Chapter 1 Another Chance
A construction site exposed to the sun.

The sound of the mixer was deafening, and I was numbly stirring cement in the corner.

My lips were chapped and my arm ached like it was broken.These jobs are really not something a woman can do, but if I don't do them, maybe I will be hungry tomorrow, so I can only grit my teeth to support myself.

Suddenly, my eyes fell to the ground in the dark, and I heard someone shouting in my ear, asking me to wake up, but I felt very comfortable, and I didn't want to answer at all, and I was finally relieved...

"Qiaoer, wake up."

I don't know how long it took, another soft calling sounded in my ears, and I finally opened my eyes.

Under my body is a dilapidated millet mat and a dilapidated red flower plaid quilt.There are two old mahogany boxes on the opposite wall, where the quilts used to be placed. I opened my mouth in shock, this is my familiar hometown!

Who brought me back?
My mother and my second brother will never take care of me. Could it be that my elder brother took me back after he knew about my situation?No, my eldest brother has passed away, no one will care about me...

Inadvertently, I saw the month plate hanging on the earthen wall. The date on it was September 1989, 9, which was 12 years ago.

I was taken aback for a moment, and then I looked down and saw my hand, which had become silky and fair again, grasping the big black braid again, trembling with excitement.

Am I dreaming?I'm back to my 19 year old! ?

"Qiaoer, how are you? Are you feeling better?" My elder brother was looking at me with a concerned look on his face.

He was wearing a worn-out shirt and blue trousers. He was tall, with dark skin and a loyal face. He also returned to his youthful appearance.

He continued to comfort me softly: "I'll beat up that wolf-hearted thing for you, and we'll make a clean break with their family in the future! Let's forget about this matter. We've been hungry for two days when we went down to eat, for people like that not worth it!"

I was so excited that I couldn't express it. I remember that year, which was also the time when Du Cheng broke off my engagement.

At that time, I was sitting in the yard of his house rubbing corn with an empty stomach. I was so tired and hungry that I could hardly lift my arms. The golden yellow in front of my eyes made me a little dizzy.

Du Cheng is my fiancé, who has been in the army for three years.

Before he left, he once told me that his parents were not very satisfied with me and asked me to behave well in his house, so I have been working hard for three years.Transplanting rice seedlings and weeding, raising pigs and ducks, even washing clothes and carrying water, I do almost all the physical work.No matter how hard or tiring I am, I am willing, as long as he can marry me and live a peaceful and beautiful life.

The big iron door of his house was suddenly pushed open, and a familiar voice sounded.

"Mom! I'm back, and this is the Yuan Fang I wrote in my letter!" He walked towards me, and it turned out that he took me for his mother.

I stood up and looked at Du Cheng, who I had been thinking about day and night, standing with a young woman in a white shirt and red skirt.

When Du Cheng saw it was me, his face turned pale immediately, with embarrassment and panic all over his face. The woman beside him looked at me vigilantly, and grabbed his arm forcefully.

She pointed in my direction and said, "Who is she?"

Du Cheng's lips moved several times before he said, "She is a helper hired by my family."

The woman refused to let go: "You lied! You explained it clearly to me, is she your girlfriend?"

"She is not a good friend. Qiaozhen, you go back first, I have something to do here." He almost looked at me with pleading eyes.

I knew right then that he had lied to me, that he had changed his mind.

There were bursts of blackness in front of my eyes, my mouth was dry and bitter, my heart seemed to have been hit several times with a hammer, and I was about to faint from the pain.

"I'm not a helper! We hired a matchmaker to give the dowry, and I'm your fiancee! You don't even recognize it? Do you have a conscience, you!" My throat was broken, and I rushed over to grab him arm.

"Du Cheng, are you engaged? You lied to me!" The woman was also tearing at Du Cheng.

At this time, his mother, Sun E, ran over in a panic with a rolling pin. Regardless of the flour all over her body, she pushed us away, grabbed her son and pulled him aside, muttering.

I could barely hear her say: "...Didn't the telegram say you'd be back the day after tomorrow? Why..."

It turns out that she knew about it a long time ago, but she is still using the last chance to ask me to help her family with work!
Sun E whispered, "Then let Qiaozhen go!"

Du Cheng turned his head and pushed me to leave first. He kept saying something, but I couldn't hear it at all.

I felt ashamed and aggrieved, and kept crying, wanting to grab him and beat him up. I waited so hard for him for three years, working like an ox, enduring fucking difficulties and humiliation, but he was What did you do to me?
But I didn't have any strength, and Sun E kept pulling sideways, hugging me tightly and dragging him out of the gate. I couldn't hit him at all, and then I felt dizzy and fell to the ground...

Then began the nightmare of my life.

I never imagined that God would give me a chance and let me go back to that time.

Thinking of these things, I suddenly became clear-headed and wanted to get off the kang.

He hurriedly supported me, and suddenly sneered and said, "I don't know what Du Cheng said, but that woman actually believed his words and wanted to marry him! How stupid!"

I smiled: "She has gone home with Du Cheng, what else can she do? If she really makes a big mess and won't get married, isn't she the same as me? She is not stupid, there is nothing she can do."

The eldest brother looked at me and said, "Qiao'er, in fact, my mother and my second brother want you to go to his house to beg for Du Cheng to marry you, but I think. Although we are poor, there are people who want to be poor. Spine, you can't do such a wronged thing."

"Brother is right, even if I die in this life, I will never have anything to do with Du Cheng again."

The eldest brother obviously didn't believe my words, so he suddenly lowered his voice and said, "Qiaoer! I'm your brother, you don't have to tell me such nonsense. If you still don't feel relieved, I'm going to beat this bastard!"

I shook my head and said, "What I'm saying is the truth. It's not worth it for this person. I just want to live my life from now on."

At this time, my mother's voice sounded in the yard: "Since you can wake up, hurry up to Du's house to apologize, and tell him well that this matter is his fault no matter what, and this foreigner must not be allowed to wake up." A woman marries him. There is a first-come-first-served basis for everything, even if the trouble comes to the village chief, we are right!"

The eldest brother hurried out and said, "Mom, Qiaoer has decided to divorce the engagement."

Mom hurriedly said: "Don't come up with ideas here! You are a man and you don't understand. If this woman divorces, will she still be able to live in the village in the future?"

"Why can't I live? I still want to live better than anyone else." I opened the door and walked out.

Mom was sitting on a small stool chopping pigweed, still wearing half-worn work clothes as before, with a thin body and a lot of gray hair.

She turned her head and looked at me angrily. In the previous life, I always obeyed her words, but suddenly I stopped listening, and she probably couldn't stand it.

"Listen well, you kneel to death at his house, hang yourself and drink medicine, you can do anything, anyway, you can't agree to divorce, our Wang family can't have a divorce, unless I die!"

The eldest brother also came out and said: "Mom, you are forcing Qiao'er to marry this black hearted seed like this, and you are killing her!"

Mom threw the straw knife on the cutting board: "Did you say that, did I beg her to be with Du Cheng at the beginning? Think about it for the past three years. I haven't finished the work at home, so I go to be a pawn every day." What a fool, now that we have come to this end, we have completely embarrassed our Wang family, what face do you want me to meet your Aunt Duan in the future!"

Aunt Duan’s name is Duan Qiuyue. She and my mother have known each other since they were young. They didn’t get along when they were young, and they married from the same village. They have been comparing each other for so many years, and even satirized each other when they had the opportunity.

Now Duan Qiuyue's daughter, Sun Hong, has taken over her father's job and has gone to the city to work as a temporary worker in a supply and marketing cooperative, becoming a city resident.

But in our family, the elder brother's marriage was not going well, only my second brother Wang Zhijun got married, but in order to marry the second sister-in-law Liu Ye into the family, he borrowed a full 80 yuan of foreign debt.The two of them are lazy and greedy, and they don't know how to do any work.The days were dreadful enough.

Now that I've been dumped again, my mother is such a face-saving person, so I'm naturally angry in my heart now.

(End of this chapter)

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