Meng Yan's Transformation

Ziyou and Guihua's wedding was held as scheduled. It was lively and simple. Zhanyu did not attend the wedding. She was picked up by the captain of the neighboring village to help deliver her daughter-in-law who had a difficult birth and to help the captain's father who had broken his leg...

After the young men who had been making trouble in the bridal chamber left one after another, Yunqing asked her third stepson Zichuan to sort out the gift list: 23 yuan in gift money, four pieces of cloth, two thermoses, three pairs of pillowcases, two washbasins, a mirror...

Yunqing handed the booklet of gift money and gifts to Guihua, and told her that she should return gifts according to the booklet for big and small events in the future, and asked her to keep the gift money and gifts for use when returning gifts.

Guihua happily took the gift list...

Ziyou was lying drunk on the kang, mumbling: "I don't want to marry Guihua, I don't want to marry Guihua..."

Suddenly one day, Ziyou came back from the commune with his head down and a gloomy face. No matter how Guihua and Yunqing asked him, he would not say anything...

It turned out that someone went to the commune to falsely accuse Ziyou, saying that Ziyou used his power as the production team leader to arrange the youth center in his own compound, and that he had coveted the beauty of the young woman and married her...

After Ziyou's production team leader was removed, the original production team leader was reinstated. Someone falsely accused Zhan Yu of practicing medicine privately to make money, and also planted poppies in his own vegetable garden. He used the opportunity of practicing medicine privately to extract poison from poppies and harm people...

The commune sent a working group to search the house. They were like ferocious monsters. They confiscated all the medical equipment and items from Zhan Yu, such as scalpels, alcohol, bandages, distillation pots, and other things they liked at home. The medical equipment and items were specially awarded to Zhan Yu by the army chief when he was injured in the Korean War and returned to the local area for recuperation. He hoped that Zhan Yu would use these medical equipment and his medical skills to benefit the people. Zhan Yu did not live up to the chief's entrustment. He practiced medicine for free for many years and saved countless lives and poor families...

The commune working group not only confiscated Zhan Yu’s medical equipment and household items, but also uprooted all the flowers, vegetables and other crops planted in the vegetable garden of Zhan’s family compound… and took Zhan Yu away…

When the commune work team came to search the house, little Mengyan was so scared that she burst into tears. Yunqing was pushed and shoved, and her legs became weak and she lost control of her urine and fainted...

The youth center was evacuated from the Zhan Family Courtyard, the commune work team expropriated the Zhan Family Courtyard for free as a canteen, and Zhan Yu was detained...

When they heard that Zhan Yu was detained, the people who had been rescued by Zhan Yu spread the news. The members came to the gate of the commune with hoes, shovels and rakes. Later, many women, children and old people came. More and more people gathered and strongly demanded that the commune work group release Zhan Yu. The commune work group was afraid that the situation would develop seriously, so they were forced to release Zhan Yu, but they forced Zhan Yu to attend a study class every day to study Chairman Mao’s quotations. Every noon, those in the study class had to hold up wooden sticks and stand in the scorching sun to reflect on their mistakes...

Zhan Yu fainted from heat stroke many times...

Ziyou was also reflecting in the study class of the production team's troop department. Guihua was frowning all day long. The third brother Zhan Zichuan, the fourth brother Zhan Ziqiang, the fifth brother Zhan Zian, the sixth brother Zhan Zixun, the seventh brother Zhan Zijie, the eighth brother Zhan Zikang, and the ninth daughter Yingying were all hungry and asked their sister-in-law Guihua and mother Yunqing for food every day. But only little Mengyan was plump and white. At the beginning, Zhan Feng found out that Yunqing had little milk, so she asked someone to buy a dairy sheep for little Mengyan. At the beginning, Yunqing boiled the goat milk for little Mengyan and then put it in a bottle to feed her. After little Mengyan could walk unsteadily, Yunqing took her to squeeze the goat's milk. Little Mengyan sometimes imitated Yunqing to squeeze goat's milk. Many times, after the goat milk was squeezed and put into the milk can, little Mengyan would not wait for Yunqing to boil the milk, but would pick up the milk can with her chubby little hands and drink it. At first, Yunqing was particularly worried that little Mengyan would have diarrhea from drinking raw milk like this, but in the end, nothing happened... and she even became plump, white, and strong!

When the adults were busy, little Mengyan felt hungry and went to find the dairy goat by herself. She called the dairy goat "sheep mother" and often crawled under the dairy goat's belly, took the dairy goat's nipple with her mouth and started to drink the milk. Little Mengyan also often gave the corn cakes at home to her "sheep mother". Because of this, Zhan Yu slapped her hand and told her not to give the family's rations to the dairy goat.

There have been so many troubles at home these days, so Xiao Mengyan talks to the "goat mother" every day. She strokes the goat's head, hugs it, kisses it... and sleeps with the goat in her arms.

After Zhan Yu came back from the study class, he received a message from an old classmate asking him to go to the Great Northern Wilderness, saying that there was a lot of land, few people, and plenty of food there, which would be enough for the children to eat.

Zhan Yu decided to take his children and wife to the Great Northern Wilderness to join his classmates, because Ziyou was already married and Guihua was unwilling to go to the Great Northern Wilderness because she was afraid of the cold there. So Zhan Yu decided to let Ziyou and Guihua stay and find a chance to appeal to the government to get back the house and the confiscated medical equipment and other items, so they would not go to the Great Northern Wilderness together...

Zhan Yu’s house was raided, and his already small belongings are now even less. So, he decided to travel light.

The dairy sheep were ready to be sold, but they could not be taken away due to the thousands of miles journey.

When little Mengyan heard the adults talking about selling the dairy sheep, she cried non-stop... She hugged the dairy sheep every day and even slept with it...

"Mom, I'm leaving now. Please eat more..." Xiao Mengyan held a small plate with corn in it and fed her "Mom" with it. She said tenderly and reluctantly, and her chubby little hands touched the head of the goat...