Time-Travel: The Tragic Cannon Fodder Female Supporting Character Makes a Comeback

CHAPTER 123: The 1980s Villain’s Biological Mother (16)

　　Back in the countryside, the old Wang couple finally felt at ease after driving the mother and her two children away.

　　But then they were faced with the reality of having no money at all. Their food supplies dwindled day by day, and they began worrying about how they were going to get through the winter.

　　The old Wang couple even brought some things to their eldest son’s house and tried to butter him and his wife up, promising that once they found that deadbeat girl Xiaomei, she would definitely pay all the money back.

　　But their eldest son and daughter-in-law completely ignored them, even warning them not to come around anymore.

　　The old Wang couple then went to their grandsons, but unfortunately, the two boys simply cursed them as a pair of old fossils and shoved them away, telling them to get lost.

　　The old Wang couple took it hard, and after returning to the village, they fell ill.

　　Then another bout of rain came, and the old Wang couple became so sick that they could barely get out of bed.

　　In the end, the village chief had no choice but to contact Wang Zhuang. They were his parents, after all. If he didn’t take care of them, who else would?

　　Wang Zhuang came over once, grumbling and cursing the whole time. He had a cheap folk remedy in his hand that probably cost only a few cents, which he tossed to his parents and told them to take. He didn’t even stay for half an hour before leaving.

　　After taking the medicine, the old Wang couple gradually recovered. However, their faces started to look somewhat swollen, and they began putting on weight.

　　They both assumed the medicine was working, especially since they hadn’t been doing any work lately and had put on some weight.

　　It wasn’t until a month later, when they looked at each other’s almost unrecognizable faces, that they realized they were starting to look a little like Junzi's widow had back then.

　　Mother Wang was instantly terrified and burst into tears. Thinking back to the medicine her son had given them, she couldn’t help wondering if he had bought it from the same place she had.

　　Back then, she had thought Junzi's widow was being overly dramatic, so to save money, she had spent just a few cents on two packets of some cheap folk remedy. She mixed them with water and made her drink them.

　　Less than a month later, Junzi's widow’s appearance had completely changed.

　　Terrified of dying, Mother Wang went around the village crying and explaining what had happened. She begged everyone to get her son to take them to the hospital for a checkup.

　　At first, everyone had assumed Junzi's widow had changed like that because of the emotional blow she had suffered, combined with taking the wrong medicine.

　　No one expected the old Wang couple to expose themselves by admitting that the medicine had only cost a few cents.

　　They had harmed Junzi's widow back then, and now their own eldest son had harmed them in return. Talk about karma coming full circle!

　　In the end, the village chief had to step in again and call Wang Zhuang over. Unfortunately, he refused to admit that the medicine had anything to do with it. He followed his parents home, but still couldn’t let go of his anger and ended up beating them with a stick.

　　“You two old fools might as well die already. All you ever do is cause me trouble…”

　　The old Wang couple had escaped from Mu Shuhui, but they still couldn’t escape being beaten.

　　Because whenever they went looking for their son, he would inevitably come over and beat them up just to vent his anger.

　　Eventually, the old Wang couple became so terrified of being beaten that they didn’t even dare call their son anymore.

　　Their health had already been deteriorating, and with the beatings on top of that, their condition rapidly worsened once autumn arrived.

　　Unfortunately, no one cared about them. When the first snow of winter fell, the old Wang couple quietly passed away without anyone noticing.

　　It wasn’t until the snow had stopped for two or three days and the neighbors realized there had been no movement next door that they discovered the old Wang couple was dead.

　　Everyone was deeply saddened by what had happened. When Wang Zhuang heard the news, he only felt relieved. He hurried back, buried his parents, and didn’t even hold a funeral for them.

　　……

　　The county town.

　　After celebrating the New Year, the family of three had all put on a little weight.

　　The two children had shot up in height, and their formerly skinny faces had filled out a little. Their skin had also become fairer and healthier-looking.

　　Mu Youran had started wearing her hair in little pigtails. Every day, Mu Shuhui would tie them up beautifully before she went to school. Quite a few of the other children admired her pretty pigtails and wanted to play with her. She had become much more outgoing too, turning into a little chatterbox.

　　Mu Rufeng had always been rather withdrawn and didn’t like interacting with others.

　　But after starting school and spending time with children his own age, he gradually became less resistant to socializing.

　　Since he was one of the shortest kids in his class, he often got up early to run, practice long jumps, and jump up and down steps. Basically, he was determined to grow taller.

　　Mu Shuhui bought him a basketball and told him that playing basketball could help him grow taller. From then on, whenever he had free time, the boy would play basketball. He even made quite a few friends who enjoyed playing with him.

　　Before the New Year holiday started, he had even brought two classmates home for dinner. Mu Shuhui warmly prepared fried chicken, French fries, soda, and all kinds of snacks to treat them.

　　When the boys went back to school, they couldn’t stop talking about how delicious the fried chicken legs and fries Mu Rufeng’s mom had made were. Before long, their classmates were practically drooling with envy.

　　A bunch of them started going out of their way to befriend Mu Rufeng. He already had excellent grades, and with his classmates welcoming him so enthusiastically, the teacher directly appointed him as class monitor.

　　After becoming class monitor, Mu Rufeng became noticeably more cheerful and outgoing. At the same time, he also grew more mature and considerate.

　　He knew how to worry about his mother. Every time he came home from school, he would use a hot water bottle to warm her wrists because he had seen her serving food at the cafeteria and knew how big and heavy the iron ladle was.

　　Whenever Mu Rufeng did that, Mu Youran would join in by massaging their mother’s shoulders while happily telling her about everything that had happened that day.

　　Mu Shuhui wasn’t actually tired at all. After consuming two whole Restoration Pills, she had already slimmed down to just over a hundred jin. She was naturally much stronger than the average person, so carrying an iron ladle was nothing to her.

　　But the two children were simply too thoughtful, so she could only lie there with a smile and let them fuss over her.

　　Life in the county town was warm and peaceful. The pace was slow, and all three of them loved it. It was supposed to be just a temporary stop, but before they knew it, they had stayed for two whole years.

　　At the beginning of the year, the cotton mill began undergoing reforms, and some positions were shuffled around.

　　Mu Shuhui could more or less see where things were headed. The factory was probably preparing to lay people off. Even she, who served food in the cafeteria, had suddenly been given a lot more work, while the temporary worker who washed vegetables in the kitchen had already been absent for several days.

　　Mu Shuhui had already been planning to leave anyway. Seeing the situation, she simply took the opportunity to sell her permanent position.

　　She sold it for 1,100 yuan.

　　Over the years, she hadn’t let the 4,000 yuan sitting in her hands go to waste. She had used it to buy several good properties and rent them out.

　　There were only so many ways to make money in a small county town, so Mu Shuhui also used the small gold bars stored in her space to quietly exchange for cash at the market.

　　Over the past two years, she had saved up more than 40,000 yuan in total.

　　At the beginning of the year, while the children were both at school, she asked a neighbor to keep an eye on them and made a trip to the capital alone.

　　She bought a courtyard house for 10,000 yuan in a central location and immediately had an agency rent it out, planning to collect the rent while waiting for the property’s value to increase.

　　She also bought a 100-square-meter apartment with three bedrooms and a living room. It was perfect for the three of them, with one room for each of them.

　　There were primary and middle schools nearby, and it wasn’t far from the university district either. An apartment was also much more convenient than a traditional single-story house, so she planned to move there and live in it with the children.

　　Before leaving the county town, Mu Shuhui sold off the properties she owned there. Aside from the rental income she had earned, the houses had also gone up a little in value over the past two years, so she made a small profit from the sales.

　　Mu Shuhui went to the neighborhood office to get a letter of introduction, then went to the local police station to handle the household registration transfer.

　　Once everything was taken care of, she took the children to Guan Jin’s home.

　　The young man had gotten married the previous year, so she bought some gifts for him and his wife to thank them for all their help.

　　After saying goodbye to their friends there, Mu Shuhui put everything useful from the house into her space and left the rest behind. She packed only a few things they would actually need.

　　The next day, the family of three boarded a train bound for the capital. 

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