Is the Zhou family a den of dragons and tigers? It took a short time to torment a new daughter-in-law like this. Although Gu Shichu expected that Li Danyang's life after marriage would not be easy, she did not expect it to be so difficult. How much torture did Li Danyang suffer
"You...how did you become like this?" Gu Shichu asked with mixed feelings. Although Li Danyang jumped into the Zhou family's fire pit willingly, her current appearance made Gu Shichu couldn't help but feel pity for her.
—Maybe it’s because people of the same kind feel sympathy for each other. The original owner looked like this in the previous life.
No, it was even because she had no family to rely on, so the Zhou family, especially Zhou's mother, bullied her even more unscrupulously. But in this life, Li Danyang had a powerful family, so the Zhou family didn't dare to be so presumptuous.
When Li Danyang saw that it was Gu Shichu, she immediately blushed with shame, which made her pale face look better. She always felt guilty when facing Gu Shichu, and now that Gu Shichu saw her embarrassed appearance, her guilt turned into anger and shame. She would rather lose face in front of Gu Shichu than in front of the whole village.
So she put on a fake smile and said casually: "What have I become? There are many children in my family. When I am busy, I don't have the time and energy to dress myself up... Fortunately, my efforts have not been in vain. The children are sensible and obedient..."
"Li Danyang, I want to eat roasted sweet potatoes. Come and peel them for me!" Before Li Danyang could finish his words, Zhou Jianhong's life-threatening urging came from behind. Li Danyang's head almost smoked in an instant, and he wished he had not said that just now.
Gu Shichu chuckled and retracted her sympathy. It seemed that Li Danyang was enjoying it, so why should she sympathize with him
The Zhou family's rapid rise is like a carrot hanging in front of a donkey, which can make the donkey pull the mill with all its might. Li Danyang is the donkey pulling the mill. For the sake of future benefits, she can endure the current hardship.
What is poison to others may be honey to me. Gu Shichu and Li Danyang have different pursuits, so naturally they have different views on Zhou family affairs.
While Li Danyang was conscientiously being a good stepmother, Gu Shichu had already started learning junior high school and high school knowledge from Zhang Weihong.
Gu Shichu has taken the college entrance examination many times, and a lot of knowledge is stored in her deep consciousness. If she wants to remember it, she needs guidance. Therefore, it is more accurate to say that Zhang Weihong is guiding her to recall the knowledge rather than teaching her knowledge.
Under such circumstances, Gu Shichu's learning progress was naturally rapid. Zhang Weihong often praised her for her intelligence, quick mind, ability to draw inferences from one instance, and said she was a learning genius who could easily understand and apply any knowledge. Zhang Weihong felt very fulfilled as her little teacher.
The relationship between Gu Shichu and Zhang Weihong became better and better. From time to time, he would give her some food to help her. Zhang Weihong also reciprocated. When her family sent her things, she would share them with Gu Shichu.
Since Gu Shichu had to study, naturally he spent less time with Ji Mingtao. Ji Mingtao pretended not to care at first, but later he couldn't pretend anymore. Every time after Zhang Weihong finished tutoring Gu Shichu and left, he would come to Gu Shichu's house with a cold face, silently protesting her neglect.
"Okay, okay, I have learned all the knowledge from junior high school to high school. Now I don't need Zhang Weihong to teach me often. We have discussed it again and will only give extra lessons on holidays when I am not working. I will not be as busy as before, and I will not ignore you." Gu Shichu hurriedly comforted Ji Mingtao.
Ji Mingtao didn't understand why she valued this knowledge so much: "What's the point of learning it now? You can't get into college, and you don't use it in your daily life. Isn't it a waste of effort?"
Gu Shichu smiled mysteriously and said meaningfully: "How can you have too much knowledge? Opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared. This knowledge may not be used at ordinary times, but once it is used, it must be very important. It may play a key and decisive role."
Ji Mingtao listened and seemed to be thinking about something. He knew Gu Shichu. She was not the kind of person who acted without a purpose. Whatever she did must have been carefully considered and would not be done without purpose.
"Do you want to be a teacher in the village?" This was the only thing Ji Mingtao could think of for the time being.
Gu Shichu smiled and shook his head: "No, why don't you think further and deeper?"
Ji Mingtao frowned and looked at Gu Shichu in silence. Gu Shichu leaned forward and kissed his thin lips, saying, "Okay, don't make random guesses. It's definitely not a bad thing to learn more. Let's not talk about those boring things, let's do something happy first..."
The winter in Zhoujia Village is very cold, with heavy snow often falling. Everyone stays at home and doesn't want to go out. Gu Shichu and Ji Mingtao are like two hibernating animals. Except for taking care of the necessary eating, drinking, defecating and urinating, they basically don't get out of bed at other times, because no one will notice them anyway.
The next year was 1972. Gu Shichu counted on his fingers how many years were left before the college entrance examination. He found out that it would be another five years. He sighed and felt it was a bit difficult. There was no freedom and material things were in short supply. This was torture for Gu Shichu, who loved to enjoy life.
Ji Mingtao heard her sigh, looked at her in confusion, reached out his hand to pull her over, pressed her into his arms, and asked, "Why are you sighing?"
"Where's the farthest place you've been to?" Gu Shichu asked him. She remembered that Ji Mingtao had sold watches and flashlights on the black market before, and it was obvious that the origins of these things were very suspicious.
Ji Mingtao paused, then said in a low voice: "It's in the city. It takes three hours to get there by car from our county."
Gu Shichu raised his eyebrows, thinking that it was true, and asked again: "Is the city very prosperous and lively?"
"It's more lively than the county town, and there are more buildings. Everything else is similar." Ji Mingtao said lightly, hugging Gu Shichu.
Gu Shichu sighed enviously: "It would be great if I could go to the city... I stay in the village every day and feel like the outside world has nothing to do with me. If I have the chance, it would be better to go to a big city."
She was just waiting for the opportunity of the college entrance examination, but unfortunately she still had to wait.
"Do you really want to go to the city? Do you want to be a city dweller?" Ji Mingtao was silent for a while before asking.
Gu Shichu was very frank: "Of course I want to live in the city. Do you want to stay in Zhoujia Village all your life? The world outside is more exciting. Staying in the isolated countryside is not a good choice. Whether it is the living standard or the education conditions for children, what's wrong with pursuing a better life?"
After hearing her words, the light in Ji Mingtao's eyes flickered and finally fell silent.
He was the son of a landlord and had always been under strict surveillance. The situation had only been relaxed in the past two years. In the past, he had to think of many ways to succeed in going to the city. And settling down in the city was extremely difficult. It was difficult for poor peasants with a clean background, let alone him with a dirty background.