Before Lin Wanjun could answer, Lin Pandi spoke first.
"That must be the case. You must be looking for Song Zhanjin!"
Lin Pandi turned and walked towards the Song family, saying, "We don't want the iron rice bowl at the slaughterhouse anymore, and I don't want to work as a female worker at the pharmaceutical factory anymore. I can't use my sister's life to buy myself a job."
Hearing this, Lin Wanjun was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
She grabbed Lin Pandi's arm and said with a smile, "Why are you so impulsive? Who said I was going to look for Song Zhanjin?"
"Sister, you don't know how much I love my job as a doctor. If I had to choose between my career and a man, if I had to die for one, I would definitely choose my career."
Lin Wanjun's gaze was firm and radiant.
"Love is just the icing on the cake. Only career can realize one's life value. Only a fool would die for a man!"
Although Lin Pandi didn't quite understand what Lin Wanjun said, and didn't know what the value of life was, she could hear that her younger sister valued her career more.
So she was no longer so excited.
"Really? You really won't go looking for Song Zhanjin?"
Lin Wanjun swore solemnly.
"I promise I will never go to the front lines for a man."
Well, I went to the front line for the sacred profession of being a doctor, which is to save lives and heal the wounded.
As she spoke, Lin Wanjun pushed Lin Panddi into the arms of her brother-in-law Peng Jinrun, and stuffed dozens of kilograms of food coupons and five kilograms of oil coupons into Lin Panddi.
"The Lantern Festival is coming soon, let's prepare something delicious for the children."
Lin Panddi looked at the food coupons in her hand and her sister's sincere and kind eyes. She sighed and hugged Lin Wanjun tightly.
"Little sister, remember this. No matter how she instigates and forces you, don't give in. Live your life according to your own wishes. Don't be anyone else's puppet or tool."
Lin Wanjun knew very well who "she" was.
It is the vicious female supporting character, Bai Guixiang, the biological mother who is so biased as to be close to the Pacific Ocean.
"Don't worry, if she dares to come to me, I will poke her mouth into pieces with my tickle."
Lin Wanjun smiled with her lips pursed, and Lin Pandi was also amused.
She later heard about Lin Wanjun's heroic deeds of returning to her parents' home and killing everyone. She also heard that Yaozu's mouth was stabbed badly and the pain lasted for several months.
"The Song family has been so good to us, you should live a good life."
Lin Pandi straightened her sister's collar and left with peace of mind.
She is not short, but next to her tall and mighty butcher husband, she still looks petite, with a bit of a bird-like posture.
After returning home, Lin Pandi asked her daughter and son to sit down, boiled the packed noodles in hot water, and mixed them with fragrant and delicious meat sauce.
The children were drooling with greed, but they still fed the first chopstick of noodles to their mother.
"Mom, you eat first."
Lin Pandi shook her head and said gently, "Your father and I are full. You guys eat."
She had said this many times, but only this time was it true.
She was really full. It had been a long time since she felt so full.
"After the Lantern Festival, Mommy will take you to school, okay?"
Lin Pandi gently stroked the children's hair, which had turned yellow due to malnutrition, with a gentle voice.
The children stopped eating and looked at their mother happily and cautiously.
"Really? Can we really go to school?"
When the elder sister's daughter looked at her younger brother, she hesitated and said, "Mom, let your younger brother go to school. I'm a girl anyway, and there's no point in studying. I'll get married when I grow up."
"Shut up, don't say that!"
Lin Pandi scolded her daughter harshly, tears welling up in her eyes.
"What's wrong with girls? What's wrong with boys? What's wrong with sisters? What's wrong with brothers? Remember, you don't owe anyone anything for coming into this world, including your parents and your brother."
"You don't need to sacrifice anything for others. You are just yourself. Just do what you want to do. Remember?"
The daughter didn’t quite understand what her mother said, but she was very happy.
What the aunt next door said is absolutely wrong. Girls are not money-losing goods. They are not tools to help their brothers earn money to marry wives.
Her mother asked her to go to school. She was the first girl in the alley to go to school.
Lin Pandi's home is cramped. Her daughter and son sleep on bunk beds in the south room, while she and her husband squeeze into the north room, which serves as both the kitchen, living room, and storage room.
Late at night, the two children fell asleep. After washing clothes, Lin Pandi dragged her tired body back to the house and pulled the curtain that blocked her view.
Peng Jinrun was making desks for his two children using scrap wood, which made "bang bang bang" sounds from time to time.
"Stop knocking, the children are asleep."
Lin Pandi sat on the wooden bed, looking at her husband's muscular back, her mind a little dazed.
When she was forced to marry Peng Jinrun, she felt resentful, unwilling, and afraid.
Peng Jinrun was more than ten years older than her. She was afraid that she would be unhappy for the rest of her life if she married an old man, so when she first got married, she didn't let Peng Jinrun touch her.
Peng Jinrun was not angry either. Every day when he came back from the slaughterhouse, he always had some good things in his arms.
Sometimes it was pork liver, sometimes it was pork fat. If she was lucky, she could even bring back a piece of good meat to satisfy her craving.
When she refused to do housework out of spite, he did it himself, cooking, washing dishes, folding quilts, and even washing her clothes. Silently, he touched her heart.
When his daughter was born the following winter, Peng Jinrun, who had always been steady and honest, was so excited that his eyes filled with tears. He knelt beside the bed, held her hand, called her name over and over again, and choked up so much that she almost cried.
She accepted her fate willingly.
"What's wrong? What are you thinking about?"
Peng Jinrun had washed his hands and took off his thick cotton coat beside the curtain.
His family was poor, so he only wore a cotton coat without even an undershirt. As the coat was unbuttoned, Peng Jinrun's muscular body was exposed to Lin Panddi's sight.
Lin Pandi's heart skipped a beat and her cheeks turned a little red.
"I was wondering, how did you resist touching me when I first married you?"
A fiery flash of light flashed in Peng Jinrun's eyes.
He walked to the bedside, half-knelt in front of his wife, unbuttoned her cotton coat and kissed her cheek.
"If I keep disagreeing, will you never touch me again?"
Lin Pandi let her husband undress her and let him pick her up with his strong arms.
The bed board was too thin and flimsy, so Peng Jinrun carried his wife to the wall, let her sit against a thick elm cabinet, and then he pressed on top of her.
This man is good in every way except that he is a bit of a fool. You can't get a single question out of me even after a long time.
Lin Pandi pushed her husband's shoulders and pressed her feet against his chest.
"Hey, I'm asking you a question!"
Peng Jinrun's eyes were blazing with fire. He grabbed her slender ankle and pulled her towards him...
When the love reached its peak, Lin Pandi could faintly hear Peng Jinrun's hoarse and affectionate voice.
"Not just any woman is worth my money. Only you are worth everything! For you, I am willing to give everything."
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