Reborn to Strive

After Shi Zhen left, Guan Baiyu paused, then opened the door and went out.

There is a dirt road next to his house, along a vegetable field, and he arrives at his adoptive father's house.

The house of his adoptive father's house looked like a small two-story building from the front, but there was only one floor at the back, and the exterior hadn't been plastered—the house ran out of money after it was built.

In addition to farming, some people in the village also go to work in factories or do other things, so they have some income. They are patched together. The big house cannot be built, and the small house can be built, but his adoptive father has never been found. Although I did some jobs such as selling bamboo shoots and fish in the town, I didn't make much money.

Their source of income mainly depends on farming and silkworm rearing.

It was still early, when Guan Baiyu arrived at his adoptive father's house, although the door was closed, there was light coming from inside.

Guan Baiyu knocked on the door, and heard the sound of the door bolt being pulled out, and his adoptive mother opened the door.

Guan Baiyu's adoptive mother is surnamed Zhang, named Zhang Xiumei. She was pretty when she was young, but now she is dark and thin in her 40s, and she is a little hunchbacked. She has long lost her youthful charm.

Seeing Guan Baiyu, Zhang Xiumei was a little unhappy.

She doesn't like Guan Baiyu.

Her father-in-law passed away very early, and her mother-in-law has always been in charge of the house, and her mother-in-law has disliked her from the beginning, thinking that she is thin and small and can't work.

Later, she miscarried a few children and couldn't have a baby all the time. Her mother-in-law didn't like her even more and was very picky about her.

She remembered that when her mother-in-law bought a piece of tofu and came back to add vegetables, she would be accused if she ate more.

Later, her mother-in-law took Guan Baiyu back directly.

She really couldn't like a child who was not born by herself, especially later, she had her own child.

When she was pregnant, her mother-in-law was rare and had a good look at her, but seeing that she gave birth to a daughter, her mother-in-law turned around and lay down on the bed, saying that she had a backache and had no time to serve her.

She can only take care of the children by herself.

When her daughter was a few months old, her mother-in-law turned 60, and her elder sister-in-law brought her a chicken.

At that time, it was still in the 80s, and it was not easy to eat meat. She only ate eggs after giving birth, not a single chicken.

Seeing her mother-in-law stewed chicken, she was so greedy, thinking that she could always eat a few bites, but her mother-in-law didn't give her a bite.

There are too many things one by one.

Her natal nephew came over, but her mother-in-law stopped her from entering.

Her mother-in-law couldn't find something, she opened her mouth and she stole it.

Her mother-in-law bought something to eat, but she didn't let her eat a bite, and hid it all in her room.

Before Guan Baiyu came to their house, the husband and wife had already done all the field work. Her mother-in-law was raised by them, but her mother-in-law still cursed at them all day long.

So she didn't have any affection for her mother-in-law or Guan Baiyu who was raised by her mother-in-law.

After giving birth to her daughter, she thought about giving Guan Baiyu to others to raise, but her mother-in-law insisted on keeping Guan Baiyu because she only gave birth to a daughter.

Fortunately, her man is just like him, he still misses his own daughter.

"What are you doing here?" Zhang Xiumei asked.

Guan Baiyu said: "Mom... I have something to tell you."

Guan Baiyu's adoptive father's house also had a mud floor. As for the small building above, the floors were all made of wood, and the stairs were also made of wood, which was narrow and small.

At the moment, the three of them are staying in the main room downstairs, his sister is doing homework, and his adoptive father is making a broom.

Seeing him come in, both of them looked over together.

Guan Baiyu's adoptive father was named Guan Guangguo, and their cousins ​​at that time were all called "X Country".

Guan Guangguo was not too late to marry, but he had children too late. Although his daughter was two years younger than Guan Baiyu, he was already in his early forties and his hair was graying.

"What's the matter with you?" Guan Guangguo asked.

Guan Baiyu said: "My cousin came to see me."

Guan Baiyu told about Shi Zhen.

Shi Zhen came to look for him several times, but they always came at night. Now it's cold and there is no one outside at night, so no one sees him.

Everyone wouldn't say anything after seeing him, so even though Guan Guangguo and his family were only about ten meters away, Guan Guangguo didn't know about it.

Guan Guangguo asked subconsciously: "You want to go back? Then you have to pay back the money you owe me."

Guan Baiyu froze: "I don't want to go back...my cousin is my mother's relative, my mother is dead..."

Guan Guangguo frowned.

Zhang Xiumei usually chats with her neighbors, and when she heard Guan Baiyu say that her cousin is Shi Zhen, she asked, "Your cousin is the one who rents a house in Jianguo? He has to rent a house himself, so he can't control you. Be careful, don't let him scam you out of your money."

When Zhang Xiumei said that, she glanced at Guan Baiyu again.

There is another reason why she doesn't like Guan Baiyu.

Her mother-in-law should have saved some money in the early years, and she brought Guan Baiyu back, so why should Guan Baiyu's grandfather not give him some money?

It stands to reason that when she died, she would leave hundreds and thousands of dollars, but in the end she didn't have a penny, and they had to pay for the funeral.

They had just built a house at that time, where did they get the money?In the end, I had to owe a lot of debt.

Zhang Xiumei felt that the money should be hidden by Guan Baiyu.

"I have no money." Guan Baiyu said.

Zhang Xiumei didn't take it seriously, and was even a little annoyed: "Okay, you have no money! Your cousin is here, and you want to study in the future, so ask him for money, don't ask us for money, anyway, we don't want you to give us pension .”

Her mother-in-law is obviously rich, but Guan Baiyu has been taking money from them all the time while studying, they have long been unhappy.

In the past two years, her mother-in-law is gone, but they still have to pay for Guan Baiyu to study, she is even more unhappy.

That is to say, Guan Baiyu issued an IOU to them, so they continued to take care of it.

"I borrowed it from you..."

"Then we don't have any money to lend you! Before Xiaohong was sick, I took her to the town to see a doctor, and I borrowed money from her natal family!" Zhang Xiumei said.

She is also telling the truth, she really has no money!Before holding a funeral for her mother-in-law, she and her man went to her mother-in-law's brother's house to borrow money, but they were said to cry and only borrowed fifty.

The two children have to study, and the family has a lot of expenses. Now she has not paid off the money owed for building a house and funeral in the past two years.

Guan Baiyu froze.

In fact, he never knew what he was going to do in the future.

He has good grades, but he is a little skinny. The villagers said that he is not capable of working, so he should go to a technical secondary school and come back to be a primary school teacher after graduation.

He also has this plan himself, but it costs money to go to a technical secondary school. It might be better if he doesn't continue to study and find a job directly.

But he couldn't find a job.

Before winter and summer vacations and weekends, he went to the town and wanted to find a job, but he was too young, not even 16 years old, and he was skinny, so they didn't want him at all.

After doing the calculations, he felt that it was best for him to go to school. Although studying requires money, he can always find a decent job after three years of technical secondary school. For this reason, he even talked to his adoptive father and said yes To borrow money to study.

His adoptive father was not willing to lend him money. In order to reassure his adoptive father, he wrote an IOU of [-]. He will pay it back when he earns money in the future—the sum of the money he spent on eating, drinking, and studying since he was a child. , although not so much, but not much worse.

Now his adoptive father is not willing to continue to lend him money

Guan Baiyu was a little worried, and thought of Shi Zhen again.

Would Shi Zhen be willing to lend him money?Or...he didn't go to technical secondary school anymore?