August 1983.

The Northern Oilfield Compound in Y City.

"The beautiful mountains and rivers are like a painting, and the construction of the motherland is like a steed. It is so honorable for me to be an oil worker, wearing an aluminum helmet and traveling around the world..."

As the song "I Contribute Oil to the Motherland" played on the radio, Qian Qing shivered in the hot summer weather.

Zhou Hao, who was accompanying her to handle the procedures at the Household Registration Office, immediately noticed it and quietly held her hand and asked her.

"What's wrong? Do you have a cold? Or are you feeling unwell?"

Qian Qing rolled her eyes at Zhou Hao. Didn’t he have any idea whether she was comfortable or not?

The two got married yesterday. Although it was a collective wedding held in the workplace, it was also very lively. I thought Zhou Hao was busy all day, drinking with them and giving speeches, and he would just go to bed at night, right?

As a result, she underestimated her enemy and fell asleep in the late night.

I have to come and apply for a household registration certificate today.

The marriage certificate was issued to the couple a few days ago, and the household registration certificate issued today is from the company. We need to transfer our relationship to the oil field so that we can get our own ticket every month.

Although it was already 1983 and people's lives were much better than before, tickets had not been cancelled. It was still okay to buy some small items, but big items like televisions still required tickets. This also included some non-staple foods, which required tickets because they were not abundant enough.

Qian Qing looked up at Zhou Hao. Zhou Hao looked like an extremely gentle man, with sharp eyebrows and deep eyes. He wore glasses on his nose, which completely covered his aggressive eyebrows and eyes. He was tall and thin, with an upright figure.

Just by looking at his appearance, no one would dare to say that he is a maintenance worker in an oil plant, because he gives people the feeling that he is a scholar who was born to hold books.

The two fell in love with each other in school and are now married.

Qian Qing was well aware of Zhou Hao's academic excellence. The two had known each other since middle school, when Zhou Hao's grades were among the best in the class, while she was just mediocre.

Later, Zhou Hao went to a technical secondary school and did not go to high school. She went to high school and did not get into college.

The two kept in touch and knew each other well, and got married the year Zhou Hao got a job and a house.

Zhou Hao has a good job, earning more than 60 yuan a month and also being allocated a house, so he has a promising future. Qian Qing is very satisfied with her current life.

I wish I hadn’t had that dream last night.

On the wedding night, Qian Qing finally fell asleep, but she kept having dreams in her mind.

The dream was the same as today. She and Zhou Hao came to apply for a household registration certificate and happened to meet Wan Zhenzhen who was also there to apply for a household registration certificate.

Unlike me, Wan Zhenzhen came alone.

As soon as she came, she started talking to Qian Qing. Zhou Hao, a grown man, felt embarrassed to be caught in the middle. So, he went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy things first, leaving space for them.

Wan Zhenzhen and Qian Qing were neighbors when they were still in her mother's family, and the relationship between the two families was neither good nor bad. But by coincidence, Wan Zhenzhen and Qian Qing both married into the Second Oil Production Plant, and the houses they were allocated were next to each other.

Her parents' family and her husband's family are neighbors, so Wan Zhenzhen naturally became familiar with Qian Qing.

In the dream, when Wan was talking to Qian Qing, a clerk came and said he wanted to find Zhou Hao.

Wan Zhenzhen asked the question quickly, saying that there was a problem with the oil pump on the oil field in the neighboring province, and asked Zhou Hao to go on a business trip as soon as possible.

Let your husband go on a business trip on the second day after your wedding?

Qian Qing had some complaints.

Wan Zhenzhen immediately took Qian Qing to find the director of women's affairs. Married workers are entitled to three days of wedding leave, so how could this not count?

This was not something the women's director should have been in charge of, after all, it was a factory job. But the women's director's husband was the captain of the maintenance team, and she was irritated by Qian Qing's domineering attitude, so she simply went straight to her man.

There are subsidies for business trips in the oil fields, and it is two yuan a day. It is a good thing that the maintenance team can't catch up with on weekdays. Although it is a bit inhumane to ask people to go on business trips on the second day of their wedding, this is the nature of work in the oil fields. In the early years when the oil fields were busy, they didn't even give leave for marriage. Besides, if you are not happy, you can go to the leader, why do you come to the women's director to make trouble?

The team leader was being scolded by his wife, and thinking that the person on the phone just said that there was a simple problem with the oil pump, and it would be okay to replace someone, so he casually appointed a small clerk to go.

These behaviors may not seem like much if viewed alone, but things become increasingly outrageous in the dream.

Qian Qing "watched" Wan Zhenzhen happily in her dream, then turned around and picked up a stack of money by a small river outside the factory.

That stack of money looked like there were almost a hundred of them!

Wan Zhenzhen secretly hid the money and took it home without telling anyone.

Qian Qing was a little puzzled. It didn't make sense and she had no idea what it meant.

But the dream is not over yet, and the following stories one by one clear up Qian Qing's confusion.

The person who replaced Zhou Hao on the business trip went there, but when he arrived, he found that it was not just a problem with the pump. He was not capable enough and could not solve the problem. A call from the oil field next door called the director of the second oil production plant, and the director scolded the maintenance team. In the end, the team leader went there in person to resolve the problem.

Not only did the maintenance captain have to make two trips for an ordinary maintenance task, but he also delayed his normal work. When he came back, he had a sullen face.

At the end of the year, Zhou Hao, who was supposed to be promoted to deputy captain of the maintenance team, was eliminated.

Wan Zhenzhen put her arm around Qian Qing's arm and said that the captain must have been seeking revenge and instigated Qian Qing to go and quarrel with the captain.

During the quarrel, Wan Zhenzhen turned around and accidentally discovered a small problem on the oil well.

The director of Oil Production Plant No. 2 happened to be on the scene at the time. Compared with the troublesome Qian Qing, he was also very angry, so he directly set up Wan Zhenzhen as a positive example and gave her a bonus of 2,000 yuan.

The following dreams are basically the same.

——When something happens to Qian Qing, Wan Zhenzhen gets the money.

As Qian Qing's situation deteriorates, Wan Zhenzhen's fame and wealth grow.

When the system was reformed in 1990, Zhou Hao was fired for not getting promoted and was no longer eligible to buy a house. The couple had only this small tube-shaped building to live in. To make matters worse, Qian Qing was diagnosed with breast cancer, and the family was completely destitute.

On the other hand, Wan Zhenzhen's life was getting more and more successful. Her husband was promoted to an engineer in Beijing, and she also spent several million to buy houses and land.

By the time Qian Qing in the dream passed away, Wan Zhenzhen's house had increased in value more than ten times and was well-known throughout the oil field.

…

When Qian Qing just woke up, she was shocked by what she saw in her dream.

Because when she died in her last dream, a voice spoke to her.

It is said that Wan Zhenzhen is reborn and she is also tied to Qian Qing. The worse Qian Qing's life is, the richer Wan Zhenzhen will be.

The dream was so real that Qian Qing was unable to react for the entire morning.

This afternoon, she insisted on bringing Zhou Hao to the Household Registration Office, just to see if what happened in her dream would actually happen.

After all, she has received more than ten years of education. How could she be so suspicious just because of a dream that she didn't understand?

But the reality is so ridiculous. When Qian Qing heard the song "I Contribute Oil to My Motherland" playing on the radio, her heart skipped a beat.

This is what happened in the dream. With the singing, Wan Zhenzhen opened the door of the Household Registration Office and walked in.

"Qian Qing, are you here to apply for a household registration certificate as well?"

Qian Qing stopped shivering this time, and her heart cooled.

It felt like there was a huge hole in my heart, and it kept sinking.

Looking at Wan Zhenzhen who was smiling at her, her heart was filled with disgust that came from nowhere, mixed with a hint of hatred.

Zhou Hao, who was full of dreams and high spirits, gradually became silent, and he also lost his spirit in the day-to-day disappointments. In contrast, Wan Zhenzhen's life was prosperous. When the two were compared, many people said that Zhou Hao was blind to marry her, a deadly woman.

At this moment Wan Zhenzhen was also looking at her!

Wan Zhenzhen knew that Qian Qing was good-looking.

After all, the two families lived close to each other and attended the same school. She often saw little boys in the school peeking in front of Qian Qing's class just to catch a glimpse of Qian Qing.

Qian Qing has a dignified and bright beauty. Her eyes seem to be able to speak naturally. She always smiles before she speaks. Even if she says something unpleasant, few people bother with her.

Beautiful women have certain privileges.

Wan Zhenzhen felt sad.

In her previous life, she had little contact with Qian Qing. Her family was burdened with an older sister and a younger brother. After she finished junior high school, her family stopped letting her go to school. At that time, the policy of going to the countryside to work in the fields was also abolished. She failed to pass the exam to work in the factory in the city, so she had to stay at home for a few years. In the end, her parents casually married her to an oil worker.

Later, the oil field was restructured and many workers were laid off. Her husband was not a skilled worker, so his seniority was naturally bought out, and he became an insignificant grain of sand in the progress of the times.

Wan Zhenzhen has worked hard for half her life, and her resentment grows day by day.

Poor couples have many worries. When they have no money, there is no point in talking about the love between husband and wife.

In the 1990s, Wan Zhenzhen forced herself to get a divorce, left her daughter to her ex-husband, and went to the south to find a way out.

But she had no education, no skills, and had been a housewife for many years, out of touch with the outside world for too long.

Everyone says that the 1980s was the golden age of growth, and many business tycoons seized the trend of the times at that time.

But among so many people who venture into the industry, only a handful succeed in the end.

Wan Zhenzhen was cheated several times and had to return to her hometown in shame.

When I returned to my mother's house, my old neighbor, Qian Qing's parents, were also happily preparing to move to Beijing. They said that Zhou Hao, whom Qian Qing married, was promoted to a senior engineer in a state-owned enterprise, and Qian Qing also made money and bought several houses, so the whole family was going to move to Beijing to enjoy life.

Looking at the car going away, Wan Zhenzhen's heart was filled with jealousy.

Why are people divided into different classes right after birth? God gave Qian Qing beauty and also wanted to give her a good marriage.

She had met Qian Qing's husband before. He was very handsome and was incredibly good to Qian Qing.

When she was in school, she often saw Zhou Hao coming to see Qian Qing. Sometimes he would give Qian Qing some fruits, and sometimes he would buy Qian Qing a bag of candy.

Wan Zhen was filled with hatred. If she had come back half a year earlier, she would have revealed Qian Qing's true face to Zhou Hao!

Qian Qing is a gold digger! How is she different from those women who later came to ask men for money?

During the years she and Zhou Hao were together, she only saw Zhou Hao giving her gifts. She accepted the gifts and flirted with many men, and people from school often came to the alley to peek at Qian Qing.

What kind of good woman would flirt with her like this in school? If not, why would these people come to see her?

What a pity, Wan Zhen really thought.

She lived a dull life after returning to her parents' home in her last life. Later, her parents arranged for her to marry another man and become a stepmother, and her life was boring.

When the man she marries later passes away, she has no one to rely on for her step-sons and step-daughters.

She went to find her own cousin, who was admitted to a good university, but treated her coldly.

"I only have a dad, not a mom. You ignored me for so many years, what are you doing now?"

Wan Zhenzhen threw a tantrum and took her daughter to court, only to receive alimony reluctantly.

At the end of her life, she remained on the small bed in the rented house, but she was filled with hatred in her heart.

In life, family affection and children are not as reliable as money!

When she opened her eyes again, she was back in 1983.

This year, she was only nineteen years old.

Qian Qing next door is only nineteen years old.

Zhou Hao has already been engaged to the Qian family, and it seems that there is no chance for him to ruin their relationship.

Wan Zhenzhen took a different approach. She rejected the marriage proposal her parents had arranged for her and used other methods to find out the inside information of the oil field.

In the end, Wang Hua, who was also an oil field maintenance worker like Zhou Hao, was chosen. Wang Hua and Zhou Hao were assigned to the same tube-shaped building and became neighbors.

Wan Zhenzhen did this for a reason, because when she was reborn, she heard a voice in her mind.

The voice told her that she could choose someone to bind herself to, and the worse that person's life became, the more financial rewards she would receive.

She chose Qian Qing without hesitation.

Everything Qian Qing had in her previous life: beauty, money, respect from her lover, good reputation...

She wants them all!

The voice in her head agreed.

Wan Zhenzhen planned to marry into the Second Oil Production Plant in order to bring bad luck to Qian Qing.

The worse things go for Qian Qing, the more money she can make.

Today was supposed to be the second day of her wedding, so she could rest at home.

But she suddenly remembered what her mother had told her in her previous life.

"Qian Qing's life was not easy. Although her husband had a good job, he was always on business trips. It was said that the day after their wedding, he was called away by the factory for a business trip, and his return was delayed for half a month. But she was lucky. She said that she met her boss on the business trip and left a good impression on him."

Wan Zhenzhen's heart was boiling like fire.

Leader?

Could she just watch Qian Qing encounter such a good thing?

That's why she followed Qian Qing in such a hurry.

Regardless of whether what her mother said was true or not, she couldn't let Qian Qing leave an impression of being "good at understanding the overall situation" on the leader as soon as she entered the compound.

Qian Qing looked at the situation which was exactly the same as in her dream, and curled her lips.

"Zhou Hao, I want to eat oranges. Go to the supply and marketing cooperative to see if they have any."

Come on, she wants to see how Wan Zhenzhen makes money from her!