Yao Xue was waiting for the news of Chu Xiang's death. She watched Liu Fang pack her luggage happily and watched the villagers treat Chu Dongsheng kindly. Her heart was full of sarcasm. How happy they were now would be how sad they would be later.
Didn't they always say that Chu Xiang was lucky? This time, Chu Xiang was burned to death. Let's see if they would still be embarrassed to say such things. Back then, they forced her to get a divorce. Now, she was going to the capital to seize the opportunity to make a lot of money. Their family was going to be ruined soon.
Yao Xue was very happy when she thought about this. She deliberately swayed in front of Liu Fang and Chu Dongsheng and looked at them with sympathy and superiority. The two of them were confused and thought that she was crazy.
Liu Fang had a few good friends. Even if Yao Xue had hooked up with Li Hongjun and was going to the capital soon, there was no need to show off like this. The two children and a son-in-law of the Chu family were all admitted to a top university. How could Yao Xue show off more than them? What was there to show off about?
The others were also puzzled. They could only understand that Yao Xue was arrogant because she was about to become a citizen of the capital. She didn't know what to do. The villagers had infinite longing for the capital. They envied and felt inferior to the people of the capital. However, the people of the capital had to be of a higher class. In the eyes of the villagers, people like Yao Xue who loved the rich and despised the poor, was greedy for vanity, and had forgotten her ancestors. Those who originally treated her better also took back their kindness. This made her the most hated person in the two brigades.
Yao Xue didn't care about this. She was only waiting for the bad news from the farm. However, she waited and waited. When they were about to set off, Chu Xiang was alive and kicking. Huo Wenkai even brought the Huo family back!
When she saw them at the entrance of the village, her eyes almost popped out. Her face was full of disbelief. She almost blurted out, "Why are you all fine?"
Fortunately, she stopped at the critical moment and didn't ask this question. The Huo family was burned to death in her previous life. If she asked this question now, she wouldn't be called crazy.
However, although she didn't ask, the shock in her eyes couldn't be hidden. Chu Xiang could tell that something was wrong at a glance. She thought about Yao Xue's strange attitude and immediately understood everything. Yao Xue clearly knew about the fire and was waiting to watch a good show when she saw her heading to the farm. She really had nothing to do. It seemed like he should find something for her to do.
These days, anonymous letters were especially useful. Chu Xiang immediately wrote an anonymous letter and sent it to the Li Family. She reached the Li Family before Li Hongjun and Yao Xue. Hence, even before the Li family met Yao Xue, they were already aware of Yao Xue's' glorious past 'in the brigade.
Chu Xiang didn't even need to add fuel to the fire. Just the fact that Yao Xue murdered her sister-in-law, spread rumors about her in-laws, betrayed her husband, cheated the examinees of their money, and got pregnant before marriage was enough to make the Li family hate her. Every single one of these things was an intolerable misdeed. This was an era where good youths were valued and moral character was valued. No one would be able to accept someone like Yao Xue no matter where she was.
Chu Xiang could see through the Heaven and Earth Mirror that Yao Xue had been treated coldly the moment she arrived at the Li Family. Yao Xue wasn't someone easy to deal with and she even harbored ill intentions towards the Li Family. Both parties started quarreling within a day of meeting and the whole family was in a mess. Chu Xiang naturally didn't leave out Li Hongjun. She even sent an anonymous letter to Li Hongjun's new unit. Li Hongjun's behavior was a serious problem. The job that the Li Family had spent a lot of effort to get him was immediately gone. No one else could replace him and Father Li was even criticized by others.
This made the Li Family and even Li Hongjun hate Yao Xue. Yao Xue's fighting spirit was high and she always caused trouble in the Li Family. She even relied on her stomach to argue with them. However, this wasn't a more tolerant society. Yao Xue's actions were seen by the neighbors as unfilial and unvirtuous. Of course, Li Hongjun was also a bad person. It was extremely difficult for the couple to find a job. Their house was also small and they could only squeeze in a corner with a curtain. Their life back in the capital was worse than living in the village.
Chu Xiang didn't bother about them when she saw that they weren't living well. She had already entered university and was part of the first batch of university students after the college entrance examinations were reinstated.
She majored in agriculture, and she planned to learn more about it in this life. It just so happened that it wasn't convenient to do anything in this era. If she wanted a more free society, she would have to wait for many years. It wasn't very comfortable. She might as well take this opportunity to learn more. She always had a strong thirst for knowledge that she didn't understand. No matter where she transmigrated to or how long she lived, the skills she learned were the foundation of her standing in the world. It was more useful than any cheat.
Chu Xiang had previously appeared in the newspaper because of her improved farming methods. Her teachers and classmates all knew her. She received a lot of attention the moment she entered university. At first, there were many people who didn't like her. However, she used her strong learning ability to prove herself. Most of the students became enthusiastic and admired her from the bottom of their hearts.
The good thing about the school at this time was that the learning atmosphere was good. The students were like sponges, crazily absorbing water. The phrase "thirsty for knowledge" was the best interpretation. Wherever Chu Xiang went, she could see people studying. Even if there were some social and artistic activities occasionally, everyone was very restrained. They wouldn't be addicted to it and wouldn't waste time. Soon, they all focused on their studies.
Chu Xiang had gone to school several times, but this was the first time she experienced such an atmosphere. It also gave her a rare feeling of youth, thirst for knowledge, and a pure sense of campus. She also immersed herself in her studies and seriously studied agriculture with the school's professors.
The professors who came back to work this year were all real talents. Chu Xiang was lucky to learn from the most outstanding professor. Later, because of her excellent performance, she was introduced to Mr. Yuan's team as an assistant. She got the best learning environment and research opportunities.
She was able to improve the farm yield in the village before, relying on the experience of thousands of years of nurturing spiritual plants. However, there was always someone better than her. There were always people who were talented in a certain aspect that others couldn't surpass. Mr. Yuan was such a person.
Chu Xiang followed his research team, listened to his ideas and suggestions, and followed in his footsteps to study. She benefited a lot and learned a lot of things that couldn't be learned anywhere else.
Her learning ability and thinking ability soon became obvious, and she was noticed by Mr. Yuan. A year later, he arranged for her to be his assistant by his side. Chu Xiang became very busy. She couldn't see her family for ten to fifteen months. It was also difficult for her to see Huo Wenkai.
Grandma Huo and Liu Fang were very worried. They thought that they couldn't break up if they didn't see each other. In the end, the two of them had a good relationship. No matter how many members of the opposite sex expressed goodwill to them, they never wavered.
When they saw each other, Chu Xiang and Huo Wenkai would have a sweet date. They would watch a black and white movie together, go to the suburbs together, go shopping together, and buy things for each other. But when they didn't see each other, they would focus on learning. They both had things that they wanted to learn. This didn't affect their relationship at all.
Gradually, the two families got used to the way they got along. After all, they were very stable. Their families naturally didn't have to worry about either side.
After the Huo family returned to Beijing, they moved around a lot. A year later, they were returned a courtyard house with a lot of furniture and decorations. The other things that were confiscated were left behind. They had nowhere to go.
However, the Huo family's housekeeper had transferred a lot of the Huo family's property. The Huo family found evidence and witnesses. The housekeeper and the people involved were all sentenced and all the remaining property was returned.
The Huo family's property was a lot. Coupled with the valuable things that the Huo family had stolen, the Huo family's life became better. Although the Huo family's total property was less than half of what it used to be, a starving camel was still bigger than a horse. Half of the Huo family's property was already a lot. It was enough for them to live in glory in this era. They even had to hide part of it. They couldn't let outsiders know that they were rich.
Grandpa Huo became an archeology professor, and Mr. Huo became a mathematics professor. Grandma Huo liked to write articles, and her ideas were very advanced. Several of her articles were published. Her days were comfortable, and with the pills given by Chu Xiang, her body that had suffered before slowly recovered.
Liu Fang and Grandma Huo were close. They often visited each other and she knew some people. She was generous and cheerful. She even joined the Women's Federation. Every day was prosperous. It was not boring at all. It was lively.
She often met Chu Dongsheng. Fortunately, she came to Beijing with them. Otherwise, she wouldn't have known that Beijing was such a place where people could make a living.
Chu Dongsheng couldn't agree more. He was now extremely grateful to Chu Xiang for forcing him to memorize and answer questions. She had allowed him to get into a good university and come to Beijing. Not only had he learned professional knowledge, but he had also seen a wider world and broadened his horizons.
He didn't like to study. What he loved most was doing business. Beijing was the political center. Any order from the leaders could be carried out immediately. In the village, if a woman wore a scarf or a pretty dress, she would be criticized. However, in Beijing, no one would say anything if a woman permed her hair, wore high heels, and put on lipstick.
It was the same for doing business. Many people in the village still thought that it was speculation. However, in Beijing, many people were already trying to buy and sell things. Chu Dongsheng smelled the scent of endless business opportunities. When he was in university, he began to network and understand the situation of various industries. He understood the current situation of Beijing and other cities. He started to do business from the dark to the light.
In 1980, when the country first introduced the concept of "self-employed", he immediately applied and became the first "self-employed" in the country.
Because the country wanted to encourage economic development, they specially reported the first self-employed person in the country, including Chu Dongsheng's exciting history and his current net worth.
When Yao Xue saw it in the newspaper, she was dumbfounded. Chu Dongsheng didn't sell mountain goods in the village. He didn't miss a good opportunity. Instead, he seized a better opportunity. The idea that it was useless to go to university and work for a boss who didn't have a diploma was all wrong. Now that Chu Dongsheng's starting point had improved, his chances of success were also infinitely higher. When she saw the news, she knew that Chu Dongsheng would definitely be more successful in this life than in his previous life.
She lost her child and was kicked out of the Li family. She stayed in the clothing store that she had painstakingly set up and cried bitterly. Why did she miss out on such a good road to riches?!
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