Chen Feng stared wide-eyed in horror: "You... what nonsense are you talking about?"

"If you dare to accept the bride price from the Zhao family, I dare to report you to the county. Five hundred yuan! That's blatant human trafficking, enough for you to spend ten years in jail!"

People these days don't have a strong sense of the rule of law, but they have an innate fear of the police.

Upon hearing the news of being sent to prison, Chen Feng's legs went weak, and she collapsed to the ground, breaking out in a cold sweat despite the freezing winter weather.

With a cold smile, Shen Jingyan strode back home amidst the astonished gazes of the villagers.

In the dead of winter, with temperatures below minus ten degrees Celsius, her cotton-padded jacket and trousers were soaked in water and soon froze into ice lumps that clung to her skin, chilling her from head to toe.

The original owner had suffered from hunger and cold for many years, and was physically weak. Shen Jingyan had to use almost all her strength to walk into the courtyard.

The Shen family has a main house and a side room. The main house is where Shen Honggang and his wife, their second daughter Shen Yuqin, and their youngest son Shen Zhian live. The side room is where their eldest son Shen Zhiqiang and his wife Pan Yunxia live.

The original owner was then relegated to a thatched hut in the backyard.

The thatched roof was covered with only a few thin tiles, and the house was drafty from all sides, making it feel like an ice cellar in the dead of winter.

The bed was made of wooden planks, and there wasn't even a decent quilt.

What's even worse is that the original owner didn't even have a change of winter clothes!

Shen Jingyan had no choice but to wrap herself tightly in the tattered quilt, trying to warm herself up.

She felt weak and powerless all over; her clothes were cold, but her body was burning hot.

I have a fever, and I feel terribly uncomfortable.

Unexpectedly, she managed to survive in the extremely harsh post-apocalyptic environment, only to collapse in a thatched hut in a remote village in the 1970s.

Just as she was delirious with fever, a commotion arose outside the hut.

"Dad, this is the only set of winter clothes I have to change into. If you give it to her, what will I wear?"

Shen Yuqin clung tightly to her worn-out cotton-padded coat, glaring at the man in front of her with dissatisfaction.

This middle-aged man in his forties is Shen Jingyan's uncle, Shen Honggang.

He was working in the forest when he heard that Shen Jingyan had jumped into the river to commit suicide. He was so frightened that he dropped his hoe and ran home.

"Your sister's clothes are soaked. Wearing wet clothes in the dead of winter will make her sick. She's just borrowing them, it's not like she's not going to return them!"

Shen Honggang looked at his petty and narrow-minded daughter with a face full of helplessness.

Shen Yuqin narrowed her small eyes, her sharp and sarcastic expression mirroring Chen Feng's.

"She's asking for trouble, why should she ruin my clothes! I won't give them to her, she deserves to freeze to death!"

After saying that, he slammed the door and went inside, locking the cotton-padded coat in the trunk.

Shen Honggang sighed repeatedly and could only shake his head as he went into the kitchen.

He took two eggs out of the cupboard and was about to crack them into a bowl when Chen Feng came in.

Upon seeing the eggs in his hand, he yelled, "It's not even New Year's yet, why are you eating eggs!"

In those days, resources were scarce, and every household couldn't even afford rice and wheat flour. Eggs were especially precious.

Shen Honggang frowned and said, "Jingya fell into the river and has a fever. I'll make her a bowl of egg drop soup to cool her down, otherwise the child will feel very uncomfortable!"

Upon hearing that the eggs were for Shen Jingyan, Chen Feng felt as if two ounces of flesh had been ripped from her heart, and she rushed over and snatched the eggs away.

"She's not dead. A bowl of hot water will do. Is she some kind of imperial concubine? She can eat eggs even with a fever!"

Shen Honggang frowned even more deeply.

"Dafeng, we don't need these two eggs..."

"How can we not lack eggs? My son and daughter don't get to eat an egg for ten days or half a month, and you want to give it to that little bitch?"

Chen Feng hid the egg in her sleeve as if it were a gold nugget.

"Do you know what that little bitch said? She said that my finding her a husband was human trafficking, and that she wanted the police to arrest me and put me in jail!"

Shen Honggang found the repeated use of "little bitch" particularly grating.

“I don’t object to you finding her a husband, but Jingya is such a good girl. If you find her a mentally challenged man, won’t you ruin her life?”

Chen Feng showed no remorse whatsoever, and even hid the egg deeper into her sleeve.

"Anyway, the marriage is already arranged, and she has to marry into the family!"

"Did you take money from the Zhao family?"

"So what if I take her in? I've raised her for over ten years, I'd feel like I'm losing out on five hundred yuan!"

Chen Feng was genuinely startled by Shen Jingyan's words, but then she thought about how she had barely gotten the 500 yuan she'd just received, and the police? Humph! The police couldn't stop her from accepting the bride price!

That little bitch has never even been to the village entrance, where did she get the guts to report it to the county?

Having come to terms with it, Chen Feng was now utterly fearless when it came to money.

"you……"

Shen Honggang was not good at arguing; he was so angry that his face turned red, but he couldn't say anything in the end.

"What do you mean, 'you'? You spineless coward, you can't even earn a penny, yet you're so extravagant as to feed eggs to that little bitch!"

Chen Feng left, cursing and swearing. Shen Honggang watched her retreating figure and sighed deeply.

Shen Jingyan heard their conversation clearly.

Shen Honggang is an honest and kind farmer who wants to treat her well, but unfortunately he can't manage the household.

Every time he treated the original owner a little better, Chen Feng would beat the original owner severely behind his back. Over time, the original owner no longer dared to get close to him.

Shen Jingyan didn't expect him to be of much help, after all, he couldn't even decide who got to eat the two eggs.

She was not afraid of Chen Feng at all.

Would a female hero who crawled out of the mountains of corpses and seas of blood in the apocalypse, who wasn't even afraid of zombies, be afraid of a rural shrew?

However... I feel so unwell right now!

She was burning up with fever, her mouth was dry, and her limbs felt like loose sand, unable to muster any strength.

At this rate, she'll probably burn to death...

"bite!"

A sound suddenly echoed in my mind.

"Hello, dear master, I am System No. 888, you can call me Xiao Ba. Binding to the system now will give you 500 points, which can be redeemed for any item in the shop! Master, would you like to bind to the system?"

Shen Jingyan was taken aback, but then her face lit up with joy.

The essential cheat code for time travel, here it comes!

Without a second thought, she immediately replied telepathically: "Bound!"

"Ding! Congratulations, dear master! System binding successful, 500 points have been credited to your account. The system will issue tasks from time to time; completing tasks will earn you points!"

Feeling that she couldn't complete the task in her current state, Shen Jingyan asked, "Where do I redeem the goods?"

She desperately needs supplies to survive!

"Please give Xiao Ba the command 'Enter the Mall'."

"Enter the store."

As soon as the order was given, a spacious room appeared in front of Shen Jingyan, with rows of shelves displaying a dazzling array of goods, much like the decoration style of a supply and marketing cooperative in the 1970s.

The packaging of the products on the shelves also has a vintage feel to it.

"My dear master, you can redeem anything you want with your points!"

Below each item, the points required to redeem it are indicated.

Shen Jingyan first used 30 points to exchange for two antipyretics.