with tears and snot streaming down their faces.
The people from the street office were talking to Du Yuanzhou. Du Yuanzhou glanced at He Shuli from time to time. He Shuli leaned against the door frame, with a cold face and said nothing.
"Don't say anything. If you leaders really feel pity for these three, just take them home. We don't have children, but if we really want to raise children, we don't need them. What's the point of raising the three of them?" He Shuli suppressed her anger in her words.
As soon as she finished speaking, Yu Daya and her two siblings cried even more sadly.