Divorced by her husband's family and rejected by her own! She defiantly turned her life around

A villager pulled Liu Jinsheng aside, saying, "Village chief, aren't we selling hawthorn berries? Why are we building a road?"

"This is sincerity and attitude. Think about what I told you before. I don't force you. I just hope you can understand my good intentions and not miss this opportunity."

The villagers were still talking, "We can't even get enough to eat, how can we have the strength to repair roads? We won't repair this road, whoever wants to can repair it!"

Immediately, someone chimed in, "That makes sense. How can you build roads if you're not well-fed? You might as well lie in bed and sleep."

Some people don't want to build the road, but they're afraid of missing out on the benefits the village chief mentioned, so they don't express their opinion and try to be fence-sitters.

Some people stood up and firmly supported it, and they did whatever the village chief told them to do.

Liu Jinsheng struck a gong and said, "I've given you all this opportunity. Whether you can seize it or not is up to you."

As I said before, road construction is for the benefit of the village collective. Those who don't participate in road construction won't be included in any future good things for the village. You can decide for yourselves.

Registration is now open. Anyone interested in participating in the road repair should register with me. Those who do not register will be considered to have voluntarily withdrawn, and will not have the opportunity to participate again later.

Today, the clan chief, elders, and village elders are all present. This is my decision as the village chief, and all elders are here to witness it.

Immediately, people went up to sign up. When Liu Jinsheng checked, he found that eight households had not signed up, including Liu Dahu's family and Huang Qiu Kui's family, as well as several lazy and idle families in the village.

Liu Jinsheng read out the names of the families who hadn't registered, saying, "The families whose names I've read out, come here to sign and put your fingerprints."

When they heard that they had to sign and put their fingerprints, they immediately sensed something was wrong. It's just that we're not going to build the road, why are we being forced to put our fingerprints on it? Is there some kind of conspiracy?

"So what if we don't want to build the road? Are you forcing us to put our fingerprints on this? Are you setting a trap for me?"

"Since you are unwilling to participate in the village's collective activities, you cannot enjoy the benefits of the village and must bear the consequences."

I'm afraid that one day you'll regret it and come back to me with a big mouth, begging for my life. I don't have that much free time to deal with you.

If they don't sign, they're just being unreasonable, trying to get all the benefits from the village for nothing. There's no such thing as getting something for nothing, and nobody's a fool.

As the village chief, I'm giving you one more chance. If you don't want to repair the road and still refuse to sign the agreement, then I'm sorry, Liujia Village can't accommodate such an unruly person. Please find somewhere else.

"Are you trying to drive us out of the village?"

"You chose this path yourselves; no one forced you."

In the end, 5 families chose to sign and leave their fingerprints, and 3 families chose to sign up for road repairs.

These five families include Liu Dahu's family. Old Master Liu said that his family had no able-bodied men and would not participate in the road repair. He said that his old arms and legs could not do it. The village chief told him that two people from his family could do the work of one person, but Old Master Liu still refused. Liu Jinsheng then stopped trying to persuade him.

Huang Qiu Kui's family, she and Huang Lan Hua are sisters from the same clan, and they are not the type to suffer losses. My family lives at the entrance of the village, and we can't walk to the other end of the village, so why should we exert ourselves?

We don't have oxcarts or horse-drawn carriages, so we don't need such smooth roads. The road we have now is fine to walk on.

Tugen's eldest and second eldest brothers had already separated from their mother and younger brothers. They disliked their younger brothers for being lazy and a burden, so they didn't sign up this time.

There were also two bachelors in the village. One lived with his mother, stealing chickens and dogs, doing nothing but hanging out with the hooligans in town all day. The other was unhappy that his wife couldn't give birth to a son, so he and his mother tormented his wife and daughters. His wife couldn't take it anymore and jumped into the river with her two daughters to commit suicide. By the time the villagers found them and rescued them, the mother and her two daughters were already dead.

With those two, who would dare marry their daughter to them?

Moreover, all five families felt that Huang Lanhua's words made a lot of sense. It was just that the village chief wanted to flatter Liu Dawang's family and get the villagers to do things so he could use the money to do favors. He was really cunning, even worse than Liu Maoquan.

The village chief read the list of people who were not participating in the road repairs again before saying, "There are five households in our village that are not participating in the road repairs. They will not be counted in any good things that happen in the village in the future. The village has already signed a written agreement with them, and we hope that the villagers will supervise this."

Each household should contribute one able-bodied man. We'll start repairing the road from the end of the village as soon as it's light tomorrow morning. Everyone, please be on time.

If everyone has nothing else to do, let's all go home.

The villagers gradually dispersed, but some remained under the willow tree, chatting about the road repairs. Led by Huang Qiu Kui, they said, "I don't know what everyone is thinking. Who is the village chief organizing the road repairs for? Anyone with eyes can see that."

Liu Dawang's family lives at the end of the village. They own an oxcart, and their oxcart travels this road the most. The road has been repaired, but it only benefits them. What good does it do for us? Not at all. We just have to waste two more bowls of rice.

They found a wild boar in the mountains for free, but they didn't even share the meat or the broth with the villagers.

Their family has become rich. The villagers are so poor, they can't even get enough to eat. Look at their life. They live in a big brick house with tiled roofs and eat chicken, duck, fish, meat, white rice, and white flour. If their family had any conscience, they could save a single bite of food and feed the whole village.

They led those families to dig for medicinal herbs and pick hawthorn berries, but why didn't they call any other villagers?

The other women with her thought Huang Qiu Kui made a lot of sense, so they could only agree with her. In the family, the father-in-law, mother-in-law, and men were in charge, and they couldn't make decisions on such important matters.

Liu Dawang went back and told Liu Siyue about the meeting in the village. Liu Siyue was quite surprised. Liu Jinsheng, the village chief, was a man of action. He talked about it in the morning and put it into action in the afternoon. Let's see if anyone comes to repair the road tomorrow.

After dinner, Feng's mother said she had to go back. "Yuzhen, Dawang, I've been away for so long, and I'm a little worried about home. Your father and eldest brother must be thinking about us too."

Tomorrow the village will send over the last batch of hawthorns, and I'll go back with the oxcart. My younger brothers can stay here; feel free to ask them to do anything they need.

"Sister, brother-in-law, April, Mother, we were planning to tell you about this too."

These past few days, we've been following Brother Youtian and Shitou, and we've learned to identify all the medicinal herbs. Let them dig up the herbs in the village; we won't compete with them for them.

We'll go back to Fengyuan Village to dig. We have these medicinal herbs in the mountains there too, but no one has ever dug them before, and they're easy to find.

When we get back, we'll call my brother and sister-in-law, and a few nephews, and we'll go into the mountains to dig for medicinal herbs. That way we can find more.

Everyone looked at Liu Siyue. "Your uncles' idea is good. Then you can go back with Grandma. You've learned how to process medicinal herbs. Once you've collected enough herbs, send them over by oxcart. I'll take them to the county town to sell them together."

When you're digging for medicinal herbs in the mountains, if you encounter anything strange or unusual, dig it up and bring it back to me. Maybe it's something useful!

When digging for medicinal herbs, never go deep into the mountains; your life is the most important thing.

With my uncles working this hard, we'll be able to build a house next spring.

Mrs. Feng beamed from ear to ear, "This is all thanks to that girl!"

"Sister, brother-in-law, I'll go tell Brother Youtian and the others that we're going back tomorrow, so they don't need to wait for us anymore."

"Okay, go ahead."

After saying that, Feng Dayi ran out. He had become good friends with Liu Shitou during this time and was going to say goodbye.