Chapter 1 Rebirth 1976
2024, Beijing City, China, First People's Hospital.
Inside the clean white ward, an old woman with a tired face was lying on the bed.
Wrinkled fingers stroked an old, tattered black-and-white photo.
It can be seen that she has looked at and touched this photo countless times.
The photo shows a man and a woman sitting side by side.
I still remember that this photo was taken in the summer of 1984. The woman in the photo was 25 years old and the man was 30 years old.
This was taken when they were applying for their marriage certificate.
The man in the photo has a handsome face with sharp edges and is really heart-warming, but his life was frozen in the winter of 1987.
And the woman's face was filled with a warm and happy smile.
"Gu Nan, I can't seem to hold on any longer."
"Thirty-seven years, thirty-seven years without you. I have tried hard to live well."
"I have saved tens of thousands of people, but I have no chance to save you."
"I miss you so much, so much, so much..."
The old woman's eyes, which were still clear, instantly became cloudy due to the overflowing tears.
The various instruments used to detect vital signs also slowly returned to normal.
"Teacher Su!!"
"Professor Su!"
“Woo woo…”
At this moment, everyone in the ward was shrouded in intense sadness. The master of medicine, the great medical genius, completely perished at this moment.
…
"Su Niannian! I'm talking to you, did you hear me?"
"If you don't agree to go to the countryside in place of your brother, then I will marry you off. There is someone in the next county who is willing to pay a 200 yuan gift and is waiting to marry you."
"Even though he has two children and his legs and feet are not very agile, he is an honest and decent person, so this is a good place for him to go!"
Two hundred yuan as a betrothal gift! In 1976, that was a lot of money.
If that man wasn't a widower with two children, if that man wasn't disabled, or if Su Niannian wasn't so beautiful, how could he have had a dowry of 200 yuan?
Anyway, if Su Niannian didn't agree to go to the countryside instead of Li Junlang, Tao Chunhua would sell her to the widower for two hundred dollars.
When Su Niannian heard the sharp and noisy voice beside her, her scattered consciousness was gradually brought back to life.
Looking around, I saw a small room with simple wooden furniture. The walls that were originally covered with old newspapers had turned dark yellow with the passage of time.
At this time, Su Niannian was sitting on a small stool leaning against the wall.
At this time, Tao Chunhua was pointing her finger at Su Niannian and talking with saliva flying.
Su Niannian's father was sitting next to the dining table, puffing on his pipe without making a single sound.
There was a peeling enamel pot on the wooden table, filled with cheap tea leaves that were emitting steam.
On the calendar near the door, the eye-catching red year 1976 stimulated Su Niannian's heart.
Old memories suddenly flooded Su Niannian's mind.
Am I...reborn?
Back to the time in 1976 when people were not yet forced to go to the countryside?
In her previous life, Su Niannian’s mother died when she was six years old. Su Niannian remembered that it was a late autumn and the cold river water swallowed her mother’s life.
She became a motherless child.
Within two months, my father married Tao Chunhua.
Tao Chunhua was a widow from the same village and had a son named Li Junlang who was one year older than her.
Later, Tao Chunhua gave birth to a son and a daughter for her father.
In front of outsiders, Tao Chunhua does everything she can to save her face, so that no one can find any fault with her.
At home, Su Niannian was always treated like a maid and manipulated by her.
If Su Niannian did something that did not please Tao Chunhua, she would beat Su Niannian ruthlessly.
But Tao Chunhua was smart enough. She hit Su Niannian in places that could be covered by clothes, and she was too embarrassed to let others know.
She endured it all the time until 1976, when Tao Chunhua asked Su Niannian to go to the countryside to replace her non-blood-related brother.
Su Niannian started working in a garment factory at the age of sixteen, earning twenty yuan a month. As long as a young person has a formal job, they do not need to go to the countryside.
Since his two younger brothers and sisters were still young, the task of going to the countryside fell on Li Junlang.
Li Junlang has no job and is idle all day long. How could he agree to go to the countryside to work hard?
So, Tao Chunhua is forcing Su Niannian to go to the countryside instead of Li Junlang, and in this way, Su Niannian's job in the garment factory can be sold for money!
He is very good at calculating.
In her previous life, Su Niannian agreed to go to the countryside in order to avoid marrying a divorced man with a lame leg. Fortunately, she was smart enough to sell her job at the garment factory before leaving.
He sold it for 200 yuan, and set off for the countryside with the money and a few tickets he had saved from his previous frugality.
If you save two hundred yuan, you can live a well-fed and warm life in the countryside.
As a result, he was tortured by Lu Xingguang and Huang Yingying, two educated youths in Kaoshan Village. He was blamed for everything, framed for stealing, and accused of having promiscuous relationships.
Even the money was taken away by the two sweet-talkers.
Just when Su Niannian was at her wit's end, the news of the resumption of the college entrance examination was announced.
Relying on her own efforts and past learning foundation, Su Niannian managed to get into an ordinary university.
Just when Su Niannian returned to the city to prepare to go to college, Tao Chunhua tricked Su Niannian into giving her college admission letter to her son.
One night, Tao Chunhua drugged Su Niannian and brought in a gangster, hoping that the gangster would rape Su Niannian.
It turned out that the gangster was in poor health, but he liked to torture young girls, leaving Su Niannian with scars of varying sizes.
Tao Chunhua even gave the gangster a hundred yuan for this, and asked him not to let Su Niannian come out again and to keep her under good care, so that there would be no mistakes in his son's impersonation to go to college.
Su Niannian was locked up by gangsters in a dark storage room.
He endures physical and mental torture from gangsters every day.
It was not until one day when the gangster was caught for committing a crime that she escaped from that dark, dirty and disgusting place.
Then, I met Gu Nan again.
The only man who had ever given her a little warmth in Kaoshan Village.
But Su Niannian at that time had already lost all hope. Her body and mind were devastated beyond recognition. She didn't want to accept anyone again. Even though her body was not violated, she... felt disgusted when she saw men!
For two years, Gu Nan took care of Su Niannian in every possible way, helping her find herself again.
It made her begin to accept everything around her and rekindled her hope to live.
At that time, Gu Nan was like a dazzling light, slowly illuminating her dark, cold and hopeless world.
In 1984, Gu Nan proposed to Su Niannian.
In fact, Su Niannian was also afraid of dragging down Gu Nan, as he had already achieved success in his career at that time and was as bright as the sun.
Thirty-year-old Gu Nan looks mature and steady, does things properly, and has a great figure and appearance.
How can I, who am exhausted both physically and mentally, be worthy of a man like him? Until he said that he was deeply attracted to Su Niannian from the first time he saw her.
He has been waiting for a long, long, long time.
Looking at Gu Nan's eyes filled with love for her, looking at the deep affection in Gu Nan's eyes... Su Niannian still agreed to Gu Nan's proposal.
The days after marriage were the happiest, most stable and most joyful days in Su Niannian's life.
Unfortunately, the hemp rope always breaks at the thinnest part, and bad luck always entangles the unfortunate...
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