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Chapter 1 Coming through
Chapter 1 Coming through
"My child's father, you say something, what should we do with Zhao Di's marriage."
"What? Neither the Wang family nor the Zhong family are willing to marry, and I can't force her to marry with a knife."
"But the people from the Zhong family are coming soon, and the Wang family is also waiting for our family to ask Di to answer. It's not an option to keep dragging them on."
"What do you want me to do? Go and call Zhao Di."
"Be quiet, I got up at the third watch and went to the thatched hut. There was still movement in Zhao Di's hut. I guess I was crying secretly last night."
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Song Zhaodi was born on the evening of August 15, 1945, the day Japan announced its surrender.
In 1963, he was admitted to Binhai Normal University. He was the first and only college student in Xiaosong Village.
In 1963, in the early autumn, Song Zhaodi went to Binhai City with the money from the village, town and county and her mother.
After getting off the bus, the girls didn't go to Binhai Normal University to report, but walked to a tube building first.
It was noon, and the upstairs and downstairs of the package was filled with the fragrance of various meals. Song Zhaodi carefully compared the address in her hand, saw the word "bell" on the door again, and nodded to her mother.
Immediately, Mother Song raised her hand and knocked on the door.
A moment later, the door opened, and a woman in her fifties with a ruddy face and a smile on the corner of her mouth appeared in front of the mother and daughter of the Song family. Mother Song raised her face with a smile: "Cousin. Zhao Di, call someone quickly, this is your cousin Zhao—"
"Why are you here?" Zhao Yin frowned, smelled the fishy smell, and stepped back with a look of disgust, interrupting Mother Song's introduction.
Song Zhaodi's face changed slightly, ready to explain. Zhao Yin spoke again, extremely impatient: "I'm busy right now, and I don't have time to entertain you. I'll talk about it later."
Mother Song's face flushed with embarrassment.
Song Zhaodi noticed that all the people who were cooking in the steam room looked towards Zhong's house and grabbed Song's mother's arm: "Mother, let's go!"
Mother Song stumbled a bit, turned her head and found that the girl's appearance was not good, and her chest was faintly stuffy: "Then, cousin, we're going back."
After coming out of the tube building, Mother Song looked at the two dried eels wrapped in the sack with a very complicated expression: "I wanted to give it to your cousin, sigh, daughter, you take it to school."
"I have money on me. I'll get back to school tomorrow. You can take it home and eat it yourself." Song Zhaodi looked back at Tongzilou and couldn't help but grit her teeth, "Don't go back to her house in the future."
Mother Song: "What a stupid thing to say, no matter how you say it, it's your cousin."
"Then I won't tell you!" A girl from Song Zhaodi went to school in Binhai City. It was the first time she was a hundred miles away from home. The whole Xiao Song Village was not at ease.
Mother Song thought that her aunt's daughter would remarry to a family named Zhong in the city, so she asked the villagers to exchange for two big eels, hoping that her cousin would help her take care of Song Zhaodi for the sake of the eels.
Mother Song heard that the voice was wrong. She turned her head and saw that her daughter's eyes were slightly red. She wanted to cry but held back her nose.
"Yes, I didn't have a good relative." Song Zhaodi interrupted her mother's apology.
Mother Song couldn't help crying and laughing.
Song Zhaodi coaxed her mother, but her heart was heavy, and her aunt Zhao Yin's expression as if she saw maggots could not go away.
Half a year into school, her dark skin turned white by the sea breeze, her round face, big eyes, and high nose bridge, Song Zhaodi, who had a long and slender figure, lost her rustic look. She pursed her lips and smiled. Back home, Song Zhaodi welcomed the praise of the whole village, nothing more than going to college is really different.
In 1964, the first month of the year, Song Zhaodi looked even better after a good year. When she returned to school, Song Zhaodi also became a beautiful sight in Binhai Normal University.
It didn't take long for a daring admirer to secretly approach Song Zhaodi to talk.
Song Zhaodi was not at all interested in the male classmate's show of affection, and inadvertently learned from the classmates that the other party's family was wealthy and had overseas connections. When the aunt's disgusted appearance came to mind again, Song Zhaodi, who secretly vowed to become a superior person, accepted the other's offer.
In 1966, in the beginning of spring, the second semester of the junior year, Song Zhaodi felt that she had been with each other for two years, and the two had a very good relationship. When talking about marriage, Song Zhaodi was very excited and planned to take her home during the summer vacation, but the other party suddenly disappeared. Without a trace.
After many investigations, Song Zhaodi realized that there was something wrong with her object's family composition. She was afraid that the "red soldiers" would find his home and the family secretly took a boat to the port city.
Song Zhaodi was very sad when the object escaped, and she was afraid that the "red soldiers" in the school would find out that she and the other party were boyfriend and girlfriend. Song Village.
At this time, the high school in Hongya Town, where Song Zhaodi was located, also suspended classes, and there was no doubt that Song Zhaodi would return to the village early. Mother Song noticed that the girl's appearance was wrong, and before she could figure it out, someone gave Song Zhaodi a kiss.
Song Zhaodi just fell out of love, and is not in the mood to date others. Because the man's uncle is the town leader, Song's father is not easy to offend, so he said that Song Zhaodi has not graduated yet, and the marriage will be discussed after she graduates.
The parents of the other party thought that the Song family disliked the son who did not graduate from junior high school and was working in a factory. Not only was he not angry, he also felt normal. After all, Song Zhaodi was the only college student in the eight villages of Shili after the founding of the People's Republic of China. When the matchmaker went to the Song family to propose marriage, they did not expect the Song family to agree.
The man's uncle also felt that his nephew was whimsical. Knowing that he was rejected by the Song family, he said that his nephew Toad wanted to eat swan meat, and naturally he did not go to the Song family to make peace.
In 1967, in the late spring, classes in universities all over the country had been suspended, and the above advocates of educated youth.
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Rural exercise, Hongya Town also welcomed the first batch of college students and high school students who went to the countryside to exercise.
It was impossible for Song Zhaodi to return to the city again, and the Wang family's parents who couldn't stand their son's begging asked someone to go to the Song family to propose marriage again. It was also mentioned that once Song Zhaodi married into the Wang family, they would find a relationship to arrange Song Zhaodi to teach in the town.
Song Zhaodi was a little hesitant, but she really didn't like the Wang family, so she didn't let go.
Song's father and Song's mother were also reluctant to force Xiaoqinggong. When she grew up, she was admitted to a university and won glory for her family. Now she is still teaching in the primary school run by the village, and she can give the little girl who earns work points for the family.
The Song family pushed the Wang family again on the grounds that Zhao Di was still young. The Wang family also saw that the Song family did not want to marry them.
When Wang Degui met Song Zhaodi once in the town, he was obsessed with him and vowed not to marry her. The parents of the Wang family went to beg Wang Degui's uncle to come forward for their son.
On Sunday, September 10, 1967, Uncle Wang rode his 28 bicycle to Xiaosong Village.
The villagers laughed when they saw him, and asked if they were here to match Wang Degui.
Uncle Wang's face was flushed, and he wanted to continue walking, but he was afraid that the villagers would think that he was running away.
The villagers told Wang Degui's uncle that the Song family had a guest. It was Song Zhaodi's cousin, who came from Binhai City.
Uncle Wang didn't believe it was such a coincidence. He pushed the car to the door of Song's house. He heard the Mandarin coming from inside, and looked inside through the crack of the door. There was a woman who was dressed well, not like a villager. When Wang Degui's uncle saw this, he didn't go in either. He pushed the car and left, intending to come back another day.
Zhao Yin's husband died at an early age, so he remarried to the Zhong family in Binhai City. When he first married into the Zhong family, Zhao Yin treated his two stepsons very well, and he did not treat the Zhong brothers badly when he became pregnant. When she gave birth to a son, as soon as the confinement was born, the brothers of the Zhong family were sent to the parents-in-law's house. The two brothers of the Zhong family knew it personally.
As the saying goes, half the eldest son eats the poor old man. The two brothers of the Zhong family were growing up and were driven by their stepmother to their grandparents’ house. Because the grandparents’ wages were not high, the two brothers dared not open their stomachs to eat, and often woke up in the middle of the night from hunger and poured water.
A year later, the eldest of the sixteen-year-old Zhong family went to work as an apprentice in a state-run garment factory. He didn’t get much salary. Anyway, the brothers didn’t have to tighten their belts and got up in the middle of the night to pour water. And the second child of the Zhong family is also very good. He learns that there is no tuition fee for going to university, and the school pays back the money.
On the day of receiving the notice, Zhao Yin finally remembered these two stepsons, and immediately took the Zhong brothers home to live. It's a pity that the Zhong brothers have already been heartbroken by their stepmother.
After lunch at home, the two brothers returned to their grandparents' house again.
There was a college student from the Zhong family, and even if he hadn't reported to the school yet, people who used to despise the Zhong family brothers brought things to the Zhong family to congratulate him.
A few days later, someone still wanted to say kiss to the boss of the Zhong family. However, the eldest of the Zhong family shared a house with his grandparents, and he had nowhere to live if he married a wife, so they all refused.
Later, the eldest of the Zhong family used the money he saved and the money saved by the second child of the Zhong family in school to buy a plot of land on the corner of the street and build three mud-tiled houses. Only when the house was completed did he invite others to introduce him to him.
The second eldest of the Zhong family is promising, thanks to his younger brother. On the wedding day of the eldest Zhong family, relatives and neighbors brought gifts or money to congratulate him, including the heartless Zhao Yin.
It's a pity that the second child of the Zhong family still doesn't like this stepmother, so he went to Shencheng after graduation, far away from home.
College students can be said to be rare in the army, so the second child of the Zhong family is a second lieutenant as soon as he joins the army.
Zhao Yin watched his stepson come back in military uniform, and did not dare to treat the boss of the Zhong family harshly, nor did he dare to trouble the boss's family. With a smile on his face, he kept cursing in his heart that the second child of the Zhong family died on the battlefield.
Perhaps Zhao Yin's curse took effect, and the second daughter-in-law of the Zhong family died on the street, leaving behind three children.
The second child of the Zhong family was a soldier and could not take care of the children, so he put the three children in the elder brother's house. The eldest of the Zhong family is willing to help his younger brother look after the children, but they still have two children.
The grandparents of the Zhong family have passed away, and it is impossible for the parents-in-law to help take care of the children. Sister-in-law Zhong looks after the five children alone and cannot take care of them at all. Sister-in-law Zhong, who has more than enough strength but not enough strength, suggests that her brother-in-law should marry again.
The second child of the Zhong family has no objection, but is worried that no one will marry him, and those who are willing to marry him will not be able to take care of the three children.
Somehow this matter got into Zhao Yin's ears, Zhao Yin told Sister-in-law Zhong that she had a candidate, but she didn't know if she was married.
The sister-in-law of the Zhong family didn't believe that her step-mother could do anything good, but when others heard that the second child had three children, they shook their heads and refused without thinking about it. As a result, the sister-in-law of Zhong could only pin her hopes on the cruel step-mother.
Afterwards, Zhao Yin brought a few catties of vegetables, a catty of pears, a catty of fried fruits and half a catty of pork to Xiaosong Village to say kisses.
Song Zhaodi still didn't forget how much Zhao Yin looked down on when she and her mother went to Zhong's house four years ago, and also felt that Zhao Yin was a weasel this time giving New Year's greetings to the chicken, so he didn't have any good intentions.
Hearing that Zhao Yin was coming, Song Zhaodi ran out of the kitchen wearing a coarse apron without tidying up.
When not going to the primary school in the village, Song Zhaodi helps her family with her work, and goes to the beach with her mother to pick up sea melon seeds. Song Zhaodi, who had been home for more than a year after being exposed to the wind and sun all day, turned into a black and thin local girl.
Zhao Yin looked at Song Zhaodi and was very satisfied, and then said that she told Song Zhaodi about marriage, not an outsider, but her second stepson.
The Song family heard from relatives that the second child of the Zhong family was a college student. Mother Song estimated the age of the second child of the Zhong family, and asked him why he was not married yet when he was almost thirty.
Zhao Yin said that getting married means getting married, and the mother-in-law died a few days ago.
Mother Song was neither smart nor stupid. She didn't ask if the second child of the Zhong family had any children, but what happened to the child when her mother died.
Zhao Yin thought for a moment, thinking that his cousin knew that the second child had a child, and smiled awkwardly, saying that if there was no child, Song Zhaodi would not be able to turn to the second child of the Zhong family.
Song Zhaodi sneered, and Song's mother Yang got up to see off the guests. Since the two were relatives, she didn't say anything, but said that the family had to discuss it again.
The three-year difficult period when Song Zhaodi was admitted to university had just passed, and the life of the common people was a little better. The cautious Zhao Yin was afraid that her mother's family would hit the autumn wind, so she never contacted her mother's family, so she didn't know that Song Zhaodi was a college student, and always thought that Song Zhaodi couldn't even write her own name.
Seeing the unnatural expressions on the Song family's faces, Zhao Yin misunderstood that they could not accept that the second child of the Zhong family had three children. And she felt that even if she had children, Song Zhaodi, a rural girl who could marry a college student, was a blessing from her previous life. When got home, told Sister-in-law Zhong that it was done, and told the second child to come back as soon as possible.
On September 23, the Song family received a letter from Zhao Yin from the city, saying that the second child of the Zhong family would be back after the National Day.
Mother Song didn't know how to reply to the letter, so she asked Song Zhaodi what she planned.
Song Zhaodi didn't even think about it, and said that no one would marry. But when she returned to her own room, thinking about whether she would marry Zhong Jianguo, the Wang family would come over every three days to ask her if she had thought it through.
Neither the Zhong family nor the Wang family chooses? She is already twenty-two years old, and she will stay at home for two or three years at most, and she will still have to get married after two or three years. By that time, the conditions of the other party may not be as good as that of Zhong and Wang.
As the National Day is getting closer and closer, Song Zhaodi, who doesn't know what to do, can't wait to die. But she didn't want to die. While hating myself for being ruthless, I hate myself for being swaying, looking ahead and looking back. On the night of September 30th, I cried in the middle of the night, and the next morning, the core was replaced by Liu Ling, who was a hundred years later.
Looking at the spider web on the roof and listening to the dialect with a strong northern accent across the wall, the person on the bed didn't want to admit that she was Song Zhaodi, but her chest was sore and the corners of her eyes were sore. All these real feelings told Liu Ling that she was no longer. A famous fashion designer at home and abroad, it is Song Zhaodi, a villager in Xiaosong Village, Binhai City.
Liu Ling was born in the millennium. Before her death, a group of apprentices, Sun asked her if she had any unfulfilled wishes. Liu Ling lived a smart life and thought about it seriously and expressed no regrets.
The apprentices wanted to help her too much, so they asked Liu Ling to think again. Liu Ling said that he only hated not getting married, trying to get married and trying to raise a few children. Before the apprentice could speak, she also said that having a baby was too painful, and the mother ran to death and the son ran to life, or she might lose her life, so forget it. All the apprentices, Sun, were speechless by her words, and she also passed away.
The soul came from a hundred years later, Liu Ling looked at the calluses on his hands, sat up on the bed, patted his sleep-deprived and dizzy head, secretly slandered the gods, and the words before his death were just casual remarks:"Father, mother, I'm marrying!"
The door opened, and the huge hall fell silent.