Chapter 4 This made her feel like she had nothing to show for it...

Zhou Xian was about to take a step forward but suddenly stopped.

Of course she knew who Wang Xuemei was.

That was her third sister-in-law, also an educated youth.

The original text quickly appeared in front of Zhou Xian's eyes. There was too much content. Zhou Xian said directly, "Tongzi, keep it simple. Extract the part related to the third sister-in-law first. Let me take a look first."

Zhou Xian was also confused. She had just read the original text over and over again in the afternoon. The Third Sister-in-law didn't have many scenes in it. If she wasn't connected to her, she might not even appear. How come she suddenly became a supporting actress?

Although the system is not very useful now, it is still possible to simplify and refine it.

Zhou Xian took a quick look at the summary and realized that it was not the same novel. The female supporting role that Tongzi was talking about was from another novel.

It’s just that this book and her novel were written by the same person.

While Zhou Xian was reading, he did not forget to ask Tongzi, "So, two books written by the same author, merged together?"

"No," the system said seriously, "To be precise, all the novels with the background of this era have been merged together. Host, you must be mentally prepared. You will meet many protagonists and supporting characters in the future."

Zhou Xian: “…” Forget it, let’s first take a look at what’s happening in front of us.

After watching the clip where the third sister-in-law played the supporting female role, Zhou Xian sighed speechlessly.

The look he gave to his third sister-in-law Wang Xuemei was also very complicated.

Third sister-in-law Wang Xuemei was an educated youth who went to the countryside. Since their marriage, they have never met her family, let alone know about her family situation.

All I know is that her biological mother died very early, and her biological father remarried a stepmother who brought with her two daughters from her previous husband.

When my third sister-in-law got married, there was no movement in her family, as if they had forgotten their daughter.

When recalling the past, Zhou Xian's eyes fell on the content in front of him again. Unlike the heroine Zhao Siqing who went to the countryside without telling her family, Wang Xuemei originally did not have to go to the countryside. It was her stepmother who secretly signed up for Wang Xuemei in order to prevent her child from going to the countryside, and also teamed up with Wang Xuemei's biological father to hide it from her until the matter of going to the countryside could no longer be changed, and then told her.

At that time, Wang Xuemei had already found a job based on her own abilities. Although she was a temporary worker, as long as she had a job, she didn't have to go to the countryside.

And she was dating someone at that time, and everything was going in a good direction.

The sudden discovery that she was signed up to go to the countryside was like a bolt from the blue to her.

She could understand that her stepmother wasn't nice to her. After all, she wasn't her biological daughter, and she didn't expect her stepmother to do anything to her.

But her father, her biological father, would unexpectedly condone her stepmother's behavior and even stand on her side.

She wanted to resist, but her father wouldn't let her, and there was no way to change the situation. Even her stepsister replaced her as a temporary worker.

No one helped her, even her boyfriend advised her to accept her fate.

Wang Xuemei cried and made a fuss, but all she got in return was accusations of being ignorant. At that time, I was disheartened and numbly packed up my things and went to the countryside.

As a result, less than a year later, her boyfriend wrote to her. When she saw the letter, she was undoubtedly happy, but after reading the content of the letter, she was completely stunned.

It was a letter breaking off an engagement.

The girl said that she had been living in the countryside and they were thousands of miles apart. The pressure from his family was too great and he could hardly bear it anymore, so he felt sorry for her because his family had found him another girl and they were very satisfied with her and asked them to get married.

Wang Xuemei just burned the letter in silence. After that, she fell seriously ill. After waking up, she was still in a daze. She was also bitten by a snake when she went up the mountain to collect firewood.

Zhou Xian also knew what happened afterwards. Wang Xuemei chose to marry the third brother because of some rumors in the team.

This book also mentions what happened after the Zhou family broke up. Although not much is written about it, it still describes the endings of several sisters-in-law.

After my eldest brother died and their child also got into trouble, my eldest sister-in-law couldn't bear the blow and suffered a mental breakdown. To put it bluntly, she went crazy. After my second sister-in-law was taken back to her parents' home, she soon found an old widower and married her off.

Third sister-in-law Wang Xuemei was devastated by this incident and failed the college entrance examination. Just as the policy of educated youth returning to the city came into effect, she was able to go home, but she could not take her child back with her, so she had to leave her child in the countryside.

She originally entrusted the child to the care of people in the brigade, saying that she would find a way to take the child over after she returned.

Wang Xuemei's story mainly unfolds after she returns to the city.

Her family naturally knew that she got married and had children in the countryside, but they never cared about how she lived there. After all, from the moment she went to the countryside, there was no place for her in the family.

After she got home, she found out that the wife her fiancé had mentioned was actually her stepsister.

After a series of blows, Wang Xuemei changed from a lively and cheerful girl to a quiet and taciturn person.

When she stayed in that house, everyone ignored her, and even when they talked to her, they were sarcastic.

Her father sighed even more, especially when he knew that she got married in the countryside. He said bluntly that she should stay in the countryside and should not come back to disturb the peace of the family.

The heroine in that book is also one of the stepsisters brought over by her stepmother.

The man Wang Xuemei married was her stepmother's eldest daughter.

The heroine is the stepmother's youngest daughter.

Since she is a supporting actress, it is inevitable that she has a bad relationship with her family.

In the book, Wang Xuemei became even more withdrawn after returning to the city, and she didn't fit in with that family.

Even her family's cautious attitude towards her and her stepmother's act of secretly signing her up to go to the countryside were whitewashed as the painstaking efforts of an old mother.

Anyway, the main characters are all good, the only bad one is the supporting character Wang Xuemei.

In that family, everyone tolerated Wang Xuemei. Even the neighbors who met her would advise her to stop making trouble and get along well with her family.

Wang Xuemei couldn't stand her family members, but she chose to endure it because she wanted to bring her children to her side. So she went out to find a job by herself, but she didn't expect that because she came home too late, she was spotted by a gangster on the road. Her desperate resistance angered the gangster, who accidentally beat her to death.

Wang Xuemei's death added a halo to the heroine. Although the gangster was caught with the help of the heroine later, the man was already dead and it was too late to say anything.

Zhou Xian did not continue reading. He did not think there was anything wrong with it while reading the book. As the protagonist, even if he took action, there must be a legitimate reason.

But this is not a novel. To her, this is the real world. Any illogical things in the novel must be explained in reality.

Of course, if this statement were to be exposed, the male and female protagonists would probably not be so well off.

Just like in the novel, I was a cannon fodder and was courting death, but now when I think back on what I did then, I always feel a little puzzled.

Zhou Xian rubbed his forehead and followed his family into the main room.

Ge Guifen took several daughters-in-law to the kitchen to cook.

Team leader Zhou Jiefang looked at his daughter who followed in, took a puff of the pipe in his hand, and said nothing.

Although he is the team leader, he only has the final say in the team and he really doesn't have the ability to find a good job for his daughter.

He felt that it was not a good idea for his daughter to stay at home like this.

It’s not that no one came to his house to propose marriage, but his old wife looked down on those men and felt that they were not worthy of her daughter.

As for household affairs, his wife took care of them, so he never worried about them. He felt that some of the families who came to propose marriage were quite good, but when he saw that his wife disagreed, he didn't say anything.

As for what kind of job to arrange for her in the brigade, the team leader thought about it, but his wife was not happy about it. She didn't want her daughter to work, so he gave up the idea.

Thinking about how his daughter had begged him to arrange an easy job for that educated youth Qiao, and how his daughter had suddenly woken up, Zhou Jiefang looked at his daughter with a different look in his eyes.

After thinking about it for a long time, I didn't know what to say, so I just kept smoking my pipe and didn't say anything.

When the meal was ready, Ge Guifen invited everyone to eat.

There was not enough space for so many people at one table, so the men sat at one table and the women with the children sat at another.

Ge Guifen also distributed the rice herself, and the men's rice was thicker than the women's.

After Zhou Shoujun got his meal, he gave some to Wang Xuemei and then went back to the table to eat his own meal.

Ge Guifen couldn't help but glare at him. Although the food she gave to her daughter-in-law was a little thinner, it was not bad. She ate the same food herself. It was just his ability that was showing off.

In comparison, Hu Lanhua and Wu Xiufang looked at Wang Xuemei with envy. Compared to the third sister, their men were really like wood.

Zhou Xian’s meal was naturally not bad either, and she also put some into Ge Guifen’s bowl. It is always right for a daughter to be filial to her mother.

As for other people, it wasn’t that Zhou Xian didn’t want to get close to them, it was mainly because it was like this on weekdays. If she got close to them now, it would seem a bit abnormal, so she decided to keep things as they were for the time being.

Seeing her own daughter sharing her meal with her, Ge Guifen was so touched that she felt that her love for her daughter was worthwhile, unlike those three boys who had no tact at all.

"No, Mom has had enough. Eat more."

Ge Guifen wanted to push the rice back, but Zhou Xian blocked her way with the bowl, "Mom, eat quickly, or the food will get cold."

Looking at her daughter's actions, Ge Guifen thought to herself that she would have to take two of the egg cakes back for her daughter, as this amount of food would definitely not be enough to fill her up.

Zhou Xianke didn't expect this, but when she saw the old lady gave her an egg cake and made her a cup of malted milk, she was not surprised.

"Mom, no, keep it for yourself."

How could Ge Guifen listen to her? She just put it in her room and told her to eat quickly. Then she went back to her room.

Zhou Xian sat in the room and couldn't help sighing.

"Host, your mother is so good to you, why are you unhappy?" The system did not understand human emotions. Seeing that Zhou Xian seemed unhappy, it couldn't help but ask.

"It's just that he's too nice to me, so it makes me feel pressured."

This made her feel unrequited.

After all, she has nothing now.

The system was silent, not understanding how being nice to both mother and daughter could make the daughter feel pressured.

It calculated silently, but big data still didn't understand it at this time.

Looking at the garbled data, the system thought that it might be because it had not been fully loaded and some data was missing, so it could not be calculated.

It decided to write this matter down first, and wait for the main system to repair it, and then it would help the host to calculate it.

Zhou Xian felt that he could no longer stay at home doing nothing, so he decided to find something to do.

Let’s start with housework.

Naturally, this matter should be discussed with Comrade Ge Guifen, who is in charge.

Ge Guifen directly rejected her daughter's proposal. She felt that the family did not need a daughter at all. However, she could not bear the sight of her daughter looking at her eagerly.

After thinking for a while, he asked, "Why don't you cook?"

As soon as she said this, Ge Guifen regretted it. Her daughter had never cooked before and how could she cook? Even though she was her precious daughter, she still felt bad if she saw her wasting food.

But if she didn't cook, she didn't know how to ask her daughter to do the cooking, and she didn't want her to do the laundry.

For a moment, Ge Guifen felt extremely conflicted.