After talking things out with her parents yesterday, Su Xingran felt completely relaxed and slept soundly last night. When she woke up this morning, she was home alone; her parents had gone to work in the fields. There was breakfast left by her parents in the pot: a boiled egg, a steamed bun, a bowl of rice porridge, and a dish of pickled vegetables. She knew her parents had saved the best for her; it was truly wonderful to have her parents around and to have their love and care.
After breakfast, Su Xingran cleaned the yard and house. Her parents didn't let her work in the fields, so she usually went with the village children to gather pig feed to earn work points. Each time she gathered enough pig feed, she earned two work points. Children from poor families mature early. Although her parents loved her and didn't let her do much work, she would still do some simple chores to help them.
She could do all sorts of things: cleaning, laundry, cooking. At first, her parents didn't approve of her cooking, but during the autumn harvest, when they were busy in the fields all day, she learned to cook and brought the food to them at mealtimes. At first, she wasn't very good at it, but she gradually got used to it, and her parents stopped objecting, only reminding her to be careful with fire.
After finishing her work, Su Xingran sat in the yard basking in the sun. Her head injury hadn't healed yet, and her parents wouldn't let her go out to gather pig feed. Everyone in the village knew the situation and didn't say anything.
Last night, she took a pill from her online space to aid wound healing, and also a pill to strengthen her body. Although the wound on her forehead isn't completely healed yet, it's much better than when it first appeared.
It is now 1972. In five years, the college entrance examination will be reinstated in the winter of 1977. In her previous life, she took the college entrance examination at the age of seventeen. Now she is twelve years old and in the first year of junior high school, which means there are still five years to go.
She recalled the events of the past five years in her previous life. In 1973, something happened: she became engaged to Zhang Weibing. She was thirteen and he was seventeen. The engagement came about when Zhang's parents came to propose marriage. Zhang Weibing was a refined and polite man. Although the Zhang family was also poor, in those days, most families in the countryside were similar, with only a few being better off. His parents thought that the Zhang family had five children, but Zhang Weibing was their only son; the others were sisters. This way, with his parents' support and his four sisters to help each other in case of trouble, they could agree to the marriage proposal. The matchmaker also spoke highly of the Zhang family and Zhang Weibing. His parents, who only had him as their child and hoped for a good future for him, agreed to the Zhang family's proposal.
Recalling this, Su Xingran remembered what she saw and heard after her death, when her soul lingered at her uncle's house. The Zhang family proposed marriage to her family because her father had saved the village chief's youngest son. This past spring, the village chief's youngest son went to the river to fish and accidentally fell in. The weather was still quite cold then, and the icy water made him too weak to move, only able to struggle in the water. Her father, passing by on his way to work, discovered him and rescued him.
At that time, the village chief's family came to my father's house to deliver gifts to express their gratitude, and said that if he needed anything in the future, he could ask them for help. Later, the village chief did indeed take good care of his family. Otherwise, Zhang Weibing would never have been able to get a spot in the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University. It was the village chief repaying my father's kindness by giving Zhang Weibing, who was my father's prospective son-in-law at the time, a spot.
It seems the Zhang family wanted a spot at the Workers, Peasants, and Soldiers University because of this. It's tragic; they were schemed against from within and without by Zhang Weibing, and those two had been together for a long time. What her soul heard was that this scumbag couple—she and the scumbag were engaged, and they started having an affair six months later.
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