"Ah, why, why, why can't you all see me doing well? You're just jealous of me. You wait and see, you're so short-sighted. When I return in glory, I'll make sure you can't even reach my level."
She tore the letter to shreds with a twisted and ferocious expression, a sight that startled Gu Changzheng, who had just returned from work.
Jiang Ruyi's expression immediately changed when she saw Gu Changzheng return: "Changzheng, you're back. Come in and rest. You must be exhausted. Here, have some water. I'll go cook." Gu Changzheng was a lifeline she had to grasp no matter what, and she had to hold onto him tightly.
Gu Changzheng finally breathed a sigh of relief. He must have been too tired from working in the fields and his eyes were playing tricks on him. Ruyi was still so gentle and sensible: "I'll stay with you. You're pregnant now, so you have to be careful in everything you do. Don't worry, my dad and the others were just saying that out of anger. They won't abandon us. Besides, my mom definitely won't abandon me."
Jiang Ruyi lowered her head and said even more gently, "Changzheng, you are so good to me. It's all my fault. I shouldn't have been so useless. If I hadn't gotten pregnant, you would have already joined the army. I'm the one who held you back."
It's impossible for Gu Changzheng not to regret it, especially now that it's the busy farming season and he's so tired every day. He's thought that if he hadn't made one wrong step after another and had made the tough decision to go back to the city to join the army, he wouldn't have had to suffer so much.
However, when he thought of Jiang Ruyi's loving and affectionate eyes, and her frail and helpless appearance, he couldn't bear to leave. And since she had become pregnant with his child, he felt he had to shoulder the responsibilities of a husband and father.
Besides, what good is it if his older brother is successful? His sister-in-law has been married into the family for several years and has given birth to two daughters. As long as Ruyi gives birth to the Gu family's eldest grandson this time, even his father will have to find a way to bring the whole family back.
Therefore, it's true that two kinds of people can't sleep in the same bed. In some ways, Jiang Ruyi and Gu Changzheng are quite compatible in their values. Such people should be kept together and not allowed to bother others.
Jiang Ruyu also learned about Jiang Ruyi's various ways of courting death. In front of her grandmother, she didn't say anything, but instead recalled the book she had seen when she was unconscious.
Over the past few years, she has tried her best to make the ending of her siblings different from that in the book. It seems that the ending of Jiang Lin and Jiang Hui will definitely be changed. It will be Jiang Hui who goes to the countryside instead of Jiang Lin from the previous life.
Jiang Hui is calm and composed, but he tends to overthink things and puts invisible constraints on himself. Moreover, she knows that the college entrance examination will be reinstated in the future, and since Jiang Hui had such good grades in school, he will definitely be able to get into university.
Jiang Lin is different. He is more daring and more suited to be a soldier than Jiang Hui. He is adventurous and hardworking, and is a good candidate for the army. However, he is not good at studying. He might be able to make a name for himself in the army.
She has no scar on her forehead, her personality is not twisted, and she and Zheng Yang have set a wedding date. Everything is different from that book. On the contrary, Jiang Ruyi's life has deviated from the original plot.
She vaguely remembered that Jiang Ruyi in the book did not marry Gu Changzheng and have children in the countryside. With the help and support of her family, she did not establish a relationship with Gu Changzheng until the college entrance examination was reinstated. On the contrary, Gu Changzheng never gave up and kept chasing after her.
With the opening of the college entrance examination, Jiang Ruyi, with the help of Gu Changzheng, obtained the review materials, worked hard, and passed the exam on her own, returning to Yanjing. This made the Gu family look at her with new respect and no longer cared about her family background.
That's how Jiang Ruyi's life got better and better, and how she retaliated against her vicious cousin who caused her to be sent to the countryside, and her cousin who had a promising future. Everything described in the book seems to be used to highlight Jiang Ruyi's happiness by showing how her family was in dire straits.
In fact, given her temperament, even if she hadn't had the system and had been disfigured, her personality wouldn't have changed so drastically. She always knew the responsibilities she had; her grandmother had taken care of them for over ten years, and she was obligated to care for her grandmother until her death.
Her younger brothers are still young, and she wants to make sure they don't go astray, live good lives, get married, and have children. As for herself, even if she is criticized because of her disfigurement, she can simply choose not to get married. She would never let such a thing make her twisted.
Therefore, she always suspected that the book was fabricated by someone, and the most likely person was Jiang Ruyi herself. Perhaps she was unhappy with her life decades later and made up such a story to satisfy her own fantasies.
But no matter what, she just wanted to live her own life. As long as Jiang Ruyi didn't provoke her or try to harm her family, everyone could live in peace.
Time flies, and it was already April 1971. The past six months had been relatively peaceful. Jiang Hui would send a letter about once a week or every two weeks, always saying that he was doing well and that his family should not send him any more money or tickets. He no longer needed to work in the fields; he was teaching in the production team and earned full work points every day. He only needed to work in the fields during the busy farming season.
Moreover, he invented several small tools suitable for local beachcombing based on his own ideas, which enabled him to catch larger and more valuable seafood. The members of the production team all liked him very much.
Jiang Ruyu and Grandma Jiang both trusted Jiang Hui. This child had always been easy to take care of since he was a child. However, Jiang Ruyu would still send money and tickets every month as required, even if he said he was doing well. His good fortune was due to his own abilities, and the money and tickets sent from home were a sign of their care for him. Besides, they lived so far away, and they didn't know if their place was remote or not, and they certainly weren't well-off. They couldn't believe everything he said, in case he was only reporting good news and not bad.
As for Jiang Lin, he would disappear from time to time. Sometimes he would send a letter once a week, and sometimes he would not send a letter for a month or two. Later, Jiang Lin wrote a letter explaining that he needed to train frequently. Sometimes he could write letters home normally when he was at the base, but sometimes he had to be in closed training, so the letters were not consistent.
Jiang Lin's situation is that he doesn't need to send money or tickets. On the contrary, he saves his monthly allowance of a few yuan, which has now increased to more than ten yuan, and sends it back every six months. He has hardly ever spent any money.
To prevent her mentally challenged younger brother from not even having enough money to buy underwear, Jiang Ruyu simply sent two pairs of underwear and two pairs of socks every month when she sent things. The rest of the items were things like pickled vegetables and stir-fried meat sauce.
Almost every month, her family receives packages containing local specialties sent back by Fangda. He felt embarrassed to accept Ruyu's gifts unilaterally, and he didn't have the ability to reciprocate with something of equal value. So he could only do his best by sending some bamboo weaving products that he had learned from the local elders.
Some are flower baskets that can hold things, while others are decorations, such as dragonflies and butterflies. There are also locally smoked cured meats, which taste different from the ones you smoke yourself. People from Sichuan Province have a knack for smoking cured meats, and they taste delicious.
Jiang Hui would also mail local seafood. He would go to the beach with the locals when he had nothing to do, ask them how to dry the seafood to preserve it for a longer time, so that he could eat fresh seafood whenever he wanted. He would send all the good things he dried home, knowing that his sister liked to eat these things.
Jiang Lin would occasionally send things back, mostly things he traded with local fishermen on the island, and some local specialties he exchanged with his comrades for things sent from home.
So Jiang Ruyu, though she never went out, ate a lot of food from other places.
In April, Jiang Ruyi will be due to give birth soon. I wonder if she will be able to have a boy this time, as she wishes, so that her in-laws will be able to have a son?
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