Three or Two Things about Rebirth

The person Han Meifen envied most when she was a child was Qiu Luming.

That year, their two families were not neighbors, but they were in the same Yuhong class. It was already April, and it snowed heavily. They lay by the window and watched the older brothers and sisters in the playground laughing and playing snowball fights. Snowballs were flying everywhere. She saw someone fall down while running, and then a group of people gathered around him and buried him in the snow without distinguishing friend from foe.

Han Meifen was very scared. She was determined not to play snowball fights. She was afraid of any head-on conflict.

When it was time to go home from school, the teacher asked the children in the Yuhong class to hold hands and walk out of the gate of the Second Primary School. He told them to follow the footsteps of the older brothers and sisters in the upper grades, not to play on the way, and to go home quickly.

Because it was too cold, Han Meifen and the children in front and behind her held each other's hands. They were all red and cold and it hurt a little. She wanted to cry again.

The child in front of her is Qiu Luming. There is a big rabbit sewn on the back of Qiu Luming's red sweater. The sweater was knitted by her mother. There is also a hat attached to the back of the collar. Even the teacher said that her sweater is beautiful. After studying it for a long time, she plans to knit one for her daughter.

Qiu Luming's ears were frozen, so she let go of the child's hand and tried to put on her hat, but her arms were too short and she couldn't reach the hat after several attempts. Just as Han Meifen was about to help her, a tall boy passing by said with a chuckle, "Little bean curd, let me help you!"

After saying that, he stuffed the snowball in his hand into Qiu Luming's sweater hood, and then quickly put the hood on her head.

The snowball broke apart and the snow poured into Qiu Luming's neck. She let out a whistle-like scream that echoed through the sky.

Han Meifen hurriedly helped Qiu Luming to clear the snow from his collar. The next second, she saw Qiu Luming's second brother Qiu Jiashu running over, kicking the boy down in mid-air, then riding on him and grabbing his hair and pressing him into the snow. The boy whimpered and struggled, but Qiu Luming bravely kicked him twice.

Qiu Jiashu grabbed two handfuls of snow and stuffed them into the boy's collar. "You are in the fifth grade and you are still bullying the kids in the Yuhong class. How shameless!"

The boy yelled, "I don't accept it! You attacked me by surprise, I don't accept it! I'll tell my brother to beat you up!"

"Go ahead and sue!" Qiu Jiashu stood up and kicked the snow at the boy twice. "Next time you bully my sister, I'll break your teeth!"

"I'll break your teeth off!" Qiu Luming shouted.

At that moment, Han Meifen felt that Qiu Jiashu was tall and mighty, like a hero, and she envied Qiu Luming to the extreme.

Qiu Jiashu walked up to Qiu Luming, pulled out her autumn clothes from her pants, shook out some snow, and then carefully reached into her clothes and scratched them a few times, "Anything else?"

Qiu Luming twisted his body and said, "No more."

Qiu Jiashu wiped Qiu Luming's neck and back with a handkerchief, tucked in her autumn clothes, squatted down and said, "Come up!"

"Hey!" Qiu Luming happily jumped onto Qiu Jiashu's back and looked around at the other children proudly.

Han Meifen's eldest brother is also a first-year junior high school student at No. 1 Middle School, but he never picks her up from school. Her third sister is a third-year student at No. 2 Primary School, and she just ran past them as if she didn't see her.

Han Meifen wanted to cry again.

Suddenly I heard a voice saying, "Can you find your home? I'll take you back!"

Han Meifen looked up at the handsome Qiu Jiashu and burst into tears, "I...I can...find home."

"Stop crying. This way or that way?"

Han Meifen followed Qiu Jiashu, following in his footsteps. The road home that used to be so long seemed to be just a few steps away today. There was a small ditch in front of her house, and Qiu Jiashu lifted her over with one hand.

After sending them to the door of Han's house, the brother and sister left. Han Meifen stood blankly at the door, watching them go away. Qiu Luming laughed and swung her legs back and forth. Qiu Jiashu even considerately pulled the trouser legs of her autumn trousers to prevent the northwest wind from blowing on her ankles.

The second brother also came home, opened the door, turned around and looked at her, "Are you stupid? Don't you know how to enter the house?"

They are both second brothers, why is there such a big difference? Han Meifen burst into tears again.

"Crying again! Crying again! So annoying!" The second brother ignored her and went into the house by himself, "Mom! Xiaofen is crying at the door again!"

"Just cry, you will be fine after a while." Mom was cooking.

The whole family dislikes Han Meifen. The eldest brother said that she has been crying since she was born, with her mouth wide open. Her toothless mouth looks like a black hole and is extremely ugly. She is three or four years old and still can't stop crying. Her crying makes people's brains hurt.

The third sister loves to laugh and is pretty.

But she has inherited all the shortcomings of her parents, even her grandmother's crooked teeth. Every time her parents look at her, they probably feel frustrated that their shortcomings are being reminded again, and they rarely look her in the eye.

——They look so much alike that there’s no possibility that she isn’t his biological daughter.

Sometimes she really wished she wasn't her parents' child, so that it would be easier for people to accept them if they treated her badly. Then suddenly one day her biological parents came to recognize her, took her away, and lived a happy life like Qiu Luming.

When she was a child, she was always beaten by her third sister, and the candies and snacks she was given were also taken away. Whenever she dared to complain, her third sister would retaliate against her and beat her even harder.

There were many children in the family, and her parents were both working. Her mother had no time to take care of her. She would cook immediately after get off work every day, and when the four brothers and sisters were asleep, she would wash the clothes of the whole family, clean the house and mop the floor. It would be 12 o'clock when she finished. Her father did not take care of the housework. He only chopped wood and fetched water. When the eldest and second brothers grew up, they competed to work and show their performance, so her father simply did nothing.

He just wants to be an official.

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Whenever Han Meifen thinks of her childhood, she feels that she grew up like a mouse – ugly, evasive, and always being beaten and bullied.

She knew from a young age that she was not popular and her parents felt unlucky when they saw her, so she seldom took the initiative to get close to them. As her eldest brother and second brother became more and more outstanding and her third sister became more and more beautiful, she became more withdrawn.

Only by immersing herself in the novel can she feel a moment of happiness. She puts herself in the shoes of the heroine of the novel, and feels happiness and pain, joy and sadness with her.

Later, her father really became an official, although he was only a section chief, but the family was allocated a new house not far from Qiu Luming's home. When she was fourteen or fifteen years old, sometimes on the way home from school, she would be suddenly overtaken by Qiu Jiashu's bicycle, and her heart would beat wildly for a while.

Qiu Luming also likes to read novels, but she reads them without thinking, unlike her who deeply understands and analyzes the inner world of the heroine and cannot help herself. However, Teacher He does not allow Qiu Luming to read novels, so she often reads in class and after class. She has read all the books on the rental book stalls, and occasionally reads martial arts novels.

In Han Meifen's heart, Qiu Jiashu was more handsome than any male protagonist in any book, but she never dared to talk to him, and even glanced at him secretly. She felt that she was not worthy of such an outstanding man, and even confessing her love seemed to be blaspheming him.

When Qiu Jiashu got married, she was depressed for a long time.

That lucky woman became a happy member of the Qiu family, and she envied the woman named Fang Yuan to death.

She felt that she was not worthy of happiness, and that she should live a miserable life, which was normal. Sure enough, she encountered a robbery right after joining the Seven Monsters of Jiayang. At that time, the public security in Jiayang was not good, and people often robbed people on remote roads at night, some robbing money and some raping women.

Many years later, Han Meifen was still scared when she thought of that night, but she did not regret it. She just didn't want the only photo of her and Qiu Jiashu to be snatched away by robbers, and she wanted to protect the only connection between them with her life.

It was a snowy and windy day and they had nowhere to turn to. If Ma Zhenyi hadn't appeared, the consequences would have been disastrous.

Qiu Luming, who was also robbed, received comfort and care from her family, but she was scolded by her own mother, who scolded her for not knowing how to love herself and going out to play with others so late, and scolded her for causing the whole family to be talked about because of the robbery...

She felt that if she died, no one in her family would shed a tear.

The optimism that Qin Huifang had brought up disappeared. She could never hold her head high like Qiu Luming. Obviously nothing had happened, and they had not been insulted, but she just felt ashamed and couldn't raise her head.

Later, Fu Xinyang came into her life. When they were best man and bridesmaid together, he took good care of her. They worked in the same unit and had some contact, and gradually they became boyfriend and girlfriend.

When her parents found out, they strongly opposed it. Her father said that the Fu family was too poor, that Fu Xinyang had no work ability or social skills, and was a coward who always did what his mother told him to do. He asked her to break up immediately and asked her third sister to introduce her to someone with better conditions.

She was furious and confronted her parents for the first time, saying that she would never break up.

Her mother was so angry that she slapped her in the face and said she would never interfere in her marriage again.

They really don't care.

The third sister gave birth to a boy and was spoiled by her husband's family. The eldest brother became a deputy section chief, and the second brother was also working hard to take the self-study exam. The parents were happy whenever they mentioned them. They only liked children who could bring them honor.

She is trash.

Han Meifen always wondered what her fate would have been if she had listened to Qiu Luming and Qin Huifang's advice and not dated Fu Xinyang?

Probably not too good, after all, she has always been unlucky.

But how many people have a happy marriage?

Yang Dawei has been married four times and has four children. Is he really happy?

Yang Dawei always married an older girl, divorced her a few years after she gave birth to a child, and found another one... When he divorced Li Lu, people in Jiayang secretly called him a worthless person, but he didn't care. After two years with his second wife, his old habits recurred, so he found a young girl from another place, gave his second wife some money, and divorced her. His third wife gave birth to a daughter, and they divorced again within two years.

With his father's retirement, Yang Dawei went to the south to seek other employment. Unexpectedly, this man was lucky in wealth. It was said that he earned more than 5 million yuan and returned home in glory with a girl who was fifteen or sixteen years younger than him.

He should have been very proud of himself, but after drinking with an old friend, he burst into tears for no apparent reason. Of course, when he sobered up the next day, he refused to admit that he had cried.

Is the eldest brother happy? He climbed up to the position of deputy director by all means, but he couldn't climb any higher. The Han family was born without good luck in officialdom. To put it bluntly, probably their ancestors didn't have the virtue! The eldest brother was smart, but too calculating. He had a heart disease at the age of 40 and was often rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment in the middle of the night.

Is the third sister happy? After she gave birth, her brother-in-law was too lazy to look at her. It was ridiculous that she still regarded herself as a hero of her husband's family. A few years ago, her brother-in-law had an affair with a female colleague who had just graduated and was assigned to a job. The third sister's son was as fat as a pig and stupid. How could he be as smart and studious as her own son Fu Hao?

Even the arrogant Qin Huifang got divorced. Her affair caused a lot of trouble in the city, and she had to move away. Although she remarried, I heard that the man was several years older than her and they were not living well either.

The only person who can be said to be happy is Qiu Luming.

She was simply born with a good sense of reincarnation. Although she was not very smart and had poor grades, her family members did not despise her. Her father even found a job for her through connections. If the first one didn't work out, he found a second one. If he was not satisfied with the second one, he found a third one. Since she was a child, she didn't dare to say hello to Dr. Qiu when she met him on the street, but how she wished that was her father!

When Qiu Luming and Fei Yuanhang broke up, she admitted that she felt a little gloating, that kind of feeling of relief that I was covered in dirt and you finally fell into the mortal world as well. But deep down, she still hoped the best for Qiu Luming. After all, she had helped her a lot and never bullied her.