Chapter 10 A Thunderbolt

"Any real man should go, except for the cowardly wimp," he bit the pancake filled with mushroom meat sauce and chives with great effort, savoring it carefully, and accepted the authentic northern delicacy with ease.

"From what you said, old men are going too?" she said half-jokingly.

"Why not? The main force is leading the way, and they are picking up the slack at the back. It's a familiar route, not very dangerous. If they gather a few more people, they can bring more meat home. Only a fool would not go."

"When I went to exchange eggs this morning, I saw people living in the cowshed," she said casually, as if she was gossiping, while lowering her head to work. "I thought people wouldn't be allowed into a remote village like Hetang Village. Will they go there too?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the room suddenly became quiet. "Why do you, a little girl, think so much?" Nie Yichang did not think much about it and answered in a low voice, "There are educated youth coming here, so why can't there be the five black categories? However, the news in Hetang Village is delayed, and the villagers do not like the outside atmosphere, so although the people in our village live a poor life, they are not criticized every now and then like in other places.

Everyone ignores them, so if you see them in the future, you should avoid them and avoid being seen by some bad-hearted people who report them behind their backs."

Even Zheng Lizhi said solemnly: "That's right, the world is changing all the time, we can't even take care of it ourselves, so don't meddle in other people's business."

"So they're not going?" Qi Yunlan asked again, as if she didn't take it to heart.

"Go ahead? Fang Yuan seems to be quite skilled, comparable to our brother Lei. The villagers are counting on him to do more and get more meat."

Fang Yuan? An Zhixia almost threw the spatula in her hand away. If the weirdness in her heart was amplified bit by bit, then when she heard this name, and then thought about Qi Yunlan, Hang Xianglei, An Zhiqing, and Xiao An Zhiqing, she completely understood why!

She did not simply travel through time, but traveled through the book and became a cannon fodder female supporting role to highlight the heroine's beautiful, kind, hardworking, and motivated qualities.

She bit her teeth secretly, without showing any extra expression on her face, and quickly prepared dinner and three days' worth of food for her brother.

Ordinary sliced noodles with meat gravy, but for people in poor times, the chewy wheat noodles, thick meat gravy, a golden poached egg, and a handful of green onions were enough to leave a deep impression in everyone's memory on that cold and windy night.

After dinner, An Zhixia packed the food into her backpack and squinted her eyes while looking around the supermarket. She unexpectedly found several warehouses in the underground garage, which were filled with a lot of good things suitable for outdoor use. She chose a Swiss Army knife that was as long as her arm and had a plain appearance, a military thermos, and took some quicklime and chili powder out of concern.

After giving her brother some detailed instructions, she returned to the house in a daze. After washing, she held the hot water bottle and sniffed the smell of the soil. She looked at the dark ceiling beams, her heart beating violently. It should be said that since she came to this era, she has been in a trance, as if she was dreaming, unreal but unable to get out.

At this moment, another thunderbolt hit her. She really didn't know whether she should laugh because she knew the plot and could avoid the thunder spots in advance, or cry because she was dressed as a brainless cannon fodder and would be affected by the protagonist's halo.

The heroine is none other than Qi Yunlan, who is well-liked by everyone, and the hero is Cui Tianhao, the second son of the village party secretary who works in the town. The two of them will become husband and wife by chance, and fall in love with each other over time. They work hard to save money for their small family, and after the college entrance examination was resumed, they are admitted to the university in Kyoto together. They study and do business while competing with each other, and their lives are getting more and more prosperous.

In period novels, there must be a second male lead, Hang Xianglei, who is deeply in love with the female lead and has a lot of money.

Fang Yuan is a world-class business tycoon whom the heroine had seen on TV before her rebirth. In the future, he will protect the heroine because he accepted the heroine's kindness when she was at her lowest point.

As for An Zhixia and An Zhiqiu, they were just two clowns who were helplessly sacrificed in this era. One was ruined by a village scoundrel and became half crazy and half insane, and fell into the water and died after a few years; the other married and had children in the village to escape the heavy labor, but later took the college entrance examination and became a heartless man who abandoned his wife and children.

Now that she was in the right place, An Zhixia shuddered. She had replaced the original owner and was always on guard. With the supermarket as her trump card, she shouldn't be ruined by anyone's health and reputation. An Zhiqiu had suffered family hardships, and was very kind to his only sister who had the same father and mother as him. He didn't seem like someone who would do something so irresponsible as abandoning his wife and children.

Unless there is any special reason!

But she read this novel a long time ago, so it was good enough that she could remember the names of the characters and the main plot. How could she remember anything about the cannon fodder?

She slowly exhaled. It was 1972, and it was only five years before the college entrance examination was resumed. Knowing when the day would come, they had hope in their hearts. They should be able to grit their teeth and endure the hard times, and talk about marriage after passing the exam and getting into the city, right?

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After eating the sliced noodles with stir-fried cabbage and shredded pork, Zhixia felt warm all over. She sent her brother away, packed a backpack with a few bundles in it, filled a military kettle with boiling water, put on the canvas bag that she had just made the night before, and followed the other female educated youth to the village entrance.

Their area is mountainous, with narrow roads, inconvenient transportation, delayed information and low execution, but they have retained the old farmer's market model of bartering. The market is held on the second and seventh day of every month, next to the provincial road under the river dam ten miles away.

After walking for an hour and a half, they saw a huge crowd of people at dawn. After agreeing on a meeting place, Liu Yiyue and Fei Zheng set up a stall to sell cotton shoes, while Chen Sike pulled Qi Yunlan into the crowd and disappeared.

Zhixia didn't want others to know what she bought. She wandered around the market curiously. There really was everything on sale here, and the prices were much cheaper than at the supply and marketing cooperative, and no tickets were required.

Just as she was about to roll up her sleeves to go shopping, someone pulled the corner of her clothes.

She looked over with sharp eyes, and saw only a little girl with dirty and patched clothes all the way to her legs. She was thin and small, about four or five years old.

"Are you the new educated youth from Hetang Village?" the little girl asked timidly. Her pair of black and white eyes were extremely beautiful.

Zhixia's tense nerves relaxed a little, and she nodded slightly and asked curiously: "Do you know me? What do you want to talk to me about?"

The little girl smiled and pointed to the stall next to her that was as wide as a person's shoulders. "Just now I saw my sister coming with those educated youth sisters. I thought my sister needed to buy a lot of things. That's my stall. Take a look and see if there's anything you need. I'll ask my brother to give you a discount."

(End of this chapter)