On January 11, 1973, Xu Rujiao carried a half-used schoolbag made of rags and stared blankly at the red plaque of the county department store.

Yes, twenty years ago, this was the most prosperous and lively area in Xingyuan County, and the new department store had just been built, and it was not a high-end residential community that she remembered living in for several years.

Just a few minutes ago, Xu Rujiao was still standing on the balcony on the fifth floor to see that person come back. She clearly remembered that Qin Zhanbei got out of the car, comforted the beautiful woman who was following closely, and habitually looked up at the balcony. She shook her body in fright, and when she shook it, she opened her eyes again and was here.

Xu Rujiao subconsciously pulled her half-used schoolbag, the stitches of the splicing rags were so vivid, this was what she cried and clamored for on her birthday last year, and if she didn't do it, she wouldn't go to school. Li Xiuqin had no choice, so she easily found a few rags from the corners of the house, and pieced together this schoolbag, which she carried everywhere after that.

"San'er, what's the fuss? I have to go to the grain store to buy beans! ”

The shouts that sounded not far away were familiar and unfamiliar, Xu Rujiao looked up, it was Li Xiuqin, who was twenty years younger.

Twenty years ago, my mother had not grown white hair because of her heartbroken heart for the three sisters, nor did she have an eternal frown that could not be separated because of the broken things between herself and Qin Zhanbei.

"Mom!" Xu Rujiao almost cried out.

"What's wrong with San'er?" Li Xiuqin was startled, why did she cry so well, "Did your second sister tease you again?" ”

Li Xiuqin glanced at Xu Ruyan angrily, the latter was holding her new head flower like a baby, and rolled her eyes when she heard the words: "I don't have it!" It must be that Sanya doesn't have a new flower, so she cried angrily. ”

The memories of her childhood gradually returned, and Xu Rujiao slowly recalled that when she was thirteen years old, the eldest sister said that the family matter, and the man's family gave a bride price of 100 yuan, and the whole family was very happy.

This is one of the few scenes in Xu Rujiao's memory where the whole family went to the street together, and it was also the happiest and happiest year she had when she was a child.

After the eldest sister got married, she met someone unladylike, and was tortured by grievances in her in-law's house.

"Why don't we buy a head flower for San'er, the child is older and knows the beauty." Father Xu Guangshi's words pulled Xu Rujiao back to reality.

Before anyone else could speak, Xu Ruyan was unhappy first: "Why? Why? Okay, the two of us will pay three cents each, and the three of them will buy candy, if you buy her a flower, then you have to buy me candy too! ”

"You're still a sister, can't you let a little sister?" Li Xiuqin pointed at the forehead of the second daughter.

"Hmph", Xu Ruyan snorted from her nose while hiding, "I want to be fair, anyway, if you buy her a flower, you have to buy me candy." What she didn't say was that in fact, she could also want to eat candy, but between the beautiful head flower and the sugar, she still chose the head flower, she completely imagined that Xu Rujiao's stingy ghost would not give her a single candy to eat, if Xu Rujiao could buy the head flower noisily, then she would have sugar to eat.

"Mom, why don't we go and buy a flower for Sanya, and buy more sugar for the New Year, so that our whole family can eat it." The eldest sister Xu Rujuan spoke.

This is her dowry, and it is not an exaggeration for her to say a few words.

Li Xiuqin shook her head and counted with her fingers: "You look at a hundred yuan is a lot, but this trip is twenty, you have to take twenty when you go out, plus your grandmother's ......"

Li Xiuqin didn't say anything further, but several adults understood. On the day the dowry money was delivered, Li Xiuqin was asked for half of it by her grandmother's family before she could cover the heat in her hand, and the remaining fifty yuan, the family bought food and dowry, and it was Xu Guangshi's favorite child to be divided between the two younger ones.

Xu Rujuan was waiting to say more, but Xu Rujiao spoke first: "Mom, I don't want flowers, and I don't want sugar, let's retreat." ”

This is the eldest sister's dowry money, to put it mildly, it is the money from selling her body.

Because of this 100 yuan, the eldest sister couldn't hold her head up in her mother-in-law's house for the rest of her life, and every time something happened, the eldest brother-in-law said that she was bought by her own family and was not qualified to speak, and even went out to find a woman behind the eldest sister's back, so that the eldest sister broke it, but he beat the eldest sister......

If she hadn't met such a man, the eldest sister wouldn't have ...... at a young age Thinking of this, Xu Rujiao felt a pain in her heart, and then looked at the eighteen-year-old eldest sister in front of her, she secretly gritted her teeth and lived a new life, never letting the eldest sister marry that man again and repeat the mistakes of the past.