Su Yan got down to work and used two weekends to finally make the wedding dress, cheongsam, and the suit and white shirt that Lu Ting was going to wear. She then waited for the summer vacation to take wedding photos.
Somehow, her birthday was clearly the eighth day of the seventh lunar month, but the date of birth on her household registration was July 8th of the solar calendar. She and Lu Ting registered their marriage on July 18th, 1972, just as the original owner had finished the college entrance examination.
Maybe people in that era didn't distinguish between the lunar and solar calendars when registering, so they just wrote everything randomly. Now that I think about it, the original owner seemed to have gotten married before she was eighteen years old.
Speaking of marriage, Su Yan suddenly remembered that Zhu Ting and Lu Jin were the same age, and Zhu Ting was actually eight months older than the original owner. Thanks to Lu Ting, being called "sister-in-law" by a woman older than her was a wonderful feeling.
After Lu Jin and Zhu Ting got married, they stayed at the Lu family's house for two nights. Lu Fengnian then borrowed a large Liberation truck from someone and helped them move all their belongings to the courtyard.
Lu Jin rarely returned to the military compound on weekends. He usually stayed in the courtyard with Zhu Ting. Sometimes Lu Chen and Lu Yu would take time to come back to get rations.
Because Lu Jin didn't have a job, Lu Fengnian gave all the wedding gifts he received to Lu Jin.
Su Yan remembered that her father-in-law explained it this way: a grown man would never ask his wife for money to live, so the 287.5 yuan gift money should be regarded as a partnership fee for Lu Jin and Zhu Ting.
My goodness, they even have to pay rent when they move out, but they have nothing.
On the surface, the parents-in-law are kind to the couple, but in reality, it is Lu Jin and Zhu Ting who benefit.
Situations like this are very common in later generations. Children with ability try their best to subsidize their parents, and parents use the money from their filial sons and daughters to support their less capable children.
In front of outsiders, parents often talk about capable children, praising them for this and that, while the incompetent children are scolded every day at home, and they rely on their parents while being scolded.
Su Yan does not plan to continue helping her in-laws. She will not give out what she deserves or what she shouldn't. She will let her parents-in-law do their own things while they are still capable.
Su Yan privately heard from her mother-in-law that Zhu Ting didn't have much money. Of the 400 yuan gift money from the Lu family, 200 yuan was used to buy wedding supplies, and the remaining 200 yuan was left for her as a dowry.
Zhu Ting's eldest brother and sister-in-law bought her a pair of buckets and gave her fifty yuan as a dowry. Her second sister, who was married, gave her twenty yuan, but her third brother wasn't married yet, so where did he get the money?
The money given by her aunts and uncles was only a few dollars each, which was not much in total. Her parents held a homecoming banquet for her and prepared a dowry, so they didn't give any extra money.
Wow, it seems that Principal Zhu’s family’s financial situation is not that good. After all, how much money can Principal Zhu save just by his salary?
No wonder the Gu family gave fifty yuan as a gift. Zhu Ting was so happy when she landed that she smiled brightly.
Adding the one hundred yuan gift money from her and Lu Ting, the couple should have about seven hundred yuan in savings.
The couple didn't have jobs, so they easily saved about 700 yuan to get married. As long as they lived frugally, it shouldn't be difficult for them to make it through graduation. Besides, their school also provided an 8 yuan scholarship every month.
Su Yan didn't have time to care about the young couple because she was busy writing her manuscript recently.
Ever since she heard that her elder brother was making dozens of yuan by translating a 100,000-word book for Xinhua Bookstore, she thought she could also make some extra money.
Of course, since the original owner was a poor student, she would definitely not steal her elder brother's job as a translator. She submitted her novel manuscript to two newspapers respectively.
The first family story is about a rural family with six daughters and two sons.
Because the parents favored boys over girls, they sold their eldest daughter to a cripple in exchange for a dowry for their second son.
The daughter-in-law thought the betrothal money was not enough, so she sold the third daughter to an old widower. The fourth daughter was afraid that she would be sold as well, so she ran away. However, she was deceived by human traffickers and taken to the mountains.
The elder sister is fifty years old and the younger sister is six or eight years old. The two sisters have to go to the fields to help their parents with work at a young age, while the younger sister is seven or six years old and stays at home to take care of her three-year-old brother.
Because they were not watching the younger brother, he fell into the water tank and drowned. The parents were so angry that they came back and threw the sixth child into the water tank. The ten-year-old fifth child happened to see him and rescued him. As a result, the fifth child was beaten every day from then on. He was so angry that he hugged his younger sister and jumped into the pond.
The eldest daughter, who married a lame man, gave birth to three daughters of her own, but was despised by her in-laws and abused by her husband. The third daughter, who married a widower, came from a poor family. The widower liked to grope her whenever he drank, whether she was pregnant or menstruating. In the end, the third daughter contracted postpartum illness and died before the age of 20...
In short, this story is a tragedy. None of the daughters in the family in the story had a good ending.
This story received a warm response, but also caused a lot of controversy. Su Yan received many letters from readers, many of whom wrote to share their similar experiences.
Some people also wrote to criticize the parents in the story, and some accused the author of having bad intentions and writing an autobiography. They said she was the only one who benefited from the story, the selfish second son.
Because her pen name was Yun Zhongjun, others thought she was a male author. In short, Su Yan was at a loss whether to laugh or cry, but for the sake of the royalties, she finally endured it and did not reply or argue.
After this story became popular, Su Yan remembered the story of the real and fake daughters, so she wrote another story about the real and fake daughters who exchanged lives in the Republic of China.
The fake daughter of a warlord family was sent abroad to study when she was a teenager. The real daughter was sold by her vampire adoptive parents in the countryside to a sixty-year-old man as a concubine in exchange for a dowry for his biological son. However, the old man died on the day of the marriage.
The fake daughter was sold to a brothel by the old man's son. When she was escaping, she met her own brother and was picked up by him and taken home...
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