Chapter 29
Every year before the New Year, the village next door holds a big fair that lasts for more than ten days. People from the surrounding villages who raise livestock and poultry, make their own pickles and sauerkraut, and dry goods can sell them at this time.
Business is good before the New Year, and even some small vendors from the city come here, bringing mostly apples, couplets and some things that are not available in the village.
It takes about twenty minutes to get from home to the market. Pei Ze holds An An in one hand and Zhong Miao in the other, and the family of three talks as they walk.
After walking for more than ten minutes, they happened to meet Wang Yingying and her older brother Wang Yu. Wang Yingying was holding a little boy. Zhong Miao didn't know them, but An An obviously knew them.
"Wang Xiaotian, Wang Xiaotian." An An greeted his little friend from a distance.
The little boy Wang Yingying was holding heard it and turned around, "Pei Mingan." He waved to An An.
Zhong Miao was embarrassed. She hadn't intended to say hello. After what happened last time, she was still holding a grudge. Turning around, she looked at Pei Ze helplessly.
"It's okay, it's just the kids saying hello, you don't have to pay attention to them."
Pei Ze didn't want to bother with Song Xing and his gang. They were just bored and gossiped all day long, comparing themselves with this one and that one. They never took a piss to look at themselves and were just annoying people.
"Yeah." Seeing that Wang Yingying and the others didn't stop, Zhong Miao continued walking with Pei Ze.
She also thought of a passage in the original text. The original owner had an extremely cold relationship with Pei Ze. In order to bring her son and daughter-in-law together, the mother-in-law asked them to go out to buy New Year's goods. In the original text, they did not bring An An.
When the original owner and his friends came out, they happened to run into Wang Yingying. The original owner even had an argument with Wang Yingying, and Pei Ze left without saying a word.
Oh, this damn plot.
After walking for a short distance, I don’t know what happened to Wang Yingying, but she stopped. The two adults and one child were waiting for the family of three behind them.
Pei Ze frowned and said, "Don't worry about it. I'm here for you."
"Okay, it really haunts me. It's really annoying."
Zhong Miao pursed her lips and complained. This plot was really unavoidable. Thinking that she would inevitably be subjected to another round of nonsense, she frowned.
"Hehe, it's quite annoying."
Her little appearance was so cute that Pei Ze couldn't help but agree.
"Mom, who is annoying me?"
An An is still out of the situation, he doesn't understand the twists and turns between adults.
"No, I was just kidding."
Zhong Miao coaxed the child, thinking about the pattern of the plot in her mind. She never avoided any important nodes that were related to the plot of the control group, and she happened to encounter them every time.
Before, she thought it might be a coincidence or something, but now she doesn’t think so. This plot does have some ability to promote the development of events.
After what happened last time, Wang Yingying was particularly curious about how Zhong Miao and Pei Ze got along. She didn't believe that Zhong Miao would live better than her.
In fact, Wang Yingying does not understand the twists and turns between Song Xing and Pei Ze, nor does she have as many thoughts as Song Xing. She is a typical person who regards her husband as her God, and is the considerate and kind little wife in the original text.
There is no golden finger for time travel and rebirth in the original text. Wang Yingying is the model of a good wife in this era. Although she is a little spoiled, she has given a lot to Song Xing and finally got what she wanted.
She didn't know what was wrong with her, but she just couldn't get along with Zhong Miao. She wanted to compare herself with her in everything. She felt uncomfortable because Zhong Miao was prettier than her. Perhaps it was also her vanity. It had to be said that the halo of the original text existed, which made the heroine and the female supporting role in the control group naturally incompatible.
It’s just that she didn’t realize that Zhong Miao was no longer the same Zhong Miao as before, and she had no plot clues.
Seeing Pei Ze holding the child in one hand and holding Zhong Miao's hand in the other, her competitive spirit came back.
Last time, she and a group of men bullied Zhong Miao, and she didn't think there was anything wrong. There were always a lot of rumors in the village, and whoever said it was just a rumor. They just had more people. If others can say it, why can't you, Zhong Miao? You, Zhong Miao, just got married and went back to your parents' home, and you don't let people say it?
Wang Yingying has no awareness of respecting women, probably because she was born in a family that favors boys over girls and has never been respected.
Her family is particularly typical of favoring boys over girls. Boys are favored in everything, and daughters are treated like maids.
But she doesn't think there is anything wrong with favoring boys over girls. The work in the fields is done by her brother, and her husband can earn money. As for her, it is difficult for her to get into university. She also believes that women are inferior to men in some aspects.
Song Xing hadn't had his holiday at the factory yet, so he hadn't come back to accompany her, but Zhong Miao and Pei Ze looked very sweet. She felt inexplicably unwilling to give up, so she took two steps and then stopped.
"Zhong Miao, Pei Ze, you brought the children out. Are you going to the market?" Wang Yingying asked with a smile.
"Yeah." Pei Ze blurted out a word and continued walking forward.
Wang Yingying saw Pei Ze's cold face, but she didn't care. She followed the couple, as if forgetting the previous unpleasantness. "Zhong Miao, you haven't been out lately. I haven't had the chance to ask you yet. How have you been doing since you got married? Why don't you come out to play?"
Zhong Miao glanced at her and said, "No time."
"Yeah, you also have to take care of your mother-in-law and raise the children. It's really different from us."
After Wang Yingying got married, she lived in her husband's house. However, her husband's house was next door to her parents' house, which was equivalent to not leaving home. She could be more assertive in her husband's house. She also expressed her desire to go to college, and her parents-in-law supported her. She was told that apart from cooking and cleaning her new house, she didn't have to do anything else. Although the claim that she didn't have to do anything else was a bit exaggerated.
If you want to know where she got the confidence to go to college, it’s because she married well.
Song Xing's family fled to the village in the 1950s to escape famine. Although the village was also affected at that time, they did not starve to death because they lived in the mountains.
There are always some wild game and wild vegetables and medicinal herbs in the mountains, which can at least save lives.
As luck would have it, Song Xing's father had been to school and had raised a college student like Song Xing. So, Wang Yingying also wanted to prepare for the college entrance examination under the training of her father-in-law. She didn't feel that she needed to go to high school to study again, and Song Xing didn't need her if she didn't need him.
Zhong Miao was speechless. This heroine just came up and started arguing. Who would pay attention to you?
But Pei Ze was unhappy. He couldn't stand seeing others talk down on his wife. "My wife is not busy taking care of the children. My mother and I take care of her at home. She is about to prepare for the art school entrance exam."
"Ah? What is an art academy?" Wang Yingying had never heard of what an art academy was. The key point was that there were people in their villages who went to college, but they had no chance to study art.
"Oh? You don't even understand this?" Pei Ze laughed, but deliberately didn't say anything or explain. In fact, he didn't know what an art academy was before he met Zhou Zhu.
Wang Yingying guessed that it was probably a technical secondary school or something, similar to a nursing school, and she didn't care. No matter what college or school it was, it was not as good as a regular university. She felt that she was much better than Zhong Miao.
"Then Zhong Miao, you must study hard. I will also take the college entrance examination next year. Let's work hard together."
Wang Yingying had an encouraging expression on her face, like a kind elder.
Zhong Miao had no idea how to answer this. Okay, okay, let's work hard together, old baby. Or should she answer, "We are neighbors. If you want to take the exam, then take it. I wish you a bright future." But does this have anything to do with her, Zhong Miao?
"Haha, you have to let your Song Xing teach you well so that you can gain more experience." Pei Ze came to the rescue of his wife, and his words and deeds hinted that Wang Yingying was ignorant.
But Wang Yingying couldn't understand his metaphor. "That's for sure. Brother Xing always teaches me physics when he comes back."
"Pfft, hehe." Zhong Miao thought what Pei Ze said was funny, but Wang Yingying really couldn't hear it.
Yes, Wang Yingying is a woman who is dedicated to growth. Like Zhong Miao, she is only 20 years old and has not even left the village many times. Her knowledge is of course limited. The main focus of the book is on her brilliance in humanity, her dedication to her family and her husband, and her sincerity in exchange for sincerity.
In the original text, Wang Yingying's growth trajectory is from a spoiled, slightly domineering but indecisive person to a good wife and mother who devotes herself to the family.
Zhong Miao vaguely felt the shackles of the plot. It was an intuition. She had this feeling when she approached Wang Yingying just now. It seemed that the power of the plot had a much greater influence on Wang Yingying than supporting characters like Pei Ze and herself.
She had had this feeling before with Pei Ze, her mother-in-law and other supporting characters in the book. At that time, she was not completely sure. Later, this feeling towards Pei Ze and her mother-in-law became weaker and weaker, so she didn't care much about it.
The last time I saw Wang Yingying, she was very angry and participated in the mixed doubles. I didn't think carefully about this abnormality, but this time, it was particularly obvious.
It may be that the plot between Pei Ze and her mother-in-law has become outrageous under the influence of her and her father.
This time, through Wang Yingying, she was able to confirm that the original text was like a frame, enclosing all the characters in the book in the middle, making people involuntarily follow the set plot trajectory.
Zhong Miao knew that although he had changed some things, he had not really broken out of this circle. Otherwise, why could he not avoid the plot points in the original text?
Alas, how can she avoid risks?
Wang Yingying didn’t understand what Pei Ze meant, and of course she didn’t understand what Zhong Miao was laughing at, but she didn’t care.
Wang Yu held Wang Xiaotian's hand, as if he didn't want his son to have any contact with An An. He held Wang Xiaotian and prevented him from talking to An An. He didn't say a word the whole time, as if Pei Ze and his wife were some kind of dirty things. If his sister hadn't insisted on waiting for Zhong Miao, he wouldn't have stopped.
Pei Ze put An An down and said, "An An, come down and walk by yourself for a while. Your mother is tired too. It's time for her to take over."
Without waiting for An An and Zhong Miao to react, he picked up Zhong Miao as if he were holding An An.
"Ah? What are you doing?" Zhong Miao suddenly raised her head and immediately put her arms around his neck.
"If you walk so slowly, it won't be dark by the time you get back." Pei Ze strode forward, "An An, keep up."
"Hahaha, here I come." An An jogged along with his dad.
The family of three quickly left Wang Yingying and her elder brother behind.
Wang Yingying was left behind...
"I'm telling you, why are you waiting for them? You're so idle." Wang Yu said dissatisfiedly when he saw his sister being humiliated.
"Hmph, you're not feeling guilty, are you afraid that I'll ask you something?"
Wang Yingying was greatly influenced by Song Xing. Song Xing was aloof and always put himself in a superior position. She really didn't know if he was like this in the city.
Wang Yingying thought that she had the capital to be arrogant after marrying Song Xing, so she naturally looked down on the uneducated people like Zhong Miao and the idle people like Pei Ze, and there was a sense of superiority in her words and deeds.
"In the future, have less dealings with this family. Aren't you afraid that your brother-in-law will be unhappy?" Wang Yu reminded his sister. Song Xing and Pei Ze had been at odds for many years, but no one knew how they broke up.
"Brother Xing wouldn't do that." Wang Yingying felt that her man would not be so stingy.
"It would be best."
Wang Yu is not as optimistic as his sister. His family has relied a lot on his in-laws to live the life they have today. Song Xing gives 15 yuan to her in-laws and 10 yuan to her parents' every month. This money is almost enough for the family to eat.
Wang Yu was afraid that he would displease his brother-in-law and lose the money in the future.
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