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Chapter 788: Shu Jiao confronts Liao Zhaoji (2)_1

Chapter 788: Chapter 788: Shu Jiao confronts Liao Zhaoji (2)_1

At that time, she truly felt content.

But all of her satisfaction crumbled with the arrival of Shu Jiao.

Shu Jiao was an intellectual, and from the moment she entered their village, she hardly suffered. Instead, she took on the enviable job allocation, teaching at the school—simply giving some lessons to the children was enough.

Her mother-in-law was good to her too, discussing everything with her, unlike how she treated her, like a lowly servant.

Ruan Jianguo was especially fond of her, she remembered one year during farm work, when the sun was scorching, Shu Jiao fainted after just half an hour in the field. Ruan Jianguo carried her around the village looking for Doctor Lu, and it turned out she was pregnant and couldn’t withstand the hard work.

After that, Ruan Jianguo would rather do the work of two people by himself than let her step into the fields again.

At the time, she thought Shu Jiao was overly delicate. Which rural woman wasn’t working while pregnant? Why was it that she alone couldn’t do it?

It was the season for harvesting peanuts. Since Shu Jiao couldn’t go to the fields, she stayed home to pluck peanuts.

But after just half a day, Ruan Jianguo wouldn’t let her work anymore, simply because her fingers had blistered from shelling peanuts. She even saw Ruan Jianguo kneeling on one knee beside Shu Jiao’s bed, kissing the palm of her hand, his voice hoarsely expressing sorrow for the blisters she got from shelling peanuts.

Standing outside the door at that time, she looked at Shu Jiao’s delicate hands and then her own rough, dark hands, and inexplicably felt uncomfortable.

Later that night, she told Ruan Jiandang that she wanted to rest for a couple of days and didn’t want to go to the fields anymore. Ruan Jiandang told her to endure a little longer, that it would get better after these few days, and once there was less work in the fields, she could rest.

But having seen how Ruan Jianguo treasured Shu Jiao, Liao Zhaoji felt that Ruan Jiandang probably only brought her back to earn those extra work points.

The peak of her jealousy towards Shu Jiao was when Ruan Jiaojiao was born.

Although she always knew she couldn’t compare to Shu Jiao, after giving birth to three sons for the Ruan Family, she felt she could stand tall. Despite Shu Jiao giving birth to the eldest grandson of the Ruan Family, she had given them three sons, one more than her!

On the day Ruan Jiaojiao was born, she was overjoyed. Little did she know, every member of the Ruan Family was even happier than her, especially the Ruanlin Family—she had never seen her so fond of any grandchild. She cradled Ruan Jiaojiao, calling her "my heart, my treasure," treating her like a lump of gold.

She felt everyone in the Ruan Family was crazy!

They didn’t cherish the ones they should, but instead doted on a losing bet.

Her jealousy deepened day by day as Ruan Jiaojiao grew up.

Latterly, Shu Jiao went north to look for her relatives. They said it was to find relatives, but she thought that, like other women, it was just a pretext. Shu Jiao was definitely leaving everything behind and going back to the city to live a good life.

That left Ruan Jiaojiao as a motherless losing bet. She felt a bit excited and couldn’t resist taunting that losing bet, not expecting the girl to be so easily fooled. She ran away from home that very day and even fell into a ditch.

It was a pity she didn’t freeze to death back then; otherwise, she wouldn’t have turned out this way...

Recalling those past events, and looking at the beautiful woman in front of her, who was as lovely as before—perhaps even more poised—Liao Zhaoji felt very guilty and inferior. She didn’t dare to lift her head and look directly into her eyes.

As Liao Zhaoji sized up Shu Jiao, Shu Jiao was also sizing her up.