Chapter 1: A Country Bum from Peking "A country bum from the countryside! ...
"You country bumpkin! Get out of Peking!"
"In the mouths of you superiors, farmers have become country bumpkins. I must write a letter to your leaders to ask when farmers became inferior to humans and whether your company can pee and shit on farmers' heads! Just wait, I'll write it when I get back!"
"You...you, when did I say that! Come back here!"
With the slam of the door, the noise outside became much quieter, and one could vaguely hear someone persuading the other person to calm down, saying that she didn't dare to write, and that she was illiterate and couldn't write.
Li Daohua closed the door. Although there were only two people living in the one-bedroom house, it was still very cramped.
In the room, a man was busy cooking. When he heard someone coming in, he didn't even raise his head: "Are you arguing again? Don't be angry, eat first. Didn't you say you wanted to eat meat? I asked someone to buy some."
Li Daohua sat beside the stove in high spirits, very satisfied with his first attack. It was a pity that there were no melon seeds, otherwise he would have been happier eating melon seeds and reviewing the situation.
The man is her husband in this world, named Ouyang Yuan.
The reason why I say "again" is because the original owner has such a hot-tempered personality. When she was in the countryside, she was the kind of person who would argue even if she was wrong.
Ouyang Yuan relied on the original owner's father who was a production team leader in the countryside, and applied for retirement due to illness. He successfully returned to the city, but the price he paid was to marry the original owner.
After the wedding, they rushed back to Peking that night. Three months later, they brought the original owner to Peking. Later, she had an argument with someone in the staff building and was pushed down and hit her head. She was then replaced by Li Daohua from 2024 who traveled through time and space.
In 2024, Li Daohua followed a stupid company to the mountains for team-building, and fell off a cliff. She didn’t know how much compensation this stupid company would have to pay. Thinking of this, she suddenly felt much better.
The place where they ate was a small square table, small and short, and they had stir-fried cabbage and pork, with mostly cabbage.
"Remember to get lunch tomorrow. I will go to work as usual tomorrow." Ouyang Yuan chewed the cabbage stalks in his mouth.
After Li Daohua hit her head and was hospitalized, Ouyang Yuan took two days off to take care of her. He had just arrived at the unit and could not leave a bad impression.
"oh."
She had the meal ticket given by Ouyang Yuan, so she could buy meals in the cafeteria.
Ouyang Yuan was an employee of the library of Peking University of Posts and Telecommunications, and he could buy meals in the school cafeteria with tickets.
Ouyang Yuan didn't eat a single piece of pork in the stir-fried cabbage dish, but Li Daohua ate a lot. She ate very healthily during those two days in the hospital.
The body needs nourishment when it is sick, and there is really little oil in the food in this era.
In the future, even if most people eat vegetarian food, they will not say that there is really no oil or water in it.
When she was discharged from the hospital, she muttered that she wanted to eat meat, but she didn't expect Ouyang Yuan to bring it to her today.
Although it was little, she ate it closely.
The winter in Beijing in 1979 was exceptionally cold. When I woke up, there was heavy snow falling outside.
Ouyang Yuan had gone to work long ago and did not wake her up. The two of them had separate quilts but not separate beds, and they had never really slept in the same bed since they got married.
There is an old clock at home, ticking away, it's already past nine o'clock.
Ouyang Yuan prepared breakfast and kept it warm on the stove.
Li Daohua did not stay in bed, mainly because the temperature of the quilt would drop rapidly after waking up, so it would be better for her to put on clothes and sit by the fire.
There is a small bookcase at home, which contains many magazines, newspapers and other books, which are said to be left by Ouyang Yuan's father.
Speaking of which, neither the original owner nor she had ever met Ouyang Yuan’s parents, and even Ouyang Yuan rarely mentioned his parents.
It is normal for parents to visit their daughter-in-law when she is sick and hospitalized, but they didn't, not until she was discharged from the hospital.
She had an argument with someone in the building yesterday because the other party called her a country bumpkin from the countryside. More importantly, the original owner was hospitalized because of this old Deng who started a quarrel and a fight.
Before her victim even showed up, the perpetrator was already starting to tremble.
To put it another way, it's breast hyperplasia, to put it another way, it's ovarian cyst. Her physical examination form in her previous life can be written clearly and clearly.
In her previous life, she could only talk behind people's backs to keep her job. Now she is unemployed in this life, and there is a high probability that she will not be able to find a proper job. There are still a large number of unemployed local young people, not to mention that she married from another place, so she can't be in trouble in person.
In fact, it wasn't really a direct attack. She felt that with just a basic attack, she could force the opponent to use flash.
Thinking of this, Li Daohua rummaged through the boxes and found a piece of paper and a pen, but she didn't use them very well as she was used to using her mobile phone and a gel pen.
There is no desk, so I just lie on the small table where they eat. - "Confession of a Rural Woman"
In her confession, Li Daohua is Xiangzi the Camel, Runtu, and countless lower-class working people who have transformed from ghosts into humans, but not herself...
Li Daohua in the confession book borrowed her nephew's elementary school textbooks to study on her own in order to come to Peking, the capital. She was full of excitement on the way to Peking.
Finally, the rural woman Li Daohua expressed her confusion, wondering if she should not have come to Peiping. Peiping seemed unable to accommodate a rural woman like her. A good life seemed very close to her, yet very far away.
Having written this, Li Daohua turned back and added a small title with a dash at the bottom right of the main title of "Confession", so close and yet so far.
It looks exaggerated, but when it really comes from the hands of a rural woman, it is not exaggerated, but the cry of the grassroots people.
Hum, Li Daohua muttered quietly: "Do you know what journalism is? Do you know what self-media is?"
That’s right, in his previous life, Li Daohua was a programmer who worked as a writer for unscrupulous self-media. If he wrote news honestly, he would be scolded by his bald boss. He had to have explosive points, reversals, incitement, and follow hot topics...
After appreciating it, he seemed to have thought of something and took out a piece of paper to copy it again.
He folded the two letters and put them in his pocket, then ate his breakfast with peace of mind.
It is impossible not to eat breakfast. In this cold winter, drinking a bowl of hot soup can warm up the body quickly.
She was just writing a letter and she wanted to put her fingers into her sleeves to write because it was too cold.
You must be fully armed when going out, with a hat, scarf, and cotton gloves.
When she opened the door, all the unemployed people in the building looked at her in awe.
Some people retire early to make room for their children, some are unemployed and no company has accepted them yet, and a small number are taking rotation days off.
Aunt Huang, who had quarreled with Li Daohua, happened to be on her day off today.
Seeing Li Daohua like this, he knew she was going out: "Where are you going, country bumpkin? This Peking is not your countryside, it's very big, don't go out and get lost without anyone noticing."
Li Daohua rolled her eyes. It was a rolling eye that was most obvious when it happened to be done by people with big eyes. Li Daohua happened to be one of those people.
This big eye roll was not only seen by Aunt Huang, but also by everyone in the building who was looking at Li Daohua.
The difference is that some people think that Li Daohua is quite unique, while others think that Li Daohua deserves a beating. Aunt Huang is the latter.
But she didn't dare to provoke Li Daohua at this moment. Her old sisters had not come back yet. Li Daohua could only fight against five or six of them on her own before she was defeated. She could not defeat Li Daohua alone.
This has something to do with age, and also with the fact that Li Daohua has been doing farm work in the countryside for many years.
Li Daohua is not a delicate girl. On the contrary, she is 1.6 meters tall and weighs 110 kilograms, with firm flesh that is the result of exercise.
The main feature is that you look thin when you are dressed, and have muscles when you are undressed, and you can do farm work easily.
Don't underestimate this weight. There are not many girls in rural areas who can maintain this weight. It requires that their family is well-off and can provide them with enough food.
"Don't force me to scold you when I'm happiest." After saying this, Li Daohua put the key away, put his hands into thick cotton gloves, and went downstairs.
It was snowing heavily outside the staff building. Li Daohua pulled her scarf up, asked for directions along the way and walked to the bus stop, then got off at the post office. She bought two envelopes, put a stamp on one and sent it to Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and put a stamp on the other and sent it to Peking Daily.
The idea of sending it to the Peking Daily came to her mind when she saw the Peking Daily while looking for paper and pen.
Adhering to the principle of trying his best to get what he wanted, Li Daohua sent them all.
The money for buying stamps was her own money. To be more precise, it was given to her by her family when she came to Peking. It was almost all the family savings that she was asked to take with her.
Although her father was the team leader, the family was not rich.
She is the only child in her family. It’s not that her family doesn’t want to have more children, but her father later got injured and couldn’t have more children.
It stands to reason that it would be difficult for such a weak family to be elected captain in a rural environment, but her father has many brothers and sisters, four brothers and three sisters, and these brothers and sisters have given birth to many children. With so many people supporting him, there is no doubt that Li Sanzhu will be elected captain.
What a pity, Li Daohua was waiting for the bus again. It was only here that the money spent was of some use. In other places, there were many things that you couldn’t buy with money; you needed a ticket.
The bus ride at this time takes a long time, and it’s time for lunch after a round trip.
The cafeteria was not big, so it was impossible for everyone to eat in it. Li Daohua went there early, got her meals and took them home. Ouyang Yuan would come back directly to eat. It would be too rushed for them to get off work and go get meals.
The aluminum lunch box is full of dents and holes, and it's always like that at this time.
While keeping the rice warm next to the stove, Li Daohua looked for a newspaper to catch up on the news.
The newspapers and magazines at home were not the latest, and the most recent one was three months ago, but that didn't stop her from reading.
When Ouyang Yuan arrived home, he saw Li Daohua, who was well fed and sitting by the window reading a newspaper.
"Why... are you suddenly reading the newspaper?" He didn't understand Li Daohua. During the time she went to the countryside, he had advised her to study, but she would fall asleep when the topic of studying came up.
He always says that he gets dizzy when seeing small characters. How can coming to Beijing make him love studying?
"Ah..." Li Daohua sighed: "The situation is not optimistic."
There are a lot of unemployed young people, and many of them are even caught up in the wave of layoffs while they are still working.
She went to get food today, and when she came back she counted the money in the family. They were the ones who were living off the money.
According to Ouyang Yuan's salary, the two of them can spend most of their money on food every month, so there is no need to think about saving any money or buying anything else.
"How did you get this job?" Ouyang Yuan had been away from Lijiazhuang for three months and reappeared as an employee of the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Library. During these three months, no one knew what had happened.
Ouyang Yuan was eating. When he heard her question, he paused before speaking.
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