90s Little Struggle

Chapter 1
In the countryside, summer nights are not as quiet as winter, with crickets and frogs chirping one after another, and dogs barking occasionally.

The most lively thing was the sound of mahjong being played in the main room next door. No matter who had a bad hand, they would swear a few dirty words from time to time.

Fortunately, Xiao's house is relatively remote, otherwise the neighbors would not be able to sleep because of the noise.

Suddenly, the people playing mahjong outside suddenly heard panic screams like a mouse meeting a cat or a natural enemy.

But it soon quieted down.

Xiao Hong, who was lying on the old canopy bed, was also called up by the police and asked a few words. She also seemed to be frightened, and could only nod and shake her head in unconcealed panic.

After a while, there was the sound of a police car leaving outside.

Soon, Liu Meijuan and the neighbors who came to hear the sound came crying, "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo money, Have you passed?"

The neighbors heard what she said about Xiao Jianhua as if he would not come back. Even if they were gloating in their hearts, they still comforted him a few times on the surface: "There will be nothing serious, and he will be detained for ten and a half months at most. Don't worry too much. , why don't you go to the police station to inquire about the situation tomorrow?"

"I'll go back to my mother's house early in the morning and ask my brother to inquire about it!" Liu Meijuan said nicely, but she wasn't worried about her man in her heart, she was just worried that the money in his pocket might be wasted.

What's more, Xiao Jianhua drives a tractor to help people pull goods. Now that everyone is in, there is no way to make money.

In addition, she originally wanted Xiao Hong to talk about marriage as soon as possible. The man's family will come tomorrow, and Xiao Jianhua is not here. How should she talk about the dowry?
After all, she is a stepmother, so it's better not to do this kind of thing by yourself, so as not to be gossiped by the villagers in the future.

I only hate that when Xiao Hong's biological mother Wu Julan was there, she was capable and kind, and she often said behind her back that she was not as good as the previous one.

When the neighbors left, Liu Meijuan said impatiently to her stepdaughter Xiao Hong, "Clean up the living room."

After speaking, she hurried out with a flashlight.

Playing mahjong with them were three other men with spare money in the village. Now they have been taken away by the police, so she must go and tell them.

She suspected that a villager who had conflicts with her family secretly reported the case. Otherwise, how could the police find her home so accurately?

Xiao Hong glanced at the alarm clock on the wall, it was almost ten o'clock, and obediently picked up the broom by the gate and started sweeping the floor.

Don't look at her expressionless face, but at this moment Xiao Hong's heart is very happy.

It was when she was sent to the market to buy vegetables in the morning, she secretly rode a bicycle to report to the town more than ten miles away.

It's a pity that I have done a good person and good deed, and I dare not publicize it, so I can only hide my credit and fame.

Now that she was the only one left at home, she laughed silently.

Their side is a small village in the south called Shantou Village. There are about fifty families, most of whom have the surname Xiao.

When Xiao Jianhua was 20 years old, he married Wu Julan, who was 19 years old in Chenzhai Village next door.

Wu Julan gave birth to twin daughters two years later.

Nowadays, people in the countryside all want to have sons. After she gave birth to two daughters, she didn't get pregnant again for many years.

After Grandpa Xiao passed away, no one controlled Xiao Jianhua. He just found Wu Julan disliked and often beat and scolded her. Later, he got involved with Liu Meijuan, a little widow from Louzhai Village next door.

When Liu Meijuan's belly grew bigger, Xiao Jianhua immediately divorced Wu Julan.

In the end, Wu Julan took away her youngest daughter, Xiao Fang, and soon took her daughter to remarry to a family in the mountains of Zha Village.

After Liu Meijuan brought her daughter Lou Fenfang in, although Xiao Hong was not pleasing to her eyes, but her mother-in-law was watching, she did not dare to rub the thorn in Wu Julan's side.

It wasn't until her mother-in-law passed away last year that she dared to say that she wanted to build a new house for her son. The family was short of money, so it was better to tell Xiao Hong that she was a richer family earlier.

It is now 1990. Although some cities outside have been blown by the spring breeze of reform, they are also relatively remote areas, and it is not easy to make money.

Grandpa Xiao was a capable man when he was alive. He had been the team leader for many years. He got his eldest son Xiao Jianjun, who loves reading, to work as a worker in the Railway Bureau, and arranged for his younger son Xiao Jianhua to learn to drive a tractor.

Xiao Jianhua borrowed a lot of money from his relatives and friends after the land was distributed to the households. With his mother's private subsidies, he bought a tractor to transport stones and bricks, etc., and his small life was actually pretty good.

But Xiao Jianhua loves to drink, and he loves mahjong to the core. Therefore, he has not saved much money over the years, and he can only dream of building a new house.

Therefore, he has no objection to the betrothal gift of his eldest daughter Xiao Hong from the person next to him.

For him, it must be a good thing if his daughter can marry a good family, and he will have more relatives who borrow money in the future.

With Aunt Liu Meijuan's matchmaking, they actually found a family in the town, but they still haven't reached an agreement on the dowry.

Besides, Xiao Hong was spoiled by her grandma since she was a child, and her biggest trouble in the past was just her parents' divorce.

But since her grandma passed away last winter, she has often dreamed that her short life was written in a book by Lou Fenfang, and that she was married to the Zhao family in the town by her own parents and stepmother. .

Three years later, Zhao Long was sent to a labor camp for a crime, and she was kicked out by her mother-in-law.

In the end, it was her own mother who took her back and asked someone to arrange her to a supply and marketing cooperative, so that she could be considered stable.

After waiting for a few years, she borrowed some money, and with the help of her younger sister, went to the city to open a clothing store, and after a few years of hard work, she bought a house in the city. He died in a car accident again, and his stepmother snatched away the family fortune that he had worked so hard for for more than ten years.

This life is as bitter as coptis, walking alone and alone.

On the contrary, because of her good grades, Lou Fenfang was admitted to university smoothly, and later went to work in a newspaper office in the provincial capital, and then married in the provincial capital.

Living comfortably, she secretly wrote a few novels based on herself, and her grades turned out to be pretty good.

If this was an ordinary dream, Xiao Hong wouldn't take it to heart.

But her dream is very real, and she can clearly understand everything in the dream so far.

I even remember clearly where to buy goods and how to buy and sell them.

Now Xiao Hong began to pay attention quietly, and really found out that Liu Meijuan's aunt had come to her house, and also found out that they were going to marry her to Zhao's house.

Of course Xiao Hong didn't want their plot to succeed. Thinking of Xiao Jianhua's obsession with playing mahjong, and thinking of how much money he had made, and thinking that he was currently catching gambling, he had an idea and thought of using the police uncles to clean up his father first.

If he is not at home, tomorrow there will be fewer people who can suppress him in all directions.

You can also take the opportunity to do something, want to make things big, and remove your account.

Thanks to her experience in the dream, she realized that she had never received a marriage certificate with Zhao Long after she was kicked out of the house by her mother-in-law, and her household registration was still with her natal family.

Later, when she went to the city, she realized that a temporary residence permit, renting a store and buying a house required a household registration.

Then she wanted to take the opportunity to remove her account.

(End of this chapter)