Reborn in the 1980s: Recapture My Devoted Husband-Chapter 607 - 588: Ye Qing’s Fate

"You guys are the same, going to the mountains in the middle of summer without bringing any mosquito repellent for the kids. Look at how uncomfortable the child is." Lin Wan complained while helping the child apply some prickly heat powder.

"Our daughter is really strong. Even Pidan and Qin Hongbing’s two sons are not as tough as our daughter. Little Star was bitten all night and just whimpered a couple of times, while those boys cried outright." Han Yi lay sideways on the bed, propping his head up with one hand, watching the child with a proud smile.

Lin Wan shot him a glare, "Is this something to compare? Just look how the child got bitten."

Seeing their daughter’s body covered in red bumps made her heart ache terribly!

Han Yi didn’t seem angry at all, he and Little Star were still playing joyfully.

Just after Lin Wan’s words, Little Star suddenly babbled a couple of sounds, waving both hands to hit Han Yi.

"Papa, da!"

Their eyes lit up with surprise.

"Good girl, hit Papa, hit Papa," Han Yi cooperated by leaning closer to Little Star, encouraging her to hit him.

The child showed signs of wanting to learn to talk, able to understand some words now.

This made the couple very happy. Han Yi specifically cooked a fish to make fish soup for their daughter, hoping to boost her brain and make her smarter.

Lin Wan found this rather speechless.

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"Brother Du, thank you so much for this. I didn’t expect our families to live so close now." Qiu Hualan looked at the newly moved small courtyard, with its blue brick and tile house, newer than her previous one, the yard even had a cement ground.

"It’s just a coincidence. This place was being urgently sold by an old friend of mine, who didn’t ask for a high price. A few days ago, I met you selling a house and thought you were leaving here. Unexpectedly, you were just changing houses. Selling to someone else is still selling, so I simply connected you to him. My old friend gave it to me for two thousand eight hundred. This place is much better than your old place; it’s a big courtyard part of the family housing of the City Construction Bureau, which usually isn’t available for just anyone to buy."

"I just liked this. I’m a person who prefers quietness, and this place is just right for me. Even if Ye Weijun comes, he wouldn’t expect me to be here."

"Is today officially your move-in day? Any friends to inform? Hongmei’s family?"

"I don’t have many friends here; Hongmei and the others are busy, so I won’t call them. Brother Du, why don’t you stay for a meal today to celebrate my new home and be assured with a warming the stove? How does that sound?"

"Alright, alright," Du Guangjun felt a bit regretful, originally intending to use this chance to see Liang Hongmei.

Recently, he’s been to the store, only seeing Xiao Gu at the front desk, and after several days there, he still hadn’t had a chance encounter!

Finally, he asked Xiao Gu and learned that Liang Hongmei and her husband went to the army.

For this, he felt regretful for several days. Seems unlikely in this lifetime. He understood this situation, at his age, still feeling unsatisfied like the youth.

Upon hearing Du Guangjun would stay, Qiu Hualan quickly put the child in the stroller and herself went to the kitchen to prepare.

Coming to S City, this was considered her first friend she’d met, seeing how warm-hearted Du Guangjun was, and his position in the City Construction Bureau should not be low, even though he mentioned he was retired.

Being alone with a child and having experienced such an incident, if anything happened to her, there’d be no one to help.

After living in the City Construction Bureau’s big courtyard for two days, Qiu Hualan made a call to Mei Langchi.

As per her daughter’s advice, she didn’t rush him to handle Ye Qing’s matter but instead talked about moving house with the child and gave the new address to Mei Langchi.

Just as her daughter predicted, without a second thought, Mei Langchi offered to send money over.

Sometimes, she admired Ah Qing’s insight, how she could understand a man so thoroughly, especially one who was an army officer! What Qiu Hualan didn’t know was that her daughter was currently working diligently in a small enclosed room, from morning till night, meticulously fixing shoe nails.

Inside the small room stood a long table surrounded by dozens of prisoners. The room had only a small ventilation fan, with a pitifully tiny window for air flow, in such a hot day, the room was filled with foul sweat odor. Even the worst-off households in their village had better food; breakfast consisted of coarse corn porridge, pickles, and black bread. Lunch was plain soup noodles made of black flour, without a trace of vegetables. Apart from a salty taste, nothing more was expected. Dinner continued with coarse corn porridge, not even a black bread roll. Previously, when Lin Wan’s family had no food, they could still have rice soup for breakfast.

Fortunately, there were no male prisoners in here, only female ones. However, the majority of guards were men, much to the inconvenience for the women.

Ye Qing had been here for over a week, with no sign of movement from Mei Langchi outside. She wondered what was really going on.

Could it be this task was particularly challenging?

Ye Qing regretted acting so hastily now. If it didn’t work once, it could be tried twice; as long as she was free, there would always be a chance to bring Lin Wan down.

The lack of experience made it seem too simple, thinking Mei Langchi was omnipotent, expecting him to clear any obstacles.

It was clear she was the one too inexperienced. She stumbled into a major difficulty!

Within this week, Ye Qing had lost a significant amount of weight, what she couldn’t shed after childbirth now didn’t require arduous dieting anymore.

Just as Ye Qing’s thoughts drifted, a formidable woman at the opposite end suddenly shoved all her work across to Ye Qing’s side.

This abruptly brought Ye Qing back to reality, and seeing the pile of work before her made her frown deeply. It was obvious what they intended.

She had seen similar incidents not just once or twice over the past few days; yesterday, the woman beside her was forced by this leader into helping with the workload.

That woman dared not utter a sound.

"I’m not one to do someone else’s work," Ye Qing coldly swept everything onto the floor, the cramped room only making the scattered items lie underfoot.

It was said this boss lady was a murderer, somehow not yet executed, with the largest crime record among the correctional team, all female prisoners feared her.

The boss had her circle within, followed by a dozen or so women; none dared provoke her. If anyone displeased her, they’d quickly find themselves reduced to skin and bones, unable to die but left hanging on a thread, trapped in the correctional team, suffering too much to die, yet too wretched to live. If she singled someone out, even a whimper was forbidden.

It had been a long time since anyone challenged her. The boss showed interest, sharply scoffed, and signaled to several women near her.

Those women quickly seized Ye Qing, immediately gagging her mouth with shoe uppers to silence her.

Then the women swiftly beat Ye Qing, targeting her chest and thighs, at the most painful spots, avoiding the face.

Ye Qing’s silent cries echoed, but no sound could be made.

Was it her sweat from the pain or because of the heat? Her body drenched.

The remaining women in the room huddled together in fear, dare not intervene, lest they too be caught up in the trouble.

After a good seven or eight minutes of beating, the boss lady nonchalantly clapped her hands, signaling them to disperse and quickly settle back.

Ye Qing was forcibly lifted by one of the women and seated.

All the work Ye Qing had dropped was picked up and pushed to her side.

Even the seven or eight others’ tasks were added to Ye Qing’s pile.

Throughout this, the boss lady said nothing to Ye Qing, using merely two gestures to make Ye Qing suffer.

The woman’s chest is the softest part, pinched with relentless force by those women. Her nipples nearly torn off.

Ye Qing cried from the pain. As she opened her mouth to remove the shoe gag, a vicious glance from the boss stopped her abruptly.

Ye Qing dared not resist anymore, the pain being too unbearable before. She could not risk blabbering and causing permanent harm to her body, losing all means to entice Mei Langchi once outside.

She couldn’t afford to let her chest be ruined within days here. Just wait, once outside, seeing she’d get back at each of those women who beat her today.

The day’s workload was considerable and challenging for one person initially; the sudden task addition deprived Ye Qing of her lunch break.