"I'm telling you, it's no use not eating or drinking! You're definitely going to marry into the Wang family!"
Su Man heard this before she even opened her eyes.
When I opened my eyes, I saw gray walls all around me and a hard kang beneath me.
The vintage posters on the wall instantly brought her back to the 1970s and 1980s.
At the same time, the original body's memories also poured into Su Man's brain.
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His original name was Gao Man, he was eighteen years old and was born in the Gao family in Daming Village.
Like most villagers in Daming Village, the Gao family comes from a farming family.
As the first child born in the Gao family's grandchildren, her mother Ma Hongxia was not happy.
After the Gao family found out that Gao Man was a girl, their attitude took a 180-degree turn and they no longer cared for Ma Hongxia as they had when she was pregnant.
Ma Hongxia was desperate and tried all kinds of treatments. She listened to the nonsense of a witch and blamed everything on Gao Man, blaming her for blocking her son.
For the sake of her missing brother, Gao Man had to drink incense ash water from time to time and cooperate with the fortune-teller to perform shaman rituals, which was very annoying.
This situation continued until she was three years old, when Ma Hongxia became pregnant with her second child, Gao Shengli.
At first, Gaoman was happy that her mother finally stopped tormenting her, but the little girl didn't know that this was the beginning of another nightmare for her.
Ever since Gao Shengli was born, she had to eat Gao Shengli's leftovers, and her new clothes and toys were always Gao Shengli's. Even when Gao Shengli hit her, she couldn't fight back.
Ma Hongxia gave all her love to Gao Shengli. All she had was the straw doll and the words that everyone would say to her: You are the older sister, you have to take care of your younger brother.
Over time, even Goldman himself thought so.
Her only happiness was seeing the village secretary's son, Zhao Baili, when she passed by the village secretary's house while fetching water.
He was the only person in their village who had attended high school, unlike those of them who worked on the farm.
Zhao Baili dressed himself neatly every day, wearing a blue or gray Mao suit, making him look like a star from a magazine.
I heard that he is studying on his own for the college entrance exam and carries a book with him wherever he goes.
Gao Man would be happy for a long time every time she saw him, but she didn't dare to go up to him and say hello.
Such an educated person would not like her who didn't even finish elementary school.
One day, Gao Man was washing clothes by the river. One of her coats was washed downstream by the current. She anxiously went to look for it and happened to see Zhao Baili holding the wet clothes.
The two looked at each other, one blushed and the other smiled.
The feelings of a young man are like the bright sunshine in summer, which can spread all over the earth in an instant.
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Zhao Baili taught Gao Man how to read and told her interesting stories that happened at school.
Gao Man listened carefully, as those were things she had never seen before while trapped in Daming Village.
The village was so small that rumors soon began to spread.
A gossipy woman, jealous of Gao Man's relationship with Zhao Baili, spread rumors that Gao Man seduced Zhao Baili and even caught the two of them having a secret meeting in a cornfield.
In that era, a girl’s reputation was more important than anything else.
In an instant, Gao Man went from being a village beauty to a slut in everyone's eyes.
This made Ma Hongxia very anxious. She was still counting on Gao Man's betrothal gift so that she could build a house for Gao Shengli and marry him off. If Gao Man couldn't get married because of this incident, what would Gao Shengli do?
So after the incident, Ma Hongxia cursed Gao Man every day, saying that he was a money-loser and had eaten her food for free for so many years but had not received any return.
Gao Man did not make any excuses for this, but just cried all day long.
Ever since her affair with Zhao Baili became known to everyone, Zhao Baili was sent by his father to live with his uncle in town.
She was left alone, being gossiped about in the village.
At first, Gao Man would occasionally receive letters from Zhao Baili, asking her to wait for him and that he would come back to pick her up after he was admitted to university.
Unexpectedly, Zhao Baili didn't wait for the girl, but waited for the matchmaker who was arranging a marriage for the Wang family.
The reason why the Wang family came to propose marriage despite the rumors was because Wang Fengye, the third son of the Wang family who was going to marry Gao Man, was a fool.
The girls in the village didn't want to marry a fool, so the Wang family decided to marry Gao Man.
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Gao Man wanted to wait for Zhao Baili and refused to marry, and she refused to eat or drink for several days.
But her little arms couldn't bend her thighs, so she was sent to the Wang family.
In order to preserve her chastity, Gao Man made a big fuss in the Wang family, acting like a mad woman.
The Wang family was not wealthy. In order to marry Gao Man, they spent 600 yuan on the betrothal gift alone, which was not a small amount of money at the time and was almost all of the Wang family's assets.
Gao Man's mother-in-law was an honest person. Seeing that Gao Man was really unwilling, she did not force her and only asked her to be a playmate for her "husband" Wang Fengye.
Gao Man couldn't bear to make trouble anymore after seeing such preferential treatment.
She wanted to live a good life, but at this moment, she received a letter from Zhao Baili.
The letter said that he had a job and had moved out of his uncle's house, and asked Gao Man to come to the town to find him.
Gao Man was ecstatic. She secretly packed her bags and planned to escape from Wang's house.
As luck would have it, Wang Fengye happened to see it.
Perhaps he thought Goldman was playing hide-and-seek with him, so he didn't tell anyone and just made a "hush" gesture.
Although Gao Man felt guilty, she left cruelly when she thought of Zhao Baili waiting for her.
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When they arrived in the town, Gao Man got what she wished and was with Zhao Baili. They lived like a married couple, which made Gao Man happy every day as if she was dreaming.
The only thing was that when someone came to visit, Zhao Baili always told them that she was his cousin and had come to the town to live with him.
Zhao Baili's explanation for this was that he was afraid that the news would get out and his father would find out. Gao Man had little experience and didn't notice anything unusual.
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