I used rebirth to bury his captivating gaze.

Chapter 75 Yu Mei, heavily pregnant, walks into the courtyard with a handsome man (but she ignores Y

Diao Yan looked much more haggard, and her mental state seemed somewhat abnormal. She stared blankly at Yu Han in front of her.

Yu Han took out three jin of green apples from her bag, placed one in her aunt's stiff palm, and gave her mother, who had just finished clearing the table, a Fiery Apple in her palm as well.

Liu Shulan put the apple down, saying she couldn't eat after finishing her meal, so she left it aside.

Diao Yan glanced around and realized that in rural areas during that era, very few people ate apples. They mostly ate pickled cabbage hearts made in the autumn from the large magnetic grid in the kitchen, dipped in white sugar as snacks, or red and green radishes, carrots, stir-fried popcorn, soybeans that had been soaked in water and enlarged, and hairy clams.

Diao Yan first looked at the green apple in her hand, then took a bite and swallowed it. She then put it down, grasped Yu Han's hand with both of hers, and said with tears in her eyes, "Yu Han, did you go to the Seventh City to see Yu Mei?"

Seeing that Yu Han didn't answer her aunt's question, Liu Shulan said, "By the way, Yu Han, have you seen Yu Mei? I called you from the village store in the west of the village to talk about it, you haven't forgotten, have you?"

Yu Han looked at Diao Yan, whose eyes were filled with tears and who looked very pitiful. A thought suddenly struck her. She remembered what Uncle Niu and Aunt Niu had said when she arrived: Yu Mei might be working in the city. This reminded her that she had a topic to tell her aunt a white lie, "I saw Yu Mei. She's doing quite well now. She asked me to tell you that she works as a saleswoman in a privately owned clothing store on the pedestrian street in the city."

After she finished speaking, the tears on Diao Yan's face gradually faded, and then she smiled. She picked up the half apple and continued to eat it, eventually finishing even the perforation.

Diao Yan left the east room of the south wing with a smile on her face and returned to the east room of her west wing, where she was left alone.

Yu Han and Liu Shulan dealt with the matters in the south wing and their own few acres of fertile land, and then sublet them to Yang Chong and his wife in the north wing for farming.

Then the mother and daughter packed a few simple clothes and left the Yang family compound through the large wooden gate, heading straight towards the west of the village.

Her outfit became a beautiful sight in the village!

The men and women of the village walking along the dirt road, the gossipy villagers, and Wu Sanbao sitting in front of Zhang Cuihua's house in the west of the village all cast envious glances at him.

Widow Li leaned against the large wooden door frame of her house, staring intently at her bell-bottoms.

Suddenly, Widow Li walked over, smiling as she stopped Yu Han and said, "Yu Han, your pants are really nice. What are they called? How about you sell them to me?"

Yu Han stopped and said with a smile, "Thank you for appreciating my bell-bottoms, Sister-in-law Li, but I can't sell them."

"Ah! They're called bell-bottoms?"

Wu San and Zhang Cuihua also walked up to Yu Han!

Zhang Cuihua flattered her, saying, "Yuhan, you're really something! Your black pants look great, and your plaid shirt looks good too. You're dressed so fashionably; it's obvious you're doing well in the city."

Wu Sanbao said, "Yuhan is really something, she's come to take her mother to live in the city. Zhang Cuihua, you know, we're all cousins ​​from the same compound, how come we're so different? Yumei is no match for our Yuhan. Why did she go to the city to see a potential partner? Why is there no news of her coming back? Yuhan, have you seen Yumei? How is she? Her mother is going crazy worrying about her. Yuhan, have you seen your third aunt?"

Liu Shulan said anxiously, "Yuhan, hurry up, or you'll miss the village bus."

Yu Han smiled at her mother in a gesture of comfort, then she said to Wu Sanbao, "Yu Mei went to the city to find a boyfriend. After she found one, she started doing business with me in the city. Business can't function without someone by your side."

Zhang Cuihua said, "I knew it. How could Yu Mei have gone to the city and been sold? There are also rumors that she was taken advantage of by her boyfriend in the city and slept with for free."

"Alright, you two are just gossipy blabbermouths. Why don't you go back and see what your own men are doing? Let's go, Yuhan." Liu Shulan said angrily and left.

Wu Sanbao and Zhang Cuihua exchanged a glance and then left.

Widow Li spat at Wu Sanbao and Zhang Cuihua, then went back into the house.

When Wang Yuhan and Liu Shulan walked out of the west entrance of the village, Yang Chong's red horse was driven over from behind. The mother and daughter got into the red horse-drawn carriage, and Yang Chong took them to the township to catch a bus.

The mother and daughter boarded the bus and saw through the bus window that Yang Chong turned his red horse-drawn carriage around and drove straight towards his own dirt road.

The car traveled for more than three hours before arriving at the terminal bus station of Qishi Coal City.

The mother and daughter got off the bus, took a taxi, and arrived at the courtyard of their rented house.

All the way, Liu Shulan kept talking about Yu Mei. This time she came to a new small coal town, which was the place in the town where Zou Laqian, the daughter of the Zou family in the village who had married out, lived, which was introduced to the young man Yu Mei.

She was determined to find Yu Mei, whether alive or dead. These were the words Diao Yan spoke to the mother and daughter on the third day before they left.

As for the phone number that Yu Han had given to Liu Shulan, and the address of the in-laws that Diao Yan wanted Yu Mei to introduce, Yu Han had never actually met Yu Mei, let alone knew the address of the man she was being introduced to.

She heard Liu Shulan's urgent voice on the other end of the phone, and Diao Yan's sobbing and crying next to her. Yu Han then told a very kind lie, just like when she went back this time, she said that Yu Mei was doing business with her, working hard to earn money and didn't have time to come home.

When the mother and daughter returned to their rented apartment in the Seventh City compound, Liu Shulan had no interest in examining the layout of the house.

Yu Mei was just like her daughter, very anxious.

Yu Han quickly comforted her, saying, "Mom, don't worry, we will definitely find Yu Mei. You should eat well first, so that we can find her when we have the strength and are in good health."

Liu Shulan thought it made sense; only when you're full and have energy will you have the strength to go find someone.

She started eating as much as she could.

The mother and daughter lived in the third house on the right side of the main gate of the compound. They could see clearly anyone who entered the compound from outside.

Old Liu, who lived at the very back of the courtyard, drove his horse-drawn cart every day from early morning to late at night to deliver furniture to customers at the furniture shops on both sides of the street.

Old Liu's wife, having heard they were a couple who married later in life, kept herself and her home impeccably clean every day. The old man gave all the money he earned delivering furniture to customers to Old Liu's wife.

Grandma Liu has a habit of drinking a glass of bulk white liquor with every meal.

She also has a habit of smoking and drinking after meals.

When you have nothing to do, play a few rounds of mahjong at home or at a mahjong table outside.

Then, once she had some money in her pocket, she went to the store without keeping a single penny to buy several new outfits. Oh, and there was also a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl with Old Liu, who was her husband's second marriage.

Liu Touzi's children are all married and living elsewhere, so he found a boss who can spend money like this, and a young woman and her mother to support him.

Each family in the compound has its own unique life, and each has its own chaotic destiny.

The real show inside the compound is yet to come!

The afternoon the mother and daughter returned, the sun was shining brightly, and a young woman with a large belly walked into the courtyard.

Beside her stood a handsome young man dressed in a dark blue general's uniform, with snow-white cotton gloves on his hands, holding the pregnant woman's hand in one hand.

Through the half-open glass window at the front of the house, Yu Han could clearly see that the pregnant woman was indeed her.

Yu Han was very surprised, disappointed, and frustrated. What happened? How come Yu Mei is pregnant after not seeing her for half a year?

This handsome man was the city girl introduced by the matchmaker Zou Laxian. This young man had also visited the Yang family compound with the matchmaker Zou Laxian.

Then Yu Mei came to this small coal town to study the engagement and betrothal gift process. She should have received the engagement and betrothal gift here, and then returned to her rural home. After the engagement was completed, she would wait for a while before preparing for the wedding.

With so many questions, could Yu Mei possibly answer them? Yu Mei originally harbored resentment towards her.

She walked out and called to Yu Mei as she walked past. Yu Mei turned around abruptly, and her body trembled. Then, her face was stunned for a moment before she immediately turned her head back. Without paying any attention to Yu Han, she walked straight into the three houses near the north side of Old Liu's house.