Bai Rongjun has two older sisters and one older brother. Her mother has a very good relationship with Aunt He. She was very cute when she was born.
Aunt He only had one child, Lu Yang, so she simply took him in and raised him. But unexpectedly, Aunt He became pregnant again not long after.
Even though she later had another daughter, Aunt He still doted on her and treated her even better than her own daughter.
Her eldest brother and eldest sister already have jobs, but her second sister, Bai Jiamei, who graduated from high school last year, has been making various excuses not to go to the countryside and wants He Shuyue to help her find a job.
These days, everyone has their own job opening, and if no one moves you out, you won't find a job even if you have money.
He Shuyue wanted to keep Bai Jiamei by her side, so she could only have her fill in for her. How could she possibly find Bai Jiamei a job?
Besides, nowadays every household must send one person to the countryside, so if Bai Jiamei doesn't go, it will be her turn.
"Second sister, the current policy requires you to go to the countryside. If you're in the batch in July, you can still find good places, but by September, you'll only be able to choose places that nobody wants to go."
Bai Rongjun coaxed her gently, and Bai Jiamei, sitting opposite her, swallowed hard.
"I'll think about it some more."
Bai Rongjun found it strange. Her second sister had always been arrogant and jealous of her being raised by He Shuyue. She always spoke to her in a haughty manner.
When have we ever been this polite?
"Alright, think it over carefully. I will definitely ask Aunt He to help you find a better place."
After Bai Rongjun left, Bai Jiamei breathed a long sigh of relief. She felt like she was dreaming all day, and it wasn't until she saw Bai Rongjun that she felt it was real.
Bai Jiamei is not the original Bai Jiamei; she is a modern person who transmigrated into a novel about a good stepmother in the 1970s.
Bai Rongjun is the female lead's backer. Under her arrangement, Bai Jiamei went to the Northeast. She originally went to seek refuge with He Shuyue's eldest son.
“Jiamei, your brother Lu’s wife doesn’t want to live with him anymore. She still has feelings for someone else. This time when you go to the Northeast, I will definitely make them divorce. You will become our Lu family’s daughter-in-law.”
He Shuyue held Bai Jiamei's hand and gave her some advice, but when she arrived in Northeast China, she found that the man always had a cold face and was indifferent to people and things.
She spent two years trying to win him over, only to later discover that the good man beside her was none other than Wang Minggui, the male protagonist of the original book.
Although Wang Minggui was more than 10 years older than her, he doted on her and treated her like a daughter. His original wife died in childbirth, leaving behind 5 children.
As a good stepmother, Bai Jiamei devoted herself to the five children and used love to influence them.
Although the two older children weren't very close to her, they respected her greatly, and the younger ones treated her like their own mother.
Wang Minggui later became a leader, and when Bai Jiamei was almost 30 years old, she suddenly had a child.
She treated the five children as her own and didn't want this child to affect their relationship. Unexpectedly, the children were very opposed and insisted that Bai Jiamei keep him.
As for her marriage to Wang Minggui, an older man and a younger woman, it has always been the envy of many.
This included Lu Yang, who had previously rejected her. Although he had achieved great success, he had never experienced the warmth of a family and could only watch the Wang family's happiness with envy.
Bai Jiamei, a modern person, couldn't accept this kind of story and even made a few complaints. Unexpectedly, she transmigrated into the book and became the female lead.
Now the original female lead's backer is going to arrange for her to go to the countryside in Northeast China, but she remembers that the original book described the environment there as harsh, and that some villagers looked down on them as educated youth.
The rooms in the educated youth camp were large communal sleeping quarters for more than a dozen people. In the dead of winter, with the doors closed, there was a strange smell inside. The woman was to live in this environment for two years.
They later moved into the male protagonist's apartment building.
It seems that the female lead was assigned to the village closest to the Luyang Military Region. She only remembers that there were a few older women who were always targeting her.
Sigh, she doesn't want to go to the countryside.
She didn't want to marry the original male lead either. Although the book was set with Bai Jiamei as the main character, she felt that the character who most resembled the main character was the female lead's younger sister, Bai Rongjun.
She was raised by He Shuyue, unlike the female lead who lived in a family that favored sons over daughters for more than ten years.
The eldest brother in that family, Lu Yang, treated her like his own sister, and everyone else treated her like family.
Because of her poor health, Lu Ronghui left the work at home to her and went to the countryside.
Her childhood sweetheart, a high-ranking official from a powerful family compound, also loved her.
Zhu Ma spent several years in the countryside after going to school, and eventually returned to the city after taking the college entrance examination, where he lived happily with Bai Rongjun.
In the original book, Bai Rongjun is always the female lead's golden finger, but she is not the original Bai Jiamei.
She would rather marry Bai Rongjun's childhood sweetheart than that gentle and considerate older man, who would later become the richest man in the country.
No, she didn't want to go to the countryside. She wanted to wait another two years before she could live a happy life. The most important thing was that she didn't really like the male lead.
Bai Rongjun was unaware that her sister had become a different person, and even Lu Ronghui, whom she had manipulated, had been reborn more than 10 years later.
She is now living a happy life, and her only worry is that she will have to go back to work in a few months and will not have this much freedom anymore.
Lu Ronghui waited at home for several days, but no news came from the Northeast. She kept a close eye on the Bai family these days but found nothing unusual, except for Bai Jiamei.
Bai Jiamei seems to have changed her personality these past few days, coming to her house every day, I don't know who she's waiting for.
Lu Ronghui didn't pay much attention to her. She didn't want Bai Rongjun to be happy. The most important thing right now was to prevent her from taking over He Shuyue's job.
She tried various methods, including sowing discord between He Shuyue and He Shuyue, but to no avail.
In her previous life, Lu Ronghui only found out that Bai Rongjun had taken over her job after she went to the Northwest. She was determined to ruin the whole thing within the next two months.
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An'an spent half a day playing at the zoo. At noon, the family went to buy a portion of Goubangzi smoked chicken. The skin of the smoked chicken was roasted with white sugar, and its bright color was very appealing, but it was a bit expensive.
A chicken costs five yuan.
It was twice as expensive as a regular chicken, but Song Qing bought one without even looking up, intending to eat it just this once.
They found a two-story state-run restaurant and ordered the usual braised pork slices, sweet and sour pork, and crispy yellow vegetables. Finally, they ordered a soup, which cost them a total of 5.4 yuan.
The whole family ate until they were stuffed.
In the afternoon, they went to buy a sewing machine. The only regret was that the department stores in the city didn't have the bicycle brand they wanted, so they would have to wait until they went to the supply and marketing cooperative in the county next time.
When they caught the last bus back to the family compound, the sentry at the gate stopped them.
"Battalion Commander Lu, someone from your family is calling you."
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