Seventy Buddha Cannon Fodder

"Ah—help—"

Wu Mengting only had time to let out an exclamation before her mouth was tightly covered and she was dragged into the bamboo forest.

The hands that were holding her were rough, but the strength that erupted was so great that Wu Mengting had no room to struggle.

At this moment, Wu Mengting already regretted not falling. She shouldn't have come out to wander around after dark, relying on the security of Shanghe Village.

The old Gu's house was located in a remote place, and now she really said that every day should not be done. Thinking of what might happen to her, Wu Mengting was so frightened that she trembled all over.

If that kind of thing happened, she would be completely ruined.

For the first time, she felt fear in her heart, and after being thrown into the woods, she begged for mercy: "Oh, you let me go, I will definitely not tell others."

"I beg you to let me go, I'm a girl from a good family, let's talk slowly..."

She didn't forget to show her most pitiful and innocent expression, she knew that men generally couldn't stop her from begging like this.

Unexpectedly, the next moment, Wu Mengting's pleading froze on her face, looking ridiculous.

What she saw standing in front of her was not the bum she guessed in her heart, but a familiar face.

Zhou Zijin sneered, seeing enough of her performance, he grabbed her hair and scratched her ears: "Say it, why don't you say it?"

"Third—Aunt Third." Wu Mengting immediately thought of the reason and immediately begged for mercy.

"Third Aunt, listen to my explanation, what happened that time really has nothing to do with me."

"You also know the current situation of the Wu family. I really couldn't get any food, so I asked someone to borrow some. Who knew that he would turn around and say that he had lost the food."

"Third Aunt, that Lin Aiguo likes me, he just wants to threaten me with this matter."

But Zhou Zijin didn't believe a word: "You can fool Wu Wei with these words, but you can't fool me."

"You are worthy of being Wu Han's own daughter. Back then, your father refused to recognize your own biological parents in order to get into the Qian family. Now you are willing to frame your own uncle in order to protect yourself, and you don't care about the lives of the three of us."

"Wu Mengting, you are really good at it."

After being slapped, Wu Mengting's cheeks were burning hot, but now she is not afraid anymore.

No matter how fierce Zhou Zijin was, he couldn't really do anything to her.

Seeing that she didn't believe it at all, Wu Mengting stopped acting, and said with a sneer, "Who told you not to go to other places but to come here, then you deserve bad luck."

Zhou Zijin didn't expect her to be so shameless, even without repentance.

Feeling chills in his heart, Zhou Zijin knew that if the disaster was not resolved today, the three of them would have to live a life of being missed by thieves every day.

Thinking of the sighing husband and the daughter who was terrified of having nightmares every night, Zhou Zijin felt a pang of anger, rushed up to press Wu Mengting and hit her: "Okay, since you don't give us a way out, then I will die with you."

Seeing that she looked crazy, Wu Mengting became a little scared: "Are you crazy, I'm dead, and your family can't even think about living."

Zhou Zijin roared: "One life for another, and I've earned it!"

Seeing that she was beating her harder and harder, Wu Mengting couldn't help being frightened in her heart, so she begged for mercy again: "Aunt San, please forgive me, I am only three years older than my cousin, and I was afraid of such a thing, so I made the previous move." things."

In the dark night, Zhou Zijin, with disheveled hair, looked like a deadly ghost. He didn't look like an elegant intellectual before.

"But I promise, I will never do that again." Wu Mengting said again.

"I will definitely pretend that I don't know you, and I will secretly send food to you, so that you can get through this period of time. Please let me go."

But Zhou Zijin knew that she would never change, so he sneered, "I don't believe you."

But she still has a daughter, and she is reluctant to pay for Wu Mengting's life.

After fighting enough and venting his anger, Zhou Zijin finally let go of her: "You'd better stay away from us in the future, and let me find out about your little tricks, and I will drag you to hell with me."

Wu Mengting covered her face and glared at her.

Zhou Zijin said coldly: "That old bastard Wu Han is willing to leave you, a little bastard, in the country for a reason. Let me guess, it's because of old Qian's family, right?"

Wu Mengting's face suddenly changed.

"Heh - he really has a good plan." Zhou Zijin stood up and looked down at her.

"I don't care what your family's plans are, but if you dare to do anything that is not good for us, I will desperately go to Qian Zhiyi and talk about it, so that he can see clearly what black-hearted things your family is."

Wu Mengting shouted in horror: "You dare."

"I've come to this end, why don't I dare, at worst we all die together." Zhou Zijin's eyes were red.

Wu Mengting was really scared now: "Third Aunt, in the final analysis, we are also a family, relatives connected by blood."

Zhou Zijin sneered and said, "Stop doing this, it makes me sick to hear it."

Wu Mengting gritted her teeth, and said with a sneer, "Okay, you go and see if he will believe you."

Zhou Zijin had a cold face: "Of course Qian Zhiyi won't believe what a person with questionable constitution says, but don't forget, I know his mother and hugged him when I was a child. Do you think he will believe it?"

Wu Mengting's face turns blue and white.

Zhou Zijin said again: "Why, the old bastard didn't tell you that he was able to climb up to Qian's family at that time, but it was through my natal family's connections. That ungrateful bastard would also be embarrassed to say so?"

Wu Mengting gritted her teeth, full of fear and anger.

Zhou Zijin didn't bother to pester her anymore, so she said, "You can do it yourself."

When she walked away, Wu Mengting got up and beat the ground as if venting, but it didn't help.

Unexpectedly, her plan, which she thought was perfect, not only failed to kill the family of three, but drove Zhou Zijin crazy to take revenge.

How dare Wu Mengting let Qian Zhiyi know the truth, no matter how much he likes her, Wu Mengting would not dare to bet.

After a while, Wu Mengting had vented enough, and then got up and walked to the educated youth's office.

With the burning pain still on her face, Wu Mengting didn't dare to see Qian Zhiyi again, and went directly to the female educated youth's room.

The three of Xu Zhenzhen originally planned to go to sleep, but when they saw her come back in a mess, they were startled.

"Wu Zhiqing, what's the matter with you, what happened?" Xu Zhenzhen asked worriedly.

Wu Mengting didn't even look at her, and just responded with one sentence: "I didn't see clearly when I was walking at night, and I fell down."

After finishing speaking, regardless of what they were thinking, they took out their last bit of cream and applied it, hoping that the wound on their face would disappear soon.

Xu Zhenzhen was worried from the bottom of her heart, and wanted to say a few words of concern, but was held back by another female educated youth.

"Zhenzhen, you are kind, but people don't appreciate it. If you talk too much, people think you are joking."

"That's right, she said she fell and fell, so let's go to sleep, we have to work tomorrow morning."

"We are not like some people who have help. Go to bed early to have strength."

Xu Zhenzhen was dispelled by their few words to ask her in the past.

It can be seen from this that Wu Mengting has a good relationship with the male educated youth, but the relationship with the female educated youth is not very good.

Naturally, the wound from the beating didn't heal so fast. Not only did it not disappear the next day, but it turned into a bruise, which looked terrible.

Xu Zhenzhen froze for a moment, and wanted to say something, but Wu Mengting had already turned around and left.

She sighed: "Wu Zhiqing seems to have fallen hard."

"It doesn't matter what she does, there are plenty of courteous people around her."

But what made them feel strange was that Lin Aiguo, who had been following Wu Mengting all the time, wishing he could even go to the toilet together, today had a gloomy face and went to work on his own, completely ignoring Wu Mengting's intentions.

Wu Mengting lowered her head, she didn't want Qian Zhiyi to see her in such a mess.

It's a pity that the educated youths work together, Qian Zhiyi soon found out: "Wu Zhiqing, your face?"

Wu Mengting had no choice but to bite the bullet and answer: "I accidentally fell while walking last night, and it will be fine after a few days."

Qian Zhiyi frowned, feeling that Wu Mengting was not telling the truth.

But seeing Wu Mengting's eyes flushed and pitiful look, he didn't ask any more questions. Instead, he took out an egg from his pocket: "You take this, it will get better soon if you warm it up at noon and rub it."

"Thank you brother Zhiyi." Wu Mengting said shyly.

It's a pity that her face was covered with bruises, which damaged her beauty.

The trivial things about the production team can't be hidden from anyone, let alone Wu Mengting with such a wonderful face.

After a while, the wives and mothers-in-law who talked badly were talking there.

Soon, the few who were assigned to open up wasteland heard it too.

Wu Wei frowned and glanced in Wu Mengting's direction.

Seeing this, Zhou Zijin suddenly put down the hoe in his hand: "Why, she's going to kill you, why do you still care about her?"

Seeing his wife was angry, Wu Wei quickly comforted her: "How dare I care about her, in my heart, only you and Xuanxuan are the most important."

"Just remember this. That girl has exactly the same temperament as your elder brother. She looks pitiful. If you take it seriously, she will eat people without spit out bones." Zhou Zijin warned again.

In the past, Wu Wei would always have to defend his elder brother, thinking that he also had difficulties.

But after experiencing so many things, Wu Wei suddenly felt tired.

"That's all, as long as the well water doesn't interfere with the river water."

Zhou Zijin sneered, if she hadn't warned her, Wu Mengting wouldn't know what tricks she was going to play.

Wu Xuanxuan raised her head and asked, "Mom and Dad, don't quarrel because of your cousin."

Zhou Zijin touched her daughter's head. She was only three years younger than Wu Mengting, but because of suffering during this period, she was as thin as a ten-year-old child.

For Wu Wei, Zhou Zijin still has resentment and anger in her heart, but for her only daughter, she only has love and guilt in her heart.

"Okay, let's not quarrel." The woman rarely showed a bit of tenderness.

Wu Xuanxuan laughed, and the little Huya looked a little cute: "No matter how difficult it is, as long as the three of us are together, I can work now, and when I grow up, I will definitely be able to support you, and we will never have to hungry."

For a moment, the couple almost shed tears, and they showed relief. These days are really too hard, not only the physical damage, but also the spiritual blow, but as long as the daughter stays with them well, the pain will also It becomes sweet.

Zheng Tong listened beside him, feeling a little envious in his heart.

Wu Wei and his wife were in trouble, but at least they could take their daughter with them, but his granddaughter still doesn't know where they are.

At the beginning, he sent his granddaughter away to take refuge, but who knew that this catastrophe would knock him down directly. Without him, who knows whether the entrusted person can be trusted or not, people's hearts are changeable!

Thinking of this, Zheng Tong couldn't help finding a time when no one was around, and urged, "Gu Mingdong, when are you going to pick up my granddaughter? You promised me that."

Gu Mingdong gave the exact time this time: "I will go tomorrow."

"Tomorrow?" Zheng Tong was a little surprised, "Aren't you going to recruit for the biscuit factory?"

The biscuit factory will be recruiting workers tomorrow, and the production team is making a fuss about it. Old Liu also held a special meeting to let the members work hard and not affect their usual enthusiasm for work because of tomorrow's recruitment.

Gu Mingdong nodded and said, "I won't join in the fun."

Zheng Tong thought that it was a good thing that Gu Mingdong didn't go. If he really entered the biscuit factory, the place was so far away from Shanghe Village, he might not be able to come back in ten and a half months.

At that time, their transactions will not be so stable.

Furthermore, tomorrow the entire production team will focus on recruiting workers, so it will not be conspicuous for Gu Mingdong to ask for leave to go to Daishan City, and it will be better to fool around then.

The two old foxes looked at each other, and both felt that tomorrow would be a good day.

Zheng Tong said with a smile: "Tomorrow will be good, and tomorrow will be a good day for everything."

Gu Mingdong raised his eyebrows and reminded: "Old man, forget it in front of me, but be more careful outside, otherwise you will have to be knocked down a second time."

Zheng Tong immediately said: "That is, in front of you, I am a bad old man outside."

In the early morning of the next day, except for Gu Simei and the twins, the other three members of the old Gu family packed up and were about to go out.

Gu Sanmei couldn't help asking: "Brother, don't you really want to try it? What if you get in?"

"No, I still have something to do today." Gu Mingdong refused straight away.

"What is so important, can't we wait?" Gu Erdi also asked.

Gu Mingdong suddenly said: "I'll go to your sister-in-law's house and see them."

"Sister-in-law's house?" The siblings looked at each other, suspecting that they had heard it wrong.

Li Lijuan is a good sister-in-law, but after she got married, she severed ties with her natal family, and she didn't move around during the holidays. She never took her husband and children back to see her when she was alive.

When she passed away, she wrote a letter and sent it to her natal family, but no one came there.

Now that everyone has been dead for two years, their eldest brother actually proposed to visit Daishan City.

Gu Sanmei tentatively asked: "Brother, isn't my sister-in-law's natal house broken? Can they welcome you?"

Gu Mingdong only said: "I thought about it, and I always felt that other things can be ignored, but the news of your sister-in-law's death must be delivered."

"They didn't reply at the beginning, maybe the letter was lost, so I have to go and see."

It is reasonable to say so, after all, it is not uncommon for letters to be lost these days.

When it came to the deceased sister-in-law, Gu Erdi and Gu Sanmei didn't persuade her any more.

On the way out, the elder brothers and sisters of the Gu family met many people who were going to recruit workers. Gu Sanmei walked with Gu Baojia Gu Weiguo, and met Sun Shumei in the town. The four of them went to take the exam together, so there was no need to worry about safety.

At the fork in the road, Gu Mingdong separated from them.

This time, Gu Mingdong didn't make a special trip to find a car, but waited for a short-distance bus.

This was the first time he sat in a bus of this era. Not to mention the wind from all sides, the bus did not have the concept of overloading at all, it was just crowded, and some people even brought chickens, ducks and geese up.

Fortunately, the weather is cold at this time, otherwise the smell would be broken just thinking about it.

The bus stopped and went, and it took almost three hours to arrive in Daishan City.

After getting out of the car, Gu Mingdong couldn't help stretching his muscles and bones, and then he felt alive.

He took out two pieces of paper from his pocket. The yellowed one had the address of Li Lijuan's home, and the newer one was the address of Zheng Tong's granddaughter. Coincidentally, the distance between the two addresses was not too far.

In the original owner's memory, Li Lijuan had a very bad relationship with her natal family, and she didn't like to mention her natal family at home.

But before she died, after Li Lijuan sent the letter, she wrote down her mother's address and handed it to the original owner.

It's a pity that the original owner was immersed in the pain of losing his wife, and resented the Li family's ruthlessness. He didn't even visit his wife when he was dying, and never thought of contacting them.

The last time he came to Daishan in a hurry, Gu Mingdong didn't have time to go at all, but this time he wanted to have a look.

Asking people all the way, Gu Mingdong soon came to a family building.

Daishan is much more prosperous than Xiyuan Town, and there are many more factories. There are a lot of family buildings piled up together, and you can hear the bustling sound as soon as you walk in.

The family building here has been around for some years, and it is lunch time at this point, and many people can be seen cooking on raw coal stoves in front of their homes.

【Building 13, Unit 2, 202】

Gu Mingdong didn't approach it rashly, but stood at the turning corner and looked inside.

There is also a coal stove at the door of 202, with a pot on it.

A 50-[-]-year-old woman came out of the house. Her face was black and yellow, like a manual labor worker. She was still wearing a work uniform with a big Sichuan character between her eyebrows. distressed.

Lifting the lid of the pot and looking at it, the woman went in directly with the pot.

That is Li Lijuan's biological mother.

The original owner only met once on the day Li Lijuan took him home and said he was going to get married. After they signed the marriage certificate that day, Li Lijuan went back to Shanghe Village with the original owner directly with her luggage.

Gu Mingdong moved closer.

202 opened the door, and the sound of the Li family eating could be heard from inside.

A young man complained: "Why is it vegetable porridge again? I can't do my work after drinking porridge every day."

"This is the condition of the family. If you like to eat, if you don't like to eat, you can spend your own money to eat in the factory." Li's mother said.

The man said again: "Mom, you are not good at cooking. When my sister was here..."

"What sister, you don't have a sister, and I don't have a daughter." Mother Li slammed down the chopsticks.

The young man also said angrily: "If you don't eat it, you won't eat it. I'll go out and buy it."

After speaking, Sa Yazi ran downstairs.

Mother Li was so angry that she clutched her abdomen, unable to speak in pain.

Father Li had no choice but to persuade: "Okay, Lijuan has been gone for so many years, there is something that cannot be let go."

"My daughter is also the flesh that fell from your body. She was at fault for what happened back then, but she was also deceived by a bad man. I really can't blame my sister for what happened to the boss. He can't think about it, and you can't think about it anyway..."

"I said before that I don't have her as a daughter. If it weren't for her, the boss would always blame us and wouldn't even go home." Mother Li still gritted her teeth.

"Let's go. She has great abilities. It's best not to come back and beg me for the rest of her life."

Standing downstairs, Gu Mingdong saw Li Lijuan's younger brother running away angrily.

With just a few words, Gu Mingdong was surprised to find that the Li family did not seem to have received the letter from Li Lijuan.

Or, was Li Lijuan's only letter before her death really addressed to her parents?

Gu Mingdong rummaged through the memory of the original owner, but the original owner was so heartbroken at the time that he didn't remember the address on the letter at all.

He frowned and followed.

The younger brother of the Li family ran out angrily with his parents, and regretted it after a while. His pockets jingled, and he had no money or food stamps to buy food.

Just as he hesitated and was about to go home, a voice suddenly called him.

"Li Libin, are you Li Libin?"

Li Libin looked at the person who came, he was tall, and he looked quite gentle, but he looked a little aggressive, wearing a very common white shirt and a thin coat that was old and not old, but he couldn't tell the way .

"You are?" Li Libin was sure that he had never seen this person before.

Gu Mingdong said with a smile, "I'm your sister's classmate. We met each other when I was young, and I even gave you candy."

Li Libin racked his brains and seemed to remember: "You look familiar."

When Gu Mingdong followed Li Lijuan back home, Li Libin was still young, so he just hid in the room and took a look, so he didn't have any impression.

Gu Mingdong didn't give him a chance to think, and said enthusiastically: "Long time no see, we are so destined, I'm going to eat, let's go, let's eat together."

Li Libin was so shy in his pocket that he faltered and couldn't speak.

"I'm treating you, why are you being polite to me?" Gu Mingdong had already dragged him to the state-run restaurant, where he generously ordered two bowls of noodles.

Li Libin was even more embarrassed: "How can I eat your food?"

Gu Mingdong smiled and said, "What's wrong, I just happen to have something to ask you about."

"What's the matter?"

Gu Mingdong showed a shy look, and said in a low voice: "I liked your sister when I was young, but unfortunately I lost contact after I moved. I happened to meet you today, and I wanted to ask if your sister is married. If not, I don't have any more Chance."

Li Libin believed this. After all, in his memory, his sister was good-looking, and the boys in the nearby family building liked it. When he was young, he followed his sister, and he often ate candies and melon seeds from those people.

Li Libin showed a strange look: "Then you should withdraw your face quickly, my sister has already been married."

"It's over?" Gu Mingdong sighed, "It's fine if it's over, but she's living a good life, and I'm happy for her."

Li Libin was wary at first, but seeing Gu Mingdong's enthusiasm, and now knowing that his sister got married and blessing him generously, he immediately felt that he was a good person.

The noodles from the state-run restaurant came up quickly, and they were not at the same level as Li's mother. Li Libin couldn't help swallowing.

"Let's eat, the noodles are already on the table. If you don't eat it, it's not a waste." Gu Mingdong smiled, "Even if I can't be your brother-in-law, I can still be your brother."

Li Libin finally couldn't stand it any longer, and began to eat in big mouthfuls.

When he was almost finished eating, Gu Mingdong smiled and said: "It's been so many years in a blink of an eye, hey, I just don't have a fate with your sister, if only I met you earlier, by the way, where does your sister live now? "

"I don't mean anything else, I just want to see her, and talk to my old classmates."

Li Libin was short-spoken, and suddenly said: "Actually, my sister doesn't live in Daishan City now."

He didn't know why he said it, but he started talking as soon as he mentioned it.

"She didn't know what to think. She suddenly said that she wanted to marry a man from the countryside. She went to get the certificate on the day she brought him back, and then she followed that man."

"That country man must have treated her badly. Otherwise, how could my sister have not even sent a letter after so many years."

Gu Mingdong's face changed slightly: "After so many years, there is not even a letter?"

"That's right." Li Libin sighed, "It's been almost five years, and I wanted to look for it, but my mother refused, and neither did my elder brother... well, it's just that there is a conflict at home."

"You don't know where she married?"

Li Libin shook his head, and said again: "My mother may know, but she won't tell."

"If you ask me, it's wrong for my sister to marry a countryman all of a sudden, but she's already married. After so many years, children must have been born. What's wrong with my family, but my mother is very temperamental, and we are not allowed to mention my eldest sister at home. .”

Gu Mingdong listened, but he was puzzled in his heart.

If Li Lijuan's dying letter was not addressed to her parents, who was it?

Suddenly, he thought of the twins' biological father.

Seeing his gloomy face, Li Libin thought that he was also feeling sorry for his sister, and comforted him: "Brother, you are a good person, and you will definitely find a better wife in the future. You should forget about my sister."

Gu Mingdong thanked him calmly, and the two talked for a while before separating.

Gu Mingdong could guess the reason why Li Lijuan got married in a hurry. At that time, her stomach was almost unbearable, and she had to leave the familiar Daishan City to avoid being guessed out.

But there is no way to explain that after so many years, Li Lijuan did not contact her family at all.

What is the reason that made Li Lijuan behave like a refugee, hiding in Shanghe Village and not daring to show her head.

Gu Mingdong couldn't figure it out for a while, so he put the question aside for now, turned around and headed for another destination.

Compared with the Li family's family building, it is only one street away, but this area is mostly self-built bungalows, and it looks much dilapidated.

Gu Mingdong found the corresponding house and was about to knock on the door when he heard a sound of beating and scolding coming from inside.

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