Chapter 279 The Secret of the Jade Pendant
"Huiyue, go to the countryside for your brother. He is still young and cannot bear the hardship."
"Your brother is the only one in our family. Can you bear to see him farming in a poor area all his life?"
"You are his sister, what's wrong with helping him?"
In a daze, Cheng Huiyue felt as if there were two flies buzzing around her ears, making her restless.
She shouted irritably: "It's so noisy!"
Then he opened his eyes.
The next second, the scene in front of her stunned her.
In the small, cramped little room, there were piles of materials for pasting matchboxes on the floor.
The one-meter-two single bed is close to the gray-white wall. At the head of the bed is a low, square table with bricks as cushion.
There is a rattan thermos bottle on top, as well as an enamel jar with 'Advanced Employee Rewards' printed in red letters on a white background.
The two disturbing flies were none other than her parents, Cheng Shengli and Zhao Yanhong, who had been separated for more than ten years.
The two of them were standing next to the bed, wearing period-era clothes, no different from how she remembered them.
The same hypocrisy, the same cruelty and meanness.
Seeing them, Cheng Huiyue frowned subconsciously.
She clearly remembered crying until she fainted at her husband Huo Yanxing's funeral, so why did she change places as soon as she opened her eyes?
Did you have another nightmare?
Before she could figure it out, Zhao Yanhong's sharp voice went straight to Tianling Gai: "Cheng Huiyue, what's your attitude, you damn girl!"
"You want to rebel after I say a few nice things to you, right? Don't forget who fed you, clothed you, and raised you like this!"
"It's for your own good that you go to the countryside for Hongfei. Do you know that you are in the garment factory every day, hanging out with those random men, and you have almost brought shame on the old Cheng family!"
"Okay, stop talking about that!" Cheng Shengli glared at her with a tigerish face.
Turning to look at Cheng Huiyue lovingly: "Good boy, Dad knows that he has wronged you by letting you go to the countryside, but you have to think about our Cheng family. When your brother is honored, he will definitely think of you and won't treat you badly.
Going to the countryside is a bit tough for you, but at least we can keep our reputation!"
Watching the two singing together, Cheng Huiyue's dusty memories poured out like a flood.
Wasn't this familiar scene exactly when she was forced to go to the countryside when she was eighteen years old?
It was the spring of 1975.
She was forced by her parents to go to the countryside for her younger brother Cheng Hongfei and gave him her job in the garment factory.
As a result, she went to the countryside for two years. Not only did her parents not send her a penny, they also asked her for rations from an educated youth every month.
While she was suffering from hunger and cold, her parents and younger brother ate so much in the city that they gained a lot of weight!
Later, when the college entrance examination was resumed, she stayed up late reading and studying in the freezing cold and snow, and her hands and feet were covered with frostbite.
She finally got into college, but the admission notice was secretly sold to give her younger brother Cheng Hongfei a place in a junior college!
Cheng Huiyue was extremely angry and immediately went to report it.
But she never imagined that her parents could be so cruel that they could sell their daughter to a widower who was in their forties or fifty years old!
In the dark cellar and iron chains, Cheng Huiyue resisted desperately for two months.
If it weren't for Huo Yanxing, she might have lived like an animal for the rest of her life!
Thinking of this, Cheng Huiyue was filled with resentment.
After she was rescued, she suffered from physical and mental problems.
After being treated for more than half a year and discharged from the hospital, the three members of the Cheng family had already taken the money from selling her and ran away.
Only she, tortured by nightmares every night, began to get better after two years of careful company by Huo Yanxing.
But now, after many years, her husband has just left, and these two vicious scum have come out to dirty her eyes again!
Isn't it enough to ruin half of her life? I also need to... hiss!
Just when Cheng Huiyue could no longer suppress the anger in her chest, the pain in her palm instantly brought her back to some sense.
She looked at the few dots of bright red on her hand and looked startled.
When did the pain of dreams become so real?
...etc!
Isn't this a dream...she really went back to before she was eighteen years old and went to the countryside?
Cheng Huiyue was stunned for a moment, and her eyes suddenly glowed with astonishing brilliance.
Seventy-five years! Huo Yanxing is still alive!
She wants to find him!
"You can let me go to the countryside..." Cheng Huiyue thought for a few seconds, her clear voice still a little unsteady.
She stood up and took out an old account book from the tung lacquered wood cabinet and threw it in front of the two of them.
"As long as you pay back the debt you owe me!"
Zhao Yanhong only glanced at it, and immediately became furious: "You damn girl, how dare you secretly keep accounts? I raised you so big by pooping and peeing, but in the end I raised a white-eyed wolf like you!"
"I must beat you to death today!"
Zhao Yanhong cursed and waved her fat palm to slap him.
Cheng Huiyue had already expected it, and stood calmly on the spot, pointing at her face: "Hit, hit here!"
"I will go to your factory immediately after the beating. Tomorrow everyone in the factory will know that you forced your daughter to go to the countryside for your son, and you also took over her job!"
"I also want to report to the factory leaders, accusing you of violent coercion, fraud, and ideological problems of deceiving superiors and subordinates!"
The menacing slap just stopped in mid-air, unable to come down.
Zhao Yanhong stared at her: "How dare you!"
Cheng Huiyue sneered: "You can try."
She is barefoot and not afraid of wearing shoes.
Unlike them, not only did the textile factory select the top five employees, but they also encountered good business practices and strict discipline in the market.
If the fuss gets bigger, you might be fired.
After all, ideological problems were very serious in 1975.
As long as she dares to do it, she won't want her job or her son.
When the time comes, I can turn around and sign up to go to the countryside, and I can still find my husband.
"Okay!" Cheng Shengli frowned and pulled Zhao Yanhong's arm back.
"Huiyue has been obedient since she was a child. If she has something to say, will she still refuse to agree? She has been beaten all day long. Can a child be educated like this?"
He looked at Cheng Huiyue with a kind face: "Don't be afraid, dad is here."
Cheng Huiyue pretended not to understand what he said, with a sarcastic smile on her lips: "You'd better take a look at the account book first."
Cheng Shengli's smile froze and he looked at her deeply before taking the heavy account book and flipping through it.
What is recorded in it is the money Cheng Huiyue used to paste matchboxes to subsidize his family since he was 5 years old.
There are also wages and food stamps handed in after graduating from junior high school and working in a garment factory.
The corresponding expenses are rice, flour, grain and oil, pork and fish every month, as well as fruits bought for Cheng Hongfei from time to time, watches, Zhao Yanhong's hair oil, cream, and even the clothes they wear are bought with her money!
Cheng Shengli's face suddenly darkened, he was shameless and a little angry at the same time.
"Huiyue, we are all a family, it would be too emotional for you to keep these accounts!"
"It's normal that you don't want to go to the countryside and endure hardships, but Hongfei is the only one in our Cheng family. How could you be so selfish and ruin his future and threaten your parents with such a thing?"
Cheng Huiyue sneered in her heart, but her tone was indescribably innocent.
"Dad, what are you talking about? Isn't my brother's future in your hands?"
Chapter completed!