Chapter 34: Being a Stepmother 1
Ye Zhiqiu opened her eyes again, and what she saw was a dilapidated and leaky house. She looked around and saw nothing but a bed, a simple large wooden cabinet, and a small wooden table.
Not to mention compared to the previous two worlds, even Ye Zhiqiu's original family was much better than this. She had never seen such a poor family, even the poor families on TV were much better than this.
It would be fine if the house was leaking, but the key point was that it was about to rain, and she was afraid that it would rain heavily outside and lightly inside.
"Pooh, pooh, pooh!" Ye Zhiqiu interrupted his own bad words and quickly took in the plot.
A quarter of an hour later, nothing was received.
"System, come out!"
"exist."
"What's going on? Is there another bug?" Ye Zhiqiu knew that the system was unreliable, but he couldn't let it fail at the critical moment.
"No BUG. The original owner of the previous world was very satisfied with the host, so you can become a regular employee in advance." The system was organizing its language, hoping to better fool Ye Zhiqiu.
"So?" Ye Zhiqiu had a bad feeling. Her intuition was always accurate, the system must be trying to trick her again.
The system does not admit that it is cheating people. "The plot is only provided during the probation period. After becoming a regular owner, there is only the original owner's memory, no plot. The host must complete the task without knowing the plot."
He said this without any guilt at all, and Ye Zhiqiu didn't know where the system got the nerve to do so.
Oh, no, it's not a person and has no face.
"You're going to die. You don't even know how to come out for dinner. Do you want to treat everyone one by one? What kind of life do you have? You can't enjoy a few days of peace and quiet at your age. I should have drowned that heartless guy in the toilet earlier."
Ye Zhiqiu heard the sound in the yard and hurriedly urged the system: "Transfer the memory quickly." She didn't want anyone to find out what was wrong, and the most urgent thing was to understand the situation.
After receiving the memory, Ye Zhiqiu was overwhelmed. She knew that her luck was bad this time, but she didn't expect it to be this bad. From the room, she could tell that the family was poor, but she didn't expect that they were so poor that they couldn't even afford food and drink.
It is the 1970s, and there are still a few years before the reform and opening up. The village where the original owner lived is called Caotang Village. There are several surnames living in the village, but the surname Ye is the most common.
The original family had more than a dozen people and they did not split up. Grandpa Ye Changtian was in his sixties and grandma Huang Lamei was in her early sixties. They had four sons and two daughters in total.
Let's not talk about the two daughters getting married. As for the four sons, the eldest, Ye Daniu, was lucky enough to work in the city. The second, Ye Erniu, the father of the original body, was an honest man who didn't know how to do anything except work in the fields. The third, Ye Sanniu, and the fourth, Ye Siniu, were twins, but they didn't look alike. One was tall, the other short, one fat, the other thin. But they were both smart. In addition to working in the fields, they also went up the mountains and rivers, and gained a lot.
Don’t underestimate these gains. Even if you can’t exchange them for money, they can fill your stomach.
The mountain in Caotang Village is actually not much higher than a small dirt slope. There are no large wild animals on the mountain, and at most you can see rabbits and pheasants.
The villagers don’t know how to hunt, so seeing these little things is useless because they can’t catch them. The higher-ups also know this, so they don’t require the villagers to hand in all the prey they catch in the mountains.
Ye Zhiqiu said that it would be impossible to control it even if they really wanted to. Every household in the village had to go up the mountain to collect firewood. If they really caught the prey and hid it in the firewood, who would know?
There are no game animals in the mountains, but there are a lot of Chinese herbal medicines. After picking and drying, they are sent to the purchasing station in the town, where they can be exchanged for things or money. There is also the river outside the village, which is more than ten meters wide. There is no shortage of fish in the river, but there is a lack of fishing skills.
Most people can't catch it, but the third and fourth sons of the Ye family have a tacit understanding, and the two of them can often catch big fish together. The villagers know that they are good at catching fish, but they don't know that they can catch big fish.
Because the two brothers usually go out at night, when the villagers are already asleep, when they get up, Ye Sanniu and Ye Siniu have already sold the fish and returned home to sleep in bed.
The brothers were able to avoid the crowd because the Ye family was at the easternmost end of the village, less than ten meters away from the river bank. They also called Ye Erniu to go with them, but the honest man refused to listen and advised the brothers not to take risks.
From then on, the two brothers would never call Ye Erniu whenever they had something good to do.
Ye Erniu didn't care and just worked hard to earn work points. He earned the most work points in the family, but Ye Zhiqiu still went hungry every day.
Because Huang Lamei favored boys over girls, there were more than a dozen people in the family, and if everyone ate dry rice, how could there be so much food? So she stipulated that only the men should eat first every day, and the women would fill their stomachs with porridge made from leftover rice and rice crust.
Women were also divided into different classes. The daughters-in-law who could serve as men could get more, and the remaining children got the least. No one in the family complained because Huang Lamei always gave herself the least.
Ye Zhiqiu just ate little, so she endured it. There was still food left over from the previous world in her space. At worst, she could hide and eat secretly.
The biggest problem is that the original owner never went to school. The Ye family did not allow girls to go to school, saying it was a waste of money. The original owner was also a strong-willed person. She borrowed books from the boys in her family and studied with them, but it didn't last long.
The third generation of boys in the Ye family were not good at studying, and the most educated ones only graduated from high school. If they didn't study anymore, then the original body naturally had no place to study, and it would be useless for her to be strong.
Ye Zhiqiu frowned: "What is the mission?"
"Find a good man, have children, and have a happy old age."
"These are two tasks, right?" Ye Zhiqiu felt that the system was a little confused.
"One, the original body defines happiness as a harmonious family." The system does not want to embarrass the host, but it will only accept this kind of task. If the host wants to kill everyone, he needs to bind to the strong woman system, or the immortal cultivation system.
It was just an ordinary, ordinary cannon fodder fate-changing system. It was the host who refused to accept her fate. If she was willing to be a good wife and mother, based on its past experience, it would definitely be able to train the host into an outstanding talent.
Ye Zhiqiu glanced at the system that was thinking about shit. Did she look stupid? Did she look like the kind of woman who would sacrifice her life for a man? Not to mention a man, even her children couldn't make her sacrifice her life.
She is herself first, then a mother, a daughter, and a wife.
"It's time to eat! If you don't want to eat now, don't eat anymore." Huang Lamei shouted again.
Ye Zhiqiu touched her stomach, which had been rumbling for a long time. Forget it, why should she talk to a system about this? She was hungry, so eating was the most important thing.
The sky is big and the earth is big, and eating is the biggest thing.
Ye Zhiqiu imitated the original owner's temperament and found a familiar seat to sit down. Before he sat down, he was already picking up food into his bowl at the speed of grabbing food. There were only pickles and green vegetables on the table, but no meat, which looked unappetizing.
But in the original body's memory, if you are slow in preparing boiled vegetables, you won't be able to eat them, so every meal is like a battle.