Chapter 1 Jumping into the River
"Su Taotao was the one who shamelessly married Zhengtu. In the three years since we got married, you have treated her well and treated her like a ancestor. Now that the child is almost two years old, she says she can't stand it anymore and wants to divorce and return to the city. What kind of thing is this? Abandoning her husband and child? What will happen to the child and Zhengtu if she just walks away?"
"Yes, Auntie, your family treated her too well, that's why she has such a lawless character. I said that she would be obedient if she was beaten up. Even if you break her legs, you can't let her go back to the city like this."
"Yes, even if we want to let her go back to the city, we have to wait until Zheng Tu comes back to have the final say. We can't just let her go like this."
A voice in the corner asked faintly, "What if Zhengtu can't come back?"
Everyone turned their heads and spat at the corner: "Pfft, pfft, pfft, I spit and said that you can't come back!"
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Everyone was discussing the matter with righteous indignation. Fu Zhengtu's mother Zhou Linglan held her poor grandson in one hand and wiped her tears with the other, choking and saying, "What if she jumps into the river again? Nothing is more important than human life. We can't keep the golden phoenix in this pheasant's nest. If she wants to leave, let her go."
The eldest aunt had always looked down on this weak and incompetent sister-in-law: "Second brother's family, it's your doughy temper that allowed her to bully you. Aren't you really afraid that she will blame you when she returns from the expedition? And what about Chen Chen? What should he do? She is not a thing, but she is also his own mother. The woman from the city is really cruel. Even animals know how to protect their cubs, but she doesn't even want Chen Chen."
Fu Guoqiang tugged at his mother's sleeve, signaling her not to say such things again: "Second Aunt, at worst we can tie her up with a rope, and we'll take turns to keep an eye on her for you. She definitely won't be able to run away."
The eldest aunt slapped her thigh and said, "That's it. If she dares to run again, we will break her legs and tie her to the beam. She really thinks there is no one in our Fu family. She is so rebellious!"
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The leader of the production team, my uncle Fu Dongliang, took a puff of his cigarette and frowned to interrupt the discussion: "Don't worry, she can't run away. I won't issue a certificate. She can't buy a train ticket even if she gets to the town. But we can save her once, but not ten times. If a person is determined to commit suicide, there are more ways than just jumping into the river."
When the captain said this, everyone looked at each other in silence.
A few days ago, there was an educated youth in the neighboring brigade who was so afraid of the enemy that he even drank alcohol in order to return to the city. He was really not afraid of death in order to return to the city.
Zhou Linglan's tears fell even more fiercely. After wiping them away fiercely, she picked up her frail grandson, stood up and bowed: "Thank you for your hard work today. You can go back first. I will talk to Taotao when she wakes up. However, no matter what the result is, it is the life of our Zhengtu and the life of the second branch of our Fu family. You can all go back."
"This..." The aunt wanted to say something.
Fu Guoqiang pushed her shoulders and walked out: "Okay, mother, Second Auntie knows what's going on. Let's go back first."
Aunt-in-law: "Don't let her push you around this time. No one can help you unless you stand up for yourself..."
In fact, everyone in the production team wanted to get rid of this disaster and return to the city as soon as possible, but as the saying goes, it is better to demolish ten temples than to destroy a marriage. Besides, the child is still so young. Although it is the same whether this mother exists or not, she is still different after all.
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Su Taotao was still thinking about what a messy dream she had in a half-asleep state. It seemed so real.
When I opened my eyes, what caught my eye was a pitch-black tile roof. The shaky beams showed that this house was quite old. It could no longer be described as dilapidated; it was a dangerous building.
Su Taotao quickly closed her eyes, hoping that the dream would pass quickly.
Suddenly, Su Taotao felt a sharp pain in her temples. Memories that did not belong to her were like shots in a movie being rewound, replaying in her mind frame by frame.
In just a dozen minutes, she seemed to have seen the first half of a female educated youth's life. No, to be more precise, it was the unfortunate life of an extremely good female educated youth.
She actually traveled through a book!
She was transported to a period novel that she had read not long ago. Unfortunately, she was not transported to be the heroine with a golden finger and the power of space, but to be an extremely excellent female supporting role!
This clichéd plot that brought bad luck to the supporting female character even made Su Taotao, who had the same name as the character, feel so uncomfortable that she didn't even want to complain.
After graduating from high school, she was unemployed and was forced to go to the countryside. In order to escape labor, she seduced the most handsome young man in the commune, Fu Zhengtu, and successfully married him.
After getting married, the original owner never worked a day, and naturally became a rice borer, not only did she not do housework, but she also slept until the sun dried her buttocks every day. Today she would steal her nephew's candy, tomorrow she would steal her brother-in-law's eggs, and the day after tomorrow she would steal other people's private plots of sweet potatoes. She even went into the traps of the old hunters, and every two or three days she would steal other people's pheasants and rabbits...
The Fu family, which had the best popularity in the entire production team, suffered a sharp decline in reputation after she married into the family. Members of the Qinglian Commune all shook their heads when they mentioned her, saying that even dogs disliked her.
It was even worse after she got pregnant. It was said that even her underwear was washed by her mother-in-law. After she gave birth, she didn’t take care of the baby for even a single day except for feeding. She would only play with the baby when she remembered, and throw the baby to her mother-in-law or brother-in-law when he cried. She would go out to play to have some peace and quiet. The whole family treated her like a deity…
She is living a "god-like" life in the eyes of the other members, but she still keeps running to the heroine and getting abused by her every now and then. I really don't know what's wrong with her.
The author didn't spend much time on the original owner's husband, Fu Zhengtu. Apart from writing "the most handsome man in the whole commune", he lost contact with her after taking a secret mission shortly after the marriage. She hadn't seen him until Su Taotao came through. No matter how she thought about it, Fu Zhengtu's facial features were always vague. She only remembered that he was tall, with eight-pack abs, a smooth mermaid line, and a slender inverted triangle figure...
As for the original owner's act of jumping into the river, it was actually because her childhood sweetheart, who had lost contact with her before she went to the countryside, wrote her a half-hearted letter to tease her after she returned to the city. No matter how easy life was in the countryside, no matter how handsome her husband was, or how good her figure was, it was still a life of a widow. The original owner was too young to hold on, so she abandoned her husband and children and threatened to commit suicide in order to force her to return to the city.
She died, and Su Taotao passed through.
After understanding the general plot, Su Taotao wanted to bang her head against a mud wall and go back. Although she had no relatives, her parents left her a large inheritance. She had just graduated from college, had fair skin, long legs, and a lot of unspent money in her bank card, but she came to the 1970s inexplicably in this era of material scarcity and poverty. Who could understand the pain of having money in the bank and being in heaven?
"Taotao? Are you awake?" Zhou Linglan's voice was gentle and soft, with a hint of flattery. No wonder she was so easily taken advantage of by the original owner.
Su Taotao's eyelids twitched, but she didn't want to wake up.
Zhou Linglan knew she was awake, so she sighed and continued, "Taotao, I've been a widow for more than ten years, and I know you're suffering. Didn't we agree on this in the beginning? You wait for Zhengtu for three years. If there's still no news from Zhengtu after three years, whether you want to return to the city or marry someone else, I won't stop you. Just think of it as pity for our Chenchen. He's not even two years old yet, and he can't leave me. Can you wait another half a year?"
Waiting for a cheap husband for three years? Su Taotao never expected this to happen.
Wait, Dust? Her cheap son?
Su Taotao suddenly opened her eyes and tilted her head to look over. An old man and a young boy came into view. She was stunned...