Chapter 8 Bar Singing
Zhong Haoran didn't go home that day, he stayed at his uncle's house for one night.
Mother nagged on the phone for a long time, complaining that she cooked a good table, but she didn't expect anyone to come back.
It was two o'clock in the middle of the night, and Grandma Zhong's words still came to mind from time to time, which made Zhong Haoran in bed tossing and turning hard to fall asleep. He never had insomnia during the final exam.
Grandma Zhong worked in a clinic in the village when she was young. People were poor at that time. When they accidentally conceived a child, some people would choose to have them aborted because they could not afford it. She had handled many abortions and delivery work.
There are also many families who keep giving birth to babies. Since ancient times, the concept of patriarchal preference in rural areas has been profound, and the more sons the better. When some people saw that they were born girls, they threw them away secretly.
Grandma Zhong gave birth to three sons, and when she got older, she became pregnant with another child, which coincided with the country's family planning program at that time. She was already nine months pregnant at that time, and the child landed healthy and could not escape.
Only then did Zhong Haoran know that he once had an aunt.
"If you don't do it, people will take away the pigs, cows, and all these valuables."
Thinking of the past years, Grandma Zhong's face showed a touch of sadness, which was a touch of pain in her heart.
In the 1980s and 1990s, the bad habit of discarding baby girls in rural areas had serious consequences. In the countryside, there were many men who could not get a wife, so they had to be bachelors. I heard that many people secretly bought women to be wives from others.
Grandma Zhong has three sons. Although the eldest son is not good enough, the husband and the other two sons are reliable. At that time, they had moved from the countryside to the county town.
She picked up Zhong Ling when she went back to the countryside to worship her ancestors, in the late 1990s.
There was a family in the village who gave birth to a son, but he had a congenital disease, and he was stupid when he was born. The family had an only son, and was worried about his future event of marrying a wife and having children, so he secretly bought a girl from a trafficker.
The other party played very well in the abacus, and bought a girl back to be a child bride for his son, and he could still work as a maid in the future.
Moreover, the children bought from the traffickers do not have hukou, and they will be black households in the future, and there is nowhere to escape if they want to.
Zhong Ling was the eldest girl in the hands of the traffickers. She was only a little over a year old at the time and could already walk.
Unfortunately, the family's five-year-old silly son drowned while playing alone outside.
Without their son, the family didn't want to raise Zhong Ling anymore, so they had to contact a dealer to sell her. Unexpectedly, the public security in the city solved a case, and by the way, they dug up the gang of human traffickers. A group of people who were imprisoned in prison, but the head of the human trafficker who sold Zhong Ling to them escaped.
The other party didn't dare to commit the crime against the wind, for fear of finding out about her, she planned to throw Zhong Ling next to the grave in the cemetery, but she happened to be caught by Grandma Zhong, and she couldn't bear to bring the child back for a while.
Grandma Zhong gave a lot of abortions when she was young, and she also saw others throw the baby girl she just delivered into the trash can. At that time, she couldn't do anything, and the guilt lingered in her heart for many years.
She remembered what happened to her youngest daughter, and only thought it was karma, so she took Zhong Ling back and raised it under the name of her eldest son, which was considered to be an accumulation of virtue for herself.
Working in the clinic when she was young, Grandma Zhong still had some connections. She knew how to "clean up" such a child's household registration. All she had to do was buy a birth certificate secretly, and then put money into the household registration.
It's not that Grandma Zhong never thought about finding her child's biological parents, but she wasn't sure whether Zhong Ling was a kidnapped child, or whether she was thrown by her parents and asked the traffickers to pick it up.
In those days, there were too many things like this. Zhong Ling changed hands a few times before being sold to the village. The police in the small county were incompetent and could not find out why.
The eldest daughter-in-law reacted violently to this incident, and felt that Grandma Zhong's crazy behavior was unreasonable, but she had been married to Zhong Zhiguo for six years, and there was no reaction in her stomach, and her back could not be straightened.
"This doll is good-looking and beautiful. It looks like a blessing." Grandma Zhong looked at Zhong Ling, but the more she looked, the more she liked it.
The eldest daughter-in-law pouted, is she lucky to be sold to this remote place?
However, Zhong Ling may have brought some luck. One year after coming to the house, she became pregnant with Zhong Haoran smoothly.
When Zhong Haoran was born, he paid a fine for overbirth that should not have been paid. Grandma Zhong put the money on it herself.
Anyway, most of the money for raising Zhong Ling was paid by Grandma Zhong.
Afraid that the child would be heartbroken, Grandma Zhong would not let anyone in the know tell the truth.
Zhong Zhiguo and his wife were a little harsh to Zhong Ling in their daily life. Both siblings thought it was the reason for the patriarchal concept and never thought about it in that regard.
If it wasn't for the money, Zhong Haoran would not have accidentally learned this secret.
He was still a 16-year-old boy, and when he heard this shocking news, he was so distraught that he didn't know what to do.
I heard from Grandma Zhong that if he wanted to find his sister's biological parents, the traffickers who escaped had to be caught. All the people in jail were young, and the core members of the gang slipped faster than rabbits.
Only they know where Zhong Ling came from, but after so many years, they have never seen the police find him in the crowd, so maybe no one cares about it.
That is to say, the possibility of Zhong Ling finding her biological parents is almost zero, and even if she finds it, the other party may be the parents who threw her away because they prefer sons to daughters.
Zhong Haoran felt uncomfortable for a while, he didn't want Zhong Ling to be in pain, and finally buried this secret in his heart.
Zhong Ling quickly received a call from her grandmother.
Hearing that she could make money from filming, grandma was very happy, and told her not to be harsh on herself if she had money in her hand, and said that she would not tell her parents about it, and told her to study with peace of mind.
The virtues of Zhong Zhiguo and his wife, she, as a mother, can't be more clear.
The other two sons both live in the city, and the eldest son has been in the small county for many years. If it weren't for the fact that both of them love to play mahjong, they would not be worse off than the brothers and sisters.
The grandparents talked for a long time before hanging up.
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After living in the community for more than a week, Ye Chen, who traveled outside every day, finally paid off.
When she was looking for a job, a wine boss liked her singing very much. When she knew that the song was composed by herself, she liked it very much.
But before that, we have to audition for two nights. If the guests have a good effect, we will carefully discuss the basic salary and the price of each performance.
Ye Chen was so excited that she was originally going to apply for a DJ job, and planned to be a professional, but the recruiter made a mistake, thinking that she was applying for a singer, and she got this job opportunity by accident.
She was lucky. Those songs she created by herself were not popular in the small city wine in the past, but there are many people who like it in the imperial capital.
But Ye Chen didn't come from an academic background. She was naturally a bit shorter than others, and she had no professional training. The wine boss only gave her a basic salary of 4,000.
She has to sing at least five nights a week. From eight to eleven, there will be several singers taking turns changing the stage. Her price is two hundred per show.
The price of the midnight show is even higher, but Ye Chen has not been valued for that. If there is an emergency and needs to be replaced, she has to be on call.
The wine Ye Chen worked was called blue wine, which happened to be the one Zhong Ling had worked as a part-time waiter before.
In two days, Zhong Ling was going to join the crew for filming. To celebrate, the two went to the food stall and rubbed hard.
"July Serenade" is a campus literary film about a youth love story.
The female protagonist was bullied by the little sister when she was in the third year of junior high school. Because the male protagonist, the senior sophomore who passed by, saved her, she began to have a crush on each other since then. After she was promoted to high school, she had more opportunities to contact the male protagonist, so she made chance encounters for various reasons, but she was shy and never had the courage to confess.
The male protagonist guessed her thoughts and also had a good impression of the female protagonist, but he did not point it out due to the academic pressure of the third year of high school. But when the heroine is bullied by others, she will come forward.
When the male protagonist was about to graduate and leave, the female protagonist's friend finally couldn't bear the reluctance of the female protagonist, and took the initiative to help the female protagonist with a love letter to confess.
The male protagonist returned the love letter, but just when the female protagonist thought she was rejected and was frustrated and sad, she saw what the male protagonist wrote on the back of the love letter. It turned out that the other party had always liked her.
The two made an agreement to give each other their first kiss on the night of July, and asked the heroine to study with peace of mind, and officially be together after graduation.
The genre of the movie is a bit like a movie Zhong Ling saw in her previous life, called "The Little Thing About First Love", but the plot of "Serenade in July" is far less sweet and moving than that movie.
The plot of this play is not only bland but also bland, and it is even full of naive clips in which many girls are jealous and bullied because of their good looks and beauty, which makes Zhong Ling unable to help but want to complain fiercely.
She knew that Xu Anran created this script based on her own experience, but just based on the other party's shrewdness, Zhong Ling believed that she was the only one who bullied others, and no one else could bully her.
Yin Xun finally rejected her confession. The kiss under the moon and the love agreement were probably the result of Xu Anran's own expectations and illusions.
Zhong Ling recalled that when he was in high school, everyone was surrounded by unfinished homework all day, and where did a group of little kids get so much time to intrigue.
Are you finished writing May 3? Did the Huanggang Scrolls do it right? I didn't do it right and you were so idle!
To put it in her world where puppy love is not allowed, this script would have been killed long ago.
The author has something to say: Mom, I don’t know if this picture of family planning will be harmonious. If I just say that I haven’t escaped for nine months, it’s actually a real incident that the author’s grandmother experienced...
and the real heroine. Relatives have already appeared, I think everyone has guessed when I say this.
Don't worry, the male protagonist will officially appear in two chapters!
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Yin Xun: My daughter-in-law is so miserable, she will be in pain in the future.
Ye Chen: What male protagonist do you want, am I not good?
Zhong Ling: No, no, no, you'd better!
Yin Xun: ? ? ?