Chapter 2 002 Arrived Home
Shu Jinyue lives in a period novel with an unfinished ending.
Their family lives in the compound at No. 16 Liuye Hutong. According to the fragmented and incomplete plot, the eldest brother will become a great writer in the future, the second brother will be a big boss, and the third sister is even more powerful. Not only is she stunningly beautiful, she will also marry a technical tycoon and live in love with him...But Shu Jinyue has been stupid since childhood, has not studied well, has an ordinary appearance, and because of his twisted personality, he often makes jokes and is laughed at by everyone as the little straw bag of the Shu family.
Of course, the protagonists of the novel are the third sister Shu Wenyun and her brother-in-law Xu Siqi.
Xu Siqi is tall and handsome. He is studying at the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University. He is a true young talent.
The key is that he has a good pair of parents. His father Xu Ping is the new director of Shucheng Machinery Factory, and his mother Zhang Zhen is a surgeon at the Municipal Hospital. Even if it is just a blind date, it is still considered marrying up for the Shu family, who are ordinary urban residents.
Of course, the guy Shu Jinyue from her previous life didn’t fall in love with him, but he fell in love with his stepsister Shu Wenyun who accompanied her.
Shu Wenyun is one year older than her and is a famous beautiful girl in Liuye Hutong. Standing next to her, Shu Jinyue looks like a child who has not grown up. Any male with normal aesthetic taste knows who to choose.
When she was a child, Xiao Jinyue was also troubled. She ate the same food and wore the same clothes, but why was her sister prettier and more popular than her? It was not until she grew up that she realized that they were not related by blood at all.
After Xiao Jinyue's biological father passed away, her mother remarried and took her to the Shu family. Maybe she was too young, she had no memory of things before the age of three. In addition, her stepfather Shu Linong treated her very kindly, always holding her on his lap and teaching her to recite ancient poems and write her name. She had everything that Shu Wenyun had, and in her heart she had already regarded him as her biological father.
Shu Linong and his ex-wife have two sons and one daughter: the eldest, Shu Wenyan, followed in his father's footsteps and currently teaches Chinese in a street primary school; the second, Shu Wenming, works as a temporary worker in a vegetable store, selling cucumbers, tomatoes and the like, and has not yet found a wife; the third, Shu Wenyun, is one year older than Jin Yue, but has been smart since childhood and skipped grades. Jin Yue has just graduated from junior high school, but she has been a substitute teacher for a year after graduating from high school.
Shu Jinyue's grades were not even average, and she failed the high school entrance exam. She was just at the age to take over, so her mother, who was a nurse at the district hospital, asked her to take over. However, Shu Wenyun happened to lose her job as a substitute teacher at that time, and cried, saying that her boyfriend would break up with her if she went to the countryside. As long as she was given a year, her boyfriend's family promised to arrange a job for her as long as they got married, and then she could return the job in the district hospital to Jinyue.
Zhao Wanqiu disagreed, but Shu Jinyue was a little fool, and she agreed obediently after her sister coaxed her. In addition, she made so many jokes every day, and Zhao Wanqiu was afraid that she would cause bigger trouble if she went to work in the hospital, so she had to agree after thinking about it.
Only Shu Linong disagreed. He said that there were too many variables in a year. What if the man's family changed their mind? What if Jin Yue couldn't come back from the countryside? But Shu Wenyun insisted, so Shu Jin Yue patted her chest and said that she was willing. She wanted to build the vast rural areas with her junior high school classmates and would not return to the city until she made some achievements.
Shu Jinyue still remembers that when she left home, Shu Linong caught up with the bus and secretly gave her two hundred yuan, which was almost a year's salary for him. Later, he often wrote to her, asking about her life in the countryside. He was always worried that she didn't have enough money, so he always enclosed five or six yuan in pocket money.
Not long after, because she had offended the captain's family, her letters were searched and confiscated, and later she could not even receive any letters. The young educated youth did not have any home visit leave in the first two years, and she thought Shu Linong had become estranged from her. Thinking of what the neighbors said, "A stepfather is not as good as a biological father," she gradually felt uncomfortable. On impulse, she even wrote a letter of questioning, but she did not receive a reply. Sadly, she sent Shu Linong a letter of breaking off relations.
Since then, she has completely cut off contact with her family.
It was not until she died and turned into a ghost that she realized that Shu Linong was also very angry with her. The following year, her mother broke her leg and was confined to a wheelchair and needed someone to take care of her. When he had time to come to the countryside to see her, he received the news of her death.
After that, every year on her death anniversary, the old man would travel thousands of miles to Yangcheng to sweep her grave, buy her favorite candied haws, and sit in front of her grave for most of the day.
Shu Jinyue's mind was filled with thoughts of her past life and present life, with the original novel's plot interspersed from time to time. She was in a daze. When she woke up again, the conductor was announcing, "The train is about to reach its final stop." She knew that they had arrived at the bookstore.
The two ladies on the opposite side had gotten off the bus at some point. She quickly took out another old cotton-padded jacket from her luggage bag and put it on outside. She stuffed the washbasin, green rubber shoes and old towel into the net bag and put it tightly around her wrists. While everyone was busy packing their luggage, she slipped to the window like a loach.
As soon as the train stopped, he jumped out of the wide-open window as quickly as possible, holding the net bag.
He did it in one go, one step faster than the guys at other car windows, and everyone was stunned.
So, when Shu Jinyue was the first to rush out of the train station, she breathed in the freshest cold wind of the Book City. In her previous life, she was slow and had to squeeze with the crowd. When she arrived at the bus stop, she discovered that the letter of introduction, money and food coupons she had on her had been stripped away.
This time, at least she protected her belongings.
After thinking for a long time, he finally remembered where the bus stop was. Shu Jinyue squeezed onto the bus bound for Liuye Hutong. Looking at the unfamiliar streets, familiar memories came to his mind.
She had lived here for sixteen years, but ever since she returned to the countryside after the blind date failed, she has never been back. After her death, she only saw the rapid development of this provincial capital on her mobile phone and TV. It was demolishing and building almost every day, and it was slowly turning into a vibrant modern metropolis.
"Oh, isn't this Jin Yue?" Aunt Zhao just walked to the door of the public toilet and rubbed her eyes. "I thought I saw it wrongly. Are you on home visit leave?"
"Aunt Zhao, it's me."
"Teacher Shu, Wanqiu, your Jinyue is back!" Aunt Zhao didn't even have time to empty the urinal and pulled Shu Jinyue to run to Yard No. 16.
The familiar bluestone pavement, the familiar red walls and gray tiles, and even the carvings on the screen wall at the entrance are exactly the same as I remember... so real!
Just as she was thinking, she was pulled into the arms of the slightly fatter Zhao Wanqiu, who touched her from head to toe, "Girl, you are finally back. You are thinner and taller. When you left, you were only as tall as my eyebrows, but now you are almost as tall as me."
Although her mother often called her a little straw bag and said she was stupid, which was what she hated the most in her previous life, when she smelled the familiar smell on her body again, Shu Jinyue's voice became hoarse, "Mom."
"Hey, I'm glad you're back. Hurry up and go inside. Lao Shu, go buy breakfast for our daughter. Make sure you buy her favorite..."
Shu Linong, who had been silent nearby, immediately responded: "Her favorite Liu's big meat buns and Yang's fried dough sticks are waiting!" He even borrowed the bicycle of Aunt Zhao's third son.
The slums in this area were all inhabited by employees from nearby factories and mines. Because of Shu Linong's work, the Shu family was allocated two rooms nearby, located in the east wing, which were kept clean and tidy by Zhao Wanqiu.
A skinny young man of about 28 or 29 came out of the door. It was Shu Wenming who was rushing to work.
"Second brother."
Shu Wenming was stunned. "You are Xiaocao, uh... Shu Jinyue?"
Shu Wenming has a long face, single eyelids, thin lips, and side bangs that shorten the length of his face. According to the aesthetic standards of later generations, he is a handsome man with single eyelids. Unfortunately, my family is poor, I have neither a house nor a formal job, and I still don’t have a partner.
I don’t know if it’s because he’s been single for too long or because he hasn’t been having good luck at work, but he has a bad temper and is always the opposite of his stepmother, Zhao Wanqiu. As a result, Shu Jinyue, who is ten years younger than him, is also not liked by him.
So the brother and sister passed each other without saying anything.
"Your sister was on night shift last night, and she didn't get home until a while after handing over her shift." Zhao Wanqiu took a feather duster and dusted her body. "The hot water is in the pot, go take a bath first."
Shu Jinyue didn't go to bed either. She had been staying in the same clothes on the train for three days and three nights, and she was bored with it.
There is no bathhouse in the compound. Each family washes and wipes themselves in their own room. People usually only enjoy the pleasure of going to a bathhouse in the twelfth lunar month before the New Year. Zhao Wanqiu carried the hot water into the next room, mixed it, and closed the door. Shu Jinyue wiped himself with the warm water and felt much more comfortable. However, he was afraid of catching a cold, so he didn't dare to wipe himself any longer. He changed into clean clothes and immediately opened the door shivering.
"My previous clothes were too big for me."
This means that in the past three years, apart from growing a little taller, she has actually lost weight. She just found out that she is nearly 1.6 meters tall and weighs less than 80 kilograms. Zhao Wanqiu felt distressed as she put the clothes she had taken off into the used bath water and rubbed them.
"Hurry up and wipe it off, be careful not to catch a cold." Looking at her daughter's yellow and fuzzy hair that looked like a little chicken, she felt sad. "It's good that you're back. We'll try to get things done within half a month."
As for what she was going to do, she guessed that her daughter had already guessed it, because she had not asked her about her "serious illness" since she came home, which meant that she knew that she had tricked her into coming back.
Yes, after experiencing the hardships in the countryside, it’s time for Jinyue to grow up.
Soon, Shu Linong came back with fried dough sticks and buns, but he was reluctant to buy more. He only bought one of each and put it in his chest pocket. When he took it out, it was still steaming.
"Come on, eat. We've had breakfast with your second brother."
Shu Jinyue was not polite either. She was so hungry that she finished a bun in three bites. She didn't even have time to taste it. When it was the fried dough sticks' turn, she could finally taste them bite by bite. They were so delicious!
It was Shu Linong who doted on her. There were not many children in the whole compound who could eat fried dough sticks for breakfast. When she was a child, the children in Liuye Hutong envied the Shu sisters the most. Every morning after payday at school, they would have Yang's fried dough sticks for breakfast.
Just as I was thinking about it, a crisp voice came from the door, "I heard that Jin Yue is back, where is he?"
When the door curtain was opened, Shu Jinyue was dazzled by the beauty in front of him: she was over 1.7 meters tall, which was rare among lesbians. The red turtleneck sweater made her neck look slender, like an elegant white swan. She had snow-white skin, black and shiny pigtails, and bright and generous facial features... Even though he had seen many beauties of different styles on his mobile phone, Shu Jinyue had to sigh that Shu Wenyun was really beautiful.
No wonder Xu Siqi fell in love with her at first sight.
On the other side, the old couple kept asking Jin Yue about her life in the countryside, and she chose to give simple answers.
"Is anyone giving you any trouble?" Shu Wenyun held her hand with concern.
"good."
"Is there... that is... hey, if you are embarrassed by someone, you can tell your parents."
Shu Jinyue moved her toes, feeling strange as to why her third sister seemed to care so much about the fact that someone was making things difficult for her. But now was not the time to say it, so she didn't plan to bring it up for the time being.
"What does 'okay' mean? You kid, you haven't spoken properly in three years." Although Zhao Wanqiu complained, she felt more distressed. When her daughter left, she was still a silly little girl, but now she has learned to hide her emotions.
Shu Linong winked at her to stop nagging, and coughed lightly, "Wen Yun, go to school later and tell your eldest brother to ask your eldest sister-in-law if she has had a day off, and ask them to go home for dinner tonight. Also, tell your second brother to go home as soon as possible after get off work, and don't delay, because there will be a family meeting tonight."
Jin Yue felt that Shu Wenyun's hands stiffened slightly, and soon she smiled and agreed: "Okay, let's eat dumplings."
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