Chapter 1 Chapter 1 Ten Eggs

"Mom, can we really eat it?"

Jiang Qiuyue had just stuffed a poached egg into her mouth when she saw two children drooling and looking at her eagerly.

"Eat? Why not?" She cooked ten poached eggs and fairly served four to herself and three to each of the two children.

"Really?" Lin Beibei is the older brother, and he has never eaten poached eggs. Grandma said that the eggs should be saved for the younger cousin, because the younger cousin is weak and needs eggs to replenish his body.

Mom also often said that they were the older brothers and sisters and had to give in to their cousins.

Before eating, Lin Beibei put a poached egg into his sister's bowl and said, "Nannan, eat more. Brother doesn't need so much."

The brother and sister are twins. They are said to be five years old, but due to long-term malnutrition, they look like three-year-old children, with pale faces and extremely thin.

Lin Nannan returned the fried egg to her brother and shook her head gently. She had been frightened when she was three years old and was no longer willing to speak.

Watching the two kids shoving each other back and forth, Jiang Qiuyue had only one thought in her mind - what a sin.

She was originally an employee of a large factory. In order to get a promotion and a raise, she worked overtime until the early morning every day. She was so busy that she was still revising the plan even when she was on an IV drip.

The result of overdrawing her health was that she died at her workstation and was transported into a novel.

According to the setting in the book, the original owner was a hardworking girl. Her husband was an adopted son. He went to the army after marriage and has not returned for almost six years.

The parents-in-law favored their own child and asked the original owner to pay living expenses every month. The original owner was responsible for all the laundry, cooking, and feeding the chickens at home.

The original owner also did her best, even self-PUA, all for the sake of her husband's filial piety. After suffering first, she would enjoy the sweetness later. Life would definitely get better in the future. The family depended on others for food, and she and her two children could never have enough to eat.

Just this morning, I was hungry and fainted in the field, and I hit my head on a rock, and said goodbye to this world completely.

When Jiang Qiuyue woke up, she looked at the bare room and felt like crying but had no tears.

If she had known that being the queen of success would bring her a hard life, she would have given up. Wouldn't it be better to get off work on time every day and slack off and gossip?

After the little radishes finished eating the eggs, they took the initiative to help Jiang Qiuyue wash the dishes. Looking at the two well-behaved children, Jiang Qiuyue sighed again.

I don't know what's in the original owner's brain. She doesn't care about her own child, but tries hard to please those extreme people in the Lin family. She is so stupid.

She didn't care whether her mother-in-law allowed her to eat eggs or not. When she woke up, she was so hungry that her stomach cramped. She climbed through the window into her mother-in-law's room and boiled all the ten eggs that her mother-in-law had left for her.

Her husband sent her 20 yuan every month, but her mother-in-law took all the money on the grounds of paying for living expenses and honoring the elderly. Jiang Qiuyue ate these ten eggs with a clear conscience.

It was not yet noon, and everyone else in the family had gone to the fields to earn work. Jiang Qiuyue had eaten and drunk her fill, and was about to go back to lie down when her trouser leg was gently tugged.

Lin Beibei reminded, "Mom, it's time to make lunch." Grandma will be back soon.

Jiang Qiuyue looked at the sweet potatoes and wild vegetables on the stove. She could cook, but she was not the original owner.

If she were to live again, she didn't want to die young again, so she had to take good care of herself and no one could ask her to work for her.

"Beibei, be good. Mommy won't cook today." Jiang Qiuyue pulled the two children out of the kitchen. "Mommy hit her head and needs to rest. Wait for grandma and your aunt to come back and let them cook for themselves."

Lin Beibei's eyes widened in surprise, "Mom, aren't you afraid that grandma will scold you?"

Although he was young, he understood that it was unfair for his mother to do the most work. But in the past, his mother always said that those who are capable should do more work, so if she did more, grandma and the others would have to do less.

Lin Beibei never understood why her mother had to rush to do the work, and today was the first time her mother said she didn't want to cook.

Afraid?

Jiang Qiuyue was not afraid of the old woman from the Lin family. She had experienced all kinds of leaders in large factories. She was just an extremely selfish old woman. When they came back, she would have her own way to deal with them.

Since I can't go back, I have to make myself live comfortably.

It would be better if her husband was busier so that she wouldn't have to deal with him. She could help raise the two children while her husband paid her a salary every month.

It was just that twenty dollars was a little less. She had read the original novel and knew that her husband now had sixty dollars a month.

Thinking of this, Jiang Qiuyue went back to her room to find a pen and paper and immediately wrote a letter to her husband. Anyway, he was in the army and had no money to spend. If he didn't spend his salary on his wife and children, what would he do with it?

Jiang Qiuyue wrote as she said she would, and when she was about to mail the letter, she realized that it was 1967 and there was no place to mail letters in the village. She had to either walk to the town or wait for the postman to pass by every week.

Given her current physical condition, she was unwilling to even walk to the village entrance, let alone the town.

It’s so hot, I’ll get heatstroke.

Seeing the two children standing by the table and looking at her, Jiang Qiuyue had never raised a child, but she knew me. Children need to eat more and sleep more in order to grow taller and bigger.

Holding the two children, Jiang Qiuyue went to bed for a nice nap.

In her dream, she was eating a Manchu-Han banquet, and there were eight handsome guys serving her food and pouring wine. It was so cool.

Just as the handsome guys started dancing to liven up the party, a scream brought her back to reality.

"There's a thief in the house! Old man, there's a thief in the house!"

Hearing the voice, Jiang Qiuyue knew it was her mother-in-law and it was her turn.

But when she just got up, the two children were shaking violently, and the little girl was even scared to tears.

Lin Beibei's eyes welled up with tears. "If...if grandma knew that we ate it, she would definitely beat us."

Jiang Qiuyue wiped Lin Beibei's tears and said, "Don't worry, I'm here and won't let grandma beat you and your sister."

"Really?" Lin Beibei's eyes were full of disbelief. In the past, whenever something happened, even if they didn't do it, their mother would ask them to apologize first.

Every time, grandma would hit them with a broom, and it hurt so much.

Jiang Qiuyue felt sad watching this. The original owner had brought too much psychological trauma to the children. Judging from their appearance, they must have been beaten many times in the past.

"Beibei and sister, don't come out. Mom will talk to grandma." After patting the two children's heads, Jiang Qiuyue went to open the door.

As soon as she appeared, her mother-in-law Wang Chunhua spitted and cursed, "Jiang Qiuyue, are you dead? There is such a big living person at home, and you don't even know that there is a thief in the house?"

The other members of the Lin family looked at Jiang Qiuyue together. Ten eggs were not a small number; they could be exchanged for a pound of pork!

"There were no thieves in the house. I ate the eggs." Jiang Qiuyue admitted directly, "I was so hungry that I cooked some fried eggs to eat."

"You ate all ten?" Wang Chunhua's voice rose involuntarily.

Jiang Qiuyue nodded and said yes.

"Oh my God, how could our Lin family have a spendthrift woman like you? That was meant for Dabao to nourish his body, how dare you eat it secretly?"

Wang Chunhua was so angry that she slapped her thigh. Dabao was born half a month prematurely, he was weak and needed nutrition. He was her grandson.

"Mom, what you said is wrong. We are all family, how can you say he is cheating?" Jiang Qiuyue stood at the door. "Every month I pay for living expenses, but my second brother and his wife don't pay a penny, but Dabao can eat eggs every day. Aren't you too partial?"

"Sister-in-law, what are you talking about?" Lin Erzhu hadn't realized what was different about Jiang Qiuyue yet. He thought Jiang Qiuyue was his former sister-in-law, so he said unhappily, "Before my brother left, didn't he ask you to take good care of the family? If it weren't for my parents' kindness in adopting him, would my brother be where he is today?"

His wife Qian Li nodded vigorously. Jiang Qiuyue ate her son's eggs, so she had to get them back for her son. "Yes, sister-in-law, you can't be ungrateful. You voluntarily honored your parents, and now you say we won't give you money. Are you deliberately making things difficult for us?"

"Second brother, you are mistaken. My parents didn't have the children they gave birth to, so they bought Dazhu from the kidnapper. If my parents hadn't bought the child, Dazhu might not have been kidnapped."

No trade, no harm. Jiang Qiuyue grew up watching this advertising slogan, and it is very useful now.

"Jiang Qiuyue, what nonsense are you talking about? Shut up!" Grandpa Lin, who had been silent all the time, spoke. He bought his eldest son before the founding of the People's Republic of China. It is not popular to buy and sell children now. If someone hears it and makes a fuss, they might arrest him and make him write big-character posters.

Normally, when Lin Fugui opened his mouth, everyone in the family would quiet down. He was the head of the family and had great authority. He thought it would be the same this time, but Jiang Qiuyue held her forehead and said she had a headache.

Jiang Qiuyue slowly sat on the doorstep. "It was Doctor Jiang who said I was malnourished, so I thought of cooking eggs. I'm busy every day, and now I can't even eat eggs. Forget it, there are more of you, I can't argue with you. But I've already eaten it, I can't vomit it out."

Seeing Jiang Qiuyue like this, Wang Chunhua became increasingly angry. When she heard her second daughter-in-law say that Jiang Qiuyue had not made lunch, she picked up a broom and rushed over.

Jiang Qiuyue had expected Wang Chunhua to hit someone, so she ran to the door and started shouting, "Mom, I won't dare to do that again. Don't hit me. It hurts so much. Mom, you're going to beat me to death!"

In fact, Jiang Qiuyue dodged all of Wang Chunhua's brooms, but Jiang Qiuyue shouted so loudly that not only did she attract the neighbors, but the captain also happened to pass by.

"Wang Chunhua, what are you doing?" The team leader was Hu Haizhi, a thirty-something uncle with a beard. Today, when Jiang Qiuyue fainted, it was he who led people to carry Jiang Qiuyue to the infirmary and then sent Jiang Qiuyue back to the Lin family.

Before Wang Chunhua could speak, Jiang Qiuyue cried and said, "Captain, please don't scold my mother-in-law. I shouldn't have eaten the eggs. Today, Dr. Jiang told me that I needed to supplement my nutrition, so I cooked eggs to eat. But I didn't expect that my mother-in-law would save all the eggs for Dabao."

Thanks to the original owner's usual hard work, when she said this, everyone felt that Wang Chunhua was going too far.

Neighbors watching the scene accused:

"Wang Chunhua, your eldest daughter-in-law is very hardworking. Why do you want to beat her up just because she ate your two eggs?"

"Yes, Auntie Wang, Qiuyue usually listens to you in everything, and she is the one who does the housework. You and Erzhu's wife don't have to do any housework. You have such a good daughter-in-law, why don't you know how to cherish her?"

"I think she is just biased. Everyone knows that Lin Dazhu is not her biological son, so she is trying to abuse Dazhu's wife."

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Everyone was talking, almost exposing all the secrets of the Lin family. Seeing that something was wrong, Lin Erzhu winked at his wife, signaling her to pull Jiang Qiuyue up. "It's a misunderstanding, it's all a misunderstanding. Don't worry, our family is fine."

Wang Chunhua threw the broom away in dissatisfaction, "These are not two eggs, this bastard ate ten of my eggs!"

At this time, Qian Li just reached out to help, and Jiang Qiuyue immediately cried out in pain, "Sister-in-law, why are you pinching me? I ate the eggs, but I am also a mother. I can't eat it alone and let Beibei and Nannan watch, right?"

"It's my fault as a useless mother. You may not know that Beibei and Nannan are eating fried eggs for the first time today, wuwu..."

When everyone heard about ten eggs, they looked at Jiang Qiuyue with some hesitation. Eggs are so precious, eating ten is indeed too much.

But when he heard that two children were eating together, and it was the first time for them to eat together, he looked at Wang Chunhua with even more contempt.

"Sister-in-law, I didn't pinch you. Please get up quickly." Qian Li was used to being impatient with Jiang Qiuyue.

Jiang Qiuyue was so scared that she raised her hands to cover her head, "Sister-in-law, please don't hit me. I won't eat eggs anymore!"

"I... when did I ever hit you?" Qian Li was so angry that she rolled up her sleeves subconsciously, and was seen by Hu Haizhi.

"What are you doing, Qianli?" Hu Haizhi roared, and Qianli was so scared that she bumped into a rock.

"Captain, I didn't..."

"I saw it all, you're still trying to make excuses?" Hu Haizhi had a headache. Jiang Qiuyue was a military dependent, and the Lin family was a bunch of idiots. If they mistreat military dependents, they would be criticized. When the higher-ups investigate, he might not even be able to be the captain. "You and Wang Chunhua both took sides, which is really against the will of heaven. This is the new China, and no family can mistreat women and children."

Wang Chunhua and Qian Li cried out that they were innocent, but the captain refused to listen to their explanations and instead had someone help Jiang Qiuyue up.

"Dazhu's wife, don't be afraid. You are indeed weak and you should replenish your body. From now on, you can eat whatever food is available at home. If they still bully you, come to me and I will take care of it for you!" Hu Haizhi couldn't let a bad reputation spread in the village, as he would be evaluated for advanced status at the end of the year.

Jiang Qiuyue was moved and said, "Thank you, Captain. I will take good care of myself and my children and will not let you down."

Listen, Comrade Jiang Qiuyue is such a good person that she still remembers her children even now.

Hu Haizhi warned Wang Chunhua again, "If I hear that you beat my daughter-in-law again, I will go to the town and call the police to take you to the hospital for education!"

Wang Chunhua was so frightened that her legs went limp, but the team leader was the highest-ranking official in the village and everyone listened to him.

She felt that she was so miserable. When she was a daughter-in-law, her mother-in-law often beat and scolded her, not to mention that she had not hit Jiang Qiuyue today.

How are we going to live the rest of our lives?