Chapter 1 A Little Green
October 1968.
Song Chuhong first took a ox cart to the town, then a car, then a train, and finally a bus. After four days and three nights of arduous journey, she finally stood in front of the gate of the tractor factory's brand new family building.
There were several women in their sixties and seventies washing clothes and vegetables and chatting by the well in the yard. When they saw a dusty stranger, someone asked curiously, "Who are you looking for, Nannan?"
Song Chuhong's black and white eyes rolled around them, and she immediately became a humble and obedient young wife: "My name is Chuhong, I'm here to see Zhong Guobing."
"Looking for your son." The aunt who was washing vegetables asked curiously, "Is he your relative who came to attend the wedding?" Several people exchanged glances. They couldn't say they were looking for Zhong Guobing if they came to the wedding. Always feel like something is wrong?
Aunt Zhong, who was plucking duck feathers, was startled and stood up quickly: "Ah? You are Xiaohong?"
She heard from her son that the woman in the countryside was called Hong.
But it’s so far away, how can the country people find their home?
Song Chuhong nodded shyly: "Yes, I am Chuhong."
Aunt Zhong shuddered and put on a forced smile: "Go in and have a rest."
Afraid that she would say something else, he trotted over to her, and as if afraid that she would not cooperate, he forced her to go back to his house.
This is a red brick building that was newly built this year. The exterior walls are made of red bricks and the interior is made of cement. It can be considered a grand building from the late 1960s.
The Zhong family lived on the first floor. There were only two rooms in total, which were divided into four rooms with wooden boards.
Entering the house is a small living room that can barely accommodate a square table and a cupboard.
Aunt Zhong closed the door after entering the house, then she stared at her and asked, unable to hide her panic, "Why are you here? Are you here by yourself?"
"Now that I've finished working in the fields, my parents asked me to come and meet my parents-in-law." Chu Hong couldn't hide her shyness: "I was thinking about Guobing, so I came here specially." Anyway, her true feelings were revealed in her words, and she was afraid that she didn't know how much she loved her husband.
Her eyes turned red again, and she choked up and said, "My father gave me a hundred yuan and some tickets, but I don't know when they were stolen..."
This was of course a lie, she had sneaked out, the letter of introduction was written by her own imitating her father's handwriting, and the money was snatched from her grandmother.
When she thought of the original owner's marital status, she felt that the girl was too desperate. She jumped into the marriage fortress without hesitation at the age of eighteen.
He just got married on May Day last year, and Zhong Guobing is still a live-in son-in-law.
In May of this year, the team had a quota for the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University, and the original owner pestered his parents to give the quota to Zhong Guobing.
As a result, there was no news from Zhong Guobing after she returned to the city, and all the letters she sent fell into the sea. The villagers speculated that she had been abandoned.
Even Song Chuhong herself suspected that she was cheating on her.
But I still had some hope in my heart, so I wanted to find out the truth.
She sneaked out at around three in the morning on the 7th and walked for nearly an hour to get to the town. The weather was both cold and warm, and she didn't know if she was scared or had a fever from catching a cold.
But she kept enduring it and kept on traveling. On the evening of the 9th, she had already fainted from a fever on the train.
When I woke up again, the core had been replaced.
Chu Hong was originally a flower grower of the 21st century. It is said that she was placed at the doorstep of an orphanage when she was a baby. She was taken away by her foster mother when she was seven years old and has never had to worry about food and drink since then.
When she was 27 years old, her adoptive mother passed away, leaving her with 500,000 yuan in savings and a five-room, five-story street-facing shop in the city.
The first floor is rented out to a merchant selling clothing, the second, third and fourth floors are converted into suites for rent, and the fifth floor is where I live myself, with annual rent of over 100,000 yuan.
What's more, she is a psychologist, her job is leisurely and her salary is reasonable. Although she is not married, she has had several romantic relationships. Her life is so carefree.
Who knew that one day when she was driving to the mountain early in the morning for a date and to watch the sunrise, a black cat suddenly jumped out, and she tilted her steering wheel, broke through the guardrail and fell into the abyss...
The original Song Chuhong was a domineering dragon at home, but a timid insect when she went out. She didn't even dare to speak when she felt so uncomfortable.
If it were Chu Hong, she would first grab the train attendant to ask for antipyretic medicine, then shamelessly go to the dining car to drink hot water, and survived with her tenacious vitality.
She took in the information that was pouring in her mind, and after thinking about it, she felt that she still had to go find Zhong Guobing, not to win back the man, but to get a breakup fee.
The original person had never been far away. He borrowed and robbed twelve dollars and eighty cents from his grandmother to go out. The bus ticket was three dollars and fifty cents, the train ticket was four dollars and eighty cents, and the bus ticket and food and drink cost eleven dollars and thirteen cents. If he didn't collect the debt from the Zhong family, he would have no money to go home.
In order to get Zhong Guobing's place in college, he has to give himself some money.
I didn't expect that as soon as I entered the door, I heard that the Zhong family was going to have a wedding.
She was certain in her heart that she was being cheated on.
In particular, Zhong's mother's attitude clearly showed that she did not want the neighbors to know of her existence, which gave her reason to suspect that the groom was Zhong Guobing.
But this is a good thing for her. Isn't this a reason to blackmail her?
Aunt Zhong also secretly cursed in her heart.
She gave birth to three sons. Her eldest son, Zhong Guomin, who is 23 years old this year, took over her job and also worked in the tractor factory, and he happened to learn the craft from his father.
The second son, who turned eighteen two years ago, had to go to the countryside, and the youngest son is only sixteen years old this year and is still in junior high school.
Giving birth to three sons in a row gave her confidence in the Zhong family.
She loves all her sons, but even fingers have different lengths, so she can't help but be more partial to the sensible eldest son and the youngest son who is good at trying to please others.
When I received the letter last year, I learned that my second son, who was weak-willed and had no opinion of his own, was looking for a wife to marry the captain's youngest daughter in the countryside. She despised her son for being useless and marrying a peasant, but after discussing it with her husband, she did not object.
The main reason is that they have no way to get their second son who has gone to the countryside to come back. Even if they have a way, they are reluctant to spend all the family’s savings to buy him a job.
But who could have thought that the second son would have the opportunity to go to college?
What he didn't expect was that the factory director's only daughter, Yao Zhenfang, who was also his classmate at the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University, fell in love with his second son.
It was also because of the private agreement between the two families that Director Yao was willing to help. In August this year, they were assigned to the newly built dormitory building in the factory. His eldest son was transferred from the workshop with heavy production tasks to the sales department with more benefits, and his husband was promoted from an ordinary worker to the deputy director of the workshop.
All of this was given by the Yao family. She didn't dare to imagine how the Yao family would deal with her family if they knew about Song Chuhong's existence.
She had finally gotten all this, and her family was living a peaceful life. She really didn't want to go back to the way things were before.
What’s even worse is that tomorrow is a good day for Zhong Guobing and Yao Zhenfang.
Aunt Zhong made up her mind and wanted to use the methods of a wicked mother-in-law to drive her away first. As long as Yao Zhenfang came into the family, she would be a family member. Even if she knew about the existence of Song Chuhong, she would not let the Zhong family be left with nothing.
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