Chapter 62: The turning fate

Watching Zhou Anbei carrying the roe deer and sending the woman away, Zhou Andong sighed and lit a cigarette silently.

This woman was named Luo Yuezhen. When she was born, her mother died of massive hemorrhage. When she was two years old, there was nothing to eat at home, and she was hungry and howling. Her father went to Donghetao to fish. Because of heavy rain upstream, the reservoir released floodwater, and it was too late when he was discovered. When he was salvaged, he was still holding a fish tightly in his hand.

Less than half a year later, her grandmother also passed away due to excessive grief. In this way, Luo Yuezhen depended on her grandfather for survival. Because of the help of her uncles, she could barely fill her stomach, and life was still manageable.

But at the end of the year when Luo Yuezhen was eleven, because the road was slippery in the snow, her grandfather fell and never got up again. At this time, rumors began to spread in the village, saying that Luo Yuezhen was a star of disaster, destined to be lonely for a lifetime, and that her parents and grandparents were all killed by her, and whoever got close to her would not die well.

In that era, no one's food was abundant, and an extra mouth was a huge burden. When her grandfather was alive, her uncles could still take care of her, but once her grandfather left, plus the rumors, those uncles stopped caring about her.

She was like a wild grass in the desert, living desperately, and finally stumbled and lived to eighteen. This year was 1978, the first year of the resumption of the college entrance examination. A man named Liu Yahang appeared.

He was from Beijing. To resume the college entrance examination, he had to go to the countryside to sign up, so Liu Yahang became the last batch of educated youth to go to the countryside and came to Tanghezi. Then he fell in love with the wild grass that was lonely and helpless, standing firmly in the storm.

That year he was seventeen. Because of love, he threw the admission notice into the river without hesitation. In his words, university is precious, but love is even higher.

Many people said Liu Yahang was stupid, and some people secretly told him that Luo Yuezhen was a star of disaster and would be unlucky if he was with her. But he just smiled slightly, because in his heart, nothing—not university, not returning to the city, nor the ethereal future—was more important than Luo Yuezhen.

Zhou Andong once thought so too, but later he understood. Liu Yahang was a very pure person who lived out himself and understood very well what he wanted. He didn't have much noble sentiment, let alone the integrity of "life and death since ancient times," but he lived very truly.

When Liu Yahang was twenty and Luo Yuezhen was twenty-one, they got married and soon had a son, and the next year they had a daughter.

Liu Yahang was a person who dared to think and do. In order to let his wife and children eat, he began to secretly engage in speculation. At first, it was small-scale, collecting some agricultural products from surrounding villages to sell in the city. Later, after saving some money, he ran to the south to get some electronic products, calculators, and electronic watches to sell.

Liu Yahang's family life was good. His wife and children didn't have a single piece of clothing with patches, and every day when passing by his house, one could smell the fragrance of stewed meat. Someone was jealous and reported Liu Yahang.

The law enforcement team found more than 2,600 yuan in his house. Speculation, huge amount, sentenced to eighteen years.

Luo Yuezhen, who had just spent a few good years, returned to the starting point overnight. She cried at home for a day and a night in despair. Fortunately, there were children, which prevented her from completely collapsing.

She persisted, worked hard, and lived with all her strength, raising two children, with only one thought in her heart: waiting for her man to return.

But in the end, she couldn't persist. On a day in April 1992, she hung herself on a willow tree by Donghetao. The location was the section where her father had the accident, and that willow tree was very thin and short. A half-grown boy could break it with a little force, but she hung herself on such a tree on her knees.

She didn't know that following the old man's tour to the south on January 18th and his speech, the spring breeze of reform blew across the motherland, and also blew away the haze in the sky, and the sky was completely bright. The day after she hung herself, her man Liu Yahang was released early.

It was just that little bit, and in the end, they missed it. And this miss was for a lifetime, life and death separated, with no hope of meeting.

Liu Yahang no longer had hope for this village. Maybe there was hatred in his heart. After handling Luo Yuezhen's funeral, he took the children and disappeared.

When Zhou Andong heard about Liu Yahang again, it was twenty years later. It is said that he came back in a Rolls-Royce, with bodyguards, followed by more than a dozen luxury cars.

After repairing the graves for his grandparents, father-in-law, and mother-in-law, he took Luo Yuezhen's ashes away and never came back again.

Zhou Andong smoked a cigarette hard. In his previous life, he lived a mess himself. He really wanted to help Luo Yuezhen, but he was powerless.

When Luo Yuezhen hung herself, he wasn't in Tanghezi. After hearing about it, he was depressed for several days. After all, the distance between the two families wasn't far, and that woman, whose life was bumpy but very kind and tenacious, had been lingering in his brain.

"Brother, why haven't you returned to the house?" Zhou Anbei came back.

"Waiting for you." Zhou Andong came back to his senses and stepped on the cigarette butt on the ground.

Since he didn't help her in his previous life, he would help this bitter woman in this life, just to form a good relationship with Liu Yahang.

After returning to the house, Yuan Liying said, "Dongzi, come here."

Zhou Andong sat beside Yuan Liying and asked with a smile, "What's up!"

"Don't grin at me." Yuan Liying said, "When Seeing Jian Qiu was here, I didn't ask, but now you must answer me honestly, where did the TV come from?"

Although she had a TV, and it was a big color TV, she was happy, but some things must be asked clearly to be at ease.

Zhou Andong took out a handful of money from his pocket, slapped it in front of Yuan Liying, and said proudly, "This is the money for you to spend for the New Year, don't save it, buy whatever you should buy."

"So much money!" The little girl who was watching cartoons climbed over excitedly and reached out to grab it, but was slapped on her little claw by Yuan Liying, "Go aside."

The little girl laughed, "Big brother, I want to buy champagne to drink."

"Okay!" Zhou Andong hugged the little girl, "Big brother will buy it for you in a while."

Yuan Liying frowned and asked, "Where did so much money come from?"

Zhou Andong said truthfully and falsely, "Our factory is carrying out reform, which I proposed, and the reform plan and marketing plan were also made by me. This money is a bonus. Originally, I wanted to use this money to buy a TV, but our factory secretary said he had a TV in his dormitory that no one watched, so he gave it to me."

"Really?" Yuan Liying expressed doubt.

Zhou Andong said, "Seeing Jian Qiu is our factory's union director. If the TV came from an improper source, would she drive to send it back for me?"

"That's true!" Yuan Liying nodded, and then her expression became a little nervous, "That, what is the relationship between you and Seeing Jian Qiu?" ===== CHAPTER 63 =====