After Su Jinshu and Su Yaqin left, Su Jinyan smiled and pulled Chen Meijun into her room to talk.
"Meijun, is my elder brother okay? Let me tell you, my elder brother is really pitiful."
"He has been a legend in the compound since he was young. He seemed to be the one that all the other kids looked up to and the child of other families in the eyes of all the parents. When he grew up, many families wanted to marry their daughters to my eldest brother. But such a good man was spoiled by someone.
Two years ago, when my eldest brother was returning to the army, he passed by a village and heard that someone had fallen into the water. He was a soldier, so he jumped into the water to save the person without hesitation.
Seeing that the other person was a woman, he just grabbed the collar and dragged her ashore. Who would have thought that this was a setup? The woman cried bitterly, saying that her innocence was gone and she insisted that my eldest brother be responsible, otherwise she would have to die.
Finally, my eldest brother had no choice but to agree to get married."
"My eldest brother is a very responsible person. He was unwilling to do so, but since he was married, he was definitely willing to take responsibility. He never expected that something would happen on the wedding night."
"My eldest brother was drugged, and when he woke up, he found himself and my eldest cousin's wife lying naked on the same kang. Within two months, my eldest cousin's wife said that she was pregnant—"
"Oh, I feel so sorry for my elder brother. He is such an outstanding person——"
She learned all this from Su Chengguo after returning to Beijing.
Chen Meijun felt so distressed when she heard this that she even wanted to cry.
"Excellent people always have such a rough life——"
After a long while, she said hoarsely, "I thought I had suffered enough, but I didn't expect your elder brother to be even more -"
Su Jinyan secretly raised his eyebrows, she was indeed a beauty with a story.
She didn't urge her and waited for Chen Meijun to speak herself.
Chen Meijun calmed down for a while, and then she said slowly while she was lost in thought: "I have always felt that I was very happy since I was a child. My parents loved me, my brothers and sisters loved me, I looked good, I had excellent grades, and I was often praised by other people's parents. But two years ago, something ridiculous happened."
Su Jinyan raised an eyebrow and looked inquiringly.
Chen Meijun sighed, as if she had not yet come to terms with the incident. She said in a depressed voice, "Suddenly a woman from the countryside came and said that I was her daughter. She and my mother were not her daughter. She and my adoptive mother were waiting to give birth in the same hospital and ward. Her husband saw that my adoptive parents had good living conditions, so he wanted to switch them. He wanted his daughter to be the eldest daughter and live a good life. I don't know how the man managed it, but he actually succeeded in the switch."
She still couldn't call that man "Dad".
"Twenty years later, the man got a terminal illness and didn't have much time left. He wanted to see me, and he didn't want his wife to be ignorant of the truth, so he told me what happened.
However, Huo Lihua overheard their conversation and started to quarrel on the spot."
The Chen family only lives in the county town and has two workers in the family, but the whole family depends on these two people. The situation can be imagined. Compared with the Huo family, they are far behind?
"Huo family?!" Su Jinyan exclaimed. Is this the Huo family she knew?
Chen Meijun smiled bitterly and nodded, "Yes, my adoptive father was the county magistrate in that county at that time.
After the incident, my adoptive parents didn't blame me, but there is always joint liability, right?
The mentality has changed.
They said that if I didn't want to go back to the Chen family, I didn't have to go back and could continue to stay in the Huo family. I was very happy and touched at the time, thinking that my parents, brothers and sisters still loved me very much.
For a long time afterwards, Huo Lihua took out her anger on me, making things difficult for me and suing my adoptive parents, accusing me of bullying and looking down on her. Even though the Huo family knew that I didn't do that, they still used cold violence against me. Once, my adoptive mother even made me stand in the snow for most of the night.
I knew that they knew the suffering their own daughter had endured in the Chen family, and they took their anger out on me.
I was already working as an accountant in a textile factory at the time. I couldn't stand Huo Lihua's slander and instigation, the indifference of my adoptive parents, and my brothers and sisters becoming someone else's real brothers and sisters. I also knew that my parents who doted on me would never come back, so I applied for a dormitory and quickly packed my luggage and moved out of the Huo family. "
"Fortunately, the Huo family did not take back the job they found for me, so I can support myself."
"I was disgusted with the Chen family at first, and I thought that the people who came up with the idea of swapping my daughters must not be good people. I hated them very much, but when I saw my biological mother coming to my house and hugging me and crying, I didn't know why I started crying."
"After learning more about it, I found out that the old lady of the Chen family was very fond of boys over girls. At that time, the whole family was crowded in one yard, relying on only two workers to survive. They were very poor. Whenever a girl was born, the old lady Chen would either drown her or give her away."
"My biological mother gave birth to a girl before I was born. She saw with her own eyes that her daughter was taken away but was powerless to do anything. My biological father was afraid that I would be abandoned too, so he decided to replace her."
"But the girl she replaced was the county magistrate's daughter after all, and he was afraid of her and didn't want anything to happen to her, so he let my biological mother take Huo Lihua to live in her parents' home for nearly a year."
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