TVCEO Chapter 22.3

But in that era, it was impossible for a man who returned to the city to return to the countryside. There were many precedents in the surrounding area, so Wang Guishu naturally did not have any illusions.

After the educated youth left, Wang Guishu’s father forced her to get married, but the man was unreliable. She refused, saying that she missed the educated youth and wanted to wait for him to come back. The villagers scolded her for being wishful thinking.

After a few years, another matchmaker came to propose marriage. Wang Guishu did not dislike the young man from the same village, so she agreed. Seeing that she was willing, her family could not wait to marry her off.

At first, the two of them lived a good life, but gradually, Wang Guishu found that the young man was a soft egg, who would only listen to his mother in everything. After several conflicts, Wang Guishu became disappointed, packed her clothes, and left.

In that era, women who wanted a divorce would be drowned in spit. Wang Guishu couldn’t go home, so she embarked on a journey to the city to work.

When she first arrived in the city, she had no skills and could only make a living by picking up scraps. Later, she met a fellow villager who took her to grow vegetables on the outskirts of the city, and they made a living by selling small vegetables.

The two supported each other for several years, eventually married, and their lives gradually improved.

Now Wang Guishu is nearly 80 years old, with many children and grandchildren and a happy family. The educated youth back then was just an experience in her youth. When Lin Qiao found her in the morning, she thought for a long time before she remembered this person.

“Where is Shugui now?” Liu Bolu asked anxiously.

Lin Qiao was too lazy to correct him, “I can tell you where she is, but you have to promise me one thing.”

“What is it?” Liu Bolu asked.

“If someone asks you to come out of retirement in the future, you must never agree.” Lin Qiao said.

Liu Bolu returned to China this time just to spend his old age in peace. He had no intention of coming out of retirement. Lin Qiao’s condition was almost equivalent to no condition for him.

However, he was still curious about Lin Qiao’s background and purpose. Just as he was about to ask, he heard the other party’s mobile phone ringing, and the caller ID showed a name called ‘Su Zhengxing’.

Seeing this, Lin Qiao hurriedly retracted the phone, turned around, and answered the call.

“Hello, Mr. Su?”

Even through the distortion of the electric current, the voice on the other end still sounded somewhat displeased.

“Huang Qin said you didn’t return to the company. Where were you?”

This was Lin Qiao’s first business trip. Logically, he should have confirmed whether she returned safely last night, but he was in a bad mood last night, and Qi Yuan was busy with other things, so there was a delay.

This morning, Qi Yuan sent a message to Lin Qiao, but she didn’t reply. She called Huang Qin and found out that she didn’t go to work at all.

“I…” Lin Qiao hesitated.

Would you believe me if I said I was a spy?

Just as she was hesitating about how to answer, a loud crowing of a rooster outside the house echoed throughout the village.

“What’s that sound?” Su Zhengxing asked.

“Rooster…rooster crowed.”

“Why is there a rooster crowing?”

Lin Qiao had no choice but to tell the truth: “Because…it was in the village.”

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