Elaine withdrew her hand, staring down at her toes without speaking.

My sister is very powerful, she said that she would take the college entrance examination, and she was admitted to such a good school as Jiangcheng University.

But what about her, she is the same as her mother said, she can't do anything, the only thing she can do is to find someone with good family conditions to marry, and then subsidize her mother's family.

This is the only thing she can do for her family in her life, and it is also the only mission she was born to.

The words that Emmy had said echoed in Elaine's ears, making her even more afraid to look up at Amy.

Elaine knew that her sister really wanted to help her, and she didn't want to let her sister down.

But let her leave the house?

Elaine felt very uneasy as soon as she heard the slightest ring.

That home is the place she is most familiar with, although it is not very good, but it can also shelter her from the wind and rain.

She didn't know where she could go after she got out of there.

And the sense of responsibility in her heart as the eldest sister makes her unable to really care about anything.

"Sister?"

Seeing that she had not spoken, Amy whispered.

Elaine still kept her head down, fiddling with her left index finger with her right hand, going back and forth in circles.

"Actually, I'm fine now. There is a house where there is no rain, there is food to eat and hunger, and there is a job in the factory that everyone envies. ”

In a sense, Elaine wasn't lying.

Her food relationship is in the factory, she is not afraid of starvation, and she has a stable job to do.

Don't talk about it, let's just say that Amy stayed in Mao'er Village before, I don't know how many people dream of living a good life like Elaine.

It's just that Amy has seen a wider world, and her pursuit has never been as simple as being able to eat a full stomach.

And Elaine is the only one in the family who is really good to her, so she hopes to help Elaine.

But, after all, life has to be lived by Elaine herself, so Elaine still has to think it out by herself.

"Xiaomi, I know you're worried about me. But don't worry, Mom is actually doing it for the whole family, and she doesn't want to. Moreover, I believe that my mother actually has me in her heart. ”

Elaine said firmly, not knowing if she was convincing Amy or herself.

Of course, Amy knew that there was still a little bit of motherhood left in Ai's mother's heart, but it didn't seem worth mentioning to her, and it was better not to have it.

In particular, Ai's mother always used her status as an elder to pressure Elaine, which made Amy feel very uncomfortable.

"Sister, I know you won't be able to make a decision for a while, so let's do it, if you come up with it one day, write to Jiangcheng University, and I will come to the factory to find you after receiving the letter."

Amy didn't want to have any contact with the rest of the family at all.

Elaine snorted sullenly, and couldn't help but grab Amy's hand as she stood up.

"Xiaomi, am I disappointing you?"

As the eldest child in the family, Elaine has been working hard to make everyone in the family like her and try to meet everyone's expectations of her.

Amy's breath froze, and she sat down next to her again.

"Sister, in fact, it's the same as I said before, it doesn't matter whether I, including the rest of the family, is unhappy or disappointed, what matters is what you think. Whether you like your current life or not, whether you want to change it, whether you want to continue like this, until you are old, until you die, this is what really matters. Because no matter what choice you make, what life you will live in the future, you will have to go there yourself day by day, and no one can replace you. ”

Elaine and Amy have always had different views on this matter, which is determined by the circumstances in which Elaine grew up.

"Am I the most important thing?"

Every time Amy said this, Elaine's heart would be touched.

Amy is the only one in the family who will tell her this, and will really care about her without asking for anything else in return.

"Yes, you have to take care of yourself first, and then think about other things when you have the spare energy."

Amy always hoped that Elaine would be a little more selfish and not always wronged herself for taking pictures of others.

Probably because of the resumption of the college entrance examination, Elaine did not directly divert the topic or refute Amy as before, but seriously thought about it.

"These days, I have seen a lot of educated youths who have been admitted to Jiangcheng to go to university, and there are also people I knew before, and I think they seem to be different."

Elaine couldn't quite say what that feeling was, and could only vaguely say it.

In her memory, the educated youth who went to the countryside were very bitter.

Most of them are the ones who were abandoned because of the too much burden on the family, and they were not pampered by their families like Amy since they were young.

But this time, the educated youths that Ai Lian met were all in high spirits.

Although they wore patched clothes and could be seen as having come from the countryside when they walked down the street, there was a light in their eyes when they spoke.

"I asked the former friend, and she said because now they can see the future and know that the future will be good."

That's what really touched Elaine.

That friend had almost grown up with her, and the two of them were actually in a similar situation, and even worse.

The man had many children in his family, and when she let the educated youth go to the countryside, she was actually already working in the factory.

But the family did everything they could to transfer the work to her brother and let her go to the countryside.

Elaine knew that after she left, her family directly said to the public that when she died, she didn't care about it for so many years, and she never thought of letting her come back during the New Year's holidays, saying that there was no place for her to live in and nothing for her to eat at home.

Elaine had always sympathized with this friend, but now this friend was talking to her about the future.

"Sister, everything is changing now, and the changes will be bigger and bigger in the future, the days will get better and better, everyone can pursue the future, and you will too."

Amy knows very well that in the future, factories like Elaine work will close down, and the state-owned workers who are now in demand will be laid off.

But she couldn't tell Elaine, and she wouldn't believe her.

"Future...... My mother is now urging me to go on a blind date every day, saying that I am old and no one will want me if I don't get married. ”

Elaine is not sure if she has a future like this.

Amy was angry when she heard this.

"Don't listen to her, if it weren't for breaking the law, she would have chopped us both up and sold them as pork, do you believe it or not? When you are old, no one wants someone if you don't get married? As long as you have the ability, what does it matter if you marry someone or not? And the person she asked you to marry, I don't ask you to know what kind of goods it is. ”

If you are really educated, knowledgeable, and rich, it is impossible to marry their family like this, otherwise there will be constant trouble in the future.

Ai's mother, who had no money and no power in the family, looked down on her.

In this way, she chose all the gangsters who had good conditions at home but couldn't do it, just like the crooked melons and cracked dates that Ai Lian introduced before.

"Millet."

Elaine called out to her helplessly, reminding her not to say that about her mother.

Amy pouted, and for the sake of Elaine's face, she didn't continue to scare people.

"Anyway, I hope you can think clearly, if you really listen to that woman and get married, you have a good idea of what the future will be like. If you really feel that you can't live without that home, you can come to me, I am your own sister, and I only recognize you as a relative. ”

As for the others, forget it, she still wants to live two more years.

Speaking of this, Elaine did not refuse again, but took out a little money she had secretly saved from her pocket and bought Amy a snack to eat.

Amy didn't refuse her sister's kindness, and left after eating with her.

It's just that when she left, Amy was in a heavy mood.

She didn't know when Ai's mother would marry Ai Lian, and she didn't know how those bloodsuckers would torture Ai Lian.

Walking around the corner, Amy slowly turned back.

Elaine was still standing where the two of them had just separated, looking at her.

Seeing her turn around, Elaine waved her hand.

"Be careful on the road."

Elaine actually wanted her to come back to see more, but thinking of the situation at home, she felt that she couldn't come back.

Amy waved at her as well.

"Go back to work, remember to write to me if you have something."

Ai Lian was very strict by Ai's mother, and it was difficult to take a car to Jiangcheng University, which was not far away, to find her.

The two sisters turned around and walked in their own direction.

Because of what Amy said, Elaine was not in a state all afternoon, because she was distracted and did a little thing wrong, and was well educated.

The news soon reached Aimu's ears.

"Do you still want your job? It's not easy to find such a good job now, do you know, and dare to go on a small errand when you go to work, if I hadn't known your team leader's daughter-in-law, you would have been kicked away a long time ago, do you believe it or not? And before I was arguing that I was going to take the college entrance examination, okay, I let you take the exam, what was the result? I said a long time ago, you are not that material, taking the test is a waste of time, it is better to help me wash two more clothes at home. ”

Since Ai Lian first said that she was going to take the college entrance examination, Ai Mu would take it out and read it every day.

Now that Ai Lian didn't get in, she is energetic, and she has to keep reading every morning and night, and she also said that she will make the other two in the family treat her as a negative teaching material and can't learn from her.

"Look at you, you don't look like me, you don't have any skills, you can't even find a person who can get your hands on, and you have to let me stick to my old face to find it for you, and I don't know what kind of sin I did in my last life to make a money-losing goods like you."

Elaine was so worried about it that she didn't dare to talk back, so she just took out a large basin of clothes from the house and began to wash them as usual.

"Hmph, why did you give birth to such a wicked obstacle."

Ai Mu sneered dissatisfiedly, there was someone to do the work in her hands, so she was idle, swayed and walked outside to chat with the others.

"Yo, isn't this Elaine's mother? I heard that you Elaine didn't get in, right? I'll just say, not everyone is as smart as my daughter, and you can get into a university by studying casually. ”

Ai's mother turned blue when she was said, and snorted coldly: "It's just that what is there to be proud of after being admitted to a junior college, and you have the ability to go to Jiangcheng University." ”

"My daughter is not ready, if she is ready, let alone Jiangcheng University, even the emperor will choose whatever she wants. It's not like your old Ai family, you can only work hard to make money in the future, and there is no material for reading! ”