Ruan Mianmian leaned against the door in her room, listening to her family outside, verbally abusing and humiliating her.
It's still the same. When there are problems, everyone pushes them all onto her; when there are no problems, she becomes the problem.
I haven't heard these words for many years. In her previous life, she was sucked dry by this group of so-called in-laws and they didn't care about her life or death. Later, one time, she was so angry that she cut off all contact with them.
After that, she never saw them again, nor heard such words again.
It was also from then on that she realized how ridiculous her idea was that she was afraid that she would not be able to live a straight-backed life without her parents' family in her husband's family.
Without her mother's family who only sucked her blood and held her back, her life would be a little better. At least she wouldn't be beaten because of them anymore.
Some people are never worth looking forward to, no matter how much time passes.
This time she would put aside all her expectations.
Retracting her thoughts, Ruan Mianmian began to look around her room. If she counted her previous life, the last time she returned to this room was almost twenty years ago.
When the landlords were being beaten and the land was divided, the Ruan family was part of the toiling masses who were exploited by the landlords and were assigned to the nearby Xiangyang Brigade, which was then called Xiangyang Village. There were also some other people who were also being exploited.
In those days, everyone was simple and honest, and they easily accepted these outsiders to settle down in Xiangyang Brigade. No one had any other opinions about them, but instead sympathized with them, thinking that they were people who had suffered a great crime. After these years of weddings and funerals, everyone gradually integrated into this small village.
Ruan Mianmian's grandmother, Jin Chunhua, was once a maidservant of a young lady from a landlord's family. Ruan Mianmian's grandfather, Ruan Wu, was also a long-term worker in a landlord's family. The landlord arranged for him to form a family with Jin Chunhua.
They had many children together, but only two sons and one daughter survived: the eldest son Nguyen Kim Phuc, the second son Nguyen Kim Quy, and the youngest daughter Nguyen Kim Lan.
As a maidservant exploited by the landlord, Mrs. Ruan was not only the first to attack her former master when he was down, but she also secretly stole a makeup box from the young lady of the landlord's family when no one was aware of the situation.
Relying on the things in this makeup box, she not only raised her children, but also helped them get married and have children.
She also paid for building houses for her eldest son and second son respectively, and her family was considered to be one of the most prominent ones in Xiangyang Brigade.
She also married her youngest daughter to a man in the county town.
This caused a sensation in the whole village at that time.
No one would have thought that a girl from the village could marry into a working-class family in the county town, and the man's family had several regular employees. This was definitely a rich son-in-law.
I don’t know how Old Lady Ruan did it. It’s still a mystery to this day.
Ruan Mianmian can live in a room of her own not because she has a certain position in this family.
But when the house was being built, her father built an extra room in order to compete with her second uncle.
At that time, Old Mrs. Ruan paid for the construction of houses for her two sons. At first, the layout and size of the houses were the same, and they were next door to each other.
But her father felt that he was the eldest son and could not be like his younger brother, so he had to build an extra house to show his status as the eldest son.
It’s easy to imagine how good the temporary house can be. It’s just slightly better than a woodshed.
And this room became Ruan Mianmian's.
This also became her mother's capital to show off outside. Who can give their daughter a room of their own? Aren't all the sisters in the family squeezed together?
The two girls from her second uncle's family lived in the same room, but they lived in a proper main house, not an extension like hers.
Therefore, before today, most people in the village did not know how much the Ruan family valued sons over daughters.
After all, every household these days has some idea of favoring boys over girls, and in their opinion, this is not a big deal, but everything has a limit. The extent of the Ruan family is beyond the imagination of most people.
After all, one of the reasons why the best is the best is because it is rare.
Ruan Mianmian locked the door and walked to the bed. She lay down and reached under the bed to feel around.
After touching it a few times and determining the location, Ruan Mianmian began to dig with her hands.
There was a rat hole under the bed, which she had discovered by accident before. She blocked it with mud several times, but each time it was dug open again within a few days, and the hole kept getting bigger and bigger.
But suddenly one day, the blocked rat hole was never dug again.
Driven by curiosity, she bent down to take a look, only to find that there was no mouse in the hole.
From then on, this rat hole became Ruan Mianmian's treasure cave.
In her previous life, she left this home because she got married, and she didn't have time to take the things inside with her.
In this life, she was a little eager to see what was inside. After all, it had been so long that her memory had become blurred.
After rummaging for a long time with his hands, he finally took out a small clay jar.
Gently wipe off the dust on the jar.
Ruan Mianmian opened the jar and poured everything inside onto the bed.
Because her room only had a bed and a small closet for clothes and bedding. There was no table or stool, so she could only put it on the bed.
There weren't many things in total.
The largest one was a folded piece of paper. When she opened it, she found it was a certificate of honor given by the school for her excellent academic performance.
In fact, she had won many similar awards since she was a child, but because Ruan Jiabao's grades were not good, her parents not only never allowed her to hang the awards on the wall, but also tacitly allowed Ruan Jiabao to tear up all of her awards.
This is the only one left.
Ruan Mianmian solemnly folded the certificate and put it into the space.
There is no place in this world safer than her space.
In addition to the award certificate, there are also a few very beautiful stones, which she picked up when she was washing clothes by the river when she was a child.
Later, when her family built a new house and dug a new well, she never went to the river to wash clothes again, and she never picked up beautiful stones again.
When she was a child, she had almost nothing that belonged to her, so she treasured these beautiful stones very much. Because they belonged to her completely. But she had to hide them, otherwise she didn't know if they would be snatched away by Ruan Jiabao.
What's left are some penny coins.
These were the money that Ruan Mianmian had saved bit by bit over the years, a total of 27 cents.
This was all the belongings Ruan Mianmian had until she was eighteen years old.
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