FSC [QT] Chapter 46.2

In fact, before Qiu Wu was twelve years old, the housing environment of Qiu Xia’s mother and daughter was far worse than it was now.

At that time, Qiu Xia’s salary was even lower, only 800 yuan a month.

The mother and daughter rented a house that was only four square meters in size. The kitchen and bathroom were all shared facilities.

Because the rent was low, it was inevitable that the people who rented the house were mixed.

Qiu Wu had been beautiful since she was a child, which became more and more obvious after she started to grow.

Qiu Xia noticed the malicious looks from the other renters, so she finally gritted her teeth and rented the current house at several times the price.

Fortunately, her salary has increased now. For a middle-aged woman without a diploma, she was very satisfied with a monthly salary of two to three thousand yuan.

The rice cooker was in heat preservation mode, so Ah Wu unplugged it and filled a bowl of rice for herself.

Because there were only two people, mother and daughter, and their lives were tight, there were not many dishes on the table.

It was just a bowl of stir-fried cabbage with a little bit of minced meat in it, and the braised grass carp that was not finished last night.

Nowadays, the news media publicized that people should not eat food that had been left overnight. However, in ordinary households, it was common for food that had been left overnight to be stored in the refrigerator and reheated the next day for consumption.

“Hurry up and finish that fish. I’ll buy some ribs tonight.”

Qiu Xia said to her daughter.

“Also, Sister Wang said that starting from tomorrow, you will go to the store every night to help. She will give you a salary of one thousand eight hundred and eighty yuan a month. I agreed on your behalf.”

Qiu Wu had just finished her high school entrance examination and did pretty well. She entered the top-ranked Haidian No. 3 Middle School in Ning City. She had nearly two and a half months of vacation before the start of high school.

In an ordinary family, these two and a half months would have been spent letting their children play around, but the Qiu family did not have such conditions.

In particular, high school was not yet compulsory education and required nearly 2,000 yuan in tuition every year. Qiu Xia wanted to let her daughter work part-time to earn the high school tuition.

“Really? Aunt Wang is really willing to let me help in her store?”

Qiu Wu was a little happy. She was thinking of finding a part-time job to improve her family’s conditions. Naturally, she couldn’t be more satisfied with her mother Qiu Xia’s proposal.

Appearing in a strange body again, this kind of experience was not unusual for Ah Wu.

Although she didn’t know why she had such thoughts, subconsciously, she always felt that she had similar experiences several times.

The new body was very healthy, and she was the most lively at sixteen years old. The skin was tight and elastic, and the muscles under the skin contained endless strength.

Ah Wu ran outside like crazy all morning.

Such healthy vitality made her want to cry for no reason.

But after the venting was over, life would always go on.

Having inherited the memory of ‘Qiu Wu’, Ah Wu always wanted to do something for this family.

“You don’t object?”

Seeing her daughter agree without saying a word, Qiu Xia couldn’t help but be surprised. Originally, she was mentally prepared to be rejected by her daughter, but she also thought of using coercion to force her to agree.

To be honest, Qiu Wu was very obedient, not the kind of girl who was unwilling to contribute to the family. However, children of this age had a common problem, and that was to save face.

Qiu Xia’s working environment was not a good one. It was a barbecue restaurant that was only open between 6:00 pm and 2:00 am every day.

Qiu Xia’s main job was to help wash and skewer vegetables in the back kitchen. When there were many customers in the front, Qiu Xia would also work as a waiter.

There were two advantages to letting her daughter work part-time at a barbecue restaurant.

First, Qiu Xia could take care of her daughter.

Second, she had been helping in the barbecue restaurant for several years and had some friendship with the proprietress, so she didn’t have to worry about her daughter being bullied.

However, there were several disadvantages to working part-time at a barbecue restaurant.

First, there were too many guests, so the environment would inevitably be dirty and messy. Cleaning up was very tiring.

Secondly, there were many customers in the barbecue restaurant, so it was inevitable that she would bump into her daughter’s classmates and teachers.

At an age when other children were having fun, she had to work to earn tuition and living expenses. At their sensitive age, it was easy for them to feel inferior about this.

“Okay, then you can go to work with me tomorrow.”

Qiu Xia glanced at her daughter twice, but in her daily interactions with her daughter, Qiu Xia had always been cold.

She did not ask why Qiu Wu suddenly agreed. She just collected her account books and prepared to go to work.

She still couldn’t get along warmly with her daughter.

Maybe she really wasn’t a good mother.

 

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The author has something to say:

The inspiration for this story comes from a stalk on Douyin.

It is probably a dialogue with yourself decades later, asking yourself what if you have a house, a car, and the person you liked back then.

The result of the conversation is that the self decades ago doesn’t like herself decades later, but the self decades later still likes herself decades ago because she has the purity and persistence that she doesn’t have now.

I think this story should not be cruel, it should be a two-way healing.

 

Translator’s Comment:

This arc is more about family relationships. There is still the ML, but the story revolves around the mother and daughter.

It’s super duper sad. In my opinion, it’s more sad than the previous arcs.

I am sad for the mother and sad for ‘Qiu Wu’ in her previous life.

I think this is another story that tells the impact of a mother on her children.

At first, when I read a few chapters of this arc, I was a little bit dissatisfied with the mother. But…

Anyway, please don’t misjudge the mother first. She also has a very harsh life.

 

 

 

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