I Became Rich by Eating Melons in the Era of Literature (1970s)

　　Zhao Yonglan burst into tears.

　　She really couldn't figure out what the grudge between her and Xia Heyu was, why Xia Heyu wanted to treat her like this. That bald head Lin was already in his thirties and almost forty years old, and the reason why he was called bald head was because his head was covered with dense patches of baldness.

　　It is said that this disease is contagious. In addition, Lin Laitou is ugly and lazy, so no woman in the surrounding area is willing to marry him.

　　Zhao Yonglan got goosebumps every time she looked at his head.

　　If she was really carried back by Lin Lai Tou, her life would be over.

　　What can an old bachelor do with a young girl of sixteen or seventeen on his backyard? Zhao Yonglan felt scared just thinking about it.

　　All the educated youth, including Li Yunying, were filled with righteous indignation. Li Yunying answered for Zhao Yonglan: "Zhao Yonglan and Xia Heyu didn't have much interaction. The only thing they had in common was that Zhao Yonglan had lived with the Su family for a while, but Xia Heyu hadn't married into the family yet. By the time she married into the family, Yonglan had already gone back to the educated youth center to live with us."

　　Not to mention Zhao Yonglan, no one could figure it out except Jiang Youtao.

　　Jiang Youtao pointed out at the right time: "Well, I think Xia Heyu has some improper intentions towards Su Zhengtang. You said that she is targeting Yonglan so much. Is it because she knows that Su Zhengtang gave an egg on Yonglan in the past?"

　　This angle of looking at the problem was too strange. Not to mention Zhao Yonglan herself, even the well-informed Gu Nianwei was stunned by it.

　　Zhao Yonglan even forgot to cry: "Just because of this? An egg? Is she sick?"

　　Gu Nianwei and the others were suddenly enlightened: "With Xia Heyu's brain, this is very possible."

　　Everyone started talking at once, and Director Yang and the police officer on duty found it unbelievable.

　　Are there really such unreasonable people in this world? Just because someone ate an egg cooked by the person you like, you want to ruin someone's life? Oh, and the person you like is not your husband.

　　The police officer on duty and Director Yang had also experienced a lot of ups and downs, but they were still speechless when they heard about this.

　　The police officer on duty turned around and called back two colleagues who were sleeping. One of them went to Xia's house in the commune to look for someone, and the other stayed in the station to take charge of the situation.

　　Xia Heyu had already fallen asleep at this time.

　　The last time she was refused entry to the educated youth center, she returned to the commune overnight and waited at the door of her home for a whole morning. Her mother felt sorry for her and couldn't bear to see her child suffer, so she took her home.

　　Although her father ignored her, he also acquiesced to her going back home. She was very carefree at home these days, sleeping until she woke up naturally, eating when she woke up, and playing when she was full. She lived a happy life.

　　As for whether her two sisters-in-law were happy to have her go home or not, and whether they liked her or not, to be honest, Xia Heyu didn't care. Her two sisters-in-law were just snobs who only cared about rich people.

　　Thinking of how they advised her to build a good relationship with Zhao Yonglan in her previous life, Xia Heyu sneered.

　　It was Xia Heyu's eldest brother who opened the door to the Xia family. They all lived in the commune. When he saw the police coming to his house, he suddenly woke up: "Hu Gongan, Xu Gongan, why are you here so late at night?" [TL Note: Gongan typically means "public security" or refers to the police or law enforcement.]

　　Brother Xia's words were too clear in the middle of the night. Noises could be heard from the room in the east room where Xia Heyu's parents lived, as well as from Brother Xia's room.

　　Xia Heyu's parents got up, put on their clothes and got out of bed.

　　The on-duty policeman Hu Gongan waited until Xia Heyu's parents came out before saying, "Is Xia Heyu at home? If so, come with us."

　　The faces of the Xia family members changed. No one would think that it was a small matter when the police came to their house to arrest someone late at night. Xia Heyu's father handed a filter cigarette to the two police comrades from his pocket and said, "Hu, what's going on?"

　　Hu Gongan is an old acquaintance of Xia Heyu's father. Recently, the Xia family has lost its reputation in the commune because of their daughter Xia Heyu. If both of Xia's sons were married, I'm afraid no girl would be willing to marry into his family.

　　They are all fathers. If Hu Gongan put himself in the shoes of having a daughter like Xia Heyu, he would probably want to die.

　　He didn't take the cigarette that Xia Heyu's father handed over, but he still explained: "The educated youth in Liushugou got into trouble. According to the criminal's confession, he was instructed by your Xia Heyu to do this."

　　Xia Heyu's mother's legs went weak and she almost fell to the ground. "Educated youth got into trouble" or "criminals" - neither of these words is a good word.

　　Xia Heyu's father's eyes went dark. He yelled at Brother Xia, "Go wake her up quickly and go with the police."

　　Brother Xia hurried to Xia Heyu's room to wake her up. Xia Heyu was dreaming about being the wife of the richest man in the county. When she was woken up by Brother Xia, she was very unhappy: "What are you doing in the middle of the night?"

　　Brother Xia wanted to strangle Xia Heyu, the troublemaker, to death. He said expressionlessly, "Hurry up and get up. The police are here to look for you."

　　Xia Heyu turned over and wanted to continue sleeping, but was pulled out of bed by Brother Xia and taken outside. Seeing the uniformed police officers, Xia Heyu didn't dare to make a fuss anymore.

　　Nowadays, everyone is afraid of the police. Xia Heyu had been law-abiding all her life in her previous life, but she didn't even have the chance to meet the police.

　　"Mom and Dad, please save me, I didn't do anything." After she finished speaking, Xia Heyu started to cry.

　　Xia Heyu's mother subconsciously wanted to chase her out, but was stopped by Xia Heyu's father: "If you dare to chase her out today, you will live outside with her. This family can no longer accommodate you."

　　Xia Heyu's mother stopped walking. Brother Xia didn't look at her and turned back to his room.

　　He could guess with his toes what the neighbors would say about his family after daybreak. The only person who was taken away by the police in the middle of the night was from their area, and Xia Heyu was the only one.

　　Mrs. Xia, who was the wife of the first son of the Xia family, was simply fed up with being criticized when she went out, so she got out of bed, packed her luggage and went back to her parents' home. When she was leaving, she met the wife of the second son of the Xia family. Both of them had their parents' homes in the town, so they decided to go together.

　　Neither of them brought their children. The eldest and second brothers Xia were sitting on the doorstep with their heads in their hands.

　　Did they do something unforgivable in their previous life? Why do they have such a sister in this life?

　　When Xia Heyu saw Lin Laitou from the police station, her face turned pale and her whole body was shaking slightly.

　　When she heard Lin Lai Tou say that she had ordered him to kidnap Zhao Yonglan, she immediately retorted loudly: "I didn't, I didn't say that."

　　Lin Laitou hated Xia Heyu. If she hadn't been telling nonsense to the people in their village all day, how could he have been fooled!

　　"That's what you said. If you hadn't told Lin Laoer's wife every day about how rich Zhao Zhiqing from Liushugou is and how powerful her family is, would I have had such evil thoughts?" Lin Laitou was a little poor, but he was not stupid.

　　"The wife of Lin Laoer has nothing to do with you. You go to talk to her every day, and eight out of ten sentences she talks about are about Zhao Zhiqing. During the day, you even went to tell her that Zhao Zhiqing went to the commune, and the two people who followed hee were useless. Do you need me to tell you what your purpose is?"

　　Lin Laoer's family and Lin Laitou's family are neighbors, and the two families share a courtyard wall. Xia Heyu spoke loudly, and at first Lin Laitou didn't take it seriously, and even felt that Zhao Yonglan was annoying.

　　But after hearing those words so many times, Lin Lai Tou started to have other thoughts.

　　A beautiful girl of 16 or 17 years old, with 200 yuan in cash, educated and cultured, from a well-off family, with her parents being big leaders of a large factory in the city, and they only have this one daughter. If he really becomes the son-in-law of her family, can they not promote him?

　　The more Lin Lai Tou thought about it, the more excited he became. So when he heard Xia Heyu say that Zhao Yonglan went to the commune, he took action. With Xia Heyu's words, he didn't take Liu Yingjun and Zhang Huihui, who were traveling with Zhao Yonglan, seriously at all.

　　What use are two useless educated youth who can't carry anything on their shoulders or lift anything with their hands?

　　However, his underestimation of his enemy eventually caused him to fall flat on his face. At this time, Lin Lai Tou even wanted to eat Xia Heyu.

　　"Xiuying is my classmate, what's wrong with me talking to her? It's obviously you who has bad intentions, what does it have to do with me!" No matter how stupid Xia Heyu was, she knew that she couldn't admit what Lin Lai Tou said. If she did, she would end up in jail.

　　She was not reborn to go to jail!

　　Lin Laitou had already figured out Xia Heyu's background. "Don't talk nonsense. The second son's wife is only in the third grade of primary school, and you are a high school student! Besides, if you and her were really good classmates, why didn't you go to see her before? Aren't you saying those things just for me?"

　　Lin Lai Tou had made up his mind. No matter whether Xia Heyu really said those words to him or not, he would bite the bullet and die with someone else.

　　Seeing that the two were about to quarrel, Hu Gongan frowned and shouted: "Be quiet."

　　The two were silent.

　　Policeman Hu said to Zhao Yonglan and the others, "We already know about this matter, and we have arrested all the suspects involved. We still need to investigate how to conclude this matter. You can go back first. I will tell you when there is a result."

　　Director Yang also said: "I'm watching here and I won't let you suffer any loss."

　　Jiang Youtao and others looked at Zhao Yonglan. She was the victim. If she went back, they would leave. If she insisted on waiting for the result here, they would stay with her.

　　Anyway, today is the day when the educated youth in Liushugou advance and retreat together.

　　Zhao Yonglan thought for a while and said, "Then let's go back. I believe the public security office and the Youth League Office will give me an explanation."

　　This was a beautifully put statement, and Public Security Hu and Director Yang nodded in satisfaction.

　　"Go back, and be careful on the road."

　　Director Yang saw them out the door and then turned back.

　　Director Yang was conscientious and responsible in his work. Among the nine townships under the jurisdiction of Yangping County, the educated youth in Zaoxiang Commune lived the most comfortable life.

　　They believed that Director Yang would not let them down.

　　This time when they returned, there was no silence as when they came back. Everyone was criticizing Xia Heyu one after another, and Su Zhengtang was not spared either.

　　They returned to Liushugou along the same route. It was already past midnight. By the time they packed up and lay in bed, it was already past one.

　　Go to bed late at night and get up late in the morning.

　　Jiang Youtao had just opened the door of the corridor to cook when Zhao Yonglan came in with five animal traps in her hands, which she had promised to bring for Jiang Youtao and the others yesterday.

　　Such a big thing happened yesterday, but she didn't forget about the trap.

　　Jiang Youtao: That's fine, don't forget your original intention.

　　Zhao Yonglan was a little embarrassed: "This trap is not cheap."

　　Since she had no money left after lending money to others, Zhao Yonglan has fully realized the importance of money. She used to like to take advantage, thinking that others would eat less and she would eat more, but now she doesn't think so. After going to the Su family, she realized that sometimes people lack that one bite of food.

　　She no longer thinks about sending food home. It's good enough that she doesn't have to deduct anything from home.

　　Jiang Youtao still likes Zhao Yonglan's changes. The changed Zhao Yonglan is much cuter than the previous Zhao Yonglan.

　　Seeing her coming, Gu Nianwei also came out: "Have you eaten? Why don't you come and have a meal with us?"

　　The two of them went to the county town to buy a lot of things yesterday, and for today's breakfast, Gu Nianwei planned to make some noodles with soybean sauce.

　　Although noodles with soybean paste were a bit greasy in the morning, they were all greedy and ate them whenever they wanted.

　　Zhao Yonglan knew that Jiang Youtao and her friends had good food. Every time they cooked, the aroma would drift to the dormitory.

　　Zhao Yonglan was a little excited, but also a little hesitant: "What are you eating?"

　　"Noodles with soybean paste."

　　Zhao Yonglan swallowed her saliva and said, "Eat, eat, eat. I'll give you money and tickets!"

　　Zhao Yonglan hasn't tasted instant noodles for a long time.

　　This is the kind of refined food that money can't buy!

　　"Then you sit for a while. Weiwei and I will go cook." Jiang Youtao said as he worked with Gu Nianwei.

　　There was only one stove in the corridor, but Gu Nianwei had bought a furnace when the house was just built.

　　Jiang Youtao cooked noodles while Gu Nianwei fried the sauce. The two cooperated very well. Jiang Youtao and Gu Nianwei chatted with each other from time to time, and the atmosphere between them was very warm.

　　Zhao Yonglan didn't know why, but she suddenly felt envious.

　　There were many people around her since she was a child, but most of them played with her for the sake of her parents' rights. For example, Zhang Huihui and Liu Yingjun, if she didn't have a father who was the deputy director of the factory, they might not have paid any attention to her.

　　In the past, Zhao Yonglan thought it was nothing. They approached her with a utilitarian mentality, so she relied on her father's power to order them around.

　　But deep down, she also longs for friendship.

　　She didn't know what friendship was like before, but looking at Jiang Youtao and Gu Nianwei, she had a template for the friendship she wanted.

　　Jiang Youtao saw the envy in her eyes and smiled at her.

　　The fried noodles were ready quickly. Gu Nianwei used the seasonings in the space. The fried meat sauce was fragrant and smooth, which was a perfect match with the boiled noodles.

　　The three girls ate half a handful of noodles without leaving any. After eating and drinking to their heart's content, Zhao Yonglan paid the bill as promised, drank the warm water Jiang Youtao poured for her, and touched her slightly bloated stomach, feeling happy as a god.

　　After the production team had finished peeling the hemp poles, Jiang Youtao and other educated youth did not participate in the next tasks such as twisting ropes and weaving shoe soles.

　　Since knowing that the college entrance examination would be resumed, everyone has been very enthusiastic and unwilling to waste even a minute. Whenever they have time, everyone holds their books and studies.

　　Wang Shanxi and Li Yunying had been out of school for a long time, and they had forgotten a lot of knowledge. Zhao Guangrong had a better foundation, but when they were in school they were mostly studying Lei Feng and participating in quotations from scholars, and they were taught little knowledge from textbooks.

　　Zhang Huihui, Liu Yingjun and Zhao Yonglan are slightly stronger than them, but not much.

　　Fortunately, Jiang Youtao and Gu Nianwei were both top students, and the knowledge in junior high and high school in this era was not difficult. Gu Nianwei's major in college was English, so they naturally became Li Yunying and her friends' teachers.

　　Zhou Zhenfeng watched them studying, and he couldn't hide the sarcastic expression on his face.

　　He never knew that Wang Shanxi and the others were so stupid. They didn't even have time to take the college entrance examination, so why bother studying? They might as well spend that time making some connections.

　　Zhou Zhenfeng's face lit up when he thought of the promise Mr. Shen made to him two days ago.

　　The officers from the police station did not let Zhao Yonglan wait long. On the afternoon of the next day, they went to the educated youth site with Director Yang.

　　Lin Lai Tou was convicted of trafficking in women and was sentenced to 20 years in prison according to the current criminal law. Although Xia Heyu did not commit a direct crime, her intentions were indeed impure and she was charged with instigation. After Public Security Hu reported the case to higher authorities, she was imprisoned in a prison near the capital.

　　Once she was imprisoned, she became the only young female criminal in the entire commune, and the legend of Xia Heyu spread everywhere.

　　Her parents felt ashamed to face people and rarely appeared in public. Her elder and second brothers also separated from the family.

　　The police station protected Zhao Yonglan and did not mention her name in the police report, but simply used the term "female educated youth" instead. So when the incident spread throughout the entire commune and even the entire county, no one linked the incident to Zhao Yonglan.

　　To outsiders, Xia Heyu, Zhao Yonglan and Lin Laitou are really unrelated people.

　　With the arrest of Xia Heyu and Lin Laitou, the huge stone in Zhao Yonglan's heart was finally removed.

　　She felt relieved, but Su Zhengtang was dumbfounded.

　　His dream was too real and too coherent, but Xia Heyu and Su Yang's divorce was completely different from his dream. Before he could react, Xia Heyu was put in prison.

　　This is totally different from his dream. In his dream, Xia Heyu and Su Yang did not divorce until 1980, and it was ridiculous that Xia Heyu was arrested for committing a crime.

　　Su Zhengtang had lost trust in that dream, and he no longer stayed in the village with Zhao Yonglan.

　　Even if Zhao Yonglan is the daughter of the factory director, so what? She can't be his wife. No matter how powerful Zhao Yonglan's father is, it has nothing to do with him. Can he still expect him to invest in him and support him regardless of the cost like in the dream?

　　Who the hell is he?

　　Instead of daydreaming, you might as well go to the county to learn some more skills and hook up with two women from better-off families.

　　On the day when Su Zhengtang completely gave up on Zhao Yonglan, Jiang Youtao received a prompt: [ Ding ~~ It was detected that the protagonist and supporting characters in the second small world have deviated from the original plot. Now it is starting to detect whether the operation of the small world is stable. ]

　　[ Testing... Testing progress 2%... 10%... 50%... 80%... 99%... 100%... ]

　　[ After testing, the second small world is running normally. Congratulations to the host for completing the task of monitoring the second small world. The host is now issued with task rewards: down jackets x2, thermal underwear x2, three-yellow chicken 5/stick, Yunnan and Guizhou smoked bacon 2.5kg, rice 10kg, melon seed gift box containing (original flavor, caramel, cream, green tea, garlic flavor, pepper salt) flavors, a total of 30kg, supermarket snack gift bag x1, please accept the reward. ]

　　[ Thank you for your hard work in this mission. I will reward you with 1000 melon coins to be added to the balance of the mall. Please check it carefully. ]

　　Jiang Youtao was still asleep when she received the system notification. This series of rewards made her completely stunned.

　　After she came to her senses, she repeatedly opened the system mall and system backpack, then pinched herself hard to make sure that this was not a dream.

　　She really has received so many awards.

　　Moreover, in Xia Heyu's story, her role was really not that big, and she suddenly felt a little unworthy.

　　But just two minutes later, Jiang Youtao felt that it was worth it. If she had not done those tasks related to Gu Nianwei, then this series of chain reactions would not have been triggered. If the chain reaction could not be triggered, this small world would definitely not be able to run successfully so quickly.

　　So her contribution is huge and she deserves these rewards.

　　Jiang Youtao rolled over on the bed several times, and then called the system: [ Will I also get that much reward when Weiwei's awakening reaches 100%?]

　　Melon-eating system: [ Insufficient authority, unable to answer. ]

　　The stupid reply from the melon-eating system did not affect Jiang Youtao's good mood.

　　She took advantage of the fact that most people were still asleep and went around the mountain for some fun.

　　It is already late autumn, and the few remaining leaves on the trees have been blown off by the autumn wind. The grass on the ground has also turned from green and yellow two days ago to withered yellow.

　　The lush mountains in summer become bare.

　　The wild fruits and mushrooms are long gone.

　　Jiang Youtao came from the back mountain of the educated youth site, but on his way back he went around to the village entrance.

　　The first family at the foot of the mountain is Accountant Xu's. Smoke is already rising from her kitchen. Accountant Xu's eldest daughter-in-law is carrying a basin of chicken feed and is going around to the chicken coop in the backyard to feed the chickens.

　　Xu Manqiu carried a thick wooden barrel in her small body and walked towards the ditch in front of her house.

　　Jiang Youtao frowned.

　　Autumn has arrived, and the water in the river is freezing cold. No one in the village goes to the ditch to wash clothes anymore. Why does the Xu family still let Xu Manqiu wash clothes?

　　Jiang Youtao looked at Xu Manqiu a few more times, and then watched Xu Manqiu, who had already walked to the edge of the ditch, stagger and fall straight into the ditch.

　　Jiang Youtao was startled and ran over quickly. She was quite fast and grabbed Xu Manyu at the critical moment, but there was nothing she could do about the clothes in the wooden barrel she was carrying. Several pieces of clothes floated out into the river.

　　Jiang Youtao looked carefully and saw that everything that was floating away was red.

　　As far as Jiang Youtao knew, in the entire Xu family and even in the entire Liushugou, the person who liked to wear red clothes the most was Xu Baozhu.

　　Xu Manqiu was so anxious that she almost cried.

　　At this time, an old but sharp voice of an old woman came over: "You are a jinx. You are not good at anything and you never eat enough. I asked you to wash clothes but you even let the water washed away your sister's clothes. Tell me, did you do it on purpose?"

　　Before Jiang Youtao could react, the old woman picked up a broom from the door and ran towards Xu Manqiu.

　　[ Ding ~~ Watch the unlucky girl commit suicide and help her, and you will get 5kg of white flour, a chicken drumstick, and 1kg of green tea flavored melon seeds. ]

　　Seeing that the stick was about to hit Xu Manqiu, Jiang Youtao quickly pulled Xu Manqiu to the side, and then the sound of mission accomplished came into her ears.

　　Immediately afterwards, an electronic mechanical man also sounded.

　　[ Ding ~~ Detected the main female supporting role of "Koi in 70s" Xu Manqiu, now loading the plot for you, please be prepared.... ]

　　Jiang Youtao: The title of this book sounds like a big deal. Come on, break it and put it in my mouth.