"A hen that doesn't lay eggs has the nerve to eat my son and live in my son's house."
A burly old woman stood in the yard, cursing loudly at the woman inside the house.
The woman, however, showed no weakness, standing with her hands on her hips in the doorway.
"Whether I have children or not is none of your business, you old geezer, you're just being nosy and meddling."
The old woman gritted her teeth, unleashed a torrent of foul language, spat, and stormed off.
Jiang Xue rubbed and poked her head.
I was quite puzzled. How could she, the general manager of an international brand of clothing in the Central China region, dream of such a shrewish woman cursing in the street?
And wasn't she dead? On her way to the headquarters for the mid-year meeting, she collided with a large truck, and the truck and she plunged into the river.
How can I still be dreaming?
She opened her eyes in a daze, and the scene before her almost sent her to her death again.
The walls are made of adobe bricks mixed with straw.
The whole room contained only a few small stools and a gray square table.
On the square table was an earthenware jar and a large blue-rimmed porcelain bowl with a chipped rim.
She hurriedly got up and saw that she was wearing polyester pants and a floral short-sleeved shirt with a strong country vibe.
When she came to her senses, she knew for sure that after she died, she had traveled through time.
They traveled to a parallel universe, a time period similar to the 1980s in their hometown.
Thinking of the original owner of this body, she rubbed her temples. She felt both pitiful and detestable.
The original owner's family was notorious for favoring sons over daughters. Back then, her parents did this so that they could build a house for her younger brother.
In order to get a dowry of 500 yuan from the old bachelor, he forced her to marry the 50-year-old bachelor next door.
The original owner was known throughout the surrounding area for being lazy and shameless.
Without further ado, she stripped naked and ran to the reservoir to take a bath.
Most of those who came to release water from the reservoir were strong and healthy men. The original owner thought that grabbing one at random would be better than some old geezer.
But for some reason, the person who bumped into her taking a shower that day happened to be her cousin Xie Xiaotian's old flame, Ji Chen.
The shameless original owner didn't care who he was; as long as they weren't legally married, he had to marry her.
In those days, men who spied on women bathing would be punished with peanuts.
Adding to the original owner's constant crying, tantrums, and threats of suicide, Ji Chen had no choice but to marry the original owner in order to avoid the burden of a life lost.
Although she married a young and strong man, her married life became increasingly miserable.
We've been married for two years, and we haven't even consummated our marriage, let alone held hands with that handsome man.
The two of them had a relationship that felt like they would never speak to each other again.
The original owner's mother-in-law also tried every means to force the original owner to divorce her son, and even brought her next daughter-in-law, Xie Xiaotian, home to live.
My cousin and her mother-in-law have been living together for the past two days, and with the mother-in-law's constant insults, the original owner of this body was so angry that she couldn't catch her breath.
Jiang Xue was on the verge of tears, and sighed as she looked up at the sky. She was clearly a female protagonist who had made a comeback in the workplace.
As a result, I ended up in this remote corner, dealing with all these trivial matters.
Jiang Xue, who had just come to her senses, heard a burst of harmonious laughter coming from the courtyard.
Unable to resist her curiosity, she peeked out.
A woman wearing a light red floral print polyester dress with a blue polyester overcoat was arm in arm with a burly woman with a face that looked a bit like a walnut shell.
Jiang Xue quickly realized that these were Xie Xiaotian and her mother-in-law, Liu Aiyue.
Although they lived in the same courtyard, fortunately it consisted of two small, dilapidated houses. The one on the east side belonged to Grandma, and the one on the south side belonged to Jiang Xue and her husband.
To the west are simple pigsties and woodsheds built of stone and wood.
Jiang Xue looked around and saw the two chatting and laughing.
"Ji Chen will be back soon. Don't leave tonight, stay in my room." Liu Aiyue saw that Xie Xiaotian's skin was rosy and her figure was plump and well-proportioned, definitely good at giving birth to her grandson.
Xie Xiaotian's tone was gentle and submissive, "It looks like it might rain tonight. If you're afraid of thunder, I'll stay with you."
Jiang Xue couldn't help but twitch her lips as she watched.
If you don't have a brain, you might actually think your cousin is a sweet and caring person.
Back then, when the original owner went to the reservoir to bathe, she told her close cousin about it. How unfortunate that she ran into her old flame.
She was simply materialistic and didn't want to marry Ji Chen, who was penniless, when she reached marriageable age.
She wanted to marry the village party secretary's son, so she came up with this idea of killing two birds with one stone.
Jiang Xue stood there and sneered, treating it like watching a play, watching the green tea show off her acting skills.
However, Xie Xiaotian is now in a terrible state. The village secretary's son has suddenly contracted some kind of illness and is now paralyzed in bed.
When Xie Xiaotian saw that the man was paralyzed, she immediately broke off the engagement, which directly resulted in her still being unmarried at the age of twenty-four.
If she doesn't get married soon, her only fate will be to be a bachelor or a widower.
Her gaze was forced to fall on Ji Chen, who had once been devoted to her.
"Xiaotian is so considerate, unlike some shameless women who refuse to stay at my house." Liu Aiyue glanced at Jiang Xue with disdain and gave her a cold look.
"Auntie, don't get angry with such a shameless person." Xie Xiaotian smiled gently at Liu Aiyue.
Jiang Xue, covered in goosebumps, squinted and said disdainfully, "A young woman who hasn't even gotten married yet, spending all her time at someone else's house, who's really shameless?"
Xie Xiaotian's face instantly turned as black as the bottom of a pot.
Seeing this, Liu Aiyue immediately defended her, saying, "Shameless lazy woman, always eating and doing nothing, even giving away the few plots of land my son just got to his family. A family of bloodsuckers, a bunch of losers."
"Pah! Shameless slut!"
"You stripped naked and went to the reservoir to bathe, that's something only a whore would do, and you still have the nerve to talk about Xiaotian."
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