Chapter 1 Blind Date Failed
"Who's cooking? It smells so good!"
"Who else could it be? The Lin family. I don't understand why it smells so good when there's no meat smell."
"Who says it's not true? A lot of people died of starvation these days. Those who have food to eat should be thankful. Who is like the Lin family? They can even cook old vegetable stems to make them fragrant."
"Is it the third son of the Lin family who is cooking? The third son of the Lin family is an extraordinary chef, even better than the chef of a state-owned restaurant."
"What's the use of being good at cooking? You're still just a little fool."
"Alas, what a pity."
“........”
In the corridor on the second floor, Lin Qi, who was as thin as a paper man, clumsily scooped up the boiled vegetables and put them into a large enamel basin, filling the whole basin. There was only one basin of vegetables, accompanied by a basin of wild vegetable pancakes, which was dinner for a family of five.
After Lin Qi brought the dishes home and cleaned the kitchen utensils, Lin's mother also came back.
"Mom, wash your hands and eat!" The stiff words came out of Lin Qi's mouth one after another with difficulty.
Before Mother Lin could speak, she swallowed her saliva and asked, "Where are your father, brother and sister? Are they back?"
"Not yet. Sister, no, I'm going back." Lin Qi still spoke word by word, with exaggerated and weird mouth shapes. However, Lin's mother was used to her slowness and didn't care. Compared with her daughter who couldn't even speak and had no reaction to the outside world before, now she can speak and cook for the family, which is a great improvement.
After all, for the previous sixteen years, they all thought that she would remain stupid until the end of her life.
The current situation is something she never dared to dream of before, she should be satisfied. Mother Lin comforted herself in her heart.
However, the fact is that people will never be satisfied. After her daughter was no longer stupid, she began to think about how nice it would be if her daughter could be like a normal person, live like a normal person, marry like a normal person, and have children...
"Oh~" Mother Lin shook her head and sighed.
Lin Qi, who was in the room, heard the sigh and paused. The next second, she walked into the room as if nothing had happened, opened the drawer of the desk, and took out a glass bottle filled with brightly colored objects.
"Didn't you say yesterday that you had finished the ketchup?" Mother Lin asked curiously.
Lin Qi raised her eyes and glanced at Lin's mother, "Sister, take it."
If she didn't tell him that there was no more, her sister would keep asking her until she "took away" the last bottle of ketchup.
Thinking of the precedent of her eldest daughter, Lin's mother sighed, "Last time she took two bottles of ketchup, and I don't know who she gave them to? Is she dating someone? Qiqi, has your sister mentioned it to you?"
Lin Qi shook her head, took an empty bowl, and poured ketchup into it. Halfway through, she heard her mother exclaim, "Enough, enough, too much!"
"No, not too much! Brother, I like it!" Lin Qi continued pouring and didn't stop until she had a full bowl.
Her brother Lin Mo liked sweet things. Three years of disaster had just passed, and the autumn grain had not yet been harvested. It was still a problem to have enough food. Sugar was more expensive than oil, and they could not eat it once a month. Only the tomato sauce she made, sweet and sour, mixed with wild vegetable cakes, was his brother's favorite.
"Just spoil your brother, be careful that your sister won't get jealous!" Mother Lin tapped Lin Qi's forehead with her finger, her eyes full of love, "There's only a tomato tree in a small flowerpot, and it hasn't withered for more than half a year. How did you do it?"
Thanks to the tomato tree, their family either makes cold tomatoes or tomato sauce. For more than half a year, there has never been a shortage of tomatoes in their home. If I tell others about this, no one would believe it!
This little girl is not stupid. Although she can't speak fluently, she has skills that others don't have. She can grow flowers, grass and vegetables without any guidance. She is not much different from other authentic farmers.
She had grown flowers and vegetables in her small pot. Finally, when she learned that her brother liked to eat ketchup, she started growing tomatoes.
If she were in the countryside, it shouldn't be difficult for her to support herself.
But the countryside——
Mother Lin shook her head. Life in the countryside was hard and she couldn't bear to let her little girl suffer.
Before Mother Lin sat down, Father Lin and Elder Brother Lin came back.
"Why are you frowning?" As soon as they entered the room, Mother Lin noticed that the atmosphere between the two was unusual.
"It's okay." Lin's father replied, rolling up his sleeves and walking towards the faucet, "Let's eat first."
Mother Lin looked at Father Lin's back, then turned to look at her eldest son, while Lin Mo simply lowered his head and avoided her sight.
"Something must have happened." Mother Lin muttered, feeling uneasy. After three years of hardship, the family was left with nothing, and could not afford any more misfortune.
Lin Qi calmly put the dishes on the table. No matter how big the matter is, nothing is more important than filling your stomach.
The four people each had their own thoughts, but that did not affect their good appetites. The vegetables and wild vegetable cakes, as well as the full bowl of ketchup, were all eaten up cleanly, with nothing left.
Lin Qi stood up to clean up the dishes, but Lin's mother was one step faster than her, "Let me do it, you take your time, by the time you finish, it will be dark."
Lin Qi was not upset about being criticized for being slow. She stood up and said, "I'm going to take a shower."
"You wash every day, and you don't feel tired." Lin's mother complained but did not stop her.
"No, I don't like it." Lin Qi went back to her room to get clothes, towels and soap, and then went to get a basin, and walked downstairs slowly step by step.
There is a public bathhouse nearby. A bath with hot water costs one cent, while cold water costs only two cents. The three workers in the Lin family can get a lot of bath tickets every month. Lin Qi used the tickets of her family members and didn't spend any money.
An hour later when she finished her bath, she returned to the second floor and saw her second sister lying on her door with her ear against it.
"Sister." Lin Qi greeted her second sister.
"Shh!"
The second sister Lin Miaomiao raised her index finger and warned Lin Qi with her eyes.
Lin Qi was not afraid of this sister, but she was curious about what the three people inside were talking about, so she shut her mouth obediently and covered her ears with the old door panel.
"Didn't we agree to meet this weekend? Why are we meeting today?" Thinking of the expressions of the father and son when they came in tonight, Lin's mother had a bad feeling in her heart, "Is it over there--"
"Mom, I'm not suitable for her." Lin Mo interrupted Lin's mother, saying in a tone that he didn't want to talk any more.
"Why is it inappropriate?" Lin's mother was anxious, "You don't like her?"
"People look down on me." Lin Mo said and walked towards the room.
Mother Lin glared at her, "She is 23, you are 22; she has no job, you do; her family has nine people, two rooms, our family has five people, two larger rooms; three people in their family have jobs, and so do we; she is less than 1.6 meters tall, you are 1.8 meters tall; she has spots on her face, you have thick eyebrows and big eyes... Why does she look down on you?"
Mother Lin's chest heaved violently. No mother wanted to see her child being disliked.
She had clearly lowered her conditions——
"It was the eldest who wanted to live with the third child, but the girl disagreed." Father Lin, who had been silent the whole time, spoke up. He sighed heavily, "If she doesn't want to, forget it. We can find another one. The three difficult years have just passed, and there are many families who are eager to marry off their daughters. We can always find one willing to accept the third child."
During the three difficult years, it was difficult to even feed one’s family. People were lucky if they didn’t starve to death. No one wanted to have an extra pair of chopsticks at home. So during these three years, marriages almost stopped. Now that the three difficult years are over, you can see families marrying off daughters and daughters-in-law everywhere.
Upon learning that the rejection was due to her little girl, Lin's mother frowned, "The third child is not stupid anymore, and can cook. Your father and I are taking care of him, so we don't need you. Didn't you tell the girl about this?"
"He didn't say that. I did mention it." Father Lin smiled bitterly, "But she said that after she gets married, we have to separate the family."
There are only two rooms in the house, how to divide the family?
Besides, their family can't afford a daughter-in-law who has alienated their eldest son from his parents and younger sister before she even gets married.
"I will take care of my sister, and I will also take care of you and dad. If no one can accept this, then I would rather not marry." Lin Mo's words were loud and clear, and he was very persistent on this matter.
"You'd rather not get married? You bastard!" Mother Lin was so angry that she raised her hand and slapped her eldest son on the back. "Your father and I are not old yet. We don't need you to take care of us. Your sister doesn't need you to take care of us either!"
“.......”
Outside the door, Lin Qi stood up straight with her lips tightly pursed.
"Did you hear that?" Lin Miaomiao glanced at her "silly" sister, her tone full of injustice, "Because of you, this is the sixth time that big brother has been rejected. If it weren't for you, with our big brother's job in the machinery factory, he could marry any woman he wanted."
Rejected for the sixth time?
Lin Qi had mixed feelings. Although she had only been in this body for a year, the only people who treated her best during this year were Lin Mo and Lin Ma. She accepted this body and the brother-sister relationship with Lin Mo. When she heard that Lin Mo was even planning not to marry because of her, Lin Qi felt a little warm in her heart and her nose was astringent.
Lin Miaomiao, who was standing by, looked at her silly sister who remained silent, and immediately became furious. She grabbed Lin Qi's arm and dragged her downstairs.
Lin Qi, who was clumsy, stumbled and tripped over her left foot, and almost fell several times. After leaving the yard, she was lifted up by her sister by the collar, like a little chicken, weak and skinny, and pressed against the wall.
"For your brother, you have to leave our house!" Lin Miaomiao gritted her teeth and looked straight at Lin Qi. If there was a hint of displeasure in her sister's eyes, she would beat her up.
Lin Qi was only surprised, but then she felt it was reasonable. If she continued to stay at home, it would not only be bad for Lin Mo's marriage, but also for Lin Miaomiao's marriage. After all, with a foolish sister, no one could guarantee that they would not give birth to foolish offspring.
It seems that leaving would be better for everyone in the family.
"Where to go?" After thinking it through, Lin Qi didn't mind leaving.
"Don't worry, you are my sister after all, I can't hurt you. Aren't you good at growing things? Then go to the countryside and be an educated youth." Lin Miaomiao said with a look of good for you, with a little regret, "Sister originally planned to apply for you to the military corps. The educated youth in the military corps have a fixed amount of food and oil subsidies, and they also get a salary every month. But that corps is full, your ketchup is not good enough, and the connection didn't work."
Lin Qi raised her eyes. "Educated Youth from the Corps?" What was that?
Lin Qi, who has been in this body for less than a year, knows very little about this world. However, judging from the tone of Lin Erjie, being an educated youth in the Corps should be better than going to the countryside.
After Lin Qi agreed, Lin Miaomiao didn't even go home, she turned around and left again. Her anxious look showed her determination to send this foolish sister away. Before she left, she reminded Lin Qi, "Keep this a secret, don't tell my parents and my elder brother."
"Even if you didn't starve to death, you would have been sent away by your family and would not have survived in the end." Lin Qi said in her heart, feeling sorry for the foolish original owner.
He lived foolishly until he was sixteen, and finally starved to death on a cold winter night.
Death may not be a relief for her.
I hope you will be healthy and happy in your next life.
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