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Yu Pan deliberately worded it ambiguously, so the others thought they had held hands.
When Duan Mei heard that the two of them had held hands, she was shocked!
She hurriedly looked at her husband. “I think we should quickly find Shi Lian to settle Yu Bing and Yao Nian’s marriage. If Yu Bing really gets together with that man, we won’t get a single cent!”
Mr. Yu lowered his eyes and thought for a moment. “There’s no hurry. She’s on a business trip. Perhaps for safety purposes, she brought a male colleague along. We’ll ask when Yu Bing comes back and see what the situation is. If you look for Shi Lian so rashly, what if it’s not what you think?”
Duan Mei thought to herself, “What if it is?!” However, she thought about how two days wasn’t a big deal, so she endured it.
Duan Mei had just picked up the loofah and was about to continue digging when she suddenly thought of something. “Oh no! Didn’t Yu Yan say in her last letter that she was coming this Wednesday?!”
Mr. Yu was shocked and turned to look at his wife. “Hurry up and call her. Tell her to return to the village and come back some other time. The Yao couple is enough of a headache for us. If Yu Bing finds out and exposes it, how can we continue to live in the courtyard?!”
Duan Mei agreed anxiously. “I’ll go now. Yu Pan, cook the loofahs!”
After Duan Mei instructed Yu Pan, she took her bag and went straight to the post office.
Yu Bing and Xiao Sheng worked for another two days before finally completing the market investigation.
Yu Bing chose a working day to go home. Before she left, she went to the supply company to buy two pounds of mung bean cake.
At five-thirty in the evening, it was time to get off work. Yu Bing specifically chose this time to go to the courtyard.
“That’s Yu Bing, right?”
“Looks like it.”
“She has changed so much!”
“Are you Yu Bing?” someone asked curiously.
Yu Bing immediately smiled and greeted, “Auntie Cheng, I’m Yu Bing.”
Those who knew the Yu family surrounded her. “You’re getting more and more beautiful after you went to the countryside!”
Aunt Cheng also asked curiously, “You’ve changed so much from before. Even we, who have been your neighbors for so long, can barely recognize you. We thought that you were just a look-alike. Are things hard for you in the countryside? Why do you seem even better off than when you were at home?”
When Yu Bing heard this, a bitter smile appeared on her face. “Things are quite tough in the countryside. When I was busy farming, I was so tired that I felt that my body was no longer mine after work every day. However, although I was tired, I could at least eat my fill. That’s why I grew taller.”
“I’m quite lucky. A few months ago, our village opened a food factory. Life became easier for me after I started working there, so I gained weight after a few months.”
“Sigh, your mother is too much. She left all the heavy work at home to you, but she’s quite good at pretending outside. After comparing you to your brother and sister, who wouldn’t know what’s going on? Duan Mei thinks she hid it quite cleverly and thinks we don’t know.” The person who spoke was Yu Bing’s neighbor and had watched Yu Bing grow up.
The neighbors had always seen the unfair treatment Yu Bing had suffered. In the past, they had helped speak up for her, but Yu Bing was still young at that time and was very obedient to her parents.
As outsiders, they could help once or twice, but they couldn’t help every time. Sometimes, when they saw Duan Mei’s pretentious act, they treated it as watching a circus act for free.
This was the effect Yu Bing wanted, but she still acted helpless. “I’m not in good health, so it’s inevitable that my family will complain. That’s why I wanted to do more work to make up for it. However, it’s useless. In the end, I got sent to build a village… Sigh, let’s not talk about it anymore. At least I’ve made it through now.”
Yu Bing’s vague words made everyone’s imagination run wild.
Who didn’t know that life in the countryside was tough? There was endless work all day long. Because of the hard work, rural people looked much aged than city dwellers.
Even young and strong city people might not be able to adapt if they went to the countryside. Despite having two healthy children, the Yu family made Yu Bing go. This was no different from letting Yu Bing fend for herself.
When Duan Mei saw a group of people surrounding Yu Bing from afar, she frowned and shouted, “Yu Bing?”
When everyone saw Duan Mei, they tacitly changed the topic and greeted her.
Yu Bing turned around and replied, “Mom.”
Duan Mei greeted the neighbors. Then, in front of everyone, she smiled at Yu Bing gently and said, “Yu Bing, hurry up and go home.”
Yu Bing followed Duan Mei upstairs, but she knew that the contents of the conversation just now would quickly spread.