Chapter 23
Recently, a rumor has been circulating in Zhaojiagou, saying that the ancestors of Zhao Guangcheng's family appeared and warned the younger generations in the family through dreams for three consecutive days.
The ancestor did not say what the specific warning was, but he kept reminding the younger generation in his dreams to hurry up and stock up more food.
No one paid attention to this dream at first. After all, the situation in the country is getting better and better. As long as the people have hands and feet, they can almost ensure basic food and clothing. Moreover, seeing that the crops in the fields are growing so well, there is no way they need to stockpile food. It is probably just a child's dream, or a kid's fabricated story to attract the attention of adults.
Many people thought so at first, but the village chief, as the head of the village, also paid attention to the rumor of hoarding grain. He did not think that this would really happen, but he was afraid that after the harvest in the fall, everyone would be unwilling to hand over or sell grain because of the rumor. Not only would the task assigned by the team not be completed, but so much grain would become stale and could not be sold at a good price next year.
So he knocked on the door of Zhao Guangcheng's second son, where the rumor first spread, intending to ask him about it.
Zhao Xiaoli was not at home at that time. She and Yunmian were taking their first exam at school.
Primary school exams were not like those in later generations where one could directly photocopy a clean white paper full of questions. Moreover, they had only studied for more than half a semester. This so-called exam was actually just asking them to recite a text and do a few simple arithmetic problems.
This was not difficult for Zhao Xiaoli and Yunmian. Zhao Xiaoli simply cheated by using her age, while Yunmian would listen to the lessons at school every day and then go home to act as a little teacher to repeat them, so she remembered the knowledge she had learned very well. The two girls surpassed several other boys in the class and successfully tied for first place.
Yun Mian happily went home holding the pencil given as a reward by the teacher. After separating from Zhao Xiaoli at the intersection, she jumped towards the three dogs that came out to pick her up.
Ping An'an has been home for more than half a year. From a small dog the size of an adult's palm at the beginning, it has grown very big in just half a year. When the three dogs stand side by side, they are particularly imposing. At least Da Huang, raised by Grandma Peng next door, had to swallow his anger and eat the earthworms that Yunmian dug up and fed him under their threat.
Yunmian held the three dog heads and kneaded them for a while. When she had rubbed them enough, she waved her hands and ordered in a very powerful manner: "Let's go home!"
"Woof!!" Pingping has been cheering like this all the time.
Yunmian walked home with her three dogs. She first drank the warm water her mother had put in a bowl. After gulping it down, she put down her schoolbag, took out the brand new pencil from her pocket, and carefully placed it in the most conspicuous place so that her mother could see it at a glance when she got home.
Yunmian checked several times to make sure her mother would notice her first prize at once, then she locked the door and ran out with the three dogs.
"Let's go find Sister Xiaoli. We agreed yesterday to go fishing after school. I've never fished before!" There was an inexplicable excitement in Yunmian's tone.
She grew up in a hospital. She had never been to a riverside pond, let alone fishing. The scenes of the children in this body taking off their clothes, swimming in the river, catching fish and diving for crabs in the summer were all things she had never experienced.
Yun Mian came to Zhao Xiaoli's house excitedly, and bumped head-on into the village chief's legs. He fell to the ground with a thud, and looked up stupidly with his head tilted back.
The old man and the child were both not looking at the road. The village chief was brought back to his senses by the bump. When he saw it was Yunmian, he quickly reached out and picked up the little guy from the ground.
"Mianmian, did you fall anywhere?" he asked while brushing the dust off the child's body.
Yun Mian covered her nose with one hand and her butt with the other. After being asked for a long time, she sniffed under the other party's concerned gaze and pitifully held back her tears.
"Grandpa Village Chief..." His voice inevitably had a tearful tone: "Are you, are you coming to go fishing with Little Li too?"
Fishing??
The village chief's originally heavy face froze, and he answered with a smile: "No, I'm not looking for her, and I'm not fishing. If you go fishing over there, remember not to play in the water, and don't get too close to the pond, understand?"
Yun Mian nodded dazedly, covering her sore butt, and watched with the three silly dogs as the village chief walked away slowly with his pipe in his mouth.
After seeing Zhao Xiaoli, Yun Mian asked in surprise: "Sister Xiaoli, you seem very happy?"
Yunmian didn’t know why, but she felt that Xiaoli was smiling much happier than when the teacher announced in the afternoon that they had won first place together.
Zhao Xiaoli turned around and looked at her with a smile, and replied softly, "I'm so, so happy today that you found me!"
A question mark slowly appeared above Yunmian's head.
However, Zhao Xiaoli was mysterious and did not explain in detail.
The two little girls happily ran to the weir pond east of Zhaojiagou, and the three dogs frolicked behind them, chasing chickens and eating grass.
The system looked at the two people's small but extremely free and unrestrained backs, and after calling up the task progress, it was surprised to find that it seemed to have increased a little bit.
There is also a notice issued by the General Administration.
The Quick Travel Bureau detected that the plot development line of this world had undergone major changes, so it temporarily decided to add a side quest to maintain the stable operation of the small world.
This side quest is not a must, and there is no great reward, but the General Administration has given a guarantee that as long as you complete a side quest, you will be rewarded with two days of vacation time.
The system was a little interested and clicked to see what the side quest was.
The next second he closed the notification expressionlessly.
Is it possible that the General Administration has a program error and a virus? Otherwise, why would they issue such a difficult side quest?
Side quest: guide the protagonist to give luck back to the world to maintain its continued stable operation.
A small world does not appear out of thin air, but will first choose a core carrier as a source of life, and then slowly form a relatively stable and complete small world.
The carrier is replaced from generation to generation. As the small world becomes more and more perfect, luck should fall on every living thing relatively equally, but accidents always happen. In this world, Zhao Xiaoli is that accident.
As the carrier of this generation, she has unconsciously plundered the world's luck since birth, which has led to an imbalance in the operation of the world.
And as she becomes luckier and luckier, most of the luck will be concentrated in the place where she is, and other people who should have a certain amount of luck will become extremely unlucky.
In the original plot, Zhao Xiaoli caused misfortune to many people because of her koi physique since childhood.
First, he accidentally discovered and dug up a ginseng. That ginseng was the condensed luck of all the villagers in Zhaojiagou Village, and finally became the private capital of Zhao Guangcheng's family.
After losing the protection of luck, those who did not have enough luck to begin with died one by one after the locust plague arrived.
During the famine after the locust plague, Zhao Xiaoli would always encounter rabbits that bumped into her automatically when she went out, pick up gold on the road, pick up a box of jewelry in the mountains, and other strange things.
As a result, Yunjin and several other elderly people and children in the village all died one after another.
Later, Zhao Xiaoli accidentally saved a child from a powerful family in Beijing, and not long after, Yun Mian also froze to death that winter.
If Zhao Xiaoli and her family had not moved to the city, it can be said that the lives of the villagers in Zhaojiagou would have been even more miserable and difficult.
But after arriving in the city, Zhao Xiaoli's luck became even more obvious. There were always people who were nice to her, and she always got different benefits in various lucky ways, including but not limited to money and connections. She could even just be kind enough to give an old man a candy. Half a year later, the old man would reveal his true identity and come to her house, willing to give her money that was countless times more valuable than a candy and the opportunity to study at Beijing University.
Her luck is ridiculously good, but on the contrary, the innocent people around her who have never enjoyed the benefits of her luck will have their lives become increasingly tight and difficult, and in the end they may even die suddenly and inexplicably due to various accidents like Yun Jin and her daughter.
In the end, even though everyone around her had died, even though the world could no longer function stably, Zhao Xiaoli still lived to be over eighty years old, and used all her last bit of luck to support her rebirth back to the time when everything had not yet begun.
Seeing this, the system was surprised why Yun Jin was listed as cannon fodder in the plot, and Yun Mian, who was influenced by Zhao Xiaoli and lived alone until the age of thirteen by eating at other people's homes, was the villain.
Because Yunjin's life was already halfway through, there was not much luck that could be plundered, and Yunmian... she was too young, her life had just begun, and the future had infinite possibilities, so her luck was the most endless. She held on for so many years to fight against the protagonist's luck before being frozen to death in the increasingly cold winter like her mother.
Zhao Xiaoli is only five years old now. She has already obtained ginseng and a large piece of gold, and Zhaojiagou is about to face its first backlash of luck.
This was the first time the system had received a side quest, and also the first time it had come into contact with the truth about a world on the verge of death, and why among so many of its hosts, who were so capable, not even one could survive and complete the mission.
If they also entered a world like Yunmian where the luck was constantly plundered by a fulcrum, how could they, relying on just one person, fight against the luck of an entire small world?
The system looked from afar at the two little girls squatting by the pond, digging for earthworms with their buttocks sticking out, sighed, and silently opened the side quest.
No matter what, let's talk to the host about this mission first. If he doesn't accept it, you have to complete the main mission quickly, otherwise you don't have to wait until you grow up and reach the age of thirteen... your fate is determined, and you will die if you are destined to die.
The most important thing is that there is only one and a half years left before the death of the host mother Yunjin.
"Mianmian, watch me teach you first!" Zhao Xiaoli twisted an earthworm and taught seriously: "Hang it on the curved end of the needle. It's best to hang it twice. Then we can go fishing. When the fish bite the earthworm, the needle tip will pierce their mouths. At this time, we can pull the line to fish them up."
After that, she continued to nag, "But be slow, this needle was bent by my father after it was burned red over a fire. If you accidentally prick your hand, you will cry in pain and bleed. It's really, really scary."
Every time she said something, Yunmian nodded obediently.
But Zhao Xiaoli's eyelids twitched when she saw Yun Mian's clumsy movements, and finally she couldn't help but reach out to grab it and help her.
"Forget it, you are so clumsy, just give it to me, I will fix it and you can just throw it into the water."
Zhao Xiaoli: (frown) Why are you so clumsy? Let me do it!
Mianmian: (confused) ...I haven’t moved at all?
Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution:
Bookish Years 23 bottles;
Lu Qingwu, Shiwei 20 bottles;
Bashan Night Rain, 10 bottles of sponge;
See you tomorrow, Bobo.
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