"Meeting Old Feng was my fortune," Hua Miaobing said. "At that time, I had run off to Beijing, only to find myself at a dead end. I couldn't return to the village to bring Jiayin back, and I had neither work nor income. That's how it is with workplaces; if you resign and then try to return without skills, they'll just step on you. With my temper, I refused to let people look down on me. I even thought about jumping into the river; that was my mindset at the time. Old Feng was also down on his luck then. We were both like fallen people on the same stretch of road."
"Sister-in-law, when did you return to the country?" Second Sister You asked tentatively.
"The year I came back, didn't I call you first?"
So, by the time Hua Miaobing returned, the incident where Shen Jiayin nearly lost her life had already passed.
