Chapter 202 What if even your family doesn't love you?

In the afternoon, Qin Xuehua glanced at Xu Laidi, who was weeding nearby, her eyes flashing slightly before she let out a heavy sigh.

"What's wrong, Qin Qing? Tell me what's troubling you, and I'll give you some advice." An old woman with an old towel wrapped around her head quickly moved to Qin Xuehua's side and asked in a low voice.

However, this person has a naturally loud voice; what she considers a soft voice can be heard clearly within a ten-meter radius.

Moreover, this woman was the youngest daughter in her family. Before she got married, she was pampered and protected by her parents and brothers. After she got married, she relied on her family's support and was never bullied in her husband's family. She treated her daughter better than her son and was someone who particularly hated the preference for sons over daughters.

The reason Qin Xuehua was able to work with this old lady near Xu Laidi today was thanks to the two cigarettes that Chao Xianhua, the social butterfly, secretly gave to the team leader.

Of course, the excuse was that Qin Xuehua wasn't feeling well, so she switched to an easier job for a day.

Qin Xuehua plopped down on the ridge next to the field and looked at the old woman with a melancholy expression, saying, "Aunt Kong, what's troubling me? My mother wrote to me saying that my cousin signed up to go to the countryside on her own, and my grandmother is so angry at home that she wants to sever ties with my uncle."

"Oh, is it that serious? Why?" Aunt Kong looked at Qin Xuehua in shock.

Although she prefers her youngest daughter, she wouldn't sever ties with her son for her granddaughter; that would be a huge deal.

"It's all because my uncle is a scoundrel!"

Qin Xuehua apologized to her uncle in her heart first. The main reason was that she really couldn't bring herself to say that to her own father, so she could only wrong her uncle. At worst, she could just send him more mountain products later. Then she started telling the story without any guilt.

“Auntie, you have no idea how outrageous my uncle is. He spoils his son rotten, but his daughter is nothing but weeds in his eyes. My older cousin secretly gambled away a lot of money and owed a lot of money. My uncle couldn't bear to part with that little bit of family wealth, so he wanted to sell my cousin to those people to pay off the debt. If my cousin really went with them, her life would be completely ruined.”

Then my cousin secretly signed up to go to the countryside, specifically the far northwest. That place is harsh and remote, but my cousin said it was precisely because it was far away that it was safe, so my uncle wouldn't be able to find her.

"What? How could you do this? Isn't this a beast?" the old woman shouted angrily, her face filled with shock and rage.

Qin Xuehua pressed her lips tightly together, almost losing her composure. She comforted herself, "It's okay, it's okay. I don't have an older cousin. I only have two younger cousins. My older cousin is married, and I don't have any younger cousins."

Thinking about it that way, I immediately felt better and nodded.

"That's right. But my cousin didn't let them off the hook either. She took all the money and tickets from the house before she left. Anyway, all the sacrifices she's made for the family over the years are worth that much. But when she left, she was worried that my uncle would catch up with her, so she burned down the house. Otherwise, she really wouldn't have been able to escape."

The old woman sighed with a complicated expression: "That's the right thing to do. As women, life is already tough enough as it is, so we have to think more about ourselves. We can't give up everything for people who aren't worth it. We're about to lose our lives, what else is there to care about?"

“That’s right, that’s what my mom said too.” Qin Xuehua nodded in agreement and started rambling on and on, mainly about how a woman’s position is not secure if she’s not ruthless. She gave a series of examples, which almost made the older woman want to become sworn sisters with Qin Xuehua on the spot.

The two chatted for quite a while before the older woman reluctantly went back to her work.

Qin Xuehua glanced at Xu Laidi seemingly unintentionally and saw him squatting on the ground, his hands unconsciously grabbing at the weeds in the ground, his shoulders trembling slightly, as if he was struggling with something.

Qin Xuehua lowered her head, smiled slightly, and got up to continue her work.

On the way home that evening, Chao Xianhua walked quickly ahead, but stumbled and "accidentally" bumped into Xu Laidi, who was walking in front of her, knocking the thin Xu Laidi to the ground.

"Emma, ​​I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, are you alright!" Chao Xianhua quickly went to help Xu Laidi up.

"I, I'm fine, I'm fine!" When Chao Xianhua reached out her hand, Xu Laidi subconsciously trembled and involuntarily took a step back.

Chao Xianhua seemed oblivious to all of this, and directly grabbed Xu Laidi's shoulder to help him up. She even bent down and gently patted the dust off Xu Laidi's body without any disgust.

"I'm so sorry, I didn't see a stone when I was walking and tripped over it, which caused you to fall down. Let me see if you're hurt anywhere."

"No, it's nothing, no need!" Xu Laidi dodged Chao Xianhua's hand, kept his head down, and didn't even dare to look at the female educated youth in front of him.

"How could it be nothing? Look, your hands are all red!" Chao Xianhua looked at Xu Laidi's palms with heartache and sighed softly, "This is my fault. Why don't I take you to the village clinic to get some medicine? We girls should take good care of ourselves. We can't let ourselves get scars. Even if we don't care what others say, we'll feel uncomfortable if we see them."

Upon hearing this, Xu Laidi stiffened abruptly, slowly raising her head to look at the worried young woman in front of her. Her voice was soft and timid, as if she were trying to overcome something, as she whispered, "Really, really?"

"Of course it's true!" Chao Xianhua said with a calm and serious expression, "This is what my mom said. She said that women should try to love themselves so that others will truly love them."

"What if even your family doesn't love you?"

“I don’t love them either, so what’s the big deal?” Chao Xianhua shrugged and said matter-of-factly, “If someone bullies me, I’ll bully them back; if someone hits me, I’ll hit them back. By the same token, if someone treats me sincerely, I will try my best to treat them sincerely in return. Even family members should be treated the same way.”

Xu Laidi lowered his head slowly again and murmured softly, "Really, really!"

Chao Xianhua curled the corners of her lips, a fleeting look of satisfaction in her eyes.

Then, with a sincere expression, he took a hard-boiled egg from his pocket and stuffed it into Xu Laidi's hand: "This is what I saved for lunch that I haven't had time to eat yet. Consider it my apology. Look how thin you are, you need to eat more, otherwise where will you get the strength? Okay, I'm going now, see you later, remember to eat the egg by yourself!"

Xu Laidi was completely stunned when the egg was stuffed into her hand. She didn't have time to refuse, and when she looked up again, the female educated youth was already far away. She didn't dare to chase after her.

Looking at the slightly warm egg in his hand, Xu Laidi's eyes gradually welled up with tears.

She had never eaten a boiled egg before, never. This was the first time someone had given her an egg and told her that she was too thin and had to eat it all by herself.

She can treat strangers like that, so why do her family treat her like that?

This question seemed to be appearing in her mind for the first time, but she couldn't get it out of her head.