First, the general background. This is the Xia Kingdom, around 1985. The people's economic living standards are not high, but the most basic problem of food and clothing has been solved.
The original owner was named Mu Xiaoxiao, from Mujia Village. In June last year, she was introduced by a matchmaker to Lin Chuan from the neighboring Xiaolin Village.
The two villages are about three kilometers apart, which is quite close.
After two months of being together, the two young people got along pretty well, and both families agreed. They naturally entered the engagement stage, and then had a wedding banquet during the Chinese New Year. Because Mu Xiaoxiao was not yet twenty years old, the two did not get a marriage certificate. However, in rural areas, it is common to have a wedding banquet first and then get a marriage certificate, so the two were considered to be in a de facto marriage.
After their marriage, despite their share of trivialities, the couple was happily married. Then, something unexpected happened. Three months after their marriage, a week before, Lin Chuan told the original owner he was going on a long trip over the weekend. He didn't specify what he was going to do, and then, without returning, he "died."
He hadn't come back for two days, and the original owner thought he had gone directly to the factory. As a security guard, he sometimes had to work night shifts, and it was common for him to sleep in the dormitory.
The factory just called the team to inquire about the situation and said that Lin Chuan did not go to work.
He was not at the factory, nor had he gone home. Because of Lin Chuan's sudden disappearance, the Lin family fell into chaos and even reported the case to the police, but unfortunately, there was no result.
Then today, just two or three hours before she started, someone came to the Lin family to report a death: Lin Chuan, dead!
Unable to accept the bad news, the original owner became so angry that he fainted.
The current situation is basically like this. Lin Xiaoman started the game during the period when the original owner was unconscious.
This is Xiaolin Village, and the one crying outside is her mother-in-law, Jiang Fengzhen.
In Xiaolin Village, most families have the surname Lin, and they were probably from the same family five hundred years ago.
My father-in-law, Lin Dahai, is a native of Xiaolin Village. Three generations of his ancestors have lived here. It is said that the Lin family had a family tree back then, and he, Lin Dahai, is still recorded as a member of the Lin family in the family tree.
The family tree and other things are long gone now. Anyway, the original owner has never seen it. It’s just that after Lin Dahai has a drink, he will brag about the glory of the Lin family a hundred years ago.
Uh, I’ve strayed off topic. Let’s get back to the point.
Lin Dahai and Jiang Fengzhen have six children together.
Lin Chuan is the eldest son, 6 years older than the original owner. He joined the army when he was a teenager, and after retiring, he joined the security team of a state-owned enterprise.
The security guards in state-owned enterprises of this era are definitely not the same as those in later generations.
Almost all the members of the state-owned enterprise security team are retired soldiers, combat heroes, armed personnel, and have a standard iron rice bowl.
Lin Chuan has a stable job and his salary is definitely high with good benefits in this era, but unfortunately, the burden on his family is too heavy.
Lin Dahai is an authentic old farmer who can only dig for food in the fields. He has no skills and cannot make money. He just grows some food to make ends meet.
When Jiang Fengzhen gave birth to Lin Chuan, she was not pregnant for decades, perhaps due to lack of nutrition or other reasons. But when Lin Chuan was twelve years old, perhaps because her living standards had improved and she had enough to eat and drink, or perhaps because her parents-in-law, who had been a burden to her, passed away one after another and she felt relieved, anyway, the reason was unknown, but Jiang Fengzhen started having children.
First, she gave birth to a daughter, the second one, Lin Yue, who is now 15 years old.
Then Jiang Fengzhen became pregnant again and gave birth to her third child, Lin Xi, who is now 13 years old.
Soon after, Jiang Fengzhen became pregnant again and gave birth to a boy, Lin Shan, the fourth child, who is now 11 years old.
Finally, Jiang Fengzhen gave birth again, and she gave birth to twins, two sons, the fifth one Lin Yang, and the sixth one Lin Xing, who are 7 years old this year.
Probably because she had so many children, although Jiang Fengzhen was less than 40 years old when she gave birth to her fifth and sixth children, her physical condition was probably damaged. She could not do heavy work, and she would suffer from pain, weakness and fatigue from time to time. She needed to eat good food, such as eggs and meat to supplement nutrition and nourish her body.
In this era when families with elderly people do not separate and the eldest child helps to raise younger siblings, with such a family background, Lin Chuan was dragged into an older youth. His salary, which was already stretched to the limit, became even more insufficient after he got married.
After all, getting married and having children would mean even more expenses. With five younger siblings and the need to consider having children of their own, the pressure of life was immense. Therefore, Lin Chuan took the risk and took on private work.
With the reform and opening up, more and more people are traveling around the country to do business, and if there is business, there naturally needs transportation.
But transportation is not that easy.
As the saying goes, poor mountains and bad waters produce unruly people. When people are poor and crazy, they are capable of doing anything. When passing through those desolate roads, there will often be robberies.
Those with a bottom line will just let it go after giving some money, but those who are greedy will directly intercept all the goods. There are even some extremely vicious ones who will kill and dump the bodies just for the goods on the truck!
In the wilderness, the body was thrown on the side of the road. Who would know?
Therefore, just like the escorts in ancient times, the bosses who are engaged in transportation will hire bodyguards to guard the vehicles and protect the goods every time they ship goods.
Veterans with extraordinary skills are definitely the first choice of transportation bosses, and the reward for pressing a truck once is often higher than a month's salary.
It was not until the person who came to announce the death, the transportation boss's younger brother, came to the door, that the Lin family, including the original owner, learned that Lin Chuan had taken private work.
According to the transport boss's younger brother, because the buyer did not receive the goods on time, they went looking for them along the way, and then found two trucks overturned on the side of the road in a sparsely populated section of the road.
The driver was found dead in the driver's seat of a truck. After searching in the woods beside the road, they found the bodies of another driver and a bodyguard who was restraining the truck.
Although Lin Chuan's body was not found, some blood-stained fragments of his clothes were found at the scene.
Maybe it was dragged away by a wild animal.
It's absolutely dangerous.
Because of this bad news, the entire Lin family was shrouded in a dark cloud. Everyone hoped that Lin Chuan was just missing and would come back soon.
However, one month, two months, three months... until the police station determined that Lin Chuan was dead.
As time passed, the last glimmer of hope was shattered, and after the death certificate was issued, Lin Chuan was officially dead.
The original owner, Mu Xiaoxiao, became a widow.
Although Lin Chuan is dead, life must go on, and life requires money!
Because Lin Chuan died as a result of taking private work, the factory did not provide any compensation. Only a few colleagues who had a good relationship with Lin Chuan gave a funeral gift.
As for the transport boss, on the one hand, it was because of informal employment, and on the other hand, this kind of work that was on the edge of life and death required signing a "life and death agreement", so the transport boss did not pay any compensation, but only gave 200 yuan out of humanitarianism.
Having lost their source of income, this little money was totally insufficient, and the Lin family suddenly fell into a difficult situation.
Then, Mu Xiaoxiao, the eldest sister-in-law, gritted her teeth and took on the heavy burden of supporting the family. She worked hard from dawn to dusk, selling wontons at the market, earning money...
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