Rebirth in 1980, the rise of the golden age

"Mom, Dad, brother and sister-in-law, you are here." Chu Xinyan walked forward with a smile on her face.

"You still remember me as your mother! Now that you've grown up and live in a big brick house, you didn't even bother to inform us when you had a feast at home. Have you forgotten who raised you?"

Qiao Honglan pouted and spoke in a bad tone. In just a short while, she had already forgotten what her daughter-in-law had told her outside.

"mom!"

Daughter-in-law Yu Ping shouted quickly, which made Qiao Honglan, who was about to get angry again, a little more alert.

She pouted and said nothing more.

Chu Xinyan was left standing there, not knowing what to do for a moment.

I was extremely panicked.

That was the psychological trauma that Qiao Honglan left on her when she was young.

[Go cut some grass! The chickens and ducks haven't been fed yet, and you still want to eat! I see you're craving food!]

Four-year-old Chu Xinyan stood next to Chu Gensheng, watching him eat steamed buns and porridge, her saliva watering with greed. When Qiao Honglan saw this, she kicked her to the ground.

[Go wash all the clothes! You have to rub them even if you can't. This family can't support you in vain!]

The big wooden basin was filled with dirty clothes. The 6-year-old Chu Xinyan was so skinny that she couldn't even rub the wet work clothes. The skin on her hands was rubbed raw, but she was still slapped in the face by Qiao Honglan.

[You little bitch, you still want to go to school? You don't have any flesh on your body. Look at what you can do. I'll beat you to death!]

Qiao Honglan broke the pen that Chu Xinyan made of a tree branch and slapped Chu Xinyan so hard that the corner of her mouth bled.

"You don't want to get married? Is that your decision? I'm telling you, just be obedient. We don't care if you live or die when you get to Old Li's house! We definitely won't refund the 200 yuan, so just give up on this idea!"

"What does your child's death have to do with us? Your granddaughter is an outsider. Are you crazy to borrow money from us? Get out of here!"

The past events kept flashing through Chu Xinyan's mind.

She couldn't help but tense up, and even breathing became difficult unconsciously.

Li Youcai gently put his arm around Chu Xinyan's shoulders.

"Are you okay?" Li Youcai asked in a low voice, even feeling the slight trembling of the hand on his shoulder.

"I-I'm fine."

During these years of marriage, Chu Xinyan never mentioned her miserable childhood to Li Youcai, nor did she even mention her experiences in the old Chu family.

The introverted Chu Xinyan kept all of this deep in her heart.

"Brother-in-law, I heard that you became the factory director. Congratulations. Look at this big brick house of yours, it's so well built. You must have made a lot of money, right?" Chu Gensheng was leaning on a crutch, his eyes always fixed on the big brick house of Li Youcai's family.

"It's okay, please sit down, the food will be served soon, let's eat first." Li Youcai didn't have a good impression of his father-in-law's family and didn't show much enthusiasm.

Li Guanghu also saw Chu Laoer and his family at this time, and hurried over to say hello. Although Li Guanghu also felt that Chu Laoer and his family were too heartless towards Chu Xinyan, they were relatives after all, so he always had to say hello.

"The in-laws are here, please come in." Li Guanghu greeted them.

Seeing Li Guanghu coming over to greet his father-in-law and his family, Li Youcai took Chu Xinyan and turned aside.

"What's wrong with you?" Li Youcai asked.

"I'm fine." Chu Xinyan half lowered her head and tidied her hair to hide her panic.

"Are you really okay?" Li Youcai asked again worriedly.

"It's really nothing. I might be a little tired from being busy. I'll be fine after taking a break."

Seeing that Chu Xinyan didn't want to talk, Li Youcai didn't ask any more questions: "If you are tired, go to the house and rest for a while. There are so many people outside, you don't have to work too hard."

In fact, Li Youcai knew in his heart that Chu Xinyan was not really tired, but just didn't want to say it.

She was fine just now, but she became like this as soon as her parents and their family appeared. Li Youcai saw it all.

"I'm going to find Duoduo." Chu Xinyan clenched her hands and went to find Duoduo.

Chu Laoer and his family were arranged by Li Guanghu to sit at the head table.

After Qiao Honglan sat down, she grabbed a handful of peanuts and melon seeds on the table, put them in her mouth and started cracking them.

Chu Lao Er smoked the ginseng cigarette given by Li Guanghu. The green smoke entered his lungs and made him feel refreshed.

"This cigarette is really delicious." Chu Lao Er looked at the cigarette in his hand carefully and smacked his lips.

The two-yuan ginseng cigarettes are the same price as Zhonghua cigarettes. Chu Laoer has been smoking cigarettes for most of his life and has never been willing to buy a box. This is the first time he has tasted them.

"If you like it, I'll give you this box. I still prefer leaf cigarettes, they're stronger." Li Guanghu gave the whole box of ginseng cigarettes to Chu Laoer.

"If you don't like it, then I'll keep it for smoking." Chu Lao Er was not polite either.

The old people in the brigade came into the yard one after another, and Li Guanghu didn't sit here for long.

"Please sit down first, my dear relatives. I will go and greet them."

After Li Guanghu left, Chu Gensheng grabbed the cigarette box in front of Chu Laoer, looked at it carefully from both sides, then took out a cigarette and lit it for himself.

Seeing this, Yu Ping looked a little unhappy: "You are not in good health, stop smoking."

"Let me try it and see what's different about this good cigarette." Chu Gensheng laughed and took two more puffs.

Qiao Honglan didn't like Yu Ping's way of managing her son. She pouted and said, "That grown man doesn't smoke, and he spends the whole day managing useless things."

Yu Ping was so angry that she rolled her eyes, but in order to get her job done, Yu Ping endured it and did not argue with Qiao Honglan on the spot.

Chu Gensheng pinched his cigarette and waved it in front of Yu Ping. "These cigarettes are 2 yuan a box. Old Li said he would give them away. His family must have made a fortune. We must ask Li Youcai to do our work and increase our salary."

Yu Ping glared at Chu Gensheng without saying anything.

After entering the yard just now, Li Youcai didn't even call Chu Laoer and Qiao Honglan "Dad and Mom". He just casually said "Please sit down" as a greeting.

They treat their in-laws even less enthusiastically than they do the outside members.

Especially the sentence "eat first", to Yu Ping's ears, it sounded more like a deliberate mockery of them.

After all, Chu Xinyan came back so many times, but the Chu family never even provided her with a meal.

After a while, the dishes were served from the kitchen.

The four cold dishes, roast chicken, salted shrimp, red sausage platter, and pork elbow platter, are all meat dishes.

The following eight hot dishes including braised carp, chicken stewed with mushrooms, pork elbow in sauce, and braised pork slices were all classic dishes.

This meal is definitely top-notch.

Chu Laoer and his family were so shocked that their eyes almost popped out of their heads.

With just this table of dishes, they can’t even eat a few of them during the Chinese New Year.

"I said this bitch is an ungrateful person! She has such a nice banquet and lives in such a nice house, but she didn't even mention giving some money to her family!" While swallowing her saliva, Qiao Honglan did not forget to curse Chu Xinyan a few more times.

"Mom, please speak softly. It's not good if others hear you." Yu Ping was worried that Qiao Honglan might do something bad, so she couldn't help but remind her.

"What can she do if she heard it? Can she rebel? Even though she is powerful now, I will still deal with her!" Qiao Honglan didn't care at all.

Yu Ping felt very uncomfortable when she saw Qiao Honglan's expression, so she reached out and hit Chu Gensheng hard.

"Why are you arguing with me?" Chu Gensheng said blankly.