Mingyue was sweet-spoken and offered a fair price. She also said that the tenant was a hardworking young man. Soon, Grandma Niu agreed to rent her cottage to her.
Mingyue estimated that the time was almost up, so she hurried to the station to pick someone up.
The cars that go into the city from the town are cars on the surface, but in fact they are no different from buses. The drivers pick up people as they go, and they stop after moving for a while.
It is supposed to be an hour and a half drive, but if there are a lot of people going into the city, it is possible that it will take two or three hours.
That was what happened this time. Mingyue waited at the station for more than ten minutes before Zhou Chengming got off the bus carrying a plastic bag.
"Brother Chengming, here." Mingyue waved to Zhou Chengming and shouted.
In fact, when Zhou Chengming entered the city, he was already prepared to suffer alone. He had no intention of looking for Mingyue, Zhou Sanming and Siming because he didn't want to trouble others at all.
He knew that he was very disliked in the village, but now that he had moved to the city, he no longer had to put on a face that even he hated.
Even though he only had six dollars on him, he believed that in such a big city, he could always find a job that could provide him with food and clothing, support himself, and live an upright life.
But until this moment, until Mingyue called him "Brother Chengming", Zhou Chengming could no longer hold back his tears and ripples appeared in his heart.
It was only then that he suddenly realized that he had always longed to be cared for and to be warm.
Zhou Chengming blinked hard to get rid of the sourness in his eyes, then waved to Mingyue and said hello: "Mingyue."
The two met soon, and Mingyue led his men towards the slum.
As she walked, she said, "Brother Chengming, my dad has told you that I don't have enough manpower here, so I would like to ask you to come and help me."
"I have already rented a house for you. It is right next to the one I live in. I need to talk to you about the wages and working hours. According to my idea, we have to start at 5:30 every morning..."
"Wait, Mingyue, wait a moment." Zhou Chengming interrupted her with a look of confusion on his face.
Uncle Tieshu didn't explain it to him in detail. He only told him the addresses of Mingyue and Sanming and gave him a landline number. Then he said that when he arrived in the city, he just had to go find Mingyue.
So Zhou Chengming didn't know that Mingyue really wanted to ask him for help. Even though Zhou Tiegen had told him before that Uncle Tieshu asked him to go to the city to help Mingyue, he thought that Uncle Tieshu felt sorry for him and deliberately used this excuse.
"Do you really want me to help you?" He paused, then said, "Not because you feel sorry for me? Not because you want to help me?"
Mingyue looked at him with some surprise and saw his unconfident look at a glance.
Mingyue understood and shrugged her shoulders deliberately, saying indifferently: "Of course I wanted you to help me, so I asked my dad to find you. And why do you think I would pity you? Compared to my past, your life doesn't seem to have too many ups and downs, right?"
Even if he was ignored by Zhou Tiegen and had to bear the debt for Yang Tao, at least he didn't get beaten or hurt!
Zhou Mingyue lost two children and had such a tragic ending once.
After hearing this, Zhou Chengming felt embarrassed, but also inexplicably relaxed.
Then he brought up something: "By the way, Mingyue, there is something you may not know yet. It can be considered as retribution. The He family's young ones..."
The He family's mess was a hot topic in the surrounding villages, and everyone knew about it. But Mingyue didn't know it. Firstly, she had not paid attention to the He family's affairs since she poisoned them. Secondly, the Zhou family was worried about her and deliberately didn't let those things reach her ears.
But Zhou Chengming didn't have so many concerns. Moreover, he felt that the ending of the He family was very pleasing to the people, so he told it to Mingyue without hesitation.
When it comes down to it, it was all because the He family was too greedy and didn't know when to stop.
At first, He Dadong and his three friends came to find Mingyue in good health, but in the end, they all returned to Dagou Village sick.
They couldn't rely on Mingyue anymore, so they just relied on Aunt Wu's family.
Or maybe in their hearts, they also felt that the reason they were so bad was that Aunt Wu's daughter-in-law poisoned their mulberries.
On the day He Dadong and his friends returned, Aunt Wu's daughter-in-law Meng Huacai was coaxed back by her husband. When she opened the door, she saw the lingering He family members, and her face looked extremely ugly.
What's more, He Dadong and his men called the village chief and the team leader, and framed Meng Hua in front of everyone, saying that she was the one who poisoned the mulberries and caused them to become neither human nor ghost. This was enough to make Meng Hua laugh.
She had picked that basket of mulberries for herself. It was these little bastards who stole her food, and they had the nerve to turn the tables on her
Meng Hua was so angry that he wanted to kick the man out, but then Aunt Wu's compassion came back.
Or maybe it could be that when Aunt Wu saw so many villagers around her, she wanted to show her soft heart.
Aunt Wu stopped her daughter-in-law and said to the villagers, "Dadong and his family are so pitiful. Let's all pool some money together and send them to the hospital."
Everyone was poor those days, and she wanted the villagers to pay just by talking.
She had a good idea, but no one was willing to cooperate.
The mean Aunt Li said bluntly: "Your family has a lot of money, and you are the kindest, so you should pay the money alone! We don't seek a good reputation, and we don't owe him anything, so why should we pay?"
Although the other villagers didn't say anything, the expressions on their faces clearly showed that they agreed with Aunt Li's words.
Aunt Wu's face suddenly turned very ugly, but she didn't dare to agree to pay for it for a long time.
He Dadong had long seen through Aunt Wu's hypocrisy, and he hated her to the core, but the pimples on his body frightened him. So he could only cling to Aunt Wu, and with his brothers, he said nice things to her, begged her on his knees, and directly put Aunt Wu in a difficult position.
Seeing that Aunt Wu was about to promise to pay, Meng Hua said directly: "If you dare to agree to pay, I will divorce you and go back to my parents' home."
Having such a foolish mother-in-law, Meng Hua felt that she was unlucky.
Medical treatment is so expensive these days. It’s okay if it’s for your family members, after all, we are all family and there’s nothing we can do about it.
But Meng Hua didn't think he was that stupid to spend money on medical treatment for these five ungrateful little beasts.
However, in Aunt Wu's heart, the aggressive daughter-in-law was obviously not as pitiful as the five children who were kneeling on the ground crying.
(End of this chapter)