“Laidi, this b*tch is vile. Don’t let her off easy!” Mrs. Qin merrily added fuel to the fire.

 “I’m going to fight you!” Ding Laidi pounced over and grabbed Sheng Ning by the hair and bit her. “You little b*tch! Let’s see how long you gloat now! How dare you!”

 Sheng Ning was so angry she was seeing red, and she eagerly fought Ding Laidi.

 “Stop fighting! Stop fighting…” Mrs. Qin said, putting on an act and pretending she wanted to break them up.

 Sheng Ning was infuriated. She grabbed Mrs. Qin by the hair and dragged her into the scuffle.

 Qi Lei was driving a tractor into the village when he caught sight of the three women brawling by the riverside. He originally planned on turning a blind eye to it, but when he recognized a familiar face, he quickly stopped the vehicle and ran over to them.

 When he neared them, he saw that Sheng Ning was fighting on her own against two, but she wasn’t losing. He was both exasperated and amused at the same time.

 “Stop fighting! Ding Laidi, get your brother over here! I’m going to break his d*mn legs!” Qi Lei’s words made all three women freeze.

 Sheng Ning’s hair was a mess, and her clothes were ripped in several places. Fortunately, she was only wearing old home clothes. If she had been wearing her clothes from the troupe, she would’ve been heartbroken.

 She looked up at the two women in front of her and burst out laughing. “Ha ha ha!” Their hair looked like chicken nests, and their faces were smudged with dirt. She felt a lot better when she saw they were worse off than she was.

 When Qi Lei saw that she was still in the mood to laugh, his expression also became playful.

 Sheng Ning turned around, and her eyes met Qi Lei’s. Shocked, she realized he was the man from the bus the day before. She suddenly felt as if she’d been caught red-handed.

 “Come! Come with me to your house!” Qi Lei turned and glared at Ding Laidi, scaring her into submission, and she followed behind him.

 Everyone began murmuring among themselves. “That’s Qi Mei’s eldest brother, the village head’s brother-in-law. He’s definitely here to back up Qi Mei.”

 “Look! He’s driving a tractor. Oh my god… This is the first time I’ve ever seen a tractor before!”

 Sheng Ning also looked over curiously. In this era, villagers reacted to a tractor as if it were a Maserati.

 After picking up the clothes, which had been strewn all over, and washing them once again, she rushed home. Upon stepping into the house, she found that her parents had already returned home from the fields.

 Sheng An saw her and gave her a huge thumbs-up. “Well done, you! I never knew you had a backbone.” The incident from the night before and today had convinced Sheng An of what her mother said.

 Perhaps Sheng Ning was changing.

 Sheng Ning looked beaten, but when she heard Sheng An’s remark, she couldn’t help smiling. Ever since she was a child, whenever anyone scolded or humiliated her, she had merely suffered through it, no matter how harsh their words were. No one ever praised her.

 From today on, she was no longer going to tolerate it. She had enough!

 “Look at how pathetic you look!” Sheng An spat, but her tone wasn’t as cold as it was before.

 “Who’s Father talking to?”

 “Xiaohong’s uncle. He’s here to pick up Xiaohong.”

 In the central room, Qi Lei placed two bottles of liquor on the table and said sincerely, “Thank you very much to you and your daughters. If not for you, my sister would have lost her life.”

 When Qi Mei awoke, she had recounted every detail of what happened to her family.

 “We’re all neighbors. It’s only right that we helped.” Sheng Third wasn’t very good at speaking, and was about to reject the two bottles of liquor, but Qi Lei picked Xiaohong up and walked out. Before leaving, he deliberately turned around and glanced at Sheng Ning.

 On the training field, the emergency rescue team was going through a drill under the scorching sun. All of them were covered in mud, and they were so exhausted that they started to curse. Although they had already left the army, not a day went by when there wasn’t training. The captain was on the field, keeping an eye on them, and none of them dared to slack off.