I used rebirth to bury his captivating gaze.

Chapter 74 Yu Han goes to pick up her mother (Yu Han's classmate and the Zou and Liu families l

Time flies, and the first year of night school has passed in the blink of an eye. Currently, during the summer vacation from mid-July to mid-August of the first year, Yu Han decided to go back to the rural compound to take care of some family matters and order twenty pairs of bell-bottoms to sell in the countryside.

Then they brought Liu Shulan to live in the city, and she found a large courtyard house to settle down in.

Liu Ying's uncle and aunt's courtyard is very large. Currently, there are several families renting there, including strangers, as well as some very familiar faces.

A few days ago, I discovered that the red cotton coat with glowing red scales hanging on the clothesline in the yard belonged to Zou Laqian from the same village. She and her family of three lived in this yard. Liu Ying said that before her brother, Sun Shangjun, came to live here, Zou Laqian rented a room in this yard.

The current tenants in the compound are: Old Liu, a stranger who drives a horse-drawn carriage, and an old lady with shoulder-length hair. They rent a room at the south end of the compound, near the yellow horse shed at the very back.

Near Old Liu's house, there are two young couples who are strangers to each other renting rooms.

Zou Laxian's family of three rented the three middle rooms.

Liu Ying and Sun Shangjun were housed in the three outermost rooms of the courtyard, near the large wooden door, so that strangers could easily manage things for them.

What Yu Han never dreamed of was actually happening in this courtyard: several of the tenants turned out to be her junior high school female classmates!

Among the female students renting this place are Zou Yunfang and her family of three, and Zhu Yanli and her family of three.

Zou Yunfang's family of three: Zou Yunfang's husband went to work at Dongfeng Mine with his fourth aunt's husband, who was the foreman of the miners.

Zhu Yanli was originally married to a vegetable farmer in the county town. Not long after she got married, she separated from her two younger brothers-in-law and their wives, as well as her parents-in-law. Then, the three of them moved here, and her husband, Guo Jianhua, went down to the mine to work in the coal mine to earn money.

Li Lihong's family consists of three people. Li Lihong moved from the countryside to the city to become a junior high school Chinese teacher, while her parents are still in the countryside. Her parents went to great lengths to help her become a private teacher in the city.

In addition, I heard that Zhao Wenjie and her family of three bought an apartment in this small coal town. Zhao Wenjie works as a Chinese language teacher at a primary school in the city, and she works at the Xincheng Police Station after getting married.

He Liyan, a junior high school classmate who used to live in Tuandingshan Township, had parents who worked at a bank in Tuandingshan Township three years ago. Both of them were transferred to work at the bank in this coal city by their superiors, and their workplace provided them with a three-story building in Taonan Community.

Qi Hua, a female classmate from junior high school, lived with her older brother and sister-in-law. Right after graduating from junior high school, she moved here with her older brother, who was a physical education teacher, and her sister-in-law, and bought an apartment in the residential building on the pedestrian street.

Yang Yuhan spent her days doing business from dawn till dusk and attending night school, so she didn't have much contact with the tenants in the compound, whether they were familiar or not. They just flashed by in her sight.

Most of them were married women with children, so she was mindful of her status. After all, she was more attractive than them, and if there were any problems with their marriages or families, she didn't want to be suspected of being an innocent and beautiful girl. So she pretended not to have seen any other familiar people.

It's better to be a little aloof and not to be so talkative and talkative all the time.

Learning to speak at three years old is the best policy; learning to be silent throughout life is the best policy.

On the second day of summer vacation, she put the thirty-odd pairs of women's black bell-bottoms that she had ordered in advance from her uncle in the south into her dream space, waiting to take them out to sell when she arrived. Her foresight was that bell-bottoms were the popular style for girls in both cities and rural areas at that time.

So her thirty-odd pairs of bell-bottoms must have been snapped up by the girls in the countryside!

Then she dressed simply, wearing black flared pants and a light blue checkered shirt with two long ties at the neckline. She carried a small black leather handbag containing three pounds of Guoguang apples for her mother.

Wearing a pair of leather lace-up shoes I bought for 25 yuan, I strode onto bus number 2 and headed straight for Xinxing Bus Station. The bus ride took 5 minutes to reach the station. I got off and went into the station hall to buy a ticket.

We boarded a long-distance bus and headed straight to the final stop in Tuandingshan Township, Gucheng County.

After driving for more than two hours, the car arrived at the terminal bus station in Tuandingshan Township, where the bus stopped and passengers disembarked.

She walked down the main street of the village and became a sight to behold! Her bell-bottoms were so eye-catching. When she reached the supply and marketing cooperative in the middle of the main street of Tuandingshan Township, she saw that there were quite a few young people walking by. She took out twenty of the thirty pairs of black bell-bottoms she had put in her space and laid them out on a clean canvas. The canvas had also been put in her space beforehand and was taken out with the pants.

She had only been there for less than ten minutes when a group of girls surrounded her, and the entire stock was snatched up in no time.

A very familiar and beautiful girl, refined and gentle, was initially a little unhappy. She really wanted a pair of bell-bottoms, but she wasn't good at competing with others for items, so she didn't manage to buy them.

She is none other than Xu Meili, the former rival of Principal Xu of Daxing'an Village, who is also Jin Yumei.

Helpless, Yang Yuhan took out the other ten pairs of bell-bottoms she had left in her space and sold them all at the same price of 38 yuan per pair.

Xu Meili left after buying the items, without saying another word to Yu Han, ignoring her completely.

Yu Han walked for a few more minutes. In this day and age, there were no taxis available in the countryside. She looked around for any horse-drawn or oxcarts from her own village, Daxing'an Village.

Before she even started thinking about it, there really was an old oxcart from her own village parked in front of the supply and marketing cooperative.

The old oxcart was the oxcart belonging to Uncle Lao Niu, who drove the white horse cart for the production team back in the day.

She ran forward and sat down immediately. Uncle Niu noticed her and greeted her with a smile, saying, "Child, sit inside a bit. Sit on the bean cake bag. The cart is hot from the sun and there are splinters. I'm afraid you'll get pricked by them. It would be a shame to get your nice pants dirty."

Yu Han smiled, "Okay, Uncle Niu." Then she lifted her bottom and sat on the large sack of bean cakes on the cart floor.

Old Niu came to buy some soybean cakes mixed with hay for old yellow cattle, as well as coarse salt for human consumption.

A moment later, Aunt Niu came out of the supply and marketing cooperative. She said with a smile, "Yuhan is back. You're studying at university in the city. That child is really promising. Your mother said she misses you. Come to my house and chat with me whenever you have time. Your mother is also thinking about Yumei from your third uncle's family. How come Yumei has been going on dates for half a year and hasn't come back? Your third aunt is almost going crazy."

"Alright, stop nagging. Why are you like the village gossips, always talking about Yu Mei? Maybe she's having some trouble and that's why she hasn't come home. Maybe she's working somewhere to earn money. Yu Mei is ambitious and loves to study."

"Shut up! Who's gossiping? What kind of good person are you? You sneaked out in the middle of the night, saying you were feeding the old ox in the yard, and then you secretly went to Widow Li's house at the west end of the village. Do you think I don't know what's going on? I just haven't caught you yet. When I catch you red-handed, I'll make sure you're dead."

"Get the hell out of here! If you're not going to ride, get out of here. Yu Han, sit down. We'll ignore her. Let's go. Giddy up, wo yu!" Old Niu got angry and quickly sat on the front left of the oxcart, immediately whipping the old ox to drive it away.

The old ox started running.

"You old ox-headed fool, stop right there!" Aunt Niu ran after the oxcart.

No matter how slow the old ox is, Aunt Ox can't keep up.

At this moment, Yu Han couldn't sit still anymore. Looking at Aunt Niu running behind the oxcart, stumbling and falling, she found it both funny and pitiful. An old woman in her sixties had suddenly sat down on the dirt road and refused to chase after her old oxcart.

Yu Han quickly tried to calm down Uncle Niu, who was throwing a tantrum. She said gently, "Uncle Niu, please stand up. It's so hot, and my Aunt Niu is exhausted."

"She's perfectly healthy, she won't get tired. I just hate those old women in the village, always gossiping about others. Don't they know what kind of people they are? Since Yu Mei left, all those gossipy women in the village, Wu Sanbao, Zhang Cuihua, and even Yu Mei's sister-in-law Liu Yue, have been spreading rumors about Yu Mei. What kind of scum are they?"

Uncle Niu continued to grumble as he drove the old oxcart.

Yu Han was anxious. Just then, Aunt Niu suddenly collapsed on the main road for no apparent reason.

"Uncle Niu, stop the cart quickly! My Aunt Niu has fainted!" Yu Han hurriedly jumped off the oxcart.

"Child, don't jump, don't fall."

"Uncle Niu, I'm fine. The old oxcart is moving too slowly, I won't fall." Yu Han shouted as she ran towards Aunt Niu.

Uncle Niu also got anxious and turned the oxcart around, urging it towards the old woman. This was the first time the old woman had fainted; was she faking her death to make him stop?

Old Niu quickly arrived at the old woman's side, only to find that she was gone, as was Yu Han.

Uncle Niu pulled the old oxcart to the side of the road and shouted, "Old woman, where have you been? Don't leave me behind! You just left like that? I was wrong. I'll never leave you off the cart again. Come back soon, I'm waiting for you."

Then he shouted again, "Yang Yuhan, where have you gone? Where did you and your Aunt Niu go?"

Just then, Yu Han's clear voice came from above, "Uncle Lao Niu, you should drive home now. Don't worry, I'm here. Aunt Niu will be fine. When you get home, Aunt Niu will be waiting for you on your heated kang bed."

"Yu Han, what are you saying? I don't understand."

After a while, he could no longer hear any sound from the sky.

Okay, I'll do as this girl says, what else can I do? Then he looked at the sky; the midday sun in mid-August was indeed quite scorching.

He turned the oxcart around and drove it back home along the dirt road.

In the afternoon, Uncle Niu indeed saw his wife on his own heated kang (a traditional Chinese bed-stove).

He asked the old woman where she had gone, and she smiled and said, "I don't know where I went. I saw it when I woke up. It's beautiful there, with flowers, the sea, and springs. Yu Mei took me there. I was unconscious because of the sun, and it was all your fault. I drank the spring water there, and I feel much better than before." After saying that, she tried to pick up a hundred plastic buckets containing twenty kilograms of loose baijiu, which she usually couldn't lift.

At this moment, Yu Han stood inside the wooden threshold of the east room, watching her lovely old mother cooking lunch for her around the large iron pot in the kitchen!

"Mom, you absolutely have to come with me this time. We'll have a place to stay, and I can earn money too!"

Liu Shulan made her three white flour pancakes and fried two egg pancakes, then served them on the heated brick bed.

She ate with great relish. It was so nice to have her mother around. She finished two pancakes in no time and gave the other one to Liu Shulan.

Just then, Diao Yan rushed in and hurriedly asked, "Yu Han, have you seen Yu Mei?"