Rebirth: My Mother is a Virgin Mary

The early bird catches the worm, the late bird gets the worm...

I was lying on the bed with hazy eyes. I picked up the phone beside my pillow and looked at the time showing 10:29. My first reaction was: Well, I won’t go out to the stall today. The morning market has ended long ago and I can’t buy chicken feet... It’s nice to take a day off... My second reaction was: I remember that when we were eating roast duck yesterday, it was just after 8pm and I fell asleep at the dining table and have been sleeping ever since ~ bang bang, I slept for almost fourteen hours!

Since we’ve already gotten up so late, why not... just stay in bed a little longer!

It's so strange that Cheng Xinyuan didn't come to wake me up. Well, he and Qin Luotian were also exhausted yesterday, and they probably fell asleep too, haha~

I also wanted to make trouble for them, so I jumped out of bed, tiptoed barefoot to Cheng Xinyuan's door, gently turned the handle, and the moment the door opened, I jumped up and shouted, "Surprise!"

.........

At this moment, I was embarrassed, and it seemed like a group of crows were flying over my head...

No...no one...

I touched my nose, pursed my lips, and touched my stomach... I was so hungry!

I put on my slippers and went downstairs with my messy hair. Before I even finished going down the stairs, I noticed something was wrong. Why were the lights in the store not on? Although it was daytime, clothing stores still needed to turn on lights. Power outage? That's not right. Didn't Cheng Xinyuan just pay the electricity bill?

Maybe the property management turned off our power in retaliation for the previous incident, I thought conspiratorially.

Then he shook his head. No, that's not the case. Ms. Lin has already solved it. Even if he wants to find trouble, he has to wait for Cheng Xingmin to come back.

Then I saw that the store door was locked from the outside... Eh? Where are the people?

My mom and my brothers are not here?

I scratched my head, bewildered, and took out my phone to ask Cheng Xinyuan where they had gone, only to find that Ms. Lin had sent me four sixty-second voice messages on WeChat, which roughly meant that she hoped I would have a good sleep, and that I should not go out to sell food today, and that she had left some steamed dumplings in the pot in the kitchen for me.

Ms. Lin also told me to remember to pick up the birthday cake when I go out...

Birthday cake? Whose birthday? Ms. Lin's birthday is in February, Cheng Xinyuan's is in April, and I don't have the habit of celebrating birthdays... Qin Luotian's or Yao Yuan's? To be honest, I don't know the exact time of their birthdays.

After listening to the last voice message, I ran upstairs. Oh, what a stupid brain I have! Today is the 13th day of the sixth lunar month, isn't it my dear aunt's birthday?

Ah! My aunt!

Ah! My uncle!

I miss you guys so much!

On the second day of my rebirth, I couldn't wait to visit my uncle, but then I thought that my uncle and his family should have gone to Singapore to visit my cousin at that time, and I confirmed with Ms. Lin, so I didn't go. My uncle and his family came back at the end of July, and I was busy setting up the stall and fighting with Cheng Antai's family, so I forgot about it... I forgot... Ah~ I can't forgive myself!

In my previous life, I was already working part-time at school. On my aunt’s birthday, I just called her to wish her a happy birthday. It was obviously her birthday, but when she knew I ran back to school by myself, she gave me a thousand yuan out of pity...

My hair was a mess because of sleeping. I washed it as quickly as possible. When I was blowing my hair, I was thinking: my uncle's hair should still be black and shiny now. The Lin family has good hair quality, and the hair turns white slowly because of the large amount of hair. Except for the receding hairline, he is almost sixty years old now and there is no white hair~

I rubbed the top of my head and was so angry. Why didn't I inherit the volume of hair from the Lin family?

I almost ran and jumped towards my uncle's house and almost forgot to take the cake. When I walked forward with difficulty, half holding and half lifting a ten-inch double-layer cake, I was very glad that I didn't hold an umbrella because of my laziness, otherwise I couldn't guarantee that the cake would arrive at my uncle's house intact; I couldn't help but sigh that Ms. Lin is different when she has money in her hands, a ten-inch, double-layer cake, covered with fruits ~ wow, a group of people can eat it as a meal!

My uncle's house is in the staff quarters of the county hospital, with a small courtyard on the first floor. My aunt is a person who loves life and is good at taking care of it. She divided the courtyard into several areas to grow flowers, vegetables and sweet potatoes. I didn't go through the unit door, but went straight to the small courtyard door and shouted inside: "Someone come and help me!"

It was Qin Luotian who came out to greet me, "Why didn't you call us to pick you up!"

"It's no big deal, it's not like I can't take it!" I said proudly, "Except that I feel a little dizzy from the sun..."

"Your makeup is all ruined." Qin Luotian stared at me for a second with a serious look.

"Ah?" I touched my face hurriedly. I should have carried a small bag with makeup touch-ups.

"Just kidding." Qin Luotian grinned.

……

"Where are Cheng Xinyuan and Yao Yuan?"

"I've already started drinking with my uncle..."

"Hey! How come you're already drinking when I'm not even here yet!" I hurried into the house and shouted excitedly, "Uncle! I'm here!"

The words were directed at my uncle, but I rushed directly to my aunt, hanging on her like a koala, and gave her a kiss: "Happy birthday, aunt!"

I put on bean paste-colored lipstick today, and I left a lip mark on my aunt's face.

My aunt laughed gently, and she didn't let me go, letting me hang on her. "Yuyu is still the same as when she was little, holding me tightly and not letting go. OK, the love was not in vain!"

Yuyu is the nickname my uncle gave me, a nickname that only my uncle and aunt call me. My uncle said that when I was born, I had a pair of big, round eyes that were as pure as jade, so he gave me this name.

My aunt looked exactly the same as I remembered. Thinking back to the last time I saw her in my previous life, I realized that she hadn't changed much over the years. It seems that keeping in good health is quite effective. My aunt is a relatively wealthy person. She seems to be enveloped in a warm and gentle light, which makes people feel particularly close to her. In my impression, my aunt has always been gentle and kind, never quarreling with others. The few times she got angry were because I was abused by my family.

Actually, my aunt's appearance is not outstanding, and her figure is a bit fat. Judging from her appearance alone, she is completely incompatible with my uncle, who is handsome and upright, but they have been in harmony for decades. I used to hear Ms. Lin say that the people who came to match my uncle almost broke the door of the Lin family, and there were many women with good looks and good family backgrounds. My uncle looked down on everyone and would not marry anyone but my aunt. My uncle was a military doctor. He went to the battlefield in the late 1970s and returned home with medals and big red flowers. He has thick eyebrows and big eyes. Which unmarried girl in the ten miles and eight miles did not have a secret crush on him? According to the gossip I heard from other aunts, on the day my uncle and my aunt got married, my uncle rode a 28-bar bike with my aunt, and many girls ran behind him... When I was a child, I also thought about this question, why did my uncle insist on my aunt? After getting along for a long time, I realized that appearance is only a superficial judgment, and the soul fit is the real fit.

There is contentment and determination, trust and tolerance between them.

"Alas, Yuyu doesn't even hug her uncle. He's getting old, and his daughter must be disgusted with him." The uncle said worriedly, holding his two-liang wine glass.

I got off my aunt, ran to him, and put my arm around my uncle’s shoulders: “I don’t dare to jump on you directly, do you still want to hold your waist?”

The old uncle exclaimed, "Uncle is so useless that he can't even hold his niece!"

"What do you mean old? It's just that my waist is a little bit bad. Look at other old men who don't have a single white hair like you." I took out the wine glass, poured myself a glass, held the wine with both hands and clinked glasses with my uncle, "Cheers!"

In his early years, my uncle had a very upright physique. I don’t know since when, his back became a little hunched, and his walking posture also changed. More and more people say that he looks like Zhang Jiayi, but they don’t know that they have the same disease. Long-term medical practice has made him develop an occupational disease that is difficult to change. My uncle is one of the best surgeons in the county. Many years ago, a Class 3 hospital in the provincial capital offered him a high salary and a high position, but my uncle refused: "As long as the money is enough, the higher the position, the greater the ability. I don’t want to worry about that, and I don’t want to leave my hometown..." Seeing that he is about to reach retirement age, he has thought about a good life in retirement. The county hospital is unwilling to let him go, and has prepared a retirement re-employment contract for him. He refused without thinking, but Ms. Lin persuaded him: "Shuangshuang’s matter has not been settled yet. Can you feel at ease if you don’t arrange for her?"

Lin Shuang is the youngest daughter of my uncle and aunt, only half a year younger than me. She is my only biological sister, and a girl with a...not very bright brain.

This is not a derogatory term. To put it in a nice way, it means simplicity. To put it in a bad way, it means simply low IQ.

My aunt was almost 40 years old when she gave birth to Lin Shuang, which made her an older mother. Lin Shuang was a well-behaved and lovely child when he was young, but something was wrong as soon as he started school.

Lin Shuang was born on the fifth day of the Chinese New Year. We are one year apart in age according to the Chinese zodiac, but less than five months apart in terms of months. At first, Lin Shuang and I went to school together and were the same age. We were not compared to each other like Cheng Xinlin and I were. We had a close relationship like real sisters. Lin Shuang once said to me, "Sister, you are closer to me than my real sister."

When I graduated from primary school, Lin Shuang was still in the fourth grade and kept repeating a grade. My aunt was very worried about this. She asked excellent teachers at the municipal level to give her extra lessons, but it was of no use. After finally graduating from primary school, I was about to graduate from junior high school. Lin Shuang's grades got worse in junior high school. My aunt enrolled her in one cram school after another and hired one tutor after another. Every teacher said to my uncle and aunt: "No, it's really impossible to teach her..." Some even said bluntly: "Go check your IQ!"

My uncle really took Lin Shuang to a professional institution for testing, and the result was that he was less than seventy.

I remember that those years were the most worrying time for my uncle. I was admitted to university, but Lin Shuang had not yet graduated from junior high school. If this continued, she would be in the same grade as Cheng Xinyuan.

Ms. Lin has lamented more than once that her eldest brother was not blessed with children...

My uncle and aunt only had two daughters. The old family’s deep-rooted concept of “raising sons to provide for old age” made them think that my uncle, as the eldest son of the Lin family, must have a son, not to mention that my uncle himself is not an ordinary person. Before Lin Shuang was born, many people urged my uncle to adopt a boy. My aunt also advised my uncle in this way when she thought she was infertile, but my uncle retorted: "What's wrong with a daughter?! Can't a daughter inherit the family business and provide for us in our old age? I raised this one daughter well, which is better than them having several sons!" Later, my aunt unexpectedly became pregnant. My uncle was afraid that my aunt would have risks in giving birth at an old age, so he didn't want it at first. Under my aunt's repeated insistence, my uncle couldn't bear it, so Lin Shuang was born. My aunt has always felt guilty towards my uncle over the years, not only because she didn't give birth to a son, but also because she insisted on having a second child, and this second child...

The uncle never blamed my aunt, and the couple was still loving and harmonious. The uncle never treated Lin Shuang harshly because she was stupid. On the contrary, he devoted more love to his little daughter. Lin Shuang is now 19 years old and is in the first year of high school in the county vocational high school. The uncle picked a stable and easy-to-learn major for her. He will wait for Lin Shuang to graduate, preferably to get into a university, and then arrange a job for her and find a partner. She can live a stable life in the county, and the uncle and his wife will have someone to rely on...

College entrance exams...

Ah… I remember that in my last life, Lin Shuang took the college entrance examination and got 9 points in math, but his total score was still lower than my score in Chinese. My head hurts…