Chapter 9: Seventy Years: Brother and Sister Are Stepping Stones 2



Of course, if you want to live a comfortable life, forget it. Working hard all day and earning enough work points doesn't necessarily mean you will live a comfortable life.

There's no way. Heavy work might tire people to death, and light work might starve people to death.

It's difficult in the village too. We're all a big collective. What can we do?

In short, none of the villagers looked down on Tian Xiaoxiao, and the educated youth in the educated youth center also looked down on her. They had never seen such a stupid person.

You said you can't do heavy work and can't help out at home, so just make up your mind and get married.

So many batches of educated youth came here one after another, and regardless of gender, there were always a few who married the peasants in the village, and no one said they had to live a chaotic life.

It doesn't matter who you are, you are not the same person. Not everyone is lucky enough to be sent back to the city by their family, and not everyone has the opportunity to get a place to return to the city on their own.

It’s difficult, too difficult.

If it were so easy to return to the city, there would be more and more educated youth going to the countryside.

Tian Xiaoxiao was dragging her feet and didn't want to get married. When she went to the countryside, her mother repeatedly warned her not to get married privately in the countryside, saying that it would ruin her life.

Tian Xiaoxiao believed it. Since her mother cared so much about her, she had to save enough food from her teeth to send back home.

Unfortunately, what she didn't know was that her mother was not worried that she would have a hard time after marrying a country man, but that the country was too far away from them. Not only would the round-trip bus fare cost her half a month's salary, she wouldn't be able to attend her daughter's wedding, and naturally wouldn't get any betrothal money.

This is a losing deal, not worth it.

If someone in the family didn't have to go to the countryside, her mother would have found a new partner for Tian Xiaoxiao as soon as she graduated from junior high school.

Do you think Zhang's mother would agree to have a child from such an other family?

Her father-in-law is the former village chief. She has been the village chief's daughter-in-law for many years. She has seen a lot of good things and met capable people. She can look down on Tian Xiaoxiao!

He looked down on her family and she herself.

Zhang's mother looked at her older son, who had become darker, and wondered if he couldn't find a female mosquito in the army? So when he returned to the village, he would hug every woman he saw?

Otherwise, who would be interested in Tian Xiaoxiao? She is as thin as a bamboo pole and has no auspicious face. I wonder if she can give birth to a son or lay golden eggs.

It was simply dark and I was blind.

It’s all my fault. I was brainwashed by my father-in-law.

Otherwise, with the Zhang family's connections, they would have been able to borrow an ox cart from the village and go to the town to pick up their son, and they wouldn't have to walk at night.

You have to be poor to be so picky about not taking advantage of public resources.

Look, don’t miss out on such a good deal. Now I’ve got something like this at home.

Thinking about the young ladies that he had asked matchmakers to look for in the past half month, there were at least eight, if not ten, and none of them was not better than Tian Xiaoxiao.

I'm vomiting to death.

Zhang Changsheng didn't care who her brother liked. She was married off anyway and didn't stay at home.

Even if we really found some educated youth, we would have to approve a new foundation and build a house.

It's impossible for her to live with the whole family.

It's so annoying to have several generations living together.

"How can I not marry him? Mom has shown you several good girls, with big faces, round butts, pretty girls, and blessed girls. You can pick one." Zhang's mother said. As for whether the girl likes her eldest son, it's a two-way choice. Her son is doing well in the army, and his mother has been saving his allowance and will hand it directly to her daughter-in-law when the time comes. Who can be dissatisfied with her as a mother-in-law?

In May Day Village, it can be said to be the first one.

"No, her clothes were a little torn, and I saw it." Zhang Haoze was embarrassed and lowered his head.

"What?" Zhang's mother was extremely angry, and Zhang's father knocked the pipe in his hand against the stone slab.

"Then we can't marry her even more. That scoundrel must have succeeded. We can't marry a girl like her." Mother Zhang thought quickly. Since she said she had met a scoundrel, it was certain that the clothes were not torn by her own child.

Her child was just being brave and saving someone.

It's not good to be dishonest. If you do this, the atmosphere will be good in the future and no one will dare to save people casually.

This rationality is not afraid of traveling around the world and is not afraid of what others say.

She is not afraid that her son will not marry Tian Xiaoxiao!

"Mom, don't say such harsh words. I got there in time. That scoundrel just tore my clothes. He didn't have time to do anything else." After subduing the scoundrel, he originally wanted to go directly to the village to call the police. What's the point of keeping such a troublemaker? Naturally, he would be sent to a reformatory to be shot.

But Tian Xiaoxiao begged Zhang Haoze, saying that she, as a woman, had to live in May Day Village and she didn't know when she would be able to return to the city. No matter whether the scoundrel succeeded or not, if the incident became public, her reputation would surely be ruined.

Her life was already difficult, and if her reputation became even worse, she would have no way to survive.

Zhang Haoze is a soldier. He was well taught by his grandfather since he was a child and has always had a strong sense of justice.

I thought that I came home just to get married, so it doesn't matter who I marry.

Well, it was dark, and she looked okay, so I spit and agreed, and married her.

After I said that out loud and got refuted by my mother when I got home, I felt a little regretful.

I am still too young and too impatient, but I have already said it and I can't go back on my word.

The Zhang family doesn't do things like breaking off an engagement.

If the educated youth can't figure it out, that's a life. How many people can live with a life on their shoulders?

Grandpa Zhang was inside the house listening to what several people were saying in the main room, and he greeted his son and grandson.

"Marry." Grandpa Zhang was also a soldier, and he had a very particular air about him.

You can't ruin the girl's reputation, right? Besides, she's not innocent. She's an educated youth from the city, more educated than the average girl from the countryside, and she has something to say to your grandson.

As for what you said about Tian Xiaoxiao being unable to do heavy work?

Whoever marries a daughter-in-law is going to leave the family to work in the fields. It is not customary for their family to torture their daughter-in-law.

The heavy work is done by men. Women are not like some families in the village who work harder than men.

So in the old man's opinion, Tian Xiaoxiao's problem is not a big deal.

In his previous life, Zhang Haoze married Tian Xiaoxiao in a confused manner and left his wife at home after the holiday. He did not bring his wife with him to join the army right after they got married.

You have to stay at home to get familiar with your family and serve your parents-in-law. When you have a child, your parents-in-law will help you. It will be great when you raise the child to a certain age and then join the army.

Tian Xiaoxiao is not the daughter-in-law that Zhang's mother has in mind. In Tian Xiaoxiao's eyes, all her behaviors are that of a typical evil mother-in-law.

She couldn't join the army because Zhang's mother deliberately kept her daughter-in-law behind to torture her.

The husband's allowance is in the hands of the mother-in-law, who also wants to control her as a daughter-in-law.

Even though he knew she was not cut out for work, he still ordered her to do this and that every day.

She only dared to secretly hate Zhang's mother, and was extremely annoying to her sister-in-law Zhang Changsheng, who was a teacher in the village.

My sister-in-law only studied in high school in the countryside for one year. What ability does she have to surpass these knowledgeable educated youth and become a teacher?

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