"Won't my grandpa and my parents be scared?"
Upon suddenly seeing her letter and learning that she was not actually dead, but living in another world, how would her family feel?
Delighted, happy for her?
That must be it!
[Knowing that the host has been reborn in another world, the host's family will be shocked and overjoyed, not frightened. This system hopes that the host will focus on completing the mission of turning the tables and not think about anything else!]
Song Lan: "System, you're quite the smooth talker."
[Host, there's no need to flatter this system. This system is a righteous one and only acts according to its rules and regulations!]
"..."
Song Lan was embarrassed.
This is a case of trying to flatter someone but ending up hurting them.
It should be noted that Qin Yanzheng cannot hear Song Lan's dialogue between consciousness and the system.
The next day.
Around 12:30 pm, Song Lan was making lunch in the kitchen when she heard a woman cursing and a girl crying from the neighboring yard, interspersed with occasional shouts from a man.
"Sister-in-law."
Qin Yaxin walked into the kitchen, but couldn't help glancing curiously at the neighboring courtyard, the Cui family's courtyard, and asked Song Lan, "What's all the noise next door?"
"Didn't you hear me?"
Song Lan asked.
"I only heard insults like 'brainless' and 'worthless,' but I didn't understand what they meant."
Qin Yaxin is telling the truth.
"The one crying is the fourth daughter from next door. She just came back from the countryside this noon. The second and third daughters next door were also sent-down youths, just like the fourth daughter. The two sisters went to work for local families one after the other without informing their families beforehand. So their mother took her anger out on the fourth daughter who had just returned home."
While rolling out the noodles, Song Lan briefly explained what had happened to Qin Yaxin.
"That woman has such a foul mouth! She hurls all sorts of nasty insults, and her daughter just cries and doesn't even know how to talk back."
Qin Yaxin felt quite sorry for Si Ya next door.
"If I talk back, I might get scolded even more."
After saying that casually, Song Lan didn't say anything more.
Qin Yaxin sat on a small stool in front of the stove, her gaze passing through the kitchen door, occasionally glancing towards the Cui family's courtyard.
"Sister-in-law, the woman next door seems to have stopped cursing."
Just as Qin Yaxin finished speaking, a girl's high-pitched cry rang out from the Cui family courtyard.
"Mom, are you trying to kill me? My second and third sisters are getting married over there. Is that something I can stop? Besides, I wasn't even there when my second sister got married. Even if I wanted to stop them, do you expect me to sprout wings and fly over there?!"
Cui Siya regretted it. She regretted coming back. She shouldn't have come back because of the letter from home that they had found her a job at the factory and told her to come back quickly, otherwise the job would fall into someone else's hands.
Perhaps she was too happy, thinking that she could leave that remote mountain village and no longer have to work hard in the fields, so she didn't think too much about it. Using the excuse her mother had taught her in the letter, she asked the brigade leader for leave, told her second and third sisters, and then took the train home.
As a result, before she could even sit down and catch her breath after entering the house, her mother started berating her, blaming her for her second and third sisters' weddings, saying she was brainless, a money-loser, and that she was being made to take the blame for her second and third sisters' weddings. She felt so wronged!
"Your mom said a few words to you and hit you a couple of times because she was angry. What's the big deal? Shut your mouth right now. If you keep yelling like this, are you going to attract everyone in the entire residential area to our gate to watch the show?"
Cui Xingwang, with a stern face, advised his daughter, Siya.
"Am I the one who should yell? My mom pinched me so hard, look at my arm, it's all red and swollen from her pinching!"
Cui Siya rolled up her sleeves and showed her arms to her father.
Unexpectedly, Zheng Laidi suddenly swung the broom handle at her back, and Cui Siya burst into tears again.
"Zheng Laidi, are you ever going to shut up?!"
Cui Xingwang snatched the broom from Zheng Laidi's hand and threw it out the door of the living room. He gritted his teeth and said to Zheng Laidi, "What did Siya say wrong? Erya and Sanya are older than her. If those two sisters want to get married, how can Siya, as their younger sister, stop them?"
"If you can't stop her, can't you write a letter home? Or send a telegram? But that brat didn't do anything. I can't kill her by hitting her a couple of times, so why are you taking it out on me?!"
Zheng Laidi didn't think she had done anything wrong. Everything she did was for the sake of her family. If she hadn't been thinking about saving food for the family, would Er Ya and San Ya have been sent to the countryside?
But when she sent them to the countryside, she didn't let them marry local peasants, which meant she couldn't get a single penny of dowry. How could she not be angry?
If you're angry, you have to let it out. Now that Siya is back, what can she do if she vents her anger on that brat?
"I told you I have no money on me, so how am I supposed to write letters or send telegrams home?"
Si Ya cried out.
"What's the point of having a long beak? Why don't you borrow some from other educated youth?"
Spittle flew everywhere from Zheng Laidi's mouth; she wished she could beat the girl to death again.
“The other educated youth knew I was poor, and they wouldn’t even talk to me much, so how could they possibly lend me money…”
When others went to the countryside, they carried soft bedding rolls and large and small bags. When she went to the countryside, she only had a faded, patched, stiff, tattered quilt and two sets of patched clothes. In addition, she was dark-skinned and thin, so the other educated youths often gossiped about her.
At that moment, she wished she could disappear into a crack in the ground.
To avoid being laughed at!
"Zheng Laidi, can't you use your brain?! Even if Siya writes letters or sends telegrams home, do you think that will stop Erya and Sanya from getting married?"
Cui Xingwang's face was so dark it could drip ink. He said, "Er Ya got married first. At that time, Siya hadn't gone to the countryside to find Er Ya yet. San Ya got married locally. If she knew that Siya was writing letters and sending telegrams home, she probably wouldn't have waited for us to get there before she had already done things with the man."
Ultimately, they've made up their minds never to return to this home. Therefore, they didn't even inform us, their parents, about such a major event as getting married. Oh well, let them be. I'll just pretend I don't have these two daughters!
His gaze shifted to his daughter, Siya, and Cui Xingwang sighed, "Alright, stop crying. You should rest at home this afternoon. I'll take you to the factory's personnel department first thing tomorrow morning..."
Upon learning that she could really stay and work instead of having to return to the remote mountain village, Cui Siya stopped crying and promised Cui Xingwang that she would work hard.
As for the regret she had just felt a moment ago, Cui Siya had completely forgotten about it by now.
The rural area she was sent to was so poor and isolated, even poorer than her hometown. To get to the town, she had to cross mountains and valleys, and it would take at least four hours for a round trip.
Cui Siya was unwilling to live in such a place for the rest of her life.
"Shameless vixen, aren't you happy to see my family's mishap?"
Zheng Laidi walked out of the living room and was about to go to the kitchen to cook when she saw Song Lan standing in front of the water tap in the yard. She couldn't help but start cursing at the gate. In reality, she was cursing Song Lan, but she was indirectly criticizing him.
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