Jiang Lai let out a cold laugh.
"This independent and strong heroine rose up by stepping over the blood and flesh of her younger sister."
In the early 1980s, after every household had paid their public grain dues, the little grain left in their hands was barely enough to fill the stomachs of the whole family. So, it was already tough to stay alive, let alone send both children of the family to school.
Even the captain's family couldn't avoid such circumstances.
Moreover, Hetao Village was terribly poor. Girls from other villages did not want to marry there, and the girls from their own village were desperately trying to escape, which only made the village poorer and more backward, leaving a large group of unmarried men to loaf around all day.
Jiang Lai was smarter than Jiang Qu; the teachers who taught them all said so.
