As their children, they were sent down to be reeducated through labor. Because my eldest brother was divorced, my sister-in-law, with her two children, was not sent down. Instead, she was regarded with favor for severing ties with a bad element and got a decent job.
The daughter of my eldest brother had become an educated youth in the village next door a year ago.
And the elder brother was assigned to a rural area in Zebei Province, which was said to have good conditions. There, double-cropping rice yielded not-bad harvests, and the annual grain allocation was also plentiful.
However, none of this was of much concern to me. Why? Because Qin Shouren and the elder brother did not share the same mother.
Such circumstances were actually quite common in that era.
