Fast-forward to the era of cannon fodder

Afterwards, the captain convened a mass meeting and praised Yuanchun's heroic act of bravery.

Moreover, the captain asked Uncle Zheng to testify that when Yuanchun rescued Cao Hui, she dragged him ashore by one of his feet, instead of carrying him up.

Finally, the captain warned the villagers not to spread gossip anymore and not to let the little hero who saved people cry and feel wronged.

From then on, no one in the village gossiped about Yuanchun anymore.

When the two sisters-in-law of the Cao family saw Yuanchun, they would stay away from her. Even if they met her face to face, they would lower their heads and walk past quickly, showing that they could not afford to offend her but could afford to avoid her.

Yuanchun didn't care. As long as they didn't point at her and call her a whore, she wouldn't care about the Cao family's attitude towards her.

After that, Yuanchun returned to her peaceful life.

In the blink of an eye, it was a year later.

Cao Hui married a girl from his mother's hometown. It was said that when Cao Hui went to his grandmother's house, he happened to see an old bachelor dragging a girl into the reed marsh at the entrance of the village, intending to do something bad.

He rushed in, saved the girl, and won her heart.

The woman only asked for a dowry of 20 yuan and married Cao Hui.

The Cao family had built two more adobe houses, but they were occupied by the children from the first and second branches of the Cao family. Cao Hui and his wife lived in the outer room of the east room, sharing a kang with Cao's father and mother, but with an adobe wall in the middle.

At night, Cao's father and mother often got up to go to the bathroom. The young couple slept on the kang in the outer room and dared not make any extra movements, for fear that their parents would see some discordant scenes when they got up.

After Yu Qing went to the steel mill, she only went home for seven days during the Chinese New Year, and then returned to the steel mill.

Recently, the Yu family has been very successful.

Yu's mother boasted everywhere in the village that her daughter was dating the youngest son of the factory director, and that her father-in-law had arranged an office job for her daughter.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the son-in-law came to the village to visit her parents. The things tied to his bicycle made people envious.

Not only did he buy each of them a set of clothes, he also gave them cigarettes, white wine, milk candy, brown sugar, cakes, two pounds of meat, and two pieces of cloth.

In rural areas, the betrothal gifts are not so generous.

But this is just a New Year gift.

Everyone in the village came to curry favor with the Yu couple, hoping to become friends with the Yu family and gain some benefits from them or their in-laws.

But after a few months, the villagers didn't get any benefits at all, and some even lost a lot of eggs, dried mushrooms, etc. Everyone then realized that it was futile to get benefits from the Yu family.

After that, gradually, no one came to please the Yu couple anymore.

Only then did peace return to the next room.

When the spring plowing season came, Yuanchun, who had been staying at home for a whole winter, returned to her peaceful life of working from sunrise to sunset and resting from sunset to sunrise.

She went to work every day, worked hard, and earned work points that only a man had. After work, she would go for a walk in the back mountain. She never came back empty-handed, as she could always pick medicinal herbs, mushrooms, fungus, wild fruits, and occasionally catch pheasants and rabbits to improve her meals.

She then dug up two wild ginsengs, one was a hundred years old, and the other was about thirty years old. Together with the medicinal materials she dug up, she sold them for a total of more than five hundred yuan.

After her stepfather passed away, Yuanchun took back all the money that she had hidden outside and hid it in a secret place in the house.

Now, she has more than 800 yuan in her hands and is an invisible rich woman.

This year, just after the spring plowing was completed, several strangers came to the village, an old couple, a middle-aged couple, and a young man.

They were people sent to the village for labor reform.

On the day they arrived, all the villagers ran to the brigade gate to watch the excitement. Yuanchun also went, but when she saw the scene with her own eyes, she couldn't bear it.

And I felt compassion.