In 2025, Zhan Chunlan, a fresh college graduate, stays up all night reading a novel again. Suddenly, she transmigrates and arrives in 1970, possessing the body of high school student Zhan Chunlan.<...
"Zhan Chunlan, you unlucky thing! What time is it? Why aren't you up and cooking? Your dad and I are going to be late!"
Outside, Xu Lixia got up and found that Zhan Chunlan hadn't gotten up to make breakfast yet. She was furious and started yelling for people to get up while slamming the door and smashing the basin, making a loud clattering noise.
Inside the room, seeing Zhan Chunlan still with her eyes closed, the eldest sister, Zhan Chunhua, immediately got out of bed and pinched Zhan Chunlan awake: "Third sister Zhan, get up quickly and make breakfast!"
Zhan Chunlan, who had just fallen asleep, opened her eyes and found herself in an unfamiliar scene. She sighed helplessly and then slowly got out of bed.
"Zhan Chunlan! Can't I wake you up? Do I have to come in and call you?" Xu Lixia and Zhan Zhiqiang had already finished washing up, and seeing that Zhan Chunlan hadn't come out yet, they yelled at the three sisters' room.
"Get up, Mom." Zhan Chunlan slowly dressed and walked out. Although she had a different body, hearing her mother Xu Lixia's voice still made her body tense involuntarily. After all, she had lived in this body for 15 years and had developed a biological response to it.
Based on past experience, we should have porridge for breakfast, but we got up late today and there wasn't enough time, so we could only cook a bowl of noodles for each of us. I quickly replaced the coal briquette on the stove, started boiling water, and hurriedly washed a cabbage.
In the main room, Xu Lixia, still sitting there, continued her incessant nagging: "I told you to get up earlier, but you wouldn't. Now you're cooking noodles. Is your house a mountain of gold and silver? Who can afford to squander it like this?"
"From now on, be more conscientious in the mornings and get up earlier, so I don't have to come and ask you to get up every day."
"You're a teenage girl, and you still sleep in every day. Go outside and see, which girl doesn't get up early every morning to cook and clean? You're the only one who needs to be woken up..."
While listening to her words, Zhan Chunlan in the kitchen kept moving her hands and mouth: "I'm wasting money by cooking noodles. If you think it's wasteful, then don't eat it. If you think it's wasteful, then don't buy it and I won't have anything to cook."
"Just because you got up late today, you say you sleep in every day? You're so good at summarizing! Go out and see Zhan Chunlan, she's the most diligent person in this compound. Everyone else mentions Zhan Chunlan when they talk about being diligent, but you're the only one who calls her a lazy girl."
“You are diligent and hardworking, and Zhan Chunlan has not spent much of the money you earn. With the amount of work she does in a day, she would be paid 25 yuan a month as a nanny. But as your daughter, she has to work for you for free.”
"The two mountains that should have been overthrown in the first place were our parents!!! They used the guise of filial piety to exploit us!!!"
Despite Zhan Chunlan's pouting and muttering to herself for a long time, she didn't dare to make a sound. She deftly picked the noodles into the bowl and then added cabbage leaves.
Other people's bowls had cabbage at the bottom and noodles on top, making it look like there was more noodles than vegetables. Zhan Chunlan's bowl, however, had noodles at the bottom and cabbage on top, making it look like there was more vegetables than noodles.
Actually, they were all pretty much the same. Listening to Xu Lixia's incessant chatter in the living room, Zhan Chunlan really wanted to spit in her bowl to moisten her throat. Just as she was about to put it into practice, her eldest and second eldest sisters came to the kitchen to get the bowls.
"Sigh~" Zhan Chunlan sighed, regretting that she had missed the best opportunity.
The eldest and second eldest sisters had already taken their noodles out, leaving Zhan Chunlan standing in the kitchen eating by herself. Xu Lixia also stopped lecturing and focused on eating her noodles, since she was really going to be late today.
Five minutes later, people went to work or school, leaving Zhan Chunlan to clean up the mess. She was destined to be late, but luckily the school wasn't so strict at that time. Zhan Chunlan slowly washed the dishes and tidied up.
Although Zhan Chunlan rarely does these things, the body of "Zhan Chunlan" is used to doing them.
That's right, Zhan Chunlan time-traveled. Originally, Zhan Chunlan was a recent college graduate. After failing to find a job for two months, she returned to her hometown to become a rural blogger. She did it for half a year, but still couldn't make it big. Her already poor traffic got worse and worse, so she had no choice but to give up.
Anyway, she's the only daughter in the family. Both her parents work in the public sector, and although their salaries aren't high, they can still support her. They'll also have retirement pensions when they retire, so she won't have any burdens in old age. And so she happily became a "full-time daughter."
Perhaps her life was too comfortable. She had been staying up all night reading novels the day before, and in the blink of an eye, she found herself in 1970, having transmigrated into the body of "Zhan Chunlan".
Ah!!! I told you not to choose such an old-fashioned name!!! If this were a time-travel story, there's a high chance it would end up in a period novel.
If we name ourselves Wanrou or something similar, wouldn't we be transported to the body of a young lady from ancient times? Or, if we choose Jing or Na, and travel to the 1990s, we can still catch the wave of the internet.
Now that's great! Not only has she been transported to the 1970s, but she also has an older sister, a second older sister, and a younger brother. She's the third child, a perfect start!
Fortunately, she is currently in high school and doesn't have to go to the countryside immediately, so she still has room to maneuver.
She had already sorted out the situation at home last night.
Father Zhan: Zhan Zhiqiang, the eldest son in the family, is a fourth-level fitter at Jiangcheng Machinery Factory, earning 55 yuan a month.
Mother Zhan: Xu Lixia, the second child in the family, works as a general laborer in the canteen of Jiangcheng Machinery Factory, earning 32 yuan a month.
The couple had three daughters and one son after their marriage, which shows how much they loved their daughters.
The eldest sister, Zhan Chunhua, is 19 years old. She graduated from primary school, doesn't like studying, and works as a temporary worker at a state-run restaurant, earning 18 yuan a month.
The second sister, Zhan Chunyun, is 17 years old. She has just graduated from high school and is actively looking for a job. She doesn't want to go to the countryside and has been leaving early and returning late lately.
The fourth brother, Zhan Hongyu, is 10 years old and in the third grade of elementary school. It's easy to imagine how good life Yaozu has at home.
Anyway, the eldest child was the firstborn in the family and received about 50-60% of the parents' love. The second child was a girl, but the parents were still able to keep their composure and leave her to the eldest child to take care of, which was the norm in this era. But when the third child was also a daughter, Zhan Zhiqiang and Xu Lixia broke down.
Not only did the couple lose their temper, but the old man and woman from their hometown, Mr. and Mrs. Zhan, also couldn't sit still. They took a special trip to the city and gave Xu Lixia a good scolding.
As the eldest sister-in-law in the family, and with both parents working, Xu Lixia was originally highly regarded by Mr. and Mrs. Zhan. However, because she gave birth to three daughters in a row, her status in the family plummeted. Originally, the eldest son should have been the one to support the family in their old age, but since the couple couldn't produce a son, she ended up supporting the second son. Zhan Zhiqiang gives the couple 10 yuan a month for their old age.
Not only that, after Zhan Zhiqiang and his wife had their third child, there was no further news for five years. So, Old Man Zhan persuaded Zhan Zhiqiang to give most of his salary to his second son every month, so that his nephew would take care of them in their old age and see them off when they died.
Is Xu Lixia really that capable? Even one's own children aren't necessarily filial, let alone someone like you, a distant uncle. The first time I suggested it, she rejected it.
But in the past five years, Grandma Zhan still used various excuses to ask Zhan Lao Er and his wife for money from time to time. She would say that she was sick, that her nephew needed to go to school, or that the old house needed to be repaired. She had a lot of reasons. If they didn't give it to her this time, they would have to give it to her next time.