Early in the morning, Wen Nuan was woken up.
Houses built in the 1970s had no sound insulation at all, and you could hear everything that happened next door.
What's more, the person who was speaking at this moment deliberately raised his voice, and it was clear that these words were meant for her to hear -
"I just sleep every day and do nothing. I don't even know how to get up early to make breakfast. How shameless!"
"Mom, please keep your voice down. Isn't your sister-in-law taking care of the child?"
"Come on, if you don't know, you might think she gave birth to a golden nugget! Besides, which woman doesn't give birth to a child? We worked in the fields during the day and gave birth to babies at night. But she waits for others to serve her every day, and she really thinks she is a young lady! Second brother, I tell you, you can't marry a lazy wife like your eldest brother, otherwise your mother will die a few years shorter!"
"Don't worry, Mom. Meizhi is very hardworking and virtuous."
"Then you should marry her back quickly so that mom can enjoy a peaceful and happy life!"
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There was a sudden silence from the other end of the line, and soon after, the sounds of a door opening and closing were heard.
The people who had just spoken were her mother-in-law Zhao Wuzhu and brother-in-law Gu Qingsong. They were just saying that she was lazy and didn't work. Wen Nuan had gotten used to it and was very calm inside.
She wouldn't do it anyway!
Wen Nuan raised her arms, rubbed her eyes, and yawned softly.
It was still unbearably hot in the south in late October, and her back was sweating from the heat.
She subconsciously wiped the sweat from her forehead, and after just two wipes, she felt someone move beside her, followed by a very slight humming sound.
Wen Nuan was a little slow to react, then she stretched out her arm and gently patted the little guy on the back.
Soon, the delicate little guy beside him fell asleep again.
Wen Nuan looked at the baby sleeping beside her with his fist raised high in the faint dawn light outside the window, and sighed in distress.
A month later, Wen Nuan has realized the truth.
She traveled through time.
Moreover, she was transmigrated into a control group of a period novel about family affairs, but she was not the heroine, but the vicious female supporting role in the book.
Unfortunately, the heroine and her original self still live under the same roof and cannot escape.
The heroine is hard-working, but she is lazy and greedy;
The heroine stayed with the hero and never left him, taking care of her husband and children, while she abandoned her husband and daughter and fell in love with someone else.
The heroine in the book and the original owner married the Gu brothers respectively.
The original owner married the eldest son of the Gu family, Gu Qinghan, who was a soldier. It was an honor to marry a soldier, but the original owner did not want to go to the countryside as an educated youth, so she planned to get married to Gu Qinghan. At that time, not only did she receive many discussions, but even her mother-in-law strongly opposed this marriage. But Gu Qinghan was a man of affection and righteousness, and he married the original owner despite all the opposition. However, after marriage, the two of them were rarely together, and the original owner did not have much feelings for him. Every time they met, they either had nothing to say or liked to scold Gu Qinghan. The relationship between the two was on thin ice.
The heroine in the book is Lin Meizhi, a salesperson at a supply and marketing cooperative.
She married the second son of the Gu family, Gu Qingsong, who worked in a soy sauce factory in the city.
After the heroine Lin Meizhi married into the Gu family, she was deeply loved by her mother-in-law.
The original owner is a female supporting character with low IQ, who is lazy, aggressive and overbearing. Not only is she disliked by her mother-in-law, but she is also slapped in the face by the heroine.
It is a control group that highlights the heroine's hardworking, virtuous, smart and capable character.
Because of jealousy towards the heroine, the original owner will cause her to have a miscarriage during an argument. The relationship between the two will plummet to the freezing point, and in the end, countless scenes of being slapped in the face will be staged, causing the original owner to be deserted by everyone.
What's even more outrageous is that when the original owner was taking her daughter out to play, she was hit by a car because she didn't take good care of her, causing her lower limbs to be disabled. The original owner couldn't accept it and decided to abandon her daughter.
Because the original owner didn't want to take care of her disabled daughter anymore, she cried, made a fuss, and even threatened to commit suicide to force Gu Qinghan, who was already the regiment commander at the time, to retire from the Beicheng Army. She also repeatedly accused him of having improper relationships with other women, just to get a divorce from her military marriage.
After the original owner divorced Gu Qinghan, who had just returned from a career change, she hooked up with a truck driver and ran away with him, but in the end she was deceived by the truck driver into going to the prostitute industry to earn money for him to eat, drink, gamble and help him pay off his gambling debts. In the end, the man abandoned her and married someone else for a young and beautiful girl.
At the same time, the heroine of the original book and her family have plunged into the wave of economic opening, and their lives are getting better and better.
However, the original owner died on the streets of a foreign land late at night during a snowstorm, which was extremely tragic.
This kind of ending is almost standard for vicious female supporting characters.
But what made Wen Nuan feel most distressed was not the original owner, but her daughter.
After a month of getting along, she has developed an indescribable feeling for this soft little ball of flesh.
She was clearly a lovely and well-behaved girl, but because of her disability she suffered countless strange looks and vicious verbal attacks while growing up.
The book also describes her as being very beautiful, having a very gentle and kind personality, being an excellent student, and having a special talent in vocal music.
However, because of his physical disability, he suffered all kinds of criticism for no reason and was ostracized and bullied by his classmates.
In order to help his daughter vent her anger, Gu Qinghan crippled the two boys who had bullied his daughter. As a result, he was transformed from an honorable and upright soldier into a labor camp prisoner. His dream of becoming a pilot was completely shattered, and he finally lost his life while acting bravely.
After Gu Qinghan died, their daughter suffered more revenge and bullying.
The little girl's fragile heart could not bear the malice from the world, and her life almost came to an abrupt end at the age of nine.
Fortunately, the original heroine rescued her in time, encouraged her, found a psychologist for her, and finally trained her into an outstanding musician.
The book also describes that at the moment of her death, the original owner saw the sparkling little girl on TV through the crystal glass window. In an interview, she specially thanked her aunt, the heroine in the book.
But that was her daughter, and the original owner died with regrets.
Wen Nuan knew that the trauma suffered in childhood would be like a brand that would take a lifetime to heal.
If possible, Wen Nuan didn't want the little guy in front of her to get hurt.
Perhaps she was thinking too deeply, Wen Nuan realized that the little one had kicked off the blanket on her belly again. When she saw the soft little meat ball, her heart was warm, she smiled gently, and then covered her belly again.
Because it was still early, the little guy showed no signs of waking up.
Fragrant and sweet, it turns out angel babies really exist.
Wen Nuan is an orphan, without a father or a mother, and has longed for a family since she was a child.
Although she became a mother right from the beginning, after spending a month together day and night, she felt a wonderful feeling of unity between mother and daughter.
Anyway, she was already dead in that world and could not go back, so she could only accept God's arrangement.
This is how warmth comforts oneself.
But Wen Nuan is not going to sit there and wait for death, becoming a tool NPC who gets slapped in the face.
She knew that Gu Qinghan would soon be transferred from the troops in this province to the Beicheng Military Region, and he would then return home.
Rather than competing with her mother-in-law and sisters-in-law here, she would rather follow Gu Qinghan to the freezing cold North City. Even if they were disgusted with each other, at least she would be the master of her own house and would not be beaten half to death for eating an egg.
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Wen Nuan estimated that the little guy would not wake up so soon, so she turned over and got out of bed slowly.
This is a one-story brick house with poor lighting. A portrait of a great man hangs on the wall. On a shabby wooden table next to it lies an old enamel cup with stains of rust on it. A red slogan is printed on the cup: Serve the People.
There was a small cracked mirror next to the cup, and Wen Nuan picked it up to look at it.
Because there was not much entertainment in that era and people went to bed early, after a month of recuperation, she was no longer as haggard and weak as she was when she wore it before.
My features are becoming more and more like my old self.
However, the original owner was still a little younger than her, only 20 years old.
But unfortunately, this body was not very healthy. It might also be due to the limitations of the times, and every household was unable to satisfy their basic needs of food and clothing.
Because the mother-in-law did not agree with the original owner's marriage to Gu Qinghan, and she thought that the birth of a daughter was a loss, so not only did the mother-in-law not help with the original owner during the confinement period, but they also had a fight because the original owner ate a few more papaya eggs.
The original owner suffered from postpartum diseases after that.
She often suffers from spontaneous sweating, and feels back pain when she is tired. Sometimes the pain in her pelvis is so severe that she has difficulty turning over.
Fortunately, she had been "lazy and gluttonous" for the past month and her health had finally recovered a little.
However, the original owner looked quite similar to her, with a standard oval face, thick eyebrows, slightly upturned phoenix eyes, a beautiful and soft face, and fair skin. But the original owner was weak and frail, looking like a delicate little white flower that needed protection.
This is a little different from her.
In the past, as long as she was full, the whole family would not be hungry, and take-out was convenient. She kept herself energetic and healthy, ran and exercised every day, and rarely got sick.
Now when I look at myself in the mirror, I seem to have regained my former spirit, with a firm gaze, and no longer that fragile feeling that would fall at the slightest breeze.
Wen Nuan didn't think much about it and went to the kitchen before the child woke up.
But in order to prevent her from eating up the house, Zhao Wuzhu only left a few rotten leafy vegetables in the kitchen, not to mention flour, eggs and rice.
Fortunately, Gu Qinghan would divide his monthly allowance into two parts, and sometimes send her a separate copy. She still had some food coupons and money on hand, so she would not starve to death at home.
“Ahhh…”
A familiar cry brought Wen Nuan back to her senses. She quickly walked back to the room and picked up the crying baby from the wooden bed with a gray mosquito net.
The baby is only six months old, with a chubby face, round little fingers, and a sweet milky scent all over his body.
It's so heart-melting.
The child stopped crying immediately after feeling the warm embrace.
Wen Nuan picked up the child and whispered in her ear, "Be good, don't cry, mommy is here."
After Wen Nuan said this, the child actually stopped crying, looked up at Wen Nuan with his tearful eyes, and suddenly smiled.
Wen Nuan looked at the cute little guy and said with a smile: "Little guy, you woke up just in time. Come on, mommy will take you out for some delicious food."
It was not known whether the little guy understood or not, but when he heard the warm and familiar voice, he suddenly started laughing and babbling a few times.
Wen Nuan simply washed the child, then took a baby carrier from the table and laid it flat on the wooden board. She placed the little one in her arms in the middle of the baby carrier, then skillfully carried her dancing daughter on her back.
After being carried on the back, the little guy jumped twice excitedly and laughed.