Reborn in the 70s: Pampered by Regiment Commander

Chapter 1585: Chapter 1045: Clarity

Wishing sisters a Happy Women’s Day~ always beautiful like flowers~

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"Little sister, if Uncle and Auntie hear what you just said, they would be heartbroken..." Chuxia looked seriously at Zhou Nanping, "Different upbringing leads to different ways of doing things, you can’t compare them to my parents, it’s unfair."

Zhao Yulan responded quickly: "Yes, we live for our daughter, all our thoughts are definitely focused on her, but your parents are different, their responsibility to the family means they have to take on more, how could they treat children the way we do?"

"I understand, it’s just..." Zhou Nanping looked awkward, "Seeing Uncle Lin and Auntie Zhao like this makes me especially envious."

After giving her a glance, Chuxia sighed: "Actually, you still somewhat blame Uncle and Auntie in your heart, don’t you?"

"I can’t really say, I understand, I have no reason to blame them, but the childhood memories are really too bad..."

After a long pause, Zhou Nanping continued, "When we were sent to Grandma’s house, I was six, brother was seven, our parents explained to us the reason for sending us there, but neither of us wanted it.

My brother and I tugged at our parents’ sleeves and pleaded desperately, but nothing changed. Initially, when sent there, we were together, and Grandma was quite kind to us.

But just as we were gradually adjusting, Grandma fell seriously ill, and my brother and I were then fostered at two different uncles’ homes.

They all had children, and the aunts naturally didn’t like us. Living under someone else’s roof, enduring disdain, we counted the days.

Originally, when our parents sent us there, they said we would meet in a year. Instead, we waited for seven years. What does seven years represent? It means that my brother and I grew from naive children into teenagers knowledgeable about life’s hardships.

Other kids support each other when facing difficulties, but every time my brother and I met, it was like enemies meeting. It’s not what we wanted, but the two aunts forbade us from speaking. If we didn’t side with our respective sides, life would be unbearable.

To feed ourselves and stay warm, what started as forced opposition became habitual hostility.

So when our parents saw us, neither of us could stand the other, and this is why to this day, no matter how the other conducts themselves, we won’t care about each other, because we’ve become used to indifference, he doesn’t like me, and I don’t like him either.

Even now, I worry about my brother and sister-in-law’s matters, which doesn’t mean I truly like my brother. It’s just because he’s my actual older brother, little sister-in-law, do you understand my feelings?"

"I understand..." Sighing, Chuxia comfortingly patted her shoulder but didn’t say more.

Who can be blamed for this?

Not Uncle and Auntie, nor Nanping’s uncles and aunts, when people couldn’t even afford to eat, how could they treat another mouth kindly?

Letting children stay at their home was merely out of necessity. If it weren’t for people of that era caring about others’ opinions, probably the Zhou family’s few children would have ended up on the streets?

Some accounts are never clear, especially for an outsider like her, listening is enough, no need to judge.

"Third sister-in-law, telling you this isn’t to make excuses for myself, I just want to share my feelings with you. Yes, I used to use these issues as excuses whenever arguing with family, but now, telling you this, I genuinely hope you’ll understand me better, because..." Zhou Nanping bit her lip and smiled awkwardly, "because I particularly envy your relationship with second sister and fourth sister, and I hope, in the future, to truly integrate into it."

Chuxia nodded: "Okay, I’ll convey your feelings to second sister and fourth sister. As long as you’re genuinely not blaming the family anymore and truly want to have a better relationship with the family, I believe whether it’s elders or younger ones, they’ll be especially happy!"

"Thank you, third sister-in-law..." Zhou Nanping sighed heavily and smiled bitterly, "In the past, I always blamed my unhappiness on others, but actually, with a calm and fair perspective, all unhappiness was caused by myself.

Clearly knowing my parents sent us to Grandma’s out of helplessness, knowing they suffered many slights for us to stay at Grandma’s, yet I still blamed them.