In 1992, a small village owner became the richest man in the village by owning a car.

Chapter 353 Fengfeng is back

It was dark and the road was slippery, but fortunately, Mr. Yu managed to drive the car to the backyard without any serious incident. He pulled the handbrake and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He'd driven for most of his life with a perfect accident record, and he really didn't want to ruin his reputation because of tonight's rain.

"Wake up, we're home." Old Yu patted his eldest son, somewhat speechless. The brat had been snoring loudly ever since he got in the car.

His habit of eating and then sleeping is exactly like Yu Laonian's older brother, Yu Chen. Even though he's already a small business owner, he still acts so carefree.

Isn't he afraid of cars falling into ditches on the road, or children crying and not being able to sleep? Anyway, Yu Laonian was speechless and deeply envious of people with such high sleep quality.

"Are we home?" Yu Dawei opened his sleepy eyes, wiped the drool from the corner of his mouth, and groggily tried to open the door and get out of the car.

"Take this umbrella, it's raining outside." Old Yu handed over the black umbrella next to the passenger seat.

"Oh." Yu Dawei smacked his lips and got out of the car on his own.

A gust of cold wind blew on his face, which made him a little more awake. He turned his head and saw his old mother leading his wife and children into the house. Er Yan, A Gui, and He Huihui squeezed under an umbrella and quickly rushed into the house as well.

With the last umbrella in his hand, Yu Dawei suddenly felt a little guilty. Seeing the old man open the car door and get out in the rain, he quickly ran to the old man's side and held the umbrella up for him.

"Hmph, at least you have some conscience. I almost thought you'd gone back to being that reckless brat." Old Yu scolded Yu Dawei as he walked into the house. "How can you be so careless? If you don't have any sense of safety when you're out and about, aren't you in danger? This won't do."

Yu Dawei didn't argue and happily followed the old man.

Whether it was dangerous or not, he never changed his habit of being sleepy, and even so, he did quite a few dangerous things after being reborn.

Not long ago, he was even fighting with someone in the street. However, there were many dangerous things that Yu Dawei did not choose to tell his parents.

This is perhaps a tradition among Chinese people who live away from home: they never tell their parents about their real pain, not only because they are afraid of worrying them, but also because they are afraid of hurting them.

If you encounter someone as sensitive and meticulous as Yu Laonian, and you tell him, "Dad, I had a gunfight with someone yesterday with a hunting rifle, and I even drew blood from the other side," he'll probably lose sleep for several nights.

And they will criticize you countless times.

Why bother?
"You didn't listen again, did you? You've really grown up, haven't you?" Old Yu noticed that his son's eyes were fixed on the screen, clearly lost in thought, and he felt both angry and helpless.

"No, Father, I'm carefully considering what you just said."

"Then repeat what I just said?"

Yu Dawei: "..."

Just as the two people went inside and started talking, they suddenly saw a figure they hadn't seen for over a year.

Yu Feng.

"Dafeng, when did you get back?" Zhang Yunqin, Yu Feng's mother, held her hand with concern. "You've lost weight. Did you not eat well over there or what? You've gotten so thin..."

Yu Dawei no longer had the heart to argue with his father: "Da Feng'er hasn't eaten yet, has she? I'll go and bring the meat from the car into the house to heat it up."

After Yu Dawei finished speaking, he turned around, picked up the umbrella he had just put down, and walked out of the house.

At this time of year, in rural areas, the main way to reheat food is by steaming. Simply pour some water into the pot, place a steamer rack on top, put the food on the rack, and then cover the pot with the lid.

Even grilled meat can only be heated like this. Although it won't taste crispy and charred, it's still grilled, so the taste won't be too bad even if it gets heated.

Yu Dawei didn't let his mother heat up the food; he did it himself, with his wife helping to burn firewood.

He knows his mother too well; now that Dafeng is back, he's sure she has a lot to talk about.

The rain was pouring down outside, and the corn cobs in the stove were crackling and popping as they burned, probably because they were damp from the rain.

Tonight, Yu Dawei doesn't plan to take He Huihui and Han Jingfan back to the front yard to sleep. He'll feed the chickens, ducks, geese, dogs, and pigs by himself before going back to the front yard to sleep.

What he was most curious about now was what had happened to Da Feng in Hohhot. Seeing Da Feng's forced smile, he, as the older brother, couldn't help but feel a little worried.

"How about we cook two more dishes?" Yu Dawei asked softly, looking at his elderly father who was squatting by the stove burning firewood.

The old man seemed to have noticed something, and silently withdrew from the inner room, replacing Han Jingfan to help with the fire himself.

"Okay." The old man nodded and said nothing more.

Yu Dawei then blanched some cabbage, made a whole stir-fried cabbage with vinegar, added some roasted pork belly, then made a stir-fried lamb with scallions, and finally cut up a small plate of salted duck eggs.

The salted duck eggs were pickled a while ago, and there are still some left.

After it's all set up, put the kang table on it.

Han Jingfan glanced at her husband, then turned and took He Huihui to the inner room to begin teaching Er Yan and A Gui. She knew Da Feng might need some space to confide in someone. Her mother, Zhang Yunqin, couldn't help but sigh at this insightful observation.

If anyone ever says her daughter-in-law is clueless about such things again, she'll be the first to fight them!
"Eat up." Seeing that Da Feng wasn't eating, Yu Dawei simply sat down at the table and picked up some stir-fried mutton with scallions. "I'll keep you company. I'm not full either."

"Eat up, eat your fill first," the old father finally said, glancing at his eldest daughter.

"Mmm." Yu Feng held her rice bowl, eating the meat and vegetables. She couldn't hold back her grievances any longer; her lips trembled, and tears streamed down her pert nose. "It's so delicious..."

"So delicious you cried?" Yu Dawei, sitting next to her, couldn't help but joke, and didn't forget to reach out his chopsticks to pick up a lamb chop for his younger sister.

Hearing this, Zhang Yunqin, Yu Dawei's mother, rolled her eyes at him, then patted her daughter's back and gently comforted her, "It's not hard, we're home. We won't suffer outside anymore, we're here with your parents, darling."

"Mmm." Da Feng pursed her lips, trying to compose herself.

After eating until she was about 70-80% full, Da Feng began to recount her experiences in Hohhot over the past year.

When I first arrived at my aunt's house, everything was fine. She was very hardworking and took care of all the chores, such as sweeping, mopping, and cooking.

Her aunt and uncle treated her very well. Her younger sister went to a boarding school in Liancheng, and her second brother was a college student living on campus. So overall, the house was relatively quiet.

However, her aunt's mother-in-law, whom Da Feng had to call Grandma Wang, was not easy to get along with. She would bring up her older brother's dark history over there all the time, which would constantly provoke Da Feng.

But these are all minor matters, nothing to Da Feng.

Later, her aunt arranged for her to work at a dairy farm in a certain banner, where she did milking work every day. At first, it was okay, but later the dairy farm manager would always touch her inappropriately, saying that he didn't understand and needed guidance.

But how could someone as clever and shrewd as Yu Feng not see through the other party's scheme?

She didn't dare tell her aunt about these things. She heard that she had put in a lot of effort to get into this state-owned enterprise, and even used the connections her uncle had built up over the years.

She only knew this because Grandma Wang had mentioned it in a sarcastic tone.

At that time, Da Feng had only one thought in her mind: no matter how much suffering she had to endure, she had to persevere.

However, the director became increasingly reckless in his actions, and she finally couldn't bear it any longer and complained to the manager.

But the result was that they retaliated by making things difficult for each other.

She was made to do all the dirty and tiring work outside her job duties. Several times, because she did too much work, her headache flared up, and the other party seized on this as an excuse to accuse her of slacking off, deducting points and wages.

During the most difficult months, I relied on the few hundred yuan my older brother gave me to cover my daily expenses.

She was desperate at that time. In a large venue, she couldn't take care of her second brother's schooling, and her aunt had high expectations for her.

On two separate occasions, her second brother came to visit her during his holidays and asked how her work was going. She didn't tell him the truth, only saying, "It's alright."

The result was my second brother's incessant nagging: "You have to endure hardship. We country kids don't have any other strengths, so we can only push ourselves."

Haha, didn't she suffer? Didn't she try?
Just because she has thick eyebrows and big eyes and is good-looking, does she have to grovel and serve the director of the venue?

Yu Feng couldn't do it, so she gritted her teeth and persevered... Even when her head ached so badly that her whole body convulsed, she continued to work.

I thought everything would be alright, but what did I get in return?
The director made her drink with leaders from the province on some fabricated pretext.

Ultimately, she chose to leave this filthy place, citing a headache as the reason.

However, she still didn't reveal the truth to her parents and older brother at the kang table. She only said that she was too tired from working and her head was always hurting.

Ultimately, I couldn't continue working there, so I chose to come back.

She cried and said "I'm sorry" to her parents and older brother, venting all the grievances and bitterness in her heart through tears.

It took her a very long time to take out the letter her aunt had written to Yu Laonian from the package.

Yu Laonian simply put the letter behind his back. In the current situation, opening the letter and reading its contents would only add to his sadness.

He would go to sleep in the front yard with Yu Dawei that night, and then he could see for himself.

The meal didn't last long before Yu Laonian took Yu Dawei and Agui to the front yard, leaving the back yard for the women to sleep in.

After Yu Dawei returned to the front yard, he started feeding the dogs, chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs. Han Jingfan had fed them once before leaving in the morning, and they were fine all day.

When he finished feeding the livestock and went inside, he saw A-Gui sitting on a stool doing math problems, while Yu Laonian was leaning against the wall holding a letter, with a hint of disappointment and sadness in his eyes.

(End of this chapter)