On the 27th day of the twelfth lunar month, the sky clears.

Taking advantage of the rare good weather, Li Shaoan and Zhao Xuemei entered Tieshan Bay together.

On the way there, Zhao Xuemei's face was filled with excitement and some worries. This place she used to be so familiar with but now is so strange.

Seeing Zhao Xuemei becoming silent, Li Shaoan knew what she was worried about and comforted her.

"Don't think so much, everything that has passed is gone."

The tricycle was driving slowly on the mountain road, getting closer and closer to the Li family.

...

At the entrance of the village, a group of middle-aged women who were idle gathered together.

For these idle women in rural areas, talking about some things about Zhang and Li’s family every day is their favorite entertainment activities.

Among the women, there was a woman wearing a big flower jacket. She was plump and dressed like a bright big trumpet flower, which was very conspicuous among the crowd.

"Chuntao, your new clothes look so beautiful, where did you buy them?"

"Made it by pulling the cloth myself."

The women were holding Huang Chuntao's clothes and envious: "It's not cheap to have such a good cotton cloth, how much does it cost?"

Huang Chuntao felt secretly proud and pretended to be nothing, saying, "It's not expensive, it's only three or five yuan."

If it were the case before, Huang Chuntao had poor conditions among these women, her husband Zhu Jin could not make money and she had no work to do.

Today is different from the past. In the second half of the year, my husband has gone to the canal construction site every day, while he works at the planting base of Li Shaoan and Wang Xiangxiu.

After a few months, the couple's conditions have improved significantly. The most direct thing is that they can occasionally eat a meal of meat, and they have money to buy cloth to make new clothes as the Chinese New Year approaches.

"Chuntao, your life is getting better and better."

"That's right, thanks to Shaoan and Xiangxiu girl, if they hadn't built this planting base, where would rural women like me find work to do if they didn't know a lot about me?"

"Chuntao, do you still need people there? If you have the opportunity, I will talk to Xiangxiu and introduce us to work."

"I don't know whether to recruit people depends on Kasu and the others' decision."

When Huang Chuntao talked about her work, she looked extremely proud. Although she was not very decent in working in the base, she was indeed much better than the women around her.

At least compared to these women who are unemployed at home, she can make money every month.

While a group of women were chattering, a tricycle passed by the entrance of the village.

Isn’t it the person in the car that everyone is talking about Li Shaoan? When I looked at the woman sitting next to him, all the women’s chins were about to fall to the ground.

Zhao Xuemei!

Women, you look at me, and I look at you, and my surprise is beyond words.

Didn’t she divorce Huang Wangshui? After the divorce, she went to the town and never returned to Tieshan Bay.

What happened today? Zhao Xuemei actually sat next to Li Shaoan and came back with him. Could it be that the two of them are now a couple?

The tricycle flashed past, leaving a ball of exhaust gas.

Looking at the shadow of the tricycle leaving, the women began to talk.

"The one who seemed to be Zhao Chuan from our village just now? Did I misread it?"

"I think it's like Treasure Zhao, I can't read it wrong, it must be her!"

"When did she get along with Li Shaoan?"

"Who knows, didn't there be any news about them in the village before? At that time, I thought it was someone who spread rumors and caused trouble, but now it seems that it is not groundless."

Speaking of Li Shaoan, everyone's eyes naturally fell on Huang Chuntao again, because Huang Chuntao is now an employee of Li Shaoan's planting base.

"Chuntao, do you know this?"

"How can I know? I'm just a helping worker, so I don't care about this."

Huang Chuntao was curious and wanted to dig out this matter clearly and figure it out, but she really didn't know it.

Regarding Zhao Xuemei and Li Shaoan, there were actually some rumors in the village that were rumored and silly, but they were just gossiping and few people took it seriously.

Today, I really saw the two appear together, and Zhao Xuemei leaned on Li Shaoan's shoulder just now, and their relationship seemed very close.

From this point of view, Zhao Xuemei and Li Shaoan are already a matter of eight or ninety. It is a foregone conclusion.

"You guys say, when did Tsing Zhao get along with Li Shaoan? Is it easier to get along after divorce from Wangshui or before divorce?"

"This matter is hard to say. It has nothing to do with us anyway. At most, it has to do with their Huang family."

"Maybe, it is possible that the old Huang family will become the old Lu family."

"What did you say!"

Seeing that the women were talking about more and more, Huang Chuntao was quite unhappy. After all, Huang Yunlong was her biological uncle, and the matter of the Huang family was related to her.

"Chuntao, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, I'm talking quickly for a moment."

"You are really, haven't you seen Chuntao here? You still tell these jokes."

Only then did everyone realize that Huang Chuntao is still there and repeatedly apologizes to her.

Huang Chuntao said a few words, but didn't care about it, and this matter was over.

At this moment, an old woman's voice came from behind.

"Chuntao, why are you here?"

Huang Chuntao looked back and saw that the person behind him was his aunt Tian Lezhi? Although he called him aunt in relationship, since the two brothers Huang Feilong and Huang Yunlong had a quarrel, the relationship between the two families has gradually become distant.

In addition, Huang Yunlong was in prison, so the relationship between the two families became less.

"Auntie, are you looking for me?"

Out of politeness, Huang Chuntao's attitude towards Tian Lezhi was still respectful.

"I have some bacon at home. It's the New Year, I want to ask you to take some back."

Tian Lezhi changed her previous harsh and sarcastic appearance, and even her speech became much softer.

Perhaps it was because the man was in prison and his son ran away again. After living alone at home for a long time, his mind and character have also changed.

Huang Chuntao was surprised and never thought that when his aunt took the initiative to deliver bacon to her house, she quickly nodded and thanked her.

On the way to her house with Tian Lezhi, Tian Lezhi suddenly asked, "I heard you were talking about Zhao Xuemei just now? What's going on?"

Huang Chuntao said in his heart that terrible, and a group of women talked all the time. Sure enough, Tian Lezhi heard it and replied immediately: "I just saw Zhao Xuemei and Li Shaoan go back to the village."

"What! Come back with Li Shaoan?!"

Tian Lezhi's face changed. Why did she say that she was Zhao Xuemei's mother-in-law before? Now her former daughter-in-law has actually followed other men in the village to go home. She said that she couldn't hold on to her face.

Moreover, Tian Lezhi felt even more angry when she was a boy Li Shaoan. Now that Li Shaoan is making a fortune, her reputation in the village is getting higher and higher. Could it be that Zhao Xuemei, a scheming woman, is interested in this and wants to divorce her son?

I remembered that I used to be guarding against the day and night, just to prevent Zhao Xuemei from having sex with the wild man outside. Unexpectedly, I still couldn't defend myself in the end. Tian Lezhi was so angry that she was itchy.

[Author’s off-topic]: Thank you to the book friend “The Deep Blue of Lake Baikal”. Seeing your enthusiastic comments and comments, your fingertips just want to say: Thank you for your support and love, thank you.

Your speculation is actually very close. The prototype location of the story is indeed a small mountain village in Changde, Hunan. There is no real place name, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble. The Xuefeng Gold Mine in the book is the Xuefeng Gold Mine. In fact, there are many other details, such as smoking, eating dishes, and customs, all around Hunan.
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