Return to the small mountain village in 1981

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Chapter 101 The cow died, pay for it
Yang Chunyan held a hoe in one hand and a fat gray rabbit in the other, walking slowly on the country road.

Looking at the low adobe thatched houses on the east and west and the busy villagers in the fields, I feel familiar and strange.

She walked across a not-so-wide field, looked at the Zhou family yard not far ahead, hesitated for a moment and walked forward.

About ten meters away from home, I heard my father-in-law, Zhou Dasong, yelling angrily.
"You prodigal son of a bitch, stop for me. I have to beat you to death today."

"If I had known you were such a thing, I would have dumped you in a manure bucket in one fell swoop."

Yang Chunyan squeezed through a group of villagers who were standing at the door to watch the excitement and saw her husband's family in the courtyard. There was also a dead cow with a crooked neck in the courtyard. Xiong Dahai's family, who usually didn't interact much, also came.

She vaguely recalled an incident from her past life.

When her husband, Zhou Huaian, chased and beat a sick cow, causing the cow to fall to death, the Zhou family was forced to pay compensation for the money originally used to build a house for the four brothers.

Later, her three brothers moved out one after another, but her family had no money to build a house, so they had to live with her parents-in-law.

After this incident, Zhou Huaian also wanted to rely on his own skills to make money to build a new house and move.

A man with little climbing skills, bravely took a few friends and went into the mountains to climb the cliffs to collect honey. As a result, they encountered a black bear and Zhou Huaian fell off the cliff and fell unconscious.

Several of his friends were also left behind. One friend was bitten by a black bear and was seriously injured. His family blocked the door and demanded medical expenses.

Yang Chunyan had no choice but to run back to her parents' home to borrow money to get through the crisis first. In desperation, she had a miscarriage on the road and was not sent to the hospital in time. Since then, she has been unable to conceive...

It was not until twenty years later that Yang Chunyan saved enough money to build a tile-roofed house. She also took care of Zhou Huaian for twenty years, who was depressed after breaking his leg and often drank to drown his sorrows.

One night not long after moving into his new home, Zhou Huaian drank pesticide and died quietly, leaving only a crooked note.

After all, it was not good to get married for the second time in the countryside. Yang Chunyan did not want to remarry even when she was in her forties. She lived alone and widowed for more than ten years, and finally left quietly...

It turns out that today is the day the Zhou family was sued for compensation because Zhou Huaian chased the cow to death.

Yang Chunyan carried the rabbit into the hospital and saw Father Zhou panting and holding a stick. Zhou Huaian squatted in front of him holding his head.

Zhou's mother stood aside and wiped her tears. The eldest brother, the second brother, and the third brother squatted under the eaves of the corridor in frustration and anger. When the three sisters-in-law saw her coming back, they gave her a look of dissatisfaction.

She ignored it, but remembered a rumor she heard in her previous life.

The Zhou family lost money and after accepting the dead ox, they originally wanted to skin it and sell it for meat, but a cattle trader from the next-door brigade came over and bought the carcass at a price higher than the market price.