Chapter 2 It's Mine

After Lu Jingchen walked away in shock, Xia Qingling collected her thoughts and gathered her clothes. The clothes were very long and wide, wrapping her slender body completely. She stood up and thanked everyone:

"Thank you all for today."

"It's okay, it's okay, go back quickly." The kind-hearted aunt continued:

"Be careful when you walk in the future, don't fall into the river again."

Xia Qingling nodded and thanked everyone again. Seeing that she was fine, the crowd dispersed.

Xia Qingling followed the memory of her original body and walked towards "home".

She looked a little solemn. In this world, she was a junior student majoring in fashion design. Her parents were successful in business and had a rich family background. She was the only daughter in the family and was spoiled since she was a child. She was definitely a rich and beautiful girl.

Suddenly, she traveled from the materially rich world to the 1970s when people were short of food and clothing. Anyone would feel a little depressed.

However, she was always optimistic and soon figured it out. Since she was already here and couldn't go back for the time being, she would use this body to live well in this world. Maybe this was just a dream, and she would go back one day.

After figuring this out, Xia Qingxi began to sort out the background of the story in the book:

Lu Baichuan, an intellectual who returned from studying abroad in the book, was the father of the male protagonist Lu Jingzhen. During the movement of that year, he was sent to the countryside for reform because of inappropriate speech. His wife at the time, Wang Mingfang, was afraid of being implicated. After hearing the news, she immediately divorced him. In order to show her determination to draw a clear line with him, she did not even take her one-year-old son Lu Lidong with her.

Lu Baichuan, who returned to his hometown for reform with his child, met the beautiful Su Hui. The two had similar interests and fell in love, so they got married and soon gave birth to the male protagonist Lu Jingzhen.

The original body's father was the village chief of the village where Lu Baichuan was sent down. He helped the Lu family in distress and later saved Lu Lidong from drowning.

A few years later, Lu Baichuan took off his hat, resumed his work, and returned to the city with his wife and children. Before leaving, in order to repay the Xia family, he arranged a marriage between Lu Lidong and the original body.

After returning to the city, Su Hui gave birth to another daughter, but because of overwork, her health was too bad and she died a few years later.

Lu Baichuan brought the original body to the city when she was about to turn 16, hoping that he and Lu Lidong would cultivate their relationship first and get married when they were old enough.

The original body, who had just come from the countryside, was ugly and stupid. Lu Lidong, who worked in a state-owned hotel, naturally looked down on her, not to mention that he had already secretly dated someone at the time.

He didn't want to marry her, but he didn't want to take the initiative to cancel the engagement and be labeled as ungrateful, so his mother Wang Mingfang came up with an idea. She asked Lu Lidong to get Lu Jingzhen drunk when he came home to visit his relatives, and designed that the original body and him slept together.

The next day, Lu Jingzhen woke up from a hangover and found the original body lying next to him. Naturally, he thought that she took advantage of his drunkenness to climb into bed. The original body was tongue-tied and didn't know how to explain, so she just cried hard.

Things developed like this. Although Lu Jingzhen was very angry, he could only agree to marry the original body.

Afterwards, Lu Jingzhen returned to the army soon. When the original body turned 18, he applied to the army and got a marriage certificate with the original body.

After sorting out all this, looking at the current situation, the college entrance examination has not been resumed yet, she cannot take the college entrance examination, and she has to stay in the factory to work. The leader is plotting against her, so she has to do business and now severely crack down on speculation.

If she divorces Lu Jingzhen now, she can only go back to the original body's hometown in the countryside.

The situation in the original body's hometown is even worse, with a deceased father, a weak mother, a lame brother, and a young brother.

This weak body, when it comes to the countryside, can't carry anything on the shoulders or hands, and if it lives on work points, it is estimated that it will soon starve to death.

After thinking about it, it seems that the only way out is to cling to the male protagonist Lu Jingqie. After all, he is already a regiment commander at a young age. He is capable, and his uncle, who is the commander of the military region, can promote him. He will definitely have a bright future.

If he can follow him to join the army, he will find a civilian job in the army, and then take the college entrance examination next year. After the reform and opening up, he will make some money, and his life will definitely not be difficult in the future.

After making a plan, Xia Qingqing felt at ease and continued to walk forward. Soon she was almost home.

All the way back, she was met with inquiring and scrutinizing eyes. In this era, it was indeed a bit surprising for a girl like her to walk on the street wearing men's clothes.

However, Xia Qingxi did not care too much. She had already put on the clothes, so she might as well be open and honest instead of being timid. She could let people look at them if they wanted to. She could not blind others' eyes anyway.

After passing an alley, she entered the compound where her original body lived. It was almost dinner time. Everyone was busy cooking and no one paid attention to Xia Qingxi. Just as she was about to go home, a woman's voice suddenly sounded by the sink:

"Hey, what are you wearing, the second daughter-in-law of the Lu family?" The woman said, looking up and down at Xia Qingxi, and said with a smile:

"Your dress is quite trendy."

Xia Qingxi looked to the side and saw a woman in her forties standing by the faucet, washing vegetables and looking at her with a smile.

The woman's name was Zhao Cuilan. She worked as a shopping guide in a department store. Her husband also worked in a state-owned factory. They had a son and a daughter and lived a good life.

She had a loud voice and soon attracted the attention of people around her. Everyone focused their eyes on Xia Qingli.

This was exactly what Zhao Cuilan wanted. Seeing everyone looking at her, she continued,

"Oh, it's men's clothes. The style is nice. I haven't seen it in a department store. Where did you buy it?"

Zhao Cuilan was a snobbish person who looked down on rustic country people. In this compound, the original body was the only one who came from the country, so she often ridiculed her.

But after this country girl came to the city, she became more and more beautiful. Last year, she even got a job in a state-owned textile factory. Her husband used so many connections but still couldn't get her in. So the more he looked at her, the more

he disliked her. The more he looked at her, the more he felt that she had used some improper means to get into the factory. And the original body was a timid and cowardly person, so it was common for Zhao Cuilan to bully her.

Xia Qingli glanced at Zhao Cuilan who had bad intentions and ignored her. The clothes inside were cold and damp, and they stuck to her body and she was very uncomfortable. Now she just wanted to go back to her room quickly to change and then take a comfortable bath.

"Hey, hey, hey, don't go." Seeing that she was about to leave, Zhao Cuilan hurriedly picked up the washed vegetables and blocked her way. Then she said in surprise as if she had discovered a new continent:

"Oh, why is your hair wet..." After that, she suddenly laughed and said meaningfully:

"Haha... you are not going to play in the water with someone, are you?"

Her shouts attracted everyone in the house out.

"His aunt Zhao doesn't like to talk nonsense. The Lu family are all decent people. They won't do anything shameful." Aunt Wu, who lives near the gate, said while changing the coal briquettes in the stove.

"It's true that the other people in the Lu family are decent, but she..." Zhao Cuilan didn't say anything else. She just laughed and snorted mockingly from her nose.

Facing Zhao Cuilan's rude words, Xia Qingqing's face gradually turned cold. She looked over and asked:

"What's wrong with me?"

Zhao Cuilan was stunned for a moment when she met her eyes. This girl used to be timid and never dared to look at her like this. Why did she suddenly become a different person today?

Zhao Cuilan was a little surprised, but she didn't hold back. She sneered and asked back:

"What's wrong? Haha, what decent daughter-in-law would wear men's clothes and walk around the street?"

"Okay, Zhao Cuilan, stop talking. Didn't you see that she was wet? What's wrong with borrowing a gay man's clothes? It's not illegal, why do you care so much?" The person who spoke was Li Qiulian, the director of the women's department who lived in the same courtyard.

Xia Qingli was a little surprised that she would speak for herself, because Li Qiulian and Lu Jingzhe's mother were handkerchief friends, and she always disliked her behavior of climbing Lu Jingzhe's bed, and she didn't pay much attention to her in these years.

"Director Li is saying that her Aunt Zhao should stop talking and let Qing Ning go back and change clothes first. She will catch a cold soon." Aunt Wu also helped.

"She dared to walk down the street wearing men's clothes in broad daylight, and she didn't let anyone talk about it." Zhao Cuilan felt that she had been humiliated by everyone, and felt very unhappy, so she began to say indiscriminately: "What gay, I think she is the wild man outside!"

Although Xia Qingning has a gentle personality, she is not cowardly. Seeing Zhao Cuilan slandering herself casually, she asked without showing any weakness:

"Wild man? Did you see him with your own eyes or catch him? You need evidence for everything. You are making up rumors without any evidence to destroy someone's innocence. Aren't you afraid that I will sue you?"

Zhao Cuilan was just being quick-witted. What evidence did she have? She was used to bullying the original body. The original body never resisted, so she spoke without scruples. Now that Xia Qingxi suddenly scolded her, she was speechless for a while.

The situation suddenly turned around. Everyone was surprised to see that the usually cowardly Xia Qingxi suddenly stood up. Li Qiulian looked at her with a rare look of praise.

Zhao Cuilan had never been insulted by her original body before, so she could not stand this insult. She immediately cursed:

"Hmph, you shameless girl, you came to the city and ate two days of dry food, and you can't find your way, right? You want evidence, right? The clothes on you are the evidence!"

At this point, she seemed to have grasped the key point, and sarcastically said: "The clothes on you are not from a wild man, but from your man. Ha, everyone knows that your man has not been back for more than four years, where can you get clothes to wear?"

Xia Qingqing was about to speak up to refute, but suddenly caught a glimpse of a military green figure standing behind the crowd, and he didn't know how long he had been standing there.

Everyone's attention was on her and Zhao Cuilan, and no one noticed him.

Xia Qingxi suddenly had an idea in her mind. Since she decided to cling to him, she had to arouse his desire to protect her first, so she kept silent and did not explain.

Seeing that she did not reply, Zhao Cuilan became even more excited and said arrogantly:

"Hey, why don't you say anything? Where did your confidence just now go?"

As she spoke, she raised her hand and fiddled with Xia Qingxi's clothes without any hesitation. She looked at the fabric inside and out, with a gloomy face:

"Such a nice dress, don't say you picked it up on the street."

After hearing what Zhao Cuilan said, everyone looked at Xia Qingxi, only to see her lowering her head, pursing her lips, with a face full of grievance, but she did not explain a word.

Seeing her like this, Li Qiulian, who had just had a change of heart towards her, felt a little disappointed and looked at her and asked:

"Whose clothes are they? Why don't you tell me? Don't keep silent and be wrongly accused of rumors for no reason."

"That's right, second daughter-in-law of the Lu family, where did these clothes come from?" Aunt Wu also asked, standing aside.

Zhao Cuilan glanced at Xia Qingxi, who was as submissive as before, and smiled with a smug look on her face:

"Yes, tell me, don't let people think I'm wrongly accusing you. Whose dress is this? What's her name? There must be an owner."

Xia Qingxi, who was surrounded by everyone and kept questioning, looked helpless and aggrieved. Just when she was about to give up, a cold and serious voice came over:

"It's mine."