12. Male Supporting Roles in Period Novels (12)

Ye Cuixiang heard the magpie call early this morning. She was a bit superstitious and thought that her daughter-in-law must have passed the exam. However, she was considerate and didn't want to put pressure on Li Hongfeng, so she didn't say her guess.

Unexpectedly, Li Hongfeng not only passed the exam, but also ranked first in the city.

Ye Cuixiang smiled so hard that her mouth was crooked. She kept asking people from the city. When she was sure that she was not wrong, she was almost happy.

Hearing the news, many people came to the Duan family. Ye Cuixiang was not stingy at all and took out the peanuts from her home to share with them to let them share the joy. Duan Qingen also did not hide his happiness and shuttled among the crowd to greet them. For a while, the Duan family was very lively.

Li Hongfeng was also very excited. She was happy and felt that she lived up to everyone's expectations. She was a little shy. Seeing so many people coming, she was embarrassed to just watch, so she went to the house to move stools out for the elders to sit.

Although no one in the Duan family put pressure on her, two weeks before the exam, Ye Cuixiang and Duan Qingen did not ask her to do anything, and served her well with delicious food and drinks. They even spoke softly during the day for fear of disturbing her review.

Li Hongfeng naturally knew that they did this to value her. The more she understood this, the harder she worked. She did not relax during the exam, but checked carefully several times after finishing it to see if there were any mistakes.

Although she would not have gotten such a good score if she had not reviewed seriously and checked carefully, in Li Hongfeng's heart, if the Duan family had not created a good pre-exam environment for her, and Qingen had directly blocked everything when the Li family came to make trouble, with her temperament that was easily affected by the surrounding environment, she might really not have done well in the exam.

Now that the results are out, she can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

"Hongfeng, stop busying yourself, eat peanuts."

Ye Cuixiang was just enjoying herself when she suddenly realized that her college-age daughter-in-law had gone somewhere. She stretched her neck to look left and right before she saw Li Hongfeng. She quickly walked out of the crowd and stuffed a handful of peanuts into Li Hongfeng's hand, "You are a college student now, so let Qingen do things like moving the stools. Go, go, take a break, and eat some peanuts."

Seeing that the stools were almost moved, Li Hongfeng responded obediently, took the handful of peanuts and went to the yard to greet the villagers who came with Duan Qingen.

While they were enjoying themselves, Zhou's mother hurriedly squeezed in. Seeing Li Hongfeng standing next to Duan Qingen, she was delighted and quickly stepped forward to hold her: "Hongfeng, how is my Jiaming's grades? Did he pass the exam?"

Li Hongfeng was stunned at first, and then she felt pain. Zhou's mother grabbed her arm so hard that her nails were imprinted into the flesh.

Before she could speak, Duan Qingen had already stepped forward and calmly pushed Zhou's mother's hand away, "Aunt, how could my Hongfeng know Zhou Jiaming's grades?"

Zhou's mother didn't think her question was strange at all, "Didn't they say someone from the city was coming? Isn't he here to tell me about his grades?"

"Of course not."

Duan Qingen glanced at Li Bishuang, who had rushed over with Zhou's mother and stood at the door with a grim look on her face, "Hongfeng is the first in the city. The person from the city is here to give her a bonus and encourage her, not to inform her of her grades."

"Aunt, Hongfeng and I have to entertain the people who are coming, so we won't accompany them for now."

The people around had looked at Zhou's mother because of her loud voice before, and now they knew she had made a joke, Duan Qingen and Li Hongfeng left again, and they all laughed without hesitation.

"Mother Jiaming, you came here without asking for details."

"But you watched Hongfeng grow up, so it's okay to come here to congratulate her."

The person who said this said it on purpose. Ever since Duan Qingen spread the word last time, the whole village has heard about why he broke off relations with the Li family.

Everyone is not stupid. Zhou's mother makes money by herself, and when someone else needs to take the blame, she lets her daughter-in-law go to her mother. How can she be a good person with this style?

She did nothing wrong on the surface, but many people talked about her behind her back. After all, this is how the village is. Even the Li family, who suffered a great loss, was secretly scolded as stupid. Anyway, the reputation of their two families is as bad as it can be.

Before, Li's mother would spread some words in the village that their family changed the marriage for their niece. Since the last incident, people think that she just doesn't abuse Li Hongfeng, how can she really care about her.

The Duan family is so rich. Given the Li family's nature of wanting to take advantage of the orphan's property, would they let her marry Duan Qingen without any reason?

They would have believed it before, but now with the reputation of the Li family, who would believe it if they said there was nothing wrong.

With these guesses and Li Bishuang's unusually large belly, some rumors close to the truth came out.

They occupied the land of others, took their money, and pushed a girl who was about to take the college entrance examination to marry their daughter. In addition to the last clothing incident, just as Duan Qingen had expected, there was no one in the village who didn't sympathize with Li Hongfeng.

The village had a college student, which was a matter of honor for the whole village. The Duan family obviously wanted to protect this daughter-in-law. Under the current circumstances, some people who wanted to get closer to the Duan family didn't mind stepping on the Zhou and Li families to show their goodwill.

There are many people who have this idea. Someone saw Li Bishuang with sharp eyes, and deliberately said to Zhou's mother: "Sister, you didn't see it because you didn't come here. The city is very generous. I took a look and saw a lot of money. Oh, our mountain valley can be regarded as a golden phoenix. If it weren't for the old man of the Li family suddenly remembering the past, who knows, this college student would have ended up in your family."

Zhou's mother didn't hear that she was mocking herself. When she heard about money, her eyes moved, "Did you really give money? How much did you give?"

"I just glanced at it, and the person didn't shout out, so how would I know, but ah, I estimate that it's about a thousand. I heard that the provincial results have not been unified yet. If Hongfeng becomes the first in the province again, there will be a bonus!!"

This person wanted to stab Zhou's mother. As he spoke, he became jealous, "If I had known that studying could make so much money, when my kid refused to study, I would have beaten him with a stick. Continue to study Go, there is so much money before graduation. If you graduate in the future, you will have more money. "

"I just heard from the person from the city that when you go to college, the university will also have scholarships. They will be issued after each exam, and each time it is several hundred. You say, if you always get the first place in the exam, you will be rich. I used to think that the Duan family was too good to Hongfeng. How can a high school student be so precious? Now I understand. Otherwise, why do people say that they are businessmen and have foresight!"

"That's right."

Someone on the side was listening to them and couldn't help but interrupted, "If this was my daughter-in-law, I would also give her a thousand yuan. How much money does our whole family work hard in the fields every day for a year."

"Don't think too much about your daughter-in-law. Qingen will be unhappy if she hears it."

"Hey, I just said it casually. Even if I want to, my son is not worthy of her girl."

Your son is not worthy, but my son is!!

This sentence jumped out directly in Zhou's mother's mind, and it was still dangling in front of her eyes.

If there had been no change of people, Li Hongfeng and the bonus would have belonged to their family now, so how could the Duan family take advantage of this.

Jiaming's grades were good. If he had married Li Hongfeng, she could have asked Li Hongfeng to review Jiaming well, and the two of them would take the college entrance examination together, and get the bonus together. Even if they went to college, she could sit down and enjoy her life even if she did nothing.

But unfortunately, this golden baby was snatched away by the Duan family.

Zhou's mother was so upset that she felt like someone gave her an envelope, and she disliked the envelope because it was too old and refused to return it. As a result, when she opened the envelope, there were gold ingots inside.

How could she not feel uncomfortable? ?

How could she not regret it? ?

Her heart was simply fried in a frying pan, and it was turned over.

Because of the feeling of missing out on the golden ingot, Zhou's mother was not in the mood to eat peanuts at Duan's house and took advantage of it. She walked out of Duan's house in a daze. Li Bishuang, who had been waiting at the door, hurried to greet her.

"Mom, how is it? Did Li Hongfeng really get the first place in the city?"

As soon as she spoke, Zhou's mother's attention was attracted, and suddenly she realized something.

Why didn't Jiaming marry Li Hongfeng? Because of Li Bishuang, she shamelessly got pregnant before marriage and seduced Jiaming to agree to marry her, so the two families changed people.

So she didn't get the golden ingot of Li Hongfeng, all because of Li Bishuang! !

A golden doll who can get a scholarship was exchanged for Li Bishuang, a lazy daughter-in-law who doesn't like Jiaming and bullies Beibei.

What a loss! ! !

Too much loss! ! !

So is she crazy about blaming Li Bishuang? Nothing wrong!

After thinking it through, Zhou's mother looked at Li Bishuang with a sinister look.

Li Bishuang was frightened by her look and could not help but take a step back: "Mom?"

"Why are you screaming! You always look like a stepmother, go home!!"

***

Ever since the news that Zhou Jiaming was admitted to the university by the score, the Zhou family has been restless.

Zhou's mother no longer secretly tortured Li Bishuang as before, she did it directly.

Li Bishuang was still pregnant, so she pushed all the housework to her, and asked Li Bishuang, who was pregnant, to work in the fields. Li Bishuang was not to be outdone. When Zhou's mother asked her to work, she held her belly and cried in pain, shouting that her mother-in-law was going to force her pregnant daughter-in-law to death.

Zhou Jiaming was deeply hit after the results came out. He refused to get involved in the struggle between his mother and wife, and "read books" with his sister Liu Beibei every day.

Watching the Zhou family in turmoil had almost become an entertainment activity for the whole village. Li Bishuang and Zhou's mother were the same, but Li Bishuang found out that some people in the village were talking about her big belly and that she might be pregnant before marriage, and now they were waiting to see if she would give birth to the baby at full term.

Li Bishuang wanted to save face, so she found a barefoot doctor and planned to let the baby in her belly stay for a while longer to create the illusion that she was pregnant after marriage.

She was supposed to be reborn, and in the era of information explosion in the future, she should know how unreliable such things are, but in her previous life, Li Bishuang only cared about eating, drinking and buying clothes, and was never willing to accept new things. Later, she watched TV every day in the hospital bed, so in fact, she was not as clear about such unreliable things as most people who were not reborn.

After the barefoot doctor gave her a bowl of medicine, Li Bishuang saw blood that night.

Apart from the pain, she was not too sad. After all, she had a miscarriage in her previous life, and now she had another miscarriage. Li Bishuang felt that this was destined, and she was destined to lose her first child.

After the pain, she became happy again, because if she lost the child, she would be free and could go wherever she wanted. Before, she was still worried that she could not go to school with her husband, what if Zhou Jiaming changed his mind.

Now, the child is gone, and she can go to school with Zhou Jiaming again!

But as soon as she told Zhou's mother about this idea, she was scolded.

"You still want to go to school with Jiaming? Bah! What can you do when you go there? Where will you live? Do you have money to buy food? If you don't know anything, you won't starve to death in the city!!"

Li Bishuang hated it very much, but now her parents refused to help her, her mother-in-law looked down on her, and her husband was obsessed with reading in the house and ignored her. She really couldn't think of any other way, so she set her sights on Li Hongfeng.

If Li Hongfeng didn't go to school, she could completely replace Li Hongfeng's name and go to college.

Although she didn't want to study, she had to say that the title of college student was still very good.

Li Bishuang was not stupid. She knew that she would not give it to Li Hongfeng since she had a falling out with her. After thinking about it all night, she finally came up with a solution.

A few days later, Li Bishuang, who had just had a miscarriage, became active in the front line of gossip.

"I am really happy for Hongfeng to be admitted to university, but I am afraid that when she goes to the big city, she will be dazzled by the things outside and look down on my cousin's husband's family."

"There are so many good things in the city. Don't forget that when the educated youth went to the countryside, many of them left their wives and children behind when they could return to the city. When they had no ability and no money, they were willing to stay in the village. When they had ability, who could hold them back?"

"When people run away, the country is so big, where can you find them? Speaking of which, Hongfeng didn't get a marriage certificate. If she really left, the Duan family really couldn't find her."

Li Bishuang's stomach still hurt, but she held it in.

She felt that this method was very good. She put herself in his shoes and thought about it. If she had a son, and her daughter-in-law was much better than her son, she might have a great future. She would definitely keep her daughter-in-law around and not let her go out. Otherwise, what if she didn't want her husband after she became successful? This kind of thing has happened before.

Someone in the village saw Li Bishuang's plan and told the Duan family. Duan Qingen said nothing on his face and went to the city to make money.

He didn't just take care of Li Hongfeng's college entrance examination a while ago. He also went to the city to make money.

One day, when Li Bishuang kept pulling people to hint that "Li Hongfeng would never come back after going to college", "she would definitely change her mind", and "the Duan family would lose both money and property", a child ran to the village entrance with laughter, saying that a car was parked at the entrance of the village.

Li Bishuang still remembered that cars were quite rare at that time, and she was a little curious about how people who could afford cars would appear in the village, so she immediately followed the crowd to watch the fun.

When she looked over, she saw a car parked there. It was older than the car in the future, but it looked very impressive.

She had been talking a lot recently, and she would blurt out a sentence when she saw a car: "For example, Hong Feng might be able to afford it after he gets a job, but Duan Qingen can't afford it even if he works all his life. This is inequality."

For example, in her previous life, she dreamed of having such a car, but Duan Qingen couldn't afford it until he died.

As soon as she finished speaking, the car window was rolled down, and a familiar face appeared in front of everyone.

Duan Qingen sat in the car and waved to the children outside with a smile: "Hi."