Chapter 42: You have to be very fierce and shameless to survive
Director Lei announced the adjournment of the meeting, and everyone in the audience went home. The threshing ground was cleared in an instant.
Luo Xinxin found Sister Lei Daya. She was holding a bulging cloth bag filled with meat buns, beef patties, cucumbers and salted duck eggs. It was enough for eight people, which she bought at the mall.
She got a lot of information from Zeng Daya and her sister, and learned that in addition to Sun Si'er, there were other men who used food to seduce the sisters and take advantage of them.
"Don't let them touch you anymore. You are girls and can't be touched casually. Come to me when you are hungry."
Luo Xinxin reminded them.
"It's not for nothing, there's food for you."
Zeng Daya smiled happily and didn't think there was anything wrong with being touched. It was only when she was hungry that she felt uncomfortable.
"Even if there's food, you can't touch it. Those people are not good people. Did they touch you?"
Luo Xinxin pointed at Zeng Daya's lower body, wanting to know if she had been violated.
"If they want to touch it, I'll slap them!"
Zeng Daya looked very proud; she was not someone who could be easily bullied.
Her younger sister said that no one was allowed to touch her private parts, and that anyone who touched it would be slapped in the face. She listened to her younger sister very much.
Luo Xinxin breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Zeng Daya was born with supernatural powers, and those men could not use force on her, otherwise her innocence would have been lost long ago.
"Sister, wait!"
Zeng Erya suddenly stopped and ran towards another path.
Zeng Daya tilted her head and thought for a while, and finally remembered the two bundles of firewood. She quickly chased after them, holding one bundle in each hand and bringing them over easily.
"Sister, here's the firewood for you."
A shy smile appeared on Zeng Erya's skinny little face. She finally looked a little like a child, not as old-fashioned as before.
"Thank you. I'm in need of firewood. If you pick up two bundles of firewood for me every day, I'll give you enough food. Is that okay?"
Luo Xinxin asked with a smile.
When she saw the two sisters, she thought of her childhood and youth in her previous life. Her mother ran away when she was three years old. Her grandparents and father scolded her mother every day, and the scolding was particularly harsh, because her mother was a daughter-in-law bought by the family after the family owed debts, and she ran away before she had a chance to give birth to a son (grandson) for them.
When she was four years old, her father was killed by a poisonous snake while chopping wood in the mountains. Her grandparents were heartbroken and died within two years. She was the only six-year-old left at home. Several of her cousins would occasionally give her some food, and with the leftover rice, flour and oil from her grandparents, she survived starvation and grew up to be eight years old.
She wanted to go to school, so she went to the town to pick up waste paper and beverage bottles, sold them for money, and slowly saved a lot of money. But she was very lucky. The village chief helped her contact the government, waived her tuition and miscellaneous fees, and she could also receive 300 yuan in living expenses every month, which was enough for her to eat and drink.
However, Luo Xinxin later found out that the government-subsidized living expenses were actually more than 300 yuan, but she only received 300 yuan. She was still very grateful to the government in her hometown for at least giving her 300 yuan. It was thanks to these 300 yuan that she was able to get into university, leave the mountains, and work as a slave in a big city.
Poverty was not her greatest hardship growing up, because she received government subsidies. What frightened and scared her the most were the men who knocked on her door at night and tempted her with money and food.
They were all from the village, including old men in their seventies and eighties, greasy and creepy men in their forties and fifties, and bachelors in their twenties and thirties. They all had bad intentions and wanted to take advantage of her.
Her sharp tongue was also developed at that time. No matter who came knocking on the door, she would scold them and even go to their homes to scold them during the day.
Although there were all kinds of gossip in the village, saying that she was not serious and her innocence was long gone, Luo Xinxin didn't care. She knew from a very young age that she could not rely on anyone else and could only rely on herself.
So she has to be very fierce and shameless in order to survive!
The experiences of Zeng Daya and her sister are very similar to her childhood. Her hard-heartedness has no effect on her sisters, and she always softens her heart.
"Sister, one meal is enough." Zeng Erya said.
No one has enough food these days, and the sisters are particularly fond of food, so she is afraid that Sister Luo will go bankrupt from eating too much.
Zeng Daya also nodded. A meal could keep her and her sister alive and would not starve to death.
"Don't worry, I can support you."
Luo Xinxin smiled and was planning to give them a meat bun, but when she saw the sisters' black paws and lice-ridden heads, she couldn't help but move a few steps to the side, fearing that the lice would jump onto her.
"You must wash your hair and bathe frequently, change your clothes regularly, and wash your hands before eating, otherwise you will get a lot of worms in your stomach."
Luo Xinxin planned to ask Luo Weian to get some pagoda candies for the two sisters to eat.
"No clothes."
Zeng Daya answered honestly that she and her sister only had the clothes they were wearing, and an old cotton-padded jacket for winter, which was already much too short. Her stepmother said that they could still be worn for a few more years.
Luo Xinxin frowned. She asked Baohui about the two sisters.
Zeng Erya's biological mother died of heavy hemorrhage when she gave birth to her. Zeng's father raised the two sisters for three years. At that time, he was quite dedicated. But after marrying his stepmother, this man became a stepfather and treated his stepchildren better than his biological daughter.
After their stepmother gave birth to a son, the sisters' lives fell into a slump. If it weren't for the pressure from Chief Lei, Zeng's father would have even wanted to marry the 15-year-old Zeng Daya to a fool in the village just to earn 200 yuan in betrothal money.
The two sisters had little food to eat at home, so they picked some corn cobs today and some fruits tomorrow. People on the farm saw them but pretended not to see them. Some people even gave them some food. That’s how they grew up.
Luo Xinxin silently greeted her great-father and stepmother's ancestors. Fortunately, among the three products that had just been launched in the mall, there was some Dacron fabric that could be used to make spare clothes for the two sisters.
The other two items were pork and kerosene, both of which she urgently needed. The oil lamp at home was almost out of stock, and she was also craving braised pork.
"Tongzi, thank you!"
Luo Xinxin thanked the system with her mind. Every time a product was launched, it was what she wanted. It was really great.
[Randomly activated, has nothing to do with this system]
The system's tone was very arrogant, and it didn't want to admit that it was frightened by the hardships of this era. It had nothing and even basic survival was difficult. It was really worried that the host would be stuck here because of hunger and cold, and it would never be able to go back.
Luo Xinxin smiled. Tongzi was a little cutie with a tough exterior but a soft heart. He was worthy of being a product of the Flower Growing Family.
The three of them returned home, and Luo Weian got dinner from the canteen, which consisted of millet porridge, sorghum buns, and pickles. The light, which was smaller than a soybean, could not illuminate anything and was not even as bright as the moonlight outside.
Old Mrs. Luo looked at the food in front of her. She had no appetite, but she was very hungry. She ate in small bites and sighed from time to time.
The door opened, and Mrs. Luo's eyes lit up when she saw her granddaughter. She called out happily, "Xinxin, do you have any salted duck eggs?"
She had just searched for a long time but couldn't find the salted duck eggs. She didn't know where the dead girl had hidden them.
Luo Xinxin ignored her and asked Sister Zeng Daya to wash their hands. She went to add oil to the lamp bowl and turned up the light. The room suddenly became bright.
"Oh my! Where did these two dirty girls come from? There are so many lice! Get them out!"
When Old Mrs. Luo came closer and took a look, she was shocked by the lice on the sisters' heads. She took several steps back with a look of disgust on her face.
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