Even selling things on the black market gets you pressured to get married?
The old woman's condescending and condescending gaze made Chu Yu very uncomfortable.
Fortunately, Chu Yu was a seasoned veteran and was used to such things.
Chu Yu answered with a smile, "Thirty-eight!"
The old woman was so shocked she almost dropped the ticket in her hand. "What? Thirty-eight? You don't look thirty-eight at all!"
Chu Yu sighed, "It's just that this face looks a bit young. I have to thank my parents for giving me good looks. My skin is fair and I don't get tanned, so of course I don't look old."
The old woman thought to herself, "This fair-skinned girl has such a good figure and such a fresh and beautiful appearance. She's simply blessed by God! I thought she was a young girl who was not even twenty years old. Who would have thought that she was already thirty-eight! In other words, this country girl is not much younger than me."
The old woman snapped out of her shock and asked, "So you've been married?"
"I've been married twice. My first marriage was to Dazhu from the same village, but he died while working on the river. He left behind two infants who needed to be fed, a disabled father, and a blind mother who needed me to take care of them. Can you believe how hard my life is for a woman like me?"
"Then what?"
"Then I remarried to Jianguo, a carpenter from the same village, and had five children. But my mother-in-law still wasn't satisfied with me and tormented me every day, saying I was a jinx! Just a few days ago, the carpenter said I was a jinx and died, so I had to sell quail eggs to support my seven children," Chu Yu wiped her face, a shy expression on her face. "By the way, Auntie, you just said you had someone there..."
When the old woman heard that the second marriage involved seven children, a blind mother-in-law, and a disabled father-in-law, her mouth immediately shut as if it had been sewn shut, and she dared not say another word.
Chu Yu laughed. Anyone can talk nonsense.
If someone is already well-off, would she even get a chance?
It's not that Chu Yu is being self-deprecating.
In the 1980s, the gap between urban and rural areas was huge, and urban and rural household registrations were worlds apart. Children with urban household registrations could go to school, take the entrance exam for local technical schools, and have jobs arranged by the government. Rural household registrations had no benefits at all. If the mother had a rural household registration, and the child's household registration followed the mother's, it would be difficult for her to do anything. It was precisely because Chu Yu knew the mindset of that time that she found the old woman suspicious.
Suddenly, darkness fell as a figure blocked out the sunlight. Just as Chu Yu was about to greet him, she saw the man with the cane from last time, his expression a mixture of amusement and unease.
"Auntie, how much are these quail eggs?"
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