The poor girl from the 1970s was forced to kiss by the damp educated youth.

Chen Zhi sat back on the bed with the package in her arms. Before the others returned, she deftly opened the package and was stunned when she saw what was inside.

She picked up the small, bulging thing, which was no bigger than the palm of her hand, and instinctively squeezed it; it was very soft.

She tugged at the four straps again. These were for tying around the waist, weren't they?

She had seen Chen Ye use something like that.

only--

Chen Zhi held it to her nose and smelled it. The filling inside was cotton, not wood ash.

She counted them; there were twelve in total.

How could Xilang have such a thing?

Chen Zhi was so embarrassed that she felt like she was on fire.

In addition to the twelve-monthly menstrual belt, there is also about one pound of White Rabbit milk candy.

Chen Zhi blushed as she changed into her menstrual belt, ate a White Rabbit milk candy, put the rest back in her bag, tied it up, and put it back under the bed.

Chen Xiuzhen went back to school in the county, and Chen Zhi's teammates were replaced by a girl about the same age as her named Liang Xiaoqiu.

Liang Xiaoqiu was less than 1.6 meters tall, thin and small, with dark skin, an oval face, a pointed chin, and slightly narrow eyes, like a fox. She was not the kind of face that adults liked.

Liang Xiaoqiu has four older sisters, a younger brother, and a younger sister, so she doesn't have much of a presence at home. She was assigned to a group with Chen Zhi, and although she clearly didn't want to, she just gritted her teeth and didn't dare to say anything.

"Don't slack off, or I'll tell the squad leader," Liang Xiaoqiu said seriously.

Chen Zhi rolled her eyes at the other person and took the lead in getting to work on the ground.

"Liang Xiaoqiu, what a coincidence, you're here too."

A voice came from next door. Chen Zhi turned her head and saw Chen Xiaoshuai grinning, his eyes narrowed to slits as he looked silly.

Chen Zhi raised an eyebrow. This Chen Xiaoshuai is showing off like a peacock.

Liang Xiaoqiu turned her face away and ignored him completely.

Chen Xiaoshuai was not discouraged and said, "Xiao Qiu, take your time, I'll help you in a bit."

Upon hearing this, Liang Xiaoqiu swung her hoe even faster.

"You're all putting in the effort, but the other person doesn't even acknowledge you," Chen Ergou complained.

"I'd be happy to do that too." Chen Xiaoshuai said nonchalantly, "Girls should always be a little reserved. I wouldn't like someone if they agreed to everything as soon as I pursued them."

Chen Ergou's lips twitched. "Your taste is quite peculiar."

Chen Xiaoshuai: "You'll know when you have a girl you like."

Chen Ergou shook his head. "I like girls who are a little chubby, with round faces and round eyes. I don't like Liang Xiaoqiu's type. My mom says the women in Liang Xiaoqiu's family aren't good-looking and look unlucky. Look at her older sisters, none of them married well and they live a miserable life with long, bitter faces."

Chen Xiaoshuai: "That's because her family sold her older sisters to save money for their younger brother to build a new house."

Chen Ergou: "How do you know her family won't sell Liang Xiaoqiu?"

Chen Xiaoshuai's face stiffened, and he fell silent.

"Brother, I advise you to wake up," Chen Ergou said earnestly.

Chen Xiaoshuai: "Then why don't you go and persuade Brother Peng? I think Brother Peng is the one who's really gone mad."

They could all tell that Chen Peng liked Chen Zhi.

Chen Ergou remained silent for a long time, then comforted himself, "Chen Zhi won't be interested in Brother Peng."

Chen Xiaoshuai retorted, "Peng Ge isn't bad either, why doesn't she like him?"

Chen Ergou thought about it seriously before saying, "It's different. Chen Zhi has high aspirations and likes cultured people, like Li Zhou'an."

Chen Xiaoshuai scoffed, "Li Zhou'an wouldn't even look at her."

Chen Zhi felt her meals were already bad enough, but compared to Liang Xiaoqiu's, she realized there were even worse ones. Both were mixed grain rice, but at least her bowl contained some corn kernels and soybeans, unlike Liang Xiaoqiu's bowl, which was full of rice bran without a single grain of rice.

Seeing Liang Xiaoqiu swallowing her suffering, Chen Zhi felt that her life over the past ten years hadn't been so bad.

After lunch, Chen Zhi took out her slingshot again to shoot sparrows.

When Xi Lang arrived, there were already two sparrows at Chen Zhi's feet.

"I'll help you hunt sparrows, you should eat something first." Xi Lang placed the lunchbox in front of Chen Zhi. Besides the lunchbox, there was also a military water bottle. "There's ginger and brown sugar water in the water bottle, you can keep it for yourself, I'll come back for it after work."

Upon hearing this, Chen Zhi handed him the slingshot, then opened the military green water bottle, took a sip, and found the ginger and brown sugar water to be sweet and spicy—very delicious.

She opened the lunchbox again. Inside were white rice, vibrant green lettuce, and several large chunks of meat that were stale and unidentifiable.

The meat chunks were pan-fried until golden brown on both sides, and they smelled delicious.

Chen Zhi swallowed hard, and her first chopsticks went to pick up the piece of meat.

"Is it good?" Xi Lang asked her.

"It's delicious. It's a bit like fish and a bit like chicken. What is it?" Chen Zhi finished a piece in a few bites, then ate another piece until she had finished all the meat before she went to eat vegetables and rice.

"It's snake meat," Xi Lang said.

Chen Zhi's eyes widened. "Really?"

That piece of meat is so big, how big must the snake be?

Xi Lang glanced at her calmly. "What do you think?"

Chen Zhi shook her head; she dared not think about it.

Xi Lang chuckled, aimed at a sparrow flying overhead, and threw a pebble. The sparrow was hit and fell from the sky.

A few meters away, Liang Xiaoqiu looked at Chen Zhi with envy. She used to think that Chen Zhi was more pitiful than her. Whenever she was sad and couldn't think straight, she would always comfort herself that Chen Zhi was so miserable but still alive, so she couldn't commit suicide either.

But now, looking at her, Chen Zhi has grown taller and prettier, and people are even bringing her delicious food...

The white rice, the fragrant meat, and the ginger syrup were all things Liang Xiaoqiu had never eaten before.

Liang Xiaoqiu swallowed hard, thinking that Xi Lang wasn't as bad as the rumors suggested. He could afford white rice, meat, and candy, so he was clearly well-off. Most importantly, he was generous to women. Unlike her family, where all the good things went to the men, and only when the men stopped eating did the women get their turn.

Liang Xiaoqiu didn't want to be like her older sisters, sold by their family to old men who were either physically ill or had bad tempers, and she didn't want to be beaten all the time like her sisters. She wanted to find someone who liked her, cared for her, was willing to spend money on her, and would make sure she was well-fed and clothed. If she could eat white rice and meat, that would be even better.

Ideally, it would be someone like Xi Lang. Xi Lang is a sent-down youth, his parents aren't around, he doesn't have to worry about being mistreated by his mother-in-law, and he has no burdens. As long as the two of them are willing to work hard, their lives won't be too bad.

How about giving Xilang a try?

When Liang Xiaoqiu saw Xi Lang hit another sparrow, her eyes burned even hotter.

Just as she was staring intently at Xi Lang, he suddenly turned around and gave her a cold glance. With just that one glance, Liang Xiaoqiu felt as if she had fallen into an ice cave, and she couldn't help but shiver.

She quickly looked away; something was off about Xi Lang!

"Hit it again!"

Chen Ergou was stunned; how come he didn't know Xi Lang had this skill?

"Eight already." Chen Xiaoshuai's eyes turned red with jealousy. Even small sparrows are still meat. "If I had known Xi Lang was this good, I would have invited him to go hunting in the mountains."

Chen Ergou: "Who says it isn't?"

He accepted the strangeness of it all; eating meat was more important.

Besides, what's so strange about Xi Lang? He's standing in the sunlight and nothing's wrong with him.

Chen Xiaoshuai: "What's his relationship with Chen Zhi? Why does he always bring food to Chen Zhi?"

Chen Ergou: "You've got your eye on Chen Zhi, haven't you? Putting everything else aside, Chen Zhi is really beautiful now, dazzlingly fair-skinned."

As soon as Chen Zhi finished eating, Liang Xiaoqiu went to work in the fields.

"Are you alright?" Xi Lang asked, his expression somewhat unnatural.

Chen Zhi was puzzled. "Okay, there's nothing wrong with that."

Seeing her bewildered expression, Xi Lang found it somewhat amusing. "I asked you, does your lower abdomen hurt?"

Chen Zhi then realized what Xi Lang was asking. Her expression stiffened, she turned her face away, and whispered, "Even if it doesn't hurt, you should still be careful. If you feel dizzy, eat some candy."

Chen Zhi hummed in agreement, then, remembering the gift Xi Lang had given her yesterday, she asked, "How did you get that?"

"Which one?" Xi Lang didn't react for a moment.

Chen Zhi dared not look at him anymore, her porcelain-white face flushed with a light pink. "It's the one you gave me yesterday."

"Oh, that? I made it myself," Xi Lang said. Afraid Chen Zhi would misunderstand, he added, "It's my first time making one. Is it any good?"

boom!

Chen Zhi felt like she was about to explode. She picked up a hoe, hurriedly got to work, and said without turning her head, "I have to work now, you go ahead and get busy."

Seeing her ears turn bright red, Xi Lang curled his lips and replied, "Okay."

Liang Xiaoqiu is indeed a capable person. She doesn't dawdle; she can finish her work before others have even finished.

Chen Zhi wasn't in a hurry to return the hoe. As the sun set, there were even more birds in the sky. Besides sparrows, there were some birds that Chen Zhi didn't recognize, and these birds were all bigger than sparrows. Chen Zhi picked out the larger birds to shoot, and she actually managed to shoot down two of them.

She hunted birds, and Liang Xiaoqiu just watched from the side, without going home.

As darkness fell, everyone gradually finished work. Chen Zhi tied the bird she had shot with a straw rope, carried the bird in one hand and a hoe in the other, with her empty military green water bottle slung over her waist.

Halfway there, Xi Lang came looking for them.

Chen Zhi handed the empty kettle to Xi Lang, who took it and secretly slipped four eggs into her hand. The eggs were still warm, as if they had just been boiled.

"Give me what you have, you eat the eggs first," Xi Lang said.

Without a word, Chen Zhi handed the hoe and the bird to Xi Lang, washed her hands in the nearby ditch, and then began peeling eggs. "Have you eaten?"

"Let's go back and eat." In reality, Xi Lang only cooked four eggs. The number of eggs was limited, and he planned to save them all for her to nourish her body. He would eat the meat as well.

"I want to eat bird eggs tomorrow," Chen Zhi said.

"Okay. I'll give it to you tomorrow—"

Xi Lang stopped abruptly, his hand landing on Chen Zhi's shoulder, stopping her from going any further. "Wait a minute."

Chen Zhi, puzzled, asked, "What's wrong?"

No sooner had she spoken than screams erupted from ahead.

The piercing screams echoed across the entire field, sending chills down one's spine.

Liang Xiaoqiu, who was walking in front, was so frightened that she ran back and hid behind Chen Zhi and Xi Lang.

Chen Zhi looked up and saw a man raising a hoe and chopping at another man.

A gentle breeze blew by, and a faint smell of blood filled the air.

"Liangzhu, stop right now! I'm going to beat your brother to death!"

"Everyone, come help! Liangzhu is too strong, I can't control him."

"Liang Song, don't just stand there, run!"

"Liangzhu, open your eyes wide and look! The person in front of you is your brother."

"My brother? He's not my brother! They all deserve to die, they all deserve to die, and you, you, all of you, you all took advantage of Xiaoru, you all deserve to die—"

"ah--"

Someone else has been injured.

The beam suddenly became incredibly strong, and even several men couldn't hold it down.

"Liang Song, Liang Zhu, Liang Bai, you three brothers have taken Xiao Ru for yourselves. You all deserve to die, you all deserve to die! Die!"

"And you, you're disrespectful to your elders. Xiaoru doesn't like you, yet you forced yourself on her. You should die too."

"You too, you lied to Xiaoru and said you'd give her money, but you didn't. You're going to die too."

You owe Xiaoru a box of face cream.

......

The eerie and chilling sounds emanating from the beams and pillars sent shivers down one's spine.

Then someone realized something was wrong: "He's not the pillar."

No normal person would say they deserve to die.

"Chen Yao is dead. His body was just brought home yesterday. Could this person be—"

The wind suddenly picked up, and dark clouds rolled in.

The whole scene became eerie and sinister.

"Where's Second Aunt? Quickly, find her!"

Second Aunt was the shaman of Sandong Village. After breaking with feudal superstition, Second Aunt stopped doing things related to ghosts and spirits.

Now that someone's life is in danger, no one can worry about anything else. Immediately, some people run to find the person.

However, before the man could run far, Liangzhu caught up with him, grabbed him by the back of his collar, and threw him into a ditch nearby.

Chen Zhi had never seen such a scene before, and her body trembled involuntarily.

"Scared?" Xi Lang put his arm around her shoulder.

Chen Zhi nodded. She had seen a ghost; how could she not be afraid?

"Don't be afraid," Xi Lang comforted her. He bent down, picked up a stone the size of a baby's fist from the ground, and smashed it right in the middle of the beam's shoulder blade.

With a bang, the beam was smashed to the ground, its eyes rolled back, and it fainted.

Brigade leader Chen Renzheng and brigade secretary Chen Jun arrived late.

Seeing these two, everyone felt like they had found their pillar of support, and they began to describe the dangerous scene they had just witnessed. Finally, someone whispered, "Captain, Secretary, do you think it could be Chen Yao's ghost—"

"Shut up!" Chen Renzheng shouted.

Chen Jun remained silent, his face serious.

"This pillar probably has hysteria. I've heard that when hysteria strikes, one is not in the right mind but has incredible strength. His condition just now seemed a bit like that," Xi Lang said seriously. "If you don't believe me, you can go to the hospital and ask a doctor."

Some people questioned, "Does this disease really exist?"

Xi Lang nodded. "Yes. There are many types of mental illness, and I don't know which type Liang Zhu belongs to."

Someone else said, "Is it madness?"

"You mean Liangzhu has gone mad?"

"He even hit his own older brother, isn't he crazy?"

"If it's madness, then it makes sense. Madmen are indeed strong, mentally unstable, and will even beat their own parents, just like Liangzhu's situation."

call--

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief; it turned out he wasn't possessed by a ghost, he had just gone mad.