“Qingqing, Mom brought you breakfast. Remember to eat it. Mom will come to see you again at noon.” Zhao Xianglan put down the lunch box and touched her daughter’s head again. After the fever subsided, she could leave with peace of mind.
Yi Qingqing was completely covered in the quilt, with only one head exposed, and she nodded obediently.
At this time, she was already a time traveler and was clear about her situation.
She had received all the memories of the original owner and fully integrated into this new identity.
She also learned more about this passerby female supporting character that was not described in the book.
It was just that the crossing point was not very good.
The original owner had already gone to the street to sign up to go to the countryside. The allocated places were already available. The three eastern provinces of the motherland were in Xiangshui Village, Daxing Commune, and Tieling County. The train would arrive at noon seven days later.
She just celebrated her 17th birthday not long ago and just graduated from high school.
Her mother, Zhao Xianglan, is a female worker in a textile factory, and her father is also a worker in a machinery factory. She has an older brother who works as an apprentice in a machinery factory.
It was a dual-income family, and the parents did not have the bad habit of favoring sons over daughters. It could be said to be a perfect family in this era.
But things had changed since her brother married his wife years ago.
Yi’s father and Yi’s mother were not the kind of people who liked to control their children. Instead, they considered their children at all times and raised their children to be innocent to the point of being excessively innocent. The family relationship was also very good.
The brother and sister were both kind and good-natured people. They had never experienced any setbacks or seen any darkness since they were young. They always saw the good side of people first.
To put it bluntly, they were excessively kind-hearted and had a dumpling-like personality.
The first time Brother Yi went against his family was when he wanted to marry Liu Meili.
Yi’s mother had a vicious vision. Although Liu Meili was very good at that time, virtuous, hard-working, and sweet-mouthed, after getting to know Liu Meili’s family, she felt that this girl was not suitable.
It was not because Liu Meili was from a rural area and her conditions were not good, but because her family was very patriarchal and the family tradition was not good.
Yi’s mother felt that the children raised in this family were not suitable for Brother Yi.
Later, Brother Yi was too insistent, and Yi’s father and Yi’s mother were initially opposed to it. Later, after calling him into the room to talk for a while, they suddenly agreed.
The original owner didn’t hear what was said in the middle, but Yi Qingqing guessed that there might be something inside.
Her sister-in-law, Liu Meili, was fine at first when she first came in, and she seemed to be a good person, but half a year after her marriage, she became pregnant with a child, and her true colors were revealed from then on.
The original owner had just graduated from high school, and Liu Meili always sarcastically said something in the original owner’s ears. In a roundabout way, she said that she was a grown-up girl and could no longer live at home, implying that she should either find a job or find someone to marry and also wanted to introduce her natal brother to her.
Liu Meili was from the countryside. His brother was twenty-six or seven years old and still a bachelor. He was almost ten years older than the original owner. He couldn’t read a single Chinese character. How could the original owner like him?
Yi’s father and Yi’s mother also gave Liu Meili a good lesson in this matter. Under Liu Meili’s continued behavior, Brother Yi also became indifferent to Liu Meili. However, she was still pregnant, so she could only be given verbal lessons as they were afraid of hurting the child.
Yi’s mother also saw it well. Liu Meili did inherit the overly patriarchal temperament of her original family.
She became pregnant and loved to eat sour food. Her parents looked at her belly and said that it must be a son, so she became superstitious that what she was carrying must be a son. She thought that with this child, she no longer had to be cautious, and her true nature was completely exposed.
Liu Meili relied on her belly and became more and more evil. The original owner had a dumpling character and couldn’t bear to have her parents and brother worry about her conflict with her sister-in-law. In addition, there were no job openings in the factories in the city.
After being encouraged by others, she also felt that going to the countryside was a great thing, so she went to the street to sign up to go to the countryside.
Later, she woke up and realized how hard it was to be an educated youth. After many educated youths went to the countryside, they could never come back again. It was not at all what she had imagined, so she was frightened.
She had been doted on since she was a child, so she couldn’t bear the pain. She deliberately bathed in cold water and opened the window to let in the cold wind all night, hoping to escape with the illness, but she died unexpectedly.
The little girl’s heart was too fragile, she was innocent and kind, and she was too considerate of others, which resulted in this result.
Yi Qingqing looked at it. Both the original owner’s father and mother were very good to both children, and they were very protective. Otherwise, both children would not have such temperaments.
In fact, as long as the little girl asked her parents more when she encountered problems, such a tragedy would not happen. Her parents were still smart after all.
Since their family did not favor boys over girls, it was impossible for Liu Meili’s ‘son’ to take advantage of her. However, she was kind-hearted and cared about the little life, so she could tolerate it for the time being.
However, this tolerance was at most limited to her food and drink, and she did not take any drastic measures against her behavior. However, she really didn’t care about Liu Meili’s verbal comments.
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Translator’s Little Encyclopedia:
The Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside Movement
The Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside Movement, often known simply as the Down to the Countryside Movement, was a policy instituted in the People’s Republic of China between the mid 1950s and 1978. As a result of what he perceived to be pro-bourgeois thinking prevalent during the Cultural Revolution, Chairman Mao Zedong declared certain privileged urban youth would be sent to mountainous areas or farming villages to learn from the workers and farmers there. In total, approximately 17 million youth were sent to rural areas as a result of the movement.
Many fresh high school graduates, who became known as the so-called sent-down youth (also known in China as “educated youth” and abroad as “rusticated youth”), were forced out of the cities and effectively exiled to remote areas of China. Some commentators consider these people, many of whom lost the opportunity to attend university.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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