"What's up with Xiao Qiao?"
"She's fine now, her fever has subsided."
"Alright, I'll head to work then."
"Hold on, I'll head out with you."
The woman took her bag off the wall. After glancing at the tightly closed door, her voice suddenly raised a bit.
"The grocery store is selling roast chicken today. I'll buy one for Xiao Qiao to help her recuperate. She loves it."
After waiting for a moment and seeing no response from the room, the woman smirked and left the house with the man.
In the room, Lin Siqiao lay on the bed with a face full of desolation.
She wouldn't be considered deaf with such a loud conversation. She naturally heard it.
The reason she didn’t speak was simply that she was frustrated and had no time to deal with this pretentious woman.
Lin Siqiao never expected that she would just go out for New Year's and end up in a series of car accidents.
When she woke up again, the room she was in was less than ten square meters.
Although her life has been saved somehow, Lin Siqiao found depressingly that she seems to have traveled through time!
Yes, she went from being a wealthy and beautiful woman in Shanghai to a pitiful girl in the 70s, neglected by her family.
The original body is nineteen this year. Apart from having the same name, surname, and identical appearance, the life experience is also extremely similar.
Both lost their mothers not long ago, and their reckless fathers couldn't contain themselves, quickly getting involved with other women.
But on a closer look, there's a slight difference between the two.
Lin Siqiao's father in her past life, although being scum, was nevertheless straightforward scum.
Although he had many female companions, if anyone had the wrong idea and fantasied about tying him down with marriage and children,
Well, sorry, but her hand wouldn't last till the second day’s dawn.
In his words, "I'm just not dedicated enough, I don’t love your mother enough, but you're different. You’re my only bloodline in my life as Lin. When it comes to loving a child, I'm no less than your mother."
On the contrary, consider the original body's father, Lin Jiansheng. His wife passed away less than a year ago, and he has already welcomed the outside woman into the house.
And her stepmother, seemingly kind and magnanimous, is actually a metaphorical viper with honeyed words and a dagger behind her back.
Two-faced, playing the victim, applying eye makeup, speaking to suit the occasion - these are her strong suits.
On the wedding day, the first two children of the stepmother were accepted into the Lin family, their hukou
family register
was transferred to the Lin family and their surname changed to Lin.
In the second year of their marriage, her stepmother Qin Xianglan expanded the family by giving birth to a plump boy.
This made Lin Jiansheng so happy he was lost, and Qin Xianglan stood firmly in Lin's family owing to this son.
Their small family lives in harmony, but on the contrary, the original body, who is the legitimate member of the Lin family, gradually found her identity becoming more awkward as time passed.
Her originally spacious single room was partitioned into three, and her only dad became everyone's all of a sudden.
As a daughter, she could understand the difficulties her father faced being widowed in his middle age. However, whenever she saw the family laughing cheerfully together, she couldn't help but feel some sense of loss.
This contradictory feeling made her lead a very suppressed life for many years as she grew up.
If not for an accident yesterday, although the original spirit might not have lived happily, at least her life wouldn't have been lost.
Yesterday, the original spirit had asked for leave in advance to return home due to a fever from an influenza. However, during a drowsy nap, she accidentally overheard the couple's private conversation.
Unexpectedly, her stepmother was crying and persuading Lin's father to marry her off to a director named Niu from the meat union factory.
He was over thirty! A widower! He even had three children at home!
Logically speaking, the original spirit had a decent job and was good-looking. Even if she had to marry anyone from the street randomly, she wouldn't be married to a widower.
But the problem was precisely her job.
Speaking of this job, it was left to her by her mother.
Years ago, a fire broke out in the dormitory of the machinery factory due to late rescue and locked fences in the corridor, resulting in the loss of Lin's mother.
As a technical backbone in the factory, Lin's mother contributed significantly to the factory's development over the years. The factory was heartbroken over the tragedy.
Considering the young child left behind, the factory offered a generous settlement apart from keeping the job and specified that the original host was the successor.
In the early 1970s, sending educated youths to rural areas was a broad trend. That's why the original spirit joined the factory right after graduating high school, becoming an envied member of the working class with a monthly wage of 28 yuan.
And the son and daughter her stepmother brought with her had no jobs. According to the policy at that time, they would need to go to the countryside.
Knowing that one's children are the dearest, Qin Xianglan definitely couldn't bear to see her own children suffer in the countryside. Nonetheless, it's not easy to secure a guaranteed job position.
In the end, no one knew what strings Lin Jiansheng pulled to get a hospital diagnosis for the two children. The condition written on their medical records seemed quite serious.
Just as they wished, the two children indeed stayed in the city, but due to this baseless illness, it sealed off any future paths to employment.
Over the years, the policy of going to the countryside has been more stringent, and it was heard that the Youth Office, due to quota shortages, started to scrutinize anyone who hadn’t been sent down to the countryside.
Qin Xianglan became anxious when she heard this since it seemed to point towards revoking the body she borrowed's job.
True, Director Niu was a bit old, but he was still a director after all.
Come on, it was the meat union factory! The place in the city with the most benefits!
Being able to mix in, even with a minor official position, one would seem like their ancestors' grave was puffing out smoke.
So isn’t it expected that the man has a bit of temperament?
What man doesn't have some temperament?
So what if it's a second marriage with children? If it weren't for that, he might not even take notice of her as a stepdaughter.
Besides, Director Niu was genuinely forthcoming. Not only he gave a satisfactory betrothal gift, but he also promised to get Qin Xianglan's son a job at the meat union factory. Regarding the original body's job, he kindly expressed that he could give it to the Lin family.
After all, bringing a daughter-in-law home is aimed at having her take good care of the children and making his old mother happy.
On the other hand, he also hoped that she could strive to bear him several healthy sons.
Between taking care of children and the elderly, and preparing for pregnancy, where would the time come from to work?
Moreover, the Niu family didn't lack the salary of those twenty or so yuan.
Both sides had something to gain, and thus, this marital alliance naturally moved to the top of their agenda.
Qin Xianglan had it all figured out. She was going to give her current job to her daughter, and her son could go work at the meat processing factory. Once she was married off, her room would be given to her younger son.
Wouldn't their family of five be incredibly happy then?
The original owner completely understood the implication.
They were planning to sacrifice her happiness for the well-being of the entire family!
It was no surprise to her that Qin Xianglan, not her biological mother, did not take her feelings into account.
What made her feel cold inside was that her worthless father had not said a word in her defense from beginning to end, not a single word!
At that moment, Qin Xianglan dropped another bombshell.
【Friendly reminder：The setting of this story is in an alternate timeline, but the author promises not to slack off on research.
Readers who value meticulous details are greatly respected, and to justify this respect, appropriate illustrations will be provided. However, this is still a novel, not a history book, so certain details that couldn't be found during research should be viewed as the author's creativity.
Finally, hope you enjoy the story, and those who like it make sure to add it to your library~~ Please be kind to this new book~~】
