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

Chapter 351, Episode 0380: Remember to stay away when you see someone with a love-struck mind.
Yuexi didn't ask any questions, so Huo Han didn't say anything more. He had just acted on impulse, and it was already a blessing that his wife didn't mind him interfering in her family's affairs before they were even married. He didn't dare to ask for trouble again.

Continue cutting melon for your wife:

Wei Sisi understood, but it was no use; she couldn't stop them.

Perhaps even the Qi family's ancestors couldn't stand it anymore. When they arrived at the commune, they were surprised to learn that Li Mu had another family in the commune.

Qi Yingying finally snapped. She could endure anything for love, but she couldn't tolerate Li Mu lying to her, especially this kind of deception.

"The situation was very unfavorable for Qi Ying at the time. She and Wei Sisi had been arrested by the Li family and were to be taken back to the village. At this time, Ren Jianguo arrived."

They were truly destined to survive. If Ren Jianguo had arrived any later, and the two had been captured and brought back to the village, no one knew what would have awaited them.

Especially Wei Sisi, she was truly wronged.

Ren Jianguo rescued the two women and helped Qi Yingying divorce Li Mu, and also changed their places of work in the countryside.

But that's all. Ren Jianguo is a soldier and can't interfere in local affairs at will. Besides, the Qi family wasn't in a good situation at the time. It was already a great act of loyalty for Ren Jianguo to make a special trip to save Qi Yingying. If he were to get involved in anything else, he himself would be implicated.

Huo Han squeezed Lin Yuexi's small hand again, met her questioning gaze, and said truthfully, "The person who is good at business is Wei Sisi, not Qi Yingying."

"Did the Qi family lie to us?"

Old Master Qi doesn't seem like that kind of person.
"It wasn't the Qi family, it was Qi Yingying who deceived everyone, including the Qi family."

Lin Yuexi: "???"

It seems there's something big going on here.

Huo Han began to recount his story in detail.

Ren Jianguo thought Qi Yingying and Wei Sisi were good friends, and it's no wonder that Ren Jianguo misunderstood. In that situation, Wei Sisi was putting herself in danger to help Qi Yingying. Who wouldn't think they had a very close relationship?

Little did he know that Wei Sisi acted on impulse, driven by a sudden surge of righteousness, without considering the consequences of her actions. It wasn't until she was arrested by the Li family that she realized the gravity of her actions and began to feel fear. If Ren Jianguo hadn't arrived in time, she would have truly paid the price for her impulsive behavior.

That said, Ren Jianguo thought the two of them were friends, so he arranged for them to go to the same rural area.

At this point, the financial situation of these two people has reversed.

Wei Sisi was from Haishi. The Wei family of Haishi had been in business for generations. During the War of Resistance against Japan, they donated almost all of their wealth to support our army. The eldest elder personally wrote a plaque for the Wei family of Haishi to commemorate their righteous business practices, and it was extremely famous.

After that, private trading was no longer allowed, and the Haishiwei family naturally could not continue to do business. Fortunately, they were a top-tier family that had been praised by the Grand Elder, so they did not suffer any hardships during that special period. Moreover, the Haishiwei family members were all very smart and knew when to keep a low profile. The older ones received preferential treatment and went to work in factories, while the younger ones joined the army or went to the countryside.

To keep a low profile, the children going to the countryside naturally wouldn't carry too much money or ration coupons to attract attention.

When Wei Sisi went to the countryside, she had less than three hundred yuan in total. This was a lot for an average family; some educated youth only had ten or twenty yuan when they went to the countryside. But for the Wei family in Haishi, who had been in business for generations, it was pitifully little. However, Wei Sisi was sensible. Even though she had three hundred yuan in her pocket, she did not squander it at all after going to the countryside. On the contrary, she was even more frugal than many educated youth from poor families.

She only needs enough food on the surface, and she can eat even the toughest porridge with relish. She has never complained about working in the fields.

So in the eyes of outsiders, Wei Sisi is a child from a poor family. If she had lived a good life before, she would not have been able to adapt to rural life so quickly, unless her life before was not good at all.

As for the fact that they looked well when they arrived, rural people rarely saw city kids who had been sent to the countryside looking unwell; in any case, they were all better off than rural kids who toiled in the fields all day.

Looking at it this way, Qi Yingying and Wei Sisi are two extremes: one is so rich that she's always being taken advantage of, while the other is so poor that she might not even earn enough to eat herself from her job.

After the two were sent to the countryside, their situation completely reversed. Qi Yingying had been swindled out of all her money by the Li family, and the only thing she had left in her pocket was the fifty yuan that Ren Jianguo had given her.

On the other hand, Wei Sisi's original three hundred yuan has become nearly two thousand yuan, not to mention a bunch of tickets.

Lin Yuexi's eyes flickered. "Wei Sisi had already gone to the black market back then?"

Huo Han nodded, showing no disdain whatsoever; on the contrary, his tone was appreciative. He never thought there was anything wrong with running a black market business; earning money through one's own abilities was not shameful.

Moreover, Wei Sisi, a woman, was able to navigate such a dangerous place as the black market with ease; who can say that this ability wasn't her own skill?
After Wei Sisi went to the countryside, she first found the location of the black market, and then went to the black market to sell eggs once a week (educated youth had one day off a week). It took her half a year to figure out the general situation of the black market. She then contacted the second-in-command of the black market, and the two began to resell braised food.

The Wei family has a family recipe for braising. The second-in-command is the son of a former hunter in their village. His parents have passed away, and he lives alone. His house is built at the foot of the mountain, about a ten-minute walk from the village. It's an excellent place to make braised food.

However, neither of them dared to take big risks, so two years later, Wei Sisi, who was taking the lion's share, still hadn't earned two thousand yuan.

Qiu Chang, the second-in-command, tasted the sweetness of it. Although he was the second-in-command in the black market, he used to work for the boss. He would earn a hundred or so yuan a month at most, and sometimes he would only get fifty yuan, and he had to be careful what the boss thought.

After collaborating with Wei Sisi, he continued to receive his salary and even earned extra money. Because he was busier than before, he had less time to go out and splurge, which saved him a lot of money. In two years, he saved nearly four thousand yuan, something he never dared to dream of before.

So after Wei Sisi left, Qiu Chang hesitated for less than half a day before packing her bags and running off as well.

In the past, I was too timid to do big business because I was afraid of being discovered by the boss and the villagers. That's why I only dared to sell a little bit secretly.

The eldest brother is selfish; he only wants to pocket all the benefits. If he finds that Wei Sisi's braised food is selling well, he will definitely use some underhanded methods to force Wei Sisi to hand over the recipe.

He didn't trust the villagers even more. Qiu Chang should actually have had a brick house with a large courtyard in the village, but after his parents passed away, the brigade leader and others helped Qiu Chang's uncle take that house away and drove the then seven-year-old Qiu Chang to the dilapidated house at the foot of the mountain where Qiu's father had stayed overnight while guarding the mountain.

What does it mean to guard the mountain? It doesn't mean to guard the mountain itself, but rather to arrange for people to stand guard at the foot of the mountain during periods when wild animals come down from the mountain, so as to alert the villagers in time.

Qiu Chang's father encountered a large pack of wolves coming down the mountain while he was guarding it. He knocked on the door to notify the village in time, but he lost his chance of survival because he had startled the wolves.

Logically speaking, Qiu's father had been kind to the villagers. Even if the villagers should not treat Qiu Chang well, they should at least not be ungrateful and take away his house and abandon his seven-year-old child at the foot of the mountain to fend for himself.