The sky was getting darker and darker. Wen Xin carried the suitcase, wrapped herself tightly in her military uniform, and followed the fat woman in front of her. Her skirt had long been dry, but she didn't dare to take off her military uniform because she found that everyone passing by was staring at her.
Occasionally one or two pedestrians would look back as they walked past.
These people dress very conservatively, without any style at all, and the colors are mostly gray, black, or gray-blue.
Several women with pigtails kept looking at her skirt and feet and whispering to her.
Wen Xin followed their gaze and looked at the hem of her skirt and shoes under her military uniform. Silk fabric is not eye-catching in modern times, but here, compared with the fabric they were wearing, it was as beautiful as the wind blowing the wheat waves.
Fortunately, she didn't wear high heels, but only a pair of linen cross-toed open-toed flats. Even so, she was still exquisite enough to attract people's attention.
Soon they crossed the road and turned into a place full of factories. As soon as they entered, they could smell the aroma of stir-fried meat with chopped green onions, and more people were coming and going.
"Sister Luo..."
"Sister Luo, are you back?" There were many young men who greeted her, and their eyes kept wandering to Wen Xin who was lying silently behind her.
A woman came out of the bungalow holding an empty bowl. When she saw them, she smiled and said, "Oh, you just came back? We're having meat buns in the cafeteria today. Hurry and get some. It'll be gone if you're late." Then she saw Wen Xin behind Luo Juan and said with a surprised look, "Don't mention it. Your Wen Xin has been in our meat processing factory for a month and has become more and more beautiful. When she first came, she was so thin and her eye sockets were burnt yellow. After only a few days, her little face is as tender as a peeled onion."
Luo Juan also laughed and replied, "There were too many children at home so we didn't take care of her. She was raised in the countryside after she was born, and she was raised like a wild girl. Now she's eighteen, and if she doesn't get herself ready, she won't be able to get married."
The woman laughed and said, "Why worry about your looks? Forget about anything else. There are so many young men in the meat processing factory who are eyeing you. Even my son said that he wants someone like Wen Xin from your family. You'd better choose carefully."
The two exchanged a few pleasantries and then parted ways. Luo Juan turned around and said, "Is your son worthy of that?"
Wen Xin was feeling very nervous. It seemed that she had really traveled through time and space in a book. Just now, when she passed by, she saw a house with an open window and something like a calendar pasted on the wall with the year 1979 written on it.
This made her feel confused. It was too unbelievable to travel through a book, and the world in the book was completely unfamiliar to her. She didn't know what to do and could only follow the mother of the supporting actress for the time being.
At the same time, she also thought of a very important question. She was wearing her own clothes, and she also had a familiar small rose gold diamond ring on her hand, so the question came.
She traveled through time and space, but what about the female supporting character of the same name in the original book?
Did her true self appear and the female supporting character in the book disappear?
What would she do if the supporting actress didn't disappear?
There is no clue about anything, so I can only take one step at a time.
Luo Juan was so angry before that she turned around to look at Wen Xin. As soon as she saw her hair, she scolded her angrily, "Your braids are so messed up. You look like a lunatic. It's embarrassing! Go back and comb your hair!"
Wen Xin looked at the supporting actress' mother who was not as tall as her and looked like a shrew. She didn't know where to start talking to her. She couldn't explain to her that the fluffy loose pigtails were popular in modern times and that this was the pastoral style.
I guess if she were to retort, the supporting actress's mother would find an opportunity to scold her again.
I had just arrived and was still confused, so I didn't want to provoke her.
She followed along and looked around. The women of that era in the books either had short hair that reached the ears, or had two long, sleek braids. It seemed that having neatly combed, smooth, and uncluttered hair was indeed considered beautiful.
"Where did you get this box?" Luo Juan suddenly saw the wicker suitcase in her hand.
Although her pastoral-style box is antique, its design is somewhat similar to that of Europe and the United States, and it is still very eye-catching. If you ask her to explain it, she doesn't know where to start.
For a moment, he also looked at the box and blinked, "It..."
"Your great aunt's?"
"Um……"
Luo Juan said with a gloomy face: "I have called the street, but no one has issued you a letter of certification. You want to leave? Just give up on this idea! Come with me to Yan's house tomorrow."
Wen Xin: “…”
Letter of certification?
In line with the principle of saying less and making fewer mistakes, she remained silent. She had not even finished reading the book.
From her tone, I can't just run away from home without a letter of certification from the street office? Is it an ID card or something like that? So, she can’t just leave now?
She casually asked what would happen if she didn't have the letter of proof, and Luo Juan sneered: "No letter of proof? You'll just have to sleep on the street and starve. There's no place for you to live, and no work unit will accept you."
Could it be that the female supporting character ran away from home because she didn't have a letter of proof and was tricked by the scumbag into going to a place like a dance hall?
Cold sweat dripping.
She is a person from the modern world, but she suddenly came to an era decades ago when the economy was in total decline. This is still the world in the book. Before she even starts to feel anything, she feels that the entire environment is unfriendly to her.
She felt like she didn't fit in here.
Does she really have to continue living in such a miserable environment?
She must not have woken up from the dream yet?
…
In this era, supply and marketing cooperatives and meat processing plants are the state-owned enterprises with the best employee benefits.
How many people are trying their best to get in. Not only are the bonuses high and the benefits good, but in the meat processing factory, for example, they would distribute pork ribs to their employees every now and then. In that era of material poverty, this was a treatment that made countless people's eyes turn red. Others could only eat one meal of meat a year, but the employees of the meat processing factory ate meat every day.
Wen Xin silently followed the female supporting character's mother Luo Juan, smelling the aroma of stewed and fried pork ribs, and passed through rows of staff dormitory buildings to an area with several two-story buildings. It seemed that this was where the meat processing factory committee and small leaders lived. There were relatively few people there, and each house had stairs.
After going up the stairs and reaching the door of a house on the second floor, Luo Juan opened the door.
Seeing three people eating around the table in the living room inside the door, Wen Xin looked around and let out a sigh of relief. Fortunately, she didn't see anyone with a face like her.
In other words, the supporting actress disappeared after she came here in her original form?
"Aren't you going to run away from home? Why don't you go far away? Mom will find you!" A girl about thirteen or fourteen years old said with a pout at the table.
Anyway, it wasn't about her. Wen Xin stood at the door and glanced at the room, ignoring the words. The house was not small, with about four bedrooms and a living room. There were some furniture that looked very old in her eyes, and there were meat buns and some meat dishes on the dining table.
There were three people sitting at the table, two men and one woman. The woman was the one who had just spoken, about thirteen or fourteen years old. The other two, one was in his forties, fat and big-eared, and seemed to be the girl's father, and the other was a boy of sixteen or seventeen years old.
Because there is no detailed description in the book, Wen Wen guessed that they were probably the supporting female character's younger brother and sister?
"What are you still doing standing at the door? Close the door!" Luo Juan turned around and said.
"Oh." Wen Xin then stepped in, turned around and gently closed the wooden door.
"Hurry up and change your clothes and come over for dinner." The supporting female character's father looked up at her and said something.
Wen Xin was just what she wanted. Fortunately, the dress she was wearing was covered by the military uniform. The uniform was relatively large and covered her buttocks, so the hem of her skirt was exposed. Fortunately, she was wearing a floral skirt, which was not too eye-catching under the dim yellow light if no one paid attention. She had to change her modern style skirt and shoes.
Otherwise, the clothes alone cannot explain it.
"Your room is inside, why are you pushing my door?" Wen Xin didn't know how to ask them where her room was. She only saw a girl's things hanging on a door, so she walked over to test it out. As expected, the girl shouted in annoyance when she saw it.
Wen Xin quickly found the room inside and opened the door.
"Mom, look at her, she's so weird!" the girl complained.
"Alright, alright, you're the only one who has too many things to do. She'll be gone tomorrow..."
After Wen Xin carefully closed the door, she breathed a sigh of relief, put the box aside, took off her military uniform, revealing a large area of snow-white skin.
The dress originally had straps on the shoulders, revealing a bit of her back, but the person who rescued her pulled them off, so it became a big V-neck, revealing a bit too much.
The room was not big, probably used to store sundries, and there were some things on the floor. She easily found the cabinet next to the bed, opened it and looked around. There were a few neatly folded clothes. Not to mention whether the styles were nice, the material was so rough that it pricked her hands.
She randomly picked up a white top with blue flowers and a pair of blue pants.
Then she took off her long skirt and put on her clothes.
Wen Xin: “…” It’s so ugly that I want to cry.
In order not to arouse suspicion, she put the long skirt into a box. Fortunately, although the box was made of rattan, it had a plastic layer inside, so the clothes inside were not wet. After locking it with a combination lock, she put it in the cabinet, then she fixed her hair and went out.
She came out, and none of the four people at the table looked up, they were still eating.
In the spirit of saying less and making fewer mistakes, she didn't say anything, but just found a seat and sat down.
"Whose military uniform are you holding?" The female supporting character's brother looked up at her first and saw that she was holding a man's military jacket in her hand.
"Your sister picked it up by the river." Luo Juan ate the garlic pork with big mouthfuls. She just thought Wen Xin wanted to die but failed, and climbed up by herself. She didn't expect someone to save her. After all, there was no one around when she chased after them.
The female supporting character's brother snatched the clothes away and said, "This shoulder strap is at least for a deputy regiment commander! Whose is this?"
Were there epaulettes in 1979? This is probably the setting of this novel.
Wen Xin saw the female supporting character's brother staring at her, so she said, "I don't know whose clothes were thrown by the river. Can you find the person?"
She took the clothes out and asked about them because she saw epaulettes on them. She also washed them and returned them to the owner. After all, not many people would wear military uniforms with epaulettes. The meat processing factory was near the river, so they should know where to find the owner of the clothes.
Wen Xin also wanted to know who that person was. She thought she was in a dream at the time, so she kissed him naturally. However, the other person seemed very angry and pushed her away and left. She didn't have time to say thank you, after all, the other person saved her life.
"He should be someone from the military compound. Let's go ask there tomorrow. Maybe we can establish some connections, which will be good for our son." Father Wen thought for a moment and spoke.
"I'll go tomorrow!" the female supporting character's younger brother said excitedly while holding the clothes.
"My son wanted to be a soldier, but you forced him to go to college. He was not cut out for studying. He finally got a place in the army, but was rejected. If I had known this earlier..." Luo Juan looked at her son's happy expression holding the military uniform, and complained with a little heartache.
"Bullshit! Can you blame me for this? If I hadn't done that, could I have been transferred to the meat processing plant as a director? Could I have got you into the factory? Could I have lived in such a big house? Could I have eaten meat every day?" Father Wen slammed the chopsticks in his hand on the table with a "pa".
Wen Xin was startled. Although Luo Juan acted arrogantly outside, the whole family remained silent after being scolded by Wen's father. The two children lowered their heads and buried their food in their bowls.
If Wen's father had not betrayed the Yan family to their mortal enemy, he would not have been transferred from the plastics factory to the meat processing factory, and later promoted to director. He also brought his wife and children in, lived in the best house in the factory, drank and ate meat every day, and had plenty of money to spend.
Besides, the Yan family was pushed down by everyone when it fell, and he was not the only one who took advantage of the situation. Many people were pushing the Yan family behind the scenes. Even without him, the Yan family would have fallen. Moreover, at that time, he didn't know that the Yan family would be rehabilitated so quickly.
"Okay, okay, let's eat. Our son is only sixteen. There's no rush. We can try to find some connections. Besides, there's Wen Xin. I'll send her over tomorrow." Luo Juan hurriedly tried to please and appease the furious father.
Wen Xin pretended to pick up some food and took a leaf of Chinese cabbage. She had already figured out the time in her mind. She had traveled to the period after the heroine was admitted to university from an educated youth. She was not Wen Xin at all. She was just the prototype of the female supporting role in this book, but not a character in this book.
Without the experience of the supporting female character in this world, it would be easy for her to be exposed in the Wen family. She thought that it would be better to go to the male protagonist's house to adapt first, and then think about what to do in the future. If it really doesn't work out, she can only learn from the supporting female character and go south. The original supporting female character was too naive to be deceived, but she would not be deceived, and instead would have more opportunities for development.
The certification letter seems a bit troublesome.
As soon as she thought of this, she realized that the supporting actress's sister had been staring at her since she had known for some time. When she saw her looking over, she immediately pulled Luo Juan, "Mom, there's something wrong with her!"
When she said this, the whole family looked at Wen Xin.
Wen Xin: “…”
"What's wrong?"
"She wasn't like this before! How could she be so smooth? Her eyes are different too!" The little girl stared at Wen Nu's skin and eyes like a sharp knife. Her eyes were black and bright, crystal clear, like autumn water. The corners of her eyes were slightly raised, with an indescribable charm. Her skin was white and tender, and under the light, the surface seemed to be naturally covered with a transparent film, bright and beautiful, making people envious and hateful. Not even a pore could be seen.
Moreover, as she sat opposite him, he could always smell a faint and alluring fragrance from her, a scent he had never smelled before, which would be emitted as she raised her arm to pick up some food.
"Well, it seems... a little different." Luo Juan looked at Wen Xin a few more times. "When she first came here, she was thin and her face was sallow. I guess it's because she ate too much meat in the past month. Her face has become a little plumper and whiter, and her eyes are prettier too." Luo Juan responded.
Father Wen and the female supporting character's younger brother are careless to begin with. Come to think of it, if they eat meat every day, their complexion will be better and smooth, right? Moreover, Wen Xin is the prettiest one in her family, and her handsome father is a little proud of her.
He himself was a big and strong man, and his wife was not very pretty either. But when Wen Xin was born, she did not look like them, but like her mother-in-law's sister, her aunt. It is said that Wen Xin's aunt was very beautiful and was selected to enter the palace, and later became a maid in the imperial kitchen.
After the change of dynasties, the palace maids were driven out of the palace, and her aunt went to live with her mother-in-law. The two sisters have always had a good relationship, so they settled down here. Wen Xin grew up with her aunt.
Later, after they had a pair of children, Wen Xin remained there until my aunt passed away, and then I brought them here a month ago.
Wen Xin is now much prettier than her aunt was back then, but his other two children are just like himself, with yellow skin, big round faces, small noses and small eyes, and are not as tender and pretty as Wen Xin.
"Mom, why did you give birth to her like that and make me so ugly? You are too partial!" The supporting actress's sister angrily shook her braids and said unconvincedly.
"What nonsense are you talking about, girl? I have the final say. Eat quickly and wash the dishes after you finish eating."
"Why don't you let her brush it!"
Luo Juan went up to her and twisted her, "Your sister is going to Yan's house tomorrow, and you still asked her to wash the dishes. You are ignorant. Just wash them when I ask you to!"
Wen Xin sat there, eyes on the nose, nose on the heart, as quiet as a chicken.
In fact, I was sweating inside. I almost got exposed. I was scared to death!
After dinner, Luo Juan went into the house and took out a yellow dress for Wen Xin.
"I asked someone to bring this skirt back from Hai City. It's the most popular style there. It cost me 80 yuan. You should pack up and wear this skirt to the Yan family tomorrow. I've asked around and the soldier son of the Yan family will be home tomorrow. We can go over and let him take a look at it..."
Wen Xin: “…”What? Want to see each other?
She knew the plot of this part of the book. When the mother and daughter first entered the military compound and arrived at Yan's house, the male protagonist was indeed there, sitting on the sofa downstairs. He did watch them, but they left in disgrace that time because the male protagonist only said three words when he saw them, "Get out!"
She glanced at the painful look in Luo Juan's eyes when she handed her the skirt, and at her sister in the kitchen who was staring at her and the skirt with jealous eyes like poison.
Wen Xin took the skirt and unfolded it carelessly to take a look...
Ugh...it's an eyesore!
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