There is Room for Rebirth in the 1950’s

On the expressway in the famous development zone of City W, a young couple was chatting sweetly in the car. From time to time, the husband who was driving glanced at the stomach of his lovely wife sitting in the driver's seat out of the corner of his eye.

Today is the weekend, and the two agreed to go to a village below Tao County, below W City. Zhou Jiao's parents will celebrate their 60th birthday tomorrow.

The couple bought gifts yesterday and stuffed them into the trunk. Although Zhou Jiao is the second child in the family and is not favored by her parents. She has completed junior high school with compulsory education since she was a child, and later completed her studies with part-time job scholarships. After graduating from key universities, she stayed in school to teach directly. This achievement should be regarded as the only one among the three siblings, but in the eyes of the parents, there are only the eldest daughter and the third son.

The second child is not up to date. When the eldest child was born, Zhou's father and his wife were newlyweds and had just been promoted to parents. They were still happy that the first child was a girl, and they thought that the second child would be a boy, which happened to be a good word.

In the end, it was still a money-losing product. Naturally, it was even more disgusting under disappointment, but it had already been born, and in desperation, Zhou's parents and Zhou's mother had the right to ignore existence. After a few years, they finally got pregnant again. This will catch up with the one-child policy again, and they have spent a lot of money in fines and lost their jobs. Of course, they got their wish.

——This time it is the big fat boy who carries on the family line.

No matter how shallow the relationship between her parents is, Zhou Jiao will pay for those who should be filial, and she has the right to spend money to buy peace. Similarly, her husband Zhang Guoqing, who grew up in a welfare institution, didn't think there was anything wrong with supporting his parents.

He was abandoned in the orphanage not long after he was born, and that day happened to be National Day. The dean's surname is Zhang, hence the name Zhang Guoqing. Compared with other children in the orphanage, Xiao Guoqing, who was born for about one month with normal development and good health, the whole staff in the orphanage wondered if there were still healthy boys abandoned these years, and they still liked his arrival very much.

Perhaps it was God's blessing that he grew up healthy and healthy under the care of the dean's mother. When I was in my sophomore year, the dean’s mother also passed away, and I gave him a small house of 50 square meters that I bought after leaving him widowed.

In truth, he is luckier than Zhou Jiao who has six relatives, except that he lacks a pair of biological parents. After he was about to graduate in his senior year, after two years of acquaintance and two years of love, his dream came true and he agreed to marry Zhou Jiao. Now that he has been married for two years, the small family will soon add new members. For Zhang Guoqing, he is very satisfied with his current life and feels very happy.

Jiaojiao, move your seat back and take a rest first. I'll call you when I get to the county seat. Be good, be obedient.

Zhou Jiaojiao said softly: No, you drive carefully, I'll talk to you, you won't fall asleep.

The corners of Zhang Guoqing's mouth curled up, his concern for his wife was very useful, and he said softly: Then you should rest when you are tired! In two months, our baby will be born. Have you decided on a name?

You haven't made up your mind yet? Can you choose one of the ones I have in mind?

But I want to think of another name that can represent and commemorate the relationship between us. I don't know if it is a daughter? If it is a daughter, I will definitely name it Zhang Xinyue. I am happy with you, haha

Hehe, you are so nasty, but I like it quite a bit. What about the boy?

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Laughing in the car along the way, now that summer is just over, the shade of trees on both sides of the road is a little yellow, looking out of the car window, the fields are empty, and the rice has been harvested.

There are rice residues left in the fields everywhere. If you go down, you may be able to touch some snails, loach and eels, but the pollution is too serious nowadays. In my memory, I often saw these when I was a child, and it is not easy to find them now.

As the car drove by, you could see dust flying everywhere. Under the setting sun, the closer you get to the county seat, the more people there are, the more crowded the lanes, and you have no choice but to drive slowly.

When they arrived in Tao County, the couple automatically fell silent for a while, and then Zhou Jiao said depressingly: Brother, I don't even want to go back. I usually call to ask for money, and my younger brother is married and still depends on his parents if he doesn't work.

I guess this time they will still want my eldest sister and us to finance the purchase of a house in the county seat. It is very likely that we will not be given money like last time, and we will not be allowed to stay. If so, we will leave. It is agreed that we will give what should be given to us, and you should not open your mouth if you should not. My parents just want to talk to you.

Understood. Don't be angry, you are still pregnant. I guess the eldest brother-in-law will definitely express his opinion. I will listen to him. It is not easy for the eldest sister, and her family is not well-off. Xiaokang is also going to elementary school, and the key elementary schools are subsidized The fee is only 50,000. We have only been working for a few years, and now we only have about 100,000 in hand except for the house given by Zhang’s mother. But my wife can rest assured that my salary will increase after the next year, and my position will also increase.”

Well, you know what's in your mind. My monthly salary has already been fixed to my parents. They don't need to spend much in the countryside. I haven't spent any money from them since I was a child, and it's almost the same now.

The girls in the countryside are not like us. In addition to sending them money every month, they also need to add the usual etiquette. In addition to the 50,000 dowry gift you gave when you got married, and although the eldest sister usually does not have the money we give, she still needs 5,000 to 10,000 a year.

In fact, they are not short of money. If you look at my aunts, you will know whose daughter is in retirement like ours, that is, you and your eldest brother-in-law are easy to talk to. Otherwise, why did they give birth to a younger brother?

Didn’t it mean that we need our son to take care of the elderly? They used to say that our sisters are losing money, but they lost their jobs and went back to the countryside to give birth to a younger brother. Now they still have to support him and his wife. When they have children, they probably need to support a whole family. .

Why don't I find someone to see what kind of job is suitable for my younger brother? He has to shoulder the family responsibilities. Zhang Guoqing frowned and comforted.

Don't! You introduced him. With his character, he probably won't work in half a month. How can you explain it to others? The elder brother-in-law also introduced his relatives before, and the salary is more than 5,000.

As a result, he felt tired after less than a month of working, and felt that he had graduated from university anyway and should sit in an office. Hehe, my mother also felt that the eldest brother-in-law was incompetent and would not introduce good jobs. As a result, no one dared to introduce him to relatives since then, and he couldn't please him.

Well, listen to you. Our family is up to you. Just cross this road.

The conditions in the countryside are not worse than those in the city now. There are spacious main roads, and there are newly built small three-story buildings on both sides of the road. The exterior walls of most houses are covered with white tiles, and many fruit trees are planted beside them.

In the past few years, relying on Zhou Jiao's two sisters' dowry money and her timely support, her father, Zhou Dafu, is much richer than the other brothers' families. The newly built rural villa has five rooms and three floors. The exterior wall tiles are bright and majestic, not to mention the furniture inside the house.

There is a rule in their village that the natal parents move into the new house, and the daughter buys it privately when they leave favors. Including the previous subsidy, this house is equivalent to being built by the two sisters of Zhou Jiao. Compared with the daughters of the two uncles, whoever mentions it does not mean that Zhou Dafu is really blessed, and the two daughters and son-in-law are filial.

Not to mention that every year and holidays are full of packages and drive to the door. Look at the cousin of the uncle's family who can only move to her husband's house. Of course, everyone knows that the cousin has been favored since childhood, spoiled and domineering, and will be sweet and poisonous. There is no comparison at all.

At the beginning, their grandparents looked down on the boss of the extinct family, and they followed the youngest son after the separation. Later, Zhou Dafu lost his job to give birth to his son, and was even tormented and complained by his parents. Until Zhou Jiao was admitted to university, he actively stopped it. If Zhou Jiao hadn't been shrewd and colludes with the head teacher, Teacher Ma, to go to school early, she would probably be forced by her family to marry early to earn the gift money.

So there is no one in the village who doesn't know about the Zhou family. But there is no way, who makes the daughter willing to be filial. It's all like this, look at Aunt Zhou's 60th birthday today and two daughters drove here early, but their youngest son is still playing cards in the small supermarket at the entrance of the village.

Zhou Jiao actually didn't want to come back, but if she didn't, her mother would go to school and cry. She took the dowry money back then as a matter of course. You say that he is a university lecturer, why can't someone who is a role model understand Chinese virtues?

The office is not without turmoil. There is a lot of turmoil in the dark. No one will think that your parents have not raised you, so you don't need to provide for the elderly, and you don't need to notify your parents when you get married. I don't feel pain until the knife cuts my hand, and the reality is that it makes people helpless to compromise.

Zhang Guoqing also wanted to give 50,000 dowry money because he could do less. As for the 150,000 dowry, he just said that he would not want to marry him?

Getting off the station at the door of the house, Zhou Jiao kept thinking about these things.

Her mother welcomed Zhang Guoqing very warmly. There's no way, her youngest daughter, she knows she's not soft-hearted, but luckily the youngest son-in-law really regards her as his mother. From the bottom of her heart, she also likes the younger son-in-law, unlike the older one who only has a cold face.

Every time she goes to the city, the little son-in-law will take her shopping. Sometimes when I am not busy at work, I will drive her back to the village. She is also willing to go to the little daughter's place, it is good to have no in-laws. Besides, the son-in-law knows how to be a human being, and the welfare provided by the unit, such as letting them go on a trip to Hainan last year, and also giving them 5,000 yuan in pocket money, let alone other things.

Fortunately, the child's father was optimistic about the orphan's young son-in-law, otherwise, it would be so good to marry his daughter to the big boss in the county for 200,000 yuan. I heard that he changed 3 wives in 3 years.

What his father said is also right, look at the second girl, she has a slow temper, and her speech is even softer, but she is the most successful in her heart, and they have long been beyond their control.

Oh, you don't agree with her marriage?

Maybe there is no dowry money, she has already obtained the marriage certificate by herself. Just like who knew she was admitted to university? Someone else's family is about to hold a banquet to celebrate, this dead girl is fine, she has already secretly moved her account to go to a faraway place to work and earn money to go to college.

I don't know who this kid looks like, he knew how to make money since he was a child. I never asked for tuition fees when I went to school, and I was more scheming than my eldest daughter. If it weren't for the little son-in-law, it is estimated that this dead girl was raised for nothing.

Her father had already said that the second girl's family was still in charge of the second girl's family. If the second girl is really filial, she can buy a house in the city, let alone a house in the county seat.

If Zhou Jiao knew what her parents thought, she would probably be dumbfounded. But even if I knew it, I didn't worry about it. Except for what was agreed at the time, it was impossible for the couple to spend any more money. In a few months, the baby will be born and the expenses will be even greater.

Besides, her parents have savings in their hands, live in a new house, and have enough food and clothing. She feels that she has done enough as a daughter. Of course, she still doesn't know that last night her natal family, including grandma, has already discussed with the two sisters to buy a house except for the elder sister's family, otherwise Zhou Jiao would probably get on the car and go back to the city immediately.