Chapter 8: Rebirth in the Nineties: The Overbearing Flower, Chapter 8: Crying a Complaint

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Protagonist:

Chai Mi

Chai Mi's eldest aunt Su Jin's family conditions were relatively affluent; at least in Ke County they could still count as respectable.

Su Jin's husband, namely Chai Mi's eldest aunt's husband Liu Qiyuan, originally made a living farming. However, Liu Qiyuan's own elder brother Liu Siyuan had become the director of the county savings office a few years earlier. With Su Jin's family conditions also being decent, they took out a loan and bought a small truck for Liu San, letting him sell some fruit, especially fruit from the south, as a business.

It had been several years since Reform and Opening-up began; the southern economy was booming, and the northern economy was gradually picking up. Especially the township economy was also beginning to ride the east wind and become more prosperous.

Liu San was only twenty-six or twenty-seven this year, but he had already been going to market for several years; his family conditions were getting better and better, he had paid off the loan, and had some savings of his own, living relatively well.

So when the second aunt and cousin brought things to visit her mother, Chai Mi didn't think the gifts were very precious. Chai Mi's relationship with her aunt's family was relatively close, and she often visited, so she didn't feel like an outsider.

"I went to Lingyuan to pick up goods at three in the morning; fruit just off the train. I picked some and brought them for my third aunt." Liu San wasn't very good-looking, with two large buck teeth, but in the countryside he wasn't considered too ugly—just an ordinary person.

"Didn't sleep all night?"

"Napped for a while."

Chai Mi touched her pocket, but there were no cigarettes; as a girl she naturally didn't have these, so she said: "Want to smoke? Smoke your own; I didn't buy any either."

Liu San scratched his head awkwardly; staying up late really made him tired, and he had driven here in a hurry, so now in a daze he really wanted a cigarette to refresh himself.

So he went out, planning to smoke another cigarette outside.

Liu San's wife pulled Chai Mi to exchange pleasantries and ask about Su Wan's condition.

After chatting for a while, they saw Chai Mi's eldest aunt holding her mother Su Wan and crying nonstop, with snot and tears splashing everywhere.

The few people nearby were all stunned.

Chai Mi hurried over to comfort her, patting her eldest aunt Su Jin's back and saying: "Eldest Aunt, what are you doing? My mom isn't in any trouble; why are you crying? It's not like she's gone forever."

Su Jin not only wasn't comforted, but cried even harder: "My poor younger sister... how did she end up blindly marrying into the Chai family back then? This person is about to be worked to death, and there's no one to look after her."

Su Jin had heard this from people in the village early this morning. Su Jin's family was also from Sanjiacun, and not far from Chai Mi's home. In Sanjiacun, the Liu surname had always been the biggest surname, while the other two, Chai and Song, were relatively fewer.

That's how it is in the countryside: whoever has some big or small matter, within half a day the whole village knows.

Chai Zhongxiao and Wang Huirong's stingy nature, plus Chai Youqing's behavior over these years, Su Jin had seen it all.

However, since Chai Mi was already eighteen and there were two younger sisters at home, they just made do; but Su Jin hadn't expected her younger sister to have to work while sitting the month, and as a result collapsed from exhaustion and was hospitalized, with no one from her husband's family watching over her—really too bullying.

Chai Mi's eldest aunt cried so hard that Su Wan also started crying along, but she only cried hard and didn't say anything.

After a while, under Chai Mi's persuasion, the few people finally stopped crying and began wiping their tears.

"Eldest Aunt, who told you my mom had a long illness?"