There was noise outside, but inside the dark room, Qin LingLing’s heart was much calmer than before.
In the family where the original owner married into, in addition to Gu Yao, there is another sister-in-law. To say the least, this family is quite complicated.
Gu Zheng, her husband, was not born into the Gu family. His father, Gu DaShun, and his first wife, Zhao E, found him in the mountains. However, not many people knew about it, because Zhao E was also pregnant at that time and their family lived in a remote area. Unfortunately, the child inside Zhao E did not survived, so they had decided to adopted Gu Zheng and raised him as their own.
Zhao E became pregnant again later in life and gave birth to a girl called Gu Yao. Zhao E, on the other hand, was in bad health and died when Gu Yao was just a year old.
Gu DaShun married his present wife Li Dani after his first wife died, in order to care for his two children.
Gu DaShun and Li Dani have a son and a daughter together. Gu GuoQiang, their oldest son, is 16 years old, and Gu ChunHua, their youngest daughter, is 14 years old. Both are gluttonous and lazy, and they are at odds with their elder brother and sister. They also rely on their parents in bullying their eldest brother and sister.
Of course, the stepmother, Li Dani, is the most vexing, a typical obnoxious relative.
According to the book, the Gu family was responsible for the original owner’s transformation into a villain. Qin LingLing left with a cloth bag on her back and a kettle on her arm, thinking about this.
Gu Yao cast a peek at Qin LingLing as she emerged from the room adjacent to the main house. She was frightened that what her sister had just said had upset her sister-in-law so she rushed forward and soothed her, “Sister-in-law, be careful on the road. I am going to mow the grass first. Do not listen to other people’s nonsense. My brother will be fine. I used to go to the fortune-tellers, and they said that my brother is blessed with a great life, he will survive, don’t worry.”
Qin LingLing couldn’t bear to ignore Gu Yao’s genuine concern for herself, so she hummed gently, “I know, I’m alright.”
She would not, of course, tell Gu Yao that “your brother is meant to die in the book, so you don’t need to console me.” Gu Zheng’s terrible news was the primary reason for her visit.
This scene between the two sisters-in-law fell in the eyes of Li Dani who was still leaning against the door. She walked over with a smile on her face and said, “LingLing, about Gu Zheng, you just look away. Whatever the case may be, the outcome has already been determined, and you are still remain as Gu Zheng’s wife. Even if your family is in the city, you are now our Gu family’s daughter-in-law, so don’t think of going back to your natal family!”
“Aunt Dani, what do you mean, my brother isn’t even dead yet, and you already cursing him like that?” Gu Yao asked, her face darkening.
“Why, did I say something wrong? Did I threaten her not to not go back to the city or something? She is married to our family, so she is belongs to our family.”
Qin LingLing looked at Li Dani’s shameless words coldly, she actually cursed a person whose life or death was uncertain.
She immediately stood straight and said firmly: “It is entirely up to me whether I return or not, but the official has yet to confirm Gu Zheng’s death. Despite this, you’re still damning him to death. What exactly are you looking for?”
Even if Gu Zheng were to perish in that calamity, it would be a great sacrifice for the country and the people. Even if the unrelated people had sacrificed for the country, that would be still honorable, and even if Gu Zheng was not her son, who had been with them for more than ten years, how can she curse him to death so easily?
But thinking about it carefully, it is normal that the original owner being blackened by this family.
Li Dani was also taken aback by Qin LingLing’s words, “Hey, you…”
“If you go out and say this, you are insulting his status as a soldier, and do you know what a felony it is to insult a soldier?” Qin LingLing stated emphatically.
After all, Li Dani was nothing but a rural woman in the village and when suddenly, a big hat was put on her, she was so scared that she did not dare to say anything.
Seeing that Li Dani had stopped, Qin LingLing took the kettle and filled it with water from the water jar and left.
As soon as she left, Li Dani’s arrogance that had just been suppressed rose instantly, and she said directly to Gu Yao who was still there, “DaYa, don’t say that I didn’t remind you, you sister-in-law, will not stay here. If there is still no news regarding your brother, she will soon return to the city, wait and see! Do you honestly believe a delicate young lady from the city can be kept safe in our chicken coop-like countryside?”
Gu Yao couldn’t win the argument with her stepmother, so she only said firmly, “No, she won’t.”
However, she said this words with a sliver of uncertainty in her heart. After all, Gu Yao is not familiar with this sister-in-law at all.
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It took more than an hour for Qin LingLing to walk from home to the field.
She is now working on a field not far from the village, called Sun Field, because there happened to be a Sun Village next door. It was named after the second division of the Southern Production and Construction Corps. It belongs to the agricultural reclamation department. The field was rebuilt last year by the Management of Agricultural Reclamation Bureau.
Because the field is large and the end cannot be seen at a glance, many educated youths come here to go to the countryside. Before, the original owner actually lives in the field’s female educated youth house. It is actually a row of houses built in the early years and specially arranged for the educated youth. Seven or eight female educated youths live in one house, just like a dormitory.
Apart from the educated youth who married to the locals, they all live in the educated youth house.
As soon as the original owner got married, her husband went to the battlefield, so she did not live at home and was still lives in the educated youth dormitory. She would not return if it weren’t for his news. After all, the Gu family, with the exception of Gu Yao, is unkind to her, and returning home was a bother. Furthermore, the original owner’s marriage to Gu Zheng was purely unintentional.
The educated youths had already gone to work when Qin LingLing arrived. She arrived for the first time after three days of wearing this body. Because the original owner had maintained her memories, she was able to easily locate the educated youth house and her own bed.
It is just that she has not returned for three days, so, the bed which should have been clean, has turned filthy, and the moisturizing cream, which the original owner brought from the city but refused to use, has also been moved. It appears that the person who grabbed it was in a hurry, as she did not even close the lid. Of course, it is possible that the other party did not put the original owner’s things in her eyes.
Anyway, everything that belongs to the original owner has been turned over and messed up. According to the memory of the original owner, Qin LingLing naturally knew what was going on.
Where there are women, there are struggles and calculations. This isn’t the first time something like this has happened.
The original owner was gentle and weak, and her stuffs always got used as the original owner was too cowardly and was bullied by other educated youths in the house. They thought that Qin LingLing was easy, so naturally they would not let her go. After all, such things, in such dormitory, during such period, as long as they have weak temperament, they will be bullied in this way.
There is also a description of her in the book, saying that the reason why the original owner was blackened completely afterwards was because she was too weak and suffered too many injustices, so she blackened thoroughly. When she was reading, Qin LingLing could not help but feel sorry for the villain, it was simply too pitiful.
Looking at the messy bed, Qin LingLing sighed and tidied up the bed, then took the tools and got ready to go to work.
But as soon as she went out, she met Aunt Liu, the director in charge of their group of educated youth, and everyone called her Director Liu.
Qin LingLing said, “Director Liu.”
“Eh, LingLing, you are back?”
“Um.”
“I heard you are sick, how is your health?”
Qin LingLing shook her head, “I’m fine, I’m already well, I’m about to go to work in the field.”
She had given it a lot of thought. She needed to be self-sufficient now that her husband had died on the battlefield and she had become a widow. She needed to get one more day’s labor point, acquire one more day’s money, and wait for the policy to slow down.
After slowing down, she can do something to seize the tail of the opportunity and develop the future well. Even if she really cannot go back, her life will not be too miserable.
Director Liu, on the other hand, noticed that her face was not in good shape and when she was about to leave, she quickly took her hand, “I think your face is not in a great shape, so don’t go in the morning and go again in the afternoon. I will count the attendance in the morning for you. It’s better for you to clean up a little bit.”
Director Liu also knew about Qin LingLing’s husband’s affair. After Qin LingLing’s married husband was sent to the disaster site, he did not return, despite the fact that the others had returned safely. They have not heard from him, so something must have gone wrong.
Not long after, she heard Qin LingLing’s sisters-in-law came and say that Qin LingLing fell into the water and fell ill, so she had to take a few days off.
Qin LingLing is a diligent worker on the field, and Director Liu admires her, so after learning of her situation from her sister-in-law, she requested that Qin LingLing take some time off and come back to work when she is healthy. She might also come to her if she had a difficulty.
Director Liu stated as much, and Qin LingLing didn’t object. She has to admit that her room is still in a state of disarray and that it has to be cleaned. She’ll also have to think about how she’ll spend the next day.
She is unsure whether she will be able to return to her previous life. But she hopes to go back. In that world, even if she is an orphan, at least it is an era when all kinds of communications are convenient. She has her own job and her own life.
But there isn’t anything here. The original owner’s family was cruel to her. When the original owner was two years old, her mother died. Her father married a stepmother and sent her to the countryside because the stepmother’s sons was unwilling to go to the countryside. As a result, she sends Qin LingLing, who has recently graduated from high school, to the rural village.
In the eyes of the original owner’s father, his biological daughter is less important than his stepson who became his son by taking his surname, thus what his wife says is the law.
Needles to say, her in-law’s family also messed up, the stepmother and her gluttonous and lazy children.
The only thing that might be nice to Qin LingLing is her husband.
Unfortunately, she never got to see her husband because he died before she could even see him. Because the original owner didn’t have many memories of her husband, she felt her memories of him were even more hazy once she arrived.
It was dreadful in this regard compared to her previous life. Nothing could be seen because the light in front of her was like being covered by a curtain.
After all, she is Qin LingLing, a woman who grew up in a terrible environment. Qin LingLing’s look is rather serene, even in the face of the dreadful life she is now living.
“You should rest properly and go to work in the afternoon,” Director Liu swiftly urged, seeing that she had agreed.