novelraw Chapter 401 - 8: How to Earn Enough for a Dowry_2
Chapter 401 - 8: How to Earn Enough for a Dowry_2
Shi Suifeng has such good conditions, if he wants to find a partner, many young women in the village will definitely be interested.
Including Wen Juan.
In the past life, Wen Juan clearly married an educated youth. But now...
She must have been reborn too!
Reborn, regretting marrying an educated youth in the past life, knowing Shi Suifeng would be successful.
Heh.
Zhao Weihong slowly exhaled a breath—she crawled out of hardship, and no one should think of blocking her road to success.
Just as this thought crossed her mind, the door was suddenly pushed open: "Wei Hong, you have..."
The half-door of the educated youth’s hall was pushed open. Facing the sun outside, Zhao Weihong’s expression was completely visible.
The female educated youth who came to borrow something stood there, clearly frightened by her expression. After hesitating for a while, she quickly ran off.
Zhao Weihong irritably frowned.
——These mainlanders really have no manners!
In her past life on Hong Kong Island, it was so prosperous! Hong Kong Island developed so rapidly, mainland rich people often came over to shop.
However, the neighboring Taiwan mocked the mainland for not affording tea eggs, which shows how hard ordinary people’s lives were, and further highlights Shi Suifeng’s bright future...
If she married Shi Suifeng, she still had to persuade him to develop over there.
Alas, getting used to the backward life nowadays is truly not easy.
...
Zhao Weihong’s thoughts were well thought out.
In her past life, she wasn’t very educated either, having not completed high school before going down to the countryside. After spending a few years in the village, she got married and stayed at home for a year, served in the military for less than a month, then fled with someone overnight, hugging an empty oil drum to stowaway to Hong Kong Island...
Then she became an illegal resident there, doing menial tasks with no technical content like washing dishes and cleaning. Relying on her youth and beauty, she did have some better days, but as she got older, she was quickly abandoned, ending up living in subsidized public housing after a life of hardship...
And this was only possible with connections.
Now reborn to her younger self, besides having to hold back from speaking in Hong Kong slangs occasionally, the more vexing thing was that she had forgotten all the knowledge she had learned before.
As someone physically young but mentally old, wanting to learn again with a new mindset requires great determination.
But she had no great determination and didn’t plan to study arduously with the old Chinese adage of pulling one’s hair and stabbing one’s thighs.
——There is a shortcut right in front of her, as long as she successfully holds onto it, the future will be smooth.
If the mountain won’t come to me, I’ll go to the mountain!
Although she missed the chance encounter with Shi Suifeng when he fell into the water, since even in her past life, that face-kind-heart-cruel old woman was openly seeking a daughter-in-law in the village, she might as well have a shot herself.
She knew too well what kind of daughter-in-law that woman was looking for!
In comparison, she was never worried about Wen Juan being a threat. After all, her family conditions were too good, Zhao Xiuhua, that old woman, only wanted to make money from her younger son, how would she find herself such a good daughter-in-law?
Zhao Weihong touched her own young cheek—even if she hadn’t graduated from high school, in the village, this level of education was already quite good. Having no relatives or dependents was a big advantage.
Educated youth have academic qualifications, which is also an excuse for Zhao Xiuhua to show her favoritism.
As for whether she could capture Shi Suifeng’s heart—with her insight and experience from the past life, could she not make anyone fall for her?
Zhao Weihong set out confidently.
...
Meanwhile, in the captain’s house, Wen Juan was also silently shedding tears.
"Mom... I don’t believe it..."
The dejected feeling from her failed plan that night hadn’t fully dissipated, and now hearing such news this morning, it almost broke her spirit.
"What is so bad about me? Why don’t they like our family?"
"I should be asking you." Her mother poked her daughter’s forehead with her finger: "What is our family’s condition? There are plenty of people from miles around who want you as their daughter-in-law, yet you just had to fancy a poor soldier."
These days, soldiers were in demand, but it also depends on what conditions.
Shi Suifeng has been a soldier for years and is still a private, sending his meager stipend home every month—what will he use to support the family in the future?
Without even the qualification to bring his family with him, if the daughter marries him and stays in the village, without a man at home, the old woman will have plenty of ways to torment her.
Following him to the army, without a job, work points, or food rations, life would be even tougher.
Why did this girl suddenly become contrary?!
Wen Juan whimpered.
When she read novels, the story was about Zhao Weihong being reborn and marrying Shi Suifeng.