At 1:40 in the morning, the steel bar that was stuck in Liu Caibao's head was finally cut off.

The County People's Hospital did not dare to perform this operation. After the steel bar was sawed off, the doctor gave Liu Caibao's head a simple bandage to stop the bleeding. After fixing the remaining steel bar, he was sent to the Provincial People's Hospital overnight.

Ten hours later, bad news came from the hospital: Liu Caibao was pronounced dead due to ineffective rescue.

When Liu Xiangmei was carrying the coffin back to her hometown, she was stopped at the village entrance by the village elders and her biological parents.

Everyone in the village thinks that she is a jinx who brought death to her adoptive parents and their family, and caused their family to be broken up. If such a jinx is allowed to continue living in the village, who knows how many people she will kill.

It’s okay for young people, but the elderly in the village are very afraid of death because of their age. They are afraid that they will be contaminated by the bad luck of Liu Xiangmei, the little jinx, so they block the road and prevent her from passing.

Liu Xiangmei's biological father also warned her with a stern face: "Your parents and eldest brother's funeral will be handled by your family. You should not come back in the future."

Her biological mother also advised her with tears in her eyes not to go against the villagers. After all, her adoptive mother's family had not been buried yet. If she angered the villagers, she would be too unfilial if they didn't even allow the urns of Liu Caibao's family of three to enter the village.

In order for her adoptive father's family to be buried in the Liu family's ancestral tomb, Liu Xiangmei had no choice but to hand the urn to her biological parents.

Half a month later, Liu Xiangmei was picking up takeout in the store when she happened to meet an acquaintance who had come out from the village to work. After asking, she found out that after the burial of her adoptive parents, Liu Caibao's house and homestead, as well as the family's belongings and savings, were taken away by her biological parents.

The Liu family's several acres of rice fields and dry land were also divided privately among several village cadres.

Since then, Liu Xiangmei has never returned to the hometown where she was born and raised.

Ten years later.

After returning from studying abroad, Liu Xiangmei officially joined the investment company founded by Jiang Tian. At a forum for local celebrities, the county leader asked her kindly if she wanted to go back to her hometown village after being away for many years. Liu Xiangmei said coldly but politely:

"I was abandoned by my biological parents when I was young. It was Mr. Jiang's mother, Ms. Hu, who funded me to complete my studies and study abroad."

Therefore, there is no need to return to my hometown, because my most cherished relatives are always by my side.

Wherever Mr. Hu and Mr. Jiang are, that is her hometown.

…

Liu Xiangmei, who was regarded as a jinx by the villagers, became the darling of the Foreign Languages ​​University branch of "Fang Jie Fast Food Restaurant" after returning from her hometown.

The house in my hometown was taken away by my biological parents?

It doesn’t matter. Mr. Jiang’s family has nothing else but the house!

Liu Xiangmei usually lives in the university dormitory. During the winter and summer vacations, the dormitory is closed. Worried that she would be homeless, Jiang Tian immediately arranged a "winter and summer work-study position" for her.

During the winter and summer vacations, there are fewer takeout orders from the university town, so Jiang Tian arranged Liu Xiangmei to work at the barbecue restaurant's new store in the town, which provides food and accommodation. In addition to the basic salary, the waiters can also get commissions from alcohol sales. If they are a little sweet-talker, the commissions they earn every month may be several times more than their salary.

In this way, Liu Xiangmei can sleep and read in the staff dormitory during the day, and work from 7 pm to 3 am. With Han Jisong as the big shot in charge, no one dares to cause trouble in Jiang Tian's barbecue restaurant. It is actually easier than her usual job of delivering takeout.

Except Jiang Tian, ​​everyone else in the fast food restaurant was also very nice to Liu Xiangmei.

The auntie who was in charge of serving food in the store felt sorry for Liu Xiangmei's life. Every time she served her food, she looked like she wished she could fill her to death. The lunch boxes were piled high, and under the rice there might be a piece of leftover braised pork ribs or two poached eggs.

Several local aunts in the store heard that the people in Liu Xiangmei's village despised her bad luck and did not allow her to return to the village. While cursing her, they brought all kinds of delicious food from home and stuffed it into her hands.

Later, when the aunts made cloth shoes and insoles for their sons and daughters, they would also make a pair for Liu Xiangmei.

With one pair for each person, Liu Xiangmei has so many new shoes that she can never wear them all.

She didn't dare not wear it, for fear that the aunties would misunderstand and think that she despised their poor shoe-making skills.

Even the security guard in the store often helped Liu Xiangmei repair her third-hand bicycle that made a lot of noise. According to Han Jisong's observation, except for the handlebars and frame, all other parts of the bicycle have been replaced with new ones.

It’s like giving Liu Xiangmei a new modified bicycle!

The most exaggerated thing happened when Liu Xiangmei celebrated her birthday.

Liu Xiangmei has never celebrated her birthday. Her family didn't let her celebrate it when she was a child, but when she grew up and had the ability to celebrate her own birthday, she didn't want to celebrate it anymore.

Others celebrate their birthdays because they are born and come into this world with the love of their parents.

But what about Liu Xiangmei?

From birth till now, she has never been popular.

When she was born, her biological parents disliked her because she was a girl and wanted to throw her away or give her away.

Later, she was adopted by a foster mother. Everyone in the village praised her foster mother and her family for their kindness and honesty and for saving her life.

Only she herself knew that Liu Caibao and his wife raised her so that they could raise her and use her as a replacement for their own son.

What's there to celebrate on a birthday like this?

"Why isn't it worth it? We are born and live in this world not for others, but for ourselves, okay?"

Jiang Tian took out the birthday cake that she had specially asked someone to bring back from the provincial capital.

The store manager gave her a pair of small leather shoes. She found that this year, the female college students in the school all liked to wear these small leather shoes from the south. However, Liu Xiangmei was reluctant to buy a pair for herself. It happened to be her birthday today, and the store manager also liked this little sister, so he bought her a pair.

The security guard bought Liu Xiangmei a new pair of rain boots so that she could replace her old pair that were covered with patches inside and out.

The funniest thing was the aunties in the store. I heard that there was a custom in the countryside this year that grandmothers had to buy umbrellas for their granddaughters, as if to protect the children from wind and rain.

As a result, several people did not discuss the purchase and all bought umbrellas.

She received seven umbrellas at once, and the Paradise umbrellas of that era were particularly sturdy. Jiang Tian smiled secretly, thinking that with so many umbrellas, Liu Xiangmei might not be able to use them all until she was thirty years old.

However, none of the gifts from everyone was as valuable as the next birthday gift -

The traffic police finally found the owner of the tractor that was blocking the road that day, and the car that was driving in the opposite direction.

According to the description of eyewitnesses at the time, these two people were the main responsible persons for the deaths of Feng Xiuhua and Liu Jinlong.

These two compensations, plus the transportation company where the truck driver worked and the humanitarian compensation given to Liu Caibao by the Public Security Bureau, totaled 36,000 yuan.

If his adoptive father Liu Caibao had not died, the money would have definitely belonged to him.

But now, Liu Xiangmei is the only one left in the Liu family, so of course, this compensation can only be given to Liu Xiangmei.

As for why the traffic police did not call the village?

Haha~ Just because of their village, they drove out Liu Xiangmei, an orphan, and occupied the Liu family's property. The traffic police are also human beings, so of course they will be biased towards Liu Xiangmei, a vulnerable group.

If Liu Xiangmei's biological parents knew that they missed out on 36,000 yuan in compensation for the three worthless old houses in the village, they would probably regret it to death, right?