I used rebirth to bury his captivating gaze.

Chapter 86 A Fat White Pig Follows the Savior (Yu Mei Borrows 10 Yuan from Yu Qiu)

Upon hearing the question about borrowing money, Yu Qiu's heart immediately raced, and she replied without hesitation, "I have no money."

After saying that, Yuqiu pulled Zou Jun beside her and quickly walked into the east room.

Yu Mei ran outside and pressed herself against the east side of the house, crying loudly.

A moment later, Zou Jun came out and said to her, "Yu Mei, your third sister wants me to come inside."

Yu Mei didn't want to step into this house again, but when she returned to her brother and sister-in-law's house, the same thing happened. Although she had a mother, her mother still had to eat according to her brother and sister-in-law's wishes.

Finally, with mixed feelings, she walked into the east room. Yuqiu lent her 10 yuan instead of 30 yuan.

Ten yuan isn't even enough for one person to buy a bus ticket, so what's the point of borrowing it?

But in the end, she still borrowed it. It truly proves the saying, "The poor have little ambition."

Yu Mei took the 10 yuan back to her mother's house and saw that Si Si was not crying or making a fuss. She was still sitting cross-legged on the large heated kang in the east room, and Yu Mei was taking care of her.

Then, Yu Mei didn't tell anyone about borrowing money; she kept it in her pocket.

The next morning, Yumei went to the village store in the west of the village and bought two iron buckets of "malted milk powder" for her mother.

The village's "supply and marketing cooperative" has long since disintegrated and become a historical term for later generations.

Yu Mei carried two buckets of "malted milk powder" into the house, put the malted milk powder on the kang (a heated brick bed), and saw Li Xin lying lazily on the kang, not even bothering to help his mother cook rice in the big iron pot in the kitchen. In addition, there was the humiliation of borrowing 10 yuan last night!

She was furious and yelled at Lixin, "How can you be so lazy? Why don't you go to the kitchen and help my mom cook? My mom only cooks for the three of us. If we hadn't come, would my mom even need to cook? I can tell you're just like your mom. Look at your family! You never go to work. You rely on your past, when I didn't know you, when you were working at the Second Construction Company and accidentally fell from the fifth floor, injuring your lower back and ankle, and got some money, which you then put at your uncle and aunt's house. You could take as much as you needed, right? Now you've used up that 4000 yuan, so let's see where you can get more money. When I came to your house, you only had 1,500 yuan left out of your 4,000 yuan."

Yu Mei finished speaking in one breath. Anyway, her brother and sister-in-law were out and not at home, so no one heard Li Xin's shameful history. Only Diao Yan, who was cooking in the kitchen, heard it and paused for a moment while cutting potatoes with a large cleaver. She almost cut her finger with the particularly sharp cleaver.

Then, tears welled up in her eyes, and she continued cooking. Next, Diao Yan overheard Li Xin's aunt holding a "church wedding" for Yu Mei and Li Xin at the large "church" in the coal city where his aunt was a believer. Diao Yan put potato chunks into the pot, placed a large wooden fork on top, put half a basin of raw rice with water on the fork, covered it with a tin lid, and then filled the stove under the large iron pot with corn stalks, lit it, and brought it to a boil!

She turned back to the east room and suddenly saw a dozen or so color photos on the edge of the south kang. She went over, picked them up, and stared at them. They were all wedding photos of Yu Mei and Li Xin, and there was also a large six-inch color photo of Yu Mei wearing a long white wedding dress.

The older brother and sister-in-law took their child home, and the four of them went to the sister-in-law's parents' home to celebrate Liu Yue's birthday.

Yang Zhi and Liu Yue saw Yu Mei's wedding photo still displayed on the kang (heated brick bed) in the east room. They looked at each other, Liu Yue pouted, and smiled at Yang Zhi!

Then the two of them went to the west room and went to their own rooms.

After lunch, Yu Mei didn't see Li Xin lying on the kang (a heated brick bed) again in the afternoon. He was nowhere to be seen in the yard or the room. She wondered where he had gone. Going back to his home in Qishi was impossible; he didn't have money for a train ticket. How could he get home? Did he know someone else here?

The small black camera remained untouched, sitting on top of an old yellow box on the ground.

The large iron wok in Liu Yue's kitchen is still used to cook meals for the four people in her west room.

Despite being overlooked, Yang Yumei was still fed by Diao Yan, who prepared meals for her family of three.

It was winter in Northeast China, and the weather was cold. Chen Lixin rode Yang Zhi's big bicycle, which was parked in the yard, to a farmhouse in a village more than ten miles away from this village.

The head of this farming family is the younger brother of Old Liu's stepfather.

Lixin heard it from Old Liu, who told him about his younger brother and his family of several people who lived in the village and made a living by farming.

Chen Lixin was completely bewildered by staying at his mother-in-law's and brother-in-law's house for the past few days and didn't know what to do. Because of his past laziness, lack of ambition, and lack of drive, he had developed the same daily habits as his mother and even believed his brother-in-law's words that he had tricked Yu Mei into becoming his wife.

In front of his relatives, Chen Lixin said that he had effortlessly won a beautiful, charming, high school graduate, and skillful girl as his wife.

He was pleased with himself, but Yu Mei lost face in front of her own family!

It's clear that the brother-in-law and sister-in-law are showing off the money they earned from carpentry work.

They even mocked Yu Mei for wearing a pair of patched, burgundy, thick, shiny cotton leather shoes!

He had a few words with Yu Mei in the morning, and seemed a bit angry. However, on his way to Old Liu's brother's house on his bicycle, he realized that he was wrong. No matter what, it was his fault, not Yu Mei's. Yu Mei had misplaced her trust in him.

Chen Lixin himself was barely able to protect himself, yet he dragged an innocent girl into his impoverished home to become his wife.

He worked as a plumber at the Second Construction Company of the city. He accidentally fell from the fifth floor and the steel plate is still stuck in his waist for three or four years. The steel cable in his ankle is still inside.

He didn't hide anything from Yu Mei and honestly confessed everything.

Before Yu Mei entered the Chen family, the matchmaker Zou Laqian instructed him to conceal his injuries from her. The matchmaker also personally told Yu Mei that it would be good to buy a large color TV for their wedding. Nowadays, young people don't buy black and white TVs for their weddings because they are becoming obsolete. They all buy color TVs, especially newlyweds.

Yang Yumei was straightforward and readily replied, "There's no need to buy a color TV. It's a waste of money, and color TVs are especially harsh on the eyes, which is bad for eye health."

He went to his relatives' house to borrow some travel expenses so that he and his family of three could return to Qishi. After returning, he would go out to earn money and stop causing trouble for Yumei, so that she could have a good life and live a normal life.

He ate dinner with Old Liu and even asked to borrow money, but he didn't get a single penny.

Then he got on his bicycle, looking rather drab, and turned to ride towards Daxing'an Village in the north of the village.

As he was riding, he suddenly felt something following him about a hundred meters behind his bicycle.