Chapter 60: Chapter 60 The Life of the Original Protagonist in the Book Chapter 60: Chapter 60 The Life of the Original Protagonist in the Book In the book, Luo Qiao, under the intervention of the brigade’s cadres, was acknowledged by the Zhao Family. However, her days became even more difficult, with Gao Suhua frequently beating and scolding the original owner, who couldn’t even manage to eat a full meal every day.
Among the Zhao Family daughters, aside from the fourth daughter, Zhao Xiaohua, who was somewhat kind to her, none of them treated her well. She became the one in the family who ate the least, woke the earliest, and worked the most.
Other than cooking, which was not her responsibility, she took care of all other household chores and still couldn’t neglect earning work points in the fields. Although Zhao Pulin treated her fairly well, never beating or scolding her, and would even stand up to protect her when his wife and daughters went too far.
In the end, he gave her up in the face of profit, marrying her off to Fool Er for an eight-hundred-yuan bridal price. All she took to her husband’s home were two sets of ragged clothes, and the Zhao Family Sisters would still visit from time to time to ask for things, making her in-laws dislike her even more.
Half a year after she entered the household, Fool Er, with his mother’s indulgence, beat the original owner. Once the beating began, it happened again, and there would always be a few days in a month when her body bore bruises. Although the original owner had learned some martial arts at the farm, her nature was too timid.
When she reached middle age, Fool Er accidentally drowned. Both her in-laws and her own family wanted to scheme to have her remarried, and that’s when she bravely stole her household registration book and ID card for the first time and escaped.
With not much money on her, not knowing how many jobs she changed, she drifted outside for over a decade before she unexpectedly encountered relatives from her biological mother’s side. Later, without her knowledge, that person had a DNA test done and came to her door, revealing her identity.
But she was already approaching old age—what was the use of knowing all this now? Later, by chance, she overheard the Zhao Family daughter who had taken her place in life making a phone call and learned that she had long known she was not Luo Qiao’s daughter.
Furthermore, she later interacted with the Zhao Family as relatives but kept it from outsiders. Even the biological parents on the original owner’s side did not know, thinking it a coincidental kinship.
The original owner’s family members didn’t care much until a cousin stayed at the hotel where she worked and remarked that she looked too much like his deceased grandmother. After several more chance encounters…
…the cousin impulsively had her hair tested and privately confirmed their blood relation through DNA. Only then did he begin to hire a private investigator to look into the past events.
Well, in that book, the original owner’s life was just a tragedy. The only one who had truly been good to her was Grandma Luo, who had raised her.
Therefore, Luo Qiao decided that when she had the time, she would definitely make a trip back to the farm to visit Grandma Luo’s grave, burn some paper money, and let her rest in peace.
All along the way, the city was indeed much more prosperous than the mune. She first found a secluded spot to enter her space and changed into an outfit she had prepared earlier, the fabric taken from the warehouse.
She didn’t make it too extravagant because she didn’t want to attract too much attention. The parts of the clothes covering her hips were made more fitted, and the trouser legs were straight cut, not too different from what most people were wearing at the time if you didn’t look closely.
The shirt was a small one that was slightly nipped at the waist. When she put it on, she looked quite spirited. You have to dress decently when you go to a department store to buy a sewing machine, or they might not pay attention to you. Worse, you could end up with a few scornful ments—why bother with that?
After leaving the space, she went straight to a department store in the city. She had already scouted the location, finding a blind spot in the alley behind the department store. She planned to have someone help her move and store the goods there later on.
She wasn’t lacking anything else at the moment. It was still the era of ration coupons, and money couldn’t buy you everything without the tickets, so she just briefly browsed around without much interest.
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