Reborn to Strive

No matter how close brothers and sisters are, when they grow up, they tend to drift away.

Before Shi Zhen was born again, the number of times he met his sister became less and less.

They didn't have anything to talk about when they met. His sister was always concerned about which brand had a new model, or what happened to her child.

Shi Zhen didn't care about these things and didn't want to hear them.

And when Shi Zhen persuaded her to find something to do, at least not to waste money, she talked about him, or ran away altogether.

Most importantly, Shi Ting wanted to buy everything she saw, and swiped her credit card when she ran out of money. Her financial situation was in a mess!

It’s basically like this every time: Shi Ting spent too much money at the beginning and was afraid he would say it, so she tried to hide it from him, tearing down the east wall to make up for the west wall. I will do this again, but I still can't help but buy it next time.

During the years when he was in a bad mood, her sister was so careless that she even messed up her own credit report.

His sister also has him.If it wasn't for him, or if he didn't have the money, then he would probably be stuck in the pit of online loans and unable to climb out to drag the whole family down...Lao Lai.

What made him angry was that his two brother-in-laws almost had the same kind of virtues - they wanted everything even though they were obviously incompetent.

It’s just that the former one’s behavior is too ugly, and that person’s parents are even more difficult to explain. The milk powder he bought for his niece, even a grandma can hide it from her granddaughter… As for the latter one, she has done her duty as a bad boy. .

Shi Zhen had a problem with his younger sister in his previous life, but now seeing the 14-year-old girl running towards him, he remembered all kinds of things about her when she was a child.

Their mother is not in good health, so she can only do some simple housework at home, at most take care of the vegetable fields in front of and behind the house.

After her sister was born, his mother's health became even worse.

Although he was young at that time, he also knew that his mother should not be tired, so he always helped take care of his younger sister.

He feeds his sister and puts her to bed. When his sister is a little older, he will probably drag a small oil bottle by his feet when he goes out to play.

When his mother died, his sister was only four years old, and the thin and small person howled in his arms for two nights.

The land in their mountains is completely different from the fertile fields in Anshan Town.

Anshan Town is located in the plains, and the land allocated by the state is also nearby. The villagers go out to plant the land, and it takes 10 minutes to walk with a hoe to reach the sky. It doesn't matter at all.

But here...their land is not near the village at all. When his father goes to farm, he often has to climb the mountain for half an hour first.

Their land is also very barren, and there is no river on the mountain, so they often have to carry water for irrigation.

Also, they grow shiitake mushrooms, not in greenhouses as they did later, but they go to the mountains to pick suitable wood and cut a hole in it to grow.

His father went out to work, usually for a whole day, and it was unlikely that he would work all morning, and then he would cook something for them when he came back.

Therefore, when his mother just passed away, he took his younger sister and couldn't go to school.

One reason is that his sister always cries and cannot leave him, and the other reason is that the primary school is quite far away. At the age of eight, he couldn't take his sister to walk the mountain road for more than an hour to go to school.

At that time, he could only watch his sister cook at home and take care of the family's vegetable field by the way.

It was also because of this that his father hurriedly married his stepmother.

After his stepmother came, his younger sister was taken care of, and he was freed from housework, so he could continue to study. Later, their family bought sheep to raise, and the days got better and better.

Therefore, Shi Zhen has always respected his stepmother.

As for his sister...he had to admit that when he was young, the most important thing in this family was his sister.

After all, he pulled it up with his own shit and urine.

Seeing his younger sister now, Shi Zhen is almost like looking at his daughter.

His "daughter" must not be raised in a wrong way in this life.

"Brother, you're back!" Seeing Shi Zhen, Shi Ting first laughed, then cried "Wow", and reached out to hug Shi Zhen: "I miss you so much!"

Shi Zhen was caught off guard by being hugged, and patted her on the shoulder a little embarrassed. He didn't think much about this sister a while ago.

Fortunately, Shi Ting didn't know, so she let go of Shi Zhen after hugging her: "Brother, did you bring me something good when you came back?"

Shi Zhen took out peanuts for her to eat: "No."

Shi Ting was a little disappointed at first, but her eyes lit up when she saw the peanut, she ate it quickly, and then asked Shi Zhen if she wanted it.

Shi Zhen said no, so she stuffed them into her mouth one by one, saying it was delicious.

Thinking that 20 years later, Shi Ting will hardly eat at home, so she likes to look for delicious food everywhere, and occasionally visits him to cook, but Shi Ting doesn't like to eat... Shi Zhen still thinks that her younger sister is still cute at this time.

When Shi Zhen came back to his senses, he saw a colorful hair rope on his younger sister's head.

This red and green color... Even if Shi Zhen likes bright colors, he still thinks it is ugly.

"Your headband..."

"Brother, I made this by myself, isn't it beautiful?" Shi Ting's eyes lit up, "I learned from others, you can make it by knitting wool onto a rubber band!"

Shi Zhen said with difficulty: "Not bad."

Shi Ting said again: "Brother, some people in our school use the rubber bands bought in the county. That's really good-looking. They also issue cards...Brother, I want it too."

Shi Zhen: "..."

Shi Ting didn't realize Shi Zhen's speechlessness, and said again: "By the way, brother, do you know Cucurbit Baby? Someone in our class bought Cucurbit Baby's pencil case, and that pencil case has two layers!"

Shi Ting didn't ask for a pencil case, but her eyes clearly wanted it.

Shi Zhen sighed secretly, and said: "Tingting, I came back to take you to the place where I work and live with me. When I get there, I will buy it for you."

His sister really liked these since she was a child.

Although he wanted his sister to change it, if he really didn't want to buy it for her at all, he suppressed it ruthlessly, and his sister might rebound even more in the future.

Can only teach slowly.

"Brother, you are so kind!" Shi Ting said happily, and began to tell Shi Zhen about the school.

Shi Zhen's village is considered poor, and Shi Ting's school is also considered poor, but the little girl is pretty, so she won't be bullied.

It was when she was chatting with Shi Zhen that her focus was very crooked, always talking about who and who wore new clothes, who and so and so used cream, and who and so and so could eat several packs of instant noodles a week.

Shi Zhen: "..."

He remembered that his sister's focus was so crooked in her previous life.

He didn't think much about it at that time, he just felt distressed - how could his precious sister not have what other people have?

After all the money, he was very happy to spend money for his sister. Whatever his sister wanted, he bought everything he could.

Coupled with the fact that he cared about saving face at that time, and didn't like to tell his family members when it was a little difficult, his sister became more and more able to spend...

After Shi Zhen fed his younger sister peanuts, he took his younger sister to the school dormitory first.

In fact, it can't be called a dormitory, it's just a Datong shop, and there are twenty or thirty people living in a small room.

In the dark room, one bed after another, less than one meter wide, wooden beds were placed against the wall, with some personal items on them, and names or marks were written on them.His sister's bed was in the middle, among a pile of beds, it was considered clean and tidy, and there was a jar of pickles beside the bed.

His younger sister acted like a baby: "Brother, after you left, I ate pickles every day, and I almost threw up!" Her brother used to bring her food, and occasionally she could eat rabbit meat, which was very delicious.

Shi Ting showed a greedy look.

Shi Zhen: "..."

After chatting with his sister, Shi Zhen went to ask about transferring schools.

At the same time, Anshan Town.

Guan Baiyu and Shi Xinghuo are preparing skewers together.

Before Shi Zhen left, let him rest at home and wait for the results to come out.

But he felt that he didn't need to rest. In contrast, he wanted to do something for Shi Zhen.

If you don't set up a stall for a long time, customers will easily run away, and there may be an exact same stall that will directly steal all the business.

His brother had stopped for two days to accompany him in the senior high school entrance examination, and this time he will stop for a few days when he goes back... What if the business is robbed of his business after so long?

With this in mind, on the night Shi Zhen left, Guan Baiyu pushed the fried skewer stand to the town to sell fried skewers.

Before Shi Zhen set up a stall, he often came to help, but now that Shi Zhen is not around, it is not a problem for him to manage the stall by himself.

With the experience of setting up a fried skewer stall, Guan Baiyu also set up a stall selling rice balls the next morning.

Shi Zhen didn't have particularly good skills, so the business he chose to do was very simple. Guan Baiyu got started very quickly, and he managed the business decently.

In this way, Guan Baiyu has been doing business for two days.

He was doing the work that Shi Zhenqian was used to, with Shi Xinghuo helping him, but he was still very, very tired, and his hands and feet ached terribly.

When his brother first started, no one helped him. Some time ago, besides setting up a stall, his brother was also responsible for furnishing the rented house...

Guan Baiyu felt distressed, and then worked more seriously.

His brother's relatives are coming. Although his brother doesn't talk much about his family, judging by his performance, he still values ​​his family.

If he behaved a little more capable, his brother might think he was better than his older sisters, and his brother's family would probably like him a little more.

Guan Baiyu went to the town to set up a stall that night, and found that there were a few more stalls in the town.

Recently, more and more people came out to play at night. Naturally, others, like them, thought about setting up stalls.

Next to Guan Baiyu, there was a stall selling vermicelli soup and dried stinky tofu. There were also a few tables set up at this stall for people who came to eat.

The stall owner is a middle-aged man in his 50s and [-]s. He sells beef vermicelli soup for [-] cents a bowl and fried stinky tofu for [-] cents and [-] yuan. His business is quite good.

Guan Baiyu was selling, when he saw one of his female classmates came to his stall with a man of similar age on her arm.

If there is no accident, these two people should be talking about each other.

Before Guan Baiyu came to help Shi Zhen, he often met people he knew, but this was the first time he met a classmate, and his classmate even had a date...

Guan Baiyu sized each other up curiously.

"Guan Baiyu, are you selling fried skewers?" The girl was curious.

"Well," Guan Baiyu smiled at her, "Do you want to buy it?"

The girl looked at the boy next to her, and the boy immediately asked her what she wanted to eat, and the two picked something worth two yuan.

The fried skewers sold by Guan Baiyu cost at least [-] cents for the meat ones, while vegetarian fried skewers like rice cakes and tofu can be bought for [-] cents for two skewers.

After all, these things are cheap.

Guan Baiyu fried it for her, sprinkled chili powder and handed it to her, and she asked, "Guan Baiyu, are you still going to study?"

Guan Baiyu laughed: "Go."

"Then you now..."

"Earn tuition fees." Guan Baiyu laughed.

The girl felt a little emotional: "It's good...I won't go to study anymore, it's too boring! Guan Baiyu, I have found a job now, working in a sofa factory. When you want to buy a sofa, you can come to our factory."

Others came to buy fried skewers one after another, and the girl left with the boy next to her on her arm.

Guan Baiyu always thought that he would feel embarrassed when he saw his classmates when he was setting up a stall.

But it doesn't.

Right now, he just misses his brother very much.

I don't know when his brother will come back...

Shi Zhen stayed in the village for three days before leaving with his family.

There is a lot of business here in Anshan Town, and he can't leave it alone for too long.

The most important thing is that Guan Baiyu's results are coming soon, and he wants to go back and have a look.

Shi Dalin agreed to go with Shi Zhen, and of course Zhao Meiyun would follow. Both Shi Dalin and Zhao Meiyun would go, so Zhao Qiujuan would not stay in the mountains.

As for Shi Ting... Shi Zhen promised her, and after he said it, he would buy her a beautiful pencil case, schoolbag and card... She was the one who wanted to go outside the most.

Zhao Dongjuan didn't have a good face all the time, but she wouldn't stay. In the end, the whole family left from the mountain with big bags and small bags.

Shi Dalin was also reluctant to keep the things at home, so he brought everything he could bring, so that each of them had to take a lot of things.

Shi Zhen and Shi Dalin took the most, of course, and Zhao Qiujuan also took a lot.

Zhao Meiyun's waist has been bad for the past few years, so she has less things to carry. As for Zhao Dongjuan...

Originally, she was asked to carry only slightly less things than Zhao Qiujuan, but she opened her mouth to ask why Shi Ting didn't have to carry so many things.

Indeed, Shi Ting carried her schoolbag and her clothes, but nothing else.

After all, she is the youngest, and she is Shi Dalin's own daughter, and Shi Zhen dotes on her... Zhao Meiyun usually doesn't let her work.

If this kind of thing happened before, in order to avoid trouble, Shi Zhen would probably take some of the things Zhao Dongjuan wanted to carry on his back and tell Zhao Dongjuan to shut up.

But this time, after thinking about it, he took a bag of things from what Zhao Dongjuan was in charge of and gave it to his sister, letting her take it.

Shi Ting didn't feel that there was anything wrong, she just wanted to go outside to live a good life, and happily carried it in her hand.

But after walking a certain mountain road with things, Shi Ting couldn't do it: "Brother, I can't walk anymore."

"I carry more than three times as many things as you." Shi Zhen glanced at her, and he and Shi Dalin directly shouldered the burden!

Shi Ting burst into tears.

Shi Dalin couldn't see his daughter like this, and immediately said: "Tingting, you can give the things to Dad."

Shi Ting was about to give it, Shi Zhen said: "Tingting, Dad is not young, he is also tired."

"Then..." Shi Ting was pitiful.

Shi Zhendao: "You carry it on your back... When you get to town, I'll buy popsicles for you to eat."

Shi Ting swallowed, and continued on the road.

She was crying all the way tired, and she was staggering at the end. At this time, Shi Zhen said again: "Tingting, do you like dresses? The big red ones, hold on. When we get to Anshan Town, I will give them to you." You buy one."

Shi Ting suddenly became energetic again.

Seeing his sister like this, Shi Zhen wanted to laugh.

Walking on mountain roads is completely different from walking on flat ground, especially when walking uphill occasionally, it is really tiring.

Shi Zhen felt that his sister's current physical strength was really good.

After 20 years, even if his sister didn't bring anything, she might not be able to walk this way!

While walking, Shi Zhen followed his stepmother all the time, and helped his stepmother carry something on the way: "Aunt Zhao, you have a bad waist, don't carry heavy things."

His stepmother broke her leg while going to work with his father in her previous life, and now he is afraid that something will happen to his stepmother on the way out.

Hearing what Shi Zhen said, Zhao Meiyun was very moved, so Zhao Dongjuan secretly said "fake kindness", but no one cares about her.

They walked all the way to the place where Shi Ting was in junior high school, and then Shi Zhen paid someone to take them to the county town by tractor.

Their family usually buys something or does something in a nearby town, and they don't come here very often.

But except for Zhao Meiyun, everyone else has been here.

Zhao Qiujuan is already twenty years old this year. She actually mentioned a relationship before. At that time, Shi Zhen was 16 years old and she.

Thinking that his sister was going to get married and should buy something to dress up, Shi Zhen took his sister and sister to the county town together to buy some food.

But the marriage failed in the end.

Zhao Meiyun still loves her two daughters very much. As for Shi Dalin, because Zhao Qiujuan and Zhao Dongjuan were quite old when they came here with Zhao Meiyun, and her surname was not Shi, so what Shi Dalin meant was that these two stepdaughters got married and received a bride price. He doesn't want it, and he doesn't give it a dowry.

Of course, the Shi family is their natal family, and he recognizes this matter, and he is willing to contribute if there is anything that needs to be done.

Shi Dalin's approach is actually better than that of many relatives.

Many relatives took the bride price and did not give the dowry!

Zhao Meiyun was very happy when she heard this from Shi Dalin, and felt that her daughter was like this, so she must be a good person.

At that time, Zhao Qiujuan did meet a family with a good family background, Zhao Meiyun was easy to talk to, and told the family that the dowry would be based on the number of people around her, and she would leave it all to her daughter as a dowry.

Zhao Meiyun said this because she wanted her daughter to be valued by others, but after hearing what she said, the family decided not to give the bride price.

Said that since it was just a formality, they would not borrow money to save face.

Also, according to local customs, the man's family will send wine and pork to the woman's family, as well as some miscellaneous things. Generally, the woman's family will hold these, add some eggs, and hold a wedding banquet.

In the end, the family said that Shi Dalin was not Zhao Qiujuan's biological father, so there was no need to send wine or meat, and they would not give them away! .

The family really wanted to talk about it, but seeing that the Shi family was easy to talk, they made an inch of it.

This incident made Zhao Meiyun furious, and Shi Dalin and Shi Zhen were also furious, and the marriage finally fell through.

Zhao Qiujuan has no worries about getting married!

In the countryside over Anshan Town, there are more men than women, not to mention their mountains. Although Zhao Qiujuan looks ordinary, she works neatly and is already a top girl. There are many people who want to marry her!

By the way, after the Shi family refused to talk about the marriage, the family came forward eagerly, saying that the marriage can be discussed slowly, they are willing to double the amount of pork and wine, and the bride price can be returned without dowry... They kept saying that they were sincere Those who want Zhao Qiujuan only want Zhao Qiujuan.

Of course, Zhao Qiujuan did not marry in the end, and Zhao Meiyun has recently been looking for a better husband's family for her.

If Zhao Meiyun hadn't broken her leg in her previous life, Zhao Qiujuan would have married well. With her personality, as long as she didn't encounter a top-notch in-law's family or other accidents, her life wouldn't be too bad.

The changes in their mountains have been small over the years, but the county town is different every year.

The county seat at this moment is much more prosperous than when Shi Zhen brought a few sisters here.

Shi Ting turned her head, her eyes lit up.

Shi Zhen thought about what he had promised to buy her popsicles, so he found a shop, bought six popsicles for [-] cents, and gave one to each of his family members.

"I do not need……"

"What popsicles do I eat!"

Zhao Meiyun and Shi Dalin were a little embarrassed and refused to eat.

Shi Zhen said: "Eat it, what is this?"

Zhao Meiyun and Shi Dalin still ate.

This two-cent popsicle is not small in size and tastes very sweet, but after sucking the sweetness, there is only a piece of ice left.

But in summer, ice is also delicious.

Shi Ting squinted her eyes after eating, and asked Shi Zhen: "Brother, what shall we have for dinner?"

When she said that, she looked at the bun shop not far away.