Zhou Miaomiao was sweet-talking and very much loved by Wu Jinfeng, the Zhou family's old lady. Since she was little, Wu Jinfeng would always let Zhou Miaomiao pick out something delicious before sharing the rest with the other grandchildren.
Of course! Zhou Yuanyuan and Zhou Jiasheng had little chance of such good fortune. Zhao Yunxiang was a determined person, and she had always taught her two children not to approach Wu Jinfeng when she was distributing things.
That being said, what mother wouldn't want her parents to cherish her children? Wu Jinfeng's obvious favoritism made Zhao Yunxiang feel very uncomfortable. However, Wu Jinfeng was the elder, so Zhao Yunxiang had to endure it no matter how dissatisfied she was.
The elders' dislike led to the cousins no longer taking Zhou Yuanyuan and her siblings seriously. Especially the second oldest, Zhou Zhiqiang's two children, who often bullied them.
Only when Zhou Zhixin came home to visit would the cousins restrain themselves. Zhou Miaomiao would also be nice to Yuanyuan for a few days because her uncle Zhou Zhixin would bring her gifts.
Wu Jinfeng's favoritism cultivated Zhou Miaomiao's competitive personality. In the Zhou family, Zhou Miaomiao did not allow other cousins to be better than her.
When Zhou Miaomiao saw the beautiful red leather shoes on Zhou Yuanyuan's feet during the Chinese New Year, her eyes turned green and she glared at Yuanyuan one after another.
Because of the red shoes incident, Zhou Miaomiao didn't speak to Zhou Yuanyuan for six months. Even if they met face to face, Zhou Miaomiao would just hold her chin high and ignore her.
It was a rare occasion that Zhou Miaomiao spoke up today and asked Zhou Yuanyuan to go out and play together.
Zhao Yunxiang thought that since Yuanyuan and Miaomiao were cousins, a better relationship was better than ignoring them all day. Besides, it was Zhou Miaomiao who had initiated the conversation today. If Yuanyuan didn't go, Wu Jinfeng would definitely accuse her, the third aunt, of being petty and holding a grudge against a child for not letting her daughter play with Miaomiao.
After much thought, Zhao Yunxiang finally persuaded Yuanyuan to go out and play.
Zhoujia Village wasn't very large, and there weren't many places for children to play. Besides the village's threshing ground and a patch of open field near the end of the village, there was no need for adults to worry about the children's safety, as long as they stayed away from the pond or the road.
Zhao Yunxiang hadn't expected that the most unlikely thing would happen. Thinking back to her words at noon when she had urged Yuanyuan to be united and friendly with Zhou Miaomiao and the others, Zhao Yunxiang wanted to slap herself in the face.
Zhao Yunxiang herself is kind-hearted and has never thought that a person could be so vicious.
For her own little thoughts, Wu Jinfeng allowed Zhou Zhixin, who had a bright future, to change his career and go home to farm. For a pair of red leather shoes that were not hers, eight-year-old Zhou Miaomiao actually pushed Yuanyuan into the pond.
Don't the old sayings say, "A harmonious family brings prosperity" and "One step back opens up a new world"? Her own patience and humility had pushed her own child to the brink of death! Zhao Yunxiang burst into tears as she recalled the past.
Zhao Yunxiang was lost in thought and didn't notice that the little person lying beside her in the dark frowned.
So tired! So tired!!!
Zhou Yuanyuan closed her eyes and felt her whole body was soft and weak, with no part of her body free of soreness or pain.
Hiss! I jumped from an eighteen-story building and didn't die? How could I still feel something? Zhou Yuanyuan realized it belatedly.
No! No! Impossible!
She saw with her own eyes the bloody mess she'd fallen to, watched "Zhou Yuanyuan" being cremated and placed in a small urn, and witnessed the abhorrent faces of those "relatives" of the Zhou family as they fought with that man over the compensation the mall had given "Zhou Yuanyuan." She was already dead, having jumped from the 18th floor, deader than death!
A sweet fragrance came from the tip of her nose. It was her mother's body odor, and it was also Zhou Yuanyuan's most beautiful childhood memory.
Mom, are our family finally reunited underground?
Zhou Yuanyuan was so excited that she opened her eyes wide. What she saw was a big red wooden bed top, which was simple yet festive.
A bright red wooden bedtop? Such a familiar scene.
Seeing the long-lost object reappear before her eyes, Zhou Yuanyuan felt her mind was in a mess. Did the step-out bed, which had disappeared for over a decade, reappear mean that time had turned back?
Zhou Yuanyuan turned her neck and her eyes quickly looked around.
In a room of about ten square meters, there are all the bits and pieces that Zhou Yuanyuan has missed for decades: a mud wall covered with a layer of white plaster, a glass photo frame on the wall, and a handsome young man in military uniform in the photo frame, who is Zhou Yuanyuan's father Zhou Zhixin.
Next to the door stood a wooden, red-lacquered washbasin stand, on which were placed three towels, one large and two small. In the corner by the bed stood a low wooden cabinet, on which sat two large, red-lacquered wooden boxes.
Next to the desk by the window, a metal thermos with the words "Serve the People" written on it was quietly placed on the ground.
Yuanyuan often dreamed of all this in her previous life. This was the warm little home she had when she was ten years old!
The red lacquered wooden bed that Zhou Yuanyuan was sleeping on at the moment was a dowry from her mother, Zhao Yunxiang, and was made of the finest fir wood.
In Zhou Yuanyuan's previous life, she once heard her second aunt Gu Dahua say sourly that the bed that Zhao Yunxiang brought as a dowry was the only one of its kind in the entire Sanhe Town.
Indeed, this exquisitely crafted step-out bed was specially prepared for Zhao Yunxiang by Zhou Yuanyuan's grandfather Zhao Qingshan. Not only did he use several large pieces of fir wood, but Zhao Qingshan also specially invited a famous carving master from another place to work with a local carpenter. The two spent a month carefully carving it.
"Only that fool Zhao Qingshan would be willing to spend so much dowry for his daughter!" Gu Dahua's original words also included this sentence.
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