1960s: My Birth Mother Abandoned Me on the Road to Escape Famine

Qin Qing, a graduating student, was rushing to finish her thesis late at night when she stumbled and fell, only to wake up in the 1960s, right in the midst of a great famine. Completely disoriented...

Chapter 33 Cousin (2/2)

The little girl spoke one thing after another.

Shen Kuo was often led by the nose.

Thinking of his rash action of running to the village entrance just now, he pondered for a moment and suddenly realized.

"Sister Qingqing, your medicine really helped me a lot. Since you don't want to accept the money, I'll make this clear today. If you need help in the future, just come find me. I treat you like my own sister."

Looking at Shen Kuo's sincere face, Qin Qing tried hard to suppress his smile and nodded in agreement.

The two of them exchanged a few quick words and Shen Kuo rushed back to town. Qin Qing went straight home with the half pound of sugar and trough cake he had brought.

The old lady at the entrance of the village looked curious and asked, "Qin Qing, who is that?"

She smiled and replied, "He's my distant cousin."

Everyone knows that she is the child picked up by Mr. Qin.

Everyone exchanged meaningful expressions and asked indirectly where Shen Kuo lived and whether he was married.

Qin Qing said a few perfunctory words and left quickly. You should never ignore the gossip of these aunties. They can ask you about your ancestors for eighteen generations.

Even Zhu Lihua and the others knew about this after they got off work. They were relieved when they learned that Qin Qing had helped Shen Kuo's mother-in-law on the road and that others had come to thank her specially.

Especially Zhu Lihua, she was distracted while working, and thought that it was Nannan's biological parents who came to find her.

Now that I know that it is not that kind of thing, I can't help but feel relieved.

Thanks to the food Qin Zhilin bought from the black market, the family has been able to barely have enough to eat these days.

Only Zhu Lihua was often in a daze. The money under her pillow was getting less and less. Without any income, the family would be broke sooner or later. Thinking of this, her face was filled with worry.

Zhang Ying has been very upset these days. In the past, Yang Liansheng always rushed to work and took care of all the chores at home, but these days he has become a hands-off boss.

Coupled with the hot weather, she became even more irritable.

I bit off a big piece of wild hawthorn, letting the sour taste surge in my mouth. It relieved some of the heat and made me feel better.

Glancing at Yang Liansheng who walked in with a dark face, she swallowed the fruit and said in a cold tone, "Liansheng, my waist hurts a lot this morning. Go and fetch two buckets of water."

In such hot and humid weather, she had to take a bath every day before she could go to sleep. In addition, Yang Liansheng was a clean person, so it was obvious how much semen the two of them produced.

Even if Yang Liansheng went to pick it every other day, he couldn't resist her trick.

Shao Ge looked at her silently, then carried the bucket out without saying a word.

Seeing that everyone had gone far away, she suppressed the corner of her mouth and said "Unlucky star!"

Hearing the sound of someone coming, she quickly put on a gentle and quiet look.

"Secretary He, why are you here?"

The slightly balding, middle-aged man wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "I just received a notice that too many children have dropped out of school for no reason recently, so several classes have been reduced. The principal asked me to go door to door to count the number of students who can attend school. I remember that Liansheng is in junior high school now, so I came to ask..."

Zhang Ying put on a surprised expression. "How can I have time to study when I can't even eat?"

"My patriotic daughter-in-law, you can't say that. There are staff changes in the school. All the junior high school students are transferred to Xiayang Village School," Secretary He said after hesitating.

"When you're free tomorrow, take Liansheng to sign up and cooperate with the statistics. Otherwise, it will be considered as giving up. After all, there will be no junior high school department in Tianbazi anymore."

Zhang Ying pondered for a while and flatly refused, "My daughter Liansheng won't go. She's a playful kid."

If Yang Liansheng went to Xiayang Village to study, wouldn't all the work fall on her? She was worried that she couldn't find a reason to talk to him about studying.

She was unwilling to do such a thankless task as sending him to school.

Anyway, there are a lot of children in this village who don’t go to school.

It is rare to find someone like Liansheng who can study until junior high school, so the principal specially came to count the places so that he could start classes.

Secretary He had an expression of being used to it. Most parents had the same reaction. They didn't even have time to eat at the moment, let alone send their children to school.

So he waved and rushed to the next one.

Shao Ge carried two buckets of water with great effort into the courtyard, raised his hand and poured the water in the buckets into the vat. He was already sweating profusely after the exercise. Zhang Ying hypocritically poured a bowl of hot water and placed it on the table.

Yang Liansheng walked straight into the kitchen without even looking at it, and took out a melon ladle to scoop a bowl of cold water to drink.

Zhang Ying was so angry that her teeth were itching. If this brat had been a little more respectful, she would have considered letting him finish this semester. But the way he looked now was really his own fault. He should just be a hard laborer for the rest of his life.

There was a flash of resentment in the woman's eyes.