Chapter 43: Rebirth in the Nineties: The Tyrannical Flower Chapter 43 Wenjiagou

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Protagonist:

Chai Mi

Chai Mi's maternal grandmother's home was in Wenjiagou; actually, this "wen" refers to that character meaning "crack" in Northeastern dialect.

("Wen" is fourth tone on the crack side, Wenjiagou uses second tone.)

Wenjiagou, as the name suggests, was a mountain gully split by a great crack...

referring to a place where roads were relatively rugged and hard to travel, the natural ecological environment was relatively poor, and local produce was relatively barren.

Although Reform and Opening-up had been going on for some years and people had been allotted fields, development here was still very backward.

Wenjiagou was basically three parts mountain, three parts water, three parts forest, one part field. Heading deeper from here meant deeper gullies and bumps; from here to entering the interior of the pass, it basically fell under the intermingled area of the Nurhuluhu Mountain Range, Songshan Mountain Range, and Daqingshan Mountain Range. Among the myriad mountains and ravines, wanting to get rich was harder than ascending to heaven.

Of course, here they lived off the mountains, so even in hard times they wouldn't starve.

Everything has two sides, after all.

Chai Mi hired a small three-wheeled putter, and after over an hour, she entered the mountains.

If speaking of straight-line distance, Sanjiacun where Chai Mi was and Wenjiagou where Chai Mi's grandmother's home was located were only a dozen li of road, but the actual distance was more than double.

The mountains here were all extremely steep, standing upright, like straight fried dough sticks, abruptly stuck on the earth like that.

The three-wheeled putter couldn't go directly to Chai Mi's grandmother's doorstep; Chai Mi told the driver to wait a while, she would send Su Wan over, then come back.

Chai Mi and Su Wan didn't walk too fast; about ten minutes later they reached the grandmother's doorstep.

Fortunately, Chai Mi's grandmother was half-paralyzed and her grandfather was paralyzed, so there couldn't be no one at home.

When Chai Mi reached the doorstep, she stopped sending her: "Mom, I won't go in. You stay here for two days, then you tell your Da Jiu that life can't go on... if people from our old home come to call you, the first two times you must not lose your composure, you must insist on saying: divorce, it's over. Remember..."

Su Wan was stunned for a moment: "Uh... Chai Mi, you want to go home, then have me divorce your father?"

"See how he acts anyway; life itself can't go on. You're back at your mother's family now, so be firm. Eat what you should eat, drink what you should drink, don't think about anything else." Chai Mi instructed. "I'll come over in about a week; we'll discuss anything then."

After Su Wan agreed, Chai Mi glanced at her grandmother's home, then turned and left with Chai Xiu.

Then she took that three-wheeled putter back again.

Originally Chai Mi had wanted to let Chai Xiu stay there for a few days too; with Chai Xiu as a burden, Chai Mi couldn't actually stretch her hands and feet. Last time Chai Mi went home, wielding a kitchen knife to attack people, that feeling was truly "free and unrestrained," but if Chai Xiu was there, Chai Mi couldn't give Chai Xiu a kitchen knife too...

But Chai Mi also knew her mother Su Wan's character was like this; changing it was hard, or hard to change in a short time. Including Chai Youqing's character, it was hard to change in a day...

Unless, a rabbit was driven to desperation...

Chai Mi simply weighed me...

Rather than passively taking a beating, better to be ruthless to oneself.

No, better to be ruthless to Chai Youqing... to achieve family harmony as quickly as possible.

So first what Chai Mi had to do was to first find a helper, or rather first disintegrate the "enemy's" interior...