I used rebirth to bury his captivating gaze.

Chapter 87 Yu Mei Goes to Work at the Hotel (Upgrading from a musket to a cannon, from a donkey cart

Six months later, Chen Lixin sold his donkey cart and replaced it with a yellow horse-drawn cart. Then he replaced the yellow horse-drawn cart with a diesel tricycle, and then with a four-wheeled diesel truck. All of these were used to transport furniture, delivering it to furniture stores on both sides of Yishi Erbai Street.

Of course, that's a story for later; for now, the furniture was transported by yellow horse-drawn carts.

Transporting furniture by horse-drawn carriage certainly saved time on the journey, allowing for an extra trip to the furniture store to do more work.

Whether it was a donkey cart or a horse-drawn carriage, everything went smoothly, and Chen Lixin still had to feed the horses in the middle of the night.

On the very first summer night after buying the old yellow horse, Lixin got up in the middle of the night, put on long clothes and trousers, and didn't turn on the "incandescent light" for fear of disturbing his wife and daughter. He tiptoed out to the horse pen in front of the house to feed the horse hay.

When he arrived at the stable, he found it empty; the two-year-old yellow horse was gone.

Chen Lixin didn't disturb Yu Mei, afraid that she would worry. Ever since he went to his mother-in-law's house in the countryside last time, he knew the hardships Yu Mei had endured with him. He hadn't known that she was in the prime of her life and should have been able to use her beautiful face to earn a comfortable life. Even if she didn't earn a comfortable life, she could have married an ordinary boyfriend and lived a carefree life.

It's better than being destitute and unable to even live a normal life. When Yu Mei was pregnant, she ate fruit sparingly. When she was in confinement after giving birth, she not only ran out of millet and eggs, but also spent the entire month of that time at her mother's and Uncle Liu's house watching them play mahjong and watch the TV series "The Legend of Emperor Qianlong".

Chen Lixin finally realized how much he cherished his wife. It was all thanks to her during his surgery to remove the metal plates and wires from his waist and ankles. While he was hospitalized, no one cared for him; it was Yu Mei who looked after him alone. Only then did he understand that he had unexpectedly gained a wonderful wife.

However, he didn't take good care of Yu Mei while she was in postpartum confinement. When Xiao Si Si fell to the floor during her confinement, he returned from his mother's house in the middle of the night and was woken up to change the baby's diaper half the night before being woken up again...

Yu Mei, who had given birth alone and had a small scar on her genitals, sat on the heated kang (a traditional Chinese bed-stove) sideways, changing the diaper for her baby...

He should understand this. Yu Mei is a great beauty, and many men outside are eyeing her. They don't cherish her, and instead take advantage of her vulnerability...

He thought for a moment, then hurriedly searched the courtyard. He searched everywhere but found nothing. Then he ran outside and saw that the wooden gate of the courtyard was open. He clearly remembered that he had closed the wooden gate himself last night and locked it. How could it suddenly be open and the yellow horse was gone?

Suddenly, a bad feeling arose in his mind: had a thief broken into the yard and stolen his old yellow horse?

Then he immediately ran out of the yard to search outside. As he walked, he looked around and, by the faint moonlight, he suddenly saw that the yellow horse had run to the main road outside the gate of the rented yard and was eating the green grass by the roadside. The yellow horse also saw its new male master at this time, and then neighed twice at him before continuing to eat grass.

Li Xin immediately led the bare horse back to the stable in the yard, fed it hay, and then went back to the house. When he reached the door of the house, he suddenly heard someone talking somewhere. Li Xin immediately stopped and listened carefully. After a moment, he realized that the tiny sound was coming from under the back window of his rented house.

Then he picked up the long wooden stick leaning against the door and was about to walk towards the back window when he immediately heard Yu Mei's voice, "Who are you? What are you doing under my back window in the middle of the night?"

A strange man spoke from below the window outside, "Turn on the light, and you'll see who we are."

"Why would I turn on the light? The children's father is sleeping. If I turn on the light, I'll wake him up. He has a bad temper, and I'm afraid he might hurt you if he wakes up."

Yu Mei woke up. She knew that Li Xin had gone out to feed the yellow horse. Just as she was about to turn on the light bulb, she heard what sounded like two men talking quietly by the wall outside the window.

Then she gave up turning on the light, stood up and listened intently to the outside of the window, and sure enough, someone was whispering.

The window was open, and she looked down at the base of the wall outside the window. In the dim moonlight, she could vaguely see two strange men talking.

Then one of the skinny men continued to say to Yu Mei, "I've seen you before. You're very beautiful, like a fairy. How come someone as beautiful as you married a very poor man? Why don't we date? I'll guarantee you a good life."

"Why are you all out here in the middle of the night spouting nonsense, or are you trying to steal something? Get out of here, all of you."

Another fat man said, "How can we sleep without a beautiful wife like you to hold! Haha!"

Upon hearing this, Chen Lixin immediately flew into a rage. He quickly grabbed the long wooden stick and ran towards the group, shouting as he ran, "Today I'll let you experience the power of this long wooden stick in my hand. How dare you harass my wife!"

"Oh my god, Fatty, run! Okay, you should just go home and sleep with your ugly wife!"

"Yeah, skinny guy, beautiful wives always belong to other people. Does that man who takes care of the carriage even deserve a fairy-like wife?"

"What does it mean to be worthy? If you can't afford it, then just throw money away!"

"Haha! Damn it, even if Wu Dalang sold pancakes and had a beautiful wife, he still couldn't keep her."

The two men were actually not strangers. One of them, Wang Pangzi, whom Yu Mei had met during the day, had come to Yu Mei's house when Li Xin was driving a horse-drawn carriage to deliver furniture to the furniture store.

Wang Pangzi's house was very close to Yu Mei's rented courtyard. He was a married man with children. His wife was of average appearance. When he saw Yu Mei, he had wicked thoughts. After he finished get off work at the mine, whenever he saw Li Xin leaving the courtyard in a horse-drawn cart, he would go home to wash and clean himself, dress up simply, and then rush to Yu Mei's room to express his love!

Although Yu Mei initially suspected the man of her marriage of deceiving her, it was too late to say anything now. Although their economic conditions were poor, Li Xin's character and work ethic were several times better than Yu Mei's naturally averse to work!

A few days later, three-year-old Sisi fell ill. This child has always been quite healthy and has hardly ever been sick. This time, she suddenly developed rashes all over her body for some unknown reason.

In particular, large blisters appeared on the palms of both hands. When Yu Mei used a needle, which had been disinfected with white wine, to remove the blisters, it revealed layers of thick dead skin.

She had no money left when she went to the hospital. All the money Lixin had earned from his donkey cart had been used to buy the yellow horse cart. In addition, he asked the landlord to lend him 500 yuan at one percent interest to buy the yellow horse cart.

These past few days, I've given the landlord the first month's payment, including principal and interest.

Because they didn't have money to go to the hospital, Liu Xiulan took Lixia to another province to find a new old man, and they are doing very well now.

The old men Liu Xiulan used to date, both from the city and other provinces, didn't tolerate her bad habits of smoking, drinking, playing mahjong, and wearing new clothes!

When she was at a loss, she went to the 200 Furniture Store on the street to see if she could borrow some money from the owner to pay for her daughter's skin disease treatment. However, Li Xin was not at the furniture store. She asked around and was told that he had gone to deliver goods.

She was wandering around when she happened to bump into the young, brightly dressed woman who lived in the same compound. The two started chatting; she said the woman worked as a waitress at a large hotel in the street.

Upon hearing this, Yu Mei decided that she might as well work as a hotel receptionist with her.