Failed, failed again.

Xu Yuanyuan kept replaying the events of the past few days in her mind, fearing that she would accidentally leave evidence and get sent to the farm as well.

At this time, her door was pushed open forcefully, and strong sunlight shone into the room. Xu Yuanyuan covered her eyes with her hands, feeling somewhat uncomfortable.

The person who came was Xu Manman. Xu Yuanyuan had been hiding in this room for a week. Xu Manman felt that he had done his best.

These days, Xu Yuanyuan took leave from work on the grounds of illness, and Xu Manman delivered food to her door every day.

Because she didn't show up, other people in the village turned their attention to Xu Manman and Chen Yuchen.

Children would subconsciously avoid them when they saw them, adults would give them unfriendly looks and whisper to them, and the other educated youth also avoided them like the plague.

Xu Manman felt like she was being tortured to death. It was clearly Xu Yuanyuan's fault, so why did she have to implicate him?

"Sister, is it fun to be a coward?"

Xu Yuanyuan wanted to retort her, but when she opened her mouth she didn't know what to say.

"Sister, I'm just here to inform you today. Let's go to work together tomorrow. Brother Chen and I can't support you forever."

"Tsk, you want to get rid of me so soon? Without me, can you get close to Chen Yuchen?"

"Sister, don't think so highly of yourself.

Without you, I would still be studying in high school in the city carefree, and Aunt Lin is not bad to us.

I don't know what your thoughts were when you signed me up to go to the countryside, but all I did was to live a better life.

I didn't get a penny of the money you took from home, and now my father doesn't intend to recognize me.

Even though he knew the money was lost, he didn't show any remorse. These things clearly had nothing to do with me, but I shared the responsibility with you. I don't owe you anything."

"Hahahaha, you don't owe me anything, I owe you anything. You are all good people, and I am the only bad person.

Then why didn't you stop me before I did something bad? You just wanted to wait for me to succeed so you could share the spoils."

Although his inner secret was exposed, Xu Manman was not panicked and admitted it frankly.

"Yes, you are right, Brother Chen and I are both that kind of people, so we are a perfect match because we are cold-hearted and emotionless.

Since you know what kind of people we are, you should know that this week is the limit we can give you.

You didn't give a penny for this house, and my sister and I have no source of income. We will have to rely on Brother Chen's family in the future.

But I am his legitimate wife, so cooking, cleaning, and washing clothes are all your responsibility. I hope you can adapt to it sooner rather than later."

"I see."

Looking at Xu Yuanyuan's sallow and haggard appearance, Xu Manman didn't feel anything strange in his heart. After she agreed, he turned around and left indifferently.

The next day, I got up early to make breakfast, and after arriving at the field, I waited for the team leader to assign me work.

Because of her bad reputation, no one wanted to be in the same group with her, so the team leader allocated her a separate area to break corn.

Under the scorching sun, the corn leaves would easily poke her exposed face and hands, and the corn pollen would fall on her body and cause a burning pain when she sweated.

She broke the ripe corns one by one and put them into the basket on her back. When she had reached her limit, she shuttled through the cornfield and poured the corn in the basket into the corn pile.

She starts digging potatoes in early October, digging them with a hoe and picking them up with her hands. Earning 10 work points a day is her limit.

After doing all this, she still had to cook, sweep the floor, wash dishes and wash clothes for three people. Her straight spine became hunched, and she was like a rose that quickly withered.

Because no one talked to her, she became more and more depressed, and Xu Manman and his wife only treated her as a transparent slave.

It may be endocrine imbalance caused by negative emotions, or it may be excessive fatigue, and most of my hair has fallen out.

As winter approached, it started snowing outside. Xu Yuanyuan breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that she could finally take a rest.

The seeds for next year have been saved, and plowing the land will have to wait until spring, but facts tell her that she was overthinking it.

There is no such thing as idleness in the rural areas of the southwest. At most, there are a few days of holiday during the New Year.

It's time to start digging manure. Because the weather here is wet and cold, some chopped dry corn stalks are put into the cowshed and pigpen to keep them warm.

After being trampled by animals for a year, these corn stalks mixed with some excrement become feces.

Dig them out and pile them together, and they can be used as nutrients for seeds next year.

Others simply process the corn stalks left in the fields to use as fuel for the fire and feed the cattle.

Corn stumps left in the ground also needed to be dug out, although oxen could be used to plow the field and get the roots out.

But at this time, people felt sorry for the cows. There were some steep places that the cows couldn't go to, so some people would start digging.

Xu Yuanyuan was assigned to carry manure, which meant putting the manure into a dustpan and pouring it into other people's backpacks. When the backpack was full, that person would go out and be replaced by the next person.

Xu Yuanyuan knew that no one would be willing to exchange with her, so she didn't bother and just stood in the circle for a whole day.

When they returned to the house, Xu Manman and the other girl were both disgusted and refused to let her cook today.

A scoop weighs about 20 pounds, and I only earn 10 work points at the end of the day.

However, the double attack on her body and mind could not be soothed by work points. Xu Yuanyuan could not bear it, so she thought of a way out for herself - to get married.

If I leave this village, no one will know my past, and no one will look at me strangely.

She couldn't bear everything that this place brought her, and she once wanted to turn people's attention to Yue Jiaojiao.

They spread rumors that Yue Jiaojiao was violated by Shen Guohao and that she was cruel and violent, causing Shen Guohao to suffer serious damage and ruining his life.

However, the result she had imagined of shifting the focus to criticize Yue Jiaojiao did not come. Everyone in the village was very clear-headed.

Several aunts came forward to say that Yue Jiaojiao was dressed neatly that day, and Shen Guohao deserved it for his evil deeds.

In the end, everyone unanimously pointed the finger at her as the source of the messages, and her life became increasingly difficult.

The nightmares I have at night are filled with those people’s contemptuous looks and the dirty words I hear.

She was feeling really unwell today and went to bed early. When Xu Manman and the others saw that he was not coming to eat, they didn't call out to him and just pretended that he didn't exist.

"People like her just can't stand seeing others doing well. Jiaojiao didn't provoke her, so she's really scary."

"No wonder Chen Zhiqing was dating her sister and dumped her. I guess he saw what kind of person she really is."

"Then why does Shen Guohao listen to her so much? Is there something going on between them..."

"How disgusting! The saying 'appearance is determined by the heart' is well-deserved."

……

Xu Yuanyuan was almost out of breath, the mocking voices continued to ring in her ears. She wanted to refute but her mouth felt bitter and her throat was dry, and she couldn't utter a word.

She wanted to step forward and beat these people to stop them, but those ordinary faces suddenly turned into man-eating demons, approaching her in a twisted manner.

She kept running forward, but there were more and more ghosts around her, gradually surrounding her, and the space was getting smaller and smaller.

Some ghosts grabbed her hands, some grabbed her feet, and they opened their bloody mouths and bit her flesh and blood without any scruples.

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