The Age of Rebirth: Struggle of the Eldest Daughter

Chapter 2 Master Says You Cannot Kill Snakes

Su Manjin took his younger brother Su Jinyang's little hand to the door, and saw his father Su Yuhui and his aunts and uncles in the yard.

"Xiao Man, you're awake!" Aunt Su Yumei shouted with a smile.

"Xiao Man, come and have a look. When we went down the mountain just now, we found a snake nest and caught three live snakes."

"After the big brother takes care of it, we can cook snake soup for dinner at night." Su Yutian greeted Su Manjin happily.

Su Yutian is the youngest of the three brothers, with a cheerful personality.Before going to work with his elder brother and second brother, he often played around with this little girl who was ten years younger than him.

Su Yutian loves this well-behaved and sensible niece the most.Although she is young, she is already a good helper at home.

He went up the mountain to mine rocks with his brothers, his parents were busy picking oysters from the sea, his sister-in-law was busy doing business in the grocery store, and his younger sister Su Yumei and niece Xiaoman took care of the housework.

"Ah Tim, go to the kitchen and bring the kitchen knife and the pot, as well as the barrel of sorghum wine from the utility room. Let's make wine with one snake and boil soup with two snakes." The boss Su Yuhui ordered.

Su Yutian responded well and walked into the house.

Su Manjin looked at the three snakes that were still wriggling and struggling under the seven-inch horizontal stake, and her scalp felt a little numb.

She thought of her previous life. After she graduated from junior high school, her father suffered from handicap and was unable to do heavy work within two years. Before the age of 50, he used a cane and had to use his mother to help him in daily life. Later, he often sat down because of his limited mobility, which led to various problems such as varicose veins, edema of legs and feet, and ulcers. After several operations, he could not completely heal.

In her previous life, until her rebirth, Su Manjin was afraid of snakes.

No matter how old he is, as long as he recalls the scene of his father killing and skinning a snake when he was 8 years old, his hairs will stand on end.

The scenes she saw when she was a child were too terrifying, leaving an indelible shadow on her.

I remembered what Master once said: All things have spirits, and cause and effect do not forgive others.

It is extremely bad to kill turtles and snakes without reason.

And in this life, she doesn't want to watch the process of killing snakes again, and she doesn't want her father to recreate the killing karma.
"Little uncle, wait, don't take it yet."

Su Yutian stopped and turned around, looking at his niece strangely, "Why?"

Su Manjin said to Su Yuhui seriously: "Dad, let's release all three snakes."

"The snake is a very spiritual animal, and its sense of revenge and hatred is very strong. If someone hurts it, it will definitely find a chance for revenge, and this revenge may be fatal. Anyway, this is the third Life. We don't need to hurt them for extra meals, let alone see blood at the door, it's not good."

Su Yuhui was surprised by his daughter's insistence. He hesitated for a while, "However, high-grade snake wine is very nourishing. Our family does heavy work, and snake wine will be very useful in the future."

"Dad, our family is very hardworking, and life will definitely get better in the future. We can also slowly look for other opportunities for development. You and your uncles may not always be doing heavy work of mining stones. I will study hard and wait until I grow up. When I grow up, I will go to the provincial capital to work, earn money, and buy you better supplements. Let’s not want snake wine, okay?”

As soon as Su Jinyang heard that his sister was going to work in the provincial capital, he quickly ran to Su Manjin, hugged his sister's arm and said coquettishly, "Sister, I will go to the provincial capital to go to school when I grow up."

Su Yuhui looked at the pair of lovely children and let out a hearty laugh. "My Xiaoman and Xiaoyang are really promising. Okay, I'll listen to you! Before it's dark, I'll put the three snakes back into the mountain with your second uncle."

"Xiao Man, you have to do what you say. When you are admitted to the university in the provincial capital, our family will go to visit together. I haven't been to the provincial capital yet." Su Yutian raised his hand and touched his niece hair top.

Su Yuwen and Su Yumei also smiled, looking at their nephew and niece lovingly.

Su Manjin turned around and looked at the three snakes, with a clear voice: "I'm sorry, I brought you back earlier and made you feel uncomfortable. My father and second uncle will send you back to the mountains now. Live well in the mountains and don't hurt others Oh." After speaking, he softly recited the Buddha's name "Amitabha!"

"Okay, Dad, hurry up and take the three snakes home." Su Manjin, who turned to talk to his father, didn't notice that the three snakes on the ground seemed to look at each other, and stopped struggling and wriggling.

Su Yuhui and Su Yuwen took three snakes and went to the mountain to release them before dark.

Su Yumei went back to the house to prepare the family's dinner, while Su Yutian packed up the tools he had just brought down from the mountain.

Su Manjin led her younger brother to the grocery store next door, she wanted to visit her mother.

Thinking back to the previous life, after my father’s legs and feet were inconvenient, my mother was busy all by herself, carrying gas tanks and bottled water, delivering goods to customers, and running the house, and finally she was so tired that her body was overwhelmed , had two lumbar spine surgeries, and was still unable to move normally, ruining the rest of his life.

Su Manjin was thinking as she walked, she was only 8 years old and only entered the first grade, and there were still [-] years to go before graduating from junior high school, so she could plan her family's future in advance and avoid the tricks of her previous life.

She remembered that her father in the last life started to get in touch with Mark Six when she was in the sixth grade.When I graduated from junior high school, my father was diagnosed with osteonecrosis of the femur.He couldn't do heavy work afterwards, so he thought about opening another grocery store in the old village, and trying to recruit mutual aid associations.

There are about a hundred households in Sujia Village, which is divided into two parts, the new village and the old village. Walking along the small road, it takes only 15 minutes to walk from the new village to the old village.

Su Manjin's grandfather, Su Jinshun, was the second male in the family, with an elder brother and an elder sister, and four younger brothers.

Su Yuhui has three brothers, but there are as many as 14 male cousins ​​in the family.Although Su Manjin has only one aunt, Su Yumei, she has ten aunts.

The ancestral house of the Su family was inherited by the elder, and Su Jinshun, as the second child, brought his family to settle in the new village after the separation.

"Sister, what are you thinking?"

Su Jinyang tilted his head and looked at his eldest sister, feeling that her sister became much quieter after waking up from a nap in the afternoon.

Su Manjin looked at his younger brother's cute appearance, touched his big head and said, "I'm thinking about what to do to make our family's life better and better."

Because the family was really struggling a few years ago, after the younger brother was born, the mother's body has been relatively weak.The family was very poor, and my mother's confinement was not well done at that time.

After Su Jinyang was weaned at one year old, Zeng Meiyue looked at the situation at home, and there was no nutritious supplementary food for the child, so she could only drink porridge with the adults.

When Zeng Meiyue went back to her mother's house occasionally, the eldest brother who opened the grocery store would pour her the leftover noodles from the box in the store, and when she came back, she would make egg noodles for the children as a side meal.Su Jinyang is four years old, but he is as tall as a three-year-old doll.

"Then sister, have you thought about it? What should we do?"

"Xiaoyang, let's go see mom first. My sister doesn't have to go to school tomorrow weekend, so let's make plans after dinner, shall we?"

"Yeah, sister, I will study hard in the future, and I will go to the provincial government to work with my sister!"

"Sister, is the provincial capital far away?".
Su Manjin was amused by her younger brother.

Thinking of the previous life, my younger brother also liked to follow me.From elementary school to the county's No. [-] middle school, she studied liberal arts, and her younger brother studied science.Later, she was admitted to the best university in the provincial capital, followed by her younger brother, who was also admitted to the most difficult economics college.

The people in the whole village were shocked, and they came to Su Yuhui and Zeng Meiyue to ask how they raised their children. In such a key university as 985+211, their family actually produced two in a row.

Sister and brother Su Manjin just walked to the door. She looked up at her mother who was sorting out the containers in the room—she had never been to school and could not read a single word, but she was hardworking, kind, tolerant, and tenacious. She gave the best to her children. Education is teaching by precept and example.

Su Manjin felt that she was the best mother in the world.

　Wherever my mother is, there is home.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)