Name: She Was a Sent-Down Educated Youth in the 1970s
Author: Golden Flowers

Synopsis

Yao Jinling's family has seven people: two adults and five children. They all rely on her father, Yao Wang, and his single salary to get by. The family never has enough to eat or wear, and everyone is skin and bones... They could have endured this life for a few more years. Once the older children grew up and found jobs, things would have improved. But just as her older brother and sister reached working age and could help support the family, her mother got pregnant again! She gave birth to another set of twins! And to make matters worse, misfortune piled on misfortune: someone from the neighborhood office arrived to inform them that one person from the family had to go to the countryside! The two older siblings earned money to support the family, so they couldn't go. The four younger children still needed constant care, so they couldn't go either. That left her, the third child, caught in the middle and just the right age at fifteen, to go down to the countryside...

Stats

236Chapters

892Reads · 30 days

83.8kReads · all time

105Shelf adds, last 14 days

7.0Score

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