Chapter 89: Should the bootlickers of the era help the poor?
The original owner, Zhang Shan, came from a dual-income family and had five siblings. She was the third child. Her two older brothers and sisters responded to the government’s call and went to the countryside to become educated youth.
When it came to the original owner, he actually didn't have to go to the countryside.
But what is frustrating is that the original owner is an out-and-out bootlicker. She likes Fang Zhijie, the neighbor's brother, to the core and is willing to follow him to the countryside at all costs.
The original owner was extremely obsessed with Fang Zhijie. No matter what Fang Zhijie did, she would unconditionally support and admire him. She would not hesitate to devote her time, energy and money to Fang Zhijie, just to get a little attention and response from him.
However, Fang Zhijie had no good feelings towards the original owner. Every time when the original owner wanted to give up, Fang Zhijie would always throw out some sweet treats at the right time to give the original owner a glimmer of hope.
The original owner would be like a loyal dog, obeying Fang Zhijie's orders and working for him willingly. He would not only help him with work, but also give him all the money and food he had earned hard.
But the licker will eventually end up with nothing.
The original owner not only lost his money and people, but also lost his life.
Fang Zhijie started dating Su Xingchen from the Youth League Institute. The original owner felt that he had been deceived and asked Fang Zhijie to return the money and food he had given him.
However, what the original owner could not have imagined was that Fang Zhijie not only did not feel the slightest bit of guilt, but instead turned the tables and falsely accused the original owner of harassing him.
Su Xingchen even took the lead in isolating the original owner, spreading rumors about the original owner, and letting those men with bad intentions follow the original owner and bully her.
Later, Fang Zhijie and Su Xingchen designed the original owner to marry a notorious second-rate guy in the brigade, and the original owner was beaten to death by the drunk second-rate guy.
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"Shanshan, your older brother and older sister have all gone to the countryside, and your two younger brothers are still young, so you should stay and take over your mother's job. With an extra laborer at home, our lives will be much better."
Mother Zhang tried her best to persuade Zhang Shan to stay, not wanting her to follow Fang Zhijie to the countryside.
"Mom, if it doesn't work, just ask your eldest brother or eldest sister to come back. If I don't go to the countryside, what if Brother Zhijie marries a peasant in the countryside?"
Zhang Shan covered her ears and didn't want to listen to Zhang Ma's advice.
Although she didn't have to go to the countryside, she had to give every cent of her monthly salary to Aunt Zhang to supplement the family expenses. Aunt Zhang was a Voldemort, and everything she had in the house was put into the huge pit of her uncle.
She is not stupid and is not a workhorse for the family.
Besides, Fang Zhijie and Su Xingchen are both in the countryside, how can she take revenge?
"Why don't you listen to me, kid? You think the countryside is a good place? You have endless farm work to do every day, facing the loess and back to the sky. You will regret it soon!"
"If I can't see Brother Zhijie, I'd rather face the sky with my back to the earth!"
"you!"
Aunt Zhang was furious.
When it comes to nonsense, Zhang Ma can't beat Zhang Shan, and Zhang Shan secretly signed up for herself and got the subsidy for going to the countryside.
As soon as I got home, I saw Aunt Zhang sitting at the door with a sullen look on her face, "Give me the subsidy for going to the countryside!"
"Why should I give it to you? This is mine. If you take it, I will go to the Youth League Office and change the name to yours."
"You rebellious daughter, I owed you in my previous life. I gave birth to a wicked creature like you to torture me. Daughters of other families would be considerate of their mothers, but you go against me every day."
"Third brother, give the money to your mother. You are getting more and more ignorant as you grow older."
The dog-licking gene is inherited from ancestors. The original owner was a dog-licker, and Zhang's father was also a dog-licker. But Zhang's father was the one who licked everything in the end.
"No, this money is for Brother Zhijie!"
In the peak showdown between the bootlickers, Zhang Shan, the sophistry contestant, naturally won. Zhang's mother was so angry that she ran to the yard and scolded the Fang family for giving birth to a seductive male vixen.
Fang Zhijie frowned and closed the window. He would never marry a shameless woman like Zhang Shan.
The day to go to the countryside was getting closer, and because Zhang Shan had a conflict with her parents, they did not prepare anything for Zhang Shan.
Fang Zhijie is still waiting for Zhang Shan's help.
The Fang family has four sons, Fang Zhijie is the second and least favored one. The eldest brother Fang is preparing to get married, and the Fang family can give him very little money.
On this day, Zhang Shan bought cotton cloth at the supply and marketing cooperative, planning to make some clothing covers. The village she was going to was in the northwest, where it was very cold in winter, with yellow sand everywhere and a shortage of water.
Clothes get dirty easily and are difficult to wash, so a clothes cover is the best choice.
"Shanshan, what did you buy?"
"Brother Zhijie!" Zhang Shan greeted Fang Zhijie very enthusiastically.
"Brother Zhijie, do you want to buy some cloth too?"
"No, my family's cloth coupons are all saved for my eldest brother to marry his wife and make quilts."
Fang Zhijie looked at Zhang Shan with some grievance, trying to arouse Zhang Shan's love and then give him the cloth in her hand.
"Is that so? When is Brother Fang getting married? Can we still have a wedding banquet?"
"I guess I won't be able to make it in time. They are getting married in a month, and I will be in the countryside soon. I can vacate the room and use it as their new home."
"That's just right for you to take all the quilts with you to the countryside. When Brother Zhijie said that, I thought of a way to solve the problem of not having quilts. Thank you, Brother Zhijie, you are such a good person!"
The quilt at home was used by her and her second sister. When her second sister went to the countryside, Aunt Zhang did not allow her to take the quilt away, but if she did not take it away, the quilt would eventually end up at her uncle's house.
It would be better to let her take it away!
When she got home, Zhang Shan took out the cloth and started sewing clothes. When Zhang's mother saw this, she was shocked again. "You only know how to waste things. This cloth is enough to make several sets of clothes for your cousins."
As she said this, she was about to reach out and grab it.
Zhang Shan pierced the back of Zhang Ma's hand with a needle. Zhang Ma screamed and blood came out from the back of her hand.
"You'd better not touch my things, or I'll go back to my uncle's house and beat up my cousin."
"You, you, you, how could I give birth to a daughter like you..."
Rural women often use a trick, which is to sit on the ground, slap their thighs, and start howling, "My..."
Zhang Shan transformed into Madam Rong and after giving Zhang Ma a few injections, she cured her illness.
With red eyes, Zhang's mother went out to complain to Zhang's father. Zhang's father came in with a stick and was about to hit Zhang Shan on the head.
"I will beat you to death, you unfilial daughter. I am still alive, and you treat your mother like this. If I die, you will not know how to bully her..."
Zhang Shan reached out to grab the stick. If you hit your elders for the first time, there will be a second time. Zhang Shan started beating Zhang's father on the arms and thighs.
Zhang's two ten-year-old twin brothers came in and saw Zhang's father and mother being beaten, so they came up to help.
Then, Zhang Shan took care of the family of four.
No one had dinner that night.
At three o'clock in the morning, Zhang Shan crawled back to her uncle's house and looted her uncle's family's private vault.
She knew that all the Zhang family's money had been given to her uncle's family, and she couldn't find it no matter how hard she searched, so she simply went directly to her uncle's house to look for it.
Early in the morning, Zhang Shan carried her luggage and followed the large group onto the train to the northwest.
When getting in the car, Zhang Shan deliberately found a place farther away from Fang Zhijie.
She knew that Fang Zhijie had not prepared any food for the journey and was thinking about Zhang Shan feeding him.
Zhang Shan did bring a lot of food, but she didn't want to let this ungrateful person get away with it.
There were all kinds of smells on the train, and Zhang Shan was not used to it, but slowly, she adapted. Not only could she breathe freely, she could also eat on the train without changing her expression.
Instant noodles are the best food to eat when taking a train. Zhang Shan took out a lunch box, asked the flight attendant for water, and started making instant noodles.
For a moment, the smell of instant noodles filled several carriages.
"Comrade, what is this? Why does it smell so good?"
"I dried the leftover noodles from last month and now I'm reheating them with some chili peppers, so they're more fragrant."
Instant noodles were already available at that time, but they were definitely different from what Zhang Shan is eating now. However, few people would buy them, not because they were not delicious, but because they were too expensive. One packet of instant noodles was enough for a family to have a meal of dried noodles.
Especially people from small places like theirs, they don’t even know what instant noodles are.
Everyone frowned when they heard that it was the leftover noodles from last month, but the smell was too overbearing.
Someone else couldn't help but ask: "Comrade, can you give me some of your chili sauce? I'll trade it for eggs."
Eggs at this time are also meat and very precious. Zhang Shan took out a bottle of Lao Gan Ma with a new packaging and scooped a spoonful for her. Don’t underestimate it, because it contains not only chili peppers, but also oil.
Seeing that Zhang Shan's family seemed to be well-off, the girl gave Zhang Shan an egg, then took out a white steamed bun and ate it with chili sauce with relish.
Others were also greedy, but they had nothing of equivalent value to exchange.
There was a thin girl who looked at the chili sauce in her hand eagerly, "Comrade, I have no money, no eggs, my family is very poor, and I haven't tasted oil for a long time. Can you let me smell it?"
Generally, people who are thin-skinned would feel pity for her and feel sorry for her, and then give her a spoonful of chili sauce to taste, but Zhang Shan is different.
"You are so pitiful. You can't smell it even when you are so close. When you have money, you must go to the hospital to treat your nose as soon as possible."
"Comrade, why are you like this? You are discriminating against the poor, against us proletarians..."
"How could that be? I'm concerned about you! How did I look down on you? The smell of my chili sauce can be smelled throughout several carriages, but you can't smell it even when you're so close to me. I'm concerned about you, so I'm giving you advice. Why are you so ungrateful?"
She had anticipated that taking out the instant noodles and chili sauce would cause trouble, but she would not subject herself to such trouble. A two-day and one-night journey, with a seat ticket, was already unfair enough, and she felt she would go crazy if she had to subject herself to eating dry bread.
Having enjoyed the convenient and comfortable transportation in big cities, she couldn't stand this kind of grievance at all.
How could everyone not know the girl's little thoughts? They were just watching the show. Even the girl who had just exchanged eggs for chili sauce with Zhang Shan was watching the show.
The girl felt guilty after hearing what Zhang Shan said and she just lay down on her seat and started crying.
"My name is Lin Wei, and I went to Zhongshan Commune to join the team. Where did you all go to join the team?"
The girl who changed the chili sauce asked the people who were watching the show, and the others no longer paid attention to the crying person. After all, now is the time to find teammates, and they don’t know when they can return to the city in the future. If they don’t get closer to them now, they will be isolated and helpless when they join the team.
Everyone introduced themselves to each other, and most of them were going to Zhongshan Commune, with only a few going to Linyang Commune near Zhongshan Commune.
But in the same commune, people went to different teams. After introducing themselves, everyone except the girl who was still crying found their organization.
Zhang Shan learned from the system that the crying girl was called Liu Zhaodi. She was in the same team as her and was one of the people who isolated and bullied the original owner in her previous life.
Then you can’t feed this chili sauce to a dog even if you feed it to her!
At night, Zhang Shan closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep. Liu Zhaodi saw that everyone was asleep, so she tiptoed over and wanted to search Zhang Shan's bag.
"what!!"