“Many people buy houses in the city and never come back. Now, almost all that’s left in the village are elderly people who live out their retirement. They grow some crops and take care of themselves, and then there are those like my family who have contracted land to start businesses. But our situation is considered good. Now, rural areas are gradually being abolished, and many mountain villages are deserted. The whole village is abandoned and desolate…”
"Ah?" Wenxi felt a pang of regret upon hearing this. But society is meant to develop, and everyone wants to be a city dweller, so it's inevitable that there will be fewer and fewer people in the countryside. She just hadn't expected that so many rural areas would become deserted places.
Qin Mi and Qin Xin, the brother and sister, led Wen Xi around the entire village, and even went to the foot of the mountain behind the village, but they did not go up the mountain because it was getting dark and they did not have any light.
Qin Xin said with a smile, "There is a middle-aged couple on the mountain who raise chickens. They have the regular chickens we eat, as well as colorful wild pheasants, which should be wild chickens, but they are artificially raised and can be eaten."
“Where we live…” Wenxi almost blurted out, “We can eat pheasants where we live,” but she quickly realized her mistake and said, “We don’t raise them.”
She hadn't considered that if artificially raised pheasants were edible, then wild pheasants were not?
"Can you take me up the mountain tomorrow? I want to buy some chickens and those colorful wild pheasants," Wenxi said.
She currently has a little over 140,000 yuan in cash. She shouldn't need that much to buy watermelons, so she should be able to buy some chickens instead.
Moreover, she will be going home for the Chinese New Year soon, and she can go to the black market to make a fortune when supplies are in demand during the New Year. In a few years, she will be able to live a free and easy life.
After that, the three of them went home. When they got home, everyone in the family had already taken a shower, so they didn't have to wait. They took turns showering, and after showering, they came out and sat on the sofa to watch TV.
An idol drama was playing on TV, and it happened to show a scene of the male and female leads kissing passionately in bed. Wen Xi covered her face with her hands in embarrassment.
In her previous life, she only lived until the late 1980s, not into the 1990s. Back then, movies and TV dramas weren't as open-minded, so Wenxi was a little overwhelmed and her whole face and ears turned red.
"Aren't these TV filmmakers incredibly audacious? How can they film every single shot? Aren't they afraid of being criticized?" Wen Xi asked, puzzled.
In their time, they would have been criticized for being shameless and immoral.
“Nowadays, audiences love to watch exciting things. If there aren’t exciting scenes, will anyone watch it? And there are even more exaggerated scenes than this…” Qin Xin was excitedly explaining to Wen Xi when she heard Qin Mi’s serious cough, so she shut her mouth.
I guess Wenxi has been too well protected by her family, and she doesn't even know these things, so she shouldn't lead her astray.
Qin Mi got up and went to the kitchen, took three ice creams from the refrigerator, and handed one to Wen Xi. Wen Xi reached out and took it, saying, "Thank you."
The three of them then sat side by side on the sofa, eating ice cream and watching TV.
Suddenly, Qin Xin picked up her phone and asked Wen Xi, "Liangliang, would you mind adding me as a WeChat or QQ friend?"
Wen Xi looked at Qin Xin blankly, not understanding what she was talking about. Then she pointed to the phone in Qin Xin's hand and said, "Mine was stolen, so I don't have this now."
"Do you need us to go shopping with you tomorrow?" Qin Xin asked.
Wen Xi was pleasantly surprised and asked, "Is it okay?"
"Of course! It's summer vacation now, and we don't have much to do. We just need to finish our summer homework," Qin Xin said with a smile.
"Okay, then I'll trouble you to come with me to buy a phone tomorrow. I'll treat you to dinner then, and I'll pay for whatever you want to eat," Wen Xi said happily, patting her chest.
"Liangliang, you keep watching, I'm going to the bathroom." Qin Xin waved her phone at Wen Xi and left the living room with her phone.
Upon arriving at the restroom, Qin Xin sat down on the toilet seat and texted Qin Mi, "Brother, come to the restroom for a moment, I have something to tell you."
"Why did you call me to the restroom?" Qin Mi asked curiously as she entered the restroom.
Qin Xin stood up, walked to Qin Mi's side, and whispered, "Brother, do you think there's something wrong with Hao Liangliang?"
Qin Mi raised an eyebrow. "What's the problem?"
"Based on my years of experience reading novels, I think this Hao Liangliang must have traveled from ancient times or some other place. She doesn't have a cell phone, nor does she understand cell phones. She pretends to know a lot about them, but her actions are full of loopholes," Qin Xin said with certainty. She felt that her guess was correct.
Qin Mi reached out and ruffled Qin Xin's hair. "Don't talk nonsense. Even if she really did come from somewhere, just because she can help our family out of our immediate crisis, we should help her and cooperate with her. We should just do whatever she wants."
However, the thought that she might have really come from some impoverished place made Qin Mi feel a pang of heartache. She might have had a hard life herself, but she still thought of helping their family.
But in this day and age, making money is really not easy. All industries are already saturated, and people can only survive in the cracks.
The brother and sister chatted briefly in the bathroom before coming out. Qin Xin asked, "Liangliang, it's getting late, let's go back to our room and rest!"
Wen Xi rubbed her eyes and yawned, "Okay!"
Lying in the air-conditioned room, covered with an air-conditioning blanket, it was really comfortable. Wen Xi turned over and was about to go to sleep when she saw Qin Xin lying there looking at her phone. She asked curiously, "Qin Xin, what are you looking at?"
"I'm reading a novel," Qin Xin said.
"Novels?" Wen Xi suddenly became interested. "Have you ever read any novels where the male lead is Xia Minglei and the female lead is Lin Yiwan?"
"Let me search for it!" Qin Xin went to the webpage to search for the names of the male and female protagonists. After finding the name of the novel, she went to the website where she read the novel to search for this book. She found that it had been discontinued for many years, so she said, "It has been discontinued for more than ten years. The author has not updated it at all."
So the happy ending she saw back then wasn't the real ending; the author hadn't written the true ending yet.
"Can I turn to the last chapter and take a look?" Wen Xi sat up.
Qin Xin turned to the last chapter of the novel and then handed the phone to Wen Xi. Wen Xi quickly read it sentence by sentence, and sure enough, it was the same as what she had seen before—a happy ending for everyone.
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