But I didn't expect that even if Zhou Tiegen recovered from his illness, he would still have to work very hard in the future. His two fingers had even shrunk together. He used to be a hardworking man who earned full work points, but now he is not even as good as a child.
His wife was even more reluctant to come back and even said directly that she would not live with him anymore since they didn't even have a marriage certificate.
Zhou Tiegen felt regretful and resentful, but it was useless! He was now a useless man and could only rely on his own son.
Then all the debts of Zhou Tiegen and the Zhou family fell on the unlucky Zhou Chengming.
Zhou Chengming used to be a hardworking guy, but when he found out that no matter how many work points he earned or how hard he worked, in the end he was just paying off Yang Tao's debt, he simply chose to give up.
So there was one more lazy man in Zhoujia Village. Since Zhou Tiegen could barely support himself anyway, Zhou Chengming didn't care even more. As long as he had food to eat and didn't starve to death, it was enough.
Whenever someone came to Zhou Chengming to collect debts, he would always say: I don’t have it. If you want money, go ask Yang Tao. Anyway, that money is not spent on me.
But Yang Tao was a man who only took in but never gave out. No matter how others persuaded him, he just refused to pay back the money. He also said that everything was voluntary on Zhou Tiegen's part and that it was Zhou Tiegen's debt. What did Yang Tao have to do with it? He also emphasized that his last name was Yang, not Zhou, which really made outsiders feel sorry for Zhou Tiegen.
Yang Tao's mother is also shameless. Not long after she separated from Zhou Tiegen, she hooked up with a widower from another village and moved into the widower's house some time ago.
But what else could he do? Zhou Tiegen could only blame himself for not recognizing the person.
It was just that everyone lent money to Zhou Tiegen with good intentions. After he couldn't get the money back from both ends, the relatives and friends who lent the money to Zhou Tiegen were angry, and Zhou Chengming also became unpopular.
Nowadays Zhou Chengming's reputation is getting worse and worse. He is really dragged down by his biological father and stepmother.
But at this moment Mingyue just treated it as a piece of gossip, and followed Zhou Ma in scolding Yang Tao for being heartless and ungrateful, and saying that the stepmother was treacherous and cunning, but she didn't take it to heart at all.
After more than a week, Mingyue's health had recovered a lot and she was finally allowed to go out for a walk.
Mingyue had nothing to do these days, so she often took a kettle to fetch water and brought water to her family members who were working in the fields.
But when passing a pond that day, Mingyue stopped and looked at the road in front of her which was obviously of a different color with a strange expression. She seriously suspected that the person who dug the pit here thought she was stupid.
The sudden appearance of such moist and fresh mud on this section of the road clearly meant there was something wrong. Well, she was not blind.
When Mingyue found out that the road they were taking today was the one designed by He Daqiang, she raised her eyebrows and couldn't help but reveal a smile on her face.
Do you think she would fall for the same trick twice? Who is she looking down on
Originally, Mingyue wanted to step over the trap and take a few steps forward to see the reaction of the messenger behind the scenes.
But to her surprise, Zhou Chengming suddenly jumped out from the field above, escorting a strange man.
Zhou Chengming shouted, "Mingyue, don't go forward. That bastard has dug a hole in front of you."
Mingyue paused and looked at him: "What do you mean?"
Zhou Chengming held the struggling man tightly with both hands and said with a stern face, "I was originally looking for a place to sleep, but when I lay down, I saw this bastard digging a hole here. I thought he wanted to harm the villagers, but I didn't expect..."
Zhou Chengming was a little embarrassed. He didn't like many people in the village, so he didn't care about the man's trap. But he really didn't expect that the bastard was going after Mingyue. The things that Zhou Mingyue was plotted against by the He family have now spread all over the place. I didn't expect that there would be someone who wanted to learn from He Daqiang. It was really hateful and disgusting.
Thinking of this, Zhou Chengming kicked the man on the calf, causing him to scream and beg for mercy: "I was wrong, I know I was wrong, and besides, it didn't work out, right? Just let me go, I won't dare to do it again."
Mingyue sneered. Why do these people always think that bad things that have not been done should not be counted
Unless you just had the thought but didn't actually put it into action, no one can blame you.
After all, no one in this world is a saint. It is normal to have bad thoughts, but restraining oneself is the instinctive reaction of human beings.
Those who have taken actions but failed should pay the price for what they have done, because failure is just the result of others having better luck, not because the perpetrators have restrained their evil.
Mingyue ignored the strange man and said to Zhou Chengming, "Please help keep an eye on him and don't let him run away. I'll go get someone over here."
Zhou Chengming nodded indifferently: "Don't worry, he can't run away."
"Stop, Zhou Mingyue, didn't you fall into the pit? Zhou Mingyue, don't go," the strange man almost jumped up, but was held down by Zhou Chengming, so he could only yell: "Please, Zhou Mingyue..."
Mingyue completely ignored him and walked quickly towards where the Zhou family was working.
Old man Zhou saw his daughter coming from a distance, and a smile instantly appeared on his face. He said to his second cousin Zhou Tiezhu beside him: "Hey, my daughter is so thoughtful. She hasn't even recovered yet, but she still remembered to bring us water."
Zhou Tiezhu straightened up his bent body, spat into his palm, rubbed his hands, rolled his eyes, and said unhappily: "You know Mingyue is not fully recovered yet, and you still have the nerve to ask her to bring water. You, as a father, really don't know how to care for others."
Old man Zhou made a weird expression with his back to his second cousin, thinking that he was just jealous of his daughter's thoughtfulness.
Liu Hui couldn't help laughing when she saw this. Her man was already a grandfather, but she could still see the boy with a pure heart in him.
At this time, Mrs. Zhou's voice rang out: "Dad, Mom, my little sister doesn't look right."
Liu Hui and Old Man Zhou's faces froze at the same time and they looked at Mingyue.
Old Man Zhou's face darkened instantly. He walked towards his daughter and asked angrily, "What happened to Mingyue? Who bullied you?"
It seemed as if as long as he got the promise, he would immediately go and beat someone up to support his daughter.
Mingyue's expression relaxed, and after seeing the gossiping looks from the crowd, she raised her voice a little, "Dad, someone dug a trap in the weir pond to harm me, and now the person has been caught by Brother Chengming. You should go and have a look."
Instead of hesitating and causing people to speculate, it is better to tell the truth openly.
Anyway, it wasn't her who did such a shameful thing, so why should she cover up for the thief
(End of this chapter)