Chapter 1, Section 6 Looking Back
Lan Xin is actually a very ordinary person. She was born at the end of 1963 in Yujiao Township, Linjiang County, Nanhu Province, to parents who were authentic farmers.
Her mother died of hemorrhage after giving birth to her younger brother, when she was just over five years old. It was indeed not easy for her father to bring her and her brother to adulthood, especially in the sixties and seventies, when materials were particularly scarce, hunger was commonplace, and in her memory, there were not many days when she could eat a few full meals a year, wild vegetables, grain bran, and moldy old rice.
Due to long-term hunger, her stomach fell into a problem, and people were forever emaciated, even if later with the reform and opening up, the country's materials were abundant, and she no longer starved and no longer worried about food and clothing, but she still couldn't get fat, and she would always be a thin body and thin cheeks.
What's even worse is that fifteen or sixteen years old is the age when she grows physically, but she has to work in a group like a male laborer to earn a job.
When the farm is busy, she has to go down to the field to pick grain, and a load of wet millet is more than 100 catties, which should be a heavy burden for a girl who has not yet developed well, but she gritted her teeth and tried to keep up with the team, but in order to get the value of 8 points of work per day, and the work of a male laborer is 12 points per day.
She endured such endless physical labor for two years, but she survived until she was admitted to university in the summer of 1980.
When she talked about it many years later, she thought it was a nightmare in her life that she didn't want to recall.
Her good days began in the summer of 1980. She has always had mediocre grades and scored 368 points, just exceeding the undergraduate score line, and she was admitted to the Chinese Department of Binjiang Normal University as she wished, and her life has since turned a new page.
In the four years of college, her life did not shine. Because she has to compare her appearance, she can't compare with the beauties in the class, such as Niya, Xiaya, and Heya, and the normal is a place where there are more girls than boys, and her family background is so ordinary, for some boys with utilitarian thoughts, it is completely unattractive, so she has been ordinary for a long time, and she has been unknown for a long time.
But in response to the old saying: "Gold always shines", as time passed, her classmates slowly discovered her good conduct, and she was privately crowned by her male classmates
The top brand of "good wife and good mother", suitors began to appear around her. But she is a very traditional person in her bones, she wants to join the work as soon as possible to improve the family's financial situation, and she does not feel too urgent about the coming love, especially when the school rules prohibiting students from falling in love are placed there, so she always seems very reserved in front of boys, and always puts herself in the house.
In fact, the classmates in the class still knew that she also had a relationship that ended without a problem, but because the secrecy was too good, she desperately denied it, and naturally few people knew the real situation.
That was her first love, the man was her classmate, his name was Qin Chuan, the same age as her, he was also a rural student, and the two were fellow villagers.
Originally, the relationship between the two developed quite well, but on the eve of graduation, Qin Chuan had a major event that caused a sensation in Binjiang Normal College, and was ordered to withdraw from the school for forging meal tickets in the school cafeteria.
Qin Chuan is just an ordinary student with some talent and a somewhat arrogant personality, according to his conduct, he should not do such an outrageous thing, but the school made the decision to order him to drop out, so he didn't get his graduation certificate, and he can only be regarded as a student of Binjiang Normal College.
Seeing that the appeal was hopeless, he went south to the coast to work. Leaving poor Lan Xinpan in his eyes, how many tears were secretly shed.
It is still unclear whether Lan Xin is negative or something else, anyway, just a few months after Qin Chuan went south, she married Luo Yuejin, another suitor in the same class.
Luo Yuejin is a native of Binjiang City, his father is the director of a printing factory in Dongcheng District, Binjiang City, and his mother is a specialist in the personnel department of the Dongcheng District Education Bureau.
With this relationship, Lan Xin stayed in Bincheng as he wished, and was not assigned to return to Linjiang County, and went to Binjiang City Dongcheng District 17 Middle School to become a Chinese teacher.
Luo Yuejin was assigned to the Basic Education Unit of the Dongcheng District Education Bureau. In the same system, the two husbands sing and follow the wives, and life is natural and comfortable.
A few months after joining the work, they got married, and after a few months, they also added a man, which made Luo Jiale very happy.
Since then, Luo Yuejin and Lan Xin have lived their happy lives. Until May 2000, their lives darkened, not because there were any problems in their married life, but because Luo Yuejin fell down the stairs due to alcoholism and caused paralysis of his lower limbs, and since then he has been at home for a long time.
This year, Luo Yuejin was 41 years old and had been in the post of head of the Basic Education Unit for many years, and was a candidate for deputy director of the Education Bureau.
Luo Yuejin's paralysis has since dragged Lan Xin into the dark abyss. This year, Lan Xin was only 36 years old, she had to be busy with school teaching, earn a meager salary to support her family, and take care of her half-dead husband, you can imagine what kind of situation her life is.
With her good nature, she worked hard to fulfill her duties and obligations, and won unanimous praise from her neighbors and units.
After more than ten years of hard work, now that her son is about to graduate with a doctorate, and when the family's life finally shows its bright colors, she has been rated as an excellent teacher, a moral model, and has received donations.