1980, New Year’s Eve.
Every household celebrates the New Year with joy, and fireworks bloom brilliantly in the night sky one after another.
The "crackling" sound of firecrackers was heard one after another, making the hospital seem particularly deserted and lively.
All those who could be discharged from the hospital have been discharged, and those who stayed were all seriously ill. Otherwise, who would be willing to spend the New Year in the hospital?
Yunduan thought of his mother, not knowing when she would be discharged from the hospital, and sighed heavily.
I walked to the door of my mother's ward and was about to push it open when I heard her worried voice:
"What if Yunduan knows and doesn't want to?"
Know what?
Yunduan paused in pushing the door, and peeked through the crack to see his mother half-lying on the hospital bed, looking at the man sitting beside the bed.
Yunduan took a closer look and found that the man was her boyfriend, Zhang Wei.
There was a woman sitting next to Zhang Wei, she was his sister.
My older sister is the child of my stepfather and his ex-wife, but my mother favors her more, fearing that others will say that she is abusing the child.
But no matter how sincere her mother was, her elder sister still hated her mother, and also hated her younger sister.
It was obvious that my stepfather disliked my sister because she was a girl and was unwilling to spend money to send her to college.
Sister Sun Meili vented her anger on her and her mother, believing that it was because of them that she and her stepfather instigated her stepfather to be unwilling to pay her tuition, and thus took away the fatherly love and money that originally belonged to her.
People outside were even gossiping, saying that the mother and daughter were vicious, that the stepfather was not worthy of being a father, and that the sister was pitiful.
Yunduan is only one or two months younger than Sun Meili. They both took the college entrance examination at the same time. Yunduan did not receive an admission notice and thought he had failed.
Looking at her mother who was frowning all day long, she offered to earn money for Sun Meili to go to college.
The matter was originally resolved, but my mother unfortunately had an ectopic pregnancy because she wanted to give birth to a son for her stepfather, and now it costs a lot of money.
My sister never comes to visit you for no reason. I guess she’s here for money again this time!
And her boyfriend, Zhang Wei... might be here to see her.
She was busy making money to support Sun Meili's college education and taking care of her hospitalized mother, and had not seen Zhang Wei for a long time.
Unexpectedly, I heard Sun Meili say to her mother:
"Yun Duan is the most filial to you. As long as you say you need her betrothal money to save your life, she will definitely agree!"
Mom, Li Chunxia, frowned and said anxiously:
"But once they meet, I'm sure this won't be hidden. What if Yunduan refuses to acknowledge me as her mother?"
"No, Yunduan is the most filial to you. When you secretly burned Yunduan's college entrance examination acceptance letter, didn't she just make a fuss for a while before going out to make money?"
"Besides, she's illiterate, how could she find someone better than Qiu Sheng?"
Sun Meili said this and glanced at Zhang Wei.
Zhang Wei nodded and agreed:
"Auntie, my mom said!"
"As long as Meili can give a dowry of 100 yuan, she will agree to our marriage."
"Meili and I will both be guaranteed jobs after graduation. We have stable jobs. We'll be with you in your old age. What else do you have to worry about?"
Yunduan, who was standing outside the door, was so angry when he heard this that he trembled all over.
"Bang!"
The ward door was kicked open.
The three people who were talking in the ward heard the noise, turned around and were startled when they saw it was her.
The most frightened Li Chunxia clutched the quilt tightly, with a panicked look on her face, and called out to her in a trembling voice,
"Duan, Duanduan."
The cloud asked angrily,
"Mom! You knew my sister stole my boyfriend, and you still wanted to marry me off to help them?!"
"Are you crazy?"
"I am your biological daughter!"
Yunduan asked angrily and aggrievedly, tears streaming down her face as she spoke.
Li Chunxia struggled to get down from the bed and grabbed her wrist, fearing that she would run away.
"Duanduan, just agree to marry me!"
"Although Qiu Sheng is from the countryside and has many brothers and sisters, he is a soldier after all. Mom asked, you can join the army, and you don't have to go to the countryside to farm and you can still have food to eat."
Every word was written with her in mind.
Yunduan shook off Li Chunxia's hand and said sarcastically:
"I don't have any farm work now, and I'm not relying on you for support. I'm also paying for my sister's schooling, so I still have food to eat."
Li Chunxia choked.
Sun Meili continued:
"Mom just had surgery, and the doctor told her not to get any irritation. Are you going to make her condition worse?"
"If Mom hadn't insisted on bringing you here to marry me, you'd still be living in the cowshed with your demoted father, being criticized and denounced!"
"You're an illiterate person, you only find temporary jobs, and you think you're so great just because you're young and earn some hard-earned money!"
"When you get older, who will want you?"
"Huo Qiusheng is a soldier. He will never be unemployed and cannot get divorced."
"If you marry him, it's like finding a permanent, secure job."
"Mom and I are your family, how can we not hope for your well-being?"
Cloud asked back:
"Huo Qiusheng is so nice! Why did you end up crying on a blind date with him?"
Sun Meili's face turned blue from being scolded.
Li Chunxia couldn't bear to see Li Meili being bullied, so she quickly chimed in, "Can you compare with your sister?"
"Your sister is a serious college student!"
Yunduan laughed in anger.
"Is it because I didn't get into college?"
"It was you who secretly burned my college acceptance letter so that I could support my sister's college education!"
"Even if I didn't go to college, I was still a high school student. You're just trying to humiliate me by calling me illiterate."
"If I hadn't earned money to pay for my sister's tuition, would she have been able to go to college?!"
"Now you're using the fact that I'm not a college student to say I'm not as good as my sister..."
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