Chapter 2: No One Can Make Me Get Married
When she first woke up, the memories of the high school student "Su Xiaoli" and her own memories were all mixed together.
The messy and violent conflict made her brain sometimes blank and sometimes confused.
It was not until she felt the pain in her thigh that she became slightly more awake.
On the way, she had made up her mind: the environment in front of her was exactly the same as that in China in the 1980s, and she must not expose the matter of "rebirth" under any circumstances.
"Okay, it's bandaged." Doctor Luo rinsed the tweezers and threw them back into the medical tin box filled with boiling water.
"Doctor, please check on my grandma, she just fell down."
In Dr. Luo's territory, Su Xiaoli has no intention of interfering in his duties.
Doctor Luo nodded. The girl in front of him looked small but thoughtful. ——When I returned home from the clinic, the sun was about to set.
Today, the grandparents and grandchildren still live in the house left by Su Xiaoli's father Su Jianguo.
It is said that it was left by my father Su Jianguo, but in fact it is not the private property of the Su family, but a few small bungalows behind the Shouzheng Canal Office, a subordinate unit of the Water Conservancy Bureau, which are old houses left over from the late 1950s.
Speaking of Su Jianguo, he is also a well-known figure in the small county town.
He was born in the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and he had to go without food all the time.
Fortunately, he never gave up studying, and one year before the country cancelled the college entrance examination, he was admitted to a well-established water conservancy college.
In that era, it was rare for people to be admitted to university, let alone in rural areas where basic education was extremely poor.
At that time, Su Jianguo was like a man who had passed the imperial examination and became the first person in the village to bring honor to his family.
During his college years, he devoted himself to study. He either hid in the library to read or worked as an assistant to senior professors and engineers in the design institute. He really learned a lot of real skills.
He came from the countryside and without hesitation, he returned to his hometown, Lingzheng County, one of the 100 poorest counties in the country, after graduation with great enthusiasm and became the youngest water conservancy engineer in the county's water system.
How many college students are there in the whole county? How many engineers? The county leaders value talent and are reluctant to let him work in the village.
Not long after, Su Jianguo took the initiative to take several young men to the mountains and countryside to explore and survey.
With the support of several senior leaders of the county party committee, he presided over the construction and restoration of a reservoir and three canals left over from the Republic of China period.
In order to relieve his worries, the county allocated a small bungalow behind Shouzheng Canal for his family to live in.
After his death, the county did not reclaim these houses.
Later, Su Xiaoli's mother remarried and left, and only Grandma Su and Su Xiaoli lived in the house.
There is a large piece of wasteland behind the small bungalow near the canal. My grandmother is used to doing farm work and can't sit idle, so she planted a lot of vegetables and raised two chickens.
Grandma Su usually helps in the kitchen in the canteen of Shouzhengqu unit. The unit pays her 35 yuan per month according to the standards for informal workers.
Every two or three months, Su Xiaoli's mother Zhang Yun would send them another 50 or 60 yuan, and the money was slowly saved up.
Except for a little money for Grandma Su's coffin, the rest was all saved for her granddaughter.
The grandparents and grandson usually live frugally and are reluctant to waste a penny.
Although life was hard, Grandma Su never thought of giving up.
She was able to raise the only college student in the village, and she felt proud of it.
Now she only hopes that Su Xiaoli can also be admitted to university, so as to fulfill Su Jianguo’s last wish before his death.
No matter how hard life is, Grandma Su can hold on.
Who would have thought that all the family fortune she had worked so hard to save would be snatched away by Su Lanying? She felt so heartbroken.
She didn't say anything when she came back from the clinic. Life had to go on after all.
Grandma Su held her anger, gritted her teeth, and went straight to the backyard to cook dinner.
Su Xiaoli was cleaning up the broken glass on the ground while looking around.
The rusty iron bed was covered with a faded quilt, and some cardboard shells were piled in the corner, as if someone was dissatisfied that they had not saved enough and was waiting to save more before they could sell them.
There was a small mirror hanging on the paint-chipped washbasin rack. There was a crack in the middle of the mirror, as if the person who used it was reluctant to throw it away and just left it hanging there.
“Bang!”
The wooden door of the small bungalow was pushed open roughly, and Su Xiaoli's thoughts were interrupted.
"Where's your grandma?!"
The person who came was Su Xiaoli's second aunt Chang Feng'e. Before she entered the house, she was heard shouting loudly.
"Second Aunt, my grandma is cooking."
Su Xiaoli pointed towards the backyard. As far as she could remember, Second Aunt had never gotten along with Grandma and Mom.
Chang Feng'e, with a mean look on her face, grabbed Su Xiaoli and said, "Did your aunt accept the betrothal money from the Zhang family?!"
Listen to this...
It was as if the Zhang family owed her money and didn't pay it back.
"What are you doing? Let Xiaoli go!"
Grandma heard the noise in the backyard and rushed into the house. She reached out and pulled Su Xiaoli to her side and shouted loudly.
Chang Feng'e yelled, "Mom, 800 yuan! Lanying is marrying Xiaoli off? How can her aunt, a married girl, still be the head of our Su family?"
From what she said, it sounded like Chang Feng'e felt sorry for her niece and didn't want her to get married early.
But according to "Su Xiaoli's" memory, the second aunt probably wanted to put the 800 yuan into her own pocket rather than let her sister-in-law get it for free.
What's worse, she might think 800 yuan is not enough and wants to sell herself at a better price.
She was right.
Today, when the wife from the Zhang family came to their house to discuss the marriage, Chang Feng'e realized that such a good thing as 800 yuan did not fall on her head, and she ran in a rage to ask for the money back.
Grandma Su and Chang Feng'e have been fighting for many years, and she believes that she knows the character of the second son's wife better than Su Xiaoli.
Chang Feng'e has no ability, but she is a fussy person on weekdays. She always focuses on trivial matters for fear that she will suffer a loss.
This time he definitely didn't get any benefit and was unhappy again.
"Second son's wife, what are you talking about? I think you are short-sighted again!"
Grandma Su stood in front of her granddaughter with her thin body and retorted: "No matter who gives the gift, Xiaoli won't marry! If you want money, go ask Su Lanying."
"Mom, the Zhang family came to urge us today, saying that the two relatives should get in touch with each other and arrange the marriage, and Xiaoli can get married after she graduates." Chang Feng'e didn't listen to what Grandma Su said at all.
She didn't believe that she could let the duck fly away after getting it .
Arrange the marriage first, and then make Su Lanying return the money!
Su Xiaoli felt suffocated by Chang Feng'e's words. Why did she have no choice but to get married? Why did she have to be controlled by people who didn't care about her life or death?
Do you think she is someone who is easy to mess with?! When she first started working as an assistant physician, there were many powerful factions in the mountains. She came from an orphanage and had no backers, so anyone dared to mess with her.
Although Doctor Su was modest and prudent and kept a low profile, he did not indulge them in their mischief.
Just based on this village woman...
Oh, I’m afraid it’s not good enough.
"Second Aunt!" Su Xiaoli came out from behind her grandmother.
"Without my consent, no one can make me marry! If you force me again, we will go to the Public Security Bureau to find the police!"
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