Jiang Lai Di didn't know how much time had passed. She seemed to have turned into a newborn baby, unable to speak, and her eyes seemed to be covered with a veil, and she could only see vague things. In order to survive, she drank the milk of a strange woman without resistance, until she could vaguely hear the sounds coming from outside, and her eyes gradually saw colors.
This was an extremely simple and dilapidated house. The four stone walls were painted white, but it was obvious that they were quite old. The white paint had begun to peel off and there were some black stains on them. She was lying on a brick bed that ran from north to south. The bed took up half of the room. There were several quilts stacked on the bed. The quilt covers were the ones with big red flowers that every household had in the 1960s and 1970s. They were festive and gaudy.
Next to the earthen kang was a sturdy wooden cabinet, locked with a brass lock from the outside. No one knew what was inside. Apart from these, there was only a small table left in the room, placed by the window, with a kerosene lamp on it. The paint on the outside had peeled off a little, but the gourd-shaped glass body had been wiped clean. It was obvious that the owner took great care of this thing.
Jiang Lai Di looked at everything in front of her. She had only seen such scenes in China in the 1960s and 1970s. Where on earth had she come to? She really didn't have the courage to go through that difficult and turbulent era again.
"My dear son, what are you thinking about? You're frowning like an old man." A familiar female voice interrupted her thoughts. Jiang Laidie's whole body froze. She would never forget this voice in her life.
"Nonsense, our good son is here to watch, and you, as a mother, just talk nonsense." Miao Sanfeng came in with egg water. When she heard what her daughter-in-law said, she glared at her with dissatisfaction. When she turned to look at the child in her arms, she smiled like a chrysanthemum.
The appearance of Miao Sanfeng completely shattered her only glimmer of hope. She came back to the year when she was just born. Was she going to have to go through the same suffering in her previous life all over again in this one?
"Hey, dear boy, why do you have such a sad face? Are you hungry? Meizi, please eat this egg water. Dear boy, grandma will hug you."
She was held in Miao Sanfeng's arms. She was stunned when she saw the mean and cunning old lady in her memory looking at her affectionately and kissing her on the face several times.
Nowadays, eggs can be sold for eight cents, which is not a small amount of money. Every household has only a few chickens, and all the chickens born have to be sold. When Gu Dongmei gave birth to several girls, she had to boil even a bowl of warm water herself, let alone egg water. She had to go to the fields after giving birth, and the girls were raised by the older ones with many setbacks.
Gu Dongmei looked at the egg water in front of her, her eyes sparkling with tears. She glanced at her son who was held in her mother-in-law's arms, and everything was different.
"Mom, where are you?"
Gu Dongmei was drinking egg water when she heard a clear female voice coming from outside. Then the curtain of the room was lifted, and a woman with shoulder-length hair and bright looks walked in.
When Jiang Lai Di heard the voice, she was shocked. Isn't this her little aunt? In the previous life, she was able to take her niece abroad, and this aunt also played a big role in it. After the eldest sister died, the aunt had a big quarrel with the grandparents and took the remaining sisters to live with them, so that they did not follow in the footsteps of the eldest and second sisters. It can be said that the little aunt changed their lives.
Jiang Laidie looked at the young and beautiful aunt in front of her, her eyes blurred with tears.
"Look at you, your voice is so loud that you scared your nephew to tears." Miao Sanfeng saw that her precious grandson pouted as soon as her daughter came in, and glared at her angrily.
Jiang Dazhen also knew her mother's character and did not argue with her. She put the bags she had brought on the table and reached out to take her little nephew from Miao Sanfeng. Jiang Laidie nestled in her aunt's arms, feeling extremely at ease, and all of a sudden she no longer felt the panic she had when she was just reborn.
"Look, my nephew likes me so much." Jiang Dazhen grinned and showed off to Old Lady Miao, "By the way, I bought some big bones. Mom, go to the kitchen and cook them. They can help increase milk production. My sister-in-law didn't eat anything good when she was pregnant, so she needs to eat some more now."
Miao Sanfeng immediately got up from the kang upon hearing this and looked through the things her daughter had brought. She smiled brightly but still complained, "Why did you buy such a big bone? There's nothing to it. You just want to waste money."
Jiang Dazhen brought a lot of things, including pork bones, some rare fruits, and a can of malted milk.
"Little sister, why did you bring such a valuable thing here?" Gu Dongmei felt embarrassed when she saw the can of malted milk. Malted milk was a high-end product these days. It was hard to keep it hidden, so how could she bear to give it away? Her sister-in-law had been good enough to their family, and she didn't want to take advantage of her sister-in-law anymore.
"What's the big deal? They were all given to my husband and wife by others. There were two cans in total, and I kept one for myself. He's my nephew, and I can never wrong him no matter who else." Jiang Dazhen said nonchalantly, holding the baby in her arms and kissing him several times.
Jiang Lai Di stared at the little aunt in front of him without blinking, and only then did he notice a point that he had just overlooked. It seemed that the three of them had treated him as a boy, but shouldn't he be a girl? Could it be that he had a different personality after being reborn in this life?
Jiang Lai Di closed her eyes and felt something between her legs. She opened her eyes in horror. This was a bolt from the blue. She had been a woman for decades in her previous life. Could it be that she had to change her lifestyle in this life?
Miao Sanfeng nodded with great satisfaction after hearing what her daughter said: "Zhenzi is very clear about this. You should remember to keep some good things for your family in the future. If something really happens, it will be your family who will stand up for you."
Jiang Dazhen turned her head to avoid her mother's sight and rolled her eyes helplessly. She had long been fed up with her parents' preference for boys over girls. She was better than her nieces because she married well and her parents looked up to her. If it weren't for her eldest brother, she really wouldn't be willing to send these things over. Have you seen her send anything to her second brother's house?
"Mom, go and make the bone soup. I'll watch over here." Jiang Dazhen waved her hand. She still had a lot to say to her sister-in-law.
Miao Sanfeng was despised by her daughter, and she muttered as she took the things her daughter had given her and walked out. She still had to think carefully about where to hide the things so that they could not be stolen.
Seeing that everyone had left, Jiang Dazhen simply took off her shoes, climbed onto the kang, sat cross-legged, and held her nephew in her arms while giving earnest instructions to her soft-tempered sister-in-law.
"You've given birth to a son now, so you should toughen up your temper. With the character of the couple in the second family, you still want your child to accompany you and be oppressed by them for the rest of your life. Before you didn't have a son, your parents stood by the couple, but it's different now. You should also think about Dani and the others."
Although Jiang Dazhen respects his elder brother and his wife, he looks down upon their weak attitude. Dani is just a child, but she has to earn work points. Doesn't the family need these things? They are just feeding the second brother's family and raising a bunch of lazy and useless people.
Gu Dongmei knew that her sister-in-law was doing this for her own good. Now that she had a son, she no longer owed the Jiang family anything. If the second brother's family dared to ask for money again in the future, she would have the confidence to fight back.
Jiang Dazhen looked at her sister-in-law deeply, hoping that she could really do it. If the parents could not stand up, the children would have no way to survive.
Jiang Lai Di's eyes lit up while he was deep in thought. He had not met his eldest sister, second sister, third sister and fourth sister yet. Now his eldest sister was still alive and his second sister had not married the fool from the neighboring village. Everything started again. Perhaps the meaning of God's rebirth was to let him stop those things that should not have happened and let his sisters be happy.
Jiang Lai Di felt that he had found the purpose of rebirth. He changed his recent decadence and decided to live a different life in this life.
"Oh, I was wondering why the magpie was chirping today. It turns out that our benefactor has returned to the village." A sharp female voice came through.
Fan Xiaojuan was chatting with someone in the village store when she heard someone gossiping say that her promising sister-in-law was carrying a lot of bags and going to the old house. They were all brothers, so her family must have a share of those things. Fan Xiaojuan couldn't sit still and hurried to the old house.
As soon as she entered the room, her eyes looked around carefully like searchlights, fearing that she might miss something. However, after searching around, she did not find anything rare. When her eyes turned to Jiang Dazhen, her eyes lit up.
"This dress is newly made, isn't it? It's really beautiful. Your brother-in-law is really good to you. Unlike your second brother, he has no skills at all and can only make do with mending to make ends meet."
Jiang Dazhen was wearing the most fashionable Lenin suit for women at the time, with a stylish large lapel and double-breasted buttons. It was cut to slightly outline the waist, making her look fashionable and heroic.
Such an outfit would cost a lot of cloth coupons. In the village, if a woman dared to be so wasteful, she would have been beaten to death by her husband long ago.
Fan Xiaojuan looked at the outfit with envy, wishing she could take it off and put it on herself.
"Second sister-in-law is a rare guest, so how come you don't have anything in your hands? Eldest sister-in-law gave birth to a son, so as her sister-in-law, you should at least bring a basket of eggs." Jiang Dazhen was most annoyed by her petty-minded second sister-in-law. She ignored her words, looked at her empty hands, and said sarcastically.
Fan Xiaojuan was reluctant to send any eggs. She wanted to move out of the old house. It was not a happy event for the eldest wife to give birth to a son. He was as thin as a monkey. It would be better if he died. Then everything in the old house would not be theirs.
She didn't expect that even if she prayed to the Buddha, the first wife would still give birth to this illegitimate child. Whenever she thought about the fact that her in-laws would give her family less subsidies in the future, she even wanted to strangle the child in Jiang Dazhen's arms.
"Haha, sister, you are joking. Your second brother and I can barely make ends meet, how can we produce eggs?" Fan Xiaojuan said with a stiff face, and suddenly patted her head, "Oh, I suddenly remembered that the patriots and the party haven't eaten yet, I have to hurry back to cook."
Seeing that she couldn't get any advantage, Fan Xiaojuan just wanted to leave. However, Jiang Dazhen was not a coward like Gu Dongmei, and she couldn't afford to bully her.
Gu Dongmei and Jiang Dazhen knew her character and did not stop her. Fan Xiaojuan hurriedly ran outside the house and stamped her feet in anger when she saw the yard. She was unwilling to see her sister-in-law bring some good things with her and let them all go to her eldest brother's family.
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