During the lunch break, which lasted an hour and a half, Sherry Zhang had just received a lunch box from her mother at the factory gate and hurried towards the factory dormitory. In April, roses climbed the walls, and at the end of the second-floor corridor, one could reach out and touch them. These houses were originally for Soviet engineers, but after they left a few years ago, the houses were allocated to college graduates who were assigned to work there.
Dormitory supervisor Auntie Ye smiled and said, "Sherry, are you off work now?"
"Yes, Auntie, is Cheryl in the dorm?" she asked, having heard earlier that Cheryl had fainted in the workshop due to hypoglycemia and wondering if she had returned yet.
Upon hearing her mention Cheryl Adams, Auntie Yes expression immediately became complicated. She pursed her lips and nodded, "Yes, yes, that girl," she lowered her voice and asked, "I heard that Cheryls boyfriend ran off to Port City?"
Sherry, who worked in the factorys propaganda department and understood the gravity of the situation, replied with a forced smile, "Auntie Ye, where did you hear that?"
Auntie Yes eyelid twitched, realizing her words were inappropriate, and she quickly changed the subject, "I misspoke, you should (persuade her), she needs to eat properly!"
Sherry patted Auntie Yes shoulder, "Auntie, that person is just a classmate to us, we havent paid attention to his affairs, we havent seen him since last year."
"Ah, okay, okay, you young people should chat more, hurry up and go, shes probably lying down in her room!"
Watching her go upstairs, Auntie Ye muttered to herself, "This little Sherry, barely in her twenties, already has such a stern demeanor, its quite intimidating."
The building was cool inside, with the heat being kept outside. The building had five floors, with six units per floor. Cheryl Adams lived in the first room on the east side of the third floor, a two-bedroom, one-living room apartment shared with Wang Yuanli. Cheryl had arrived later and chose the bedroom on the west side. Sherry sometimes came here for a lunch break, and after discussing it with her roommate, Cheryl had given her a key as well.
The door was unlocked, and with a gentle push, it surprised a girl trying on a pair of brown leather shoes in the living room. Wang Yuanli looked up at the door and saw Sherry, smiling, "Sherry, why are you only coming over now?"
After speaking, she noticed the lunch box in Sherrys hand, and Wang Yuanlis eyes flickered slightly, "Bringing food for Cheryl? Shes still sleeping in her room, I just gave her an egg pancake, she should be full now."
Sherry laughed, "You gave her your share, you must be hungry, hurry to the cafeteria, or there wont be any food left!" She then directly pushed open the door to the eastern bedroom, closing it behind her to block the view from outside.
Cheryl, lying in bed, stirred at the sound, her eyelids twitching as she saw a tall girl walk in against the light, wearing a floral dress with bright eyes.
She vaguely remembered that the original host had a very close friend in the factory named Sherry Zhang. After the original hosts death, Sherry had visited her mother a few times, vaguely calling out, "Sherry?"
"Mm, can you sit up? Eat some dumplings!"
Cheryl sat up, her voice hoarse, "Im fine, not dizzy anymore, its just that Director Chen is worried and told me to come back and rest for a while." The burning hunger in her stomach made speaking a bit difficult.
Sherry placed the dumplings on the desk beside the bed and noticed an intact egg pancake in the lunch box, asking, "Why didnt you eat this pancake?"
"I wanted to sleep just now, didnt get up," she replied. After waking up in the hospital this morning, even though her mind was in disarray, she still remembered the descriptions of Wang Yuanli from the original book, and she dared not touch this pancake.
Yes, she had () into a book. She was originally Gu Ruth from the 21st century, and woke up in a hospital to find the wall plaster somewhat mottled, the doctors white coat patched, and the kind female doctor telling her she had edema and hypoglycemia, needing to pay attention to her nutrition.
She saw the name on the medical record, Cheryl Adams, the white lily sister-in-law who died early in "A Good Life in the 1960s," and knew she had () into a book. Yesterday was the Mid-Autumn Festival, and she had just received her first months salary after becoming a regular employee, thinking of cooking a small hotpot at home to celebrate, when she received a call from her mother, Mrs. Lin.
Her mother, who rarely thought of her throughout the year, called to say she wanted to buy a villa in the suburbs to retire in, estimating a shortage of three million, and asked if she could sell her house to help out a bit.
The current market value of that house was exactly three million.
The house and two hundred thousand dollars were what her aunt had vigorously fought for her when her parents divorced, directly registered in her name. Over the years, as her parents remarried and had more children, she felt nothing, she was alone and peaceful, not having to listen to their arguments. She had a house and money, and since junior high school, she had been living alone. Finally, after graduating from university, a beautiful life was about to unfold before her.
It was just when her mother reached out for her house that she felt a twinge of heartache. She slowly replied, "No way!"
After hanging up with Mrs. Lin, she found a period novel to read, trying to soothe her mood.
"A Good Life in the 1960s" mainly tells the story of the female protagonist leading her family to prosperity, interspersed with the emotional entanglements of the male and female protagonists. There were no mother-in-law and daughter-in-law conflicts because shortly after the female protagonist got married, her sister-in-law suddenly jumped off a building. Since then, her mother-in-law had been determined to find out why her daughter jumped, year after year, even being labeled as a leftist opponent. Thinking of her own distressing parents, she left a comment saying, "I feel for the mother-in-law."
Then she woke up to become the daughter of Mrs. Shen Yulan!
It was still two years before the tragedy happened, in 1964 in Huaguo, Cheryl Adams had just graduated for a year and fainted in the workshop due to hypoglycemia.
Sherry opened the aluminum lunch box, and the misty steam dissipated in a flash, also pulling Gu Ruths mind back.
Two full rows of white dumplings, tender and fresh, with a delicate and smooth surface that seemed to shine with a pearl-like luster.
Sherry casually handed over a pair of chopsticks, "Eat quickly, its still hot!"
The burning sensation in her stomach came in waves, and Gu Ruth couldnt help but be impolite, grabbing a plump dumpling and biting into it, the freshness was so intense she almost swallowed her tongue, it was pork and cabbage filling.
The smooth dough slid down her dry and slightly painful throat, as if a babys hand was gently stroking it.
Tears unexpectedly welled up, and Gu Ruth quickly sniffed her nose, pretending to look up to brush away a strand of hair that was about to fall, she seemed to truly feel that she had really () here, becoming a girl named Cheryl Adams.
At that moment, her name was Cheryl Adams. Gu Ruth silently repeated it in her heart again.
Sherry, thinking of what Auntie Ye had just said, leaned over and asked her, "Has Wei Zheng written to you?"
Cheryls heart skipped a beat, her mouth full of dumplings, as if she had forgotten to chew, staring at Sherry with a pair of almond eyes.
How could she have forgotten this culprit! The original host, a technical engineer, earned a monthly salary of 35 dollars after becoming a regular employee. Although she gave her mother 20 dollars every month, she still had 15 left, but this troublemaker was going to Port