Chapter 203 The Unjust Sister 18
After the marriage, when Ma Dalan wanted to take Ma Xiaolan with him to join the army, the Zhong family asked a matchmaker to propose marriage.

At that time, Zhong Daming was the only high school student in the village, and the only person in the village who worked in a steel plant and received state-funded food.

There are many girls in the village who have their eyes on Zhong Daming.

Among them is Ma Xiaolan.

When Ma Xiaolan heard that the Zhong family came to propose marriage, she was unwilling to follow her elder sister to join the army and insisted on marrying Zhong Daming. Ma Dalan thought that Zhong Daming had a job and was an honest and loyal man, so she agreed to the marriage.

However, Ma Xiaolan would not turn eighteen in two months, so their marriage could only be scheduled for two months later.

Ma Dalan also postponed the date of joining the army to hold a wedding banquet for her sister first.

Zhong Liming only had one month's vacation. After he spent money and effort to help his sister-in-law prepare a generous dowry, he rushed off on his mission.

The day after Ma Xiaolan got married, Zhong Daming went to work, and she stayed in the countryside to live with her mother-in-law because Zhong Daming lived in a four-person dormitory in the factory and had not yet been allocated a house.

It was three years later before Zhong Daming got his share of the house.

On the third day after her sister's wedding, Ma Dalan went to the unit to join the army.

A year and a half later, news suddenly came from the department that Zhong Liming and Ma Dalan were both dead.

Zhong Liming died while on a mission.

At that time, Ma Dalan was eight months pregnant. When she heard the news, she had a miscarriage and died in childbirth, but the baby was saved.

When Zhongli's family learned of Zhong Liming's death, his eldest cousin Zhong Lijing wanted to adopt his niece, but his eldest aunt threatened to commit suicide to stop her son. Later, the original owner was taken home by Ma Xiaolan.

At the same time, the inheritance of Zhong Liming and his wife also fell into the hands of Ma Xiaolan.

This courtyard house in Beijing was left to Zhong Liming by his father. After Zhong Liming died, his aunt wanted to take the house away, but Zhong Lijing stopped her. This courtyard house was rented to a good friend to open a private restaurant when Zhong Liming was alive, with a monthly rent of 30 yuan.

This thick stack of remittance slips is the money that the good friend's brother sent from the department to Ma Xiaolan for renting a house.

This pair of jade bracelets is emerald and very valuable. They are heirlooms from Zhong Liming's mother's family and they were also left by her for her daughter-in-law to wear.

Ma Dalan wore it several times during her lifetime.

However, after her death, the pair of jade bracelets were not worn by her daughter, but by Ma Xiaolan's daughter.

Ma Xiaolan suddenly obtained a huge fortune. Of course, she was not willing to wait for her niece to grow up and return the money to her. After returning to the village, she hid the money and told the villagers that the original owner was an orphan she adopted on the road.

She never let the postman deliver the monthly remittance slips and letters to the village. She would always find opportunities to go to the city to get them herself.

In this way, Ma Xiaolan kept the matter a secret and no one knew about it. All they knew was that she had not been happy for two years and that on the way back from the ministry, she adopted a daughter.

When the original owner was one and a half years old, the steel plant's family housing was allocated. Ma Xiaolan, with a big belly, took the original owner and the Zhongli family's belongings, left the village, and lived in the steel plant.

Everyone in the steel plant thought that the original owner was Ma Xiaolan and Zhong Daming’s biological daughter. Only Ma Xiaolan and Zhong Daming knew that the original owner was Ma Dalan’s daughter.

Ma Xiaolan had kept the huge fortune hidden so well that even Zhong Daming didn't know of its existence.

Zhong Daming always thought that the original owner was his eldest daughter and ate and drank for free in his house, so when Ma Xiaolan used her as a pua to make the original owner work and earn money at a young age, Zhong Daming pretended not to see it. After all, he was willing to raise his eldest sister-in-law's orphan and give her a home, which was also worthy of his sister-in-law.

It's only right to let her do some work.

(End of this chapter)