Famine Bride: Marry into the best in-laws and win

Xu Manyue sat at her desk, organizing the information questions for her students. She sat there for several hours, completely forgetting the time. When she finished her work and looked up, it had already darkened.

I looked at the watch on my wrist and it was already past nine o'clock in the evening.

She got up, opened the door and went out. Usually around seven o'clock in the evening, when the old ladies had just returned from work, Qingqing would knock on the door and ask her to come for dinner.

Why is there no movement today?

When Xu Manyue entered the room, she saw only Shen Qingqing and Shen Baozhu. They lit kerosene lamps. One of them was sitting at the dining table quietly sewing shoe soles, while the other was doing her homework obediently.

She looked around but saw no sign of anyone returning.

"Qingqing, your grandma and your mother haven't come back yet?"

When Shen Qingqing heard the sound, she quickly put down the needle and thread in her hand, stood up and walked to Xu Manyue's side, and looked outside the house again.

"Aunt San, grandma and the others should have been back by now. Why haven't they come back yet? Did something happen to delay them?"

Even if she got off work late in the past, she never felt as uneasy as she did today.

It was all her fault because she was so engrossed in sewing the soles of the shoes that she didn't notice the weather outside.

Xu Manyue was silent for a moment. It was indeed too late at this point.

"Qingqing, stay home and look after the house. Don't let Baozhu run out. I'll go check on the situation."

After giving the instructions, Xu Manyue walked out of the house and quickly headed towards the land in the west.

Starting from this morning, the team leader and his colleagues have been working there.

That piece of land was the best piece of land in Qingshan Brigade. It had grown a lot of crops there before, but unfortunately, there was a drought later and even that piece of land could not grow crops anymore.

When Xu Manyue arrived there, there was a faint bright moon in the sky, it was pitch black all around, and the evening breeze was blowing.

There were about twenty old men and women with hunched backs.

They were all carrying hoes in the fields, bending over to dig. When they were tired, they raised their hands to wipe the sweat from their foreheads, stood up to take a breath, and then continued to work hard.

These thin and short bodies seemed to contain enormous strength, so they did not complain at all, but instead showed fulfilled smiles on their faces.

I chat with people around me from time to time, and I don’t feel tired no matter how tired I am.

Among them, the shortest figure is actually an old lady. As the old woman gets older, her back becomes less bent and she becomes shorter.

From a distance, Xu Manyue watched this scene and unconsciously slowed down her pace.

Farmers' feelings for food are always the most sincere, especially those who have experienced famine and hunger.

She walked over quickly and silently joined the team going to work, but because she had no hoe, she could only help sow the seeds.

Hong Quan was the first to notice Xu Manyue's arrival. He was a little surprised and walked to her side. "Manyue, why are you here? Are you looking for your mother and the others?"

Xu Manyue nodded and continued with the work in her hands. "Uncle Hong, go and do your thing. Don't worry about me."

Hong Quan was digging in the ground while saying to her, "You should go back first. We're going to finish work soon. It will be difficult to calculate the work points then."

It’s not good to count too little, and if you count too much and get discovered, people will definitely have opinions. Anyway, there is not much work to do, so you might as well take a rest.

Xu Manyue shook her head and said, "Uncle Hong, you don't need to calculate my work points. It's almost time to get off work. I probably didn't even do a single work point, so it's better not to include it in the calculation."

Hong Quan waved his hand and said, "No, you can't do that. Since you did it, I'll give you one work point."

This is a matter of principle.

Xu Manyue had no choice but to ignore him and continue to work on her work.

Compared to digging the ground, throwing seeds is the easiest job. Except that it is too dark and it is a little difficult to throw them into the pit accurately, everything else is fine.

After a while, Hong Quan shouted, "It's time to get off work! Everyone, put away your farm tools and go back to rest early. We can do the rest of the work tomorrow morning. Don't exhaust yourself. It won't make up for the loss."

The captain's wife finally breathed a sigh of relief. She was so tired that she couldn't even straighten her back. There was resentment in her eyes as she looked at Hong Quan.

This damn man only knows how to work all day long. I hope she won’t be exhausted to death before the crops are grown.

Let’s see where he will find a wife then.

"Sister-in-law, look, isn't that your daughter Man Yue? Isn't she teaching at the commune primary school? Why did she come here to work with us?"

As soon as she got off work, Aunt Yang, who was working with the Shen family, spotted Xu Manyue.

The old lady looked up and patted her thigh. "Oh, it really is my third daughter-in-law. She must have seen that we hadn't returned home for dinner and was worried, so she came to check on us. She saw that we were still working, so she followed us to work."

When the people around heard the two talking, they subconsciously looked up at Xu Manyue.

"It's true that the Shen family is lucky to have Man Yue as their daughter-in-law. If it weren't for the substitutionary marriage incident, the person who would have married into the Shen family now would probably be Xu Mingyue, the one who colluded with others to steal our brigade's seeds."

"Tell me, they're all granddaughters of the Xu family, so why are they so different?"

"Fortunately, Xu Mingyue is a girl who just came back from the city. I didn't expect her to be so shameless and despicable. She dared to do anything. Maybe the man who stole the seeds with her was the wild man who got her pregnant."

"The man who got Xu Mingyue pregnant is none other than Lu Huaiyuan, the kid from the Lu family. He used to be one of the few high school students in our Qingshan Brigade."

"Maybe they are both from the same family. The missing soybean seeds were stolen by Lu Huaiyuan."

"But didn't the Lu family flee the famine a long time ago? We haven't seen anyone come back."

"Who knows? If they come back secretly, how would we know?"

The voices of these discussions were not deliberately lowered, and almost everyone around could hear them.

Xu Manyue's eyes darkened slightly, and after thinking about it carefully, she felt that this guess was indeed possible.

Otherwise, Xu Mingyue would not have always protected the people behind her. No matter how Uncle Hong pressed her, she refused to reveal who her accomplice was.