Quick Transmigration: The Cannon Fodder's Comeback in the Era Tales-Chapter 188: The Hapless Eldest Sister 2

"Your hard work will always be remembered by your two younger brothers. In the future, when you get married, your father, your brothers, and I will make an effort and earn you a generous dowry, so you can be married off with pride."

Under Mrs. Zhong’s painstaking brainwashing and coercion, the original character had to drop out of school and find a job, which was working at Grandpa Zhao’s mantou shop for twenty yuan a month.

At three in the morning, she would get up to knead the dough and steam mantou, working until two in the afternoon.

Returning home at two, she would still have to wash her family’s clothes, scrub pots, wash dishes, clean... because Mrs. Zhong would always complain about her poor health. Aside from wrapping matchboxes, she couldn’t do any housework, so it all fell on the original character.

The dishes from their breakfast, lunch, and dinner were also left for the original character to wash when she got home.

In the morning, before leaving for work, the original character had to prepare meals for the family in advance. Even though it was just cooking a pot of porridge and cutting some pickled vegetables, making porridge took time, so she had to get up an hour early.

At night, Mrs. Zhong would still make the original character stay up with her to wrap matchboxes, not sleeping until nine o’clock.

Every time she got paid, Mrs. Zhong always had all sorts of excuses to take all her money.

Zhong Guoqiang repeated his studies for three years but still couldn’t get into high school. Later, Mr. Zhong sent him to learn haircutting at a newly opened barbershop owned by a friend.

That year, the original character was twenty-one years old. Girls her age were already married, but Mr. and Mrs. Zhong never mentioned her marriage.

After learning haircutting for six months, Zhong Guoqiang got a girlfriend, and Mrs. Zhong said the bride price was high and the family couldn’t afford it. She found a part-time job for the original character washing dishes at a restaurant from six to nine in the evening.

"It’s perfect. After you finish your work at the mantou shop and come home, you can go to the restaurant to work. I’ve talked to the owner, and it’s ten yuan a month with dinner provided. You won’t have to eat at home anymore."

Just like that, the original character’s evening task of wrapping matchboxes was replaced by washing dishes at the restaurant.

A year later, Zhong Guoqiang finally brought his bride home.

The original character thought that with a sister-in-law, there would finally be someone to share some of the housework.

Who knew, Mrs. Zhong said, "Yuan Chun, your sister-in-law just joined the family. I can’t order her to do chores, so you need to work a bit harder and wash her clothes too."

Having a sister-in-law didn’t lighten her burden; it increased it.

She wanted to quit the dishwashing job, but Mrs. Zhong said, "Your younger brother also needs to settle down. Our family is poor, and we’ll have to rely on you to hold on for a few more years. It’ll be fine once your younger brother gets married."

Two years later, the younger brother also got married.

But the younger sister had grown up too. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

The younger sister had always been pampered and had never done any housework. To ensure she wouldn’t be disdained by her in-laws, Mrs. Zhong said they needed to prepare a generous dowry for her.

So, the original character had to continue laboring hard to earn money.

By the time her brothers and sister were all settled down, the original character was almost thirty. Mrs. Zhong said, "Yuan Chun, you’ve labored all these years. You’re a good elder sister. Mom thanks you, and I’ve found you a good family."

The other party was a forty-year-old widower with two sons.

Mrs. Zhong said, "Yuan Chun, you’re almost thirty. At this age, I’ve only managed to find you a divorced man. I’ve done my best. But don’t worry, even though he’s a bit older, he has good character. Mom has looked into it."

"Yuan Chun, you know your little sister just got married, and the family is drained from preparing her dowry. Mom can only get you a new set of clothes, and that’s with money borrowed from Aunt Zhao. Aunt Zhao says she’ll deduct it from your wages."