"Mom, if I could survive in the countryside, could I bring you back?" Tian Mengya cried.
"As soon as his father died, his job at the coal yard was taken away by his parents and replaced by his second uncle."
"My grandparents kicked me and my daughter out of the house. How can we, a weak girl with a child, survive in the countryside?"
Hearing this, the neighbors were shocked.
Tian's mother also widened her eyes and said, "You are their own grandson!"
She had never seen anyone who didn't even care about his own grandson and kicked him out of the house.
Tian Mengya choked up and said, "So what if he's her biological grandson? She has eight grandchildren. A grandson without a father like you is nothing to them."
Not only are they not rare, but in their eyes they are also troublesome burdens.
Tian's mother: "This is really..."
She didn't know what to say. She thought her daughter came back because she didn't want to farm in the countryside and live a hard life, but she didn't expect that she was kicked out of the house by her in-laws.
"Oh my, these grandpa and grandma are too cruel."
"Isn't it? The bones here are still warm, and you've already kicked your son's wife and children out of the house."
"People always say rural people are simple and honest, but in fact they are also cruel."
"Of course not. We can't do such things."
Lin Jianshe looked at Tian Mengya with sympathy. He was also an educated youth and knew how difficult life was for them in the countryside.
Tian Mengya's life was even more difficult because her husband had died and she had a child.
Moreover, she was pretty. A woman like her, who became a widow in the countryside and was driven out by her husband's family, would just be eaten up by others.
There was really no way for her to make a living in the countryside.
Tian's mother looked at her daughter in a dilemma. Finally, she pointed at her daughter's nose and scolded her, "Who told you, a dead girl, to get married in the countryside? If you can endure it and return to the city, won't all this happen?"
"If you had come back as a pure girl, I could have found a partner for you to marry. But you came back with a burden, what should I do?" Tian's mother howled, slapping her thigh.
꽭꽭 lowered her head and held onto her mother's trouser legs tightly. Her small body trembled slightly, feeling a little scared and sad.
Tian Mengya wiped her tears and said nothing. She chose to get married in the countryside because she really couldn't bear it any longer.
She was not good at work, and the cents she earned were not enough to eat. If it were not for her good looks that aroused the sympathy and protective desire of the young men in the village, who secretly sent her food to support her, she would have starved to death in the village.
꽭꽭's father is one of them, but 꽭꽭's father is different from others. He has a job and is an official employee of the coal yard. He has tickets and money, and is considered a promising young man in the group.
She had been thinking about returning to the city at first, but as she got older, the day of her return seemed so distant, and she couldn't see the end of these hard days.
She really didn't want to suffer anymore and wanted to live an easier life, so she agreed to 꽭꽭's father's pursuit and married him.
Since she got married, she has never lived on land and has been supported by her father.
Although her parents-in-law disliked her, it did not prevent her father from liking her, protecting her, and allowing her to live a comfortable life without having to work.
The educated youth in the same village were also very envious of her for being able to marry a man in the countryside.
But this envy changed after the announcement of the educated youth returning to the city.
The unmarried educated youth all returned to the city one after another, but she, who had married and had children in the countryside, did not meet the requirements for returning to the city and was left in the countryside.
Later, her husband fell seriously ill. They spent all the family's money on his treatment but he still couldn't be cured. He passed away not long ago, and her good days were over.
Her husband's job was taken away by her parents-in-law. They couldn't stand her not working, and they disliked her for being lazy and couldn't tolerate her, so they separated her and the child to live separately.
She simply returned to the city with her child. Since her husband had died, she happened to be eligible for the return policy.
She knew it was not easy to bring the child home. After all, she had an older brother and a younger brother, a sister-in-law and younger siblings. Even if her brother allowed her to enter the house out of their brother-sister relationship, her sister-in-law and younger siblings would definitely stop her.
But she didn't expect that the first person to stand up and stop it would be her own mother.
"Mom, life in the countryside is so hard. I can't even get enough to eat. Other educated youth have their families send them food and coupons, but I don't." Tian Mengya patted her chest and cried.
"I really can't hold on any longer. If I could hold on any longer, I wouldn't marry in the countryside."
In fact, in the early years, there were quite a few educated youth, both men and women, like Tian Mengya, who could not bear the hardship and married local people.
These educated youth were all from the city, they were not good at farm work, and the money they earned was not enough to eat, which was the norm.
The life in this village is not only very different from that in the city, but also very different from that of the local villagers.
But if you can marry a local, your life will be much easier.
After hearing what Tian Mengya said, the neighbors also felt that Tian's mother was cruel. She had two sons and one daughter, and not only did she let the middle daughter leave the village, she also did not care about it.
There are also children in their courtyard who go back to their hometown. When other children go back to their hometown, their parents will send some tickets and money to their hometown every once in a while.
This makes the parents feel even more sorry for their children. They will take advantage of the holidays to pack food and clothes, take a train, and go to the hometown to see their children.
"Mom, just let me go home. I'll go to the Youth League Office and the Street Office tomorrow to ask for work. I will never stay at home and eat idle meals." Tian Mengya looked at her mother and cried and begged.
She knew in her heart that her mother didn't let her go home. One reason was that she couldn't live at home, and another was that she was afraid that she would bring her daughter home to eat for free.
Tian's mother said with red eyes: "You don't know what the situation is like in the city when you come back. The educated youth who came back two years earlier than you still can't find a job!"
"If you come back later than others, it will be even harder to arrange work."
"In the countryside, if you have land, you just work and earn cents, and then you can eat. But in the city, you have to earn money, and the ration of food is bought with money!"
"If you don't have a job, you won't have money. If you don't have money, you won't have food! There are nine people in our family now, and your eldest brother and younger brother are the only two official members."
"Your sister-in-law is a temporary worker in the cafeteria. Your sister-in-law has no job, and neither does your father. Your father is in poor health and has been taking medicine all year round..."
"Life in this family is really not easy!"
The neighbors living in this courtyard knew how the Tian family was doing. Tian Mengya's return in this condition really made the Tian family very embarrassed.
His family was already large, with only two official members. If there were two more mouths to feed, he would not be able to survive.
Moreover, the eldest and youngest daughters-in-law of the Tian family are not easy to deal with. If the Tian family agrees to let Tian Mengya bring a burden home to live with her, there will definitely be a big fight.
Maybe the whole family will be scattered because of the noise.
A neighbor looked at Tian Mengya and advised: "Mengya, your mother is right. If you insist on staying in the city, your life will be worse than that in the countryside."
"That's right. At least there's food in the countryside. You can exchange the cents you earn for food, but right now in the city, there's no work to earn money to buy food."
"They say a daughter who's married off is like spilled water. As a married daughter, don't come back to embarrass your parents."
"Yeah, you should come back and stay for a few days as a relative, visit your parents, and then take the children back."
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