Chapter 1 Rebirth
The spring breeze of 1985 blew, and Liujia Village began to prosper. At the beginning of this year, the village brigade responded to the organization's call and distributed the land to the people.
It's no longer like the communal dining scene of the past. From now on, those who are capable and diligent will earn more. Look, several families in the village have started building brick houses. The neat red bricks, piled out, are a sight to behold.
The village chief said that everyone could build a big house in the future. Everyone was very motivated and eager to build a big house next.
The Shen family also planned to build one. Uncle Shen Er and Uncle Shen San would go to the village chief whenever they had time to ask if they could get an extra piece of residential land.
He went to find a bricklayer and asked how many bricks and tiles were needed to build a big house. For a while, a lot of gossip spread in the village, saying that the Shen family was about to build a house.
To be the fourth person to build a house in Liujia Village.
The Shen family has been walking with such a swift breeze these past few days, that everyone, young and old, can't wait to write the news of building a house on their faces. Everywhere they look, they are filled with the joy of a happy event.
Only the air pressure in the Shen family's main room is very low.
In the room, Shen Qingyue looked at the worn-out bed, the leaky straw hut, and her still fair and tender hands, and tears slipped out of her eyes without warning.
She was reborn.
Shen Qingyue had a very hard life in her previous life. When she was young, she was forced to marry an alcoholic. He would abuse her when he drank too much, and the two of them had no children.
Because of this incident, he was ridiculed by the whole village and could not hold his head up.
Later, the drunkard fell into a ditch after drinking too much and was found dead the next day.
Shen Qingyue had been a widow at a young age. It was said that widows were often surrounded by gossip, especially in the village. In just a few years, she had witnessed ugliness that many people had never seen in their entire lives.
After struggling for half a lifetime, I finally made it big and bought a house in a big city. I thought I was heading for a better life, but who would have thought that I would wake up and return to my parents' home in my youth.
Now is the critical moment when her grandparents want to marry her to a scumbag in exchange for a sky-high bride price.
Suddenly, the door outside opened, and Shen Qingyue looked up and saw her elder sister Shen Mei, whose eyes were also red.
Shen Qingyue's tears seemed to be unstoppable.
No one knew what curse had come upon the eldest wife, and none of them lived a good life.
Her eldest sister was hardworking and kind, but her last bit of energy was squeezed out of her early and she passed away.
Shen Mei was only twenty-four years old this year, four years older than Shen Qingyue, and she had a younger sister, Shen Xiu, who was seventeen years old. It was said that an eldest sister was like a mother, and her parents had passed away, leaving behind the three sisters.
A child without a mother has no one to love him. The Shen family did not split up, and the first, second and third wives all lived together.
Although the three sisters lived in their own home, they felt like they were living under someone else's roof.
A while ago, it was the grandparents who decided to drive the three sisters from the big house to sleep in the lower house, and gave the original room to Uncle Shen's family.
The so-called lower house was originally just a small shed where things were stored.
Later, I found some old bricks and yellow mud to paste it over the wall, and it was extremely damp.
It would be fine if the Shen family just stopped at this point.
But people always like to push for more, and even this is not enough. Now the Shen family wants to build a new house, but they don’t have enough money, so they have set their sights on Shen Qingyue.
After all, all the girls in the family combined were not as pretty as Shen Qingyue. So he wanted to marry her off in exchange for a thousand yuan to build a house.
Shen Qingyue refused to do so, so they stopped her food rations and told her to "reflect on herself."
There is still a slap mark on the eldest sister Chen Mei's face. Needless to say, it was grandma Xu Xiuzhi who hit her.
In grandma's mind, what could these three little girls accomplish? Add to that the pressure of filial piety, and everyone would be inferior.
Even the village chief cannot take care of such family affairs.
Seeing her crying like this, her eldest sister Chen Mei showed a little distress on her face and said, "We won't get married. Yueyue, don't cry."
Although it was a word of advice, Shen Mei's tears fell. It's so difficult to be a child without parents!
Now the news that the Shen family is going to build a house has spread outside. Second uncle and third uncle are people who care about face. I am afraid that just for the sake of "face", Shen Qingyue will have to marry him.
Nowadays, anyone who can afford to pay a sky-high price of one thousand yuan to marry a wife must not be from a good family.
No matter how powerful Shen Qingyue was, she was only a 20-year-old girl. She was anxious and scared, having been hungry for three days.
I saw she was still unconscious just now. If she continues like this, I really don’t know what will happen.
Shen Mei took out a steamed bun from her arms. This was her lunch ration, which she saved for Shen Qingyue.
Grandma wanted to "suppress" Shen Qingyue's temper and would never give her food no matter what.
Chen Mei quickly wiped her tears and said, "Yueyue, eat a few bites. Don't harm yourself. Big sister won't let you get married. I will support you in the future."
Before Shen Qingyue took the steamed bun, she heard a sarcastic voice outside: "Yo. Hiding in the house and eating secretly in broad daylight, you have no parents and no manners."
The one who said this was Aunt Three. After giving birth to five daughters, she finally gave birth to a son. She wanted to be so proud of herself!
They are the main force that bullies the three sisters.
When Chen Mei heard this, her face turned pale and she said, “Just treat it as her fart and eat it quickly.”
Shen Qingyue also knew that health was her most important asset. She quickly devoured the steamed bread in two bites. After a few bites, the pain in her stomach subsided considerably.
You can only resist when you are full.
Shen Qingyue knew that there was a tough battle to fight.
She is no longer a delicate little girl. After her rebirth, she has become a person who has been struggling among the best for decades.
The other party took advantage of her being a young girl and couldn't afford to lose face, but compared with the important matter of a lifetime, what did face mean?
Shen Qingyue finished her steamed bread. She immediately stood up and rushed out. She said to her third aunt Liu Yu, who was acting sarcastic, "I just heard a dog barking. Third aunt, you should learn to speak human language."
Liu Yu immediately lit up like a firecracker: "Who are you calling a dog? You have no respect for your parents. You have no manners!"
Shen Qingyue said: "You speak as if you are well-educated, your mouth stinks worse than the cesspool in the village, and you keep talking about my parents' death?
You guys have taken over my house and you still think it's not enough. Sometimes God is so blind. Why did you take my parents away? People like you who are stupid, evil, and foul-mouthed deserve to die.
It really fits the saying, "Good people don't live long, but evil deeds last for thousands of years."
Liu Yu's face flushed red immediately, and he gasped for breath. He didn't expect that Shen Qingyue, who used to be silent, could speak with a mouth that was sharper than a knife.
Liu Yu was like an enraged female monkey. She rushed over with a roar, her eyes flashing with viciousness: "I'll beat you to death." She was so angry that her voice was trembling!
Shen Mei saw that she was about to get close to Shen Qingyue, but since Shen Qingyue had the courage to provoke her, she had a way.
She immediately picked up the dung fork and hit her with it without waiting for her aunt Liu Yu to get close to her.
The dung fork was covered in dirt and even some filth, which made Liu Yu retch continuously.
Liu Yu was furious. The one with the lowest status in the Shen family was the eldest wife. The couple were honest and had three girls, which was a sin in the Shen family, which favored boys over girls.
Now the couple from the eldest house are helping to build roads in the village and are gone.
Their already low status was even more precarious. Normally, the maids in the eldest house would let others bully them without making a sound.
Liu Yu didn't know why she suddenly became so powerful.
The thought that she actually dared to resist and called her a dog made her howl with anger. She was about to explode with rage.
The angrier Third Aunt Liu Yu got, the more she spoke without thinking: "Little bitch, don't get so cocky. You're bullying at home now, but when you get married, someone will take care of you. Then I'll beat you up eight times a day!"
Shen Qingyue had returned from rebirth with a bad temper. Liu Yu's words were like adding fuel to the fire.
When she thought about the fate of the three sisters before their rebirth, they were all sold by the Shen family in exchange for a big house.
The Shen family's happy life is achieved by lying on them and sucking their blood.
If Shen Qingyue were a twenty-year-old girl who hadn't experienced anything, she wouldn't be able to do anything to them. But now that she's been reborn, she's not afraid of them. At worst, she'll risk her life to fight them!
Shen Qingyue's eyes suddenly became terrifying.
Liu Yu was a little frightened. But when he looked again, Shen Qingyue was still the same as before, so he just thought that he was angry and his eyes were blurry.
Shen Qingyue said: "I won't marry."
The more Liu Yu struggled, the more the dung fork seemed to have eyes, and he couldn't escape it no matter how hard he tried. He could still vaguely smell the stench coming from it!
Liu Yu was furious: "You think you can get married? Dream on! I'm telling you, your marriage was decided by the old lady. It's for a new house. Your second uncle even picked out the bricks. You have to marry, whether you want to or not."
"Third Aunt, if you have the ability to build a house, then build it. If you don't have the ability, then don't build it. You sell your niece to build a house, and you are not afraid of being criticized by the young and old men in the village." The eldest sister Shen Mei said, she was also very angry.
Liu Yu sneered: "Is it up to you?"
Unfortunately, her vicious smile didn't last for more than a few seconds before she screamed.
Shen Qingyue didn't waste any time talking to her, and the filth on the dung fork stuck to Liu Yu's clothes.
Liu Yu couldn't think of anything else. He glared at Shen Qingyue with hatred, then watched the dung fork thrust towards him again. He let out a loud cry and ran away.
She only had two sets of clothes. This one was her best, and seeing it messed up like this made her feel disgusted and angry.
Tears were falling down. She kept cursing, her clothes!
There was a huge commotion at home. The old lady in the middle room heard it and came out, clutching her waist and cursing, "You're killing me! You're screaming and yelling all day long! Damn, you're a bunch of money-losing bastards, incompetent at everything, and the biggest troublemaker in the house!"
Although Liu Yu was shouting at Shen Qingyue, she felt inferior in front of her mother-in-law and said with a sad face, "Mom. Look at the clothes that Shen Qingyue made for me. How can I wear them? This set of clothes cost more than 20 yuan."
This dress was a reward given to Liu Yu by her husband when she gave birth to a son. Everyone in the village knew about it, and she showed off a lot in the village!
She said she was showing off her clothes, but in fact she was showing off that she had given birth to a son. Now the dung fork had made her clothes dirty, how could she wear them?
This thing is unlike anything else. Even after washing it, I still feel sick.
The old lady took one look and turned her face away in disgust: "Stay away from me. You can't even cure a little girl." She thought Liu Yu was useless.
Liu Yu originally wanted to let the old lady decide and have Shen Qingyue compensate her, but the eldest wife had nothing left to compensate her.
Thinking that she would have to bear the loss herself, she couldn't bear it and said, "Even if I sell her, I can't afford the compensation!"
Then Liu Yu angrily called out to his daughter, "Chen Zhaodi, go wash these clothes."
A thin girl came out of the crowd and took the clothes silently. She was used to doing work like this.
She used to be the one who washed the diapers of her younger brothers and sisters.
She was only one year younger than Shen Qingyue. Shen Zhaodi looked like a bean sprout. Liu Yu became more and more angry and glared at his eldest daughter fiercely.
Third Aunt Liu Yu left. Grandma Xu Xiuzhi came out and glared at Shen Qingyue: "What were you yelling about getting married just now? You're a grown-up girl and you don't even know how to be ashamed?"
Xu Xiuzhi started humiliating the two sisters: "Tonight, wait until everyone in the family is here. Tell me about your story."
Shen Mei said: "Grandma, Yueyue will not marry."
She opened her arms like a hen protecting her chicks. With her parents gone, she, as the eldest, had vowed to take care of her two younger sisters.
But grandma stretched out her hand to hit Shen Mei: "Slap you, you have no right to interrupt when the elders are talking."
Before she could hit anyone, Shen Qingyue clamped her hand.
Shen Qingyue said coldly: "Just talk, don't touch me." Then she shook him off.
Grandma Xu Xiuzhi was an old lady who was used to working. Shen Qingyue didn't know where she got the strength from, but she forced the old lady to take a few steps back and fall to the ground.
Xu Xiuzhi is the one who has the final say in the family. She is extremely patriarchal and looks down on the girls from the eldest wife's house. She always suppresses the three sisters. Over the years, they no longer dare to resist.
Shen Qingyue's resistance actually poked a big hole in the sky.
Xu Xiuzhi cried out, then slapped her thigh while crying, "Ouch, my granddaughter hit me. I can't live anymore..."
Chen Mei, who was standing by, felt her scalp go numb.
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