After learning the general direction of the next ten years or so, the Tao family fell silent.
Tang Cuihua even stated, "In this life, I plan to find a husband for my sister. If I can't find a suitable one, I will never get married."
I did get married in my past life, but what a terrible life it was!
Whenever she thinks about it, she decides to give up on getting married.
After hearing this, Tao Tao couldn't help but praise her self-reliant older sister.
Thinking about it, it's true. If you're unhappy after getting married, why get married in the first place?
Sisters supporting each other, how could they not have a good life? Not necessarily.
It's really touching that the eldest sister is thinking about her older sisters. As the youngest, she should do something too.
The best opportunity is during a famine year.
We need to find out their whereabouts in advance and be prepared to search for them at any time.
Tao Zui was concerned about: "Sister Cuihua, are you saying that in your dream, the university will be shut down in 1966?"
Tang Cuihua thought about it carefully, and then gave Tao Zui a very affirmative answer.
"Yes, students who graduated in 1968 could not find jobs or go to university. Starting in 1969, they had to go to the countryside."
Tang Cuihua gave a detailed account of this memory, including the famine of 1960.
In fact, the country's situation deteriorated six years later, and turmoil began. Before that, it was essential to return to the countryside.
"Transfer your household registration first. You don't need to worry about the land. Starting in 1958, production teams will be established, and all the land will belong to the collective and will no longer be related to individuals."
It's only 1952 now; planning ahead is much better than scrambling at the last minute.
“Uncle and Aunt, if I have the opportunity in the next few years, I want to start my own household and bring my sisters back. No matter how difficult the future may be, I want to take them with me and never be separated again. If we need anything then, I hope you can help us. We sisters will do anything to repay your great kindness.”
As she spoke, she knelt down in front of the Tao family, and Zhao Lingli and Tao Changyi quickly pulled her up.
“Why do you kneel down so easily, child? Just because of the bond between you sisters, we can’t just ignore it. Don’t worry, we will do everything we can to help as long as there’s an opportunity.”
That night, the three sisters from the Tao and Tang families made a systematic plan for the future.
Tao Tao may seem like an observer, but she is actually already considering how to help her eldest sister start her own business.
She has so many good things in her warehouse, so finding a suitable gift shouldn't be difficult.
Even if we can't settle in Xihe Village, we can settle in Taoyuan Village.
Although it would be troublesome to be associated with the main branch of the Tang family, once they started working in collective production teams and eating in communal canteens, the main branch of the Tang family would be unable to do anything about the sisters.
As for her, she plans to get into university before 1966 and get her degree first. As for future jobs, they are not important. All she needs is a diploma, because only with a diploma can she prove her abilities.
The biggest outcome of the discussion that day was the decision to sell their ancestral home.
Although the grandfather felt heartbroken, he had to do it for the sake of his children and grandchildren's future, no matter how reluctant he was.
I had thought about donating it, but Cuihua said it wasn't necessary. She suggested we just sell it and return it to the countryside, which would be clean and efficient.
Then we can use this money to donate a cow to the village.
Cattle are an important means of production for the production team in the future. Isn't it better to donate them to those idle people in the town?
Donating cattle means gaining a voice in the village, and perhaps even standing up straighter.
Tang Cuihua's words resonated deeply with the Tao family, and even Tao Tao couldn't help but nod in agreement.
My sister's dream was definitely worthwhile; look how thoughtful she was.
Sigh, she was also annoyed by the three generations of the 5th, 6th, and 7th, but since she was already here, she had no choice but to settle down.
There was no other choice. Her only advantage was that she wouldn't go hungry, and how important it was to be able to eat her fill in these three eras.
If she can just get through this, she'll be thirty years old too. That's terrifying.
Therefore, skipping a grade to take the college entrance examination is imperative.
The eldest sister clearly didn't have the idea of learning this; she was more focused on helping her younger sisters change their fate.
That's great.
Perhaps because she was the one who gave away those younger sisters, she felt a certain amount of guilt, which she could understand.
Unfortunately, the age difference between her and her sisters was too great, which made her feel restricted in everything she did.
The noodle shop in the front yard didn't quiet down. In the eyes of Zhou's adopted son, the two old people in the Zhou family must still have money. Especially now that their grandson has come to live with them, this adopted son has become aware of the crisis. If force doesn't work, he'll try the soft approach. He comes over every day to play the family card, either kneeling down and begging for forgiveness or crying and pleading for forgiveness.
The brothers Zhou Xing and Zhou Yue had no idea what they had gone through along the way, and they didn't bother to tell their cousin anything.
As long as he dared to come, they would dare to beat him up, each time with more brutality than the last. As soon as they saw him coming, their fists would clench, scaring the middle-aged man so much that he became obedient after being beaten three times.
That day, Grandma went to work in the fields and couldn't wait for her to wake up, so she asked the grandma in the front yard to help watch over her.
In the past, Grandma used to lock the gate to the yard, and Xiaojiu felt that this would deprive her of her freedom. She asked Grandma to just close the gate to the front yard, as she wanted to run around a bit. Grandma also felt sorry for her being kept at home, so she relaxed her control over her.
As an adult, after waking up, she dressed herself, washed up, ate the food her grandmother had heated on the stove, and even went to check on the chickens, ducks, and geese. Seeing that her grandmother had already fed them, she took the opportunity to chop up the fruit peels and vegetable leaves that her grandmother had eaten and threw them to the poultry and the mother and daughter sheep.
Now that they have ewes and lambs, they naturally have more to eat. Thanks to her occasional help, otherwise they might not even have enough grass to keep up with demand.
When she had nothing to do, she would sit on the doorstep and braid her hair, which was the main raw material for straw hats. She might work hard for most of the day and only get one or two pieces of maltose in return, but since she had nothing else to do, Grandma liked to do these things when she had nothing to do.
When I'm bored at home, I sit on the threshold of the main yard and watch the busy people coming and going in the front yard.
At first, she wasn't familiar with the two grandsons of the Zhou family, and she didn't dare to speak. Mainly, the eldest son was much more respectful of her, and they didn't have anything in common.
After coming in and out more often, the second son, Zhou Yue, would occasionally glance in her direction.
He was a bit dark-skinned, not very tall, and frighteningly thin, especially with a large burn scar on the back of his hand, which showed that his childhood was very unhappy. Neither of the brothers liked to talk much. Zhou Xing always had a cold face. Zhou Yue had been here for so long, and she hadn't heard him say a word, only occasionally making a sound from his nose. The grandparents took pity on the two children and would send them a portion of whatever good food they made.
Perhaps because of this past relationship, the Zhou brothers were relatively friendly to her. Although they still had cold faces, they knew to come over and say hello when they saw her sitting there alone.
"What are you doing?"
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