"Is that a bride price? That's money to buy your life! What respectable family would marry their daughter to that brat Shen Heng!"
Shen Heng's mother died when he was two years old, and his grandparents passed away when he was three.
Three members of the family died in two years, and the whole village was saying that Shen Heng was a jinx who brought misfortune to his family.
Later, a famine struck, and Shen Heng's biological father starved to death. As a child, he was driven out of the house by his stepmother, but no one blamed her. It only confirmed his reputation as someone who brought misfortune to his family.
Who wouldn't want to stay far away from Shen Heng's fate?
"Tch, wasn't she already planning to die? She's got such high aspirations, trying to seduce some educated youth from the city."
"If you ask me, it's all fate. After living a good life in the city for ten or twenty years, they really think they're some kind of city princess. But aren't they still just like us, old farmers toiling in the fields?"
Someone chimed in, "I think they're a perfect match. One has a bad life, and the other is a bad element who drags the collective down. We probably can't find two people like them in our entire commune."
Bai Jiaojiao's transition from the city to the countryside was challenging, not only in terms of mindset but also in adapting to the intense labor in the village. In the two years she's been there, the total amount of work she's done is less than what other women her age in the village do in a year.
Not only does she not glare at people while working, but she also insists on eating refined grains. The eldest brother of the Bai family is an honest man, so he can't really let her have her way. As a result, Bai Jiaojiao's reputation for being lazy and gluttonous has spread. At the end of last year, she was even specifically criticized at a large meeting.
When everyone works together, if you do less, I have to do more. Lazy people are the least liked. Some people might even roll their eyes at Bai Jiaojiao when they see her on the street.
In the fields, a man shouted meaningfully to Shen Heng:
"Hey, Shen Heng! Isn't that your newlywed wife? She's trying to ride your bike away!"
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