After the frail beauty went to the countryside, she went crazy with scientific research.

Chapter 150, Episode 0156: My heart is too bitter.

Lin Yuexi, who was in poor health, had a baby weighing twenty or thirty pounds strapped to her chest, and nearly fifty pounds of other things strapped to and hanging on the back of her bicycle. She slowly rode all the way from the county town back to the commune, and then from the commune back to the brigade.

Although there were people in Hongxing Brigade who could afford bicycles, and the village already had several bicycles, bicycles, which were like luxury cars equivalent to Rolls-Royces in later generations, were still a rarity and caused a sensation.

Fortunately, Lin Yuexi returned to the village in the afternoon when everyone was going to work, and there were basically no pedestrians on the road.

She returned home without any obstacles.

Kids are so cute. On the way, the little one clung to her soft little aunt. Lin Yuexi used her mental power to control the bike, making it quite stable. The slight swaying was just right for comfort. The little guy had been sleeping all the way back from the commune.

Upon arriving at the gate, everyone was in the field, and the gate was locked. Lin Yuexi stopped the car, picked up the little one, and went to open the gate. She first carried the little one into Leng Xingran's house [Xiao Zhaohua had been sleeping with Leng Xingran since he arrived] and settled him in. Then she went out to prepare to push the bicycle in.

"Xi Bao?"

A familiar, surprised voice came from the direction of the educated youth settlement.

Lin Yuexi looked over there and saw Ren Yan and Yu Mengmeng standing together on the road in front of the educated youth settlement. Yu Mengmeng was carrying a small bundle in her hand.

"Yu, the educated youth?"

To be honest, I almost didn't recognize Lin Yuexi at first glance.

In my memory, Yu Mengmeng was a little chubby. Although her skin wasn't in great condition due to long hours of work, her complexion was still healthy, with a fair and rosy glow.

Now, Yu Mengmeng looks like she's shrunk a size; her cheeks are sunken, making her eyes appear particularly large and even bulging, and her complexion is sickly pale.

Wait, isn't she pregnant?

How could pregnancy turn out like this?

"I'm going back."

Ren Yan greeted Yu Mengmeng, then ran towards Lin Yuexi with a wide, shameless grin.

Yu Mengmeng smiled and nodded, but the smile looked bitter, as if it had been soaked in bitter medicine.

She longed to walk up to Lin Zhiqing, but she dared not. He was the bright moon in the sky, while she felt like mere dirt on the ground. She felt unworthy even looking up at him, so how could she dare to disturb him?

But now... she's suffering, she's suffering so much inside.

Seeing the bright moon, she really hoped that it could bestow some light upon her.

Ren Yan snatched the bicycle from Lin Yuexi's hand and pushed it inside, chattering away about her experience in the county town, as if she had never been there before, leaving Lin Yuexi speechless.

Immediately afterwards, Lin Yuexi's face gradually darkened as she thought of the thin figure at the entrance of the educated youth settlement.

For a pregnant woman to become like that—not only did her health noticeably deteriorate, but her entire being transformed from a cheerful person into someone seemingly shrouded in gloom—the first possibility that came to her mind was…
—Li Bin was not good to Mengmeng, in fact, he treated her very badly.

However, as soon as the idea came to her mind, Lin Yuexi immediately dismissed it.

Everyone has seen Li Bin's character. The key point is that Lin Yuexi trusts her judgment. Among all the educated youth, Li Bin is one of the top-ranked in her opinion. He is unlikely to be the kind of person who would bully his wife, especially since his wife is pregnant.

Therefore, the most likely explanation is that Li Bin has also gotten into trouble.

I haven't heard of that.

She only went to the county town for two days, not two years. Aunt Wu and the others never mentioned that anything had happened to Li Bin.
Not only Li Bin, but the entire educated youth settlement has been quite well-behaved in the eyes of the villagers lately.

Forget it, I'm not going to think about it anymore. I'll guess for ages and still not figure it out. I might as well just ask the person directly later.

"Why did you buy so much stuff? Wow, there must be at least twenty pounds of meat. They're getting a good deal. They've been craving meat all the time. Now they can finally have some."

As Lin Yuexi took things out, Ren Yan exclaimed "Wow!" exaggeratedly beside her. Although Lin Yuexi brought back a lot of things, they were all things she would use regularly; she didn't take anything too valuable without careful consideration.

For example, the soap used for washing clothes at home had long been gone, so Ren Yan learned to use soap pods to wash clothes, just like the older women in the village. It wasn't that they didn't have soap coupons, but that the commune's supply and marketing cooperative never put soap out for sale.

So Lin Yuexi took out five palm-sized bars of soap this time. They were as clear and translucent as jade, and Ren Yan held them in her hands for a long time, admiring them.

There was also wheat flour, but everyone received a relatively small amount, some people only got one or two pounds. So people would mix two or three portions of wheat flour to make noodles, and sometimes there wasn't even any wheat flour at all.

They also had tickets but couldn't buy them at the commune, so Lin Yuexi took the opportunity to take out fifty jin (25 kg).

What Lin Yuexi considered unremarkable, Ren Yan considered valuable. Fortunately, Ren Yan was broad-minded and didn't have any particular thoughts about it.

Although they ate together, they split the bill equally, with neither of them taking advantage of the other.

Ren Yan and Xu Zhichuan were in relatively worse conditions, especially Ren Yan, who was still in debt. So, although she liked everything Lin Yuexi brought back, she asked Lin Yuexi to put most of the things away and not use them for public purposes, and only take the flour and meat to the kitchen.

If everything is used for public purposes, not to mention her, even Zhang Ze might not be able to afford to split the bill.

Having lived together for so long, Lin Yuexi knew exactly what kind of people they were, so she didn't insist on bringing it out anymore.

A moment later, Ren Yan's voice rang out: "Xi Bao, we have flour and meat, how about we make dumplings tonight?"

I haven't eaten this for months, and I really miss it.

"to make."

Lin Yuexi smacked her lips; she was also somewhat interested.

So he casually tossed his things into the house and went to help in the kitchen.

Unexpectedly, Ren Yan pulled out a dead pheasant from the corner. It was quite large, weighing about five or six pounds.

"Who brought this?" Lin Yuexi asked in surprise.

Ren Yanwei felt a little awkward, and her cheeks gradually flushed. "Last night, Zhichuan and I went for a walk in the mountains. We were lucky enough to run into this blind creature. Zhichuan caught it."

Lin Yuexi: "..."

This awful, cloying smell of romance.

Ren Yan was too embarrassed to look at Lin Yuexi, and her hands were busy taking out boiling water to scald and pluck the fur.

Lin Yuexi smiled, but instead of teasing her, she asked about Yu Mengmeng.

In an instant, Ren Yan went from feeling uncomfortable to being a gossip spectator. "Speaking of Yu Mengmeng's matter, I was shocked this morning. She was so quiet, no one in the village knew about it. I never imagined that such a big thing would happen in the educated youth settlement."

"Wang Qin pushed Yu Mengmeng to the point of miscarriage. Li Bin went to Wang Qin to reason with her, but Li Bin was arrested by the committee. In the morning, the captain wanted to rescue her, but the committee said that Li Bin's thoughts were not right and that he wanted to have an affair. They wouldn't let the captain take him away and even said they would parade him through the streets."

Lin Yuexi: "???"

What is all this?

Why is Wang Qin out again?

Ren Yan explained the situation to Lin Yuexi as she worked.

It turns out that Yu Mengmeng's family did not agree to the marriage between Yu Mengmeng and Li Bin.

Yu Mengmeng's parents favored sons over daughters. Originally, Yu Mengmeng's older brother was the one sent to the countryside. Yu Mengmeng's mother transferred the job to her son and then went to the educated youth center to register Yu Mengmeng.