Chapter One: The Engagement Must Be Broken Off!

"The engagement must be called off! It must be called off!"

The speaker was Granny You from the Bi family. She stood with her hands on her hips at the entrance of the Lin family's mud-brick courtyard, her bun swaying with her movements.

"What's the difference between a woman who's been groped by a man and a second-hand woman? My Taozi is a full-time employee at the machine factory, with a secure job! Even if Lin Baozhu tries to kill herself by banging her head against the wall today, this engagement is off!"

“Auntie, please agree. My status is different now. If I were to marry a woman who has been touched by a man, my coworkers would laugh me to death. Here’s what we’ll do: if you agree to annul the engagement today, I’m willing to compensate Baozhu with two hundred yuan, enough for her family to buy a lot of good grain.”

"Bullshit! When you were out of rice and asked me for grain, why didn't you say you wanted to break off the engagement? When your mother was sick and hospitalized and we, Baozhu, had to take care of her, why didn't you say you wanted to break off the engagement?"

When they need our help, they call us "in-laws" more enthusiastically than dogs.

Now that you've achieved a little success, you think my daughter isn't good enough for you? If you really push me too far, I'll go to the machine factory and talk to your boss, and see how this 'model employee' can have an affair with a former educated youth and then slander his own fiancée!

Lin Baozhu frowned as she listened to the shouting outside. It's the apocalypse, and instead of finding a way to fill their stomachs, they're arguing endlessly about such trivial matters as men and women's genitals? If they're so free, they should go lick the toilet clean!

etc!

That's not right!

When I suddenly opened my eyes, the first thing I smelled was an unfamiliar scent mixed with wood ash and soapberry. Then I saw the dilapidated walls covered with various newspapers and the old, peeling furniture.

"grass!"

Lin Baozhu cursed under her breath and sat up, propping herself up on the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed). This wasn't the abandoned shopping mall where she'd fought the 5S-level zombie king! Where had the shockwave from that old bastard's explosion gone?

As she was lying in bed, a sharp pain suddenly shot through her temple, and countless fragments of memories that didn't belong to her surged into her mind...

After sorting through her memories, her eyes widened in surprise.

She learned from the fused, unfamiliar memories that her physical body had indeed died in the apocalypse, but her soul had traveled to 1970.

The little girl she possessed shared the same name as her, Lin Baozhu, and was the youngest daughter of the Lin family in Dageba Village. She was just seventeen years old this year.

The original owner had five older brothers. She was the only girl in the family and was pampered by her parents and brothers like a precious jewel from a young age.

From the original owner's perspective, five years ago, she was engaged to Bi Yuntao, the eldest son of the Bi family in the village. The two had a deep affection for each other and were a perfect match. The two families had originally agreed to get married when the original owner turned seventeen.

Who would have thought that Bi Yuntao would get involved with Zhao Xiaoyu from the educated youth compound?

The original owner desperately tried to win him back, but was instead rejected by Bi Yuntao.

So she began to take revenge on the female educated youth. Unexpectedly, every time she framed and bullied Zhao Xiaoyu, Bi Yuntao would happen to see it, and even unconditionally stood on the side of the female educated youth, and angrily denounced the original owner of the body for being malicious without distinguishing right from wrong.

Even if a female educated youth tripped and fell on the road, as long as she said it was none of Lin Baozhu's business, Bi Yuntao would still cause trouble for the original owner and demand compensation.

Gradually, the original owner's reputation in the village deteriorated.

Perhaps realizing the truth and understanding that no matter what she did, she couldn't win back Bi Yuntao's heart, she decided to let go.

Before the matter of annuling the engagement could even be mentioned, Zhao Xiaoyu, taking advantage of a group of people going to the mountains to pick mushrooms, pretended to slip and knocked her off a cliff. She was then carried back to the Lin family by Qin Haifeng, a fellow villager who had retired due to injury.

Who would have thought that the Bi family would come to their door to annul the engagement, claiming that she had lost her chastity!

In a moment of mental lapse, the original owner slammed his head against the door frame, trying to prove his innocence, but died on the spot.

Lin Baozhu gently touched the wound on her forehead and muttered to herself: "Fool."

The most useless thing in the world is self-justification.

If it were her, she would have made those who threw dirty water into the latrine and scrubbed them three times, letting them taste the flavor of excrement and urine!

However, now that she has taken over this body, she must avenge the original owner's death and protect the original owner's family.

It wasn't that she was overly compassionate; it was just that the memories she had just received were filled with the doting love her parents and brothers had shown to the original owner—this was the first time she had ever experienced being cherished in someone's heart, even after living two lifetimes.

Thinking it over, she shook her still slightly dizzy head, put on the patched cloth shoes by the kang (a heated brick bed), lifted the curtain and went outside.

As soon as I stepped outside, I saw a middle-aged woman who was not tall, rather thin, but extremely beautiful, holding a stick in both hands. The tip of the stick was covered with a clump of thick yellow substance.

Based on the memories I just received, I know that the person holding the turd stick is none other than the original owner's mother, Guo Cuicui.

"A bunch of shameless bastards, trying to ruin my daughter's reputation? I'll make sure they die if I poke them with a stick dipped in shit."

As he spoke, he shoved his hand into the face of the tall woman with sunken cheeks and high cheekbones who was the leader. The woman screamed in fright and circled around the Lin family's well, shouting, "Lin Baozhu is always having ambiguous relationships with those male educated youths. Who knows how many men she's slept with? My son absolutely cannot marry a slut like that."

"Screw your fireworks! Our Baozhu is an innocent girl, and you won't allow her to smear us like this."

After Lin's mother finished speaking, she angrily swung the stick in her hand at Old Lady You.

Lin Baozhu stared blankly at her mother, whose fighting power was off the charts, and then felt a warm, soft sensation in her heart, as if something had burned it.

Although she knew that Lin's mother was doing all this for the original owner of the body, her mother's willingness to protect her at all costs melted her heart, which had been frozen in the apocalypse.

She even felt a little itchy, wishing she could pull out the entrenching tool she was used to in the apocalypse and give that scumbag mother and son a couple of slaps to add to the fun.

She exhaled, suppressing her impulse, and coughed lightly, saying, "Mother, you can hit her later."

Upon hearing this, Lin's mother paused in her hand that was poking Bi Yuntao, her expression slightly tense as she said, "My dear child, why did you come out? Hurry up and go back inside to lie down. We don't want that scumbag Bi Yuntao anymore. I'll have your older brother introduce you to a soldier, a hundred times better than this weakling. Hurry up and go inside, or you'll get covered in shit and smell awful."

Seeing her mother's tense face, Lin Baozhu felt even warmer inside. She stepped forward and shot a cold look at Old Madam You, saying, "Mother, the engagement will definitely be called off, but before that, I have some questions for that Mr. You."

After saying that, her voice suddenly rose: "You said that I lost my innocence by falling down the mountain and being taken home by Comrade Qin Haifeng, then while your husband was repairing the irrigation canal, you and Da Zhu's father next door stayed in the house with the door closed for half a day, were you chatting? And what were you doing in the woods with the widower Zuo from the east end of the village the other day? How come I saw him running out of the woods with his pants up?"

"hiss……"

The villagers present had eyes that lit up like light bulbs after hearing this.

Unexpectedly, Lin Baozhu forced a big piece of gossip into their mouths right away.

They knew what was going on between Old Lady You and Da Zhu from the next village, but not long ago someone did see a widower surnamed Zuo running out of the woods with his pants up. For the past few days, people had been speculating about who was having an affair with the old widower, but no one could have imagined it was Old Lady You.

Upon hearing this, Old Lady You's face turned deathly pale. Pointing at Lin Baozhu, her lips trembled as she cried out, "You...you're slandering me! How old am I? How can you still defame me like this!"

He then sat down on the ground, slapped his thigh, and wailed, "God, I don't want to live anymore! Let lightning strike this bastard who's worse than a pig or a dog!"

Bi Yuntao was so angry that his face turned red. He pointed at Lin Baozhu and roared, "Lin Baozhu, I'm telling you this now: even if all the women in the world died, I would never marry a woman with such a vicious heart like you! I only have Xiaoyu in my heart, and I will marry no one but her in this life. Forget about marrying me."

Upon hearing this, Lin Baozhu slightly curled the corners of her lips and publicly admitted to having an affair with an educated youth. Bi Yuntao, your secure job is probably in jeopardy.